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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
"Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but zoologist Charles Stiles knew better. Working with one of...
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Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Battling Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria offers a cutting-edge, comprehensive look at one of science's biggest challenges. Includes a look at the history of the topic, recent breakthroughs, key facts to consider, and questions that remain unanswered."--
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
American science produces the best--and most expensive--medical treatments in the world. Yet U.S. citizens lag behind their global peers in life expectancy and quality of life. Robert Kaplan brings together extensive data to make the case that health care priorities in the United States are sorely misplaced. America's medical system is invested in attacking disease, but not in addressing the social, behavioral, and environmental problems that engender...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This engaging citizen's guide to the significance of contagion for American democracy in the past, present, and future focuses on the laws that have been central to this story. Outlining the shockingly mixed traditions that have mandated decent care for the elite while displaying a neglect and contempt toward the health of the disadvantaged, this timely book provides historical perspective and relevant information to help us shape a more just and...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 2019, frustrated with the obvious inaction of politicians and inspired by Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, and student climate strikers, Jane Fonda moved to Washington, DC to lead weekly climate change demonstrations on Capitol Hill. On October 11, she launched Fire Drill Fridays (FDF), and has since led thousands of people in non-violent civil disobedience, risking arrest to protest for action. In her new book, Fonda weaves her deeply...
55) The path to a livable future: a new politics to fight climate change, racism, and the next pandemic
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Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism. "An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be."-Naomi Klein 2020 was a year defined by crisis. For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the urgency of addressing climate change, but it took...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"Maxine and Jonah meet as California is going into lockdown due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic declaration, and must learn how to build their relationship at a distance through personal tragedies and triumphs"--
Maxine and Jonah meet in the canned goods aisle of the grocery store just as the state of California is going into lockdown. Max's part-time job as a personal grocery shopper is about to transform into a hellish gauntlet. Jonah's preexisting...
59) True warnings and false alarms: evaluating fears about the health risks of technology, 1948-1971
Author
Publisher
Resources for the Future
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book documents the decline of white-working class lives over the last half-century and examines the social and economic forces that have slowly made these lives more difficult. Case and Deaton argue that market and political power in the United States have moved away from labor towards capital-as unions have weakened and politics have become more favorable to business, corporations have become more powerful. Consolidation in some American industries,...
