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Inching Back to Sane: My years with Bipolar
ISBN: 9781501087295 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,50 zł |
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Muttle
ISBN: 9781505406412 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is written as a memoir of a madman (me) and for bipolar/psychotic people. It's for people who see the machines, hear voices, have hallucinations and feel the bad energy. Locked in a box the "muttle" makes your mind feel like two cars that keep crashing into each other. I am hopeful and I want to keep dreaming.
This book is written as a memoir of a madman (me) and for bipolar/psychotic people. It's for people who see the machines, hear voices, have hallucinat...
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57,56 zł |
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Journey Into Paralysis: Craig Hospital, Love and Madness
ISBN: 9780990690603 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A man in his early 30s realizes his wild ways are about to land him in jail - or worse yet end up in his death. He reevaluates his priorities after a high-speed motorcycle pursuit, and he meets a woman from his past he figures to settle down with. Five months into their relationship, the unthinkable happens when he has a motocross accident. He is flown on the Air Link where he is diagnosed with a broken neck and a spinal cord injury resulting in paralysis. Two weeks later, he is flown to Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, to start his rehabilitation for his life as a quadriplegic. He...
A man in his early 30s realizes his wild ways are about to land him in jail - or worse yet end up in his death. He reevaluates his priorities after a ...
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45,82 zł |
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By the Seat of My Pants: How I Survived a Nasty Divorce, an Incurable Disease, and Learned That No Matter How Bad Things Get, You Can Always Pa
ISBN: 9781499223316 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I have often wondered if my disease was always there, lying dormant in the shadows, all those accidents explained away by my awkwardness, until it finally reared its ugly head in my twenties, when a lot of people are diagnosed with MS right in the prime of your life . I was having the time of my life, living large and working hard It was the eighties all about disco and the Urban Cowboy and I was in Houston Texas and at that time it was as good as it gets The cowboy oil field guys were making "boo coo" money and tipped $100 bills like twenties It was a pervasive time, cocaine and pot...
"I have often wondered if my disease was always there, lying dormant in the shadows, all those accidents explained away by my awkwardness, until it fi...
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91,73 zł |
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He Just Needs To Be Loved
ISBN: 9781500520427 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When my husband and I adopted three-year old Tyler from Ukraine in 1992, the orphanage director told us, "He just needs to be loved," but Tyler needed much more than love. The product of neglect and abuse, he was a wounded little soul who fought every attempt to be integrated into our family, afraid to trust human relationships. During his first years in America, Tyler was diagnosed with PDD (an autism spectrum disorder), and Tourette Syndrome, leaving my family overwhelmed and ill-prepared to handle such an emotionally fragile little boy. HE JUST NEEDS TO BE LOVED chronicles Tyler's journey...
When my husband and I adopted three-year old Tyler from Ukraine in 1992, the orphanage director told us, "He just needs to be loved," but Tyler needed...
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63,43 zł |
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A Caring Christmas: 7 Days in the life of a carer
ISBN: 9781505901306 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the last three years I have been the Primary Carer for my Mother following her stroke. We have faced many challenges during this time. By far the greatest challenge for me, however, has been trying to explain to people exactly what it is that I do as a Carer. This book is my way of meeting that challenge. For seven days over the christmas period I maintained a diary of events, thoughts and feelings in the hope that it would help inform people of what the life of a Carer is really like. This is that diary.
For the last three years I have been the Primary Carer for my Mother following her stroke. We have faced many challenges during this time. By far the ...
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29,81 zł |
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7 Seven: my biography
ISBN: 9781507767528 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reem Phoenicia Salam's life story (Auto Biography
Reem Phoenicia Salam's life story (Auto Biography
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82,55 zł |
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Gladly Will I Glory In My Infirmities
ISBN: 9781942190103 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story is about the remarkable Fr. Charles Kram, Jr., the quadriplegic priest who served for nearly twenty-five years as a hospital chaplain doing what he enjoyed most in life: serving God and neighbor with an enormous amount of love. By never complaining about his suffering of pain and the humiliation of his dependency, Fr. Kram raised suffering to the dignity of the divine. In this way, he accepted the circumstances of his life as the will of God. To complain against the will of God would certainly be unworthy of a true Christian. To accept his suffering as the will of God made Fr....
This story is about the remarkable Fr. Charles Kram, Jr., the quadriplegic priest who served for nearly twenty-five years as a hospital chaplain doing...
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68,25 zł |
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Deaf Daughter: From Deafness and Despair To Hearing and Hope
ISBN: 9781505413953 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,74 zł |
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So Far, So Good: The Saga of a Broken Neck and the Good Life That Can Follow
ISBN: 9781611878004 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year, 40,000 Americans suffer spinal cord injuries. Lee Goldstein is one of them.
Lee has been living with his injury for 68+ years, making him unofficially the longest living quadriplegic in history. The story of his injury and the reasons for his survival are chronicled in this stunning book. Lee tells of his terrible injury, his fight for life, and the amazing life he has led ever since. He was rescued from drowning by a famous singer. He hobnobbed with celebrities during his hospitalization and afterwards. Behind his success, as a young man and an adult, was a loving, caring and... Every year, 40,000 Americans suffer spinal cord injuries. Lee Goldstein is one of them.
Lee has been living with his injury for 68+ years, ma... |
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87,36 zł |
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Discovering Autism / Discovering Neurodiversity: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781507791585 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,33 zł |
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Endstation Rollstuhl: Ich möchte mein Leben mit niemandem tauschen
ISBN: 9781507892916 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 31 Jahre ist Isabell Steiner alt, als sich ihre gesamten Vorstellungen von einem normalen Leben praktisch uber Nacht in Luft auflosen. Eine Thrombose im Hirnstamm hinterlasst sie vollstandig gelahmt und anfangs unfahig, sich mit ihrer Aussenwelt in Verbindung zu setzen. Steiner: "Nein, mein Leben ist ganz und gar nicht so verlaufen, wie ich es mir vorgestellt hatte. Obwohl zunachst alles danach aussah. Mein Beruf als Flugbegleiter machte mir viel Spass und auch als Ehefrau und Mutter schien mir das Leben, mit ein bisschen gutem Willen, meine Wunsche anstandslos zu erfullen. Im Sommer 1994, im...
31 Jahre ist Isabell Steiner alt, als sich ihre gesamten Vorstellungen von einem normalen Leben praktisch uber Nacht in Luft auflosen. Eine Thrombose ...
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47,24 zł |
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Beyond the Eight-Foot World: A Chemical Plant Accident and the Journey of Pursuit
ISBN: 9781508423041 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Burning alive, twenty four year old husband, father and chemical engineer, Albert Plevier, crawls backward as he fights he way through an onslaught of concentrated liquid sodium hydroxide. Hundreds of gallons of the hot, caustic chemical, forcefully propelled by a gas powered motor, begin to melt and blind the man responsible for its creation. Beyond the Eight Foot World is the remarkable, true, inspirational story about a twenty-four year old man whose life changed forever in an instant. The book chronicles a love story that strengthen through survival, perseverance, dignity and humor. You...
Burning alive, twenty four year old husband, father and chemical engineer, Albert Plevier, crawls backward as he fights he way through an onslaught of...
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88,28 zł |
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An Accident Waiting to Happen: A Life with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
ISBN: 9781506090832 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The doctors said I had unconfirmed haemophilia. People said I was clumsy, a clown, an accident waiting to happen. They were wrong. I have endured a multiplicity of injuries including: 200 stitches; a broken femur; broken bones in my feet; 3 sprained ankles; several dislocated kneecaps; ruptured knee ligaments; a broken scaphoid; traumatic bruising to my shin and a dislocated shoulder. These are the presents that EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME bestowed upon me. At fifty eight years of age I had had enough. I lay on the floor in my garage with the fallen ladder as my companion, listening to the siren...
The doctors said I had unconfirmed haemophilia. People said I was clumsy, a clown, an accident waiting to happen. They were wrong. I have endured a mu...
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61,92 zł |
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Autistic Blessings and Bipolar me.: "A frank and brutally honest diary from a mother with Bipolar and her two Autistic boys"
ISBN: 9781508886075 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In February 2007 I was diagnosed with Bipolar type one after a long battle with post natal depression, where I was hospitalized numerous times. Throughout the period between 2004 to 2009 myself Noah and Moses were all given a diagnosis of something life changing, but as a mother I refused to be labelled and judged by a medical condition. I am Emma Plows; I am not Emma Plows with Bipolar. It's my understanding that when you discover your child is on the autistic spectrum you really need to accept the diagnosis. Accept it, let it grow and don't hinder its development. Autistic people cannot...
In February 2007 I was diagnosed with Bipolar type one after a long battle with post natal depression, where I was hospitalized numerous times. Throug...
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50,40 zł |
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Born For This: From Disability to Destiny
ISBN: 9781505351576 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1973, a young couple was told by their doctor that their newborn daughter had Down syndrome. He said that she would probably never walk or talk, and he advised them to put her in an institution and to get on with their lives. They ignored his advice. Not only did Windy Smith learn to walk and talk, she's walked into the Oval Office on several occasions to meet with the President of the United States. She's talked to over 38 million people on national TV, and she's competed in the International Special Olympics Games. This is the story of a remarkable young woman's life, over several...
In 1973, a young couple was told by their doctor that their newborn daughter had Down syndrome. He said that she would probably never walk or talk, an...
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91,69 zł |
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Humpty-Dumpty Sister
ISBN: 9781507828403 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humpty-Dumpty Sister is my attempt to give voice to my sister's life and death with schizophrenia. When I was fourteen and on my way to school early one day, the doorbell rang in our NYC apartment. There stood my seventeen-year old sister, Charmion, her stockings fallen to her knees, her dress crumpled, and tears pouring out of her eyes. She begged not to have to go to school. Our mother enfolded Charmion into her arms, hushed her and whispered to me: "Go to school. She'll be all right." But she was not all right; ever again. She had taken her first fall into paranoid schizophrenia, becoming...
Humpty-Dumpty Sister is my attempt to give voice to my sister's life and death with schizophrenia. When I was fourteen and on my way to school early o...
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41,28 zł |
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Love & Justice: A Compelling True Story Of Triumph Over Tragedy
ISBN: 9780993092237 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the age of 29, Diana Hill fell under a London train. In 7 seconds the tall, glamorous businesswoman went from busy woman of the world with everything to live for to double-leg-amputee, her life in ruins. Then it got worse. A few days after her accident, as she lay in hospital, traumatised and heavily sedated, she learnt via a newspaper article that the railway's Transport Police were to interview "The Fall Girl," as the Press had labelled her, with a view to prosecution. She had boarded a moving train, they said, and trespassed onto their railway line. Her fight for justice took five... At the age of 29, Diana Hill fell under a London train. In 7 seconds the tall, glamorous businesswoman went from busy woman of the world with every... |
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65,48 zł |
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My Path To Heaven On Earth
ISBN: 9781498431637 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Clarke suffered a stroke in 2005 that resulted in serious brain damage and left him paralyzed on the left side. Due to the stroke he lost his executive position with a major drug chain and eventually lost all his wealth including two homes. They say God opens a window when a door closes. He joined a bible study group at his church and found that God had given him a new gift of interpreting scripture. This led to his discovery of his KEYS TO H.O.P.E. that helped in deal with the blows life had sent him. This would be a good book for anyone facing hardships to read, but especially stroke...
Bill Clarke suffered a stroke in 2005 that resulted in serious brain damage and left him paralyzed on the left side. Due to the stroke he lost his exe...
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53,76 zł |
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That Thing Called Hope
ISBN: 9781498431835 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carrie is heartbroken when she is diagnosed with a mental disorder. A short time later, she comes to realize that all three of her boys have Asperger's and Autism. Feeling overwhelmed, Carrie looks to the Lord for guidance as she finds solutions to the challenges that must be faced. Carrie and her husband learn to take one day at a time as they deal with their boys hyperactivity, temper tantrums, and judgement from others. There are also trials with jobs, friends, and even social workers, but then, there are the joys and laughter too. This mom comes to see her boys smartness and hidden...
Carrie is heartbroken when she is diagnosed with a mental disorder. A short time later, she comes to realize that all three of her boys have Asperger'...
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80,67 zł |
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