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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 medicineWhen Joselin Linder was in her twenties her legs suddenly started to swell. After years of misdiagnoses, doctors... |
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Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity
Ronald Epstein · Scribner
Pages: 287
Format: Print book
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The first book for the general public about mindfulness and medical practice, a groundbreaking, intimate exploration of how doctors think and what matters most - safe, effective, patient-centered, compassionate care - from the foremost expert in the field.As a third-year Harvard Medical... |
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What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine
Danielle Ofri · Beacon Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of lifes most challenging moments.... |
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Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings
Gary Wenk · Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Why is eating chocolate so pleasurable? Can the function of just one small group of chemicals really determine whether you are happy or sad? Does marijuana help to improve your memory in old age? Is it really best to drink coffee if you want to wake up and be alert? Why is a drug like PCP potentially... |
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A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia
Peter Burke · Polity; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective... |
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Love to Stay: Sex, Grace, and Commitment
Adam Hamilton · Abingdon Press
Format: Book
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In this book, Adam Hamilton explores how, with God’s help, we can make love last. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of couples and singles, interviews with relationship and marriage therapists, the latest research in the field, and wisdom from the Bible, Hamilton looks at what it takes... |
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Byron Kaldis · SAGE Publications, Inc; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This encyclopedia, magnificently edited by Byron Kaldis, will become a valuable source both of reference and inspiration for all those who are interested in the interrelation between philosophy and the many facets of the social sciences. A must read for every student of the humanities.--Wulf... |
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Success as an Introvert For Dummies
Joan Pastor · For Dummies
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback
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Thrive as an introvert in an extrovert world Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and author J.K. Rowling have more in common than being highly successful. They're also introverts. Success as an Introvert For Dummies identifies common misunderstandings about introverts and highlights the strengths... |
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Finding the True Self
Jinje · Lotus Lantern Books, Inc.; First edition
Format: Print book
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Through Dharma talks, QA, essays on practice, and conversations with leading scholars, Master Jinje speaks with urgency and compassion about the central work of his life finding ones true self. In a style at once encouraging and uncompromising, he shares his stories and stories of past... |
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My Kid is Back: Empowering Parents to Beat Anorexia Nervosa
June Alexander · Routledge; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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My Kid is Back explains how family-based treatment can greatly reduce the severity of anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents, allowing the sufferer to return to normal eating patterns, and their families to return to normal family life. In this book, ten families share their experiences... |
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Been There. Done That. Try This!: An Aspie's Guide to Life on Earth
Craig R. Evans · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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If you only buy one book to improve your life this year, make it this one. Temple Grandin, Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Stephen M. Shore, and many other Aspie mentors, offer their personal guidance on coping with the daily stressors that Aspies have identified as being the most significant,... |
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