Summary: "Provides primary health information on traumatic brain injury (TBI), its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments, other conditions and disabilities that occur due to TBI, and coping methods. Includes a glossary of terms and directory of organizations for additional help and information"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2020

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Hart, John

Summary: Most people place more attention on taking care of their skin, their body weight, their job, home and pet, and ignore the most crucial organ in their body. By working on a positive brain health balance, it is possible to increase your IQ as you age and maintain your memory, vitality and libido throughout your lifetime.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Holland Publishers Pty Ltd 2016

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Naidoo, Uma

Summary: A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Cornell nutrition specialist, and professional chef shares actionable dietary recommendations and brain-healthy recipes for foods that can support the treatments of common psychological and cognitive health challenges, from anxiety to sleep disorders.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2020

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Swanson, Jennifer

Summary: "QUICK: Name the most powerful and complex supercomputer ever built. Give up? Here's a hint: It's housed in your head and it's the one thing that makes you YOU. Your brain is mission control for the rest of your body and steers you through life. Not bad for something the size of a softball that looks like a wrinkled grey sponge! In this fascinating, interactive book -- a companion to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Kids 2015

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Neufeld, Michael J.

Summary: Offers a multifaceted portrait of the visionary German scientist who became the chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich, creator of the V-2 rocket, reluctant SS officer, and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf in association with the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution 2007

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Liontas, Annie

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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Görtemaker, Heike B.

Contents: Pt. 1. The meeting -- Heinrich Hoffmann's studio -- Munich After the First World War -- The Braun family -- Rise to power at Hitler's side -- pt. 2. Contrasting worlds -- Women in national socialism -- The myth of the Führer, or, Herr Hitler in private -- The mistress and the inner circle -- Life at the Obersalzberg -- pt. 3. Downfall -- Isolation during the war -- The events of July 20, 1944...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011

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Gilder, Joshua.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004

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Biddle, Wayne.

Summary: A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2009

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Fauber, L. S.

Summary: Today we take for granted that a telescope allows us to see galaxies millions of light years away. But before its invention, people used nothing more than their naked eye to fathom what took place in the visible sky. So how did four men in the 1500's—of different nationality, age, religion, and class—collaborate to discover that the Earth revolved around the Sun? With this radical discovery...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019

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Ferguson, Kitty.

Summary: On his deathbed in 1601, the greatest naked-eye astronomer, Tycho Brahe, told his young colleague, Johannes Kepler, "Let me not have lived in vain." For more than thirty years, Tycho had made meticulous observations of planetary movements and the positions of the stars, from which he developed his Tychonic system of the universe-a highly original, if incorrect, scheme that attempted to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002

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Asprey, Dave

Summary: "From the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and author of the bestselling The Bulletproof Diet comes a revolutionary plan to upgrade your brainpower--in two weeks or less. For the last decade, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey has worked with world-renowned doctors and scientists to uncover the latest, most innovative methods for making humans perform better--a process known as "biohacking."...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2016

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Deacon, Terrence William.

Summary: Examines the emergent processes that bridge the gap between organisms that think and have consciousness and those that do not and discusses the origins of life, information, and free will.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012

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Stoler, Diane.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Pub. Group 1998

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Kaufman, Raun Kahlil

Summary: "As a boy, Raun Kaufman was diagnosed by multiple experts as severely autistic, with an IQ below 30, and destined to spend his life in an institution. Years later, Raun graduated with a degree in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and has become a passionate and articulate spokesperson for the autism community. So what happened? Thanks to Son-Rise, an incredible program his parents...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014

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Selby, Scott Andrew.

Summary: Describes the true story of a Nazi party member and serial killer who attacked women riding on trains at night in World War II-era Berlin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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Brizendine, Louann

Summary: The founder of the first clinic in the country to study women's brain functions provides a comprehensive look at the way women's minds work, combining two decades of research and real-life stories.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Road Books 2006

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Brizendine, Louann

Summary: "Now, Brizendine uses her unique ability of making science approachable to offer an empowering vision of the years in a woman's life that have too often been ignored or misunderstood and creates a positive new framework for this life stage. She never usesthe words perimenopause or menopause, with their suggestions of obsolescence. She guides women to become more of who they are and who they...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2022

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Prat, Chantel Spring

Summary: "From University of Washington professor Chantel Prat comes The Neuroscience of You, a rollicking adventure into the human brain that reveals the surprising truth about neuroscience, shifting our focus from what's average to an understanding of how every brain is different, exactly why our quirks are important, and what this means for each of us. With style and wit, Chantel Prat takes us on a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022

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Zimmer, Carl.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004

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