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  Epilepsy: An Overview

  Edmonton Epilepsy Association

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  This is a book that provides an overview about basic information on epilepsy. The book is formatted with questions and answers, from common understanding of how seizures occur, to whom and for what reasons. It is the perfect compendium for initial conversations about epilepsy for new patients and their caregivers. It also includes a glossary of terms and all definitions respect the nomenclature from the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE).

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  The Real Dirt on Composting

  Cheryl Wilfong

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  This down-to-earth, lively, and informative audiobook is just what the home composter needs. Short essays feel conversational and friendly. Figure out how to set up composting in your backyard. Learn about the ins and outs of composting—what goes into the compost and what stays out. Determine what to do about critters in the compost. Discover some creative ways to use your compost. Feel good that you can join the green planet movement by not moving any farther than your own backyard.

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  The Flesh Eaters - The World’s...

  J.D. Sherwood

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  Are you prepared for what you are about to discover in the chilling world of flesh-eating diseases? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to face the devastating effects of such a terrifying affliction? 
  Have you ever heard of the term necrotizing fasciitis? If you haven’t, then brace yourself for an eye-opening journey that will forever change your perception of flesh-eating diseases. 
  If you want to uncover the chilling truth behind flesh-eating diseases, then you need to read this book! 
  Through real-life stories and proven facts, this book will guide you through the dark realm of flesh-eating diseases, shedding light on the most alarming and deadly conditions known to mankind. 
  Here is a glimpse of what awaits you inside The Flesh Eaters: 
  ●     The shocking origins and historical significance of flesh-eating diseases that span back centuries. 
  ●     Uncover the terrifying truth behind the underlying causes and risk factors that leave individuals susceptible to these deadly infections. 
  ●     The unnerving truth about the most notorious flesh-eating diseases and their modes of transmission. 
  ●     Hear gripping stories of survival and resilience as individuals share their harrowing experiences in the face of flesh-eating diseases. 
  Whether you are haunted by the thought of flesh-eating diseases or curious to uncover the secrets behind these terrifying afflictions, this book is the essential resource you need. 
  From historical perspectives to real-life case studies, The Flesh Eaters is the ultimate guide to understanding the terrifying realm of flesh-eating diseases. 
  Grab your copy today and start your journey into the world's deadliest flesh-eating diseases.

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  Urban Poverty and Inequality -...

  Lyric Vale

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  In the shadows of gleaming skyscrapers and vibrant commercial districts lies another city entirely—one marked by systemic deprivation, limited opportunity, and persistent struggle. Urban poverty represents one of the most complex and pressing challenges of our increasingly urbanized world, where the concentration of wealth and opportunity paradoxically exists alongside pockets of profound disadvantage. This comprehensive exploration delves into the multifaceted nature of Urban Poverty and Inequality, examining the lived experiences of The Urban Poor, and analyzing The Urban-Rural Divide that shapes resource distribution and development patterns across landscapes of inequity. 
  The narrative of urban deprivation is fundamentally a story of systemic contradictions, where proximity to abundance often accentuates rather than alleviates scarcity. By examining the structural forces, policy decisions, historical legacies, and global economic patterns that create and perpetuate urban inequality, this book illuminates the complex interplay between spatial location, economic opportunity, and social mobility in contemporary cities. Readers will journey through the intricate landscapes where urban poverty manifests—from informal settlements and public housing developments to gentrifying neighborhoods and peripheral urban zones—while exploring the resilience strategies, community responses, and policy interventions that address these challenges. Through evidence-based analysis, theoretical frameworks, and human-centered perspectives, we aim to deepen understanding of urban inequality not as an inevitable by-product of urbanization, but as a complex social phenomenon shaped by specific historical contexts, policy choices, and economic systems that can be transformed through intentional, equitable approaches to urban development.

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  Global "Body Shopping" - An...

  Xiang Biao

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  How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions. Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping." In this practice, a group of consultants--body shops--in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement. Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities--stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages--sustain this flexibility.

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  Pandemics - A Very Short...

  Christian W. McMillen

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  The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. In 2019 and the years that followed, the coronavirus pandemic infected every continent and took the lives of millions. In this updated edition, Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease.This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world. By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics, McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and cooperate to prevent any future epidemic.

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