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LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0BM4XW83P How much do you know about baseball?Do you just eat, breathe and sleep baseball?No matter how big of a baseball fan you are, there&#8217s always a new story or factoid you&#8217ve never heard before.Can you name the last 20 teams to win the World Series? Do you know the pitcher with the only no-hitter on Opening Day?What about the tragic story of Ray Chapman, the only professional player to die from being hit by a ball? Did you hear the one about Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays getting temporarily banned from baseball?Within the pages of The Ul

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/9627866350 How much do you know about farts?Did you know it would take just nine farts from every person on earth to power an atomic bomb? That fish farts nearly triggered a war against Russia? That women's farts smell worse than men's? Pfwoort! It's all in this book.Did you know that inhaling farts is healthy, yet people fart after death? That you can get a job as a professional fart smeller? That farting is illegal in Africa but polite in South America? Heard any ancient Babylonian fart jokes lately? Blorrrk! It's all in this book.Do you know the fart

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1798649594 How much do you know about Ireland? There&#8217s so much to learn about the Emerald Isle that even its residents don&#8217t know. In this trivia book, you&#8217ll learn more about Ireland&#8217s history, pop culture, folklore, and so much more! In The Great Book of Ireland, you&#8217ll learn: How did Ireland get its name? Why is it known as the Emerald Isle?Who was St. Patrick really? What do leprechauns and shamrocks have to do with St. Patrick&#8217s Day?Which Irish company had a 9,000-year lease? What is Ireland&#8217s top attraction? Whic

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0241974003 How much do you really know about your own hands?Throughout history , civilisations have been defined by the work of human hands: inventing tools, writing records, operating machinery, typing, texting, swiping. But beneath this known history is another, secret story: our hands are not the obedient servants that they seem to be. Through conscious and unconscious gesture, they reveal our deepest psychology, our weaknesses and obsessions, our personal history and our social conditioning. Why do zombies walk with their hands outstretched? How doe

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0312672829 How Oliver Olson Changed the World is an irresistible chapter book from Claudia Mills, featuring lively illustrations by Heather Maione. Oliver Olson learns that before you can change the world, sometimes you need to change yourself. Oliver Olson's teacher is always saying that one person with a big idea can change the world. But how is Oliver supposed to change the world when his parents won't let him do anything on his own&#8213not his class projects or even attending activities such as the space sleepover at school. Afraid he will become a

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0034N7JI6 How our once-helpful instincts got hijacked by our garish modern world.Have you ever wondered why some men choose pornography over actual women? Why so many people watch Friends instead of going out with their own buddies? Why a person would &#8220feed&#8221 a plastic Pocket Pet while shirking real duties? Why both sides of every war see the other as the aggressor against whom their &#8220Department of Defense&#8221 must respond?Harvard evolutionary psychologist Deirdre Barrett explains how human instincts&#8212for food, sex, or territorial p

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B014KVPSC4 How pathbreaking research into the brain&#8217s connections to the immune system offers new hope for treating diseases, injuries, and the effects of aging. PROSE Awards Honorable Mention, Biomedicine &amp Neuroscience categoryIn the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body&#8217s immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together with her research team, not only has overturned this misconception but has brought to light revolutionary new un

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0262047969 How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases&#8212and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when deadly diseases were a routine part of life. It is harder still to fathom that the best medical thinking at that time blamed these diseases on noxious miasmas, bodily humors, and divine dyspepsia. This all began to change on a day in April 1676, when a little-known Dutch merchant described bacteria fo

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0262545071 How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are.Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on--we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes--and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word--or a chord, or

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B07MWBRFST How statistical data is used, misused, and abused every day to fool us: &#8220A very entertaining book about a very serious problem.&#8221 &#8212Robert J. Shiller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author ofIrrational ExuberanceDid you know that baseball players whose names begin with &#8220D&#8221 are more likely to die young? That Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? That drinking a full pot of coffee every morning adds years to your life, but one cup a day increases your pancreatic

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B07Q2HHBWF How stigma derails well-intentioned public health efforts, creating suffering and worsening inequalities.2020 Winner, Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize,Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeStigma is a dehumanizing process, where shaming and blaming are embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society. In Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting, medical anthropologists Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore a darker s

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0262047357 How teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them.What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults&#8217 assumptions, they are not simply &#8220addicted&#8221 to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They are just trying to navigate a networked world. In Behind Their Screens, Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, Harvard researchers who are experts on teens and technology, explore the complexities that teens face in their digital lives, and

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0B325DM3V How teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support themWhat are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults&#8217 assumptions, they are not simply &#8220addicted&#8221 to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They are just trying to navigate a networked world. In Behind Their Screens, Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, Harvard researchers who are experts on teens and technology, explore the complexities that teens face in their digital lives, and

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0470550910 How the chemicals in everyday products are killing us&#8212and what the government is not doing about itDid you know that &quot&quotnontoxic&quot&quot usually means &quot&quotnever tested&quot&quot? Or that many green cleaners are good for the environment but terrible for you? Chemist and activist Monona Rossol goes from under your sink to the halls of the powerful, tracing America&#8217s love affair with chemicals that kill, explaining how much worse the problem has gotten in the last decade. Shocking and appalling and completely reckless&#8

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/0262047314 How the FDA was shaped by public health crises and patient advocacy, told against a background of the contentious hearings on the breast cancer drug Avastin.Food and Drug Administration approval for COVID-19 vaccines and the controversial Alzheimer&#8217s drug Aduhelm made headlines, but few of us know much about how the agency does its work. Why is the FDA the ultimate US authority on a drug&#8217s safety and efficacy? In Drugs and the FDA, Mikkael Sekeres&#8212a leading oncologist and former chair of the FDA&#8217s cancer drug advisory comm

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1119890683 How the Immune System Works How the Immune System Works provides a concise and accessible overview of how the immune system protects us from disease. Written in a lively and engaging style, this unique book makes it easy to see the big picture of the immune system&#8213without any confusing jargon or complex technical details. Now in its seventh edition, this popular book features an entirely new chapter that describes the role of the immune system in fighting COVID-19, as well as up-to-date information on vaccines, immunotherapies, immunolog

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/111954212X How the Immune System Workshas helped thousands of students understand what's in their hefty immunology textbooks. In this book, Dr. Sompayrac cuts through the jargon and details to reveal, in simple language, the essence of this complex subject: how the immune system fits together, how it protects us from disease and, perhaps most importantly, why it works the way it does.Featuring Dr. Sompayrac's hallmark lively prose and engaging analogies,How the Immune System Workshas been rigorously updated for this sixth edition, including the latest i

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/1786633612 How the law harms sex workers&#8212and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that any

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B0BRDDVL71 How to Be a Healthcare Advocate for Yourself and Loved Ones provides crucial, potentially lifesaving advice for those trying to navigate modern healthcare and secure the best medical treatment for themselves and the people around them. Author Teri Dreher, a nationally recognized professional patient advocate, draws on decades of experience as a critical care nurse to give readers an insider&#8217s view of the healthcare landscape. What are the 10 dos and don&#8217ts for getting more out of doctors&#8217 appointments? What seven questions shou

LINK: https://fastpdf.bookcenterapp.com/B00CA8NLTM How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and their Caregivers is a life-affirming, instructive, and inspiring book about living gracefully and purposefully with the challengesfaced by those with chronic pain or illness. These conditions, while not always life-threatening, are life-disrupting and stressful. The audiobook contains over two dozen tools and practices to help people live skillfully and to find equanimity and joy despite the profound changes in their lives. A recurring theme in the audiobook is that, althou