Paul Vivian: 4 books

Wracked by sickness and despair, Clay decides to throw his remaining drugs down the toilet and spend the rest of his life away from the din of the bustling city of San Francisco to a rural setting in Nevada until AIDS overcomes him. Along the way his bus gets hijacked and is diverted on a deserted...

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...

Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...

Adoption is a transformational process bringing parenthood to those who long for but cannot bear children and giving stranded children home, family, and their place in the world. But every adoption is preceded and followed by its story and when these stories are told in the offices of psychotherapists...