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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
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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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The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work
Yoni Freedhoff · Harmony; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Despite the success stories publicized by Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, and others, 90% of all diets end in failure. How can fix the way we lose weight so that we make results last? Weight loss expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff has uncovered the flawed thinking that sabotages... |
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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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Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love
Bret Baier · Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Special Heart is a deeply touching personal story told through the eyes of a journalist as he faces the most daunting challenge in life -- far more frightening than reporting from battlefields, infinitely more momentous than interviewing newsmakers of the day: caring for his critically... |
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Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine
Ellen K Feder · Indiana University Press,
Pages: 261
Format: Print book
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Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand "the problem" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to "correct" atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychological... |
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Deskbound: Sitting is the New Smoking
Kelly Starrett · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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You'd better stand up for this bit of news.Sitting can wreak havoc on your health, and not just in the form of minor aches and pains. Recent studies show that too much sitting contributes to a host of diseases - from obesity and diabetes to cancer and depression. The typical seated office... |
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It Was Me All Along: A Memoir
Andie Mitchell · Clarkson Potter
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA heartbreakingly honest, endearing memoir of incredible weight loss by a young food blogger who battles body image issues and overcomes food addiction to find self-acceptance. All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter,... |
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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
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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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The Magic Ten and Beyond: Daily Spiritual Practice for Greater Peace and Well-Being
Sharon Gannon · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
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From the co-founder of the yoga method that launched yoga into the mega-popular mind-body practice that it is today (the Jivamukti method) , here is a simple guide to developing your own individualized daily spiritual practice for greater peace and well-being. This powerful little book... |
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Eat, Drink, and Be Wary: How Unsafe Is Our Food?
Charles M. Duncan · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Food safety has fast become one of the nation's top issues. Three thousand people die each year in the U.S. from foodborne illnesses. Another 48 million are sickened annually and our government fails to protect us. Many foods and additives that we eat every day have been banned for years... |
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The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction
Michel Foucault · Pantheon Books
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
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The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. |
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Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can't Keep Your Food Safe ... and How You Can
Michael Booth · Natl Book Network
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
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Americans are afraid of their food. And for good reason. In 2011, the deadliest food-borne illness outbreak in a century delivered killer listeria bacteria on innocuous cantaloupe never before suspected of carrying that pathogen. Nearly 50 million Americans will get food poisoning this... |
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