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Toxin Toxout: Getting Harmful Chemicals Out of Our Bodies and Our World

Bruce Lourie · St. Martin's Press; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

How do I get this stuff out of me?Bruce Lourie and Rick Smith, two of North America's environmental leaders, have been asked this question on an almost daily basis since the publication of their runaway international bestseller, Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday...
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4-Minute Fit: The Metabolism Accelerator for the Time-Crunched, Deskbound, and Stressed Out

Siphiwe Baleka · Touchstone
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

From Yale-educated truck driver and fitness guru Siphiwe Baleka, a revolutionary metabolism-spiking program for anyone who feels they don't have enough time, equipment, or money to get in shape and lose those extra pounds.When Siphiwe Baleka, who had once been a NCAA Division I athlete,...
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Mind Without a Home: A Memoir of Schizophrenia

Kristina Morgan · Hazelden
Format: Print book

Experience the inner world of a woman with schizophrenia in this brutally honest, lyrical memoir.Have you ever wondered what it is like in the mind of a person with schizophrenia? How can one survive day after day unable to distinguish between one's inner nightmares and the everyday...
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Health and Healing after Traumatic Brain Injury: Understanding the Power of Family, Friends, Community, and Other Support Systems (Disability Insights and Issues)

Heidi Muenchberger; Elizabeth Kendall; John Wright · Praeger
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

Health and Healing after Traumatic Brain Injury: Understanding the Power of Family, Friends, Community, and Other Support SystemS≪/i> stresses the importance of an integrated and systems approach to healing. This book offers a unique combination of practitioner perspectives on what works...
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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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Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments

Gina Perry · New Press, The
Format: Hardcover

When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause Milgram reported that fully percent of the volunteers had repeatedly...
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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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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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The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

Jimmy Moore · Victory Belt Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Thousands of books have been written about the latest and greatest diets that will help people lose weight and improve health. But a key element in any successful nutritional health program is a tried-and-true method that most people haven't thought about - yet it could be revolutionary...
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Yoga for Warriors: Basic Training in Strength, Resilience, and Peace of Mind

Beryl Bender Birch · Sounds True; 1 edition
Format: Book

Here is a book for finding your way as a warrior and adapting to a peaceful life at home. The techniques of yoga and meditation have extensive scientific support for their effectiveness in relaxing the stress response, sharpening mental acuity, boosting immunity and recovery time, and promoting...
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Get Inside Your Doctor's Head: Ten Commonsense Rules for Making Better Decisions about Medical Care

Phillip K. Peterson · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

With so many medical tests and treatments and so much scientific and medical information—some of it contradictory—how can people make the best medical decisions?Most medical decisions, it turns out, are based on common sense. In this short and easy-to-read book, Dr. Phillip...
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A Woman's Guide to Living with Heart Disease

Carolyn Thomas · Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 212
Format: Hardcover

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women worldwide. Yet most people are still unaware that heart disease is not just a man's problem. Carolyn Thomas, a heart attack survivor herself, is on a mission to educate women about their heart health. Based on her popular Heart Sisters...
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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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