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Expecting Mindfully: Nourish Your Emotional Well-Being and Prevent Depression during Pregnancy and Postpartum

Sona Dimidjian PhD · The Guilford Press
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback

Unlike other mindfulness resources for moms and moms-to-be, this compassionate book is grounded in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, a proven program. The authors are leading experts on the emotional challenges of pregnancy and early parenting--and how to overcome them. Guided meditations...
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives

Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover

Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what...
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The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100

Dan Buettner · National Geographic
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Best-selling author Dan Buettner debuts his first cookbook, filled with 100 longevity recipes inspired by the Blue Zones locations around the world, where people live the longest.Building on decades of research, longevity expert Dan Buettner has gathered 100 recipes inspired by the Blue...
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Seeing Gender: An Illustrated Guide to Identity and Expression

Iris Gottlieb · Chronicle Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Seeing Gender is an of-the-moment investigation into how we express and understand the complexities of gender today. Deeply researched and fully illustrated, this book demystifies an intensely personal - yet universal - facet of humanity. Illustrating a different concept on each spread,...
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The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired

Siegel, Daniel J. · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

What's the one thing a parent can do to make the most difference in the long run? The research is clear: Show up! Now the bestselling authors of The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline explain what this means over the course of childhood. One of the very best scientific predictors...
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The Brain Health Book: Using the Power of Neuroscience to Improve Your Life

John Randolph · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Easy-to-understand science-based strategies to maximize your brain's potential.Concerns about memory and other thinking skills are common, particularly in middle age and beyond. Due to worries about declining brain health, some seek out dubious products or supplements purportedly designed...
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Diagnosis Female: How Medical Bias Endangers Women's Health

Emily Dwass · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover

Why do so many women have trouble getting effective and compassionate medical treatment? Diagnosis Female examines this widespread problem, with a focus on misdiagnosis and gender bias. The book zeroes in on specialties where women are more likely to encounter particularly troubling roadblocks:...
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The Mediterranean Method: Your Complete Plan to Harness the Power of the Healthiest Diet on the Planet -- Lose Weight, Prevent Heart Disease, and More!

Steven Masley M.D. · Harmony
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

From a bestselling author and physician, this fresh approach to the Mediterranean diet updates the cuisine and eating style ranked #1 by U.S. News and World Report in 2019, helping readers lose weight and improve the health of their heart, brain, gut, and microbiome.From southern Italy,...
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The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

Susannah Cahalan · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR) .Doctors have struggled for centuries...
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Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl: The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

Melnick, Jeffrey · Arcade
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback

With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family. "Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone,...
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