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  The Book of Flaco - The World’s...

  David Gessner

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  The story of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo and captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of followers around the world. 
   
   
   
  Nature writer David Gessner chronicles the year-long odyssey of Flaco and the human drama that followed the owl who captured the imaginations of New Yorkers and people around the world. Though he'd spent his life in a cage, Flaco learned to survive in New York City by eating rats, squirrels, and birds. He was an immigrant coming from elsewhere to make it in the big city. Central Park, the island of green in an urban sea, was his new home territory. 
   
   
   
  Flaco's urban adventure brought controversy, pitting those who felt he should be returned to the safety of the zoo against those who created the "Free Flaco" movement. The birding world was fractured over the ethics of the online sharing of his location that brought scores of enthusiasts to view him each day. And his end—with a grim necropsy revealing Flaco had suffered a viral infection from eating pigeons and had multiple rodenticides in his system—serves as a Rachel Carson-esque warning about the harm we've done to our urban environments, inspiring the passage of long-sought legislation protecting urban birds and regulations meant to reduce the use of rodenticides in New York City.

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  Under The Knife - Life Lessons...

  Liz O'Riordan

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  Dr Liz O’Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz’s incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women’s breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. 
   
  But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man’s world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.

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  Natural Attachments - The...

  Pollyanna Rhee

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  A nuanced analysis takes a California oil spill as its point of departure to show how affluent homeowners pushed for an environmentalism that would protect not only the earth but also property and community norms. A massive oil spill in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California, in 1969 quickly became a landmark in the history of American environmentalism, helping to inspire the creation of both the Environmental Protection Agency and Earth Day. But what role did the history of Santa Barbara itself play in this? As Pollyanna Rhee shows, the city’s past and demographics were essential to the portrayal of the oil spill as momentous. Moreover, well-off and influential Santa Barbarans were positioned to “domesticate” the larger environmental movement by embodying the argument that individual homes and families—not society as a whole—needed protection from environmental abuses. This soon would put environmental rhetoric and power to fundamentally conservative—not radical—ends.

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  Strategic Heart Failure - The...

  MD Marc Silver

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  Written by one of the country's leading experts on Heart Failure, this completely new book provides a personalized approach, information and advice, guiding you and your family towards getting optimal heart failure care. Heart failure still affects over 6 million Americans, fill our hospitals and consumes enormous healthcare resources in the US and worldwide. Much of the impact of heart failure is lack of process and coordination of care with patients firmly inserted as team members. 
  Dr. Silver says, "Strategic Heart Failure is a distillation of how my team and I helped patients and improved their outcomes for almost 4 decades. I want to share this approach directly with patients; they can help lead their healthcare, understand how decisions are made and improve the entire process of heart failure care." 
  Understanding of a few fundamentals of heart failure care, especially the metrics and language that guideline directed care is crafted from, patients and families can not only join their care team but become the CEO! This Strategic approach moves people with heart failure from patients to partners within a caring, coordinated and engaged teams. 
  Four prior editions of his books, Success with Heart Failure, elevated the understanding of the heart failure syndrome among thousands worldwide. His motivation for Strategic Heart Failure was his realization that his work on clinical trials, research, training other men and women professionals, serving on national guideline committees, being an Editor- in-Chief of a heart failure journal and even being one of the first Board Certified Fellows in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant was not enough. Even having one of the finest and most dedicated teams was not enough. It is critical for: 
  The patient to be involved 
  The patient to be the team leader 
  The patient to speak the "Heart Failure" language and understand the rationale and process for every life impacting decision.<

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  GIFTED: Genetic Information For...

  Michael Lutter

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  Eating Disorders are one of the most common, but elusive conditions to treat in all of Psychiatry. While current treatments do help some patients with eating disorders, too many individuals receive little to no benefit from treatment options leading to a lifelong struggle with anxiety around eating and body image. In this book, Michael Lutter, MD/PhD presents the developement of his new program GIFTED: Genetic Information For Treating Eating Disorders. GIFTED utilizes modern genetic testing methods to take a fresh look at the underlying causes of eating disorders, sometimes with shocking insights. 
    
  GIFTED: Genetic Information For Treating Eating Disorders will be of interest to any patient, family member, or eating disorder clincian who is interested in alternative appraches to current treatment methods. The book is 192 pages with illustrations and links to animations that make difficult concepts of genetics and neuroscience easy to understand.

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  Stormy Sleep Sounds - 5 Hours of...

  Sleeptime Publications

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  Escape into the Storm Sleep Deeper Than Ever 🌧️ 🌙 
  Struggle to unwind after a long day? Wish you could fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer? 
  Stormy Sleep Sounds is your all-natural remedy for restless nights. Featuring 5 continuous hours of immersive thunder, rain, and rolling skies, this audiobook creates the perfect storm—literally—for deep, uninterrupted sleep. 
  Let the rhythmic patter of rain, the low rumble of thunder, and the distant growl of clouds soothe your nervous system, block out distractions, and guide you into a peaceful, restorative rest. 
  Perfect for:Falling asleep fastBlocking out background noiseEasing anxiety and tensionCreating a cozy, comforting atmosphere 
  No narration. No music. Just pure, high-quality storm ambience. 
  Press play, close your eyes, and let the skies lull you to sleep. 🌩️

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