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“On the Brink: The Coming of AIDS” -- There is a spiritual reality to mankind that is eternal, and spiritual reasons for all of man’s successes and failures, joys and sorrows. So it is with AIDS, the monstrous disease identified as “The Leveler” by the beacon of enlightenment which has come...

“A highly personal, deeply affecting account of what it is to be yanked from a happy, well-ordered life and thrust into a sudden, unimaginable, terrifying darkness. Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard has done the impossible of putting into words an experience that would seem to be beyond expressing.”—from...

A riveting medical memoir about a family’s journey through multiple surgeries, and a determined battle for survival.   Jessica Carmel was born with a severe congenital heart condition. When she was just four days old, her parents learned she would need heart surgery.   They had no idea that her...

Adrenal Fatigue is a state of the body wherein the Adrenal Glands begin functioning at sub par levels resulting in excessive stress, mood swings, chronic infections, influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia. Here is a boxed set of three books tackling the subject to help you combat the problem.

Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand - EBOOK All the tissues, muscles, and bones of your body are connected to each other within a complex web of fascia…and together, make up your kinetic chain. ‘Release Your Kinetic Chain with Exercises for the Shoulder to Hand’...

Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice—it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places...

In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive, there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough, he went on to contract MRSA as a result of an operation to his skull and spent six months in hospital....

When someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, every second you have left with them is precious.Richard W Hardwick wrote about his partner's breast cancer to help him cope, and then he wrote about their past because he was scared she might not be there to help him remember it for their children. Andalucia...

In June 2011, Susan Spencer-Wendel learned she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—Lou Gehrig's disease—an irreversible condition that systematically destroys the nerves that power the muscles. She was forty-four years old, with a devoted husband and three young children, and she had only...

If you want to commit suicide it's probably because you are in pain and see no hope for improvement. Not having hope can be so unbearable that it is understandable that you want to take your own life. But wait, before you do anything that can't be undone, we have for you seven great reasons to not only stay alive, but also enjoy it. This book can save your life.

A multi-platinum rock star’s life meets an unexpected detour when a bump on the head reveals itself to be a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Told with honesty and humor, Lame Brain is Rick Roberts’ story of his entangled afflictions of TBI and Alcoholism.Approximately 1.7 million people experience...

"'The doctor tells me I have Alzheimer's.' The truth of my husband's words shook our world. This is my diary written for a time during the ten years of his spiral into another space." There's no question Alzheimer's is a horror for those who are afflicted by it. But what about those...

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED? Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal...