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“william sargent”

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  • Crab Wars

    A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Ecology, and Human Health

    by William Sargent ...
    A timely look at the exploitation of a species that has helped with the development of countless drugs and is fast becoming endangered.Because every drug certified by the FDA must be tested using the horseshoe crab derivative known as Limulus lysate, a multimillion-dollar industry has emerged involving the license to bleed horseshoe crabs and the rights to their breeding grounds. William Sargent ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Maine Wills, 1640-1760

    by William M. Sargent ...
    By William M. Sargent, published in 1887 and reprinted in 2026, 966 pages, indexed, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-993-3. This book is a must-have for any genealogist researching in Maine or New England. It covers around 500 wills and contains data on several thousand family members from 1640 to 1760. The wills provide the full name of the testator, names of heirs and their relationship to the testator ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Plum Island

    4,000 Years on a Barrier Beach

    by William Sargent ...
    On March 10, 2013, 6 houses were lost, 7 condemned and 24 were declared to be in imminent danger on Plum Island in northern Massachusetts. But it was only the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle between man and nature on this fragile barrier beach.Plum Island takes readers to the core of the earth to see how Plum Island’s sands were first formed in the metamorphic forge of the earth’s interior. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Impressionist Murders

    by William Sargent ...
    Two Arab men are found murdered near downtown Houston, Texas, and detectives Ross Clayton and Leona Stillwell are sent to investigate. These arent ordinary murders, howeverthe bodies are arranged to mirror a famous Impressionist painting, and the exactitude of the killing gives Clayton cause to be concerned. He suspects this killer isnt finished.His suspicions turn out to be correct as more men ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Superstar in a Masquerade

    by William Sargent ...
    Superstar In A Masquerade tells the story of pianist Leon Russell and his life journey, from his afflicted birth to becoming a session man and Grammy-winning millionaire rock star. It also follows the careers of his hometown Tulsa pals David Gates and J.J. Cale.Read about thousands of songs by over 500 artists and...The 1966 album Leon made tripping on LSD.When 17 year-old Leon replaced Jerry Lee ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The House on Ipswich Marsh

    Exploring the Natural History of New England

    by William Sargent ...
    In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wetland shared by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Sargent received a grant to study some of the rare and endangered ground-nesting birds that inhabit the public land adjacent to his property. Ipswich Marsh is about these birds, but much else as well. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Terror by Error? The COVID Chronicles

    by William Sargent ...
    Noted science writer William Sargent delves into the murky, often intertwined worlds of medical research and biological warfare to determine if Covid-19 was caused by accidents similar to those that have occurred from 1617 to the present.Sargent reveals that mistakes made in dual use medical research and biological weapons facilities led to tick borne diseases in the United States, smallpox, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forbidden

    Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons

    by Drew Christiansen, Carole Sargent, William Werpehowski, Tobias Winright, Gregory M. Reichberg, William A. Barbieri Jr., Daniel Cortright, Daniel Hall, James E. Goodby0, David A. Koplow1, Pierce S. Corden2, Richard A. Love3, Lawrence J. Korb4, Gerard F. Powers5, Maryann C. Love6, Daniel Philpott7, Bernard G. Prusak8, Margaret R. Pfeil9, Joseph J. Fahey0, Lisa Sowle Cahill1, Kelsey Davenport2, David Holloway3, Theodore G. Dedon4, John Paul Lederach5, Susi Snyder6, David Lammy7, Ramon Luzarraga8, James P. O'Sullivan9, Kevin Ahern0 ...
    Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weaponsAt a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume, issued after the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, presents essays from moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict transformation scholars, and nuclear arms control experts, with ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Work of Hospitals

    Global Medicine in Local Cultures

    by William C. Olsen, Carolyn Sargent, Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, Thomas L. Leatherman, Cheryl Mattingly, John M. Janzen, Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh0, Roch Christian Johnson1, Anita Chary2, Peter Rohloff3, Adrienne E. Strong4, Vania Smith-Oka5, Kayla Hurd6, Elisa (EJ) Sobo7, Eugenia Georges8, Emma Varley9, Claire Wendland0, Anita Hannig1 ...
    In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • African Medical Pluralism

    by Carolyn Sargent, Koen Stroeken, Claire Wendland, Arthur Kleinman, John M. Janzen, Susan J. Rasmussen, Stacey A. Langwick, Christopher Taylor, Elisha P. Renne0, Brooke Grundfest Schoepf1, Ulrika Trovalla2, Benson Mulemi3, James Leslie Kennell4 ...
    In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #17: A Crazy Day with Cobras

    by Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce ...
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    The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!!When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #17: A Crazy Day with Cobras, they had lots of questions. Can snakes really be charmed? ... Read more

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  • Buried Prey

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    Series Book 21 - A Prey Novel
    For twenty-five years the unsolved kidnapping of two young girls has haunted Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport. Today, the bodies have been found. Today, he returns to a crime—and a nightmare—darker than any before...A block on the edge of the Minneapolis loop is being razed when a macabre discovery is made: two girls buried under a rotted old house. Lucas Davenport knows how long ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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