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The Vertical Farm

Feeding the World in the 21st Century

By: Dickson D. Despommier

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The Vertical Farm

Feeding the World in the 21st Century

By: Dickson D. Despommier

Imagine a world where every town has its own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm.When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. Despommier's stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face, including: -Allowing year-round crop production -Providing food to areas currently lacking arable land -Immunity to weather-related crop failure -Re-use of water collected by de-humidification of the indoor environment -New employment opportunities -No use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides -Drastically reduced dependence on fossil fuels -No crop loss due to shipping or storage -No agricultural runoff

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0312611390

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People, Parasites, and Plowshares

Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

By: Dickson D. Despommier

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People, Parasites, and Plowshares

Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

By: Dickson D. Despommier

Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some parasites do great damage to their hosts, while others have signed a kind of "peace treaty" in exchange for their long lives within them. Many parasites also practice clever survival strategies that medical scientists hope to mimic as they search for treatments for Crohn's disease, food allergies, type 1 diabetes, organ transplantation, and other medical challenges. Despommier concentrates on particularly remarkable and often highly pathogenic organisms, describing their lifecycles and the mechanisms they use to avoid elimination. He details their attack and survival plans and the nature of the illnesses they cause in general terms, enabling readers of all backgrounds to steal a glimpse into the secret work of such effective invaders. He also points to the cultural contexts in which these parasites thrive and reviews the current treatments available to defeat them. Encouraging scientists to continue to study these organisms even if their threat is largely contained, Despommier shows how closer dissection of the substances parasites produce to alter our response to them could help unravel some of our most complex medical conundrums.

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Columbia University Press

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0231535260

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People, Parasites, and Plowshares

Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

By: Dickson Despommier

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People, Parasites, and Plowshares

Learning From Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

By: Dickson Despommier

An account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites, following the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system.

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Columbia University Press

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0231161948

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Parasitic Diseases

By: Dickson D. Despommier,Robert W. Gwadz,Peter J. Hotez

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Parasitic Diseases

By: Dickson D. Despommier,Robert W. Gwadz,Peter J. Hotez

Worldwide, the numbers of people suffering and dying from parasitic diseases are overwhelming, with more than 100 million cases and 1 million deaths each year from malaria alone. Despite the magnitude of the problem and the importance of the parasites that cause opportunistic infections among persons with HIV/AIDS, medical schools in the United States, Canada, and other developed countries consistently reduce the amount of time spent on parasitic diseases in the curricu lum. As a result most medical students receive limited information about these diseases, and are inadequately prepared to diagnose or treat them as physicians. This problem is too large to be resolved within the time available for parasitology in the medical school curriculum; at most, students can be acquainted with the salient features of the medically important parasites. Likewise, the traditional isolation of parasitology from the rest of the curriculum (consistent with its exclu sion from most microbiology texts) is another unresolved problem. In my opinion, this is why most physicians are unable to think about the differential diagnosis of parasitic diseases in the same way that they routinely balance the probabilities of malignancy, cardiovascular, renal, and pulmonary disease vs other infectious diseases. To resolve these problems, relevant paradigms from parasitology must be used in the teaching of cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and immu nology.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461224764

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Parasitic Diseases

By: Michael Katz,Dickson D. Despommier,Robert Gwadz

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Parasitic Diseases

By: Michael Katz,Dickson D. Despommier,Robert Gwadz

Parasitic Disease, second edition remains unique in its emphasis on depictions of complete life cycles and its skillful knitting of basic and clinical information. Superbly illustrated with black and white and color photomicrographs and halftone drawings, it is an ideal text for medical, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students of parasitology and an excellent reference for physicians and researchers.

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1468403273

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The New City

How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future

By: Dickson D. Despommier

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The New City

How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future

By: Dickson D. Despommier

Cities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and wildlife habitats to shrink. But we have the opportunity to make cities more sustainable by transforming the built environment. Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for creating a new, self-sustaining urban landscape. He argues that we can find solutions through the concept of biomimicry: emulating successful strategies found in nature. A better city is possible if we heed the lessons that forests and trees teach about how to store carbon, grow food, collect rainwater, and convert sunlight into energy. Touring established and leading-edge technologies, The New City provides a blueprint for tomorrow’s urban environment. Cities built from wood will be more resilient and less destructive than concrete and steel construction; they will also encourage reforestation, boosting carbon sequestration. Vertical farms inside city limits will supply residents with a reliable, healthy food supply. Buildings will harvest moisture from the rain and air to secure a clean water supply. Renewable energy, including not only wind, solar, and geothermal but also clear photovoltaic window glass and nonpolluting hydrogen fuel cells, will power a cleaner city. The New City delivers both a passionate call to action for halting climate change and a bold vision of the sustainable future within our grasp.

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Columbia University Press

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0231556039

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The Vertical Farm

Feeding the World in the 21st Century

By: Dickson D. Despommier

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Parasite Life Cycles

By: Dickson D. Despommier,John W. Karapelou

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Parasite Life Cycles

By: Dickson D. Despommier,John W. Karapelou

In a unique, visual approach to the depiction of parasite life cycles, this detailed atlas presents a clear, concise, and complete overview of the parasite/human host interrelationship. 75 life cycles include all the major protozoan and helminth pathogens of man with new and updated information on several organisms. The illustrations follow the route of infection from point of entry, through the developmental stages, to completion of the cycle as the parasite reinfects the next host. Precise biological anatomical and medical depiction provides reinforcement. Distinguished by its organization, continuity, and accuracy, this comprehensive work will be a valuable reference for students, clinicians and others interested in the field of parasitology.

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146123722X

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The Vertical Farm

Feeding the World in the 21st Century

By: Dr. Dickson Despommier

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The Vertical Farm

Feeding the World in the 21st Century

By: Dr. Dickson Despommier

The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier's visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world's food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today."--Sting Imagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm. When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. Despommier's stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Despommier explains how the vertical farm will have an incredible impact on changing the face of this planet for future generations. Despommier takes readers on an incredible journey inside the vertical farm, buildings filled with fruits and vegetables that will provide local food sources for entire cities. Vertical farms will allow us to: - Grow food 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - Protect crops from unpredictable and harmful weather - Re-use water collected from the indoor environment - Provide jobs for residents - Eliminate use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides - Drastically reduce dependence on fossil fuels - Prevent crop loss due to shipping or storage - Stop agricultural runoff Vertical farms can be built in abandoned buildings and on deserted lots, transforming our cities into urban landscapes which will provide fresh food grown and harvested just around the corner. Possibly the most important aspect of vertical farms is that they can built by nations with little or no arable land, transforming nations which are currently unable to farm into top food producers. In the tradition of the bestselling The World Without Us, The Vertical Farm is a completely original landmark work destined to become an instant classic

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Thomas Dunne Books

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0312611390

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The New City

How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future

By: Dickson D. Despommier

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How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future

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Parasite Life Cycles

By: Dickson D. Despommier,John W. Karapelou

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Parasite Life Cycles

By: Dickson D. Despommier,John W. Karapelou

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Parasitic Diseases Seventh Edition

By: Daniel Griffin,Robert Gwadz,Peter Hotez,Charles Knirsch,Dickson Despommier

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Parasitic Diseases Seventh Edition

By: Daniel Griffin,Robert Gwadz,Peter Hotez,Charles Knirsch,Dickson Despommier

The accumulation of new knowledge over the last several years has provided the impetus forthis, the 7th edition of Parasitic Diseases, the most widely distributed textbook of parasitic diseases in the world. By integrating all the salient information containedin over 1000 new references with the current descriptions of each pathogen, we continuethe never-ending process of evaluating, revising, and improving our understanding of thesenoxious organisms. New features to the 7th edition include a clinical summary section, additionallife cycle diagrams, and a pronouncer's guide to parasite names. Consideration of thebiographies of those notable contributors to the field of parasitology has also been extended.Parasites Without Borders continues to make available, free of charge, the PDF version ofParasitic Diseases in both English and Spanish editions.Ultimately, it is through the education of medical students, physicians, and parasitologists, and vigilance of commitment that we can hope to improve the lives of hundreds of millionsof less fortunate individuals, helping them to live longer and more productive lives. The7th edition of Parasitic Diseases is dedicated to this premise. We invite you to join us inthis global effort

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1796457035

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Clincal Appendix for the Seventh Edition Parasitic Diseases

By: Dickson D Despommier,Robert W Gwadz,Peter J Hotez

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Clincal Appendix for the Seventh Edition Parasitic Diseases

By: Dickson D Despommier,Robert W Gwadz,Peter J Hotez

The accumulation of new knowledge over the last several years has provided the impetus for the 7th edition of Parasitic Diseases. By integrating all the salient information contained in over 1000 new references with the current descriptions of each pathogen, we continue the never-ending process of evaluating, revising, and improving our understanding of these parasitic organisms. New features for the 7th edition are many including this separate clinical appendix.

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The Vertical Farm

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The New City

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Parasite Life Cycles

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Parasitic Diseases Seventh Edition

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Clincal Appendix for the Seventh Edition Parasitic Diseases

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