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Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Medical Care You Want and Need
Archelle Georgiou - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Making healthcare decisions is hard, but making the right choices has never mattered more.Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Care You Want and Need gives you the tools you need to choose the best medical care - for you. Archelle Georgiou, MD, explains her CARES model, the formula... |
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Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of The Power of Habit comes a fascinating book that explores the science of productivity, and why managing how you think is more important than what you think - with an appendix of real-world lessons to apply to your... |
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Dressing on the Side
Jaclyn London - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Hardcover
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Whether it's a new fad, "detox" diet, news report or a celebrity-endorsed supplement, the constant flow of diet information is cluttered, conflicting, and often devoid of scientific research-- leaving millions of us confused, overwhelmed, and feeling totally helpless... |
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Shapeshifters: A Journey Through the Changing Human Body
GAVIN FRANCIS - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human lifeTo be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo--such... |
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How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can
Amy B. Scher - Llewellyn Publications
Format: Paperback
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Relax your body. Calm your mind. Change your life. This remarkable book is full of hands-on tips and techniques that illustrate one profound truth: healing from anxiety is possible. Join Amy B. Scher, author of the bestselling How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can (9780738745541) as she shares... |
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Can I Keep Drinking?: How You Can Decide When Enough is Enough
Cyndi Turner - Morgan James
Format: Print book
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Can I Keep Drinking? How You Can Decide When Enough is Enough is for the 90-million-plus people who struggle with alcohol in the United States. Most will avoid getting help for fear of being labeled an alcoholic, forced into treatment, made to attend 12-step meetings, and have to stop drinking... |
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How to Be Well When You're Not: Practices and Recipes to Maximize Health in Illness
Ariane Resnick - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback
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No matter how you feel right now, Ariane Resnick believes you CAN feel better"From the science behind gratitude to breathing exercises, this book is a valuable tool for all who seek better health." -- Terry Wahls, MD, author of The Wahls ProtocolResnick spent half a decade seriously... |
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The Biggest Loser Bootcamp: The 8-Week Get-Real, Get-Results Weight Loss Program
The Biggest Loser - Oxmoor House
Format: Print book
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Every week, millions of viewers tune in to NBC's hit show The Biggest Loser to watch as contestants lose weight, build confidence and change their lives. Now that same comprehensive training and advice can be yours at home! Developed by the trainers and experts from the show, and based... |
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Cardiovascular Health: How Conventional Wisdom is Failing Us
Jay N. Cohn M.D. - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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We all think we are well-informed about cardiovascular health. But is what we think we know really accurate? Here, a renowned cardiologist describes the biological processes leading to heart and blood vessel disease. He challenges the conventional view that risk factors, poor diet, and lack... |
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The Young Skin Diet
Michelle Lee - Salut Studio
Format: Print book
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Alzheimer's with My Mother, Eilleen
Jim Dicke II - Orange Frazer Pr
Format: Hardcover
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Eight or so decades ago, Eilleen Webster was working a math problem on the blackboard of her Dayton, Ohio, classroom when an eraser bounced off a few feet to one side of her. The eraser had been launched by a classmate, Jim Dicke, who with characteristic directness had decided this would... |
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Live Long And . . .: What I Learned Along the Way
William Shatner - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Book
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Star Trek legend and veteran author William Shatner discusses the meaning of life, finding value in work, and living well whatever your age."I have always felt," William Shatner says early in his newest memoir, that "like the great comedian George Burns, who lived... |
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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living
Meik Wiking - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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Embrace Hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) and become happier with this definitive guide to the Danish philosophy of comfort, togetherness, and well-being.Why are Danes the happiest people in the world? The answer, says Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, is Hygge.... |
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Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
Lydia Kang - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover
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What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used... |
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The Doctor Will See You Now: Recognizing and Treating Endometriosis
Tamer Seckin - Turner
Format: Print book
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Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium - the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus - sheds, but does not exit a woman's body during her period. Instead, it grows outside of the uterus, spreading to organs and nerves in and around the pelvic region. The resulting pain is so physically... |
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
NINA RIGGS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An exquisite memoir about how to live - and love - every day with "death in the room," from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young sons and the direct descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the tradition of When Breath Becomes Air."We are breathless, but we love the days.... |
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Pregnancy Day By Day, 3rd Edition
DK. - DK
Format: Hardcover
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For expectant parents who want to know everything about their developing baby at every stage, Pregnancy Day by Day provides a daily countdown to the date of delivery. Covering each day of pregnancy in detail, as well as labor, birth, and life with a new baby, Pregnancy Day by Day is an unprecedented... |
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The Complete Diabetes Cookbook: 400 Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Eating What You Love
America's Test Kitchen (Firm) - America's Test Kitchen
Format: Paperback
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Take control of managing diabetes with 400-plus healthy and creative diabetes-friendly recipes. Meticulously tested recipes limit unhealthy carbs and fats, sodium, and added sugars and maximize nutrition and flavor. Every recipe lists complete nutritional information for easy reference.Cooking... |
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The Doctor Will See You Now: Recognizing and Treating Endometriosis
Tamer Seckin - Turner
Format: Print book
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Endometriosis materializes when the endometrium - the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus - sheds, but does not exit a woman's body during her period. Instead, it grows outside of the uterus, spreading to organs and nerves in and around the pelvic region. The resulting pain is so physically... |
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Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
Reid Wilson - Brookings Institution Press
Format: Hardcover
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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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Healing Children: A Surgeon's Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine
KURT M D NEWMAN - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking medical memoir by one of our nation's leading pediatric surgeons - the visionary head of Children's National - for fans of Jerome Groopman and Atul Gawande."If you did nothing but read the astounding, miraculous and occasionally crushing stories that Dr. Newman so vividly... |
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Conceivability: What I Learned Exploring the Frontiers of Fertility
Elizabeth L Katkin - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Part memoir, part guide, this personal and deeply informative account of one womans gripping journey through the global fertility industry in search of the solution to her own "unexplained infertility" exposes eye-opening information about the medical, financial, legal, scientific,... |
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The End of Heart Disease: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Joel Fuhrman - Harper One, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The End of Diabetes, and The End of Dieting presents a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse heart disease, the leading cause of death in America - coinciding with the author's new medical study... |
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark... |
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The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
Angelo E Volandes - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved... |
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The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
Christie Watson - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touched Christie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down... |
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Changing Normal: How I Helped My Husband Beat Cancer
Marilu Henner - Gallery Books, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author and beloved actor from the sitcom Taxi, Marilu Henner delivers an intimate account of how she and her husband stood together and triumphed.After they'd been dating only a short while, and as they were falling madly in love, Marilu Henner... |
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An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere
Mikita Brottman - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere -- a once-grand hotel -- and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism"The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the word 'Missing,' printed... |
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Help Me!
Marianne Power - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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I wanted to find out what would happen if I really did follow the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People? Really felt The Power of Now? Could life be transformed? Could I get rich? Skinny? Find love? Be more productive and fulfilled? Because I really did want all the things these books... |
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Chronic Diseases
Jean Kaplan Teichroew - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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This comprehensive two-volume work provides an overview of an area of growing concern, offering readers a one-stop resource for researching the chronic conditions that increasingly plague our society.* Presents comprehensive, up-to-date information in an easily accessible style* Examines... |
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Drunks: An American History
Christopher M Finan - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A social history of alcoholism in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present dayToday, millions of Americans are struggling with alcoholism, but millions are also in long-term recovery. Alcoholics Anonymous and a growing number of recovery organizations are providing... |
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The Prime: Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss
Kulreet Chaudhary - Harmony
Format: Hardcover
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Prepared to live at your prime?. Integrative neurologist Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary discovered a beautiful side effect to the eating and lifestyle tools she gave her brain patients--spontaneously shedding excess pounds. In this, her first book, she shows us how to sharpen the brain, and smarten... |
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The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy
Caroline Dooner - Harper Wave
Format: Hardcover
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"The F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter." -Christiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom" From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational... |
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Writing in The House of Dreams: Unlock The Power of Your Unconscious Mind
Jenny Alexander - Five Lanes Press
Format: Paperback
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In both writing and dream awareness, you have to learn how to relax the conscious, critical faculty in order to let the amazing stories and images that flow like an underground stream in the unconscious mind to emerge.Written for both writers and dreamers, this guidebook, by seasoned author... |
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Primal Fat Burner: Live Longer, Slow Aging, Super-Power Your Brain, and Save Your Life with a High-Fat, Low-Carb Paleo Diet
Nora Gedgaudas - Atria Books
Format: Print book
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Author of the popular Primal Body, Primal Mind and widely recognized Paleo expert and nutritionist, Nora Gedgaudas presents a revolutionary, scientific, accessible high-fat diet for maintaining health, losing weight, and reversing some chronic diseases.Popular nutritionist Nora Gedgaudas... |
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Target 100: The World's Simplest Weight-Loss Program in 6 Easy Steps
Liz Josefsberg - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover
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"When I was losing weight, Liz was more than my coach; she was my rock, and I couldn't have done it without her. She just got it, because she'd been through it herself (and helped about a million other people through it, too) . Target 100 is Liz in book form - smart, supportive,... |
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Breast Cancer Surgery and Reconstruction: Whats Right For You
Patricia Anstett - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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More than 100,000 American women undergo mastectomy and breast reconstruction every year because of breast cancer. Thousands more are having double mastectomies to prevent it. So much has been written about breast cancer, and so much overlooks the reality of reconstruction when a woman... |
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How to Be a Patient: The Essential Guide to Navigating the World of Modern Medicine
Sana Goldberg - Harper Wave
Format: Paperback
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From registered nurse and public health advocate Sana Goldberg, RN, a timely, accessible, and comprehensive handbook to navigating common medical situations. From the routine to the unexpected, How to Be a Patient is your ultimate guide to better healthcare.Did you know that patients have... |
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Freedom: my book of firsts
Jaycee Lee Dugard - Simon & Schuster
Format: eBook
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In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own. |
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Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
Christie Aschwanden - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening exploration of how the human body can best recover and adapt to sports and fitness training.In recent years recovery has become a sports and fitness buzzword. Anyone who works out or competes at any level is bombarded with the latest recovery products and services: from drinks... |
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Outsmarting Autism, Updated and Expanded: Build Healthy Foundations for Communication, Socialization, and Behavior at All Ages
Patricia S. Lemer - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive resource for parents, therapists, caregivers, and educators, packed with lifelong strategies for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) management and supportNewly revised and updated, this user-friendly guide addresses autism identification, treatment, and prevention from pre-conception... |
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Calmer Waters
Barbara Cohn - Blue River Pr
Format: Print book
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After spending a decade caring for her husband who died from younger-onset Alzheimer s disease, Barbra Cohn offers a spiritual and holistic guide to help caregivers feel happier and healthier, have more energy and time for themselves, sleep better, feel more relaxed and confident, and experience... |
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Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life After 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy
Andrea Brandt - PESI Publishing & Media
Format: Paperback
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Don't let the ominous perception of "aging" - a lack of purpose, feeling irrelevant and under-used, having nothing to do - take control of you and your life. You have the power to change how you grow older. This book will show you how. Renowned psychotherapist and aging expert... |
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Sugar swap diet : eat carbs, crush cravings, and drop up to 14 pounds in 14 days
David Zinczenko - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lose up to a pound a day and curb your craving for sweets with delicious recipes and simple, science-based food swaps from David Zinczenko, Good Morning America's health and wellness editor and bestselling author of Zero Belly Diet, Zero Belly... |
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NCLEX-PN Prep 2018: Practice Test Proven Strategies
Kaplan Nursing - Kaplan Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The NCLEX-PN exam is not just about what you know - it's about how you think. Kaplan's NCLEX-PN Prep 2018 uses expert critical thinking strategies and targeted sample questions to help you put your expertise into practice and ace the exam! The NCLEX-PN exam tests how you'll... |
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The Touch Remedy: Hands-On Solutions to De-Stress Your Life
Michelle Kluck-Ebbin - HarperElixir
Format: Print book
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An empowering guide that unites the ancient healing power of touch therapy - from acupressure to reflexology - with modern science to help relieve the number one cause of disease today: stress - and to soothe anxiety, boost immunity, and alleviate pain.Human beings are wired for touch.... |
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The Cruise Control Diet: Automate Your Diet and Conquer Weight Loss Forever
Jorge Cruise - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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Activate your weight-loss autopilot - use the power of simple on/off fasting to lose the pounds and keep them off, from Hollywood trainer and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jorge Cruise. Timing is everything when it comes to losing weight. Or, as celebrity trainer Jorge Cruise... |
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Sex For Dummies
Ruth K. Westheimer - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Everything you need to know about sex in the 21st century S-e-x isn't a bad three-letter word - but many of us are afraid to talk about it. In this new edition of the fun and comprehensive guide to sex, you'll find out how to approach intimacy in a new way to get the most pleasure from... |
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Pilates for Living: Get stronger, fitter and healthier for an active later life
Harri Angell - Bloomsbury Sport
Format: Paperback
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Aging successfully means learning how to make and maintain positive lifestyle changes to remain in the best of health. Not just living longer, but better, and embracing aging, rather than dreading it. Regular Pilates practice can enable a fulfilling and active later life, helping to lower... |
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Baby Proof: Mocktails for the Mom-to-Be
Nicole Nared-Washington - Countryman Press
Format: Paperback
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What to drink when you're expecting.When blogger Nicole Nared-Washington got pregnant, she knew she was going to miss Bellinis with her girlfriends and a glass of wine with dinner -- and then she realized she this was an opportunity to stay social and fun without the booze. In Baby... |
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The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Bryson, bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body. As compulsively readable as it is comprehensive, this is Bryson at his very best, a must-read owner's manual for everybody.Bill Bryson once... |
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Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body
Kate Hudson - Dey Street Books
Format: Print book
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I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this,... |
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Reflexology Made Easy: Self-help techniques for everyday ailments
Ewald Kliegel - Earthdancer, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Rapid relief for minor ailmentsReflex zone massage can be a direct and effective aid for many small daily complaints, but you have to learn 'the how' and 'the where'. This handy reference book explains just how to find relief from headaches, colds and fear of flying, along... |
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Caregiver's Survival Guide: Caring for Yourself While Caring for a Loved One
Robert Yonover - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Caregiver's Survival Guide is based on Dr. Robert Yonover's personal experiences. While struggling to become a successful scientist and inventor, he also was primary caregiver for his paralyzed wife for more than twenty years and raised their two children. Yonover takes you into... |
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The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet: How to Beat Diabetes Fast
Michael Mosley - Atria Paperback, 2016.
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking guide to defeating diabetes without drugs - including a step-by-step diet plan, recipes, and the science behind why the program works - from #1 New York Times bestseller Dr. Michael Mosley whose life-changing FastDiet series brought on "a health revolution"... |
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Hip Replacement: Experts Answer Your Questions
Adam E. M. Eltorai - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Each year, more than 300,000 adults in the United States undergo hip replacement surgery. What can the many people experiencing hip pain in this country expect before, during, and after surgery? Hip Replacement -- part of a new series of Johns Hopkins University Press books on specific... |
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The gene : an intimate history
Siddhartha Mukherjee - Scribner
Format: Print book
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies - a magnificent history of the gene and a response... |
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The Shred Power Cleanse: Eat Clean. Get Lean. Burn Fat.
Ian K Smith - St. Martin's Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Dr. Ian is answering Shredder Nation's call for a short-term, fast-acting cleanse that will help you reset and power through to your new weight loss goal!The SHRED Power Cleanse takes the classic detox plan to a new level. You won't find any fiberless, anemic juices on this regimen!... |
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