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Volume 6  ISBN: 0-321-59849-0

  • Traces of a Distant Past
  • Conservation for the People
  • Why Migraines Strike
  • Your Cells are My Cells
  • No-Till: the Quiet Revolution
  • Diet Advice from DNA?

Volume 5  ISBN: 0-321-54187-1

  • Cancer Clues from Pet Dogs
  • Seeking the Connections: Alcoholism and our Genes
  • Restoring America's Big Wild Animals
  • Mirrors in the Mind
  • Eating Made Simple
  • Methane, Plants, and Climate Change

Volume 4  ISBN: 0-8053-3566-8

  • Preparing for a Pandemic
  • CSI: Reality
  • Founder Mutations
  • His Brain, Her Brain
  • Protecting More than Animals
  • Buying Time in Suspended Animation

Volume 3  ISBN: 0-8053-7527-9

  • Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic?
  • Are Viruses Alive?
  • The Littlest Human
  • Endangered Wild Equids
  • The Challenges of STDs
  • Taming Lupus
  • Back to the Future of Cereals

Volume 2  ISBN: 0-8053-7108-7

  • Detecting Mad Cow Disease
  • Tumor-Busting Viruses
  • Does Race Exist?
  • The Mammals that Conquered the Seas
  • Life Out of Step
  • Restoring Aging Bones
  • Next Generation Cheating
  • Decoding Schizophrenia

Volume 1  ISBN: 0-8053-7507-4

  • Rebuilding the Food Pyramid
  • Pandora's Baby
  • On the Termination of Species
  • The Trials of An Artificial Heart
  • The Lowdown on Gingko Biloba
  • Counting the Last Fish

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