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"More than fifty years before the American Revolution, Boston was in revolt against the tyrannies of the Crown, Puritan Authority, and Superstition. This is the story of a fateful year that prefigured the events of 1776. In The Fever of 1721, Stephen Coss brings to life an amazing cast of characters in a year that changed the course of medical history, American journalism, and colonial revolution, including Cotton Mather, the great Puritan preacher,...

When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform "scientific research" on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous "Angel of Death": Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele's personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he survived to give this terrifying and sobering account....

Travel the world to help animals with . . . BIG-ANIMAL VETS! Stare down a gorilla! Help save lions and giraffes! Fix a hippo with a toothache! For veterinarians working with large animals, that might just be a busy morning. Inside, travel the world with expert animal doctors as they go wherever the animals go, ready to use science, technology, and creativity to heal.

This documentary captures a glimpse into the ancient healing practices of the Amazon rainforest's medicine men, or shamans, whose knowledge of indigenous plants and rituals is threatened by deforestation, modernization and ecotourism. It follows eight people from the developed world with a variety of common and serious ailments who embark on a one-month healing journey into the heart of the Amazon jungle. Working with a handful of shamans experienced...

A group of interns in a large city hospital experience a year of crises and experiences that will change their lives.

Inspired by ordinary people who overcame a wide range of illnesses, and studying faiths and healing traditions of cultures worldwide, Caroline Myss explains the seven graces and mystical laws that build the spiritual strength needed to heal.

Text in printed and cursive letters introduces the tools a doctor uses to diagnose and treat patients and describes the contents of a doctor's bag and where doctors may work.

When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul and Audrey Safrane decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.

"Awakening in a bleak landscape as scarred as her body, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls surviving something terrible. Having no idea how many weeks have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: Ruthie has vanished. And with her, nearly all of civilization. Where once-lush hills carried cars and commerce, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters--people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong. In a broken, barren...