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Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chopra and Tanzi show readers how, through a person's increased self-awareness and conscious intention, the brain can be taught to reach far beyond its present limitations and become a gateway for achieving health, happiness, and spiritual growth.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, researchers at the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health set out to study the genetics of schizophrenia. When they got word that four 24-year-old identical quadruplets in Lansing, Michigan, had all been diagnosed with the mental illness, they could hardly believe their ears. Here was incontrovertible proof of hereditary transmission and, thus, a chance to bring international fame to their fledgling institution. The case of the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
281 p.; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book presents integrative treatment strategies for low mood and depression; offers advice on lifestyle, behavior, and dietary changes; and helps readers assess their own emotional wellness and build personalized plans to manage their moods.
85) The doctors Blackwell: how two pioneering sisters brought medicine to women--and women to medicine
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The vivid biography of two pioneering sisters who, together, became America's first female doctors and transformed New York's medical establishment by creating a hospital by and for women. Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for greatness beyond the scope of "ordinary" womanhood. Though the world recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medicine, her intelligence and intensity won her the acceptance of the all-male...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time. When family physician Dr. Benjamin Gilmer began working at the Cane Creek clinic in rural North Carolina, he was following in the footsteps of a man with the same last name....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
" Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of Americans today, and while most doctors focus on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure they are overlooking the real culprit: glucose levels. With today's overweight population adn dramatic increase in Type II Diabetes, studies now show that sugar, not fat, does most of the heart damage. Plaque reducing statins used to lower high cholesterol treat some symptoms but not the cause of most heart disease...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and colorful illustrations describe the efforts of aquatic biologist Pam to help Pierre, an African penguin living at the California Academy of Sciences, when he begins to go bald.
95) But what will people say?: navigating mental health, identity, love, and family between cultures
Author
Publisher
Penguin Life
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal, paradigm-shifting book from therapist, writer, and founder of @browngirltherapy that rethinks traditional therapy and self-care models, creating much-needed space for those left out of the narrative"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how scientists took cells from an unsuspecting descendant of freed slaves and created a human cell line that has been kept alive indefinitely, enabling discoveries in such areas as cancer research, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure"--