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Brain Maker
The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brainfor Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
The bestselling author of Grain Brain uncovers the powerful role of gut bacteria in determining your brain's destiny.
Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise-from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical revolution...
Workable Sisterhood
The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people...
A Special Hell
Institutional Life in Alberta's Eugenic Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Using rare interviews with former inmates and workers, institutional documentation, and governmental archives, Claudia Malacrida illuminates the dark history of the treatment of “mentally defective” children and adults in twentieth-century Alberta. Focusing on the Michener Centre in Red Deer,...
Our Kind of People
A Continent's Challenge, A Country's Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In 2005, Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike with Beasts of No Nation, his debut novel about child soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to his native continent has produced Our Kind of People, a nonfiction account of the AIDS crisis that is every bit as startling and original.
Iweala...
The Heart Speaks
A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2006
WEAVING MEDICAL NARRATIVE AND CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE, DR. MIMI GUARNERI EXPLORES THE FRONTIERS BEYOND THE PHYSICAL HEART.
Every day, 2,600 Americans die of cardiovascular disease -- one person every thirty-three seconds. Ten times more women die of heart disease than breast cancer. Despite remarkable...
After the Diagnosis
Transcending Chronic Illness
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
After the Diagnosis is a heartfelt and moving lesson on the art of living well through serious illness.
Dr. Julian Seifter understands the difficulty of managing a chronic condition in our health-obsessed, take-life-by-the-horns, live-forever world. When he found out he was suffering from diabetes,...
by Carolyn Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women worldwide. Yet most people are still unaware that heart disease is not just a man's problem. Carolyn Thomas, a heart attack survivor herself, is on a mission to educate women about their heart health. Based on her popular Heart Sisters blog, which...
by Michael W. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This is a moving and realistic look at what it was like to care for children with cancer, particularly leukemia, on night shift in the Hematology-Oncology unit at one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals.
Here are some quotations from the book. The first describes how I felt when I...
by Mabel Van Niekerk
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Teach yourself to relax and breathe correctly when you know that you’re going to be in a situation that could trigger off blushing. When you’re in control of your feelings you will not think about blushing, and if you do blush a little, remember that most people don’t even notice or even care...
Terminal Hope
What Cancer Taught Me About Living and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
How can anyone feel hopeful after learning she is fatally ill? Sharon Eagle seeks to answer that very question in Terminal Hope, which chronicles her experience with stage 4 lung cancer. After receiving her diagnosis, Eagle, a longtime nurse and educator, understands immediately that her cancer will...
Take Me Home from the Oscars
Arthritis, Television, Fashion, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Forty-six million people suffer from arthritis. Frustrated with the lies, driven to deceit by a career that celebrates beauty and fashion, lifestyle reporter Christine Schwab is not most people. She managed to keep her illness a secret for years, even as a recurring guest on Live with Regis & Kelly,...
Faith, Hope and Healing
Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
faith, hope & healing
Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer
"Bernie Siegel is one of the greatest healers of our time. The stories he shares in Faith, Hope, and Healing demonstrate the healing effect of treating cancer not just with conventional medicine but...
Breast Cancer Husband
How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) during Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
A unique guide, like none other on the market-packed with medical information, practical tips, psychological insight, and coping strategies--to help men help the women they love through this trying time.
When Marc Silver became a breast cancer husband three years ago, he learned firsthand how...
A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles
A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death—and be restored to life.
After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma—a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer—journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock. She...