{"title":"Robin Marantz Henig","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"monk-and-two-peas-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780753811221","title":"A Monk and Two Peas","description":"Gregor Mendel was determined to work out how traits are inherited. He spent seven years in his monastery garden experimenting on over 300,000 strains of plants. While Darwin's work provoked agitated debate, Mendel's work was completely ignored. A fellow scientist told him that his work was incomplete and unconvincing. Was he furious that a younger man had struck on something far more original than he could ever produce? After Mendel's death all his papers were burnt. Was this the result of a fit of jealousy by a monk who succeeded him as abbot? Finally, in 1900, Mendel's paper was found, and it became apparent that he was onto something extremely significant. Had Darwin known about his work many of the debates about the details of natural selection might have been resolved.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532813476113,"sku":"GOR002325988","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49585849499921,"sku":"GOR013574744","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50468217225489,"sku":"CIN0753811227G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51703647437073,"sku":"GOR003310165","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53132418646289,"sku":"GOR003529741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0753811227.jpg?v=1751200584"},{"product_id":"monk-and-two-peas-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780297643654","title":"A Monk and Two Peas","description":"The story of the monk who experimented with peas in his monastery has all the highs and lows of great fiction. Mendel was a man of nervous constitution (whenever he had to visit the sick and dying he was so overcome physically that he had to take to bed) who was determined to work out how traits are inherited. He spent seven years in the monastery garden experimenting on over 300,000 strains of plants. Determined to discover how species change, adapt and arise anew but essentially remain the same from generation to generation, he worked out that traits are inherited independently, that they come in pairs, one from each parent. Mendel presented a paper outlining his findings in 1865, just 6 years after Darwin's The Origins of Species came out. While Darwin's work provoked agitated debate, Mendel continued to labour away in silence in his garden and his work was completely ignored. Mendel sent his paper to fellow scientist Carl von Nageli who told Mendel that his work was incomplete and unconvincing. He encouraged Mendel to create hybrids from hawkweed which Naegeli knew was incredibly difficult to achieve as he had himself spent years working on them. Was he furious that a younger man had struck on something far more original than he could ever produce? Did he deliberately divert the monk After Mendel's death all his papers were burnt in a bonfire in the monastery. Was this routine housekeeping or the result of a fit of jealousy by a monk who succeeded him as abbot? Finally, in 1900, 35 years after it first appeared, Mendel's paper was found by the Cambridge scientist William Bateson. It became immediately apparent that Mendel was onto something extremely significant. Had Darwin known about his work many of the debates about the details of natural selection might have been resolved. This is a captivating book about a remarkable and neglected man who played an enormous role in our understanding of the mechanisms of life itself.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49540343070993,"sku":"GOR001790834","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50338420326673,"sku":"CIN0297643657VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347819565329,"sku":"CIN0297643657A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51133143253265,"sku":"GOR010665028","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51342471627025,"sku":"GOR005849048","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0297643657.jpg?v=1751439028"},{"product_id":"monk-in-the-garden-the-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780618127412","title":"The Monk In The Garden, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries make for fascinating reading. Among his pea plants Henig finds a tale filled with intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. She \"has done a remarkable job of fleshing out the myth with what few facts there are\" (Washington Post Book World) and has delivered Mendel's story with grace and glittering prose. THE MONK IN THE GARDEN is both a \"classic tale of redemption\" (New York Times Book Review) and a science book of the highest literary order.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550555644177,"sku":"GOR005576743","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50275235889425,"sku":"CIN0618127410G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359571513617,"sku":"CIN0618127410A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50827042488593,"sku":"CIN0618127410VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51004965716241,"sku":"NIN9780618127412","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52478046634257,"sku":"NLS9780618127412","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0618127410.jpg?v=1751167890"},{"product_id":"dancing-matrix-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780679730835","title":"Dancing Matrix","description":"Even as humanity reels beneath the assault of AIDS, epidemiologists are gearing themselves up for the plague's successor. It might be dengue fever, whose carrier, the Asian tiger mosquito, has recently appeared in the United States, or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has been transmitted by contaminated human growth hormone. The next pandemic might be caused by any of a dozen viruses that were once confined to other species or territories but now place human beings at risk as we increasingly cross their boundaries. \u003cbr\u003eUpdated to include the latest research and developments, this fascinating and sometimes unsetting book sums up all that we currently know about viruses: what they are, how they spread, and how scientists are trying to outwit them. Interweaving theory and real-life medical drama, A Dancing Matrix is science reportage at its most suspenseful and informative.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49609930834193,"sku":"GOR006550249","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50239853134097,"sku":"CIN0679730834VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53654031761681,"sku":"CIN0679730834G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0679730834.jpg?v=1750944992"},{"product_id":"people-s-health-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780309054928","title":"The People's Health","description":"Documents the expansion of public health from a search for microbes to a global effort to secure a healthful environment - from physician John Snow's breakthrough in cholera prevention in mid-nineteenth-century Britain to the public health crisis in Bosnia.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49628722397457,"sku":"GOR013274268","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347034804497,"sku":"CIN0309054923G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0309054923.jpg?v=1778665593"},{"product_id":"twentysomething-book-robin-marantz-henig-9781594630965","title":"Twentysomething","description":"\u003cb\u003eA mother-daughter writing team reports on what's really up with kids today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScience writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, journalist Samantha Henig, offer a smart, comprehensive look at what it's really like to be twentysomething--and to what extent it's different for Millennials than it was for their Baby Boomer parents. The Henigs combine the behavioral science literature for insights into how young people make choices about schooling, career, marriage, and childbearing; how they relate to parents, friends, and lovers; and how technology both speeds everything up\u003cbr\u003eand slows everything down. Packed with often-surprising discoveries, Twentysomething is a two-generation conversation that will become the definitive book on being young in our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fullest guide through this territory . . . A densely researched report on the state of middleclass young people today, drawn from several data sources and fi-ltered through a comparative lens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e---\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49726695047441,"sku":"CIN1594630968G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50392694948113,"sku":"CIN1594630968A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1594630968.jpg?v=1750991844"},{"product_id":"dancing-matrix-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780394588780","title":"A Dancing Matrix","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen you feel depressed, suffering from a deep sadness, do you feel powerless over your mood? Does your life feel unmanageable because of it? Does your preoccupation with past hurts and regrets interfere with your life? Do you feel hopeless about finding a cure for your depression? If you answer yes to these questions, you may be addicted to your mood. It acts like a drug that sedates, numbs, and possesses you, causing you to sleepwalk through life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViewing your depressed mood as an addiction, Dr. Ortman guides you through the time-tested Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to find healing and growth. He shows how the Steps offer practical wisdom to awaken your spirit deadened by your depression. The Steps provide guidance for your personal journey into the darkness of your mood so that you can discover your true self and release the Power within you. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49810199413009,"sku":"CIN0394588789VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50129439818001,"sku":"CIN0394588789G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394588789.jpg?v=1751103225"},{"product_id":"pandora-s-baby-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780618224159","title":"Pandora's Baby","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49977041518865,"sku":"CIN0618224157G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52104322679057,"sku":"CIN0618224157VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0618224157.jpg?v=1750847609"},{"product_id":"monk-in-the-garden-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780395977651","title":"The Monk in the Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, shaped our understanding of inheritance. But people might not know that Mendel's work was ignored in his own lifetime, even though it contained answers to the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book, \u003ci\u003eOn Origrin of the Species, \u003c\/i\u003e published only a few years earlier. Mendel's single chance of recognition failed utterly, and he died a lonely and disappointed man. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirty-five years later, his work was rescued from obscurity in a single season, the spring of 1900, when three scientists from three different countries nearly simultaneously dusted off Mendel's groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance. The perplexing silence that greeted Mendel's discovery and his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics make up a tale of intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTelling the story as it has never been told before, Robin Henig crafts a suspenseful, elegant, and richly detailed narrative that fully evokes Mendel's life and work and the fate of his ideas as they made their perilous way toward the light of day. \u003ci\u003eThe Monk in the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary tour de force about a little-known chapter in the history of science, and it brings us back to the birth of genetics--a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49981899178257,"sku":"CIN0395977657G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50218968514833,"sku":"CIN0395977657A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51582272143633,"sku":"GOR014336215","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51693087686929,"sku":"CIN0395977657VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52579279733009,"sku":"GOR007516145","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0395977657.jpg?v=1763978545"},{"product_id":"pandora-s-baby-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780879698096","title":"Pandora's Baby","description":"\u003cfont face=\"[Font[__TEXT_FONT_INDEX]]\" size=\"-1\"\u003eThis is the highlyacclaimed book by Robin Marantz Henig about the early days of in vitrofertilization (IVF) and the ethical and legal battles waged in the1970s, as well as the scientific advances that eventually changed thepublic perception of \"test tube babies.\" Published in paperback for thefirst time, this timely and provocative book brilliantly presents thescientific and ethical dilemmas in the ongoing debate over what it meansto be human in a technological age.\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50305337229585,"sku":"CIN0879698098G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423895585041,"sku":"CIN0879698098VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53186071691537,"sku":"NIN9780879698096","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0879698098.jpg?v=1751265401"},{"product_id":"your-premature-baby-book-robin-marantz-henig-9780345313652","title":"Your Premature Baby","description":"\u003cb\u003eForeword by Dr. Benjamin Spock\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the parent of a premie, you're probably wondering, what do all those tubes, monitors, and lights in the intensive care unit mean? What are the special medical problems I might face during these crucial first months? How can I talk to my premie? How will he or she respond? Can I breastfeed? Where can I find premie-size diapers and clothes? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In simple, honest terms, this book will answer \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e your questions during that important first year--from the very moment you give birth in the hospital until your baby blows out the candles on that first birthday cake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Its special features include: \u003cbr\u003e - an eight-page pictorial demonstrating premie care\u003cbr\u003e - an illustrated story for young sisters and brothers about their premie sibling\u003cbr\u003e - special growth charts for recording your premie's development\u003cbr\u003e - a state-by-state listing of support groups offering counseling, advice, and reinforcement from other parents just like yourself\u003cbr\u003e . . . and much, much more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An invaluable sourcebook, \u003ci\u003eYour Premature Baby\u003c\/i\u003e is the only guide you'll need to help you meet the special challenge of parenting a premie with confidence--and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eOffers comforting and practical advice for parents . . . highly recommended.--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350072168721,"sku":"CIN0345313658VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001183961361,"sku":"NIN9780345313652","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0345313658.jpg?v=1750974557"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-robin-marantz-henig.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}