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THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU (non illustrated) H.G. Wells "The Island of Dr. Moreau begins with three men afloat aboard a dingy after the sinking of the Lady Vain. Two struggle and fall overboard in the throes of madness leaving only the narrator, Edward Prendick. Nearly dead when found, he is picked up by the captain and crew of the vessel Ipecacuanha. Prendick, a doctor, is then nursed to health by Mr. Montgomery, who is a passenger aboard the ship, accompanied by a strange looking black-faced man and a menagerie of animals. When Montgomery is ready to disembark at a mysterious and nameless island, the captain and crew want Prendick off the ship as well.
He is not wanted on shore nor on board the boat. Prendick is cast adrift in the dingy he was found in before being pitied by Montgomery and his crew, who then tow him to the island. He is fascinated by the ugliness of the men assisting with the supplies and animals. They are wrapped in cloth over every inch of their bodies save for their faces. Their torsos are disproportionately long, legs bones queerly twisted, and faces are comprised of ghastly and misshaped features. At last they reach land and Prendick is told he is at a biological station but is not introduced to the large white haired “biologist” who speaks to him. Montgomery warns him to watch where he goes and is shown around the walled compound. He hears the name Moreau and struggles to recall how he knows it.
Soon he remembers Moreau as a notorious vivisectionist run out of London many years prior and is curious about the goings on at the compound. He leaves his room due to the unending wails of the tortured puma in the next room and explores the surrounding forest. He is tracked by something or someone as he wanders, then sees a mutilated rabbit and a small group of further inhuman-looking humans. He meets the unique animal-turned human population: the Leopard Man, the Hyena-Swine, the Swine Folk, the Ape Man, Bull Men, Horse-Rhinoceros, Wolf-Bear, Ocelot Man, Dog Man and the Monkey Man. He learns of the Law and the House of Pain that are used to keep the beast people fearful and subjugated. The remainder of his time on the island is spent fleeing from Dr. Moreau and the beast people that he is creating and setting loose upon the island. " (non illustrated) |
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The New Atkins for a New You Dr. Eric C. Westman, Dr. Stephen D. Phinney, Jeff S. Volek THINK YOU KNOW THE ATKINS DIET?
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More than 50 studies support the low-carb science behind Atkins. But Atkins is more than just a diet. This healthy lifestyle focuses on maintenance from Day 1, ensuring that you'll not only take the weight off -- you'll keep it off for good. Featuring inspiring success stories, all-new recipes, and 24 weeks' worth of meal plans, The New Atkins for a New You offers the proven low-carb plan that has worked for millions, now totally updated and even easier than ever. |
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Your Coach in a Box) John J. Ratey Did you know that in a landmark study, aerobic exercise was shown to be as effective as antidepressants? That women who exercise, lower their chances of developing dementia by 50 percent? That a revolutionary fitness program helped put one U.S. school district of 19,000 kids first in the world in science? That, in fact, exercise sparks new brain-cell growth? The evidence is incontrovertible: aerobic exercise physically transforms our brains for peak performance.
In Spark, John J. Ratey, MD, takes the listener on a fascinating journey through the mind-body connection, presenting startling new research to prove that exercise is truly the best defense against everything from mood disorders to ADHD to addiction to menopause to Alzheimer's. He explains that the brain works just as muscles do-growing with use, withering with inactivity-and shows why getting your heart and lungs pumping can mean the difference between a calm, focused mind and a harried, inattentive self.
Filled with cutting-edge science and amazing case studies, Spark is the first audio book to explore the connection between exercise and the brain. And with a simple, targeted regimen to get the listener's body moving and his mind in peak condition, it will forever change the way he thinks about his morning run-and, for that matter, the way he thinks. |
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It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick Greg Gibson “A compelling, witty, and reader-friendly explanation of how our genes, fashioned for living in the Stone Age, are not so well-suited to life in the Modern Age.” —Sean B. Carroll, author of The Making of the Fittest and Remarkable Creatures “It’s taken thirty years, but we finally have in Greg Gibson’s It Takes a Genome what is truly a biologist’s response to the single-gene focus of Richard Dawkin’s early classic The Selfish Gene. And what a response it is! In Gibson’s world, we see a genome as an integrated whole, making sense only when the constituent parts, the genes, are considered in their full genomic and environmental context. It is an engaging, fascinating, accessible, and ultimately deeply satisfying perspective that will enrich the way we all think about ourselves and how we got to be the way we are.” —David B. Goldstein, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Duke University “Gibson has captured the delicate balance between the excitement of the genomic revolution and the frustration that so much is yet to be learned about the genomics of disease. This book is an ideal guide through the complexities of recent environmental change and how this non-genetic process has interacted with human genomic variation to produce today’s landscape of important chronic diseases.” —Marc Feldman, Professor of Biology, Stanford University “Gibson deftly synthesizes the new science linking genome variation and human health, debunking entrenched views about the causes and evolution of disease and arguing convincingly for a more comprehensive view. An important book and a great read.” —David P. Mindell, Dean of Science, California Academy of Sciences “Geneticist Gibson is a natural teacher. He brings a welcome balance to his descriptions of the roles of genes, the environment, and chance in the major human diseases.” —Bruce Weir, Chair and Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington Human beings have astonishing genetic vulnerabilities. More than half of us will die from complex diseases that trace directly to those vulnerabilities, and the modern world we’ve created places us at unprecedented risk from them. In It Takes a Genome, Greg Gibson posits a revolutionary new hypothesis: Our genome is out of equilibrium, both with itself and its environment. Simply put, our genes aren’t coping well with modern culture. Our bodies were never designed to subsist on fat and sugary foods; our immune systems weren’t designed for today’s clean, bland environments; our minds weren’t designed to process hard-edged, artificial electronic inputs from dawn ‘til midnight. And that’s why so many of us suffer from chronic diseases that barely touched our ancestors. Gibson begins by revealing the stunningly complex ways in which multiple genes cooperate and interact to shape our bodies and influence our behaviors. Then, drawing on the very latest science, he explains the genetic “mismatches” that increasingly lead to cancer, diabetes, inflammatory and infectious diseases, AIDS, depression, and senility. He concludes with a look at the probable genetic variations in human psychology, sharing the evidence that traits like introversion and agreeableness are grounded in equally complex genetic interactions. It Takes A Genome demolishes yesterday’s stale debates over “nature vs. nurture,” introducing a new view that is far more intriguing, and far closer to the truth. -
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The growing price of the modern lifestyle
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The Alzheimer’s generation
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What’s really normal: the deepest lessons of the human genome
The remarkable diversity of physical and emotional “normality” |
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care Eric Topol M.D. Until very recently, if you were to ask most doctors, they would tell you there were only two kinds of medicine: the quack kind, and the evidence-based kind. The former is baseless, and the latter based on the best information human effort could buy, with carefully controlled double-blind trials, hundreds of patients, and clear indicators of success. Well, Eric Topol isn’t most doctors, and he suggests you entertain the notion of a third kind of medicine, one that will make the evidence-based state-of-the-art stuff look scarcely better than an alchemist trying to animate a homunculus in a jar. It turns out plenty of new medicinesalthough tested with what seem like large trialsactually end up revealing most of their problems only once they get out in the real world, with millions of people with all kinds of conditions mixing them with everything in the pharmacopeia. The unexpected interactions of drugs, patients, and diseases can be devastating. And the clear indicators of success often turn out to be minimal, often as small as one fewer person dying out of a hundred (or even a thousand), and often at exorbitant cost. How can we avoid these dangerous interactions and side-effects? How can we predict which person out of a hundred will be helped by a new drug, and which fatally harmed? And how can we avoid having to need costly drugs in the first place? It sure isn’t by doing another 400-person trial. As Topol argues in The Creative Destruction of Medicine, it’s by bringing the era of big data to the clinic, laboratory, and hospital, with wearable sensors, smartphone apps, and whole-genome scans providing the raw materials for a revolution. Combining all the data those tools can provide will give us a complete and continuously updated picture of every patient, changing everything from the treatment of disease, to the prolonging of health, to the development of new treatments. As revolutionary as the past twenty years in personal technology and medicine have beenremember phones the sizes of bricks that only made calls, or when the most advanced genotyping” we could do involved discerning blood types and Rh-factors?Topol makes it clear that we haven’t seen a thing yet. With an optimism matched only by a realism gained through 25 years in a tough job, Topol proves the ideal guide to the medicine of the futuremedicine he himself is deeply involved in creating. AMONG THE INNOVATIONS COVERED: At home brain-monitors helping us improve our sleep.Sensors to track all vital signs, catching everything from high blood pressure to low blood sugar to heart arrhythmia without invasive measurements to inconvenient and nerve-wrackingor even dangeroushospital stays (which kill some 100,000 every year, due to infections caught there, or patients getting someone else’s medicine). Improved imaging techniques and the latest in printing technology are beginning to enable us to print new organs, rather than looking for donors. Genetics can reveal who might be helped by a drug, unaffected by it, or even killed by it, helping avoid problems as were seen with Vioxx. |
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The Anatomy Coloring Book Wynn Kapit, Lawrence M. Elson For over 23 years, The Anatomy Coloring Book has been the leading human anatomy coloring book, offering concisely written text and precise, extraordinary hand-drawn figures. Organized according to body systems, each of the 170 plates featured in this book includes an ingenious color-key system anatomical terminology is linked to detail illustration of the structures of the body. |
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Human Anatomy & Physiology with MasteringA&P™ (8th Edition) Elaine N. Marieb, Katja N. Hoehn With the Eighth Edition of the top-selling Human Anatomy & Physiology text, trusted authors Elaine N. Marieb and Katja Hoehn have produced the most accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date, and visually stunning anatomy & physiology textbook on the market. Marieb draws on her career as an A&P professor and her experience as a part-time nursing student, while Hoehn relies on her medical education and classroom experience to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. The most significant revision to date, the Eighth Edition makes it easier for you to learn key concepts in A&P. The new edition features a whole new art program that is not only more visually dynamic and vibrant than in previous editions but is also much more pedagogically effective for today’s students, including new Focus figures, which guide you through the toughest concepts in A&P. The text has been edited to make it easier than ever to study from and navigate, with integrated objectives, new concept check questions, and a new design program. The new, easy-to-use Instructor Resource DVD includes brand-new A&P Flix animations and all the tools instructors need to prepare their lecture presentations. The robust media package provides you with indispensable practice tools, tutorials, and self-assessments to help you succeed in their A&P lecture and lab course. This book now comes with access to MasteringA&P™. The great content you're used to seeing in myA&P is also available in the self-study area of MasteringA&P. Package Components: - Interactive Physiology® 10-System Suite (IP-10) CD-ROM
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Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. |
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life.
In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature. Bees, for example, will commit suicide when they sting to protect the hive, and birds will risk their lives to warn the flock of an approaching hawk.
This 30th anniversary edition of Dawkins' fascinating book retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters added in the second edition. In a new Introduction the author presents his thoughts thirty years after the publication of his first and most famous book, while the inclusion of the two-page original Foreword by brilliant American scientist Robert Trivers shows the enthusiastic reaction of the scientific community at that time. This edition is a celebration of a remarkable exposition of evolutionary thought, a work that has been widely hailed for its stylistic brilliance and deep scientific insights, and that continues to stimulate whole new areas of research today. |
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Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia 2012 Classic Shirt-Pocket Edition MD, FAAEM, FACMT, Editor in Chief, Richard J. Hamilton Used By Prescribers Around The World, Including Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Physician Assistants, Dentists And Medical Transcriptionists, The Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia,® 2012 Classic Shirt-Pocket Edition Continues Its Tradition As The Leading Portable Drug Reference Packed With Vital Drug Information To Help Clinicians Make Better Decisions At The Point Of Care. The Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia,® 2012 Classic Shirt-Pocket Edition, Now Updated With Over 130 New Drugs, Details Typical Drug Dosing (All FDA Approved), Available Trade And Generic Formulations, Metabolism, Safety In Pregnancy And Lactation, Relative Drug Pricing Information, Canadian Trade Names, And An Herbal & Alternative Therapies Section. Multiple Tables Supplement The Drug Content, Including Opioid Equivalency, Emergency Drug Infusions, Cardiac Dysrhythmia Protocols, Pediatric Drug Dosing, And Much More. Each Edition Is Meticulously Peer-Reviewed By Experts And Is Now Available In Multiple Print, Mobile And Online Formats. |