When Peanuts Are Poison - 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 When Peanuts Are Poison write by Stephanie H. Gatewood. This book was released on 2014-11-13. When Peanuts Are Poison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If a child you care about is allergic to peanuts, this book is for you. Written by a mom of two children with life-threatening peanut allergies, the book guides you step by step through creating a safe home environment, assembling your child's emergency medication kits, and ensuring your child's school or daycare is equipped to manage your child's allergy. You'll learn the crucial information you must teach your peanut-allergic child, as well as how to cope with your own feelings about your child's allergy; get friends and family to cooperate with you to minimize your child's risk of being exposed to peanuts; and safely navigate life events, such as birthday parties, holidays, airline travel, and eating out. Also included are a glossary, checklists, tips to save you time and to help prevent you from making mistakes, a list of other helpful resources, and more.
When Peanuts Are Poison
When Peanuts Are Poison - 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 When Peanuts Are Poison write by Stephanie Gatewood. This book was released on 2016-07-21. When Peanuts Are Poison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If a child you care about is allergic to peanuts or tree nuts, this book is for you. Written by a mom of two children with life-threatening peanut allergies, the book guides you step by step through creating a safe home environment, assembling your child's emergency medication kits, and ensuring your child's school or daycare is equipped to manage your child's allergy. You'll learn the crucial information you must teach your peanut or tree nut allergic child, as well as how to cope with your own feelings about your child's allergy; get friends and family to cooperate with you to minimize your child's risk of being exposed to nuts; and safely navigate life events, such as birthday parties, holidays, airline travel, and eating out. Also included are a glossary, checklists, tips to save you time and to help prevent you from making mistakes, a list of other helpful resources, and more.
Another Person’s Poison
Another Person’s Poison - 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 Another Person’s Poison write by Matthew Smith. This book was released on 2015-05-26. Another Person’s Poison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. Another Person's Poison parses the political, economic, cultural, and genuine health factors of a phenomenon that dominates our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. For most of the twentieth century, food allergies were considered a fad or junk science. While many physicians and clinicians argued that certain foods could cause a range of chronic problems, from asthma and eczema to migraines and hyperactivity, others believed that allergies were psychosomatic. 'This book traces the trajectory of this debate and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Are rising allergy rates purely the result of effective lobbying and a booming industry built on self-diagnosis and expensive remedies? Or should physicians become more flexible in their approach to food allergies and more careful in their diagnoses? Exploring the issue from scientific, political, economic, social, and patient-centered perspectives, this book is the first to engage fully with the history of a major modern affliction, illuminating society's troubled relationship with food, disease, nature, and the creation of medical knowledge.
In Praise of Poison Ivy
In Praise of Poison Ivy - 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 In Praise of Poison Ivy write by Anita Sanchez. This book was released on 2016-04-01. In Praise of Poison Ivy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deadly. Powerful. Beautiful. The much-hated plant called poison ivy is all of these—and more. Poison ivy has long irritated humans, but the astounding paradox is that poison ivy is a plant of immense ecological value. In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the vices and virtues of a plant with a dramatic history and a rosy future. Once planted in gardens from Versailles to Monticello, poison ivy now has a crucial role in the American landscape. The detested plant is a lens through which to observe the changes and challenges that face our planet. For centuries, poison ivy has bedeviled, inconvenienced, and downright tortured the human race. This book covers the unique history of the plant, starting with the brash and adventurous explorer Captain John Smith, who “discovered” poison ivy the hard way in 1607. Despite its irritating qualities, the magnificent scarlet-and-gold autumn foliage lured Virginia entrepreneurs to export the vine to Europe, making it one of the earliest documented New World plants to cross the Atlantic, and its meteoric rise to fame as–of all unlikely things—a garden plant. Showcased in the pleasure grounds of emperors and kings, poison ivy was displayed like a captive tiger, admired by Thomas Jefferson, Marie Antoinette, and Josephine Bonaparte. Today, poison ivy is valued by environmentalists and native plant enthusiasts who name it one of our most important plants for wildlife as well as for soil conservation. In Praise of Poison Ivy will reveal why, in its native American habitat, poison ivy is a plant of astonishing ecological value. Poison ivy leaves are an important wildlife food, and the berries are a crucial source of winter nutrition for beloved bird species like robins, bluebirds and cardinals. On a national listing of hundreds of native plants that are of value to wildlife, poison ivy ranks seventh in importance. InPraise of Poison Ivy also explores the question of why this plant is apparently on a mission to give us humans grief, from itchy ankles to life-threatening medical emergencies. The book will examine why poison ivy targets humans, but no other species, and explain the mystery of why a privileged few are immune to its itchy consequences. Since the time of John Smith and Pocahontas, the American landscape has changed in countless ways—many obvious, some subtle. This book will reveal why there is far more poison ivy on the planet now than there was in 1607, with lots more on its way. It examines the ecological reasons for poison ivy’s rosy future, note the effects of climate change on native plants, and investigate the valuable role that poison ivy could play in our changing world.
The Metaphysics of Contingency
The Metaphysics of Contingency - 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 Metaphysics of Contingency write by Ferenc Huoranszki. This book was released on 2022-07-14. The Metaphysics of Contingency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosophers approach the problem of possibility in two markedly different ways: with reference to worlds, whereby an event is possible if there is a world in which it occurs, and with reference to modal properties, whereby an event is a possible manifestation of a property of some substance or object. Showing how the world-account cannot properly explain the nature of possibilities within worlds, Ferenc Huoranszki argues that the latter approach is more plausible. He develops a theory of contingent possibilities grounded in a distinction between abilities and dispositions as real, first-order modal properties of objects, with fundamentally distinct ontological roles. By understanding abilities as first-order modal properties, and by linking such modal properties to counterfactual conditionals, Huoranszki argues we can distinguish between variably generic or specific abilities and identify more or less abstract possibilities in a world. In doing so, he furthers our understanding of how we reason with possibilities in both ordinary and theoretical contexts. Providing a novel account of dispositions, abilities and their capacity to explain modality, this book advances current debates in contemporary metaphysics.
