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Titan Books Ltd Mass Effect (TM): Annihilation
An official tie-in to the hit video game Mass Effect: Andromeda by James Tiptree Jr. and Locus Award-winner Catherynne M. Valente. The Quarian ark Keelah Si’yah sails toward the Andromeda galaxy, carrying 20,000 colonists from sundry races including the drell, the elcor, and the batarians. Thirty years from their destination, a routine check reveals drell lying dead in their pods, and a deadly pathogen on board. Soon, the disease is jumping species, and it quickly becomes clear that this is no accident. It’s murder, and the perpetrator is still on board. The ship’s systems rapidly degrade, and panic spreads among the colonists, for the virus yields a terrible swelling of the brain that causes madness, hallucinations, and dreadful violence. If the ship’s crew can’t restore their technology and find a cure, the Keelah Si’yah will never make it to the Nexus.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Living With Hepatitis C For Dummies
A comprehensive, empathetic guide for anyone suffering from this serious liver disease Approximately 4 million Americans and 170 million people worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, a viral liver disease that is treatable but not curable. It accounts for more than 40 percent of U.S. liver disease deaths-about 8,000 to 10,000 people annually-and is the most common reason for liver transplantation. This compassionate guide explains how hepatitis C affects the liver and the body and provides solid advice on today's treatment options-from drugs (and their side effects) to transplants and alternative therapies-as well as tips on dealing with the emotional and financial burdens the disease brings with it. Nina L Paul, PhD (New York, NY) earned her doctorate in infectious disease epidemiology and immunology from Yale University. She has researched viruses (human immunodeficiency virus and others) and the immune system.
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Vintage Publishing The Future Future: ‘Unlike anything else’ Salman Rushdie
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE*It's the eighteenth-century and Celine is in trouble'A terrific novel'FINANCIAL TIMES'A radically beautiful new novel'SHEILA HETI, author of Pure ColourParis, 1775: Celine's husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. Meanwhile men are inventing stories about her - about her affairs, her sexuality, and addictions...All these stories are lies, but the public loves them - spreading them like a virus. Celine can only watch as her name becomes a symbol for everything rotten in this society ruled by men high on colonial genocide, natural destruction, and crimes against women. To survive, Celine and her friends must band together in search of justice, truth and beauty.Fantastical, funny and blindingly bright, The Future Future follows one woman on an urgently contemporary quest to clear her name and change the world.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Nurses and COVID-19: Ethical Considerations in Pandemic Care
This book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being. Nurses are essential front-line clinicians across all health care settings and in every nation. The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel SARs-CoV-2 virus has affected children, adults, and communities within and across all societies. Nurses, too, have contracted the virus and died from the disease. They have also seen their colleagues, family members, and friends hospitalized or in intensive care units struggling to survive. Nursing’s professionalism and disciplinary resolve to care for patients and families amidst confusion, misinformation, and shifting guidelines has been called “heroic” by the public. How much risk should nurses be expected to accept during a pandemic? How do nurses help patients and families find comfort and dignity at the end-of-life? How do we help nurses who are suffering from moral distress and mental health concerns from what they have seen, been asked to do, or are unable to provide? And, how does society move forward from a pandemic that has challenged our basic ethical principles of justice and what is “fair, good and right” in caring for those who need care, including the most vulnerable and nurses themselves? This book addresses these and other ethical concerns that nurses are facing in their day-to-day clinical practice; experiences shared with patients, families, and colleagues. Although this book was written while the pandemic was still raging across the United States and globally, the events needed to be told as they were unfolding. This book helps us to learn from both the successes and failures that are affecting so many across the globe, including those on whom the public relies on to provide quality, compassionate, and expert care when they are sick: nurses.
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Baker Publishing Group Never Miss
Former CIA sniper Kadance Tolle possesses a special set of skills and a rare pedigree. She comes from a family of assassins, and by saving Lyndon Vaile's life she risks being found by them. Despite the danger, Kadance feels compelled to help Lyndon discover who is after him--and his research that seems to prove that the Ebola virus was manmade and is about to be weaponized. With shadowy figures pursuing them and a Mastermind watching their every move, Kadance and Lyndon must scramble to stop an impending bioattack at the State of the Union address. But their warnings fall on deaf ears, and it becomes increasingly clear that there's no one they can trust--except perhaps each other. Strap in for a breakneck story that will have you up all night, hurtling toward the last page as the clock ticks and time runs out.
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Johns Hopkins University Press One Health and the Politics of COVID19
Unpacks the mysteries of COVID-19''s origins to impart important lessons for future outbreaks.Unpacking the mysteries of COVID-19''s origins to impart important lessons for future outbreaks.In this timely book, leading public health expert Laura H. Kahn uses the comprehensive One Health approach to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of One Health recognizes the interconnected links among the health of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. By comparing the history, science, and clinical presentations of three different coronavirusesSARS-CoV-1, MERS, and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)Kahn uncovers insights with important repercussions for how to prepare for and avoid future pandemics. The One Health approach is a useful framework for examining the outbreak of COVID-19. Understanding the origins of this zoonotic disease requires examining the environmental and molecular biological factors that allowed the virus to spread to humans. Kahn inv
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Cambridge University Press The Origins of AIDS
It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.
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Hachette Children's Group A Darkest Minds Novel: The Darkest Minds: Book 1
The first book in the heart-stopping The Darkest Minds trilogy, also now a major movie, from the bestselling author of Lore. Ruby is sixteen. She is dangerous. And she is alive. For now.A mysterious disease has killed most of America's children. Ruby might have survived, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse than a virus: frightening abilities they cannot control. Pressured by the government, Ruby's parents sent her to Thurmond, a brutal state 'rehabilitation camp', where she has learned to fear and suppress her new power. But what if mastering it is a whole generation's only chance for survival?'A riveting emotional read that kept me on the edge.' - Melissa Marr, author of Wicked LovelyAlexandra Bracken is the New York Times bestselling author of Passenger, Wayfarer and The Darkest Minds series. Visit her online at www.alexandrabracken.com and on Twitter @alexbracken.
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Scholastic Inc. Dangerous Worms Parasites Plague a Villate XBooks
It''s under their skin. In Ghana, Africa, a family is in agony. Parasites called guinea worms are eating through their bodies. While the family gets treatment, a health-care worker hunts for the source of the worms. Can he find it before others become infected?High-interest topics, real stories, engaging design, and astonishing photos are the building blocks of the XBooks, a new series of books designed to engage and motivate reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. How can a bite from a pet prairie dog cause a life-threatening illness? Where does the guinea worm, a parasite that lives under human skin, come from? How can a virus that attacks the brain be related to birds dropping dead at the zoo? With topics based in science, these action-packed books will help students unlock the power and pleasure of reading... and always ask for more!
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TEATRO DEL CUERPO HUMANO
Una forma única de aprender cómo funciona nuestro cuerpo. Preparados para un espectáculo único? Nuestro presentador, el esqueleto humano, os guiará por un sorprendente viaje a todas las partes del cuerpo humano. Seréis testigos de. cómo un sándwhich es digerido y acaba en el retrete! Qué son esos sueños que crea tu cerebro! Quién se encarga de luchar contra virus y bacterias! Y mucho más. Una divertida obra de teatro en cómic en la que aprenderéis el funcionamiento de todos los sistemas del cuerpo, como el digestivo, respiratorio, endocrino o nervioso, y conoceréis a todos los que intervienen en estos procesos imprescindibles para poder vivir. Maris Wicks es escritora e ilustradora de cómics. Ha trabajado en series como Garfield, Adventure Time, SpongeBob y Batgirl, entre otras, y una de sus grandes pasiones son los cómics divulgativos. Primates, escrito por Jim Ottaviani, fue bestseller del New York Times.
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Crisis de confianza 20072022
En un tiempo de cambios culturales, sociales y tecnológicos excepcionales, la confianza se desploma. Los líderes caen rápidamente, la lealtad se desvanece y el consumo se fragmenta. Tras la caída de Lehman Brothers y la crisis económica transformadora que la siguió, el virus de la desconfianza ha infectado las instituciones, desde grandes multinacionales hasta medios de comunicación, gobiernos, partidos políticos, Iglesias y ONG. Las incertidumbres que rodean nuestras vidas y la economía después de la pandemia y con la guerra en Ucrania pueden exacerbar esta emergencia social. La confianza es frágil y precaria: apenas un ?salto esperanzado en la oscuridad?, siguiendo la feliz metáfora de Hawley. Pero sin ella, el sueño de construir una casa común se hace más difícil. Este libro investiga con perspectiva multidisciplinar la trayectoria de la confianza desde 2007 y ofrece propuestas para recuperar un elemento vital de las relaciones entre personas, empresas, instituciones y gobiernos.
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Miedo viaje por un mundo que se resiste a ser gobernado por el odio
Unensayo brillante ynecesario quenosinvita avermásallá denuestrostemores.Desde el arranque del siglo XXI, el nivel de incertidumbre que nos hemos visto obligados a manejar en las sociedades occidentales ha aumentado sin cesar. Empeñados en no desfallecer, seguimos pedaleando tan rápido como pudimos, tantas horas al día como el cuerpo nos permitía, con la perenne sensación de que siempre podríamos habernos esforzado un poco más. Pero cuando un virus detuvo el mundo entero, salimos despedidos a la velocidad de la luz hacia un páramo desconocido, a solas con nuestros miedos.Miedo es un libro sobre los temores que han articulado nuestras vidas en los últimos años y que la COVID-19 ha evidenciado y agudizado, acelerando así el cambio de era en el que ya estábamos inmersos: la crisis del neoliberalismo, el cambio climático, la creciente desigualdad, los éxodos de migrantes y refugiados, la robotización del mer
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Murray. Microbiología médica básica Fundamentos y casos clínicos
Nueva ed. del texto derivado de la obra de referencia, Murray Microbiología médica que responde a la necesidad de disponer de un "core" de conocimientos con la misma calidad y rigor científico que el best seller. El mercado principal lo constituyen los estudiantes de grado de Medicina, aunque es también un texto válido para los estudiantes de farmacia, nutrición, ciencias biomédicas, biomedicina, biotecnología. Se abordan los 4 grandes grupos de patógenos (Bacterias, Virus, Micosis y Parásitos). Cada uno de los bloques se inicia con un breve capítulo introductorio en el que se incluyen pinceladas de: Cuadros para diagnóstico diferencial, clasificación general de cada uno de los agentes patógenos y un listado de los principales agentes antimicrobianos para combatir las infecciones. La organización del resto de capítulos de cada sección es muy homogénea y se estructura en torno a un patógeno específico. Se incluye un resumen en forma de cuadro de:
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Hot Key Books Prey Zone The Scorpions Sting
The explosive finale to a new series for the next generation from global bestseller Wilbur Smith - starring teen protagonists Ralph and Robyn Ballantyne.In the remote South African bush, the Ballantynes have captured the villainous Josef Gerhard and made him their prisoner. After his monstrous predasaurs unleashed a deadly virus on the world, and he framed the Ballantynes for it, he deserves to pay.But Robyn and Ralph are also racing to get the newly-created vaccine for the disease out before it's too late, and stop Gerhard's partner in crime, President Mbato, from snatching power once again.It's time to leave the wilderness and head to the city for the final showdown. But predators stalk the streets there too, and this time they've got a killer sting . . .Get ready for more predasaurs, more adventure and more action in the epic conclusion to PREY ZONE!
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Veterinary Laboratory Medicine: Clinical Biochemistry and Haematology
Veterinary Laboratory Medicine covers all aspects of basic clinical biochemistry and haematology, and includes test-by-test interpretation of laboratory results. Information is provided on sampling techniques, the selection and use of an external laboratory, as well as near-patient testing and the practice laboratory. Also included are step-by-step instructions for most commonly used point-of-care tests, a guide to the evaluation of instruments for in-practice use, and a detailed explanation of the principles of impedance counting and photometric analysis. The book will be ideal for practitioners who require a guide to laboratory work, and for veterinary students studying laboratory medicine and clinical pathology. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect advances in diagnostic techniques, and includes new chapters on diagnostic endocrinology and feline virus testing as well as a much expanded chapter on diagnostic profiling and pattern recognition.
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HarperCollins Publishers Gravity
Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing new thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of The Surgeon. Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack McCallum, Emma’s estranged husband, has shared her dream of space travel, but a medical condition has grounded him. Now he must watch from the sidelines… The mission aboard the space station turns into a nightmare when a culture of single-celled organisms begins to regenerate out of control – and infects the crew with agonising and deadly results. Emma struggles to contain the deadly virus, while back home Jack and NASA work against the clock to bring her home. But there will be no rescue, as the astronauts are left stranded in orbit where they are dying one by one…
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Sonriendo bajo la crisis
Estamos inmersos en una de las mayores crisis de la historia? SÍ. Todo lo que ha pasado en el mundo es gravísimo? SÍ. La recesión económica será brutal? SÍ.Pero, a pesar de la que está cayendo, la mejor solución es no perder la confianza y luchar con uñas y dientes para seguir adelante. Aunque el virus ha copado toda la actualidad y nos ha encerrado en casa, no podemos olvidarnos de temas como el cambio climático, las nuevas corrientes feministas, las tensiones comerciales, el aumento del populismo o el poder de las redes sociales; factores que seguirán transformando las reglas del juego y que plantearán nuevos desafíos. Sonriendo bajo la crisis se convierte en una herramienta para hacer frente con esperanza a los retos que el futuro nos plantea, la fórmula para afrontar con optimismo la situación mundial tras la pandemia.
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Cuentos de Luca mi pediatra 2 Ilustraciones de Nria Aparicio
Alguna vez te has preguntado qué ocurre cuando te duele la barriga y te tiras pedetes? O por qué te pica la cabeza cuando tienes piojos? O cómo tienes que lavarte los las manos y los dientes para deshacerte de virus y caries? En estos cuentos te lo explicará Lucía, mi pediatra.Por otro lado, has sentido miedo alguna vez? Yo también, y gracias a Pepón el León, lo he superado. Te lo presentaré en un cuento. Además, si lees hasta el final, sabrás lo que es la empatía, y una vez te pongas esa capa que llevan los héroes de la compasión, verás el mundo de otro color.Con los seis nuevos cuentos de Lucía Galán, pediatra y escritora, los niños conocerán mejor su cuerpo y su mente y podrán poner en práctica una serie de hábitos saludables importantísimos en su desarrollo.
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Bonnier Books Ltd Bob vs the Trousers of Doom: a funny, farty time-travel adventure!
The unmissable follow-up to BOB VS THE SELFIE ZOMBIES, perfect for fans of DAVID SOLOMONS, DAVID BADDIEL and GREG JAMES & CHRIS SMITH.AI is threatening to take over the world, and our last hope is a 12-year-old boy called Bob.Bob, an accidental time-traveller, should be doing his homework but instead he's bouncing in and out of the year 2049 - and life in the future seriously stinks!When Bob's science-class experiment goes wrong, he causes a global aroma-virus pandemic - also known as the farting flu. The grumpy school inspector has his eye on Bob and detention looms. But Bob's got bigger problems.He must face robot gorillas, an evil computer and giant patrol insects to save the world from a very farty future . . . ?Hold your noses for an adventure to the year 2049 and back!
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Terra Formars, Vol. 3
In the late 26th century, overpopulation on Earth is reaching the breaking point, and humanity must find new frontiers. The terraforming of Mars has taken centuries but is now complete. The colonization of Mars by humanity is an epoch-making event, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process unleashes a horror no one could ever have imagined… A new mission to Mars, Annex 1, is under way. Their mission: crucial research into the A.E. Virus currently plaguing mankind. The mutant Terraformars, giant humanoid cockroaches, may hold the key to a cure. Unfortunately for the crew of the Annex 1, the Terraformars have somehow gotten on board the ship and have only one goal - total extermination! Led by Akari Hizamaru, the crew will need to rely on their superhuman powers to survive…if those powers don't kill them first!
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Oneworld Publications Life as We Made It: How 50,000 years of human innovation refined – and redefined – nature
A Times Best Book of 2021 From the very first dog to glowing fish and designer pigs – the human history of remaking nature. Virus-free mosquitoes, resurrected dinosaurs, designer humans – such is the power of the science of tomorrow. But the idea that humans have only recently begun to tinker with the natural world is false. We’ve been meddling with nature since the last ice age, and we’re getting a lot better at it. Drawing on decades of research, Beth Shapiro reveals the surprisingly long history of human intervention in evolution – for good and for ill – and looks ahead to the future, casting aside scaremongering myths about the dangers of interference. New biotechnologies can present us with the chance to improve our own lives, and increase the likelihood that we will continue to live in a rich and biologically diverse world.
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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Vol. 2: The Prophet
The Friend, an enigmatic cult leader who plans to destroy the world, declares, 'The cosmos has begun choosing those who are true friends'. Meanwhile, horrifying incidents are taking place: the emergence of a mysterious virus, the revelations of a man on the run... Kenji tries to find out who this Friend is, but the answer is still far ahead. The footsteps of doom slowly creep closer and a shadow falls over the city... Yukiji remembers who came up with their group's enigmatic symbol: Otcho. She also discovers that, nine years earlier, Otcho had been working in Thailand but mysteriously vanished. Could Otcho be the mysterious Friend? Also, a legendary detective is hot on the trail of the Shikishima kidnappers, but the clues he uncovers lead him dangerously close to the Friends cult. Is his life now in danger as well?
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Encounter Books,USA Getting America Back to Work
Over the last two months, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a robust American economy into disarray, completely shutting down major business sectors and putting millions of people out of work overnight. With so much at stake and with all options seemingly on the table, it is crucial that we commit ourselves to the long-term goal of restoring the sorts of free-market policies that led to the Trump Economic Boom prior to the China Virus crisis. Although massive government interventions that Barack Obama pursued following the Great Recession might presently appear beneficial or even essential, a return to Obama’s “new normal” of stagnant growth would lead to disastrous and persisting economic damage. We must instead return, as soon as is safely possible, to the Trump model of economic prosperity that produced the strongest labor market in modern history.
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Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 43
Dawn of Justice!In this volume of the best-selling Complete Case Files series, Dredd uncovers the House of Pain, a no-way-out, brutal torture prison for serial perps, and must stop Orlok from spreading a lethal bio-virus – from beyond the grave! And, after a mysterious package is delivered to the Grand Hall of Justice, Dredd ventures into the Cursed Earth in search of answers that will unveil the history of the Judges, and their ascent to total power.Written by John Wagner (A History of Violence), Gordon Rennie (Warhammer), John Smith (Devlin Waugh), and Simon Spurrier (Hellblazer, X-Men), with art by Colin MacNeil (Strontium Dog: The Final Solution), PJ Holden (Fearless), Laurence Campbell (BPRD: Hell on Earth), Simon Fraser (Nikolai Dante), Paul Marshall (Tharg’s Future Shocks), Peter Doherty (Superman/Batman: World’s Finest), and Inaki Miranda (Fables).
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Oneworld Publications The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain
A Sunday Times bestseller and Financial Times Book of the Year. The unmissable inside story of the race against the virus. Catapulted into an international crisis, Kate Bingham knew the odds were heavily stacked against a workable Covid-19 vaccine. From a remote cottage, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus… as deaths mounted and the world shut down. Political manoeuvring, miscommunications and administrative meddling nearly jeopardised the project. But perseverance and expertise paid off. Bingham’s eclectic team secured the first vaccine doses administered in the West, saving thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. Now, nearly every adult in Britain has had the jab, lockdowns have ended and we can finally live with Covid. This is the insider view into how the Vaccine Taskforce beat those long odds and delivered a scientific miracle.
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Little, Brown Book Group Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the Western Mind
It is well-known that US culture is a dominant force and a world-wide phenomenon. But it is possible that its most troubling export has yet to be accounted for? America has been the world leader in generating new mental health treatments and modern theories: it exports psychopharmaceuticals and categorises disorders, thereby defining mental illness and health. The outcome of these efforts is just now coming to light: it turns out that the US has not only been changing the way the world talks about and treats mental illness -- it has been changing the mental illnesses themselves.Watters travels from China to Tanzania to bring home the unsettling conclusion that the virus is the US: as Americanized ways of treating mental illnesses are introduced, they are is fact spreading the diseases and shaping, if not creating, the mental illnesses of our time.
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Hachette Children's Group Cyborgs, Genes and Tiny Machines: The Fantastic Future of Medicine!
In the future, you could run on robot legs, your doctor could be a computer, you mght have tiny machines inside your body to keep you healthy... and you could even live forever! Take a trip into the future of medicine with this fact-packed, funny and fascinating new book.Paul Ian Cross, author of How to Vanquish a Virus and Bodies, Brains and Bogies, explains everything from genetic modification, eco-health and virtual reality medicine, to remote surgery by robot and personalised medicine. These hyper-exciting advances might sound like science fiction – but they're all being developed by scientists, and some are even being used right now! This brilliantly informative book, with hilarious, detailed illustrations from Steve Brown, de-mystifies a whole host of upcoming technology and shows how the future of medicine could make the world a brighter place.
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Random House Publishing Group Darwins Radio
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEEAncient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a virus hunter at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps --the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve--an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.
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El apagón
Uno de los expertos económicos más importantes del panorama internacional, disecciona el impacto que el coronavirus ha tenido en el sistema capitalista.La aparición de un desconocido virus en China en diciembre de 2019 mereció breves y confusos titulares, pues nadie supo prever su posterior conversión en pandemia global. En cuestión de semanas, la economía mundial se detuvo abruptamente: los aviones permanecían en tierra, las cadenas de suministro se rompían y sectores completos como el turismo reducían su actividad a cero. Ni tan siquiera los mercados financieros, tan alérgicos al riesgo, pudieron preservarse de un colapso económico que provocó la caída más rápida y fuerte de los mercados de valores desde 1929.De la noche a la mañana, nuestro mundo cambió y 2020 se convirtió en un año de inflexión. El gran cronista de la pasada crisis financiera, el economista Adam Tooze, nos presenta el análisis mejor informado sobre la historia de ese cierre y sobre hacia dónde nos diri
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El apagón
La aparición de un desconocido virus en China en diciembre de 2019 mereció breves y confusos titulares, pues nadie supo prever su posterior conversión en pandemia global. En cuestión de semanas, la economía mundial se detuvo abruptamente: los aviones permanecían en tierra, las cadenas de suministro se rompían y sectores completos como el turismo reducían su actividad a cero. Ni tan siquiera los mercados financieros, tan alérgicos al riesgo, pudieron preservarse de un colapso económico que provocó la caída más rápida y fuerte de los mercados de valores desde 1929.De la noche a la mañana, nuestro mundo cambió y 2020 se convirtió en un año de inflexión. El gran cronista de la pasada crisis financiera, el economista Adam Tooze, nos presenta el análisis mejor informado sobre la historia de ese cierre y sobre hacia dónde nos dirigimos. Gracias a su acceso privilegiado a datos, protagonistas e instituciones se relata, de forma convincente y a veces impactante, cómo ha repercutido este desa
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Tusquets Editores Cómo vivimos por qué morimos la vida secreta de las células
Este libro es una apasionante y clarificadora guía dedicada a un elemento fundamental del cuerpo humano y del que depende la vida propiamente dicha: la célula. Nuestro cuerpo se compone de miles de millones de ellas, y su estructura, de extraordinaria complejidad, gobierna fenómenos tan cruciales para la existencia de los organismos como el crecimiento, la reproducción y el envejecimiento. Además, la actividad celular incide en el modo en que enfermamos y nos defendemos de las agresiones de bacterias y virus, y tiene que ver con la actividad mental en procesos relacionados con la imaginación o la memoria.El destacado biólogo LEWIS WOLPERT estudia en estas páginas no sólo la anatomía de la célula, sino también cuestiones tan debatidas y actuales como la investigación con células madre, las implicaciones de la clonación o los pros y contras de la manipulación genética, además de explicar con minuciosidad el fascinante proceso que lleva a una única célula fertilizada a convertir
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Estado de alarma
Marzo de 2020. Gobiernos de medio mundo decretan el estado de alarma ante la propagación incontrolada de un virus desconocido de origen chino y ordenan el confinamiento inmediato de toda la población.No, esto no es la sinopsis de una película distópica más. Esto sucedió realmente y lo sufrimos en nuestras propias carnes. Cientos de miles de muertos y hospitales atestados por todo el mundo: la incertidumbre nos invadió.En aquellos momentos de miedo y zozobra Valdemar tomó la decisión de ofrecer en facebook un relato diario con el fin de distraer a los lectores de sus preocupaciones durante el encierro forzoso.Este es el origen de la presente antología, 23 historias relacionadas de un modo u otro con la situación vivida, en un intento de conjurar nuestros temores con la ficción. El lector encontrará entre sus páginas relatos sobre antiguas pandemias, como ?El sótano de la peste?, de Stevenson, y ?La máscara de la muerte roja?, de Poe, o sobre ghetos ocasionados por pandemias fu
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Niebla en el alma
La crítica internacional ya ha encumbrado a Ragnar Jónasson como uno de los grandes de la novela negra nórdica (Magazine de La Vanguardia).3.000.000 de lectores en todo el mundoEn 1955, dos hermanas y sus maridos se trasladan a un remoto y solitario fiordo. Su estancia termina abruptamente cuando una de ellas fallece en misteriosas circunstancias. Sin testigos, pistas ni sospechosos, el caso jamás fue resuelto. Cincuenta años después, una vieja fotografía de la época sale a la luz y revela que no eran los únicos habitantes del fiordo. Gracias a esta nueva pista el policía Ari Thór, aislado en Siglufjördur a causa de un extraño virus, intenta reconstruir lo que sucedió esa fatídica noche, y para ello contará con la inestimable ayuda de la periodista Ísrún, que está investigando un caso escandaloso de corrupción política. Ante la inexplicable desaparición de un niño, la situación dará un giro inesperado y las piezas del puzle empezarán a encajar.
£11.04
Lo que no te esperas del sexo
Podemos tener una cita apasionada y a la vez, sin saberlo, otra no deseada. Distintos hongos, bacterias, virus, protozoos o parásitos causan infecciones que se transmiten en las relaciones sexuales, las famosas ITS. Las cifras de contagios se están disparando en todo el mundo, convirtiéndose en un gran problema de salud pública. Esto es, claramente, lo que no te esperas del sexo.Pero, si todas estas infecciones son prevenibles y muchas curables, por qué están aumentando estas cifras? Cuál es el riesgo de las ITS no tratadas? Cómo hemos llegado a esta situación? Y ahora qué hacemos? Es verdad que hay resistencia a los antibióticos?En este apasionante libro, magníficamente ilustrado por Ansola con su inteligente humor, descubrirás muchas cosas sobre las ITS: desde cómo se trataba la sífilis en el siglo XVI hasta cuál es la situación actual del sida en España, pasando por los últimos avances científicos, qué es el sexo seguro o qué hacer si te contagias.En un momento de poca pe
£22.01
Estuche Cuentos de las estaciones de Lucía mi pediatra
Disfruta de un año de cuentos con este pack de la pediatra más mediática de nuestro país.Desde la experiencia de su profesio?n y la sensibilidad de su maternidad, la autora y pediatra Luci?a Gala?n Bertrand ha creado un recopilatorio de cuatro cuentos para acompan?ar a los ma?s pequen?os en su desarrollo que podréis leer en cada estación del año. Un estuche en el que encontrarás los 4 libros estacionales de Lucía, mi pediatra:- Cuentos de invierno de Lucía, mi pediatra- Cuentos de primavera de Lucía, mi pediatra- Cuentos de verano de Lucía, mi pediatra- Cuentos de otoño de Lucía, mi pediatraEn invierno, los resfriados y la bronquitis son muy comunes, así que aprenderán muchas cosas sobre los virus y sobre cómo cuidarse. Durante la primavera, la naturaleza florece y suelen aparecer muchas alergias. Por eso, también es un buen momento para visitar a la alergóloga. En otoño, las hojas de los árboles comienzan a caer y?
£57.50
Simon & Schuster The Billion-Dollar Molecule: The Quest for the Perfect Drug
Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research.Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing—atom by atom—both a new life-saving immunosuppressant drug, and a drug to combat the virus that causes AIDS. You will be hooked from start to finish, as you go from the labs, where obsessive, fiercely competitive scientists struggle for a breakthrough, to Wall Street, where the wheeling and dealing takes on a life of its own, as Boger courts investors and finally decides to take Vertex public. Here is a fascinating no-holds-barred account of the business of science, which includes an updated epilogue about the most recent developments in the quest for a drug to cure AIDS.
£15.53
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Lockdown: Social Harm in the Covid-19 Era
This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus. Drawing on global, empirical data, it explores and exposes the social harms induced by lockdowns, many of which are 'hidden', including joblessness, mental health problems and an intensification of societal inequalities and divisions. It offers data-driven case studies on harms such as domestic violence, child abuse, the distress of being ordered to stay at home, and the numerous harms associated with the new wealth industries. It explores why some people weren't compliant with lockdown restrictions and examines the already vulnerable social groups who were disproportionally affected by lockdown including those who were locked in (care home residents), locked up (prisoners), and locked out (migrant workers, refugees). The book closes with a brief discussion on what the future might look like as we enter a post-Covid world, drawing on cutting-edge social theory.
£25.19
Profile Books Ltd I Was Dora Suarez: Factory 4
An axe-wielding psychopath carves young Dora Suarez into pieces and smashes the head of Suarez's friend, an elderly woman. On the same night, in the West End, a firearm blows the top off the head of Felix Roatta, part-owner of the seedy Parallel Club. The unnamed narrator, a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police's Unexplained Deaths division, develops a fixation on the young woman whose murder he investigates. And he discovers that Suarez's death is even more bizarre than suspected: the murderer ate bits of flesh from Suarez's corpse and ejaculated against her thigh. Autopsy results compound the puzzle: Suarez was dying of AIDS, but the pathologist can't tell how the virus was introduced. Then a photo, supplied by a former Parallel hostess, links Suarez to Roatta, and inquiries at the club reveal how vile and inhuman exploitation can become. I Was Dora Suarez is the fourth book in the Factory series
£9.32
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How To Stop It Happening Again
This expanded, updated, and completely revised edition of The COVID-19 Catastrophe is the authoritative guide to a global health crisis that has consumed the world. Richard Horton, editor of the medical journal The Lancet, scrutinises the actions taken by governments as they sought to contain the novel coronavirus. He shows that indecision and disregard for scientific evidence has led many political leaders to preside over hundreds of thousands of needless deaths and the worst global economic crisis for three centuries. This new edition provides a systematic discussion of the pandemic’s course, national responses, more transmissible mutant variants of the virus, and the launch of the world’s largest ever vaccination programme. Only now are we beginning to understand the full scale of the COVID-19 crisis. We need to learn the lessons of this pandemic, and we need to learn them fast, because the next pandemic may arrive sooner than we think.
£12.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Molecular and Cellular Biology of Viruses
This fully revised second edition of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Viruses leads students on an exploration of viruses by supporting engaging and interactive learning. All the major classes of viruses are covered, with separate chapters for their replication and expression strategies, and chapters for mechanisms such as attachment that are independent of the virus genome type. Specific cases drawn from primary literature foster student engagement. End-of-chapter questions focus on analysis and interpretation with answers being given at the back of the book. Examples come from the most-studied and medically important viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, HIV, and influenza. Plant viruses and bacteriophages are also included. There are chapters on the overall effect of viral infection on the host cell. Coverage of the immune system is focused on the interplay between host defenses and viruses, with a separate chapter on medical applications such as antiviral drugs and vaccine develop
£66.99
Little, Brown & Company World Made of Glass
An “inspiring” (Kirkus, starred review), “heartfelt” (The Horn Book, starred review) coming-of-age novel about a girl finding her way to activism in the early years of the AIDS pandemic, from award-winning author Ami Polonsky. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends. But nothing is normal, and sometimes it feels like she’ll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that’s off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she’ll have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the poems they used to exchange? In a sea of rage and grief, Iris resolves to speak out against the rampant fear, misinformation, and prejudice surrounding AIDS—and find the pieces of Dad that she never knew before. Along the way, Iris might just find new sides to herself. Critically-acclaimed
£8.71
Pearson Education Limited I am HIV Positive
To the Teacher Use this story for life orientation, health, citizenship or cultural studies lessons, or as reader in English class. The story looks at the basic facts of HIV/AIDS through the eyes of a child. It explains in the simplest terms transmission, infection and the do's and dont's of prevention. It looks at practical ways of caring and coping. Young adults are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than anyone else. Lindiwe's explanation should empower learners to lower the risk of getting sick and increase their resilience to the virus. This is one of the JAWS HIV/AIDS readers developed for primary school learners.The story conveys both the basic information about HIV/AIDS (health promotion) and the subtle psycho-social dimensions of the pandemic affecting learners' lives (personal and social developement). It can be used as a reader, or to help teachers introduce subject matter that is difficult to manage in the classroom.
£6.93
Unicorn Publishing Group Romany Mark Bruce
In 2007 Romany Mark Bruce, Irish-born lawyer and self-taught artist, was confronted by a stranger while walking his dog in Kemptown, Brighton. I want a word with you,' said the mysterious fellow, and walked off, without further explanation. Two days later, Romany received a follow-up email: would he consider mocking up a design for an AIDS Memorial statue, to be erected in the south-coast city? An open-call competition was underway:there were ten days left to enter. Having lost his dearest friend to the deadly virus, Romany by then predominantly a painter, though with ten years sculpting experience behind him wasted no time in making a decision, and making up a design. The rest is history, and his AIDS Memorial, dedicated to Paul Tay, is a poignant landmark much loved by Brighton residents. This monograph explores the life choices which have informed Romany's artistic pathway, and analyses the sculptural techniques he employs in his thriving painting practice. Romany is, in his own w
£27.00
Oxford University Press Concise Colour Medical Dictionary
Written by a team of medical experts, this market-leading dictionary offers clear and authoritative definitions for all aspects of medical science. It features up-to-date coverage on public health medicine, medical research and general practice, and cardiology, radiology, and dentistry among other specialist areas. This new edition has been revised and updated to reflect advancements in medical research and practice,while over 250 new entries have been added, including American Medical Association, burden of treatment, gaming disorder, MERS, person-centred care, and Zika virus. Recommended web links and detailed illustrations complement the text, and extensive appendices offer useful lists and tables on areas such as inherited medical conditions, units of alcohol, and abbreviations and symbols. Selling over a million copies in previous editions, this is an essential A-Z for students and those working in the medical and allied professions, including nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, social workers, hospital administrators, and medical secretaries. It is also an invaluable home reference guide for the general reader.
£15.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Selected Papers Of Michael G Rossmann With Commentaries: The Development Of Structural Biology
About 50 publications out of more than 500 have been selected from the work of Michael Rossmann covering the years from 1958 to 2012. These include his early work with Max Perutz on hemoglobin and the first protein structures to his current work on the structures of small icosahedral and large polymorphic viruses. These papers describe not only some of the first protein and virus structures, but also the crystallographic and electron microscopic technologies. Furthermore, the author's interests include evolution and protein folding.The selected papers are a personal history of structural biology and especially of structural virology. The papers describe many of the basic techniques of structural biology such as isomorphous replacement, anomalous dispersion of X-rays, the molecular replacement method, X-ray diffraction data processing and combining crystallographic data with electron microscopic images.The book covers much of the historical development of the modern flourishing field of structural biology in terms of the authors' own contributions.
£145.00
Parthian Books Queer Square Mile: Queer Short Stories from Wales
In these stories gender refuses to be fixed: a dashing travelling companion is not quite who he seems in the intimate darkness of a mail coach, a girl on the cusp of adulthood gamely takes her father's place as head of the house, and an actor and patron are caught up in dangerous game-playing. In the more fantastical tales there are talking rats, flirtations with fascism, and escape from a post-virus 'utopia'. These are stories of sexual awakening, coming out and redefining one's place in the world. Release and a certain heady license may be found in the distant cities of Europe or north Africa, but the stories are for the most part located in familiar Welsh settings - a schoolroom, a provincial town, a mining village, a tourist resort, a sacred island. The intensity of desire, whether overt, playful, or coded, makes this a rich and often surprising collection that reimagines what being queer and Welsh has meant in different times and places.
£20.00
Greenleaf Book Group LLC The Moments Between Dreams
A story of hope, courage, and perseverance . Carol misses red flags about Joe’s need for control before she marries him, dashing her dreams for herself and her family. Trouble escalates after their daughter Ellie is paralyzed by the polio virus and Joe returns from WWII. Carol realizes how brutal waking life can be, and she conceals bruises and protects her children the best she can. The Moments Between Dreams is a captivating story of a 1940s housewife who conforms to the rulebook of society until Joe pushes her too far. His constant intimidation shrinks Carol’s confidence while she tries to boost Ellie’s. Church-going neighbors in Carol’s tight-knit Polish community are complacent, but Sam, a handsome reporter, stirs up Carol’s zest for life. Despite impossible circumstances, Carol plans a secret escape. Along a risky path, she empowers her daughter to know no limits and teaches her son to stop the cycle of violence and gender discrimination.
£16.50
Hodder & Stoughton Sleeping Beauties
In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent...In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep - and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake.And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether...
£10.99
