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Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Louis was born at a time when doctors were still trying to figure out what made people sick. As a teen, he discovered a love for science. As an adult, his curiosity led him to discover that microbes cause illnesses, and his groundbreaking research resulted in the creation of vaccines that have saved countless lives around the world. This amazing story of one of the fathers of modern medicine features a fact and photo section at the back."--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"As a species, humans have doubled their life expectancy in one hundred years. Medical breakthroughs, public health institutions, rising standards of living, and the other advances of modern life have given each person about 20,000 extra days on average. This book attempts to help the reader understand where that progress came from and what forces keep people alive longer. The author also considers how to avoid decreases in life expectancy as public...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Humans live longer now than they ever have in their more than three hundred thousand years of existence on earth. And most (if not all) of the advances that have permitted the human lifespan to double have happened in living memory. Extra Life looks at vaccines, seat belts, pesticides, and more, and how each of our scientific advancements have prolonged human life. This book is a deep dive into the sciences--perfect for younger readers who enjoy...
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alphabetically arranged encyclopedia provides coverage of important public health concerns. Topics include diseases and conditions, health and wellness efforts, nutrition, ethics and law related topics and statistics, sanitation issues, and everyday environmental effects.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. But while mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10,000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, and all manner of edible innovations that rendered lactose digestible,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Here, investigate the process by which late 19th-century food production became a vast industry. See how technological developments such as freezing, canning, and pasteurization gave large companies increasing control over food production. Trace the fortunes of the peanut from health food to junk food, and the global implications of industrial food processing.
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
MOMENTS LIKE THIS NEVER LAST explores the life and legacy of the late artist Dash Snow (1981-2009) who died of a heroin overdose in a Noho hotel room at the age of 27. Growing up in the beautifully fucked up Manhattan, before Giuliani and the broken window war, before Disney sanitized 42nd street of prostitutes and pornographers, before lower manhattan turned into a shopping mall, chaos came naturally. He reveled in the fraying social fabric of 80s...
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