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A true scientific page-turner that traces a remarkable scientific breakthrough (the isolation of endorphins in the brain) as dedicated scientists race--not only with their fellow scientists--but against time and the profit hungry giant pharmaceutical companies.

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In late 1973, scientists John Hughes and Hans Kosterlitz spent the majority of their time in an underfunded, obscure, and cramped laboratory in Aberdeen, Sweden. This title describes Hughes and Kosterlitz's lives before, during, and after their historic and scientific breakthrough.

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The incredible and complex history of opium throughout the world.Opium has played a dramatic and varied role in human history, inspiring religious veneration, scientific exploration, the bitterest rancor, and the most fanciful ecstasy.