For anyone interested in learning to meditate but not sure how to begin, comes this book from psychologist and meditation expert Dr. Robert Puff, contributing writer for Psychology Today and a practicing meditator himself for over thirty years. You'll learn the value of meditation for physical and mental health, several different types of non-religious meditation, detailed instructions on how to practice each, and answers to all the questions asked by beginners. Think of it as "base camp" for starting your personal journey to enlightenment.
Autobiography of one who has practiced medicine in several parts of the world, especially Kenya, Virginia and North Carolina. In 94 years he has experienced many types of problems. He has had a successful career and wishes to impart his experiences.
Dr. G. Robert Pettit is a man who has dedicated his life to finding cures for cancer. A gifted organic chemist, his search has taken him all over the world, for it is his belief that the most promise lies in naturally occurring compounds which have evolved over billions of years as part of the profound diversity of life on this planet. His search has drawn him across deserts, into jungles, and below the surface of oceans across the planet. A prolific research scientist with over 800 peer reviewed articles and responsible for the discovery and development of numerous anticancer compounds in use today, Dr. Pettit is a man who has saved lives and made a very real difference. This is his story.
What makes a man abandon his family and his successful professional life for the goldfields of Australia? John Hutchinson left the coalfields of 19th Century Tyneside to become a surgeon, a physician and a pioneer of chest medicine. His research on lung capacity using his newly-designed machine received international acclaim. And then, just as the pinnacle of professional success was within his reach, he cast it all aside and travelled to Australia as a ship’s surgeon. He was involved in the first large-scale miner’s strike, colliery disasters, navigated the chaos of medical education in the early 19th century, invented the spirometer, and did some meticulous research. He then travelled to Melbourne in the early days of the Australian gold rush, and on to the goldfields of Victoria, before moving on to Fiji. Artist, sculptor, musician, and engineer, Hutchinson was a man of many parts, and his design for a spirometer survived until modern times, as did his term for maximum breathable air: vital capacity. In this book a renowned respiratory specialist discusses some of the other factors that influenced his life, including some crucial misconceptions about the causes of disease.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was convicted with seven others in the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination trial, and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Fort Jefferson military prison in the Dry Tortugas islands near Florida. He suffered through three and a half years before being pardoned for heroic work during a yellow fever epidemic at the fort.
This electrifying, intimate account is the exclusive inside story of cancer pioneer Judah Folkman's 35-year pursuit of an idea that is revolutionizing the way cancer is treated around the world.
In 1998, Nobel laureate Dr James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, said that, in time, Doctor Judah Folkman would be considered the twentieth century's Darwin for his pioneering research into a cure for cancer. However, at that time, although medicines emerging from Folkman's library were curing many forms of cancer, completely and without side effects, success was only seen in mice. Doing the same in humans seemed a long time away.Now that time seems near. Dr Folkman's theory of anti-angiogenesis - that cancer cells can be starved by cutting off their blood supply - has gone into fast-track clinical trials. The new agents rank among the most important new weapons in the war against cancer to emerge in our time. Already, scores of patients thought doomed have had their cancers cured.Doctor Folkman's War is the chronicle of an epoch-making scientific achievement and the story of a man who turned his back on a golden career in surgery to embark on a lonely and lifelong pursuit of a challenging idea. It was an idea roundly ridiculed and dismissed as ludicrous, but it could turn the tide against cancer and have an impact on several dozen other stubborn ailments - soon. Science journalist Robert Cooke is the only writer who has been given complete and exclusive access to Judah Folkman and his staff, and he is also following patients taking part in clinical trials.
For anyone interested in learning to meditate but not sure how to begin, comes this book from psychologist and meditation expert Dr. Robert Puff, contributing writer for Psychology Today and a practicing meditator himself for over thirty years. You'll learn the value of meditation for physical and mental health, several different types of non-religious meditation, detailed instructions on how to practice each, and answers to all the questions asked by beginners. Think of it as "base camp" for starting your personal journey to enlightenment.
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