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The Laws of Medicine
Field Notes from an Uncertain Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all.
Over...
At War with PTSD
Battling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Virtual Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
The Spartans called it The Trembler; recent history has seen it termed shell shock, combat fatigue, soldier’s heart, and Vietnam Syndrome. Whatever the name, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has always been with us. With 20 percent of the Veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq exhibiting...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries
101 Stories of Hope, Healing, and Hard Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Whether you are recovering from a traumatic brain injury or supporting someone with a TBI, this collection of 101 inspiring and encouraging stories by others like you will uplift and encourage you on your healing journey.
With a traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurring every 18.5 seconds in this...
Never Give Up
How Determination Can Give You a Better Look at Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Never Give Up is the inspiring memoir of Jenny Maher who in 2006 woke-up paralyzed. As a quadriplegic, with no family support or place to live, I had to live in the hospital/nursing home. My goal no matter what therapists told me was to get around in a manual chair and to live independently.' I suffered...
by Mick Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
In this collection of seven provocative essays, acclaimed theatre director and playwright Mick Gordon argues that the theatre represents a physical corollary of the invisible workings of our minds.
In this publication the award-winning Gordon draws upon his five years experience working with...
The Body Keeps the Score
Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
**“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold...
Who's in Charge?
Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
“Big questions are Gazzaniga’s stock in trade.”
—New York Times
“Gazzaniga is one of the most brilliant experimental neuroscientists in the world.”
—Tom Wolfe
“Gazzaniga stands as a giant among neuroscientists, for both the quality of his research and his ability to communicate...
Losing My Shoelaces
A True Story About Depression and Anxiety
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
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Unchartered Journey
Our Decade Living With Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The everyday reality of living with Stage IV (also known as metastatic or advanced) cancer is not something you will hear about on the evening news. Nor will it make the front page of the New York Times. Instead, you will hear or read about the latest medical “breakthrough,” regardless of whether...
Offbeat Otolaryngology
What the Textbooks don't tell you
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The information you didn't learn in medical school!A marvelous and amusing read...memorable anecdotes...I defy you not to laugh out loud. --ENT NewsWant to get a step up on the competition? This is the book for young doctors trying to bluff their way into erudite otolaryngological circles by giving the...
by Elizabeth Roddick
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Set in Glasgow, Elizabeth Roddick, an NHS award-winning pharmacist, gives a very personal account of her life in and out of her community pharmacy. Starting with her father’s struggle as a chemist in 1938, she details the rich, humorous and sometimes poignant stories of the interaction with her...
A Fortunate Man
The Story of a Country Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when...
What to Do When Someone You Love Is Depressed
A Self-Help and Help-Others Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
“This compassionate, helpful book will bring hope and comfort to the loved ones of those who struggle to overcome the most common of mental illnesses.”—Rosalynn Carter
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When someone you love is depressed . . .
. . . you feel lost, afraid, confused.
. . . you long for the person who...
GET OFF THE PMS & PERIMENOPAUSAL ROLLER COASTER
Learn 9 Natural Fast-Track Solutions to Balanced Hormones
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
There are over 50 hormones controlling your body. If you know how to transform your hormones, you can transform your life. Women are told their female health challenges are in their head, caused by stress or are a result of faulty organs. Their options: accept that they will never...