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      • True stories
        September 2013

        Twin Stars and a Mother from Mars

        Heartache and joy in an IVF world

        by Tru Spencer

        In the beginning, there were two. Somewhere in the middle, she felt like she was the only one on the planet. In the end, was her heart complete? [] Once you’re on, it’s difficult to get off, and when Tru Spencer found herself on the IVF merry-go-round it seemed as though life had temporarily come to a grinding halt. The conflict between lonely isolation and excited hope was exhausting, and the up and down range of emotions she was willing to endure astonished even her. When her wildest dream was confirmed she thought she could relax, but the nature of that dream meant the battle was only half-won. Her reserves of strength were needed right until the end – would her twin stars finally shine?

      • Health & Personal Development
        November 2020

        The Art of Making Babies

        A Patient's Guide to In Vitro Fertilization

        by Babatunde Okewale

        There are many myths and ignorance surrounding pregnancy and infertility, Many couples are caught in this web, and are presently experiencing difficulties in getting pregnant. This book stems from the author's thirty years experience in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with proven records and notable mentions. In seventeen chapters, the book takes us through the processes of natural pregnancy and assisted reproductive technology, in a simple style that engages and informs the reader. This book is the solution for infertility and the perfect guide to fertility. Every individual deserves this book; it is the first handbook for every couple; and it should be found on the shelves in every home.

      • PALOOKA: 12 Rounds To Fatherhood

        by James Thoo

        Screenwriter James Thoo’s memoir is a deeply personal account of in vitro fertilisation (IVF)  — “one prolonged uppercut to the scrotum” — from a man’s point of view. He reveals its silent blows on the male psyche, as he confronts toxic masculinity, his own estrangement from his father, and the near-death of his wife in the process. Battling round after round of bad news, self-doubt about the quality of ejaculate, and medical ambiguities, he finds himself beaten and bruised, and turning to stories of his role models: history’s legendary boxers who never quit, and always fought to win. This book is must-have armour for men and women going through assisted reproduction treatments, IVF doctors who must mentally prepare patients, and anyone yearning to be a parent.

      • Fiction
        June 2017

        Onyx eyes

        by Eshkar Erblich-Brifman

        Since the disaster of 2040, the world is preoccupied with its own survival. The primary goal is to preserve humankind and help humans reproduce. Due to deteriorating fertility levels, the central government legislates a law that forces all 18-year-old men and women to donate their sperm and ova to a global genetic pool.   Onyx, a lost 26 years old woman, ventures out on a brave journey of finding her biological offsprings, that were artificially conceived from her ova when she was just 18 years old. She goes against laws and conventions and discovers that primal maternal instincts know no borders. In the process, she discovers much about herself as well as about the questionable system, which invades the most intimate places, despite its noble goals.   Onyx feels that the only way for her soul to survive is by defying the establishment and following her uncontrolled urge to discover the fate of her biological children.

      • Health & Personal Development
        April 2022

        Secret Fertility Club

        A journey from heartbreak to healing

        by Amelia McCloskey

        1 IN 5 COUPLES HAVE FERTILITY ISSUES. 1 IN 4 PREGNANCIES END IN MISCARRIAGE. SO WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT IT? Welcome to the Secret Fertility Club. A club nobody wants to join, full of women linked by a singular goal – to become parents, despite the obstacles stacked against them. In her book, Amelia McCloskey shines a light on the strength and perseverance of its members. After making the decision to start trying for a child with her partner, Amelia soon discovers that it’s not as simple as she expected. Follow her journey through ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, infertility and IVF treatment in this personal, poignant memoir of love, hope and loss. Vulnerable and personal, this story will touch the hearts of its readers. Amelia hopes that, by sharing her story, others who have experienced these issues will feel less alone.

      • My White

        by Ksenia Burzhskaya

        A sensational and highly anticipated novel by Ksenia Burzhskaya, a Russian renowned journalist, writer, and co-host of the YouTube channel White Noise, together with the famous Russian writer, Tatyana Tolstaya. Ksenia is also a speechwriter for Alisa (a voice assistant and Yandex’s alternative to Alexa) and the winner of the literary competition My First Pain (2008) organized by another great Russian author, Ludmila Ulitskaya. My White is set in the modern day. Throughout the book, the main character, sixteen-year-old girl Jane (Zhenya) is preparing for a New Year school performance. Zhenya was brought up by her two moms, artist Alexandra and doctor Vera. But despite that, she faces the same problems every other teenager does: she studies, meets up with friends, falls for a boy, and tries her best to get over an unrequited love and her parents’ divorce. Zhenya’s ultimate goal and destination in the novel, the concert, has two purposes: to gather her mothers and hopefully make them change their mind about the divorce, and to give her a chance to confess to Lyonya, head of their music club and the guy she is secretly in love with.   The novel has two central story lines. The first is a constant rehearsal, anticipation and premonition, that may be more important than the event itself. The second is memories, regrets, attempts to find your own way and answer the eternal questions: what is love? can it last forever? why do we love at all?

      • Mind, Body, Spirit

        The Smart Guide To Infertility

        Fact and Fiction

        by Robert Harrison

        Have you been trying to have a baby for more than a year?Do you want to understand the complex processes involved in conception and beyond to see where things might be going wrong for you?Do you want to know what you can do to help yourself before going to the professionals?And what alternatives there are to IVF?And if you do opt for IVF, do you need guidance on how to give this the best chance of succeeding?Professor Harrison draws on his 36+ years of hands-on clinical, teaching and research experience to provide guidance on these key topics and more. Inspired by the needs of the very many couples he has assisted, he has put together a practical guide that comprehensively covers the investigation and management of infertility as it is - or should be - experienced today. The key facts are complemented by more detailed text for those couples who want an indepth approach, and by the author's personal commentary, helping his readers to decide for themselves how far they wish to take their quest for a solution.

      • Chasing Baby

        An Infertility Adventure

        by Morwenna Trevenen

        Grow up, get a job, find a partner, have a family, live the dream. This was always the plan…with some deviations along the way. Using sarcasm and vulnerability, Morwenna speaks about growing up, finding love, and then struggling when the rest of “the plan” isn’t meant to be.  This is the raw and real story of one couple’s rollercoaster ride as they discover infertility, try various treatments, suffer an adoption reversal, and learn to make new plans and find the funny moments.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        July 2010

        Gabriel's Angel

        by Mark A Radcliffe

        Gabriel's Angel “is the perfect antidote to the glib platitudes of emotional quick-fix culture: tender, astute and very funny" - Christopher Brookmyre. Gabriel Bell is a grumpy 44-year old web journalist irritated by the accumulating disappointments of life. He and his girlfriend Ellie want to start a family but Gabriel has so few sperm he can name them and knit them flippers. So it’s IVF, which is expensive. If losing his job was bad enough getting run over and waking up to find himself in a therapy group run by Angels just beneath heaven really annoys him. And it doesn’t do much for Ellie either. Gabriel is joined in therapy by Kevin a professional killer, Yvonne, Kevin’s last victim, a rarely sober but successful businesswoman and Julie, an art teacher who was driving the car that put Gabriel in a coma. In a rural therapeutic community set in an eternal September the group struggles with the therapy. If they do well they may be allowed to go back to earth to finish their lives, or pass into heaven. If they don’t, it’s Hell or worse: lots more therapy.

      • Fiction
        January 2020

        Progenie / 1

        by Susana Martín Gijón

        PROGENY / A bold police procedural that delves into one of the major themes of our times: a reflection on motherhood, and with it, on family models and on still existing social demands imposed on women.  A captivating thriller and a powerful way of telling a story that is much more than just the plot and the characters but it also deals with the issue of artificial fertilization and genetic manipulation. Seville in the grip of a heat wave. Whoever can, dashes for the beach. But not Camino Vargas, the unexpectedly-appointed and temporary head of the homicide group since the shooting that left inspector Arenas in a coma. And neither do the criminals. Someone has deliberately run over a woman and fled. This fact will become the focus of media attention when a disturbing piece of information is leaked out: the murderer left a pacifier in the mouth of the victim before escaping. All the clues point to the ex-partner, a psychological abuser who made her life impossible. The statistics are not good: there have already been fifty fatal attacks of gender-based violence this year. However, when the autopsy reveals that the victim was pregnant, things will no longer be so clear. And when other murders begin to happen following the same modus operandi, the entire city will be shaken to the core. This forceful and rather troublesome inspector will have to handle the toughest case of her career, helped only by the few members of her team that remain in the city. In an exercise of literary maturity, the author reaches a perfect balance between the subject and a gripping and absorbing thriller in which the big unknown generates high tension in the whole city: has Seville become a dangerous place for women? Who and why is committing such brutal murders?

      • Managing Intimacy and Emotions in Advanced Fertility Care: the future of nursing and midwifery roles

        by Helen Allan

        This book is intended for nurses and midwives who work in Assisted Reproduction clinics and those who either work in, or have an interest in women’s health. The number of IVF births is increasing steadily as a percentage of all births and therefore infertility may be said to be increasingly influential in women’s health nursing and midwifery. The sense of connectedness which women caring for women express and as the data in this book show, women patients feel that there is something special about being cared for by female nurses and midwives. The emotions raised in clinical practice for nurses and midwives from caring for women need attention and discussion and this book is intended to contribute to a greater awareness of emotions in clinical practice even in a busy NHS. Indeed, paying attention to emotions when you are busy may help you understand and deal with the business. This book is intended for practicing nurses and midwives and therefore each chapter ends with a reflection from the author on the implications of the data for practice and an opportunity for the reader to reflect on their practice too. Contents include: A theoretical overview of caring and emotions The experience of infertility The nature of caring and managing emotions in fertility nursing Managing emotions and the body in fertility nursing: chaperoning brought up to date Experiences of infertility: liminality and the role of the Assisted Reproduction clinics Managing intimacy in fertility nursing The nature of advanced fertility nursing roles: why do nurses undertake them?

      • Fiction

        Love and Wine

        by Paula Marais

        Helen Middleton is a British artist, who travels to a little coastal town called Scarborough in South Africa to recover from an unpleasant divorce and several failed attempts to have a baby. Rather than focusing on tired post-apartheid clichés, this is a novel about the healing nature of an inspired natural environment as well as the search for a love that builds rather the breaks. Helen encounters two men, Max de Villiers – a writer and wealthy wine maker and his brother Jared – who runs the family vineyard of Bourgogne with him. Though she falls for one of them, is there more to him than meets the eye and is he really the right person to complete her?

      • Veterinary medicine
        September 2022

        Veterinary Physiology

        by Satish Kumar Jindal

        This book is intended to serve as a text book of Physiology for students of Veterinary colleges, schools, veterinary technicians, students seeking information about domestic animals. In all, the aim has been to present a clear and concise account of the functioning of various systems of domestic animals. Where appropriate, examples from human and non-domestic animals such as rat and rabbit have been cited. Physiology has now grown into a vast discipline. The book covers and explains the subject as per the latest syllabus being decided by the Veterinary Council of India for veterinary graduates. Finally, the book also elucidates a comprehensive yet a representative description of a large number of challenges faced by veterinary and animal science students.

      • Biomedical engineering
        January 2013

        Goat Production and Health Management

        by Satish Kumar Jindal

        Goats have a bright future as a domestic animal because of its continued usefulness and generation of new information to maintain this species in a more sustainable and profitable manner. Goat farming requires less capital to start and maintain than cattle or buffalo farming. Goat also has a higher reproductive rate as compared to cattle or buffaloes. Goat can sustain itself on marginal lands where other species of livestock may not even survive. The book has put emphasis on goat production in India but lot of information from world over is mentioned. Goats have been a major part of the research and development programmes aimed at poverty alleviation via the use of small ruminants. Research is of little use if its results are not disseminated and this book is part of the strategy for the dissemination and promotion of the research results to ensure that poor and under-resourced farmers benefit. The publication is expected to provide a useful reference source for all those who are interested in goats.

      • Nanotechnology
        January 2010

        Biotechnology in Animal Health and Production

        by Satish Kumar Jindal & M.C.Sharma

        This book describes and evaluates animal biotechnology and its application in veterinary medicine and pharmaceuticals as well as improvement in animal food production. Transgenic technologies are used for improving milk production and the meat in farm animals as well as for creating models of human diseases. Transgenic animals are used for the production of proteins for human medical use. Biotechnology is applied to facilitate xenotransplantation from animals to humans. Genetic engineering is done in farm animals and nuclear transfer technology has become an important and preferred method for cloning animals. Biotechnology has potential applications in the management of several animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever, avian flue and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The most important biotechnology based products consist of vaccines, particularly genetically engineered or DNA vaccines. Gene therapy for diseases of pet animals is a fast developing area because many of the technologies used in clinical trials humans were developed in animals and many of the diseases of cats and dogs are similar to those in humans. RNA interference technology is now being applied for research in veterinary medicine. Molecular diagnosis is assuming an important place in veterinary practice. Polymerase chain reaction and its modifications are considered to be important. Fluorescent in situ hybridization and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays are also widely used. Newer biochip-based technologies and biosensors are also finding their way in veterinary diagnostics. This book is an attempt to unravel the mysteries of biotechnology as it affects animal health and production."

      • Animal breeding
        August 2023

        Artificial Insemination in Goats

        by Chetna Gangwar, S.D.Karche, R.Pourouchottamane & Ravi Ranjan

        Artificial Insemination (AI) permits intense selection of sires with exceptional merits and provides opportunity to exploit the value of superior sires. This book constitutes an update of recent developments in the field of assisted reproductive technology and includes selection and management of breeding buck, semen collection, processing and cryopreservation, estrous synchronization and Artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, and quality control in Artificial Insemination has been included. The book covers all the basic knowledge related to artificial insemination in goats and to increase goat productivity and as a result meet the needs and demands of human communities. The work will be useful veterinary students as well as new entrants to this entrepreneurship.

      • September 2020

        CRISPR

        A Powerful Way to Change DNA

        by Yolanda Ridge (author), Alex Boersma (illustrator)

        CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. It’s one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it’s poised to completely upend the way we think about science. This important book, with detailed scientific illustrations, brings much needed clarity to a topic that will affect readers for generations to come.

      • Health & Personal Development

        M-Boldened

        Menopause Conversations we all need to have

        by Caroline Harris

        It’s time to change the global menopause conversation. Let’s stop talking just in terms of the stereotyped sweaty, hot-flush beleaguered female, the infertile crone or the wise woman – the reality of the menopause experience is so diverse and deserves to be heard.M-Boldened: Menopause Conversations We All Need to Have is a book about menopause unlike any other. Its contributors, speaking from many different walks of life, open up the conversation in new and profound ways for people across the globe. Recognising menopause as a human rights issue that affects everyone everywhere, these 21 chapters cover an astounding range of perspectives, from harrowing experiences of surgical menopause, the impact on relationships and hormonal realities of transitioning, to revelations of shocking neglect in the UK criminal justice system and compelling chapters on menopause as a time of activism, rage, reawakening, transformation and realising your own power.The honesty, intimacy and passion shared in these pages will make you see menopause in a whole new light. Each chapter shapes a much-needed courageous conversation about how we can and should view menopause and midlife. Read on to be part of the new conversation.

      • Pregnancy, birth & baby care
        October 2021

        Consultation with a midwife

        by Ingeborg Stadelmann

        Over 750.000 copies sold in Germany. The bestseller for pregnant women: completely revised and expanded.   This guidebook accompanies you competently and reliably from the beginning of pregnancy until the first year of your child's life.   Ingeborg Stadelmann, midwife and naturopathy expert, accompanies you sensitively, expertly and with a realistic view through the time of pregnancy, birth, postpartum and breastfeeding. She encourages you in your self-determination and personal responsibility and takes you gently by the hand in difficult moments.   In most cases, it is "rescue forces" from nature that help and calm the situation, whether aroma mixtures, homeopathic globules, Bach flowers or teas. To which kind of support or therapy you feel attracted, you will recognize yourself.     “Since 'Die Hebammen-Sprechstunde' came into existence, there has been a noticeable change in the self-confident way in which expectant parents deal with pregnancy, birth, the postpartum period and breastfeeding. Ingeborg Stadelmann encourages mothers and fathers-to-be to take their own responsibility and trust in their own strength."  Dr. Christiane Schwarz, Professor of Midwifery at the University of Lübeck

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