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|  | | Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York
Arsenic and Clam Chowder recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with a pail of arsenic-laced clam chowder.
i>Arsenic and Clam Chowder/i> recounts the sensational 1896 murder trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who was accused of murdering her mother with a pail of arsenic-laced clam chowder. The chowder had been delivered to the victim by her ten-year-old granddaughter, and Mary Alice was arrested in her mourning clothes immediately after attending her mother's burial. In addition to being the mother of four out-of-wedlock children, the last born in prison as she awaited trial, Mary Alice faced the possibility of being the first woman executed in New York's new-fangled electric chair. All these lu | |  | | Rising Force: The Magic of Magnetic Levitation
A popular-science review of all aspects of magnetic levitation, from flying frogs to maglev trains.
Humankind has long been fascinated by the prospect of defying gravity, and our fiction is full of heros capable of flying - from Peter Pan to Harry Potter. Levitation has also been a popular illusion for professional magicians such as David Copperfield and David Blaine. We discuss levitation in fiction and magic, the levitation of saints, and non-magnetic means of combating gravity, but the focus of this book is the use of upward magnetic forces to oppose the ubiquitous downward force of gravity. In toys like the Levitron and floating globes, the major goal is the aesthetic effect. Bu |
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Virolution
by Frank Ryan
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 Our human genome is full of viruses similar to HIV-1. These have played an important role in human evolution and still play an important role in human embryology and day-to-day chemistry. Just how important are they to our evolution past and future? |
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Virus X
by Frank Ryan
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 Where do viruses, such as Ebola and HIV, come from and why they are so aggressive? This book changed tenets of evolutionary virology, developing the concepts of aggressive symbiosis and plague culling, which explain much of the horror of plague virus |
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