Medicine in Brief is a collection of poems in traditional Japanese haiku and tanka form. Each poem strives to capture the uniqueness of a particular disease, serving both as puzzle and springboard for education about the illness.

384 pages, 45 images, 52 contributorsChild Sexual Exploitation Quick Reference investigates exploitation from a medical, forensic, and legal perspective. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this pocket-sized child sexual exploitation book examines all of the medical implications for victims, and case studies provide insight into the lives of these "children of the night." Information on how perpetrators of these crimes operate, as well as guidelines for their succes...

An awe-inspiring tour of the brilliant systems that keep the human body alive through circumstances ordinary and extraordinary.How can someone live with only half a brain? How have more than 150 people survived free falls from supposedly fatal heights? From renowned physicians and medical educators Avraham Z. Cooper and Anthony C. Breu, Why Doesn’t Your Stomach Digest Itself? reveals how the human body—an everyday wonder of strength and resilience—pulls of...

Moving to Mexico? Things We Wish We Would Have KnownBy: H. Douglas Cooper, M.D.Moving to Mexico? recounts one family’s relocation and all the things they wish they had known before making that move. For anyone considering such an endeavor, take this opportunity to learn from their experiences, the pros and cons, and plenty of helpful suggestions.About the AuthorH. Douglas Cooper, M.D. is a recently retired physician with more than thirty years of private prac...

The ultimate health program for those who want to live longer, healthier lives.Start Strong, Finish Strong means living the life we all want?now and as we age. It means a healthy heart, strong bones, and a quick mind. It means feeling great and looking younger than you did five years ago. It means making small but significant changes to your lifestyle that will revolutionize your life. With dynamite father/son combo Dr. Ken and Dr. Cooper, you?ll learn how...

Tanis Richards and the crew of the TSS Kirby Jones have been patroling the edge of the InnerSol asteroid belt for eleven months. Her crew is tired, they're low on food and equipment, and ready to return to port for refit and repair.But before they do, a freighter is passing through their patrol space. It's named the Norse Wind and the Cune Port Authority has reason to believe the ship is carrying contraband requiring boarding and seizure.It should be a simple stop and grab,...

Fourteen Days to Amazing Health is written to educate, inspire, and empower readers to take charge of their health and prevent and reverse chronic diseases using lifestyle modifications. As a physician practicing internal medicine for more than twenty-five years, Dr.Cooper-Dockery has been saddened by the fact that despite good-quality health care and the advancements in modern medical science, people are still developing chronic diseases and dying at an alarming rate. This has propelled h...

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today. But the current critical shortage of human donor organs has had one positive consequence: it has stimulated promising new research into the field of xenotransplantation--the transplantation of organs from one animal species to another. In Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs Into Humans, David Cooper and Robert Lan...

This book is a unique and superb gateway to current psychoanalytic thinking. Thirty of America's foremost psychoanalysts -- leaders in defining the current pluralistic state of the profession -- have each presented what they consider to be their most significant contribution to the field. No mere anthology, these are the key writings that underlie current discussions of psychoanalytic theory and technique.The chapters cover contemporary ideas of intersubjectivity, object relations ...

Sera leads a simple life. A little smuggling, some drinking contests, and captaining her star freighter, Sabrina. But when she picks up a mysterious shipping container on Coburn Station, things begin to go wrong. She finds herself at odds with The Mark, a dangerous pirate organization that wants the cargo on her ship.Inside the container she not only finds a woman, but a secret thought lost millennia ago. The woman is Tanis Richards, and she knows the location of the I...

The final novel in the Orion War series, Return To Sol sees the I2 and her crew return to where it all began . . .

Time is of the essence. The race to the end is on.