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Details the life of Robert Weinberg and his involvement in research into the genetic causes of cancer.
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9781584150954 | Ill edition (Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, November 1, 2001), cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Details the life of Robert Weinberg and his involvement in research into the genetic causes of cancer.
A biography of the Canadian-born bacteriologist whose research on pneumonia and other bacteria led to a new understanding of DNA which, in turn, led to DNA fingerprinting in criminal investigation, paternity testing, and genetic engineering for medical purposes.A biography of the Canadian-born bacteriologist whose research on pneumonia and other bacteria led to a new understanding of DNA which led to DNA fingerprinting in criminal investigation, paternity testing, and genetic engineering.
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9781584151104 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, November 1, 2001, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: A biography of the Canadian-born bacteriologist whose research on pneumonia and other bacteria led to a new understanding of DNA which, in turn, led to DNA fingerprinting in criminal investigation, paternity testing, and genetic engineering for medical purposes.
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9781584151098 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, December 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A biography covering the personal life and professional career of one of the founders of Apple Computer, Steve Wozniak.
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9781584151319 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, April 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A biography of the creator of the popular 'Peanuts' comic strip.
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9781584151463 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Spanish soldier who led a failed expedition in search of rumored treasure in the American southwest.
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9781584151432 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Profiles the popular Labour party member who, in 1997, became Britain's youngest prime minister in over two hundred years, and details his support of the war against terrorism begun in 2001.
Describes the life of the Spanish explorer who first came to the New World with Columbus, went on to become governor of Puerto Rico, and later came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth.
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9781584151494 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, December 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the life of the Spanish explorer who first came to the New World with Columbus, went on to become governor of Puerto Rico, and later came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth.
A biography of the wealthy Spaniard who came to the New World to seek glory and who, in 1541, became the first European to reach the Mississippi River.
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9781584151470 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, December 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A biography of the wealthy Spaniard who came to the New World to seek glory and who, in 1541, became the first European to reach the Mississippi River.
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9781584151487 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, December 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes the life of the seventeenth-century Spanish explorer and first governor of California, Gaspar de Portolâa.
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9781584151876 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the Spanish explorer and missionary who travelled to Mexico and California to teach the Indians about Christianity and who established nine missions along the California coast.
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9781584151920 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Discusses the life and career of the eighteenth-century German composer.
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9781584152118 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the troubled life of the nineteenth-century Russian composer, and includes sidebars about such topics as serfs, Leo Tolstoy, and the invention of the phonograph.
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9781584152538 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $359.40 | About this edition: Book by Zannos, Susan, Whiting, Jim, Bankston, John
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9781584151913 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Discusses the life and career of the eighteenth-century German composer and organist.
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9781584152149 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer of many works for individual instruments, voices, orchestras, and choirs, including 'Wiegenlied,' or 'Cradle Song,' popularly known as 'Brahm's Lullaby.
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9781584152156 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, August 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Russian immigrant who came to America as a boy and became one of the most successful composers of popular songs, including 'White Christmas' and 'God Bless America.
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9781584152057 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, December 1, 2003, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: A biography of the engineer who designed and helped launch the first comunications satellite, Telstar, and who developed new uses for satellite communications, paving the way for the cordless telephone, cell phone, wireless headset, and computer.
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9781584152040 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, December 1, 2003, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Profiles German chemist Otto Hahn, whose research into radioactivity led to the discovery of nuclear fission and, despite his opposition, to the development of the atomic bomb.
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9781584152453 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents the life of Polish pianist Frâedâeric Chopin, who composed some of the greatest works for the piano of the nineteenth century.
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9781584152804 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, June 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents the life of Franz Liszt, one of the most versatile musicians of the nineteenth century, who was a composer, conductor, and one of the greatest pianists of his time.
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9781584152415 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, June 30, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents the life and work of Antonio Vivaldi, one of the most popular Italian composers of the early eighteenth century, whose work was forgotten for almost two hundred years.
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9781584152798 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Presents the life of the American composer and examines his influence on twentieth-century popular music and the musical stage.
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9781584152590 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the French romantic composer, who wrote his 'Symphonie fantastique' after being ignored by English actress Harriet Smithson, and sets the biography in context with highlights of contemporary people and events.
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9781584152774 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the twentieth-century composer from Russia who spent most of his life in France and the United States and who wrote a variety of works, from ballets to symphonies, with sidebars highlighting contemporary people and events.
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9781584152781 | Mitchell Lane Pub Inc, September 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Examines the life and works of the controversial nineteenth-century German composer.
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