Simon Alden (11 results)

Condition: New. New Book.

Soft Cover. Condition: G. First Edition. 16mo. original printed paper wraps (well rubbed & thumbed, prev. owner's details and annotations, some staining); pp. [ii], 78, with maps, photos & diagrams. A good copy.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Insulin and Intrigue is Book 3 in a 13-book series of interconnected short story collections inspired by the discoveries behind the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In these ten stories set from 1920 to 1929, the battle for truth shifts from the bedside to the network, and discovery is immediately met by the machinery of the state, the market, and the museum. It is a decade where science is sold as spectacle, standards are hardened, and truth is managed through the cold precision of the ledger. Inside these stories, medicine advances through high-stakes episodes where evidence is a double-edged sword. A mountain sanatorium's promise of pure air masks a dangerous mismatch in micro-circulation, while in boxing gyms and elite athletic clubs, new measurements reveal metabolic debts that defy heroic narratives. The arrival of a miracle vial triggers a black-market crisis where the only defense is a rigid chain of custody. A courtroom must weigh the heart's electrical trace against a politically convenient story, and a museum exhibit becomes a battleground over who controls the narrative of causation. From the wards of a prison hospital to the maps of an epidemiologist, discovery is used to challenge the mechanisms of coercion and scapegoating. Finally, in colonial ports and children's homes, the rigid math of calories is used to ignore the quiet, lethal absence of what the body truly needs to survive. Woven through the decade is a recurring cast moving through a world of shifting standards. There is Dr. Eleanor Harrington, a strategist turning proof into branding and institutional survival; Maisie Fenn, an investigations editor building a shadow archive of the anomalies and suppressed drafts that others would rather forget; Silas Crowe, a logistics conscience who learns that integrity makes more enemies than crime; and Dahlia Sato, a "numbers whisperer" who treats measurement as a weapon to protect the body. In these noir-tinted historical medical stories, discovery is only the beginning. The real fight is no longer just what is true, but who gets to define it, record it, or quietly replace it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Enzymes and Equilibria is the eighth volume in a series of thirteen short story collections, each covering a decade of Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry. Between 1970 and 1979, chemistry became the science of the precise, the transient, and the structured. Scientists mapped the exact three-dimensional folding of proteins, captured the fleeting signatures of highly reactive free radicals, and discovered how life uses chemical gradients to power its cellular infrastructure. They proved that enzymes make strict geometric choices, expanded the rules of bonding with metallic sandwich compounds, and found order arising from chaos in systems pushed far from equilibrium. The laboratory shifted from simply making molecules to understanding the intricate, dynamic rules that govern their shape, their speed, and their assembly. Every story is built around one prize and one discovery, placing the science inside a human situation that brings it to life without simplifying it. A regulator uncovers a food manufacturer using nucleotide sugar intermediates to fraudulently rebuild carbohydrates and evade testing. A forensic chemist identifies the cause of mysterious warehouse fires by measuring the spectroscopic signatures of transient free radicals. An environmental sabotage case hinges on mapping the specific micro-chemistry of an engineered enzyme active site. An industrial explosion investigation becomes a bitter legal battle over an "impossible" organometallic sandwich compound. An art conservator traces the silent degradation of priceless paintings to the changing architecture of macromolecular polymer chains over time. A brewery falls victim to corporate sabotage when an introduced substrate flips the stereochemical preference of a vital enzyme. A hazardous materials team must rethink emergency containment when a chemical behaves according to the delocalised cluster logic of boranes. An engineer realises that a city heating network is being manipulated into a state of dissipative oscillation to force its privatisation. A saboteur targets an algae power system not by breaking equipment, but by introducing a molecule that silently dissipates its life-giving proton gradient. Finally, a forensic lab links a string of counterfeit perfumes to a single rogue chemist through the precise, modular geometry of a synthetic double bond. Every discovery is accurate. Every story is new. Together they make the 1970s not a chapter in a textbook but a living world, full of people for whom these ideas arrived not as settled knowledge but as sudden, disorienting, and irreversible light. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.