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The Miraculous Fever-Tree Malaria and the Quest for Quinine the Cure That Changed the World
'Cinchona revolutionized the art of medicine as profoundly as gunpowder had the art of war.' -- Bernardino Ramazzini, Physician to the Duke of Modena, Opera omnia, medica, et physica, 1716 In the summer of 1623, ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died in Rome while electing a new pope. The Roman marsh fever that felled them was the scourge of the Mediterranean, northern Europe and even America. Malaria, now known as a disease of the tropics, badly weakened the Roman Empire. It killed thousands of British troops fighting Napoleon in 1809 and many soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War. It turned back travelers exploring West Africa in the nineteenth century and brought the building of the Panama Canal to a standstill. Even today, malaria kills someone every thirty seconds. For more than one thousand years, there was no cure for it. Pope Urban VIII, elected during the malarial summer of 1623, was determined that a cure should be found. He encouraged - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461718749
- The Miraculous Fever-Tree Malaria and the Quest for Quinine the Cure That Changed the World
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When in Rome How an American Woman in Italy Lost Weight Eating. Living and Loving the Italian Way
Drawing on her own experiences, an American woman living in Rome shares the secrets of the healthy, happy, and sensual Italian lifestyle and dietary regimen, explaining how to transform food and weight obsessions into a total enjoyment of every minute of life and offering a collection of delicious and healthful recipes. 100,000 first printing. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461719092
- When in Rome How an American Woman in Italy Lost Weight Eating. Living and Loving the Italian Way
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No Good Deeds
Tess Monaghan becomes involved in the investigation into the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor when her boyfriend brings home a young street kid who could hold the key to the case and whom Tess agrees to protect, but the killing of one of the boy's friends and federal authorities who will do anything to find the youngster put Tess in the hot seat. (Suspense) - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461719094
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End of Story
An ambitious young woman who hopes to give up her bartending job to become a successful writer, Ivy Seidel falls under the spell of Vance Harrow, convicted for a terrible crime, while teverying writing to inmates at an upstate maximum security prison, but when she begins to investigate Harrow's past in an attempt to clear his name, her own life will never be the same. (Suspense) - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461719095
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Forgive for Good A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness
Drawn from research by the Stanford Forgiveness Project, an innovative new guide to overcoming and understanding the negative effects of anger, bitterness, and resentment offers tips and techniques for learning how to forgive, which will lead to a happier, more fulfilling existence. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461719135
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Inside the Tornado Strategies for Developing Leveraging and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets
In Inside the Tornado, Geoffrey A. Moore continues his classic three-part series delving into the high-stakes world of hypergrowth markets. Here, Moore examines these markets and their implications for business strategies and, in turn, provides effective guidelines for winning market share and building margin share in mainstream markets. Once a product reveryes the mainstream market, it faces three often vexing questions: What is the best way to develop a stronger market for the product's growth? What is the most effective way to capitalize on and sustain growth? And when this market inevitably subsides, how can businesses survive the change? Moore deftly answers these questions and provides businesses with the knowledge and tools they need in this fast-paced lucrative market. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461118243
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Beasts Of No Nation
Recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after the brutal murder of his father by militants, a west African student falls under the spell of his dangerous commander and finds his new life increasingly contrasting with his former existence of family times, school friendships, and church services. A first novel. 30,000 first printing. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461118395
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Aquarium Fish
Presents a comprehensive guide to setting up an aquarium and caring for fish, with a lavishly illustrated, informative directory of fish for both salt-water and fresh-water tanks, along with tips on establishing a breeding set-up, recognizing illness, and more. Original. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461118546
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A Mother Loss Workbook Healing Exercises for Daughters
Inspired by the bestselling 'Motherless Daughters' and created by the co-founders of Motherless Daughters, Inc., this sensitive, accessible workbook offers peace, acceptance, and hope to every woman who lost her mother in early life. 'A Mother Loss Workbook' is an ideal supplement to personal therapy and to the motherless daughter support groups across the country. Charts & line drawings. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461118706
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Bioblogs Resumes for the 21st Century
Presents descriptions, design ideas, and examples of a graphic format for the standard resume, designed to get a potential employer's attention. - Category: Books Reading - New Item: 461118900
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Becoming a Doctor A Journey of Initiation in Medical School
Dr. Konner takes readers through his third year at medical school, where he wonders why teveryers instill in their students a sense of power, but no sense of concern. Controversial, insightful, well-written, and deeply moving. - Books Reading - New - 461720061
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Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest
Western medicine is only just beginning to value the curative powers of plants and herbs found in the Amazon rain forests. The story of ethnobotanist Mark Plotkins's apprenticeship with shaman wise men of the area is truly an anthropological adventure, that also vividly clarifies what destruction of the rain forests may ultimately cost humanity.Photos. - Books Reading - New - 461720063
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Cantor's Dilemma
When Professor Isidore Cantor reveals his latest breakthrough in cancer research, the scientific community is galvanized. Cantor's most promising research fellow, Dr. Jeremiah Stafford, has only to conduct the experiment that will prove the brilliant hypothesis and win cantor the Nobel Prize. But how far will the young assistant go to guarantee the results? - Books Reading - New - 461720066
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The Maine Woods
With Abnaki guides, Thoreau climbed Mt. Katahdin and hiked deep into the Maine woods to places where one 'might live and die and never hear of the United States'. His accurate, evocative descriptions still reflect his belief that man himself is a part of the natural world. - Books Reading - New - 461720075
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An Exaltation of Larks The Ultimate Edition
An 'exaltation of larks'? Yes! And a 'leap of leopards', a 'parliament of owls', an 'ostentation of peacocks', a 'smack of jellyfish', and a 'murder of crows'! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar 'pride of lions' and 'gaggle of geese' were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided the definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, and often poetic, terms unearthed by Mr. Lipton in the Books of Venery that were the constant study of anyone who aspired to the title of gentleman in the fifteenth century. When Mr. Lipton's painstaking research revealed that five hundred years ago the terms of venery had already been turned into the Game of Venery, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a 'slouch of models', a 'shrivel of critics', an 'unction of undertakers', a 'blur of Impressionists', a 'score of bachelors', and a 'pocket of quarterbacks'. This ultimate edition of An Exaltation of Larks is Mr. Lipton's brilliant answer to the assault on language and literacy in the last decades of the twentieth century. In it you will find more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that most endangered of all species, our language, in a setting of 250 witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt engravings. - Books Reading - New - 461720076
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