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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients.
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
New studies reveal that potential causes of thyroid disease are chemicals present in your home and kitchen. You need to take extra precautions to keep your family safe. Learn about the dangers lurking in every kitchen cabinet, and how to provide safer alternatives.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 275 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim—and with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years in the history, science,...
25) SHILOH
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in the hills behind his home, it's love at first sight—and also big trouble. It turns out the dog, which Marty names Shiloh, belongs to Judd Travers, who drinks too much and has a gun—and abuses his dogs. So when Shiloh runs away from Judd to Marty, Marty just has to hide him and protect him from Judd. But Marty's secret becomes too big for him to keep to himself, and it exposes his entire family...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 226 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers an examination of drug use, abuse, and treatment, offering clinical and scientific knowledge, case studies, and policy suggestions intended to help drug users, their families, and communities deal with the problem.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Author Meryl Loonin provides an overview of learning disabilities, explaining the many types of learning disabilities and how they are diagnosed. Readers will learn about the challenges that people with learning disabilities face, and how they often learn to overcome these challenges. Current research on diagnosis options and alternative learning methods are detailed.
37) Cerebral palsy
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus High Interest
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes what it is like to live with cerebral palsy, what its symptoms are, and how it is treated"--
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Breaking Through Depression explores how the anatomy of the brain and the biochemistry of nerve impulses play a major role in how we view ourselves and the world. Drawing from his long-term research, Dr. Philip Gold makes the case for depression arising at the intersection of genetic vulnerability with stressful, disturbing life experiences that get encoded in our emotional memory. Breaking Through Depression will delve into the interplay between...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 297 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bioethicist's memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal exposes the American health care system's failures at managing the use of opioids for pain relief and reveals the lack of resources and structures to handle the nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction.