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Author Dally O. has come face to face with his own journey—and emerged victorious. Central to his story is the Cube, a powerful symbol representing memory, emotion, and identity. A Night in Tucumcari is a multidimensional tale of collapse, clarity, and transformation. As it rotates through the complexities of time, trauma, and triumph, Dally's journey becomes both mythic and grounded, intertwining raw personal truths with symbolic depth.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A concise biography of the father of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud forever changed how we view ourselves and understand human nature. This book explores his key concepts―unconscious thoughts, dream meanings, and childhood sensuality―and his daring...

« Ces enfants aux vies minuscules laissent une empreinte immense, qui transforme à jamais ceux qui ont eu le privilège de les connaître. Leurs existences brèves nous habitent, leurs absences nous façonnent. Et il est temps de dire combien, dans leur fragilité, leurs vies sont grandes, et à quel point, ils nous manquent. » Être sage-femme, c'est accompagner les naissances, être au cœur de la vie qui vient. Mais c'est aussi parfois accueillir la mort à l'aube de la vie.

From a disadvantaged childhood to becoming one of our best-loved clinical neuropsychologists, this exceptional book tells the life story of Barbara A. Wilson, who has changed the way we think about brain injury rehabilitation. Barbara’s story shows how it is possible to have a fulfilling...

The author of the bestselling Band-Aid for a Broken Leg comes home and discovers that being a doctor in outback Australia is at least as challenging as working for Medecins sans frontieres in Africa. Damien is convinced that this is the best job anywhere: beautiful skies, red earth, dramatic...

Una ricercatrice, ossessionata dalla paura di impazzire, intraprende un’indagine per rompere il silenzio che avvolge la storia della sua bisnonna Elisabeth, detta Betsy — una donna dichiarata schizofrenica e sottoposta a lobotomia negli anni ’50, una delle prime in Francia. Di lei nessuno parla: i figli hanno sempre taciuto, i nipoti ignorano quasi tutto di lei. Attraverso lettere, archivi ospedalieri e interviste ai discendenti, Adèle Yon ricompone l’esistenza di una donna brillante e ribelle, troppo viva per il suo tempo.

Just Jack is an unbelievable story of a boy who played truant for almost one year and a girl who left school when she was 14 yrs old. Strangely it began as a love letter to my family, and a legacy for future family generations. However, somewhere along the way it became a compelling story of our...

Для родителей естественно заботиться о здоровье своего ребенка, следить за его состоянием и обращаться к врачу в случае болезни. Но иногда родители, которые уверяют врачей, что ребенок тяжело болен и нуждается в постоянном уходе, лекарственной поддержке и процедурах, не здоровы сами. У матери Ольги Ярмолович были ярко выраженные признаки делегированного синдрома Мюнхгаузена—редкого состояния, при котором родители намеренно вызывают у ребенка болезни или выдумывают их, чтобы обратиться за медицинской помощью.

Après qu’un cancer a failli le faucher au début de la quarantaine, Dominic Arpin s’est fait la promesse de vivre chaque jour qui lui reste le plus intensément possible. Comment cet anxieux de nature, autrefois prisonnier de ses peurs, s’est-il métamorphosé en un coureur d’ultramarathon, un adepte de sensations fortes et un grand voyageur ? C’est ce que vous découvrirez dans ce livre à la fois plein d’humour et d’émotions où l’auteur évoque la nécessité de sortir de sa zone de confort et l’importance d’affronter ses peurs les plus profondes.

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The untold story of Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine and became a controversial public health advocate for children worldwide Jonas Salk may be the name most associated with the polio vaccine, but it was Albert Sabin's oral vaccine that made the goal of global eradication of...

A remarkable true story about saving life in wartime, not taking it The Lifesavers were a little-known band of men and women at the forefront of groundbreaking battlefield care in the Second World War. As part of a new and pioneering service, unconventional and iconoclastic, they pushed and...

Transform the fear of death into a sense of wonder. In Undiscovered Country, embark on a riveting exploration of the final frontier and unraveling the mysteries of our last hours. This insightful narrative delves into the complexities of death, dissecting the gradual disintegration of order and...

In this powerful follow-up to her bestselling memoir In Shock, a doctor asks: What does it truly mean to heal? This program features author notes and a dedication read by the author. In the aftermath of her own critical illness, physician and writer Dr. Rana Awdish finds herself oddly estranged...

A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up her life by moving abroad but got a lot more than she bargained for. Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris. It’s not a story of moving to the City of Light, meeting a dashing Frenchman, and raising beret-wearing enfants...

'Courageous and candid… An important story well told' The Independent This is the story of one of the most horrifying scandals in British medical history. In 2003, Deborah Douglas was diagnosed with breast cancer by Ian Paterson, a surgeon based in the Midlands. Over the next seven years...

A donor mother’s powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science whodunit, taking us inside the world of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation and cutting-edge scientific research. When Sarah Gray received the devastating news that her unborn son Thomas was...

Another “pitch-perfect book of short essays” (New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Blood of Strangers, this one exploring the contemporary practice of medicine from the perspective of a doctor with 25 years of experience in the ER. In the late 1990s, a young physician in...

“Hearing Dr. Tweedy speak was less of a lecture and more of an open invitation to engage in a meaningful conversation with a passionate caregiver. Dr. Tweedy’s personal stories prompted a ton of reflection on compassion, mental health, patient-centered care, and our own identity-related...

An award-winning science writer discovers she’s faceblind and investigates the neuroscience of sight, memory, and imagination—while solving some long-running mysteries about her own life. Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she’s a little quirky. But while she’s made...