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Doctors are more than doctors. They’re detectives who solve mysteries about the human body. Diagnosing patients is about looking for clues, whether a persistent tickle in the back of the throat or confusion and memory loss. Just like detectives, good doctors sift through information until they arrive at the medical solution that fits best. Think you have what it takes to keep up with medical detective work? Find out with this second installment of Dr. Roy Benaroch’s thrilling look at medical mysteries from across history.

This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America’s cities.

Statistics show that women and people assigned female at birth spend more of their life in poor health, it takes longer for them to receive diagnoses for a variety of health conditions, they are less likely to be prescribed pain relief, and they are more likely to receive a mental health diagnosis for a physical problem.

When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos.

Written by experienced professors and professionally narrated by an experienced practitioner for accuracy, this crash course is a valuable tool both during medical school and when preparing for the USMLE Step 2 exam.

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the...

The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability.

Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist voller Ängste und Legenden: Flugzeuge und Schiffe, die spurlos im Meer verschwinden. Menschen, die zu Vampiren werden. Und Erfindungen, die unser Leben heute erleichtern, die aber unsere Vorfahren für Teufelszeug gehalten haben. Der Podcast "SchauerGeschichte" nimmt dich mit auf eine ungewöhnliche Reise in die Vergangenheit. In jeder Folge widmen wir uns einer anderen Angst und erklären, was dahinter steckt. Manchmal etwas gruselig und immer sehr lehrreich.

One of the greatest challenges for the African American community is a severe lack of power. Like caged animals in the zoo, millions of black people in America and across the world often feel that our lives are controlled by other people or that opportunities only enter our lives when they are created by our oppressors. This debilitating mindset can lead to hopelessness, depression and decision-making that is driven by fear rather than desire. Instead of believing that we possess the ability to improve our lives, we simply wait and hope that White Americans will one day have a change of heart.

The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures, Part 2 includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the...

Confrontés à des dilemmes (parfois) existentiels, trois ami.e.s sont contraint.e.s de choisir le moins pire.

Nineteen-year-old Jovan Mosley, a good kid from one of Chicago's very bad neighborhoods, was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn't commit. Charged with murder, he spent five years and eight months in a prison for violent criminals. Without a trial. Jovan grew up on the rough streets of Chicago's Southeast Side. With one brother dead of HIV complications, another in jail for arson and murder, and most kids his age in gangs, Jovan struggled to be different. Until his arrest, he was.

In der 2. Staffel des Original Podcasts "Kopf über Herz" widmen wir uns der Selbstliebe. Wie geht das besser? Wissenschaftlerinnen und Experten geben uns auf diese Frage praktische und hilfreiche Antworten. Die Fragen stellt Radiomoderatorin und Journalistin Diane Hielscher. Wie finden wir mit den Erkenntnissen der Neurobiologie zu mehr Selbstliebe? Wie können wir mit Linguistik oder Musikwissenschaften unsere Beziehung zu uns selbst verbessern? In 24 Folgen liefert dieser Original Podcast Ideen und konkrete Kniffe zum Liebesglück mit sich selbst.

In diesem Original Podcast findet Volker Wieprecht Antworten auf die philosophischen Fragen, die uns das ganze Leben lang begleiten. In der 2. Staffel geht es um die Sphären, in denen Menschen ihr Glück suchen: das Reich der Ideen, die Gefilde der Musik, die Welt der Drogen, des Geldes und der Selbstoptimierung. Immer auf der Suche nach der besten aller möglichen Wahrheiten. "Wieprechts Wahrheiten" ist ein Podcast für alle, die den tieferen Sinn des Lebens erforschen und sich auf eine spannende Reise mitnehmen lassen wollen.

The more you know about panic attacks, the safer you will feel. Here, you will find advice on how to help yourself and what to do to take back control over your life.

Volume 2 of What Women Must Know includes the following segments: "Getting to Know Your Lymphatic System: A Missing Piece of Your Health Puzzle" with Dr. John Douillard; "How Our Microbiome Is Revolutionizing Our Pursuit of a Healthy Life" with Dr. Rodney Dietert; "The Best Natural Solutions for Acute and Chronic Coughs" with Dr. Gustavo Ferrer; "Is Cancer a Genetic Disease or a Metabolic Disease?" with Dr. Thomas Seyfried; and much more.

Bayard Rustin (1912 to1987), the famed openly gay African American organizer, taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the birth of the civil rights movement in 1955. Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern black protest, in 1963 Rustin reached his pinnacle of notoriety as organizer of the March on Washington.

There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day. That figure, the World Bank measure of poverty, is hard to imagine in this country - most of us spend more than that before we get to work or school in the morning.

Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation.

Más de un siglo después del hundimiento del Titanic, su historia sigue siendo un espejo de los desafíos y dilemas de la sociedad contemporánea. A través de un análisis profundo y accesible, este libro explora cómo la tragedia del Titanic se relaciona con temas actuales como la desigualdad social, la corrupción, la crisis climática, la influencia de las redes sociales y la lucha entre la cooperación y la supervivencia individual en tiempos de crisis.