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Thriving with PCOS: Lifestyle Strategies to Successfully Manage Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Kelly Morrow-Baez - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

PCOS is the most common cause of anovulatory infertility. More than that, the symptoms of the syndrome can cause significant emotional distress and long-term health consequences. Most women who receive a diagnosis of PCOS have no idea what that means. This book picks up where a diagnosis...
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A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

Alex Riley - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

What is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions, digging into the long history of depression...
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Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear

Eva Holland - EXPERIMENT
Format: Hardcover

Frozen in terror during a mountain descent, award-winning journalist Eva Holland reaches her breaking point. Since childhood, shes been gripped by two debilitating phobias: fear of losing her mother, and fear of heights. The worst has already happened: Evas mother died suddenly and unexpectedly...
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The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who Are Happy, Healthy, and Whole

Joan Koenig - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Since opening her famed Parisian conservatory over three decades ago, Joan Koenig has led a global movement to improve children's lives and minds with the transformative power of music. With a curriculum and philosophy drawn from cutting-edge science, L'Ecole Koenig has educated...
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The Gift of Anger: And Other Lessons from My Grandfather Mahatma Gandhi

ARUN GANDHI - Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Discover ten vital and extraordinary life lessons from one of the most important and influential philosophers and peace activists of the twentieth century - Mahatma Gandhi - in this poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Gandhi's grandson,...
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life

Luke Burgis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there's a psychological force just as powerful -- yet almost nobody has heard of it. It's responsible for bringing groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others,...
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Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your BrainAnd How They Guide You

Rebecca Schwarzlose
Format: Hardcover

Your brain is a collection of maps. That is no metaphor: scrawled across your brain's surfaces are actual maps of the sights, sounds, and actions that hold the key to your survival. Scientists first began uncovering these maps over a century ago, but we are only now beginning to unlock...
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Chasing My Cure: A Doctor's Race to Turn Hope into Action; A Memoir

David Fajgenbaum - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

The powerful memoir of a young doctor and former college athlete diagnosed with a rare disease who spearheaded the search for a cure - and became a champion for a new approach to medical research."An extraordinary memoir . . . It belongs with Atul Gawande's writings and When Breath...
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Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader

Peter Catapano - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available. Since 2010, The Stone -- the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in the New York Times -- has revived and reinterpreted age-old inquiries...
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Mayhem: A Memoir

Sigrid Rausing - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A searingly powerful memoir about the impact of addiction on a family. In the summer of 2012 a woman named Eva was found dead in the London townhouse she shared with her husband, Hans K. Rausing. The couple had struggled with drug addiction for years, often under the glare of tabloid headlines....
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