'Affecting and engaging' COLM T IB N'A wistful, witty meditation on a gay man's twilight years and the twilight of America' GuardianOut in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, The Kingdom of Sand's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few.
*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2020**Winner of non-fiction book of the year at the Irish Book Awards*An extraordinarily intimate book of essays that chart the experiences that have made Sinead Gleeson the woman and the writer she is today, for readers of The Last Act of Love and I Am, I Am, I Am.
Medicaid, Americas government-run health insurance program for the poor, should be a lifeline that provides needed health care to Americans with no other options.
Discover the profound and moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS'Wonderful - insightful and compassionate' Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes________They can't teach you how to be a doctor at medical school .
What makes one of the most gifted, charismatic and successful literary agents in New York fall into full-blown crack-addiction: a collapse that would cost him his business, his home, many of his friends and - very nearly - his life?
El libro explora lo que significa usar drogas y ser mujer en contextos de vulnerabilidad económica en las ciudades de Pereira y Dosquebradas, a través de entrevistas con 54 mujeres, en su mayoría de las redes atendidas por los programas de reducción de daños en esas ciudades.
A pesar de los notables avances en la lucha contra las enfermedades infecciosas que se han verificado en el último siglo y medio, lo cierto es que la humanidad vive bajo la amenaza permanente de epidemias regionales y pandemias, particularmente de orden viral.
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
La ciencia perdida es un compendio de articulos que reune a un grupo de especialistas, cientificos, ensayistas y estudiosos del tema para contar, con todo detalle y datos duros, las omisiones y los errores cometidos en la administracion lopezobradorista sobre el imprescindible impulso a la ciencia.
Todas las relaciones pasan por momentos difíciles sin embargo, como terapeuta de pareja, Aielet Zik Oppenheimer, su autora, tiene clara la existencia de herramientas para transformar esas crisis en fortalezas.
With all the attention heaped upon the most deadly sexually transmitted infection of all, HIV, other non-fatal forms of infection have been somewhat neglected, and even overlooked in sexual education.
With all the attention heaped upon the most deadly sexually transmitted infection of all, HIV, other non-fatal forms of infection have been somewhat neglected, and even overlooked in sexual education.
El impacto de los avances tecnológicos en la sociedad actual ha sido muy significativo, de manera que las nuevas formas de comunicación y acceso a la información han cambiado radicalmente la interpretación del mundo.
Four decades afterAnd the Band Played Oncreated an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong.
As US healthcare delivery is in flux, an international surgeon dissects and scrutinizes the performance of socialized medicine in Britain vs the free market healthcare system in the US.
El VIH supone hoy un problema de salud pública global que los ciudadanos, los profesionales de la salud y las autoridades sanitarias no pueden ignorar.
One third of the population is estimated to experience insomnia and it is widely recognised to have far-reaching affects on the sufferer's health, relationships, work and happiness.
By the time Jack was fifteen he was addicted to alcohol and prescription drugs, was hanging out with rock stars in LA and living a life that any teenager would aspire to.
TWO BROTHERS: Cicero Grimes - freelance psychiatrist and one-man detox unit in America's white trash Deep South; and Luther Grimes - bad news Vietnam veteran and smack dealer.
