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Meltdown Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima


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English | 2021 | ISBN: 1626727007 | 208 Pages | EPUB | 62.1 MB
Deirdre Langeland’s Meltdown explores for middle grade readers the harrowing story of the deadly earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that caused the 2011 Fukushima power plant disaster.

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Meltdown and the Neuroscience of Stress


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English | ISBN: 152753474X | 2019 | 115 pages | PDF | 1374 KB
This book investigates the concept of stress, how it causes a cluster of life-threatening diseases, and what you can do to save yourself. It is a summation of what the author, a neurologist, has learned about stress throughout his career. Stress damages the brain in specific ways that cause migraine headaches, high blood pressure, and obesity. These conditions lead eventually to stroke, Alzheimers disease, atherosclerosis, and heart attacks. It all starts in the brain. The book will appeal to the medical community, such as doctors, nurses and medical students, as well as the general reader who suffers from stress and is looking for some hard scientific facts about it.

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Meltdown! The Nuclear Disaster in Japan and Our Energy Future


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English | 2012 | pages: 64 | ISBN: 0761386602 | EPUB | 11,4 mb
Japan. March 11, 2011. 2:46 P.M. The biggest earthquake in Japan’s history―and one of the world’s five most powerful since 1900―devastated the Tohoku region, 320 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Tokyo. It triggered a huge tsunami that left crippling damage in its wake. More than 13,000 people drowned, and thousands of buildings and homes were reduced to rubble.

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