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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
Jeffrey A. Lieberman · Little, Brown and Company Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of psychiatry's origins, demise, and redemption, by the former President of the American Psychiatric Association. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping... |
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The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Walter Mischel · Little, Brown and Company, 2014. Pages: 328 Format: Print book
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Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice: Eat this one now, or wait and enjoy two later. What will she do? And what are the implications for her behavior... |
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Food What the Heck Should I Eat?
Mark Hyman · Little, Brown and Company Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to give us the skinny on what to eat. Did you know that oatmeal actually isn't a healthy way to start the day? That milk doesn't build bones, and eggs aren't the devil? In Food: What the Heck... |
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Choose It to Lose It: The Ultimate Pocket Guide to Save 500 Calories a Day!
The Editors of Cooking Light Magazine · Oxmoor House Format: Paperback
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Choose It to Lose It covers all the everyday situations where food choices can derail your weight-loss efforts-the supermarket, coffee shop, fast food, restaurants, the vending machine, and even your own kitchen.As simple as making a small change to your afternoon beverage routine or trying... |
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Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
Walter Willett · Free Press Pages: 432 Format: Paperback
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In this revised and updated edition of the bestselling Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, Dr. Walter Willett, for twenty-five years chair of the renowned Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, draws on cutting-edge... |
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Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles
Bert Ashe · Agate Bolden Pages: 243 Format: Print book
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In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks... |
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The How Not to Die Cookbook: 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease
MICHAEL M D GREGER · Flatiron Books Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
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From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifully-designed, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, life-saving,... |
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The Caregivers: A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love
Nell Lake · Scribner Format: Hardcover
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A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers and illuminates critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting in on the weekly meetings of a local... |
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Joy, Guilt, Anger, Love: What Neuroscience Can--and Can't--Tell Us About How We Feel
Giovanni Frazzetto · Penguin Books Pages: 312 Format: Paperback
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"Neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto enters the restless realm of human emotion through the portals of physiology, genetics, history, art and philosophy. Anger, guilt, anxiety, grief, empathy, joy and love are anatomized in turn, enlivened with research on everything from the role of monoamine... |
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