Download or read book The Deadly Truth written by Gerald N. Grob and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deadly Truth chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. Grob's ultimate lesson is stark but valuable: there can be no final victory over disease. The world in which we live undergoes constant change, which in turn creates novel risks to human health and life. We conquer particular diseases, but others always arise in their stead. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease. Diseases ranging from malaria to cancer have shaped the social landscape--sometimes through brief, furious outbreaks, and at other times through gradual occurrence, control, and recurrence. Grob integrates statistical data with particular peoples and places while giving us the larger patterns of the ebb and flow of disease over centuries. Throughout, we see how much of our history, culture, and nation-building was determined--in ways we often don't realize--by the environment and the diseases it fostered. The way in which we live has shaped, and will continue to shape, the diseases from which we get sick and die. By accepting the presence of disease and understanding the way in which it has physically interacted with people and places in past eras, Grob illuminates the extraordinarily complex forces that shape our morbidity and mortality patterns and provides a realistic appreciation of the individual, social, environmental, and biological determinants of human health.

Download or read book A Deadly Truth written by LM Milford and published by Readthrough Press. This book was released on 2020-07-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets and lies make a fatal formula. When a scientist is found dead in his living room, it appears to be natural causes, but local news reporter Dan Sullivan suspects a cover-up. After all, he saw the man abducted two days ago. As Dan investigates, a second body is found in suspicious circumstances and his former university tutor, Dr Harry Evans, is the prime suspect. He asks Dan to help clear his name, but is he really telling Dan the truth? Join Dan in a twisty tale of deceit, as he battles to find out the truth – even though he might be putting a friend’s life at stake. A Deadly Truth is the second book in LM Milford’s exciting Allensbury Mysteries series.

Download or read book The Deadly Truth written by Helen McCloy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dr Basil Willing rents a small shack for a vacation on Long Island he becomes embroiled with his landlady, Claudia Bethune. Claudia wants to learn the secrets of her relatives and friends, so she steals a truth serum and holds a dinner party for her nearest and dearest. In the early morning hours, as Dr Willing returns to his cottage, he sees what he thinks is a fire and investigates. He finds Claudia near death at the table and hears footsteps fading up the stairs. Someone didn't want Claudia to learn the truth about them, and soon Dr Willing finds himself a suspect in murder.

Download or read book The Deadly Truth written by Helen McCloy and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deadly written by Nicola Davies and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures great and small have evolved to become masters of murder Stabbing and strangling, poisoning and drowning, electrocuting, exploding, and even death by glueing! The ingenious means of survival that both predators and prey employ are entertainingly explored in this celebration of all things deadly. Ages 7+.

Download or read book Temple of the Winds written by Terry Goodkind and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spells and prophecies sew havoc in the fight for humankind in the 4th novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author’s epic fantasy series. Having taken his rightful place as Lord Rahl, ruler of D’Hara, Richard must once again postpone his wedding to Kahlan Amnell in order to face the fearsome Imperial Order in a fight for the New World and the freedom of humankind. But while Richard has the brave people of D’Hara at his command, Emperor Jagang of the Imperial Order has a significant advantage: he doesn’t fight fair. Jagang invokes a prophecy that binds Richard and Kahlan to a fate of pain, betrayal, and a path to the Underworld. At Jagang’s behest, a Sister of the Dark gains access into the fabled Temple of the Winds and unleashes a plague that sweeps across the lands like a firestorm. To stop the plague, Richard and Kahlan must risk everything they have—and everything they’ve hoped for.

Download or read book Deadly Truth written by Milford LM (author) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 935 Lies written by Charles Lewis and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government "of the people, by the people and for the people," requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction has always been a formidable challenge, often with real life and death consequences. But now it is more difficult and confusing than ever. The Internet Age makes comment indistinguishable from fact, and erodes authority. It is liberating but annihilating at the same time. For those wielding power, whether in the private or the public sector, the increasingly sophisticated control of information is regarded as utterly essential to achieving success. Internal information is severely limited, including calendars, memoranda, phone logs and emails. History is sculpted by its absence. Often those in power strictly control the flow of information, corroding and corrupting its content, of course, using newspapers, radio, television and other mass means of communication to carefully consolidate their authority and cover their crimes in a thick veneer of fervent racialism or nationalism. And always with the specter of some kind of imminent public threat, what Hannah Arendt called "objective enemies.'" An epiphanic, public comment about the Bush "war on terror" years was made by an unidentified White House official revealing how information is managed and how the news media and the public itself are regarded by those in power: "[You journalists live] "in what we call the reality-based community. [But] that's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality . . . we're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." And yet, as aggressive as the Republican Bush administration was in attempting to define reality, the subsequent, Democratic Obama administration may be more so. Into the battle for truth steps Charles Lewis, a pioneer of journalistic objectivity. His book looks at the various ways in which truth can be manipulated and distorted by governments, corporations, even lone individuals. He shows how truth is often distorted or diminished by delay: truth in time can save terrible erroneous choices. In part a history of communication in America, a cri de coeur for the principles and practice of objective reporting, and a journey into several notably labyrinths of deception, 935 Lies is a valorous search for honesty in an age of casual, sometimes malevolent distortion of the facts.

Download or read book The Deadly Truth Book One and Two written by McKenzley Morris and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years ago, the mother of teen-aged Ashley Butterstar suddenly disappeared. Now her dad never wants to talk about it and no one seems to believe or listen to her. Ashley will find out that the people she trusted most will change everything she has known and she will go through thick and thin to find out what really happened to her mom.

Download or read book Seven Deadly Sins written by Dan Boone and published by Beacon Hill Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the uncomfortable truth about the nature of sin and how its crafty characteristics often seep into the cracks of our lives when we least expect it, discussing how the sins of pride, envy, anger, slothfulness, greed, gluttony, and lust have masked themselves in today's technology and culture. Original.

Download or read book Truth written by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the truth, but no one is talking.

Download or read book Chainfire written by Terry Goodkind and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard struggles to find his missing wife Kahlan in spite of the bizarre fact that no one else seems to believe she actually exists or that he is married to her.

Download or read book Deadly Competition written by Roxanne Rustand and published by Steeple Hill. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The single mother hasn't been found. And all her daughter, Sarah, has is her uncle. Clueless at parenting, Clint Herald seeks a loving, responsible nanny. What he finds instead is a stranger as mysterious as his sister's disappearance. Mandy Erick is secretive and seems scared, yet she's so good with Sarah that Clint can't help but trust her. In fact, he even enters Mandy in the town's Mother of the Year contest. But attention is the last thing Mandy wants. Her time in the public eye may prove just as dangerous as she fears.

Download or read book The Whispers Echo written by Valerie Keogh and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if someone from your past tried to destroy your future? When Melanie Scott is promoted to junior partner, she thinks she has put her past behind her and while out celebrating her promotion, she meets the handsome and charming Oliver Field. Melanie has her doubts and is haunted by her mother's critical voice, which reminds her that she's messed up before. But when Oliver invites her for dinner, she buries her feeling and accepts his invitation. She deserves the chance of happiness, doesn't she? However, the past she thought she left behind resurfaces when she receives an email containing a name; Anne Edwards. A name she thought she'd left behind. When the emails escalate, she knows she has to find out who is behind them, but at what cost? Melanie is about to learn that the past will now shape her future forever...

Download or read book Deadly Dose written by Amanda Lamb and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crime was unforgivable. The suspected murderer—unbelievable. One man’s pursuit of justice—unstoppable. The death of promising young pediatric AIDS researcher Eric Miller stunned the Raleigh, North Carolina, community, largely because of the horrific way he was killed. For months, Eric was slowly tortured as arsenic consumed his body. No one thought that Eric Miller’s wife, Ann—an attractive, demure, educated scientist—could be capable of such a horrible crime. No one except for veteran homicide investigator Chris Morgan, a man in the twilight of his career. But from the moment Morgan saw the thirty-year-old widow in the interview room at the police department, he knew he was seeing pure evil. Now, journalist Amanda Lamb details Morgan’s dogged investigation—a quest for the truth that would last four years and see another life taken before Ann Miller’s tangled web of death and deceit finally came to light.

Download or read book Deadly Truth written by Anthony M. Strong and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Deadly Shallows Coastal Guardians Book 3 written by Dani Pettrey and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly attack. A stolen weapon capable of immense destruction. A painful secret that threatens to tear two hearts apart. CGIS Agent Noah Rowley is rocked to the core when several of his valued team members come under fire on his Coast Guard base. He and his remaining team race to the scene and end the attack, but not before innocent lives are lost. Furious and grief-stricken, he vows to do whatever is needed to bring the mastermind behind the attack to justice. Stunned by the ambush, Coast Guard flight medic Brooke Kesler evacuates in a helicopter carrying the only surviving gunman. The gravely wounded man whispers mysterious information to Brooke that immediately paints a target on her back. As Brooke and Noah race to uncover answers, emotions between them ignite. Noah struggles to protect Brooke at all costs and to conceal the secret that prevents him from becoming what he longs to be--the right man for her. Everything is at stake as a horrifying truth emerges. . . . The attack wasn't the end game. It was only the beginning. "This action-packed thriller is sure to please."--IRENE HANNON, bestselling and award-winning author "I love Dani's writing, and The Deadly Shallows is one of her best! Tightly written and dripping with tension. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough."--CARRIE STUART PARKS, bestselling and award-winning author of Relative Silence