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Ina Mays Guide To Childbirth
Ina Mays Guide To Childbirth
by Ina May Gaskin
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In 1976, Gaskin wrote "Spiritual Midwifery, " the handbook for midwives. Gaskin now shares with all women her knowledge and wisdom about what she calls the "true capacities of the female body, " based on her more than three decades as a midwife.... (read more)

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Flat Belly Diet
Flat Belly Diet
by Liz Vacariello
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     Prevention magazine is the country's most authoritative, trustworthy, and innovative source for practical health, nutrition, and fitness information. Now, its editors bring you a weight-loss plan that's specifically designed to... (read more)

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The Magnesium Miracle
The Magnesium Miracle
by Carolyn Dean
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“Magnesium is indeed the unsung hero and is a key nutriceutical that everybody needs to know about. . . . This book needs to be read by any individual wishing to improve their quality of life. . . . Dr Dean has the best credentials in bringing... (read more)

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Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples
Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples
by John Robbins
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Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy? In this revolutionary book, bestselling author John Robbins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our... (read more)

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Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth
Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth
by Robert A. Bradley, M.d.
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Now completely revised and updated for today's parents-to-be... The book that started a revolution in the birthing experience and helped millions of women and their partners to a safe and natural childbirth. The Bradley Method has changed the way men and... (read more)

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The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being
The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being
by Nena Baker
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Listen up, America, because this is a wake-up call. The Body Toxic sheds light on the toxic threats we encounter daily in toys, clothes, cosmetics, cookware, and more. The harmful effects of everyday products on our health are staggering, and Baker's eye-... (read more)

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Pain Free for Women: The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain
Pain Free for Women: The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain
by Pete Egoscue
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In his famed San Diego clinic, Pete Egoscue has taught women of all ages and from all walks of life how to use the Egoscue Method for safe, effective, and permanent relief from chronic pain without prescription painkillers, physical therapy, or invasive... (read more)

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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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Understanding Disease
Understanding Disease
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Understanding Disease: Pathology and Prevention provides an alternative approach to pathology that will especially suit students of biomedical sciences and those training for professions in health care fields, such as nurses, laboratory scientists... (read more)

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Full Catastrophe Living : Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind To Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (90 Edition)
Full Catastrophe Living : Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind To Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (90 Edition)
by Jon Kabat-zinn
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Stress. It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us: sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress... (read more)

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Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
by Brian Wansink
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In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you're eating, what you're eating — or why you're even eating at all. Does food with a brand name really taste better? Do... (read more)

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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer
by Shannon Brownlee
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“My choice for the economics book of the year…its the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solvebut is so often misunderstood.”David Leonhardt, New York Times Our health care is staggeringly... (read more)

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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
by Elaine N. Aron
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Are you a highly sensitive person? Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If... (read more)

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What To Expect When Youre Expecting 4TH Edition
What To Expect When Youre Expecting 4TH Edition
by Heidi Murkoff
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Announcing a brand new, cover-to-cover revision of America's pregnancy bible. What to Expect When You're Expecting is a perennial New York Times bestseller and one of USA Today's 25 most influential books of the past 25 years. It's read by more than 90... (read more)

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You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
by Michael F. Roizen M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz M.D.
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Provides advice, an eating plan, and exercises designed to help people achieve a sustained loss of abdominal fat and live a healthier life.... (read more)

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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by Gavin De Becker
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Through dozens of compelling examples from his own career, security expert Gavin deBecker teaches readers how to read the signs of impending danger by using their most basic--but often most discouraged--survival skill: intuition. This book provides a... (read more)

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Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy
Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy
by Shmuley Boteach
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's controversial "Kosher Sex" stirred up a media whirlwind in hardcover -- including interviews on "The Today Show, " "The View, " and "Politically Incorrect"; first serial to Playboy; features in Time, The New York Times, the Los... (read more)

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The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without Machines
The Pilates Body: The Ultimate At-Home Guide to Strengthening, Lengthening, and Toning Your Body--Without Machines
by Brooke Siler
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The Pilates(R) method may be today's hottest exercise, but it has been endorsed by physicians for almost a century. Originally developed by Joseph H. Pilates to help strengthen and condition muscles, Pilates is the ultimate mind-body exercise for anyone... (read more)

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Every Patient Tells a Story: Medial Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medial Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
by Lisa Sanders
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Making a diagnosis is a doctor's most challenging and crucial task. Most of the time, a physical examination and routine tests provide what's needed to begin a course of treatment. But sometimes the symptoms are deceptive, tests are misleading, and... (read more)

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Anthropologist on Mars (95 Edition)
Anthropologist on Mars (95 Edition)
by Oliver W. Sacks
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Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers — including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is... (read more)

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