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Any parent can identify with the feeling that girls growing up in America face a treacherous future; Girls Uncovered unveils the facts. In a follow-up to their eye-opening release Hooked, obstetricians Joe McIlhaney and Freda Bush present stunning scientific research on the development of young girls in America's increasingly reckless sexual culture.

Cubre la aplicabilidad de los conceptos cosmológicos egipcias para nuestra comprensión moderna de la naturaleza del universo, la creación, la ciencia y la filosofía.

Big data - the enormous amount of data that is created as virtually every movement, transaction, and choice we make becomes digitized - is revolutionizing business. Offering real-world insight and explanations, this audiobook provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy...and reveals why it's not something they can leave to the I.T. department. Think Bigger is an essential resource for anyone who wants to ensure that their company isn't left in the dust.

Step into a world of sensory wonder and embrace the transformative power of nature with "Essence of Healing," your comprehensive guide to the art and science of aromatherapy. Journey through this soul-enriching eBook, where ancient wisdom meets modern wellness practices, crafting an experience that's as enlightening as it is grounding. Unlock the secrets held by essential oils as you explore their origins and dive deep into the intricacies of extraction and preservation. Each chapter unfolds layers of knowledge, offering a lavish exploration of aromatic botanicals—discover how the ...

Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and-gift giving. Lots and lots - and lots - of gift giving. It's hard to imagine any Christmas without this time-honored custom. But let's stop to consider the gifts we receive - the rooster sweater from Grandma or the singing fish from Uncle Mike. How many of us get gifts we like? How many of us give gifts not knowing what recipients want? Did your cousin really look excited about that jumping alarm clock?

The beauty industry - which once revolved around creams and powders, subtle agents to enhance beauty - has become the anti-aging industry, overrun with steroids, human growth hormone injections, and bio-identical hormones, all promoted as cures for getting old. Acclaimed BusinessWeek science reporter Arlene Weintraub takes us inside this world, from the marketing departments of huge pharmaceutical companies to the backroom of your local pharmacy to celebrity enthusiasts like Oprah.

Grant McCracken, an anthropologist who now trains some of the world's biggest companies and consulting firms, argues that the CCO would keep a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends, from sneakers to slow food to preppies, while developing a systematic understanding of the deep waves of culture in America and the world. The CCOs professionalism would allow the corporation to see coming changes, even when they only exist as the weakest of signals.

America’s Romance with the English Garden is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It’s also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.

This book is a scientific expedition to research and explore the enterprise-grade big data appliances with blended OLTP and OLAP capabilities. Enterprise database systems with the aid of big data analytics create an intelligent ecosystem by taming and wrangling the data coming from extreme-disparate sources of structured and unstructured channels with massive parallelization techniques to discover, visualize, predict, and action the patterns and trends of mashups of big data.

Ever wonder how we know what we know? Especially in medical research? How do we know that some diets are probably more healthful than others? How do we know that smoking is likely to cause lung cancer? You might be surprised to learn that it's not all about scientists doing experiments in labs. Much of what we know comes from population sciences. And epidemiology is the mother of all population health sciences! Nothing To Do With Skin is an introduction to the science of population epidemiology, written by a well known, award winning, senior epidemiologist. The book is written for the ...

How do we stay safe? Should we? What if our attempts are exposing us even more to the very risks we are avoiding? Would acceptance of danger make us more secure? Is there such a thing as foolproof? In Foolproof, Greg Ip presents a macro theory of human nature and disaster that explains how we can keep ourselves safe in our increasingly dangerous world.

America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use. Today's Millennials - well-educated, tech savvy, underemployed twentysomethings - are at risk of becoming the first generation in American history to have a lower standard of living than their parents.

In 1976 John White, an American author and researcher, traveled to Zurich, Switzerland, to interview Pandit Gopi Krishna on the subjects of Kundalini and consciousness research. In these five interviews, Gopi Krishna gives insightful answers to many basic questions about the nature of Kundalini, the evolutionary, transformative, spiritual power in the human body.

“Guide makes using AI seem easy” - Amazon Review “A Plotser’s Perfect Brainstorming Partner” - Amazon Review “Made me a romance writing AI ninja!” - Amazon Review Romance writers, take your romance writing to the next level with Artificial Intelligence and this guide from a USA Today Bestselling romance author of over 80+ romance novels. Hi, I’m author Rachelle Ayala, a prolific author and writing coach with my Romance In A Month method, and I’m here to lead you through the wonderful world of AI (Artificial Intelligence). I’ll show you the importance of prompting and how...

A trailblazing scientist made famous by her favorite primates, Jane Goodall will forever be linked with the chimpanzees that she's studied for over 50 years. A pioneer in scientific research, she revolutionized longstanding views about chimps, forest conservation, and women in scientific fields. This Up Close biography tells the story of how a demure young woman from London went to Africa and changed the world.

Unlock muscle growth through recovery, not exhaustion. In Beyond the Pump, you’ll discover the radical, evidence-backed system pioneered by Mike Mentzer—an approach that shattered the myths of volume training and reshaped bodybuilding’s core assumptions. With surgical clarity and zero fluff, this book explains how growth actually happens after you leave the gym—and why most lifters interrupt it with chronic overtraining. Drawing on decades of clinical insight and real-world case studies, this no-nonsense guide exposes why muscles don’t read volume, how hormonal health collapses ...

Both sisters are trapped. Kate fights to escape a city with closing borders as the leaders desperately try to contain the outbreak. Betrayed by family and embroiled in the chaos of an organized crime syndicate, Alisa struggles to get out before she breaks under the unbearable strain. Even if she escapes, Kate still faces miles of lawless country with dangers even worse than the virus. Back home, Alisa can’t turn her back on the other trapped victims and is determined to find a way to save them all.

Hundreds of deadly miles stand between Kate and her sister fighting for her life back home. Kate fights through the desperate people and a terrain that becomes more treacherous by the day. No longer waiting to be rescued, Alisa braves the powerful cabal that has taken over their small town and risks her own life to protect the innocent. The sisters can’t give up. They won’t. No matter the cost.

Cheap. It's a dirty word laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid winters and rarely using his car's turn signals - to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare. In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending every last penny.

He’s the world’s smartest orangutan. He’s getting smarter. And he’s not going to stay in his cage. Created in a remote lab by the powerful Hellinix Corporation, Stanley was meant to be a miracle—a talking, thinking, chess-playing scientific breakthrough. But now his enhanced brain is breaking down. As Stanley’s mind begins to unravel, his handlers rush to save their research—and their careers—by pumping him full of an experimental serum never tested on a subject like him. It works. Too well. Suddenly, Stanley remembers everything: the lies, the failed predecessors, the ...