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From Beethoven to Oscar Wilde, from Van Gogh to Hitler, Deborah Hayden throws new light on the effects of syphilis on the lives and works of seminal figures from the 15th to the 20th centuries, arguing that biographers and historians have vastly underestimated the influence of this disease.

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Two leading doctors agitate to make medicine less about costly disease treatment and more about sustaining patient health

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This book provides students with information on how pregnancy and giving birth are transformative personal and social events.

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Introduces probiotics, the friendly bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract, and explains their importance in achieving and maintaining good health.

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In the last 35 years, declining deaths from heart disease have translated into 13 million lives saved and extended. Medical treatments and lifestyle changes have dealt successfully with the serious heart problems of US Vice President Richard Cheney, talk show host David Letterman, and countless other less famous people.

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A fully updated, revised edition of a leading prostate cancer book

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A controversial look at the potent drugs millions of Americans consume each day, for everything from anxiety to sexual addiction, with authoritative information on why they are risky and invaluable advice on choosing safer alternative treatments

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Enjoy the outdoors more and worry less about your interactions with nature. For everyone who lives, plays or works outdoors, Dr Cockrum explains the ABC's of safety, specific mammal types in each region, special precautions to observe, normal animal behaviour patterns and disease symptoms in humans.

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A fun, informative, and necessary read that's been called the Our Bodies, Ourselves for teen girls.

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This study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland's contemporary health issues and dilemmas. By drawing on a range of empirical contexts, it explores the potential of governmentality to contribute to a critical politics of Irish health and health policy. -- .

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A chronicle of the profound, life-changing, and laugh-out-loud funny moments in the journey of an Alzheimer's caregiver who learns that memory is overrated, familiarity breeds compassion, and flute playing is forever.

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Mary Pipher believes adolescence is an especially precarious time for girls, a time when the fearless, outgoing child is replaced by an unhappy and insecure teenager.

Her view is that for the most part it is our look-obsessed, media-saturated, 'girl-poisoning' culture - and not parents - which is to blame.

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My diary- the raw reality of how I try to lose 100 lbs.

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Through classic, new, and emerging research, with statements from experts and interviews with Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) sufferers and their partners and spouses, Secret Suffering: How Women's Sexual and Pelvic Pain Affects Their Relationships exposes and gives strong voice and compassionate understanding to this complex disorder.

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For many women an active sex life is on the bottom of their 'to do' list. Is women's sexual desire in the Western world at an all time low Australia's most popular sexual anthropologist investigates.

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A hard-hitting and provocative expose that takes us inside the corridors of medical power to watch the birth of the new 'disease' - Female Sexual Dysfunction - and the marketing machine that will create it.

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"Shadow Dancing" is an exciting interactive children's fitness book that gets kids up and moving. Great reference for teachers, grandparents, and parents to teach their children about fitness. The book includes quotes and fun activities that children love.

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Presents a full picture of ECT, analysing the treatment's risks along with its benefits. This book separates scare from promise, real complications from lurid headlines. It offers practical guidance to prospective patients and their families, boldly addressing the controversy surrounding ECT and awakening millions to its capacity to heal.

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