Download or read book If It Sounds Like a Quack written by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies. It's no secret that American health care has become too costly and politicized to help everyone. So where do you turn if you can't afford doctors, or don't trust them? In this book, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments -- including some that are really non-traditional. With costs skyrocketing and anti-science sentiment spreading, the so-called "medical freedom" movement has grown. Now it faces its greatest challenge: going mainstream. In these pages you'll meet medical freedom advocates including an international leech smuggler, a gold miner-turned health drink salesman who may or may not be from the Andromeda galaxy, and a man who says he can turn people into zombies with aerosol spray. One by one, these alternative healers find customers, then expand and influence, always seeking the one thing that would take their businesses to the next level--the support and approval of the government. Should the government dictate what is medicine and what isn't? Can we have public health when disagreements over science are this profound? No, seriously, can you turn people into flesh-eating zombies? If It Sounds Like a Quack asks these critical questions while telling the story of how we got to this improbable moment, and wondering where we go from here. Buckle up for a bumpy ride...unless you're against seatbelts.
Download or read book A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear written by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.
Download or read book Quack Like a Duck written by Harriet Ziefert and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and rhyming text invite the reader to imitate the noisy animals in a barn, including chickens, goats, and cows.
Download or read book Quack and Count written by Keith Baker and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven ducklings take a rhyming look at addition.
Download or read book Quick Quack Quentin written by Kes Gray and published by Hachette Children's. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the bestselling Oi Frog! Frog comes an hilarious tale about one duck's quest for a missing vowel! Quentin was a duck with a very quick quack. 'QUCK!' said Quentin. 'What's wrong with me?' Quentin's quack has lost its A. Do any of the other animals have one to spare? Not likely! APES don't want to be PES. SNAKES don't want to be SNKES. PANDAS don't want to be PNDAS or even PANDS. Will Quentin be stuck with a very quick QUCK?! Brilliant for reading out loud and teaching children about vowels and animals. Praise for Oi, Frog! also by Kes Gray and Jim Field: 'An absolute treat.' - Daily Mail Kes Gray is a bestselling, multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different. Jim Field is a lead-driven, pencil-pushing, 25-frames-per-second Led Zeppelin fan. He is also a hugely talented illustrator and animation director. His first picture book Cats Ahoy! won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Oi Frog!, Oi Dog! and Oi Cat! are a top ten bestselling series. Oi Dog! was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the British Book Awards in 2016, amongst others. It also won the Teach Primary New Children's Fiction Award, MadeForMums Award, Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award and Portsmouth Picture Book Award. Oi Cat! was the Independent Booksellers Children's Book of the Season and Oi Goat! is a World Book Day book in 2018.
Download or read book Cows Can t Quack written by Dave Reisman and published by Jumping Cow Press. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a group of animals as they focus on what they can do best.
Download or read book Cows Can t Quack written by Dave Reisman and published by Jumping Cow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cows Can't Quack (featuring animal sounds) is part of the Cows Can't Series, which also includes Cows Can't Jump (animal actions), Cows Can't Spin Silk (animal creations), Cows Can't Blow Bubbles (shapes animals make) and Las vacas no pueden saltar (bilingual Spanish/English edition of Cows Can't Jump). By listening to and reading aloud these fun, educational and engaging picture books, young children will learn the names of dozens of animals - and their actions, sounds, creations and shape-making skills - reinforcing early reading skills and a love of books! The Cows Can't Series is perfect for young listeners and beginning readers ages newborn to six years old. Cows Can't Quack is available in multiple formats: Stubby & Stout? Board-book (chunky-style format ideal for small hands), Glossy Paperback (for older children), Hardcover (full size format with board-book covers/pages) and Kindle eBook.Cows Can't Jump is featured on the Recommended Children's Books list of the award-winning early literacy organization Parent-Child+ and has received high praise including "Perfect for my early reader", "Excellent bedtime story", "Every home with small children needs a copy", "Just as adorable and fun as 'Cows Can't Jump'" and "Incredibly charming. A big hit with preschoolers and early readers".The Series is published by Jumping Cow Press, which actively supports early literacy programs and partners with a direct-impact foundation to provide tens of thousands of copies of the Series at no cost to Reach Out and Read, Parent-Child Home+, Pajama Program, Read to Grow, Raising a Reader, Kids Need to Read, Get Georgia Reading, Literacy, Inc. (LINC) and Read by 4th, all of which integrate the Cows Can't Series into their early childhood literacy programs.Learn more about the Series, and download free printable activity sheets and learning guides, at JumpingCowPress.com. Follow Jumping Cow Press on Twitter (@cowscantjump) and Facebook (/jumpingcowpress).
Download or read book On the Cancer Frontier written by Paul Marks and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, a diagnosis of cancer was all but a death sentence. Mortality rates only got worse, and as late as 1986, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine lamented: "We are losing the war against cancer." Cancer is one of humankind's oldest and most persistent enemies; it has been called the existential disease. But we are now entering a new, and more positive, phase in this long campaign. While cancer has not been cured -- and a cure may elude us for a long time yet -- there has been a revolution in our understanding of its nature. Years of brilliant science have revealed how this individualistic disease seizes control of the foundations of life -- our genes -- and produces guerrilla cells that can attack and elude treatments. Armed with those insights, scientists have been developing more effective weapons and producing better outcomes for patients. Paul A. Marks, MD, has been a leader in these efforts to finally control this devastating disease. Marks helped establish the strategy for the "war on cancer" in 1971 as a researcher and member of President Nixon's cancer panel. As the president and chief executive officer for nineteen years at the world's pre-eminent cancer hospital, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he was instrumental in ending the years of futility. He also developed better therapies that promise a new era of cancer containment. Some cancers, like childhood leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, that were once deadly conditions, are now survivable -- even curable. New steps in prevention and early diagnosis are giving patients even more hope. On the Cancer Frontier is Marks' account of the transformation in our understanding of cancer and why there is growing optimism in our ability to stop it.
Download or read book Elmo Can Quack Like a Duck written by Michaela Muntean and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmo imitates animal sounds.
Download or read book The Big Nine written by Amy Webb and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. We like to think that we are in control of the future of "artificial" intelligence. The reality, though, is that we -- the everyday people whose data powers AI -- aren't actually in control of anything. When, for example, we speak with Alexa, we contribute that data to a system we can't see and have no input into -- one largely free from regulation or oversight. The big nine corporations -- Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba, Microsoft, IBM and Apple--are the new gods of AI and are short-changing our futures to reap immediate financial gain. In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI -- the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself -- is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity. Much more than a passionate, human-centered call-to-arms, this book delivers a strategy for changing course, and provides a path for liberating us from algorithmic decision-makers and powerful corporations.
Download or read book Click Clack Quackity Quack written by Doreen Cronin and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assortment of animals gathers for a picnic.
Download or read book Quack Written in the International Language of Ducks written by Arthur Yorinks and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quack, a young duck, builds a rocket and goes to the moon, only to find that he misses home.
Download or read book Who Says Quack written by Grosset & Dunlap and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who says quack? Not a hen, or a pig, or a cow—or a host of other noisy animals. They cluck, oink, moo, and more—and children can guess the sound each one makes as they turn the pages of this fun and sturdy photographic book.
Download or read book The Open Heart Club written by Gabriel Brownstein and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality. Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his heart beating. The Open Heart Club is both a memoir of a life on the edge of medicine's reach and a history of the remarkable people who have made such a life possible. It begins with the visionary anatomists of the seventeenth century, tells the stories of the doctors (all women) who invented pediatric cardiology, and includes the lives of patients and physicians struggling to understand the complexities of the human heart. The Open Heart Club is a riveting work of compassionate storytelling, a journey into the dark hinterlands between sickness and health lit by bright moments of humor and inspiration.
Download or read book Little Duck Says Quack written by Judy Dunn and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hatched from an egg brought home by a little boy, Henry grows up under the boy's care. On board pages.
Download or read book Brewer s Dictionary of Modern Phrase Fable written by John Ayto and published by Chambers Harrap Pub Limited. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely updated for the twenty-first century, this reference presents definitions and origins of thousands of words, idioms, catchphrases, slogans, nicknames, and events from TV, literature, music, comic strips, and computer games.
Download or read book I m a Duck written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A duck marvels at how wonderful it is to be a duck, with feathers, webbed feet, and wings that can fly, from the time he is hatched until he becomes a dad.
