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  Paging God - Religion in the...

  Wendy Cadge

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  While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how do today’s technologically sophisticated health care organizations address spirituality and faith? 
    
  Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains across the United States and close observation of their daily routines, Wendy Cadge takes readers inside major academic medical institutions to explore how today’s doctors and hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and spirituality. From chapels to intensive care units to the morgue, hospital caregivers speak directly in these pages about how religion is part of their daily work in visible and invisible ways. In Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, Cadge shifts attention away from the ongoing controversy about whether faith and spirituality should play a role in health care and back to the many ways that these powerful forces already function in healthcare today.

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  Healing and Cancer - A Guide to...

  MD Alyssa McManamon, MD Wayne B....

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  Healing and Cancer ushers in a revolutionary approach to oncology. 
   
   
   
  Structured to Guide and Empower: 
   
   
   
  ● Navigating the Cancer Journey: From initial diagnosis through the continuum of care to post treatment, this section offers strategies to support healing at every stage, from diagnosis through treatment and into survivorship and beyond, tailored for both people with cancer and their caregivers. 
   
   
   
  ● The Philosophy and Science of Whole Person Care: Explore the foundational concepts behind a more compassionate approach to cancer treatment. Understand the compelling research that supports treating the whole person to enhance the effectiveness of conventional therapies. 
   
   
   
  ● Implementing Whole Person Care: Access an array of practical tools and resources designed to seamlessly integrate whole person care into healthcare settings, enriching the patient's treatment experience and supporting healthcare professionals. 
   
   
   
  With advances in science showing that the environment around a cancer cell contributes and plays a critical role in the disease, this essential work illustrates how such care improves patient outcomes and enhances the satisfaction and wellbeing of healthcare providers.

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  Exobiology - Life Beyond Earth

  Mike Crawford

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  The origins of life on Earth remain one of the most profound scientific mysteries. While no definitive answer exists, several compelling theories attempt to explain how life first emerged from non-living matter. Understanding these origins is crucial to the study of exobiology, as it provides insight into how life might arise elsewhere in the universe. 
  One widely accepted hypothesis is abiogenesis, which suggests that life arose from simple organic compounds through natural chemical processes. The famous Miller-Urey experiment in 1953 demonstrated that amino acids, the building blocks of life, could form under conditions similar to those of early Earth. These experiments, combined with discoveries of organic molecules in space, suggest that life’s precursors may have been abundant in the early solar system. 
  The conditions on early Earth were vastly different from today. Around 4 billion years ago, the planet was a harsh, volcanic world with a thick atmosphere composed of methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water vapor. Lightning, ultraviolet radiation, and hydrothermal vents may have provided the necessary energy to drive complex chemical reactions, leading to the formation of self-replicating molecules like RNA. The RNA world hypothesis proposes that RNA, due to its ability to both store genetic information and catalyze chemical reactions, was a key player in the transition from simple molecules to living cells.

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  Fluid Mechanics - A Very Short...

  Eric Lauga

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  Fluid mechanics is an important branch of physics concerned with the way in which fluids, such as liquids and gases, behave when in motion and at rest. A quintessential interdisciplinary field of science, it interacts with many other scientific disciplines, from chemistry and biology to mathematics and engineering. 
   
   
   
  This Very Short Introduction presents the field of fluid mechanics by focusing on the underlying physical ideas and using everyday phenomena to demonstrate them, from dripping taps to swimming ducks. Eric Lauga shows how this set of fundamental physical concepts can be applied to a wide range of flow behaviors and highlights the role of fluid motion in both the natural and industrial worlds. This book also considers future applications of fluid mechanics in science.

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  Counting: Humans History and the...

  Benjamin Wardhaugh

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  WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING COME FROM? HOW HAS IT SHAPED SOCIETIES ALONG THE WAY? AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? 
  Counting is an innovative, erudite, world-wrapping journey through humanity’s marvellous ability to impose numbers on things. Acclaimed historian and mathematician Benjamin Wardhaugh draws on stories from the Stone Age to cyberspace in pursuit of the elusive, fascinating, endlessly diverse history of human counting. 
  Starting with the roots of counting in human brains, bodies and environments, Wardhaugh tours us around the world and through time while exploring the different flavours of counting that have developed over millennia. We meet the makers of bead necklaces in ancient South Africa, the inventors of writing in the world ’ s first metropolis, and the ‘counter culture’ of classical Athens. We see counting used – and changed – by Indian scholars, Chinese peasants and Papuan shopkeepers; we meet the distinctive numerate agendas of Mayan kings, US governments and Korean vloggers. 
  Weaving these stories together, Wardhaugh shows how cultures have shaped counting, and how counting has shaped culture, in a rich tapestry spanning thousands of years. This is the vast story of human attempts to find some order in an unruly world; or, perhaps, to impose on a reluctant world the order that humans find within themselves. It is a history as wide, deep and tangled as that of humanity itself 
  This best non-fiction book by Wardhaugh is a deep dive into the philosophy and technology behind counting. His teaching style and comprehensive study of mathematics make this book a standout in its genre. 
  For fans of David Spiegelhalter (The Art of Uncertainty), Cat Bohannon (Eve), Rory Stewart (The Marches), Anne Applebaum (Autocracy, Inc), and Peter Frankopan (The New Silk Roads). 
  HarperCollins 2024

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  What the River Knows - Essays...

  Michael Engelhard

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  Edward Abbey, who never much liked Alaska, called it "our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state." To others, it has been a cure for despair. When Michael Engelhard moved to Fairbanks more than three decades ago, he was a cheechako, a subarctic tenderfoot. Gathering skills and experiences the hard way, he attained "Sourdough" status while realizing there would always be more to learn, see, and do in the land of midnight sun and auroras. 
   
   
   
  En route, Engelhard suffered frostbite, stubborn yaks, grizzly charges, trophy hunters, cold-water immersion, heartbreak, incontinent raptors, one pesky squirrel, and honeymooners from abroad. He tried to rescue a raven and explored Arctic dunes and a glacier's blue heart, and his own as he mingled with caribou on their epic journeys.

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