Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: story, true, terrifying, zone
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1999-06-15
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0385495226
ISBN-13: 9780385495226

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of theappearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.From the Paperback edition

Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Fawcett
Keywords: freezer, demon
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-08-26
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345466632
ISBN-13: 9780345466631

“The bard of biological weapons capturesthe drama of the front lines.”-Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navyThe first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, M

Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Random House
Keywords: universe, edge, search, light, first
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1996-10-29
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0812991850
ISBN-13: 9780812991857

Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthest edges of space through the Hale Telescope, attempting to solve the riddle of the creation of the universe.Richard Preston’s name became a household word with The Hot Zone, which sold nearly 800,000 copies in har

Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: event, cobra
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-08-29
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345409973
ISBN-13: 9780345409973

"A PAGE-TURNER . . . THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENING."--Newsweek"ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING."--The New York Times Book Review"THIS BOOK SCARED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME. . . . Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility."--Entertainment WeeklyFive days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on. Yesterday, a teenager started having violent, uncontrollable spasms in art class. Within minutes, she too was dead.Dr. Alice Austen is a medical pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control i

Author: Richard Preston
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Keywords: canada, college, military, history, serve, royal
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0776603272
ISBN-13: 9780776603278

During the four decades following the Second World War, the Royal Military College of Canada has adapted to the need to produce professional career officers by evolving into an academic centre of excellence and one of the country’s leading universities. Along the way, it has responded to the challenges of service integration and unification, bilingualism, the emergence of Collège militaire royal and Royal Roads Military College, the employment of women in non-traditional roles, Canada’s changing cultural make-up, and the rapid pace of technological change. In a society in which th

Authors:Richard J. Preston Jr., Richard R. Braham,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: trees, american, north
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2003-04-29
List price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 0813815266
ISBN-13: 9780813815268

Completely updated, this new edition continues the grand tradition of this classic reference covering trees of North America excluding Mexico and tropical Florida.This handbook has been designed to meet the needs of the general public as well as those of students and scientists. Concise descriptions of botanical and silvical characters have been included for species of trees. Accurate and up-to-date, the new edition of this highly regarded reference incorporates recent changes in scientific and common names of trees, and offers improved distribution maps and more detailed descriptions of indiv

Authors:Richard Preston, Tim Folger,
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: writing, nature, science, american
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-10-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0618722319
ISBN-13: 9780618722310