![]() A drug or two was available that could stop parasitic diseases once they hit, tropical maladies like malaria and sleeping sickness. This is a fascinating scientific tale with all the excitement and intrigue of a great suspense novel.įor thousands of years, humans had sought medicines with which they could defeat contagion, and they had slowly, painstakingly, won a few battles: some vaccines to ward off disease, a handful of antitoxins. The very concept that chemicals created in a lab could cure disease revolutionized medicine, taking it from the treatment of symptoms and discomfort to the eradication of the root cause of illness.Ī strange and colorful story, The Demon Under the Microscope illuminates the vivid characters, corporate strategy, individual idealism, careful planning, lucky breaks, cynicism, heroism, greed, hard work, and the central (though mistaken) idea that brought sulfa to the world. Sulfa changed the way new drugs were developed, approved, and sold transformed the way doctors treated patients and ushered in the era of modern medicine. Sulfa saved millions of lives-among them those of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.-but its real effects are even more far reaching. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic. ![]() ![]() It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Barriers and facilitators to the use of survivorship care plans by hematopoietic stem cell transplant survivors and clinicians. Morken C, Tevaarwerk AJ, Juckett MB, Swiecichowski AK, Haine JE, Zhang X, et al. Health equity embodies the values, policies, and practices that seek to eliminate inequitable access to health care, especially for those who have historically faced health inequities based on race/ethnicity, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, poverty, geography, citizenship status, or religion. UWCCC Survivorship Program commits to championing policies and practices that will promote health equity and combat social factors determining a person’s access to survivorship care and opportunities to live a healthy post-cancer life. We bridge the gap between oncology, primary care, and other specialties, building and expanding upon a multi-disciplinary framework as the cancer type requires to focus on patient-centered, coordinated care. Key targets include the development of cancer survivorship research in the context of clinical practice, psychosocial and quality of life interventions, population and health services policy and knowledge translation via in-person and web-based training for healthcare professionals. The UWCCC Survivorship Program encourages, facilitates, and conducts research to address the needs of cancer survivors and their families in the context of health system innovation. ![]() ![]() The experiences chronicled by multicultural poets are universally female, but perhaps understood best by older readers. Simplistic pen-and-ink drawings break up the collection, but do little else. The title poem by Liz Lochhead, written as a rap lyric, provides an independent and rather opposing view of the charmed holiday. ![]() Cynthia MacDonald's gem, "Accomplishments," tells of a daughter's constant struggle to please her mother, only to have her attempts end in disinterest, unappreciation, and needless tragedy. Some powerful works emanate here: Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" echoes the pride of womanhood in rhythmic, moving lines Nikki Giovanni and Alice Walker also make strong showings. Sex, religion, politics, and other volatile issues are present, but other offerings reflect on celebrating a birthday, growing up, challenging authority, and the psychology of shopping. Grade 8 Up-Rife with emotion, this brief volume (about 90 poems) explores women's issues of race, status, identity, and equality. ![]() ![]() Monsters is the legendary project Barry Windsor-Smith has been working on for over 35 years. As the titular monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning. Bailey’s only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone’s control. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. ![]() 35 years in the making, the most anticipated graphic novel in recent comics history! ![]() ![]() So why is it called Gaslamp? Well, the lighting of course! Electricity isn’t usually an option in these historically inspired 19th-century worlds (with a few fun exceptions). If Sherlock Holmes, Jane Austen, and Harry Potter had a love child together, their love child would be a Gaslamp fantasy romance book. Whereas, magic, its use and existence, is an aspect of world building that sets Gaslamp novels apart. This technology (or mad science) is often futuristic in nature despite the historical environment. ![]() Steampunk separates itself with a focus on steam powered technology. And both can be high fantasy, set in a secondary world, or low fantasy and set in a world familiar to us. Both feature settings and a system of values from the Victorian or Edwardian Era. Both subgenres share ancestry with historical fantasy and gothic fiction. Gaslamp has a lot in common with steampunk, and as a result, they are often mistaken for one another. I blame my love for Gaslamp romance on my young obsession with the atmosphere of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and the magic found in great books like Howl’s Moving Castle. Prater, author of Gaslamp Romance, to tell us more about her love for this relatively unknown genre! ![]() But what exactly are the subgenres of Fantasy Romance? In this brand new series of blog posts, we explore the many different categories that fall under the FaRoFeb umbrella. At FaRoFeb, our aim is to celebrate Fantasy Romance in all its variety. ![]() ![]() In one emotional instance, the leads are taken in by an elderly couple who have made their peace with the end of the world. They are feverish and withering away from coming into contact with him. We also are treated to graphic representations of how the disease eats at its victims. He finds different ways to torture and humiliate her while he travels to spread plague. He forces her to run behind it as they travel through Canada. ![]() For her trouble, he captures her, takes her prisoner, and proceeds to tie her to his horse. ![]() A Steady March of Terrorsįor instance, in Pestilence the protagonist and narrator, Sara, tries to kill Pestilence when he rides into her town. They are not reluctant villains, they are relentless. The male leads are also largely more cruel, and unapologetic for murdering leagues of people and inflicting loads of violence on their love interests. Death does not happen off page or in short bursts it is a constant companion to the plot. ![]() Thalassa’s work has that, but it is wholly more grotesque, focusing on the horrific over the romantic. It is also not unusual to have bombastic fight scenes where the hero and/or heroine get beaten to a pulp. It stands to reason that writing one part well will result in writing the other. Good body horror, like good eroticism, has a very tactile quality to it. These books are violent in a way that differentiates them from some other dark romance books. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the settings is the famous Pont-Neuf in Paris, with its statue of Henri IV on horseback. She had already acted in 26 films before she played Angélique for the first time, but in future would be remembered most for being the screen personification of Anne Golons heroine. ![]() The book includes a wealth of descriptions which bring to life the contrasting settings of the rough streets of the French capital and its lavish court. Unwelcome at court because of her supposed common origins, she looks for a suitable alliance and is faced with one of her greatest challenges – can she overcome the vicious brute to whom she is forced to turn, or will he destroy her? At last she prospers, but is still determined to restore her sons’ noble heritage. She discovers an ally in a childhood friend and after struggling through difficult times, stands on the threshold of self-sufficiency and respectability when disaster strikes.Īngélique overcomes the situation by exposing a series of noblemen, falling short of incriminating the king’s brother – an act which earns her favour at court. Angélique: The Road To Versailles is set in the streets of Paris where our heroine finds herself down on her luck and bent on revenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() “We’ve been talking and, uh, there is one way Roar lives through today.” “Fine, I’ll say it.” He brushed twists of dirty blond hair behind his ear and fixed her with a peculiar look, not bashfulness or frustration but something in between. ![]() Perry seemed to always take the lead, but when Roar drew a line, she now saw, he drew it permanently. “Me? Hell no.”Īn obsidian gleam settled in Roar’s eyes, so cold it was almost chilling. “It would require that-” He muttered a curse, shaking his head. But it would require that-” He scowled at the floor. She blinked, needing a moment to rein in her emotions. “But there’s a way we might still get out of this.” I’d do anything if I could undo it, but I can’t.” All I can.” She was rambling and tears were pushing into her eyes, but she couldn’t seem to stop. I know I can’t make this right, but I’m trying to make it not as awful. I know you don’t care, but I’ve given up my freedom. It was too difficult to hold his gaze, so she focused on the bandage around his chest. He’ll dispose of me at the earliest chance. “He’ll force Perry to bend the knee and gain the Horns through your marriage to his son, but I’m nothing more than a risk. “If-if I marry Garen,” she shuddered involuntarily, “he’ll let you go?” ![]() ![]() Without telling Murphy, Dresden magically follows a blood trace at the scene that leads him to a confrontation with a gang of teenage werewolves and their pack leader, Tera West. ![]() They are ordered off the scene by a team of four FBI agents, one of whom shoots at Dresden and Murphy and nearly kills them. ![]() Karrin Murphy asks Dresden to consult on a homicide, in which the savaged body of a henchman of mobster Johnny Marcone has been found near a group of wolf-like paw prints. ![]() Dresden withholds the information, because such circles are generally used to contain demigods and archangels. Plot summary Īfter the events in Storm Front, Kim Delaney, whom Dresden helped learn to control her magical talents, asks Dresden how to create a set of three magical circles which could be used to contain powerful entities. It is the second novel in The Dresden Files, which follows the character of Harry Dresden, present-day Chicago's only advertising professional wizard. ![]() Print ( paperback) & AudioBook ( Audio cassette & Audio CD)įool Moon is a 2001 contemporary fantasy novel by author Jim Butcher. ![]() ![]() ![]() In response, author Amélie Wen Zhao delayed the book, revisited in the context of her original intent - to explore concepts of indenture with real-world parallels in Asian countries - and has now released the book, as of late November, satisfied that it did so. ![]() In original ARCs, the story's depictions of race provoked strong concerns about how the story came across in the context of historic Black slavery in the USA. Blood Heir deals in some depth with the concept of indenture, with marginalised characters in the place where the book is set at high risk of being forced to sign work contracts which leave them effectively in slavery. Originally scheduled for release the beginning of 2019, the book was delayed after numerous ARC readers identified significant sensitivity issues with an aspect of the plot and characters. ![]() ![]() I don't want to talk about Blood Heir without acknowledging the route this book took to publication. ![]() |