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Meyer Friedman (July 13, 1910 – April 27, 2001) was an American cardiologist who developed, with colleague Ray H. Rosenman, the hypothesis that the "Type A" behavior of chronically angry and impatient people increases their risk of heart disease. Also a researcher, he worked until his death at 90 as director of a medical institute that bears ...
The Impatient Ones (Russian: Нетерпение) is a 1973 historical novel by Yuri Trifonov concerning the assassination of Alexander II of Russia in 1881 by the People's Will party. The author was nominated for the Nobel Prize by Heinrich Böll .
Run for Your Life, published in 2009, is the second novel in the Michael Bennett series by the American authors James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. The novel debuted on the New York Times Best-Seller list at number 2 on February 20, 2009.
Signs of Life is a 1981 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. Elliott said "It’s a quieter book than I’ve done for some time and it doesn’t depend on tricks; it depends totally on character and here again is a woman who simply cannot find herself until ironically at the very end, through her daughter whom she has waged battles with."
James Tock was born in Snow County Hospital in Colorado and at the exact moment his grandfather, Josef Tock, a pastry chef, dies of a stroke.Though crippled by a stroke earlier in the week, moments before his death, Josef recovers miraculously to impart on his son Rudy ten cryptic predictions: among them that his grandchild will be named James—but that everyone will call him Jimmy.
Vital Signs is a novel by Robin Cook.Like most of Cook's other work, it is a medical thriller. It's about a successful epidemiologist and married woman Marissa Blumenthal. . When she discovers that she cannot conceive, her obsession with getting pregnant leads her to investigate the fertility mark
Life After Life is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs). The book presents the author's composite account of what it is like to die, supplemented with individual accounts.
The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16] Kirkus Reviews calls the narrative voice of Book Woman "engaging", and praises how well-researched the novel is, illuminating the history of 1930s Kentucky ...