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Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year

Kjerstin Gruys · Avery
Format: Hardcover

A scholar fashionista and bride-to-be spends a year without mirrors to get a better view of herself her life and whats really important When Kjerstin Gruys became engaged to the love of her life she was thrilleduntil it came time to shop for a wedding dress Having overcome an eating disorder...
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What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

Danielle Ofri · Beacon Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care Physicians are assumed to be objective, rational beings, easily able to detach as they guide patients and families through some of lifes most challenging moments....
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Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success

Stephen R Covey · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 194
Format: Print book

From Stephen R. Covey - the late, legendary author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - a new set of rules for achieving a happy and fulfilling life of primary greatness.

Many of us are hurting. We have chronic problems, dissatisfactions, and disappointments. Although...
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The FibroManual: A Complete Fibromyalgia Treatment Guide for You and Your Doctor

Ginevra Liptan · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The most up-to-date, comprehensive treatment guide to fibromyalgia, by a renowned physician who herself has the condition

If you suffer from fibromyalgia and are struggling to get help from your doctor, you're far from alone. Ten million Americans experience the widespread...
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Up: How Positive Outlook Can Transform Our Health and Aging

Hilary Tindle · Hudson Street Press
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

Why looking up matters A positive attitude is important, but until now we didn't know how important. In Up, a practicing physician and NIH-funded researcher draws on her research and experience to show that our outlook on life - our unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves,...
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Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms

Susan Golombok · Cambridge University Press
Pages: 282
Format: Hardcover

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF),...
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Brad's Raw Made Easy: The Fast, Delicious Way to Lose Weight, Optimize Health, and Live Mostly in the Raw

Brad Gruno · Random House Inc
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover

HEAL, ENERGIZE, AND SLIM DOWN WITH NATURE'S ORIGINAL FAST FOODBrad Gruno is someone who loved a good steak and never could have imagined going raw, until he did and it changed his life, his health, and his career. Three months after going raw he was forty pounds lighter and had eradicated...
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You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Life-Changing Lessons from Heaven

Theresa Caputo · Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

For fans of TLC's Long Island Medium and anyone interested in the big questions of life, death, and finding out what's important in between, New York Times bestselling author and medium Theresa Caputo shares the insights and lessons she's learned through her exceptional gift...
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Obsessed: America's Food Addiction--and My Own

Mika Brzezinski · Weinstein Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity On Morning Joe she is often so adamant about improving Americarsquos eating habits that some people have dubbed her ldquothe food Nazirdquo What they donrsquot know is that Mika wages a personal fight against unhealthy eating habits every day and in this...
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The 20-Minute Body: 20 Minutes, 20 Days, 20 Inches

Brett Hoebel · Harperwave
Pages: 359
Format: Print book

The former Biggest Loser star and celebrity trainer presents a high intensity workout and eating plan that delivers big results in just 20 minutes a day.

From his days as a trainer on The Biggest Loser, Bret Hoebel knows that when people log hours on a treadmill, they'll lose weight....

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The Sensory Child Gets Organized: Proven Systems for Rigid, Anxious, or Distracted Kids

Carolyn Dalgliesh · Touchstone; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Silver Winner, National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA)—Parenting Resources Gold Honoree, Mom’s Choice Awards—Parenting–Special and Exceptional Needs Every year, tens of thousands of young children are diagnosed with disorders that make it difficult for them...
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Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

Linda Bender · North Atlantic Books

How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake...
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Almost Anorexic: Is My

Ph.D. Jennifer J Thomas · Hazelden
Format: Paperback

Millions of men and women struggle with disordered eating. Some stand at the mirror wondering how they can face the day when they look so fat. Others binge, purge, or exercise compulsively. Many skip meals, go on diet after diet, or cut out entire food groups. Still, they are never thin...
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Sleep: What Every Parent Needs to Know

The American Academy of Pediatrics · American Academy Of Pediatrics
Pages: 219
Format: Paperback

Sooner or later, most parents face challenges at bedtime. From infants and toddlers, to school-age kids and adolescents, sleeptime problems can affect everyone in the family. And no matter what your child's difficulty may be - getting to sleep, staying asleep, bed-wetting, fears or nightmares...
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The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level

Jessica Wapner · The Experiment; 1 edition
Format: Audiobook

A Wall Street Journal 10 Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “Among a small cluster of very good recent books on cancer.” —The New York TimesPhiladelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist,...
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