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Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in children's food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding the conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Every year in September the spectre of cold and flu season arrives. It has become a fact of life. We might as well allot for our sick days knowing that we will be hit at least once, if not two to three times before Spring's arrival. In every office and in every family, there are those who get sick regularly and those who manage to stay healthy through it all. In Super Immunity, Dr. Fuhrman will explain why some of us get sick more regularly than...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Visceral."-Wall Street Journal "Illuminating."-Publishers Weekly "Heroic."-Science
The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis describes how the scientific quest to understand how the immune system works-and how it is affected by stress, sleep, age, and our state of mind-is now unlocking a revolutionary new approach to medicine and well-being.
The body's ability...
4) Everland
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
London is a ruin, destroyed by German bombs, ravaged by the Horologia virus, and ruled by the ruthless Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer, whose Marauders search for and seize the children who are immune to the virus in the hope that their blood will produce a cure--their latest victim is sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling's younger sister and Gwen will do anything to get her back, even join up with Pete and his gang of Lost Boys living in a city hidden...
6) I am legend
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The last man on earth is not alone. Somehow immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivng in New York City. He believes he may be the last human alive in the world. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows. They watch Robert's every move and wait for him to make a fatal mistake. Robert is driven by only one remaining mission - to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But, he is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Immune explores the incredible arsenal that lives within us - how it knows what to attack and what to defend, and how it kills everything from the common cold virus to plague bacteria. We see what happens when the immune system turns on us, and how life is impossible without its protection. We learn how diseases try to evade the immune system and exploit its vulnerabilities, and we discover how scientists are designing new drugs to harness the power...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the year 88 BC, King Mithradates of Anatolia died suddenly after an apparent poisoning. His son, Prince Mithradates, then disappeared for seven years into the woods where he collected hemlock plants and other deadly poisons. Upon his return, he shared a fatal meal with his mother and brother. Mithradates, who ultimately became King, somehow left the meal unharmed. In modern-day Turkey, a young boy endures a bite from a venomous viper. His doctor...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Complex, physical, and in many ways spiritual, your immune system is a force that is affected by life's stresses, by diets, and by your overall health. The author calls this force the biological soul. In this book, the author helps readers integrate the science of the immune system with its spiritual side to unlock the secrets to longevity. Immunity disorders are at the root of many conditions that shorten our lives: from viral infections to chronic...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
"Every year in September the spectre of cold and flu season arrives. It has become a fact of life. We might as well allot for our sick days knowing that we will be hit at least once, if not two to three times before Spring's arrival. In every office and in every family, there are those who get sick regularly and those who manage to stay healthy through it all. In Super Immunity, Dr. Fuhrman will explain why some of us get sick more regularly than...
12) Strengthen your immune system: boosting the body's own healing powers in the fight against disease
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Some people can fight off infections relatively easily, with minor symptoms, while others suffer severely. But these outcomes--and our immune responses against them--aren't fixed; we can build immune resilience. But how? The answer goes beyond popping vitamin C and zinc during flu season. As clinical nutritionist Romilly Hodges reveals, our immune system is intricate and multifaceted, and powerfully impacted by what we eat, as well as by our lifestyle...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the final battle with drug-resistant bacteria, one woman's blood holds a secret weapon. Rory and her father have survived the antibiotic crisis that has killed millions, including Rory's mother--but ingenuity and perseverance aren't their only advantages. When a stoic and scarred young military veteran enters their quiet life, Rory is drawn to him against her better judgment ... until he exposes the secrets her mother and father kept from her,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A viral disease called 'the wickedness' plagues the world, and sixteen-year-olds Astrid and Natalie are two of the only people immune. The girls live in separate, isolated communities, but recent encounters with wicked people link their stories in unexpected ways"--
A plague is pulsing through the world. Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don't...
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