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Hardback. Condizione: Good. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this "startling.powerful" (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker's death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family's permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, "this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice" (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South). …

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Here, Craig Whitney offers a history of the pipe organ in America and the characters who devoted their lives to its music, from master organ builders like Ernest M. Skinner, to concert organists such as the English-trained E. Power Biggs and the flamboyant Virgil Fox.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Here, Craig Whitney offers a history of the pipe organ in America and the characters who devoted their lives to its music, from master organ builders like Ernest M. Skinner, to concert organists such as the English-trained E. Power Biggs and the flamboyant Virgil Fox.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Southern Arizona offers unlimited opportunities for backcountry exploration. This third edition of Hiking Arizona's Cactus Country explores a broad swath of the Sonoran Desert that extends northward across the Mexican border and encompasses the southern third of Arizona.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It feels as if there is a ball - like a golf ball - trying to come down between my legs. This was how Julia Kaye described one of her symptoms to the GP when she suddenly experienced what turned out to be a prolapse of her womb and bladder. In Holding The Ball, Julia explains how she learned various ways of managing this and other symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse, and so was able to avoid surgery and other invasive procedures which at first had seemed inevitable. This personal and engaging account of Julia's experience is essential reading for any woman interested in learning how to manage or avoid pelvic organ prolapse - a distressing condition which affects up to a third of all women in the USA and UK. …

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant. "An extraordinary work. Shelley Fraser Mickle has not only provided a detailed, fascinating documentation of the world's first successful organ transplant, but she has also painted the lives of those involved--doctors, patients, family members--so vividly that the reader is completely enthralled and emotionally invested in their grieved losses as well as their successes. The result is a beautiful tribute to medical science as well as to humanity." Jill McCorkle, NYT bestselling author of Life After Life "Working with Dr. Moore, Dr. Murray and Dr, Vandam to create the painting commemorating their historic operation and the research leading up to it was the greatest adventure of my artistic career. Having my painting on the cover of Borrowing Life renews that excitement, for I know what grand adventure is waiting for the reader." Joel Babb, artist "I was so very pleased to be involved with Shelley as she wrote her captivating, compelling book. I only wish that Ron could be here with me to read it." Cynthia Herrick, wife of the first successful organ transplant donor "Had these men and women not worked diligently to save the life of Charles Woods, I and my 5 brothers and 3 sisters, would not have been born. Charles Woods and Miriam Woods are my parents. It is thrilling to read Ms Mickle's book as it closely mirrors the stories our dad and mom shared with us as children. The amazing thing is that as a disfigured war hero, our dad embraced his appearance as a badge of honor." David Woods Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, and the pursuit of excellence by a remarkable medical team--Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Joseph Murray, his boss and fellow surgeon Francis Moore, and British scientist and fellow Nobel laureate Peter Medawar. Drawing on the lives of these members of the Greatest Generation, Borrowing Life creates a compelling narrative that begins in wartime and tracks decades of the ups and downs, personal and professional, of these inspiring men and their achievements, which continue to benefit humankind in so many ways.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A tribute to the strength of the human spirit, this is the inspiring story of liver transplant survivor and Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug, who took home the bronze in 2002.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A tribute to the strength of the human spirit, this is the inspiring story of liver transplant survivor and Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug, who took home the bronze in 2002.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A tribute to the strength of the human spirit, this is the inspiring story of liver transplant survivor and Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug, who took home the bronze in 2002.

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. A biochemist shows how we can finally control our fatby understanding how it works.

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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A distinguished New York Times editor explores the history of the pipe organ in America in a book that will intrigue and delight anyone interested in classical music and popular culture. Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A distinguished New York Times editor explores the history of the pipe organ in America in a book that will intrigue and delight anyone interested in classical music and popular culture. Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A distinguished New York Times editor explores the history of the pipe organ in America in a book that will intrigue and delight anyone interested in classical music and popular culture. Hear the sounds of some of the pipe organs featured in ALL THE STOPS.