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A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum in North London, under a professional and a marital cloud. He has every intention of avoiding controversy, but then he encounters Audrey Dearth, a...

The story of anti-vaccine activity in America, its origins, leaders, influences, and impact.

From patient advocate Mary Shomon, author of Living Well With Hypothyroidism, here is the first book to tackle the weight factors specific to thyroid patients and detail a conventional and alternative plan for lasting weight loss. An estimated 10 million Americans have been diagnosed with thyroid disease-most of them women-and for the majority of them, losing weight is mentioned time and time again as a primary concern and chief frustration-a challenge...

"As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness--only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska--a leading expert on the neuroscience of mental illness--was diagnosed with melanoma that had spread to her brain. Within months, her frontal lobe, the seat of cognition, began shutting down. She descended into madness, exhibiting dementia- and schizophrenia-like...

From the publisher. If you want to know the ins and outs of diabetes without confusing jargon, Diabetes A to Z is your go-to resource. In this updated 6th edition, get all the information you need -- from understanding A1C to getting your ZZZs, and everything in between. Diabetes A to Z is diabetes simplified.

"Honorable Mention for the 2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies" Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His many books include The Things Things Say (Princeton) and The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century. An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel,...

"Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own. Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first...

Natural remedies for menopause and beyond

"Designed for those undergoing cancer treatment as well as their family and/or caretakers who are looking to enjoy delicious and nutritious meals"--Provided by publisher.