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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Sonia Shah - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Print book
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Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. But which one? And how?Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they've never been seen before.... |
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Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
JOEL FUHRMAN - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live and The End of Diabetes, an unflinching, provocative exploration of how our food is killing us and the ways in which we are unwitting participants in an unprecedented and exploding health crisis. Fast food is far more than just... |
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The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin
TRACEY HELTON MITCHELL - Seal Press
Format: Paperback
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After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good.With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells... |
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The Mayo Clinic Diet
Donald D Hensrud - Mayo Clinic
Format: Hardcover
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Eat well. Enjoy life. Lose weight.This completely revised and updated edition of the popular Mayo Clinic Diet is a practical, no-nonsense approach to weight loss designed to help individuals lose weight and, most importantly, keep it off. The book includes to step-by-step advice... |
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CNA Study Guide: Exam Preparation Review Book for the Certified Nursing Assistant Exam
Certified Nurse Assistant Review Team - Test Prep Books
Format: Paperback
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CNA Study Guide: Exam Preparation Review Book for the Certified Nursing Assistant Exam Developed for test takers trying to achieve a passing score on the CNA exam, this comprehensive study guide includes: * Quick Overview * Test-Taking Strategies * Introduction to the CNA Exam * Role... |
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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives
Theresa Brown - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a busy teaching hospital's cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost, life-altering treatment... |
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Childhood Leukemia: A Guide for Families, Friends & Caregivers
Nancy Keene - Childhood Cancer Guides
Format: Paperback
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Approximately 4,500 children and teens are diagnosed with leukemia in the United States and Canada each year. The illness and its treatment can have a devastating effect on family, friends, classmates, and the larger community. This newly updated edition of Childhood Leukemia contains the information... |
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The Big Fix: Hope After Heroin
Tracey Helton Mitchell - Seal Press
Format: Print book
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After surviving nearly a decade of heroin abuse and hard living on the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Tracey Helton Mitchell decided to get clean for good. With raw honesty and a poignant perspective on life that only comes from starting at rock bottom, The Big Fix tells... |
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Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir
WENDY MITCHELL - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A brave and illuminating journey inside the mind, heart, and life of a person with early-onset Alzheimer's disease." - Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters alone, and spent her weekends... |
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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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Yogalosophy for Inner Strength: 12 Weeks to Heal Your Heart and Embrace Joy
Mandy Ingber - Seal, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"Heartbreak is a universal experience, and self-compassion is vital to healing. In this moment of truth lies the opportunity to find action-oriented ways to love yourself."Building on the concepts in her New York Times best-selling book Yogalosophy, Mandy Ingber, fitness and wellness... |
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The Menopause Book: The Complete Guide: Hormones, Hot Flashes, Health, Moods, Sleep, Sex
Barbara Kantrowitz - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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The Complete Guide for Women Deeply optimistic, reassuring, and essential, the book the North American Menopause Society called "required reading" is now revised and updated, with over 20 percent new material that incorporates the latest medical findings, cutting-edge research, and best-practices... |
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Silver Hair: Say Goodbye to the Dye--and Let Your Natural Light Shine! A Handbook
LORRAINE MASSEY - Workman Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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Celebrate the power of silver! Be bold with this ultimate handbook-plus-manifesto for every woman who's ready to say goodbye to the dye and let her natural color shine. Written by the author of the bestselling Curly Girl, Silver Hair covers step-by-step the many options for going... |
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Conquering Lyme Disease: Science Bridges the Great Divide
Brian Fallon, M.D. - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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With more than 300,000 cases diagnosed each year, Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. However, doctors are deeply divided on how to diagnose and treat it, leading to the controversy known as the "Lyme Wars." Firmly entrenched camps have emerged,... |
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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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The Dubrow Diet: Interval Eating to Lose Weight and Feel Ageless
Heather Dubrow - Ghost Mountain Books
Format: Hardcover
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When you've tried practically every diet and have struggled for years to reach and maintain a healthy weight, what do you do next? If you're Heather and Terry Dubrow, MD, you create your own diet based on cutting-edge and Nobel-prize winning science that promises not just unprecedented... |
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Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
PETER KALMUS - New Society Publishers
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"How a climate scientist and suburban father cut his climate impact down to one tenth the US average and became happier because of it. Being the Change merges science, spirituality, and practical knowledge to offer a deeply optimistic message: living without fossil fuels is not only... |
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Food What the Heck Should I Eat?
Mark Hyman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Mark Hyman sorts through the conflicting research on food to give us the skinny on what to eat. Did you know that oatmeal actually isn't a healthy way to start the day? That milk doesn't build bones, and eggs aren't the devil? In Food:... |
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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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100 Perfect Hair Days: Step-by-Steps for Pretty Waves, Braids, Curls, Buns, and More!
Jenny Strebe - Chronicle Books
Format: Paperback
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Loose waves, chic low ponies, natural curls, elegant updos, classic braids, and more! Expert hairstylist Jenny Strebe presents 100 fabulous looks in this essential beauty guide. Illustrated step-by-step instructions and inspiring fashion photographs make it easy to replicate professional-level... |
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Multiple Sclerosis, Fifth Edition: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
T. Jock Murray MD - Demos Health
Format: Paperback
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Now in its fifth edition, Multiple Sclerosis: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed is the best-selling guide to MS for newly diagnosed patients and their families. Written in plain language by renowned MS expert physician T. Jock Murray, this book guides patients at any stage who want to know... |
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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 rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's extraordinary ability to heal the body ... While we accept that stress or anxiety can damage our health, the idea of "healing thoughts" was long ago hijacked by New Age gurus and spiritual... |
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Storeys Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Guineas, Game Birds (Storey’s Guide to Raising)
Glenn Drowns - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Whether youre running a farm or interested in keeping a few backyard birds, Storeys Guide to Raising Poultry covers everything you need to know to successfully raise your own chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, and more. Stressing humane practices throughout, Glenn Drowns provides expert advice... |
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Your Cholesterol Matters: What Your Numbers Mean and How You Can Improve Them
Richard Furman - Revell
Format: Print book
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A must-read for those on cholesterol lowering medication and those with stents in their heartsWhen it comes to our health, what we don't know can harm us most. Eighty-five percent of people over the age of fifty have significant blockage in the arteries of their hearts without any symptoms.... |
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Chair Yoga: Sit, Stretch, and Strengthen Your Way to a Happier, Healthier You
Kristin McGee - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From celebrity yoga instructor Kristin McGee comes this fun, accessible guide to 100 yoga poses and exercises that can be done in your chair and take just minutes a day. For the majority of Americans living a sedentary lifestyle (from the card-carrying couch potatoes to the 86% of American... |
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Mayo Clinic Family Health Book
Scott C. Litin - Mayo Clinic
Format: Hardcover
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The comprehensive 5th edition of the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book draws upon the knowledge and expertise of more than 4,500 physicians, scientists and researchers. Prior editions of this trusted medical reference guide have sold more than 1.5 million copies. And with 38 chapters and almost... |
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The Estrogen Window: The Breakthrough Guide to Being Healthy, Energized, and Hormonally Balanced--Through Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond
Mache Seibel - Rodale
Format: Print book
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When administered at the right time, estrogen therapy can lead to substantial improvements in a woman's quality of life. Yet, for more than a decade, women have been told about many worrisome side effects of hormone replacement therapy, including an increased risk of cancer, blood clots,... |
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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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Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience
ALLISON PATAKI - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply moving memoir about two lives that were changed in the blink of an eye, and the love that helped them rewrite their future Five months pregnant, on a flight to their "babymoon," Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange, and watched... |
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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 Clean 20: 20 Foods, 20 Days, Total Transformation
Ian Smith - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestsellerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of SHRED and Blast the Sugar Out, the ultimate guide to clean eating!What is clean eating? In his newest diet book, Dr. Ian K. Smith teaches readers the benefits of clean eating and how to implement... |
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50 Things to Do Before You Deliver: The First Time Moms Pregnancy Guide
Jill Krause - Rockridge Press
Format: Paperback
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While your body is doing the important work of growing your baby, 50 Things to Do Before You Deliver nails down exactly what to do to prepare for your little one's big debut.First-time moms have plenty to be grateful for -- and plenty to worry about. Centered on what's most important... |
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Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
Elizabeth Vargas - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book
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From the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic, " to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. Now, in BETWEEN BREATHS, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which... |
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Against Medical Advice
James Patterson - James Patterson - GCP
Format: Hardcover
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In this inspiring true story, a child struggles with Tourettes syndrome-and overcomes extraordinary challenges with the help of his loving parents.Cory Friedman woke up one morning when he was five years old with the uncontrollable urge to twitch his neck. From that day forward his life... |
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Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer
PATRICK C WALSH - Grand Central Life & Style
Format: Paperback
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Each year, more than 230,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 30 to 40 percent of patients who are diagnosed will eventually relapse. But the good news is that more men are being cured of this disease than ever before. Now in a revised third edition, this lifesaving guide by Dr. Patrick... |
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Good Housekeeping Keto Diet: 100 Low-Carb, High-Fat Recipes
Good Housekeeping - Hearst
Format: Hardcover
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With 60 easy and flavorful recipes that focus on high fats, low carbs, and lean proteins, the editors of Good Housekeeping help dieters jump-start their keto eating plan. Keto has become the diet of choice for losing weight - and it's also winning over converts who want to eat better... |
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Morgue: A Life in Death
Vincent Dimaio - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. Complex technology and intricate research can take curdled blood, bone shards, and flakes of skin and turn them into justice. And Vincent Di Maio, MD, son of a famous New York City medical examiner, is one of the lions... |
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Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer
Lisa McCubbin - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and insightful biography of Betty Ford, the groundbreaking, candid, and resilient First Lady and wife of President Gerald Ford, from the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Presidents and Mrs. Kennedy and Me.Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's... |
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Rebound: Regain Strength, Move Effortlessly, Live without LimitsAt Any Age
Peter Park - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback
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Peter Park is a go-to trainer who has worked with pro athletes (Justin Verlander, Giancarlo Stanton) and celebrities (Matthew McConaughey, Maria Shriver, Rob Lowe) . Park himself is a three-time World's Toughest Triathlon Winner. As one of his clients says, "Having Peter as your... |
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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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Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot
Melissa Cynova - Llewellyn
Format: Print book
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Kitchen Table Tarot is a book about real life tarot reading for real people. With down and dirty advice from Melissa Cynova, this book tells it like it is and helps you read the cards for yourself and others. Praise: "Cynova's debut book struts forward to lead the pack with its authentic... |
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Nature's Remedies: An Illustrated Guide to Healing Herbs
Jean Willoughby - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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Throughout history, herbs have been used medicinally to promote healing and vitality. Think chamomile for better sleep, green tea for enhanced focus, or elderberry for immunity boost. Today, herbs are more popular than ever, celebrated not just for their effectiveness but also as natural... |
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Crohn's and Colitis: Understanding and Managing IBD
Hillary Steinhart - Robert Rose
Format: Paperback
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A newly updated edition from one of the most respected and authoritative experts on Crohn's and colitis. For anyone who suffers from Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, an understanding of inflammatory bowel disease is the key to developing effective management strategies. Crohn's... |
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