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  Disease and Discovery - A...

  Elizabeth Fee

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  The story of a world-renowned institution and “a broad investigation of early twentieth-century public health ideology in America” (Journal of the American Medical Association). 
   
  At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists—there was little agreement about the skills and knowledge necessary for practice. In Disease and Discovery, Elizabeth Fee examines the conflicting ideas about public health’s proper subject and scope and its search for a coherent professional unity and identity. She draws on the debates and decisions surrounding the establishment of what was initially known as the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first independent institution for public health research and education, to crystallize the fundamental questions of the field. 
   
  Many of the issues of public health education in the early twentieth century are still debated today. What is the proper relationship of public health to medicine? What is the relative importance of biomedical, environmental, and sociopolitical approaches to public health? Should schools of public health emphasize research skills over practical training? Should they provide advanced training and credentials for the few or simpler educational courses for the many? 
   
  Fee explores the many dimensions of these issues in the context of the founding of the Johns Hopkins school. She details the efforts to define the school’s structure and purpose, select faculty and students, and organize the curriculum, and she follows the school’s growth and adaptation to the changing social environment through the beginning of World War II. As Fee demonstrates, not simply in its formation but throughout its history, the School of Hygiene served as a crucible for the forces shaping the public health profession as a whole.

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  A Robot Wrote This Poetry Book

  Simons Foster

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  To bring issues to light of how startling computer based intelligence is, I'm distributing a whole book of verse composed by fake intelligence.The stunning part is that these sonnets are very great, enjoyable to pay attention to, and man-made intelligence has some insane opinions.In this book, I give simulated intelligence 1) points for verse 2) examination and critique of the poetry.Behold the engaging dread of verse by GPT-3, an OpenAI enormous scope language-age model. 
  About me, the creator: I'm a specialist in the tech business and a media business person. I'm profoundly terrified by the present and future prospects of man-made consciousness. I additionally figure man-made intelligence can be very entertaining, as you'll find in this book.

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  Bioneers Series 1-01: Working...

  Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons,...

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  "The Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature" introduces us to the past half-century's most visionary designers, practitioners and pioneers of sustainable living. Inspired by the philosophies of the Deep Ecology movement, the Bioneers are heroic examples of people living as if nature mattered.

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  Make Money 3 Books in 1: It...

  Phil Nolan

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  Are you stuck in the rat race? Do you want to create an online business and live your best life? Then this book is for you! 
  Thanks to the incredible strategies presented in this book, you will learn the best and most powerful business models to make money and create abundance in your life. You see, most people go through their day exchanging their time for money and having a miserable life which they are cannot change.  
  But you are different. The fact that you are looking for practical solutions to your financial problems means that you are on the right path to success, and this book will make sure that you get real results very fast. Thousands of students have achieved their goals by mastering the must-have business models presented in the book, which go into the little details that can make or break your business while providing actionable steps. 
  Here is what you will learn:The right mindset to achieve and live the passive income lifestyleThe four big business models that have guaranteed the success of thousands of students14 online business that you can start today with easy step-by-step adviceHow to make money with day tradingThe power of royalties and how to establish a profitable royalty-based business on AmazonHow to become successful with network marketingHow to leverage your passion to create an online businessMuch more! 
  Every chapter goes into actionable strategies that will allow you to set up your first business in just a day.  
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  Incompleteness - The Proof and...

  Rebecca Goldstein

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  "A gem . . . An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought." —Steven PinkerProbing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.

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  Kivalina - A Climate Change Story

  Christine Shearer

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  The true story of an Alaska Native village destroyed by flooding and erosion caused by climate change—and how they fought for help. 
   
  Warming Arctic temperatures have been making coastal areas of Alaska increasingly uninhabitable. In 2008, the small Alaska Native village of Kivalina filed a legal claim against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies for damaging their homeland and creating a false debate around climate change. Academic and former journalist Christine Shearer explores the history leading up to the lawsuit, its connections to disaster management and adaptation, and its relationship to past misinformation campaigns involving lead, asbestos, and tobacco. Kivalina’s struggle for safe relocation, the book argues, is part of our common struggle to acknowledge and address climate change before it is too late. 
   
  2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award (Honorable Mention) 
   
  Praise for Kivalina 
   
  “Moving, infuriating, ominous . . . . Shearer provides an impressively concise and comprehensive history of the growth of corporate power in America; its influence on, entwinement with, and corruption of government; [and] corporate obfuscation of industrial hazards.” —Publisher’s Weekly 
   
  “Best book of 2011: one of the most timely and important books to be published in 2011—and in the past decade.” —Jeff Biggers, The Huffington Post 
   
  “In novelistic detail, Shearer recounts the science, politics, legal battles, and human experience at one of the leading edges of climate change impact. In doing so, she . . . tells the story not just of one village in Alaska, but of us all.” —The Society of Environmental Journalists

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