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Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems

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News headlines are forever reporting diseases that take huge tolls on humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and both cultivated and native plants worldwide. These diseases can also completely transform the ecosystems that feed us and provide us with other critical benefits, from flood control to water purification. And yet diseases sometimes serve to maintain the structure and function of the ecosystems on which humans depend.

Gathering thirteen essays by forty leading experts who convened at the Cary Conference at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in 2005, this book develops an integrated framework for understanding where these diseases come from, what ecological factors influence their impacts, and how they in turn influence ecosystem dynamics. It marks the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the rich and complex linkages between ecology and disease, and provides conceptual underpinnings to understand and ameliorate epidemics. It also sheds light on the roles that diseases play in ecosystems, bringing vital new insights to landscape management issues in particular. While the ecological context is a key piece of the puzzle, effective control and understanding of diseases requires the interaction of professionals in medicine, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, forestry, agriculture, and ecology. The essential resource on the subject, Infectious Disease Ecology seeks to bridge these fields with an ecological approach that focuses on systems thinking and complex interactions.

The Invisible ABC's: Exploring the World of Microbes

Rodney P. Anderson

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An alphabet book not for the faint of heart 4 out of 5 stars.
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It would be an understatement to say that the American Society For Microbiology is perhaps not amongst the most prolific publishers of children's books. You can imagine my confusion then when I learned that they not only had a book out, but one of an alphabetic nature. There are more alphabet books on this earth than grains of sands on the shore. Yet for every one you see, huge debates probably went into its making. Take "The Invisible ABCs" as your example. If you're going to create the greatest scientific abecedarian text ere conceived, you need to know who your audience is. Any parent, teacher, or librarian will tell you that at a certain point alphabet books are NOT cool anymore. Kids with their rudimentary reading skills in place will avoid "baby" books like the plague. And sadly, anything with the word "ABC" in its title may apply. The trick is to sell this book to them on its scientific foundations. Fortunately, this book doesn't exactly come across as a hard sell. With images that burst from the pages, fun facts, riddling every letter, and more sheer information than you'll know what to do with, Anderson gives us the ultimate in learning about infinitesimal microbes in a truly engaging fashion. And the purty pictures certainly don't hurt.

Each letter is shown on a two-page spread. In the upper left-hand corner, a small box shows each letter as formed by some preternaturally talented microbes (in photographs of them no less). Then we learn a little something of our invisible-to-the-human-eye neighbors. Did you know that microbes help us make chocolate and are the reason termites are such a pest? Have you ever seen a jaw-droppingly gorgeous microbe or peered at a real strain of the ebola virus? From gross to great and everything in between, author Rodney P. Anderson gives the average everyday alphabet books out there a definite run for their money.

The text accompanying the letters is always informative, even when it initially comes off as lame. "C" is for cows? But then you learn of the special bacteria that allow cows to eat and live off of grass. Even the endpapers of the book are cool when they begin by showing how small a virus is (if it was the size of a grain of sand then YOU would be the size of Mount Everest). Less effective, perhaps, are random question bubbles that pop up with every letter. On occasion the questions are of the, "Would you rather have a shot or be very sick with a preventable disease?" variety. Other times they become thoughtful, asking dreamy hypotheticals like, "Aren't we lucky that microbes help clean our dirty water?" Not really a question, that one. Finally, some are so obvious that you seriously wonder what kids would say when asked something like, "What would happen to wolves if they couldn't eat deer, or to deer if they couldn't eat grass?" On the whole these questions are interesting, but the strain of creating 26 of them creeps out at awkward times. There is also the odd statement along the lines of, "Moms think mold in the bathroom is disgusting and try to scrub it away." Do they now? I suppose Dad's think it's peachy keen. This was such a weird throwback of a statement, I half-wondered what the author was trying to imply.

Of course, the first thing anyone does when they see a new and interesting alphabet book is to flip to the letter "X" to see if the author cheated. A "cheat" is when the writer has proffered a word that has an "X" in it, rather than one beginning with that letter. I thought that with a book of microbes, this letter would be fairly safe. For crying out loud, where else are you going to find Xanthidium lying about? Admittedly, making "X" part of the word, "eXtreme" makes a certain amount of sense here, but a part of me still years for a xanthidium explanation.

Facts are all well and good, but when a publisher sits down and takes the time to include lush full-color photographs of every ciliate, arthroderma, zygnema, and rotavirus that comes their way, you know that someone really cared. It's hard to pooh-pooh a book that's not only overflowing with fabulous facts, but has the visuals to back those statements up. When Anderson begins by saying, "There is an unknown world too tiny to see", and follows that up with, "It is a hidden land where monsters with oozing feet catch and eat their smaller neighbors", you're gonna want to see that. And see it you do as page after page is packed with images that a number of talented photomicroscopists allowed Anderson to use. Every letter of the alphabet is represented by a microbe in that letter's approximate shape (with some more approximate than others). Kids will marvel at the forms and colors of things too tiny to ever see with the naked eye. Best of all are the truly beautiful images. Anderson does diatoms right, calling them, "tiny glass-like boxes that look like colored jewels in different shapes and sizes." They're triangles filled to brimming with remarkable hues and patterns. They are circular actinophtychus, colors spiraling out, and later in the book a diatom arranged in a rosette looks more snowflake than tiny critter.

Credit where credit is due, not all the pictures in this book are of microbes. There are stock photos of a 1970 "Rubella Fighter" and an 1802 anti-Dr. Jenner political cartoon of a disgusting (not to say mesmerizing) nature. Contemporary images of scientists, animals, places, and objects are all sharp, clear, and colorful. The photographs are amazing, but there is the occasional non-sequitor. Consider, for example, the letter "B" for "Bacteria". On one page we learn about how useful bacteria can be and where it exists. On the opposing spread there are photos of crackling staphylococcus aureus, zig-zaggy leptospira, pickle-like vibrio, frightening spirillum volutans, a decaying tree, a microscope, and . . . wait for it . . . a bighorn sheep. A completely random bighorn sheep. There is no mention of how bacteria affect sheep in the text. No specific attention paid to the bacterial properties of their horns or whether or not their wool is a particularly effective carrier. A closer examination of the text shows a description of a microscope, saying that it, "makes small things look big." But that still doesn't really apply to the creature in the lower left hand corner. Little things like that occasionally pop up in the text, and while they aren't ever distracting, you may find yourself scrambling to explain to your scientifically-minded tot why the book's creators saw fit to squirrel that photograph into the narrative.

The best thing you can say about this book is that it leaves you wanting more. When you hear that microbes "help clean up pollution from our environment, and they're used to help remove copper and gold from the rocks that miners dig up", it's hard not to want to yearn for a couple more details. And what are ice bacteria or the bacteria that live in hot springs? In its alphabetic format, "The Invisible ABCs" is only able to tantalize budding scientists with this info. Let us hope it tantalizes them straight into scientific careers of one sort or another. Behold before you a book that, for all its eccentricities, deserves attention and inclusion in every proper library.

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This book offers a balanced presentation of the microbial world to children in the early school-age years. Using vivid micrographs that show microorganisms shaped as letters of the alphabet, this book teaches children that microorganisms are fascinating life forms that carry out essential activities in our ecosystems to sustain life on Earth. It features over 100 superb illustrations of algae, molds, bacteria, and viruses. It emphasizes the beneficial roles of microorganisms children encounter in their daily activities, from eating bread and cheese to taking medicines. It presents scientifically accurate information in an age-appropriate format that is both colorful and captivating. It communicates the size of microorganisms by relating them to items children are familiar with from everyday experiences.

Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases e-dition: Text with Continually Updated Online Reference

Gerald Mandell, John Bennett, Raphael Dolin

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2-volume set PLUS access to www.PPIDONLINE.com!

PPID encompasses all that is currently known about the epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and treatment of infectious agents. Completely revised and updated-and with a bold, new 4-color format-it is a complete, essential compendium of knowledge on this vast and complex subject.

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• Updated WEEKLY to provide the latest advances in the field.
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• New Section on Biodefense with discussions of major pathogens
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• Discusses new antibiotics, including Daptomycin, telithromycin, gemifloxacin, as well as new antifungal and antiviral agents

Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

Freeze-Frame: One Minute Stress Management: A Scientifically Proven Technique for Clear Decision Making and Improved Health (Heartmath System)

Doc Childre

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Freeze-Frame.: One Minute Stress Management unfolds the remarkable science and practical tools of "HeartMath"-a system that addresses how our emotions profoundly affect our health, mental clarity and productivity. The five simple steps of Freeze-Frame are taught, with easy practice sheets for applying and resolving personal and organizational issues from work, family and relationships. Explains HeartMath's breakthrough research on emotions and health, with new information on the function and intelligence of the heart, that has been published in top medical journals. The book also contains summaries of corporate and educational case studies, illustrating the effectiveness of the technique. HeartMath has conducted studies with corporations such as Motorola and Boeing, and state and federal government agencies that show dramatic improvement in productivity and attitude with reductions in stress, depression, anxiety and tension. The book includes guidance and tips on how to get best results with physical health, emotional management, mental clarity, business effectiveness, family and relationship harmony.

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Atlas of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology: Text with CD-ROM

Wallace Peters, Geoffrey Pasvol

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A neccessary companion to the study of tropical medicine 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is an excellent companion to the study of tropical medicine and clinical parasitology for the beginner as well as the experienced reader.The pictures, graphs and maps are very good and this edition has been updated and expanded significantly with new illustations, maps, updates of life cycles of parasites, relevant x-rays, clinical pictures and illustrations of parasites and hosts. A perfect companion to a textbook of tropical medicine. Highly recommended. The resolution of the pictures on the CD-ROM are, however, a bit too low to enjopy fully for my eyes. The book is recommended for the postgraduate courses in tropical medicine and medical parasitology at the University of Oslo. Oystein Strand MD PhD, Associate professor of ID,Akershus University Hospital,Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway

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Increased global travel has changed the way we think about disease distribution. Diseases once considered of localised interest can be disseminated more readily than ever due to the increased speed of international travel. This is your perfect visual guide to diagnosing these diseases. The Sixth Edition of this internationally acclaimed atlas is the most comprehensive ever, with extensively revised text and more than 1200 stunning images.

• See the latest on such infections as the H5N1 strain of avian flu and West Nile Virus.
• Catch up with expanded coverage of the continuing of HIV/AIDS and related infections.
• Find information quicker and more easily with a new consistent chapter organisation.
• Get even more comprehensive visual coverage with hundreds of new, full-colour images.
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Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire

William Rosen

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Heavy, but Good 5 out of 5 stars.
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I wasn't planning on reading this book at all. Merely saw it on a friend's table yesterday, got curious, and asked if I could read it before she did. Now I feel as if I've eaten a 10-course meal in the space of 20 minutes.

This era of history is not usually my thing. I was an International Studies major in college, so I of course covered it in my history classes, and I taught it to my world history students, but it's not an era I would seek out books upon. However, I was fascinated by _Pox Americana_ (I've read it twice as research for my WIP), and the title of this book sounded like it was similar. It wasn't really. But in this case, that isn't a bad thing, because Rosen provided a buffet of information so well presented that you don't need a background in history to take it in.

His bottom line is this: (from the back cover blurb)

"It was the golden age of Emperor Justinian, who, from his glorious capital of Constantinople, united and reigned over an empire stretching from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements--and the last of them.

In A.D. 542, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian was plunged into chaos, and the beginings of a medieval Europe were born."

However, the plague itself only occupies perhaps a quarter of the book. The rest of it is background, side-plots, and connections to other ideas and future events. Rosen follows a common thread, loops off on a connected idea, but always manages to bring the reader back the main thread before they get too lost.

In the course of the book, Rosen covers "history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology," not to mention tidbits of architecture, art, trade, politics, medicine, and numerous other subjects. Whether he was discussing the changing tactics of warfare or the warring theologies of the early Christian Church (Arian vs. Monophysite vs. orthodoxy/Catholic), his writing went down so smoothly that I almost wasn't aware of how much I was taking in at times. The only sections that I found hard to chew was when he went into great detail about the evolution and biology of Yersinia pestis, that is, bubonic plague.

_Justinian's Flea_ is heavy reading, but not overwhelmingly so. It appeals both to serious students of history as well as to the curiosity of the "layman."

Grade: A/A+

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The epic story of the collision between one of nature’s smallest organisms and history’s mightiest empire

During the golden age of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian reigned over a territory that stretched from Italy to North Africa. It was the zenith of his achievements and the last of them. In 542 AD, the bubonic plague struck. In weeks, the glorious classical world of Justinian had been plunged into the medieval and modern Europe was born.

At its height, five thousand people died every day in Constantinople. Cities were completely depopulated. It was the first pandemic the world had ever known and it left its indelible mark: when the plague finally ended, more than 25 million people were dead. Weaving together history, microbiology, ecology, jurisprudence, theology, and epidemiology, Justinian’s Flea is a unique and sweeping account of the little known event that changed the course of a continent.

China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic

Karl Taro Greenfeld

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Terrifying 5 out of 5 stars.
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Karl Taro Greenfeld (KTG) in his book follows the SARS virus from its early beginnings in Guangdong Province (China) in late 2002 right to its end during 2003. He starts off with the rumours flying around Guangdong in late 2002 and then follows the virus around to wherever it goes. He also covers the science effort to identify it and the efforts to contain it.

KTG calls SARS the first pandemic of the 21st century. Perhaps it should be called the first pandemic which didn't happen. The figures of infected people and casualties he quotes at the beginning of each chapter are an approximation only as KTG admits at the end of the book and I can well believe that because when you read about the virus's impact on China you would think that the casualty figures should be higher.

China comes out badly in all this. As official policy dictates that the virus does not exist, it does not exist and therefore it spreads virtually unhindered until official policy changes, which eventually it did. But guess how many lives could have been saved if official policy had changed faster or if it hadn't been formulated in the first place. When you read KTG's bit on how China works you can see that it will happen again. That's the terrifying bit I took home from reading this book. Imagine a virus that outpaces the speed at which bureaucracy moves. We could be all dead by the time they make up their minds.

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When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. After vague, initial reports of terrified Chinese boiling vinegar to "purify" the air, Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime.

Deftly tracking a mysterious viral killer from the bedside of one of the first victims to China’s overwhelmed hospital wards—from cutting-edge labs where researchers struggle to identify the virus to the war rooms at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva—China Syndrome takes readers on a gripping ride that blows through the Chinese government’s effort to cover up the disease . . . and sounds a clarion call warning of a catastrophe to come: a great viral storm potentially more deadly than any respiratory disease since the influenza of 1918.

Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance

Kenneth Kamler

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Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them? Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some of the most treacherous and remote regions in the world. A consultant for NASA, Yale University, and the National Geographic Society, he has explored undersea caves, crossed the frozen Antarctic wastelands, and stitched a boy's hand back together while kneeling in knee-deep Amazonian mud. He was the only doctor on Everest during the tragic expedition documented in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and helped treat its survivors. Kamler has devoted his life to investigating how our bodies respond to "environmental insults"-a nice way of saying the things that can kill us-and watched while some succumbed to them and others, sometimes miraculously, overcome them. Words like "extreme" and "survival" have lost some of their value from overuse and media hype. By showing us what happens when life itself is at stake, and the body's capacities put to their greatest test, this book reminds us what they truly mean. Divided into six sections-jungle, open sea, desert, underwater, high altitude, and outer space-Surviving the Extremes uses first-hand testimony and documented accounts to illustrate what happens in environments where our instinctive survival strategies must become fully engaged. These stories reveal how infinitely complex are the workings of the human body-and also how heartbreakingly fragile. At the heart of this book is a quest for the source of our will to survive and the haunting question of why some can, and others cannot, summon its awesome and nearly mystical power at their moment of greatest need. Surgeon, explorer, and masterful storyteller, Kamler takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human brain. Surviving the Extremes is a scientific nail-biter no reader will forget.

Evolution of Infectious Disease

Paul W. Ewald

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Findings from the field of evolutionary biology are yielding dramatic insights for health scientists, especially those involved in the fight against infectious diseases. This book is the first in-depth presentation of these insights. In detailing why the pathogens that cause malaria, smallpox, tuberculosis, and AIDS have their special kinds of deadliness, the book shows how efforts to control virtually all diseases would benefit from a more thorough application of evolutionary principles. When viewed from a Darwinian perspective, a pathogen is not simply a disease-causing agent, it is a self-replicating organism driven by evolutionary pressures to pass on as many copies of itself as possible. In this context, so-called "cultural vectors"--those aspects of human behavior and the human environment that allow spread of disease from immobilized people--become more important than ever. Interventions to control diseases don't simply hinder their spread but can cause pathogens and the diseases they engender to evolve into more benign forms. In fact, the union of health science with evolutionary biology offers an entirely new dimension to policy making, as the possibility of determining the future course of many diseases becomes a reality. By presenting the first detailed explanation of an evolutionary perspective on infectious disease, the author has achieved a genuine milestone in the synthesis of health science, epidemiology, and evolutionary biology. Written in a clear, accessible style, it is intended for a wide readership among professionals in these fields and general readers interested in science and health.

Understanding the Common Cold Anatomical Chart

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Excellence reference and orientation tool 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is excellent for any busy chemotherapy infusion department's orientation program or as part of it's reference library

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A practical guide to the safe administration of chemotherapeutic drugs, the Fourth Edition covers all aspects of this treatment. Focusing on specific plans of treatment, the book's compact size and outline format make it an easy-to-use reference in the day-to-day management of cancer patients, as well as a thorough review of the principles and goals of therapy.