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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author's struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.. Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused...
 
 
Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-being

Niamh Garvey - Jessica Kingsley Pub
Format: Paperback

'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism'. It is a myth that autistic children grow into 'less autistic' adults. In fact, many autistic adults feel more overwhelmed as they age as the stresses of social demands such as relationships, parenting,...
 
 
Asthma For Dummies

William E. Berger - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Breathe easier and live a full life with proper asthma treatmentAsthma For Dummies is a reassuring and realistic guide to managing asthma, whether you're living with it yourself or have a loved one who suffers from the disease. It's packed with authoritative information on symptoms...
 
 
Living Well with a Serious Illness: A Guide to Palliative Care for Mind, Body, and Spirit (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

Robin Bennett Kanarek - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover

A practical guide for understanding how palliative care can improve quality of life for patients and their caregivers.Robin Bennett Kanarek was a registered nurse working with patients suffering from chronic medical conditions when her ten-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia. As her son endured...
 
 
The Essential Guide to Intermittent Fasting for Women: Balance Your Hormones to Lose Weight, Lower Stress, and Optimize Health

Megan Ramos - Greystone Books
Format: Hardcover

"Essential reading for any woman wanting to improve her metabolic health and make sense of her body, hormones, and sustainable fasting strategies. " - Cynthia Thurlow, author of Intermittent Fasting Transformation"Intermittent fasting has changed my body, mind, and life....
 
 
Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Alexandra Fuller - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth...
 
 
Corporatizing American Health Care: How We Lost Our Health Care System

Robert W. Derlet - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback

Tracking the evolution of medical care from an individualized small cottage profession to a giant impersonal corporate industry costing Americans over $3 trillion each year.Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies...
 
 
Perimenopause For Dummies

Rebecca Levy-Gantt - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Get to know perimenopause and manage troublesome symptomsPerimenopause For Dummies is a practical and comprehensive guide to the emotional, mental, and physical changes that begin to happen as you approach menopause. Demystify the connection between hormones and aging and make informed...
 
 
A Year of Last Things: Poems

Michael Ondaatje - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry....
 
 
And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You (N)ever Wanted to Know About Therapy

Joshua Fletcher - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, psychotherapist and host of the self-help podcast Disordered Joshua Fletcher provides a candid, funny, and revealing look inside the mind of a therapist as he faces his own struggles while treating patients with anxiety disorders.What goes...