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61) The 36-hour day: a family guide to caring for people who have Alzheimer disease and other dementias
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Language
English
Description
When someone in your family suffers from Alzheimer disease or other related memory loss diseases, both you and your loved one face immense challenges. Mace and Robins provide practical and specific advice to make care easier, improve quality of life, and lift the spirits of a family dealing with Alzheimer disease.
"Through five editions, The 36-Hour Day has been an essential resource for families who love and care for people with Alzheimer disease....
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Your kids love Brain Quest - now it's baby's turn! Imbued with the core value 'It's Fun to Be Smart!', the My First Brain Quest board book program is Brain Quest at its best: not only making learning fun, but encouraging the kind of interaction between children and caregivers that makes early learning meaningful. My First Brain Quest: 123s is a delightful counting book with numbers 1 - 10 represented in a variety of ways, to reinforce comprehension...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Praised for its realistic portrayal of the average American family, Roseanne and Dan's unconventional parenting methods entertained millions as they navigated through the ups and downs of blue-collar life with their children -- Becky, Darlene and D.J.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Sarah Vallance is thrown from a horse and suffers a jarring blow to the head, she believes she's walked away unscathed. The next morning, things take a sharp turn as she's led from work to the emergency room. By the end of the week, a neurologist delivers a devastating prognosis: Sarah suffered a traumatic brain injury that has caused her IQ to plummet, with no hope of recovery. Her brain has irrevocably changed. Afraid of judgment and deemed...
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this follow-up to My Mind Is Not Always My Friend, Steven Jay Fogel explores how our default programming-the automatic choices we make in life without even noticing-can sabotage us, and how we can learn to interrupt our self-defeating behavior and make better choices. Readers of the engaging and conversational Your Mind Is What Your Brain Does for a Living will take away step-by-step advice they can practice immediately. Specifically, readers will...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny, and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. "Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12 Bytes, Winterson's first nonfiction since her bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored, she decided to challenge her word-loving brain through studying Latin at local colleges. Her study opened unexpected windows into her life, and along the way, she met an impassioned group of professors, students and classicists outside of academia who keep Latin very much alive. Written with humor, heart, and an infectious enthusiasm for...
Author
Publisher
Helth Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In Aspertools you will discover everything you need to understand your loved one, student, co-worker, or friend, whose brain might be "a little different." This is the first book to offer simple tools, action plans, and resources to deal with neurodiverse conditions such as Asperger's or any of the other neurological, psychological, or learning disability labels applied to individuals. Also included are tips from ESE teacher Pati Fizzano, and thoughts...
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (Trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on her own experiences, Kate Swaffer explores the daily challenges faced by those diagnosed with young onset dementia. Challenging the notion of 'prescribed disengagement', Kate offers a fresh perspective on how to live well with dementia, and how family, friends and dementia care professionals can support people post diagnosis.
80) Full package
Author
Publisher
Lauren Blakely
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"I've been told I have quite a gift. Hey, I don't just mean in my pants. I've got a big brain too, and a huge heart of gold. And I like to use all my gifts to the fullest, the package included. Life is smooth sailing.... Until I find myself stuck between a rock and a sexy roommate, which makes for one very hard...place. Because scoring an apartment in this city is harder than finding true love. So even if I have to shack up with my buddy's smoking...