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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The essential guide to understanding fertility and improving your pregnancy chances.The journey to fertility can be daunting and filled with obstacles. In The Expert Guide to Fertility, OB-GYNs Joseph S. Sanfilippo, MD, MBA, and Aarti Kumar, MD, offer the information you need in your journey to achieve pregnancy. They provide an overview of the human reproductive system, describe issues that may impede conception, and explain various medical, surgical,...
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English
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Many women still suffer a long-ingrained dissociation with their own vaginas and a misunderstanding of what goes on "down there." With expertise and a dose of humor, leading ob-gyn, educator and women's health advocate Dr. Sherry Ross addresses every urgent, confounding, culturally taboo or embarrassing question women have about vaginas, with the goal of healthier, happier lives for all. She-ology describes the state of the vagina at every age and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Quechua
Description
Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women's health care. Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their...
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Publisher
Tiller Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
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"Explore real women's tales of healthcare trauma and medical misogyny with this meticulously researched, in-depth examination of the women's health crisis in America--and what we can do about it"--
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English
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When Laura Jensen Walker was diagnosed with breast cancer on her first wedding anniversary, she found humor to be healing in the midst of terrifying circumstances. In this energetic and hope-filled book, she draws on her faith and her sense of humor to encourage others going through the same thing. From discovering that "bald is beautiful" to navigating the world of saline breast implants, Walker recounts the highs and lows of coping with cancer.
Infused...
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English
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Having a smear test can be worrying. For women with intellectual disabilities there is the added fear of not understanding what is happening. This book is designed to support women like Carol who is invited to have a smear test. It begins with a nurse telling Carol and her friends how to stay healthy 'down below'. It goes on to explain what happens to Carol from receiving the invitation for a smear test, making the preliminary visit to the GP practice,...
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Español
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Las transformaciones económicas y sociales que se produjeron en España durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX, provocaron un cambio sustancial en la vivencia del parto para las mujeres, que pasaron de ser actos íntimos en el domicilio de las parturientas con la atención de una matrona, a ser actos quirúrgicos y medicalizados en los grandes centros hospitalarios. Las matronas fueron testigos excepcionales de este cambio. A partir de entonces se...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable —but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and shaped how they walk through the world. Black women’s strength is intimately tied to their unacknowledged suffering. An estimated eight in ten have endured some form of trauma—sexual abuse, domestic...
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English
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#1 Conception, and later pregnancy and birth, can be a challenging and emotional process. However, there are many choices you can control, and conception is your first opportunity to optimize your care, body, and life.
#2 Before, during, and after pregnancy, society focuses on the woman's contributions and choices. However, if conception is a struggle, the blame will...
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#1 Second-wave feminists, who had been fighting for women's rights starting in the early 1960s, were now raising their daughters to receive the torch and to reach new levels of success.
#2 Halfway through college, Kelly realized she would need a master's degree to achieve what she wanted in the field of psychology. She would need to get a job and pay off what she owed....
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English
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Is stress stealing your happiness? If you are a woman who has stress on speed dial or a man who knows a woman who is stressed, this book is for you. By applying the strategies in this book become the mastermind of your own mind. Change your mind, change your world. Stress Made Easy – Peeling Women off the Ceiling is an honest expose of the author's journey through stress, anxiety and overwhelm. Using cutting-edge research to support ancient knowledge,...
13) Freeing the Butterfly: Transform Your Life Through Simple Exercises, Meditations, and Affirmations
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English
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You deserve to live your happiest life... Do you ever feel sad for no reason?
Has anxiety and depression plagued you your whole life?
Are you tired of living your life based on what others expect of you?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, Freeing the Butterfly will help you take control of your life! Using simple exercises designed to clear and balance your chakras, you will uncover your true potential and discover what you really...
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English
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#1 The Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of medical discourse attributed to Hippocrates of Kos, the Greek physician known as the father of medicine, from the Classical era, fourth and fifth centuries BCE, revolutionized medicine. He taught that ill health arose from imbalances in the body, and he invented the patient case study.
#2 The Hippocratic Corpus, which was written...
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God designed a woman's body with a powerful, innate capability to heal itself. So why does modern medicine leave women cut open, covered up and heavily medicated, when there is hope for a better way? The good news is, this book will help you learn how to make the right choices for your body. In it, you will learn about natural and holistic approaches to women's health. It may change the entire way you view your body and how you take care of it. (We...
16) Tapping for Weight Loss: The Beginners Guide to Clearing Energy Blocks and Manifesting a Healthie
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English
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The intention for "Tapping for Weight Loss: The Beginner's Guide to Clearing Energy Blocks and Gaining Control of Your Weight Using the Emotional Freedom Technique" is to lay out a clear path for creating a framework that will help you losing weight with the Emotional Freedom Technique. Bestselling author Lisa Townsend provides a firm foundation that will allow anyone to begin using EFT and tapping to achieve their weight loss goals immediately. You...
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Approachable and highly readable, Lady Bits offers empowering health information and simple tools to elevate your well-being and tap into your sensuality. Part women's health text, part sex manual, and part chatting over a glass of wine with your best friend, Lady Bits is a comprehensive guide that will help you understand, care for, and LOVE your unique female body. With two free digital workouts and a 14-Day Action Guide, the information found in...
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In Positive Aging, Kaigler Walker explores and illuminates the quest women must take to free themselves from this cultural trap. Using myths, fairy tales, and a series of practical exercises, she peels back the layers of misunderstanding that distort the true nature of female beauty. Identifying the problem as essentially one of the spirit, she guides women through the myriad erroneous assumptions and preconceptions about the primal role of female...
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Español
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¿Padeces un deseo incontrolable de comer carbohidratos? ¿Tienes a menudo somnolencia o fatiga? ¿Padeces habituales migrañas y dolor intestinal? ¿Sufres quemazón, picor o falta de deseo sexual? Estos son algunos de los síntomas más habituales de la candidiasis. Pero tras esta enfermedad hay mucho más que meros síntomas. Eso es al menos lo que desprende la lectura de este libro, que no sólo es consecuencia de los años de trabajo y estudio...
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One of America's most trusted voices on women's health offers women expert, reassuring advice on all that occurs "down there"
What would you ask if your best friend were also a physician? What might your mother ask, if she had the nerve? The questions-and the answers-are in Ask Dr. Marie. By addressing women directly and honestly, but with compassion and understanding, ABC News Medical Contributor Dr. Marie Savard reveals that there are no off-limits...
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