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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Sonia Shah · Sarah Crichton Books
Pages: 271
Format: Print book
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Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they've never been seen before.... |
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The Good News About What's Bad for You . . . The Bad News About What's Good for You
Jeff Wilser · Flatiron Books, 2015.
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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Eat more steak, drink more whiskey, take more naps, lay off all the kale, and throw out your multivitamins and standing desk. In The Good News About What's Bad For You-The Bad News About What's Good for You author Jeff Wilser shares all the research that allows you to celebrate all your... |
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Drunks: An American History
Christopher M Finan · Beacon Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present dayToday, millions of Americans are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing... |
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Saving Charlotte: A Mother and the Power of Intuition
PIA DE JONG · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Best-selling author Pia de Jong's vivid memoir about her newborn daughter's battle with leukemia and the startling decision that led to her recovery.On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdam's old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed... |
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No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming-of-Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A brutally frank memoir about doctors and patients in a health care system that puts the poor at risk.In medical charts, the term "N.A.D." (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable. The phrase also aptly describes America's medical system when it comes to treating... |
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Before I Forget: Love, Hope, Help, and Acceptance in Our Fight Against Alzheimer's
Michael Shnayerson · Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Pages: 336
Format: eBook
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"I know where I'm going. I'm still myself. I just can't remember things as well as I once did. So on short trips, I work hard not to be confused. I'll say to myself, What are we going to do? How long are we staying? It's like I'm talking to my other self - the self... |
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore · Sourcebooks
Pages: 479
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller!"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark dangerThe Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face... |
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Fix: Freedom from All Your Addictions
RUSSELL BRAND · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery"This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification... |
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The Acid Watcher Diet: A 28-Day Reflux Prevention and Healing Program
Jonathan Aviv · Harmony Books
Pages: 293
Format: Print book
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Do you suffer from abdominal bloating; a chronic, nagging cough or sore throat; postnasal drip; a feeling of a lump in the back of your throat; allergies; or shortness of breath? If so, odds are that you are experiencing acid reflux without recognizing its silent symptoms, which can lead... |
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Undoctored: How You Can Be Smarter Than Your Doctor and Discover Real Health on Your Own
WILLIAM M D DAVIS · Rodale Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Conventional health care is no longer working in your favor -- but thankfully, Dr. Davis is.In his New York Times bestseller Wheat Belly, Dr. William Davis changed the lives of millions of people by teaching them to remove grains from their diets to reverse years of chronic health damage.... |
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Juice It to Lose It: Lose Weight and Feel Great in Just 5 Days
Joe Cross · Greenleaf Book Group Llc
Pages: 160
Format: Print book
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Jump-Start Your Life in Just Five Days! Juice It to Lose It! is the all-new, easy juice diet from The New York Times best-selling author and creator of the documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. Joe Cross has done all the hard work already--all you have to do is commit to five short... |
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