Jane Maienschein examines how understanding of embryos evolved from the speculations of natural philosophers to bioengineering, with its life-enhancing therapies. She shows that research on embryos ...has always seemed promising to some but frightening to others, and makes the case that public understanding must be informed by scientific findings.
Thoughts and Feelings McKay, Matthew; Davis, Martha; Fanning, Patrick
2021, 20210101
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Celebrating forty years as a self-help classic and recommended by therapists worldwide, Thoughts and Feelings has helped thousands of readers manage stress, anxiety, depression, and difficult ...emotions using evidence-based cognitive therapy. In addition to the tried-and-true techniques that have made this book a must-have mental health resource, this fully revised and updated fifth edition also includes new chapters on self-compassion and habit reversal--two powerful tools for helping readers achieve lasting, positive change.
Impressive numbers are thrown at us by the news every day. They are meant to help us understand, to compare, to evaluate, but in practice they often befuddle rather than enlighten. This entertaining, ...practical book gives us the tools and tips to decipher the figures, and to enjoy the way numbers enable us to understand our world.
Written for general readers, teachers, journalists, and policymakers, this volume explores four controversial topics in science and technology, with commentaries from experts in such fields as ...sociology, religion, law, ethics, and politics: * Antibiotics and Resistance: the science, the policy debates, and perspectives from a microbiologist, a veterinarian, and an M.D. * Genetically Modified Maize and Gene Flow: the science of genetic modification, protecting genetic diversity, agricultural biotech vesus the environment, corporate patents versus farmers' rights * Hormone Replacement Theory and Menopause: overview of the Women's Health Initiative, history of hormone replacement therapy, the medicalization of menopause, hormone replacement therapy and clinical trials * Smallpox: historical and medical overview of smallpox, government policies for public health, the Emergency Health Powers Act, public resistance vs. cooperation.
"It's impossible to grasp the whole planet or integrate all the descriptions of it. But because we live here, we have to try. This is not just an artistic compulsion or an existential yearning, still ...less an academic exercise. It's a survival issue. This is the only planet we have. We're stuck here, and we don't own the place-it would be the height of arrogance to assume that we do. We're tenants here, not owners, but we're tenants with hope for a long-term tenancy. We want to extend our lease just as far as we can."-fromEarth: A Tenant's Manual
InEarth: A Tenant's Manual, the distinguished geologist Frank H. T. Rhodes, President Emeritus of Cornell University, provides a sweeping, accessible, and deeply informed guide to the home we all share, showing us how we might best preserve the Earth's livability for ourselves and future generations.
Rhodes begins by setting the scene for our active planet and explaining how its location and composition determine how the Earth works and why it teems with life. He emphasizes the changes that are of concern to us today, from earthquakes to climate change and the clashes over the energy resources needed for the Earth's exploding population. He concludes with an extended exploration of humanity's prospects on a complex, protean, and ultimately finite world.
It is not a question of whether the planet is sustainable; the challenge facing life on Earth-and the life of the Earth-is whether an expanding and high-consumption species like ours is sustainable. Only new resources, new priorities, new policies and, most of all, new knowledge, can reverse the damage that humanity is doing to our home-and ourselves. A sustainable human future, Rhodes concludes in this eloquent, sobering, but ultimately optimistic book, will require a sense of responsible stewardship, for we are not owners of this planet; we are tenants.
Surveying the systems, large and small, that govern Earth's processes and influence its changes, Rhodes addresses the negative consequences of human activities for the health of its regulatory systems but offers practical suggestions as to how we might effect repairs, or at least limit further damage to our home.
Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other ...middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us.
Refrigerator Rees, Jonathan
2015, 2015-09-24
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other ...technology of the last two thousand years-but have you ever thought seriously about your refrigerator? That box humming in the background displays more than you might expect, even who you are and the society in which you live. Jonathan Rees examines the past, present, and future of the household refrigerator with the aim of preventing its users from ever taking it for granted again. No mere container for cold Cokes and celery stalks, the refrigerator acts as a mirror-and what it reflects is chilling indeed.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Wilton Schmidt Cardozo, Carlos Walter Sobrado / Wilton Schmidt Cardozo, Carlos Walter Sobrado
2016
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2nd edition presents updated information about inflammatory bowel disease in health-care workers. The theoretical content is based on controlled and randomized clinical ...studies in the meta-analyzes, conducted appropriately and especially in global consensus and led by international experts. As such, the reader has access the important topics required to understand the ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.
The editors and chapter authors, all established names within gastroenterology and coloproctology, and having extensive experience in assisting patients with inflammatory bowel disease, provide a concise book with quick and objective reference texts that complement the knowledge of students, doctors, nurses, nutritionists and psychologists of daily clinical practice.
A pocket-style edition based on the New York
Times bestseller A Brief Welcome to the
Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from
planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time ...loops.
Bestselling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse
Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott take readers on an
unforgettable journey of exploration to reveal how our universe
actually works. Propelling you from our home solar system to the
outermost frontiers of space, this book builds your cosmic insight
and perspective through a marvelously entertaining narrative. How
do stars live and die? What are the prospects of intelligent life
elsewhere in the universe? How did the universe begin? Why is it
expanding and accelerating? Is our universe alone or part of an
infinite multiverse? Exploring these and many other questions, this
pocket-friendly book is your passport into the wonders of our
evolving cosmos.
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