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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Publisher Comments Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 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: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Herbal Medicine-makers Handbook: a Home Manual by James Green Publisher Comments THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER'¬?S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE MALE HERBAL. Writing in a delightfully personal and down-home style,... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L Hay Publisher Comments This New York Times bestseller has sold over 1.5 million copies. Its key message: If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed. For all who are looking for a source of inspiration on the path to self-discovery.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elementsfire, water, air, and earthto transform the stuff of nature into delicious things... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Loving What is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie Publisher Comments Out of nowhere, like a breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice, comes Byron Katie and “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elementsfire, water, air, and earthto transform the stuff of nature into delicious things... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Publisher Comments Have you ever seen something that wasn’t really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything by Geneen Roth Publisher Comments Geneen Roth's masterwork, Women Food and God explores the relationship between how we eat and how we see ourselves in the world.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy Publisher Comments "I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort Publisher Comments After 30 years--with more than eight million copies sold--"The Joy of Sex" is still considered the quintessential sex manual by millions of readers. Featuring an exuberant combination of newly updated text and illustrations, this classic sex manual tells... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great by Eric C Westman Publisher Comments THINK YOU KNOW THE ATKINS DIET? THINK AGAIN. THE NEW ATKINS IS . . . POWERFUL Learn how to eat the wholesome foods that will turn your body into an amazing fat-burning machine. EASY The updated and simplified program was created with you and your goals... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Book of Massage by Clar Maxwell Hudson Publisher Comments A comprehensive guide to massage techniques with clear step-by-step instructions. Fully illustrated for all ages with color and/or black-and-white photographs on every page. 155,000 copies sold-to-date.... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Exercises for Osteoporosis: A Safe and Effective Way to Build Bone Density and Muscle Strength and Improve Posture and Flexibility for Women and M (Exercises for) by Dianne Daniels Publisher Comments The definitive and easy-to-follow exercise guide for maintaining healthy, strong bones. More than 25 million Americans, almost 10% of our population, suffer from osteoporosis. While it is often thought of as an old womans disease, about 20% of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Living a Longer, Healthier Life: The Companion Guide to Dr. A's Habits of Health by Wayne Scott Anderson Synopsis This workbook serves as the companion guide to the best-selling book Dr. A's Habits of Health, a comprehensive manual designed to give you control of your daily habits and behaviors in order to create a life of vibrancy and optimal health. Living a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving by Charles Muir Publisher Comments Based on the Muirs' popular seminars, this provocative book offers modern couples ancient Tantric secrets for deepening relationships, intimacy, and passion.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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