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A brilliantly original novel of the 1970s counterculture
Alice Duncan is an eleven-year-old girl who looks so much like a grown woman, she attracts the attention of adult men. Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her father who has checked himself into a mental asylum, Alice and her sixteen year old Aunt Esme live on their own in an Upper East Side townhouse, entertaining teenage boys, shoplifting at department stores, and dining on cookies and...
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The British Army and her commonwealth Allies went to war in 1914 with little knowledge and experience of constructing permanent, shell proof protective structures. Some masonry fortifications, such as defensive blockhouses in South Africa, had been built but the Royal Engineers of the Army were more versed in simple temporary defences suitable for mobile warfare. Home defences were a limited number of forts around naval ports, and Martello Towers...
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When the First World War froze into a static line of trenches stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss border, the most obvious means of protection against the murderous machine-gun fire which both sides inflicted upon each other was some form of shell-proof shelter which from which fire could be returned in safety, hence the development of the pill box. The idea was certainly not new but the technology required to build them under the prevailing...
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New York City. 1987. Dr. Leo Labaya has created a new kind of pill that he claimsinstantly relieves stress and anxiety.When Lee is hired to spy on Ophelia Hall, Leo's receptionist,he discovers that the pill not only does it's job a little too well,it turns some people into killers.
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#1 Pincus was a biologist and the world's leading expert in mammalian reproduction. He had attempted to breed rabbits in Petri dishes using much the same technology that decades later would lead to in vitro fertilization for humans. But Americans were not ready to hear such things.
#2 Pincus and his colleague Hudson Hoagland, who had also been working on birth control,...
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We all tend to get involved in our work, put our noses down, try to do it diligently, and are sometimes not aware of what is happening around us. Often what is happening around us influences our work, and clearly, our work sometimes influences what is happening around us. By reviewing the history of contraception and its inverse-infertility, appreciating recent advances in them, and potential future ones, and by gaining heightened awareness of societal...
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Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friends-clean cut, all-American high school kids-who stumbled into the Sunshine State's murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription painkillers throughout the country, making millions in the process. This true crime memoir details the three-year-long rise and collapse of the Barabas...
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In 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed that the drug would help eradicate poverty around the globe, ensure happy and stable marriages, and liberate women. In America and the Pill, preeminent social historian Elaine Tyler May reveals the ways in which the pill did and did not fulfill these...
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Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause, the Pill, but few know how, this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth control pill impacts, on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug. Depression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks, just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80% of women who...
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Americans are using more medical services every year, but as many as half of those services do nothing to improve their health. For many, the alarming rise in health care costs is stretching family budgets to the breaking point. This book challenges the notion that more medical care is always better.
A clearer understanding of the health benefits--and the risks--of the most widely prescribed drugs and the most commonly performed procedures will enable...
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Pills are supposed to make you well but not all pills target all diseases. There are certain pills that only work for certain illnesses. Why is that? Well, that's what this book will explain in detail. It's never too early to explain complex disease facts to children. As long as the information is presented in a child-friendly format, then understanding should flow smoothly.
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In a world of prenuptial agreements and marital uncertainties, there are those who get married or go into relationships because they genuinely love the person they are with. However, when love falls apart, getting up and getting back on our feet is not as easy as, "Just getting up and getting back into the saddle". Often there are mountains to climb, and before we get to the foot of each mountain, we will first have to crawl out of our valleys or...
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When S.M. Kelly suffers a freak accident near Central Park and shatters her femur, at first, she figures "It's early...we can still make dinner and Kinky Boots tonight," as an ambulance hurtles her toward the hospital. The complex, four-hour surgery results in a nine-inch titanium plate and seven pins embedded in Kelly's leg, and her humorless surgeon, Dr. Swarthy Unibrow, orders three months' recovery in a nursing home.
‘Here's Your Pill, Kitten!’...
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A new paradigm for shaping and aligning processes, tools, and employees-to tap into the power and potential of your company.
Through fifteen years of intense observation and analysis, Tony Gruebl, Jeff Welch, and Bryan Wolbert of advisory services firm Think Systems, Inc. identified a powerful controlling force hiding in plain sight-and now they reveal it in The Red Pill Executive.
Tony, Jeff, and Bryan named their approach to harnessing this controlling...
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Watching online videos, buying courses, attending conferences, or using the latest app may give you a short-term business boost, but these aren't the answers to unlocking extraordinary and lasting results. The missing supplement to increasing sales and profits is not more personal development. It's simpler, and without it, you won't smash any of the sales goals you set, nor grow your business to the level of success you want. Simon Chan reveals that...
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Women are major consumers and highly proactive when it comes to attending to their health care. In the tradition of the mega-bestseller, THE PILL BOOK, comes a medication guide just for women-a book that addresses their needs, concerns, and questions about the plethora of prescription and over-the-counter drugs available. A mix of narrative and reference, THE WOMEN'S PILL BOOK is speaks directly to the specific health challenges women face:
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In 2015, Baltimore plunged into the worst American riots in recent history. In the chaos, two high school honor-roll students, "Brick" and "Wax, used their smarts, computer skills, ambition and gang connections to change the world of illegal drugs forever. With their gang associates, they looted pharmacies and robbed dealers, stealing over one million doses of prescription narcotics and heroin with a street value of more than $100 million.
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Oral contraceptives were first approved in the United States in 1960. It is estimated that over 80% of women born in the U.S. after 1945 have used oral contraceptives at some time in their lives. The 'pill' ushered in a new era of sexual freedom for women. For the first time women had the freedom to enjoy spontaneous sex without the fear of becoming pregnant. However, studies report that about 50% of women who begin using oral contraceptives discontinue...
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Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s. Included here are three great works by the incomparable Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through the country's rural waterways. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster is a collection of nearly one hundred poems, first published in 1968. And In Watermelon...
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