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  Doctors at War - The Clandestine...

  Ellen Hampton

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  Doctors at War tells the stories of physicians in France working to impede the German war effort and undermine French collaborators during the Occupation from 1940 to 1945. Determined to defeat the Third Reich's incursion, one group of prominent Paris doctors founded a medical network to treat injured Resistance fighters who they then secretly transported to Allied countries to avoid forced labor in Germany. Another team of medics organized a cabal focused on intelligence gathering and sabotage that became one of the largest in wartime France, even after the Gestapo arrested and imprisoned its leaders. Deported to concentration camps, these physicians continued to frustrate Nazi efforts by rendering aid and keeping their fellow prisoners alive. Others joined rural guerrilla camps to care for the young conscripts fighting to block German reinforcements from reaching Normandy after the D-Day landing. 
   
   
   
  These stories add a crucial dimension to the history of Occupied France. Written for both historians and general listeners of World War II history, Doctors at War stands as a dramatic, character-driven account of physicians' courage and resilience in the face of evil. It serves as a window into life under a fascist regime and the travails of doctors who negotiated the terrifying moral labyrinth that was the German military's occupation of France.

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  The American Chestnut - An...

  Donald Edward Davis

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  Before 1910 the American chestnut was one of the most common trees in the eastern United States. An important natural resource, chestnut wood was preferred for woodworking, fencing, and building construction, as it was rot resistant and straight grained. The hearty and delicious nuts also fed wildlife, people, and livestock. 
   
   
   
  Ironically, the tree that most piqued the emotions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans has virtually disappeared from the eastern United States. After a blight fungus was introduced into the United States during the late nineteenth century, the American chestnut became functionally extinct. Although the virtual eradication of the species caused one of the greatest ecological catastrophes since the last ice age, considerable folklore about the American chestnut remains. 
   
   
   
  The American Chestnut tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. The author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species.

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  The Great American Medical Show...

  Bernard M. Patten

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  What happens when a seasoned physician pulls back the curtain on America's health care system? 
  Dr. Bernard M. Patten has lived medicine from every angle: patient, doctor, advocate, and critic. With wit, candor, and unflinching honesty, he takes readers on an eye-opening journey through decades of encounters that reveal both the brilliance and the failures of modern medicine. 
  From the golden age of doctor-patient trust to today's labyrinth of insurance denials, inflated costs, over-testing, and medical quackery, Patten exposes a system where profits too often come before patients. Along the way, he shares vivid stories about hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and the people caught in between. 
  This book is a call for clarity, skepticism, and empowerment. Readers will come away better prepared to navigate the complexities of American healthcare, armed with knowledge, perspective, and a critical eye. If you want to understand what went wrong with the most expensive health care system in the world, The Great American Medical Show will inform, provoke, and inspire. 

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  Putting Social Anxiety in Your...

  Nancy K. Rarick

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  Do you struggle to have important or tough conversations with people? 
  Why is it so difficult to do the simplest things, like communicating how you feel to your spouse or asking for a raise when you know you deserve one? Each time you need to have a serious conversation with your spouse or friends, it feels like a pit has opened in your stomach, as if you are burdened with the hardest task in the world. But life doesn’t have to feel that way. 
  Marriage and family therapist Nancy Rarick has been helping people just like you feel confident (and even proud) to be able to tell people exactly what they think and feel — without the anxiety that normally comes along with it. 
  In Putting Social Anxiety in Your Rearview Mirror, you will learn how to: 
  Feel comfortable communicating how you feel to your spouse, friends, and family 
  Determine why you feel anxiety in certain situations, and how to treat it 
  Ask for what you want with as much effectivity as possible 
  Experience more joy and get more meaning out of your life 
  Become more assertive by raising your self-esteem 
  With warmth, insight, and humor, Nancy will show you how to eliminate social anxiety once and for all and have the life you’ve always dreamed about. With courage and knowledge, life truly becomes much easier. Say goodbye to social anxiety today!

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  Machine Learning for Beginners -...

  John Slavio

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  So you've heard a lot about AI and machine learning. But what does it actually mean? This book could have the answers you're looking for. This book is an introduction to basic machine learning and artificial intelligence. It gives you a list of applications and also a few examples of the different types of machine learning. Here's what you will learn: 1. Introduction to machine learning 2. Different applications of machine learning 3. Introduction to statistics for machine learning 4. Supervised learning 5. Unsupervised learning 6. Reinforced learning 7. Conclusion Download to get started now!

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  Ain't No Place for a Hero:...

  Kaitlin Tremblay

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  A deep dive into the groundbreaking and bestselling video game series The critically acclaimed first-person shooter franchise Borderlands knows it’s ridiculous. It’s a badge of pride. After all, Borderlands 2 was promoted with the tagline “87 bazillion guns just got bazillionder.” These space-western games encourage you to shoot a lot of enemies and monsters, loot their corpses, and have a few chuckles while chasing down those bazillion guns.  
   
  As Kaitlin Tremblay explores in Ain’t No Place for a Hero, the Borderlands video game series satirizes its own genre, exposing and addressing the ways first-person shooter video games have tended to exclude women, queer people, and people of colour, as well as contribute to a hostile playing environment. Tremblay also digs in to the way the Borderlands game franchise ― which has sold more than 26 million copies ― disrupts traditional notions of heroism, creating nuanced and compelling storytelling that highlights the strengths and possibilities of this relatively new narrative medium.  
   
  The latest entry in the acclaimed Pop Classics series, Ain’t No Place for a Hero is a fascinating read for Borderlands devotees as well as the uninitiated.

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