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April 2024Fact-Immune
Why science denial is so dangerous and how we can protect ourselves against it
by Holm Gero Hümmler
The phenomenon of anti-scientific disinformation has been discussed in the recent past under the acronym FLICC (Fake experts, Logical fallacies, Impossible expectations, Cherry-picking and Conspiracy theories), especially as it pertains to the topic of climate change. What is generally missing however is a more comprehensive consideration of science denial in diff erent disciplines with a critical examination of the central arguments and a comparison of the parallels. Holm Gero Hümmler dedicates himself to this task in this readable and fact-orientated book on topics such as genetic engineering, mobile phone networks, radioactivity, and chips that are implanted under the skin for medical reasons.
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Children's & YAAnimals and their superpowers
by Evgenia Günter
We will establish who among them is the fastest, cunning, strongest. Who has the most sophisticated hunting methods, and who at any moment can disappear or turn into invisibility. Let's find out if it's true that polar bears have membranes, snakes sniff with their tongues, and frogs fly. And finally, the most amazing thing is whether there are animals in the world that practically do not get sick, and maybe even those that live forever ... Interesting? Then go ahead for unique facts!
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Business, Economics & LawDecember 2017Transforming Travel
Realising the potential of sustainable tourism
by Jeremy Smith
Transforming Travel combines stories from leading companies, interviews with pioneers and thinkers, along with thorough analysis of the industry's potential to make lasting, positive change. - A unique collection of case studies and stories of the most successful, inspirational, impactful and innovative travel businesses in the world. - A vital presentation of the latest research and statistics on the positive impacts and potential of transformative, sustainable tourism, - A positive and realistic vision of the scope of tourism to promote sustainable development at a time when travel and interaction with foreign cultures is facing numerous existential challenges. Written in a highly engaging style Transforming Travel presents an urgent argument for transforming tourism so it might reach its potential to promote tolerance, restore communities and regenerate habitats, while providing a vital guide for anyone looking to develop the successful sustainable tourism enterprises and destinations needed to do so.
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MedicineAugust 2018Lyme Disease
An Evidence-based Approach
by John J Halperin
This new edition of Lyme Disease provides up-to-date evidence-based research and covers the significant advances in our understanding of the disorders referred to as Lyme disease or Lyme borreliosis. This book explores the causative organism, its requisite ecosystem, disease epidemiology, host-Borrelia interactions, diagnostic testing, clinical manifestations, therapeutic options, the role of host immunity on pathogenesis and long term prognosis. The authors provide balanced perspectives on all aspects of Lyme disease and explicitly review both the basic biology of the infection and practical clinical aspects. This new edition: Includes new borrelial pathogens that have been identified (B. miyamotoi, B. mayonii and B. bavariensis among others). Provides updated information on the molecular biology of the organism, neuroborreliosis, and the role of the C6 peptide in diagnosis. Discusses the controversies about 'chronic Lyme disease', post Lyme disease syndrome and other ongoing but non-specific symptoms that have been attributed to this infection. As the endemic footprint of Lyme disease continues to grow, this book provides a broad and detailed guide for clinicians and researchers involved with the diagnosis and treatment of the condition. Covering biology, epidemiology and therapeutics, it is also essential reading for students of global health and infectious disease.
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Fast alles über Porsche
a mixed bag of Porsche Stories
by Jürgen Pander
News from Zuffenhausen – a hodgepodge Everything has already been said and written about Porsche, you say? Maybe yes or maybe the author Jürgen Pander will surprise you with stories that are hard to believe, exciting facts and anecdotes that will make you laugh. Over the years he has collected a lot about the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer and his models – not only about the well-known 911. Did you know, for example, that the Dutch police owned one of the largest Porsche fleets with over 500 cars? However, only family fathers with special training were allowed to drive, so that the racing policemen would not use the accelerator too ruthlessly. They should also be weatherproof, because even at 2 degrees outside temperature it was necessary to drive “topless”. These and many other stories can be found in "Almost everything about Porsche".
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Children's & YAJuly 2022A Kiss to Wake Me
by Cheryl Eager
A Kiss to Wake Me is a modern-day love story between Jamie and Cara. When the two first lock eyes in the high school cafeteria, “love at first sight” is no longer just a cliché to either of them. Their romance takes off at record speed but just as quickly crashes into a wall of disbelief when a figurative bomb is dropped into their lives, upending the world as they knew it: Cara is pregnant, even though she believed she was a virgin. When these unforeseen circumstances threaten the couple’s future together, everything comes into question. Is Jamie the father of her baby? Will he still love her and the baby if he’s not? How did Cara even get pregnant? How could she possibly cope without him and his family, whom she has grown to love and depend on? Will Jamie and Cara’s love endure the hardships thrust so harshly upon them? Fans of romantic first love and those who desire to see first love withstand seemingly insurmountable obstacles will enjoy this sweet yet intense novel. ---------- Three days before high school graduation, 18-year-old Cara mysteriously delivers a premature baby boy at home in her bathroom. The novel begins with her frantic 911 call and flashes back to unfold the beautiful and romantic first-love story between Cara and Jamie, the new tall and handsome student from California. They are two clever, level-headed teens who strive to do the right things but make one big mistake leading to dire consequences. Faith and morality hang in the balance between choices made and the tiny miracle baby they’ve all grown to love. The couple’s hope of a happily-ever-after is further at stake as the ensuing police investigation uncovers secrets, lies, and, finally, the answers they have all been holding their breaths to receive to move forward.
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FictionRed Flag Warning
A Serial Arson Mystery
by Kurt Kamm
Los Angeles County is burning. A serial arsonist is setting the parched hills on fire. Plunge into infernos and face the smoke, heat and danger with the men on the fire lines. While NiteHeat prowls in the darkness, setting fires and taunting investigators, the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Arson Unit struggles to find the fire-setter and stop the devastation. Who is NiteHeat? Is it Ruffy, the 911 dispatcher who has failed firefighter training? Is it Mikey, a dropout who appears at every fire and steals firefighting equipment? Is it Father Dom who claims the fires are started by Satan? Discover the incendiary device triggered by a cooking timer from Williams Sonoma. Did you ever wonder how wildland arson investigators find the point of origin and evidence in a fire which consumes thousands of acres? Did you ever wonder what goes through the mind of an arsonist? Read RED FLAG WARNING.
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Travel & TransportFebruary 2020Cranswick on Porsche
A modern interpretation of the Porsche story
by Marc Cranswick
Before yesterday's dream car became today's SUV, the reputation of Porsche as a manufacturer of fine sports cars was established. It started with the ideas of Dr Ferdinand Porsche, and a world best seller that spawned a revered line of sports cars. The Porsche 356 and 911 dominated their classes in international racing, leading to more specialized designs that brought glory to the marque, most famously at Le Mans. Porsche's success was based on excellent engineering. The firm's design consultancy has brought automotive innovation. Such excellence has been centered upon Weissach, the go to place for companies needing a high tech helping hand. Commercial achievement is based on image too. Here, Porsche has carefully chosen its models, and the way they have been sold and promoted. The result, is a unique position in public perception and media coverage. Even during the golden air-cooled era, Porsche wasn't afraid to experiment. The Square Porsche and front-engined coupés, all courted controversy. However, Zuffenhausen believed a Porsche was a Porsche, and soon others did too. The company's tremendous influence in design and engineering has even inspired artistic creation. Like the cars, these artworks represent an inseparable combination of style and substance.
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Geography & the EnvironmentAugust 2018Emergency Alert and Warning Systems
Current Knowledge and Future Research Directions
by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on the Future of Emergency Alert and Warning Systems: Research Directions
Following a series of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, that revealed shortcomings in the nation’s ability to effectively alert populations at risk, Congress passed the Warning, Alert, and Response Network (WARN) Act in 2006. Today, new technologies such as smart phones and social media platforms offer new ways to communicate with the public, and the information ecosystem is much broader, including additional official channels, such as government social media accounts, opt-in short message service (SMS)-based alerting systems, and reverse 911 systems; less official channels, such as main stream media outlets and weather applications on connected devices; and unofficial channels, such as first person reports via social media. Traditional media have also taken advantage of these new tools, including their own mobile applications to extend their reach of beyond broadcast radio, television, and cable. Furthermore, private companies have begun to take advantage of the large amounts of data about users they possess to detect events and provide alerts and warnings and other hazard-related information to their users. More than 60 years of research on the public response to alerts and warnings has yielded many insights about how people respond to information that they are at risk and the circumstances under which they are most likely to take appropriate protective action. Some, but not all, of these results have been used to inform the design and operation of alert and warning systems, and new insights continue to emerge. Emergency Alert and Warning Systems reviews the results of past research, considers new possibilities for realizing more effective alert and warning4 systems, explores how a more effective national alert and warning system might be created and some of the gaps in our present knowledge, and sets forth a research agenda to advance the nation’s alert and warning capabilities.
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Jini, Jinny
by You-Jeong Jeong
YOU-JEONG JEONG’S LATEST, JINI, JINNY, IS A POWERFUL NOVEL that touches on environmentalism, human arrogance vis a vis the animal kingdom, and what it means to search for and fulfill a life’s purpose. The first non-thriller by the renowned crime novelist, this book is an exciting adventure with dashes of magical realism.The book opens with Jini, a 34-year-old woman who is working on her PhD in primatology. She is in the Congo for research. She stumbles across a bonobo in illegal captivity, and though she knows what she should do, she ends up not doing anything; not reporting it, not telling anyone about it. This weighs on her heavily in the following half year or so and she decides toleave her field. On her last day at work, the primate research center she works at gets a report that a bonobo is on the loose; she and her mentor go to help capture it, but get into a car accident on their way back.When she comes to, she realizes she's in the body of the bonobo, who she and her mentor have decided to call Ginny. The book alternates between her voice and the perspective of Minju, a thirty-year-old man who doesn't have a job or money or a purpose in life. He discovers the accident and calls 911. Jini, in the body of Ginny, manages to convince Minju that she is Jini and the rest of the book follows their attempts to get to the hospital where Jini's body is in surgery so that she can return to her body. But the bonobo's consciousness takes over the animal’s body and Jini learns about the bonobo's past life. At the very end she realizes that the bonobo whose body she is occupying is the bonobo she failed to help in the Congo months ago. She wrestles with the fact that humans have been dominating and privileging themselves over animals and, knowing that her soul will die along with her severely damaged human body, returns to her original body, allowing the bonobo to return to its home in the Congo.During this time, Minju finds purpose and risks everything to help Jini, making that human connection that he hasn't ever experienced; this incident forces him to grow up and find meaning again. The characters are particularly well realized, with a strong, conflicted, and ultimately sacrificial womanThe story in brief: The book opens with Jini, a 34 year old woman who is working on her PhD in primatology, in the Congo for research. She stumbles across a bonobo in illegal captivity, and though she knows what she should do, she ends up not doing anything; not reporting it, not telling anyone about it. This weighs on her heavily in the following half year or so, and she decides to leave her field and quit. On her last day, the primatology center she works at gets a report that a bonobo is on the loose; she and her mentor go to help capture it, but get into a car accident. When she comes to, she realizes she's in the body of the bonobo, who she and her mentor refer to as Jinny. The book alternates between her voice and the voice of Minju, a thirty year old man who doesn't have a job or money or a purpose in life, who is the one who discovers the accident and calls 911. Jini, in the body of Jinny, manages to convince Minju that she is Jini and the rest of the book follows their attempts to get to the hospital where Jini's body is in surgery so that she can return to her body. But more and more the bonobo's consciousness takes over the bonobo's body and Jini learns about the bonobo's past life, and at the very end she realizes that the bonobo whose body she is occupying is the bonobo she failed to help in the Congo months ago. (This part felt a little too pat.) She wrestles with the fact that humans have been dominating and privileging themselves over animals and, knowing that her soul will die along with her severely damaged human body, returns to her original body, allowing the bonobo to return to its home in the Congo. During all this Minju finds purpose and risks everything to help Jini, making that human connection that he hasn't had in a long time; this incident forces him to grow up and find meaning again.Jeong’s characteristic powerful writing; it’s all about loss and disappointment and sacrificing yourself to do the right thing and critiquing human arrogance vis a vis the animal world, with a dash of genuine humor and rollicking adventure/action.
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Life with a Superhero
Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
by Kathryn U. Hulings
Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby—Michael —who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two years old. He also has Down syndrome. When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as an infant, she could not have known that he would save her life when she became gravely ill and was left forever physically compromised. Her story delights in how Michael’s life and hers, while both marked by difference and challenge, are forever intertwined in celebration and laughter. With candor and a sense of humor, Life With a Superhero wraps itself around the raucous joy of Michael’s existence with his four older siblings who play hard and love big; how Kathryn and her husband, Jim, utilize unconventional techniques in raising kids; the romance between Michael and his fiancée, Casey; the power of dance in Michael's life as an equalizing and enthralling force; the staggering potential and creativity of those who are differently-abled; and the mind-blowing politics of how Kathryn navigated school systems and societal attitudes that at times fought to keep Michael excluded from the lives of kids deemed “normal.” No other books about the parenting experience outline what to do when, say, a child runs across the roof of a tri-level house pretending he can fly, or shows up in a 7th grade social studies class dressed like Spiderman, or calls 911 when his girlfriend breaks his heart. But, as Michael’s mom, Kathryn has been trying to figure how to be a mother in just such circumstances—sometimes with success, sometimes with dismal failure—for over two decades.
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FictionThe Psychedelic Traveller
Short Stories
by ANTHONY JAMES
A collection of short stories from adventures and fantastic imaginings aroud the world. Each story is set in a different country, from Brazil to Siberia, from new Zealand to India. Each story is a cameo in itself, each one of a different mood, be it playful, or dark, of conflict or good humour. Stories will remind those who travel widely of the pitfalls and opportunities and remind all the readers that there is nothing more wonderful than this wonderful world and the ppeople in it.
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AdventureThe Assassin The Grey Man and The Surgeon
by D C Stansfield
It was all going so well for Peter Lee’s drug empire. He had a hold on the producers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His receiver network was increasing and the distribution was now being handled by four of the biggest gangs in London. With business so good, he was starting to expand. He was becoming very, very rich.The only small annoyance had come from a little old lady who owned of all things a corner shop. She had refused to accept any of his special parcels and wanted to go to the police, so she’d been given two bullets, the ‘double tap’, both to shut her up and to send a message to everyone else in the network.Unknown to Lee she was married to a specialist, a man who, in a former life killed men for a living. He had two friends, one a gatherer of information, the master in his field, one a breaker of men, who was so vicious that it was rumoured that each time he hit a man he cut him. Each of these three men had spent thirty years and more playing the ‘great game’. Inside the security company called ‘The Firm’ they were legends known only as The Assassin, The Grey Man and The Surgeon.Now living at the edge of the secret world and about to disappear into history, this atrocity had brought them back centre stage but the question is, do they still have what it takes to go up against today’s hard men?
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March 2021Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe
by Bonnie Henry and Lynn Henry
Dr. Bonnie Henry, “one of the most effective public health figures in the world” (The New York Times), earned accolades in 2020 for her consistent, calm, empathetic, and science-based public health strategy in the face of COVID 19, embodied in the phrase “Be kind, be calm, be safe.” This is the story of the four key weeks in spring during which British Columbia flattened the curve while other places struggled, and of the challenging weeks in summer when the infection returned with a vengeance. This is not only a medical story; it's a personal story punctuated by moments of gravity and grace. Public health officials are required to make personally agonizing decisions in the face of incomplete information and competing health priorities; we glimpse the private deliberations behind policies that affect millions. This is a universal story about how we make decisions (and who makes them) in times of great upheaval; the nuances of communication, leadership, and public trust; the balance between politics and policy; and what and whom we value, as individuals and a society. It's also about Henry’s deceptively simply slogan, and what it requires from all of us to “be kind, be calm, be safe.”
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October 2013Local Government in Connecticut, Third Edition
by Frank B. Connolly, other Roger L. Kemp, Philip K. Schenck
Indispensable guide to the ins and outs of Connecticut local government
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March 2023WAS IST WAS First Reading easy! Clever Animals
by Sonja Meierjürgen
Master builders, quick-change artists or super brains:the animal world is full of clever animals. There areoctopuses that can open screw-top jars, elephants thatcan recognize their fellow animals by smell after years,and grasshoppers that can hardly be distinguishedfrom leaves. The ingenious tricks of numerous animalsare revealed in this book for beginning readers.
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December 2017Charles Hurt Himself Playing
Broken Arm
by Dr. Nicole Audet, M.D.
Charles broke his arm after falling from a swing. With his magical doctor’s bag in hand, Felix took Charles to the hospital. Booboo and his team applied a cast on his arm. Read this story to learn the secret of broken bones healing.
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Children's & YAMarch 2023WAS IST WAS Junior. Vol. 39 Festivities and Traditions
by Anke Dörrzapf
Sprinkling confetti, dressing up, hanging up fairy lights, unwrapping presents and really having a good time.There are many great occasions to celebrate together all over theworld. But why and how do we actually celebrate? Do children everywhere look for Easter eggs, what makes the cherry blossoms in Japan so special, and did Saint Martin really exist? This colorful flap book for children age 5 and up answers these and many other questions and shows the variety of celebrations and traditions from Mardi Gras to New Year's Eve to Ramadan, Hanukkah and Christmas. Whether for cultural, religious or very individual reasons - there is always a reason to celebrate together! The cheerful book is fun to read and look at and awakens anticipation for the next celebration.
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Children's & YAMarch 2023WAS IST WAS Vol. 146 Mythology
Gods, Heroes and Magical Beings
by Andrea Schaller
Off to Olympus! The new WAS IST WAS volume Mythologycovers everything important about known and unknowngods and goddesses and offers exciting myths from all overthe world. The book immerses you in the beliefs of the Celtsand Germanic tribes, meets mermaids, werewolves,unicorns and dragons. From the creation myths to PercyJackson and Harry Potter, the WAS IST WAS volumeenchants its young and old readers. WAS IST WAS the famous fact book series for children fromthe age of 8 and up presents knowledge in brief, informativetexts and with first-class photographs.Excellent info-graphics explain complex issues and funnyextras deepen the knowledge.
