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Your Blood Never Lies: How to Read a Blood Test for a Longer, Healthier Life
James B. LaValle · Square One Publishers
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
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A standard blood test indicates how well the kidneys and liver are functioning, the potential for heart disease, and a host of other vital health markers. Unfortunately, most of us cannot decipher these results ourselves, nor can we even formulate the right questions to ask about them -- or we couldn't... |
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Caitlin Doughty · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 254
Format: Hardcover
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A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty -- a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre -- took a job at a crematory,... |
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The Book of Love: Improvisations on a Crazy Little Thing
Roger Rosenblatt · Ecco
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love.In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations - romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak,... |
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Feel Better Fast and Make It Last: Unlock Your Brain's Healing Potential to Overcome Negativity, Anxiety, Anger, Stress, and Trauma
DANIEL G AMEN · Tyndale Momentum
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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If you want to feel happier, more optimistic, more joyful, and resilient, Dr. Amen s groundbreaking new book is for you.We ve all felt anxious, sad, traumatized, grief-stricken, stressed, angry, or hopeless at some point in life. It s perfectly normal to go through emotional crises or have... |
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UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World
Michele Borba · Touchstone
Pages: 262
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author Michele Borba offers a 9-step program to help parents cultivate empathy in children, from birth to young adulthood - and explains why developing a healthy sense of empathy is a key predictor of which kids will thrive and succeed in the future.Is the Selfie Syndrome Undermining... |
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The New Naked: The Ultimate Sex Education for Grown-Ups
Harry Fisch · Sourcebooks
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
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"Harry Fisch knows more about sex than anyone on earth, with the possible exception of Colin Farrell. This book will improve your love life. You should trust Harry Fisch. I do, and there are few I'd let anywhere near that subject." - A.J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling... |
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How Memory Works--and How to Make It Work for You
Robert Madigan · The Guilford Press,
Pages: 278
Format: Print book
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Do you wish you could recall the names of people you just met? What if birthdays, important errands, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind? Psychologist Robert Madigan is an expert in the "memory arts"--practical, proven methods for improving the ability to retain and use information.... |
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Creative Block: Get Unstuck, Discover New Ideas. Advice & Projects from 50 Successful Artists
Danielle Krysa · Chronicle Books; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Creative block presents the most crippling - and unfortunately universal - challenge for artists. No longer! This chunky blockbuster of a book is chock-full of solutions for overcoming all manner of artistic impediment. The blogger behind The Jealous Curator interviews 50 successful international... |
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Juice: Recipes for Juicing, Cleansing, and Living Well
Carly de Castro · Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover
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A lushly illustrated and accessible guide to juicing and juice cleansing, featuring 75 recipes for making organic juices, milks, and other concoctions at home to provide the vital nutrients a healthy body needs to function at an optimal level.Once considered a fringe practice of raw-food... |
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Walking Prey: How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery
Holly Austin Smith · Palgrave MacMillan
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
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Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America's youth easy targets for sex traffickers. Younger and younger girls are engaging in adult sexual attitudes and practices, and the pressure to conform means thousands have little self-worth and are vulnerable to exploitation.... |
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The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
David J. Hand · Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 269
Format: Hardcover
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In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions,... |
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