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Drawing on the latest science and challenging mainstream medicine, a visionary physician and leading longevity expert presents a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving physical, cognitive, and emotional health.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
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IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The author explores the return of smallpox, eradicated in 1979 but now returning on the black market as a weapon of bioterrorism, and the crusade of three doctors to uncover the mastermind of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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xii, 515 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"This brilliant portait of schizophrenia-the most malignant and least understood mental illness-by renowned psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman, Chair of Columbia's legendary Psychiatry department, interweaves cultural and scientific history with dramatic patient portraits and clinical experiences to impart a revolutionary message of hope: that for the first time in human history, schizophrenia can not just be effectively treated, but even prevented. Of...
7) The heart disease breakthrough: what even your doctor doesn't know about preventing a heart attack
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Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
1999
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243 p.; 24 cm.
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English
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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352 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"You're standing in front of your refrigerator, a week after your last trip to the supermarket. You've got a bunch of random veggies, some wrinkly fruit, near-expired milk, and those pricey fresh herbs you bought for that one recipe and don't know how to use up. For a split second you picture yourself opening a trash bag, throwing everything away, and ordering takeout. We've all been there. But instead...you pick up this cookbook. In no time you've...
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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xxiv, 431 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of How to Sell--and based on his viral Huffington Post article--comes a deeply intimate, insightful, and at times even funny portrait of the suicidal mind, combining the author's personal experience with a philosophical, literary, and journalistic inquiry into the subject "If you're going to write a book about suicide, you have to be willing to say the true things, the scary things, the humiliating things. Because everybody...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
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xxi, 279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Over the last 30 years of epidemics and pandemics, we learned nearly every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks. We heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. In this captivating, authoritative, and eye-opening book, science journalist Debora MacKenzie lays out the full story of how and why it happened: the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 628 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestselling author of the How Not to Die series When Dr. Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org, dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, he realized that diet could regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. We don't need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young-we already have the tools....
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"As the human lifespan expands and more people are living to 100 years and beyond, New York Times best-selling author Michael Roizen, M.D., explains how to prepare for a longer, healthier future"--
