Author: Publisher:
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Highway-user Taxes
Author: Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Journal of the Senate of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Tax Institute Bookshelf
Author: Tax Institute of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Emperor of All Maladies
Author: Siddhartha MukherjeePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439170916
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Monthly Check-list of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Report
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Revenue and TaxationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Report of the Senate Fact Finding Committee on Revenue and Taxation
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Fact Finding Committee on Revenue and TaxationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Cigarette Century
Author: Allan M. BrandtPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786721901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating the dire harms of smoking ultimately shaped the evolution of evidence-based medicine. In response, the tobacco industry engineered a campaign of scientific disinformation seeking to delay, disrupt, and suppress these studies. Using a massive archive of previously secret documents, historian Allan Brandt shows how the industry pioneered these campaigns, particularly using special interest lobbying and largesse to elude regulation. But even as the cultural dominance of the cigarette has waned and consumption has fallen dramatically in the U.S., Big Tobacco remains securely positioned to expand into new global markets. The implications for the future are vast: 100 million people died of smoking-related diseases in the 20th century; in the next 100 years, we expect 1 billion deaths worldwide.