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  Nephrology - Kidney Health...

  Mike Crawford

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  The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs located on either side of the spine, just below the ribcage. Despite their small size, each roughly the size of a fist, they play a vital role in maintaining overall health. As part of the urinary system, the kidneys filter waste, balance bodily fluids, regulate blood pressure, and contribute to red blood cell production. Understanding how the kidneys function is crucial for appreciating their importance and recognizing potential health concerns. 
  Each kidney contains about a million tiny filtering units called nephrons. These nephrons work tirelessly to remove waste products and excess fluids from the blood, which are then excreted as urine. The kidneys also help maintain the body’s electrolyte balance by regulating levels of sodium, potassium, and calcium. This precise balance is essential for proper nerve and muscle function. Additionally, the kidneys produce hormones such as erythropoietin, which stimulates red blood cell production in the bone marrow, and renin, which helps regulate blood pressure. Without the kidneys' ability to perform these tasks, the body would struggle to maintain equilibrium, leading to serious health complications. 
  One of the kidneys' primary functions is detoxification. Every day, they filter around 50 gallons of blood, removing harmful substances such as urea, creatinine, and toxins that accumulate from food, medications, and metabolic processes. This filtration process ensures that waste products do not build up to dangerous levels in the bloodstream. When kidney function declines, these substances can accumulate, leading to symptoms like fatigue, swelling, and confusion.

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  Mystic Matter - The Strangest...

  Dirk Fallon

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  “Mystic Matter – The Strangest Stuff in Space” is an awe-inspiring deep dive into the bizarre and bewildering materials that make up our universe. This 3-in-1 collection takes you far beyond everyday matter into the heart of cosmic mystery, exploring the strangest and most elusive elements of existence. Through Mystical Matter, you’ll unravel the secrets of dark matter, antimatter, and strange particles that challenge the very rules of classical physics. Why can’t we see dark matter? What happens when antimatter collides with matter? These questions and more are explored in ways both captivating and understandable. 
  In Cosmic Alchemy, you’ll journey through the lifecycle of stars, watching them forge the elements in massive furnaces before dying in dramatic explosions that scatter their atomic creations across the cosmos. This book illuminates how the universe transforms—from hydrogen to gold—and reveals the mystical science behind the periodic table written in the stars. 
  Finally, The Quantum Darkness plunges into the smallest scales of existence, where particles pop in and out of reality and the vacuum of space is anything but empty. You’ll encounter quantum fluctuations, strange forces, and the very limits of our scientific understanding. 
  Whether you're a casual space enthusiast or a seasoned science lover, this book provides a thrilling, accessible, and mind-expanding tour of the most puzzling phenomena in modern astrophysics. Discover how the invisible shapes the visible, how stars play alchemist, and how our universe is woven together by forces still beyond our grasp. With rich insights and vivid explanations, Mystic Matter invites you to explore a universe far stranger—and more wondrous—than fiction.

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  Empower Your Nonprofit - Simple...

  Amy Neumann

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  Empower Your Nonprofit is a comprehensive, accessible, and highly practical guide to harnessing the power of emerging AI technologies in the nonprofit sector. This book delivers strategic research, tools, case studies, and advice to help nonprofits advance their missions through AI, with interviews, outlooks, testimonials, and quotes from nonprofit leaders and influencers in the AI industry delivering key insight to all listeners regardless of technical expertise. 
   
   
   
  Listeners will learn how to practically resolve the top ten most common nonprofit pain points through the utilization of AI, backed by current case studies of AI implementation for core nonprofit functions like fundraising, grants, marketing, and initiative event optimization. In this book, listeners will find information on the nonprofit sector's critical missions, success factors, challenges, and needs of today; AI as a way to automate inefficient internal processes, freeing talent to work on more inspired projects; and tools, tips, and tricks to get started with AI as soon as today. 
   
   
   
  Empower Your Nonprofit earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all nonprofit leaders and involved donors seeking a comprehensive step-by-step guidebook on how this exciting new technology can be leveraged for greater nonprofit success.

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  Care and Cure - An Introduction...

  Jacob Stegenga

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  The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences, and policies that are often complicated and controversial. Bringing much-needed clarity to the interplay of these diverse problems, Jacob Stegenga describes the core philosophical controversies underlying medicine in this unrivaled introduction to the field.The fourteen chapters in Care and Cure present and discuss conceptual, metaphysical, epistemological, and political questions that arise in medicine, buttressed with lively illustrative examples ranging from debates over the true nature of disease to the effectiveness of medical interventions and homeopathy. Poised to be the standard sourcebook for anyone seeking a comprehensive overview of the canonical concepts, current state, and cutting edge of this vital field, this concise introduction will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of medicine and philosophy.

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  Does Coffee Cause Cancer? - And...

  Dr. Christopher Labos

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  In this fascinating, refreshingly clarifying book about food, food myths, and how sloppy science perpetuates misconceptions about food, a medical doctor on his way to a conference gets drawn into conversations that answer the following questions:
  		
  		Does vitamin C prevent the common cold? And if it works, why does it only work in Canadian soldiers, ultramarathon runners, and skiers?
  		Was red meat really declared a carcinogen by the WHO? Does that mean I should become a vegetarian? And who decides what gets labeled as red meat and white meat?
  		Is salt really not that bad for you and did a group of researchers really want to experiment on prisoners to prove the point?
  		Does coffee cause cancer or heart attacks? Why did a California court say coffee needed a warning label?
  		Is red wine really good for your heart, and what makes the French Paradox such a paradox?
  		Why did the New England Journal of Medicine link eating chocolate with winning a Nobel Prize?
  		Why were eggs once bad for you but now good for you again? Does that mean I don’t need to worry about cholesterol?
  		Should I be taking vitamin D?

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  The Driving Machine - A Design...

  Witold Rybczynski

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  In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as "one of the best writers on design working today" by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and gearheads who created them. Delving into more than 170 years of ingenuity in design, technology, and engineering, he takes us from Carl Benz's three-wheel motorcar in 1855 to the present-day shift to electric cars. Along the way, he looks at the emergence of mass production with Henry Ford's Model T; the Golden Age of American car design and the rise of car culture; postwar European subcompacts typified by the Mini Cooper; and the long tradition of the streamlined and elegant sports car. 
   
   
   
  Rybczynski explores how cars have been reflections of national character (the charming Italian Fiat Cinquecento), icons of a subculture (the VW bus for American hippies), and even emblems of an era (the practical Chrysler minivan). He explains key developments in automotive technology, including the electric starter, rack-and-pinion steering, and disc brakes, bringing to light how the modern automobile is the result of more than a century of trial and error. And he weaves in charming accounts of the many cars he's owned and driven, starting with his first—the iconic Volkswagen Beetle. The Driving Machine is a fascinating history of design.

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