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The Patient's Playbook: How to Save Your Life and the Lives of Those You Love
Leslie D. Michelson - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Too many Americans die each year as a result of preventable medical error - mistakes, complications, and misdiagnoses. And many more of us are not receiving the best care possible, even though it's readily available and we're entitled to it. The key is knowing how to access it. The Patient's... |
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Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain–for Life
David Perlmutter - Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Grain Brain uncovers the powerful role of gut bacteria in determining your brain's destiny. Debilitating brain disorders are on the rise-from children diagnosed with autism and ADHD to adults developing dementia at younger ages than ever before. But a medical... |
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Conquer Chronic Pain: An Innovative Mind-Body Approach
Peter Przekop - Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
Format: Paperback
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The incidence of chronic pain has taken on epidemic proportions. The common response of traditional medicine has been to prescribe opioid painkillers, which can lead to overdose and addiction.Over the past ten years, Dr. Peter Przekop has developed a revolutionary alternative program to manage... |
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The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
Angelo 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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Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care
H. Gilbert Welch - Beacon Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the highly acclaimed Overdiagnosed describes seven widespread assumptions that encourage excessive, often ineffective, and sometimes harmful medical care. You might think the biggest problem in medical care is that it costs too much. Or that health insurance is too expensive,... |
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Fortify Your Life: Your Guide to Vitamins, Minerals, and More
Tieraona Low Dog - National Geographic
Format: Print book
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Health-conscious consumers read nutritional labels, but it's nearly impossible to get the nutrients we need with diet alone. To get the USDA-recommended daily quota of vitamin D, for example, you need to eat 15 eggs or 26 sardines; of iron, 414 almonds or 15 cups of broccoli. So we rely... |
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Aging with Care: Your Guide to Hiring and Managing Caregivers at Home
Amanda Lambert - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Finding the right fit to match aging adults with the best caregiver to assist them in their home can be fraught with challenge. In today's pressurized world, the process involves overstressed family members and a shortage of great caregivers. So many adult children are seeking a helping... |
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Arthritis: What Exercises Work
Dava Sobel - St Martins Pr; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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What is the most powerful arthritis treatment ever developed to help restore you to a healthy, pain-free, and vigorous life--for the rest of your life?It's the very same breakthrough that has: --Helped more arthritis sufferers than drugs, surgery, or any other treatment--without dangerous... |
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Osteoarthritis: The Facts
David J. Hunter - Oxford University Press; 2 edition
Format: Print book
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Osteoarthritis The Facts helps patients and their carers better understand the condition, empowering patients with the knowledge and skills to actively take charge of their own health by knowing as much as they can about osteoarthritis, and finding out how this can be best managed.Part... |
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Hypoglycemia For Dummies
Cheryl Chow - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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Hypoglycemia simply means “low blood-sugar,” but without concrete symptoms it’s very hard to diagnose. It is nevertheless a condition that should be watched over carefully. People react differently to low blood sugar as well as to the treatment they receive. Hypoglycemia... |
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WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere
Gillian/ Nadel Jennifer Anderson - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Actress Gillian Anderson and journalist Jennifer Nadel, friends for more than a decade, have created the road map they wish they'd had for how to live a meaningful life.WE: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere is an uplifting, inspirational, and intensely practical manual for change,... |
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The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong . . . and You Can Too!
Bryant Johnson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A fun, fully illustrated exercise book that details Ruth Bader Ginsburg's workout, written by her trainer Have you ever wondered what keeps Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the Supreme Court's favorite octogenarians, so sprightly? She owes it all to her personal trainer, Bryant Johnson, whom... |
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No Sweat: How the Simple Science of Motivation Can Bring You a Lifetime of Fitness
Michelle L Segar - AMACOM--American Management Association,
Format: Print book
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"When it comes to exercise, most of us have gotten the message but still lack the motivation. That's why we need this remarkable book." --Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"No Sweat provides a step-by-step program... |
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The Diet Myth: Why the Secret to Health and Weight Loss is Already in Your Gut
Tim Spector - Overlook Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing new book that shows the key to health and weight loss isn't which foods we eat -- it's the microbes already inside us What should we eat? It's a simple and fundamental question that still bewilders us, despite a seemingly infinite amount of available information... |
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Lippincott Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN
Diane McGovern Billings
Format: Print book
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Lippincott Q&A Review for NCLEX-RN, 12th edition is designed to help pre-licensure nursing students prepare to take the licensing examination. Students and faculty also use the book is as a study guide and practice tests for preparing for faculty-made examinations. Beca |
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The 20/20 Diet: Turn Your Weight Loss Vision Into Reality
Phillip C McGraw - Bird St. Books
Format: Print book
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In The 20/20 Diet, Dr. Phil McGraw identies seven reasons other diets fail people over and over again: hunger, cravings, feeling of restriction, impracticality and expense, boredom, temptations, and disappointing results or plateaus. Then, he addresses each of these roadblocks by applying... |
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Deskbound: Sitting is the New Smoking
Kelly Starrett - Tuttle Publishing
Format: Print book
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You'd better stand up for this bit of news.Sitting can wreak havoc on your health, and not just in the form of minor aches and pains. Recent studies show that too much sitting contributes to a host of diseases - from obesity and diabetes to cancer and depression. The typical seated office... |
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Hunger: A Memoir of
Roxane Gay - Harper
Format: Print book
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"New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes... |
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100 Questions
Lloyd B. Greig - Jones & Bartlett Learning; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Empower Yourself! Whether you are a newly diagnosed patient or a loved one of someone with uterine fibroids, this book offers information and comfort. 100 Questions and Answers About Uterine Fibroids provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients.... |
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Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Me
ALLY HILFIGER - Center Street
Format: Paperback
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Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major... |
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The Tiredness Cure: How to Beat Fatigue and Feel Great for Good
Sohère Roked - Vermilion
Format: Paperback
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Dramatically increase your energy levels and never feel tired again. Do you rely on cups of tea or coffee in order to "wake up?" Do you feel exhausted for no apparent reason? Are you completely stressed out at the end of the week or even day? If your answer to any of these questions... |
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If You Work It, It Works!: The Science Behind 12 Step Recovery
Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski PhD - Hazelden
Format: Print book
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Since the publication of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939, the Twelve Steps have been central to staying sober for millions of people around the world. Countless recovery and treatment organizations have adopted the Steps as their program for abstaining from addictive behaviors. But recently... |
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Managing Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Living Better
Andrew J Roth - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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The statistics are sobering: over 200,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. With this diagnosis, men are expected to psychologically combat the worry, practical concerns, and the emotional and physical changes during an immensely trying time. How to help?In... |
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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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The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
Loren Cordain - John Wiley & Sons; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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Eat for better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide-over 100,000 copies sold to date!Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet we were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight-up to 75 pounds in six months-or if you want... |
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100 Questions & Answers About Myeloma
Asad Bashey - Jones & Bartlett Learning
Format: Print book
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EMPOWER YOURSELF! Whether you're a newly diagnosed myeloma patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Myeloma, Third Edition gives you authoritative,... |
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The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
Michael Marmot - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardcover
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In a Baltimore inner-city neighborhood, a man's life expectancy is 63; in another neighborhood not far away, it's 83. The same 20-year avoidable disparity exists in nearby neighborhoods of cities around the world. In Sierra Leone, one in 21 fifteen-year-old women will die in her fertile... |
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Nursing Assistant/Nurse Aide Exam
LearningExpress (Organization) - Learning Express
Format: Print book
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This newly expanded and completely revised guide provides all the comprehensive information needed to master the official certification exams for Certified Nursing Assistants. Based on national standards for CNAa and geared toward the NNAAP exam, inside is the most comprehensive practice... |
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Outsmarting Alzheimer's: What You Can Do To Reduce Your Risk
K S Kosik - Reader's Digest
Format: Print book
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An easy-to-follow, research-based guide to the simple, low-cost choices that give the reader the power to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and dementia; slow the progression of the disease; and mitigate symptoms and improve well-being.Did you know that getting on the treadmill... |
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Do You Have a Tipped Uterus: 69 Things Your Gynecologist Wishes You Knew
Melissa Wolf - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Print book
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Did you know, every woman has a tipped uterus, and ovarian cysts are usually normal even when they burst? Have you ever wondered how to balance your hormones, why you have to repeat yourself at the doctors office or why your yeast infection keeps coming back? Have you agonized about your... |
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8 Keys to Mental Health Through Exercise
Christina G Hibbert - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Inspiring strategies from a wellness expert for keeping fit, relieving stress, and strengthening emotional well-being. We all know that exercise is good for physical health, but recently, a wealth of data has proven that exercise also contributes to overall mental well-being. Routine exercise... |
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The FibroManual: A Complete Fibromyalgia Treatment Guide for You and Your Doctor
Ginevra Liptan - Ballantine Books
Format: Print book
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The most up-to-date, comprehensive treatment guide to fibromyalgia, by a renowned physician who herself has the condition If you suffer from fibromyalgia and are struggling to get help from your doctor, you're far from alone. Ten million Americans experience the widespread muscle pain,... |
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Blast the Sugar Out!: Lower Blood Sugar, Lose Weight, Live Better
IAN K M D SMITH - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Do you want to lose weight?In BLAST the Sugar Out!, Ian K. Smith, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Shred Power Cleanse, will guide you to eat well -- and frequently -- while controlling carbohydrates and dropping pounds to get to goal. You will lose weight... |
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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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Men of Style
Josh Sims - Laurence King Publishing
Format: Paperback
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A style guide with heft. Men of Style profiles the best-dressed men of recent centuries: from actors to statesman, playboys to painters, the iconic and the more unexpected. Comprising profiles of their colorful, dapper lives, sartorial and personal, explaining too how they have shaped menswear... |
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The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington - Harmony
Format: Print book
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We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, writes Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. And this has profound consequences - on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she boldly asserts,... |
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Why Can't I Meditate?: How to Get Your Mindfulness Practice on Track
Nigel Wellings - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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An accessible guide from an expert on Mindfulness on how to get the most out of meditation--and make the practice a permanent part of your daily life.Meditation is supposed to be a practice that's relaxing and beneficial...so why is it so hard to commit to? While many people have taken... |
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The Vitamin Cure for Arthritis
Robert G Smith - Basic Health Publications; 1st Edition edition
Format: Print book
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The general explanation for the cause of arthritis is that over time, our joints simply wear out - that is, the cartilage that lubricates the ends of the bones simply gets worn thinner and thinner until one bone wars directly on another, causing pain and lowering our quality of life. It stands... |
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Assassination Generation: Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
Dave Grossman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The author of the 400,000-copy bestseller On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it.Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton,... |
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Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide
Frederic Lenoir - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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A huge bestseller in Europe, Frederic Lenoir's Happiness is an exciting journey that examines how history's greatest philosophers and religious figures have answered life's most fundamental question: What is happiness and how do I achieve it? From the ancient Greeks on--from... |
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Reverse Arthritis & Pain Naturally: A Proven Approach to a Pain-free Life
Gary Null Ph.D. - Essential Publishing, Inc.; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Dont believe everything your doctor is telling you about arthritis! According to most conventional physicians, there is no way to prevent or reverse arthritis, and other lifestyle diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. This is simply untrue. In this timely and essential offering,... |
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The Hearing-Loss Guide: Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families
John M. Burkey - Yale University Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Where can the most accurate and helpful information about hearing loss be found From a friend or relative who has impaired hearing From an experienced audiologist Both, says the author of this essential book! In an unusual new approach, audiologist John M. Burkey offers not only specific... |
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Renee Ph D Engeln - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning Northwestern University psychology professor reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives, in this powerful, eye-opening work in the vein of Naomi Wolf, Peggy Orenstein,... |
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The Dirt Cure: Growing Healthy Kids with Food Straight from Soil
Maya Shetreat-Klein - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Mark Hyman, and Andrew Weil, pioneering integrative pediatric neurologist Maya Shetreat-Klein, MD, reveals the shocking contents of children's food, how it's seriously harming their bodies and brains, and what we can do about it. And she presents the first... |
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A Book About Love
Jonah Lehrer - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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Science writer Jonah Lehrer explores the mysterious subject of love.Weaving together scientific studies from clinical psychologists, longitudinal studies of health and happiness, historical accounts and literary depictions, child-rearing manuals, and the language of online dating sites,... |
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Fitter Faster: The Smart Way to Get in Shape in Just Minutes a Day
Robert Davis - Everwell Books
Format: Paperback
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A lifetime of fitness in just minutes a day. I dont have time . . . Im too tired . . . I hate gyms . . . These are among the most common excuses for not exercising. But the truth is that getting in shape requires less time and effort than you might think. Examining everything from pre-workout... |
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The Woman's Wakeup: How to Shake Up Your Looks, Life, and Love After 50
Lois Joy Johnson - Running Press
Format: Print book
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Women know from experience that what it means to be independent, adventurous, successful, and sexy changes over time to fit new mindsets, roles, and lifestyles. Whether navigating the landscape of a new career path, dating again in a digital age, or in need of a beauty and fashion overhaul,... |
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The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery
Ian Morgan Cron - IVP Books
Format: Hardcover
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Ignorance is bliss -- except in self-awareness. What you don't know about yourself can hurt you and your relationships -- and maybe even how you make your way in the world. It can also keep you in the shallows with God. Do you want help figuring out who you are and why you're stuck in the same... |
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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America
Ann Neumann - Beacon Press
Format: Print book
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Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.When Ann Neumann's father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.... |
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1001 Natural Remedies
Laurel Vukovic - Dk Publishing
Format: Print book
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With natural remedy recipes for health, beauty, home and garden, and pets, 1001 Natural Remedies is the most comprehensive reference available on this topic. Take natural, simple ingredients such as essential oils, herbs, honey, lemon, and baking soda, and turn them into shampoos, mouthwashes,... |
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Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
Victoria Sweet - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, "healthcare" has replaced medicine, "providers" look at their laptops more than at their patients,... |
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Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Jo Marchant - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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A New York Times BestsellerA rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the bodyHave you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt... |
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A Doctor's Guide to Alternative Medicine: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
Mel Borins - Lyons Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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In the United States alone, more than 38 percent of people use Alternative Medicine to treat and prevent medical issues and more than 50 percent of people have tried Alternative Medicine at some point in their life. But because some people dont feel their doctors see those methods as legitimate,... |
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Mayo Clinic Guide to Fertility and Conception
Jani R. Jensen - Da Capo Lifelong Books; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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Deciding to start or build a family is a life-changing decision, and, once the choice is made, there's a whole new set of unknowns - including how challenging the journey will be. For the first time, fertility experts at Mayo Clinic offer an essential guide for those who want to have... |
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The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward
Tracey Cleantis - Hazelden
Format: Print book
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When the best option is to let go of the life you planned for yourself and find a new path, a world of possibilities can surprisingly open up. Learn whether it is time to let go, and if so, how to move through your grief and find your way forward in The Next Happy.If you believe, you can do anything.Although... |
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