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Concerning the Origin of Malignant Tumours

By Theodor Boveri; Translated and annotated by Sir Henry Harris

© 2008 • 82 pp.
Paperback • $25.00 • ISBN 978-087969788-4

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Max Perutz and the Secret of Life

By Georgina Ferry

© 2007 • 352 pp., illus., glossary, index
All orders from outside of the United States, Europe, and China must be directed to Chatto and Windus, an imprint of Random House at www.randomhouse.co.uk/chatto/

Don’t miss the new podcast and online slideshow featuring Georgina Ferry discussing her book and Max Perutz.

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Phage and the Origins of Molecular Biology, The Centennial Edition

Edited By John Cairns, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Gunther S. Stent, University of California, Berkeley; James D. Watson, Harvard University

© 2007 • 394 pp., illus., timeline, photo gallery
Hardcover • $30.00 • ISBN 978-087969800-3

This hugely influential book, published in 1966 as a 60th birthday tribute to Max Delbrück, is now republished as The Centennial Edition. On first publication, the book was hailed as “[introducing] into the literature of science, for the first time, a self–conscious historical element in which the participants in scientific discovery engage in writing their own chronicle. As such, it is an important document in the history of biology...” (Journal of History of Biology). And in another review it was described as “required reading for every student of experimental biology...[who] will sense the smell and rattle of the laboratory” (Bioscience). The book was a formative influence on many of today’s leading scientists.

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Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt: Science and the Battle for Public Trust

By Elof Axel Carlson, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook

© 2006 • 227 pp., index
Hardcover • $39 $15.60 • ISBN 978-087969805-8

The intent and uses of science are a continuing preoccupation, especially in public debates on issues such as new pharmaceuticals, cloning, stem cells, genetically modified foods, and assisted reproduction. Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt, written by the eminent geneticist and historian Elof Carlson, explores the moral foundations of science and their role in these hot–button issues. Carlson chooses a variety of case histories and describes their scientific background and the part played by scientists in the application of their work, including their motivations and reactions to bad outcomes, both real and alleged. He examines why ethical lapses have occurred in these areas, why bad things happen when, for the most part, those who worked on the science had only good intentions in mind, and how such lapses can be prevented from occurring in the future. This exploration of ethics and science is important reading for those interested in issues of science and society, including journalists, theologians, legislators, lawyers, and scientists themselves.

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Pandora's Baby: How the First Test Tube Babies Sparked the Reproductive Revolution

By Robin Marantz Henig

© 2006 • 326 pp.
Paperback • $16.95 $8.47 • ISBN 978-087969809-6

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Won for All: How the Drosophila Genome Was Sequenced

By Michael Ashburner

© 2006 • 107 pp., illus.
Hardcover • $19.95 $9.97 • ISBN 978-087969802-7

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The Inside Story: DNA to RNA to Protein

Edited By Jan Witkowski, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

© 2005 • 382 pp., illus., index
Paperback • $29 $14.50 • ISBN 978-087969750-1

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George Beadle, An Uncommon Farmer: The Emergence of Genetics in the 20th Century

By Paul Berg, Stanford University School of Medicine; Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington

© 2005 • 383 pp., illus., index
Paperback • $21 $10.50 • ISBN 978-087969763-1

George Beadle was a towering scientific figure whose work from the 1930s to 1960 marked the transition from classical genetics to the molecular era. Among other distinctions, he made the pivotal, Nobel Prize–winning discovery with Edward Tatum that the role of genes is to specify proteins. From 1946 to 1960 he led the Caltech Biology Division, rebuilding it to a powerhouse in molecular biology, and afterwards became a successful President of the University of Chicago. This is the first biography of a giant of genetics, written by two of the field's most distinguished contributors, Paul Berg and Maxine Singer.

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The Writing Life of James D. Watson

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

© 2005 • 193 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • $26 $5.20 • ISBN 978-087969700-6

James Watson's fame as a scientist and research leader overshadows his considerable achievements as an innovator in the form and style of scientific communication. This book surveys Watson's books and essays from the perennially best–selling The Double Helix through his classic textbooks of the 1960s and 70s, polemics on ethical questions about genetic technology, to more recent works of autobiography.

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Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics

By Elof Axel Carlson, Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Stony Brook

© 2004 • 332 pp., illus., index
Hardcover • $47 $23.50 • ISBN 978-087969675-7

This latest book by Elof Carlson (The Unfit) is a first history of classical genetics, the era in which the chromosome theory of heredity was proposed and developed. Highly illustrated and based heavily on early 20th century original sources, the book traces the roots of genetics in breeding analysis and studies of cytology, evolution, and reproductive biology that began in Europe but were synthesized in the United States through new Ph.D. programs and expanded academic funding. Carlson argues that, influenced largely by new technologies and instrumentation, the life sciences progressed though incremental change rather than paradigm shifts, and he describes how molecular biology emerged from the key ideas and model systems of classical genetics. Readable and original, this narrative will interest historians and science educators as well as today's practitioners of genetics.