Nina Fedoroff, Author, Nancy Marie Brown, Author . Joseph Henry $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-309-09205-0
Is genetically engineered Golden Rice (enriched with vitamin A) a dangerous "Frankenfood" or a safe, nutritionally enhanced food that could fill a major vitamin deficiency in the Third World? Fedoroff, a molecular biologist and member of the
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Nancy Marie Brown, Author . Harcourt $25 (306p) ISBN 978-0-15-101440-8
While most medieval women didn’t stray far from home, the Viking Gudrid (985–1050) probably crossed the North Atlantic eight times, according to Brown. Rather than just a passenger, Gudrid may have been the explorer on North American...
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Nancy Marie Brown. Palgrave Macmillan, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-137-27937-8
Brown (Song of the Vikings) successfully crafts an Icelandic history of chess while tracing the possible movements of 92 remarkable carved figures found in the early 19th century on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. Drawing on the intertwined cultures,
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Nancy Marie Brown. Namelos, $19.95 (204p) ISBN 978-1-60898-189-2
The life of a globe-trekking Viking woman named Gudrid was the centerpiece of Brown’s 2007 nonfiction work, The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, but the Icelandic sagas (the only known records of her) contain only scant details about her....
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