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Nowhere Else I Want to Be: A Memoir

Carol D Marsh · Inkshares
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

Carol D. Marsh founded, directed, and lived at Miriam's House, a Washington, DC, residence for homeless women living with AIDS. In this powerful memoir, Marsh recalls how she came to confront issues far removed from her own experience: addiction, poverty, and the institutional racism...
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131 Method: Your Personalized Nutrition Solution to Boost Metabolism, Restore Gut Health, and Lose Weight

Chalene Johnson · Hay House Inc.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Chalene Johnson, New York Times best-selling author and award-winning entrepreneur who's built and sold several multimillion-dollar lifestyle companies, offers a revolutionary fitness program with proven success based on her successful online program of the same name.Diets are dumb. You aren't.Your...
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Turbo Metabolism: 8 Weeks to a New You: Preventing and Reversing Diabetes, Obesity, Heart Disease, and Other Metabolic Diseases by Treating the Causes

Pankaj K Vij · New World Library
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback

As the modern Western lifestyle spreads around the globe, so too does metabolic syndrome - a cluster of symptoms that increases the risk of developing heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and other conditions. As author Pankaj Vij, MD demonstrates, these diseases are basically "human-made"...
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Staying Alive: The Signs That You Have to See a Doctor Right Now

Matthew Hahn · W W Norton
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

Staying Alive is the ultimate medical survival guide for the twenty-first-century patient. Written by the award-winning family physician Dr. Matthew Hahn, the book details what most effectively saves patients' lives and keeps them well. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dr. Hahn...
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Yoga Wisdom: Warrior Tales Inspiring You On and Off Your Mat

Stephanie Spence · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Essential and uplifting advice that will help you get from where you are to who you hope to become. Often referred to as The Traveling Yogini, beloved yoga teacher Stephanie Spence explores what it means to become our truest selves. Weaving her experience as a writer, mother, and PTSD...
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Pivotal Response Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders

Robert L. Koegel · Brookes Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

New content, new format!PRT guidance from infancy to adulthoodOne of the most respected and widely used autism interventions, Pivotal Response Treatment uses natural learning opportunities to modify key behaviors in children - leading to widespread positive effects on communication, behavior,...
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The Magic of Food: Live Longer and Healthier--and Lose Weight--with the Synergetic Diet

MICHAEL T MURRAY · Atria Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The world's most renowned doctor of natural medicine, co-author of the Encyclopedia of Healing Foods and The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine (Third Edition) , Dr. Michael Murray draws on his extensive knowledge of food as medicine to promote optimum health.Food affects our body, mind,...
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Yin Yoga: Stretch the Mindful Way

Kassandra Reinhardt · DK
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Return your physical, mental, and emotional selves to balance through yin yoga and its calming, healing approach. Yin yoga offers a remedy to the stress and hustle of your busy yang life. By concentrating on restorative poses that target your deeper fascia and connective tissues, you'll...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting

Heidi E Murkoff · Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pages: 656
Format: Print book

With 18.5 million copies in print, What to Expect When You're Expecting is read by 93% of women who read a pregnancy book and was named one of the 'Most Influential Books of the Last 25 Years' by USA Today. This cover-to-cover (including the cover!) new edition is filled with...
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Mistreated: Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care—and Why We're Usually Wrong

Robert Pearl · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERThe biggest problem in American health care is usDo you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest...
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One Life at a Time: An American Doctor's Memoir of AIDS in Botswana

BAXTER. · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

When Dr. Daniel Baxter arrived in Botswana in 2002, he was confident of the purity of his mission to help people with AIDS, armed with what he thought were immutable truths about life -- and himself -- that had been forged on his AIDS ward in New York City ten years earlier. But Baxter's...
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

Giulia Enders · Greystone Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

In this updated edition of a worldwide bestseller, Giulia Enders reveals the secrets and science of the digestive system -- including new research on the connection between the gut and the brain. For too long, the gut has been the body's most ignored and least appreciated organ. But it does...
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Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak

Reid Wilson · Brookings Institution Press
Pages: 298
Format: Hardcover

A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for the next great threat.In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders....
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The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions

Terry Wahls · Avery Pub Group
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

The cookbook companion to the groundbreaking The Wahls Protocol, featuring delicious, nutritionally dense recipes tailored to each level of the Wahls Paleo Diet. The Wahls Protocol has become a sensation, transforming the lives of people who suffer from autoimmune disorders. Now, in her highly...
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Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care

David A. Hyman · Cato Institute
Pages: 300
Format: Paperback

Why is the American health care system so dysfunctional and expensive? Why does the EpiPen, containing $1 worth of medicine, cost $600? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated and surprise charges that come out of the blue from out-of-network providers, or that demand...
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