Jonathan Weiner

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1) Long for this world: the strange science of immortality

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Weiner, Jonathan

Language

English

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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"A rollicking scientific adventure story is science writing of the highest order and with the highest stakes. Could we live forever? And if we could-- would we want to?"--Publisher's note.

2) His Brother's Keeper: One Family's Journey to the Edge of Medicine

Author

Weiner, Jonathan

Language

English

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Stephen Heywood was twenty-nine years old when he learned that he was dying of ALS -- Lou Gehrig's disease. Almost overnight his older brother, Jamie, turned himself into a genetic engineer in a quixotic race to cure the incurable. His Brother's Keeper is a powerful account of their story, as they travel together to the edge of medicine. The book brings home for all of us the hopes and fears of the new biology. In this dramatic and suspenseful narrative,...

3) The beak of the finch: evolution in real time

Author

Weiner, Jonathan

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Pub. Date

1994

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IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 22

Language

English

4) Time, love, memory: a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior

Author

Weiner, Jonathan

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

1999

Language

English

5) Planet earth

Author

Weiner, Jonathan

Publisher

Bantam Books

Pub. Date

c1986

Language

English

6) Nadia's hands

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Publisher

Boyds Mills Press

Pub. Date

1999.

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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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A Pakistani-American girl takes part in her aunt's traditional Pakistani wedding.