Zen for Cats (A John Boswell Associates book)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Barrett, Ron

BEARD, Henry

Pets & Animal Care

Random House, Inc.

Emerging Infections 2nd Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Armelagos, George J.

Zuckerman, Molly K.

Dudgeon, Matthew R.

Anthropology

Oxford University Press, USA

This book traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Neolithic to the present day. Despite recent high profile discoveries of new pathogens, the major determinants of these emerging infections are ancient and recurring. These include changing modes of subsistence, shifting populations, environmental disruptions, and social inequalities. The recent labeling of the term "re-emerging infections" reflects a re-emergence, not so much of the diseases themselves, but rather a re-emerging awareness in affluent societies of long-standing problems that were previously ignored. An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections illustrates these recurring problems and determinants through an examination of three major epidemiological transitions. The First Transition occurred with the Agricultural Revolution beginning 10,000 years ago, bringing a rise in acute infections as the main cause of human mortality. The Second Transition first began with the Industrial Revolution; it saw a decline in infectious disease mortality and an increase in chronic diseases among wealthier nations, but less so in poorer societies. These culminated in today's "worst of both worlds syndrome" in which globalization has combined with the challenges of the First and Second Transitions to produce a Third Transition, characterized by a confluence of acute and chronic disease patterns within a single global disease ecology. This accessible text is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate level students and researchers in the fields of epidemiology, disease ecology, anthropology, health sciences, and the history of medicine. It will also be of relevance and use to undergraduate students interested in the history and social dynamics of infectious diseases.

An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections

Medical Books

Armelagos, George

Medicine

Oxford University Press

It looks like a newspaper, but the resemblance stops there. Ron Barrett’s off-the-wall parody covers such interesting news stories as “Gerbile Elected President of France” and “One-Minute-a-Day School Opens;” an interview with New York’s first teddy bear cab driver; a weather forecast prepared by the United States Bureau of Guessing; an entertainment section with a preview of the new TV season return of “Real Stupid World;” a home and family section with a Dear Gabby column, Your Horoscope, and other ridiculously unhelpful items. And what’s a newspaper without sports and comics? The Nutty News has it all plus lots of side-splitting advertisements. What’s funnier: Ron Barrett’s illustrations or his fake journalism? Our unscientific poll of five kids was split 50/50.From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Nutty News

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Knopf Books for Young Readers

Wackysaurus: Dinosaur Jokes

A collection of jokes, riddles, and puns about dinosaurs, including why did the dinosaur cross the road

Phillips, Louis

Viking Juvenile

Provides humorous explanations and clever illustrations for common conundrums, such as why Chinese food always tastes the same, why the soda machine always eats quarters, and how levers and pulleys actually work. 50,000 first printing.

The Way Things Really Work: (And How They Actually Happen)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Viking Adult

Offers a humorous look at Christmas chores, shopping, decorating, pageants, office parties, annoyances, and disappointments

Bah Hum Bug: 101 Reasons to Hate the Holidays: Bah Hum Bug: 101 Reasons to Hate the Holidays

Pocket

WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO GO TODAY -- IF YOU HAD 50 BILLION DOLLARS? Find out on Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop: A Microspoof. Due to a miraculous twist of fate, the laptop you hold in your hand came into the possession of Henry Beard, John Boswell, and Ron Barrett, a trio of concerned, if computer-illiterate, citizens and authors of such bestselling humor books as O.J.'s Legal Pad and French for Cats. Now that these three have hired precocious preteens to hock into Gates' secret notes, plans, e-mails, and to-do lists, we can all be privy to the intellectual property of the richest man in the world. Fabulously fabricated in two-color throughout, Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop exhaustively captures the mind, spirit, and nerdiness of Bill Gates -- the guy who owns you, or soon will.

Bill Gates' Personal Super Secret Private Laptop A Microspoof

Biographies & Memoirs

Boswell, John

Leaders & Notable People

Simon&Schuster

Information about the origins and meaning of Hanukkah, and about how it is celebrated, is accompanied by drawings related to the holiday in which the reader is asked to find hidden objects

The Energizing Hanukkah: Story for Children

Mazo, Chaim

Channen, Don

Simcha Media Group

Three singing cats go from the back alley to super stardom in this companion to Cats Got Talent, from the bestselling illustrator of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Once upon a fence there was a trio of cats: Hal, Dora, and Geneva. And nothing made them happier than singing together—because these Cats Got Talent! When Lekvar Smirk heard their meowing melody, however, he had a plan. It wasn’t a very nice plan. He wanted to take the cats to audition for Animal Idol—and then keep the prize for himself! But the cats have other ideas…

Cats Get Famous

Animals

Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

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