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  Wind in the Willows The (version 2)

  Kenneth Grahame

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  This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues them!  The chief characters - Mole, Rat, and Toad - generally lead upbeat and happy lives, but their tales are leavened with moments of terror, homesickness, awe, madcap antics, and derring-do. 
  Although classed as children's literature, The Wind in the Willows holds a gentle fascination for adults too.  The vocabulary is decidedly not "Dick and Jane", and a reader with a love of words will find new ones to treasure, even if well-equipped for the journey.  Parents will appreciate the themes of loyalty, manners, self-restraint, and comradeship which are evident throughout the book.  When the characters err, they are prompt to acknowlege it, and so a reading of this book can model good behavior to children, who will otherwise be enchanted with the many ways in which the lives of these bucolic characters differ from modern life. 
  This book was so successful that it enabled the author to retire from banking and take up a country life somewhat like that of his creations.  It has been adapted for screen, stage, and even a ride at the original Disneyland.(Summary by Mark F. Smith)

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  Paramedic Exam Audio Crash...

  AudioLearn Medical Content Team

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  AudioLearn Crash Courses presents Paramedic Exam Audio Crash Course - Paramedic Exam - Complete Test Prep and Review for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) Paramedic Certification Exam. Developed by distinguished professors and professionally narrated by an experienced paramedic for accuracy, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your NREMT paramedic exam. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the test. The material is accurate, up to date, and broken down into bite-size chapters. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions. Here are the main topics we’ll be covering: Anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology, Pathophysiology, EMT protection strategies, Lifting and moving patients, Documentation,CPR, Automatic external defibrillator, Airway management, Standard assessment, Patient assessment, Medication administration, Shock, Medical emergencies, Trauma, Burn injuries, Labor, delivery, and newborn care, EMS operations. We will end the course with a complete 120 question practice test. Also included, is a follow-along PDF manual containing the entire text of this audio course as well as all figures, charts, and graphics we’ll be reviewing in the audio.

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  Beating Back the Devil - On the...

  Maryn McKenna

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  The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening.They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries to prevent disease outbreaks and bioterrorist attacks around the world. They are formally called the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)—a group founded more than fifty years ago out of fear that the Korean War might bring the use of biological weapons—and, like intelligence operatives in the traditional sense, they perform their work largely in anonymity. They are not household names, but over the years they were first to confront the outbreaks that became known as hantavirus, Ebola, and AIDS. Every day they work to protect us by hunting down the deadly threats that we forget until they dominate our headlines, West Nile virus, anthrax, and SARS among others.In this riveting narrative, Maryn McKenna—the only journalist ever given full access to the EIS in its fifty-three-year history—follows the first class of disease detectives to come to the CDC after September 11, the first to confront not just naturally occurring outbreaks but the man-made threat of bioterrorism. They are talented researchers—many with young families—who trade two years of low pay and extremely long hours for the chance to be part of the group that are on the frontlines, in the yellow suits and masks, that has helped eradicate smallpox, push back polio, and solve the first major outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease, toxic shock syndrome, and E. coli O157 and works to battle every new disease before it becomes an epidemic.Urgent, exhilarating, and compelling, Beating Back the Devil takes you inside the world of these medical detectives who are trying to stop the next epidemic—before the epidemics stop us.

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  Guided Meditation For Deep Sleep...

  Emma Walsh

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  Having trouble falling asleep?  
  These five guided journeys will help you calm down, reduce stress, and put you in the right mental and physical state to fall asleep.  
  Each guided meditation is between 6 min and 18 min with calm, relaxing background music.  
  1) Clearing your mind before sleep 
  2) Progressive relaxation before sleep 
  3) Affirmations before bed 
  4) Drifting into sleep 
  5) A peaceful sleep 
  Listen to one or all of them, and you will be amazed at how relaxed you will be. 

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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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  Body Respect - What Conventional...

  PhD Linda Bacon, PhD Lucy Aphramor

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  Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies, and fatness is not a death sentence.You've heard it before: There's a global health crisis, and unless we make some changes, we're in trouble. That much is true — but the epidemic is not obesity. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living with inequality — not the numbers on a scale.In a mad dash to shrink our bodies, many of us get so caught up in searching for the perfect diet, exercise program, or surgical technique that we lose sight of our original goal: improved health and well-being. Popular methods for weight loss don't get us there and lead many people to feel like failures when they can't match unattainable body standards. It's time for a cease-fire in the war against obesity.Dr. Linda Bacon and Dr. Lucy Aphramor's Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. They also help make sense of how poverty and oppression — such as racism, homophobia, and classism — affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism.Body insecurity is rampant, and it doesn't have to be. It's time to overcome our culture's shame and distress about weight, to get real about inequalities and health, and to show every body respect.

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