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9761) Gluten Free Cookbook: Embark on a Voyage of Satisfying Your Cravings with Tasty & Authentic Gluten-F
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Is the quest for gluten-free gastronomy casting doubts on your culinary prowess? Ever reminisce about the days where every meal wasn't a puzzle of ingredient-checking? Are you set on turning the gluten-free challenge into an opportunity for culinary creativity and well-being? This book is not just a guide; it's your compass to a world where gluten-free doesn't mean flavor-free, but rather, a world filled with culinary adventures waiting to be explored....
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Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cure during a time when the South relied more heavily on homespun remedies than on professionally prescribed treatments. Bringing to light several previously unpublished primary sources, Kay K. Moss inventories the medical ingredients and practices adopted by physicians, herb women, yeoman farmers, plantation mistresses, merchants, tradesmen, preachers, and quacks alike. Moss shows how families...
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Une proposition insolite pour considérer l'euthanasie dans un futur proche
La maladie est injuste, le cancer est injuste et la mort l'est aussi. Bernard Lebeau le sait bien, lui qui accompagne ses malades. En imaginant un futur proche, celui de 2014, o une loi française légaliserait le recours à l'Euthanasie, B. Lebeau invente un nouveau métier ; celui d'Euthanasieur.
En pleine préparation de la loi sur la fin de Vie, le livre du Professeur...
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Spoiler: Happiness has very little to do with the hand life deals us, rather with how we view and play that hand.
The Happiness Perspective explores happiness as it relates to adversity. During his physical therapy sessions, Farris Fakhoury, DPT noticed certain characteristics and common threads that his patients exhibited to help them in their recovery. He has wanted to share these lessons, hoping to help others going through life-changing injuries...
9765) The Actual Dance
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A love story with an unexpectedly happy ending, The Actual Dance is told through the eyes and heart of a husband as he struggles with his worst fears during what everyone expects to be his wife's losing battle to breast cancer. Determined to support the "other half of his whole," he provides the positivity his love partner demands and the caregiving she needs. He doesn't share his fears, even as he becomes more certain of her upcoming demise. He also...
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A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives-and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.
Lurking in our homes, hiding in our offices, and polluting the air we breathe is something sinister. Something we've turned a blind eye to for far too long. Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a pediatrician, professor, and world-renowned...
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Pour lutter contre un cancer, il est prêt à tout expérimenter
C'était l'unique et dernière chance
Envahi par un cancer inguérissable, Dominique Eudes se soumet, dans la « Clinique d'expérimentation humaine » de Bethesda, aux violences d'un traitement révolutionnaire dont les résultats problématiques doivent, seule certitude dans la tempête, se payer d'effets secondaires ravageurs.
Refusant de subir son statut de patient, il entre...
9768) Hannah's Choice
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The moving and inspirational true story of one little girl's battle against the medical odds and a mother's unwavering love for her daughter. 'If I could have any wish it wouldn't be a part in High School Musical. I'd like to live just one day without having to rest when my heart gets tired: I'd just waste my energy, doing stuff with friends. But I can't and feeling unhappy about it is a waste of time. Being happy gives me energy - so much so that...
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This book is based on new and additional information that was not available when the first book about Microscopic Colitis was published, and in some situations it expands on information that was presented in the first book in order to provide new insight into successful treatment methods. This edition looks at additional situations that might cause treatment failure in some cases, and it explores ways to overcome those obstacles. It is written with...
9770) The Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping, and Healing
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Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorder
When Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull together comprehensive information about the disorder. Fortunately, she was able to educate herself quickly, and her extensive at-home treatment of her son led to his amazing full recovery. But the journey...
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Making sensible decisions during a time of grief is never easy. Losing a husband, wife, father, mother, child or another near and dear person forces you to make a multitude of decisions, some large and life-changing, some small but emotionally charged. And if substantial amounts of money or conflicting wishes of friends and relatives are involved, making arrangements can become overwhelming.
More Than Sympathy is designed to help you through these...
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Are you afraid of falling into the spectrum of food addiction?Do all the cookbooks recommend only bland soups for the rest of your life?Are you afraid of returning to having the body you hated and throwing money away on the surgery? If you answered "Yes" to at least one of these questions, this cookbook would help you to face this journey. It's common to feel estranged in your body, trapped in a cycle of negative self-image and food addiction. This...
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As featured on BBC Radio 5 LiveBirth is a feminist issue. It's the feminist issue nobody's talking about. For too long women have been told, 'a healthy baby is all that matters'. This book dares to say women matter too. Finally blasting the feminist spotlight into the labour ward, Milli Hill encourages women everywhere to stand and deliver, insisting that birth is no longer left off the list in discussions about female power, control and agency. From...
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This book chronicles the intersection of chaplaincy, autopathography (illness narratives), and stigmatized illness through the observations and stories of a chaplain working at a facility for people with HIV and AIDS. Trained as both an ethnographer and a chaplain, Audrey Elisa Kerr uses memoir to bridge the relationship between caregiver and patient, and allows stories of marginality to frame both her patients' stories and her own.
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Hope and practical help for Lyme disease sufferers everywhere.
More than 300,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year, and many, many more are suffering from Lyme without knowing it. Katina Makris was one of those undiagnosed individuals who nearly died from the disease. At the peak of her career, classical homeopath and health-care columnist Katina Makris was stricken with a mysterious "flu." Only after five years...
9776) Miriam's Well
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A terminally ill teenager is forced to choose between her religion and her life. Adam doesn't think much of it when Miriam faints in class. She's an oddball, a student who hardly talks, never makes eye contact, and wears clothes that seem straight out of the 19th century. She says she's fine, and he wants to believe her. But when she passes out while they're working on an English assignment, Adam takes Miriam to the last place she wants to go: the...
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Traumatic Brain Injury Handbook is the ultimate brain injury recovery handbook. Inside, acclaimed writer Joe Healy comprehensively discusses what leads to brain injuries and how to heal from them and manage them during the process. Recovery techniques are lifestyle modifications: nutritional, physical, occupational, and attitude ones. This is an important title for all family and friends of sufferers of brain injuries, doctors, and caretakers. With...
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Initially, after David's diagnosis, I would cringe when I read books or articles by cancer survivors who stated that cancer had been a gift in their lives. How could all that David endured be viewed as a gift? The invasive surgery, the weeks of chemotherapy and radiation: a gift? Yet, after the cancer, David would often reach for my hand and say, "If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, then it was all worth it." And I'd reluctantly...
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Set in Seattle, Washington and Westchester County, New York from 1982 to 1987, Dr. Anne McTiernan begins her memoir at age twenty-nine, when she completes her doctoral training in public health research at the University of Washington. She and her husband are parents to four-year-old and three-month old girls. Anne soon realizes that jobs in her field are scarce, especially for women. Racked with feelings of inadequacy, Anne feels that she needs better...
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"Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Demystified: Doctor's Secret Guide" is a comprehensive and compassionate exploration of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), providing an invaluable resource for both caregivers and individuals impacted by this condition. From demystifying medical jargon to understanding the intricate anatomy of breath, this guide takes readers on a journey through the history, prevalence, and risk factors of BPD. Through the biopsychosocial...
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