Cañon City Public Library

An expose of the fifty-year cover-up surrounding the experiments conducted by Manhattan Project medical doctors on eighteen unsuspecting patients who were secretly injected with plutonium; with information about additional experiments American citizens were subjected to during the postwar years without their knowledge.

"Hormone Harmony answers...questions from women of all ages, and includes a special section for men. Today, hormone imbalance is an epidemic that is upsetting countless lives with symptoms such as these: lack of energy ; loss of zest for life ; weight gain ; mood swings ; loss of sex drive ; sleep disturbances ; fuzzy thinking ; forgetfulness ; hot flashes. Traditionally, memopause is viewed as the chief trigger of hormonal problems but evidence shows...

On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon twenty miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. The little-known story of the men whose scientific experiments laid critical groundwork for NASA's manned space program, a decade before President Kennedy committed the nation to sending a man to the moon.

Did you know that everyone passes gas? If it's so natural, why do we struggle with teaching children how to respond appropriately? Join Gus in this hilarious tale as he and his classmates learn the brief biology lesson behind why we all pass gas, and the right way and the wrong way to handle it.--Publisher.

"More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, two iconic waterways--the great coastal estuaries of Puget Sound and the Chesapeake Bay--are in perilous condition. With polluted runoff still flowing in from industry, agriculture and massive suburban development, scientists fear contamination to the food chain and drinking water for millions of people. A growing list of endangered species also is threatened in both estuaries. Poisoned Waters examines...

An anesthesiologist and NASA adviser explores how pioneering doctors and scientists have built on findings about the body's response to extreme environments and physical challenges to develop such medical innovations as open-heart surgery, skin grafts and trauma care.