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The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer
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Enter for a chance to win an early galley of THE BREAKTHROUGH by Charles Graber!
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Charles Graeber, New York Times bestselling author of The
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Charles Graeber, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Nurse, details the astonishing scientific discovery of the code to unleashing the human immune system to fight — and possibly even cure — cancer.
For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine’s most confounding mysteries: Why doesn’t our immune system recognize and fight cancer the way it does other diseases, like the common cold?
As it turns out, the answer to that question can be traced to a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses-tricks that scientists have only recently discovered and learned to defeat. The result is what many are calling cancer’s “penicillin moment,” a revolutionary discovery in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.
In THE BREAKTHROUGH, Graeber guides readers through the revolutionary scientific research bringing immunotherapy out of the realm of the miraculous and into the forefront of twenty-first-century medical science. As advances in the fields of cancer research and the human immune system continue to fuel a therapeutic arms race among biotech and pharmaceutical research centers around the world, the next step-harnessing the wealth of new information to create modern and more effective patient therapies-is unfolding at an unprecedented pace, rapidly redefining our relationship with this all-too-human disease.
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Oct 07
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Mysteries and Mindsets (Decoding Persistent Depression #1)
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date: Jul 31, 2018
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Decoding Persistent Depression: Book One - Mysteries and Mindsets!
This book is the first in a series which richly
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Decoding Persistent Depression: Book One - Mysteries and Mindsets!
This book is the first in a series which richly investigates how and why persistent depression can rise, survive, and thrive in various ways.
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Sep 28
- Oct 27, 2018
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
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date: Feb 26, 2019
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What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial ki
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What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique cultures. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat, or being a banker, others find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder, can it be said to exist at all? In Evil, Shaw uses case studies from academia, examples from and popular culture, and anecdotes from everyday life to break down complex information and concepts like the neuroscience of evil, the psychology of bloodlust, and workplace misbehavior. This is a wide-ranging exploration into a fascinating, darkly compelling subject.
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Oct 13
- Nov 12, 2018
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Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
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date: Aug 21, 2018
Enter for a chance to win one of 20 hardcover copies of UNDERBUG by Lisa Margonelli, who investigates the environmental and economic impact termites i
Enter for a chance to win one of 20 hardcover copies of UNDERBUG by Lisa Margonelli, who investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in a fascinating examination of one of nature’s most misunderstood insects.
Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In UNDERBUG, award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annually—and yet, in Margonelli’s telling, seem weirdly familiar. Over the course of a decade-long obsession with the little bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military industrial complex. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future we’re building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition.
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Oct 06
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Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots
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date: Dec 18, 2018
Enter for the chance to win 1 of 10 advance copies of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots by Kate Devlin.
The idea of the seductive sex robot is the st
Enter for the chance to win 1 of 10 advance copies of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots by Kate Devlin.
The idea of the seductive sex robot is the stuff of myth, legend and science fiction. From the ancient Greeks to twenty-first century movies, robots in human form have captured our imagination, our hopes and our fears. But beyond the fantasies there are real and fundamental questions about our relationship with technology as it moves into the realm of robotics. Artificial intelligence raises very real concerns. Sexual activity is central to our very existence; it shapes how we think, how we act and how we live. With advances in technology come machines that may one day think independently. What will happen to us when we form close relationships with these intelligent systems?
Chapter by chapter, this book will build on the science and the philosophy surrounding our most intimate relationship with technology. The scene is set with the history of the artificial sexual companion, then goes on to explore the "modern" robot and the twentieth century sci-fi that promised us our own robot slaves. How does desire affect our own behavior, and can we become attached to an inanimate object? Can robots make society a better place? And what can go wrong?
Sex robots are here, and here to stay--and more are coming. This book explores how the emerging and future development of sexual companion robots might affect us, and our society.
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Oct 01
- Oct 31, 2018
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Out There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life, Antimatter, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious)
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date: Nov 13, 2018
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We’ve all asked ourselves the question. It’s impossible to look up at the
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We’ve all asked ourselves the question. It’s impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall treats that question as merely the beginning, touching off a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier. He considers, for instance, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth (an eventuality which, top NASA officials told Wall, is only drawing closer). What would the first aliens we meet look like? Would they be little green men or mere microbes? Would they be found on a planet in our own solar system or orbiting a star far, far away? Would they intend to harm us, and if so, how might they do it? And might they already have visited?
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Oct 22
- Nov 11, 2018
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Fun in the Mud: A Wetlands Tale
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date: Nov 20, 2018
Enter for a chance to win one signed advance copy of Fun in the Mud: A Wetlands Tale, by Sally Bolger!
This luxuriously paced tale of the wetlands' mo
Enter for a chance to win one signed advance copy of Fun in the Mud: A Wetlands Tale, by Sally Bolger!
This luxuriously paced tale of the wetlands' most secretive inhabitants weaves rich fantasy with fun wetlands facts. Meet fairies Jack and Mini, and listen as they give you a tour of their wetlands home. Whether swimming with the smolts, attending frog pond sing-alongs, or watching the Pickleweed Parade, there is fun to be had in every corner of this mystical habitat.
Mixing facts with just a dusting of fantasy, Fun in the Mud: A Wetlands Tale explores all the nooks and crannies—and the animals who live in them—of the muddy, magical world of the wetlands.
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Oct 21
- Nov 19, 2018
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Cardiology Board Review Notes and Cases
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date: Sep 06, 2018
Auscultation is the most celebrated portion of the cardiovascular exam can be acutely informative. The Wigger diagram correlates electrical, auscultat
Auscultation is the most celebrated portion of the cardiovascular exam can be acutely informative. The Wigger diagram correlates electrical, auscultatory and hemodynamic occurrences to provide a Rosetta stone of expected findings and their relative timing. Diagnostic modalities, chest radiography, electrocardiography, echocardiography and bedside hemodynamic cardiac catheterization are included here. Physiologic considerations including pressure volume loops are provided. The visceral motor (autonomic) nervous system is described with regard to pharmacotherapy for BP support or reduction. Updated acute cardiovascular resuscitation protocols are summarized. Cardiovascular risk factors, chest pain, troponinemia, acute coronary insufficiency, arrhythmia, hypertension, heart failure and pericardial disease are reviewed. Myocardial, valvular, congenital and vascular disorders are also included. Cardiac tumors, CV trauma and basic statistics are covered. Enter to win in time for this year's exam dates.
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Oct 15
- Oct 31, 2018
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Mysteries and Mindsets (Decoding Persistent Depression #1)
Fun in the Mud: A Wetlands Tale
