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Back Sense
A Revolutionary Approach to Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001
Understand your back pain in a whole new way and break the cycle forever.
Back pain is a serious problem, disabling over 5 million Americans and costing society $20 to $50 billion annually. Until recently both doctors and patients have misunderstood its true causes and have unwittingly fostered...
A Matter of Dignity
Changing the World of the Disabled
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From A Matter of Dignity:
I realized that I needed to learn about the legislative and legal aspects of disability as much as I did about our feelings regarding wholeness, beauty and ugliness, about the state called normalcy, about liberating technologies and therapies, about the role of the...
by Barbara Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
BARBARA RAMSEY knew from childhood on that she would someday write a book. As an avid reader all her life, years passed, and the main subject of that book kept evading her. Until . . . one defining day in June, 2010, when brain cancer rudely crashed into the middle of her normal existence, creating...
Refuge
An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to...
Brain Storms
The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson's Disease
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2015 - Publishers Weekly
A star science journalist with Parkinson's reveals the inner workings of this perplexing disease
Seven million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's, and doctors, researchers, and patients continue to hunt for a cure. In Brain...
Vaccinated
Triumph, Controversy, and An Uncertain F
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Maurice Hilleman's mother died a day after he was born and his twin sister stillborn. As an adult, he said that he felt he had escaped an appointment with death. He made it his life's work to see that others could do the same. Born into the life of a Montana chicken farmer, Hilleman ran off to the...
Head Strong
The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower—in two weeks or less.
For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover...
Superbug
The Fatal Menace of MRSA
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
LURKING in our homes, hospitals, schools, and farms is a terrifying pathogen that is evolving faster than the medical community can track it or drug developers can create antibiotics to quell it. That pathogen is MRSA—methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus—and Superbug is the first book to...
The Philadelphia Chromosome
A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern cancer research— the Philadelphia chromosome. It would take doctors and...
Missing Microbes
How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert
Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing research...
Pandemic
Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?
Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they’ve never been seen before. Ninety...
Not Dead Yet
My Race Against Disease: From Diagnosis to Dominance
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Part memoir, part sports adventure, Not Dead Yet tells the inspirational story of Phil Southerland's battle with Type 1 diabetes and how from diagnosis to sheer determination, Phil Southerland beat all odds and turned his diagnosis and his passion for cycling into a platform. From leading a Race Across...
The Haywire Heart
How too much exercise can kill you, and what you can do to protect your heart
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
· Lennard Zinn is a household name among serious cyclists.
· Dr. John Mandrola is a cardiac electrophysiologist and an active cyclist with an athlete’s heart condition.
· Dozens of professional cyclists and triathletes have retired prematurely in recent years because of athlete’s...
by Susan Conley
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict just how much...