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In 2016, a women-only expedition traveled to Antarctica and visited two operating research stations (Carlini, Argentina and Palmer Station, USA) as well as the abandoned Argentine/Spanish research base built on a Norwegian whaling station on Deception Island and the Port Lockroy (UK) post office. Seventy-six women, mostly research scientists, embarked on this journey, not to collect ice cores from the continent, but to essentially collect data...

A third year of clinical gems from the Puswhisperer, Mark Crislip, an infectious disease specialist from Portland, OR. Clinical pearls, diagnostic dilemmas, and zebras abound in these real-life cases from eight different hospitals in the Portland area. Edited for a lay audience, these tales will make you think twice before eating anything undercooked, turn you off kissing your pets, and make you run not walk to your nearest flu shot clinic. Fo...

Millionaire Valley is a fictionalized memoir about a woman who was nearly robbed of the business she had built by an unscrupulous "marketer." The usurper, eventually joined by a sidekick, promised she could take the company to the next level. Instead, the plan was to pay herself an exorbitant salary, run the business into the ground, and leave its founder--recently widowed and heading into what should have been her retirement years--with nothi...

Flashback to 1991. Minnesota winters are long and cold, physics professors are all male, and information is found in the library - whether it's clues to a homework problem, how to fix a furnace, or skeletons in colleagues' closets. Lori Barrow has just turned 17, and she starts out her graduate career on the right foot, immediately passing the qualifying exam that's slated to eliminate at least half the class. But she soon learns that academic...

A collection of short stories that are finger on the pulse of our individual and collective secrets, exploring the cost of hiding them or trying to share them. Some, like the protagonists in "It's Usually This Dark By Now" and "A Crime of Opportunity, " can't afford the price tag on those secrets. Others, like the history-haunted veteran in "This Time Comes From That Time" or the teenage narrator in "Mountain, " swallow them whole. A few, like...

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An edited compendium of the best of Mark Crislip's science-based medicine essays dealing with supplements, complementary and alternative medicine (SCAM). This book explains the harm—why SCAM is bad for people, animals, and the environment. It also explains why our powers of logic are often powerless against SCAM, including detailed analyses of statisical errors and fallacies. It then covers selected aspects of SCAM in detail: probiotics, herbs...

Sexism, Secrets and Science: Cat Zero by Jennifer Rohn Scientist Artie Marshall is perpetually underfunded, relegated to a damp basement, and besieged on all sides by sexist colleagues. Added to that, she is immersed in a messy divorce. But she's never been happier, studying an obscure cat virus that nobody else in the world seems to have heard of â or cares about. Everything changes when local cats start dropping dead and Artie's arcane littl...

Sean Bulger is a 16-year-old alcoholic from Newfoundland. His life revolves around avoiding his abusive stepfather and sneaking booze wherever and whenever he can. One of his party crashes goes wrong when a group of fellow teens dare him to check out a condemned Russian cruise ship. Stone drunk and obsessed with the promise of more alcohol, Sean scrambles aboard the ship, and blacks out when the boat is towed from harbour--and soon he's adrift...

More than a dozen WWII-era German U-boats remain unaccounted for, the fate of their crews unknown. In summer 2012, sonar scanning found a submerged vessel of the right dimensions in Canadian province of Labrador. From this find grew Kill Shot, a fictionalization of the events that switches between the circumstances of the war that led the German crew to submerge and eventually die in the river, and the adventures that occur seventy years later...

All it took was a few baby chicks and a carpeted floor, and soon, Jane Ishka, a San Francisco Bay Area homesteader, literally felt her skin crawling. Sheâand her house, her car, and all of her belongingsâhad been infested by the red poultry mite, Dermanyssus gallinae. Driven from her home and bed by the biting and itching, Jane used her scientific background to figure out what was wrong, and most importantly, how to fix it.

A selection of twenty-nine insightful, creative essays, alive with superb and tender detail. Hymns of Home focuses on family and life in a way that references the questions we ask and are asked as parents, the way naming creates meaning, and the reflective nature of observation, the contained nature of technology. The man at the heart of these stories brings us closer to the world of childhood wonder, closer to our own knowledge, and asks us t...

For Lela White, a Houston sleep lab technician, sleep doesn't come easy-there's a price to be paid for a poor night's sleep, and she's the judge, jury, and executioner. Everyone around Lela considers her a private woman with a passion for her lab work. But nighttime reveals her for what she is: a woman on a critical secret mission. Lela lives in the grip of a mental disorder that compels her to break into astronauts' homes to ensure they c...

Walter Cronkite -A Ship's Taleby N. Jay Young is "an extraordinary tale from World War II of an extraordinary sailing vessel written by a courageous and extraordinary author." James P. Delgado, Host of National Geographic Television's The Sea Hunters and Executive Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum - "A Ship's Taleby N. Jay Young is compelling, true to life, and hitting straight in the heart. I can empathize with those men who love that ship-...

FUTURE TENSE picks up exactly where TEMPUS FUGIT leaves off. Sloane now finds himself reunited with his girlfriend, Emma, at Duckworth Hall. It should be a time for love and celebration, but our hero's hopes are soon dashed. As usual, the Duck's machinations are unfathomable to mere mortals. Also, those puritanical fascists, Corrective Measures, are still in hot pursuit, only this time they're meaner-their snatch squads now blow ...

BOOK 4 of THE FIGHTING ANTHONYS series. A needful nation calls. Admiral Lord Anthony has just returned from Gabe's wedding and is finally able to relax with Lady Deborah and their new daughter. Then the Admiralty's messenger arrives. Lord Anthony has been given command of His Majesty's ships in the West Indies. He and Gabe set sail with a new squadron only to face old enemies, personal tragedies, daring privateers and the French who have si...

Brutally raped and left pregnant and half dead, Ashley Bloodworth wants to find the three men who tortured her. She persuades P. I. Dagny Taggart Jamison to take the case after promising that she merely wants to know who fathered her twins. Dagny must find each man and get a DNA sample. But there is a catch: the assault took place ten years ago. No trail was ever this cold. For clues Dagny has a blue Dodge van, a belt buckle, and a partin...

She died the way the universe will Lori Barrow was a Wunderkind, the youngest student ever to enroll at America's most exclusive science university. Now, twenty years later, she's a lonely, socially awkward Luddite whose career is all over the map because she refuses to grow up.. Her alma mater has brought her back as a professor not because of any great achievements, but because they hope her wide range of skills will resuscitate the dying ph...

July 1778. A French fleet of mighty warships under Comte d'Estaing arrives off Sandy Hook to aid the colonies. The British Navy finds itself hard pressed to fulfill the duties cast upon it. Vice Admiral Lord Anthony has temporarily transferred his flag to the frigate, HMS Peregrine for diplomatic duty. The ship's captain is Lord Anthony's brother, Gabe. The mission is to transport prisoners of war and their families to Norfolk, Virginia ...

Hundreds of diabolical problems in classical and quantum mechanics, electricity & magnetism, special relativity, and statistical and thermal physics, all solved in detail. Intended primarily for graduate students studying for qualifying exams, these problems are also great for teachers, advanced undergraduates, and more.