The Man Who Touched His Own Heart

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316225800
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis The Man Who Touched His Own Heart by : Rob Dunn

Download or read book The Man Who Touched His Own Heart written by Rob Dunn and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? Rob Dunn's fascinating history of our hearts brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most.

Man Without a Heart

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Publisher : Harlequin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780263090499
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis Man Without a Heart by : Roberta Leigh

Download or read book Man Without a Heart written by Roberta Leigh and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1976 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Man Without a Heart

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Publisher : New York : Silhouette Books ; Markham, Ont. : Paperjacks
ISBN 13 : 9780671570521
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Man Without a Heart by : Anne Hampson

Download or read book Man Without a Heart written by Anne Hampson and published by New York : Silhouette Books ; Markham, Ont. : Paperjacks. This book was released on 1981 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The man without a heart

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)

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Sheikh Without a Heart

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373130627
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (731 download)

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Book Synopsis Sheikh Without a Heart by : Sandra Marton

Download or read book Sheikh Without a Heart written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dressed only in a skimpy sequin-studded bikini is not the way Rachel Donnelly wants to meet Sheikh Karim al Safir. Especially when he is so devastatingly handsome-and fully clothed! Karim is horrified that this is the mother of his newly discovered nephew. His raging pulse at the sight of Rachel's barely dressed body belies his reputation as the sheikh with no heart, but he'll live up to it to ensure that the heir to the throne is raised in Alcantar"--P. [4] of cover.

A Man Without a Heart

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)

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Ticker

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804138028
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Ticker by : Mimi Swartz

Download or read book Ticker written by Mimi Swartz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be to replicate one of nature’s greatest creations. Part investigative journalism, part medical mystery, Ticker is a dazzling story of modern innovation, recounting fifty years of false starts, abysmal failures and miraculous triumphs, as experienced by one the world’s foremost heart surgeons, O.H. “Bud” Frazier, who has given his life to saving the un-savable. His journey takes him from a small town in west Texas to one of the country’s most prestigious medical institutions, The Texas Heart Institute, from the halls of Congress to the animal laboratories where calves are fitted with new heart designs. The roadblocks to success —medical setbacks, technological shortcomings, government regulations – are immense. Still, Bud and his associates persist, finding inspiration in the unlikeliest of places. A field beside the Nile irrigated by an Archimedes screw. A hardware store in Brisbane, Australia. A seedy bar on the wrong side of Houston. Until post WWII, heart surgery did not exist. Ticker provides a riveting history of the pioneers who gave their all to the courageous process of cutting into the only organ humans cannot live without. Heart surgeons Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley, whose feud dominated the dramatic beginnings of heart surgery. Christian Barnaard, who changed the world overnight by performing the first heart transplant. Inventor Robert Jarvik, whose artificial heart made patient Barney Clark a worldwide symbol of both the brilliant promise of technology and the devastating evils of experimentation run amuck. Rich in supporting players, Ticker introduces us to Bud’s brilliant colleagues in his quixotic quest to develop an artificial heart: Billy Cohn, the heart surgeon and inventor who devotes his spare time to the pursuit of magic and music; Daniel Timms, the Brisbane biomedical engineer whose design of a lightweight, pulseless heart with but a single moving part offers a new way forward. And, as government money dries up, the unlikeliest of backers, Houston’s furniture king, Mattress Mack. In a sweeping narrative of one man’s obsession, Swartz raises some of the hardest questions of the human condition. What are the tradeoffs of medical progress? What is the cost, in suffering and resources, of offering patients a few more months, or years of life? Must science do harm to do good? Ticker takes us on an unforgettable journey into the power and mystery of the human heart.

A Man After His Own Heart

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 9780609602218
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis A Man After His Own Heart by : Charles Siebert

Download or read book A Man After His Own Heart written by Charles Siebert and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Somewhere on this earth tonight, somewhere, I believe, not very far from me, there is a person whose heart I've touched. A person whose heart I've held in my hand. . . . So begins A Man After His Own Heart, an extraordinary narrative by acclaimed author, essayist, and poet Charles Siebert on that most elusive of topics--the human heart. On a rainy December night one recent winter, Siebert was given the rare opportunity to accompany a team of surgeons both in the harvesting of a human heart from the body of a young woman who'd recently died of a brain aneurysm, and in the subsequent delivery and implantation of that heart into the hollowed-out chest of a waiting recipient. Beginning with his harrowing week-long wait for the harvest call to come and culminating with the moment in which one of the implant surgeons suddenly, inexplicably, places the author's hand on the wildly beating reanimated heart, Siebert manages to weave a seamless series of ruminations and reflections about his own obsession with the heart and his often-estranged father's fatal heart disease; about history's ongoing fascination with this most central and vital organ; and about modern science's latest startling discoveries concerning both the heart's biological origins and its long-intuited role in the play of our emotions. The resulting mix is nothing less than a radically new, definitive biography of life's most pondered and poeticized protagonist. This story is a journey into the literal and figurative heart of our being, revealing the previously unexplored ways in which the matter of modern science and timeless metaphor meet.

Danish Fairy & Folk Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Organ Thieves

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982107545
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Organ Thieves by : Chip Jones

Download or read book The Organ Thieves written by Chip Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

The Chinese Fairy Book

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Fairy Book written by Richard Wilhelm and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1921 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fairy tales and legends of olden China have in common with the "Thousand and One Nights" an oriental glow and glitter of precious stones and gold and multicolored silks, an oriental wealth of fantastic and supernatural action. And yet they strike an exotic note distinct in itself. The seventy-three stories here presented after original sources, embracing "Nursery Fairy Tales," "Legends of the Gods," "Tales of Saints and Magicians," "Nature and Animal Tales," "Ghost Stories," "Historic Fairy Tales," and "Literary Fairy Tales," probably represent the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fairy tales ever made available for American readers. There is no child who will not enjoy their novel color, their fantastic beauty, their infinite variety of subject. Yet, like the "Arabian Nights," they will amply repay the attention of the older reader as well. Some are exquisitely poetic, such as "The Flower-Elves," "The Lady of the Moon" or "The Herd Boy and the Weaving Maiden"; others like "How Three Heroes Came By Their Deaths Because Of Two Peaches," carry us back dramatically and powerfully to the Chinese age of Chivalry. The summits of fantasy are scaled in the quasi-religious dramas of "The Ape Sun Wu Kung" and "Notscha," or the weird sorceries unfolded in "The Kindly Magician." Delightful ghost stories, with happy endings, such as "A Night on the Battlefield" and "The Ghost Who Was Foiled," are paralleled with such idyllic love-tales as that of "Rose of Evening," or such Lilliputian fancies as "The King of the Ants" and "The Little Hunting Dog." It is quite safe to say that these Chinese fairy tales will give equal pleasure to the old as well as the young. They have been retold simply, with no changes in style or expression beyond such details of presentation which differences between oriental and occidental viewpoints at times compel. It is the writer's hope that others may take as much pleasure in reading them as he did in their translation.

The Man Without a Heart

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (886 download)

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Book Synopsis The Man Without a Heart by : Ruby Mildred Ayres

Download or read book The Man Without a Heart written by Ruby Mildred Ayres and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wild at Heart

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1400200393
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Wild at Heart by : John Eldredge

Download or read book Wild at Heart written by John Eldredge and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all your boyhood dreams of growing up, did you dream of being a "nice guy"? Eldredge believes that every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is how he bears the image of God; that is what God made him to be.

Killing Without Heart

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Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346146
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Killing Without Heart by : M. Shane Riza

Download or read book Killing Without Heart written by M. Shane Riza and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's wars have no definitive end in sight, are conducted among civilian populations, and are fought not only by soldiers but also by unmanned aerial vehicles. According to M. Shane Riza, this persistent conflict among the people and the trend toward robotic warfare has outpaced deliberate thought and debate about the deep moral issues affecting the military mission and the warrior spirit. The pace of change, Riza explains, is revolutionizing warfare in ways seldom discussed but vitally important. A key development is risk inversion, which occurs when all noncombatants are at greater risk th.

Men Without Hearts

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720873211
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (732 download)

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Book Synopsis Men Without Hearts by : Diron Duah

Download or read book Men Without Hearts written by Diron Duah and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men Without Hearts is a collection of poems about the unspoken heart wrenching phase men go through after an unsuccessful relationship crumbles to the ground. Men are not known to show emotions. Men who can comprehend pain and assimilate it but refrain from expressing it can understand what it means to become a man without a heart.

A Fighter's Heart

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802143431
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book A Fighter's Heart written by Sam Sheridan and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the personal story and international travels of a professional fighter, from his initial discovery of his passion for fighting upon his arrival in Australia, to his training at Bangkok's legendary Fairtex gym, to his research throughout the world in search of historical and contemporary fighting disciplines. Reprint.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1583333002
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (833 download)

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Book Synopsis Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by : Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. M.D.

Download or read book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease written by Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. M.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling guide to the lifesaving diet that can both prevent and help reverse the effects of heart disease Based on the groundbreaking results of his twenty-year nutritional study, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn illustrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent the progression of heart disease but can also reverse its effects. Dr. Esselstyn is an internationally known surgeon, researcher and former clinician at the Cleveland Clinic and a featured expert in the acclaimed documentary Forks Over Knives. Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease has helped thousands across the country, and is the book behind Bill Clinton’s life-changing vegan diet. The proof lies in the incredible outcomes for patients who have followed Dr. Esselstyn's program, including a number of patients in his original study who had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of starting the program, all Dr. Esselstyn’s patients began to improve dramatically, and twenty years later, they remain free of symptoms. Complete with more than 150 delicious recipes perfect for a plant-based diet, the national bestseller Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease explains the science behind the simple plan that has drastically changed the lives of heart disease patients forever. It will empower readers and give them the tools to take control of their heart health.