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Product: Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts (2012-10-11)
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Product: The Perfect Car: The Biography of John Barnard
Description: John Barnard revolutionised Formula 1, and motorsport as a whole, through his unrelenting quest for perfection in racing car design. Written with Barnard’s cooperation and with input from dozens of associates, drivers and rivals, this biography tells the entire story, both personal and professional, of a British design genius.

Barnard’s technical achievements are explored in detail — and in accessible language — with special emphasis on his brilliant initiatives while at McLaren (the first carbon-fibre composite chassis) and Ferrari (the first semi-automatic gearbox). The Perfect Car is also a human-interest story, telling a tale of innovation under intense pressure while Barnard endeavoured to maintain a stable family life.

This is a landmark book that will be relished by anyone interested in motorsport and design.
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Product: Fatal Invention byRoberts
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Product: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Description: An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era.

Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.

This groundbreaking book by legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts examines how the myth of race as a biological concept—revived by purportedly cutting-edge science, race-specific drugs, genetic testing, and DNA databases—continues to undermine a just society and promote inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” era. Named one of the ten best black nonfiction books 2011 by AFRO.com, Fatal Invention offers a timely and “provocative analysis” (Nature) of race, science, and politics that “is consistently lucid . . . alarming but not alarmist, controversial but evidential, impassioned but rational” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

“Everyone concerned about social justice in America should read this powerful book.” —Anthony D. Romero, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union

“A terribly important book on how the ‘fatal invention’ has terrifying effects in the post-genomic, ‘post-racial’ era.” —Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology, Duke University, and author of Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States

“Fatal Invention is a triumph! Race has always been an ill-defined amalgam of medical and cultural bias, thinly overlaid with the trappings of contemporary scientific thought. And no one has peeled back the layers of assumption and deception as lucidly as Dorothy Roberts.” —Harriet A. Washington, author of and Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself
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Product: Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Brand: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Color: Multicolor
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Product: I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919
Brand: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Product: Our Final Invention
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
St Martin s Griffin
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Product: Fatal Serum: The Truth Will Prevail
Description: From the author of Avengement comes a gripping thriller of big pharma, government corruption, and a defiant doctor’s struggle for survival.

Ten years ago, doctorate student Sam Abbot created two astounding serums. One could prevent contagious diseases while the other was capable of blocking the harmful effects of air pollution on human lungs. Both could change the world.

Shocked to have his miraculous work turned down by big pharma, Sam gets help from a wealthy rogue benefactor to start his own company. But when the drug companies see their profits dropping, they use their influence with a shady US senator to take out the competition.

Now, just as Sam is about to go on a well-earned vacation, his wife mysteriously disappears—and Sam is named the prime suspect. Desperate and on the run, Sam must finally confront the powers that have haunted his life if he or his wife are to survive.
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Product: Superior: The Return of Race Science
Brand: Beacon Press
Color: White
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Product: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Brand: Anchor
Color: Brown
Anchor
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Product: Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Brand: Vintage
Color: Red
Vintage
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Product: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Brand: Viking
Color: White
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Product: Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare
Brand: Civitas Books
ISBN13: 9780465070596
Condition: New
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Product: Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
W W Norton Company
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Product: Ethics and the Orator: The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality
Brand: University of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
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Product: Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Color: Multicolor
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