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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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Muchos nos hemos preguntado alguna vez: Si no lo ven, cómo saben que está ahí?. Como seres visuales que somos, nos cuesta comprender la realidad en términos que no sean los de lo estrictamente aparente. Desde esta perspectiva, buena parte de la historia del conocimiento humano puede resumirse como una carrera de los hombres por ir más allá de lo que le dicen sus ojos. Para conseguir desentrañar estos misterios diseñaron nuevos instrumentos de observación y comprendieron que no solo el ojo podía engañarlos, sino que los propios artefactos con los que trabajaban introducían distorsiones que les obligaban a repensar la realidad. Y solo cuando calibraron los instrumentos para poder mirar las estrellas pudieron darles la vuelta y apuntar con ellos al fondo de nuestro propio ojo.Este empeño en trascender a lo aparente y detectar lo invisible ha convertido a los seres humanos en unos predictores extraordinarios. Por señales indirectas se descubrieron los virus, la selección natural,

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapasColección: Umbriel thrillerUn día, Zoe llevaba una vida demasiado común, como trabajadora en una compañía farmacéutica. Al día siguiente, el presidente de los Estados Unidos anuncia que los seres humanos están por extinguirse. Cuando Zoe se da cuenta de que todas las personas a las que amaba han desaparecido, empieza a correr. Asustada y sola en un mundo que se derrumba a su alrededor, Zoe se embarca en un viaje desesperado de supervivencia y redención por un planeta que parece abocado a una inevitable destrucción. En su camino debe enfrentarse con el hambre, la desesperación, la atroz competencia con otros sobrevivientes y la voracidad de un virus irrefrenable, llamado Caballo blanco. Pero también vislumbra algo que parecía tan extinto como el universo: la esperanza.El primer título de una impresionante trilogía apocalíptica, Caballo blanco nos ofrece una descarnada visión de un mundo roto, pero también la posibilidad de encontrar un brillo

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A falta de poder darle un sentido a esta pandemia, aprendamos de ella para el futuro. Un virus minúsculo en una lejanísima ciudad de China ha puesto el mundo patas arriba.Es evidente que la historia ha conocido muchas pandemias, pero la novedad radical del Covid-19 es que ha provocado una policrisis mundial de componentes, interacciones e incertidumbres múltiples e interrelacionadas.La posepidemia será una aventura incierta en la cual se desarrollarán las fuerzas de lo peor y de lo mejor, aunque estas últimas todavía son débiles y están dispersas. Pero lo peor no es seguro, y lo improbable puede acaecer.Un análisis brillante del pensador de la complejidad.Esta crisis abierta por la pandemia me ha sorprendido enormemente, pero no ha sorprendido mi forma de pensar, más bien la ha confirmado. Porque al fin y al cabo soy hijo de todas las crisis que mis noventa y nueve años han vivido. El lector comprenderá entonces que encuentre normal esperar lo inesperado y prever

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Qué es el VIH? Historia, presente y futuro de una pandemia.El VIH apareció con cara de SIDA en los ochenta para arrebatarles la vida a millones de personas. Al principio todo fue confuso, se le llegó a llamar cáncer gay por su prevalencia en la población homosexual. Mucho se ha escrito de su impacto en ciudades cinematográficas, como San Francisco y Nueva York, más otras muchas fueron diana del virus. Qué pasó en La Habana? Y en Madrid? Cómo se afrontó la aparición de aquello? Afortunadamente, la ciencia entró en escena y la pandemia se transformó en una enfermedad crónica, aunque no curable. Hoy hablamos de personas VIH positivas, pero apenas de SIDA; son cosas distintas.Estas páginas te ayudarán a entender qué es el VIH, cuándo se transforma en SIDA, cómo se descubrió, qué ocurrió en La Habana, cómo apareció en Madrid, qué hacer para prevenirlo, cuál es el presente y hacia dónde apunta el futuro. Todo ello sin palabras incomprensibles ni término

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La pandemia del Covid-19 ha supuesto uno de los shocks más importantes de los últimos tiempos para las sociedades modernas y ha revelado la fragilidad del ser humano ante nuevos e inesperados virus. La sensación de que los avances científicos y tecnológicos de las últimas décadas nos habían convertido casi en superhombres se ha desvanecido de forma abrupta, para revelar a un individuo inerme e inseguro, sujeto a los mismos vaivenes del destino que nuestros antepasados.Trece destacados historiadores de nuestro país reflexionan y analizan, con agudeza y precisión, estos acontecimientos para conocer cómo afrontaron las sociedades del pasado aquellos terribles episodios, cómo pueden ayudarnos a comprender todo lo sucedido y qué posibles consecuencias conllevará esta epidemia en nuestra forma de vida.La historia es un excelente espejo en el que mirarnos. Nadie mejor para hacer de cicerones de este recorrido por la historia que aquellos que han dedicado su vida a estudiarla. Los histor

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A mediados de noviembre de 2019 tuvieron lugar, en Barcelona, las X Jornadas de Intercambio en Psicoanálisis para debatir sobre lo que GRADIVA decidió llamar El laberinto edípico - Madres, padres e hijos en el siglo XXI, refiriéndose a las grandes transformaciones acaecidas en el modelo familiar y en la sociedad y a cómo estas repercutían sobre la estructuración subjetiva, dando lugar a nuevas identidades y formas de filiación.Se trataba de abrir la reflexión desde el psicoanálisis y de compartir la preocupación y la perplejidad ante las diversas situaciones que interpelaban en las consultas.En el tiempo transcurrido entre las Jornadas y la publicación de este libro, la historia ha dado un giro, quizás avisado por parte del mundo científico, pero, de cualquier manera, inesperado. Un virus, convertido en pandemia de alcance mundial, arrasó nuestros hábitos de convivencia social, confinó, aterrorizó, desmanteló la organización de una vida relativamente segura para amplias capas de la pob

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This “heartbreaking and heartfelt” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) star-crossed love story follows two teens in a starkly unequal future world who are struggling to find their places.Sixteen-year-old Rumi Sabzwari has spent his entire life behind the armored walls of St. Iago, which protect citizens of the Union of Upper Cities from the outside world’s environmental devastation. But when rebels infect his father with a fatal virus, Rumi escapes St. Iago, desperate to find a cure. In the ruined city of Paraíso, Rumi meets fifteen-year-old Paz, who agrees to guide him on his journey. As they travel together, Rumi finds himself drawn to Paz—and behind her tough exterior, she begins to feel the same way. But Paz knows more about Rumi’s father’s illness than she’s saying and has her own agenda. With the powerful forces at play in their cities putting them at odds, can the two learn to trust in each other—enough to imagine a different world?

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From a New York Times bestselling and Pura Belpré Honor–winning creator comes a heartwarming picture book celebrating essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic that’s also a lively, bilingual game of Veo, Veo (I Spy).Marisol’s mami is the best cook at Rosita’s Cafe! But now, the restaurant is closed. A bad virus—too easy to catch in small, crowded places—is going around. Marisol, Pepito, and Mami still need to go out to bring Mami’s arroz con pollo to housebound Tía Olga and Cousin Johnny. As Marisol and Pepito watch the people working around the neighborhood, who their mother explains have essential work, Marisol thinks of the perfect game to play: Veo, veo… ¿Qué ves, Marisol? I spy…a trash collector. Essential work. Those bins were full! By the time they get home, Marisol has another idea: a way to show the people in her neighborhood that she sees them!

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First Class courier pilot Theo Waitley was already known as a nexus of violence — and then she inherited the precarious captaincy of a mysterious self-aware ship designed to serve a long-dead trader. Now she has a trade route to run for Clan Korval while she convinces the near mythic ghost ship Bechimo — and herself — that she wants to commit herself as the human side to their immensely powerful symbiosis. While her former lover battles a nano-virus that's eating him alive, she's challenged to rescue hundreds of stranded pilots and crewmen from an explosive situation in near orbit around a suddenly hostile planet. Lovers, enemies, an ex-roomie, and a jealous spaceship are all in peril as Theo wields power that no one in the universe is sure of, especially her. Stirring space adventure from master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller — #15 in the award-winning Liaden Universe saga.

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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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Tourism is not only affected by pandemics and epidemics but also contributes to their spread, affecting not only tourists but also the communities in their destinations. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a new crisis, challenging the travel industry more than ever before. Several studies have suggested that there will be long-term severe effects that could continue for an unspecified period of time across the world, both medically, socially and economically. Pandemics and Travel: COVID-19 Impacts in the Tourism Industry analyses the wider impacts of epidemics, diseases and virus outbreaks on tourism and mobility. Chapters examine a wide range of interrelated issues, including the concept of Health Risk and Tourism, the impacts of the recent COVID-19 crisis on tourism activity in several countries, and considers new challenges that the tourism industry will face in the post-COVID era. This book is essential reading for researchers seeking to understand the ongoing effects of pandemics on travel, tourism, hospitality and health industries.

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The Voyage of the Sable Keech returns to Neal Asher's water-bound world of Spatterjay, teeming with bizarre characters and gruesome monsters.Taylor Bloc is a walking dead man, determined to live again. He also wants adulation, power and control – and will do anything to get them. Of Bloc’s kind, Sable Keech alone has achieved resurrection. So Bloc will retrace Keech’s journey across Spatterjay’s wild seas, with his crew of killers, to grasp his secret.Erlin wanted solitude to understand her eternal life, until an attack prompts her own strange journey. And Janer returns, with forbidden weaponry. He must stop an agent controlled by a hive mind with a death fixation. But a wider crisis will overshadow personal missions. In the deeps, an alien Prador is stirring, horribly transformed by Spatterjay’s immortality virus. And an enemy ship would destroy the planet to keep this secret.Continue the science fiction adventure series with Orbus, or start at the beginning with The Skinner.

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Corruption on an immense scale and the unscrupulous use of law enforcement have left indelible marks on post-Soviet Russia. Federico Varese reveals the scars of these grim decades through an unusual lens: its criminal history. Varese weaves together the tales of four criminals, each emblematic of a different decade and social group within the country. We encounter a traditional mobster, an oligarch, an incarcerated drug-dealer who obtained horrifying videos depicting torture behind bars, and the mastermind behind the world's most potent computer virus. In delving into their lives, we witness the transformation of Russia from the late Soviet period, through the tumultuous years of Boris Yeltsin's presidency, to the authoritarian era of Vladimir Putin. This new era, Varese shows, represents the pinnacle of a violent transition to democracy built on widespread theft, suppression of dissent, and the unholy alliance between crime and politics. The West chose to overlook these unfolding a

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A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on children—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America.Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time. Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, Nevada—the fastest warming city in the United States, where ash falls like snow during summer wildfires. In The Air They Breathe, Dr. Hendrickson recounts patients she’s seen who were harmed by worsening smoke, smog, and pollen; two boys in Arizona, stricken by record-setting heat while hiking; children who fled for their lives from Hurricane Harvey and the Tubbs Fire; and a little girl whose life was forever altered by the Zika virus outbreak in 2016. The climate crisis is a health crisis, and it is a health crisis, first and foremost, for children

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Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemic EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND It has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’. This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal opportunity’ disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues that the pandemic is unequal in three ways: it has killed unequally, been experienced unequally and will impoverish unequally. These inequalities are a political choice: with governments effectively choosing who lives and who dies, we need to learn from COVID-19 quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future. COVID-19 is an unequal pandemic.

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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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Despite being recognized and fought against over countless centuries, human viral pathogens continue to cause major public health problems worldwide—killing millions of people and costing billions of dollars in medical care and lost productivity each year. With contributions from specialists in their respective areas of viral pathogen research, Molecular Detection of Human Viral Pathogens provides a reliable reference on molecular detection and identification of major human viral pathogens.Each chapter briefly reviews the classification, epidemiology, clinical features, and diagnosis of one related viral pathogen or a group of them. The clinical sample collection and preparation procedures are outlined, and a selection of representative stepwise molecular detection protocols is covered. The chapters conclude with a discussion on further research requirements relating to improved diagnosis. With its judicious selection of streamlined, ready-to-use protocols for major human viral pathogens—including commercial kits—Molecular Detection of Human Viral Pathogens is an indispensable tool for medical, veterinary, and industrial laboratory scientists involved in virus determination.

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Soon to be a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Kormákur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson. Only In Theaters July 12.A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one man’s search to find a lover who suddenly disappeared decades beforeWhen the pandemic hits, Kristofer is forced to shutter his successful restaurant in Reykjavik, sending him into a spiral of uncertainty, even as his memory seems to be failing. But an uncanny bolt from the blue—a message from Miko Nakamura, a woman whom he’d known in the sixties when they were students in London—both inspires and rattles him, as he is drawn inexorably back into a love story that has marked him for life. Even as the pandemic upends his world, Kristofer finds himself pulled toward an answer to the mystery of Miko’s sudden departure decades before, compelling him to travel to London and Japan as the virus threatens to shut everything down.A heart-wrenchi

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When you sit down at a play, movie, or concert—or even in front of the TV or scrollinl on your—you are taking part in one of the oldest and most mysterious forms of human behavior. Being part of an audience is an age-old experience that we all crave that has evolved from amphitheaters to screens. Right This Way is a pop history of audiences through the ages.Playbill editor Robert Viagas unfolds the unique aspects of what he calls “audiencing” with stories from the age of the Greeks to the world of Zoom. He walks through the different types of audiences and the history of their responses, what science has to say about how our brains respond to what they see and the reactions of the people around them, and why, during COVID-19, people risked a deadly virus to be part of a crowd. Right This Way explores what the audience experience brings us and how it may evolve in the 21st century.

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Text in Arabic. The ability of people to cope with emergencies and traumas differs from person to person. The most resilient not only overcome but even flourish. This book focuses on this notion, teaching readers ways to gain resilience, develop themselves, and learn to adapt to change using a healthy way of thinking. The book cites real experiences of people for whom the Covid-19 pandemic was an opportunity to turn their lives around and reinvent themselves by changing their daily routine, priorities, businesses, or career paths. This book also presents practical tools that can be used to navigate the new normal, as well as new ways of thinking that will prevent stagnation in your work, career and life as a whole. The book is designed to prepare you to move beyond the new normal to a new way of living no matter what happens, whether it's a recession, a personal crisis, or a deadly virus.

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It’s easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century. But these problems began some time before a global pandemic. Decades of free market ideas, ten years of austerity, and the slow encroachment of private space have all worked together to create an industry struggling to define its purpose. The virus was a symptom, not the cause. In Towards A Civic Theatre, director Dan Hutton argues that a theatre which isn’t civic in outlook is not worth fighting for. Full of ideas and provocations from a range of theatre practitioners, and drawing on examples from inside and outside of the performing arts, it makes the case for a new kind of theatre fit for purpose in an already tumultuous twenty-first century. It is a toolkit, a guide, an offer to audiences and a call to arms for artistic leaders of tomorrow.

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As we begin the process of reopening our economy, it is critical that we get back to work. The economic shutdown was intended to slow the spread of a lethal virus, not to permanently sacrifice our freedoms—and certainly not to expand government power and “fundamentally transform” America. During the shutdown, we’ve learned what that transformed America would look like, and it is ugly. With millions of people out of work and dependent on government—lacking the dignity of a job, the security of a paycheck, or the opportunity for a better future—depression and despair are creating an “epidemic within the pandemic” of suicides and drug and alcohol addiction. While there are risks, if we follow safety protocols and protect the vulnerable, we can safely reignite our economy as we undo the lockdown, eliminate policies that discourage work and enact policies that encourage hiring and growth. It’s time to reject the transformation to permanent government dependence and return instead to individual freedom and prosperity.

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A Guardian Book of the Month'Echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorious, but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the vicious Northern dictator, Renard.Two survivors, Dyce and Vida, journeyed deep into the Southern terrains in search of a cure for Renard's chemical warfare. Now they find themselves scouring the Northern territories on a new and far deadlier pursuit; to eliminate Renard himself. Could Dyce and Vida unite a fractured America - and at what cost?This is the story of Dyce and Vida.This is the story of the Resistance and its last, desperate, stand.This is the story of North.

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We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.We are Private. And we're the best.____________________________The greatest show on Earth - and the greatest opportunity for terrorists...Two years ago, Jack Morgan was in Rio consulting on security for the World Cup. The tournament went without a hitch. Until a man died in one of the executive hospitality suites during the final, and the autopsy showed the cause to be a rare and deadly virus.The story was kept from the media to avoid causing panic, but Jack feared that the death was no freak occurrence.Now the eyes of the world are once again turned towards Rio for the Olympic Games, and Jack is back in Brazil's beautiful capital. It's not long before he uncovers terrifying evidence that someone has set in motion a catastrophic plan.The death at the World Cup was just a warning. The Olympic Games could be the setting for the worst atrocity the world has ever seen.

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'Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others' – George R.R. Martin, author of Game of ThronesNow an HBO Max original TV series The New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardLonglisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction National Book Awards FinalistPEN/Faulkner Award FinalistWhat was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened. If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?

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En El ladrón de cerebros, Pere Estupinyà se infiltra en los principales centros de investigación del mundo para robar el conocimiento de los verdaderos héroes del siglo XXI ?los científicos? y compartirlo con sus lectores..Así, el ladrón de cerebros rastreará el recorrido de un virus de resfriado por su cuerpo, se introducirá en un escáner cerebral para ver si es capaz de detectar sus propias mentiras, le pedirá a sus hormonas que le expliquen por qué se enamora, entenderá por qué las pupilas de la mujer se dilatan en pleno orgasmo, buscará el origen de las supersticiones, hurgará en las fricciones de la ciencia con la religión y el creacionismo, se volverá loco intentando comprender qué diantre son la antimateria o el entrelazamiento cuántico, y observará sobrecogido gusanos de ocho cabezas, electricidad que fluye sin cables y células de la piel reprogramadas a cardíacas..En resumidas cuentas, a través de las amenas historias de este libro terminarás familiarizado con los debates más

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El autor de la célebre serie de novelas policiacas protagonizadas por Charlie Parker despliega su reconocido talento para lo sobrenatural en diecinueve escalofriantes relatos de terror. En la estela de maestros del género, desde M.R. James y Ray Bradbury hasta Stephen King, Connolly ahonda en los miedos más profundos y arraigados: niños perdidos, forasteros atormentados y portadores de extraños virus, criaturas del submundo y demonios depredadores surgen en los ambientes más anodinos o en los parajes más aterradores, como casas malditas, rectorías solitarias o pantanos de aguas densas. Entre guiños a obras maestras del género, vueltas de tuerca a figuras prototípicas como los vampiros y realidades engañosamente idílicas, los cuentos se internan en ese terreno en el que el hombre está inerme ante fuerzas todopoderosas. Aunque muchos de sus protagonistas son víctimas de sus desmedidas ansias de éxito, de deseos insatisfechos o de sentimientos espurios, lamentamos tener que decir que no s

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Cómo la cultura woke nos empobrece intelectualmente y amenaza la democraciaCada vez son más las voces que se alzan contra la insaciable tiranía de la corrección política. David Mamet, uno de los autores más importantes de las últimas décadas en Estados Unidos, expresa en estas páginas su hartazgo con la pendiente resbaladiza de la cultura de la cancelación y con la asfixiante atmósfera del neopuritanismo.En Himno de retirada, el dramaturgo critica, se burla y disecciona el virus de la ideología de género, la Racial Theory y el resto de ideas que plantean una amenaza existencial para Occidente. En esta recopilación de ensayos, Mamet proclama un canto fúnebre por el librepensador en un momento en que las universidades, los medios y la política se han infestado de este moralismo pacato e intransigente.En estas páginas se examina el descenso de Estado Unidos a los infiernos de la barbarie en los últimos años, auspiciado por la censura de la libertad de

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Brillante. Extraordinario. Alan MooreEmocionante. New York Times Book ReviewPara fans de EL MAPA DE LAS NUBES y ESTACIÓN ONCE, una historia sobre la resistencia del espíritu humano y nuestra capacidad infinita para soñarEn 2030, un arqueólogo llega al Círculo Polar Ártico para continuar el trabajo de su recién fallecida hija. Allí, los investigadores están estudiando secretos que ha desenterrado el permafrost derretido; entre ellos, los restos perfectamente conservados de una niña que parece haber muerto de un virus antiguo...Una vez desatada, la peste ártica se extenderá por el mundo y cambiará la vida en la tierra para las generaciones venideras, por lo que la humanidad se verá obligada a idear formas innovadoras de afrontar la tragedia. En un parque temático diseñado para niños con enfermedades terminales, un cínico empleado se enamora de una madre desesperada por aferrarse a su hijo infectado. Un científico desconsolado encuentra una segunda oportunidad de paternidad c

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En la investigación abierta sobre el origen de la pandemia de la Covid-19, los murciélagos siguen siendo el sospechoso número uno para los virólogos: es muy probable que uno de estos animales fuera el vector de contagio del virus hasta los seres humanos. Sin embargo, los auténticos factores desencadenantes de esta epidemia, sus causas profundas, tienen un carácter humano, demasiado humano: son la deforestación acelerada, el crecimiento de las minas a cielo abierto, el comercio (legal e ilegal) de fauna salvaje y el calentamiento global. En otras palabras: la acción depredadora del capitalismo sobre cada ecosistema y casi cada vida. Desde este punto de vista, Andreas Malm describe con conocimiento, precisión y lucidez los mecanismos por los cuales el capital, en su búsqueda ilimitada de beneficios, nos ha conducido a una situación que, desde la escala microbiana a la atmosférica, impone un riesgo crónico (y fatal si no se ataja de forma rápida y decidida). Y sobre la base de la experien

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El plancton, a pesar de su diminuto tamaño, es crucial para el funcionamiento de las redes tróficas marinas, en las que no solo un organismo se come a otro, sino que, cuando lo hace, ayuda a que los nutrientes acumulados en la misma materia viva se liberen de nuevo y vuelvan a estar disponibles para las algas. El plancton está presente en aguas continentales y en todos los mares y océanos del planeta. Además, es el responsable de que haya vida en la Tierra y nos ha proporcionado (a escalas geológicas) una buena parte del oxígeno que respiramos. Solo en una pequeña cuchara de agua de mar ya podemos encontrar unos cincuenta millones de virus, cinco millones de bacterias, cientos de miles de pequeños flagelados unicelulares, miles de algas microscópicas, aproximadamente cinco ciliados o dinoflagelados heterótrofos y, con mucha suerte, algún pequeño crustáceo, como los copépodos. Este libro intenta dar una visión clara y amena sobre este conjunto de microorganismos y las diversas funciones

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Este libro es un acercamiento a los hitos de la construcción de la medicina actual a través de sus protagonistas, profesionales de la medicina y de la ciencia en general, a veces premiados con el Nobel y otras ninguneados durante años, que contribuyeron con sus investigaciones al corpus de conocimiento que hoy forma parte de la cultura general de nuestra sociedad. Ideas que hoy parecen de sentido común, como la higiene en los centros de salud, el cuidado individualizado al paciente, la existencia de los virus y la inmunización o la limpieza del agua que bebemos, entre otras, fueron innovadoras en su momento. Hasta tal punto que tuvieron que enfrentarse al conocimiento establecido de la época, que en muchas ocasiones se oponía frontalmente a ellas, considerándolas locuras, absurdeces o incluso herejías.Las enfermedades infecciosas, endocrinas y cardiovasculares, la invención de la anestesia o los rayos X, los avances en la comprensión de la morfología o la fisiología, el cuidado de l

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In the epic, action-packed sequel to the brilliant (Booklist, starred review) novel War Girls, the battles are over, but the fight for justice has just begun.It's been five years since the Biafran War ended. Ify is now nineteen and living where she's always dreamed--the Space Colonies. She is a respected, high-ranking medical officer and has dedicated her life to helping refugees like herself rebuild in the Colonies.Back in the still devastated Nigeria, Uzo, a young synth, is helping an aid worker, Xifeng, recover images and details of the war held in the technology of destroyed androids. Uzo, Xifeng, and the rest of their team are working to preserve memories of the many lives lost, despite the government's best efforts to eradicate any signs that the war ever happened.Though they are working toward common goals of helping those who suffered, Ify and Uzo are worlds apart. But when a mysterious virus breaks out among the children in the Spac

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Von der Krise lernen. Corona zeigt uns, was wir sonst nicht sehen würden.Wer sind die Verlierer und Gewinner? U.a. Restaurants, Hotels, Kulturschaffende und Reiseveranstalter kämpfen ums (wirtschaftliche) Überleben.Menschen, die physisch und psychisch krank werden. Wir suchen Nähe und müssen Abstand einhalten.Wo sind die Fehler im System, z.B. Fehlende Notfallvorräte für Masken, Schutzkleidung Fehlende Digitalisierung in Schulen und Gesundheitsämtern Was können wir selber anders machen, z.B. weniger und hochwertigeres Fleisch essen = bessere Arbeitsbedingungen in fleischverarbeitenden Betrieben = weniger Corona-Masseninfektionen Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse richtig verstehen und anwenden. Akzeptieren, dass Wissenschaft ein lernendes System ist, das prüft, verwirft und bestätigt. Selbstverständlichkeiten, die wir vielleicht nicht genug zu schätzen wussten, z.B. Offene Grenzen, unbeschwertes Reisen Menschliche Nähe, Feiern Wie gehen wir mit Globalisierung um?Es ist kaum zu verhindern, dass aus einer begrenzten Epidemie erneut eine globale Pandemie wird.Was haben wir gelernt?Was können und müssen wir zukünftig besser machen?Corona zwingt uns zu Änderungen. Das nächste Virus kommt bestimmt.

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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.

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The COVID-19 Textbook: Science, Medicine, and Public Health explores every facet of SARS-CoV-2, giving the reader an understanding of what is needed to control the spread of the virus, prevent and manage its pathological effects, as well as mitigate the impact of future pandemics. Each chapter is authored by leading global experts in the field and includes topics such as molecular biology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, immunology, diagnosis, and the latest prevention and treatment approaches. Edited by renowned educator and medical researcher Dr. William A. Haseltine, physician-researcher, and chronic fatigue syndrome expert Dr. Roberto Patarca, it includes detailed references in every chapter, allowing easy access to comprehensive primary data. - Offers a timely, reliable overview authored and edited by leading global experts in the multifaceted areas covered on SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic. - Serves as an authoritative and comprehensive text to be utilized by physicians, medical professionals, researchers, students, public health professionals, and policymakers.

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