Proton & Advanced Radiotherapy Books

The Death of Cancer: After Fifty Years on the Front Lines of Medicine, a Pioneering Oncologist Reveals Why the War on Cancer Is Winnable–and How We Can Get There
by Vincent T. DeVita and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn
Review
The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science (Ted Books)
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Review
The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
by James S. Forrester
Review
Another Person’s Poison: A History of Food Allergy
by Matthew Smith
Review
The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands
by Eric Topol
Review
The Compatibility Gene
by Daniel M. Davis
Review
p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code
by Sue Armstrong
Review
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Stories of Remarkable Recoveries and Discoveries
by Norman Doidge
Review
Standardisation in Cell and Tissue Engineering: Methods and Protocols
by V. Salih
Review
Hydrogels in Cell-Based Therapies
by William L. Murphy, Bing Xu, Sarah Heilshorn, Roanne Jones, Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy, Rein Ulijn, Bernice Wright, Che J. Connon, and Ian W. Hamley
Review
The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action
by Richard B. Silverman and Mark W. Holladay
Review
Photochemistry and Photophysics: Concepts, Research, Applications
by Vincenzo Balzani, Paola Ceroni, and Alberto Juris
Review
In Retrospect: From the Pill to the Pen
by Carl Djerassi
Review
Science Unshackled: How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to Be the Basis for Modern Life
by C. Renée James
Review
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
by David Quammen
Review
At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise
by Michael Brooks
Review
The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
by Rob Dunn
Review
The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
by Norman Doidge
Review
Conquering Concussion: Healing TBI Symptoms with Neurofeedback and Without Drugs
by Mary Lee Esty and C. M. Shifflett
Review
Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: A Renowned Neurologist Explains the Mystery and Drama of Brain Disease
by Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell
Review
On Immunity: An Inoculation
by Eula Biss
Review
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
Review
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
by Jonathan Eig
Review
Spark from the Deep: How Shocking Experiments with Strongly Electric Fish Powered Scientific Discovery
by William J. Turkel
Review
Dr. Mutter’s Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Review
The Germ Code: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Microbes
by Jason Tetro
Review
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
by Arthur Allen
Review
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
by Joanna Bourke
Review
Lasers for Medical Applications: Diagnostics, Therapy and Surgery
by Helena Jelinkova
Review
Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides
by Abba Kastin
Review
Embryos Under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life
by Jane Maienschein
Review
Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions – a New Biological Principle of Disease
by Stanley B. Prusiner
Review
Nanomaterials for Medical Applications
by Zoraida Aguilar
Review
Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering: Fabrication and Applications
by A. K. Gaharwar, S. Sant, M. J. Hancock, and S. A. Hacking
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
Review
Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria
by James L. A. Webb Jr.
Review
Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature
by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistair Elfick, and Drew Endy
Review
Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine
by Angela N. H. Creager
Review
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by Martin Blaser
Review
On the Cancer Frontier
by Paul Marks and James Sterngold
Review
The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?
by Patrick Tucker
Review
Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science
by Nathalia Holt
Review
The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050
by Rafael Cayuela Valencia
Review
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
by Michio Kaku
Review
Big Questions in Science
by Colin Stuart, Hayley Birch, Mun Keat Looi
Review
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century
by Kevin Fong
Review
Deadly Outbreaks: How Medical Detectives Save Lives Threatened by Killer Pandemics, Exotic Viruses, and Drug-Resistant Parasites
by Alexandra Levitt
Review
Crucible of Science: The Story of the Cori Laboratory
by John H. Exton
Review
Biomass-Based Biocomposites
by Vijay Kumar Thakur
Review
Diamondoid Molecules: With Applications in Biomedicine, Materials Science, Nanotechnology & Petroleum Science
by G. Ali Mansoori, Patricia Lopes Barros de Araujo, and Elmo Silvano de Araujo
Review
Biomimetic Biomaterials: Structure and Applications
by Andrew J. Ruys
Review
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
by J. Craig Venter
Review
The Drugs Don’t Work (Penguin Special): A Global Threat (Penguin Shorts/Specials)
by Professor Dame Sally Davies
Review
Exploring Personal Genomics
by Joel T. Dudley and Konrad J. Karczewski
Review
Gold Nanoparticles for Physics, Biology and Chemistry
by Catherine Louis and Olivier Pluchery
Review
Essentials in Modern HPLC Separations
by Serban Moldoveanu
Review
Handbook of Practical X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis
by Burkhard Beckhoff, Birgit Kanngießer, Norbert Langhoff, Reiner Wedell, and Helmut Wolff
Me Medicine Vs. We Medicine: Reclaiming Biotechnology for the Common Good
by Donna Dickenson
Review
The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
by John Rhodes
Review
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Peter C. Doherty
Review
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery
by George Johnson
Review
Peptide Synthesis and Applications (Methods in Molecular Biology)
by Knud J. Jensen, Pernille Tofteng Shelton, Søren L. Pedersen
Review
An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry
by Graham L. Patrick
Review
Computational Systems Biology of Cancer
by Emmanuel Barillot, Laurence Calzone, Philippe Hupe, Jean-Philippe Vert, and Andrei Zinovyev
Review
Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience’s Promethean Promises
by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose
Review
The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
by Eric Topol
Review
NanoCellBiology: Multimodal Imaging in Biology & Medicine
by Bhanu P. Jena and Douglas J. Taatjes
Review
Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
by John Grant
Review
Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio
by Gareth Williams
Review
Virus Hunt: The search for the origin of HIV/AIDs
by Dorothy H. Crawford
Review
The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer-And How to Win It
by Clifton Leaf
Review
Biomolecular Crystallography: Principles, Practice, and Application to Structural Biology
by Bernhard Rupp
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J. D. Bernal: The Sage of Science
by Andrew Brown
Review
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
by Susan P. Mattern
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Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
by John Enderle and Joseph Bronzino
Review
Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine
by Edward H. Shortliffe and James J. Cimino
Review
Glossary of Biotechnology Terms, Fourth Edition
by Kimball Nill
Review
Advanced Methods and Tools for ECG Data Analysis
by Gari D. Clifford, Francisco Azuaje, and Patrick E. McSharry
Review
Handbook of Physics in Medicine and Biology
by Robert Splinter
Review
Cancer Nanotechnology: Methods and Protocols: 624
by Stephen R. Grobmyer and Brij M. Moudgil
Review
Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America
by Elaine G. Breslaw
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Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease
by Mark Harrison
Review
Ticked: A Medical Miracle, a Friendship, and the Weird World of Tourette Syndrome
by James A. Fussell and Jeffrey P. Matovic
Review
Shark’s Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature is Inspiring Innovation
by Jay Harman
Review
Principles and Practice of Pharmacology for Anaesthetists
by Norman Calvey and Norton Williams
Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
by Paul A. Offit
Review
Nuclear and Radiochemistry
by József Kónya and Noémi M Nagy
Review
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek
Review
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
by Matt Ridley
Review
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug
by Thomas Hager
Review
Biotechnology for Beginners
by Reinhard Renneberg
Review
Building Brains: An Introduction to Neural Development
by David Price, Andrew P. Jarman, John O. Mason, and Peter C. Kind
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Exploring Immunology: Concepts and Evidence
by Gordon MacPherson and Jon Austyn
Review
Schaechter’s Mechanisms of Microbial Disease
by N. Cary Engleberg, Terence S. Dermody, and Victor J. Dirita
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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
by Florence Williams
Review
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
by Annalee Newitz
Review
Body Shopping: The Economy Fuelled by Flesh and Blood
by Donna Dickenson
Review
Contraception: A History
by Robert Jütte
Review
The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
by Jessica Wapner
Review
Understanding Pain: Exploring the Perception of Pain
by Fernando Cervero
Review
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health (Experimental Futures)
by Joseph Dumit
Review
Spitting Blood: The history of tuberculosis
by Helen Bynum
Review
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple
by Mark Gladwin and Bill Trattler
Review
Orthopaedic Biomechanics
by Beth A. Winkelstein
Review
Adrenaline
by Brian B. Hoffman
Review
Introduction To General, Organic, and Biochemistry
by Frederick A. Bettelheim
Review
The Machinery of Life
by David S. Goodsell
Review
Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech
by Gary P Pisano
Review
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
Review
Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares: The Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering
by Maxwell J. Mehlman
Review
Understanding Autism: Parents, Doctors, and the History of a Disorder
by Chloe Silverman
Review
No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
by Peter Piot
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
Review
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
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Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (Control of Nature)
by Diane B. Paul
Review
Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech
by Sally Smith Hughes
Review
Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene
by Stephen S. Hall
Review
Natural Product Chemistry at a Glance
by Stephen P. Stanforth
Review
Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control
by Paul Wyatt, Stuart Warren
Review
Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts (Synthesis)
by John Powers
Review

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