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There is a proverbial ticking time bomb in our midst. It's the toxic lifestyle that is wreaking havoc on our nation's health and well-being and posing an equal threat to everyone from the very young to thevery old. In today's fast-food-obsessed, couch-potato culture, two-thirds of all adults and one-third of all children are either overweight or obese, rates of diabetes and heart disease are soaring, and the future for many of us looks dismal. The...
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Businesses today need to balance the pursuit of profit with the needs of growing numbers of people on a planet under pressure. While sustainability programs, government action, and nonprofits are all parts of the solution, a growing contingent of forward-looking leaders recognizes the real challenge: a fundamental shift in the nature of commerce. CEOs and other leaders must focus the practice of business on social, environmental, and economic benefit...
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On a remote island a crack medical team has been sent to explore a radical theory that could uncover a cure for the epidemic of walking dead. Based on the team's research and the observations of renowned zombie expert Dr. Stanley Blum, "The Zombie Autopsies" documents for the first time the unique biology of zombie organisms .Detailed drawings of the internal organs of actual zombies provide an accurate anatomy of these horrifying creatures. Zombie...
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Combining short fiction with speculative history, this entertaining book invites listeners to look at what didn't happen to gain a richer understanding of what did. What if Napoleon had become emperor of the United States? Could one faulty screw have altered America's atomic-bomb policy? If Lincoln had been assassinated during the Gettysburg Address, would the Confederate States have remained a separate country?
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In novels such as Mars, Moonbase, and The Rock Rats, Ben Bova told stories about rivalries and wars, of outsized individuals, public crusades, and the private passions that drive us as we expand into the solar system and make use of its vast resources. Bova wrote short fiction about some of the same characters and events- Sam Gunn, Martin Humphries, Klaus Fuchs, Dan Randolph, and the Asteroid Wars- featured in those works,...
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Perhaps no figure in biblical scholarship has been the subject of more controversy and debate than Mary Magdalene. Although she is discussed in the gospels of Philip, Thomas, Peter, and Bartholomew - in the collection of writings known as the Gnostic gospels that were rejected by the early Christian church - there is no better insight into this mysterious and influential woman than Mary's own gospel. The gospel text and the spiritual interpretation...