Why Arent We Dead Yet

Author : Idan Ben-Barak
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781925113297

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Why Aren't We Dead Yet? by Idan Ben-Barak Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 BRAGG UNSW PRESS PRIZE FOR SCIENCE WRITING Disease — specifically infectious disease — is what eventually kills the overwhelming majority of us. In fact, it’s amazing that it doesn’t get us sooner: we fight off millions of disease-causing germs every day. So how come we’re not dead yet? In this lively and accessible book, Idan Ben-Barak tells us why. He explores the immune system and what keeps it running, how germs are destroyed, and why we develop immunities to certain disease-causing agents. He also examines the role of antibiotics and vaccines, and looks at what the future holds for our collective chances of not being dead. This is entertaining and thoughtful science writing to inspire the student interested in a career in medicine or immunology, or to inform the reader who just wants to understand more about their body while having a laugh along the way. PRAISE FOR IDAN BEN-BARAK ‘[F]riendly and engaging ... accessible to anyone who's curious about the mechanics of the human body.’ The Age

Author : Idan Ben-Barak
Publisher : Scribe Us
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1947534378

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Why Aren't We Dead Yet? by Idan Ben-Barak Pdf

From highly respected microbiologist Idan Ben-Barak comes this exploration of the immune system, what keeps it running, and how germs are destroyed ...

Author : Idan Ben-Barak
Publisher : Collins India
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9351778371

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Why Aren't We Dead Yet?: The Survivor's Guide to the Immune System by Idan Ben-Barak Pdf

So how come we're not dead yet? In this lively and accessible book, Idan Ben-Barak tells us why. He explores the immune system and what keeps it running, how germs are destroyed, and why we develop immunities to certain disease-causing agents. He also examines the role of antibiotics and vaccines, and looks at what the future holds for our collective chances of not being dead. This is entertaining and thoughtful science writing to inspire the student interested in a career in medicine or immunology, or to inform the reader who just wants to understand more about their body while having a laugh along the way.

Author : Cynthia Heimel
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0802139507

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If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?! by Cynthia Heimel Pdf

Heimel has been described by the "Chicago Tribune" as "perhaps our funniest war correspondent on the war between the sexes." Her new book shows Heimel at her wicked best. Like a hip Erma Bombeck or a Dorothy Parker for today, she is an antidote to an absurd world for smart, sane women.

Author : Avery Monsen,Jory John
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781452135380

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All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen,Jory John Pdf

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.

Author : Simon Morden
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316134293

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Degrees of Freedom by Simon Morden Pdf

Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award The Six Degrees of Petrovitch Michael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch will free him one day, he just has to trust Michael will still be sane by the time he does. Maddy and Petrovitch have trust issues. She's left him, but Petrovitch is pretty sure she still loves him. Sonja Oshicora loves Petrovitch too. But she's playing a complicated game and it's not clear that she means to save him from what's coming. The CIA wants to save the world. Well, just America, but they'll call it what they like. The New Machine Jihad is calling. But Petrovitch killed it. Didn't he? And the Armageddonists tried to kill pretty much everyone by blowing the world up. Now, they want to do it again. Once again, all roads lead back to Petrovitch. Everyone wants something from him, but all he wants is to be free...

Author : Bianca Nogrady
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781742242231

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The Best Australian Science Writing 2015 by Bianca Nogrady Pdf

The annual collection celebrating the finest Australian science writing of the year. How does dust connect the cosmos with our bed sheets? Why do lobsters do the Mexican Wave backwards? And what makes us feel ‘wetness’ when there’s no such thing as ‘wet’ nerve receptors? Now in its fifth year, The Best Australian Science Writing 2015 draws on the knowledge and insight of Australia’s brightest thinkers in examining the world around us. From our obsession with Mars to the mating habits of fish, this lively collection covers a range of topics and delights in challenging our perceptions of the planet we think we know.

Author : Deirdre Gould
Publisher : Deirdre Gould
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cradle of the Deep by Deirdre Gould Pdf

The Keseburg once boasted a complement of fifty thousand. Generations of hardship, space hazards and disease have whittled it down to just under thirty thousand. That was the number when a small crew of resource miners departed on a routine asteroid run three months ago. But when they return home to the ship, all traces of their friends and family are gone. The Keseburg is silent, adrift, and running out of fuel. As they search the massive ship for survivors and answers, something else stalks them. Something that does not belong on the Keseburg.

Author : Simon Morden
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316242592

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The Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden Pdf

Welcome to the Metrozone - post-apocalyptic London of the future. While the rest of Britain has devolved to anarchy, the M25 cordon protects a decaying city filled with homeless refugees, street gangs, exiled yakuza, crooked cops and mad cults. And something else; something new and dangerous. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, friendless, cocky and - armed only with a genius-level intellect, prototype cyberware and a prodigious vocabulary of Russian swear words - might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had. Welcome to the future. Mind the gap. This omnibus edition contains EQUATIONS OF LIFE, THEORIES OF FLIGHT and DEGREES OF FREEDOM

Author : Arman Ordian,Norman Freedberg
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781420836646

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Batya by Arman Ordian,Norman Freedberg Pdf

· Did the Bible predict the invention of the computer? · Did the Bible predict the Internet? · What can a 2,500-year-old prophecy teach you about your stock options? · Did the Bible predict the rise of Bill Gates as the richest man in the world? · What do the Scriptures say about your kitchen utensils and the kind of soda cans you will drink from...hundreds of years in advance? · Will terrorist use the Internet to dominate the world? Ray Edwards invites you on a journey to uncover some dramatic secrets locked away in an ancient Bible prophecy. A prophecy that has been studied for hundreds of years but never thought to reveal so accurately the technolo

Author : Kevin Battleson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781304362780

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Crash Flux by Kevin Battleson Pdf

Author : David Annandale
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459702257

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Gethsemane Hall by David Annandale Pdf

Richard Gray finds out that his ancestral home holds the secret of what lies beyond the grave. All of a sudden everyone wants a piece of Gethsemane Hall, both believers and skeptics, all looking for the truth. But the truth may be coming for them.

Author : Jay Lake
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473225589

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Madness of Flowers by Jay Lake Pdf

The battle has been fought and won, and all have been transformed by the struggle. Imago of Lockwood has become Lord Mayor of the City Imperishable, though at a price beyond his wildest imagination. Bijaz the Dwarf has been imbued with a godlike power and a responsibility he scarcely understands. And Jason the Factor, resurrected from death at the hands of his sister, the Tokhari sandwalker Kalliope, has become the sula ma-jieni na-dia, the fabled Dead Man of Winter. When a beautiful mountebank arrives in the City Imperishable, offering to lead an expedition to uncover the lost tomb of the Imperator Terminus, she stirs up the mob with promises of treasure and imperial power... but what will her quest unleash? Political intrigue, adventure, and all-out war await the principles and inhabitants of the City Imperishable. Through it all, the City may endure, but none will remain untouched by the Madness of Flowers...

Author : Joaquin De Torres
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456622077

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Wake-Up Call by Joaquin De Torres Pdf

One hundred mental patients are brutally massacred in the frigid cold of a Russian forest as they wait for a mysterious light coming down from the night sky. Their deaths are never spoken of again. More than three decades later, directors at mental hospitals in California are stunned when 100 patients—comatose for years—suddenly "wake up" and speak of a person called "The Commander" who will lead them to a place where they will be taken from Earth. One person may hold the answers—a severely mentally-ill homeless man whose knowledge of astronomy, physics and mathematics is not only more advanced than Einstein and Tesla, but can summon superhuman abilities in the blink of an eye. Taken in and protected by a small team of mental health physicians, a brilliant astrophysicist, a derelict naval officer, and a renowned Ancient Aliens theorist, this freakishly gifted person called "Doogie" warns that time is running out; that the "creators" are already on their way to Earth. They will arrive within weeks. The chosen hundred must be ready, but like 30 years ago, a new threat makes its presence menacingly clear. A xenophobic Senator with a horrific secret and the authority to launch military strikes is plotting to destroy an extraterrestrial visitation of any kind. . .even if it means the deaths of thousands, if not the utter destruction of the entire West Coast.

Author : Linda Winstead Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101204887

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The Moon Witch by Linda Winstead Jones Pdf

Middle Fyne sister Juliet is kidnapped by the Emperor's men—only to be rescued by a man whose animal instincts tell him he's found the only woman to call his own.