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SMALLPOX, SYPHILIS AND SALVATION is a highly accessible, engaging look at modern medicine. Since ancient times, mankind has searched for ways to defeat disease. It has only been in the last 200 years that scientists have made major inroads in medical science, and as a result, many, many lives have been,...

"Fascinating...A superb book."--Robert Sapolsky, Stanford professor of neuroscience and neurosurgery and author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers What causes mental illness? We've long blamed stress, trauma, and brain-chemistry imbalances. But a new theory is quietly achieving critical...

At the turn of the twentieth century, smallpox claimed the lives of two million people per year. By 1979, the disease had been eradicated and victory was declared across the globe. Yet the story of smallpox remains the exception, as today a host of deadly contagions, from polio to AIDS, continue to...

Spiritual reminiscence is a way of communicating that acknowledges the person as a spiritual being and seeks to engage the person in a more meaningful and personal way. This practical guide teaches carers how to facilitate engaging and stimulating spiritual reminiscence sessions with older people,...

Imaginez qu'on puisse vous opérer d'une tumeur au cerveau sans vous endormir, et qu'en affinant le geste médical on sauve non seulement votre vie mais toutes les capacités de cet organe... Imaginez qu'on puisse aller jusqu'à amputer votre cerveau de la zone du langage, la fameuse " aire de Broca...

Book 2 in Jess Miller's 'Energy Thieves' series first looks at the topic of emotions and how an emotion can get itself into control of your energy. A prime example is Fear. The system we live under uses clever words to disguise fear so that we won't think of ourselves as being fearful of anything...

People are saying . . . "A good simple, beginning book for child, teen, and adult survivors" - authors Ellen Bass and Laura Davis describing "Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse" in their groundbreaking book for abuse victims, "The Courage To Heal." "As...

From the “Two Bipolar Chicks”, Wendy K. Williamson and Honora Rose, comes this survival guide disguised as a low-key, how to manual. From their wellness vaults, they compiled three decades worth of tips for you. Filled with insightful anecdotes and personal viewpoints – which can differ –...

What is stuttering? Stuttering affects the fluency of speech. It begins during childhood and, in some cases, lasts throughout life. The disorder is characterized by disruptions in the production of speech sounds, also called "disfluencies." Most people produce brief disfluencies...

Travis shares the creation of his make-believe world in response to the harsh reality mental illness has dealt him. Travis forms imaginary friendships with real people that are semily famous or with news anchors he sees on television. He talks of his imaginary friendships with real people like the...

It should have killed her. Time stopped. Life seemed to freeze. One sunny December afternoon, while eagerly awaiting her 13th birthday, and all that is entailed during this next stage of her life, author experiences a nearly fatal accident, so traumatic, it should have killed her. Relying on her faith...

Watching her child die is the hardest thing a mother can ever do. But for Kay Gilderdale, saying a final goodbye to her only daughter Lynn was exceptionally painful: she'd played a part in her death. Lynn was just 14 when she was struck down by the crippling disease ME, leaving her paralysed...

By the time I was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma, it was the size of a walnut. Within the space of a few weeks, I was booked in for a big operation and facing some major lifestyle changes - deafness, facial paralysis and loss of balance. At the time, information about an Acoustic Neuroma (also...

Using the story of her breast cancer diagnosis, Nicole Johnson offers her readers insights for dealing with major losses of all kinds while extending genuine hope to those stuck in despair. "Finding out I had cancer was like going to sleep in my own bed and suddenly waking up in the middle...