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Author
Series
Publisher
The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wildfire destruction is worse than it should be. In the 2017 fires, robocalls and digital alerts came too late to help many people. Warnings reached only a small percentage of the population. A better understanding of wildfires is badly needed. STEM concepts--ideas from the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math--can provide a foundation for developing new solutions for dealing with wildfires."--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 186 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this year. Spoiled, doctored or infected food will send more than 100,000 people to the hospital. Three thousand will die. The authors explain how the food system works-- and more importantly how it doesn't work. They provide useful, friendly advice gleaned from the cutting-edge laboratories, kitchens and courtrooms where the national food system is taking new shape.
Author
Language
English
Description
Deadly germs sprayed in shopping malls, bomb-lets spewing anthrax spores over battlefields, tiny vials of plague scattered in Times Square -- these are the poor man's hydrogen bombs, hideous weapons of mass destruction that can be made in a simple laboratory. In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad of The New York Times uncover the truth about biological weapons and show why bio-warfare...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some low-frequency sounds--such as noise from storms or truck engines--can make you feel dizzy and nauseated. An index finger's light touch can stop people from losing balance. You are more prone to trip when you think someone is watching you. A breakthrough in improving balance as we age might just come through the study of the Achilles tendon. A person gets "falling down drunk" due to a tiny structure in the inner ear that floats when it becomes...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 232 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Using powerful, evidence-based therapies, The Worry Trick is designed to help you break the cycle of anxiety and worry. Filled with tips and techniques, this book will show you how to identify the 'trick' that underlies your anxious thoughts and help you keep worry from getting the best of you. With this book, you'll learn to observe your anxious feelings with distance and clarity--and finally conquer worry once and for all." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
E-book edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need. In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the "hidden hunger" of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the modification of crops to produce more nutritious yields. This...
9) Hotshots
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this book, young readers will learn about wildfire firefighters.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
91 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The once-dreaded scourge of smallpox has been eradicated through barrier immunization. The eminent scientist Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was a pioneer in demonstrating that vaccination was an effective means of preventing smallpox. In the three groundbreaking treatises contained in this volume, originally published between 1798 and 1800, Jenner summarizes his evidence in favor of vaccination and describes individual cases.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Director and Associate Director of the VA's National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: a highly practical, user-friendly guide that answering all conceivable questions about returning from war-for veterans and families
Two experts from the VA National Center for PTSD provide an essential resource for service members, their spouses, families, and communities, sharing what troops really experience during deployment and back home....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xviii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This comprehensive, reader-friendly book written by a top physician in the field explains to coaches and parents how to understand, cope with, and prevent sport-related concussions among children and teenagers"--
Publisher
Balance Media and GO Alliance
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elemental takes viewers on a journey with the top experts in the nation to better understand fire. We follow the harrowing escape from Paradise as the town ignited from wind-driven embers and burned within a few hours of the fire's start. We visit fire labs where researchers torch entire houses to learn why some homes burn and others survive. We learn from Native Americans as they employ fire to benefit nature and increase community safety as they...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An informative picture book that takes readers along on a high stakes mission to battle one of the deadliest natural disasters to threaten the nation, while offering a dramatic look into the work of the highly-trained first responders who risk their lives to fight wildfires."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
1030L
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This title explores how wildfires have changed over time, as well as the effects of climate change, human development, and human actions to reduce or prevent such fires.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast" because it behaved in seemingly sinister and often unpredictable ways. Many of them hoped that they would never see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to suggest that megafires like the Beast have become the new normal. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
There are two schools of thought for encouraging babies to sleep through the night, the hotly debated Ferber technique of letting the baby "cry it out," or the grin-and-bear-it solution of getting up from dusk to dawn as often as necessary. If you don't believe in letting your baby cry it out, but desperately want to sleep, there is now a third option, presented in Elizabeth Pantley's sanity-saving book The No-Cry Sleep Solution. Pantley's successful...