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- Hydrogeologic peer review Avalon development : summary of domestic well recovery tests, Town of Innisfil / by Ainley and Associates; Innisfil (Ontario : Town);
- Subjects: Water quality; Municipal water supply;
- © 2001., Jagger Hims Ltd.,
- 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;
- Star Wars The High Republic : a test of courage / by Ireland, Justina,author.; Leigh, Keylor,narrator.; Container of (expression):Ireland, Justina.Star Wars The High Republic.Spoken word (Leigh);
- Read by Keylor Leigh.When a transport ship is abruptly kicked out of hyperspace as part of a galaxy-wide disaster, newly-minted teen Jedi Vernestra Rwoh, a young Padawan, an audacious tech-kid, and the son of an ambassador are stranded on a jungle moon where they must work together to survive both the dangerous terrain and a hidden danger lurking in the shadows ...Ages 8-12.4-8.
- Subjects: Fiction.; Children's audiobooks.; Book plus audio.; Dyslexia-friendly books.; Jedi (Fictitious characters); Interplanetary voyages; Life on other planets; Space warfare; Star Wars fiction.; VOX books.;
- The ultimate cookbook : recipes from the Canadian Living Test Kitchen / by Canadian Living Test Kitchen.;
- Subjects: Cookbooks.;
- Quick 400-calorie favourites : 90+ tested-till-perfect recipes from the Canadian Living Test Kitchen. by Canadian Living Test Kitchen,author.;
- Subjects: Cookbooks.; Recipes.; Low-calorie diet; Reducing diets;
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The Arrow : Avro CF-105 MK.1 : pilot's operating instructions and RCAF testing/basing plans /
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 128.
- Subjects: Avro Arrow (Turbojet fighter plane); Airplanes, Military;
- © 1999., Boston Mills Press,
- A very stable genius : Donald J. Trump's testing of America / by Rucker, Philip,author.; Leonnig, Carol,author.;
- From Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker comes a shocking new reporting on Donald Trump's unique Presidency and its implications.
- Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-;
- LSAT prep plus. by Kaplan, Inc.;
- Subjects: Law School Admission Test; Law schools;
- Night school [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Butler, Brooke,1976-actor.; David, Keith,actor.; Haddish, Tiffany,1979-actor.; Hart, Kevin,1979-film producer,screenwriter,actor.; Killam, Taran,actor.; Lee, Malcolm D.,1970-film director.; Rajskub, Mary Lynn,1971-actor.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
- Music, David Newman ; editor, Paul Millspaugh ; director of photography, Greg Gardiner.Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Brooke Butler, Taran Killam, Keith David, Mary Lynn Rajskub.Suddenly unemployed, thirtysomething dropout Teddy (Kevin Hart) must get his GED so he can land a new job and continue fooling his girlfriend (Megalyn Echikunwoke) into thinking he's not broke. His high school nemesis-turned principal (Taran Killam) sticks him in a night school program run by a tough-as-nails teacher (Tiffany Haddish) who goes to hilarious lengths to whip Teddy and his misfit classmates into shape.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-X, 2.0 DVS ; DTS-HD Digital high resolution audio 7.1 ; Dolby digital 2.0.
- Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; African American men; Evening and continuation school students; GED tests; High school dropouts; Man-woman relationships;
- For private home use only.
- 1989 / by McDermid, Val,author.;
- "A riveting thrill ride of a novel from a captivating new series, 1989 confirms internationally bestselling author Val McDermid as one of crime fiction's true masters. It's 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid media. But there's plenty to keep her occupied. The year begins with the memorial service for the victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, but Allie has barely filed her copy when she stumbles over a story about HIV/AIDS that will shock her into a major change of direction. The world of newspapers is undergoing a revolution, there's skullduggery in the medical research labs and seismic rumblings behind the Iron Curtain. When murder is added to this potent mix, Allie will be called upon to chase a story that will take her further afield than she'd everplanned, and force her to question all her old certainties"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Drugs; Investigative reporting; Murder; Nineteen eighties;
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