Even with a decent job, Candace is barely getting by, and raising her 10-year-old son is becoming more challenging by the day. Still she's focused on a big promotion with a healthy salary increase that will put her right where she needs to be. Then she meets Chris - a pretty boy seven years her junior. His street-savvy swagger and seductive smile keep her heart racing. She should know better than to get involved with a man who's tied to the streets, but Candace can't bring herself to shake him off. And soon, Chris drags her down a road that threatens to end her life...
"...a truly insightful narrative on what it can mean to be a woman at the cutting edge of science." —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research and book Molecules of Emotion introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and peptide T, and her fight for recognition in a toxic healthcare system. Candace Pert stood at the dawn of three revolutions: the women’s movement, integrative health, and psychopharmacology. A scientific prodigy, she was 30 years ahead of her time, preaching a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to healthcare and medicine long before yoga hit the mainstream and “wellness” took root in our vernacular. Her bestselling book Molecules of Emotion made her the mother of the Mind/Body Revolution, launching a paradigm shift in medicine. Deepak Chopra credits her with creating his career, and he said as much in his eulogy at her funeral. Candace began her career as an unbridled maverick. In 1972, as a 26-year-old graduate student at Johns Hopkins, she discovered the opiate receptor, revolutionizing her field and enabling pharmacologists to design new classifications of drugs from Prozac to Viagra to Percocet and OxyContin. The tragic irony of her breakthrough, touted as the first step to end heroin addiction, is that it helped spawn a virulent epidemic of drug dependence. Facing the largest public health crisis of the 21st century, Candace was incensed that the Hippocratic oath—“first, do no harm”—would succumb to greed, and as witness to this abuse of power, she was one of few scientists courageous enough to protest. Later, as Chief of Brain Biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace created Peptide T, the non-toxic treatment for HIV featured in Dallas BuyersClub. As the AIDS pandemic raged, triggering panic across Reagan-era America, the U.S. government poured massive amounts of money into finding a cure, sparking a battle among scientists for funding and power. Bested by rivals with competing drugs yet desperate to help, Candace went rogue, becoming a lynchpin in the black market for Peptide T. After a scandalous departure from her tenured position at the NIH, Candace launched a series of private companies with Michael Ruff, her second husband and collaborator. Naïve to the world of business, she was manipulated by investors keen to wrest control of her discoveries. But Candace too became tainted, believing that her noble ends would justify devious means. Like a mythic hero, she succumbed to a fatal flaw, and her greatest strengths—singularity of purpose and blind faith in her own virtuosity—would prove to be her undoing.
"This publication, which accompanies an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, contains a biographical essay and a catalogue of about one hundred designs for textiles, wallpaper, and other interior furnishings by Wheeler and her associates."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Leah and Candace Leap Into Spring begins the first day of school at Nash Elementary after Christmas break. The girls are third graders. Frannie Lynn, the school bully, has struck again. Poor Candace! She is bearing the brunt of Frannie Lynn’s bullying this year. Leah and Candace are working hard to stay the top students in Mrs. Casey’s class. Their teacher is challenging the class with multiplication and division problems. Plus, her students will perform a play in front of the whole school, their families, and the community in March. How do Leah and Candace deal with their everyday stressors as well as unexpected challenges?
Phineas, Ferb, Perry the Platypus, and Dr. Doofenshmirtz are back for an interstellar adventure in this chapter book based on the new Disney+ original movie. When Candace is abducted by aliens, Phineas and Ferb have to team up with Dr. Doofenshmirtz to get her back . . . but what if she doesn't want to return to Earth?
Candace Center Stage Activity Kit is a companion to Candace Center Stage by Candace Cameron Bure. This guide can be utilized in the classroom, in a home school setting, or by parents seeking additional resources. Ideal for grades K-3.
