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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked...
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For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all...
5) Odprysk
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Amber
Pub. Date
2019.
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Polish
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Co jest gorsze od koszmaru, kt̤ry chciałbyś wymazać z pamięci? To, co się stanie, kiedy to zrobisz... Odprysk metalu tkwi w karku Marca Lucasa i w każdej chwili może go sparaliżować. Ale dla niego to bez znaczenia. W wypadku samochodowym stracił żonę i nienarodzone dziecko. Sam przeżył i obwinia się o ich śmierć... Jest na granicy szaleństwa i dlatego zgodziłby się usunąć ze swojej pamięci wszystkie wspomnienia. Jeszcze nie...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Estudiante de doctorado en neurociencia, Gifty explora la conducta en ratones para investigar el funcionamiento de los circuitos neuronales de la depresión y la adicción, dos enfermedades que han causado estragos entre sus seres más queridos: su hermano, Nana, era una promesa del atletismo que murió hace años a causa de una sobredosis de heroína tras una lesión de tobillo y la dependencia al OxyContin, mientras que su madre ha vuelto a caer...
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English
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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked...
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