wyszukanych pozycji: 17
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The Martyrdom of Abolitionist Charles Torrey
ISBN: 9780807152317 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted almost four hundred slaves in gaining their freedom. A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia and Albany. Arrested in Baltimore in 1844 for his activities, Torrey spent two years in prison before he succumbed to tuberculosis. By then, other abolitionists widely recognized and celebrated Torrey's exploits: running wagonloads of slaves... During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey -- called the "father of the Underground Railroad" by his peers -- assisted alm... |
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205,08 zł |
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Surviving Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know to Make Informed Decisions
ISBN: 9780300126075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Dr. E. Fuller Torrey was diagnosed with prostate cancer, none of the books he could find was current enough or comprehensive enough to satisfy his need for information. This book is for the hundreds of thousands of other men who each year receive the same frightening diagnosis. It is the book Dr. Torrey wished he had when he was facing the countless questions that a man with prostate cancer, and his family and friends, all confront.
Complete, up-to-date, and readable, the book explains how to come to terms with the diagnosis of prostate cancer, evaluate the severity of the disease,... When Dr. E. Fuller Torrey was diagnosed with prostate cancer, none of the books he could find was current enough or comprehensive enough to satisfy hi...
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280,08 zł |
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Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers
ISBN: 9780465086641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Surviving Manic Depression is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on the disorder that affects more than two million people in the United States alone. Based on the latest research, it provides detailed coverage of every aspect of the disorder.All aspects of the disease are addressed: symptoms, with many direct descriptions from patients themselves, risk factors, onset and cause, medications (including drugs still in the testing stage), causes, psychotherapy, and rehabilitation and how the disease affects children and adolescents. Here too are discussions of special problems related to...
Surviving Manic Depression is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book on the disorder that affects more than two million people in the United States a...
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127,46 zł |
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
ISBN: 9780231183369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence...
Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have att...
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159,39 zł |
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Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis
ISBN: 9780471245322 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Powerful. . . . The crisis Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."--The New York Times Book Review
"Brilliant and remarkably detailed. . . . Dr. Torrey, our clearest and most informed voice for the mentally ill, offers his own insightful plan for a way out . . . of a healthcare scandal that remains one of America's most enduring shames."--Phil Donahue. "If President Clinton is looking for a worthy goal to accomplish in his second term, here's one: Rescue the homeless mentally ill. It can be done. . . . Dr. E. Fuller Torrey . . .... "Powerful. . . . The crisis Torrey] delineates should stir any halfway sensitive human being to anger."--The New York Times Book Review
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116,83 zł |
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Parasites, Pussycats and Psychosis: The Unknown Dangers of Human Toxoplasmosis
ISBN: 9783030868109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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153,83 zł |
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Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease
ISBN: 9780813571430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Humans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animals has a positive effect on our physical and mental health. People with pets typically have lower blood pressure, show fewer symptoms of depression, and tend to get more exercise. But there is a darker side to the relationship between animals and humans. Animals are carriers of harmful infectious agents and the source of a myriad of human diseases. In recent years, the emergence of high-profile illnesses such as AIDS, SARS, West Nile virus,...Humans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animal... |
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176,66 zł |
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Schizophrenia and Civilization
ISBN: 9781597401548 / Angielski / Twarda / 1899 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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245,79 zł |
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Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
ISBN: 9780393341379 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rights that has resulted in numerous violent episodes and left a vulnerable population of mentally ill people homeless and victimized. Interweaving in-depth accounts of landmark cases in California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina with a history of legislation and changes in the mental health care system, Torrey gives shape to the magnitude of our failure and outlines what needs to be done to reverse this ongoing--and accelerating--disaster. A new...
E. Fuller Torrey, the author of the definitive guides to schizophrenia and manic depression, chronicles a disastrous swing in the balance of civil rig...
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93,50 zł |
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
ISBN: 9780231183376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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106,26 zł |
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Invisible Plague: The Rise of Mental Illness from 1750 to the Present
ISBN: 9780813542072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The prevalence of insanity, which was once considerably less than one case per 1,000 total population, has risen beyond five cases in 1,000. Why has mental illness reached epidemic proportions? What are the causes of severe mental illness? Why do we continue to deny the rising numbers, and how does this denial affect our ability to help those who are afflicted? In The Invisible Plague, E. Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller examine the records on insanity in England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States over a 250-year period, concluding, through both qualitative and quantitative...
The prevalence of insanity, which was once considerably less than one case per 1,000 total population, has risen beyond five cases in 1,000. Why has m...
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176,66 zł |
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Freuds Betrug: Der destruktive Einfluss der freudschen Theorie auf die amerikanische und westliche Denkweise und Kultur
ISBN: 9783734715297 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2015 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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168,97 zł |
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Schizophrenia and Civilization
ISBN: 9781597405744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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165,94 zł |
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Schizophrenia and Manic-Depressive Disorder: The Biological Roots of Mental Illness as Revealed by the Landmark Study of Identical Twins
ISBN: 9780465072859 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The author of the classic Surviving Schizophrenia and his colleagues present an important contribution to the ongoing debate on the origins of mental illness. Illustrations.
The author of the classic Surviving Schizophrenia and his colleagues present an important contribution to the ongoing debate on the origins of mental ...
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127,46 zł |
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American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
ISBN: 9780199988716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the shabby treatment of the many millions of the mentally disabled in custodial institutions" with treatment in community mental health centers. This movement, later referred to as "deinstitutionalization," continues to impact mental health care. Though he never publicly acknowledged it, the program was a tribute to Kennedy's sister Rosemary, who was born mildly retarded and developed a schizophrenia-like illness. Terrified she'd become pregnant,...
In 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered an historic speech on mental illness and retardation. He described sweeping new programs to replace "the ...
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249,20 zł |
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Ride with the Loomis Gang
ISBN: 9780925168566 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,93 zł |
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
ISBN: 9781633882911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry's most relentless critic presents a new and controversial explanation as to why--in spite of spending $147 billion annually--140,000 seriously mentally ill are homeless, 390,000 are incarcerated, and even educated, tenacious, and caring people can't get treatment for their mentally ill loved ones. DJ Jaffe blames the mental health industry and the government for shunning the 10 million adults who are the most seriously mentally ill--mainly those who suffer from schizophrenia and...
This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry's most relentless critic presents a new ...
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101,85 zł |