Steohen S. Hall, Author, Stephen S. Hall, Author, Rebecca Saletan, Editor Random House (NY) $30 (477p) ISBN 978-0-394-57635-0
The title's ``new geographies'' encompass the furthest reaches of the universe and the ``landscape of the chromosome,'' regions made newly visible with such imaging tools as the computer, Voyager 2 satellite and other remote sensors. Most of these...
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Stephen S. Hall, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-618-09524-7
Drawing on scores of original interviews and contemporary source material, Hall, a contributing writer and editor at the New York Times Magazine
(Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene),
gives a timely and engrossing account of...
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Stephen S. Hall, Author . Houghton Mifflin $26 (388p) ISBN 978-0-618-47040-2
Bond had always mistrusted short men," Ian Fleming wrote; "Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was short men who created all the trouble in the world." That may sound extreme, but science reporter Hall (Merchants of Immorality:...
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Stephen S. Hall, Author Vintage Books USA $18 (477p) ISBN 978-0-679-74175-6
Considering the map as a tool of thought, Hall offers fluent science writing but overwhelms with a range of contemporary examples, from the far reaches of the universe to the landscape of the chromosome. Photos. (Apr.)
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Stephen S. Hall, Author Henry Holt & Company $32 (544p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3796-8
While guiding readers through a century of immunological breakthroughs related to the treatment of cancer, Hall (Mapping the Next Millennium) focuses on the high stakes, big money and oversized egos of the last 30 years. He details the pressures...
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Stephen S. Hall, Author Microsoft Press $8.94 (334p) ISBN 978-1-55615-172-9
The goal of this ``race'' between a Harvard biogenetics lab and two San Francisco-area labs was to make insulin in mass-market quantities by using recombinant DNA techniques. ``This is demanding reading for biochemistry novices,'' warned PW , ``but...
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Stephen S. Hall, Author, Morgan Entrekin, Editor Atlantic Monthly Press $19.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-87113-147-8
Drawing on scores of interviews with participants, science writer Hall describes the 19761978 ""race''begun when the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly organized a recombinant DNA symposium of scientists in Indianapolisbetween a Harvard biogenetics lab,
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