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Author
Publisher
Feels Like Fire
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Why do babies have lopsided smiles? Why are so many people's eyes misaligned? What started as a simple search to understand this phenomenon turned into a two-year quest that uncovered hidden links between our crooked faces and some of the most puzzling diseases of our time. From autism to Alzheimer's and from chronic fatigue syndrome to Crohn's disease, Crooked methodically goes through the most recent scientific research and connects the dots from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
Author
Language
English
Description
At an elite private school in Massachusetts, a wide circle of lives will be forever changed by a devastating series of events in Danielle Steel's riveting new novel. Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just...
7) The body toxic: how the hazardous chemistry of everyday things threatens our health and well-being
Author
Publisher
North Point Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the chemicals that exist in or on many things people use in daily life, and that build up in the body and environment, and focuses on endocrine disruptors, the weed killer atrazine, phthalates in cosmetics, and other chemicals, and accuses the government of allowing companies to attack scientists who raise safety concerns regarding cancer, diabetes, and obesity.
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