scientists

The Magellan is studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch when they are plagued by a series of malfunctions and a raging storm that blows them into the cove of a tropical island, Mark Hawkins searches the island for a missing crew member when he discovers the island's dark history and that they may not be alone.

Michael Bishop offers an autobiographical account of his life, focusing on his momentous medical discovery of how genes can cause cancer and the impact it had on the medical field.

"We often think of scientists as dispassionate and detached, nobly laboring without any expectation of reward. But scientific research is much more complicated and messy than this ideal, and scientists can be torn by jealousy, impelled by a need for recognition, and subject to human vulnerability and fallibility. In Prize Fight, Emeritus Chair at SUNY School of Medicine Morton Meyers pulls back the curtain to reveal the dark side of scientific discovery. From stolen authorship to fabricated results and elaborate hoaxes, he shows us how too often brilliant minds are reduced to petty jealousies and promising careers cut short by disputes over authorship or fudged data. Prize Fight is a dramatic look at some of the most notable discoveries in science in recent years, from the discovery of insulin, which led to decades of infighting and even violence, to why the 2003 Nobel Prize in Medicine exposed how often scientific objectivity is imperiled. "--.

Scotland Yard, the F.B.I., and the secret services of other nations try to discover why prominent scientists have been disappearing.

Brief biographies of five African-American scientists of this century.

Presents the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature.

In twenty-first century New Orleans, Dr. Frankenstein, posing as the biotech tycoon Victor Helios and working on a project in which he is forming an army of perfectly engineered people to take over the world, is reunited with his original monster, who seeks revenge on the man, while detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison track a serial killer, who they believe may be a posthuman created by the scientist.

Examines twenty-five episodes in the history of science and religion that the author claims are myths that perpetuate the impression that the two fields are and always have been in conflict.

A collection of "Girl Genius" webcomics in which Agatha Clay, a student at Transylvania Polygnostic University, fears a fate of being a minor lab assistant, but when her clumsy tendencies land her on an airship city--Castle Wulfenback--she discovers more about her real talents.

Tells of twenty landmark scientific advances, with pictures and biographies of the scientists who produced them, and discussion of their experiments and techniques.