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Books on
Genetic Engineering
New Books on Genetic Engineering
- Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in
Your Food, by Kimbrell, Andrew ; Newman, Nell (Foreword by), Ten
Speed Press, 06/2005, Paperback, $24.95
- Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the
Very Perplexed, by Shanks, Peter
Nation Books, 06/2005, Paperback, $16.95
- The debate over human Genetic Engineering (GE) is about to go mainstream.
Not as a one-day wonder about cloning or a theological disagreement
about embryos, but as a major political issue, driven in part by a grassroots
movement of opposition. Human Genetic Engineering is a highly readable
and entertaining guide. It explains in accessible language for a popular
audience the essential questions that will arise in the future debates:
What is human GE? Will it work? What perspectives should we remember?
Who is doing what, and why?
- Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto—The Promises and Perils of the
Biotech Harvest
- Peter Pringle, Simon & Schuster, February 2005, Paperback, $13.00
The Politics of Genetic Engineering
- Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the
Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating
- Jeffrey Smith, Yes! Books, 2003, Paperback, $17.95
- Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What
We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
- Bill Lambrecht, St. Martin's Press, 2002, Paperback, $14.95, Biotech
companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's
food. In the United States, the acreage of genetically modified crops
has soared from zero to 70 million acres since 1996. More than half
of America's processed grocery products-from cornflakes to granola bars
to diet drinks-contain gene-altered ingredients. But the U.S., unlike
Europe and other democratic nations, does not require labeling of modified
food. Dinner at the New Gene Cafe lays out the battle lines
of the collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering
resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change.
- Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism, by Nestle, Marion,
University of California Press, 2004, Paperback, $15.95
- The critically acclaimed author of "Food Politics" argues that ensuring
safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher
temperatures--it involves politics.
- Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food
- Daniel Charles, Perseus Books, September 2002, Paperback, pages, $17.50
- Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
- Tokar, Brian, Zed Books Ltd., 2001, Paperback, $19.95
- Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover
of Your Food
- Mark Lappé and Britt Bailey, Common Courage, 1998, $14.95
- Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature
and Knowledge
- Vandana Shiva , South End, 1997, $13.00
- Biotech Century, The: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
- Jeremy Rifkin, Tarcher/Putnam, 1998, $12.95
- Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology
- Kristin Dawkins, Seven Stories, 1997, $6.95
- Shattering: Food, Politics and
the Loss of Genetic Diversity
- Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney, Arizona, 1990, $18.95
- Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking
of the Global Food Supply
- Vandana Shiva, South End, 1999, $14.00
Books on Genes and Genetics
- Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants,
Animals, the Earth, and Humans
- Michael W. Fox, Lyons Press, 1999, $24.95
- The Century of the Gene
- Evelyn Fox Keller, Harvard University Press, 2002, Paperback, $16.95
"Provides a powerful, profound analysis of the limits of the gene
as an explanatory concept. She argues convincingly for a new language,
for new concepts that will enable us to deal with the real complexity
of biological organization. This is a critically important book, to
be very widely read." —Dorothy Nelkin, New York University.
- The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment, by Lewontin, Richard C
Harvard University Press, 11/2001, Paperback, $15.00
- Genetics and the Manipulation of Life: The Forgotten Factor
of Context
- Craig Holdrege, Lindisfarne, 1996, $14.95
- Exploding the Gene Myth
- Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald, Beacon, 1993, $17.50
- A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
- Evelyn Fox Keller, W.H. Freeman, 1983, $15.95
- Language of the Genes
- Steve Jones, Anchor, 1995, $14.95
- Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering
- Susan Aldridge, Cambridge, 1998, $18.00
Books on the Risks of Genetic Engineering
- Biotechnology Unzipped
- Eric Grace, Joseph Henry, 1997, $18.95
- Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare?
- Mae-Wan Ho, Continuum, 2000, $22.95
- The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops
- Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon, MIT, 1996, $19.95
Books on Genetically Engineered Food
- Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food is Entering our
Diet
- Stephen Nottingham, Zed, 1998, $17.95
- Farmageddon: Food and the Culture of Biotechnology
- Brewster Kneen, New Society, 1999, $16.95
- Fast Food Nation
- Eric Schlosser, HarperPerenniel, 2002, $13.95
- Genetic Engineering, Food and our Environment
- Luke Anderson, Chelsea Green, 1999, $7.95
- Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers
- Ronnie Cummins, Marlowe, 2000, $13.95
- Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature
- Martin Teitel and Kimberly Wilson. Forward Ralph Nader, Park Street,
1999, $12.95
- Genetically Engineered Foods: Are They Safe? You Decide
- Laura and Robin Ticciati, Ph.D., Keats, 1998, $5.95
Books on the Genetic Engineering of Humans and
Other Animals
- Human Body Shop, The: The Cloning, Engineering and Marketing
of Life
- Andrew Kimbrell, Regnery, 1998, $14.95
- Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics
- Glenn McGee, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997, $14.95
Books on the Ethics of Genetic Engineering
- Genethics: The Clash Between the New Genetics and Human Values
- David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson, Harvard, 1995, $19.95
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