Peter Pringle, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (306p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4075-5
Pringle puts what he learned in writing Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto—The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
(2003) to good use in his promising fiction debut, the first of a new botanical thriller series. His tough, shrewd hero,...
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Peter Pringle, Author . Simon & Schuster $26 (370p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6498-3
Pringle (Food, Inc.
), former Moscow bureau chief for the Independent
, offers a well-researched and well-written study of the murder of an outstanding Soviet geneticist and the ideological perversion of science. Pringle details the life and career
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Peter Pringle, Author, Philip Jacobson, Joint Author Grove/Atlantic $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1680-2
In the Irish Republic, January 30, 1972, is known as ""Bloody Sunday,"" the day when 13 unarmed Catholic marchers were killed and another 14 wounded as, Pringle and Jacobson say, ""part of a deliberate plan, conceived at the highest level of...
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Peter Pringle, Author Henry Holt & Company $27.5 (52p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4292-4
Taking a classic David and Goliath story, veteran newspaper reporter Pringle turns in a superb piece of reporting written with all the texture, detail and intrigue of a fine legal thriller. Pringle sees a hero in the events that led to the landmark...
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Peter Pringle, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2611-0
Imagine a world where yellow beans are patented, aromatic basmati rice has lost its fragrance because of genetic tinkering and Canadian farmers are sued by multinational behemoths because pollen from GM (genetically modified) crops somehow got into...
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Peter Pringle. Walker, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1774-0
The rift between eminent microbiologist Selman Waksman and his brilliant graduate student Albert Schatz was a spectacular fallout in the annals of science. In this riveting history of the discovery of one of the most important drugs of the last...
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