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  • Unchartered Journey

    Our Decade Living With Breast Cancer

    by Elizabeth Holland Kern, Patrick Kern ...
    The everyday reality of living with Stage IV (also known as metastatic or advanced) cancer is not something you will hear about on the evening news. Nor will it make the front page of the New York Times. Instead, you will hear or read about the latest medical “breakthrough,” regardless of whether there is any significant scientific evidence of efficacy, of benefit over a similar drug. What those ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demystifying the Big House

    Exploring Prison Experience and Media Representations

    by Emily Plec, Adina Schneeweis, Amanda Barnes Cook, Sarah Fenstermaker, Valerie Jenness, J. David Wolfgang, Pauline Matthey, Kathryn M. Whiteley, Meredith Huey Dye, S. Lenise Wallace, Rebecca Kern, Kalen Churcher, Joy Jenkins, L. Clare Bratten, Le’Brian A. Patrick ...
    Series series Perspectives on Crime and Justice
    Essays in this volume illustrate how shows such as Orange Is the New Black and Oz impact the public’s perception of crime rates, the criminal justice system, and imprisonment. Contributors look at prison wives on reality television series, portrayals of death row, breastfeeding while in prison, transgender prisoners, and black masculinity. They also examine the ways in which media messages ignore ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • In-Between Days

    A Memoir About Living with Cancer

    by Teva Harrison ...
    2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book

    101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love

    by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, David Tabatsky ...
    Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book delivers 101 powerful stories of courage, hope, support, and love to help cancer patients and their families. A bonus memoir by a cancer patient bound in, with intimate and helpful words of advice.A support group you can hold in your hand, this loving and inspirational collection of intimate stories, by cancer patients and their loved ones, medical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • What Your Doctor Doesn’T Know About Fibromyalgia

    Why Doctors Can’T or Won’T Treat Chronic Pain

    by Linda Meilink ...
    FMS, a common term for fibromyalgia, attacks men, women, and even children of all ages, varying in intensity from patient to patient. Because doctors do not like to treat conditions they dont understand, patients are often ignored, denied pain relief, shuttled off to other experts, or filled with powerful prescription drugs that may add new and confusing symptoms. Thus begins a vicious cycle of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Healing

    When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

    by Theresa Brown ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shift comes a frank look at navigating the world of healthcare as a cancer nurse becomes a patient and experiences the system from the other side.Despite her training and years of experience as an oncology and hospice nurse, Brown finds it difficult to navigate the medical maze from the other side of the bed. Why is she so often left in the dark ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Myths About Sex & Pregnancy

    by Dr. Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS, Dr. Rachel C. Vreeman, MD ...
    Previously published as part of DON'T SWALLOW YOUR GUM!People have more access to medical information than ever before, and yet we still believe "facts" about our bodies and health that are just plain wrong. MYTHS ABOUT SEX AND PREGNANCY takes on SOME these myths and misconceptions, and exposes the truth behind some of those weird and worrisome things we wonder about. Entries dispel the following ... Read more

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  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope & Healing for Your Breast Cancer Journey

    Surviving and Thriving During and After Your Diagnosis and Treatment

    by Dr. Julie Silver ...
    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope & Healing for Your Breast Cancer Journey will encourage comfort and encourage breast cancer patients and survivors with its inspiring stories and helpful medical information.A support group from breast cancer diagnosis through treatment to rehabilitation and recovery, this book combines inspiring Chicken Soup for the Soul stories written just for this book and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Gender of Crime

    by Dana M. Britton, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Grace E. Howard ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    The Gender of Crime introduces readers to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime—from defining what crime is to governing how crime is punished. The second edition of this award-winning book maintains the accessible, reader-friendly narrative of the first edition with key updates and new material throughout, including increased focus on the intersections of race, class, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Breast Cancer Husband

    How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) during Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond

    by Marc Silver ...
    A unique, must-have resource with medical information, practical tips, psychological insight, and coping strategies to help men help the women they love through the challenges of breast cancer“With a wonderful blend of empathy, humor, and information, Breast Cancer Husband is a buddy and an on-call support group for men who love women with breast cancer.”—Hester Hill Schnipper, oncology social ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Crip Theory

    Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

    by Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé ...
    Series Book 9 - Cultural Front
    A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze ... Read more

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