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Describes the field of wildlife rehabilitation through true stories of sick, injured, and orphaned wild animals given a second chance at a large urban wildlife center. Photographs demonstrate the efforts of staff and volunteers as they work to rescue, treat, and rehabilitate urban wild animals harmed by human activity.
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"In a split second, a tragic accident ends Kathleen Somers's ballet career. Her dreams shattered, she returns home to the Soaring S ranch? and her first love. Suddenly the local veterinarian, Dr. Nate Sterling, goes from her ex to her champion. With the help of a lively poodle therapy dog, the cowboy vet sets out to challenge Kathleen's strength and heal her heart. He'll show her there's life beyond dance, even if it means she leaves town again. But...
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At school, we believe education should touch the whole child. This includes the physical, emotional, spiritual, social and cognitive aspects of the child's life. We teach children quietness as a skill to reflect and recharge their inner lives. Lorraine Murray helped us on this journey.' — Sheila Laing, Head Teacher. Stress and behavioural disorders are common in children, who are increasingly bombarded by marketing campaigns, faced with school...
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"A través de una información concisa y organizada, alrededor de algoritmos de decisiones, esta obra se constituye en un Norte en las áreas específi cas de la neurología que son frecuentes en la práctica clínica. Para ello se presentan y analizan enfermedades como la epilepsia, movimientos anormales, neuroinfecciones, examen neurológico y cuadros sintomáticos, factores que por sí solos son importantes en la consulta diaria, como las afasias,...
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PreTrain Fundamentals is an innovative approach to fitness. This six-week program is a complete exercise program of strength, stability, and flexibility training that helps you to minimize the risk of injury. PreTrain Fundamentals begins with step-by-step instructions to activating and strengthening your core, shoulders, and back muscles. We build on these exercises with progressive movement training to restore normal movement through your hips, low...
48) The defender
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"After escaping her troubled past, all Katie Bergstrom wants is to put down roots on her raptor rehabilitation facility outside Jackson Hole. She doesn't count on reconnecting with her estranged birth mother--or the recent appearance of a sexy ranch hand. Former marine Joe Gannon is used to a life of risk. Working on the ranch, life is simpler...except for the undercover work he's been asked to do. Getting too close to Katie could damage his current...
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Presents an exploration of addiction that blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage to analyze the role of stories in conveying the addiction experience, sharing insights based on the lives of artists whose achievements were shaped by addiction.--
50) Immortal beloved
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After seeing her best friend, a Dark Immortal called Incy, torture a human with magick, Nastasya, a spoiled party girl, enters a home for wayword immortals and finally begins to deal with life, even as she learns that someone wants her dead.
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If you're reading this, your knees have likely been causing a lot of pain for a long time - perhaps months and even years. You may be among the thousands of people whose pain is so intense it's caused them to forfeit some or all daily activities, cut down on or altogether eliminate important exercise, miss out on good times with family and friends, and even compromise a job and income to accommodate it.
In The Pain-Free Knee: How To Have a Healthy,...
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A marine biologist's adventurous life as a professor and mother in Alaska is upended when her healthy husband is slammed by a rare type of stroke. His radical approach to recovery clashes with her instinct to keep him safe at home and sets them on a collision course as he insists on ambitious sailing expeditions with Beth and their young son in Alaska's magnificent yet unforgiving waters.
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Told with the intensity of a medical thriller, the extraordinary story of how Clay Whiffen and his family conquered autism. "Leeann Whiffen's fight for her son is a poignant, intimate story of perseverance and love - a reminder to all of us that a mother is the greatest ally a child with autism will ever have. A Child's Journey out of Autism shines a heartfelt light on a future of healing and hope." Jenny McCarthy, author of Mother Warriors and Louder...
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If It Had Not Been for the Lord is the companion book to The Seed of My Womb. The two books look at a life-altering injury from the perspective of a son (Wendell M. Manigault Jr.) who was nearly, killed in an accident and his mother (Paulette M. Vanderhorst, The seed of my Womb) who offered her loving support. In this compelling autobiography, he details life before his injury, after his injury, and the incident that led to it. By sharing his story,...
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"Microbiome Matters" is a groundbreaking book that delves deep into the fascinating world of the human microbiome. This comprehensive guide takes you on a journey through the tiny yet mighty world of microorganisms that live within us and play a pivotal role in our health and well-being. The book begins by introducing the concept of the microbiome, explaining its composition, development, and dynamic interactions with the human body.As you progress,...
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Este libro, fruto de una tesis doctoral cum laude, analiza la educación en fisioterapia de Colombia a partir de un amplio trabajo investigativo sobre los orígenes y desarrollos históricos del trabajo y la educación profesional en Colombia y de componentes cualitativos y cuantitativos realizados a docentes, estudiantes y egresados de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogotá.
Con esta obra se busca alertar sobre la necesidad de transformar...
57) Explain Pain
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Imagine an orchestra in your brain. It plays all kinds of harmonious melodies, then pain comes along and the different sections of the orchestra are reduced to a few pain tunes.
All pain is real. And for many people it is a debilitating part of everyday life.
It is now known that understanding more about why things hurt can actually help people
to overcome their pain. Recent advances in fields such as neurophysiology, brain imaging, immunology,...
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"In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls.With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational...
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"An alternative prison ranch in New Mexico conducts a daring experiment: setting the troubled residents out to retrain an aggressive herd of horses. The horses and prisoners both arrive at the ranch broken in one way or many- the horses often abandoned and suspicious, the residents, some battling drug and alcohol addiction, emotionally, physically, and financially shattered. Ginger Gaffney's job is to retrain the untrainable. With time, the horses...
60) A boy called Bat
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When his veterinarian mom brings home a stray baby skunk that needs rehabilitation before it can be placed in a wild animal shelter, Bat, who has austim, resolves to prove that he is up to the challenge of caring for the skunk permanently.