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  Here Be Dragons - One Man's...

  Webster Golinkin

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  Here Be Dragons takes us on one’s man’s quest to make healthcare more accessible and affordable for all. Web Golinkin began his healthcare leadership journey by starting the first 24-hour cable TV network dedicated to health, America’s Health Network, which was eventually sold to Fox. He then helped to revolutionize healthcare with RediClinic, one of the first companies to put healthcare clinics inside drug, grocery, and big box stores, and was later sold to Rite Aid. More recently, Web was CEO of FastMed, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing operators of urgent care clinics.But this is not a book about unbridled success. It is the true story of what happens when you are bold enough to try to transform a hidebound, multi-trillion-dollar industry. Retail clinics are now a permanent part of the healthcare landscape, but getting there did not come without a fight and required all the passion, endurance, and street-smarts that Web could muster at every step along the way.

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  Paleozoology - Prehistoric Life:...

  Mike Crawford

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  Paleozoology is the study of ancient animals, examining their evolution, behavior, and interactions within prehistoric ecosystems. As a subfield of paleontology, it focuses specifically on the fossilized remains of animals, reconstructing their lives and understanding their role in the history of life on Earth. By analyzing fossilized bones, shells, footprints, and even traces of ancient DNA, paleozoologists uncover details about species that lived millions of years ago. 
  The significance of paleozoology extends beyond mere curiosity about prehistoric creatures. It provides crucial insights into how life evolved, how ecosystems changed over time, and how past extinctions shaped the modern world. Studying ancient animals helps scientists recognize patterns in evolution and extinction, offering valuable knowledge about biodiversity and climate change. These lessons are particularly relevant today as humanity faces environmental challenges that threaten species survival. 
  Paleozoologists employ various methods to study prehistoric life. Fossil excavation is a fundamental aspect, requiring careful digging and preservation techniques to recover delicate remains. Once fossils are collected, researchers use radiometric dating to determine their age, comparing them with geological layers for context. Comparative anatomy is another essential tool, allowing scientists to reconstruct ancient creatures by comparing their fossils to modern animals with similar structures. In recent years, advanced imaging technology, such as CT scans, has enabled paleozoologists to examine fossils in greater detail, even uncovering soft tissues that rarely fossilize.

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  The Language of Climate Politics...

  Genevieve Guenther

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  In an illuminating analysis, Dr. Genevieve Guenther shows that the climate debate is not, in fact, neatly polarized, with Republicans obstructing climate action and Democrats advancing climate solutions. Partisans on the right and the left often repeat the same fossil-fuel talking points, and this repetition produces a centrist consensus upholding the status quo, even as global heating accelerates. 
   
   
   
  Weaving this analysis through fascinating critical histories of the terms that dominate the language of climate politics—the words we, alarmist, cost, growth, "India and China," innovation, and resilience—Dr. Guenther shows how this consensus is established. Fossil-fuel interests weaponize the discourses of science, economics, and activism, co-opting and twisting climate language to help greenwash their plans for ongoing extraction. But all too often climate scientists, economists, and even advocates will unwittingly echo the false and dangerous assumptions of their supposed political opponents. This apparent agreement between foes, filtered through the news media, not only influences our commonsense yet mistaken views about the climate crisis but also enables powerful decisionmakers to justify the corporate and policy actions that threaten us all. Revealing this dynamic, Guenther shows how to transform it.

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  All The Babes Of My Life - A...

  Jacqueline Hope

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  I have been truly blessed. Working as midwife in four different countries across the world, I have spent my life empowering young women to become mothers, bringing beautiful babies into the world in their own awesome power. This book is a memoir of inspiring stories of women who have gone against the system and had amazing birthing experiences.

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  The Next Supercontinent -...

  Ross Mitchell

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  You've heard of Pangea, the single landmass that broke apart some 175 million years ago to give us our current continents, but what about its predecessors, Rodinia or Columbia? These "supercontinents" from Earth's past provide evidence that land repeatedly joins and separates. While scientists debate what that next supercontinent will look like—and what to name it—they all agree: one is coming. 
   
   
   
  In this engaging work, geophysicist Ross Mitchell invites listeners to remote (and sometimes treacherous) lands for evidence of past supercontinents, delves into the phenomena that will birth the next, and presents the case for the future supercontinent of Amasia, defined by the merging of North America and Asia. Introducing listeners to plate tectonic theory through fieldwork adventures and accessible scientific descriptions, Mitchell considers flows deep in the Earth's mantle to explain Amasia's future formation and shows how this developing theory can illuminate other planetary mysteries. He then poses the inevitable question: how can humanity survive the intervening 200 million years necessary to see Amasia? 
   
   
   
  An expert on the supercontinent cycle, Mitchell offers listeners a front-row seat to a slow-motion mystery and an ongoing scientific debate.

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  Transform - Mayo Clinic Platform...

  Paul Cerrato, John D. Halamka

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  Imagine a future where your smartphone could save your life, or an AI-enabled ultrasound device can make scanning more accurate. Healthcare organizations and experts around the world are coming together to transform how care is delivered. Authors Paul Cerrato, MA, and John D. Halamka, MD, MS, leaders in data science and healthcare strategy at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, explore these ideas and Mayo Clinic Platform, the first comprehensive platform in healthcare that envisions a world where personalized, predictive, and innovative care is accessible to all. Today’s digital tools include apps that detect abnormal heart rhythms, skin cancer, and other life-threatening conditions. They can identify early-onset diabetes and improve the detection rate of colorectal cancer. High-quality, at-home cancer care is becoming a reality. Welcome to the new era of digital health, where advanced technology and big data revolutionize the way you and your loved ones receive care.Mayo Clinic Platform is the first AI-enabled comprehensive healthcare platform aimed at making top-tier healthcare available to everyone—no matter where they are—through cutting-edge data science, analytics, and innovative business applications. This ambitious project, targeted at solving some of the most pressing healthcare issues, includes healthcare service providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms, health tech startups, and patients located on four continents. Touching approximately 56 million patient lives in 2024, the Platform’s groundbreaking efforts are already making a global impact. Using Platform architecture, Mayo Clinic and its partners are revolutionizing the practice of medicine, resulting in faster, more accurate and more efficient diagnosis, improved treatment approaches, and quicker delivery of new cures to patients, with more exciting developments on the horizon. Welcome to the journey.

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