Alex thought things couldn't get much worse-until the doctors found the monster in her head

whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil

across the ages

Protect your children from physical and spiritual danger by asking the right questions

The author follows the manuscript development of each poem to discover its full context in life and culture

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Identity (Psychology) Alex thought things couldn't getHenrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid century biology: human cells that could survive even thrive in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency