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  Beating Back the Devil - On the...

  Maryn McKenna

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  IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES.They always keep a bag packed. They seldom have more than twenty-four hours' notice before they are dispatched. The phone calls that tell them to head to the airport, sometimes in the middle of the night, may give them no more information than the country they are traveling to and the epidemic they will tackle when they get there.The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease. These doctors run toward it.They are the disease detective corps of the U.S. 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 virus, and AIDS. Now they hunt down the deadly threats that dominate our headlines: West Nile virus, anthrax, and SARS.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 has helped eradicate smallpox, push back polio, and solve the first major outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease, toxic shock syndrome, and E. coli O157.Urgent, exhilarating, and compelling, Beating Back the Devil goes with the EIS as they try to stop epidemics - before the epidemics stop us.

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  Civil Rights and Equal...

  United States Supreme Court

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  Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1950 and 1960. (summary by Kelli Robinson)

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  Biological Warfare - Learn...

  Defense U.S. Department of

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  The purpose of this book is to provide concise supplemental reading material to assist both, health-care providers and civilians in the management of biological casualties. The main goal is to make this a reference for all those who need basic summary and treatment information quickly. 
  Table of Contents: 
  History of Biological Warfare and Current Threat
  Distinguishing Between Natural and International Disease Outbreaks
  Ten Steps in the Management of Biological Casualties
  Therapy
  Case Reporting and Epidemiological Assessment
  Prevention
  Protective Equipment
  First Aid
  Protective Measures and Handling of Causalities
  Patient Decontamination
  Infection Control
  Medical Evacuation
  Aeromedical Isolation Team
  Bacterial Agents:
  Anthrax
  Brucellosis
  Plague
  Q Fever
  Tularemia
  Viral Agents:
  Smallpox
  Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
  Biological Toxins:
  Botulinum
  Ricin
  Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B
  T-2 Mycotoxins
  Glossary of Medical Terms
  Patient Isolation Precautions
  BW Agent Characteristics
  BW Agent Vaccines, Prophylactics and Therapeutics
  Differential Diagnosis
  Comparative Lethality
  Emergency Response Contacts

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  Shawshank Redemption Decoded...

  Filmic Universe

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  THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION DECODED: TRIVIA, CURIOUS FACTS AND BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS 
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  CREATED BY: FILMIC UNIVERSE 
    
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  Do you think you know everything about THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION? 
    
  Do you want to know more than 100 curious facts and secrets of Frank Darabont's film? 
    
  This eBook is full of information about one of the best movies of 1994. You will find and REALLY LOVE abundant behind the scenes secrets. You can test your knowledge about this movie here. 
    
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  HERE SOME EXAMPLES: 
    
  - Morgan Freeman threw the baseball for the entire nine hours without a word of complaint. He showed up for work the next day with his left arm in a sling. 
    
  - Morgan Freeman's favorite film of his own. 
    
  - Stephen King has considered this to be one of his favorite film adaptations based on his own work. 
    
  - Frank Darabont watched "Goodfellas (1990)" every Sunday while shooting this film, and drew inspiration from it, on using voice-over narration and showing the passage of time. 
    
  - Although it is never directly stated in the film, Brooks is in prison for allegedly murdering his wife and daughter after a losing streak at poker. 
    
  - Frank Darabont decided not to have the deleted scenes on the DVD release of the film, because he is embarrassed by them, and doesn't want them to be seen publicly. 
    
  - Despite being widely considered as one of the greatest movies of all time, it didn't receive a single Oscar win, though it was nominated for seven, including Best Picture. 
    
  AND MUCH MORE!

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  Fevers Feuds and Diamonds -...

  Paul Farmer

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  In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert, where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. But why did it happen, and what can we learn from it? Paul Farmer, the internationally renowned doctor and anthropologist, experienced the Ebola outbreak firsthand-Partners in Health, the organization he founded, was among the international responders. In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he offers the first substantive account of this frightening, fast-moving episode and its implications. In vibrant prose, he tells the harrowing stories of Ebola victims while showing why the medical response was slow and insufficient. Rebutting misleading claims about the origins of Ebola and why it spread so rapidly, he traces West Africa’s chronic health failures back to centuries of exploitation and injustice. Under formal colonial rule, disease containment was a priority but care was not—and the region’s health-care woes worsened, with devastating consequences that Farmer traces up to the present.

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  The Mills Brothers

  Wink Martindale

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  The story of The Mills Brothers is much like that of many entertainers, featuring humble beginnings,, big dreams, success, tragedy and ultimately a happy ending. In 1973, host Wink Martindale sat down with two of the original Mills Brothers, Harry and Donald, to recount their tale. The pair details the earliest days of their career in Piqua, Ohio. From that small-town start, the group went on to sell millions of records and enjoy wildly popularity. Listen in as they share the many ups and downs of their successes in their musical career.

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