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  Edible Wild Plants Volume 2 -...

  PhD Kallas

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  This second volume of Edible Wild Plants adds 18 additional plants, their relatives, and look-a-likes, in 15 plant chapters, to the overall collection of plants covered between the two volumes in The Wild Food Adventure Series. This book makes it delightfully exciting to learn about and experiment with known wild foods that will be useful to all, from beginners to advanced foragers. This book features plants in five flavor categories?foundation, tart, pungent or peppery, bitter, and distinctive & sweet. Organizing this way helps readers use the plants in pleasing and predictable ways. Imagine frequently including cattail, nettles, pokeweed, marsh mallow, daylily, wild radish, and everlasting pea in your meal planning knowing that you acquired these plants from your own foraging adventures. There is also a section devoted to identifying and knowing poison hemlock, often confused with wild carrot in certain stages of development. John Kallas and his Wild Food Adventure book series are here to help you learn quickly, process intelligently, and genuinely enjoy what you are eating.

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  Diabetes - A History of Race &...

  Arleen Marcia Tuchman

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  Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States.Beginning in the late nineteenth century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middle class whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labeled most at risk for developing diabetes, and that such claims have reflected and perpetuated troubling assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class. She describes how diabetes underwent a mid-century transformation in the public's eye from being a disease of wealth and "civilization" to one of poverty and "primitive" populations.In tracing this cultural history, Tuchman argues that shifting understandings of diabetes reveal just as much about scientific and medical beliefs as they do about the cultural, racial, and economic milieus of their time.

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  Dividend Investment - A Simple...

  Alex Nolan

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  Dividend investing is investing in a longstanding company that has a lot of surplus with their profits. It is not as simple as that, though. The company is always one that puts some of their profits back into the investors and gives them a percentage of a portion of the profits. If that sounds like another name for a small number, it’s not. Companies that make billions of dollars in profits each year end up paying their investors millions when it comes to dividend investing.  
  Whether you are a beginner or you are already investing, this book is meant for you. There is a lot of information contained here that will be able to help you get the help that you need with it. Read on to learn everything about choosing an investment opportunity, how yields work and even how to balance your portfolio. Once you have finished reading the book, you will have a clear idea of what dividend investing is, what it means to you and how it can help you out. You may even be able to consider yourself a pro at dividend investing after you have read the book and learned everything that I have to offer about dividend investing.  
  If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels, work less, make more money, and reinvent life for yourself as a rich person with plenty of time for yourself, then you need to scroll back up to the top and buy this book now!

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  Unleash Your Brain Power as You Age

  Ph.D. Michael Gelb

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  Unlike our knees and hips, our brains improve with age. This dialogue includes: neuroplasticity, how improving our brain power can prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, why optimism is good for the brain and enhances resilience, the benefits of challenging the brain to do something new, the benefits of meditation on the brain.

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  The Repairman

  Harry Harrison

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  The repairman—A sci-fi story about a lighthouse, lizard like life forms, the lighthouse repairman, and a robot... My boss leaned back, wiped his hands on his handkerchief and gave me Lecture Forty-four on Company Duty and My Troubles. 'This department is officially called Maintenance and Repair, when it really should be called trouble-shooting. Hyperspace beacons are made to last forever—or damn close to it. When one of them breaks down, it is never an accident, and repairing the thing is never a matter of just plugging in a new part.' He was telling me—the guy who did the job while he sat back on his fat paycheck in an air-conditioned office.

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  My Lobotomy - A Memoir

  Howard Dully, Charles Fleming

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  A gut-wrenching memoir by a man who was lobotomized at the age of twelve. 
  Assisted by journalist/novelist Charles Fleming, Howard Dully recounts a family tragedy whose Sophoclean proportions he could only sketch in his powerful 2005 broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. 
  "In 1960," he writes, "I was given a transorbital, or 'ice pick' lobotomy. My stepmother arranged it. My father agreed to it. Dr. Walter Freeman, the father of the American lobotomy, told me he was going to do some 'tests.' It took ten minutes and cost two hundred dollars." Fellow doctors called Freeman's technique barbaric: an ice pick-like instrument was inserted about three inches into each eye socket and twirled to sever connections from the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain. The procedure was intended to help curb a variety of psychoses by muting emotional responses, but sometimes it irreversibly reduced patients to a childlike state or (in 15 percent of the operations Freeman performed) killed them outright. Dully's ten-minute "test" did neither, but in some ways it had a far crueler result, since it didn't end the unruly behavior that had set his stepmother against him to begin with. 
  "I spent the next forty years in and out of insane asylums, jails, and halfway houses," he tells us. "I was homeless, alcoholic, and drug-addicted. I was lost." From all accounts, there was no excuse for the lobotomy. Dully had never been "crazy," and his (not very) bad behavior sounds like the typical acting-up of a child in desperate need of affection. His stepmother responded with unrelenting abuse and neglect, and his father allowed her to demonize his son and never admitted his complicity in the lobotomy; Freeman capitalized on their monumental dysfunction. It's a tale of epic horror, and while Dully's courage in telling it inspires awe, listeners are left to speculate about what drove supposedly responsible adults to such unconscionable acts.

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