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Margery Facklam, Howard Facklam, Sean M. Grady, "Modern Medicines: The Discovery and Development of Healing Drugs"
Facts on File | 2004 | ISBN: 0816047065 | 208 pages | PDF | 3,2 MB

Billions of dollars are spent each year for the research and development of pharmaceutical drugs. Who invents or finds these healing drugs? How do we know they are safe? How are they tested, and how much time does it take from their invention to public use? What is the FDA, and how does it control the drug industry? Modern Medicines answers all of these questions and more.

Paul A. Tucci, Mathew T. Rosenberg, "The Handy Geography Answer Book"
Visible Ink | 2009 | ISBN: 1578592151 | 450 pages | PDF | 6,1 MB

From discovering why every map is distorted to why Rhode Island is called an island even though it's not, this comprehensive reference simplifies geography in an approachable question-and-answer format. All aspects of the discipline are covered, including physical, economic, political, and cultural geography. Questions answered include Who carved Mount Rushmore? What is the average life expectancy in Japan? and What were the seven wonders of the ancient world? Ideal for students and teachers, this resource is for all those curious about our world.

Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies By Kurt A. Raaflaub, Richard J.A. Talbert
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell 2010 | 376 Pages | ISBN: 1405191465 | PDF | 5 MB

This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies.
Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery
Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India
Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Hachette Audio | ISBN: 1600244343 | 2009-01-05 | MP3 | 360 Mb

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the listener from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is.

Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman, Bruce Rhoads, "A Companion to Environmental Geography (Blackwell Companions to Geography)"
Wiley-Blackwell (March 9, 2009) | English | 1405156228 | 608 pages | PDF | 6.06 MB

A Companion to Environmental Geography is the first book to comprehensively and systematically map the research frontier of 'human-environment geography' in an accessible and comprehensive way.

David S. G. Thomas, Andrew S. Goudie , The Dictionary of Physical Geography, Third Edition
Blackwell | ISBN: 0631204733 | 2000 | PDF | 624 pages | 17 Mb

This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then known, Eratosthenes of Kyrene (ca. 285-205 BC) invented the discipline of geography as we understand it.