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Naufal Hachette Antoine
In 2009, Hachette Livre (# 3 publishing group worldwide) and Librairie Antoine (one of the most renowned Lebanese bookseller groups) joined their strengths to set up Hachette Antoine, a joint-venture based in Beirut, Lebanon. The aim of the JV between Hachette Livre and Librairie Antoine was to create a leading trade publisher in the Arabic speaking world, covering the Middle East (Levant and GCC) and North-Africa regions, with a business focus on high potential markets. Our strength: • Large-scale distribution channels in the MENA region with warehouses in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt. • Strong PR and Media connections throughout the region with efficient online and offline marketing tools. • The only Arab publishing house to provide professional and exhaustive editing on both translated and original Arabic books. • Full financial transparency: All audit assertions and financial statements are served by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Our imprints Naufal: is dedicated to fiction and non-fiction. Our list includes well established classical and contemporary authors from the Arab world among which the best-selling/phenomenon Algerian author, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, and Lebanese journalist and women’s rights activist, Joumana Haddad. Fiction/translated: In translated fiction, our strategy consists of publishing authors from Arab origins who write in languages other than Arabic, alongside international best-selling authors. We also leave room for a few “coups de cœur” by debut authors. Thrillers and suspense: Include names such as J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, Mary Higgins Clark, Harlan Coben, Anthony Horowitz and others, and providing quality translations. Non-Fiction: Biographies and Memoirs: Becoming, A promised land. HA Kids: Licenses: Hachette Antoine is the official licensee of Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Nickelodeon, Ferrari... in the MENA region, with more brands to come. History and Topical books, Illustrated, Inspirational stories, HA Lifestyle, HA Education, HA Reference
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MedicineJuly 2024On trial
Testing new drugs in psychiatry, 1940–1980
by Marietta Meier, Magaly Tornay, Mario König
The heroic story of the invention of antidepressants is a key part of the psychopharmaceutical turn. On Trial revolves around one of its pioneers, psychiatrist Roland Kuhn, who practiced in Münsterlingen, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Switzerland. Kuhn became famous for the 'discovery' of the first antidepressant, Tofranil, and more recently notorious for his numerous trials on often unsuspecting patients. Largely based on the extensive and previously inaccessible sources of Kuhn's private archive, the book delves into the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. It examines how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted in the trials. Conducted from the 1940s to 1980s, the Münsterlingen drug trials are historicised and situated in the period's evolving landscape of experimentation.
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PsychiatryJune 2012Antidepressants & Major Depressive Disorder
by Dan J Stein
There have been significant advances in the pharmacotherapy of depression in recent years. Clinicians now have available a broad range of efficacious and safe medications, which have been studied in randomized controlled trials and compared in rigorous meta-analyses. However, much remains to be understood about the pathogenesis of depression and about the mechanisms of action of antidepressants. In this nine-chapter book, renowned international experts have convened to address the different classes of pharmacotherapy currently available. In his opening chapter, the Editor provides some context regarding the past and future development of antidepressants and he offers his thoughts on how best to define and classify the antidepressants. The closing chapter covers patient assessment, treatment algorithms and consensus guidelines. This volume provides a very useful summary of current thinking and practice on each of the major antidepressant classes and is presented in a user-friendly format.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentNatural Antidepressants
Gentle remedies to help you beat the blues
by Dr. med. Eberhard J. Wormer
The term "melancholia” goes back to ancient times and is used to describe an emotional state characterized by dark moods and gloom which inspired poets and philosophers to gloomy self-reflections. The clinical picture today is referred to as "depression”, and there seems to be a worldwide trend: Besides an alarming rise in depression related to various social factors, the consequential costs are also rising drastically – owing to unemployment, hospital treatment and early retirement, for example. Unfortunately, the health and quality of life of those affected are often carelessly jeopardized because strong psychiatric medicines are hastily prescribed. However, where undiagnosed deficiencies are what causes these mental ailments, chemical antidepressants usually do not have an effect, and their side effects add to the suffering of a patient already struggling with their depression. This compact guide explains both the symptom "depressive disorder" and the psychological illness "depression”, its focus is above all on numerous non-pharmacological antidepressants which are tolerated well, and on alternative therapeutic approaches: -symptoms, diagnoses and causes of depression -opportunities and risks of a pharmacological treatment -the body’s own antidepressants and those derived from plants -useful nutrients and measures to fight depression
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)March 2012Nobody Loves a Ginger Baby
by Laura Marney
Everyone's on antidepressants, suffering from Post Romantic Stress Disorder - especially Daphne, who's just been severely chucked by lily-livered Donnie. Being unhappy is embarrassing, and therefore intolerable, so everyone's secretly on the happy pills. After a lot of soup, a soupcon of unseemly relationships, a few deaths and an abundance of life-affirming triumphs, 'pro-joy' is mooted by Pierce as the way to go. But is it really?
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July 2015Quiero ser artista
by Pablo Ottonello
Nothing is known beforehand of these blind, halftruths distributed in “Kovacic,” nor of the apparent lack of turbulence that imprints “Founding a sex” with a kind of backdrop scenery, or of the speck of flour or talcum powder that confines “Buy cream” to a whiteness that plays on two points, from the hinting glimpse to the concluding sentence with experimentation and innocence. Quiero ser artista changes from a yearning and methodical aspiration into a tautological confession: Literature is the best possible means for such things to happen.
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Damask Rose Flower and Its Therapeutic Effects
by Dr. Mohaddeseh Mahboubi
Today, it has been found that two important properties of damask rose's essential oil, namely the antioxidant and antidepressant effects of essential oil, play an important role in increasing fertility and libido; also, the efficacy of damask rose's essential oil in the treatment of sexual tendency that emanates from depression, and the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, and its other products has been demonstrated. In the world's pharmaceutical market, there are many cosmetic and hygienic products containing essential oil or rose water. There are many studies that show that damask rose has a crucial impact on the central nervous system, and has a variety of antidepressant, antiepileptic, and hypnotic effects. Damask rose also has beneficial effects on brain functions; It has also been shown as an adjuvant in the treatment of children with refractory epilepsy that consuming the essential oil of the flower has a determined decrease in the number of epileptic seizures
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PharmacologyOctober 2007Challenges for the FDA
The Future of Drug Safety, Workshop Summary
by Leslie Pray and Sally Robinson, Rapporteurs, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation
As the principal agency regulating food, drugs, medical devices, and biological products used by Americans, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) serves one of the most critical consumer protection functions of the federal government. The FDA's reach is enormous, regulating products that represent roughly 25 percent of all consumer spending in the United States. Since 1992, however, federal funding for the agency has diminished, and the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) currently relies on the fees it receives from the industry it regulates to fund the majority of its drug regulation functions. Prescription drug safety is receiving heightened press coverage and congressional scrutiny as a result of recent, highly publicized events, such as the recall of Vioxx because of its link to heart attacks, and the link between certain antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs) and an increased risk of suicidal ideation in children. To address these concerns, the FDA in 2005 commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct an independent assessment of the current U.S. drug safety system. In September 2006, the IOM committee released its report-The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public-which included 25 recommendations for improving the system for drug safety review. The committee identified four major vulnerabilities in the U.S. drug safety system: (1) chronic underfunding; (2) organization problems, particularly inadequate integration of pre-and postmarket data review; (3) a range of technical problems related to the insufficient quantity and quality of postmarket data and inadequate capability to systematically monitor the risks and benefits of drugs after marketing; and (4) unclear regulatory authority and insufficiently flexible regulatory tools. Since the IOM report was issued, the FDA has taken a number of steps toward implementing the recommended improvements. Like many government agencies, however, the FDA is financially strained by its existing responsibilities, and fully implementing the recommended improvements to the drug safety system would require significant financial commitments.The IOM report addressed some of the costs associated with its recommendations, but left many unanswered questions about the resources required to fully achieve the envisioned improvements. To better understand the types and magnitude of resources required to achieve the goals of the IOM report, the IOM's Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation convened a 1-day symposium in March 2007. Challenges for the FDA: The Future of Drug Safety, Workshop Summary explains the presentations and discussions in seven key areas: addressing the FDA's resource challenges; strengthening the scientific base of the agency; integrating pre- and postmarket review; enhancing postmarket safety monitoring; conducting confirmatory drug safety and efficacy studies; enhancing the value of clinical trial registration; and enhancing the FDA's postmarket regulation and enforcement.
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Autobiography: generalOctober 2014NOBODY TOLD ME
The True Disturbing Story of an Unknowing Hostage of Prescribed Medication
by Cassie harte
NOBODY TOLD ME is an intensely insightful look into drug dependency and sexual abuse. Uniquely showing the ongoing effects of both, on the main character and her life, this book gives a window of understanding of how the medical profession treated people with depressive disorder and anxiety, until relatively recently. It is as relevant today with the use of antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs, rising every year;as it was when this story took place. The book communicates how the legacy of the abuse and the dependency on these medications can be life altering.
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FictionChonglacé Has Been Looking for Hair since this Morning
by Sophia Kalogeridou
A river is enraged and Chonglacé has been going up and down the city streets since this morning. The Mink dynasty is coming down from a western Macedonian village. The Indian grandmother Kali can’t stand still in a home where Tupperware is used as an antidepressant. A drunkard carries old ladies on his platform to and fro monastery feasts. A homeless man finds consolation in a toilet flush, while Truman's trench coat becomes three pairs of pants. A Hungarian gypsy tells her story through a Plexiglas screen. Behind this realistic collection lurks a bittersweet smile. Time is a poacher that takes us out of our way, but we find people again.
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PsychologyApril 2020Prozac
The Pill of Happiness
by Andrea Pamparana
This book faces an issue concerning millions of individuals, recounting cases of depression affecting both common people – who got in touch with the author during his journalist experience – and well-known personalities. Here we find Nietzsche, according the reports by the psychiatrist Irvin Yalom; Hemingway, who committed suicide even though he had success, talent, women and a Nobel Prize; Robin Williams, a versatile actor, a celebrity, and died by his own hand too. Prozac, a blessing and a curse for the modern man: on one side for those who don’t want to suffer and don’t consider acceptable a suffering caused by an illness which can’t be touched, palpated, surgically removed; on the other side for artists, who once used opium to find inspiration, and nowadays, instead, use drugs. This book isn’t and doesn’t want to be a j’accuse against antidepressant drugs: the aim is to shed light on an obscure and dangerous disease, and to show a photograph of real world.
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Veterinary bacteriology, virology, parasitologyMay 2021Mycotoxins
A Managemental Guide for Animal Husbandry
by P. Tensingh Gnanraj, L. Radhakrishnan, Ghadevaru Sarathchandra & A. Ruba Nanthin
Animal protein sources such as meat, egg and milk are complete proteins as they provide all essential amino acids in highest quality. To provide high quality protein to humans, livestock have to be fed with toxin free quality feedstuffs. Animal feed plays a major role in the global food industry, as it has highest returns to the producer throughout the world. Animal feeds are produced either by livestock farmers themselves locally or feed manufacturing companies. Feeds produced have to be secured and stored in a proper manner to avoid microbial as well as any other biotic agents. Mycotoxins are such naturally occurring toxin produced by the fungal growth. The molds can grow in any of the feed stuffs like maize, other cereals, Groundnut cake and other oil cakes in warm humid climatic conditions. Mycotoxins can have variety of serious health hazards ranging from mild irritation to deadly cancers in livestock and humans. Addressing the issues related to mycotoxin is the need of the hour. With globalisation of the feed industry and rapid climatic changes, it is very difficult to enumerate the occurrence and presence of the toxin in the feedstuff. These unnoticeable toxin effects may have direct and indirect impact on animal production system. It is very essential to have adequate knowledge about the metabolism, growth and reproduction of various mycotoxins and the toxicological properties of their intermediate products produced during metabolism to neutralize these toxins.
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September 2013Essential Oils and Their Applications
by Kuntal Das
The essential oils are present in the specific cells called as glandular cells present in the plant part that may be anywhere on plant body. Upon rupture of these glands aroma come out which are volatile in nature and combination of all chemical constituents are fragrance what we get sense. Essential oils are used in perfumery, aromatherapy, cosmetics, incense, medicine, household insect repellent cleaning products, and for flavoring food and drink. They are also valuable commodities in the agricultural industries as anti-feedants, repellents, botanical insecticides, natural herbicides and growth boosters are still open to fascinating realms of research. All informations are confined in scattered manner and hence an effort has been made to collect all informations and compiled together and represented in this book in a simple manner to serve the basic concept to the readers. This book complied with five s viz. 1. Introduction 2. General extraction method for essential oils 3. Market statistics for importance of essential oils 4. Individual medicinal and aromatic plants 5. New aromatic plants and their future research.
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Eating disorders & therapyAugust 2012
NO LABELS: Men in Relationship with Anorexia
by Derek Botha
In NO LABELS: Men in Relationship with Anorexia, DerekBotha argues that traditional understandings of and approaches to diagnosis and treatment for anorexia nervosa are unacceptable, inappropriate and laden with labelling ways, and thus exacerbate these men's struggles, leaving them dishonoured, disabled, powerless and even more distressed. He presents alternative ways of understanding the nature of their social positionings as well as a more appropriate therapy for them, namely narrative therapy.NO LABELS: Men in Relationship with Anorexia contributes to meaningful dialogue amongst mental health academics, practioners, students and all who have an interest in seeking fresh understandings of these men and their complex positionings.
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Medicine: general issuesNovember 2014Acute Medicine 2015
by Declan O'Kane
Acute Medicine is written for registrars, junior doctors and medical students working on the wards. It is a current and concise guide to hospital emergency medicine which provides: • detailed management of acute medical and surgical emergencies, including in pregnancy • general ward management issues • descriptions of key procedures • normal laboratory values • drug formulary covering the common drugs you will use every day. It is not just a list of instructions, but contains detailed pathophysiology and useful clinical pearls. It is designed to be carried round in a pocket for easy reference.
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Literary FictionMarch 2014Jet Set Desolate
by Andrea Lambert
A dive into post-millennial San Francisco, where electroclash cuts lines with the burgeoning dot-com bubble, and Lena falls for Jesse, a street-walking cheetah with a heart full of need. Follow the sores beneath the sequins, food stamps and semen, the broken milieu of a youth smashed between utter excess and utter loss.
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PsychologySeptember 2015
Depression and Anxiety the Drug-Free Way
And when to take medication
by Mark Greener
Drugs can give people a ‘breathing space’ but do not cure depression and anxiety. Often, people need to address their underlying issues irrespective of any pharmacological treatment. But depression and anxiety aren’t single diseases. Each can take various forms and can arise from a plethora of causes. And each can dramatically vary inseverity. Sometimes, ‘talking treatments’ are enough to alleviate mild-to-moderate depression and anxiety – especially if the distress arises from certain identifiable problems, such as bereavement, a phobia or unemployment. This book explores the many faces of anxiety and depression, and the various ways in which they may be addressed. Topics include: • Symptoms • Why depression and anxiety commonly co-exist • Drug treatment • CBT and counselling • Diet for depression and anxiety • Stress management • Exercise • Herbalism, eg St John’s Wort • Other treatments, eg hypnosis, meditation, breathing
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Agronomy & crop productionAugust 2019Medicinal and Nutraceutical Plants From The Himalayas
by V.L.Chopra & S.K.Vats
Medicinal plant cultivation has received an impetus in the recent years due to revival of interest in herbal medicines necessitating authoritative information on cultivation and utilization of this valuable flora. The book on Medicinal Plants includes information on current status of medicinal plants, their phytochemistry, quality control, good agricultural practices and good manufacturing practices in medicinal plants and information on commercially grown medicinal plants and those important in trade. Details on botany, crop improvement, crop protection, crop production, post harvest handling, chemical composition, chemical analyses and uses of commercially grown crops are also included. The book which is a systematic compilation of available information on promising 65 medicinal species helps in providing specific information on the cultivation and utilization of these crops to farmers, academicians, students and related user industries. This documented information also serves to give an insight to the major research lacunae and formulate appropriate research strategies in these crops.
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Science & MathematicsJanuary 2020Inverse Coordination Chemistry
A Novel Chemical Concept
by Ionel Haiduc, Edward R.T. Tiekink
Inverse Coordination Chemistry: A Novel Chemical Concept features and discusses the interesting array of inverse coordination complexes, from those with monoatomic or polyatomic centres to those with organic molecules as centres. While traditional coordination complexes consist of a metal atom at the centre surrounded by inorganic ligands, inverse coordination complexes show a reversed topology: a central non-metal atom surrounded by metallic ligands. Concisely written and with full-coloured illustrations, this book is a timely and comprehensive introduction to this exciting but largely overlooked field of inverse coordination in inorganic chemistry. This book serves as an invaluable resource for chemists, educators, and students. Click here for more information
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Health & Personal DevelopmentFeel Good Now
Achieve Permanent Happiness and Positive Emotions—Be More Successful In Life
by Diana Polska
Anyone can achieve and mantain a high level of happiness, positive emotions, intelligence, confidence, and sociability which ultimately leads to a better life. Learn to achieve permanent solutions to depression, anxiety, phobias, traumas, learning disabilities, as well as personality, and mental disorders. Based on solid scientific research, you will discover natural therapies that work.
