dear stupid: Letters to My Wounded Child Within

Bridger, Zandra

Biographies & Memoirs

Bainbridge Books

Dr. Gromko's true story begins with the implausible inheritance she receives from a former patient. Completely unexpected, the windfall jolts her life, which is already out of balance with the demands of her profession. She reshuffles her life's priorities and finally gives in to the need to seek a life partner once and for all. Browsing on the Internet, the Seattle doctor advertises "I'd like to meet a nice Democrat." She finds Steve, a businessman who is "gifted at banter, irreverently funny, and loyal as a beagle." Steve brings joy, but he also brings unforeseen complications into the doctor's life. For one thing, Steve has full custody of his nine-year-old daughter who greets the doctor with "I hate every centimeter of you - get used to it!" Then, there is the more serious issue of Steve's health. Known to have diabetes and high blood pressure, Steve falls precipitously into the abyss of kidney failure. Without a kidney transplant or dialysis, Steve will die within one to two weeks. Written from a doctor's perspective, the book takes the reader on a tumultuous course of medical and personal trials, as Dr. Gromko exerts the most powerful advocacy of her life.

Complications: A Doctor's Love Story

Gromko MD, Linda

Parenting & Relationships

A Practical Reference for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults answers the questions you always wanted to ask, clearly, accurately, and compassionately. It discusses gender identity and dysphoria, hormone treatment, gender presentation and products, and surgeries for masculinization and feminization. It also features practical tips on coming out, gender-affirming healthcare and counseling, travel and documents, sex and relationships, personal safety, family and children, treating depression and PTSD, pregnancy planning, and living a long, healthy life. Dr. Gromko also shares her patients' wisdom, humor, and practical information on everyday life, along with advice and insight from top medical professionals. Precise diagrams and medical illustrations clearly define complex information, complemented by beautiful, colorful art by Jacquie Beck.

A Practical Reference for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Gender-Affirming Surgeries: Planning through Post-op for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adults

Gromko, Linda

Linda Gromko, MD is a Board Certified Family Physician who has worked with the transgender community for nearly eighteen years. She explains the basics of gender identity, sexual orientation, puberty, puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and gender affirming surgeries. She shares years of her patients' wisdom and practical information on getting through every day in the best way possible-from coming out to parents, to school issues, to coping with depression, to love and sex. Why is this book important? We know that transgender kids and their families need specialized information. Alarmingly, the suicide attempt rate among trans youth is close to half! This book is intended to give gender non-conforming kids some of the information they need to grow to be happy, productive, loving and loved. It's intended to provide the information we need as parents, educators, and health care providers to do better with and for our kids. "Honest, accurate, sensitive, and straightforward, Dr. Gromko's advice and explanations are a breath of fresh air. ANYONE curious about this topic can benefit from her wisdom and clarity.

Where's MY Book?: A Guide for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Youth, Their Parents, & Everyone Else

Media marketing expert Jim Mann foresees the end of top heavy, centralized bureaucracies in favor of global communities based upon the virtues of the family - such as, amiable decision-making, a balance of benefits and responsibilities, concern about the welfare of all its members, and sharing ideas freely. The author predicts that the ever increasing volume and accessibility of information will eventually bring down some of the Western world's most entrenched paradigms in society, culture and politics. Tomorrow's global community will consist of a wide array of private partnerships eventually replacing the nation-state. The corporate and business shell will begin to atrophy as a new "gift economy" replaces it, promising a free flow of information and knowledge rather than the adherence to a "bottom-line" mentality centered about intellectual property rights and profit motives. This optimistic view of the future is based upon events now occurring. It may take many years for the new global community finally to emerge, yet as more and more information creates uncertainty, confusion, and mistrust in central authority, the sooner partnership networks will replace existing institutions.

Tomorrow's Global Community: How the Information Deluge Is Transforming Business & Government

Business & Money

Mann, Jim

Education & Reference

Demontrates hundreds of low-stress exercises designed to firm the body, improve flexibility, and increase strength and endurance

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning: Introduction to the Core Exercises

Gallagher, Sean P.

Kryzanowska, Romana

Speleotis, Steven

Sports & Outdoors

In New Jersey's Barnegat Bay, two boys stumble upon a lethal marine predator that possesses remarkable healing and life-extension genes. Dr. Allen J. Johnson, a plant geneticist, finds that this animal's mutation may save the life of his son, who has an inoperable brain tumor. But Dr. Johnson must first confront a covert government agency determined to keep the life-extending genes a secret, as well as several ruthless men who will stop at nothing - including murder - to exploit the animal's mutations for their own selfish purposes.

The Methuselah Gene: A Science Fiction Adventure Thriller (New Millenium Writers Series)

Literature & Fiction

Sal DeStefano

United States

This is a unique collection of conversations with prominent individuals in business, government, science, education, sports and the arts which discuss the essence of success. Gleaned from hours of taped interviews, the author presents 40 profiles of a diverse group of men and women, young and old, which provide anecdotes from their lives and experiences. Subjects include: Sandra Day O'Connor, first female justice of the US Supreme Court, Bob Dole, former US Senator and 1996 presidential candidate; Sparky Anderson, Hall of Fame baseball manager; Mike Eruzione, captain of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" US Olympic hockey team; Ken Burns, noted documentary filmmaker; Hilary Hahn, Grammy-nominated concert violinist; and many others.

The Heart of Success: Conversations With Notable Achievers

Self-Help

John R. Wooden

Dan G. Tripps

Foreword by Walter Cronkite

Personal Transformation

Joseph H. Pilates Archive Collection: The Photographs, Writings and Designs

Arts & Photography

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