genetics books

	Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine
	By: M. Susan Lindee ISBN: 0801881757 Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Release Date: 26 August, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 531680	I loved this book. It gave me a new perspective on how genetic medicine is changing our lives and our world. As a friend of someone with a genetic disease, it helped me think about her life in new ways.
	Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics
	By: Frederic Lawrence Holmes, William C. Summers ISBN: 0300110782 Publisher: Yale University Press Release Date: 21 June, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 989379
	Viral Genome Packaging: Genetics, Structure, and Mechanism (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)
	By: Carlos .E. Catalano ISBN: 0306482274 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 19 May, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 1072382
	Hannah's Heirs: The Quest for the Genetic Origins of Alzheimer's Disease
	By: Daniel A. Pollen ISBN: 0195106520 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Release Date: 18 July, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 998034	The cover of this book gave me reason to expect that it would focus on the story of a family afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and the transmission of the disease through the generations. Instead, the majority of the book reads like a gigantic journal article. The author (a doctor) throws in a mere smattering of human interest here and there, but it's simply not enough to make the story interesting. I am not incapable of reading scientific writing, but page after page of it, as if it were a story in itself, is incredibly tedious. I consider this to be one of the scariest books I have ever read--terrifying becaust it is true. The people in this family are afflicted with an autosomal (not sex-linked) dominant gene for early-onset Alzheimer's Disease. I can imagine few things more nightmarish than growing up in a family in which you fear that you could start losing your mental faculties at age 42--as many of your relatives already have.<p>The scientific research and family genealogical history that made this book possible are fascinating to read about. This is a thoroughly riveting book.
	Genetics in Primary Care & Clinical Medicine
	By: Margretta Reed Seashore ISBN: 0838531288 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co Release Date: 15 January, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 1085532
	Handbook of Neurodevelopmental and Genetic Disorders in Adults
	By: Sam Goldstein, Cecil R. Reynolds ISBN: 1593852061 Publisher: The Guilford Press Release Date: 24 August, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 1068590
	Genetics For Herpers: The Reptile and Amphibian Breeder's Guide to Genetics
	By: Charles Pritzel ISBN: B000ZJVXPM Publisher: Charles Pritzel Release Date: 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1128158
	Essays on Genetic Evolution and Economics
	By: Terence Charles Burnham ISBN: 0965856429 Publisher: Dissertation.com Release Date: 22 June, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 1101921	While the economics profession has its head in the clouds, Professor Burnham's focus is on the ground floor (or perhaps even the basement). His paradigm for understanding the underlying source of our economic preferences is highly illuminating. Interestingly, it supplants the widely-held view in the field that tastes should be taken as exogenously determined. Rather than falling from the sky, however, Dr. Burnham describes the genetic underpinnings of our preferences, and the tug-of-war that often results. I highly encourage others to read this provocative text, and to follow Burnham as he continues to articulate his profound insights in other volumes. Stay tuned. There's more to learn from this teacher and synthesizer of various strands of scientific thought. Topic is fairly intriguing, especially Burnham's expert knowledge on issues of self-interest, but writing itself is overall clunky and dull. You find yourself wishing for more spark, warmth and humor in place of the cold, arid, repetitive fact-spewing. 115 years ago one of the two most important works in evolutionary biology was written, yet it remained unknown for 30 years, as biologists groped along in the dark. Economists are today doing the same thing, while the Mendel of their field lays unread. This book needs to be read by all who find the current state of economics to be unrealistic in its assumptions about human behavior. We have been groping in the dark too long. Don't let 30 years go by, when the truth is available to us today.
	Genetic Algorithms Reference Volume 2 Mutation operator for numerical optimization problems
	By: Tomasz, Dominik Gwiazda ISBN: 8392395840 Publisher: Tomasz Gwiazda Release Date: 24 July, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 1109803
	Solving Problems in Genetics
	By: Richard Kowles ISBN: 0387988416 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 21 June, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 146337