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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.
Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthest edges of space through the Hale Telescope, attempting to solve the riddle of the creation of the universe.
Richard Preston's name became a household word with The Hot Zone, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in hardcover, was on The New York Times's bestseller list for 42 weeks, and was the subject of countless magazine and newspaper articles. Preston has become a sought-after commentator on popular science subjects.
For this hardcover reprint of what has been called "the best popular account of astronomy in action," (Kirkus Reviews) he has revised the text and written a new introduction.
From the Hardcover edition.
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.
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
Libraryocm32025291New-York: O. Halsted; Philadelphia: W.A. Halsted,
1828. 2 v. in 1; 24 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.
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