Emerging Epidemics: The Menace of New Infections

As timely as it is urgent, the well-researched book from veteran science journalist Madeline Drexler delivers a compelling report about today's most ominous infections disease threats. Focusing on a different danger in each chapter-from the looming risk of lethal influenza to in-depth information on the public health perils posed by bioterrorism-Drexler takes readers straight to the front lines, where scientists are racing to catch nearly invisible adversaries superior in speed and guile. Drawing on a powerful combination of fresh research and surprising history, she warns us that the most ceaselessly creative bioterrorist is still Mother Nature, whose microbial operatives are all around us, ready to ounce whenever conditions are right.

• Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present and Future
• The Cobra Event: A Novel
• The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
• A Civil Action
• Fundamentals of Biochemistry: Life at the Molecular Level
• Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes, 8th Edition
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House Reader's Circle)
• A Microscale Approach to Organic Laboratory Techniques (Cengage Learning Laboratory Series for Organic Chemistry)
• Principles of Biostatistics (with CD-ROM)
• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual