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Thing of Beauty
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Stephen M. Fried, Jane Rosenman (Editor)
At age seventeen, Gia Carangi was working the counter at her father's Philadelphia luncheonette, Hoagie City. Within a year, Gia was one of the top models of the late 1970's, gracing the covers of "Cosmopolitan" and "Vogue," partying at New York's Studio 54 and the Mudd Club, and redefining the industry's standard of beauty. She was the darling of ...
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Ryan White: My Own Story
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Ryan White
Ryan was a typical 13-year-old when it was discovered that he had contracted AIDS through tainted blood products he had been given for his hemophilia. He was denied the right to return to school, so he went to court, with newspaper headlines following the many legal battles. With great courage he began to speak out against the misconceptions about ...
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Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
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Paul Monette
Paul Monette (1945-1995) wrote this memoir about the tragic consequences of AIDS in his own life, particularly the death of his adored lover, Roger Horwitz, after two years of illness. Monette gives the details, even the unpleasant ones, about living with someone who is suffering from AIDS. He also depicts life on the "AIDS rollercoaster", ...
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Sizwe's Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic
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Jonny Steinberg
An award-winning South African journalist leads readers into the heart of his country's AIDS crisis, exploring the perspectives of those who are infected, those who are trying to help, and those who reject any help offered them.
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Beyond Love
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Dominique Lapierre
Set against the history of the gay pride movement in America, this book charts the discovery of AIDS by a Los Angeles doctor and its growth from a localized "weird gay disease" into an international epidemic. The race to isolate the virus causing AIDS and to find a cure is mainly carried out by two opposing medical research teams in Paris and the ...
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The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS
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Helen Epstein
In her unsparing and illuminating account of the effects of AIDS in Africa, Epstein describes how health experts, governments, and ordinary Africans have struggled to understand the rapid and devastating spread of the disease as well as new medical and political developments.
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The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
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Elizabeth Pisani
A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention. When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she's been involved with international efforts to halt the ...
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Inventing the AIDS Virus
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Peter Duesberg, Karry Mullis (Foreword by)
Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS.
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Stagestruck - PB
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Sarah Schulman
In "Stagestruck", noted novelist and outspoken critic Sarah Schulman offers an account of her growing awareness of the startling similarities between her novel "People in Trouble" and the smash Broadway hit Rent. Written with a powerful voice, Schulman's book is part gossipy narrative, part behind-the-scenes glimpse into the New York theatre ...
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AIDS: Science and Society
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Hung Fan, Ross F Conner, Luis P Villarreal
This is a comprehensive guidebook to 362 developed campgrounds in 17 national forests in Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Campers will find useful information needed to select a National Forest campground.
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AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization
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Tony Barnett, Alan Whiteside
First published in 2002, "AIDS in the Twenty-First Century" met with widespread praise from researchers and policy makers. This edition is fully revised to take account of the latest facts and developments in this field. All statistics and evidence have been updated and their meanings reconsidered. The latest developments in vaccines, anti ...
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The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
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Helen Epstein
In her unsparing and illuminating account of the effects of AIDS in Africa, Epstein describes how health experts, governments, and ordinary Africans have struggled to understand the rapid and devastating spread of the disease as well as new medical and political developments.
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AIDS in the World 1992
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Jonathan Mann (Editor), Daniel J M Tarantola (Editor), Thomas W Netter (Editor)
The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health systems and entire societies in the 1990s will be much more severe than it was in the 1980s; up-to-date information about the disease is now crucial. Yet even though readers are deluged by technical publications and popularizations, no single book tracks, on an annual basis, the evolution of the pandemic, ...
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The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time
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Greg Behrman
"The Invisible People" is a revealing and at times shocking look inside the United States's response to one of the greatest catastrophes the world has ever known -- the global AIDS crisis. A true story of politics, bureaucracy, disease, internecine warfare, and negligence, it illustrates that while the pandemic constitutes a profound threat to U.S ...
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HIV and the Pathogenesis of AIDS
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Jay A Levy, M.D.
The new edition of HIV and the Pathogenesis of AIDS provides a state-of-the-art review of the current research, explains the history of the disease, and examines how scientists, clinicians, and public health workers have responded to the challenges presented by HIV/AIDS in the 25 years since its recognition. Many exciting developments in the field ...
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AIDS: The Biological Basis
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Benjamin S Weeks
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AIDS in the Modern World
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I Edward Alcamo, 5th
"AIDS in the Modern World" focuses on the biological basis of AIDS and HIV. Edward Alcamo's simple approach to the topic enables students to focus on the main elements of HIV disease and its impact of society. The text is in an easy-to-read, well-organized format, yet provides detailed information. Appropriate for undergraduate non-science and ...
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Thing of beauty : the tragedy of supermodel Gia
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Stephen Fried
Tells the story of Gia, one of the top models of the 1970s, who vanished after going public with her drug problem. At 26 she died, a welfare case hidden away in a hospital. The book offers a tour of the "beauty industry complex" at the height of its designer decadence.
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100 Questions & Answers about HIV and AIDS
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Joel E Gallant
While AIDS is not the health threat that it once was in North America, it is still a significant public health problem and is a devastating epidemic in Africa and Asia. 100 Questions & Answers about AIDS and HIV provides answers to the most common questions asked by AIDS/HIV patients and their families. Written by a John Hopkins physician ...
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Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS
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William H Masters, M.D., Robert C Kolodny, M.D., Virginia E Johnson
A world-famous research team reveals the results of their nationwide study providing startling new evidence for the rampant spread of the AIDS virus among heterosexual American adults, a threat so far seriously minimized by official sources.
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AIDS and the Doctors of Death: An Inquiry Into the Origin of the AIDS Epidemic
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Alan Cantwell
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Queer Blood: The Secret AIDS Genocide Plot
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Alan Cantwell, Sallie Fiske (Editor)
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AIDS Update 2007: An Annual Overview of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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Gerald J Stine
"AIDS Update 2007" presents a balanced review of current research and information on HIV infection, HIV disease, and AIDS. "AIDS Update 2007" places this discussion within a biological, medical, social, economic and legal framework, helping readers to more fully understand this modern-day pandemic.
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The Cure for HIV & AIDS: With 70 Case Histories
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Hulda R. Clark
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AIDS Memoir: Journal of an HIV-Positive Mother
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Catherine Wyatt-Morley, Susan Ford Wiltshire (Foreword by), Ian Mayo-Smith (Afterword by)
""Because of this] book, l have started living again. The trials l have passed through have refined my faith in God, but this] book has put flavour back into my life."" --Pierina Guantai, Nairobi, Kenya Catherine Wyatt-Morley, while refusing to play a victim, presents the physical, psychological and social reality of living with HIV/AIDS. Her ...
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