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  West Nile Virus - Basics to...

  Dean Stratton

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  West Nile Virus - Basics to Mastery guides you from first encounter with a mosquito-borne flaviviral infection to confident, nuanced decision-making. Clear explanations unpack how West Nile circulates between birds and Culex mosquitoes, why humans and horses are usually dead-end hosts, and what drives the spectrum from silent infection to life-threatening neuroinvasive disease. Because there is currently no licensed human vaccine and treatment is mainly supportive, you will see why prevention hinges on reducing mosquito exposure and recognizing early warning signs in those at higher risk. Along the way you follow realistic late-summer scenarios—from a young adult with West Nile fever to an older patient with encephalitis—to see how epidemiology, clinical clues, and basic lab data fit together. Designed for students, clinicians, veterinarians, and public health professionals, this book emphasizes evidence-based practice, practical prevention strategies, and respectful communication with worried families while always reminding readers that it cannot replace individualized medical advice from qualified providers. 
  ✓ Stepwise introduction to virology, immunology, and vector biology tailored to West Nile rather than generic mosquito-borne infections. 
  ✓ Clear algorithms for triage, diagnostic testing, and interpretation, including when to suspect neuroinvasive disease and involve specialists. 
  ✓ Up-to-date synthesis of global and regional epidemiology, risk factors, and seasonal patterns, with tips for reading surveillance reports critically. 
  ✓ Practical prevention playbook covering personal protection, household mosquito control, and community-level vector management strategies. 
  ✓ Ready-to-use teaching tools: summary tables, memory aids, and case-based questions that reinforce learning from basics through advanced mastery.

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  Breaking the Medicine Monopolies...

  Alfred Engelberg

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  Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a lawyer's personal narrative of the events that led to the widespread use of low-cost generic drugs and the current drug price crisis. 
   
   
   
  Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a personal narrative about Alfred Engelberg's fifty years of legal work in the drug industry. He takes you inside the mysterious world of patents to provide a basic understanding of how drug makers have gamed the laws governing brand and generic competition, misused patents to prolong monopolies, and delayed generic competition on old drugs instead of focusing on discovering new ones. In this book, Engelberg provides listeners with an understanding of how the growing use of low-cost generic drugs led to the highest prices in the world for new drugs, and how middlemen in the drug distribution chain have exploited a lack of price transparency in order to earn excessive profits. Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand how ill-considered policy decisions and an inept patent system led to unaffordable prices for new drugs, and what can be done to correct the problem.

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  The Titanium Economy - How...

  Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra,...

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  The future of the American economy is hiding in an unlikely place: the manufacturing sector While Silicon Valley titans dominate headlines, many of the fastest-growing, most profitable companies in the United States are firms you’ve likely never heard of, such as HEICO, Trex, and Casella. These booming companies belong to a burgeoning sector—industrial tech—that offers surprising hope to workers, consumers, and investors alike.  Their role: to make a range of products—aerospace parts, for example, or recycled plastic lumber—that quietly form the backbone of America’s biggest industries. In an age of instability, industrial tech is a cornerstone of our economic future. In this book, McKinsey veterans Asutosh Padhi, Gaurav Batra, and Nick Santhanam reveal the “titanium economy,” a modern, reinvented industrial sector complete with high-paying, domestic jobs;, soaring stock prices;, and critical infrastructure. They dispel the myth that the best of American manufacturing is behind us and illuminate an opportunity for a brighter future—if we can seize it.

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  Good Grief - On Loving Pets Here...

  E.B. Bartels

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  An unexpected, poignant, and personal account of loving and losing pets, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed. 
  E.B. Bartels has had a lot of pets—dogs, birds, fish, tortoises. As varied a bunch as they are, they’ve taught her one universal truth: to own a pet is to love a pet, and to own a pet is also—with rare exception—to lose that pet in time. 
  But while we have codified traditions to mark the passing of our fellow humans, most cultures don’t have the same for pets. Bartels takes us from Massachusetts to Japan, from ancient Egypt to the modern era, in search of the good pet death. We meet veterinarians, archaeologists, ministers, and more, offering an idiosyncratic, inspiring array of rituals—from the traditional (scattering ashes, commissioning a portrait), to the grand (funereal processions, mausoleums), to the unexpected (taxidermy, cloning). The central lesson: there is no best practice when it comes to mourning your pet, except to care for them in death as you did in life, and find the space to participate in their end as fully as you can. 
  Punctuated by wry, bighearted accounts of Bartels’s own pets and their deaths, Good Grief is a cathartic companion through loving and losing our animal family. 
  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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  Committed - Dispatches from a...

  Adam Stern

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  Grey’s Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist’s charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new and initially intimidating classmates were high achievers from the Ivy League and other elite universities around the nation. Faculty raved about the group as though the residency program had won the lottery, nicknaming them “The Golden Class,” but would Stern ever prove that he belonged? In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally challenging lessons he and his fellow doctors learned while studying the human condition, and ultimately, the value of connection. The narrative focuses on these residents, their growth as doctors, and the life choices they make as they try to survive their grueling four-year residency. Rich with drama, insight, and emotion, Stern shares engrossing stories of life on the psychiatric wards, as well as the group’s experiences as they grapple with impostor syndrome and learn about love and loss. Most importantly, as they study how to help distressed patients in search of a better life, they discover the meaning of failure and the preciousness of success.  Stern’s growth as a doctor, and as a man, have readers rooting for him and his patients, and ultimately find their own hearts fuller for having taken this journey with him.

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  LLC Beginner's Guide - The Most...

  Thomas Newton

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  Are you looking for a complete LLC set-up guide and want to make sure you do it right? 
  If you have decided to become your own boss and want to save money while setting up your own LLC, this book may be your perfect choice, so please keep reading… 
  LLC is undoubtedly the best structure for any business owner who wants a safe and easy to manage system to start, run, and own a successful business. This book will be your ideal money-saving partner and lead you through every single step to make sure you do it right.Check out what’s inside:Benefits of LLC for Small Business and why it is your best first choice for a perfect company structure?LLC Operating Agreement, what it is and what you need to know about it?How to Start an LLC? A simple way to start your own Limited Liability CompanyWhat are the differences between Corporation Inc and LLC, and why should you not consider both?Is an LLC the best for you and your business?How to Set Up Your Own LLC – a complete, step-by-step system to start and run your Limited CompanyCommon Mistakes and Pitfalls to Avoid When Forming an LLCAre you a property owner? This chapter is exclusive just for you!So much more! 
  And even if you have never been a business owner until now, don’t worry. This book will take you by the hand and lead you through every single step!So Don’t Wait, Scroll Up, Download this Audiobook, and Start Building the Steps Towards Success Today!

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