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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.

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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...

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'Full of nail-biting adventure, interstellar conflict and then passion . . . keeps us guessing to the last' - Sunday TimesA combination of Star Trek, Ten Things I Hate About You, and a murder mystery. What's not to like?' - Guardian'I walked over to him and took his hand . . . We were at the heart of our very own universe'Olivia and her twin brother, Aidan, are heading alone on their ship back to Earth following the virus that completely wiped out their crew, and their family in its entirety.Nathan's ship is heading in the opposite direction, but on the journey it is attacked. Only a few survive.When their lives suddenly collide, Nathan and Olivia are instantly attracted to each other, deeply, completely head over heels.But not everyone is pleased. Surrounded by rumours, deception, even murder, is it possible to live out a happy-ever-after...?'The former Children's Laureate is never afraid to tackle challenging issues . . . a thrilling love story' - Mail on Sunday

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Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!Make the most effective diagnostic and therapeutic decisions quickly and efficiently!Find answers fast with The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult Premium, 8th Edition – your go-to resource for the effective medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. Using the proven 5-Minute format, it provides rapid access to information on diagnosis, treatment, medications, follow-up, and associated factors for more than 500 diseases and conditions. The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult is designed to help you make quick, accurate decisions every day … helping you save time and offer every patient the best possible care. Get quick access to all-new topics , including Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Vaccine Refusal, Zika Virus, Chikungunya Virus, Transgender Youth, and Follow-up of NICU Graduates. Reorganized and updated appendix includes unique identifiers for dozens of genetic conditions, associated inheritance patterns, specific gene(s) involved, mechanism of a disease, descriptions of the associated clinical findings, and a Glossary of Genetic Syndromes important for the care of children. Find the answers you need quickly thanks to an intuitive, at-a-glance format, with concise, bulleted text; ICD-10 codes; FAQs; and much more. Consult “The 5-Minute Educator” appendix for instruction of trainees at all levels. Access valuable clinical guidance in the book as well as 24/7 online access for three years! Written by experts in the field of pediatrics and associated subspecialties and published by the leader in medical content, The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult Premium: 3-Year Enhanced Online Access + Print, 8th Edition includes 3-year access to 5MinuteConsult.com.5MinuteConsult.com is a quicker, more valuable, evidence-based, online workflow tool easily integrated at the point-of-care. 5MinuteConsult.com provides online-exclusive content, including: Additional 1,500+ diseases and conditions Semantic search – for targeted results from reliable resources including 5-Minute Clinical Consult Online-only treatment and diagnostic algorithms More than 3,500 patient handouts in Spanish and English Over 200 step-by-step procedure and physical therapy videos to enhance procedural skills The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult Premium, 8th Edition provides the luxury of a traditional print product and delivers quick access to the continually updated online content – an ideal resource when you’re treating patients.

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The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) is the result of many years in the planning, and it finally officially opened its doors in September 2019, just months before the entire world was tested by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is the work of many people who represent an even larger pool of people from NCID, Singapore and the rest of the world in trying to understand and contain the SARS- CoV-2 virus. There are chapters on science, the public health response both locally and globally, as well as personal reflections from NCID and Tan Tock Seng Hospital staff and staff from other public healthcare institutions who were deployed to NCID which bring home the human impact of the pandemic. We are very grateful to all the authors for taking the time to put together their thoughtful chapters as well as the senior academics and public health leaders who have provided us with generous comments on the manuscript. We hope that the readers of the book will gain a better insight into the response to the virus from so many different perspectives. Although the pandemic has evolved far beyond the pages of this book globally, the lessons learned from the early days are still relevant. We hope that the chapters will be helpful as we review our experience of this pandemic and face the next emerging infectious disease in the years to come.This book provides a comprehensive look at many different aspects of response in Singapore to the pandemic in the crucial first several months, including clinical, laboratory, epidemiology, research, community engagement and the unprecedented challenge of outbreak involving migrant workers in dormitory settings. On a personal note, it has first-hand accounts of staff at the NCID who were at the forefront of battling COVID-19 in Singapore. It also gives a global perspective of the pandemic, together with insights into the unique Singapore experience of managing the pandemic. The Singapore response to the pandemic has been something which the global community has been very interested in and this book is the first to comprehensively describe that response from a number of different angles which will be useful to scientists, clinicians, public health professionals and policy makers.

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A los 6 meses de vida un virus me causó una parálisis cerebral. Los médicos dijeron que me quedaría como un vegetal. Tengo un 76% de discapacidad y hablo en lenguaje de signos. En mi vida el "no puedes" ha sido una frase constante, pero he luchado mucho, tengo un trabajo que me gusta, una familia, amigos y una novia maravillosa. Me gustaría explicarle a la gente en que sí se puede.Alex es un luchador.A lo largo de su vida se ha encontrado con muchas barreras y las ha superado con mucho esfuerzo. Ha realizado triatlones y una aquatlón, la Orbea Monegros, varias carreras de 5 y 10km, la Pilgrim Race y dos Titan Desert.Ha estudiado, trabaja, conduce su coche y vive con su novia. Su lema es que los limites se los pone uno mismo, siendo cada uno dueño de su destino y de sus posibilidades.

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Cuida de tu sistema inmunitario y envejecerás mejorNuestro cuerpo alberga alrededor de cuarenta billones de células, un sistema biológico perfectamente organizado para asegurar la continuidad de la especie mediante una compleja disposición de defensas, contraataques y estrategias biológicas. Sí, se trata del sistema inmunitario.Además de protegernos de bacterias, hongos, parásitos y virus, este sistema se enfrenta a su propio envejecimiento conocido con el término ?inmunosenescencia?. La buena noticia es que puedes fortalecer tu sistema inmunitario: Juan Ramón Lucas te presenta el Inmunofitness, un estilo de vida que marca un antes y un después en el cuidado del sistema inmune y mejora de la calidad de vida. Sus pilares son la vacunación, la alimentación saludable, el ejercicio y una mente sana, es decir, un sueño reparador, contacto con entornos verdes y exposición al sol en condiciones saludables.Escrito con sencillez, simpatía y buen humor, este libro te enseña a mej

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Orbus continues the adventure of Captain Orbus in Neal Asher's high-octane, science fiction Spatterjay series.A cold war is turning white hot.Old Captain Orbus commandeered a ship to flee Spatterjay, desperate to escape the violent planet. Orbus’s alien enemy, the Prador Vrell, is also moving on. The Spatterjay virus mutated him into something even more dangerous. And he’s hunting the Prador King himself – who sought to kill him, to bury the secret of their similar transformations.Orbus and Vrell clash in the Graveyard, a lawless zone where the Prador have seized a key space station. Official action by humanity or Prador would end peace, as a centuries-long cold war simmers. So Earth commands Orbus to destroy the station, even as the King recruits a monster to exterminate Vrell. But their actions will awaken an intelligence that annihilated civilizations, as it stirs after five million years . . .

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A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * A NCSS 2023 Notable Social Studies Trade BookWhat was the pandemic of the century like at the start? This swift, gripping novel captures not only the uncertainty and panic when COVID first emerged in Wuhan, but also how a community banded together. Weaving in the tastes and sounds of the historic city, Wuhan’s comforting and distinctive cuisine comes to life as the reader follows 13-year-old Mei who, through her love for cooking, makes a difference in her community. Written by an award-winning author originally from Wuhan. Grieving the death of her mother and an outcast at school, thirteen-year-old Mei finds solace in cooking and computer games. When her friend’s grandmother falls ill, Mei seeks out her father, a doctor, for help, and discovers the hospital is overcrowded. As the virus spreads, Mei finds her

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The title sequence of Making the Beds for the Dead charts the journey of a virus in 'the plague year'. Come from outer space, it travels - on a fox's paw, the beak of a kite and a crow and a buzzard - into the very heart of our lives. The poet includes personal, verses and stories from farmers in her family and neighbourhood. The open structure allows the Gillian Clarke to include her seven rock poems, written for the National Botanic Garden of Wales; her poems based in archaeology; and her poems about war, and urban violence. There is an instinctive and a deliberate unity of theme and idiom in this book. The poet remains true to her landscapes and her nation. The sequence 'The Physicians of Myddfai', nine sonnets for Aberglasne, and much else is included in this characteristically generous and engaging volume by Wales' best-loved poet.

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Cada día de nuestra vida, nuestro sistema inmunitario se mantiene alerta defendiéndonos de multitud de agentes con potencial para causarnos enfermedad: parásitos, bacterias, virus, células cancerosas, etc. El trabajo es constante. Esta lucha permanente entre nuestras células de defensa y los múltiples agentes patogénicos suele pasarnos desapercibida hasta que un fallo en el sistema defensivo nos recuerda que somos vulnerables y que nuestro sistema inmunitario es imperfecto. Tras millones de años de evolución, el sistema inmunitario humano se ha dotado de moléculas, células, tejidos y órganos capaces de orquestar respuestas sumamente complejas y dirigidas frente a las más variopintas amenazas. Cómo lo hace? Qué elementos actúan y dónde están? De qué manera puede fallar? Por qué se producen las enfermedades autoinmunitarias, las alergias e incluso el cáncer? Y las inmunodeficiencias? Cómo afectan el sexo, la edad, el embarazo o el microbioma? Este libro pretende adentrarse en el mundo de

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'A powerfully evociative story of the resilience and triumph of the human spirit' Taylor Jenkins ReidDiana O'Toole's life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she's up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby's and she's about to fly to the Galápagos where she's convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn, is going to propose. But then the virus hits New York City and Finn breaks the news: the hospital needs him, he has to stay. But you should still go, he insists. And reluctantly, she agrees. Once she's in the Galápagos, the world shuts down around her, leaving Diana stranded - albeit in paradise. Completely isolated, with only intermittent news from the outside world, Diana finds herself examining everything that has brought her to this point and wondering if there's a better way to live. But not everything is as it seems . . .

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A new technology has emerged, promising a perfect society, and resisters are not long for this world . . . Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants. The Interface has become a way of life, connecting all people to limitless information, nonstop personal messaging, and instantaneous news flashes. Gone are the days of cell phones and laptops—even loneliness itself is obsolete. But when the genius behind the Interface turns against his own creation and threatens to unleash a deadly electronic brain virus on the public, the fate of the world falls on NYPD Captain Yara Avril, who must stop this sinister, ever-escalating plot before it’s too late. A thrilling nod to a future waiting just around the corner, Interface is a remarkably prescient exploration of the potential links between boundless connection and cataclysmic disaster in digital society.

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Este texto aborda con determinación y con rigor documental no exento de una saludable pasión un tema de suyo polémico y controvertido. Se refiere exclusivamente a los catalanes que aspiran a separarse de España. Aspiración cuya legitimidad el autor no cuestiona, para centrarse más en concreto en aquellos que se sirven ilegítimamente de toda clase de artimañas políticas y jurídicas para justificarla. La deriva secesionista está trufada de una evidente manipulación histórica, de mentiras, calumnias e incluso insultos y menosprecios a quienes cuestionan sus métodos. Esta caracterización excluye a la inmensa mayoría de catalanes, por mucho que no sean pocos los seguidores de un camino sin salida dadas las escasas posibilidades de alcanzar un día una mayoría social suficientemente cualificada como para poder hacerlo legítima y legalmente.Una obra que irritará a unos y satisfará a otros pues, la pretendida unanimidad, sólo se alcanza en las dictaduras y entre aquellos a los que el virus

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Son ciencia y religión incompatibles y opuestas? Ha perseguido la Iglesia a los científicos? Murió Galileo en la hoguera condenado por la Inquisición? Han condenado los papas la teoría de la evolución? Son la mayoría de los científicos materialistas y ateos? Muchas afirmaciones negativas sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión se siguen repitiendo hoy, a veces con enconada virulencia, y algunos ven en la religión un virus maligno que se opone al progreso de la ciencia. El tema necesita de una reflexión seria y serena que examine la relación entre ciencia y religión como formas de conocimiento y como fenómenos sociales, y cuáles han sido estas conexiones a lo largo de la historia, en especial en relación con el cristianismo. El origen del universo es hoy un tema científico candente. Por otro lado, la tradición religiosa judeo-cristiana afirma que el universo ha sido creado por Dios. Podemos compaginar ambas cosas? El famoso físico Stephen Hawking afirma que, si el universo es autocon

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Bienvenidos a La verdad de la pandemia. Este libro contiene las claves que explican cómo y por qué unos pocos han decidido robarnos la libertad. Por qué una pandemia en este momento? Quién tiene interés en secuestrarnos en nuestras casas? Es verdad que el virus viene de China o ha sido un ataque de Estados Unidos que ahora no sabe parar? Todas estas preguntas se han quedado sin respuesta, aunque algunas teorías han comenzado a circular. Ya en 2010, en mi libro Los amos del mundo están al acecho, advertí de que uno de los últimos mecanismos de control de las élites era la táctica de la pandemia. Por eso, cuando en los medios de comunicación empezaron a hablar de la COVID-19, supe que habían vuelto a activar el plan. Cómo obligarnos, si no, a aceptar una situación que nadie está dispuesto a consentir?El libro que no quieren que leas. Vas a obedecer?

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Hablar de la Tierra es tener siempre presente la interdependencia que la habita y que define lo vivo en todas y cada una de sus manifestaciones. Los seres humanos y los animales, los vegetales y los microbios, los virus y las sustancias minerales, así como las bacterias e, incluso, los dispositivos tecnológicos, forman parte del gran mosaico que es la vida en común en el planeta. Sin embargo, Mbembe va más allá y acude al ancestral pensamiento animista africano para incluir todas las fuerzas invisibles que los rodean y con las que también convivimos. La insondable riqueza de estas tradiciones le sirve como pie de apoyo para aventurar lo que, en vistas a un desastre ecológico inminente, parece más urgente: una nueva forma de relacionarnos con lo que nos rodea.La comunidad terrestre representa la culminación de la trilogía empezada por Políticas de la enemistad, también publicada en Ned, en la que el autor arriesga una comprensión de las principales fuerzas de transformación de la Ti

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La realidad se ha roto.Al principio parece un virus. Una epidemia que se extiende de forma incontrolable, enloqueciendo a sus víctimas con recuerdos de una vida que no es la suya. Pero no se trata de un patógeno y las consecuencias no afectan sólo a la mente, sino al propio tejido del tiempo.En Nueva York, el detective Barry Sutton está investigando este extraño síndrome en un caso que pronto se entrelaza con el trabajo de una brillante neurocientífica convencida de que es la memoria lo que determina la realidad. Pero cómo pueden dos personas investigar el origen de unos recuerdos falsos cuando a su alrededor toda la realidad se está desfragmentando?Recursión es la nueva novela del autor superventas de Materia oscura. Ha resultado ganadora en los Premios de Goodreads 2019 a Mejor Libro de Ciencia Ficción, se va a publicar en una veintena de idiomas y Netflix está preparando su adaptación televisiva.

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Después de una terrible pandemia, la sociedad queda dividida en dos.Budismo zen, pandemias, ciencia ficción y vampiros en el mejor teatro contemporáneo japonés.A principios del siglo XXI, una virulenta epidemia provocada por el bioterrorismo ha dividido al mundo en dos comunidades: la de los nox, seres de la noche, eternamente jóvenes, inteligentes, fuertes y sanos; y la de los curios, aquellas personas que sobrevivieron a la pandemia, pero que siguen siendo vulnerables al virus, y que ahora viven en guetos.En una de estas aldeas aisladas hace años asesinaron a un nox y, desde entonces, sus habitantes han sufrido un embargo que por fin va a concluir. Lamentablemente, con el restablecimiento de las relaciones entre nox y curios, regresan los prejuicios y los viejos rencores.Tomohiro Maekawa ha sido galardonado con un gran número de premios, tales como el Premio Yomiuri o el Kinokuniya y algunas de sus historias han llegado a la gran pantalla.Maekawa demuestra su prof

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La mejor novela que leí en 2014. Un libro que recordaré durante mucho tiempo y que volveré a leer?. George R. R. Martin, autor de "Juego de tronos".Un inesperado virus mortal acaba con la humanidad tal y como la conocemos: ya no quedan trenes ni Internet, ni siquiera ciudades, solamente asentamientos hostiles al visitante ocasional.En este desolador panorama un pequeño grupo de actores y músicos decide crear la Sinfonía Viajera, con el fin de mantener vivo un resquicio de humanidad. Pero en este libro nada es fácil y pronto este rescoldo de civilización también se verá amenazado por un violento profeta.Esta novela va más allá de su argumento y escritura, originales y ambiciosos: nos sumerge en un mundo distinto y nos obliga a reflexionar sobre el presente, sobre lo que tenemos y qué valor le damos. En definitiva, un homenaje inteligente y sobrio a los pequeños placeres de la vida. Un libro difícil de dejar y, más aún, de olvidar.

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El desarrollo de un fármaco es un proceso largo y costoso: su comercialización puede tardar entre 10 y 15 años, cuesta aproximadamente 2.500 millones de euros y su tasa de éxito, dejando en el camino decenas de miles de compuestos, ronda el 12%. Además, garantizar la eficacia y seguridad de un fármaco requiere de ensayos con animales y estudios en seres humanos, con importantes implicaciones éticas en la investigación biosanitaria. Este libro explica las principales estrategias que ha llevado a cabo la industria farmacéutica para tratar de abaratar y acelerar la producción de nuevos medicamentos: el reposicionamiento, que busca dar un nuevo uso terapéutico a un fármaco ya conocido, y la reformulación, que desarrolla nuevas formulaciones para un mismo medicamento. Sus autoras analizan sus casos de éxito y sus inconvenientes, y la aplicación de dichas estrategias en los campos con más impacto y utilidad: las enfermedades raras y las pandemias causadas por virus emergentes.

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Charb, el director de Charlie Hebdo, Sebastián Castellio, Carlos V, Georges Clemenceau, Louise Michel, Nadiezhda y Ósip Mandelstam, los héroes de la democracia española (Suárez, Carrillo, Gutiérrez Mellado, Juan Carlos I), André Malraux, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Albert Camus, las 343 mujeres que lucharon por el derecho al aborto en Francia, Willy Brandt, Jean Moulin y Zelenski... A través de los destinos admirables de todos estos hombres y mujeres, Manuel Valls, apasionado de Historia y Literatura, nos ofrece una profunda reflexión sobre el valor en la vida pública y nos anima a rechazar la tentación de la resignación en un momento en que los valores europeos se ven amenazados por la polarización, el fanatismo, la violencia ciega y el terrorismo.Como dice Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo en su prólogo: Valls es un apasionado de la Historia. Pero, además, tiene la lucidez y visión necesarias para detectar en el presente los virus del pasado. Valls recoge el testigo de los inte

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The Woke are killing comedy—and that makes being a comedian today better than ever!The Woke—that humorless, joyless, shame-inducing virus—are killing comedy…and that is great for comedians! So argues award-winning comedian Lou Perez in his hilarious and provocative book debut, That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore. Through the lens of comedy, Lou examines anti-racism, sex, gender, cancel culture, and all the modern-day sacred cows that have been propped up in recent years. An equal-opportunity offender, nothing is safe from his mockery. Lou punches up, he punches down—he’s throwing haymakers in every direction! This book is a cancellable offense—but worth the risk. It’s time to fight back: to create, to celebrate, and most importantly, to laugh. These are amazing times, in no small part thanks to the Woke gift to comedy. Plus, reading That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore will take care of your diversity reading quota. Lou has the results from his DNA test to prove it.

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At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research and now revised to reflect the growing danger of the avian flu, "The Great Influenza" is ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, which provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. John M Barry has written a new afterword for this edition that brings us up to speed on the terrible threat of the avian flu and suggests ways in which we might head off another flu pandemic.

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Dieses Einsteiger-Lehrbuch bietet eine hochaktuelle, aber auch alltagstaugliche Gesamtschau der Bioanalytik. Drogen- und Virus-Tests, die Blutzucker-Bestimmung bei Diabetes, die Messung der körperlichen Fitness, Schwangerschaft und der lebensrettende Check eines Herzinfarkts sind einige der spannenden und lebensnahen Aspekte, die mit einer Vielzahl an vierfarbigen Grafiken und Fotos beschrieben werden. Wie das mit bereits fünf Auflagen erfolgreiche Werk des Autors Biotechnologie für Einsteiger soll auch dieses Buch zeigen: „Wissenschaft kann Spaß machen!" und die Neugier auf mehr wecken – und das schon alleine beim Durchblättern. Die abwechslungsreiche Gestaltung des Buches bietet neben Meinungen von Experten, die Standpunkte aus Forschung und Industrie veranschaulichen, auch geschichtliche Aspekte sowie die beliebte Nanoru-Cartoon-Geschichte, die, wie gewohnt, witzig in die Thematik einführt. Acht Fragen am Ende jedes Kapitels helfen bei der Selbstkontrolle von Lernbegierigen.Die zweite Auflage wurde gänzlich überarbeitet und – buchstäblich bis zur letzten Minute vor dem Druck – u.a. mit dem erläuterten Nachweis von Coronaviren auf den aktuellsten Stand gebracht.

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A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousin—and embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught her—amid the coronavirus pandemic.Cecily Strong had a special bond with her cousin Owen. And so she was devastated when, in early 2020, he passed away at age thirty from the brain cancer glioblastoma. Before Strong could attempt to process her grief, another tragedy struck: the coronavirus pandemic. Following a few harrowing weeks in the virus epicenter of New York City, Strong relocated to an isolated house in the woods upstate. Here, trying to make sense of Owen’s death and the upended world, she spent much of the ensuing months writing. The result is This Will All Be Over Soon—a raw, unflinching memoir about loss, love, laughter, and hope. Befitting the time-warped year of 2020, the diary-like approach deftly weaves together the present and the past. Strong chron

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A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow Queen-like disappearing author 'She came to realise that under one reality there's always another. And another one under that.' Only very special people are chosen by children's author Laura White to join 'The Society', an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a tenth member has been selected: Ella, literature teacher and possessor of beautifully curving lips. But soon Ella discovers that the Society is not what it seems. What is its mysterious ritual, 'The Game'? What explains the strange disappearance that occurs at Laura's winter party, in a whirlwind of snow? Why are the words inside books starting to rearrange themselves? Was there once another tenth member, before her? Slowly, disturbing secrets that had been buried come to light... In this chilling, darkly funny novel, the uncanny brushes up against the everyday in the most beguiling and unexpected of ways.

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The pandemic presented religion as a paradox: faith is often crucial for helping people weather life’s troubles and make difficult decisions, but how can religion continue to deliver these benefits and provide societal structure without social contact? The topical volume, An Epidemic among My People explains how the COVID-19 pandemic stress tested American religious communities and created a new politics of religion centered on public health.The editors and contributorsconsider how the virus and government policy affected religion in America. Chapters examine the link between the prosperity gospel and conspiracy theories, the increased purchase of firearms by evangelicals, the politics of challenging public health orders as religious freedom claims, and the reactions of Christian nationalists, racial groups, and female clergy to the pandemic (and pandemic politics). As sharp lines were drawn between people and their governments during this uncertain time, An Epidemic among My People provides a comprehensive portrait of religion in American public life.

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This new Edition of A Practical Guide to Clinical Virology has been thoroughly updated and is a practical, highly illustrated, quick reference guide to clinical virology. It brings together the essentials of the subject in a entertaining and informative style, describing in turn the clinical features, the symptoms and signs of each of the viral diseases, as well as summarising the epidemiology, laboratory diagnosis and therapy in each case. This book also includes general chapters such as classification, diagnosis of infection, antiviral drugs, vaccines and different clinical syndromes. Features include: chapter summaries for quick reference Cartoon illustrations New chapters on Human Herpes Virus 6 Hepatitis C Hepatitis E Emerging Viruses Polyoma viruses Comprehensive coverage Clear and concise format Each chapter is easy to read and well organised, ensuring that this is an invaluable textbook for all medical, biomedical, microbiology and applied biology students. In addition, it will provide an excellent reference for nurses, occupational health and infection control departments, public health and diagnostic laboratories.

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No one knows where it started ... But when the world finally realized what was going on, it was already too late. When Maki Akagi wakes up in a lab full of corpses, she learns from a dying soldier that she is the result of a last-ditch experiment to cure humans of a virus turning them into zombies. Accompanied by a young boy who also miraculously escaped, she will have to try to get to the very center of a devastated Tokyo filled with bloodthirsty monsters. The dome located there contains the last survivors of mankind. And humanity's very survival depends solely on a few drops of this miraculous vaccine... Inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), The Walking Dead, Romero classics, and new zombie films like 24 Hours Later, Crueler Than Dead delights in the meticulous detail of decomposed flesh, with a wicked and hungry eye...evoking a modern vision of a zombie world that is terrifying and tension filled. (published in Japan by Tokuma Shoten)

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This curated collection of scientific papers on the origin and global spread of COVID-19 is a unique project that offers explanations at odds with mainstream views as the theme mainly focuses on Panspermia (viruses, microorganisms and their spores, and cometary arrival of even more complex cellular organisms).No other scientific group has paid attention to the temporal unfolding scientific order at the many required levels of understanding — astrobiological and astrophysical, geographical and the temporal order of global proportions, yet regional epidemics, the immunologic dimensions to the infection and epidemic data, the genetics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as it adapted, varied and appeared in different human populations in the crucial first few months of the pandemic. This in-depth analysis, over a two-year period, allows a better understanding of what engulfed the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, how it happened and the most plausible way.There are many lessons for future generations that can be distilled from the contributions found in this book.

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Tola may be small, but she's very determined!Too Small Tola lives in a flat in Lagos with her sister, Moji, who is very clever, her brother, Dapo, who is very fast, and Grandmummy, who is very bossy. One day Tola discovers the secret of multiplication and division. She is so happy!But then there is news of a deadly virus, and news of lockdown too. Moji goes away to live and study with her teacher and Dapo goes off to live and work with his boss. Grandmummy cannot go out to work so Tola does instead.Tola goes to live with a wealthy couple, the Diamonds. She cleans and washes and scrubs, scrubs, scrubs. She befriends the other workers too. But she soon learns that even the wealthy Dimonds have problems of their own. And when it comes to solving them, Tola proves once again how kind and clever, mighty and resourceful she truly is.

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A sadistic serial killer, the weapon a deadly virus Dublin, Ireland and Richmond, Virginia: separated by thousands of miles - linked by murder. For Dr Kay Scarpetta a lecture stint in Ireland provides the perfect opportunity to find out if the murders on both sides of the Atlantic are indeed connected. Five dismembered, beheaded bodies were found in Ireland five years ago - now four have been discovered in the States. But the tenth corpse in Virginia is different. There are vital discrepancies, and an indication that the elderly victim was already seriously ill. A copy-cat killing. Ghoulish, perhaps, but not unusual. And then abject terror grips Scarpetta and her colleagues when the next body is found. The circumstances of death broadcast a clear and horrifying message: the killer is armed with the most lethal weapon on earth - smallpox. For more about Patricia Cornwell and her books visit her website on www.patricia-cornwell.com

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"We lead a quiet life. Talking to people, building up a picture. Like a jigsaw. And just like a jigsaw, we spend a lot of time sorting out pieces of sky. They may seem dull and uninteresting, but we can't leave them out." Is a virus that takes up to eight weeks for symptoms to appear, and kills only 10% of infected people, really the perfect terrorist bioweapon? In this sequel to The Death of a Smoker, four years have passed since Quinton Bickley-Morris, a suspected spy and adversary of the Tufton Street team, slipped out of the country undetected. After a chance sighting, Harry Nevile and his team are desperate to go after him, but the more immediate threat of a suspected terrorist attack on the government takes priority. As Harry's team investigates, piecing together fragments of evidence, the truth is gradually revealed, and it is far closer to home than they could ever have anticipated.

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The atmosphere in the lab is toxic. It is only a matter of time before there is a flu pandemic with the potential to kill billions. Or so wealthy entrepreneur Lyle Lynstrum believes. That is why he is funding research into transgenics - the mechanism by which viruses can jump the species barrier - at a high security lab on a tidal island off the North Devon coast. A suspiciously rapid turnover of staff has him worried. He sends in scientist Katie Flanagan as an undercover lab technician. Something is clearly very wrong, but before Katie can get to the bottom of what is going on, a colleague is struck down by a mysterious illness. Has the safety of the facility been compromised, allowing a deadly virus to escape? Katie begins to suspect that the scientists are as deadly as the diseases - and that her cover has been blown. Then the island is cut off by high seas and a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse begins...

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Making Gender endeavours to understand how the HPV vaccine became gendered within the Canadian policy landscape – when the virus is gender blind and is linked to cancer in all genders – and how women’s experiences with this "gendered risk" have been folded into their vaccine decision-making. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Michelle Wyndham-West explores the creation and circulation of gendered risk as it was deployed in pharmaceutical and policy discourses surrounding the roll-out of the HPV vaccine. The book contextualizes the background for how gendered risk was mediated by two groups of women: mothers negotiating the vaccine for their daughters in school-based immunization programs and university students who experienced frequent HPV infections. The book explores these women’s efforts to be good mothers and strong young women entering adulthood who felt vulnerable in sexual health negotiation. As a result, Making Gender reveals how vaccine decision-making took an ontological form, as an inherently social and cultural process embedded in women’s experiences.

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Between 1947 and 1954, the Mexican and US governments waged a massive campaign against a devastating livestock plague, aftosa or foot-and-mouth disease. Absorbing over half of US economic aid to Latin America and involving thousands of veterinarians and ranchers from both countries, battalions of Mexican troops, and scientists from Europe and the Americas, the campaign against aftosa was unprecedented in size. Despite daunting obstacles and entrenched opposition, it successfully eradicated the virus in Mexico, and reshaped policies, institutions, and knowledge around the world. Using untapped sources from local, national, and international archives, Thomas Rath provides a comprehensive history of this campaign, the forces that shaped it – from presidents to peasants, scientists to journalists, pistoleros to priests, mountains to mules – and the complicated legacy it left. More broadly, it uses the campaign to explore the formation of the Mexican state, changing ideas of development and security, and the history of human–animal relations.

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In collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr. Stephen Krau, Guest Editor Dr. Courtney J. Pitts has put together a comprehensive update on sexually transmitted infections. Expert authors have contributed clinical review articles on the following topics: STI Prevalence in the United States and the relationship to the social determinants of health; Psychosocial aspects and ethical concerns of STIs treatment and management; Update on guidelines for STI treatment and management - adults and adolescents; STIs and HIV; Proctitis in MSM; Herpes simplex Virus; Pharmacological updates on Hepatitis C treatment; The Reemergence of Syphilis: Clinical Pearls for consideration; The use of technology in the screening and management of STIs; Decreasing barriers to sexual health in the LGBTQI community; STIs and pregnancy; Update on pharmacology of HIV; An update on HPV guidelines; and Pre-exposure (PrEP) prophylaxis versus Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP). Readers will come away with the updates and information they need to improve patient care and outcomes in patients with sexually transmitted infections.

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El legendario Frederick Forsyth, el auténtico maestro del suspense internacional según Los Angeles Times, nos sorprende con un nuevo y oportuno thriller.La mayoría de las armas hacen lo que les pides.La mayoría de las armas son controlables.Y si el arma más peligrosa del mundo no fuera un misil inteligente, un submarino sigiloso o un virus informático? Y si, en realidad, se tratara de un chico de diecisiete años con una mente prodigiosa, capaz de sortear los sistemas de seguridad más sofisticados y de manipular cualquier arma y volverla en contra de los más poderosos? Qué no estaría dispuesta a hacer cualquier agencia de inteligencia para tenerlo de su lado?Hay que encontrarlo y capturarlo. O protegerlo y salvarlo. Pase lo que pase, él es capaz de decantar la balanza del poder mundial y no debe caer en las manos equivocadas, porque lo que podría ocurrir a continuación es impensable... Y lo mejor de todo es que s

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El nostre cos alberga uns 40 bilions de microorganismes, una collecció d?éssers microscòpics integrada sobretot per bacteris, però també per virus, fongs i arqueus, única per a cadascun de nosaltres com una empremta dactilar. La gran majoria d?aquesta microbiota resideix al còlon i duu a terme funcions crucials per a la supervivència humana, des de digerir aliments i extreure vitamines i energia, fins a entrenar el nostre sistema immunitari.En els darrers 20 anys, la ciència ha anat descobrint com, quan aquesta comunitat microbiana és equilibrada, estable i diversa, contribueix a mantenir la salut global de l?organisme, i per això l?alimentació té un paper fonamental. Però què hem de menjar per alimentar bé aquests bacteris? Com influeix el que ingerim sobre aquesta comunitat de microorganismes i aquests, alhora, sobre el nostre benestar?Aquest no és un llibre de superaliments, ni de curacions o dietes miraculoses, ni de plans per detoxificar l?intestí, sinó un sòlid i contrastat

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Walter Isaacson vuelve a fascinarnos, esta vezcon la historia de Jennifer Doudna, Premio Nobel de Química 2020, y el avance científico más importante del último siglo.Hay una revolución en marcha, una tecnología prodigiosa que nos va a permitir curar enfermedades, derrotar virus y tener hijos más sanos. A su cabeza está la reciente premio Nobel Jennifer Doudna y sus colegas, protagonistas del nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson. Aunque su profesor de instituto le advirtió que las niñas no podían ser científicas, su búsqueda apasionada de los mecanismos ocultos de la vida y su voluntad por convertir descubrimientos en inventos llevaron a Jennifer Doudna a participar en el avance más importante en el ámbito de la biología desde el descubrimiento de la doble hélice del ADN. Con su equipo, transformó una curiosidad de la naturaleza en una herramienta que cambiará el rumbo del ser humano. El CRISPR, una técnicafácil de usar que permite modificar el ADN, lo que abre un

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Rocío Vidal, la gata de Schrödinger, hace un homenaje a la ciencia a través de sus grandes descubrimientos.Quién fue el primero en descubrir las células? Y la química que logró desentrañar la estructura del ADN? Sabías que Napoleón Bonaparte ayudó a promover la vacunación? O por qué fue tan importante lograr aislar la partícula infecciosa de un virus?El conocimiento científico se hace cada vez más necesario para comprender el mundo en que vivimos, pero son muy pocos los que son capaces de enseñárnoslo con rigor, amenidad y sencillez, como lo hace Rocío Vidal. Conocida como La Gata de Schrödinger y una de las divulgadoras más conocidas en nuestro país, la autora nos lleva en este libro a un viaje fascinante -como si fuésemos espectadores privilegiados en vivo y en directo- a través de los grandes descubrimientos científicos de todos los tiempos.Lleno de anécdotas increíbles, información contrastada y datos asombrosos, Eureka! es el homenaje a la ciencia que todos

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La peste escarlataColección Milano ? NovelaJack London consiguió un enorme éxito como escritor al hacer girar sus narraciones en torno a personajes situados al límite de su supervivencia y hechos que contenían gran dramatismo vital; combinó en sus múltiples relatos y novelas el género de aventuras con un potente realismo.Publicada en 1912, la originalidad de La peste escarlata reside en que con ella inauguró Jack London el género del relato postapocalíptico. La historia nos sitúa en el año 2073, sesenta años después de que la humanidad haya sido prácticamente aniquilada por un virus letal. El anciano James, único superviviente actual de la catástrofe, se obstina en compartirles sus conocimientos a sus tres nietos ?Edwin, Cara de Liebre y Hu-Hu?, salvaje germen de una futura civilización, y para ello ha de relatarles cómo la enfermedad arrasó con todo lo que conocía. De una asombrosa clarividencia, no exenta de los tintes dramáticos que caracterizan a la escritura de su autor,

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Un cuento perfecto para conocer los bichitos que tenemos en la tripa y entender qué nos pasa cuando nos duele.Elías es un niño que se tira unos pedos enormes, es conocido en todo su barrio como Superpedorro. Él lo considera un superpoder. Sin embargo, un día algo va mal: le duele la tripa, sus pedos huelen peor que nunca y empieza a hacer cacas líquidas. El médico le diagnosticará una gastroenteritis y le contará cómo sus bichitos intestinales están batallando contra este virus. Luego, le dará consejos sobre cómo vencerlo para poder volver a su vida normal. Eso sí, los pedos, por supuesto, mejor fuera que dentro!Es un libro ideal para que los más pequeños? Entiendan qué pasa dentro de sus barrigas cuando se les hincha, cuando tienen diarrea o cuando empiezan a tirarse pedos que huelen mal. No les dé vergüenza pedir ayuda cuando tienen muchos gases o dolor en la tripa. Se sientan identificado

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Número 134 de la colección Magos del humor.Un extraño virus de gripe está afectando a la T.I.A. y Mortadelo y Filemón tendrán que investigar sobre ello.Una virulenta gripe está afectando a varios miembros de la T.I.A., por lo que Mortadelo y Filemón deberán averiguar cuál es el foco de infección.Tras investigar en la T.I.A., un hospital, unos grandes almacenes y un restaurante finalmente descubren que el culpable es el kamikaze Regúlez que quiere vender la cura de la gripe U para tener dinero con el que pagarse la cirugía estética.___________________Sobre la colección:La colección Magos del Humor nació en la editorial Bruguera en el año 1984 recuperando títulos que ya habían sido publicados en su antecesora Ases del Humor (1969). Debido al cierre de Bruguera en 1986, en esta etapa solo llegaron a ver la luz los primeros 12 volúmenes de la serie, pero en 1987 Ediciones B retomó la publicación de la colección desde su primer nú

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Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world. Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation. A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.

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A real-life thriller about a nation in crisis, and the controversial decisions its leaders made during the Covid-19 pandemic. First, the government instituted no restrictions. Then, it didn’t order the wearing of face masks. While the rest of the world looked on with incredulity, condemnation, admiration, and even envy, a small country in Northern Europe stood alone. As Covid-19 spread across the globe rapidly, the world shut down. But Sweden remained open. The Swedish Covid-19 strategy was alternately lauded and held up as a cautionary tale by international governments and journalists alike — with all eyes on what has been dubbed ‘The Swedish Experiment’. But what made Sweden take such a different path? In The Herd, journalist Johan Anderberg narrates the improbable story of a small nation that took a startlingly different approach to fighting the virus, guiding the reader through the history of epidemiology and the ticking-clock decisions that pandemic decision-makers were faced with on a daily basis.

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Barbara Czarniawska is a distinguished scholar and author in the field of organization. Drawing on her extensive knowledge she has gathered together other leading experts to apply organization theory to yet another relevant field of practice - risk management.There are no prescriptions for organizing in the face of risk and threat, but the accumulating experience shows that a well-rehearsed improvisation brings much better results than planning and construction of formal organizations. This timely book contains cases of risk and threat where the former strategy succeeds and the latter fails. The wealth of cases presented includes the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, bird flu, health insurance after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Tjorn bridge catastrophe in Sweden.Graduate and postgraduate students in business and management schools, as well as academics teaching courses in risk management across disciplines should not be without this book. Risk management specialists will also find this book invaluable.

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