Physical category: 2776 books
by Eileen Rudnick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
As Eileen Rudnick drove home after a long day at work in October 2000, her life became unexpectedly and forever altered - she was in a near fatal head-on collision. A rush to Shock Trauma saved her life, but the accident left her with severe traumatic brain injury. The Glass Between us is the step-by-step...
Trapped
My Life with Cerebral Palsy
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
A revelatory memoir of one woman’s life with disability, depression, acceptance, and ultimately, love.
Fran Macilvey’s life had a difficult path from the moment she came into the world. Her mother, living in the Belgian Congo in the 1960s, had known she was pregnant with a daughter. But she...
by Yannis Dionyssiotis
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Osteoporosis is a public health issue all around the world. Beyond nutrition and drugs, intervention with exercise is very important to prevent bone, reduce bone loss but especially to prevent falls and fractures with increasing age.This book brings exercise into the everyday life of the people who suffer from Osteoporosis.
A Simplified Guide to Autonomic Dysfunction
Why the Brain Fails to Repair Itself
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Suffering from symptoms no one can understand.? Then this is the book you need.
A Simplified Guide to Autonomic Dysfunction provides the reader with an insightful look at why they are experiencing symptoms from chronic damage to their autonomic nervous system.
This guide will help you...
Rewired
An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A raccoon bite on the arm doesn’t seem that serious, but it soon becomes a life-or-death medical crisis for Melissa Loomis. After days of treatment for recurring infection, it becomes obvious that her arm must be amputated. Dr. Ajay Seth, the son of immigrant parents from India and a local orthopaedic...
What Did You Say?
An Unexpected Journey into the World of Hearing Loss, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What Did You Say? is the book author Monique Hammond wishes she had when she was coping with and trying to understand her own sudden hearing loss. Weaving together her story with a wealth of information—causes of and types of hearing loss, audiology tests, hearing instruments and listening devices,...
That is Not Me
A Journey of Perception
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
That is Not Me: A Journey of Perception is based on a poem the author wrote during her early twenties. Growing up in the 1960s and ‘70s, L.J. Nelson struggled to understand who she was as a Little Person diagnosed with Achondroplasia. During that time, very little scientific or medical research...
Treat Your Own Knees
Simple Exercises to Build Strength, Flexibility, Responsiveness and Endurance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Jim Johnson has researched hundreds of scientific journal articles to find and test the simplest most effective do-it-yourself treatments for knee pain. In this compact and accessible book, he shows readers exactly how to improve and maintain the functioning of their knees by enhancing the four crucial...
Autism All-Stars
How We Use Our Autism and Asperger Traits to Shine in Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Looking at the positive influences, great talents and unique thought processes of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders, this book is a celebration of those who have used their autism to shine in life. Writers from all over the world at different stages in their careers, and from very different...
by Kelly Davio
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
With equal parts wit and empathy, lived experience and cultural criticism, Kelly Davio’s It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability explores what it means to live with an illness in our contemporary culture, whether at home or abroad.“When the body attacks itself, the crisis is not just...
by Eric Scerri
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley established an elegant method for "counting" the elements based on atomic number, ranging them from hydrogen (#1) to uranium (#92). It soon became clear, however, that seven elements were mysteriously missing from the lineup--seven elements unknown...
by John Polkinghorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2002
Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain...
by Jayla Averill
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Huntington's disease is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain. Huntington's disease has a broad impact on a person's functional abilities and usually results in movement, thinking (cognitive) and psychiatric disorders.
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by Marie Curie
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Recherches sur les substances radioactives est un livre écrit par la physicienne et chimiste Marie Curie (1867 - 1934). Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait...