First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr Tomato and ...
 Amazon.com Review: Engaging both sides of the agricultural biotech controversy and hoping to initiate a reasoned dialogue, geneticist Belinda Martineau explores the development and eventual failure of the Flavr Savr tomato in First Fruit. One of the [... more]
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Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future ...
Amazon.com Review: Just as science learned to decode DNA through reverse genetics, a little bit of reverse reading might help explain why NPR correspondent Daniel Charles set out to write the agrobiotech equivalent of fly-on-the-wall industry epics like [... more]
$27.00
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Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is ...
Amazon.com Review: It may be true that we are what we eat. Now, with a flood of genetically modified foods overtaking the market, it is possible to eat what we are. But the prospect of genetic cannibalism is the least of the worries of food activists, [... more]
$24.95
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The Green Phoenix
First reading difficult: More easy to read popular books need to be written about plants transgenics. I was thrown at first because the first couple of chapters are about failures to incorporate DNA into plants, but that wasn't made clear until later. So [... more]
$33.00
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Genetically Modified Organisms in Agriculture: Economics ...
Nice intro to GMO ag issues: This book is a collection of articles and papers about various aspects of GMO foods. While not as detailed as grad-level specialty publications, it's an excellent--and fair--general introduction to GMO crops and the issues [... more]
$97.95
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Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual (3-Volume Set)
a formerly essential classic: For many years the previous edition of this set was an essential reference in molecular biology labs. At present however, there are too many good protocol books out there to really make this argument. The book is pretty [... more]
$259.00
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The Biotech Century
Amazon.com Review: When two Scottish scientists successfully cloned a sheep in July 1996, the news sparked fierce scientific, ethical, theological, and philosophical debate, momentarily pulling biotechnology from the laboratories and thrusting it onto [... more]
$13.95
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology ...
Amazon.com Review: Maybe we have a future after all: Our Posthuman Future is political historian Francis Fukuyama's reconsideration of his 1989 announcement that history had reached an end. He claims that science, particularly genome studies, offers [... more]
$25.00
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The Biotech Investor's Bible
Give this one a miss: There is not good book on biotech investing. The Biotech Investor's Bible is poorly written and badly organized. I find the same companies provided as examples again and again. Some of them no longer exist! The risk of this industry [... more]
$29.95
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Environmental Microbiology
Just mediocre.: I was anxious to receive this book, since it was praised as one of the best books available in the area of environmental microbiology. After reading through the pages, I just couldn't agree with this statement. Here are some of the good [... more]
$130.00
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Breeding For Ornamentals: Classical and Molecular Approaches
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 635 EAN: 9781402005084 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1402005083 Number Of Pages: 450 Publication Date: 2002-03-27 [... more]
$269.00
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From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology
Amazon.com Review: Despite unnerving swings in individual stock valuations--or perhaps because of them--many knowledgeable observers still believe the 21st century will ultimately earn its stripes as the Age of Biotech. Cynthia Robbins-Roth, named by [... more]
$17.50
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