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1.		The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.99 Customer Review: I love the idea of the singularity. I think Ray Kurzweil is a god among men. His enthusiasm and passion make me want to believe. But it may take my entire life to finish reading this book. It's dense and not very beginner-friendly for those of us who want to learn more about the topic. Don't let... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (P.S.) from Harper Perennial Price: $9.01 Customer Review: This is one of the most enjoyable popular-science books I've read. The author's device is to take one gene from each chromosome ( from largest chromosome to smallest) and let it inspire an essay on one facet of the subject. Thus a particularly ancient (unmutated) gene sparks an essay on the origin... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		The Great Terror: A Reassessment from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $8.74 Customer Review: Robert Conquest's reappraisal of the Stalin Terror in the last half of the 1930s is essentially an updated version of the original, groundbreaking, work of 1968. Conquest is a true historian, which is to say he treats history as a crime scene, knowing he will never find all the facts, but still that... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $3.52 Customer Review: Perhaps it is useful that Professor Fukuyama is again obsessed with "ends" rather than with "means." Inasmuch as it seems that speculations about "ends" is easier to write about. They allow us to "play out" often unpleasant, but easy and morally neutral "What if" mind games about possible future... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.		Molecular Biotechnology- Principles and Applications of Recombinant DNA 3rd edition. from AmerSocietyforMicrobiology Customer Review: Amazon mis-directed me to this book, apparently, because why on earth would I want a molecular biotechnology book from 1994??? It's insane. So I sent it back.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		Genome from Fourth Estate Ltd Price: $9.00 Customer Review: British science writer, Matt Ridley tells the story of the human genome by concentrating on one gene per chromosome and taking his readers from the beginning of life on Earth to the possible future of humanity. If you are interested in the advances in genetics, "Genome" is a quick, interesting... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Essentials of Stem Cell Biology from Academic Press Price: $75.00 Customer Review: With his prior collaborative book, "Principles of Tissue Engineering" this text, "Essentials of Stem Cell Biology" provides the essential rationale for that curious endeavor of applied biology we call "healthcare". While others are wringing hands and endlessly belaboring cost-effectiveness, access... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement from Broadway Price: $46.63 Customer Review: Ramez Naam writes very well. His ideas a presented elegantly and supported by evidence. I always thought I was normal but Ramez Naam demonstrated to me that what I think is normal is really not so. He has also persuaded me to look forward to a great future of human achievement.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food from Basic Books Price: $26.98 Customer Review: This one was not what I was looking for, but I was fascinated nevertheless. I was looking for something on agricultural policy, dealing particularly with tarrifs and trade. This one is about the politics and businees of bio-technology. What makes it so interesting is that the author is a good story... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		Biotechnology Unzipped: Promises and Realities, Revised Second Edition from Joseph Henry Press Price: $10.00 Customer Review: Eric Grace is a science writer with a Ph.D. in zoology: his BIOTECHNOLOGY UNZIPPED: PROMISES AND REALITIES may sound technical but is surprisingly accessible, appearing in a revised second edition to provide chapters covering health, environmental concerns, and biotech applications. The first... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Biotechnology Unzipped: Promises and Realities, Revised Second Edition from Joseph Henry Press Price: $10.00 Customer Review: Eric Grace is a science writer with a Ph.D. in zoology: his BIOTECHNOLOGY UNZIPPED: PROMISES AND REALITIES may sound technical but is surprisingly accessible, appearing in a revised second edition to provide chapters covering health, environmental concerns, and biotech applications. The first... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Price: $2.54 Customer Review: Cochlear implants are bad because the deaf community says so, and we don't like when people try to take our members away. If you are born deaf you are one of us and have to stay deaf, or you imply that there's something wrong with us. We are not wrong and don't need fixing. Do you hear me?more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection from Academic Press Price: $92.66 Customer Review: I teach a course in radiation physics for nuclear medicine workers, and my research in in particle detection. I was attracted to this book as background material, a more contemporary exploration of radiation detection. A specific example topic was optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimetry,... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


14.		Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators , and Law Enforders from Beacon Press Price: $4.11 Customer Review: Ruth Hubbard is a professor emerita of biology at Harvard and a member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, a prominent national bioethics board. In this book (co-written with her son-in-law, Elijah Wald), she takes everything you think you know about genes, genetic health care screening, DNA... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


15.		Immortality:: How Science Is Extending Your Life Span--and Changing The World from Harper Perennial Price: $3.49 Customer Review: I found this book to be an enjoyable and easy read for a layman. Just enough information to "get it" without all the technical details/terminology that only serves to confuse the reader. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about the state of modern medicine in exploring... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


16.		Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs from Forge Books Price: $1.28 Customer Review: This book's thesis is a beastly, dangerous idea, to think that machines can someday exceed humans. It is a narrow, materialistic, mechanistic worldview that ignores basic human factors, such as a conscience. Do you think that a computer in a robot programmed to kill would reflect on the moral issue... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


17.		The Hope, Hype, and Reality of Genetic Engineering: Remarkable Stories from Agriculture, Industry, Medicine, and the Environment from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $24.74 Customer Review: Despite the difficult name and seemingly difficult genre, this book is easy to read and highly informative. It is a series of essays, each 2-5 pages long. They each address a different aspect of current work in biotechnology and genetic engineering. They are informative and leave the judgement to... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.		Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas from AMACOM Price: $0.01 Customer Review: Excellent information that is largely unknown in the general public but should be. Genetic engineering already affects most of the food you eat, the medical care you get, the future of commodities markets and the future of third world nations. The book was a little bit too lengthy regarding the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


19.		The Biotech Century from Tarcher Price: $0.13 Customer Review: Adam Smith warned us that we didn't had to rely on the goodwill of the baker or the butcher to supply our meals. Following Smith, we should only rely on the care they take to fulfil their own interests. We shouldn't address their humanity, only their egoism. We shouldn't talk to them on our needs,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture from Rutgers University Press Price: $14.50 Customer Review: _Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture_ by Elaine L. Graham is a disturbing book which attempts to make sense of what it means to be human in a developing society where that category is frequently challenged from a post-modern perspective. In particular,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


21.		Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture from Rutgers University Press Price: $14.50 Customer Review: _Representations of the Post/Human: Monsters, Aliens and Others in Popular Culture_ by Elaine L. Graham is a disturbing book which attempts to make sense of what it means to be human in a developing society where that category is frequently challenged from a post-modern perspective. In particular,... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.		Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene from Oxford University Press, USA Price: $114.99 Customer Review: Great success comes only after overcoming great difficulties. Basically this fact of life underlies this book. The fascinating point is, it is not an account of life of some great sportsman or some great leader but of a group of those people in society called scientists whose curious minds, hard... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


23.		Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law (Science in Society Series) from Earthscan Publications Ltd. Price: $16.67 Customer Review: As nanotechnology starts to emerge in the form of products for the marketplace, this book confronts various societal issues about its safety and usage. The contributors are varied. Most notable is Eric Drexler, who, in his seminal work, "Engines of Creation", helped kick off this entire field in... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials from B.C. Decker Inc Price: $14.00 Customer Review: I teach and do statistics for a living. Don't let the humor fool you. Despite being the most (only?) fun to read statistics book, it also has more thorough (and readable and usable) coverage coverage of the basics and advanced methods than any other book its size. It explains both underlying... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


25.		Medicine by Design: The Practice and Promise of Biomedical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University Press Price: $16.62 Customer Review: It is an excellent book: engaging, informative, and it covers quite a bit of material. However, the second paragraph on page 7 starts: "The seniors were a diverse group---including students from China, India, Palestine, and Russia..." I got stumbled on the word Palestine. I can... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


26.		Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology: A Guide for Teachers Price: $215.94 Customer Review: This is a great reference textbook for teachers. I teach recombinant DNA methods in the middle school, and I am always looking for ways to bring the information in hand's on methods. I used the template in the book to build a strand of DNA twenty feet long with mRNA, tRNA and then amino acids... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Library in a Book) from Facts on File Price: $25.32 Customer Review: Biotechnology And Genetic Engineering joins others in the publisher's 'Library in a Book' reference and deserves ongoing mention as an excellent single-volume basic introduction to biotechnology for readers at the high school level on up. From cloning to DNA mapping and legal ramifications of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology) from Cambridge University Press Price: $19.99	Click here for more information


29.		Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines from Palgrave Macmillan Price: $0.01 Customer Review: Thank for the author to fight for stem cell research. I was especially impressed by Bernie Siegel. What an extraordinary person. Of course with President obama is now the president which hopefully he will be re-elected in 2012. The scene must have changed a lot. please write an update. let us know... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution from Praeger Price: $22.50 Customer Review: In The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution, food safety experts Henry Miller and Gregory Conko have written a brilliant account of how self-interest, bad science, and excessive government regulation have profoundly compromised the potential of the new... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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