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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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      • Psychiatry
        June 2012

        Antidepressants & 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.

      • Health & Personal Development

        Natural 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

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2012

        Nobody 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?

      • July 2015

        Quiero 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.

      • Pharmacology
        October 2007

        Challenges 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.

      • Autobiography: general
        October 2014

        NOBODY 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.

      • Fiction

        Chonglacé 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.

      • Psychology
        April 2020

        Prozac

        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.

      • Veterinary bacteriology, virology, parasitology
        May 2021

        Mycotoxins

        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.

      • September 2013

        Essential 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.

      • Eating disorders & therapy
        August 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.

      • Medicine: general issues
        November 2014

        Acute 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.

      • Literary Fiction
        March 2014

        Jet 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.

      • Agronomy & crop production
        August 2019

        Medicinal 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.

      • Science & Mathematics
        January 2020

        Inverse 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

      • August 2014

        My Body Is a Book of Rules

        by Elissa Washuta

        AS ELISSA WASHUTA MAKES THE TRANSITION from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her moodstabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other areas of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual trauma, ethnic identity, and independence become intertwined. Sifting through the scraps of her past in seventeen formally inventive chapters, Washuta aligns the strictures of her Catholic school education with Cosmopolitan’s mandates for womanhood, views memories through the distorting lens of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and contrasts her bipolar highs and lows with those of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain. Built on the bones of fundamental identity questions as contorted by a distressed brain, My Body Is a Book of Rules pulls no punches in its selfdeprecating and ferocious look at human fallibility.

      • May 2022

        Psychedelics and Mental Health

        Therapeutic applications and neuroscience of psilocybin, LSD, DMT and MDMA

        by Irene de Caso

        Learn about the therapeutic uses of classical psychedelics and empathogensas revolutionary tools for neuroplasticity and mental health. Discover howthey promote profoundly revealing mental states capable of restructuring ourinternal models of the world, reconsolidate traumatic memories and improveour social relationships. How do they affect the brain? What characteristicsmake these substances powerful catalysts for the psychotherapeutic process?Learn how they can help to improve severe symptoms: addictions, treatmentresistantdepression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress. This illustrated guidedescribes the most important clinical studies and will be of great interestto all medical and mental health professionals seeking to understand thecutting edge clinical applications of these molecules, as well as to individualsinterested in learning about the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapies.

      • May 2022

        Your Brain on Psychedelics

        Pharmacology and neuroscience of psilocybin, DMT, LSD, MDMA, mescaline.

        by Genis Ona

        Discover the pharmacology of psychedelics. Delve into the cutting edge ofscientific research on the impact of psilocybin, MDMA, DMT, mescaline andLSD on the brain. With this guide you will learn the keys to the effects ofpsychedelics, capable of producing significant changes in the processes ofperception, thought and consciousness. An illustrated guide to understandingthe science behind new psychedelic-assisted therapies for treating mentalhealth issues. This essential guide will be of interest to all psychonauts eagerto immerse themselves in the pharmacology of the most popular psychedelicmolecules, to all medical and mental health professionals, and to all peopleinterested in learning the essentials of the neuroscience of psychedelicmolecules and how they affect our brains.

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