The Tome of Blighted Horrors PF PoD - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tome of Blighted Horrors PF PoD write by Richard Pett. This book was released on 2019-03. The Tome of Blighted Horrors PF PoD available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Tome of Blighted Horrors PF
The Tome of Blighted Horrors PF - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tome of Blighted Horrors PF write by Richard Pett. This book was released on 2016-06-01. The Tome of Blighted Horrors PF available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Circle
The Circle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Circle write by Dave Eggers. This book was released on 2013-10-08. The Circle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
The Pandemic Century
The Pandemic Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pandemic Century write by Mark Honigsbaum. This book was released on 2019-03-09. The Pandemic Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like sharks, epidemic diseases always lurk just beneath the surface. This fast-paced history of their effect on mankind prompts questions about the limits of scientific knowledge, the dangers of medical hubris, and how we should prepare as epidemics become ever more frequent. Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish flu and the 1924 outbreak of pneumonic plague in Los Angeles to the 1930 'parrot fever' pandemic and the more recent SARS, Ebola, and Zika epidemics, the last 100 years have been marked by a succession of unanticipated pandemic alarms. Like man-eating sharks, predatory pathogens are always present in nature, waiting to strike; when one is seemingly vanquished, others appear in its place. These pandemics remind us of the limits of scientific knowledge, as well as the role that human behaviour and technologies play in the emergence and spread of microbial diseases.
Doctors
Doctors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doctors write by Sherwin B. Nuland. This book was released on 2011-10-19. Doctors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.
