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  The Doc and the Duchess - The...

  Alexander W. Clowes

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  An “informative and enlightening” biography of a scientist who helped bring insulin to the world, and went on to become a prominent philanthropist (The Franklin Daily Journal). 
   
  George Henry Alexander Clowes was a pivotal figure in the development of the insulin program at the Eli Lilly Company. Through his leadership, scientists and clinicians at Lilly and the University of Toronto created a unique international team to develop and purify insulin and take the production of this life-saving agent to an industrial scale. 
   
  This biography, written by his grandson, presents his scientific achievements, and also takes note of his social and philanthropic contributions, which he shared with his wife, Edith. It tells the story of Clowes from his childhood in late Victorian England to his death at Woods Hole on Cape Cod in 1958. Educated in England and Germany, Clowes came to America to join a startup laboratory in Buffalo, where he conducted basic research on cancer and applied research on other disease-related problems. Assuming the position of head of research at Lilly, Clowes was at the center of one of the great discoveries that changed the course of medical history and offered new life to millions of individuals with diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Clowes was also instrumental in the development of other commercial pharmaceutical advances. Devoted to a number of philanthropic causes, Clowes and Edith contributed greatly to the cultural life of his adopted country, a contribution that continues to this day.

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  Watts in the Desert - Pioneering...

  Lex Fullarton

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  This unique book offers an introduction to the development of renewable energy in Australia in the early 2000s. Examining the rise of dispersed, embedded solar energy systems in Western Australia, it looks specifically at the Solex project in Carnarvon, WA, which pioneered the harvest of solar energy from what was once considered the pursuit of the lunatic fringes of society to a viable energy source for mainstream society and industry.
  
  In this fascinating case study Fullarton shows how a practical demonstration of innovative existing technology can have an incredible impact on a national scale. The ideas behind the Solex project slowly became adopted by the broader community and were eventually taken up enthusiastically by the general population of Australia.
  
  Analyzing government and utility policies throughout the 2000s, the book traces how ambivalence was followed by wholehearted incentives to the roll-out of alternative energy and subsequent active opposition to alternative energy in favor of traditional fossil fuel as government philosophies changed.

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  The Body Has a Mind of Its Own -...

  Matthew Blakeslee, Sandra Blakeslee

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  Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? Why do you duck your head when you drive into an underground parking garage? Why are your kids so enthralled by video games?The answers to these questions can be found in a new understanding of how your brain interacts with your body, the space around your body, and the social world. Every point on your body, each internal organ, and every point in space out to the end of your fingertips is mapped inside your brain. Your ability to sense, move, and act in the physical world arises from a rich network of flexible body maps distributed throughout your brain.The science of body maps has far-reaching applications. It can help people lose weight, improve their ability to play a sport, or assist recovery from stroke. It points the way to new treatments for anorexia and phantom limbs. It helps explain out-of-body experiences, auras, placebos, and healing touch. It provides a new way to understand human emotions from love to hate, lust to disgust, pride to humiliation.With scientific discoveries from every corner of the globe, Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee have written a compelling narrative that is positively mind-bending and that will appeal to readers of Sharon Begley's Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.

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  Fixer-Upper - How to Repair...

  Jenny Schuetz

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  Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems.And this divide deepens other inequalities. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in.Public policies enacted by federal, state, and local governments helped create and reinforce the bad housing outcomes endured by too many people. Taxes, zoning, institutional discrimination, and the location and quality of schools, roads, public transit, and other public services are among the policies that created inequalities in the nation's housing patterns.Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.

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  Postmodern Philosophy and the...

  Dorothea E. Olkowski

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  A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness: “Beautifully written, engaging throughout, and captivating” (Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University).   What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that mathematics itself—the historic link between science and philosophy—plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields.   Focusing on language, its usage and expression of worldview, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.

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  Dr Leon's Re-Inventing Weight Loss

  Dr. Leon Massage

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  Dr Leon's Re-Inventing Weight Loss is a non-fiction self-help book that will teach you how to lose weight fast, even if you have struggled with losing weight in the past. This book will show you how to kick-start your weight loss, speed-up your metabolism, and prevent developing chrondiseases like diabetes and heart disease. You will dicover why you have had trouble losing weight in the past and how overcome your genetic predisposition to weight gain. Dr Leon understands the frustration of trying lose weight, as he  had to deal with all the diet confusion and misinformation he encountered as a young man, when he was dealing with his own weight issues. He was inspired to publish his weight loss techniques and insights to help others avoid the pain and frustration of following bad advice and jumping from one fad diet after another.In this book, Dr Leon will de-bunk the diet lies and myths that are often an obstacle to your weight loss success. You won't believe how many of your weight loss beliefs are totally wrong. Dr Leon’s book is life changing. It is much more than a diet. It is a lifestyle transformation. It provides an uncomplicated set of guidelines that will help you to boost your metabolism, while still eating normal, healthy food. It will motivate and empower you to take control of you weight and your health.  Dr Leon discovered that many people gave up on dieting or regained their lost weight because much of their eating was not in response to hunger; it was in respone to stress, boredom, cravings, and many other emotional issues. In order to lose weight and keep it off, the non-hunger eating has to be recognised and eradicated. Dr Leon will share his weight loss secrets with you, as well as the special techniques he has develeoped to help control cravings, emotional eating, and bad eating habits. You will discover how to  finally achieve a lean and healthy body, health and vitality, and a new self confidence.

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