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  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Plume, 2003

    0452284511 / 9780452284517

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  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Gallery Books, 2001

    0743412818 / 9780743412810

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    Paperback. Etat : Good. A fully illustrated, jam-packed, fun-filled collection of memory testers, brain-teasers and mind-bending minutiae from 35 years of TV and film.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Usborne Pub Ltd, 2007

    0794516890 / 9780794516895

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    Etat : Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Chen, Kuo Kang; Montgomery, Lee; Moncrieff, Stephen; Schwartzrock, Sherwin (illustrateur).

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Usborne Books, 2007

    0794516890 / 9780794516895

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    Paperback. Etat : Good. Chen, Kuo Kang; Montgomery, Lee; Moncrieff, Stephen; Schwartzrock, Sherwin (illustrateur).

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Usborne Pub Ltd, 2007

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    Paperback. Etat : Good. Chen, Kuo Kang; Montgomery, Lee; Moncrieff, Stephen; Schwartzrock, Sherwin (illustrateur).

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Usborne Pub Ltd, 2007

    0794516890 / 9780794516895

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    paperback. Etat : Good. Chen, Kuo Kang; Montgomery, Lee; Moncrieff, Stephen; Schwartzrock, Sherwin (illustrateur).

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 2007

    1400064775 / 9781400064779

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    Hardback. Etat : Good. In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist's passion for truth with a humanist's understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, frank, and inspiring book about the ultimate stage of life's journey. The onset of aging can be so gradual that we are often surprised to find that one day it is fully upon us. The changes to the senses, appearance, reflexes, physical endurance, and sexual appetites are undeniable-and rarely welcome-and yet, as Nuland shows, getting older has its surprising blessings. Age concentrates not only the mind, but the body's energies, leading many to new sources of creativity, perception, and spiritual intensity. Growing old, Nuland teaches us, is not a disease but an art-and for those who practice it well, it can bring extraordinary rewards. I'm taking the journey even while I describe it, writes Nuland, now in his mid-seventies and a veteran of nearly four decades of medical practice. Drawing on his own life and work, as well as the lives of friends both famous and not, Nuland portrays the astonishing variability of the aging experience. Faith and inner strength, the deepening of personal relationships, the realization that career does not define identity, the acceptance that some goals will remain unaccomplished-these are among the secrets of those who age well. Will scientists one day fulfill the dream of eternal youth? Nuland examines the latest research into extending life and the scientists who are pursuing it. But ultimately, what compels him most is what happens to the mind and spirit as life reaches its culminating decades. Reflecting the wisdom of a long lifetime, The Art of Aging is a work of luminous insight, unflinching candor, and profound compassion. From the Hardcover edition.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 2007

    1400064775 / 9781400064779

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    Hardback. Etat : Fair. In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist's passion for truth with a humanist's understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, frank, and inspiring book about the ultimate stage of life's journey. The onset of aging can be so gradual that we are often surprised to find that one day it is fully upon us. The changes to the senses, appearance, reflexes, physical endurance, and sexual appetites are undeniable-and rarely welcome-and yet, as Nuland shows, getting older has its surprising blessings. Age concentrates not only the mind, but the body's energies, leading many to new sources of creativity, perception, and spiritual intensity. Growing old, Nuland teaches us, is not a disease but an art-and for those who practice it well, it can bring extraordinary rewards. I'm taking the journey even while I describe it, writes Nuland, now in his mid-seventies and a veteran of nearly four decades of medical practice. Drawing on his own life and work, as well as the lives of friends both famous and not, Nuland portrays the astonishing variability of the aging experience. Faith and inner strength, the deepening of personal relationships, the realization that career does not define identity, the acceptance that some goals will remain unaccomplished-these are among the secrets of those who age well. Will scientists one day fulfill the dream of eternal youth? Nuland examines the latest research into extending life and the scientists who are pursuing it. But ultimately, what compels him most is what happens to the mind and spirit as life reaches its culminating decades. Reflecting the wisdom of a long lifetime, The Art of Aging is a work of luminous insight, unflinching candor, and profound compassion. From the Hardcover edition.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 2007

    1400064775 / 9781400064779

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    Hardback. Etat : Very Good. In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in The Art of Aging, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist's passion for truth with a humanist's understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, frank, and inspiring book about the ultimate stage of life's journey. The onset of aging can be so gradual that we are often surprised to find that one day it is fully upon us. The changes to the senses, appearance, reflexes, physical endurance, and sexual appetites are undeniable-and rarely welcome-and yet, as Nuland shows, getting older has its surprising blessings. Age concentrates not only the mind, but the body's energies, leading many to new sources of creativity, perception, and spiritual intensity. Growing old, Nuland teaches us, is not a disease but an art-and for those who practice it well, it can bring extraordinary rewards. I'm taking the journey even while I describe it, writes Nuland, now in his mid-seventies and a veteran of nearly four decades of medical practice. Drawing on his own life and work, as well as the lives of friends both famous and not, Nuland portrays the astonishing variability of the aging experience. Faith and inner strength, the deepening of personal relationships, the realization that career does not define identity, the acceptance that some goals will remain unaccomplished-these are among the secrets of those who age well. Will scientists one day fulfill the dream of eternal youth? Nuland examines the latest research into extending life and the scientists who are pursuing it. But ultimately, what compels him most is what happens to the mind and spirit as life reaches its culminating decades. Reflecting the wisdom of a long lifetime, The Art of Aging is a work of luminous insight, unflinching candor, and profound compassion. From the Hardcover edition.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par McGraw-Hill Education, 2012

    0071791485 / 9780071791489

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    Hardcover. Etat : Very Good.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House, 2007

    1400064775 / 9781400064779

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    hardcover. Etat : Very Good.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 2003

    0375412948 / 9780375412943

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    Hardback. Etat : Very Good. A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death. In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 2003

    0375412948 / 9780375412943

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    Hardback. Etat : Good. A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death. In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Knopf, 2003

    0375412948 / 9780375412943

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    hardcover. Etat : Very Good.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House, 2007

    1400064775 / 9781400064779

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    Etat : very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Penguin Books, 2004

    014303510X / 9780143035107

    Série : Livre 17 sur 32 - Penguin Lives

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  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Penguin Books, 2004

    014303510X / 9780143035107

    Série : Livre 17 sur 32 - Penguin Lives

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  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Penguin Publishing Group, 2004

    014303510X / 9780143035107

    Série : Livre 17 sur 32 - Penguin Lives

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    Etat : very_good. Cover may have light wear, pages in very good condition and binding is sturdy; may have other light shelf wear or creases. May have notes or highlighting.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Puffin Books, 1977

    014030956X / 9780140309560

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    Paperback. Etat : Very Good.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Puffin Books, 1977

    014030956X / 9780140309560

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    Paperback. Etat : Very Good.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Puffin Books, 1977

    014030956X / 9780140309560

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    Paperback. Etat : Fair.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Puffin Books, 1977

    014030956X / 9780140309560

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  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Puffin Books, 1977

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    paperback. Etat : Good.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Puffin Books, 1977

    014030956X / 9780140309560

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    Paperback. Etat : Fair.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1998

    0679781404 / 9780679781400

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    paperback. Etat : Fair.

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Penguin Putnam Inc, 1977

    014030956X / 9780140309560

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    Paperback. Etat : Good. Miss Hickory is very worried. Her owner has moved to Boston, and how can Miss Hickory survive a harsh New Hampshire winter all alone? After all, she is just a doll whose body is an apple -wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, and whose house is made out of corncobs. But Miss Hickory has ingenuity, and the help of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog to see her through. And near the end of those cold, dark months, something unexpected happens to Miss Hickory--something even more welcome than the coming of spring.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Penguin Putnam Inc, 1977

    014030956X / 9780140309560

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    Paperback. Etat : Fair. Miss Hickory is very worried. Her owner has moved to Boston, and how can Miss Hickory survive a harsh New Hampshire winter all alone? After all, she is just a doll whose body is an apple -wood twig and whose head is a hickory nut, and whose house is made out of corncobs. But Miss Hickory has ingenuity, and the help of neighbors like Crow, Bull Frog, and Ground Hog to see her through. And near the end of those cold, dark months, something unexpected happens to Miss Hickory--something even more welcome than the coming of spring.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 1998

    0679781404 / 9780679781400

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    Paperback. Etat : Good. Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival. Like its predecessor, How We Live is filled with gripping medical case histories: a woman is pulled back from the brink of death from inexplicable internal bleeding; another patient triumphs over breast cancer; the "routine" removal of a polyp triggers a nearly lethal medical crisis.  For Nuland, each of these cases serves to illustrate the extraordinary responsiveness and adaptability of the human organism.  We learn how the aorta's baroreceptors monitor blood pressure and respond to its minutest fluctuations.  We follow the intricate chain of electrochemical command that makes us leap out of the path of a speeding car. We discover why the stomach--which is capable of breaking down everything from porridge to pizza--refrains from digesting itself.  Informed by sympathy for human suffering and an erudition that includes poetry and the Talmud as well as the medical canon, How We Live is science writing of the rarest kind--lucid, poetic, and genuinely uplifting.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 1998

    0679781404 / 9780679781400

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    Paperback. Etat : Fair. Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival. Like its predecessor, How We Live is filled with gripping medical case histories: a woman is pulled back from the brink of death from inexplicable internal bleeding; another patient triumphs over breast cancer; the "routine" removal of a polyp triggers a nearly lethal medical crisis.  For Nuland, each of these cases serves to illustrate the extraordinary responsiveness and adaptability of the human organism.  We learn how the aorta's baroreceptors monitor blood pressure and respond to its minutest fluctuations.  We follow the intricate chain of electrochemical command that makes us leap out of the path of a speeding car. We discover why the stomach--which is capable of breaking down everything from porridge to pizza--refrains from digesting itself.  Informed by sympathy for human suffering and an erudition that includes poetry and the Talmud as well as the medical canon, How We Live is science writing of the rarest kind--lucid, poetic, and genuinely uplifting.…

  • Langue : anglais

    Edité par Random House USA Inc, 1998

    0679781404 / 9780679781400

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    Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival. Like its predecessor, How We Live is filled with gripping medical case histories: a woman is pulled back from the brink of death from inexplicable internal bleeding; another patient triumphs over breast cancer; the "routine" removal of a polyp triggers a nearly lethal medical crisis.  For Nuland, each of these cases serves to illustrate the extraordinary responsiveness and adaptability of the human organism.  We learn how the aorta's baroreceptors monitor blood pressure and respond to its minutest fluctuations.  We follow the intricate chain of electrochemical command that makes us leap out of the path of a speeding car. We discover why the stomach--which is capable of breaking down everything from porridge to pizza--refrains from digesting itself.  Informed by sympathy for human suffering and an erudition that includes poetry and the Talmud as well as the medical canon, How We Live is science writing of the rarest kind--lucid, poetic, and genuinely uplifting.…