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The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up
Michael J Meyer - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition. In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries,... |
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Diabetes Sourcebook, 7th Ed.
Greg Mullin - Omnigraphics, Inc.
Format: Library Binding
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Consumer health information about diagnosis, treatment, and management of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, along with facts about lifestyle issues and preventing complications. Includes index, glossary of related terms, and other resources. |
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Fragmented: A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
Ilana Yurkiewicz MD - ?W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning physician-writer exposes how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives -- and how we can fix them.There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story.... |
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macOS Sierra: The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box
David Pogue - O'Reilly Media
Format: Print book
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With Sierra, Apple brings never-before-seen features to macOS - like Siri voice control, file sharing across all your iOS devices, picture-in-picture mode for iTunes and Safari, and AI photo search. Once again, David Pogue brings his humor and expertise to the #1 bestselling Mac book.Whether... |
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The Beekeeper:Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
DUNYA MIKHAIL - New Directions
Format: Paperback
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The true story of a beekeeper who risks his life to rescue enslaved women from DaeshSince 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women.The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed... |
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Oklahoma's Atticus: An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him
Hunter Howe Cates - University of Nebraska Press
Format: Hardcover
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1953: an impoverished Cherokee named Buster Youngwolfe confesses to brutally raping and murdering his eleven-year-old female relative. When Youngwolfe recants his confession, saying he was forced to confess by the authorities, his city condemns him, except for one man - public... |
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Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia
Henry Jay Przybylo - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A moving exploration of the most common but most mysterious procedure in medicine.For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is the source of great fear and fascination. In Counting Backwards, Dr. Henry Jay Przybylo -- an anesthesiologist with more than thirty... |
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Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Jon Kabat-Zinn - Hachette Books; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling author of Wherever You Go, There You Are (more than 1,000,000 total copies in print) and Full Catastrophe Living joins forces with his wife, Myla, in this groundbreaking revised edition of the classic book about mindfulness in parenting children of all ages.Updated with... |
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