Author: John M. Barry
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143036494
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
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Languages : en
Pages : 1012
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Author: 陳光
Publisher: 布克文化
ISBN: 9865728028
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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※電子書不含VCD內容 在「吸英大法」中， 陳光老師將以「邏輯式超強記憶法」取代目前坊間流行的「圖像式記憶法」，教導讀者如何在考前臨陣磨槍, 如何用右腦來作弊，並傳授讀者學習在一個小時之內背400個英文單字的密笈。 坊間目前有許多教導超強記憶的補習班， 強調要用圖像來幫助記憶。圖像的確可以加強印像，幫助記憶，但是，它們同樣會耗去大腦許多的記憶容量，因此，在剛開始時，一般人會覺得圖像記憶的方法效果驚人，但是，只要時間一久，大腦就會不堪負荷，記憶的速度也會越來越慢，最後根本就是徒勞無功。 舉例來說，如果要從電腦裡找出「林志玲」的資料，校出「林志玲」這三個字，絕對會比校出林志玲的照片還要快上許多！不論你用的是新電腦還是舊電腦，文字檔比圖檔快的定律是不會改變的。因此，為了要節省電腦的硬碟空間，許多人在存取資料時會盡量使用文字檔，避免使用太多的圖檔，因為，圖檔過多不但會讓電腦的程式跑得慢，也容易讓電腦當機。 人類的頭腦和電腦一樣，不管有再多的記憶空間，容量都是有限的，所以，如果想要快速又大量的記憶資訊，絕對不能夠單靠圖像來輔助，圖像除了會讓大腦的運轉速度變慢外，也會佔據大量的記憶空間，造成資訊混亂，讓大腦當機！ 要如何騙過大腦，讓大腦用最有效率的方法處理大量而龐雜的資訊，並且不會當機呢? 只有陳光老師的「吸英大法」可以做到！「吸英大法」運用的邏輯式超強記憶法，不僅可以運用在英文學習上, 也可以運用其他語言的學習上以及日常生活裡的大小事記憶, 不管是中文、日文、法文．．． 還是人名、地名、時間．．．所有必須要靠死背來處理的資訊，都可以運用「吸英大法」裡的技巧來解決。 出版社 布克文化
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: United States. Government Printing Office
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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Author: Ruth G. Gallagner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671648748
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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If you are an office worker or a student--if you write of dictate letters--if you prepare talks or speeches for social or business occasions--here is a reference work to help you master spelling and pronunciation, the most troublesome aspects of the English language.
Author: Neil Hutchison
Publisher: Proglen Trading Co., Ltd.
ISBN: 6167817014
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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A hilarious romp through a year of expat living in Pattaya, Thailand. Imagine leaving the comfort zone of your home, family and friends to venture into the unknown. Imagine discovering an alien paradise only to realize that here, you are the alien who has to try to fit into your new environment. Imagine stumbling through a year of discovery among a tapestry of blunders and imagine that, all the while, you don't have a clue what you are doing. That takes a lot of imagination! ... but not for The Fool. By the author of the best selling Money Number One, this book is the third in a trilogy of titles following "The Fool in Paradise" theme. In this instance, "Paradise" refers to the Kingdom of Thailand and "The Fool", of course, is the author. The first in the series, A Fool in Paradise, was published in November 2003. It is a collection of 39 short stories about life in Thailand with particular attention to the entertainment scene in Pattaya. The second, A Fool is Back, came out in December 2004 and contained a further 32 stories along a similar vein, concentrating on fun and humour. Finally, after many delays due primarily to the bone laziness of the author, A Fool's Diary is born. More than a collection of tales, it chronicles a year in the life of a simple man; sometimes insightful, sometimes philosophical, but always with a dry wit that takes no prisoners.
Author: Shawn Lawrence Otto
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 1609613201
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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"Whenever the people are well informed," Thomas Jefferson wrote, "they can be trusted with their own government." But what happens in a world dominated by complex science? Are the people still well-enough informed to be trusted with their own government? And with less than 2 percent of Congress with any professional background in science, how can our government be trusted to lead us in the right direction? Will the media save us? Don't count on it. In early 2008, of the 2,975 questions asked the candidates for president just six mentioned the words "global warming" or "climate change," the greatest policy challenge facing America. To put that in perspective, three questions mentioned UFOs. Today the world's major unsolved challenges all revolve around science. By the 2012 election cycle, at a time when science is influencing every aspect of modern life, antiscience views from climate-change denial to creationism to vaccine refusal have become mainstream. Faced with the daunting challenges of an environment under siege, an exploding population, a falling economy and an education system slipping behind, our elected leaders are hard at work ... passing resolutions that say climate change is not real and astrology can control the weather. Shawn Lawrence Otto has written a behind-the-scenes look at how the government, our politics, and the media prevent us from finding the real solutions we need. Fool Me Twice is the clever, outraged, and frightening account of America's relationship with science—a relationship that is on the rocks at the very time we need it most.
Author: Nathan Bailey
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Author: Ana Roma
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1547579242
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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“Did it ever cross your mind to fall in love for the same person you swore to join with someone else?” That is exactly what happened to Ana Clara, the main character of this story. Ana Clara is in the same class as a boy she doesn’t dare to talk to after finding out she is completely, madly in love with him. The worst of all is that, even knowing he might be her prince charming, Ana Clara had already decided to find another princess to fill his heart. After learning that her talent to “find” and “match” soul mates wasn’t real, she decided to destroy the relationship and try to win the heart of the idiot with whom she fell in love with.
