An unusual Job

 An unusual job is a crime novel. It isn't science fiction, but about science in fiction. The main charachter is Sue Swansen, an English scientist living in Germany with her family. The story begins in a pharmaceutical company in Germany, where Sue starts to work under false pretentions. When she discovers that some of the medicines produced appear to be faulty, she loses her job, but the director demands her services back in an unusual manner. Not knowing whether she can trust him, she decides to accept his request to investigate under cover.
Soon, more irregularities become apparent, and when the first victim presents itself, Sue is determined to identify the culprits.

 

ISBN: 978-1497337008
Paperback, 184 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
First published: 15 May 2014

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"This book is a great read for everyone who ever imagined how to solve a crime when you're not a detective or police officer. Logical analysis, intelligence an dimprovision is all that is needed"

 

A peek inside the book:
    That afternoon I had a long and honest discussion with Herr Hellendorf, which started with his request to call him Klaus. We dropped the ‘Sie’ and addressed each other as ‘du’ now. He had sent the pills that he had been so keen to lay his hands on to an external laboratory for analysis, and expected the result within a few days. My help with providing him a sample of the corrupt pills had removed his reservations towards me.

    He admitted openly that he hadn’t sent the pills to his own Quality Control Department, which would have produced faster results, because he couldn’t be sure their result would be ‘accurate’. That’s how he put it. So now he was suspicious of his own people, and he didn't hesitate on sharing that suspicion with me. Not only that, he risked his reputation by sending the medicines to an external laboratory. I interpreted this to mean that he wanted to get to the bottom of this, and I had decided to trust him as well, for the moment at least. Now we were discussing what to do next.

 

 

Inpakken of wegwezen

Inpakken of wegwezen is een detective roman. De hoofdfiguur is Sue Swanson, een Engelse wetenschappelijke consulente die met haar familie in Duitsland woont. Het verhaal begint in a farmaceutische fabriek in Duitsland, waar Sue onder valse voorwendsels gaat werken. Haar taak is het inpakken van medicijnen.

Wanneer ze ontdekt dat hier medicijnen worden geproduceerd waar iets mis mee lijkt te zijn, verliest ze haar baan, maar de directeur verlangt haar diensten terug met een vreemd verzoek. Sue weet niet of ze de directeur kan vertrouwen, maar uit nieuwsgierigheid gaat ze op zijn aanbod in, en probeert te achterhalen wat er gaande is. Ze ontdekt al snel verdere onregelmatigheden, en nadat er een eerste slachtoffer valt, is ze vastbesloten de dader of daders achter slot en grendel te krijgen.

 

ISBN: 978-1500168780
Paperback, 200 bladzijden
Uitgever: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Datum eerste uitgave: 26 Juni 2014

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Uit het boek:

Die middag had ik een lange en interessante discussie met Herr Hellendorf, die begon met zijn verzoek om hem Klaus te noemen. In plaats van ‘Sie’ gebruikten we nu ‘du’. Hij had de pillen die hij zo dankbaar van me had overgenomen voor analyse naar een extern laboratorium gestuurd, en verwachtte het resultaat binnen een paar dagen. Mijn hulp om hem aan die verdachte tabletten te helpen had zijn reserve jegens mij laten verdampen.

   Hij gaf nu openlijk toe dat hij de pillen niet naar zijn eigen Quality Control afdeling gestuurd had, hoewel die sneller resultaat had kunnen leveren, omdat hij er niet zeker van was of hun resultaat ‘accuraat’ zou zijn. Dat was hoe hij het noemde. Dus nu wantrouwde hij zijn eigen mensen, en hij aarzelde niet om mij dat te laten weten. Niet alleen dat, hij riskeerde zijn reputatie door geneesmiddelen aan een extern laboratorium te sturen. Ik begreep dat dit betekende dat hij dit tot de bodem wilde uitzoeken, en ik besloot hem te vertrouwen, voor het moment tenminste.

 

Bacteria, the Benign, the Bad and the Beautiful

Bacteria, the Benign, the Bad and the Beautiful is a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to the world of bacteria.

When most people hear the word 'bacteria', they associate this with dirt, disease or even death. Yet, while some bacteria certainly cause their share of misery in the world, they are only a tiny portion of all bacteria that exist in the World. Without them, nothing else could live on Planet Earth. This book introduces this diverse, microscopic world and explains the fundamental microbiological concepts needed to explore the life and behavior of bacteria. The book’s clear, jargon-free language informs the reader, without the need of a background in microbiology, about a wide variety of bacterial subjects.

With color artwork by Karoly Farkas and Eshel Ben Jacob and black-and-white illustrations by Karoly Farkas.
With index and bibliography.

 

ISBN: 978-1118107669
Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
First published: November 2009
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If only we could see them without the necessity of a microscope! How useful it would be if we could see the bacteria lurking on the glove of the surgeon who, after meticulously scrubbing his hands and underarms, unknowingly touched his hair with his gloves - bacteria that will smear onto the scalpel, enter the wound as the metal cuts through the flesh, start multiplying in this new warm, moist and nutrient-rich environment and cause a post-operative infection that sets back the patient's health with days or weeks. How practical it would be to be able to see the bacteria growing in a freshly made desert that had raw egg whites and sugar as key ingredients and is now standing on the kitchen bench to set. One egg contained Salmonella bacteria, which feed on the sugar and start multiplying at the ambient temperature to reach critical numbers in only a few hours, and which will make half of the dinner party guests go down with diarrhea. Or to see the slightly bent bacteria that wiggle in the foul drinking water of a refugee camp, water that got contaminated by a single child suffering from the onset of diarrhea, which rapidly developed into cholera that will take hundreds of lives in the epidemic to follow.