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1994c
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Convenient answers to life's intriguing questions. Every once in a while you're faced with a question that is so difficult, so unusual or so outlandish that you can only marvel at the fact that someone, somewhere, has not only answered it, but probably devoted a large portion of life to its study.
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2014.
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An anesthesiologist and NASA adviser explores how pioneering doctors and scientists have built on findings about the body's response to extreme environments and physical challenges to develop such medical innovations as open-heart surgery, skin grafts and trauma care.
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2020.
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"In September 1914, a month after the outbreak of the First World War, two British doctors, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, set out for Paris. There, they built a makeshift hospital in Claridge's, the luxury hotel, and treated hundreds of casualties carted in from France's battlefields. Until this war called men to the front, female doctors had been restricted to treating only women and children. But even skeptical army officials who visited...
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[2018]
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"What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind and body make emotions? When can anxiety be good? This science-based graphic book addresses these questions and more, revealing just how strange anxiety is, but also how to unravel its mysteries and relieve its effects. Understanding how anxiety is created by our nervous system trying to protect us, and how our fight-or-flight mechanisms can get stuck,...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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Dr. Jake Rosen, world-famous pathologist, deputy chief medical examiner, and devoted scientist; and top litigator Manny Manfreda, who is as lovely (and accessorized) as she is gutsy, take on a case with a bizarre serial killer. The case begins in New York as a strange kind of thief stalks his victims with the purpose of extracting a vial of blood -- earning him the nickname Vampire in the tabloids. As the attacks escalate from torture to murder,...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Little Lucy Snow was meant to be enjoying her first day at the nice elementary school in town; however, a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver's Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered -- also known as Hollow Fields. The grim boarding school dedicates itself to raising the next generation of mad scientists and evil geniuses!
1474) The liver cure
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The liver is the most overlooked and misunderstood of all our body's organs. Because of the sudden, potentially fatal consequences of heart attack and stroke, everyone's attention is always focused on the heart or the brain, but without a healthy liver, you ultimately cannot survive; of all your organs, none does more for you than the liver. Still, until something goes wrong with the liver, it's usually completely overlooked. Until now. The Liver...
1478) Idol dreams: 1
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2015.
Description
"At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chance at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could return to the time when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now [she] is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago-- including becoming a star!"--Page 4 of cover.
1479) Will I see?
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible reality, she learns that there is strength in the spirit of those that have passed. But will that strength be able to save her? A story of tragedy and beauty, Will I See illuminates the issue of missing...
1480) Artificial: a love story
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to--and hold--our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist...