1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner
Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Douglas Starr
Essence and emblem of life–feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times–human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals th…
1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Shortlist
Mendel’s Dwarf
Simon Mawer
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee
Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
Pat Shipman
