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Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disability of Lyme Disease

Yolanda Hadid · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

From the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills comes an emotional and eye opening behind-the-scenes look at her descent into uncovering the mystery of chronic Lyme disease.In early 2011, Yolanda was struck by mysterious symptoms including brain fog, severe exhaustion, migraines and more....
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What to Expect When You Have Diabetes: 170 Tips for Living Well with Diabetes

American Diabetes Associa. · Good Books, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Managing a chronic disease like diabetes can be overwhelming - especially if you're among the 1.7 million Americans who are newly diagnosed each year. Here is easy-to-read, steady advice in this newly updated book, written by the experts, so you can live well with diabetes, not just...
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A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more

Mark Bittman · Pam Krauss Books
Format: Hardcover

Since his New York Times op-ed column debuted in 2011, Mark Bittman has emerged as one of our most impassioned and opinionated observers of the food landscape. The Times' only dedicated opinion columnist covering the food beat, Bittman routinely makes readers think twice about how the food...
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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

JESSICA NUTIK M D ZITTER · AVERY PUB Group
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

An ICU and Palliative Care specialist featured in the Netflix documentary Extremis offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because...
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Barron's MCAT, 3rd Edition

Jay B. Cutts M.A. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 1128
Format: Paperback

Completely revised and expanded for the current MCAT, the new Barron's MCAT test prep manual provides test takers with an in-depth, easy-to-use science review and a set of often-neglected but critical strategies for test taking that cover timing, test anxiety, scientific problem solving,...
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The New Fat Flush Cookbook

ANN LOUISE GITTLEMAN · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

The cookbook that changed dieting as we know it -- updated with hundreds of great recipes based on the newly-revised Fat Flush protocolsFor the first time in 15 years, the New York Times bestseller The Fat Flush Plan has been completely updated to reflect the latest research and cutting-edge...
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life

Haider Warraich · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 324
Format: Print book

There is no more universal truth in life than death. No matter who you are, it is certain that one day you will die, but the mechanics and understanding of that experience will differ greatly in today s modern age. Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation...
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Apple Cider Vinegar: Nature's Most Versatile and Powerful Remedy

LARRY JR TRIVIERI · SQUARE ONE PUB
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Who would think that when you ferment an apple, the golden liquid that results would be one of nature's most effective and versatile healers? Apparently, millions of people around the world would. For centuries, apple cider vinegar has been used as a folk remedy to treat a host of health...
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Music and Mantras: The Yoga of Mindful Singing for Health, Happiness, Peace & Prosperity

Girish · Enliven Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

"Singing is as human as breathing, and this book tells us why." - Mark Guarino, contributing music writer, The Guardian Celebrated yogi-musician Girish opens new possibilities for transforming your life through song, combining the ancient art of singing mantra with twenty-first...
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American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease

Stephen H. Gehlbach · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio are horrible diseases that once beset Americans, but are now largely, simply, unhappy history. Yet lessons learned from confronting these past plagues inform our present struggles to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart...
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A Book About Love

Jonah Lehrer · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the mysterious subject of love.Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites,...
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Hunger: A Memoir of

Roxane Gay · Harper
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

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Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal

Tom Shroder · Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

It’s no secret that psychedelic drugs have the ability to cast light on the miraculous reality hidden within our psyche. Almost immediately after the discovery of LSD less than a hundred years ago, psychedelics began to play a crucial role in the quest to understand the link between...
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The Parent's Guide to Occupational Therapy for Autism and Other Special Needs: Practical Strategies for Motor Skills, Sensory Integration, Toilet Training, and More

Cara Koscinski · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

With the help of this handy guide, you can bring tried and tested occupational therapy activities into your home and encourage your child to succeed with everyday tasks while having fun in the process.This expanded edition of the award-winning book includes new advice on toilet training,...
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Peripheral Neuropathy: What It Is and What You Can Do to Feel Better

Janice F Wiesman · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 121
Format: Print book

Nearly one in fifteen people -- that's 20 million people in the United States -- suffers from peripheral neuropathy, or nerve damage. Caused by such conditions as diabetes, cancer, vitamin deficiencies, and kidney disease as well as certain drugs and toxins, neuropathy brings numbness,...
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