The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative ReportingThe classic collection of award-winning medical investigative reporting. What do Lyme ??s disease in Long Island, a pig from New Jersey, and am amateur pianist have in common? All ...9999903125624Roueche, Berton
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
A Journey Through the Science of SleepWhy do we sleep? Are we sleeping enough? Do we suffer stress from "sleep debt"? Why do some of us struggle with sleep disorders? And how can we tackle sleep problems? These are the...9999903125525Jim Horne
Editors Varis
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
The Curious Lives of Human CadaversWhat happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff...9999903125501Mary Roach,
Gardners Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
"From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers, a monumental work that radically redefines our conventional conceptions of health and illness to offer new methods for...9999903125655David B. Agus Kristin Lob...
Pocket Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently DeadNot too long ago, there was no coming back from death. But now, with revolutionary medical advances, death has become just another serious complication. As a young medical student...9999903125556David J. Casarett
Portfolio Hardcover
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Adventures on the Alimentary CanalIn this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examinin...9999903125488Mary Roach
Oneworld Publications
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Dispatches from the Frontlines of Medical MysteriesYou're a doctor, faced with a 22-year-old woman who is dying before your eyes. Previously fit, happy, and rarely ill now she's wasting away, confined to a hospital bed. Test result...9999903125372Lisa Sanders
Icon Books Ltd
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the PlanetOn March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska,...9999903125297Henry Fountain
Anchor Books
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recoun...9999903125273Robert A. Norman
University of California Press
jueves, 16 de mayo de 2024
Power, Control and the Fight for Our FutureFreedom is foundational to our democracy, our way of life - our very conception of what it is to be human. But are we free in the way that we think we are? In Creating Freedom, Rao...9999903124436Raoul Martinez
CANONGATE
martes, 14 de mayo de 2024
Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature"Stimulated by Darwin's relatively uninformed but obviously intelligent questions, Dover takes the father of evolution on an exhilarating roller-coaster ride through recent genetic...9999903112679Gabriel A. Dover
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum ResurrectionA Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches....9999903112617Clifford A. Pickover
Thunder?s Mouth Press
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
The Accelerating Pace of Human EvolutionAre we still evolving? Or has our mastery of the environment stopped evolution in its tracks? Spurred by a rapidly changing environment, and acting on our ever-expanding gene pool,...9999903112525Christopher Wills
Allen Lane
lunes, 22 de abril de 2024
Adventures in Community LivingIn 1972, at the height of the counter-culture movement, several hundred hippies drove their school buses into southern rural Tennessee and founded America's largest, modern-day int...9999903112495Rupert Fike
Summertown, Tenn. : Book Pub. Co., c2002.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Why Psychiatric Treatments FailTowards the end of the twentieth century, a new approach to treating mental illness seemed to be found. It lay in focusing on madness as a problem of the brain, to be managed or im...9999903112280Richard P. Bentall
Allen Lane
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
The Science Connecting Health and EmotionsA thrilling scientific detective story, The Balance Within tells how researchers finally uncovered the elusive mind-body connection and what it means for our health. Since ancient ...9999903112273Esther M. Sternberg
San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1976.
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A Personal and Natural History of MelancholiaWinner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir Jeffery Smith was living in Missoula, Montana, working as a psychiatric case manager when his own clinical depressi...9999903112242Jeffery Smith
Faber & Faber
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
When More is Not EnoughDespite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation, epidemic rates of stress, anxiety, d...9999903112075Peter C. Whybrow
W. W. Norton & Company
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Towards a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding and Treatment of PsychosisAs the recovery research continues to accumulate, we find that the mainstream understanding of schizophrenia and psychosis has lost nearly all credibility: -- After over 100 years ...9999903112068Paris Williams
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
Selfish Altruists, Honest Liars, and Other Realities of Evolution"Barash . . . brilliantly integrat es] science, literature, and pop culture into elegant and insightful commentaries on the most interesting and important questions of our time. A ...9999903112013David P. Barash
Bellevue Literary Press
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
In the summer of 1975, near downtown Richmond, Virginia, Norman Baker's perception of reality became permanently altered. He never expected to ingest thousands of times the amount ...9999903111801Dennis Ryan Elmergreen
Editors Varis
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
An IntroductionThis exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an interna...9999903111047Jarvie, Grant
Routledge
sábado, 20 de abril de 2024
A Training Manual for CounsellorsA highly readable, practical introductory text for students of welfare, nursing, education, and other human service providers needing to develop interpersonal and counseling skills...9999903110026David Geldard
Editors Varis
miércoles, 17 de abril de 2024
A Journey Into the Heartland of PsychiatryPresents a balanced summary of the controversy around the biological model of mental ill health, along with the impact this model has had on service design and culture, and society...9999903108207Nathan Filer
Faber & Faber
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most under-appreciated forces: shame."superb ...9999903108122Jon Ronson
Pan Books
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Gareth Southgate's secret weapon' - Guardian 'A copy of Eastwood's new book, Belonging, was given to every England player when they reported ...9999903107965Owen Eastwood
Editors Varis
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceTHE TIPPING POINT is the biography of an idea, and the idea is quite simple. It is that many of the problems we face - from crime to teenage delinquency to traffic jams - behave li...9999903107835Gladwell, Malcolm
London : Abacus, 2001
domingo, 14 de abril de 2024
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