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  The Autumn Ghost - How the...

  Hannah Wunsch

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  Americans knew polio as the "summer plague." In countries further North, however, the virus arrived later in the year. It was described by one writer as "the autumn ghost." 
   
   
   
  Intensive care units and mechanical ventilation are the crucial foundation of modern medical care: without them, the appalling death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic would be even higher. In The Autumn Ghost, Dr. Hannah Wunsch traces the origins of these two innovations back to a polio epidemic in the autumn of 1952. Drawing together testimony from doctors, nurses, medical students, and patients, Wunsch relates a gripping tale of an epidemic that changed the world. 
   
   
   
  Wunsch tells the true story of how insiders and iconoclasts came together in one overwhelmed hospital in Copenhagen to save the lives of many polio patients dying of respiratory failure. Their radical advances in care marked a turning point in the treatment of patients around the world—from the rise of life support and the creation of intensive care units to the evolution of rehabilitation medicine. 
   
   
   
  The Autumn Ghost will leave listeners in awe of the courage of those who battled the polio epidemic, and grateful for the modern medical care they pioneered.

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  Curious Species - How Animals...

  Whitney Barlow Robles

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  Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment—a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped its tentacles around the globe. Whitney Barlow Robles makes animals the unruly protagonists of eighteenth-century science through journeys to four spaces and ecological zones: the ocean, the underground, the curiosity cabinet, and the field. Her forays reveal a forgotten lineage of empirical inquiry, one that forced researchers to embrace uncertainty. This tumultuous era in the history of human-animal encounters still haunts modern biologists and ecologists as they who struggle to fathom animals today. 
   
   
    
  In an eclectic fusion of history and nature writing, Robles alternates between careful historical investigations and probing personal narratives. These excavations of the past and present of distinct nonhuman creatures reveal the animal foundations of human knowledge and show why tackling our current environmental crisis first requires looking back in time.

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  American Disgust - Racism...

  Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer

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  American Disgust shows how perceptions of disgust and fears of contamination are rooted in the country's history of colonialism and racism. Drawing on colonial, corporate, and medical archives, Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer argues that microbial medicine is closely entwined with changing cultural experiences of digestion, excrement, and disgust that are inextricably tied to the creation of whiteness. 
   
   
   
  Ranging from nineteenth-century colonial encounters with Native people to John Harvey Kellogg's ideas around civilization and bowel movements to mid-twentieth-century diet and parenting advice books, Wolf-Meyer analyzes how embedded racist histories of digestion and disgust permeate contemporary debates around fecal microbial transplants and other bacteriotherapeutic treatments for gastrointestinal disease. 
   
   
   
  At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion—what goes into the body and what comes out of it—create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it—personally, politically, and theoretically—opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.

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  Guided Meditation for Love

  Lightheart Hypnosis

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  Are you searching for a pathway to deeper connections and more meaningful relationships in your life? Do you long to experience the transformative power of love, both within yourself and with others? Can you envision a future where you navigate the complexities of love with grace, understanding, and compassion? 
  The journey to unlocking the boundless potential of love and cultivating more fulfilling relationships begins with the Guided Meditation for Love. 
  Can you picture a moment where you immerse yourself in a state of deep introspection, exploring the depths of your heart and soul to uncover the true essence of love? This transformative audio book is thoughtfully crafted to guide you on a journey of self-discovery and love cultivation, helping you foster a greater sense of love, compassion, and empathy within yourself and towards others. 
  Say goodbye to feelings of isolation and welcome a future where you radiate love and attract positive, fulfilling relationships into your life. This audio book isn't just a guide; it's your companion on the path to experiencing love in its purest form. 
  As you embark on this transformative journey, you'll uncover techniques to cultivate self-love, deepen your connections with others, and create a life filled with love, joy, and fulfillment. Imagine a future where love is not just a fleeting emotion but a guiding force in every aspect of your life. 
  The Guided Meditation for Love is your trusted ally in the quest for deeper connections and more meaningful relationships. Don't let love pass you by – take the first step toward a life filled with love and abundance today.

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  The Smart Nonprofit - Staying...

  Allison H. Fine, Beth Kanter

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  A pragmatic framework for nonprofit digital transformation that embraces the human-centered nature of your organization 
   
   
   
  In The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World, a team of dedicated nonprofit thought leaders delivers a discussion of the information and tools nonprofit staffers and board members need to effectively use artificial intelligence without alienating the human stakeholders and donors on whom they rely. 
   
   
   
  Each chapter of the book offers a narrative discussion of how AI affects a particular functional area in an organization that includes case studies and practical tips for the ethical use of AI. You'll discover explorations of: 
   
   
   
  ● The steps you need to take to become a smart nonprofit and how to effectively lead a digitally transformed organization 
   
   
   
  ● How to automate program delivery, fundraising, and the back office 
   
   
   
  ● Likely future developments in AI for nonprofit work, including a more diverse field of programmers and data scientists and data sovereignty 
   
   
   
  Perfect for nonprofit leaders, board members, employees, managers, and founders, The Smart Nonprofit also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the intersection of leadership and technology.

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  Technologies of Human Rights...

  James Dawes, Alexandra S. Moore

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  The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal privacy and dignity but also our collective survival. Technologies of Human Rights Representation brings together three fields of research critical to securing our future: changing technologies, human rights, and representation. For each of these fields, this book asks key questions: How can we open the black box of technological advances so that we can more fully understand their effects upon our lives? What can we do to make sure that these effects align with the values of human rights? And how does the way we talk about technology and rights—from military reports and corporate marketing to human rights reports and poetry—amplify or diminish our capacity both to understand and to control what happens next? Contributors from anthropology, communications, criminology, global studies, law, literary and cultural studies, and women and gender studies bring diverse methodological approaches to these crucial questions.

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