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Dementia-Friendly Communities
Susan McFadden - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Creating dementia-friendly communities can give people with dementia the chance to continue meaningful lives with reciprocal personal relationships. Underpinning successful dementia-friendly communities is an awareness of people with dementia as active citizens and the importance of supporting... |
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Confessions of an Undercover Agent: Adventures, Close Calls, and the Toll of a Double Life
Charlie Spillers - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Hardcover
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This true story of an ex-Marine who fought crime as an undercover cop, a narcotics agent, and finally a federal prosecutor spans a decade of crime fighting and narrow escapes. Charlie Spillers dealt with a remarkable variety of career criminals, including heroin traffickers, safecrackers,... |
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The Well-Gardened Mind: The Healing Power of Plants, Earth, and the Outdoors
Sue Stuart-Smith - SCRIBNER BOOKS CO
Format: Hardcover
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The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the "real" life that lies outside. But when we get our hands in the earth we connect with the cycle of life in nature through which destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. Gardening... |
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Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight
Vanessa Potter - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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In 2012, Vanessa Potter, a married advertising film producer with two young children, was stricken by Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD) , a rare illness that resulted in sudden blindness and paralysis. She was hospitalized for two weeks. Over the next five months at home,... |
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The Ascent of Gravity: The Quest to Understand the Force that Explains Everything
MARCUS CHOWN - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least... |
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