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The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition by Bill Mollison Staff Pick During the many years it was out of print, The Permaculture Book of Ferment and Human Nutrition garnered something of a cult following, while high demand and limited availability drove its price into the hundreds. Thanks to the good folks at Tagari... (read more) Your price: $59.00 New - Trade Paper 
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick This is an absolutely fascinating account of a line of cells that would proliferate to such a degree that they became immortal. Shaved from a tumor in a poor black woman in the 1950s, cultured without her knowledge, and grown to amazing proportions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Staff Pick Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Staff Pick The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the tale of a woman whose cells were used — without her knowledge — in breakthrough medical research after her 1951 death. Skloot's moving story of faith, family, and science uses the past to teach us about... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost Map: Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (06 Edition) by Steven Johnson Staff Pick In 1854, as a cholera epidemic ravaged London, prevailing wisdom blamed "miasma"; in other words, "bad air" was spreading the disease. One prominent physician disagreed. It was Dr. John Snow's work outside of the lab, however — his innovative mapmaking,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet by Alicia Silverstone Staff Pick The Kind Diet is a fabulous introduction to the vegan lifestyle. Not only are Alicia Silverstone's vegan recipes delectable, but she teaches readers, with honesty and warmth, how to attain a new, healthier body. All without harming the planet — and, in... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Trigger Point Therapy Workbook 2ND Edition by Clair Davies Staff Pick If you suffer from chronic pain, you just might find relief with Clair Davies's Trigger Point Therapy Workbook. This self-treatment guide will show you how to treat your own trigger points, which are often a source of chronic pain. Illustrated with many... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande Staff Pick Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stretching (20th Anniversary Revised Edition) by Bob Anderson Staff Pick "It doesn't require equipment, it's not fancy or exotic, and it feels so good; learn what your cat already knows. This book is the easiest, most accessible guide to stretching I've found. Even sitting at a desk all day can put all sorts of kinks and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood by Sandra Steingraber Staff Pick I'm amazed that I read Having Faith at all, given that I didn't like the cover or the title. It is a testament to the book's greatness that my prejudices fell by the wayside as soon as I started reading. Sandra Steingraber, ecologist and mother... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine Staff Pick Although initially turned off by the title, The Female Brain was one the most revealing gender studies I have ever read. More a case for feminism than a case for gender superiority, Brizendine explores the physiological reasons behind the differences in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food by Susan Albers Staff Pick These pages contain 50 creative ideas that bring mindfulness back to your table. Susan Albers invites you to try out some of her techniques, including self-hypnosis, mindful worrying, and laughing yoga. Stop your mindless binging and engage with this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock Staff Pick Charlatan reads like a highly imaginative novel and is everything a work of popular history should be.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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No Time To Say Goodbye (97 Edition) by Carla Fine Staff Pick Written from the suicide survivor's point of view, Carla Fine's compassionate book, No Time to Say Goodbye, helps readers identify their feelings and find comfort in the assembled stories of other survivors. There are no "answers," but at least you come... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman Staff Pick Be ready to geek out over your own body. A delightful and engaging book, Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream will fill you with wonder. Science writer Jennifer Ackerman lays out the latest developments and theories about the human body in a way that will keep you... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Mind's Eye (Vintage) by Oliver Sacks Staff Pick Oliver Sacks, as fascinating, empathetic, and formidably talented as always, focuses on six individuals who've lost what we think of as essential abilities, including reading, face recognition, and speech. The Mind's Eye is a mesmerizing and exhilarating... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach Staff Pick Following her usual template, Mary Roach finds a subject in the scientific community that is equal parts fascinating and scandalous, and writes an extensively researched and thoroughly amusing book about it. Beyond the initial titillation stemming from a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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