Health and Medicine
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande  
Powells.com 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...
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
Powells.com 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...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com Staff Pick "It's won the Pulitzer and for good reason; it's beautifully written, inspired, and gives you something to think about the rest of the year." Hilary, Powells...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by Oliver Sacks
Powells.com Staff Pick Musicophilia is a fascinating look at music and its effects on our brains. Who but Oliver Sacks could make such a compulsively readable book? Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
by Pope Brock
Powells.com Staff Pick Charlatan reads like a highly imaginative novel and is everything a work of popular history should be. Recommended by Michal, Powells.com...
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Healing With Whole Foods 3RD Edition
by Paul Pitchford
Powells.com Staff Pick Natural food and healing are the hipnewjiggytight thing. From TBN (The Bible Network) to CNN, "you are what you eat" is becoming more and more accepted as the Truth by the mainstream media. Healing With Whole Foods is the definitive resource...
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What to Eat
by Marion Nestle
Powells.com Staff Pick I thought I knew quite a bit about food — I take flaxseed oil supplements because I'm a vegetarian, try to buy local organic produce, and buy my dairy antibiotic-free. But this information-packed book taught me that there's plenty I didn't realize &#...
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What to Eat
by Marion Nestle
Powells.com Staff Pick I thought I knew quite a bit about food — I take flaxseed oil supplements because I'm a vegetarian, try to buy local organic produce, and buy my dairy antibiotic-free. But this information-packed book taught me that there's plenty I didn't realize &#...
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
by Diane Ackerman
Powells.com Staff Pick Diane Ackerman writes with grace and wisdom. Her prose is lyrical, sensuous, and utterly charming. I've never been disappointed in a work by Ackerman, but An Alchemy of Mind takes the cake. Here she covers neurochemistry and -physiology and the concept...
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Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
Powells.com Staff Pick The young Lehrer's keen portraits make for a winning read. Using Woolf, Stravinsky, Cézanne, Whitman, and a handful of others, he shows how art has given us as much insight into the human mind as science has. Recommended by Josephine, Powells.com...
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Stretching 20TH Anniversary Rev Edition
by Bob Anderson
Powells.com 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...
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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
by Tina Cassidy
Powells.com Staff Pick Entertainingly told and enthrallingly detailed, Cassidy reviews the cultural history surrounding birth and the incredible journey of how life begins. Recommended by Chandler, Powells.com...
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There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children
by Melissa Fay Greene
Powells.com Staff Pick Millions of children are left without parents in Ethiopia as the result of AIDS. A skilled and graceful exploration of this crisis, Greene's moving account of one woman's actions shows the tremendous impact one person can make. Haregewoin is a genuine...
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Spook (05 Edition)
by Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, 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 soul after death? And how can you...
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
Powells.com Staff Pick In her remarkable debut, Stiff, 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 soul after death? And how can you...
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Mountains beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Powells.com 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...
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The Rodale herb book: how to use, grow, and buy nature's miracle plants,
by Rodale
Powells.com Staff Pick I love finding Rodale books, especially the older ones. Rodale publishing is based in Emmaus, Pennsylvania so perhaps I have a soft spot for them, also being a PA native. Rodale has used organic gardening techniques for decades. Their guides are full of...
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Protein Power: The High-Protein/Low-Carbohydrate Way to Lose Weight, Feel Fit, and Boost Yourhealth--In Just Weeks!
by Michael R Eades
Powells.com Staff Pick Switching extremes here, let's look at Protein Power. I will start out by saying that in no way do I recommend following this program by the book. However, there is valuable information here. Protein should be a major component in your diet when...
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Ghost Map: Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Rev 08 Edition)
by Steven Johnson
Powells.com 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...
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The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories
by Barbara Rolls
Powells.com Staff Pick In order to lose weight you need to learn how to eat right. Overeating is an addiction like alcoholism and smoking, but the overeater can't just give up food cold turkey like an alcoholic can give up booze or a smoker can give up cigarettes. We...
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