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“Alice was always beautiful—Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes,” writes Dana Walrath. Alice also has Alzheimer’s, and while she can remember all the songs from The Music Man , she can no longer attend to the basics of caring for herself. Alice moves to live with her daughter, Dana, in Vermont, and the story begins. Aliceheimer’s is a series of illustrated vignettes, daily glimpses into...
| Автор | Dana Walrath |
Esse livro te mostrará como obter sua cura divina. Deus ainda pode curar? Sim! Será que podemos viver com saúde perfeita nos dias de hoje? Sim! Nosso Deus é o mesmo ontem, hoje e eternamente. Receba a sua cura, à medida que você lê o livro. Aqui você conhecerá testemunhos incríveis que irão aumentar sua fé em Deus e em Seu poder ilimitado e vontade de intervir, mesmo nas piores situações. Por exemplo, Deus ainda cura doenças ditas incuráveis e em estágio terminal. Ele ainda ressuscita os mortos....
| Автор | Gabriel Agbo |
Na raming het meer as 3,5 miljoen Suid-Afrikaners diabetes. Wêreldwyd het ongeveer 150 miljoen mense metaboliese sindroom (wat diabetes insluit) en dit dikwels sonder dat hulle dit eers weet … Suid-Afrikaanse mediese dokter, skrywer en kenner op die gebied van holisties geïntegreerde medisyne, dr Arien van der Merwe, verduidelik in hierdie tydige en maklik leesbare boek wat presies diabetes is, die simptome, en die verskillende soorte – tipe 1, 2 en 3, wat diabetes veroorsaak, van fisiologie tot...
| Автор | Dr Arien van der Merwe |
Si bien la preocupación principal relacionada con el COVID-19 ha sido sobre sus consecuencias especialmente en cuanto a los problemas respiratorios se refiere, los avances en el conocimiento de esta enfermedad ha permitido comprender cómo sus efectos se extienden más allá de los pulmones pudiendo llegar a afectar el sistema nervioso. Si bien la preocupación principal relacionada con el COVID-19 ha sido sobre sus consecuencias especialmente en cuanto a los problemas respiratorios se refiere, los...
| Автор | Juan Moisés De La Serna Tuya |
Dopo la grande accoglienza dell'articolo intitolato ”Qual è il ruolo dello psicologo di fronte al nuovo Coronavirus?” che ho pubblicato su Cátedra Abierta de Psicología y Neurociencias lo scorso 12 febbraio 2020, e dato l'interesse suscitato tra colleghi psicologi e altre persone interessate alla psicologia, ho deciso di scrivere questo libro in cui viene affrontato l'argomento della prospettiva psicologica in tempi di pandemia. Dopo la grande accoglienza dell'articolo intitolato ”Qual è il...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
Después de la gran acogida del artículo titulado “¿Cuál es el papel del psicólogo ante el nuevo Coronavirus (COVID-19)?” que publiqué en la Cátedra Abierta de Psicología y Neurociencias el pasado 12 de febrero del 2020, y en vistas al interés suscitado entre los compañeros psicólogos y otras personas interesadas por la psicología, he decidido realizar este libro donde se aborda el tema de la perspectiva psicológica en tiempos de pandemia. Después de la gran acogida del artículo titulado “¿Cuál...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
Después del éxito de acogida del libro titulado “Aspectos Psicológicos en Tiempos de Pandemia” en donde se abordan desde la perspectiva de la ciencia psicológica diversas cuestiones relacionadas con el impacto de la aparición del COVID-19 en la vida de los ciudadanos, y ante la insistencia en la solicitud de un texto centrado en el personal sanitario por parte de los lectores, es de ahí de donde ha surgido este libro. Después del éxito de acogida del libro titulado “Aspectos Psicológicos en...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
In seguito al successo del libro intitolato ”Aspetti psicologici nei tempi della pandemia”, in cui vengono affrontati temi relativi all’ impatto del virus sulla vita dei cittadini dal punto di vista psicologico, e sulla base dell’espressa richiesta da parte dei lettori di un testo incentrato sul personale sanitario, ho deciso di scrivere questo libro. In seguito al successo del libro intitolato ”Aspetti psicologici nei tempi della pandemia”, in cui vengono affrontati temi relativi all’ impatto...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
Após a ótima recepção do artigo intitulado ”Qual o papel do psicólogo diante do novo virus?”, que publiquei na Cátedra Aberta de Psicologia e Neurociência em 12 de fevereiro de 2020, e, tendo em vista o interesse despertado entre colegas psicólogos e outras pessoas interessadas em psicologia, decidi escrever este livro, em que o tema da perspectiva psicológica é abordado em tempos de pandemia. Após a ótima recepção do artigo intitulado ”Qual o papel do psicólogo diante do novo virus?”, que...
| Автор | Dr. Juan Moisés De La Serna |
How youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversity Autism is a deeply contested condition. To some, it is a devastating invader, harming children and isolating them. To others, it is an asset and a distinctive aspect of an individual’s identity. How do young people on the spectrum make sense of this conflict, in the context of their own developing identity? While most of the research on Asperger’s and related autism conditions has been conducted with individuals...
| Автор | Elizabeth Fein |
The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents how Thai families attempt to pay back a “debt of life” to their elders through...
| Автор | Scott Stonington |
This book has been written to help people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) improve their physical and psychological functioning using the Chinese system of movement and meditation known as Qigong, closely related to Tai Chi. Qigong focuses on the important basic principles of balance, body alignment and energy flow without the need to learn the complex patterns of Tai Chi. People with MS often experience impaired balance, difficulties in walking, tremor, low energy levels, and anxiety. Qigong can...
| Автор | Nigel Mills |
There's a kid at school who gets extra help from a special teacher. He has temper tantrums when he is angry and sometimes finds it hard to pay attention. He might even have been to a special school to learn how to behave appropriately in class. One day this kid started to ask questions like, “Why do I feel different – am I not like other kids?” This kid might be a little different from others in some ways … but this kid is NOT STUPID! Can you solve the mystery of the special kid? This book...
| Автор | Josie Santomauro |
Being autistic, to me, means a lot of different things, but one of the best things is that I can be so happy, so enraptured about things no one else understands and so wrapped up in my own joy that, not only does it not matter that no one else shares it, but it can become contagious. This is the part about autism that I can never explain. This is the part I never want to lose.' Julia Bascom's depiction of the joy of autistic obsessions tells a story about autism that is very rarely...
| Автор | Julia Bascom |
"Louie what?" John's dad, Pete, was already diagnosed with Parkinson's disease when he began to have some very strange experiences, not least of which was the little red-haired girl who followed him around the house. Eventually diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), his hallucinations and other symptoms became more frequent and intense, and Pete moved into a care home. Based on his family's experience of his father's LBD, Alex Demetris' comic explores with...
| Автор | Alex Demetris |
Making new friends at work can be tricky – it's tough to predict how people will react to certain situations. This 'choose your own response' book can show you how these situations could potentially play out. Some endings are positive and some less so, and the book includes explanations about why particular outcomes may have occurred, so you can learn to avoid those situations. The best part is you can go back and see how a different choice can change the outcome of the story!
| Автор | Saffron Gallup |
One in five Canadians are now providing eldercare to a parent in need, and as baby-boomers age, this number is likely to grow. What do you do when your mother or father grows old? It’s the natural course of life, but so many children of aging parents are unprepared. When a parent’s health begins to fail, an adult child is left scrambling to find help, to balance their time, and to cope. The Caregiver’s Guide will provide readers with valuable tips and advice to help them to provide the...
| Автор | Rick Lauber |
If you have been told that you must take statins or risk a devastating heart attack or stroke, you need to read this book. Dr Kendrick, a well-known statin sceptic and author of the bestselling <i>The Great Cholesterol Con</i>, has returned to the diet-heart-cholesterol battlefield to warn that people are being conned.<br><br>In relaxed and humorous style, he lifts the rock to allow the reader to peer underneath. He points out that statins, even in high-risk individuals,...
| Автор | Dr Malcolm Kendrick |
This is the astounding story of how one man's quest to help his daughter led to the start of a whole new way of treating learning and attention difficulties. When she was only nine years old, Susie Dore was diagnosed as dyslexic and told that nothing could be done to help her. Her increasing depression eventually led to three suicide attempts. Wynford decided that enough was enough and set about finding a way to help her. Wynford sold his multi-million pound business and ploughed his...
| Автор | Wynford Dore |
Quiet as it’s kept inside the United States, the Cuban revolution has achieved some phenomenal goals, reclaiming Cuba’s agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent – and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this “third-world” country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost. Don Fitz combines his deep knowledge of Cuban history...
| Автор | Don Fitz |
Drawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Contradicting Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother’s point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being...
| Автор | Carol Long |
Offers an innovative plan to eliminate inequalities in the American health care and save the lives they endanger Over 84,000 black and brown lives are needlessly lost each year due to health disparities: the unfair, unjust, and avoidable differences between the quality and quantity of health care provided to Americans who are members of racial and ethnic minorities and care provided to whites. Health disparities have remained stubbornly entrenched in the American health care system—and in Just...
| Автор | Dayna Bowen Matthew |
You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, “Obesity is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are lazy, unsightly, or weak of will.” You see a woman bottle-feeding an infant and say,“Breastfeeding is better for that child’s...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This is the first book on X and Y chromosomal disorders to address these common but rarely diagnosed conditions. This book seeks to present the latest in research and clinical care addressing neuroimaging, the interaction between hormones, brain development, and neurodevelopmental progression. This book will primarily focus on 47, XXY (Klinefelter syndrome, or KS), 47, XYY (Jacobs' syndrome), and 47, XXX (Triple X). More variant disorders such as 48, XXXX, 48, XXXY and 49, XXXXY will be...
| Автор | Carole A. Samango-Sprouse |