Books by Jon Cohen and Complete Book Reviews
Jon Cohen, Times, $27.50 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8307-1
How are we different from chimps? That's the question that Cohen (Shots in the Dark) sets out to answer in his absorbing account of current chimpanzee research. Too often, Cohen argues, scientists have focused on the similarities between the two...
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Jon Cohen, Author Warner Books $16.45 (210p) ISBN 978-0-446-51533-7
Cohen's first novel, a nice little fable for our time, is a situation comedy in print. Having lived all his life in a small town near Philadelphia, flaky Max Lakeman cannot believe his good fortune. He is married to Nelly, a bantering hospital nurse,
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Jon Cohen, Author W. W. Norton & Company $27.95 (440p) ISBN 978-0-393-05027-1
In 1984, overzealous scientists proclaimed they would develop an AIDS vaccine in a mere two years. Now, 16 years later, researchers are still battling the bureaucracy and each other to decide which potential vaccines should be tested and who should...
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Jon Cohen, Author, Sandra Ann Carson, Foreword by . Houghton Mifflin $23 (276p) ISBN 978-0-618-27724-7
Frustrated by wildly differing explanations for his wife's four lost pregnancies, award-winning science writer Cohen (Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine
) set out to understand miscarriage, a subject fraught with...
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Jon Cohen. Mira, $26.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-7783-6415-3
Grief works in mysterious ways in this winsome but overstuffed novel from Cohen (The Man in the Window). Forestry service bureaucrat Harry Crane and rural ER nurse Amanda Jeffers are widowed on the same day. While Harry withdraws into the job he...
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