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Laura Dawes, "Childhood Obesity in America: Biography of an Epidemic"
English | 2014 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 0674281446 | PDF | 1,8 mb
A century ago, a plump child was considered a healthy child. No longer. An overweight child is now known to be at risk for maladies ranging from asthma to cardiovascular disease, and obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Childhood Obesity in America traces the changes in diagnosis and treatment, as well as popular understanding, of the most serious public health problem facing American children today.

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William R. Keylor, "Charles de Gaulle: A Thorn in the Side of Six American Presidents"
English | ISBN: 1442236744 | 2020 | 376 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-century figures: his former mentor Marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the collaborationist government in the southern French city of Vichy as the German army occupied the northern two-thirds of the country; Sir Winston Churchill, the British prime minister whose government supported and financed de Gaulle and the Free French, but who clashed with the French leader on a number of hot-button issues; and, most critically, the six American presidents from FDR to Nixon. Keylor uses the metaphor "thorn in the side" to emphasize the fact that challenges from the intrepid French leader were often an annoyance to the Americans, who all had many more important issues to deal with-World War II for Roosevelt and Truman, the Cold War for Eisenhower, and the Vietnam War for Kennedy and Johnson. Richard Nixon alone had an excellent relationship, but the two men overlapped for only four months before de Gaulle's retirement. Thoroughly researched and deeply knowledgeable, this gripping book will appeal to all readers interested in contemporary French and US history.

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Charge Transfer in DNA: From Mechanism to Application By Hans-Achim Wagenknecht, Harry Gray
2005 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 3527310851 | PDF | 5 MB
The past few years have witnessed intense research in this fascinating field as well as many controversial discussions. Now the time is ripe for a comprehensive book covering not only theoretical aspects, but also such mechanistic topics as principles and mechanisms of photoinduced charge injection, transport and trapping in DNA, sequence-dependent DNA dynamics, spectroscopic investigations of hole transport and much more. From the contents: * Principles and Mechanisms of Photoinduced Charge Injection, Transport and Trapping in DNA * Sequence-Dependent DNA Dynamics: The Regulator of DNA-Mediated Charge Transport * Excess Electron Transfer in DNA Probed with Flavin and Thymine Dimer Modified Oligonucleotides * Dynamics of Photoinitiated Hole and Electron Injection in Duplex DNA * Spectroscopic Investigation of Oxidative Hole Transfer via Adenine Hopping in DNA * Chemical Probing of Reductive Electron Transfer in DNA * Chemical Approach for Modulating Hole Transport in DNA * Spectroscopic Investigation of Charge Transfer in DNA * Spectroscopic Probing of Ultrafast Structural Relaxation and Electron Transfer Dynamics in DNA Edited by Hans-Achim Wagenknecht, and written by renowned international authors, this book provides an excellent overview with high quality contributions, making it a ''must-have'' for everyone working in the field.

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Vladimir Latinovic, Gerard Mannion, Jason Welle O.F.M., "Catholicism Engaging Other Faiths: Vatican II and its Impact"
English | 2018 | pages: 342 | ISBN: 3319985833 | PDF | 3,3 mb
This book assesses how Vatican II opened up the Catholic Church to encounter, dialogue, and engagement with other world religions. Opening with a contribution from the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, it next explores the impact, relevance, and promise of the Declaration Nostra Aetate before turning to consider how Vatican II in general has influenced interfaith dialogue and the intellectual and comparative study of world religions in the postconciliar decades, as well as the contribution of particular past and present thinkers to the formation of current interreligious and comparative theological methods. Additionally, chapters consider interreligious dialogue vis-à-vis theological anthropology in conciliar documents; openness to the spiritual practices of other faith traditions as a way of encouraging positive interreligious encounter; the role of lay and new ecclesial movements in interreligious dialogue; and the development of Monastic Interreligious Dialogue. Finally, it includes a range of perspectives on the fruits and future of Vatican's II's opening to particular faiths such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

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Canada's Other Red Scare: Indigenous Protest and Colonial Encounters during the Global Sixties (Rethinking Canada in the World) by Scott Rutherford
English | December 17th, 2020 | ISBN: 0228004063, 0228004055 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 4.39 MB
Indigenous activism put small-town northern Ontario on the map in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kenora, Ontario, was home to a four-hundred-person march, popularly called "Canada's First Civil Rights March," and a two-month-long armed occupation of a small lakefront park. Canada's Other Red Scare shows how important it is to link the local and the global to broaden narratives of resistance in the 1960s; it is a history not of isolated events closed off from the present but of decolonization as a continuing process. Scott Rutherford explores with rigour and sensitivity the Indigenous political protest and social struggle that took place in Northwestern Ontario and Treaty 3 territory from 1965 to 1974.

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Campaigns of the Norman Conquest By Matthew Bennett
2001 | 94 Pages | ISBN: 1841762288 | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides a full introduction to the Norman Conquest, an event which resulted in dramatic changes to the nation's aristocracy, church and administration. It brought a new language and cultural influences and revolutionised military architecture with the introduction of the castle. This profound impact was not brought about as the result of a single battle and it took a five-year war for William to establish control over his new kingdom. The campaigns are studied in detail, with maps showing how William's energy and strategic intelligence enabled him to defeat his formidable opponents and create a new order.

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COVID-19, MERS and SARS: Global Status
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9781498827621 | 162 Pages | PDF EPUB | 6.22 MB
COVID-19, MERS and SARS: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which explore all individual infectious diseases, drugs, vaccines, outbreaks, surveys and pathogens in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON web application (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMED, supplemented by an ongoing exhaustive search of the medical literature. Chapters are arranged alphabetically, by disease. Each chapter includes: 1. Descriptive epidemiology 2. Summary of clinical features 3. Potential use in Bioterrorism 4. References COVID-19, MERS and SARS: Global Status includes separate sections on COVID-19, MERS Coronavirus infection, and SARS.

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Biochemical Individuality By Roger Williams
1998 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0879838930 | PDF | 2 MB
There is no such thing as an average person, we are all genetically and biologically unique. But when sperm meets egg, our characteristics are not locked in stone. This work argues that bad genes do not necessarily cause disease by themselves, and nutrition and environment can alter the outcome.

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Bill Gates - Holiday 2020 Recommendations [Collection]
English | ISBN: N/A | 5 Ebooks | EPUB | 66.74 MB
In tough times-and there's no doubt that 2020 qualifies as tough times-those of us who love to read turn to all kinds of different books. This year, sometimes I chose to go deeper on a difficult subject, like the injustices that underlie this year's Black Lives Matter protests. Other times I needed a change of pace, something lighter at the end of the day. As a result, I read a wide range of books, and a lot of excellent ones. Here are five books on a variety of subjects that I'd recommend as we wrap up 2020. I hope you find something that helps you-or the book lover in your life-finish the year on a good note.

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