Resultados para "The Accident" en Profesionales y académicos

On a sunny spring day, in an ordinary kitchen, Rosemary answers an unexpected phone call. A car has hit her husband, Hugh. Rosemary arrives at the hospital just in time to see him before he's rushed into surgery. Thinking of their twin daughters, Rosemary pleads with her unconscious husband as he lies on a gurney. "Don't you leave me Hugh Rawlins. Anna and Mary need you. I love you." Overwhelmed, but determined to bring Hugh back home, Rosemary leans on family and friends as Hugh endures two emergency brain surgeries, a coma, and a confused awakening.

Écoutez le nouveau best-seller recommandé par le New York Times ! La recherche unique de l'admirable résilience du cerveau humain présentée par Dr Jill Bolte Taylor dans "Voyage au-delà de mon cerveau : Une neurobiologiste victime d'un accident cérébral raconte ses incroyables découvertes." С'est un peu difficile de croire que le spécialiste du cerveau est devenu la victime d'un traumatisme cérébral. La femme incroyable qui a pu se remettre d'un AVC et écrire le livre.

One of life's biggest cliches becomes a horrific reality when Douglas Segal's wife and young daughter are hit head-on by a Los Angeles city bus. Miraculously, his daughter was unharmed, but his wife faced a series of life-threatening injuries. Following the accident, Segal began sending regular email updates to their circle of friends and family - a list that continued to grow as others heard of the event. Segal's compelling memoir is an intimate and honest chronicle built around these email updates and is a profound example of how people show up for one another in times of crisis.

Nuclear power has been and continues to be a mystery to many people. This book tells the story of the journey of an average individual who for over 40 years, because of unintentional turns of events, became an active member of the industry and learned to understand and support this challenging but rewarding technology. With global warming and growing demands for energy world-wide, nuclear power plants in conjunction with renewable energy sources is the most promising way to support our future generations.

On a rainy November day, Mia Hayes' husband left for work on his Vespa. She never saw that caring, loving version of her husband again. The fallout from his accident - Mia's guilt and her husband's PTSD, memory loss, and depression - consumed their lives over the next five years. Desperate to hold her fragile family together, Mia ignored her own unraveling and plunged into bipolar depression. Always Yours, Bee is a heartbreaking yet triumphant and brave look at a woman, a marriage, and a family falling apart and coming out stronger.

Read by the author. “Sir, your sons have been in a car accident. How quickly can you get here?” The phone call no parent wants to receive would lead to a miracle only God could give. When Jeremy and Emily Freeman’s teenage son Caleb was in a devastating car accident, doctors gave him a 10...

Following a deadly car crash, small-town lawyer Lance Cooper risked everything to battle one of the most powerful auto corporations in the world to get justice for a young woman. A fast-paced, journalistic account of tragedy turned to triumph, despair to hope, Cobalt Cover-Up is an...

Novelist and poet Judy Goldman's inspiring account of the mishap that left her husband paralyzed, how it tested their marriage, and their struggle to regain their "normal" life. When Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal injection to alleviate back pain, he is...

In this “riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication” (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate with patients in vegetative or “gray zone” states and, more importantly, he explains what those interactions tell us about the working of...