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Navigating Life with Parkinson's Disease: 2nd ed

Navigating Life with Parkinson's Disease is a guide for anyone affected by Parkinson's, providing useful information to those with Parkinson's and their caregivers, family, and friends. This extensively revised second edition contains up-to-date information on recent research and the latest adaptive equipment available to those living with Parkinson's disease. Discussing available treatments and providing practical advice, this book emphasizes lifestyle adjustments that provide a better quality of life for patients and their loved ones. The material is organized so that chapters can be listened to sequentially or individually. Q&A sections, thoughts from people living with Parkinson's, and Ask the Experts sections address often-overlooked topics in physician-directed disease management, such as how to talk to family and friends about one's life with Parkinson's. Promoting a patient-centered approach, Navigating Life with Parkinson's Disease empowers patients and their families to manage their health care.

Rose Wichmann Pt, Rose Wichmann, Pt, Sotirios Parashos Md Phd, Sotirios Parashos, Md-Phd (Author), Natasha Soudek (Narrator)

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Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor

Providing readily accessible information and real-world encouragement to people living with primary and metastatic brain tumors, this book discusses the basics of brain tumors, types of tumors, management of different tumors, related symptoms, treatments and side effects, the role of medical team members, and coping strategies from initial diagnosis throughout the course of the illness. At the same time, it also offers practical suggestions on symptom management and lifestyle modification, as well as real-life anecdotes and advice from both patients and family members and friends who are experiencing this diagnosis. Written by two experts working with a professional writer, as well as advice from other professionals, the book is crystal clear and easy to use. Balancing the uncertainties of prognosis with hope, Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor is an authoritative, realistic, yet compassionate guide to living with brain cancer.

Alyx B. Porter Umphrey Md, Alyx B. Porter Umphrey, M.D., Diane Richard, Faan Lynne P. Taylor, M.D., Lynne P. Taylor Md Faan (Author), Rebecca Gallagher (Narrator)

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[German] - Von Viren, Fledermäusen und Menschen - Eine folgenreiche Beziehungsgeschichte (Ungekürzte

Die weltweit renommierte Virologin Isabella Eckerle über die Sprengkraft von Virus-Infektionen - ein hochaktuelles Wissenschafts-Sachbuch über Zoonosen, Pandemien und die globale Gesundheit. AIDS, Ebolafieber, Rinderwahn, Vogelgrippe, Affenpocken, SARS-CoV-2 - allesamt gefährliche Virus-Erkrankungen. Und jedes Mal wurde das Virus von wildlebenden Tieren wie Fledermäusen auf Menschen übertragen, um dort sein zerstörerisches Werk zu beginnen. Isabella Eckerle erforscht seit vielen Jahren die Beziehung zwischen Viren, Wildtieren und Menschen. In ihrem Buch gewährt die Expertin für neuartige Krankheitserreger erstmals faszinierende Einblicke in ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit im Labor und im afrikanischen Urwald. In ihrem Buch gibt sie Antworten auf drängende Fragen: Wo kommen eigentlich neue Krankheitserreger her? Was sind Zoonosen und wie erforscht man sie? Werden wir nun immer häufiger Pandemien erleben? Und wieso kommen dabei eigentlich so oft Fledermäuse vor? Welche Rolle spielt unser Immunsystem bei der Bekämpfung neuer Viren? Waren unsere endemischen Viren früher auch einmal Zoonosen? Handelt es sich bei neuen Krankheitsausbrüchen um Natur-Ereignisse, oder haben wir die Möglichkeit, aktiv etwas dagegen zu tun? Die Virologin schlägt dabei einen weiten Bogen vom Ursprung und der Verbreitung zoonotischer Viren über Einblicke in die aktuelle Erforschung zoonotischer Ereignisse bis hin zur gesellschaftspolitischen Aufgabe der Gesundheitsvorsorge in Zeiten der Globalisierung. Im Mittelpunkt steht hier die brisante Frage, welche Rolle Virus-Infektionen in Zukunft für die globale Gesundheit spielen. Isabella Eckerles Resümee macht Hoffnung: Der Mensch hat es in der Hand, ob aus einer Virus-Infektion eine Pandemie wird.

Prof. Dr. Isabella Eckerle (Author), Sabine Lehrmann (Narrator)

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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement

An entertaining deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training. Muscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athleticism. We can mold our muscles with exercise and observe the results. In this lively, lucid book, orthopedic surgeon Roy A. Meals takes us on a wide-ranging journey through anatomy, biology, history, and health to unlock the mysteries of our muscles. He breaks down the three different types of muscle-smooth, skeletal, and cardiac-and explores major advancements in medicine and fitness, including cutting-edge gene-editing research and the science behind popular muscle conditioning strategies. Along the way, he offers insight into the changing aesthetic and cultural conception of muscle, from Michelangelo's David to present-day bodybuilders, and shares fascinating examples of strange muscular maladies and their treatment. Brimming with fun facts and infectious enthusiasm, Muscle sheds light on the astonishing, essential tissue that moves us through life.

Roy A. Meals MD, Roy A. Meals Md, Roy A. Meals, M.D. (Author), Jonathan Yen (Narrator)

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Attraction, Love, Sex: The Inside Story

Sex, after hunger, may be the most powerful motivating force in our lives. It drives us to seek intimate contact with others and to form relationships that may be fleeting or lifelong, blissful or troubled. Yet many mysteries surround sex and sexuality: Why don't we reproduce by virgin birth? Why does so much of our sexual behavior have nothing to do with reproduction? Why isn't everyone heterosexual? How does the brain create sexual arousal? How do sexual kinks develop? Is porn harmful? What is the relationship between sex and love? In Attraction, Love, Sex, Simon LeVay introduces listeners to a memorable cast of researchers trying to answer these questions and many more. A biologist dredges a New Zealand lake for asexual mud snails. Psychologists measure whether eating a good meal changes a man's idea of female beauty. Physiologists place lovers in brain scanners. Geneticists reconstruct the sex crimes of Genghis Khan. Neuroscientists create mice whose sexual behavior can be switched on and off. A zoologist traps and releases 260,000 voles and launches a new science of love. LeVay distills vast expertise on the biology and psychology of sex into an engaging and easy-to-understand survey. This book reveals how scientists are unraveling the secrets of sex and, in the process, shattering many traditional ideas and prejudices.

Simon Levay (Author), Dan Calley (Narrator)

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The Naked Neanderthal

Brought to you by Penguin. What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. After new discoveries, the pendulum swung the other way and they are generally seen as our relatives: not quite human, but similar enough, and still not equal. Now, thanks to an ongoing revolution in palaeoanthropology in which he has played a key part, Ludovic Slimak shows us that they are something altogether different - and they should be understood on their own terms rather than by comparing them to ourselves. As he reveals in this stunning book, the Neanderthals had their own history, their own rituals, their own customs. Their own intelligence, very different from ours. Ludovic Slimak has travelled around the world for the past thirty years to uncover who the Neanderthals really were. A modern-day Indiana Jones, he takes us on a fascinating archaeological investigation: from the Arctic Circle to the deep Mediterranean forests, he traces the steps of these enigmatic creatures, working to decipher their real stories through every single detail they left behind. A thought-provoking adventure story, written with wit and verve, The Naked Neanderthal shifts our understanding of deep history -- and in the process reveals just how much we have yet to learn. ©2023 Ludovic Slimak (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Ludovic Slimak (Author), John Sackville (Narrator)

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Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future

This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland reveals how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future. Taking readers from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life's essential elements-hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements underpin the success of human civilization, and how their mismanagement threatens similarly catastrophic unintended consequences. But, Porder argues, if we can learn from our world-changing predecessors, we can construct a more sustainable future. Blending conversational storytelling with the latest science, Porder takes us deep into the Amazon, across fresh lava flows in Hawaii, and to the cornfields of the American Midwest to illuminate a potential path to sustainability, informed by the constraints imposed by life's essential elements and the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.

Stephen Porder (Author), Christopher Ragland (Narrator)

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Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis

Navigating Life with Multiple Sclerosis will serve as a practical guide for meeting the challenges of this life-long disease. MS may cause a myriad of symptoms and varies greatly from person to person. The authors demystify MS and offer practical solutions and guidance based upon their extensive combined clinical and research experience. The book tackles many of the common symptoms experienced by the person with MS and looks into the future to explore where research is headed. If you are newly diagnosed or have been living with MS for years, this book is an invaluable guide.

Barbara S. Giesser Md, Barbara S. Giesser, M.D., Ben W. Thrower Md, Ben W. Thrower, M.D., Kathleen Costello Ms Anp-Bc, Ms Anp-Bc Kathleen Costello (Author), April Doty (Narrator)

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Navigating the Complexities of Stroke

Navigating the Complexities of Stroke provides a practical guide for the lay public and medical professionals. Dr. Louis R. Caplan, one of the world's leading experts, guides listeners through the subject in a straightforward and accessible manner. He turns to the mechanics of the stroke itself, discussing the complexities of the two major kinds and the resulting damage. Caplan offers information and advice that listeners will find useful: the medical conditions and other factors that create risk, stroke symptoms, abnormalities that doctors look for, tests available to evaluate strokes, complications and disabilities that can result, and the paths of treatment and rehabilitation. He offers real-life cases of victims and their families that demonstrate successful recovery, but also reveal the sometimes troubling impact of strokes on survivors and their families, who can suffer frustration and demoralization that the medical profession often overlooks in its biological focus. Caplan also examines strokes in children and young adults, who are often neglected in literature that is largely aimed at seniors. Navigating the Complexities of Stroke empowers victims, families, and general medical providers. It puts in listeners' hands the knowledge necessary to avoid strokes, address them quickly, and recover, so they won't lose heart when it is needed most.

Louis R. Caplan Md Faan, Md Faan Louis R. Caplan (Author), Graham Rowat (Narrator)

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The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould (Author), Jonathan Sleep (Narrator)

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Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a 'vibrantly healthy state,' writes Stephen Jay Gould, its most engaging and illuminating exponent. Exploring the 'peculiar and mysterious particulars of nature,' Gould introduces the listener to some of the many and wonderful manifestations of evolutionary biology.

Stephen Jay Gould (Author), Jonathan Sleep (Narrator)

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Practice the Pause: Jesus' Contemplative Practice, New Brain Science, and What It Means to Be Fully

These days, many of us live in a state of overreactive fight-or-flight response and chronic stress. The demands of modern life pull us in all directions and can often put the meaningful connections in our lives at risk-connections to our deepest selves, to others, and even to God. But there is good news. New developments in brain science have recently proven that an intentional practice of pausing for a few minutes of meditation, prayer, or other contemplative practice actually rewires our brain in ways that make us calmer, less reactive, and better able to see the bigger picture. In Practice the Pause, spiritual director and writer Caroline Oakes offers easy-to-understand explanations of how this new brain science is confirming what every spiritual tradition has been telling us for millennia: by practicing the pause, we become more self-aware and better able to understand others. We become more 'God aware.' With a refreshing focus on the Eastern Christian understanding of Jesus as a master of wisdom, Oakes shines a spotlight on Jesus's own centering pause practice as a transformative path for personal and social change. We learn that even a seven-second pause practice can move us beyond the fight-or-flight responses of our ego in our daily lives and actually equip us to cultivate the common good in the world.

Caroline Oakes (Author), Nan Mcnamara (Narrator)

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