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Product Description: In the past half century, deadly disease outbreaks caused by novel viruses of animal origin - Nipah virus in Malaysia, Hendra virus in Australia, Hantavirus in the United States, Ebola virus in Africa, along with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), several influenza subtypes, and the SARS (sudden acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) coronaviruses - have underscored the urgency of understanding factors influencing viral disease emergence and spread...read more
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9780309313971 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, March 19, 2015), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In the past half century, deadly disease outbreaks caused by novel viruses of animal origin - Nipah virus in Malaysia, Hendra virus in Australia, Hantavirus in the United States, Ebola virus in Africa, along with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), several influenza subtypes, and the SARS (sudden acute respiratory syndrome) and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) coronaviruses - have underscored the urgency of understanding factors influencing viral disease emergence and spread.
Product Description: The twentieth century witnessed an era of unprecedented, large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the natural environment. Understanding how environmental factors directly and indirectly affect the emergence and spread of infectious disease has assumed global importance for life on this planet...read more
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9780309304993 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, September 17, 2014), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The twentieth century witnessed an era of unprecedented, large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the natural environment.
Product Description: Individually and collectively, resident microbes play important roles in host health and survival. Shaping and shaped by their host environments, these microorganisms form intricate communities that are in a state of dynamic equilibrium...read more
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9780309290623 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, March 4, 2014), cover price $86.00 | About this edition: Individually and collectively, resident microbes play important roles in host health and survival.
Product Description: Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health...read more
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9780309259330 | Natl Academy Pr, September 10, 2012, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health.
Product Description: In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended a framework for the evaluation of biomarkers in the chronic disease setting. Published in the book Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease, the framework is intended to bring consistency and transparency to the previously disparate process of biomarker evaluation...read more
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9780309163248 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, January 12, 2011), cover price $33.75 | About this edition: In 2010 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended a framework for the evaluation of biomarkers in the chronic disease setting.
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9780309156110 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2010, cover price $95.00
Product Description: Dr. Joshua Lederberg - scientist, Nobel laureate, visionary thinker, and friend of the Forum on Microbial Threats - died on February 2, 2008. It was in his honor that the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats convened a public workshop on May 20-21, 2008, to examine Dr...read more
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9780309131216 | Natl Academy Pr, September 30, 2009, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Dr.
Product Description: As the human population grows--tripling in the past century while, simultaneously, quadrupling its demand for water--Earth's finite freshwater supplies are increasingly strained, and also increasingly contaminated by domestic, agricultural, and industrial wastes...read more
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9780309138727 | Pap/dvd edition (Natl Academy Pr, June 30, 2009), cover price $66.50 | About this edition: As the human population grows--tripling in the past century while, simultaneously, quadrupling its demand for water--Earth's finite freshwater supplies are increasingly strained, and also increasingly contaminated by domestic, agricultural, and industrial wastes.
Product Description: Long before the "germ theory" of disease was described, late in the nineteenth century, humans knew that climatic conditions influence the appearance and spread of epidemic diseases. Ancient notions about the effects of weather and climate on disease remain embedded in our collective consciousness-through expressions such as "cold" for rhinovirus infections; "malaria," derived from the Latin for "bad air;" and the common complaint of feeling "under the weather...read more
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9780309124027 | Natl Academy Pr, September 23, 2008, cover price $62.25 | About this edition: Long before the "germ theory" of disease was described, late in the nineteenth century, humans knew that climatic conditions influence the appearance and spread of epidemic diseases.
Product Description: In recent public workshops and working group meetings, the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has examined a variety of infectious disease outbreaks with pandemic potential, including those caused by influenza (IOM, 2005) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (IOM, 2004)...read more
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9780309107693 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, June 8, 2007), cover price $53.00 | About this edition: In recent public workshops and working group meetings, the Forum on Microbial Threats of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has examined a variety of infectious disease outbreaks with pandemic potential, including those caused by influenza (IOM, 2005) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (IOM, 2004).
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9780309095044 | Natl Academy Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $49.00
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9780309091541 | Natl Academy Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $42.00
Discusses medical marijuana and its potential for controlling neurological disorders, neoplasms, pain, and AIDS, and examines its legal status, explaining the conflict between state and federal law concerning its medical use.
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9780309065313 | Natl Academy Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Discusses medical marijuana and its potential for controlling neurological disorders, neoplasms, pain, and AIDS, and examines its legal status, explaining the conflict between state and federal law concerning its medical use.
A step-by-step program for curing bedwetting, with separate sections for parent and child.
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9780316542265 | Little Brown & Co, July 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A step-by-step program for curing bedwetting, with separate sections for parent and child.
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9780316542258 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1990), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A step-by-step program for curing bedwetting, with separate sections for parent and child.
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9780613717885 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1990, cover price $28.30 | About this edition: A step-by-step program for curing bedwetting, with separate sections for parent and child.
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9780316542371 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1983), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Includes separate discussions for parents and children about the whys and hows of using the toilet.
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