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The Best American Science Writing 2011 by Rebecca Skloot (ed.); Floyd Skloot (ed.)
Category: Science & Natural History
""The Best American Science Writing" series has been hailed as, contemporary science's best answers to ...eternal riddles". ("Fortune"); "praised for its breadth - It is rare to be offered such a diverse collection of science writing, ("Nature"); and appreciated for its intelligence and insight - The en ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Biography
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poorblack tobacco farmer whose cells taken without her knowledge in 1951 became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, and more.Henri ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Biography | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITH ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Science
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - become one of the most important tools in modern medicine. Taken in 1951, these cells became the first immorta ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Biography
The internationally bestselling story of a young woman whose death in 1951 changed medical science for ever . . . Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became one of the most important tool ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Science | Series: Picador Collection
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating mix of memoir and science, telling the story of how one woman's cells have saved countless lives. Now an HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey & Rose Byrne.'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - H ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot; Cassandra Campbell (Read by); Bahni Turpin (Read by)
Category: CD's
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The story of modern medicine and bioethics--and, indeed, race relations--is refracted beautifully, and movingly."--Entertainment Weekly NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM HBO(R) STARRING OPRAH WINFREY AND ROSE BYRNE - ONE OF THE "MOST INFLUENTIAL" (CNN), "DEFINING" (LITH ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Biography
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more th ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (H/B) by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Science
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells-taken without her knowledge-became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are ...Show more
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks: TV Tie-In by Rebecca Skloot
Category: Fiction
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, NOW AN HBO FILM STARRING OPRAH WINFREY & ROSE BYRNE"No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book" Hilary Mantel, The GuardianHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco far ...Show more
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