Back Health and Wellness | August Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Health and Wellness  
Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America

Ayaz Virji M.D. · Convergent Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

A powerful true story about a Muslim doctor's service to a small town and the hope of overcoming our country's climate of hostility and fear.In 2013, Ayaz Virji left a comfortable job at an East Coast hospital and moved to a town of 1,400 in Minnesota, feeling called to address the shortage...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Greatest You: Face Reality, Release Negativity, and Live Your Purpose

Trent Shelton · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

"If you want to become the best you, but are unsure how to get there, start here." -- Rachel Hollis, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop ApologizingIn this remarkable, life-changing new book, renowned inspirational speaker Trent Shelton...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Louise Aronson · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but little respected stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Finding Your Best Self, Revised Edition: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both

Lisa M. Najavits PhD · The Guilford Press
Pages: 269
Format: Paperback

Addiction and trauma are two of the most common and difficult issues that people face. In this motivating book, leading expert Lisa Najavits explains the link between addiction and trauma and presents science-based self-help strategies that you can use no matter where you are in your recovery....
Read More check catalog
 
 
More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are

Elaine Welteroth · Viking
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own termsThroughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary: 375 Tinctures, Salves, Teas, Capsules, Oils, and Washes for Whole-Body Health and Wellness

JJ Pursell · Timber Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

JJ Pursell, the bestselling author of The Herbal Apothecary, is back with a complete, one-stop resource for herbal remedies that heal and nurture the whole family. Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary offers safe, trusted natural remedies written by a board certified naturopathic physician....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Someday Is Not a Day in the Week: 10 Hacks to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

Sam Horn · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Full of inspirational insights and advice, lifehacks, and real-world examples, Someday is Not a Day in the Week is CEO Sam Horn's motivational guide to help readers get what they want in life today rather than "someday."Are you:* Working, working, working?* Busy taking care...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A New Way to Food: 100 Recipes to Encourage a Healthy Relationship with Food, Nourish Your Beautiful Body, and Celebrate Real Wellness for Life

Maggie Battista · Roost Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Discover a body-positive approach to food through nourishing recipes, heart-opening stories, and helpful lessons on creating a healthy relationship with food. Maggie Battista struggled with eating and dieting her whole life, until she discovered the foods and recipes that made her finally...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through the World's Strangest Brains

HELEN THOMSON · Ecco
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the MonthIndiebound Bestseller Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson unlocks the biggest mysteries of the human brain by examining nine extraordinary casesOur brains are far stranger than we think. We take it for granted that we can remember, feel...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World: Practical Advice and Everyday Actions for a More Sustainable, Humane, and Compassionate Planet

STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

"This book belongs on every animal lover's shelf -- and it's a particularly great gift for young people who are on fire to save animals but are unsure where to start. Hooray!!" -- Sy Montgomery, author of The Good Good Pig and The Soul of an OctopusThe Animal Lover's Guide to Changing...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Atlas of Happiness: The Global Secrets of How to Be Happy

Helen Russell · Running Press Adult
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A fun, illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. Author Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly) uncovers the fascinating ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Let Me Not Be Mad: My Story of Unraveling Minds

A. K. Benjamin · Dutton
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Dr. A. K. Benjamin's years working as a clinical neuropsychologist at a London hospital, this multilayered narrative interweaves Benjamin's own sometimes shocking personal experiences with those of his mentally disordered patients.What do doctors actually think about when you list...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Complete Family Guide to Addiction: Everything You Need to Know Now to Help Your Loved One and Yourself

Thomas F. Harrison · The Guilford Press
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback

If you are struggling to help a loved one recover from addiction--and to cope with the devastating impact on the whole family--you are not alone. But until now, there has been no single book that gives the millions of families like yours the comprehensive, unbiased information you need....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Code Blue

Mike Magee · Atlantic Monthly Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

"Code Blue" is the phrase customarily announced over hospital public address systems to alert staff to an urgent medical emergency requiring immediate attention.How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Life Beyond Reason: A Father's Memoir

Chris Gabbard · Beacon Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

An unflinching and luminous memoir that explores a father's philosophical transformation when he must reconsider the questions what makes us human? and whose life is worth living?Before becoming a father, Chris Gabbard was a fast-track academic finishing his doctoral dissertation at Stanford....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

Darrell Bricker · Crown
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon decline - and that immigration will be the key to prospering in this new social, political, and economic landscape For half a century, statisticians,...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Raw Food: Fast, Fresh, Easy Vegan Food

Anat Fritz · DK
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

This raw vegan cookbook provides 65 recipes for quick, inventive meals that are bursting with vitamins.A raw food diet consists of vegan dishes made without using canned, refined, or chemically processed food, or heating anything above 118F (48C) . This means that ingredients...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years?No Time-outs Needed

Jamie Glowacki · Gallery Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting advice from the author of the bestselling Oh Crap! Potty Training. Toddlers - commonly defined as children aged between two and five years old - can be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents view as bad behavior is in fact just...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement

Rich Karlgaard · Currency
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of what it means to be a late bloomer in a culture obsessed with SAT scores and early success, and how finding one's way later in life can be an advantage to long-term achievement and happiness.We live in a society where kids and parents are obsessed with early...
Read More check catalog
 
 
How to Skimm Your Life

The Skimm · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

It might seem like everyone you know took secret classes on budgeting, owning their career, and choosing the right wine - and you were sick that day. Enter: How to Skimm Your Life. Covering everything from personal finance, to career, to stress management, global politics, and more, this...
Read More check catalog
 
 
I Love You, but I Hate Your Politics: How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous Partisan World

Jeanne Safer · All Points Books
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Do you thrust unsolicited partisan articles upon your spouse? Are you convinced that you can change your coworker's mind, if you could only argue forcefully enough? Have you gone from befriending to "defriending" the people once closest to you? Don't give up hope; Dr. Jeanne Safer...
Read More check catalog
 
 
I Really Didn't Think This Through: Tales from My So-Called Adult Life

Beth Evans · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Did you ever wish your best friend - the person you would trust with your innermost secrets, the person whose wisdom and comfort you seek in times of stress or self-doubt - could draw? Like Mindy Kaling meets Hyperbole and a Half, I Really Didn't Think This Through gets at the heart of what...
Read More check catalog
 
 
How Psychology Works: The Facts Visually Explained

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff · DK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Explore the human mind and understand the science behind how people think and act in a wide variety of everyday situations with this brand-new visual guide to applied psychology.Using straightforward definitions and clear, striking visuals, this book makes the workings of the brain easy...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Good Juju: Mojos, Rites & Practices for the Magical Soul

Najah Lightfoot · Llewellyn Publications
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback

Spiritual Rites, Spell Work, and Folk Practices to Enhance Your Well-Being and Personal Power Learn to better express your spirituality and build up your magical practice with this book's powerful spells, rituals, and tools. Designed to help you navigate whatever ups and downs life throws...
Read More check catalog