A wonderful fiction debut, Being Esther gives voice to Esther Lustig, an extraordinary woman who has lived a conventional life, in this touching exploration of aging. In spare, unsentimental prose, Miriam Karmel provides readers with one of literature’s finest portraits of the last months of a woman’s life. Sad and amusing, unpretentious and ambitious, Karmel’s prose brings understanding and tremendous empathy to th ...
Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent different public areas, and face different health risks. Women suffer disproportionately from disease, injury, and violence because their access to resources is often more limited than that of their male counterparts. Yet, when women a ...
The «oldest old,» individuals aged 85 and above, are the most rapidly growing segment of American society. And although more than a third of cancer occurs in people over 75 years of age, their tumors are less fully diagnosed and often less fully treated than those in younger patients. Ageism may account for this discrepancy—why intervene if an older man or woman with cancer doesn't have long to live anyway? Yet older people often ...
Сегодня как никогда актуальна проблема защиты от инфекции. Как обеспечить себя и близких индивидуальными средствами защиты, в первую очередь масками? Вам больше не надо искать в интернете выкройки и способы пошива именно той модели, которая вам по душе и по силам. В этой небольшой книге вы найдете полноразмерные выкройки и подробнейшие иллюстрированные инструкции масок, которые подойдут именно вам. Если вы совсем не умеете шить, вы сможете сдела ...
Как правильно организовать режим труда и отдыха во время удаленной работы? Как поддержать свое здоровье и хорошее настроение в условиях ограниченного пространства? Как выйти из любой ситуации максимально здоровым – и физически, и психологически? Вы не узнаете ответы на эти вопросы, если не познакомитесь с данным изданием. А ведь они на самом деле очень важны, даже жизненно необходимы, и это сегодня понимает каждый. В книге представлено 7 комплек ...
Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen-tear-shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear-co ...
Zak Raven is through with the 9-5 grind and is now an ex-attorney on a mission to relax. However a peaceful trip goes really wrong when he get shipwrecked on what he thinks is a deserted island. His only companions are his own words in his journal. Unknown to Zak, four miles below the surface secretly hides a government experimentation center where scientists are playing God by trying to artificially evolve a human based species that can survive ...
Jenny Peterson is a breast cancer survivor. Her long road through cancer treatment was hard, emotional and often deeply depressing. Jenny Peterson, a breast cancer survivor, credits her garden with clearing her mental fog and overcoming her depression, physical limitations and pain. The Cancer Survivor’s Garden Companion explores the therapeutic benefits of this vital “earth connection.” With gentle empathy, beautiful photographs and easy how- ...
