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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker
Category: Science
In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States "tripled "over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disabili ...Show more
Instant Anatomy by Neil R. Borley; Robert H. Whitaker
Category: Health | Series: Instant Ser.
Instant Anatomy uses a unique structure to provide core information in an easily accessible 'dip-in' format. It neatly catalogues anatomy and anatomical relationships in a schematic, dictionary-style manner to aid rapid understanding and retrieval of anatomical facts and data. Now fully updated, this fo ...Show more
Life: The Beatles: with the Beatles from the Inside by Robert Whitaker
Category: Photography
This book, the latest edition in the "LIFE Great Photographers" series, presents all the best pictures taken by the band's official shooter. In the mid-1960s, when so much was happening and the volume seemed dialled up to 11, the Beatles were the biggest thing on the planet. Their fans wanted to touch t ...Show more
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill by Robert Whitaker
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Schizophrenics in the United States currently fare worse than patients in the world's poorest countries. In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker argues that modern treatments for the severely mentally ill are just old medicine in new bottles, and that we as a society are deeply deluded abo ...Show more
The Artist-Blacksmith's Craft by Julius Schramm; Robert A. Ruhloff (Translator); Francis Whitaker (Preface by, Introduction by)
Category: Craft | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Artist-Blacksmith's Craft, published in 1935 and My Life as Artist-blacksmith, published in 1941, are the literary legacy of Julius Schramm and offer a strong encouragement for renewal here in the United States just as they did during their day in Germany. This edition contains the text of both book ...Show more
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon by Robert Whitaker
Category: Biography
In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known ...Show more
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
Category: History
In the first part of the 18th century, the French National Academy of Sciences sent a group of distinguished scientists on a daring, decade- long expedition into the heart of South America in a bid to win the race to measure the Earth. Like Lewis and Clarke's exploration of the American west, this exped ...Show more
The Mapmaker's Wife : A true tale of love, murder and survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
Category: History
In the early 18th Century a group of scientists set off from France to discover the unknown land of South America in a trip that nearly ended in disaster. Scaling the 16,000 foot Peruvian Andes, the scientists faced the depravations and dangers of the rain forest wild cats, insects and vampire bats and ...Show more
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