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The next supper : the end of restaurants as we knew them, and what comes after / by Mintz, Corey,1975-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In 2019, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Seamless, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home cooking. Beneath all that growth lurked serious problems. Many of the best restaurants in the world employed unpaid cooks. Meal delivery apps were putting many restaurants out of business. And all that dining out meant dramatically less healthy diets. The industry may have been booming, but it also desperately needed to change. And, then, along came COVID-19. From the farm to the curbside pickup parking spot, everything about the restaurant business is changing, for better or worse. The Next Supper tells this story, and offers clear and essential advice for what and how to eat to ensure the well-being of cooks and waitstaff, not to mention our bodies and the environment. The Next Supper reminds us that breaking bread is an essential human activity, and charts a path to preserving the joy of food in a turbulent era"--
Subjects: Food service; Restaurants;

You bet your life : from blood transfusions to mass vaccination, the long and risky history of medical innovations / by Offit, Paul A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Four months into the coronavirus pandemic, as the death count surged, the FDA made a risky decision: it approved an anti-malarial drug as a treatment for coronavirus, despite limited data on its efficacy or side effects. A month later, the FDA withdrew its recommendation, but by then, the damage had been done. The drug was ineffective and sometimes even lethal. The mistake was hardly a one-off. As virologist Paul. A. Offit shows in You Bet Your Life, from antibiotics and vaccines to x-rays and genetic engineering, risk, and our understanding of it, have shaped the course of modern medicine, paving the way for its greatest triumphs and tragedies. By telling the stories of the events--and of the frequent hypocrisy and cravenness of the characters at their center--Offit shows how risk, and failure, have driven innovation, and importantly, how by examining our mistakes we can make better medical predictions and decisions going forward. From the outlandish origins of blood transfusions, which began with humans receiving blood for barnyard animals, to the the disastrous debut of the first polio vaccine, and the backstabbing and infighting that surrounded early gene therapies, he captures the drama that surrounds medical research, the way ego and laziness can collide with science, and ultimately how those factors should inform what we choose to do and have done to us in the clinic. The history is fascinating in its own right, but the worldwide rush to create a coronavirus vaccine only makes learning from the lessons of history essential. Weighing the uncertainties of a treatment against its potential benefits is one of medicine's greatest ethical dilemmas, and Offit examines it from every angle. He explores not just how patients and their families respond to risk but how everyone from physicians and researchers to universities and regulators do, too, and how that ultimately determines what treatments are put forward. Not everyone has the same goal. And too often the patient's health is secondary. But as Offit shows, we can all minimize risk and failure by learning how to recognize conflicts of interest, to draw inferences from animal models, and to evaluate risk, even when we have limited data. Along the way, Offit asks who should decide what risks are acceptable, and who should pay when the results are fatal. In the end, however, Offit argues that we are gambling whatever we do--and that we need to take that seriously, whether we pursue a treatment or decide to do nothing at all. The answers aren't simple, and the outcomes are life or death. Examining these questions with the compassion of a pediatrician and the rigor of a scientist, Offit reminds us that we all have a role to play in ensuring that medicine upholds its very first principle: to do no harm"--
Subjects: Medical ethics.; Risk assessment.; Pharmacology, Experimental.; Drugs;

No more tears : the dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson / by Harris, Gardiner(Pharmaceutical reporter),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An explosive, deeply reported exposé of Johnson & Johnson, one of America's oldest and most trusted pharmaceutical companies from an award-winning investigative journalist"--
Subjects: Johnson & Johnson.; Medical care; Medical care; Medical ethics.; Pharmaceutical industry; Pharmaceutical industry;

Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution / by Kuang, R. F.(Rebecca F.),author.;
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes 'Babel', a thematic response to 'The Secret History' and a tonal retort to 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Anti-imperialist movements; Imperialism; Magic; Translating and interpreting;

Stacey's extraordinary words / by Abrams, Stacey.; Thomas, Kitt.;
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Subjects: Perseverance (Ethics); Spelling bees; Self-confidence;

Tilda tries again / by Percival, Tom,1977-;
Tilda withdraws when her world turns upside down, but, after watching a ladybug struggle and then fly free, she decides to move forward and embrace the changes.LSC
Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait); Perseverance (Ethics); Change;

I am courage : a book of resilience / by Verde, Susan.; Reynolds, Peter H.(Peter Hamilton),1961-;
Celebrates everyday courage, including believing in ourselves, speaking out, trying new things, asking for help, and getting back up no matter how many times we may fall. Includes information on how to let go of fear by practicing yoga poses and mindful breathing exercises.LSC
Subjects: Courage; Resilience (Personality trait); Perseverance (Ethics);

SumoKitty / by Biedrzycki, David.;
A hungry cat gets a job hunting mice at a sumo training center (heya), but once the mice are gone he continues to stuff himself until he is too fat to chase the mice that have returned--so he decides to train with the sumo wrestlers, and SumoKitty becomes a scourge of mice and an inspiration to the wrestlers.LSC
Subjects: Sports stories.; Cats; Sumo; Wrestling; Perseverance (Ethics);

The circle [videorecording] / by Ponsoldt, James,film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Eggers, Dave,screenwriter.; Goetzman, Gary,1952-film producer.; Bregman, Anthony,film producer.; Watson, Emma,1990-actor.; Hanks, Tom,actor.; Boyega, John,actor.; Gillan, Karen,1987-actor.; Oswalt, Patton,1969-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Eggers, Dave.Circle.; EuropaCorp,presenter.; Image Nation (Firm),presenter.; Playtone (Firm),production company.; Likely Story (Firm),production company.; 1978 Films,production company.; Elevation Pictures,publisher.;
Music, Danny Elfman ; editor, Lisa Lassek ; director of photography, Matthew Libatique.Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton.When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her friends, family and that of humanity.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Eggers, Dave.; Social media; High technology industries;
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La la la : a story of hope / by DiCamillo, Kate.;
The curious and courageous little girl goes out into the world singing a song with the hope that she will be heard and the song will return to her.LSC
Subjects: Girls; Singing; Perseverance (Ethics); Loneliness;

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