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Offers insight into healthcare practices, identifying the cellular sources of aging and illness and revealing that aggressive treatments provide an illusion of control and survivability at the cost of life quality.
"Bestselling author ... Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, NATURAL...
2) A Simple Man
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In a newly built home in the mountains, an old man named Clarence Callahan prepares for a lengthy visit with his youngest daughter, Liza Jane. The experiences they share in the month they are together would not only bring them immense joy but it would keep precious memories alive from the past while making new memories.
Liza is a caring and fun-loving businesswoman, who set aside a month to devote spending quality time with her ailing father. She...
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In a captivating tale, we follow the life of Jessica, a young girl who, born out of wedlock, was raised by her grandmother with little knowledge of her father and a distant relationship with her mother. Nurturing a deep-seated resentment toward men, she resolves to become a feminist lawyer, determined to see men like her father held accountable for their actions. However, a pivotal moment unfolds during her grade-school years when she encounters a...
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Too Many Stones is the story of Evelyn Toraason. It begins in 1930 when Evelyn is a bright, promising eleven-year-old girl with the potential to go far beyond the poor, rural, but beautiful and almost spiritual Wisconsin coulee farm where she lives. The bond between Evelyn and her father, Olav, cannot quite fill the void created by her failing mother who continues to retreat within herself over several years. Evelyn's teacher and mentor, Miss Johnson,...
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While the current conversation about work-family balance and "having it all" tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting for changes in their relationships and society to make greater equality possible. Here, Miriam Liss and Holly Hollomon Schiffrin discuss the ways in which...
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Du hältst dein erstes Kind in den Händen und deine Stimmung schwankt zwischen unglaublicher Freude und blanker Panik. Die im Krankenhaus haben gesagt, du kannst jetzt damit nach Hause gehen. Du guckst die Krankenschwester fragend an und wünschst dir, sie würde dir einen Stapel Papier in die Hand drücken und dich anschreien: "Don't ask. Read the f*cking Manual!"
Oder ist dein Baby noch im Bauch und spielt mit dem Netzwerkkabel, während du nervös...
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Harry is in a hurry to catch the school bus. After he gets on to the bus, he realizes, "Oh no! I forgot my coat."
His mom told him not to, but he did. He starts to think what is going to happen throughout the day without it and how his mom is going to be mad. Harry goes through many emotions--surprised, scared, sad, and happy--all because he forgot his coat.
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"Secrets of Life Before Birth"is the presentation of the long processes leading to the conception and later the birth of an individual, in this case: Whomus, but it could be the story of any one of us.The distinction found in this book is the conversations translated from the many interactions among different actors in this story. The highly specialized unicellular precursors of a human being can be followed in their interactions among themselves...
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The follow-up to Real Baby Food, a new book on the hottest topic for new parents-baby-led weaning-from the food editor at Parents magazine, with more than 100 recipes and ideas.
Want your baby to have a natural, flavor-filled, and family-friendly transition to solid foods? Feeding your baby a variety of healthy, wholesome solid foods, rather than relying solely on purees, is thought to promote motor skills and establish lifelong healthy eating habits....
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Después de vivir en la ciudad y con el corazón roto por los desengaños amorosos, el Señor Luciérnaga regresa al campo. Sin embargo, allí tampoco encuentra el amor: la lejana estrella lo ignora, la luz de la lámpara de aceite del campesino está muy entretenida con las mosquitas que revolotean a su alrededor; parece que siempre deposita sus sentimientos en los seres equivocados. ¿Dónde podrá encontrar el amor verdadero, para tener una vida...
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En San Jacinto de los Mares viven Matilde Florista y su esposo Miguel Pescador; esta pareja ansía tener pronto un hijo. A la puerta de su casa es abandonada una hermosa muñeca de trapo; de inmediato Matilde se encariña con la desvalida muñeca y la adopta como si se tratara de una hija; la bautiza Cristina Zanahoria. Esta muñeca tiene espíritu y su mayor don es el olfato. Esta historia realza la importancia de las percepciones y sensaciones en...
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Samuel and Rebecca Rainey, preteens themselves not many years ago, add their perspective as young adults who vividly recall their own successes and failures as teenagers. Covering such topics as friends, peer pressure, boundaries, dating, and sex, the Rainey's address the most common traps of adolescence and teach young people how to avoid making poor choices. Short, concise chapters are filled with engaging illustrations and practical applications....
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"Who Put The Kids in Charge? An Unconventional Approach to Raising Great Kids" is, written by Sharon Cullington, who is a popular and dedicated parenting coach. She has bundled the experience she gained over almost 40 years of raising her own and other people's children into this book.
Sharon is, known as the Parenting Alchemist because of the consistently positive results her clients achieve, when they apply her transformational framework that has...
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Un experto malabarista se ufanaba de ser capaz de lanzar las bolas cada vez más arriba. Tan bueno era, que lograba hacer diversas actividades antes de que las bolas regresaran a sus manos. Sin embargo, un día las lanzó my arriba y estas no regresaron. Preocupado, no paraba de mirar el cielo y quienes lo veían, comenzaron también a hacerlo. Es una historia sobre la paciencia, la esperanza y la manera en que nuestras acciones pueden influir en...
18) Young Man Blues
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This is not a sob story. It's a story about the difficulties of growing into manhood and my own particular struggle with disabling anxiety that came along with it, and how I managed to find my way. That was more than fifty years ago. American life was more comfortable and comprehensible than it is now as we face the discords of what I call the long emergency. I still had a hard time. I observe that boys today are up against a whole lot more in their...
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Una historia basada en las aventuras de dos niños que por una serie de equívocos "construyen" toda una trama de terror y de muerte, Un niño aficionado a los cuentos de terror, se obsesiona con palabras que no entiende, pero que están relacionadas con la muerte, a quien teme por encima de todas las cosas. Crea un enredo lleno de humor e inocencia, en el cual involucra a su enigmática vecina.
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Margot acaba de llegar al pueblo en compañía de su abuela; tuvieron que escapar para salvar sus vidas, pues son desplazadas de la violencia. Sus padres aún siguen en su antiguo pueblo, esperando el momento de reunirse con ellas o de que el peligro pase. La niña sueña con regresar y abrazarlos de nuevo, con volver a cuidar de sus animales y recuperar esa vida que tanto extraña. Ahora todo está lleno de carencias y de nostalgia, sin embargo,...
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