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The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don't Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line

Jennifer Margulis · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, an eye-opening work of investigative journalism that challenges our common wisdom about pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of a baby's life, showing how the mother and child's wellbeing are often undermined...
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Expectation Hangover: Overcoming Disappointment in Work, Love, and Life

Christine Hassler · New World Library; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

When our expectations are met and things go according to plan, we feel accomplished, in control, and on track. But when life does not live up to our expectations, we end up with an Expectation Hangover.Expectation Hangovers happen when a desired result is not met, an outcome is achieved...
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Andrew Solomon · Scribner
Pages: 576
Format: Print book

With uncommon humanity, candor, wit, and erudition, award-winning author Andrew Solomon takes the reader on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition...
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The Swift Diet: 4 Weeks to Mend the Belly, Lose the Weight, and Get Rid of the Bloat

Kathie Madonna Swift · Plume; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

"Kathie Swift [is] a leader in the functional nutrition and functional medicine revolution." - Susan S. Blum, MD, MPH, author of The Immune System Recovery Plan The latest research on the gut microbiome, the bacteria that lives in the gut, confirms what Kathie Madonna Swift has known...
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The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief: A Step-by-Step Guide to Reducing and Eliminating Chronic Pain

Nick Ortner · Hay House
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. Lower back pain alone accounts for more than $50 billion of lost work time and worker's compensation claims annually. And let's consider the fact that there are 600,000 knee replacement surgeries performed each year in the United...
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The Hormone Myth: How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down

Robyn Stein DeLuca PhD · New Harbinger Publications
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback

It's time for women to reject the "hormone myth" and own their emotions in a healthy and realistic way. This provocative book exposes pervasive myths about women's hormones and shows how flawed, obsolete research and sexism have combined to keep women "in their place."...
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The Cost of Cutting: A Surgeon Reveals the Truth Behind a Multibillion-Dollar Industry

Paul A. Ruggieri M.D. · Berkley; 1 edition
Format: Book

Why is surgery so expensiveSurgeon Paul A Ruggieri reveals little-known truths about his professionand the hidden flaws of our healthcare systemin this compelling and troubling account of real patients real doctors and how money influences medical decisions behind the scenes Even many well-informed...
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Yoga for Life: A Journey to Inner Peace and Freedom

Colleen Saidman Yee · Atria Books
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

From a rebellious young woman with a dangerous heroin habit to a globe-trotting fashion model to "First Lady of Yoga" (The New York Times) , Colleen Saidman Yee tells the remarkable story of how she found herself through the healing power of yoga - and then inspired others to do the same.I've...
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Get Started: Yoga

Nita Patel · DK; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Have you always wanted to learn yoga, but dont know how to get started? Get Started Yoga is your perfect, patient teacher, taking you from complete beginner to being able to master 49 yoga poses and 12 sequences. Start simple with basic poses including downward facing dog and the cobra...
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The Brain Book: Development, Function, Disorder, Health

Dr. Ken Ashwell · Firefly Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The brain (and mental health) is the most important medical issue of our time. Just two handfuls in size and made of billions of nerve and ganglial cells, the living brain controls our thoughts, movements, behavior and emotions. It is the seat of our consciousness, yet scientists...
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The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol

Dr. Sara Gottfried · Scribner
Pages: 409
Format: Hardcover

A Harvard physician's scientifically proven method to improve your physical and mental health by optimizing your hormones in your thirties, forties, and beyond.All too often women are told that feeling moody, asexual, tapped out, dried up, stressed out, and sleep deprived is just a part...
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Prescription for Nutritional Healing: the A to Z Guide to Supplements

Phyllis A. Balch CNC · Avery; Original edition
Format: Paperback

Completely updated for the 21st century-a convenient, pocket-sized edition of the nation's most trusted guide to holistic health. Since its initial publication more than twenty years ago, millions of people have turned to Prescription for Nutritional Healing for answers to their holistic...
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The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up: A Breakthrough Medical Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

Steven Masley · Grand Central Pub
Pages: 387
Format: Print book

THE 30-DAY HEART TUNE-UP takes readers step by step through a revolutionary program to tune up their hearts, energy, waistlines, and sex lives, with 60 delicious recipes to help jump-start a heart-healthy diet. Cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of Americans today. But, the good news...
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8 Keys to Raising the Quirky Child: How to Help a Kid Who Doesn't

Mark Bowers · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

Tips and strategies for parents of kids who are "different" than all the rest. A quirky child experiences difficulty fitting in and connecting with others usually due to an interpersonal style or behavior that stands out from the other kids. Maybe they are obsessed with a topic...
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Catching Cancer: The Quest for its Viral and Bacterial Causes

Claudia Cornwall · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Catching Cancer introduces readers to the investigators who created a medical revolution—a new way of looking at cancer and its causes. Featuring interviews with notable scientists such as Harald zur Hausen, Barry Marshall, Robin Warren, and others, the book tells the story of their struggles,...
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