Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine (Inventions and ...
 Author: Katherine E. Krohn Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 909 EAN: 9780736896450 Edition: 1st ISBN: 0736896457 Number Of Pages: 24 Publication Date: 2007-01-01 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 [... more]
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The Ultimate Book of Business Gurus: 100 Thinkers Who ...
Follow that star - the key thoughts of the key thinkers: Follow that star The ultimate business guru book, by Stuart Crainer Management came of age in 1954, with super guru Peter Drucker's book, `the practice of management'. Since then it has made up for [... more]
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Splendid Solution
dull and lifeless: i found the first chapter of this book quite boring, full of uninteresting detail, but it got better later, though it may be that i just got used to it. as it is, it still wasn't a particularly good book. one of my complaints is how [... more]
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Polio: An American Story
Only in America: This is one of the best books on the history of science I have ever read. I thought that the book was going to be a glowing tribute to an American technological advance but I was very wrong. The author, David Oshinsky, created a very [... more]
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The Bright Boys: A History of Townsend Harris High School
An Old Grad Looks Back: For the three thousand or so living alumni of the original Townsend Harris High School, this book will evoke pleasant memories of classmates, teachers and a less structured educational era. The book traces the journey through [... more]
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The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a ...
Amazon.com Review: Past tragedies caused by "miracle drugs" have taught the public to approach cures with caution, and vaccines, in particular, have come under public scrutiny. In The Virus and the Vaccine, journalists Debbie Bookchin and Jim [... more]
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With the Help of Our Friends from France: Stabilizing ...
Great Resource for Someone Diagnosed With Stage 3-4 BC: I don't normally write reviews, but this book warrants one wholeheartedly. My mother was recently diagnosed with Stage 3 BC and I bought the book for myself, with the intent to read a patient's own [... more]
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Letters of the Century: America 1900-1999
Amazon.com Review: Letters of the Century opens by recalling a pregnant mother's letter to Jonas Salk the day after he discovered a vaccine for polio. The book's editors, veteran journalists Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, try to describe that letter' [... more]
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The survival of the wisest
seminal, thought provoking, clear, concise: The section dealing with population dynamics in a closed system articulates, in a manner that cannot be denied, the fundamental nature of much which we see around us in our current world. Read it, if you dare, [... more]
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Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason ...
appealing title & that's all!: The author doesn't really discuss the topic as "advertised" by his book's title & its subtitle. I expected a discussion on the human mechanism to create its own personal reality based on a person's [... more]
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SPLENDID SOLUTION: JONAS SALK AND THE CONQUEST OF POLIO
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World Population and Human Values: A New Reality
A Classic from the Originator of "Epoch B": I sought this book out used because it was recommended to me by a very smart person thinking about the decline of governments and the rise of the corporation. Salk was the originator of the concept of [... more]
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