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  • Generation Space

    A Love Story

    by Anna Leahy, Douglas R. Dechow ...
    For poet Anna Leahy and scientist Douglas R. Dechow, quintessential children of the Space Age, love for each other and love of space are inseparable. The moon landings, the shuttle program, the prospect of manned travel to Mars: each stop in humanity's journey to space has marked a step in their ongoing love affair with each other and the cosmos. Told by Anna and Doug in alternating chapters, part ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tumor

    by Dr. Anna Leahy ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.One in two men and one in three women will develop invasive cancer. Tumors have the power to redefine identities and change how people live with one another.Tumor takes readers on an intellectual adventure around the attitudes that shape how humans do scientific research, treat cancer, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom

    by Anna LEAHY ...
    Power and Identity In the Creative Writing Classroom remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes creative ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Creative Writing

    Edited by Dr. Anna Leahy ...
    Series Book 14 - New Writing Viewpoints
    Marking the tenth anniversary of the New Writing Viewpoints series, this new book takes the concept of an edited collection to its extreme, pushing the possibilities of scholarship and collaboration. All authors in this book, including those who contributed to Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom, which launched the series ten years ago, are proof that creative writing matters, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Conversing with Cancer

    How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions

    by Lisa Sparks, Anna Leahy ...
    Series Book 22 - Language as Social Action
    With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient, healthcare provider, caregiver—has information and needs information in order to make the best ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

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    by John Rasko, Carl Power ...
    The dazzling promise of stem cell medicine: does it work and will it save us? Two experts look at the hypeFor decades, we've been anticipating the dawn of regenerative medicine. Again and again, we've been promised that stem cells will soon cure just about every ill imaginable. If not tomorrow, then the next day, or the day after that, and so on. We're still waiting.This book is an antidote to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Overdiagnosed

    Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

    by H. Gilbert Welch ...
    From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testingGoing against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses. Documenting the excesses of American medical ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Seeking Sickness

    Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease

    by Alan Cassels ...
    "Alan Cassels strips layers of expectation, hype, jargon, false-starts, and conflicts of interest off the medical screening mantra." —Nortin M. Hadler, author of Worried SickWhy wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition? After all, better safe than sorry. Right?Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. His Seeking Sickness ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How We Do Harm

    A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America

    by Otis Webb Brawley, MD, Paul Goldberg ...
    A startling and important exposé on the state of medicine, research, and healthcare today by the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer of the American Cancer SocietyHow We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cancer Chronicles

    Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery

    by George Johnson ...
    When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative and intellectually ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Breakthrough

    Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer

    by Charles Graeber ...
    **Follow along as this New York Times bestselling author details the astonishing scientific discovery of the code to getting your body to fight back against diseases."Captivating and heartbreaking." —The Wall Street Journal**For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine's most confounding mysteries: Why can't our immune system recognize and fight cancer the way it does other diseases, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Genome Odyssey

    Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

    by Dr. Euan Angus Ashley ...
    Unravel the secrets of the human genome and discover the future of personalized medicine in this gripping account by a pioneering doctor at the forefront of genetic research.In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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