wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Put On Your Parky Face: Shining a Light on Parkinson's Disease, Myself, and 1.5 Million Invisible Victims
ISBN: 9781456458546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Bill Schmalfeldt is serving notice. It's time for Parkinson's disease patients to stop being invisible. It's time for a nationwide effort to raise awareness about crippling degenerative neurological disorder and the havoc it wreaks on American families -- approximately 1.5 million people currently have a PD diagnosis with 50-thousand new cases each year. Having had PD himself since 2000 at age 45, Bill volunteered for experimental brain surgery in 2007. He spins a humorous, poignant, sometimes angry tale about his life with this incurable progressive neurological condition. He will soon...
Bill Schmalfeldt is serving notice. It's time for Parkinson's disease patients to stop being invisible. It's time for a nationwide effort to raise awa...
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68,96 zł |
Deep Brain Diary: My Life as a Guy with Parkinson's Disease and Brain Surgery Volunteer
ISBN: 9781452801445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It was nearly four weeks after his 45th birthday when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In addition to having to get used to having what he always thought of as a old man's disease, Bill had to adjust to the idea that his condition would only deteriorate. After seven years, Bill learned about an experimental clinical trial of deep brain stimulation for patients in the less-advanced stages of Parkinson's. He was one of 30 people to sign up for this Phase I trial testing the safety and tolerability of the procedure. In this group, 15 patients were randomized to the...
It was nearly four weeks after his 45th birthday when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In addition to having to get used to ha...
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Drop Bombs on School and Hospital: Mixed Messages from Two Decades with Parkinson's
ISBN: 9781092646208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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45,98 zł |
Uncle Bill's Bedtime Stories for Progressives: (Along with Selected Fables for Conservatives)
ISBN: 9781466217997 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Have you ever wondered why all the traditional bedtime stories have such a brutal, conservative slant and bias? Think about it. The standard formula -- kid misbehaves, kid gets caught misbehaving, kid gets torn to bits by bears, eaten by wolves or slow-roasted by witches. Are THOSE the images YOU want to send your kid off to sleep with? Wouldn't you rather be able to tuck your kids in at night with some positive, life-affirming, choice-affirming PROGRESSIVE bedtime tales? Sure you would. That's why I offer my new book: "UNCLE BILL'S BEDTIME STORIES FOR PROGRESSIVES" A lot of these stories...
Have you ever wondered why all the traditional bedtime stories have such a brutal, conservative slant and bias? Think about it. The standard formula -...
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128,73 zł |
You Never Miss the Dopamine...: (until the brain runs dry!)
ISBN: 9781453829363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) From the author of "No Doorway Wide Enough," "Undercover Trucker," and "Hunky Dunk," a real-life look at how one man deals with his Parkinson's disease decline by laughing at it. Told in a series of essays from his blog, Bill Schmalfeldt talks more about the non-motor symptoms of PD -- the speech difficulties, the bizarre dreams, the memory problems and the hallucinations -- in a way that makes the reader realize that while there's no cure for PD, it can't damage the human spirit (unless you let it)
From the author of "No Doorway Wide Enough," "Undercover Trucker," and "Hunky Dunk," a real-life look at how one man deals with his Parkinson's diseas...
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Vice and Victory: With the Emphasis on the Former
ISBN: 9781481004114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 2007 he broke into a van, stole a debit card and tried to use it. He was caught, arrested and convicted on felony charges. Yet, somehow, by May 2012, he had "taken over" the right wing blogosphere. This book follows the true story of Ali Abdul Razaq Akbar as he blazes a trail of deception from a Fort Worth jail cell to the heights of the Conservative New Media Machine. Is it AKBAR that conservative organizations fear as they willingly throw their money at his "Vice & Victory" agency knowing it will be stolen or misspent? Is it AKBAR's political acumen (despite the fact that every election...
In 2007 he broke into a van, stole a debit card and tried to use it. He was caught, arrested and convicted on felony charges. Yet, somehow, by May 201...
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Outrageous Accusations and Damnable Lies: Skillfully Told by a Brain-Damaged Nobody
ISBN: 9781460902790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) One of the lesser-discussed symptoms of Parkinson's disease is irritability. I was diagnosed with this degenerative neurological disorder three weeks after my 45th birthday in 2000. I have 11 years of irritability built up inside me. That's why I enjoy writing. After 11 years of this crap, my walking is affected. I lose my balance and fall easily. My ability to speak is hampered. Most folks with Parkinson's tend to develop a quiet, whispery, reedy voice. Not me A loudmouth I was born and a loudmouth I shall die. No, my affliction is in the area of clarity. When I speak, all the words try to...
One of the lesser-discussed symptoms of Parkinson's disease is irritability. I was diagnosed with this degenerative neurological disorder three weeks ...
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Can You BE a Tea Party Member and STILL Call Yourself CHRISTIAN?: YES! Thanks to This NEWLY-REVEALED WORD of GOD!
ISBN: 9780615482750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How does one resolve the dichotomy between the teachings of God and the rhetoric of the Tea Party? How can you say you believe God's command that we care for each other, our sick and elderly and poor, and still carry signs saying "Your Health, Your Problem?" HERE'S how A NEWLY-REVEALED BIBLE
How does one resolve the dichotomy between the teachings of God and the rhetoric of the Tea Party? How can you say you believe God's command that we c...
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91,95 zł |
No Doorway Wide Enough: 2000-2010, My Parkinson's Disease Decade
ISBN: 9781453648803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while working at a federal agency as a writer and podcaster, telling other people about the importance of clinical trials, Bill heard about and volunteered for an experimental brain surgery to determine whether or not "deep brain stimulation" could be done on patients in the earlier stages of the disease. This is the story of Bill's "Parkinson's Decade" from being diagnosed in 2000, to having the surgery in 2007, through today. The story is told in a humorous,...
It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while working at a...
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91,95 zł |
Unzipping the Mitt: And Other Scary Tales of Right Wing Woe
ISBN: 9781475158151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Stand back The Unzipping of the Mitt is underway According to the proponents of doom who believe that the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of all things on Dec. 21, 2012, this book should give you reason to look forward to that date. Already it's been an "interesting" year. We've had Newt-Mentum splattered by the Santorum Surge, which was in turn staunched by the Unzipped Mitt. In addition, the first quarter of 2012 had a top talk show host covering himself in right wing filth by calling an innocent college girl a slut, a young lad walking to his father's house gunned down by a neighborhood...
Stand back The Unzipping of the Mitt is underway According to the proponents of doom who believe that the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of all thi...
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You Never Miss the Dopamine: (until the brain runs dry)
ISBN: 9781453899366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's disease, Bill Schmalfeldt (Author of "Deep Brain Diary" and "No Doorway Wide Enough") continues his series of sarcastic and hilarious essays in the "You Never Miss the Dopamine (until the brain runs dry) series. This time, along with his weird dreams, liberal political opinions, descriptions of his declining health and rants about literary agents, Bill deals with a real family emergency -- his 80-year old mother breaks her leg, requiring Bill and his wife to travel to Milwaukee to help tend to her. He includes an open letter to Michael J. Fox,...
Quickly becoming the Lewis Black of Parkinson's disease, Bill Schmalfeldt (Author of "Deep Brain Diary" and "No Doorway Wide Enough") continues his se...
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45,98 zł |
Axis of Weasels: How Right Wing Extremists Exploit Self-Publishing Websites to Silence Opinion
ISBN: 9781499637182 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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Why I Hate America, Freedom and Everything Decent: More of My Marxist, Communist, Fascist Lies
ISBN: 9781463657680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Bill's second book of left-wing satire, gleaned from his online column, "Observations of a Brain Damaged Troll" at Technorati.com. His latest offering is a book that is guaranteed to anger EVERYONE. Given the aggressive tone of the writing inside and the fact that reading it will make the average American patriot's blood boil with righteous rage, He's decided to give it a soothing title. "WHY I HATE AMERICA, FREEDOM and EVERYTHING DECENT: More of My Marxist, Communist, Fascist Lies" Nobody is safe. Not the "EmoProgressives" who stayed home from the polls in 2010 to "prove a point to President...
Bill's second book of left-wing satire, gleaned from his online column, "Observations of a Brain Damaged Troll" at Technorati.com. His latest offering...
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68,96 zł |