Bass, Emily
Summary: "As of 2003, there were nearly 27 million men, women, and children suffering from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Today that number has been reduced by more than half. The number of people with access to antiretroviral drugs--a treatment which renders AIDS survivable rather than fatal--has gone from around 50,000 to more than 11 million. All of this is thanks to a Bush administration program known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19697 BASPreston, Richard
Summary: The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever--but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses--from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, soon to be a National Geographic original miniseries. This time, Ebola started with a two-year-old child who likely had...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 PREPerry, Alex.
Summary: "In 2006, the Wall Street pioneer and philanthropist Ray Chambers flicked through some holiday snapshots taken by his friend, development economist Jeff Sachs, and remarked on the placid beauty of a group of sleeping Malawian children. They're not sleeping, Sachs told him. They're in malarial comas. A few days later, they were all dead. Chambers had long avoided the public eye, but this moment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.532 PERHotez, Peter J.
Summary: "With global cooperation and cohesion in decline, Hotez, a former member of the US Science Envoy Program, zeroes in on the factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, including war and conflict, climate change, antivaxxers, and poverty. He proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1969 HOTShiffman, John.
Summary: "A Pulitzer Prize finalist presents the rare and intimate narrative of a daring national security sting designed to protect US soldiers, sailors, and pilots from the greatest danger they face on the battlefield--an enemy equipped with American-made weapons and technology. In Operation Shakespeare, investigative journalist John Shiffman traces an audacious and high-risk undercover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 SHIOsterholm, Michael T.
Summary: Infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a halt. In today's world, it's easier than ever to move people, animals, and materials around the planet, but the same advances that make modern infrastructure so efficient have made epidemics and even pandemics nearly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 OSTBremmer, Ian
Summary: "Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.4909 BREJohn, Elton.
Summary: The superstar musician and songwriter describes the personal toll the AIDS epidemic has taken on his life and discusses his efforts to break down social barriers and build compassion through his charity, the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 JOHFrance, David
Summary: "From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1969 FRARawl, Paige.
Summary: "A teenager's memoir of the experinces of bullying, being HIV positive and surviving the experiences to become a force for positive change in this world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 RAWSalgado, Sebastião
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.549 SALPisani, Elizabeth.
Summary: A World Bank and WHO advisor and epidemiologist presents an assessment of the factors influencing international AIDS prevention, in a report that makes recommendations about how to more appropriately allocate tax funds and draws on interviews with a wide range of contributors, from Indonesian transsexuals to Chinese prostitutes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 PISRichter, Brian D.
Summary: "Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on policies crafted at the state or national level, which on their own have proved insufficient to arrest water scarcity. To be durable and effective, water plans must be informed by the culture,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 RICDe Santis, Andy
Summary: Heart healthy cooking is easy and delicious with 5-ingredient recipes. Supporting your heart's health is fast and flavorful with The 5-Ingredient Heart Healthy Cookbook. Find expert guidance for maintaining a heart healthy diet, along with 101 ultra-simple recipes that focus on fresh, whole-food ingredients and enhancing flavor with spices. 5-ingredient dishes: Minimal ingredients mean less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Lessons from the Covid War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make some sense of it all and answer: What just happened to us, and why? And crucially, how, next time, could we do better? Because there will be a next time. The Covid war showed Americans that their wondrous scientific knowledge had run far ahead of their organized ability to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.5 LESSummary: Evoking the awesome power of nature's toxins, this program presents case studies of people who have survived near-fatal onslaughts from some of the deadliest poisons on Earth. It also shows how modern medical technology is turning the tables to use poisons in the fight against disease. Employing sophisticated animation and photography, the film explores ways in which poison can enter the body...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Inspired by a true story about the origins of Ebola, a highly infectious and deadly virus from the central African rainforest and its arrival on U.S. soil in 1989. When this killer suddenly appeared in monkeys in a scientific research lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., there was no known cure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOTSummary: In an increasingly global society, disease outbreaks are on the rise-and so is the need for epidemiology expertise. This program introduces students to vital information regarding the transmission, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, vectors, prevention, and control of several communicable diseases. Students receive vital information on zoonotic diseases such as SARS, Rift Valley fever,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANGSummary: "An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives. Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.19697 BETTurner, Simon Fisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Entertainment 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BLULaughlin, Kara L.
Summary: "A kid-friendly look at the economic and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as why businesses are closed, why people are losing jobs, and how the environment is being (positively) impacted in the absence of industry. Additional features include informative captions, interesting factual sidebars, suggested activities, a phonetic glossary, resources for further research,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 614.5 LAUSummary: Prolonged exposure to asbestos-or, in some cases, even moderate contact-can lead to a devastating cancer called mesothelioma. This program examines the specific causes of the disease while presenting case studies involving a variety of patient experiences. Viewers learn how mesothelioma occurs when malignant cells form in the protective sac, or mesothelium, covering many internal organs. Dr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009