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The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance Into a Hopeful Future
Joselin Linder · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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A riveting medical mystery about a young woman's quest to uncover the truth about her likely fatal genetic disorder that opens a window onto the exploding field of genomic medicine When Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses,... |
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The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End
Katie Roiphe · The Dial Press, 2016.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book |
From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, and Maurice Sendak - an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality.
In The Violet Hour,... |
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Building Self-Esteem in Children and Teens Who Are Adopted or Fostered
Sue Cornbluth · Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition
Format: Paperback |
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Just because children have been fostered or adopted, it doesn't mean they can't grow up to be happy, healthy and successful. In Building Self-Esteem in Children Who Are Adopted or Fostered, Dr. Sue offers simple and practical advice to those supporting children aged 7+ to help them... |
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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
Carolyn Purnell · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch -- as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today. Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing "flea"-colored clothes? These actions... |
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Philosophy in Minutes
Marcus Weeks · Quercus
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Philosophy in Minutes distills 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections.The core information for every topic - including debates such as the role of philosophy in science and religion, key thinkers from Aristotle to Marx, and introductions... |
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Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide: A Memoir
Darryl Mcdaniels · Amistad
Pages: 304
Format: Print book |
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In this surprising and moving memoir, the legendary rap star and cofounder of Run D.M.C. keeps it a hundred percent, speaking out about his battle with depression and overcoming suicidal thoughts - one of the most devastating yet little known health issues plaguing the black community... |
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Depression in Later Life: An Essential Guide
Deborah Serani · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 200
Format: Print book |
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The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. While gerontology, the study of the aging process in human beings, has brought insights about the physical, emotional, and social needs of this population, little attention... |
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When Someone You Know Has Depression: Words to Say and Things to Do
Susan J Noonan · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 160
Format: Print book |
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Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder can be devastating to the person who has the disorder and to his or her family. Depression and bipolar disorder affect every aspect of how a person functions, including their thoughts, feelings, actions, and relationships with other... |
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Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Irvin D Yalom · Basic Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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"All of us are creatures of a day," wrote Marcus Aurelius, "rememberer and remembered alike." In his long-awaited new collection of stories, renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom describes his patients' struggles - as well as his own - to come to terms with the two great... |
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Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
Nicholas Epley · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback |
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You are a mind reader, born with an extraordinary ability to understand what others think, feel, believe, want, and know. It's a sixth sense you use every day, in every personal and professional relationship you have. At its best, this ability allows you to achieve the most important... |
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Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion
Gregg Levoy · Tarcher; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Discover—or rediscover—your passion for life. What inspires passion in your life? And what defeats it? How do you lose it and how do you get it back? In this exuberant and compelling book, Gregg Levoy, best-selling... |
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Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
Laura Kipnis · Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover |
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From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love, a witty and probing examination of why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the pageIts no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years weve witnessed so many spectacular public... |
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
David Adam · Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover |
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"Have you ever had a strange urge to jump from a tall building or steer your car into oncoming traffic? You are not alone. In this ... fusion of science, history, and memoir, [science editor and writer] David Adam explores the weird thoughts that exist within every mind and explains... |
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