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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life

JESSICA NUTIK M D ZITTER · AVERY PUB Group
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

An ICU and Palliative Care specialist featured in the Netflix documentary Extremis offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest levelIn medical school, no one teaches you how to let a patient die. Jessica Zitter became a doctor because...
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Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine

KURT M D NEWMAN · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking medical memoir by one of our nation's leading pediatric surgeons - the visionary head of Children's National - for fans of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande."If you did nothing but read the astounding, miraculous and occasionally crushing stories that Dr. Newman so vividly...
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Pretty Intense: The 90-Day Mind, Body and Food Plan that will absolutely Change Your Life

DANICA PATRICK · Avery
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

America's NASCAR standout offers a 90-day program to sculpt your body, calm your mind, and achieve your greatest goalsEverything Danica Patrick does is Pretty Intense. A top athlete in her field, not to mention a fan favorite and the first woman to rule in her male-dominated sport,...
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Pregnancy Day By Day, 3rd Edition

DK. · DK
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

For expectant parents who want to know everything about their developing baby at every stage, Pregnancy Day by Day provides a daily countdown to the date of delivery. Covering each day of pregnancy in detail, as well as labor, birth, and life with a new baby, Pregnancy Day by Day is an unprecedented...
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Body Fuel: Calorie-Cycle Your Way to Reduced Body Fat and Greater Muscle Definition

Mark Lauren · Ballantine Books, 2016.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

A no-frills, fail-safe, easy-to-follow "calorie-cycling" eating plan designed to jumpstart your metabolism, stimulate weight loss, define your body, and keep you fit for life - from the bestselling author of You Are Your Own Gym FUEL UP, BURN FAT International fitness phenomenon...
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir

Simon Fitzmaurice · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

"Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming." - Alan RickmanA luminous memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us "a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more,...
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Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records

Adam Tanner · Beacon Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

How the hidden trade in our sensitive medical information became a multibillion-dollar business, but has done little to improve our health-care outcomesHidden from consumers, patient medical data has become a multibillion-dollar worldwide trade between our health-care providers, drug companies,...
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Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World

Benjamin Reiss · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds answers in sleep's hidden history--one that leads to our present, sleep-obsessed...
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Target 100: The World's Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps

Liz Josefsberg · BenBella Books
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover

"When I was losing weight, Liz was more than my coach; she was my rock, and I couldn't have done it without her. She just got it, because she'd been through it herself (and helped about a million other people through it, too) . Target 100 is Liz in book form - smart, supportive,...
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The Diabetes Carbohydrate & Fat Gram Guide: Quick, Easy Meal Planning Using Carbohydrate and Fat Gram Counts

Lea Ann Holzmeister · American Diabetes Association
Pages: 736
Format: Paperback

The fifth edition of this all-time bestseller is back in a new edition - fully updated and with nearly 8,000 menu and food items! It includes complete nutrition information on everything from fruits and vegetables to fast food and prepackaged/frozen meals. Avoid inaccurate and crowd-sourced...
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Old Age: A Beginner's Guide

Michael Kinsley · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 160
Format: eBook

Vanity Fair columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked "Exit."The notorious baby boomers - the largest age cohort in history - are approaching the end and starting to plan their final moves in the game of life. Now they are asking: What was that...
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Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain

Joel M D Salinas · Harper One
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

A doctor with a rare - seemingly superhuman - neurological trait takes us on a compelling tour deep into the human brain in this blend of memoir and scientific exploration that combines the compassionate wisdom of Oliver Sacks and the personal revelations of Jill Bolte Taylor's My Stroke...
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The Everything Guide to the Carb Cycling Diet: An Effective Diet Plan to Lose Weight and Boost Your Metabolism

Matt Dustin · Adams Media
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A unique food plan to drop the weight and fuel your body! If you've ever struggled to lose weight on traditional low-carb or low-fat diets, you know the frustration that comes with cravings and eventually gaining the weight back. Enter the carb cycling diet! Carb cycling is a unique...
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A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life

Lauren Marks · Simon and Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

For fans of Brain on Fire and My Stroke of Insight, an incredible first-person account of one woman's journey to regaining her language and identity after a brain aneurysm affects her ability to communicate.Lauren Marks was twenty-seven, touring a show in Scotland with her friends,...
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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

"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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