Joel Davis, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $21.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-55972-206-3
Drawing on research in several fields, science journalist Davis ( Defending the Body: Unraveling the Mysteries of Immunology ) offers an engaging, if diffuse, study of the history and science of language. He first investigates the definition of...
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Joel Davis, Author Atheneum Books $19.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-689-11657-5
General readers as well as space buffs should enjoy this graphic behind-the-scenes account of Voyager 2's eight-year ""flyby'' past Jupiter and Saturn then further to Uranus, our Sun's seventh planet, in January 1986. Already a historic spaceprobe,...
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Joel Davis, Author Atheneum Books $0 (250p) ISBN 978-0-689-11946-0
The alphabet soup of immunology--AZT, HIV, RNA, DNA, GCG, HLA, ARC, IDDM, CD4, SCIDS, TCGF, to sample the argot--may bewilder the layperson; this book tells in lay terms how the immune system functions. Since the language of science isn't always...
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Joel Davis, Author Basic Books $27.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-306-45629-9
From the title, one might expect Davis (Mapping the Mind) to take a New Age approach toward science, but instead he offers a traditional history, chronicling humanity's development of instruments to explore space and the atom--places we can visit...
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