Summary: Every house begins with a foundation, but you'll need to determine what kind. This program explains the three types of foundations-basement foundation, crawl space foundation, and slab-on-grade-and uses a full basement foundation in a seasonal climate to illustrate basic techniques and concerns, including the use of footings, building forms, load-bearing values of the soil, and methods for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Multiple myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia are two blood cancers that are known to devastate the human immune system. In this program, Bart Barlogie of the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, Michael Keating of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and other medical experts explore how breakthroughs in chemotherapy and other treatments including stem cell transplants can aid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B.
Summary: This book delves into the heated political battles over what kids eat at school, shedding light onto how policymakers craft food policy for schools. The book takes readers inside schools, through the history of school food programs in the United States and England, and into the policy terrain that makes school lunch difficult to change. Through diverse case studieshungry linebackers, pink...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.716 WEAKandel, Eric R.
Summary: Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts. In his seminal new book, The Disordered Mind, Kandel draws on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 KANZaitchik, Alexander
Summary: "Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.10973 ZAIStorr, Will
Summary: Who would we be without stories? Stories mold who we are, from our character to our cultural identity. They drive us to act out our dreams and ambitions, and shape our politics and beliefs. We use them to construct our relationships, to keep order in our law courts, to interpret events in our newspapers and social media. Storytelling is an essential part of what makes us human. There have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020