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by Robert A. Musson M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2005
Beginning in the mid-1800s, the beer-brewing industry in Cleveland experienced its most extensive growth due to the rapidly increasing immigrant population of mostly Germans,Czechs, and Irish. The breweries enjoyed great success until the Prohibition era closed all brewing operations down for 14 dry...
Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart
A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego. We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime. But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way.
Going to Pieces Without...
by Melissa Yuan-Innes, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
When I mention that I work in an emergency room, people usually say, 1. Are you a nurse? 2. Wow. That must be really hard. 3. What's it like?
This is what it's like to be an emergency doctor.
That teenager puking up two liters of vodka and his stomach lining at triage? Yup. Blood pouring...
by M. D. James A. Honey
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
by Mark Vonnegut, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower isn’t nearly enough.
Here is Mark’s life...
Peaks and Valleys
Making Good And Bad Times Work For You--At Work An
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2010
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of *Who Moved My Cheese?*, a brilliant new parable that shows readers how to stay calm and successful, even in the most challenging of environments.
A young man lives unhappily in a valley. One day he meets an old man who lives on a mountain peak....
Positive
One Doctor's Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
A Memoir and a Manifesto
Positive traces the life of Michael S. Saag, MD, an internationally known expert on the virus that causes AIDS, but the book is more than a memoir: through his story, Dr. Saag also shines a light on the dysfunctional US healthcare system, proposing optimistic yet realistic...
Blues & Chaos
The Music Writing of Robert Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who “set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times’ first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer.
Robert Palmer’s extraordinary knowledge and boundless...
Aging Wisely
Strategies for Baby Boomers and Seniors
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Everyone ages. Not everyone ages well. Aging Wisely explains that much of what happens to our minds and bodies as we grow older depends on our approach to life and our attitudes and feelings about ourselves. Though there are elements beyond our control, we must take advantage of those things we can...
by Dr. Hazel Coley-Greene M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
At the age of forty-four, my mother set out to accomplish what no other American woman of color had achieved at her ageto graduate and receive a doctorate of medicine and surgery from the Universite Lobre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She walked two and a half miles daily from the cotton fields to a one-room...
Addictive Thinking
Understanding Self-Deception
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Author Abraham Twerski reveals how self-deceptive thought can undermine self-esteem and threaten the sobriety of a recovering individuals and offers hope to those seeking a healthy and rewarding recovery.
Abnormal thinking in addiction was originally recognized by members of Alcoholics Anonymous,...
Recovering My Kid
Parenting Young Adults in Treatment and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
National expert Dr. Joseph Lee explains the nature of youth addiction and treatment, and how families can create a safe and supportive environment for their loved ones during treatment and throughout their recovery.
National expert Dr. Joseph Lee explains the nature of youth addiction and treatment,...
Alone and Invisible No More
How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
In Alone and Invisible No More, physician Allan S. Teel, MD, describes how to overhaul our eldercare system. Based on his own efforts to create humane, affordable alternatives in Maine, Teel's program harnesses both staff and volunteers to help people remain in their homes and communities. It offers...
Spiritual Solutions
Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Life is full of challenges, both big and small. Spirituality is here to offer solutions.
Over the course of his career as physician, teacher, and bestselling author, Deepak Chopra has received thousands of questions from people facing every kind of challenge. They have asked how to lead more...