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Health and medicine, Medicine
Earle Dickson and his new bride Josephine begin their lives together. The end. (Not really. There's more.) Josephine has a… proclivity for injuring herself. Earle attaches cotton to long strips of adhesive tape, telling Josephine to cut off a length when she needs one. Since Earle works as a cotton buyer at Johnson and Johnson, he shares his idea. They're a big hit. The end. (Again, not really!) After a few false starts (much like the hilarious "the end"s in this story), the Band-Aid is developed and becomes a massive hit. The end. (Really.). Grades K-3. 2018.
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Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Health and medicine, Medicine
Research psychiatrist explains the medical case studies that illustrate neuroplasticity - the brain's ability to change its own structure and… function. Relates the examples of a gifted woman who compensated for her multiple learning disabilities and of congenitally blind people who learned to perceive objects. Bestseller. 2007.
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Medicine, Science and technology
Traces the history of the development of the artificial heart, including experimentation with animals and human heart transplants. Discusses the… psychological and ethical issues surrounding their use. For junior and senior high readers. c1987.
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Law and crime, True crime
One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If… it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment. The case garnered international attention, thrusting both teenagers into the spotlight. For junior and senior high readers. 2017.
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Law and crime, True crime
Federal homicide prosecutor chronicles the investigation of the 1993 murder of African American mother-of-six Diane Hawkins and her teenaged daughter… Katrina Harris in their Washington, D.C., home. Details the prosecutor's efforts and those of police and forensic specialists to bring Diane's ex-boyfriend Norman Harrell to justice. Violence and some strong language. 2007.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Law and crime, True crime
David Milgaard was a kid who got into lots of trouble. Unfortunately, that made it easy for the Saskatoon police… to brand him as a murderer. At seventeen, David was arrested, jailed, and convicted for the rape and murder of a young nursing assistant, Gail Miller. Throughout his twenty-three years in prison, David maintained that he was innocent and refused to admit to the crime, even though it meant he was never granted parole. Finally, through the incredible determination of his mother and new lawyers who believed in him, David was released and proven not guilty. This is the true story of how bad decisions, tunnel vision, poor representation, and outright lying and coercion by those within the justice system caused a tragic miscarriage of justice. For junior high and older readers. 2009.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Law and crime
The story of Guy Paul Morin, who was wrongly convicted of a little girl's murder. It took ten years and… the just-developed science of DNA testing to finally clear his name. This book tells his story, showing how the justice system not only failed to help an innocent young man, but conspired to convict him. For junior high readers and older. 2013, c2012.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Health and medicine, Medicine
History is full of gruesome pandemics, and surviving those pandemics has shaped our society and way of life. Every person… today is alive because of an ancestor who survived -- and surviving our current and future pandemics, like SARS, AIDS, and bird flu will determine our future. This book presents in-depth information about past and current illnesses; the evolution of medicine and its pioneers; cures and treatments; strange rituals and superstitions; and what we're doing to prevent future pandemics. Grades 4-7. 2013.
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Law and crime, True crime
Recounts how three of America's most successful counterfeiters - Owen Sullivan, David Lewis, and Samuel Upham - each cunningly manipulated… the political and economic realities of his day, driven by a desire for fortune and fame. The speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the craft of counterfeiters who first took advantage of a turbulent American economy. Descriptions of violence. 2011.
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Law and crime, Laws and statutes
Explores timely questions being debated in and out of courts today, including: Can a kid wear an anti-gay T-shirt on… campus? Does a school newspaper have the right to bad-mouth a principal? Does a mother have the right to eavesdrop on her daughter's telephone conversations? Some of the answers will surprise you. Some will empower you. All will make you think. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2007.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Health and medicine, Medicine
General information about the organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders. Also includes journal entries giving personal and detailed accounts of… the group's work, including efforts to recover victims of an El Salvador earthquake, medical care in war-torn Congo, and treatment of the AIDS epidemic in Zambia. An introduction to a dedicated organization that gives people who live in forgotten places evidence that someone actually cares. For grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2007.
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Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Law and crime, True crime
Schroeder uncovers the facts behind eight of the most outrageous scams of all time. Read about a Stone Age tribe… discovered in the jungles of the Philippines, lost documents written by Shakespeare, and a 1938 radio broadcast that reported that something strange has crashed into a field in New Jersey – and that hostile Martians then started attacking! Grades 4-7. c2011. (It actually happened series ; 1)
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Award winning non-fiction, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Law and crime
A killer has been caught, convicted, and sentenced, the case closed, all in 114 days. No one suspected – least… of all the boy on death row – that it would take almost 50 years for a tiny piece of scientific evidence to answer the question: was he really the murderer? 40 amazing stories of how scientists solve crimes, reveal identities, untangle evidence, and discover the truth. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2011.
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Biography, Law and crime biography, Law and crime, True crime
Introduces the major characters and incidents that connect the scattered history of seagoing bandits, including England's "Sea Dog" Francis Drake,… the "pirate queen of Ireland" Granuaile, and Scotland's Captain Kidd. Describes their high-seas adventure and skullduggery, sea chases and bloody battles, dangerous coastal lairs and buried treasure. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2009.
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Law and crime, Police and military
Overview of the Vietnam conflict by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former soldier. Presents background information on communism and United States' involvement… in Vietnam. Discusses the war's chief participants and key battles and chronicles the changing political and social climate of 1960s and 1970s America. Some descriptions of violence. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005.
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Health and medicine, Medicine
Tells the story of the doctors and researchers who worked to track down the cause of yellow fever and find… a way to eliminate the disease. Junior and Senior High. 2010.
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Law and crime, True crime
On April 15, 1920, two men shoot and kill a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Two… Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, are arrested and charged with murder. Using edited transcripts of the testimony given in the case, the author recreates the trial and invites the reader to serve as judge and jury. Grades 5-8 and older. 1992.
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Medicine, Ancient history
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Medicine, Science and technology, General non-fiction
Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial,… which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio using healthy children--55,000 healthy children--revealing how this long-forgotten incident cleared the path for Salk's later trial. Mawdsley describes how, in the early 1950s, Dr. William Hammon and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis launched a pioneering medical experiment on a previously untried scale. Conducted on over 55,000 healthy children in Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Nebraska, this landmark study assessed the safety and effectiveness of a blood component, gamma globulin, to prevent paralytic polio. The value of the proposed experiment was questioned by many prominent health professionals as it harbored potential health risks, but as Mawdsley points out, compromise and coercion moved it forward. And though the trial returned dubious results, it was presented to the public as a triumph and used to justify a federally sanctioned mass immunization study on thousands of families between 1953 and 1954. Indeed, the concept, conduct, and outcome of the GG study were sold to health professionals, medical researchers, and the public at each stage. At a time when most Americans trusted scientists, their mutual encounter under the auspices of conquering disease was shaped by politics, marketing, and at times, deception. Drawing on oral history interviews, medical journals, newspapers, meeting minutes, and private institutional records, Selling Science sheds light on the ethics of scientific conduct, and on the power of marketing to shape public opinion about medical experimentation.
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Law and crime biography, Self help, Law and crime, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction
Foppish, impulsive, and philandering: William Jackson was every Georgian parent’s worst nightmare. Gentlemen were expected to be honorable and virtuous,… but William was the opposite, much to the dismay of his father, a well-to-do representative of the East India Company in Madras. In The Profligate Son, historian Nicola Phillips meticulously reconstructs William’s life from a recently discovered family archive, describing how his youthful misbehavior reduced his family to ruin. At first, William seemed destined for a life of great fortune, but before long, he was indulging regularly in pornography and brothels and using his father’s abundant credit to swindle tradesmen. Eventually, William found himself in debtor’s prison and then on a long, typhus-ridden voyage to an Australian penal colony. He spent the rest of his days there, dying a pauper at the age of thirty-seven. A masterpiece of literary nonfiction as dramatic as any Dickens novel, The Profligate Son transports readers from the steamy streets of India, to London’s elegant squares and seedy brothels, to the sunbaked shores of Australia, tracing the arc of a life long buried in history.