Gina Kolata, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-374-10398-9
New York Times
reporter Kolata may be the best writer around covering the science of health. Here she offers an eye-opening book that questions all our received wisdom about why we get fat and the health hazards of those extra pounds. In chapters...
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Gina Kolata, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21011-5
Blood and urine tests, amniocentesis and sonogram techniques are used to detect fetal abnormalities, which may then be treated with surgery or medication. Successful and unsuccessful cases are discussed by New York Times medical reporter Kolata, as...
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Gina Kolata, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-15692-3
Public attitudes toward cloning intensified after the announcement in early 1997 that Dr. Ian Wilmut had cloned a sheep from adult cells in Scotland. ""Now there are no boundaries. Now all of science fiction is true,"" molecular geneticist Lee...
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Gina Kolata. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-06434-9
Kolata (Flu), a science journalist for the New York Times, shares the gripping story of how one South Carolina family has dealt with Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, a deadly and untreatable genetic illness. Her wonderful presentation of...
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Edited by Gina Kolata. Sterling, $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-1-4027-9322-6
Science writer and reporter Kolata (Rethinking Thin) has compiled article reprints in a demonstration of the multiple personalities of mathematics. From party conversation fodder to the esoteric, topics and authors appear and reappear all in the...
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