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  The Reluctant Carer - Dispatches...

  The Reluctant Carer

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  An irresistibly moving, funny and urgent memoir about the reality of caring for your parents, when you can barely care for yourself.'Moving and real, as well as splutter-your-tea funny' – Miranda SawyerIt was the kind of phone call we all dread. Your elderly father has been admitted to hospital. Your mum is about to be left at home alone. The answer? Drop everything. Go. Help. The reality? Not so straightforward. Suddenly, you’re a kid again, stranded in the overheated house you grew up in. They need you 24/7, that much is obvious. And you want to help, of course you do. But soon your life starts to unravel almost as quickly as their health.In between bouts of washing, feeding, cooking and fighting there are days that test you, days where everything goes wrong and days where everyone, miraculously rises to the occasion. And in between all of that, you learn how to care. But this time with feeling.Irresistibly funny, unflinching and deeply moving, this is a love letter to family and friends, to carers and to anyone who has ever packed a small bag intent on staying for just a few days. This is a true story of what it really means to be a carer. This is The Reluctant Carer.‘Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound . . . like an existential soap opera – only with more laughs.‘ - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan

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  How to Stop Negative Thinking -...

  Victoria Tyler

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  Are fears, doubts and insecurities running your life right now? 
  Are these stopping you from taking charge and doing what you need to do or what you want to accomplish in your life? Are you seeking a solution for change? 
  I am here to help you discover the source of fear and negative thoughts and emotions: 
  - The thoughts and emotions that sabotage you, your life and potential. 
  - The thoughts of self-doubt and insecurities that limit what you think you can and can’t do. 
  - Emotions that run your life, for example, fear, anxiety and stress. 
  IMAGINE... What if you could... 
  - Stop your brain's constant chatter 
  - Learn to discipline your mind 
  - Choose focus and calm on the regular 
  You deserve to have a calmer life. I can help you get there. 
  In this super affordable, easy to follow guide, you will gain an understanding of why you overthink and start to get control of it. This is the same method I teach in my private therapy office. Because it works. 
  This book is PERFECT for you if... 
  - You are suffering from fear, stress, anxiety, the past, depression, insecurities, self doubt and you are sabotaging yourself and your life, then YES, you need this! 
  - You are totally fed up with the negative thinking 
  - You have interest in learning about your brain and body 
  - You are an action oriented person- just tell you what to do and you'll do it! 
  - You are invested in having a better life. Because this is a game changer.Ready to STOP the endless cycle of negative thinking? It's a simple matter of learning to discipline your mind. This is where my experience comes in! May I help you?

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  Fragmented - A Doctor's Quest to...

  MD Ilana Yurkiewicz

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  There's an unspoken assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality often falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of life-saving treatment plans get lost in muddled electronic charts. The doctors we see change according to specialty, hospital shifts, or an insurer's whims. 
   
    
   
  In this gripping narrative from medicine's front lines, Ilana Yurkiewicz reveals how a system that doesn't talk to itself puts insupportable burdens on physicians, patients, and caregivers. The stories she tells are at once harrowing and commonplace. A patient narrowly averts an unnecessary, invasive heart procedure by producing a worn rhythm strip he has carried in his pocket for a decade. A man diagnosed with leukemia while visiting from abroad has thirty-one physicians, but no one he can call "his" doctor, with tragic consequences. When Yurkiewicz's own father falls ill, a culture that incentivizes health care providers to react with quick fixes leads to weeks of additional suffering. 
   
   
   
  The system is hanging by a thread, and we need better solutions. Yurkiewicz issues a clear-eyed call for change, naming concrete reforms doctors and policymakers can make, and empowering patients and their loved ones to advocate for themselves in the meantime.

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  Oil And Gas Drilling Guide

  HowExpert, Miguel Ferraz

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  If you want to learn about oil drilling as a beginner, then check out this book! 
  How to drill an oil and gas well from A to Z, or in a shorter form from one to seven. 
  The first step is to determine what type of rock we will be drilling. The second step is to refine this preliminary well configuration by determining the exact dimensions required of casing strings. Afterwards, the third stage is to select the appropriate bits, bottom hole assembly (BHA), and drillstring for each hole section. 
  The fourth step is a big one, selecting a rig, which goes hand in hand with the abovementioned characteristics of drilling a well. Eventually, we get a shortlist and go to the market to close the best fit for purpose rig contract. The fifth step is the huge logistics framework that surrounds a drilling operation to ensure it goes smoothly and most important of all, for safety to prevail. The sixth step is to plug and abandon the well. Gladly, strict regulations have been put in place to ensure industry best practices are always followed. 
  Last but not least, the seventh step encompasses all of the previous six, which is to assess and mitigate the environmental impact of all the operations. Safety is, from the beginning until the end of oil and gas drilling, the number-one priority. 
  HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

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  Robot Souls - Programming in...

  Eve Poole

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  Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ever going rogue. One under-explored solution to these alignment and control problems might be to examine how these are already addressed in the design of humans. 
   
   
   
  Looking closely at the human blueprint, it contains a suite of capacities that are so clumsy they have generally been kept away from AI. It was assumed that robots with features like emotions and intuition, that made mistakes and looked for meaning and purpose, would not work as well as robots without this kind of code. But on considering why all these irrational properties are there, it seems that they emerge from the source code of soul. Because it is actually this 'junk' code that makes us human and promotes the kind of reciprocal altruism that keeps humanity alive and thriving. 
   
   
   
  Robot Souls looks at developments in AI and reviews the emergence of ideas of consciousness and the soul. It places our 'junk code' in this context and argues that it is time to foreground that code, and to use it to look again at how we are programming AI.

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  Asthma: The Natural Remedies for...

  Dr. Dale Pheragh

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  Are you aware that respiratory diseases like asthma can be managed effectively and controlled to impede the level of an asthma attack and symptoms?Are you aware that unmanaged asthma symptoms could be detrimental to your health at a time of pandemic or outbreak that attacks the respiratory system?Knowing what to do and what to avoid is crucial at a time like this. When you have severe asthma, as well as your standard medications are not providing the relief you will need, you might be curious whether there are other things you should do to handle your symptoms.The symptoms of asthma often occur with periodic attacks or signs of tightness in the upper body, wheezing, difficulty breathing, and coughing.Some natural treatments might be able to ease your symptoms, decrease the amount of medication you will need to use, and generally enhance the quality of life you will ever have. These remedies work best when taken alongside your usual prescribed asthma medications.This book will teach you the simplified things you can necessarily do from home for managing, avoiding the occurrence of an asthma attack and symptoms effectively. It is an excellent resource for asthmatic patients who is conscious of the detrimental effect of unmanaged asthma symptoms during a pandemic that attacks the respiratory system.Asthma isn't curable; nonetheless, it is controllable. For all those with severe and stubborn symptoms, a new generation of therapies - and specific treatments coming - would finally offer more relief.Untreated asthma attacks can result in hospitalization and may even come to be fatal. It isn't a problem that needs to be neglected or handled with levity during an outbreak or pandemic like this.As you read further, you would be accustomed to ways and therapeutic measures to help manage and control the symptoms as well as reduce your risk of having a more deadly respiratory disease.

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