Hoffenberg: 6 books

What if a new plant disease threatened the world's coffee crop? What if it wasn't an accident? Coffee Crash, the debut novel from author Steve Hoffenberg, is a biotech mystery thriller that redefines eco-terrorism. Microbiologist Samuel Decker travels to Brazil to investigate a new organism...

The New York Times–bestselling parody of Voltaire’s Candide that was banned in France and went on to become a salacious cult classic. Candy is a perfect, idealistic, innocent girl, born on Valentine’s Day, which, her daddy says, is why she’s so beautiful. At college in Racine, Wisconsin,...

Galloping horses in the Mexican night, a superb body reclining under the high tropical trees, blood and guitars, madness and beauty, the gnawing pain of love and death: a book one reads in a trance...--message from a used bookseller that we thought we'd pass on. One of Hoffenberg's (co-author...

Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably...

In our current professional climate, with calls for 'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are...

Le design n’est pas un style qui se jouerait sur le mode de différenciations successives même s’il doit se définir face au style et articuler avec lui la rupture majeure qu’il doit annoncer : c’est d’ailleurs là son ambiguïté première. Ainsi à une question générale venue du monde...