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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A look at how alcohol and other intoxicants helped spark the rise of the first large-scale societies by enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, and building trust among conflicting tribes to allow them to cooperate with each other.
26) Inside LSD
Publisher
NGHT
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Could LSD be the next drug in your doctor's arsenal? New experiments have a few researchers believing that this 'trippy' drug could become a pharmaceutical of the future, thinking it may enhance brain power, expand creativity, and cure disease. Outlawed in 1970, the street drug developed a reputation as the dangerous toy of the counterculture, capable of inspiring either moments of genius, or a descent into madness. Now...take...a fresh look into...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a groundbreaking study, Goran's team conducted a detailed analysis of the sugary products that kids love and found that these yogurts, cereals, sodas, and juices often had more sugar than advertised and also contained different types of sugar than were being disclosed. Today's children are not just consuming more sugar than ever, but they are consuming sugars that are particularly harmful to them--and their parents don't even know it.
Author
Publisher
Anchor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Not another diet book: After seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, science writer Taubes shows that almost everything we believe about a healthy diet is wrong. We are taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more--yet we see unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1940s, DDT helped the Allies win the Second World War by wiping out the insects that caused malaria, with seemingly no ill effects on humans. After the war, it was sprayed willy-nilly across fields, in dairy barns, and even in people's homes, leaving environmental and human devastation in its wake across the globe, particularly in communities of color. Thirty years later the U.S. would ban the use of DDT-only to reverse the ban in the 1990s...
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, Llc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Students will learn all about the endocrine system. What is the function of the endocrine system? What are the major glands and their functions? What happens if the endocrine system is not working properly? The answers are covered in depth with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"[In Toxin Toxout] two of North America's leading environmental activists give practical and often surprising advice for removing toxic chemicals and cleansing our bodies and homes. There are over 80,000 synthetic chemicals in commerce today, including hormone-disrupting phthalates and parabens, cancer-causing pesticides, heavy metals and air pollutants. Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie use their outrageous experiments (they and their brave volunteers...
Author
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What happens in space that causes the body to change? Learn about life in space from astronauts Is the human body built for Mars? NASA’s studies on the International Space Station show we need to fix a few things before sending people to the Red Planet. Astronauts go into space with good vision and come back needing eyeglasses. Cognition and DNA expression could be affected for years. And then there’s the discomfort of living in a tight space...
37) Sounds wild and broken: sonic marvels, evolution's creativity, and the crisis of sensory extinction
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"A rich exploration of how the evolution of both natural and manmade sounds have shaped us and the world, and how the world's acoustic diversity is currently in grave danger of being destroyed. We live on a planet that is wrapped in the diverse acoustic marvels of song and speech. Yet never has this diversity been so threatened as it is now. Braiding his experience as a listener and an ecologist with the latest scientific discoveries, David Haskell...
38) Danger: Tobacco
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the effects of tobacco on humans and the value of avoiding its use in any form.
Author
Publisher
Obelisco
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Cada vez son más las secuelas del consumo de azúcar, y numerosos los científicos que advierten de los riesgos que conlleva, como el sobrepeso, la demencia senil, el cáncer y, sobre todo, la diabetes. Hoy día con el apoyo del estado y la ciencia se promueve activamente la venta del azúcar y se minimizan sus efectos secundarios. Esta obra destapa la escandalosa relación entre el consumo de azúcar y las principales enfermedades de la población,...
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