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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Abraham Verghese

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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Abraham Verghese

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret “One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years.

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Grove Press

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0802162185

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9780802162182

Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

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Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

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Random House India

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8184001754

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The Tennis Partner

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

By: Abraham Verghese

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The Tennis Partner

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

By: Abraham Verghese

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick. “Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston Globe When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and intern grows increasingly rich and complex, more intimate than two men usually allow. Just when it seems nothing can go wrong, the dark beast from David’s past emerges once again—and almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened as David spirals out of control.

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HarperCollins

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0063389916

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9780063389915

Cutting for Stone

A Novel

By: Abraham Verghese

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Cutting for Stone

A Novel

By: Abraham Verghese

A masterly debut novel, visceral in its power, heartbreaking in its tenderness. Transporting the reader from the 1940s to the present, from a convent in India to a cargo ship bound for the Yemen, from a tiny operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx, Cutting for Stone is a thrilling epic of conjoined twins, doctors and patients, temptation and redemption, home and exile--and a riveting family story, irresistibly charged with strange happenings, humour and pathos, that grabs you from its harrowing opening and never lets go.Marion and Shiva Stone are twin sons of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at 'Missing' hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the brothers come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics-their passion for the same woman-that tears them apart and forces Marion to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as a surgical intern at an underfunded, overcrowded hospital.When the past catches up with him, Marion must trust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him, and the brother who betrayed him. Cutting for Stone is both an unforgettable story of lives cut in half and a gripping evocation of the power, intimacy, danger and curious beauty of the ancient art that is at its heart.

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0701183772

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9780701183776

Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

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Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Abraham Verghese

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The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)

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The Finest Traditions of My Calling

One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine

By: Abraham M. Nussbaum

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The Finest Traditions of My Calling

One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine

By: Abraham M. Nussbaum

Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtful book is the response of a practicing physician who explains how population-based reforms are diminishing the relationship between doctor and patients, to the detriment of both. As an antidote to stubbornly held traditions, Dr. Abraham M. Nussbaum suggests ways that doctors and patients can learn what it means to be ill and to seek medical assistance. Drawing on personal stories, validated studies, and neglected history, the author develops a series of metaphors to explore a doctor's role in different healthcare reform scenarios: scientist, technician, author, gardener, teacher, servant, and witness. Each role shapes what physicians see when they encounter a patient. Dr. Nussbaum cautions that true healthcare reform can happen only when those who practice medicine can see, and be seen by, their patients as fellow creatures. His memoir makes a hopeful appeal for change, and his insights reveal the direction that change must take."--Jacket flap.

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Yale University Press

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0300211406

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Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II

Soundings in the Christian Tradition

By: William J. Abraham

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Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II

Soundings in the Christian Tradition

By: William J. Abraham

Divine Agency and Divine Action, Volume II builds on Volume I, which established that no generic concept of action will suffice for understanding the character of divine actions explicit in the Christian faith. Volume II argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition. William J. Abraham argues that one must practice theology in order to analyze properly the concept of divine action. Abraham offers a careful review and evaluation of the particularities of divine action as they appear in the work of biblical, patristic, medieval, and Reformation-era theologians. Particular attention is given to the divine inspiration of scripture, creation, incarnation, transubstantiation in the Eucharist, predestination, and divine concurrence. The work does not simply repeat the doctrinal formulations found in the Christian tradition, but examines them in order to find fresh ways of thinking about these issues for our own time, especially with respect to the contemporary debates about divine agency and divine action.

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Oxford University Press

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0191090077

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9780191090073

The Language of Medicine

By: Abraham Fuks

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The Language of Medicine

By: Abraham Fuks

The Lens of Language -- From Words to "Making Up People" -- The Nature of Metaphor -- The Militarized Arena of Medicine -- Sources of the Military Metaphor -- Consequences of the Verbal Wars -- Resilience of the Military Metaphor -- In Other Words -- Listening -- A Pharmacology of Words -- The Physician-Patient Relationship -- Choosing Metaphors.

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Oxford University Press

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0190944838

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9780190944834

Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education

By: J. Donald Boudreau,Eric J. Cassell,Abraham Fuks

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Physicianship and the Rebirth of Medical Education

By: J. Donald Boudreau,Eric J. Cassell,Abraham Fuks

This book reimagines the education of medical students in its entire scope, from first year to graduation. The educational blueprint presented here rests on a new definition of sickness, one focused on impairments of function as the primary issue of concern for both patients and their care givers. This perspective avoids the common shift of medical attention from persons to diseases, and thus provides the basis for an authentic and robust patient-centered mindset.

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Oxford University Press

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0199370818

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Narrative Matters

Writing to Change the Health Care System

By: Jessica Bylander

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Narrative Matters

Writing to Change the Health Care System

By: Jessica Bylander

Suresh, Abraham Verghese, Otis Warren, Leana S. Wen, Charlotte Yeh

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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1421437546

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9781421437545

Recent Progress in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases

By: Israel Hanin,Ramon Cacabelos,Abraham Fisher

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Recent Progress in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases

By: Israel Hanin,Ramon Cacabelos,Abraham Fisher

This book brings together the proceedings of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases: New Perspectives, the Sixth International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease, held recently in Seville, Spain, and discusses the latest developments in the basic science and therapy of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases by leading specialists

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CRC Press

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020302835X

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9780203028353

Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23rd Edition

By: Mark W. Kline,Susan M. Blaney,Angelo P. Giardino,Jordan S. Orange,Daniel J. Penny,Gordon E. Schutze,Lara S. Shekerdemian,Abraham M. Rudolph,Colin D. Rudolph

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Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23rd Edition

By: Mark W. Kline,Susan M. Blaney,Angelo P. Giardino,Jordan S. Orange,Daniel J. Penny,Gordon E. Schutze,Lara S. Shekerdemian,Abraham M. Rudolph,Colin D. Rudolph

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The landmark pediatrics reference – completely reinvented by an all new team of editors Rudolph's Pediatrics has virtually defined the pediatric field for over a century, becoming one of the most important and well-respected pediatrics texts ever published. Renowned for its balance of clinical features and treatment of disease with underlying biological principles, this classic sourcebook has helped generations of pediatricians optimize their care of infants, children, and adolescents. The Twenty-Third Edition of Rudolph's has been completely restructured and streamlined thanks to an all new team of editors whose goal was to reinvent this classic with today’s busy practitioner in mind. Presented in full color, the Twenty-Third Edition provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of pediatric medicine unmatched by any other text. With its algorithmic approach to pediatric systems, the book facilitates the diagnosis and treatment of both common and uncommon pediatric illnesses; and it reflects new technologies and advances in molecular medicine that continue to evolve with current thinking about normal childhood development and pediatric disease processes. • New team of editors achieves consistency in both tone and depth of content • Contributions from section editors and authors from leading academic pediatrics programs give expert coverage of general pediatrics and all of the pediatric sub-specialties • Streamlined and consistent format for most chapters outlining Pathogenesis and Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention • New 2-Volume presentation improves portability • Hundreds of full-color illustrations and tables • The acclaimed balance between clinical applicability and underlying biological principles offers pediatricians a depth of coverage not found anywhere else • Brand new or significantly revised chapters include: Complementary and Integrative Pediatrics, Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Pediatric Depression and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders, Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), Palliative Care for Children with Chronic Diseases, Arboviruses (with new coverage of Zika virus and chikungunya virus), Physiologic Basis of Pulmonary Function; Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia; Neuroblastoma “You'd be hard pressed to find a resource that matches up to the comprehensive scope of Rudolph's. It's no wonder it's a staple in most offices and hospitals.” -Doody’s Review Service

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1259588602

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9781259588600

The New York Times Book of Medicine

More than 150 Years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine

By: Gina Kolata

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The New York Times Book of Medicine

More than 150 Years of Reporting on the Evolution of Medicine

By: Gina Kolata

Today we live longer, healthier lives than ever before in history—a transformation due almost entirely to tremendous advances in medicine. This change is so profound, with many major illnesses nearly wiped out, that its hard now to imagine what the world was like in 1851, when the New York Times began publishing. Treatments for depression, blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, and diabetes came later; antibiotics were nonexistent, viruses unheard of, and no one realized yet that DNA carried blueprints for life or the importance of stem cells. Edited by award-winning writer Gina Kolata, this eye-opening collection of 150 articles from the New York Times archive charts the developing scientific insights and breakthroughs into diagnosing and treating conditions like typhoid, tuberculosis, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimers, and AIDS, and chronicles the struggles to treat mental illness and the enormous success of vaccines. It also reveals medical mistakes, lapses in ethics, and wrong paths taken in hopes of curing disease. Every illness, every landmark has a tale, and the newspapers top reporters tell each one with perceptiveness and skill.

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Union Square & Co.

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145490206X

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9781454902065

Berlin - Shanghai - Chicago

Never Give Up

By: Horst F. Abraham

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Berlin - Shanghai - Chicago

Never Give Up

By: Horst F. Abraham

Since childhood, the author always collected happenings about his lifetime. These collections combined inspired the author to write his book with the subtitle Never Give Up.

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1467871125

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Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles, Consisting Chiefly of His Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease, and on the Use of Mercury

By: Abraham Colles,Robert McDonnell

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Selections from the Works of Abraham Colles, Consisting Chiefly of His Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease, and on the Use of Mercury

By: Abraham Colles,Robert McDonnell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385429374

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9783385429376

Super Souls Revisited

By: Dr. Abraham Karickam

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Super Souls Revisited

By: Dr. Abraham Karickam

No doubt, posterity will acclaim this as one of the greatest contributions for inter-faith harmony and peace. Here is an exemplary effort on the part of the author to highlight the golden rules in all major religions of the world and the fictional mode that he has chosen adds charm to the serious tone. We are sure that all peace lovers around the globe will really be benefited by this bold attempt of Karickam, a seasoned interfaith practitioner and author of fifteen other books. His book "e;The Concept of Salvation in the Upanishads, the Bible and the Qur'An"e; has been widely accepted as a genuine contribution to peace and we hope that the present volume will go a long way in ushering in an era of inter-religious solidarity and unity.

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