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Submarine / by Mallard, Neil.; Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.;
Subjects: Oceanography; Submarines (Ships); Submersibles; Underwater exploration;
© c2003., DK Publishing,

Doing harm : the truth about how bad medicine and lazy science leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick / by Dusenbery, Maya.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Women; Women; Sexism in medicine.; Health education.;

Frederick Banting : hero, healer, artist / by Hume, Stephen Eaton,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index.
Subjects: Banting, Frederick Grant, Sir, 1891-1941; Diabetes; Medical scientists; Physicians;
© c2001., XYZ Pub.,

Camp Zero : a novel / by Sterling, Michelle Min,1982-author.;
"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. A brilliant and determined young woman employed as a sex worker to the elite is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group meant to service the men in camp-but her mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial architect in charge. In return, she'll receive a home for her displaced Korean immigrant mother and herself. Upon arrival at Camp Zero, she is named Rose. Rose quickly secures the trust of her target, but in the camp, everyone has an agenda, and her alliances begin to shift. Through skillfully braided perspectives, including those of a young professor longing to escape his wealthy family and an all-woman military brigade struggling for survival at a climate research station, the fate of Camp Zero and its inhabitants reaches a stunning crescendo. An electrifying page-turner where nothing is as it seems, Camp Zero cleverly explores how the intersection of gender, class, and migration will impact who and what will survive in a warming world"--
Subjects: Dystopian fiction.; Novels.; Climatic changes; Communities; Immigrants; Interpersonal relations; Secrecy;

Sea turtle scientist / by Swinburne, Stephen R.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Stewart, Kimberly; Sea turtles; Leatherback turtle;
© c2014., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Burn : new research blows the lid off how we really burn calories, lose weight, and stay healthy / by Pontzer, Herman,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.We burn 2,000 calories a day. And if we exercise and cut carbs, we'll lose more weight. Right? Wrong. In this paradigm-shifting book, Herman Pontzer reveals for the first time how human metabolism really works so that we can finally manage our weight and improve our health.
Subjects: Human evolution.; Metabolism.; Weight loss.;

Tripped : Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the dawn of the psychedelic age / by Ohler, Norman,author.; Yarbrough, Marshall,translator.; translation of:Ohler, Norman.Stärkste Stoff.English.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use--long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws--is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power--the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug laws and bringing home anything that might prove "useful" to the United States. Five years later, Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program. Begun as an attempt to find a "truth serum" and experiment with mind control, the Nazi study initially involved mescaline, but quickly expanded to include LSD. Originally created for medical purposes by Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz, the Nazis coopted the drug for their mind control military research--research that, following the war, the US was desperate to acquire. This research birthed MKUltra, the CIA's notorious brainwashing and psychological torture program during the 1950s and 1960s, and ultimately shaped US drug policy regarding psychedelics for over half a century. Based on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, TRIPPED is a wild, unconventional postwar history, a spiritual sequel to Norman Ohler's New York Times bestseller BLITZED. Revealing the close relationship and hidden connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in America, Ohler shares how this secret history held back therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades and eventually became part of the foundation of America's War on Drugs"--
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Brainwashing; Brainwashing; Drug control; Drug control; LSD (Drug); LSD (Drug);

Chasing the dark : a 140-year investigation of paranormal activity / by Machell, Ben,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Tony Cornell spent his life probing the very edges of reality and paranormal activity. A member of the UK's Society for Psychical Research (SPR) from the post-war era to the dawn of the 21st century, Cornell's role as an investigator of so-called "spontaneous cases" saw him returning time and again to the unsettling spaces that exist just on the periphery of our ordered, tidy, and rational lives: Ghosts. Spirits. Premonitions. Psychic powers. Glimpses of other worlds that throw into question everything we take for granted about life, death, and material existence itself. This is a gripping and page turning narrative drawing on decades of Cornell's case files, which survive as a huge and uniquely untapped repository of stories reported by ordinary people, as well as correspondence between some of the great intellectuals of the 20th century -- including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Marie Curie. Award-winning journalist Ben Machell mines the extensive archives of the SPR for the first time to reveal the untold history of the secretive organization, and to understand our ceaseless fascination with the unexplained"--
Subjects: Case studies.; Cornell, A. D.; Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain); Parapsychology.; Supernatural;

Tracing your Scottish ancestors : a guide to ancestry research in the National Records of Scotland and ScotlandsPeople / by Clarke, T. N.(Tristram N.); National Records of Scotland.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and indexes.LSC
Subjects: National Records of Scotland.;
© 2011., National Records of Scotland : Birlinn,

Healthy eating to reduce the risk of dementia : 100 fantastic recipes based on extensive, in-depth research / by Rayman, Margaret,author.; Ridland, Vanessa,author.; Sharpe, Katie,author.; Westcott, Patsy,author.; Heap, Will,photographer.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Cookbooks.; Dementia; Dementia; Dementia;

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