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The Cobra Event

Author	: Richard Preston
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2020-05-07
ISBN	: 1398700835
Pages	: 371 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Cobra Event written by Richard Preston and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly virus - and a desperate race against time. 'One of the most horrifying things I've ever read in my entire life' Stephen King One spring morning in New York City a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she begins to attack her own body in the most hideous way imaginable. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the autopsies reveal that a previously unknown virus is at large. It replicates horribly fast, it is always fatal - and is just too efficient to be entirely natural. When the Centre for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate, her discoveries precipitate a national crisis. THE COBRA EVENT is a dramatic, heart-stopping thriller of an all-too-real threat.

The Cobra Event

Author	: Richard Preston
Publisher	: Turtleback Books
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN	: 9780606176286
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (762 download)

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Download or read book The Cobra Event written by Richard Preston and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cobra Event is set in motion one spring morning in New York City, when a seventeen-year-old student wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later she is having violent seizures, blood is pouring out of her nose, and she has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. Soon, other gruesome deaths of a similar nature have been discovered, and the Centers for Disease Control sends a forensic pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis. The details of this story are fictional, but they are based on a scrupulously thorough inquiry into the history of biological weapons and their use by civilian and military terrorists. Richard Preston's sources include members of the FBI and the United States military, public health officials, intelligence officers in foreign governments, and scientists who have been involved in the testing of strategic bioweapons. The accounts of what they have seen and what they expect to happen are chilling. The Cobra Event is a dramatic, heart-stopping account of a very real threat, told with the skill and authority that made Preston's The Hot Zone an internationally acclaimed bestseller.

The Desperate Hours

Author	: Marie Brenner
Publisher	: Flatiron Books
Release Date	: 2022-06-21
ISBN	: 1250831938
Pages	: 336 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Desperate Hours written by Marie Brenner and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable depiction of a city in crisis – based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting – that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City. Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn’t somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York’s hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have? In The Desperate Hours, award-winning journalist Marie Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Brenner takes us inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and makeshift clinics to provide extraordinary witness to the war as it was waged on the front line. But The Desperate Hours is more than a thrilling account of medicine under extreme pressure. It is an intimate portrait of courageous men and women coming together in their devotion to duty, their families, each other, and the city they loved more than any other.

Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2021 Edition

Author	: Dana Shilling
Publisher	: Wolters Kluwer
Release Date	: 2020-08-05
ISBN	: 1543817866
Pages	: 1890 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2021 Edition written by Dana Shilling and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 1890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law will help you navigate complex and potentially costly Human Resources issues. You'll know what to do (and what not to do) to avoid costly mistakes or oversights, confront HR problems - legally and effectively - and understand the rules. The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law offers fast, dependable, plain English legal guidance for HR-related situations from ADA accommodation, diversity training, and privacy issues to hiring and termination, employee benefit plans, compensation, and recordkeeping. It brings you the most up-to-date information as well as practical tips and checklists in a well-organized, easy-to-use resource.

The Cobra Event

Author	: Richard / Spencer LaVyrle / McNab Preston (Andy / Kearsley, Susanna)
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Cobra Event written by Richard / Spencer LaVyrle / McNab Preston (Andy / Kearsley, Susanna) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2023 Edition (IL)

Author	: Shilling
Publisher	: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Release Date	: 1998
ISBN	: 1543855415
Pages	: 1888 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2023 Edition (IL) written by Shilling and published by Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Princeton Alumni Weekly

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Publisher	: princeton alumni weekly
Release Date	: 1997
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Technophobia!

Author	: Daniel Dinello
Publisher	: University of Texas Press
Release Date	: 2013-08-26
ISBN	: 0292758464
Pages	: 341 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Technophobia! written by Daniel Dinello and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Techno-heaven or techno-hell? If you believe many scientists working in the emerging fields of twenty-first-century technology, the future is blissfully bright. Initially, human bodies will be perfected through genetic manipulation and the fusion of human and machine; later, human beings will completely shed the shackles of pain, disease, and even death, as human minds are downloaded into death-free robots whereby they can live forever in a heavenly "posthuman" existence. In this techno-utopian future, humanity will be saved by the godlike power of technology. If you believe the authors of science fiction, however, posthuman evolution marks the beginning of the end of human freedom, values, and identity. Our dark future will be dominated by mad scientists, rampaging robots, killer clones, and uncontrollable viruses. In this timely new book, Daniel Dinello examines "the dramatic conflict between the techno-utopia promised by real-world scientists and the techno-dystopia predicted by science fiction." Organized into chapters devoted to robotics, bionics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other significant scientific advancements, this book summarizes the current state of each technology, while presenting corresponding reactions in science fiction. Dinello draws on a rich range of material, including films, television, books, and computer games, and argues that science fiction functions as a valuable corrective to technological domination, countering techno-hype and reflecting the "weaponized, religiously rationalized, profit-fueled" motives of such science. By imaging a disastrous future of posthuman techno-totalitarianism, science fiction encourages us to construct ways to contain new technology, and asks its audience perhaps the most important question of the twenty-first century: is technology out of control?

Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2017 Edition

Author	: Shilling
Publisher	: Wolters Kluwer
Release Date	: 2016-10-21
ISBN	: 145487127X
Pages	: 1820 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2017 Edition written by Shilling and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 1820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law will help you navigate complex and potentially costly Human Resources issues. You'll know what to do (and what not to do) to avoid costly mistakes or oversights, confront HR problems - legally and effectively - and understand the rules. The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law offers fast, dependable, plain English legal guidance for HR-related situations from ADA accommodation, diversity training, and privacy issues to hiring and termination, employee benefit plans, compensation, and recordkeeping. It brings you the most up-to-date information as well as practical tips and checklists in a well-organized, easy-to-use resource. The 2017 Edition provides new and expanded coverage of issues such as: The Supreme Court held in March 2016 that to prove damages in an Fair LaborStandards Act (FLSA) donning/doffing class action, an expert witness testimony could be admitted Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo, 136 S. Ct. 1036 (2016). Executive Order 13706, signed on Labor Day 2015, takes effect in 2017. It requires federal contractors to allow employees to accrue at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours they work, and unused sick leave can be carried over from year to year. Mid-2016 DOL regulations make millions more white-collar employees eligible for overtime pay, by greatly increasing the salary threshold for the white-collar exemption. Updates on the PATH Act (Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes; Pub. L. No. 114-113. The DOL published the fiduciary rule in final form in April 2016, with full compliance scheduled for January 1, 2018. The rule makes it clear that brokers who are paid to offer guidance on retirement accounts and Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs) are fiduciaries. In early 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced it would allow charging parties to request copies of the employer s position statement in response to the charge. The Supreme Court ruled that, in constructive discharge timing requirements run from the date the employee gives notice of his or her resignation not the effective date of the resignation. Certiorari was granted to determine if the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts consideration of severing provisions for unconscionability. "

The Practical Guide to Employment Law

Author	: Mark Filipp
Publisher	: Wolters Kluwer
Release Date	: 2005-05-27
ISBN	: 0735553262
Pages	: 950 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Practical Guide to Employment Law written by Mark Filipp and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2005-05-27 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practical Guide to Employment Law is a comprehensive desk manual for HR managers, legal counsel, and labor and employment attorneys. It covers federal employment laws in plain-English, giving readers the practical information necessary to apply the laws, as well as providing readers with essential court cases and tips for compliance in every chapter. The Practical Guide to Employment Law includes a compliance checklist section -- where readers can learn the various laws that apply to such topics as hiring, terminations, and benefits. It also includes a supervisory training section on several laws, including FMLA and ADA. The Practical Guide to Employment Law also includes a CD-ROM that contains reproducible pages that summarize key provisions of the major employment laws as well as quizzes on each of the laws to be administered to your staff for training purposes.

Military Law Review

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?

Author	: Kathleen M. Vogel
Publisher	: JHU Press
Release Date	: 2012-11-09
ISBN	: 1421407426
Pages	: 386 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Phantom Menace or Looming Danger? written by Kathleen M. Vogel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrifying terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax strikes that soon followed gave the United States new reason to fear unconventional enemies and atypical weapons. These fears have prompted extensive research, study, and planning within the U.S. military, intelligence, and policy communities regarding potential attacks involving biological weapons. In Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?, Kathleen M. Vogel argues for a major shift in how analysts assess bioweapons threats. She calls for an increased focus on the social and political context in which technological threats are developed. Vogel uses case studies to illustrate her theory: Soviet anthrax weapons development, the Iraqi mobile bioweapons labs, and two synthetic genomic experiments. She concludes with recommendations for analysts and policymakers to integrate sociopolitical analysis with data analysis, thereby making U.S. bioweapon assessments more accurate. Students of security policy will find her innovative framework appealing, her writing style accessible, and the many illustrations helpful. These features also make Phantom Menace or Looming Danger? a must-read for government policymakers and intelligence experts. -- Lynn Eden, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Bioterrorism: The History of a Crisis in American Society

Author	: David McBride
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Release Date	: 2022-07-30
ISBN	: 1000806766
Pages	: 848 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Bioterrorism: The History of a Crisis in American Society written by David McBride and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although at the start of the 21st century bioterrorism was newly feared by the public at large, it is one threat that institutions have attempted to anticipate for years. Originally published in 2003, and now with a new introduction, this unique 2-volume collection provides a multi-disciplinary resource on the challenges bioterrorism poses for American society and institutions, from both legal and political institutions, on one hand, to public health and medical institutions on the other. Volume one documents and analyses the challenge bioterrorism poses to these political, economic and legal institutions, putting bioterrorism into its historical context as a problem discussed and anticipated by government for decades. Volume two documents the challenges bioterrorism poses to public health and public policy as a weapon of disease and fear. The materials in these volumes provide case histories and discourse by specialists relating to the ways that the bioterrorism threat has been perceived and approached by US health and law institutions.

Field Guide to the Apocalypse

Author	: Meg Marco
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2009-12-01
ISBN	: 1439188076
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Field Guide to the Apocalypse written by Meg Marco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the end is near Surviving the apocalypse is one thing. Enjoying life after most of civilization is wiped out -- that's entirely different. Maybe you can outrun an avalanche, or escape a burning building, but can you really cut it after the unthinkable happens? Can you, for example, deal with damn dirty apes, convert your car to run on bathtub gin, or synthesize a species-saving vaccine from your own mucus? No? Obviously, it's not going to be as easy as you thought to come out of Armageddon as the new ruling king of the world. Any chump off the street could be lucky enough to have the immunity to survive the all-of-humanity-killing disease, or be the one dude who happens to make it through a meteor strike. But not everyone will know what clothes to wear to intimidate, or what kind of vehicle you want to be driving in the postapocalyptic wasteland. Not everyone will have the sense to discern whether their food is, in fact, people. You can survive the apocalypse without this book. But the apocalypse isn't the problem: It's what happens afterward. You against the other people left in the world. You'd better be prepared.

America's Culture of Terrorism

Author	: Jeffory A. Clymer
Publisher	: UNC Press Books
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN	: 0807854603
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book America's Culture of Terrorism written by Jeffory A. Clymer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 shocked the world, America has in fact confronted terrorism for well over a century. With the invention of dynamite in 1866, Americans began to worry about anonymous acts of mass violence in a way that d

You've Been Fired

Author	: Margaret C. Jasper
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN	:
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You've Been Fired written by Margaret C. Jasper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

The Cobra Event

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2000
ISBN	:
Pages	: 542 pages
Rating	: 4.:/5 (271 download)

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