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Anticancer: A New Way of Life
A radical synthesis of science and personal experience that advocates a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancerWhen David Servan- Schreiber, a dedicated scientist and doctor, was diagnosed with brain cancer, it changed his life. Confronting what medicine knows about the illness, the little known workings of the body’s natural cancer-fighting capacities, and his own will to live, Servan-Schreiber found himself on a fifteen-year journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration, and finally to health. Combining memoir with a clear explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them, and describing both conventional and alternative ways to slow and prevent cancer, Anticancer is revolutionary in its clarity. It is a moving story of a doctor’s inner and outer search for healing; radical in its discussion of the environment, lifestyle, and trauma; and inspiring and cautionary in its certainty that cancer cells lie dormant in all of us—and we all must care for the “terrain” in which they exist. Anticancer takes us on a serious journey and, ultimately, an empowering one. In the tradition of Michael Pollan, John Kabat- Zinn, Barbara Kingsolver, and Andrew Weil, Anticancer genuinely guides us to “a new way of life.”.
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Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor: More Rebellion and Fire for Your Healing Journey
You are a Survivor from Day One On the heels of the acclaimed Learning Channel documentary and best-selling survival guidebook Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips comes this survivor's companion In Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips Kris Carr and her posse of Cancer Babes shared their wealth of insights, tricks, how-tos, and hell yeahs for living life with cancer. Now Kris invites all the Cancer Cowgirls (and dudes) out there to chat back and record their own journeys, with this beautifully illustrated, full-color go-anywhere companion. Pairing Kris's signature sass and smart, soulful, real advice with thoughtful exercises, new contributors, and ample space for writing and reflecting, Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor reaffirms that it is possible to live a real, fun, crazy, sexy life--with cancer. Kris shares her wit and wisdom on everything from food and exercise to make-up, meditation, spirituality, dreams, planning for today (and the future), and much, much more. The user-friendly trim size and flexible-cover format meanwhile ensure that this incomparable blend of informative pocket companion and journal can go anywhere--brightening up those hours in hospital waiting rooms, at home, or spent out in the big, wide, wonderful world putting into practice that most precious truth: healing is about truly living..
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Autobiography of a Face
"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison." At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect. .
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Development Through Life: A Psychosocial Approach
Newman and Newman take a chronological approach to the study of the life span, drawing on the psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson to provide a conceptual framework for the text. Newman and Newman address physical, intellectual, social, and emotional growth in all life stages, focusing on the idea that development results from the interdependence of these areas at every stage, and placing special emphasis on optimal development through life..
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Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer's Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy's critically acclaimed memior, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined ... and what happens when one is left behind. This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest. .
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Criminal Behavior: A Psychosocial Approach (8th Edition)
This book approaches the understanding of delinquent and criminal behavior from a developmental, coginitive-behavioral, and psychological perspective. Viewing the juvenile and adult offender as being embedded and continually influenced by multiple systems, the book examines the risk and protective factors that are believed to influence the developmental pathways on the road to delinquency and crime. The 8th edition continues to be heavily researched in a style that allows the reader to follow the flow of the research literature. Most up-to-date psychological research and theories regarding criminal behavior are presented. Highlights how psychological, social, economic, political and ecological factors all play a role in influencing individual behavior. Looks at specific crimes from a psychological perspective: terrorism, sniper attacks, homicide and serial murder, cyber crime, white collar crime, identity theft, sex crimes, school violence, hate crimes, stalking, family violence, and drug crimes. Coverage of criminal profiling and crime scene analysis. Strategies for prevention and treatment of criminal behavior offered. New chapter on the treatment of juvenile offenders. Sections on juvenile offending added include: Juvenile Serial Murder, Juvenile Sex Offenders, Child Delinquents, Peer Rejection, School Failure, Language Deficiencies, Brain Development, Female Juvenile Sex Offenders, Current Juvenile Drug Use, & Juvenile Psychopathy. Professionals involved with the prevention and treatment of criminal behavior. .
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There Is No Me Without You: One Wo Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country’s children After losing her husband and daughter, Haregewoin Teferra, an Ethiopian woman of modest means, opened her home to some of the thousands of children in Addis Ababa who have been left as orphans. There Is No Me Without You is the story of how Haregewoin transformed her home into an orphanage and day-care center and began facilitating adoptions to homes all over the world, written by a star of literary nonfiction who is herself an adoptive parent. At heart, it is a book about children and parents, wherever they may be, however they may find each other. Winner of Elle magazine’s 2006 readers’ award in nonfiction. .
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, And The Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve 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 changed and framed how AIDS was discussed in the following years. Now republished in a special 20th Anniversary edition, And the Band Played On remains one of the essential books of our time. .
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La última lección + DVD
¡Incluye un DVD de la presentación de Randy Pausch subtitulado en español! Después de recibir la noticia que padece un cáncer terminal, el autor da una última conferencia en la que reflexiona sobre las cosas importantes que ha aprendido en la vida. El 18 de septiembre de 2007 Randy Pausch, profesor de informática, se levantó delante de 400 personas de la Universidad de Carnegie Mellon para dar su última conferencia titulada, Como realizar los sueños de tu infancia. Cincuenta días después, más de 25 millones de personas conocían al profesor Randy Pausch y se inspiraban en sus palabras. La conferencia se enmarcó en el ciclo titulado Journeys (Viajes), una serie de charlas en las cuales los conferenciantes comparten sus pensamientos y percepciones personales y profesionales a lo largo del viaje de su vida. Randy fue el primer invitado del ciclo y decidió compartir con su audiencia la sabiduría que quería legar al mundo. En su caso no fue una situación hipotética: para Randy era de verdad su último discurso, ya que a sus 46 años se le acababa de descubrir un cáncer terminal que, según sus médicos, acabará con él en pocos meses. Randy Pausch es un gran orador y su discurso se ha comparado con el último de Martín Luther King y con varios discursos memorables de John F Kennedy. Ilustró la charla con 140 diapositivas, fotos de familia, de sus héroes, de sus trabajos, hasta imágenes escaneadas de sus tumores. La conferencia entera de setenta minutos está en YouTube y recibe unos 80.000 hits diarios ¿ Porqué sus palabras han inspirando a tantos millones de personas? Quizás la respuesta es dual: 1) Nos recuerda que incluso de adultos nuestro placer máximo se encuentra en la realización de nuestros sueños y que lo mejor que podemos hacer es trabajar para lograrlos y para que otros logren los suyos 2) Randy tiene un cáncer de hígado que le matará en pocos meses. Sin embargo, rechaza totalmente la autocompasión y la compasión de los demás. Va a vivir sus días con humor, con energía, con confianza, con alegría. Su vida será corta, y la nuestra también. Su destino es igual que el nuestro, pero el suyo se ha acelerado. ......................................................................................................................................... “No sé cómo no divertirme. Me estoy muriendo y me voy a seguir divirtiendo hasta el último día” “Las paredes de ladrillos se interponen en nuestro camino por una razón, para demostrarnos con qué determinación podemos hacer algo” “No se pueden cambiar las cartas que nos dieron, pero sí como jugarlas” Estás son algunas frases que forman parte de la conferencia de Randy Pausch que ya ha dado la vuelta al mundo y se ha convertido en un fenómeno mediático. Esta charla ampliada por el autor formará la parte principal del libro que publicaremos y se estructurará en tres capítulos principales: •Lo más importante en la vida es realizar tus sueños de infancia. El autor explica cuáles eran los suyos (jugar al fútbol americano, trabajar para Disney…) y cómo, poco a poco, con gran esfuerzo, los fue consiguiendo. •Ayudar a los demás a realizar sus sueños de infancia: El autor explica su carrera profesional como consultor y profesor de universidad americana, y de cómo ha tenido la oportunidad de participar en muchos proyectos que han significado un desarrollo personal para muchos de sus amigos y colaboradores. Este es su mayor orgullo. •Consejos varios: cosas que él ha aprendido en su vida, como la importancia del trabajo duro, de no desanimarse, de esforzarse en sacar lo mejor de los demás. En el libro, también se incluirán temas que Randy no mencionó en su charla por temor a emocionarse demasiado delante de su público: Hablará de como conquistó a su mujer (siendo soltero y viviendo con sus padres a los 39) la educación de sus hijos (5, 2 y 1 año) y asegura que pueden ser más duros a aguantar que un cáncer. Las palabras de Pausch contagian la alegría de vivir y una actitud positiva ante la adversidad, nos ayudan a no quejarnos, a no compadecernos. Son un vendaval de optimismo y vida, son especiales, y por eso han dado la vuelta al mundo, porqué son lo que las personas queremos y necesitamos oír. Datos del autor: Randy Pausch es profesor universitario de informática, interacción humana con ordenadores y diseño tecnológico de la Universidad Carnegie Mellon. Ha colaborado con Disney, Google y Electronic Arts. Es autor y coautor de 5 libros y más de 70 artículos en su especialidad. Vive con su esposa Jai y tres niños en Virginia. Jeffrey Zaslow es periodista del Wall Street Journal y colaborará con Randy en la redacción del libro..
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