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Health and Medicine



Health and Medicine

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Diet and Nutrition
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The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health
The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, and Gain Health
by Dean Ornish
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From the author of the landmark bestseller Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease comes an empowering new program that enables you to customize a healthy way of eating and living based on your own desires, needs, and genetic... (read more)

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    The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
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    Cross Currents

    Robert Becker
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General
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Healing Remedies: More Than 1,000 Natural Ways to Relieve Common Ailments, from Arthritis and Allergies to Diabetes, Osteoporosis, and M
Healing Remedies: More Than 1,000 Natural Ways to Relieve Common Ailments, from Arthritis and Allergies to Diabetes, Osteoporosis, and M
by Joan Wilen
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A PRACTICAL, SAFE, TIME-TESTED, AND EFFECTIVE A-TO-Z GUIDE TO NATURAL HEALING REMEDIES For years, sisters Joan Wilen and Lydia Wilen have been collecting and incredible home remedies. These range from old treatments that have been passed down for... (read more)

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Medical Biographies
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Strength in What Remains
Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
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Tracy Kidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book follows and accompanies Deo, a survivor of the genocide in Burundi, through his remarkable journey to America and back home again. Kidder makes the abstract achingly personal and showcases a genuine... (read more)

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Illnesses
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Taylor
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The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left... (read more)

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Death and Dying
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nursers, Clergy, and Their Own Families
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nursers, Clergy, and Their Own Families
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-286).... (read more)

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History of Medicine
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The Man Who Ate Everything
The Man Who Ate Everything
by Jeffrey Steingarten
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With the sensuous lyricism of an M.F.K. Fisher, the unabashed iconoclasm of an H. L. Mencken, and the mania for research of a Louis Pasteur, Jeffrey Steingarten, the food critic for Vogue, conducts his readers on a mouthwatering and outrageously funny... (read more)

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Nutrition
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Nourishing Traditions
Nourishing Traditions
by Sally Fallon
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A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message--animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and... (read more)

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Womens Health
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Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond
Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond
by Chris Crowley
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Smart women don't grow older. They grow younger. A book of hope, Younger Next Year for Womenshows you how to become functionally younger for the next five to ten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality. How to avoid 70 percent of... (read more)

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The Source: Unleash Your Natural Energy, Power Up Your Health, and Feel 10 Years Younger
The Source: Unleash Your Natural Energy, Power Up Your Health, and Feel 10 Years Younger
by Woodson Merrell
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"Why do I feel so tired and drained?" You're not alone if you're constantly asking yourself this question. Exhaustion is epidemic in America and "lack of energy" one of the top five complaints to doctors nationwide. This is because vast numbers of people... (read more)

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The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health
The Thyroid Solution: A Mind-Body Program for Beating Depression and Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Health
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Written by a leading authority on the subject, the first comprehensive guide to thyroid disorder explains the illness and its physical and emotional effects and offers a practical program for restoring one's thyroid to health and maintaining it. Reprint.... (read more)


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Contributors | October 13, 2009

W. Timothy Gallwey, Edd Hanzelik, and John Horton: IMG Enjoy Life's Challenges — Without the Stress



When it comes to stress, we have to realize we have a choice. We can react like other mammals, barking, fighting, and running for our life, or we... Continue »
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    The Inner Game of Stress: Outsmart Life's Challenges and Fulfill Your Potential

    W. Timothy Gallwey and Edd Hanzelick and John Horton
Original Essays | September 6, 2009

John Geiger: IMG On Risk



Many people are cautious, some to the point of cowardice, the type who, in the words of the actor Victor Mature, "wouldn't walk up a wet step." Caution, within reason, is... Continue »
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Interviews | August 25, 2009

Jill Owens: IMG The Powells.com Interview with Tracy Kidder



tracykidderKidder's incredibly moving and vivid new book, Strength in What Remains, follows and accompanies Deo, survivor of the genocide in Burundi who came to America in the '90s to make a new life for himself. Though Deo had little money and no English language when he landed in New York, he eventually found his way to Columbia University and medical school. Through his account of Deo's remarkable journey, Kidder makes the... Continue »
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