The first book for nonscientists to illustrate the human journey into the new era of molecular medicine offers strikingly beautiful images that take readers to laboratories to see the effect of therapies upon cancerous cells, stimuli on the brain, the invasion of HIV, and much more.

A stirring portrait captures the extraordinary bond between a woman and her devoted German shepards, Aly and Pascha, as they bring relief to devastating disasters worldwide, from earthquake rubble in El Salvador to the site of the Oklahoma City bombing. Reprint. LJ. K.