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Soon after Claire McCarthy chose to practice medicine in one of Boston's inner-city health clinics, she realized that she might as well have moved to another country - for the world within the Martha Eliot Health Center was unlike anything she had ever experienced. Written with the authenticity that only a doctor in the field could evoke, Everyone's Children introduces us to youngsters who, despite their poverty, are full of faith, hope, and potential. Through Dr. McCarthy's eyes, we meet young men and women struggling to overcome drug abuse. We cry along with a sobbing child who clings to the foster mother she has known only two short days. We meet the young mother of a seriously ill child, whose life is complicated by an abusive boyfriend. And we are amazed and uplifted by families who thrive simply because they consider themselves lucky - not poor. Writing with unaffected grace and wisdom, this young doctor shows us how all of our lives - privileged and poor - are an unnerving mix of the predictable and the utterly unexpected. Everyone's Children sets forth no prescriptions or policies. Instead, it paints a portrait of children who are, in fact, everyone's children because they are everyone's future. AUTHOR: Claire McCarthy
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body 
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 | Last Breath by Peter Stark
Recreates in detail what happens to our bodies & minds in the perilous last moments of life when an extreme adventure goes awry. Extreme deaths & brushes with death seem to have become everyday occurences. Examines the physiological, psychological & emotional stages our bodies & minds endure at the brink of death. Shiver with a man lost in snowy woods, suffering from hypothermia, as he tears off his clothes, burning up from cold. Hallucinate with a young woman as she succumbs to a cerebral edema stranded at the top of Anapurna AUTHOR: Peter Stark
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | Melatonin by Jo Robinson, Russel J. Reiter
Description not available.Breakthrough discoveries about melatonin, a natural brain hormone, explain how it can help people sleep better, boost the immune system, reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease, fight disease, and promote health. Reprint. AUTHOR: Jo Robinson, Russel J. Reiter
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | The Pre-Psychoanalytic Writings of Sigmund Freud by Filip Geerardyn, Gertrudis Van De Vijver
As a whole, the papers emphasize the enormity and unparalleled originality of Freud`s pre-analytic work, as well as its influence upon the subsequent development of psychoanalytic theory and technique. The collection offers a fascinating glimpse of the sheer range of ideas which have fed the psychoanalytic mind-set, and the links between psychoanalysis and a whole host of other disciplines. AUTHOR: Filip Geerardyn, Gertrudis Van De Vijver
PUBLISHER: Karnac Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides, James Naughton
In this history of a World War II rescue operation, the mission of a group of elite U.S. Rangers sent to free several hundred prisoners of war held by the Japanese is complicated by the fact that their target is also a shipping point for Japanese soldiers--and holds thousands of enemy soldiers. Sides tells the story of the prisoners, survivors of the Bataan Death March, and the heroes who risked all to bring them out. AUTHOR: Hampton Sides, James Naughton
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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 | Proudly We Served by Mary Pat Kelly
At a time when most black American sailors were relegated to service as cooks and waiters, the African-American crew of the USS Mason made history by escorting six convoys across the Atlantic, performing all the duties of seamanship needed to take a warship into combat. This is the story of their experiences, compiled by bestselling author and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly from extensive interviews with surviving crew members and new research in Navy records made public for the first time. More than a chronicle of the destroyer escort`s activities, the book addresses the problems of wartime discrimination encountered by the servicemen in a country waging war for the principles of freedom. The story is a mostly positive one thai focuses on the crew`s shipboard successes. They not only mastered all rates and skills, but moved at accelerated paces from lowest to highest enlisted ranks, and proved they could perform combat duties as well as or better than white sailors. In October 1944 during a fierce storm in the North Atlantic, the men of the Mason shepherded some twenty vessels to safety despite serious damage to their own ship. Then with the storm still raging, they welded together open seams in the Mason`s deck and made other dangerous repairs so they could rejoin the convoy. Their actions earned the respect of many and a recommendation that a Letter of Commendation be included in each man`s file -- a recommendation that was not acted upon until the publication of this book in hardcover in 1995. This view of their experiences makes a significant contribution to the social history of World War II. A Mason documentary produced by Dr. Kelly is frequently aired on publictelevision. AUTHOR: Mary Pat Kelly
PUBLISHER: Naval Institute Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Health, Mind & Body
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