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New Titles - Health, Mind & Body
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Lies My Doctor Told Me Second Edition: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health
Berry, Ken · Victory Belt Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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Has your doctor lied to you? Eat low-fat and high-carb, including plenty of "healthy" whole grains - does that sound familiar? Perhaps this is what you were told at your last doctor's appointment or visit with a nutritionist, or perhaps it is something you read online when... |
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I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Ikpi, Bassey · Harper Perennial
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview SelectionA deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi's experiences navigating Bipolar II and anxiety throughout the course of her life.Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Four years later, she and her mother... |
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Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
Reinhardt, Uwe E. · Princeton University Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health care is so expensive€"and why it doesn€™t have to beUwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan,... |
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Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America
Abraham, Laurie Kaye · University of Chicago Press
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
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North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities, Yet, it is one of the sickest, most medically underserved communities in the country.Mama Might Be Better Off Dead immerses readers in the lives... |
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This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America
Jonathan Foiles · Belt Publishing
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
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When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between a mental health or policy track. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. While helping poor patients from the South and West sides of Chicago, he realized individual therapy... |
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Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn, and Thrive Outside the Lines
Mooney, Jonathan · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Confessional and often hilarious, in Normal Sucks a neuro-diverse writer, advocate, and father meditates on his life, offering the radical message that we should stop trying to fix people and start empowering them to succeedJonathan Mooney blends anecdote, expertise, and memoir to present... |
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What You Must Know About Dry Eye: How to Prevent, Stop, or Reverse Dry Eye Disease
Jeffrey · Square One Publishers
Format: Paperback
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While the condition known as dry eye may sound like a minor problem, it can cause tremendous discomfort, even pain. Worse, this disorder can lead to eye fatigue, blurred vision, and difficulty driving, especially at night. In a healthy eye, lubricating tears continuously bathe the cornea... |
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My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver
Martin J Schreiber · Book Publishers Network
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
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Former governor of Wisconsin Marty Schreiber has seen his beloved wife, Elaine, gradually transform from the woman who had gracefully entertained in the Executive Residence to one who sometimes no longer recognizes him as her husband. In My Two Elaines: Learning, Coping, and Surviving as an Alzheimer's... |
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Behind the Laughter: A Comedian's Tale of Tragedy and Hope
Griffith, Anthony · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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"I was living every comic's dream ... with a nightmare attached."Anthony Griffith, a stand-up comic from Chicago's South Side, has lived on the borderline of comedy and tragedy. At the very time his career as a stand-up comedian was taking off, and he had finally achieved... |
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