- The Loss of Self: A family resource for the care of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders - RC 523 .C65, Click here
- Forget Memory: Creating better lives for people with dementia - RC 521 .B376 2009, Click here
- Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease - BV 4910.9 .H35, Click here
- Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease - RC 523 .E2, Click here
- The Last of His Mind: A year in the shadows of Alzheimer's - eBook, Click here
- Losing My Mind: An intimate look at life with Alzheimer's - RC 523 .D43 A3, Click here
- Future Opportunities to Leverage Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative - eBook, Click here
- The Estrogen Errors: Why progesterone is better for women's health - RG 186 .B39 2009, Click here
- Stand by Her: A breast cancer guide for men - eBook, Click here
- Understanding Breast Cancer Genetics - eBook, Click here
- From Pink to Green: Disease Prevention and the Environmental Breast Cancer Movement - eBook, Click here
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Autism's False Prophets: Bad science, risky medicine, and the search for a cure is a work by Paul A. Offit, M.D., the chief of Infectious Diseases and Dir. of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as well as Professor of Vaccinology and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. All royalties from the sale of this book are donated to the Autism Science Foundation. Dr. Offit's book "is a compelling story of heart-broken parents, understandably desperate for an explanation of autism, being taken in by false hopes unsupported by genuine science...Are public policies to be determined by evidence and reason or by emotions that, however intense they may be, have nothing to do with reality?"- Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason.Read more about the book
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards is a work intended to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching the skills of drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition."Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes: the very latest developments in brain research; new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education; instruction on self-expression through drawing; an updated section on using color; and detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving." - taken from Amazon
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The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history edited by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler is considered the best "the best" work of reference currently available on the Civil War. There are some 1600 alphabetically arranged, concise articles on every aspect of the period, supplemented by informative battle maps and many of the most famous period black-and-white photographs in crisp, clear reproductions. Ranging from a few paragraphs to several pages, the entries create a comprehensive and compelling picture of the war. They include not only detailed discussions of the major and minor battles and military life in general, but also the war's effects on society, from government, politics, and technology to journalism, commerce, and home life. 4 volume set- SLJ Reviews May 2001.More about the book
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Tennessee Women: Their lives and times edited by Sarah Wilkerson Freeman and Beverly Greene Bond "examines women's private and public experiences within the context of more than two centuries of history and the South's rich diverse geography and cultures. These eighteen biographical chapters focus on women whose stories are familiar and others whose lives have remained in the shadow, revealing a history that is often unexpected and complex."Read more about the book
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Scar Tissue by Charles Wright is a collection of poetry which was the International winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Wright is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Scar Tissue "investigates the tenuous relationship between description and actuality...it is a groundbreaking work from a poet who "illuminates and exalts in the entire astonishing spectrum of existence'. - Booklist
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Michael Zager's book Writing Music for Television and Radio Commercials (and more) succinctly describes the process of composing and arranging commercials for these two very different media. Includes an overview of the commercial music business while addressing tools of composition and arranging and giving helpful instruction of jingle writing and composing for commercials.
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Tom Sleigh's essays entitled Interview with a Ghost investigate poetry from Sleigh's conviction that "while art and life are separable, they aren't separate." The works of poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney are examined, as are Sleigh's own poems and translations in the contexts of history and private life, disease and health, the realm of the spirit and the realm of the day to day.
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