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The power of kindness : why empathy is essential in everyday life / by Goldman, Brian,1956-author.;
As a veteran emergency room physician, Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia, and otherwise pulling people back from the brink of medical emergency. He always believed that caring came naturally to physicians. But time, stress, errors, and heavy expectations left him wondering if he might not be the same caring doctor he thought he was at the beginning of his career. He wondered what kindness truly looks like--in himself and in others. In The Power of Kindness, Goldman leaves the comfortable, familiar surroundings of the hospital in search of his own lost compassion. A top neuroscientist performs an MRI scan of his brain to see if he is hard-wired for empathy. A researcher at Western University in Ontario tests his personality and makes a startling discovery. Goldman then circles the planet in search of the most empathic people alive, to hear their stories and learn their secrets. He visits a boulevard in São Paulo, Brazil, where he meets a woman who calls a homeless poet her soulmate and reunited him with his family; a research lab in Kyoto, Japan, where he meets a lifelike, empathetic android; and a nursing home in rural Pennsylvania, where he meets a therapist at a nursing home who has an uncanny knack of knowing what's inside the hearts and minds of people with dementia, as well as her protege, a woman who talked a gun-wielding robber into walking away from his crime. Powerful and engaging, The Power of Kindness takes us far from the theatre of medicine and into the world at large, and investigates why kindness is so vital to our existence.
Subjects: Kindness.; Empathy.; Conduct of life.;
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Death at the sanatorium / by Ragnar Jónasson,1976-author.; Cribb, Victoria,translator.; translation of:Ragnar Jónasson,1976-Hvítidauði.English.;
"Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic bestseller Jónasson presents a riveting new thriller spinoff from The Darkness, soon to be a TV series. 1983 At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony. Sverrir, rules his death as suicide and assumes that he was guilty of the murder as well. The case is closed. 2012 Almost thirty years later, Helgi Reykdal, a young police officer, has been studying criminology in the UK, but decides to return to Iceland when he is offered a job at the Reykjavik police department-the job which detective Hulda Hermannsdottir is about to retire from. He is also a collector of golden age detective stories, and is writing his thesis on the 1983 murders in the north. As Helgi delves deeper into the past, and starts his new job, he decides to try to meet with the original suspects. But soon he finds silence and suspicion at every turn, as he tries to finally solve the mystery from years before"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Detectives; Murder; Police;
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Beyond the black rainbow [videorecording] / by Allan, Eva.; Cosmatos, Panos.; Hylands, Scott.; Rogers, Michael,actor.; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
Edited by Nicholas Shepard ; cinematography, Norm Li ; music by Sinoia Caves.Michael Rogers, Eva Allan, Scott Hylands, Marilyn Norry, Rondel Reynoldson.In the year 1983, Dr. Mercurio Arboria (Scott Hylands) is a physician who, working with the government, has created a new program of physical therapy and medicine which is intended to bring people greater happiness and freedom than they've ever enjoyed before. However, one of the test subjects in Arboria's new scheme, Elena (Eva Allan), isn't so impressed -- she spends her days in a drug-addled haze while kept in a massive hospital complex against her will. Dr. Barry Nyle (Michael Rogers) is looking after Elena's day-to-day progress with the help of his nurse Margo (Rondel Reynoldson), but his efforts to reshape her mind are only so successful, and in time Elena becomes just conscious enough of her circumstances to plan an escape.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Drugs; Feature films.; Psychiatric clinics; Science fiction films.; Teenagers; Thrillers (Motion pictures);
© c2012., Mongrel Media,
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Death at the Sanatorium A Mystery [electronic resource] : by Jónasson, Ragnar.aut; Woolf, Sam.nrt; cloudLibrary;
This program is read by actor Sam Woolf, known for his roles on Call the Midwife, Humans, The Crown, and The Witcher. He currently stars in the World War II drama We Were The Lucky Ones. Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic bestseller Jonasson presents a riveting new thriller spinoff from The Darkness, soon to be a TV series. 1983 At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. Less than a week after the murder, the chief physician, is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony. Sverrir, rules his death as suicide and assumes that he was guilty of the murder as well. The case is closed. 2012 Almost thirty years later, Helgi Reykdal, a young police officer, has been studying criminology in the UK, but decides to return to Iceland when he is offered a job at the Reykjavik police department—the job which detective Hulda Hermannsdottir is about to retire from. He is also a collector of golden age detective stories, and is writing his thesis on the 1983 murders in the north. As Helgi delves deeper into the past, and starts his new job, he decides to try to meet with the original suspects. But soon he finds silence and suspicion at every turn, as he tries to finally solve the mystery from years before. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; International Mystery & Crime; Police Procedural; Crime;
© 2024., Macmillan Audio,
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Mississippi blood / by Iles, Greg,author.;
"#1 New York Times Bestselling Author The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi--Greg Iles's epic tale of love and honor, hatred and revenge that explores how the sins of the past continue to haunt the present. Shattered by grief and dreaming of vengeance, Penn Cage sees his family and his world collapsing around him. The woman he loves is gone, his principles have been irrevocably compromised, and his father, once a paragon of the community that Penn leads as mayor, is about to be tried for the murder of a former lover. Most terrifying of all, Dr. Cage seems bent on self-destruction. Despite Penn's experience as a prosecutor in major murder trials, his father has frozen him out of the trial preparations--preferring to risk dying in prison to revealing the truth of the crime to his son. During forty years practicing medicine, Tom Cage made himself the most respected and beloved physician in Natchez, Mississippi. But this revered Southern figure has secrets known only to himself and a handful of others. Among them, Tom has a second son, the product of an 1960s affair with his devoted African American nurse, Viola Turner. It is Viola who has been murdered, and her bitter son--Penn's half-brother--who sets in motion the murder case against his father. The resulting investigation exhumes dangerous ghosts from Mississippi's violent past. In some way that Penn cannot fathom, Viola Turner was a nexus point between his father and the Double Eagles, a savage splinter cell of the KKK. More troubling still, the long-buried secrets shared by Dr. Cage and the former Klansmen may hold the key to the most devastating assassinations of the 1960s. The surviving Double Eagles will stop at nothing to keep their past crimes buried, and with the help of some of the most influential men in the state, they seek to ensure that Dr. Cage either takes the fall for them, or takes his secrets to an early grave. Tom Cage's murder trial sets a terrible clock in motion, and unless Penn can pierce the veil of the past and exonerate his father, his family will be destroyed. Unable to trust anyone around him--not even his own mother--Penn joins forces with Serenity Butler, a famous young black author who has come to Natchez to write about his father's case. Together, Penn and Serenity--a former soldier--battle to crack the Double Eagles and discover the secret history of the Cage family and the South itself, a desperate move that risks the only thing they have left to gamble: their lives. Mississippi Blood is the enthralling conclusion to a breathtaking trilogy seven years in the making--one that has kept readers on the edge of their seats. With piercing insight, narrative prowess, and a masterful ability to blend history and imagination, New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles illuminates the brutal history of the American South in a highly atmospheric and suspenseful novel that delivers the shocking resolution his fans have eagerly awaited"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Cage, Penn (Fictitious character);
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Murder at Mallowan Hall / by Cambridge, Colleen,author.;
Tucked away among Devon's rolling green hills, Mallowan Hall combines the best of English tradition with the modern conveniences of 1930. Housekeeper Phyllida Bright, as efficient as she is personable, manages the large household with an iron fist in her very elegant glove. In one respect, however, Mallowan Hall stands far apart from other picturesque country houses ... The manor is home to archaeologist Max Mallowan and his famous wife, Agatha Christie. Phyllida is both loyal to and protective of the crime writer, who is as much friend as employer. An aficionado of detective fiction, Phyllida has yet to find a gentleman in real life half as fascinating as Mrs. Agatha's Belgian hero, Hercule Poirot. But though accustomed to murder and its methods as frequent topics of conversation, Phyllida is unprepared for the sight of a very real, very dead body on the library floor ... A former Army nurse, Phyllida reacts with practical common sense--and a great deal of curiosity. It soon becomes clear that the victim arrived at Mallowan Hall under false pretenses during a weekend party. Now, Phyllida not only has a houseful of demanding guests on her hands--along with a distracted, anxious staff--but hordes of reporters camping outside. When another dead body is discovered--this time, one of her housemaids--Phyllida decides to follow in M. Poirot's footsteps to determine which of the Mallowans' guests is the killer. With help from the village's handsome physician, Dr. Bhatt, Mr. Dobble, the butler, along with other household staff, Phyllida assembles the clues. Yet, she is all too aware that the killer must still be close at hand and poised to strike again. And only Phyllida's wits will prevent her own story from coming to an abrupt end ...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Recipes.; Household employees; Murder;
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Outlander. [videorecording] / by Balfe, Caitriona,actor.; Heughan, Sam,1980-actor.; Bell, John,1997-actor.; Speelers, Ed,1988-actor.; Domboy, César,1990-actor.; Lyle, Lauren,1992-actor.; Kennedy, Maria Doyle,actor.; McFarlane, Colin,actor.; Simpson, Natalie,actor.; Skelton, Sophie,1994-actor.; Rankin, Richard,1983-actor.; Lacroix, Duncan,actor.; Menzies, Tobias,1974-actor.; Donnelly, Laura,1982-actor.; Cree, Steven,actor.; Gower, Andrew,1989-actor.; O'Rourke, Grant,actor.; Verbeek, Lotte,1982-actor.; Paterson, Bill,1945-actor.; Hudson, Nell,1990-actor.; Berry, David,1984-actor.; Dillane, Richard,actor.; Moore, Ronald D.,television producer,creator,screenwriter.; television adaptation of (work):Gabaldon, Diana.Outlander novels.; Sony Pictures Television,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan Lacroix, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, John Bell, Ed Speelers, Cesar Domboy, Lauren Lyle, David Berry.In Season 5, Jamie Fraser must fight to protect those he loves, as well as the home he has established alongside his wife, Claire Fraser, their family, and the settlers of Fraser's Ridge.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Randall, Claire (Fictitious character); Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character from Gabaldon); Nurses; Women physicians; Time travel; Outlaws; Man-woman relationships;
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Outlander. [videorecording] / by Balfe, Caitriona,actor.; Bell, John,1997-actor.; Berry, David,1984-actor.; Cree, Steven,actor.; Dillane, Richard,actor.; Domboy, César,1990-actor.; Donnelly, Laura,1982-actor.; Gower, Andrew,1989-actor.; Heughan, Sam,1980-actor.; Hudson, Nell,1990-actor.; Kennedy, Maria Doyle,actor.; Lacroix, Duncan,actor.; Lyle, Lauren,1992-actor.; McFarlane, Colin,actor.; Menzies, Tobias,1974-actor.; Moore, Ronald D.,television producer,creator,screenwriter.; O'Rourke, Grant,actor.; Paterson, Bill,1945-actor.; Rankin, Richard,1983-actor.; Simpson, Natalie,actor.; Skelton, Sophie,1994-actor.; Speelers, Ed,1988-actor.; Verbeek, Lotte,1982-actor.; television adaptation of (work):Gabaldon, Diana.Outlander novels.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Sony Pictures Television,production company.;
Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Duncan Lacroix, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, John Bell, Ed Speelers, Cesar Domboy, Lauren Lyle, David Berry.The sixth season of Outlander sees a continuation of Claire and Jamie's fight to protect those they love, as they navigate the trials and tribulations of life in colonial America. Establishing a home in the New World is by no means an easy task, particularly in the wild backcountry of North Carolina and perhaps most significantly during a period of dramatic political upheaval. The Frasers strive to flourish within a society which, as Claire knows all too well, is unwittingly marching towards Revolution, as members of the elite ruling classes struggle to stifle an alarming undercurrent of unrest, trigged by the Regulator Movement, and to maintain order in the Province. Against this backdrop, which soon heralds the birth of the new American nation, Claire and Jamie have built a home together at Fraser's Ridge. Jamie must now defend this home established on land granted to him by the Crown although this new mantle of responsibility sees him pitted against his godfather, Murtagh Fitzgibbons, a leader of the Regulator Rebellion. Jamie is forced to hide the true nature of his relationship with Murtagh from Governor Tryon, who has ordered Jamie to put an end to the unrest sweeping North Carolina.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character from Gabaldon); Randall, Claire (Fictitious character); Man-woman relationships; Nurses; Outlaws; Time travel; Women physicians;
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Outlander. [videorecording] / by Balfe, Caitríona,actor.; Bell, John,1997-actor.; Berry, David,1984-actor.; Cree, Steven,actor.; Dillane, Richard,actor.; Domboy, César,1990-actor.; Donnelly, Laura,1982-actor.; Gower, Andrew,1989-actor.; Heughan, Sam,1980-actor.; Hudson, Nell,1990-actor.; Kennedy, Maria Doyle,actor.; Lacroix, Duncan,actor.; Lyle, Lauren,1992-actor.; McFarlane, Colin,actor.; Menzies, Tobias,1974-actor.; Moore, Ronald D.,television producer,creator,screenwriter.; O'Rourke, Grant,actor.; Paterson, Bill,1945-actor.; Rankin, Richard,1983-actor.; Simpson, Natalie,actor.; Skelton, Sophie,1994-actor.; Speelers, Ed,1988-actor.; Verbeek, Lotte,1982-actor.; television adaptation of (work):Gabaldon, Diana.Outlander novels.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Sony Pictures Television,production company.;
Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, John Bell, Graham McTavish, Caitlin O'Ryan, Steven Cree, Nell Hudson.In the seventh season of Outlander, Jamie, Claire, and their family are caught in the violent birth pains of an emerging nation as armies march to war and British institutions crumble in the face of armed rebellion. The land the Frasers call home is changing - and they must change with it.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Historical television programs.; Time-travel television programs.; Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character from Gabaldon); Randall, Claire (Fictitious character); Man-woman relationships; Nurses; Outlaws; Time travel; Women physicians;
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En bonne santé / by Holowaty, Lauren.; Allard, Isabelle.; Astley, Neville.; Baker, Mark,1959-;
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Subjects: Téléromans.; Radio and television novels.; Peppa Pig (Personnage fictif); Peppa Pig (Fictitious character); Porcs; Écoles; Médecins; Infirmières; Swine; Schools; Physicians; Nurses;
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