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THE MAYO CLINIC BREAST CANCER BOOK
MAYO CLINIC
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
From the breast health experts at Mayo Clinic comes a guide to the many aspects of breast cancerfrom
prevention, to care and coping, to survival, to living with hope. Trustworthy information offered in a spirit of
companionship.
HEALTH
GOOD BOOKS 410 PAGES
9781561487721
$22.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
THE MEDICAL BOOK
PICKOVER, CLIFFORD
Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the
advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse
subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses ?
obvious? historical milestones--the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project--with
unexpected and intriguing topics like ?truth serum,? the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants.
HEALTH/HISTORY 1ST PRINTING 35,000
STERLING 528 PAGES
9781402785856
$35.95 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
MEDUSA'S GAZE AND VAMPIRE'S BITE
KAPLAN, MATT
We all know “there’s no such thing as monsters,” but our imaginations may hold a different opinion. Matt Kaplan,
a noted science journalist and enthusiast of both the hard facts of science and the fantastic fictions of myth,
employs an entertaining mix of cutting-edge research and a love of lore to explain why monsters have held us in
such thrall for millennia. Ranging across history, Medusa’s Gaze and Vampire’s Bite tackles the questions that
arise on the frontier between reality and fantasy. What caused ancient Minoans to create the tale of the Minotaur
that was imprisoned in a subterranean maze? Did dragons really exist? What inspired the creation of vampires
and werewolves, and why have they endured as figures of horror? Kaplan also brings readers to the forefront of
scientific discoveries that potentially verify some of the monsters we have always taken for granted. Does the
legendary Kraken, a squid of epic proportions, really roam the deep? Are we close to actually replicating a
dinosaur from DNA taken from fossilized amber as Jurassic Park postulates? As society’s fears have changed,
monsters have evolved, and the author charts the rise of a new beast, humans.
SCIENCE 1ST PRINTING 20,000
SCRIBNER 256 PAGES
9781451667981
$28.99 HC
OCTOBER 2012
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