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viii, 221 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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An analysis of the role of anxiety in the life of the editor-in-chief of the Tasting Table website expands on her high-profile CNN article to explore her adolescent diagnosis with depression and her daily struggles with making choices and pursuing treatment.
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xiii, 382 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness -- how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people -- sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society -- went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane,...
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"Raise calmer, happier, healthier children with these fun, hands-on nature activities for parents and kids to enjoy together. Are your kids stressed? Are they feeling a bit down? Do your children-and you-need a break from screens? Nature can help. What we all suspected intuitively for generations, science has now confirmed: spending time connecting to nature is a safe, effective tool to help improve our health and happiness. In Finding Ecohappiness,...
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"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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English
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Outlines what can be done to protect animals and the environment by making such decisions as refusing products tested on or made from animals, avoiding aquariums and zoos, and choosing to buy organic food.
408) Gray's anatomy
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Criterion collection volume 618
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2 videodiscs (79 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
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English
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One of the great raconteurs of stage and screen comes together with one of cinema's boldest image makers, Oscar winning director Steven Soderbergh for Gray's Anatomy, a spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which he chronicles his journey from diagnosis to treatment of a rare ocular condition.
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534 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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What is autism? A devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more -- and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. WIRED reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers...
411) The Navajo Long Walk
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64 pages : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
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English
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Accompanied by contemporary and historical photographs, an account of the U.S. Military's forcible removal of the Navajo to a tiny reservation in east-central New Mexico, hundreds of miles from their traditional homeland, traces the routes of their journey and describes the devastation suffered by the people both along the way and in the camp.
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x, 624 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illlustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name -- an Oscar nominee -- the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refused to die without a fight. Intimately reported, this is the story of the men and women who, watching their friends and lovers fall, ignored by public officials, religious leaders, and the nation at large, and confronted...
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xvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plates (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492"--
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"Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over...
420) Fox's garden
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 x 27 cm.
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An act of tender compassion is given (and repaid) in secret during an icy winter night.
"One snowy night, a fox loses its way, entering a village. Chased away by the grown ups, Fox takes shelter in a greenhouse. A little boy sees this from his window. Without hesitating, he brings a basket of food to the greenhouse, where he leaves it for the fox. His gift is noticed and the night becomes a garden of new life, nourished by compassion and kindness....
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