Manny and Jonas Hahn are brilliant brothers with two things in common: a deep but unspoken connection and an unrelenting quest to truly understand what makes us human. Manny, a genetic scientist, believes that this understanding will come from unlocking the genome's secrets, particularly since his quirky and often misunderstood genius allows him to see hidden patterns within what contemporary science calls the “nonsense' sections of Dna. But never in his wildest imaginings could he realize how awe-inspiring the results of his work would be. Unlike Manny, Jonas, his younger brother, had always struggled with science. Abandoning a career as a physicist he becomes a priest, rejecting modern man's efforts to redefine nature, frustrated with science's inability to understand the most rudimentary physical forces governing the universe. While trying to embrace a more spiritual life and the great leaps of faith needed to do so, Jonas chooses a path of knowledge that also allows room for the unknowable. The two brothers obsessively follow their independent and conflicting courses of inquiry, only to be plunged into crisis by their horrifying discovery. Regardless, they press doggedly onward, and damn the consequences, as they come perilously close to answering the ultimate questions of who we are and what happens to us after we die. . . Boxer Gate is a medical thriller, a science mystery, and a spiritual odyssey whose complex, introspective characters are caught in a cycle of drama and discovery that takes them to regions uncharted and unimagined. The fields of contemporary physics, mathematics, medicine, and genomics are plumbed for insights in this work of scientifically supportable fiction, which unlocks the ultimate human mystery-and reveals that mankind is likely ill prepared for the result.

The Boxer Gate

Literature & Fiction

Colby, Mark A.

History & Criticism

Trafford

This unique and engaging book offers a penetrating and often humorous look at Japan's healthcare system through the eyes of a young American expatriate manager working for a multinational medical device company. The story chronicles the exploits of John the manager as his feeling and knowledge of Japan follow a common trajectory. First comes idealistic zeal, followed by confusion, despair, and disillusionment that are replaced at last (for those who stay long enough) with understanding, patience, and effectiveness. Written by two insiders who have worked in Japan's healthcare and business worlds for many years, Negotiating the Gray Maze is written in a style and tone that will appeal to a general audience interested in Japan, as well as to the expatriate manager who wants to know what really happens in Japan's healthcare sector.

Negotiating the Gray Maze: The Business of Medicine in Japan

Birt, Michael P.

Business & Money

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