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The Autism Job Club is a groundbreaking book for bringing adults with autism and other neuro-diverse conditions into the work world. The book has its basis in the autism job club that the authors have been part of in the San Francisco Bay Area, the job-creation and job-placement efforts the club has undertaken, and similar efforts throughout the United States. The authors review the high unemployment rates among adults with autism and other neuro-...
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Urban Revolutions is a different kind of cycling book. Author Emilie Bahr draws on her experience as an everyday cyclist and a transportation planner in New Orleans to demystify urban bicycling in this visually-compelling and fun-to-read field guide. What does it mean for a city to be bike-friendly? What makes bicycling a women's issue? What does it take to feel safe on a bike? How do you bike to work in the summer and still look professional? What...
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Des outils pour aider les personnes âgées à affronter la démence et les maladies mentales.
Les prédictions concernant le nombre de personnes âgées qui souffriront de démence en 2050 suscitent de fréquentes annonces alarmistes, prévoyant un « tsunami » de cas qui submergerait les familles et les soignants et qui imposerait un fardeau économique insupportable à la société.
Afin de prévenir cette « crise de la démence », la...
12344) No Gallbladder Diet Cookbook: Discover Flavorful and Nourishing Recipes to Revitalize Your Metabo
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Don't give up the taste of good food even after gallbladder removal! Find out how to take care of your health the right way: with ease and without stress.Although this type of operation is widespread and helps many people to have a healthier life, after having it, we find ourselves having still many questions that need to be answered if we want to avoid health relapse.Now, our body needs to find a new balance that can guarantee a healthy future, but...
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Francis Eustache aborde avec justesse et concision la maladie d'Alzheimer, depuis la découverte de son existence jusqu'aux méthodes employées pour la traiter
Nous connaissons presque tous une personne touchée par la maladie d'Alzheimer. Pourtant, cette pathologie – dont les conséquences sont souvent dramatiques, tant pour le malade que pour son entourage – reste mal connue de la plupart d'entre nous. Quelles sont ses causes ? ses symptmes...
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Take your seat on the ghost train for a trip from heaven to hell and back out again
Psycho Syd was living the dream and loving it. He sparkled, as he luxuriated in living the life of Mr. Riley in tropical seventh heaven. He sported a deep golden tan working as a filmmaker in The People's Democratic Republic of Laos. Hand in hand and blissfully, heart in heart with his beautiful wife. He was so deeply in love. His two gorgeous kids were, studying in...
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Radiation Diaries tells of a month of radiotherapy treatment undergone when Janet Todd was president of a Cambridge college and while her father, in his 100th year, was approaching death, with skin cancer. The day-by-day treatment brought into her mind flashes from her early life in Bermuda and Ceylon with her father, in Ghana and Puerto Rico, as a young woman, along with stored poems from childhood. Written each morning and night, it tells of the...
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Angie Choi's cancer memoir details her experience from ovarian cancer diagnosis to being cancer free by using a metabolic approach to cancer. Dr. Choi describes how she combined standard treatment (surgery) with alternative treatment for cancer inclusive of a therapeutic ketogenic diet, anti-parasitic medication, and supplements. She relates her process working with both conventional and alternative healthcare practitioners to get the support she...
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Les prévisions de l'Organisation Mondiale pour la Santé s'avèrent fort pessimistes en ce qui concerne les problèmes de santé mentale sur notre planète pour les prochaines décennies. Dépressions, troubles bipolaires, troubles anxieux, schizophrénie, troubles de la personnalité et autres sont devenus des termes quotidiens.
Il y a bien des façons de réagir devant cette situation. Vivant lui-même avec un diagnostic de trouble bipolaire depuis...
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Pandemics cannot be eliminated, but they can be stopped; the trick is discovering what will curtail any one particular outbreak. Renowned environmentalist and science writer Albert Bates presents an easy-to-understand scientific overview of the global consequences of pandemics and offers a fresh perspective on how we can coexist with them, individually and collectively. Bates recounts the history of deadly pandemics and provides a basic explanation...
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The first biography of a great television writer and the story of his magnum opus
In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the United States. Consisting of little more than a dozen men arguing in a dingy room, it was a failure at the box office and soon faded from view.
Today, 12 Angry Men is acclaimed as a movie classic, revered by the critics, beloved by the public, and widely performed as a stage play, touching audiences...
12352) The Leap Year: Making Sense of the Roller-Coaster of Emotions After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
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What if the worst day of your life is actually the best day of your life?
"You have breast cancer"
No one EVER wants to hear those words. On 22 February 2016, I was told this devastating news — it changed my life. You can never minimalise the impact of the shock news - that you have breast cancer. I had the choice right then, to listen to my inner self and to use this as an opportunity to change. It was time to believe in myself.
I refused to let...
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Do you want to improve your memory? Get the most out of your education? Use all of your abilities to achieve more than you ever thought possible?I found myself in the same situation not too long ago. I desperately needed to finish my college coursework, graduate and joining the real working world; however, I found myself struggling despite my best efforts. Something had to change!I knew I had to do something. That's when I decided I had to find out...
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The black ghetto is thought of as a place of urban decay and social disarray. Like the historical ghetto of Venice, it is perceived as a space of confinement, one imposed on black America by whites. It is the home of a marginalized underclass and a sign of the depth of American segregation. Yet while black urban neighborhoods have suffered from institutional racism and economic neglect, they have also been places of refuge and community. In A Haven...
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Today, the silent epidemic of thyroid disease is not only a universal phenomenon but also a reflection of how people have lost their collective voice. Silence and powerlessness go hand in hand. When we suppress our ability to speak our truth, we manifest it in the physical. Women are ten times more likely than, men to be diagnosed with thyroid disease, of which 80 percent is autoimmune. Yet, most of us have no idea about the thyroid, its needs, or...
12357) Piel roja: Diario
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¡Descubran la sucesión del Diario del hombre pálido!
Un hombre pálido y cautivo fue admitido por la tribu de los hombres libres. Ahora luchará por ser uno más entre los habitantes de la pradera. ¿Lo conseguirá? Esta obra es la narración de un cuerpo que desea cambiar su mórbida palidez por la piel curtida por el sol que todo lo renueva. He aquí la narración de una veloz cabalgada.
Piel roja es la última entrega de lo que el autor denomina...
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In Small is Possible Lyle Estill introduced the compelling story of the creation of a strong local economy by several committed entrepreneurs. Industrial Evolution shows how these same entrepreneurs kept their local economy alive in the face of economic downturn and uncertain times, emerging with a model of how industry might adapt and thrive in a post carbon future.
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Better in 7: The Ultimate Seven-Day Guide to a Better You delivers simple, at-home, surgery-free programs that target women's "hot button" body issues: big thighs, muffin-top bellies, unsightly veins, cellulite, and more. From natural recipes like Dr. Ordon's "Anti-wrinkle Mash" to unexpected solutions and 7-day diets, simple workouts and lifestyle fixes, you will experience noticeable results in just seven days!
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A fitness trainer and former pro athlete with a successful New York City business comes face to face with death when the coronavirus attacks his strong, healthy body and challenges him-not only physically, but mentally and spiritually as well. Dan Venezia thought he had the personal strength within himself to overcome anything that life might throw at him. But on Palm Sunday, 2020, he found himself in a New Jersey hospital struggling to breathe, fighting...
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