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MORBID OBESITY: WILL YOU ALLOW IT TO KILL YOU?
Following the style of his previous books, Sex and the Cardiac
Patient and AnsweringYour Questions About Heart Disease and Sex,
informative, educational, entertaining, andbold, Dr. Eduardo
Chapunoff takes us this time into the complex world of the
morbidlyobese.
This work describes how and why the cardiovascular and other
systems become affectedby excessive weights. His own simple,
schematic illustrations will help you to understandhow morbid
obesity leads to heart attacks, heart failure, strokes, sleep
apnea, and manyother conditions, including sudden death.
Major treatment decisions are facilitated by Dr. Chapunoff's
down-to-earth explanations.Also addressed here is the unfairness
and ineffectiveness of some insurance corporations incovering the
costs of weight-loss surgery. For many of those who read this book
-patients aswell as health care practitioners and undergraduates-
the concepts and the understandingof what morbid obesity is all
about will never be the same.
Two thousand years ago, a monster known only as The Beast ravaged
the world, spreading war and destruction throughout the multiverse.
Millions fought and died, but it seemed hopeless, until finally a
group of heroes defeated The Beast in a fearsome battle, trapping
him in the three artefacts that summoned him. But now someone seeks
to resurrect The Beast and finish what began millennia ago: the end
of the world. Now, only a handful of survivors remain to combat
those who would resurrect The Beast, but how can they fight an
enemy that they cannot even see?
Listening To Ghosts is an accounting of the author's experience
growing up in a Northeastern working class neighborhood and
subsequent career as an enlisted man in the United States Navy
before the Navy became an instrument for social engineering
experimentation. Written in the first person the author takes the
reader through his adventures - and misadventures - in frank,
candid and politically incorrect language.
The Rotterdam City Library contains the world's largest collection
of works by and about Desiderius Erasmus (1469?-1536), perhaps
Rotterdam's most famous son. The origin of this unique collection
dates back to the seventeenth century when the city fathers
established a library in the Great or St. Laurence Church. This
bibliography of the Erasmus collection lists, for the first time,
all of the Rotterdam scholar's works and most of the studies
written about him from his time to the present day. The collection
is of vital importance to Erasmus studies and has, in many cases,
provided the basic material for editions of Erasmus's complete
works. In addition to the unique sixteenth-century printings listed
in this book, the collection includes many translations into
Estonian, Polish, Russian, Czech, Hebrew, and other languages. The
Rotterdam Library has acquired publications about Erasmus that
cover such topics as his life, work and times; his contemporaries;
his humanism, pedagogy, pacifism, and theology; his relationship to
Luther and the Reformation; and his influence on later periods. The
collection numbers (as of 1989) roughly 5,000 works divided as
follows: 2,500 works by Erasmus himself, 500 works edited by him,
and 2,000 books and articles about him. This bibliographic resource
will be of great value to Erasmus scholars, philosophy researchers,
and historians studying the path of philosophical and religious
thought.
This bibliography attempts to cover the bulk of general and policy
literature resulting from the many and varied multinational and
United Nations conferences which have addressed the adjustment of
imbalances and inequities which characterize present day economic
relationships between developed and developing countries.
The book of complete relaxation and permanent revelation. A book
that never bores the reader no matter how many times it is read. No
matter if you read it from the beginning to the end or from the end
to the beginning. A book of discrete pleasures and decent joys. A
book of real adventures and amazing explorations with no sad
shadows cast upon them. A book to soothe your heart and nurture
your soul with a lot of good quality humor for your tired brain. It
mixes Mary Poppins with Wind in the Willows and Sherlock Homes
adventures with Hercules, Poirot mysteries and add a touch to all
these and pop! You have the book of my dreams.
Two thousand years ago, a monster known only as The Beast ravaged
the world, spreading war and destruction throughout the multiverse.
Millions fought and died, but it seemed hopeless, until finally a
group of heroes defeated The Beast in a fearsome battle, trapping
him in the three artefacts that summoned him. But now someone seeks
to resurrect The Beast and finish what began millennia ago: the end
of the world. Now, only a handful of survivors remain to combat
those who would resurrect The Beast, but how can they fight an
enemy that they cannot even see?
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Counting on Hope (Paperback)
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They expected swollen bellies, imagined colorful nurseries, and
envisioned bikes in their driveways. When infertility threatened
their plans, all five women chose adoption to create a family. With
introductions by their fertile friend Jenny, this book includes an
intimate look at how Laura, Jen, Amy, Ginger, and Grace found hope
as well as motherhood.
MORBID OBESITY: WILL YOU ALLOW IT TO KILL YOU?
Following the style of his previous books, Sex and the Cardiac
Patient and Answering Your Questions About Heart Disease and Sex,
informative, educational, entertaining, and bold, Dr. Eduardo
Chapunoff takes us this time into the complex world of the morbidly
obese.
This work describes how and why the cardiovascular and other
systems become affected by excessive weights. His own simple,
schematic illustrations will help you to understand how morbid
obesity leads to heart attacks, heart failure, strokes, sleep
apnea, and many other conditions, including sudden death.
Major treatment decisions are facilitated by Dr. Chapunoff's
down-to-earth explanations. Also addressed here is the unfairness
and ineffectiveness of some insurance corporations in covering the
costs of weight-loss surgery. For many of those who read this book
-patients as well as health care practitioners and undergraduates-
the concepts and the understanding of what morbid obesity is all
about will never be the same.
Listening To Ghosts is an accounting of the author's experience
growing up in a Northeastern working class neighborhood and
subsequent career as an enlisted man in the United States Navy
before the Navy became an instrument for social engineering
experimentation. Written in the first person the author takes the
reader through his adventures - and misadventures - in frank,
candid and politically incorrect language.
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