Eliseo Torres, known as "e;Cheo,"e; grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood.
One day in 2002 the fifty-year old body of former Pittsburgh Steeler and hall of famer Mike Webster was laid on a cold table in front of pathologist Dr.
Chuck Shaw is a vanishing breed--an old-style veterinarian with a quarter of a century of experience who runs a "e;mixed practice"e; in rural New Hampshire, treating everything from house cats to milk cows.
An Oliver Sacks Foundation Best Book of the Year Selection, Finalist for the Books for a Better Life "e;Best First Book"e; Award, and a People Magazine Pick in nonfiction.
In this book, I want to help as many people as I can make better choices and live a better life as a diabetic based on my life story and the things that I went through.
Challenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical experiences of other people.
Silent Songs of Nursing, through short stories about the nurse-patient relationship, depict an authentic compassion for patients through the simple art of caring.
A scientist's recollection of his life as a junior member of the Manhattan Project, Rider of the Pale Horse recounts McAllister Hull's involvement in various nuclear-related enterprises during and after World War II.
In this entertaining history of the jetliner, Jay Spenser traces aviation's challenges from the outset, and follows the flow of the simple yet powerful ideas that led us to defy gravity.
Poetry, Praise and Thanksgiving (A Spiritual Journey) was garnered through my combined life experiences, and those of persons who have molded and shaped my life spiritually, emotionally, and physically.
Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorderWhen Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull together comprehensive information about the disorder.
Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914.
In this powerful memoir, a terrorism expert and assault survivor shares a clear-eyed, elucidating study of the profound reverberations of trauma"e; (Publishers Weekly, starred review).