Download or read book Back Sack Crack Brain written by Robert Wells and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story that brings tears to your eyes, in more ways than one. It touches you so much you it makes you want to cross your legs in sympathy - Nev Fountain, writer at Dead Ringers, author of Painkiller Rob Wells has spent much of his adult life coping with chronic pain of different kinds - an embarrassing bowel problem in his early 20s, recurring testicular pain in his late 20s and 30s, and back problems requiring spinal surgery in his early 40s. Consistent through these experiences has been a feeling of being passed from pillar to post by the medical community, seemingly at a loss to explain the cause of these issues, or to find a lasting solution for them. This hilarious and brutally frank graphic memoir tells Rob's story, taking us through emergency surgery for a misdiagnosed twisted testicle, the extremes of weight loss and weight gain, the insides of far too many public toilets, and having to resort to walking with a cane. As Rob's back, sack and crack all became causes for concern so too did his brain, as his recurring problems unsurprisingly left him with depression and agoraphobia. This is the warm and witty story of a man's battle with his own body, and with the medical industry that couldn't quite appreciate the problem. For anyone who has ever felt let down by their doctors, or who has suffered with chronic pain that shows no sign of subsiding, Rob Wells bravely invites you to really get to grips with his balls.
Download or read book The Intentional Brain written by Michael R. Trimble and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tour de force: an assessment of the ‘culture’ of mind–brain relations beginning with the ancients and ending in the present.” —Edward Shorter, PhD, National Book Award finalist and author of A History of Psychiatry Neuropsychiatry has a distinguished history, yet its ideals and principles fell out of fashion in the early twentieth century as neurology and psychiatry diverged into separate disciplines. Later, neuropsychiatry reemerged as the two disciplines moved closer again, accelerated by advances in neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and drugs that alter the functioning of the central nervous system. But as neuropsychiatrist Michael R. Trimble explains in The Intentional Brain, the new neuropsychiatry has its own identity and is more than simply a borderland between two disparate clinical disciplines. Looking at neuropsychiatry in the context of major cultural and artistic achievements, Trimble explores changing views of the human brain and its relation to behavior and cognition over 2,500 years of Western civilization. Beginning with the early Greek physicians and moving through the Middle Ages, Enlightenment, Romantic era, World Wars, and present day, he explores understandings about the brain’s integral role in determining movement, motivation, and mood. Persuasively arguing that storytelling forms the backbone of human culture and individuality, Trimble describes the dawn and development of artistic creativity and traces the conflicts between differing philosophical views of our world and our position in it. A sweeping history of the branch of medicine concerned with both psychic and organic aspects of mental disorder, the book reveals what scientists have learned about movement and emotion by studying people with such diseases as epilepsy, syphilis, hysteria, psychosis, movement disorders, and melancholia. The Intentional Brain is a marvelous and interdisciplinary look at the clinical interface between the mind and the brain.
Download or read book Click Bait written by Gillian Philip and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny joke’s a funny joke. Eddie Doolan doesn’t think twice about adapting it to fit a tragic local news story and posting it on social media. It’s less of a joke when his drunken post goes viral. It stops being funny altogether when Eddie ends up jobless, friendless and ostracised by the whole town of Langburn. This isn’t how he wanted to achieve fame. Eddie knows he’s blown his relationship with rich girl Lily Cumnock. It’s Lily’s possessive and controlling father Brodie who fires him from his job - and makes sure he won’t find another decent one in Langburn. And Eddie doesn’t even have Flo to fall back on - his old nan died some six months ago, and Eddie is still recovering from the death of the woman who raised him and who loved him unconditionally. Under siege from the press, and facing charges not just for the joke but for a history of abusive behaviour on the internet, Eddie grows increasingly paranoid and desperate. The only people still speaking to him are Crow, a neglected kid who relies on Eddie for food and company, and Sid, the local gamekeeper’s granddaughter. It’s Sid who offers Eddie a refuge and an understanding ear. But she also offers him an illegal shotgun - and as Eddie’s life spirals downwards, and his efforts at redemption are thwarted at every turn, the gun starts to look like the answer to all his problems.
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Download or read book Memoirs of an Addicted Brain written by Marc Lewis and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping, ultimately triumphant memoir that's also the most comprehensive and comprehensible study of the neuroscience of addiction written for the general public. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "We are prone to a cycle of craving what we don't have, finding it, using it up or losing it, and then craving it all the more. This cycle is at the root of all addictions, addictions to drugs, sex, love, cigarettes, soap operas, wealth, and wisdom itself. But why should this be so? Why are we desperate for what we don't have, or can't have, often at great cost to what we do have, thereby risking our peace and contentment, our safety, and even our lives?" The answer, says Dr. Marc Lewis, lies in the structure and function of the human brain. Marc Lewis is a distinguished neuroscientist. And, for many years, he was a drug addict himself, dependent on a series of dangerous substances, from LSD to heroin. His narrative moves back and forth between the often dark, compellingly recounted story of his relationship with drugs and a revelatory analysis of what was going on in his brain. He shows how drugs speak to the brain - which is designed to seek rewards and soothe pain - in its own language. He shows in detail the neural mechanics of a variety of powerful drugs and of the onset of addiction, itself a distortion of normal perception. Dr. Lewis freed himself from addiction and ended up studying it. At the age of 30 he traded in his pharmaceutical supplies for the life of a graduate student, eventually becoming a professor of developmental psychology, and then of neuroscience - his field for the last 12 years. This is the story of his journey, seen from the inside out.
Download or read book A Compleat English Dictionary oder vollst ndiges Englisch Deutsches W rterbuch Bey dieser dritten Auflage um noch mehr als die H lfte vermehret von Theodor Arnold Neues Deutsch Englisches W rterbuch etc With a portrait written by Nathan BAILEY and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jumbo Book of Writing Lessons written by Teacher Created Resources and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2004-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activities cover the traits of good writing and steps of the writing process. The book also provides guidelines for incorporating writing into literacy instruction.
Download or read book Young Writers written by Jan Burda and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sea captain Or The Birthright A Drama in Five Acts By the Author of The Lady of Lyons 2nd Ed written by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book written by Caroline Polk Palmer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young southern girl comes to live in the city to take advantage of all it has to offer and discovers the one man she was supposed to depend on begins to abuse her and create a rift between mother and daughter. Not only does she learn a hard but valuable lesson she continues to learn other hard lessons about the streets which can make most people have no emotions however, she continued to hold on to that part of herself that would not allow 16 years of streetlife to change her heart which was all she could hold onto. Dead Girl Walking is a story about living in constant paranoia and triumphantly gain peace back in your life through divine intervention.
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