In this expanded Second Edition . . . patients and their loved ones can turn to one easy-to-understand and authoritative source for up-to-date information about macular degeneration. -- Publisher description.

Mikey Callahan is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connections, and is reconnecting with 'The Gunners,' his group of childhood friends, after one of their members has committed suicide. Sally had distanced herself from all of them before ending her life, and she died harboring secrets about the group and its individuals. Mikey hopes that confronting secrets about his own past-- and his father's--...

The Ageless Brain by Dr. Dale Bredesen presents a science-based, preventative approach to maintaining lifelong cognitive health and reducing the risk of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia. Building on his previous work, The End of Alzheimer's, Bredesen outlines the latest research into the causes of cognitive decline and introduces an actionable program designed to optimize brain health at any age. The book is aimed at readers...

Tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire.

"This popular-level book accessibly and vividly describes the story of prion science, from the discovery that these abnormally folded proteins can spark self-templating chain reactions and thus cause various neurodegenerative diseases to scientists' deepening understanding of how prions play essential roles in the body and perhaps even in the origin and evolution of life"-- Provided by publisher. "The remarkable family of proteins that can make us...

The definitive guide to keeping your brain healthy for a long and lucid life, by one of the world's leading scientists in the field of brain health and ageing. The brain is our most vital and complex organ. It controls and coordinates our actions, thoughts and interactions with the world around us. It is the source of personality, of our sense of self, and it shapes every aspect of our human experience. Yet most of us know precious little about how...

"My son's illness is eight years old and has no name. It started when he was fourteen. He is now twenty-two. It is taking away his ability to walk and to reason. It is getting worse, some years more rapidly than others." These words begin the first section of Blue Peninsula, a narrative of a son's degenerative illness in thirty-three parts focused around poems that have provided companionship and sustenance to the author. When multiple diagnostic...

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who wrote that the flora and fauna of America (humans included) were inferior to European specimens. Thomas Jefferson-author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S....