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"About fifteen years ago, Richard Herring first took part in a campaign to encourage men to have a little (non-sexual) feel of their balls every now and again. But it was embarrassing and weird, and if there was something wrong, he didn't want to know about it. Anyway, that kind of stuff only happens to other people, doesn't it? At the start of 2021 Richard Herring was diagnosed with testicular cancer. For a man whose output includes a stand-up tour...
2429) The upset: life (sports), death ... and the legacy we leave in the middle : the Tyler Trent story
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"October 20, 2018, was just another normal Saturday in college football--or so it seemed. Amid all the matchups discussed on ESPN that day, it was a special video featuring the harrowing story of Tyler Trent--along with his bold, yet accurate, prediction that Purdue would upset Ohio State--"that captured the hearts of millions. The Upset chronicles so much more than just an inspiring battle against the seemingly impossible opponent of osteosarcoma,...
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Viral es una gran aventura científica y humanista que explora los virus que han envenenado nuestro universo y puesto en riesgo la supervivencia de la humanidad hasta la situación actual. Escrito desde una perspectiva científica, biológica y medica, el libro tiene un marcado componente humanístico transmitido en las múltiples e interesantes anecdotas históricas, filosóficas, artísticas, literarias y de otras disciplinas--como la física y...
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"Jeff Metcalf is a storyteller, an avid fly fisher, and, for personal reasons, an enhanced observer of the human condition. He finds himself often on the river banks of the American West. Cancer runs through him; cancer runs through his essays, but so do rivers, camaraderie, adventure, feeling for the natural world, and sheer joy in the challenge and focused engagement of the fishing cast. In these chapters one meets river guides and small-town locals,...
2432) Red sunshine: a story of strength and inspiration from a doctor who survived stage 3 breast cancer
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"Dr. Kimberly Allison diagnoses breast cancer for a living. But as a 33-year-old healthy new mother, she never expected to find herself looking at her own malignant cells under the microscope. Like many others diagnosed with cancer, Dr. Allison was starving for stories of other survivors. She wanted to hear someone's tale, to feel their experiences and look for hidden clues to what her own future might hold. Ultimately, the story that Dr. Allison...
2433) A case for adventures
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George is sick, and must stay in the hospital. Pillowcases illustrating jungle scenes, firemen rescue efforts, space voyages, undersea exploration, rodeo events, and prehistoric times take him on marvelous adventures until his discharge from the hospital. Includes information about interacting with sick children, and the pillowcase project of ConKerr Cancer organization.
2434) El buen doctor
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"Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...
2435) Life as a house
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Confronted with life-changing news, a middle-aged architect seizes the opportunity to begin living life on his own terms as he builds the house of his dreams, and winds up rebuilding the world around him in the process.
2440) Giving up the ghost
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Thirteen-year-old Davia encounters the ghost of a long-dead young relative and comes to terms with her fears about her mother's cancer while helping to provide hospice care for her elderly, terminally ill great-aunt at a Louisiana plantation.
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