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Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria. He takes listeners from Rome's pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted.

Ace the Certified Nursing Assistant Exam with confidence in just weeks, even if you've been out of school for years! Are you struggling to find a study guide that's truly comprehensive and easy to understand? Have you tried other materials only to find them lacking or out-of-date? Do you wish for a resource that can offer both thorough knowledge and practical strategies to reduce test anxiety? If any of these resonate with you, then you're in the right place. CNA Ultimate Study Guide 2025 - 2026 is meticulously crafted to ensure your success in passing the CNA exam and stepping confidently ...

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you’re simply interested in the subject of sports nutrition. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical Medical school Sports Nutrition course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master sports nutrition.

Ross Donaldson is one the few who have ventured into dark territory of a country ravaged by war to study one of the world's most deadly diseases. As an untried medical student studying the intersection of global health and communicable disease, Donaldson soon found himself in dangerous Sierra Leone, on the border of war-struck Liberia, where he struggled to control the spread of Lassa Fever. The words, "you know Lassa can kill you, don't you?" haunted him each day. He'ss forced to make life-and-death decisions alone as a never-ending onslaught of contagious patients flood the hospital.

Mistakes can be fatal—this reality is all too familiar in the healthcare industry. Do you want better clinical outcomes, fewer errors, increased productivity, and highly reliable patient care? High Reliability Healthcare offers some actionable tips from the safest and most reliable industry ever: the nuclear navy. For over seventy-five years, the nuclear navy has operated highly enriched nuclear reactors with sailors in their twenties at the helm and has never experienced an accident.

Death was conspicuously absent during Rachel's medical training. Instead, her education focused entirely on learning to save lives, and was left wanting when it came to helping patients and their families face death. She came to specialize in palliative medicine because it is the one specialty in which the quality, not quantity of life truly matters. In the same year she started to work in a hospice, Rachel was forced to face tragedy in her own life when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield", Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman. Based on the papers Clara Barton carefully saved over her lifetime, this biography is the first one to draw on these recorded thoughts. Not always altruistic, her accomplishments were nonetheless extraordinary.

The story of one woman's struggle to care for her seriously ill husband - and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fails to provide them with structural support.

Conquer the CET Exam: Certified EKG Technician Study Guide is a focused, easy-to-understand resource designed to help aspiring EKG technicians review essential concepts in preparation for certification. This concise guide walks you through key topics such as cardiac anatomy, waveform interpretation, rhythm analysis, lead placement, pacemaker rhythms, conduction delays, electrolyte imbalances, and more. Whether you're a student, new healthcare worker, or looking to reinforce foundational knowledge, this book supports your efforts to build confidence and readiness for the exam. This is not a ...

In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating the underprivileged. Medical students learn on the bodies of the poor - and the poor suffer from their mistakes. Rachel Pearson confronted these harsh realities when she started medical school in Galveston, Texas.

Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial ideology: the state mental asylum system in which psychiatry was born and whose influences extend into our troubled present.

Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Layla Serrano, a healthcare professional, developed the Adult CCRN Study Guide! This edition is a practice questions edition! It contains hundreds of practice questions and reviews all essential concepts found on the exam from all categories of the exam.

Shooting Up: A Short History of Drugs and War examines how intoxicants have been put to the service of states, empires, and their armies throughout history. Since the beginning of organized combat, armed forces have prescribed drugs to their members for two general purposes: to enhance performance during combat and to counter the trauma of killing and witnessing violence after it is over.

Download The Complete Anatomy, Physiology, and ATI TEAS Exam Prep Collection 2 Books in 1 now and start your journey towards academic excellence and a rewarding healthcare career. Your future in nursing and healthcare awaits–make it happen!

Defining "medicalization" as the perception of nonmedical conditions as medical problems and nondiseases as diseases, Thomas Szasz has devoted much of his career to exposing the dangers of "medicalizing" the conditions of some who simply refuse to conform to society's expectations. Szasz argues that modern psychiatry's tireless ambition to explain the human condition has led to the treatment of life's difficulties and oddities as clinical illnesses rather than as humanity revealed in its fullness.

"Operation Flight Nurse" offers a captivating glimpse into the high-stakes world of emergency and critical care transport. David Kaniecki, an experienced flight nurse practitioner, shares gripping firsthand accounts of life-altering medical crises, each paired with valuable takeaways for both healthcare professionals and the public. Through Kaniecki's interesting storytelling, readers will witness the intensity and urgency of transporting critically ill patients, while gaining a deeper understanding of the medical conditions and procedures involved. From heart attacks and strokes to rare ...

In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan, and he describes the practical, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important.

Aging has long been considered a normal process. We think disease, frailty, and gradual decline are inevitable parts of life. But they're not. Science today sees aging as a treatable disease. By addressing the root causes of aging we can not only increase our health span and live longer but prevent and reverse the diseases of aging-including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia.

Introducing “FOREVER FAT FIX - Using GLP-1 Injection Drugs,” the empowering guide for embracing a healthier, more sustainable way to achieve weight loss through Semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) or Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound), combined with practical lifestyle changes.

In Drugged, Miller takes listeners on an eye-opening tour of psychotropic drugs, describing the various kinds, how they were discovered and developed, and how they have played multiple roles in virtually every culture. Drugged brims with surprises, revealing the fact that antidepressant drugs evolved from rocket fuel, highlighting the role of hallucinogens in the history of religion, and asking whether Prozac can help depressed cats. Entertaining and authoritative, Drugged is a truly fascinating book.