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Nineteen million new STD infections occur each year. STDs have been around since there were humans, yet the history, causes, symptoms, treatment, and current topics surrounding these diseases are not always adequately addressed because of fear, embarrassment, and social stigma. This informative book discusses the causes and symptoms of the most common STDs, answers important questions, shows how real people deal with STDs, and much more.
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"Before the onset of his irreversible decline, Eddie Socket always suspected he was on the verge of something. Now that “something” has arrived in the form of Merrit Mather, an attractive older gentleman of impeccable taste in everything from sweaters to his numerous sexual conquests. That Merrit happens to be the lover of Eddie's agitated boss, Saul, hardly fazes the smitten Eddie; that the elusive Merrit loses interest in Eddie with dizzying...
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Becoming sexually involved with another person is a big step in your life. It's something to think about on your own long before you have to make a decision with anyone, even the partner you love deeply. It is probably one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. Sixty-seven percent of sexually experienced teens say they wish they had waited longer before having sexual intercourse. Through case studies and information from experts, Safe Sex...
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The story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful nation, and stopped AIDS from becoming a death sentence. This improbable group of activists bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medication and treatments and move them through trials and into drugstores in record time.
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Narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America. Presents the history of the AIDS crisis through the lens of the victims and activists who demanded action and literally fought for their lives. Explores the disease's origins and how it spread, the activism it inspired, and how the world confronts HIV and AIDS today.
"Groundbreaking narrative nonfiction for teens that tells the story of the AIDS crisis in America....
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"As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support her dreams, even if they seem beyond their comprehension. At 20, determined and talented, Christine heads across the country from Santa Fe to New York City and, in a made-for-Hollywood story, is chosen for the London cast of A Chorus Line. This memoir is an emotional, honest examination of what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of New York...
30) After Francesco
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"The year is 1988 and 28-year-old Kevin Doyle is bone-tired of attending funerals. It's been two years since his partner Francesco died from AIDS, an epidemic ravaging New York City and going largely ignored by a government that expects those affected to suffer in silence, thrusting unjustifiable shame and guilt on top of their loss. Some people might insist that Francesco and the other friends he's lost to the disease are in a better place now, but...
31) HIV and AIDS
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There have been spectacular gains made in the battle against HIV and the disease it causes, AIDS, but it remains one of the world's biggest killers. Follow the path of this virus from its origins in Africa, to its emergence as the cause of a frightening epidemic, to its status as a treatable but incurable condition. There are timelines on the important dates in the history of HIV and on celebrity deaths. Among the sidebars are one on a young man whose...
33) Miracle cure
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In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. And one by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. There's only one cure, but many ways to die.
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With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician, Marco Roth shares his parents' New York, a world centered around house concerts, a private library of literary classics, and dinner discussions of the latest advances in medicine. That world ended when his father began to suffer the worst effects of the AIDS virus that had infected him in the early 1980s.
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For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing It examines the genre not in classificatory terms but pragmatically, as the site of a social interaction. Through a detailed study of three such diaries, originating...
38) Ravelstein
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Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has suggested that he put forth a book of his convictions about the ideas which sustain humankind, or kill it, and much to Ravelstein's own surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in...
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"In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington,...
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