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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine
Paul A. M.D. Offit · HarperCollins ; Smithsonian Books
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover |
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In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.Dr.... |
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Health and Nutrition for Dogs and Cats: A Guide for Pet Parents
David G. Wellock · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover |
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While the internet provides pet parents with a great deal of information, finding and understanding that information can be like wading through a bog at midnight without a flashlight. In spite of the internet, pet parents remain desperate for valid resources. Health and Nutrition for Dogs... |
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Keeping Your Kids Out of the Emergency Room: A Guide to Childhood Injuries and Illnesses
Christopher M. Johnson · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover |
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Last year America's 76 million children made 27 million trips to hospital emergency departments - one for every three children. That represents a lot of fevers, coughs, sore ears, twisted ankles, and broken bones, plus the wide gamut of other illnesses and injuries children can experience.... |
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Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined
Scott Barry Kaufman · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance... |
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Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives
Tom Farley MD · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited... |
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Complete Family Nutrition
DK Publishing · DK; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Keeping our families healthy and nourished can be difficult in today's fast-paced, eat-on-the-go lifestyle. It can be confusing to figure out who in your family needs-and doesn't need-which nutrients as they grow. Complete Family Nutrition is here to help. It is a one-stop visual... |
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Green Vanilla Tea: One Family's Extraordinary Journey of Love, Hope, and Remembering
Marie Williams · New Harbinger Publications
Format: Paperback |
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Green Vanilla Tea is a true story of love and courage in the face of a deadly and little understood illness. With literary finesse, compassion, and a powerful gift of storytelling, Marie Williams writes poignantly of her husband Dominic’s struggles with early onset dementia and amyotrophic... |
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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
Rob Dunn · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover |
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The secret history of our most vital organ--the human heartThe Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which... |
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Generation Rx: A Story of Dope, Death, and America's Opiate Crisis
Erin Marie Daly · Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover |
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What had happened to my baby brother? How did a tiny little pill shatter our family? When did we first begin losing Pat? These are the harrowing questions that plagued Erin Marie Daly after her youngest brother Pat, an OxyContin addict, was found dead of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty.... |
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Creativity: The Perfect Crime
Philippe Petit · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 209
Format: Hardcover |
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In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artist's Way, a new manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible. Since well before his epic 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first and foremost... |
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