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(0)Katy Butler
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English
Description
"An exquisitely written, expertly reported memoir and expose; of modern medicine that leads the way to more humane, less invasive end-of-life care based on the author's acclaimed New York Times Magazine piece. This is the story of one daughter's struggle to allow her parents the peaceful, natural deaths they wanted and to investigate the larger forces in medicine that stood in the way. When doctors refused to disable the pacemaker that caused her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the mid-1400s, an unnamed Catholic monk composed a popular self-help book called Ars moriendi, or The art of dying. Written in Latin, this medieval death manual taught people how to navigate the trials of the deathbed, using simple rituals of repentance, reassurance, and letting go. .Award-winning journalist Katy Butler argues that we have lost touch with the "art of dying" as practiced by our ancestors, yet we still hunger for rites of passage,...
4) Farm animals
Author
Series
Publisher
[EDC Pub.]
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
How do pigs keep cool? Why do farmers shear their sheep? Which farm animals live underwater? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more facts about farm animals around the world. Farm animals is part of an exciting new series of books for children who are beginning to read on their own. The easy-to-read text has been specially written with the help of a reading expert.