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The Andromeda Strainby Michael CrichtonISBN 0060541814 (0-06-054181-4)
Softcover, Avon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Andromeda Strain'Book summary:Some biologists speculate that if we ever make contact with extraterrestrials, those life forms are likely to be--like most life on earth--one-celled or smaller creatures, more comparable to bacteria than little green men. And even though such organisms would not likely be able to harm humans, the possibility exists that first contact might be our last.
That's the scientific supposition that Michael Crichton formulates and follows out to its conclusion in his excellent debut novel, The Andromeda Strain.
A Nobel-Prize-winning bacteriologist, Jeremy Stone, urges the president to approve an extraterrestrial decontamination facility to sterilize returning astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft that might carry an "unknown biologic agent." The government agrees, almost too quickly, to build the top-secret Wildfire Lab in the desert of Nevada. Shortly thereafter, unbeknownst to Stone, the U.S. Army initiates the "Scoop" satellite program, an attempt to actively collect space pathogens for use in biological warfare. When Scoop VII crashes a couple years later in the isolated Arizona town of Piedmont, the Army ends up getting more than it asked for.
The Andromeda Strain follows Stone and rest of the scientific team mobilized to react to the Scoop crash as they scramble to understand and contain a strange and deadly outbreak. Crichton's first book may well be his best; it has an earnestness that is missing from his later, more calculated thrillers. --Paul Hughes [via]
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- The Andromeda Strain: ISBN 0345378482 (0-345-37848-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Andromeda Strain: ISBN 0345418980 (0-345-41898-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group - The Andromeda Strain: ISBN 079271881X (0-7927-1881-X)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer - The Andromeda Strain: ISBN 0394415256 (0-394-41525-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Andromeda Strain: ISBN 0060541814 (0-06-054181-4)
Softcover, Avon Books
- The Andromeda Strain: ISBN 0345378482 (0-345-37848-2)
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Apocalipsisby Stephen KingISBN 8497599411 (84-9759-941-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalipsis'Book summary:Spanish edition [via]
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Batmanby Christopher Priest, Chuck Dixon, Alan Grant, Doug Moench, Dennis O'Neil, Bob Kane, Vince GiarranoISBN 1563892936 (1-56389-293-6)
Softcover, Dc Comics
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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World-Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran Itby Stephen Handelman, Ken AlibekISBN 0385334966 (0-385-33496-6)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World-Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It'Book summary:In this fast-paced memoir, Ken Alibek combines cutting-edge science with the narrative techniques of a thriller to describe some of the most awful weapons imaginable. The result will remind readers of The Hot Zone, Richard Preston's smart bestseller about the Ebola virus. That book focuses on the dangers of a freak accident; Biohazard shows how disease can become a deliberate tool of war. Alibek, once a top scientist in the Soviet Union's biological weapons program, describes putting anthrax on a warhead and targeting a city on the other side of the world. "A hundred kilograms of anthrax spores would, in optimal atmospheric conditions, kill up to three million people in any of the densely populated metropolitan areas of the United States," he writes. "A single SS-18 [missile] could wipe out the population of a city as large as New York."
Chilling passages like these, plus discussions of proliferation and terrorism, make Biohazard a harrowing book, but it also has a human side. Alibek, who defected to the United States, describes the routine danger of his work: "A bioweapons lab leaves its mark on a person forever." An unending stream of vaccinations has destroyed his sense of smell, afflicted him with allergies, made it impossible to eat certain kinds of food, and "weakened my resistance to disease and probably shortened my life." But it didn't take away his ability to tell an astonishing story. --John J. Miller [via]
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Hardcover, Random House Inc - Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World-Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It: ISBN 0385334966 (0-385-33496-6)
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Black Windby Clive Cussler, Dirk CusslerISBN 1594131171 (1-59413-117-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Press
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The Blood Artistsby Chuck HoganISBN 0688156223 (0-688-15622-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Brief History of the Deadby Kevin BrockmeierISBN 1400095956 (1-4000-9595-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brief History of the Dead'Book summary:Remember me when Im gone
just took on a whole new meaning.
The City is inhabited by the recently departed, who reside there only as long as they remain in the memories of the living. Among the current residents of this afterlife are Luka Sims, who prints the only newspaper in the City, with news from the other side; Coleman Kinzler, a vagrant who speaks the cautionary words of God; and Marion and Phillip Byrd, who find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage.
On Earth, Laura Byrd is trapped by extreme weather in an Antarctic research station. Shes alone and unable to contact the outside world: her radio is down and the power is failing. Shes running out of supplies as quickly as shes running out of time.
Kevin Brockmeier interweaves these two stories in a spellbinding tale of human connections across boundaries of all kinds. The Brief History of the Dead is the work of a remarkably gifted writer. [via]More editions of The Brief History of the Dead:
Catching Coldby DaviesISBN 0718143493 (0-7181-4349-3)
Hardcover, Michael Joseph
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Children of the Mindby Orson Scott CardISBN 0765304740 (0-7653-0474-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children of the Mind'Book summary:Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender's life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to mention another "sister" Valentine. Multiple storylines entwine, as the threat of the Lusitania-bound fleet looms ever nearer. The self-aware computer, Jane, who has always been more than she seemed, faces death at human hands even as she approaches godhood. At the same time, the characters hurry to investigate the origins of the descolada virus before they lose their ability to travel instantaneously between the stars. There is plenty of action and romance to season the text's analyses of Japanese culture and the flux and ebb of civilizations. But does the author really mean to imply that Ender's wife literally bores him to death? --Brooks Peck [via]
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The Coming Plagueby Laurie GarrettISBN 0140250913 (0-14-025091-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming Plague'Book summary:Where's your next disease coming from? From anywhere in the world--from overflowing sewage in Cairo, from a war zone in Rwanda, from an energy-efficient office building in California, from a pig farm in China or North Carolina. "Preparedness demands understanding" writes Pulitzer-winning journalist Laurie Garrett, and in this precursor to Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health she shows true understanding of the patterns lying beneath the new diseases in the headlines (AIDS, Lyme) and the old ones resurgent (tuberculosis, cholera). As the human population explodes, ecologies collapse and simplify, and disease organisms move into the gaps. As globalisation continues, diseases can move from one country to another as fast as an aeroplane can fly.
While the human race battles itself... the advantage moves to the microbes' court. They are our predators and they will be victorious if we, Homo sapiens, do not learn how to live in a rational global village that affords the microbes few opportunities.
Her picture is not entirely bleak: epidemics grow when a disease outbreak is amplified--by contaminated water supplies, by shared needles, by recirculated air, by prostitution--and controlling disease amplifiers is within our power, a matter of money, people and will. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via] 
Computer Viruses, Artificial Life and Evolution: The Little Black Book of Computer Virusesby Mark A. LudwigISBN 0929408071 (0-929408-07-1)
Softcover, Amer Eagle Pubns Inc
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Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused Itby Pete DaviesISBN 0805066225 (0-8050-6622-5)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Digital Fortress: A Thrillerby Dan BrownISBN 0786259795 (0-7862-5979-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Digital Fortress: A Thriller'Book summary:In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It's an Internet user's spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more intellectual than just where the secret formula is hidden--they have to gain understanding of what the secret formula actually is.
In this case, the secret formula is a new means of encryption, capable of changing the balance of international power. Part of the fun is that the book takes the reader along into an understanding of encryption technologies. You'll find yourself better understanding the political battles over such real-life technologies as the Clipper Chip and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software even though the book looks at the issues through the eyes of fiction.
Although there's enough globehopping in this book for James Bond, the real battleground is cyberspace, because that's where the "bomb" (or rather, the new encryption algorithm) will explode. Yes, there are a few flaws in the plot if you look too closely, but the cleverness and the sheer fun of it all more than make up for them. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and a lot of high, gee-whiz-level information about encryption, code breaking, and the role they play in international politics. Set aside the whole afternoon and evening for it and have finger food on hand for supper--you may want to read this one straight through. [via]
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Earth Abidesby George R. StewartISBN 0910720002 (0-910720-00-2)
Hardcover, Archive Pr
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Ebolaby William T. CloseISBN 0804114323 (0-8041-1432-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola Nature, Accident or Intentional?by Leonard G. HorowitzISBN 0923550127 (0-923550-12-7)
Hardcover, Healthy World Dist
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En El Blancoby Ken FollettISBN 8425339154 (84-253-3915-4)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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A Field Guide to Germsby Wayne BiddleISBN 140003051X (1-4000-3051-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Field Guide to Germs'Book summary:From the title alone, you know it's going to be good. Biddle delves into anthrax and arboviruses, cholera and chlamydia, diphtheria, dengue, and dysentery, and on through the disease-ridden alphabet to Zika fever. Biddle explains in graphic detail the causes, symptoms and treatments for these germs, and it's all jolly good middle-of-the-night reading. You might become somewhat phobic if you read it from cover to cover, but no one will be more scintillating at parties. [via]
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Finder: A Novel of the Borderlandsby Emma BullISBN 0765347776 (0-7653-4777-6)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finder: A Novel of the Borderlands'Book summary:Orient the Finder, a young man with a supernatural ability to recover lost objects, and a tough female cop named Sonny Rico, set out to cure the city of a mysterious plague and the advent of a deadly drug. Reprint. AB. K. LJ. PW. [via]
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Fluby Gina Bari KolataISBN 1417618019 (1-4176-1801-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flu'Book summary:Feeling tired, achy, and congested? You'll hope not after reading science writer Gina Kolata's engrossing Flu, a fascinating look at the 1918 epidemic that wiped out around 40 million people in less than a year and afflicted more than one of every four Americans. This tragedy, just on the heels of World War I and far more deadly, so traumatized the survivors that few would talk about it afterward. Kolata reports on the scientific investigation of this bizarre outbreak, in particular the attempts to sequence the virus' DNA from tissue samples of victims. She also looks at the social and personal effects of the disease, from improved public health awareness to the loss of productivity. (The disease affected 20- to 40-year-olds disproportionately.)
How could this disease, now almost trivial to healthy young people, have become so virulent? The answer is complex, invoking epidemiology, immunology, and even psychology, but Kolata cuts a swath through medical papers and statistical reports to tell a story of an out-of-control virus exploiting an exhausted world on the brink of transition into modern society. Through letters, interviews, and news reports, she pieces together a cautionary tale that captures the horror of a devastating illness. Research marches onward, but we're still at the mercy of something as simple as the flu. --Rob Lightner [via]
The Great Influenza: The Story Of The Deadliest Pandemic In Historyby John BarryISBN 0143036491 (0-14-303649-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in Historyby John M. BarryISBN 0143034480 (0-14-303448-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History'Book summary:No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty years; it killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages killed in a century. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered aches that felt like bones being broken, and died. In the United States, where bodies were stacked without coffins on trucks, nearly seven times as many people died of influenza as in the First World War.
In his powerful new book, award-winning historian John M. Barry unfolds a tale that is magisterial in its breadth and in the depth of its research, and spellbinding as he weaves multiple narrative strands together. In this first great collision between science and epidemic disease, even as society approached collapse, a handful of heroic researchers stepped forward, risking their lives to confront this strange disease. Titans like William Welch at the newly formed Johns Hopkins Medical School and colleagues at Rockefeller University and others from around the country revolutionized American science and public health, and their work in this crisis led to crucial discoveries that we are still using and learning from today.
The Washington Posts Jonathan Yardley said Barrys last book can "change the way we think." The Great Influenza may also change the way we see the world. [via]
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The Hot Zoneby Richard PrestonISBN 1568952058 (1-56895-205-8)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hot Zone'Book summary:A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction. [via]
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I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 031286504X (0-312-86504-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am Legend'Book summary:One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary. --Stanley Wiater [via]
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Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc - I Am Legend: ISBN 0802755240 (0-8027-5524-0)
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Madeby Norman CantorISBN 0756780144 (0-7567-8014-4)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Jennifer Governmentby Max BarryISBN 1400030927 (1-4000-3092-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jennifer Government'Book summary:In the horrifying, satirical near future of Max Barry's Jennifer Government, American corporations literally rule the world. Everyone takes his employer's name as his last name; once-autonomous nations as far-flung as Australia belong to the USA; and the National Rifle Association is not just a worldwide corporation, it's a hot, publicly traded stock. Hack Nike, a hapless employee seeking advancement, signs a multipage contract and then reads it. He discovers he's agreed to assassinate kids purchasing Nike's new line of athletic shoes, a stealth marketing maneuver designed to increase sales. And the dreaded government agent Jennifer Government is after him.
Like Steve Aylett, Alexander Besher, Douglas Coupland, Paul Di Filippo, Jim Munroe, Jeff Noon, and Chuck Palahniuk, Max Barry is an author of smartass, punky satire for the late capitalist era. It's a hip and happening field; before publication, Jennifer Government (Barry's second novel) was optioned by Stephen Soderbergh and George Clooney's Section 8 Films for a major motion picture. However, the level of literary accomplishment varies wildly among practitioners, from brilliant (Di Filippo and Palahniuk) to amateurish (Besher). This field is so hot, its writers needn't be nearly as accomplished as they'd have to become to break into any other form of fiction.
That said, like many of his fellow turn-of-the-millennium satirists, Barry is uneven. He has a lively imagination and a sharp eye for the absurdities and offenses of hypercorporate capitalism. But, with its sketchy characters and slow dialogue, Jennifer Government will disappoint anyone who believes the cover copy's grandiose claim that this is "a Catch-22 for the New World Order." --Cynthia Ward [via]
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Killer Germs: Microbes and Diseases That Threaten Humanityby Barry E. Zimmerman, David J. ZimmermanISBN 0809233908 (0-8092-3390-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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LA Pesteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360423 (2-07-036042-3)
Softcover, Gallimard
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Peste'Book summary:La Peste est un roman dAlbert Camus publié en 1947 qui permit en partie à son auteur de remporter le prix Nobel en 1957. Il a pour théâtre Oran durant la période de lAlgérie française. Lhistoire se déroule dans les années 1940. Le roman raconte sous forme de chronique la vie quotidienne des habitants de la ville pendant une épidémie de peste qui frappe la ville et la coupe du monde extérieur. [via]
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The Last Days: A Novelby Scott WesterfeldISBN 159514062X (1-59514-062-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Days: A Novel'Book summary:Strange things are happening: old friends disappearing, angels (or devils) clambering on the fire escapes of New York City. But for Pearl, Moz, and Zahler, all that matters is the band. As the city reels under a mysterious epidemic, the three combine their talents with a vampire lead singer and a drummer whose fractured mind can glimpse the coming darkness. Will their music stave off the end? Or summon it?[via]Set against the gritty apocalypse that began in Peeps, The Last Days is about five teenagers who find themselves creating the soundtrack for the end of the world.
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Level 4 Hunters of the Cdcby Joseph B. McCormickISBN 0760712115 (0-7607-1211-5)
Softcover, Marboro Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Level 4 Hunters of the Cdc'Book summary:The hemorrhagic viral diseases, such as Ebola, are among the most elusive and gruesome diseases known to man. Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, a husband-and-wife team formerly of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, have spent their lives tracking these pathogens, traversing the globe in heroic efforts to confine them and prevent epidemic. In Level 4, McCormick and Fisher-Hoch recount their most gripping and rewarding experiences, and give insight into the stubborn bravery and driving curiosity that compels them to continually put their own lives at risk for the welfare of humanity. [via]
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Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDCby Joseph McCormick, Leslie A. HorvitzISBN 1570362777 (1-57036-277-7)
Hardcover, Turner Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC'Book summary:The hemorrhagic viral diseases, such as Ebola, are among the most elusive and gruesome diseases known to man. Joseph B. McCormick and Susan Fisher-Hoch, a husband-and-wife team formerly of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, have spent their lives tracking these pathogens, traversing the globe in heroic efforts to confine them and prevent epidemic. In Level 4, McCormick and Fisher-Hoch recount their most gripping and rewarding experiences, and give insight into the stubborn bravery and driving curiosity that compels them to continually put their own lives at risk for the welfare of humanity. [via]
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The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses: The Basic Technologyby Mark A. LudwigISBN 0929408020 (0-929408-02-0)
Softcover, Amer Eagle Pubns Inc
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Mount Dragonby Douglas PrestonISBN 0812564375 (0-8125-6437-5)
Softcover, Forge
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Mount Dragonby Lincoln Child, Preston DouglasISBN 0765354934 (0-7653-5493-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Outbreakby Robin CookISBN 042510687X (0-425-10687-X)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creaturesby Carl ZimmerISBN 074320011X (0-7432-0011-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures'Book summary:Many books provoke a visceral reaction, but few really make you itch. Science writer Carl Zimmer's Parasite Rex does just that, provoking a deliciously creepy sense of paranoia in the reader as it explores a long-misunderstood realm of science. While entomologists love to announce that there are more species of insects than all other animals combined, few parasitologists choose to trump that by reminding us that "parasites may outnumber free-living species four to one." That figure is based on the multicellular chauvinism of the 19th century, which excludes bacteria and fungi from consideration (athlete's foot, anyone?), but Zimmer looks at the E. coli in our guts as well as the worms, flukes, mites, and other critters that earn a healthy living at our expense--and the expense of our domesticated plants and animals.
The author traveled to Africa to see firsthand the effects of sleeping sickness and river blindness. He learned from physicians and researchers that the parasites that wreak so much havoc are much more than the simple degenerates we've taken them for. Their complex adaptations to their environments--us--are as lovely and awe-inspiring as any eye or wing. The examples of hormonal and other behavioral control of hosts, causing changes in feeding habits and other life essentials, are chilling when personalized. Zimmer knows his subject well, and his writing, while robust and affecting, never descends to the all-too-easy gross-out. You wouldn't expect to find respect for a tapeworm, but Parasite Rex will show you how beautiful Earth's truly dominant life forms are. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Peepsby Scott WesterfeldISBN 1595140832 (1-59514-083-2)
Softcover, Razorbill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peeps'Book summary:A year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying than in attending biology class. Now, after a fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, biology has become, literally, Cal's life.[via]Cal was infected by a parasite that has a truly horrifying effect on its host. Cal himself is a carrier, unchanged by the parasite, but he's infected the girlfriends he's had since Morgan. All three have turned into the ravening ghouls Cal calls Peeps. The rest of us know them as vampires. It's Cal's job to hunt them down before they can create more of their kind. . . .
Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that are fast becoming his trademark, Scott Westerfeld's novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror.
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Phenomenological Psychologyby E. HusserlISBN 902471978X (90-247-1978-X)
Softcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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The Plagueby Albert CamusISBN 0808519840 (0-8085-1984-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Plagues and Peoplesby William H. McNeillISBN 0844664928 (0-8446-6492-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Quest for the Killersby June GoodfieldISBN 0809015323 (0-8090-1532-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Richard Matheson's I Am Legendby Steve Niles, Elman BrownISBN 1932382089 (1-932382-08-9)
Hardcover, Diamond Book Distributors
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Robert Ludlum's the Cassandra Compactby Robert Ludlum, Philip ShelbyISBN 1587240750 (1-58724-075-0)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Snow Crashby Neal StephensonISBN 0553380958 (0-553-38095-8)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Crash'Book summary:From the opening line of his breakthrough cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson plunges the reader into a not-too-distant future. It is a world where the Mafia controls pizza delivery, the United States exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and the Internet--incarnate as the Metaverse--looks something like last year's hype would lead you to believe it should. Enter Hiro Protagonist--hacker, samurai swordsman, and pizza-delivery driver. When his best friend fries his brain on a new designer drug called Snow Crash and his beautiful, brainy ex-girlfriend asks for his help, what's a guy with a name like that to do? He rushes to the rescue. A breakneck-paced 21st-century novel, Snow Crash interweaves everything from Sumerian myth to visions of a postmodern civilization on the brink of collapse. Faster than the speed of television and a whole lot more fun, Snow Crash is the portrayal of a future that is bizarre enough to be plausible. [via]
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Speaker for the Deadby Orson Scott CardISBN 0812550757 (0-8125-5075-7)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speaker for the Dead'Book summary:Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. [via]
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Spiralby Glynne Walley, Not AvailableISBN 1932234160 (1-932234-16-0)
Softcover, Vertical Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spiral'Book summary:Dr. Ando who has yet to recover from his son's death at sea, conducts an autopsy on an old friend who has died under unusual circumstances. The corpse, that of cynical philosophy professor Ryuji Takayama, has something to tell him. And Ryuji isn't the only one who chooses to make a reappearance in this story.
You don't know what the RING is yet. The terms of the curse of the videotape undergo a jaw-dropping reconfiguration in this novel, the horror master's stunning reinvention of his own bestselling tale. Spiral is written as a stand-alone work; for Rinbg fans, its' a sequel that redefines the word. [via]More editions of Spiral:
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Spiralby Koji Suzuki, Glynne WalleyISBN 1932234063 (1-932234-06-3)
Hardcover, Vertical Inc
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You don't know what the RING is yet. The terms of the curse of the videotape undergo a jaw-dropping reconfiguration in this novel, the horror master's stunning reinvention of his own bestselling tale. Spiral is written as a stand-alone work; for Rinbg fans, its' a sequel that redefines the word. [via]More editions of Spiral:
SPIRALby Sakura MizukiISBN 1593072155 (1-59307-215-5)
Softcover, Dark Horse Comics
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 1568495714 (1-56849-571-4)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Synnersby Pat CadiganISBN 1568581858 (1-56858-185-8)
Softcover, Thunder's Mouth Pr
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Virusesby Arnold J. LevineISBN 0716750317 (0-7167-5031-7)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Whiteoutby Ken FollettISBN 1594131090 (1-59413-109-0)
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Xenocideby Orson Scott CardISBN 1417646519 (1-4176-4651-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Xenocide'Book summary:Orson Scott Card's Xenocide is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin's story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of pequeninos, and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it's hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender's tale will want to start reading this series with the first books, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. --Brooks Peck [via]
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Ender El Xenocida / Xenocideby Orson Scott CardISBN 8466618090 (84-666-1809-0)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ender El Xenocida / Xenocide'Book summary:On Lusitania, Ender Wiggins found a world where humans and the alien race of pequininos live together and find common ground. Ender was wrongLusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but pequininos require it to become adults. Seeing no other alternative, the Startways Congress orders the destruction of the entire planet and all who live there, not knowing that concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that could save the planet and the galaxy.[via]More editions of Ender El Xenocida / Xenocide:
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La Fortaleza Digital / Digital Fortressby Dan Brown, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 8489367019 (84-89367-01-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Fortaleza Digital / Digital Fortress'Book summary:Susan Fletchr, la criptografa estrella de la ultrasecreta Agencia de Seguridad Nacional (NSA) o puede dar credito a sus oidos cuando su jefe, el subdirector de la Agencia, le informade que han interceptado un codigo que ni siquiera la mayor supercomputadora conocida puede descifrar... [via]
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La Voz de los Muertosby Orson Scott Card, Rafael Marin TrecheraISBN 8466618082 (84-666-1808-2)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Voz de los Muertos'Book summary:In the aftermath of the terrible war with the Buggers, Ender Wiggin disappeared and a powerful voice arose in his placethe Speaker for the Dead. Years later, a second alien race is discovered whose first contacts with humans have caused incomprehensible deaths. It is only the Speaker for the Dead who has the courage to confront the truth about this new enemy.[via]More editions of La Voz de los Muertos:
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