https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th 10 new Non-Fiction reads we have added this year! By Lillian Humphries. en-us 2017-11-30 21:17:04 UTC 2026-03-20 08:27:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ornamenttree.png l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/212086389 "... author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"--Provided by publisher.

]]> 2017-11-30 21:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/212086389 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/212086893 Discusses the uses and consequences of performance-enhancing drugs in sports.

]]> 2017-11-30 21:22:49 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/212086893 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213075327 "The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter. The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity-- by chewing, brewing, and snorting--some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Otzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery. Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. The chapters offer a lively tour of how new drugs are actually found, the discovery strategies, the mistakes, and the rare successes. Dr. Donald R. Kirsch infuses the book with his own expertise and experiences from thirty-five years of drug hunting, whether searching for life-saving molecules in mudflats by Chesapeake Bay or as a chief science officer and research group leader at major pharmaceutical companies"--

]]> 2017-12-04 20:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213075327 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213086396 Chronicles the events surrounding a series of serial murders that were committed in Austin, Texas during the late part of the nineteenth century.

]]> 2017-12-04 21:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213086396 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213087102 "Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies. ... A physician's memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola : how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity. And as Dr. Hatch notes, while Ebola is temporarily under control, it will inevitably re-emerge-as will other plagues, notably the Zika virus, ... Inferno is a glimpse into the white-hot center of a crisis that will come again"--Provided by publisher.

]]> 2017-12-04 21:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213087102 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213087719 World-traveling photojournalist David Douglas Duncan shares photographs and memories from throughout his decades-long career.

]]> 2017-12-04 21:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213087719 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213088987 "The principles of physics lie behind many of the ways animals go about their daily lives. Scientists have discovered that the way cats and dogs lap up liquids can be explained by the laws of surface tension, how ants navigate is due to polarized light, and why pistol shrimps can generate enough force to destroy aquarium glass using their 'elbows!' Each of Furry Logic's six chapters tackles a separate branch of physics and, through more than 30 animal case studies, examines each creature's key features before describing the ways physics is at play in its life, how the connection between physics and animal behavior was discovered, and what remains to be found out."--Amazon.

]]> 2017-12-04 21:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213088987 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213089301 (No description)
*A book on understanding stocks*

]]> 2017-12-04 21:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213089301 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213090107 This handbook helps students understand how people of today's Japan think, do business, and act in their daily lives.

]]> 2017-12-04 21:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213090107 l_humphries2 https://padlet.com/l_humphries2/mmz2tvpc24th/wish/213091166 "Arkansas's rich African American sports heritage finally gets the attention it deserves with this one-of-a-kind anthology. The unprecedented collection showcase original features on Fayetteville's forgotten "Black Razorbacks" of the 1930s, Muhammad Ali's fascinating week long 1969 tour through the state and award-winning articles from Slate, Arkansas Life magazine, the North Little Rock Times, the Arkansas Times and more."-back cover.
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