Less than a penny. That's how much it costs to read a single letter of DNA. Between 2000 and 2003, the cost fell from $1.50 to less than a single cent. "Suddenly DNA was mass-market." Random House Canada, 2013 Carolyn Abraham hadn't been saving her pennies for this
** Below, there's an opportunity to win your own copy of A Complicated Marriage ** [Edit: Now complete.] The sound of high heels clicking. The spill of Miles Davis and Charlie Parker's music. A paisley-draped foam couch. Smoking a Pall Mall. Drinking a gin and tonic. A handkerchief kitchen.
Is it still a radical idea? The notion that the world can no longer afford to oppress half its population. Apparently so. Random House Canada, 2013 Sally Armstrong's work considers the ways in which the world's largest problems -- poverty, conflict and violence -- are being addressed via efforts
When I started reading The Truth about Luck, I was taking the bus to meet a friend to go book-buying. House of Anansi, 2013 We had chosen the date and destination a month ago; the only thing left to decide the night before was the exact time that
"It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us... discover our soul." (Desmond Tutu) Doubleday Canada - Random House, 2013 If you take Desmond Tutu's statement as truth, Jowita Bydlowska's Drunk Mom is arguably the ultimate discovery. Her to-the-bare-walls description of her alcoholism displays every weakness. It
