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Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling numerous medical and scientific discoveries.
WW NortonIntuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinkingreductio ad absurdumTrapped in the Robot Control RoomBeware of the Prime MammalThe Wandering Two-BitserIntuition PumpsOne of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his...
"The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker...
Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna...
HoughtonThe global fiction sensation'publishing in 32countries around the world'that follows 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of...