Yasmin, Seema
Summary: "This book dissects medical myths and pseudoscience and explores how misinformation can spread faster than microbes. Yasmin debunks public health myths ranging from the spurious link between vaccines and autism to the truth about so-called chemtrails leftbehind by airplanes. In short chapters covering popular myths, Yasmin parses the science behind fearful rumors and models how to be a more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 YASKayyem, Juliette N.
Summary: An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management. "The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind? In The Devil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.6 KAYSummary: "Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living in close proximity to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of the plant's operators and the NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission--yet has stoked a great deal of controversy in the surrounding community, including a vocal anti-nuclear contingent concerned that what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INDClark, Anna (Anna Leigh)
Summary: "When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins. Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ ClarkOffit, Paul A.
Summary: "Four months into the coronavirus pandemic, as the death count surged, the FDA made a risky decision: it approved an anti-malarial drug as a treatment for coronavirus, despite limited data on its efficacy or side effects. A month later, the FDA withdrew its recommendation, but by then, the damage had been done. The drug was ineffective and sometimes even lethal. The mistake was hardly a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.5 OFFJones, Chris (Chris Alexander)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Ripley, Amanda.
Summary: Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.935 RIPCummings, Claire Hope
Summary: Examines the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. The author suggests how green technologies and new approaches to food and farming methods will provide a way out of this growing predicament.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 631.521 CUMKennedy, Kostya.
Summary: "This captivating, character-rich story is set against the back-drop of one of the most pressing questions in sports: Should we let our sons play football? At the high end of America's most popular game is the glittering NFL, a fan-stoked money machine and also an opaque enterprise under scrutiny for the physical dangers imposed on its players. Then there's high school football, unrivaled for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: published by Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 KENGrylls, Bear
Summary: "For more than a decade, Bear Grylls has introduced TV viewers to the most dramatic wilderness survival situations, through his hit shows such as Man Vs. Wild. Now, with How to Stay Alive, Bear reveals to readers his full toolkit of survival tactics, from everyday basics like avoiding blisters to once-in-a-lifetime events like surviving a kidnapping. Opening with the most essential survival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 GRYCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 GRYHotez, 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 HOTMichaels, David
Contents: The manufacture of doubt -- Workplace cancer before OSHA : waiting for the body count -- America demands protection -- Why our children are smarter than we are -- The enronization of science -- Tricks of the trade : how mercenary scientists mislead you -- Defending secondhand smoke -- Still waiting for the body count -- Chrome-plated mischief -- Popcorn lung : OSHA gives up -- Defending the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.9 MICSteinberg, Stacey
Summary: "Is it okay to share details about my child's life on social media? What kinds of pictures should I avoid posting? Am I taking away their ownership of their future online footprint? In today's age of "sharenting," many parents are trying to strike the right balance between engaging with online communities they value and respecting their child's right to privacy and safety. Stacey Steinberg's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.67 STERipley, Amanda.
Summary: Nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families. How will we react? What will it feel like? Will we be heroes or victims? Will our upbringing, our gender, our personality--anything we've ever learned, thought, or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.935 RIPCutler, Winnifred Berg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.175 CUTMuir-Wood, Robert
Summary: In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: We build in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in earthquake country, timber ones in fire zones, and coastal cities in the paths of hurricanes. We then blindly trust our flood walls and disaster preparations, and when they fail, catastrophes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 MUINeustaedter, Randall
Summary: The Vaccine Guide gives consumers the information they need to make informed decisions about vaccination. Parents who face a multitude of vaccines for their children and adults who must decide about flu shots, vaccination for international travel, hepatitis, and booster doses, now have a guide to the complex and often confusing realm of vaccine choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.4 NEUKelly, Christopher R.
Summary: Most new symptoms turn out to be minor issues, but if you have one, how worried should you be. The authors walk you through the most common symptoms and provide helpful, conversational guidance on what to do. Organized in a humouous, easy-to-access format and packed with practical information and expert advice, this book is an essential resource for your household. -- adapted from back cover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.024 KELRussell, Stuart J. (Stuart Jonathan)
Summary: "In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not just jobs and human relationships, but civilization itself. Conflict between humans and machines is seen as inevitable and its outcome all toopredictable. In this groundbreaking book, distinguished AI researcher Stuart Russell argues that this scenario can be avoided, but only if we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Zee, Ginger
Summary: When Ginger Zee opened her life to readers in Natural Disaster, the response was enormous. She put a very relatable if surprising face on depression and has helped lessen the stigma surrounding mental health issues. But Ginger tells us, Natural Disaster was ""Ginger Lite" and only scratched the surface. In this moving follow-up, Ginger shares her truest self. She spent most of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2021