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Mutation: The History of an Idea from Darwin to Genomics

By Elof Axel Carlson, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University

© 2011 • 163 pp., illus. (11 b/w), index
Hardcover • $57.00 • ISBN 978-1-936113-30-9

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Incurable: A Life after Diagnosis

By Charles Harris

© 2011 • 280 pp., illus.
Hardcover • $31.00 • ISBN 978-1-936113-10-1

In March 2009, during a routine medical exam, Charles Harris learned that he had incurable cancer. Although a private man, he began a blog to keep family and friends current on his progress, and found a wider audience. From the blog was born Incurable, an account of a man’s struggle to live vibrantly and with courage in the face of a fatal illness. An entrepreneur and investor by profession, Charles Harris writes about living and dying, friendship and fellowship, sports and wine, race horses and recessions. His style is optimistic, direct, humorous, and companionable. Readers will find his voice brave, inspirational, and an eloquent reminder that an understanding of cancer remains an urgent goal in biomedicine. Proceeds from this book will be used by the Harris family in support of cancer research.

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The Honest Look

By Jennifer L. Rohn

© 2011 • 300 pp.
Paperback • $15.00 • ISBN 978-1-936113-11-8

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Sydney Brenner: A Biography

By Errol C. Friedberg, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

© 2011 • 334 pp., illus. (59 b/w), index
Trim size: 6” x 9”
Hardcover • $40.00 • ISBN 978-0-879699-47-5

Over his long and inspiring career, the Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner has made some of the most significant and game-changing discoveries in the field of molecular biology. But Brenner’s reach has extended well beyond his own research to inspire new generations of young scientists and to promote the development of science and biotechnology around the world. Based on his personal recollections, with contributions and correspondence from his close friends and colleagues, this book tells the lively story, not only of Brenner himself, but of what came to be known as the “golden age” of biology.About the author: Errol C. Friedberg, M.D., is the Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Professor and Chair at the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. A Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and recipient of the Rous Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology, Friedberg also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal DNA Repair. Friedberg is the author of Cancer Answers, Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, The Writing Life of James D. Watson, and From Rags to Riches: The Phenomenal Rise of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He is also senior author of the textbook DNA Repair & Mutagenesis, and has edited and annotated a series of interviews published as Sydney Brenner: My Life in Science.

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Francis Crick: Hunter of Life’s Secrets

By Robert Olby

© 2009 • 538 pp, illus., indexes
Hardcover • $46.00 • ISBN 978-087969798-3

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Career Opportunities in Biotechnology and Drug Development

By Toby Freedman, Synapsis Search, Portola Valley, California

© 2009 • 409 pp., illus., index
Paperback • $40.00 $28.00 • ISBN 978-0-879698-80-5

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What a Time I Am Having: Selected Letters of Max Perutz

Edited By Vivien Perutz

© 2009 • 506 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • $40.00 • ISBN 978-087969864-5

Selected by his daughter, Vivien, from Max Perutz’s voluminous correspondence, the letters reproduced here portray their author with a spontaneity and directness no autobiography could have matched. They chronicle Perutz’s adventurous life through his own vivid, erudite and humorous pen, documenting the hopes, roadblocks and moments of elation of his sixty-year quest to understand the molecular biology of hemoglobin. The first great step in this quest — unraveling the molecular structure of hemoglobin — earned Perutz the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Narrated against a backdrop of family and friends, politics and war, literature, travels, and Max’s beloved mountains, these letters provide rare insight into the thoughts of a remarkable and very human scientist, and delightful sketches of some of the people he encountered. Starting with lively letters to a girlfriend written in his youth in Vienna and the impressions of a young scientist in Cambridge, the letters progress to the desperate pleas of an “enemy alien” interned in Canada during World War II. The diary of Perutz’s subsequent super-secret war work for the British to build a floating ice airstrip in the North Atlantic, ardent campaigning letters to scientists and politicians, and self-deprecating stories of his own mishaps written to amuse his children and grandchildren are some of the many highlights of these fascinating letters, unique in the annals of recent scientific history. This book is a companion to Georgina Ferry’s Max Perutz and the Secret of Life. Together these volumes provide a portrait of an extraordinary character in the development of molecular biology.

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Experimental Heart: A Novel

By Jennifer L. Rohn

© 2009 • 364 pp.
Paperback • $15.00 • ISBN 978-087969876-8

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The Strongest Boy in the World: How Genetic Information is Reshaping Our Lives, Updated and Expanded Edition

By Philip R. Reilly

© 2008 • 300 pp., illus., bibliography, index
Paperback • $16 • ISBN 978-087969943-7

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Grounds for Knowledge
A Guide to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Landscapes and Buildings
Introducing the Bungtown Botanical Garden

By Elizabeth L. Watson; Landscape Photography by Peter Stahl

© 2008 • 208 pp., illus., maps, appendices, bibliography, index
Hardcover • $30.00 • ISBN 978-087969799-0