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Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry

Jeffrey A. Lieberman · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

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

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

#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

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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The VB6 Cookbook: More than 350 Recipes for Healthy Vegan Meals All Day and Delicious Flexitarian Dinners at Night

Mark Bittman · Clarkson Potter
Format: Kindle Edition

Following up on his bestselling diet plan, VB6, the incomparable Mark Bittman delivers a full cookbook of recipes designed to help you eat vegan every day before 6:00 p.m.--and deliciously all of the time. Whether you call it flexitarian, part-time veganism, or vegetable-centric, the plant-based,...
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Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest For Nutritional Perfection

Catherine Price · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"Absorbing and meticulously researched." -- The New York Times
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Good Morning Paleo: More Than 150 Easy Favorites to Start Your Day, Gluten- and Grain-Free

Jane Barthelemy · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Kindle Edition

"The paleo trend is here to stay. From Practical Paleo to Everyday Paleo to Paleo Comfort Foods , readers are clamoring for healthier, tastier recipes. And it's not just fitness enthusiasts; millions of men and women are looking for low carb, nutritious meals for weight loss and better...
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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

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

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

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

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

"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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Master Your Diabetes: A Comprehensive, Integrative Approach for Both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

MONA MORSTEIN · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback

The evidence is clear: We are in the midst of a worldwide diabetes epidemic. In the United States alone, one in three Americans is either diabetic (29 million patients) or prediabetic (87 million patients) , costing an annual $242 billion in medical treatments. In Master Your Diabetes,...
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National Geographic Guide to the World's Supernatural Places: More Than 250 Spine-Chilling Destinations Around the Globe

Sarah Bartlett · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Witches and demons, ghosts and vampires, aliens and voodoo spirits… from spooky to chilling to downright weird, signs of the supernatural have terrified -- and fascinated -- people for centuries. Dare to discover some of the world’s most puzzling enigmas in this remarkable...
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