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The Answer to the Riddle Is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

David Stuart MacLean · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover

"Brilliant and painful and hilarious." - Antonya Nelson On October 17, 2002, David MacLean "woke up" on a train platform in India with no idea who he was or why he was there. No money. No passport. No identity. Taken to a mental hospital by the police, MacLean then...
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Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician

Sandeep Jauhar · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist. Hoping for the stability...
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

Martin J Blaser · Henry Holt & Co
Pages: 273
Format: Book

A critically important and startling look at the harmful effects of overusing antibiotics, from the field's leading expert Tracing one scientist's journey toward understanding the crucial importance of the microbiome, this revolutionary book will take readers to the forefront of trail-blazing...
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It's Not About the Broccoli: Three Habits to Teach Your Kids for a Lifetime of Healthy Eating

Dina Rose · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

You already know how to give your children healthy food, but the hard part is getting them to eat it. After years of research and working with parents, Dina Rose discovered a powerful truth: when parents focus solely on nutrition, their kids - surprisingly - eat poorly. But when families...
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Happy Herbivore Light & Lean: Over 150 Low-Calorie Recipes with Workout Plans for Looking and Feeling Great

Lindsay S. Nixon · BenBella Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

With easy, no-fuss recipes, the bestselling Happy Herbivore cookbooks show how easy, affordable, and delicious eating healthy can be. Now, in her latest cookbook, Happy Herbivore chef Lindsay S. Nixon provides recipes that put a special emphasis on weight-loss and a set of exercises that,...
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Weeknight Wonders: Delicious, Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less

Ellie Krieger · Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

Beloved Food Network and Cooking Channel star Ellie Krieger knows the secret to healthy eating: it has to be delicious. You won't eat right if you feel deprived. WEEKNIGHT WONDERS offers 150 recipes for your favorite foods, as delicious as ever, yet magically reworked without all the fat and cholesterol....
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Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

Matthew D. Lieberman · Crown; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

We are profoundly social creatures – more than we know.  In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food...
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Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

Chris Farrell · Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The budget battles of recent years have amplified the warnings of demographic doomsayers who predicted that a wave of baby boomers would bleed America dry, bankrupting Social Security and Medicare as they faded into an impoverished old age. On the contrary, argues award-winning journalist...
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The Alkaline Cure: Lose Weight, Gain Energy and Feel Young

Stephan Domenig · Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A clinically tested 14-day plan to help you lose weight, look younger and enhance your overall health. Our bodies can be classified as either acid or alkaline. To be healthy, feeling good and functioning well, our pH reading should be either neutral or slightly alkaline, between 7.3 and 7.5....
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

MICHAEL POLLAN · Penguin Press
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A brilliant and brave investigation by Michael Pollan, author of five New York Times best sellers, into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research...
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Why Can't My Child Stop Eating?: A Guide to Helping Your Child Overcome Emotional Overeating

Debbie Danowski · Central Recovery Press
Format: Book

Help for parents that tackles the real causes of childhood obesity and offers practical solutions Why Cant My Child Stop Eating examines the emotional roots of overeating and addresses the social emotional and physical problems of these children and their familiesWith the ever-growing childhood...
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Life & Spectrum: A revealing look at high functioning autism and asperger's syndrome

C.G. Meloy · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; First edition
Format: Print book

"Life & Spectrum", written by C.G. Meloy and illustrated by Zachary Pullen, is a unique book about living on the autism spectrum. It is not clinical, nor is it a biography. It is an experientially informed explanation of what living with autism can be like. The writing is candid,...
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The Gift of Adversity: The Unexpected Benefits of Life's Difficulties, Setbacks, and Imperfections

Norman E Rosenthal M.D. · Tarcher
Format: Hardcover

The noted research psychiatrist explores how life's disappointments and difficulties provide us with the lessons we need to become better, bigger, and more resilient human beings. Adversity is an irreducible fact of life.  Although we can and should learn from all experiences,...
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Beautiful Bodies

Kimberly Rae Miller · Little A
Pages: 234
Format: Paperback

From the bestselling and beloved author of Coming Clean, a brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.Like most people, Kimberly Rae Miller does not have the perfect body, but that hasn't stopped her from trying. And trying. And trying some more....
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