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  Fentanyl Inc - How Rogue...

  Ben Westhoff

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  A four-year investigation into the world of synthetic drugs—from black market factories to users & dealers to harm reduction activists—and what it revealed. A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,” writes Ben Westhoff. “These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs” —and all-too-often tragically lethal. Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice—and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe—were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the drugs’ effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these drugs and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand. Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these drugs emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China’s vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the United States and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many.“Timely and agonizing. . . . An impressive work of investigative journalism.” —USA Today“Westhoff explores the many-tentacled world of illicit opioids, from the streets of East St. Louis to Chinese pharmaceutical companies, from music festivals deep in the Michigan woods to sanctioned ‘shooting up rooms’ in Barcelona, in this frank, insightful, and occasionally searing exposé. . . . Westhoff’s well-reported and researched work will likely open eyes, slow knee-jerk responses, and start much needed conversations.” —Publishers Weekly“Our 25 Favorite Books of 2019” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch“Best Books of 2019” —Buzzfeed“Best Nonfiction of 2019” —Kirkus Reviews“50 Best Books of 2019” —Daily Telegraph“Best Nonfiction Books of 2019” —Tyler Cowen“Best Books of 2019” —Yahoo Finance

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  The Numerati

  Stephen Baker

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  Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this “utterly fascinating” look at the growth of data mining and analysis (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).   Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the “global math elite”: computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don’t need to be online to create a digital trail; we do it simply by driving through an automated tollbooth or shopping with a credit card. As massive amounts of information are collected, sifted, and analyzed, we all become targets of those who want to influence everything from what we buy to how we vote.   Clear and “highly readable,” The Numerati is a look at the origins of our present-day world, the possibilities of the future, and those who—whether with good or bad intentions—profile us as workers, consumers, citizens, or potential terrorists (The Wall Street Journal).    

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  Facebook Advertising +...

  Steve Gates

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  Do you want to learn how to gain more leads and customers than ever? 
  Are you interested in an online business? Do you have limited funds to invest and get started? 
  This audiobook will show the exact practices you need on every platform to optimize every aspect of your social media strategy. Even more than that, we will show the best strategies and tips to use in 2020 to spearhead your growth. 
  In this Audiobook you'll discover:What dropshipping isTraditional methods of dropshippingHow to set up a shopify store step-by-stepHow to design an online storeThe order fulfillment processNiche and product selectionTrending product ideasHow to build a brand on InstagramHow to make money on InstagramInfluencer marketingThe Ad-types and targeting used by a now famous Korean Fashion Brand to get a 15 times ROI using Facebook AdsThe nine core principles to power your Facebook strategyA practical eight step checklist to setup and manage your Facebook ads, miss one and your Facebook ad will failSix tips to create engaging content for higher conversion rates, miss a few tips and you are throwing away moneyThe Facebook strategies used by a famous car brand to make their model the no. 1 in the segment and how you can leverage their tacticsThe psychology behind why people buy and how to use this in your Facebook marketingAnd much more.... 
  It´s time to push your business and revenue to the next level by leveraging Facebook, become an Influencer and Start or E-commerce. 
  Your project can no longer wait.  
  Buy this audiobook now to change your life!

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  Hidden Nature - Wild Southern Caves

  Michael Ray Taylor

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  Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021More than ten thousand known caves lie beneath the state of Tennessee according to the Tennessee Cave Survey, a nonprofit organization that catalogs and maps them. Thousands more riddle surrounding states. In Hidden Nature, Michael Ray Taylor tells the story of this vast underground wilderness. In addition to describing the sheer physical majesty of the region’s wild caverns and the concurrent joys and dangers of exploring them, he examines their rich natural history and scientific import, their relationship to clean water and a healthy surface environment, and their uncertain future.As a longtime caver and the author of three popular books related to caving—Cave Passages, Dark Life, and Caves—Taylor enjoys (for a journalist) unusual access to this secretive world. He is personally acquainted with many of the region’s most accomplished cave explorers and scientists, and they in turn are familiar with his popular writing on caves in books; in magazines such as Audubon, Outside, and Sports Illustrated; and on websites such as those of the Discovery Channel and the PBS science series Nova.Hidden Nature is structured as a comprehensive work of well-researched fact that reads like a personal narrative of the author’s long attraction to these caves and the people who dare enter their hidden chambers.

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  Mountain Laurels

  Genevieve C. Sparks

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  Mountain Laurels is the first published collection of poems written by Genevieve C. Sparks over many years in what she calls "the simple form of mountain colloquial." While some individual poems draw their meaning from a personal experience of the poet, "the basic thought of the book in its entirety is," she says, "the great inspiration derived from the love of nature. God placed the beauty of nature with especially natural grace in the wild and wonderful mountains of the Appalachian ranges." All of her poems speak the wonders of the Appalachian mountain world.

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  Colorectal Cancer - Cancer Is...

  Michael Redtenbacher M.D.

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  Cancer is a slowly developing illness. In the early stage it is, barring a few notable exceptions, not fatal.
     Addressed to the layman, the reader learns why and under what conditions cancer is curable – in the stage of early cancer, also called carcinoma in situ. The emphasis lies on making the physician the patient's ally, in order to catch cancer at its very earliest stages, in which it can most definitely be cured. 
     Treat your body as well as you treat your car. Regular “service” conducted by your physician according to Redtenbacher's manual will save you from dying of cancer.
     It is totally up to you that you do everything within your power to detect “Colorectal cancer” at the very beginning, when it is absolutely curable.

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