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  Vaccine Nation - America’s...

  Elena Conis

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  With employers offering free flu shots and pharmacies expanding into one-stop shops to prevent everything from shingles to tetanus, vaccines are ubiquitous in contemporary life. The past fifty years have witnessed an enormous upsurge in vaccines and immunization in the United States: American children now receive more vaccines than any previous generation, and laws requiring their immunization against a litany of diseases are standard. Yet, while vaccination rates have soared and cases of preventable infections have plummeted, an increasingly vocal cross section of Americans have questioned the safety and necessity of vaccines. In Vaccine Nation, Elena Conis explores this complicated history and its consequences for personal and public health. 
  Vaccine Nation opens in the 1960s, when government scientists—triumphant following successes combating polio and smallpox—considered how the country might deploy new vaccines against what they called the “milder” diseases, including measles, mumps, and rubella. In the years that followed, Conis reveals, vaccines fundamentally changed how medical professionals, policy administrators, and ordinary Americans came to perceive the diseases they were designed to prevent. She brings this history up to the present with an insightful look at the past decade’s controversy over the implementation of the Gardasil vaccine for HPV, which sparked extensive debate because of its focus on adolescent girls and young women. Through this and other examples, Conis demonstrates how the acceptance of vaccines and vaccination policies has been as contingent on political and social concerns as on scientific findings. 
  By setting the complex story of American vaccination within the country’s broader history, Vaccine Nation goes beyond the simple story of the triumph of science over disease and provides a new and perceptive account of the role of politics and social forces in medicine.

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  Living Medicine - Don Thomas...

  Dr. Fred Appelbaum

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  A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery. In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease—like leukemia, lymphoma, and sickle-cell anemia—forever changing treatment for some of the deadliest illnesses. His feats were extraordinary, earning him a Nobel Prize, and the cascade of treatments he inspired have reshaped and will continue to reshape the practice of clinical medicine. Yet no one has ever written Thomas’s courageous story. Dr. Frederick R. Appelbaum, a member of Thomas’s research team, does so for the first time in Living Medicine: Don Thomas, Marrow Transplantation, and the Cell Therapy Revolution. Bone marrow transplantation has now saved over a million lives, but when Thomas first had the idea, he was met with disbelief by the scientific community. Appelbaum, informed by decades in the field and personal connection with Thomas, tells us the secrets to Thomas’s success: his unique characteristics, how he created an effective team of researchers, and how he overcame the technical obstacles of marrow transplantation. Appelbaum tells a bigger story, too, of the scientific and societal implications of this achievement, which are critical for scientific and lay readers alike so that we all might be better informed of how far our medical progress has come and will go.

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  Optimizing Database Management...

  Chloe Anderson

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  Optimizing Database Management Systems is a complete book for professionals and database management fans who want to get better at what they do. It can be used to make database management systems work better from the time they are designed until they are put into use. This book will take the mystery out of database systems by going over their whole lifecycle, from the initial design to a successful deployment. It will also give people the information and tools they need to improve performance, make sure it can be scaled, and keep security strong. 
  The journey starts with a look at how database systems have changed over time and the basic ideas that support them. It then goes on to explain in detail how relational, NoSQL and other types of databases can meet the needs of businesses. The next step is for readers to learn about the best ways to make databases that are both fast and scalable. They should get a grasp of basic ideas like normalization, indexing, and query optimization. 
  Implementation strategies, data migration, backup solutions, and the newest developments in advanced optimization techniques, such as performance tuning and scaling for modern workloads, are some of the things that this book talks about. Case studies from real life give useful information that can be used right away. New trends like distributed databases and optimization driven by AI help readers get ready for the future.

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  Men From The West - Battle For...

  Anonyme

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
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  Five years have passed since the Black Sky War tore through Earth. Humanity has rebuilt, but the scars of the past still linger. Jack Steele, the fearless survivor of Rivertown, and his allies carry the memories of friends, family, and loved ones lost to the alien invaders, the Aliens. 
  Commander Xylox, the massive and ruthless alien general who once brought humanity to the brink of destruction, has returned. His fleet is larger, deadlier, and more determined than ever. Earth’s cities, forests, and towns tremble under the shadow of his mothership, and every human alive knows that the fight ahead will demand courage, sacrifice, and ingenuity like never before. 
  Jack Steele is no longer just a survivor. He is a leader. Alongside familiar faces from Book One and new heroes who have joined the resistance, Jack must train, strategize, and face terrifying enemies. Among the new warriors are men and women driven by vengeance  each carrying their own losses, fears, and secrets. Together, they will test every weapon humanity has developed: hybrid energy rifles, EMP bombs, flamethrowers, explosives, and tactical traps derived from alien technology. 
  From tense night raids to daring sabotage missions, from skirmishes across scorched landscapes to massive confrontations with aliens twice the size of humans, this story plunges readers into a relentless battle for survival. Friends will fall. Villages will burn. Choices will weigh heavy on Jack and his allies as the line between victory and death blurs with every passing moment. 
  But this is not just a story of war. It is a story of hope. It is a story of humanity learning to rise from ashes, to fight back when the odds seem impossible, and to stand together even when fear and grief threaten to overwhelm them. Through courage, strategy, and sheer determination, humans learn that survival is not enough  they must reclaim their world. 
  Men From The West: The Alines Fall

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  PHP - Advanced PHP Functions

  Andy Vickler

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  Are you a programmer interested in getting a deeper understanding of the concepts, features, and tools in the PHP programming language? 
  Would you like to develop faster and easy-to-use programs using PHP? Or are you stuck in a certain PHP area and would like a solution to your problem? 
  PHP is a fantastic programming language with simple fundamentals. If you learn PHP now, you'll be able to build anything from a basic contact form to a full-fledged web application. You'll also discover how to set up a mailing list and a content management system. 
  Having stated that, this audiobook will show you how to achieve it. We'll also show you how to create PHP applications that tackle real-world issues. Because PHP is a web based language, having a basic understanding of HTML and CSS will be beneficial. Still, if you're new to HTML and CSS, this is a good place to start. Don't worry; HTML and CSS are as simple as one, two, and three. 
  PHP is considered among the most important languages to use in programming. 
  Why? 
  Because it adds a lot of functionality to websites created in HTML. 
  It is a general-purpose language even if the major reason it was designed is to generate web pages.

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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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