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Practitioner's Guide to Symptom Base Rates in Clinical Neuropsychology - Paperback

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by Robert J. McCaffrey (Editor), Anjali A. Palav (Editor), Sid O'Bryant (Editor)This volume serves as an aid in the process of differential diagnosis which frequently confronts neuropsychologists. The guide is a compendium of information of the base rates of symptoms across a variety of disorders which neuropsychologists encounter. In addition to serving as a convenient source of information on symptom base rates, this volume also contains detailed cross referencing of symptoms across disorde...

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by P. D. James (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Part of the bestselling mystery series that inspired Dalgliesh on Acorn TV Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But the clinic houses an implacable enemy an...

Burn Unit: Saving Lives After the Flames - Paperback

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by Barbara Ravage (Author)"A compelling blend of science, history and storytelling. Barbara Ravage has fashioned an enlightening, invaluable book." --Stewart O'Nan, author of The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American TragedyThough each of us is just a spark away from being a burn victim, the public knows little and understands less about the world that patients inhabit. Pulling the curtains back on this private and sterile environment, Burn Unit is a riveting account of the frontline effor...

Following God's Direction Softcover - Paperback

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by Sarah Young (Author)In this eight-session Bible study, Following God's Direction, explore what the Bible has to say about the way God directs you steps. Learn how you can embrace God's path for you in spite of obstacles, and how you can experience the life that God has intended for you as you follow Him in obedience. Discover, as King David came to realize, "The LORD upholds him with his hand" (Psalm 37:23-24).Sessions Include: Following God By Treasuring His Wisdom Following God By Trust...

Leading a Joy-Filled Life Softcover - Paperback

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by Sarah Young (Author)In this eight-session Bible study, Leading a Joy-Filled Life, explore what the Bible has to say about expressing gratitude to God in all situations, finding joy even in the mundane aspects of life, and adopting a mindset focused on the eternal blessings that God has promised for those who serve Him. Discover, as Paul wrote, how to "be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" (Romans 12:12). Sessions Include: Joy In Salvation Joy In Restoration Joy th...

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by Donal O'Mathuna (Author), Walt Larimore MD (Author)The most complete resource of its kind on alternative medicine- Herbal remedies, dietary supplements, and alternative therapiesTheir specific usesWhich ones really work (and which ones don't)What to watch out for- Christian versus non-Christian approaches to holistic health- Clinically proven treatments versus unproven or quack treatments- Truths and fallacies about supernatural healing- Ancient medical lore: the historical, cultural, and ...

The Gift of Love: One Woman's Journey to Save a Life - Paperback

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by Amy Clipston (Author)Their odds were 100,000 to one.Her faith was 1 in a million.In The Gift of Love, bestselling fiction author Amy Clipston shares her story of almost losing the love of her life to kidney disease and the ultimate sacrifice that kept their family together. An ordinary woman who cherishes family above all else, Amy was challenged in every way--from her strength of character to the depths of her faith to the close-knit family that surrounds her. Enduring the good, the bad, ...

All But Invisible: Exploring Identity Questions at the Intersection of Faith, Gender, and Sexuality - Paperback

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by Nate Collins (Author)For many years the intersection of gay identity and Christian identity in the United States was a virtual no-man's land. In All But Invisible, author Nate Collins explores the cultural background of this claim and outlines a vision for Christian community in which straight and nonstraight people might be reconciled so they can flourish together in full awareness of their shared humanity.Along the way, Collins addresses several questions clustered around the topic of LG...

Beginning Bioethics: A Text with Integrated Readings - Paperback

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by Aaron Ridley (Author)Beginning Bioethics: A Text with Integrated Readings gives students an introduction to the language of philosophical ethics before leading them through six major issues in bioethics. The bioethics section not only includes Ridley's clear explanations of all sides of a given issue, but also his analysis of a major, previously published article on that issue. It was written to accompany the third edition of Cases in Bioethics. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x...

Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics - Paperback

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by Peter Singer (Author)The new commandments according to Rethinking Life and Death. --If you must take human life, take responsibility for the consequences of your decisions.--All human life is not of equal worth; treat beings in accordance to the ethical situation at hand.--Respect a person's desire to live or die.A profound and provocative work, Rethinking Life and Death, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, examines the ethical dilemmas that confront us as we near the twen...

A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs - Paperback

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by Mira T (Author), M. T. (Author)A Sponsorship Guide for 12-Step Programs offers the reader far-ranging suggestions, based on concrete experience, for the most common issues and dilemma that arise when one agrees to become a sponsor in any 12-step program. Seventeen sponsors (with collective recovery time of over 250 years) share their experience and insights as they describe common situations sponsors face and relate the solutions they used. This is the first book of its kind--for sponsors,...

Mind Boosters: A Guide to Natural Supplements That Enhance Your Mind, Memory, and Mood - Paperback

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by Ray Sahelian (Author), Sahelian Ray (Author)Everyone forgets things sometimes. But do you ever feel like you can't keep track of simple things like acquaintances' names, your car keys, and the two things you needed to pick up on the way home? As America's population ages, more and more people are struggling with the fact that their memory and mental power are not that they used to be. Maybe you've tried exercising your mind, or maybe you've just started keeping better to do lists. But a pr...

Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973--1974 - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author), Jacques Lagrange (Editor), Graham Burchell (Translator)In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to which, in Western Society, the madma...

Diet for a Strong Heart: Michio Kushi's Macrobiotic Dietary Guidlines for the Prevension of High Blood Pressure, Heart Attack and Stroke - Paperback

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by Michio Kushi (Author), Alex Jack (Author), Alex Jack (With)The groundbreaking dietary program designed to help keep the heart healthy without drugs, surgery, or expensive treatments. Illustrated.Author BiographyMichio Kushi, founder of the East West Foundation, is the acknowledged leader of the international macrobiotic community and natural-foods movement. Well known and widely respected among both the medical community and the public at large, he is the author of numerous books and artic...

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by J. G. Ballard (Author)Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries. Isolated and secure, the residents lack nothing, yet one day, a doctor at the clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and her husband Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain Eden-Olympia's smoothly-running surface.Author BiographyJ. G. Ballard is the aut...

Unsung Lullabies: Understanding and Coping with Infertility - Paperback

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by Martha Diamond (Author), David Diamond (Author), Janet Jaffe (Author)For people experiencing infertility, wanting a baby is a craving unlike any other. The intensity of their longing is matched only by the complexity of the emotional maze they must navigate. With insight and compassion, Drs. Janet Jaffe, Martha Diamond, and David Diamond-specialists in the field of Reproductive Psychology who have each experienced their own struggle with infertility-give couples the tools to: *Reduce their...

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail - Paperback

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by Stephen R. Brown (Author)Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course of many battl...

Excruciating History of Dentistry - Paperback

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by James Wynbrandt (Author)For those on both sides of the dreaded dentist's chair, James Wynbrandt has written a witty, colorful, and richly informative history of the art and science of dentistry. To all of those dental patients whose whine rises in tandem with that of the drill, take note: You would do well to stifle your terror and instead offer thanks to Apollonia, the patron saint of toothache sufferers, that you face only fleeting discomfort rather than the disfiguring distress, or slow...

Bitten: True Medical Stories of Bites and Stings - Paperback

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by Pamela Nagami (Author)STARTLING TRUE CASES OF BITE ATTACKS, RESULTING INFECTIONS, AND ENSUING TREATMENTS---From ticks, ants, and flying bats to elephant seals, Komodo dragons, rhesus macaques, and deadliest of all, humans. We've all been bitten. And we all have stories.The bite attacks that Pamela Nagami, M.D., has chosen to write about in Bitten take place in big cities, small towns, and remote villages around the world and throughout history, locales as familiar as New York or Hollywood,...

Into the Blue: A Father's Flight and a Daughter's Return - Paperback

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by Susan Edsall (Author)The Chicago Sun Times praises Into the Blue is Susan Edsall's fascinating chronicle of the fight to get her father back into his beloved Big Sky...an engagingly readable testament to an everyday courage....Salted with hilarious memories of Edsall family life, peppered with touching reminiscences of flight with her father, [Edsall] mixes the positive with the painful until it's not only palatable but also poignant. Three years ago, Susan Edsall's father, a rebuilder and...

On Call: A Doctor's Days and Nights in Residency - Paperback

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by Emily Transue (Author)On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called Doctor for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Dartmouth, Dr. Emily Transue arrives in Seattle to start her internship in Internal Medicine just after graduating from medical school. This series of loosely interconnected scenes from the author's medical training concludes her residency three years later. During her first we...

Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy - Paperback

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by David Kirby (Author)In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained a little-known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury. Evidence of Harm expl...

The Alexander Technique: A Complete Course in How to Hold and Use Your Body for Maximum Energy - Paperback

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by John Gray (Author)The Alexander Technique is a proven process of mind and body reeducation that reduces stress and muscle tension, and revitalization those who practice it. Used by many actors, athletes, and dancers, the technique can help anyone increase his or her energy and achieve a more dynamic presence. Written by a veteran instructor of the Alexander Technique, this authentic and easy-to-follow guide allows everyone to learn the increasingly popular program, with clear instructions ...

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by Michael J. Collins (Author)When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital. A natural overachiever, Collins' success, in college and medical school led to a surgical residency at one of the most respected medical centers in the world, the famed Mayo Clinic. But compared to his fellow residents Collins feels inadequate and unprepared. All too soon, the euphoria of beginning his career as an orthopedic resident...

No More Heart Disease: How Nitric Oxide Can Prevent--Even Reverse--Heart Disease and Strokes - Paperback

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by Louis Ignarro (Author)Dr. Louis Ignarro discovered the atom of cardiovascular health--a tiny molecule called Nitric Oxide. NO, as it is known by chemists, is a signaling molecule produced by the body, and is a vasodilator that helps control blood flow to every part of the body. Dr. Ignarro's findings led to the development of Viagra. Nitric Oxide has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system as well. NO relaxes and enlarges the blood vessels, prevents blood clots that trigger stroke...

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Paperback

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by Atul Gawande (Author)In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.Author BiographyAtul Gawande is the author of four bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book A...

Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature - Paperback

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by Christopher Van Tilburg (Author)A memoir from a doctor who rescues hikers, bikers, rafters, and skiers from the wilderness, as part of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country.Christopher Van Tilburg, MD is an emergency room physician, ski patrol doctor, emergency wilderness physician, and member of the Hood River Crag Rats, the oldest mountain rescue team in the country. When Dr. Van Tilburg's beeper goes off, the call may take him racing up a mountain peak...

The Virus and the Vaccine: Contaminated Vaccine, Deadly Cancers, and Government Neglect - Paperback

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by Debbie Bookchin (Author), Jim Schumacher (Joint Author)Jonas Salk's polio vaccine is regarded as a veritbale medical miracle, for it largely eradicated one of the most feared diseases of the 20th century. But the story of the vaccine has a dark side, one that has never been fully told before. Between 1954 and 1963, close to 98 million Americans received polio vaccinations contaminated with a carcinogenic monkey virus, now known as SV40. The government downplayed the incident, and it was ge...

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by Richard Powers (Author) Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force.--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2--Richard Powers--returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modelin...

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by Daniel O'Neill (Author)In this age of same-day surgery and do-it-yourself health, Knee Surgery presents an easy-to-do, well-illustrated program of movement for knee rehabilitation - with a special focus on the mind/body connection - and describes the physical and mental rehabilitation process in complete detail, providing all the guidance you need to decrease pain and increase fitness after knee surgery. Millions of people have knee surgery each year, and in the years to come millions mor...

And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic - Paperback

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by Randy Shilts (Author)Upon its first publication more than twenty years ago, And the Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was allowed to spread unchecked during the early 80's while the most trusted institutions ignored or denied the threat. One of the few true modern classics, it chang...

Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System - Paperback

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by Stephen P. Kiernan (Author)In Last Rights, award-winning journalist Stephen P. Kiernan shows how patients and families can regain control of the dying process, creating familial intimacy like never before. "Gripping...A superb resource for boomers dealing with their parents' final days...as well as for health-care professionals who need to hear this story from the other side."-Kirkus Reviews With advances in medicine, technology, and daily diet and exercise practices, Americans are living ...