John Sulston, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine, talks about his contributions to the sequence of the human genome, The CommonThread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome. Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder has dealt with some of the most violent criminals in New York City. She shares her experiences in and out of the courtroom in her book 25 to Life. David Wyman on the life of Peter Bergson, the man who led America's most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust, A Race Against Death. Plus photographer Bruce Davidson shares his work from the Civil Rights Movement, Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965.
John Sulston
John Sulston, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine, talks about his contributions to the sequence of the human genome, The CommonThread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome.
Please note: We do not have the first chapter available for this book in the Reading Room. Apologies ...
Please note: We do not have the first chapter available for this book in the Reading Room. Apologies ...
Leslie Crocker Snyder
Judge Leslie Crocker Snyder has dealt with some of the most violent criminals in New York City. She shares her experiences in and out of the courtroom in her book 25 to Life: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth. Read an excerpt of Snyder's ...
David Wyman
David Wyman on the life of Peter Bergson, the man who led America's most effective campaign to rescue victims of the Holocaust, A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust.
Bruce Davidson
Photographer Bruce Davidson shares his work from the Civil Rights Movement, Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965.
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