Résultats pour "The Cure" dans Biographies et mémoires

Newly aware she had a fifty-fifty chance of developing the same condition, Wexler could have retreated. Instead, she immersed herself in what has become a lifetime's pursuit of the causes of the disease and a cure. She pioneered groundbreaking fieldwork that enabled the identification of the responsible gene. She took charge of what is now the Huntington's Disease Foundation and made it a force to be reckoned with.

A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Guardian Music Book of the Year 'Beautifully written and meticulously researched' Classic Pop '[An] all-encompassing repository of Cure wisdom' Record Collector The Cure are indisputable titans of alternative rock. Recognisable as much for their iconic aesthetic...

Inspired by the illumination of Bipolar Type II diagnosis at age 46, and the subsequent process of healing, Donelle McKinley’s memoir offers hope of clinical recovery from ‘incurable’ illness and lights the way for others.

A sufferer of depression himself, science writer Alex Riley has spent years thinking about these issues as he was prescribed antidepressants and underwent cognitive behavioural therapy. Throughout his treatment, he wondered: are antidepressants effective? Do short-term talking therapies actually work? And what is on the horizon for those who don't respond to these first-line treatments? A Cure for Darkness explores all of these questions and more, as the author embarks on a journey to illuminate one of the world's most prevalent disorders.

La historia de un joven sacerdote bogotano que, a mediados de los años sesenta, emergió como líder popular, al incitar a la rebelión contra la oligarquía y la clase dirigente colombianas. Después de muchas frustraciones en sus esfuerzos por introducir reformas radicales en su país...

Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.

‘A wonderful book.' Cathy Rentzenbrink ‘A remarkable tale’ The Spectator A giant wheel of Comté – a cheese full of delight, a mosaic of flavour – can sometimes become flat. Despite all that’s gone into making it and caring for it, its complexity mysteriously vanishes, its spark...

'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun What happens when you realise that you must change your life? When - after years of hiding in routine, shrinking from opportunity, and sleepwalking through your days - you know...

'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, "I had a revelation on a beach." It was partly true' The Cure for Good Intentions is about a...

A powerful critique of the failures in our healthcare system and an inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams, and diets. Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER DAVID FAJGENBAUM NAMED TO THE 2025 TIME100 NEXT LIST “An extraordinary memoir that belongs with Atul Gawande’s writings and When Breath Becomes Air.”—Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals When a young doctor is diagnosed with a rare disease...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn’t choose? “Kate Bowler is the only one we can trust to tell us the truth.”—Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York...

Większość zna Marie Skłodowską Curie dzięki jej pracy naukowej, lecz niewielu zna historię jej życia prywatnego, opowiedzianą tutaj przez najmłodszą córkę Ève Curie—pianistkę, pisarkę i dziennikarkę. Jak to było dorastać jako artystka w rodzinie naukowców?

The controversial Emanuel Revici, M.D., made the bones grow back in cancer patients, and restored health to AIDS patients as well as drug addicts and alcoholics. His medicines lifted debilitating migraines in as little as three minutes. Revici's reward? He was attacked and ostracized by the best. JAMA published false reports about his work. The American Cancer Society blasted him time and again. Meanwhile, word of mouth brought new patients to see him for decades.

Neste audiolivro a autora intercala narrativas dos milagres de Jesus Cristo com desventuras nada sagradas de uma mulher que nunca, ou quase nunca, perde a fé. Os episódios se confundem com a biografia da autora em um testemunho de vida pessoal e espiritual. Com seu característico humor irônico, Ivana tece uma prosa singular, trazendo a religiosidade para o centro do debate.

Following the trail of an unexpected family connection, acclaimed journalist Pam Fessler has unearthed the lost world of the patients, nurses, doctors, and researchers at Carville who struggled for over a century to eradicate Hansen's disease, the modern name for leprosy. Amid widespread public anxiety about foreign contamination and contagion, patients were deprived of basic rights - denied the right to vote, restricted from leaving Carville, and often forbidden from contact with their own parents or children.  

Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken’s lifetime work to accelerate medicine's evolution from a dark past to a bright future. What if cleaning early-stage cancers from your body could become as routine as going to the dentist to clean...

Welcome to Crime Cure! 🕵️‍♂️🌑 I’m Jack, and here we venture into the darkest corners of the human psyche. If you have a passion for twisted detective plots, mystical secrets, and spine-chilling narratives, you’ve found your home.

Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes’s symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. She was admitted to an epilepsy center but doctors could not figure out the root cause of her symptoms.

Winner of the John Avery Award at the André Simon Awards 2022 'This special and magical book has changed the way I see the world' Dan Saladino 'Inspiration and delight sparkle from every page … This book [is] a revelation of joy to the general reader for whom wild food is another country'John...