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Micro (Paperback)
Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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An instant classic in the vein of Jurassic Park, this
boundary-pushing novel has all the hallmarks of Michael Crichton's
greatest adventures with its combination of pulse-pounding thrills,
cutting-edge technology, and extraordinary research Three men are
found dead in a locked second-floor office in Honolulu. There is no
sign of struggle, though their bodies are covered in ultra-fine,
razor-sharp cuts. With no evidence, the police dismiss it as a
bizarre suicide pact. But the murder weapon is still in the room,
almost invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge, Massachusetts,
seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are
recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up company. Nanigen
MicroTechnologies sends them to a mysterious laboratory in Hawaii,
where they are promised access to tools that will open up a whole
new scientific frontier. But this opportunity of a lifetime will
teach them the true cost of existing at the cutting-edge... The
group becomes prey to a technology of radical, unimaginable power
and is thrust out into the teeming rainforest. Armed only with
their knowledge of the natural world, the young scientists face a
hostile wilderness that threatens danger at every turn. To survive,
they must harness the awe-inspiring creative - and destructive -
forces of nature itself.
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Micro (Paperback)
Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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R477
R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
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In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead,
covered in ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts. The only clue left behind
is a tiny bladed robot.
In the lush forests of Oahu, trillions of microorganisms are
being discovered, feeding a search for priceless drugs.
In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students are
recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious
lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will
open a whole new scientific frontier.
But once in the rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a
hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a technology
of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the
inherent forces of nature itself.
An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in
vintage Crichton fashion.
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.
From the Paperback edition.
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Micro (Paperback)
Michael Crichton, Richard Preston
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R301
R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton reveals a
universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore
In the locked office of a Honolulu building, three men are found
dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razor-sharp
cuts covering their bodies.
In the lush rain forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has
ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Here,
seven brilliant graduate students recruited by a pioneering
microbiology start-up company are thrust into a hostile wilderness
that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Prey to
a technology of radical and unbridled power--armed only with their
knowledge of the natural world--they must harness the inherent
forces of nature itself to survive.
Melding scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction in vintage
Michael Crichton fashion--completed by visionary science writer
Richard Preston--Micro is an instant classic of sophisticated,
cutting-edge entertainment.
COMING TO NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON 27 MAY 2019 _________ In March
2014, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa was first reported. By
October 2014, it had become the largest and deadliest occurrence of
the disease. Over 4,500 people have died. Almost 10,000 cases have
been reported, across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and
the United States. Impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone is the
terrifying, true-life account of when this highly infectious virus
spread from the rainforests of Africa to the suburbs of Washington,
D.C in 1989. A secret SWAT team of soldiers and scientists were
quickly tasked with halting the outbreak. And they did. But now,
that very same virus is back. And we could be just one wrong move
away from a pandemic.
In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in
Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too
dangerous to ignore.
In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead,
covered in ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts. The only clue left behind
is a tiny bladed robot. In the lush forests of Oahu, trillions of
microorganisms are being discovered, feeding a search for priceless
drugs. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students are
recruited by a microbiology start-up and dispatched to a mysterious
lab in Hawaii. There they are promised access to tools that will
open a whole new scientific frontier.
But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into
a hostile wilderness where they find themselves prey to a
technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must
harness the inherent forces of nature itself.
An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in
vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer
Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific
fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece
of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm29884530Caption title: On the laws of property as
applicable to abstracts of title.New-York: O. Halsted;
Philadelphia: Wm. Abdallah Halsted, 1828. 3 v.; 25 cm.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm29884530Caption title: On the laws of property as
applicable to abstracts of title.New-York: O. Halsted;
Philadelphia: Wm. Abdallah Halsted, 1828. 3 v.; 25 cm.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm32025291New-York: O. Halsted; Philadelphia: W.A. Halsted,
1828. 2 v. in 1; 24 cm.
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