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Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

Jeremy A. Greene · Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Generic drugs are now familiar objects in clinics, drugstores, and households around the world. We like to think of these tablets, capsules, patches, and ointments as interchangeable with their brand-name counterparts why pay more for the same? And yet they are not quite the same. They...
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Why Good Kids Act Cruel: The Hidden Truth about the Pre-Teen Years

Carl Pickhardt Ph.D. · Sourcebooks, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Book

Why do many good children treat one another so badly? This is a question parents eventually face and most start thinking about as their children prepare for high school. But the hard truth is, high school is too late. The pre-teen years are actually when it begins, when the cruelty is even...
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

G Seth Shostak · National Geographic
Pages: 309
Format: Print book

Aliens are big in America. Whether they've arrived via rocket, flying saucer, or plain old teleportation, they've been invading, infiltrating, or inspiring us for decades, and they've fascinated moviegoers and television watchers for more than fifty years. About half of us believe...
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Walking Home: A Pilgrimage from Humbled to Healed

Sonia Choquette · Hay House, Inc.; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Finding Forgiveness and Freedom on the Camino de Santiago
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Do You Have a Tipped Uterus: 69 Things Your Gynecologist Wishes You Knew

Melissa Wolf · Morgan James Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Did you know, every woman has a tipped uterus, and ovarian cysts are usually normal (even when they burst)? Have you ever wondered how to balance your hormones, why you have to repeat yourself at the doctor’s office or why your yeast infection keeps coming back? Have you agonized...
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Sodium Girl's Limitless Low-Sodium Cookbook

Jessica Goldman Foung · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

The essential cookbook for anyone who follows a low-sodium diet (and enjoys throwing dinner parties)Millions of people live with hypertension or chronic kidney disease, and for them, eating a diet low in sodium is a vital part of maintaining good health. And, on average, Americans consumer...
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A World Without Cancer: The Making of a New Cure and the Real Promise of Prevention

Margaret I. Cuomo · Rodale Books
Format: Paperback

This year, nearly 1.6 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed and more than 1,500 people will die per day. We’ve been asked to accept the disappointing strategy to “manage cancer as a chronic disease.” We’ve allowed pharmaceutical companies to position cancer...
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The Master Key: Qigong Secrets for Vitality, Love, and Wisdom

Robert Peng · Sounds True, Inc.,
Pages: 303
Format: Print book

It's 1972 in the industrial city of Xiangtan, China. A frail child with a heart condition sneaks into a hotel boiler room and befriends the elderly yet vibrant attendant, who reveals his true identity as a revered Qigong and martial arts master. He heals the boy and, for the next 13 years,...
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Blood: The Stuff of Life

Lawrence Hill · House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback

In Blood, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries, and fulfills the same functions in every human being. However,...
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Healing superfoods for anti-aging : stay younger, live longer

Karen Ansel · Hearst Books
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

We know that eating well can make us slimmer and healthier but it profoundly affects our health and longevity, too . This life-changing book, written by top nutritionist Karen Ansel RD, is an anti-aging plan made easy. Fast moving and filled with fun nuggets of easy-to-follow advice, Healing...
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The Asperkid's Launch Pad: Home Design to Empower Everyday Superheroes

Jennifer Cook O'Toole · Jessica Kingsley Pub; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

For Asperkids, home is both their protected lair and their launch pad into a neurotypical world. In this unique book, Jennifer O'Toole provides parents with all the help they need in planning their home environment to encourage their Asperkid superheroes to soar.
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Breathing Space: Twelve Lessons for the Modern Woman

Katrina Repka · Hachette Books; 1 edition
Format: Print book

"This is the story of a year I spent in New York, studying with Yoga Master Alan Finger." When Katrina Repka moved to New York, she was eager to shed her past and begin a new life, but she soon discovered that her old problems had followed her to the big city, and that instead...
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Good Housekeeping Doctors' Secrets: Fight Disease, Relieve Pain, and Live a Healthy Life with Practical Advice from 100 Top Medical Experts

Sari Harrar · Hearst Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

According to a study by Emory University, doctors live an average of five years longer than the rest of us. They know what it takes to keep themselves healthy - and this book shows you how to think and act like one of them. Award-winning journalist Sari Harrar checks in with more than 100 top medical...
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The Young Skin Diet

Michelle Lee · Salut Studio
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

JAMES BEARD BOOK AWARD NOMINATED AUTHOR
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Gentle Energy Touch: The Beginner's Guide to Hands-On Healing

Barbara E. Savin C. Ht · Conari Press
Pages: 240
Format: Print book

Imagine being able to utilize the power of your mind for the purpose of healing with Universal Energy--just by asking. Gentle Energy Touch, a form of energy medicine pioneered by Barbara Savin, does just that by using intention to begin the healing process of an individual. In Gentle Energy...
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