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A professional toxicologist and health writer offers an enlightening and accessible room-by-room guide to identifying and removing potentially toxic items, along with suggestions for safe, affordable alternatives.
From the bedroom mattress and pillows to daily cleaning products for the kitchen and bath, toothbrushes, and even furniture and clothing, toxins are embedded in many products and items used regularly in the home-and they are making us sick....
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Exhibit A volume 7
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When women are being drugged and sexually assaulted, a forensic toxicologist wrestles with his own integrity to nail the disgusting culprit.
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When the environment suffers, so do humans and wildlife. Many green jobs require only high school or one or two years of post-high school studies. For other jobs, special training or four-year or postgraduate degrees are required. Some of the careers that are examined in this enlightening book include environmental engineer, geologist, microbiologist, science technician, conservationist, forester, park ranger, soil scientist, air control technician,...
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Computers have become vital for police work in the twenty-first century. Applications explored in this compelling volume include the capability of searching extensive, internationally synchronized criminal information databases; plotting crime incidents and patterns to anticipate and prevent recurrences; interrogating criminal suspects and persons of interest; and identifying suspects by using such innovations as biometrics. New technology has equipped...
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Dr. Kep Woodhead is a brilliant, irascible forensic toxicologist with a dark past. Bernadette Becker is a disgraced federal investigator with one last chance. They're both assigned to a strange poisoning case: a graduate student has been found dead in a 15th-century chapel, a needle filled with a controversial hallucinogen sticking out of his arm. The professor, the president of the fishery association, the leader of an animal-rights group, even the...
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In the early 20th century, the average American medicine cabinet was a would-be poisoner's treasure chest: radioactive radium in health tonics, thallium in depilatory creams, morphine in teething medicine and potassium cyanide in cleaning supplies. While the tools of the murderer's trade multiplied as the pace of industrial innovation increased, the scientific knowledge (and political will) to detect and prevent the crimes lagged. This changed in...
7) Soyuz
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When a disgruntled astronaut decides to get revenge, all hell breaks loose! By the time the final flight of the Russian space capsule, Soyuz, docks at the International Space Station, Derek Johnson-the oldest astronaut to fly in space-is sick with a severe case of food poisoning that does not respond to antibiotics, and he soon dies. Recruited to assist NASA's medical team, Dr. Bob Kramer, a forensic toxicologist and expert witness, concludes that...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 On November 6, 2000, Stefan Gruenwald arrived at the building where his small biotech company shared space with three others. He found that his licensing manager, Greg de Villers, was not at his desk. He had never been late before.
#2 Greg was missing for nearly four hours. His office manager, Terry Huang, was worried, and so was Kristin, his wife. They tried calling...
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In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Hatherill, a leading toxicologist, brings to light the latest discoveries of how the brain works, and explains exactly what we can do to preserve the brain's vital functions. This new science looks closely at the blood-brain barrier-literally the gateway to the brain, which determines what enters our brain and what doesn't. Dr. Hatherill's research into toxic substances and nutritional elements shows that what gets...
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Science journalist Deborah Blum shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. She tracks the perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end an era when untraceable poisons offered an easy path to the perfect crime. Drama unfolds case by case as chief medical examiner Charles Norris and toxicologist Alexander Gettler investigate a family mysteriously stricken...
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Dr. Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. After a bruising breakup with his girlfriend, he is drinking whiskey at the speakeasy House of Shields when a hauntingly seductive woman appears by his side. Emmeline whispers to Caleb over absinthe, gets his blood on her fingers, and then brushes his ear with her lips as she says goodbye. He must find her. As his search begins, Caleb becomes entangled in a serial...
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The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat Generation in America in his most epic journey yet.
"How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperate...
13) The Black Tide
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Ralph Mullen is a famous toxicologist who has done many investigations for the United States government and has recently retired; however, good men, especially with Ralph's talents in science and skill as a Force Recon Marine, are not, allowed to retire so easily. They become part-time retirees.
Ralph gets a call to investigate a strange "black tide" in the Northern Pacific Ocean. He thinks it is a waste of his time, but a longtime friend of his is...
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What is the likelihood that common chemicals such as bisphenol-A, which is found in plastic water bottles, are harming us? Should shoppers be concerned about pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables in the supermarket produce aisle? Are we risking adverse health effects when we use insect repellent that contains DEET or slather on sunscreen? Modern life requires us to navigate an endless sea of chemicals. How do we know whether we need to worry...
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About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in these highly competitive (and often male-dominated) fields with the demands of motherhood. Although this issue directly affects the career advancement of...
16) The Last High
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In this riveting novel from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, a Vancouver doctor and a detective face the deadly consequences of the opioid crisis as they track down the supplier of fentanyl that landed a group of teens in the ER with critical overdoses.
Deliberately or not, they must've been poisoned…And if it happened to them…
There will be others.
Dr. Julie Rees, a toxicologist and ER doctor, is stunned when her emergency room...
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What do you want the rest of your life to look like?
Does aging have to mean frailty, disease, and dementia, or can it mean getting better, not older? The choices you make now can mean the difference between life in a nursing home and a condo in Capri. It's not too late for you to have an extraordinary life. Learn the newest methods of staying young through simple lifestyle changes. Discover the secrets to:
Staying active at any age (and the crucial...
18) Devil's Breath
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FASCINATING AND EERILY COMPELLING.' JESSICA FELLOWES, New York Times bestselling author of The Mitford Murders series
'AN INTOXICATING TALE, DEVIL'S BREATH MIGHT TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY.' SALENA GODDEN, author of Mrs Death Misses Death
I've always been better with plants than people . . .
Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical Toxicology who lives alone in London with only her extensive collection of poisonous plants for company. She tends to...
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Houses creak, shudder, moan, whistle, and whine. With eye-like windows and doors that appear, at night, like tunnel entrances to the unknown, houses lend themselves to our primal and persistent sense of living among ghosts. It is not difficult to imagine our ancestors conjuring tales of haunted places as they sat around fires casting shadows on cave walls. Folklore is rife with such stories and it is no wonder that our earliest literature-from a letter...
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A Dr. Lily Robinson novel volume 2
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2023.
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"More than 20 years ago, Dr. Lily Robinson -- the brilliant pathologist and toxicologist -- was a member of a scientific expedition in Colombia, South America, that ended in the death of her colleagues and, presumably, her little girl. Unaware of the true circumstances of her tragedy, her memory blocked in self-preservation, Dr. Robinson's despair made her fair game for recruitment by a secret government agency whose objective is to eliminate threats...
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