Overview :By early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University's brand-new Museum of Natural History. Th... Read More
Overview :***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***"What's more American than Corn Flakes?" --Bing Crosby From the much ad... Read More
Overview : This riveting story of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892 has been updated with a new preface that t... Read More
Overview :Acclaimed medical historian Howard Markel traces the careers of two brilliant young doctors--Sigmund Freud, neurologist, and William Halsted... Read More
Overview :In Quarantine Howard Markel traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is to... Read More
Overview :James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our mod... Read More
Overview :The struggle against deadly microbes is endless. Diseases that have plagued human beings since ancient times still exist, new maladies like ... Read More