Smoking Ruin & Other Stories
Title | Smoking Ruin & Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Stafford |
Publisher | Chaosium Incorporated |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2019-12-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781568825069 |
Gloranthan Scenarios for the RuneQuest Roleplaying Game.
Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
Title | Runequest: Roleplaying in Glorantha PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Stafford |
Publisher | Chaosium |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2018-08 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781568825021 |
Core Rulebook
The Pegasus Plateau & Other Stories
Title | The Pegasus Plateau & Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Stafford |
Publisher | Chaosium Incorporated |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-05-27 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781568825076 |
Gloranthan Scenarios for the RuneQuest Roleplaying Game.
How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease
Title | How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General |
Publisher | |
Pages | 728 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Government publications |
ISBN |
This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.
The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke
Title | The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 736 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Passive smoking |
ISBN |
This Surgeon General's report returns to the topic of the health effects of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. The last comprehensive review of this evidence by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) was in the 1986 Surgeon General's report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking, published 20 years ago this year. This new report updates the evidence of the harmful effects of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. This large body of research findings is captured in an accompanying dynamic database that profiles key epidemiologic findings, and allows the evidence on health effects of exposure to tobacco smoke to be synthesized and updated (following the format of the 2004 report, The Health Consequences of Smoking). The database enables users to explore the data and studies supporting the conclusions in the report. The database is available on the Web site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco.
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Title | Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age PDF eBook |
Author | Annalee Newitz |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2021-02-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 039365267X |
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why people abandoned them. In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. Newitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers—slaves, women, immigrants, and manual laborers—who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. Four Lost Cities is a journey into the forgotten past, but, foreseeing a future in which the majority of people on Earth will be living in cities, it may also reveal something of our own fate.
Guide to Glorantha
Title | Guide to Glorantha PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Stafford |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014-06-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780977785377 |