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  • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

    by Michael Lewis ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFor those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.**Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Principles of Corporate Renewal, Second Edition

    Since its publication in 1998, this indispensable text has been the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including outsourcing, turnaround management, layoffs, quality management, and reengineering.Now in its second ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Deadly Spin

    An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

    That's how Wendell Potter introduced himself to a Senate committee in June 2009. He proceed to explain how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they make it nearly impossible to understand information that the public needs. Potter quit his high-paid job as head of public relations at a major insurance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Truth About COVID-19

    Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal

    USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly National Bestseller“An eloquent, charismatic, and knowledgeable [critique] of a corrupt system.”****—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., from the foreword**“Dr. Mercola is a visionary, pioneer, and leader.”**—Del Bigtree, host of The HighwireMultiple New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins,... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lancet: Universal Health Coverage

    Global Health Series

    Edited by The Lancet ...
    Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, has stated that "Universal Health Coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer." In this Series from The Lancet, the first of three papers explores the evidence on the links between expansions in coverage and population health outcomes. The second paper looks at the political and economic dimensions ... Read more

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  • Fitness Ultimate solution for your health and weight loss problem

    by Margie Casey ...
    Discover the best strategies that kept secret by health and fitness industry all this time. This is time to get stronger, and become healthier in easy steps. There is whole different level of fitness you can attain. Why settle for ordinary when you can be best. These books reveal same strategies and tips that pro athletes use to increase their performance and overall health for. Don’t just wish ... Read more

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  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center

    "Insightful and filled with verve...electrifying."—Wall Street JournalHailed as "an astute book of enormous importance" (Sherwin Nuland), The Surgeons follows the team at one of the world's premier cardiac surgery and transplant centers. Given unprecedented access, Charles R. Morris recounts in thrilling detail a late-night against-the-clock "harvest run" to secure a precious transplantable organ, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Long Fix: Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone

    by Vivian Lee MD ...
    It may not be a quick fix, but this concrete action plan for reform can create a less costly and healthier system for all.Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can’t get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business.In The Long Fix, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

    A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Inside the Outbreaks

    The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service

    The “fascinating” story of the CDC’s intrepid investigators, who travel the world to protect us from deadly pathogens (Chicago Tribune).Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. When an epidemic hits, the EIS will be there to crack the case, however mysterious or deadly, saving countless lives in the process. Over the years they have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Obamacare: What's in It for Me?

    What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

    On January 1, 2014, the most important consumer protections in ObamaCare (the Affordable Care Act) go into effect. With both supporters and opponents of the law debating its merits and its controversial rollout, there is a need for “news-you-can-use” types of resources from credible third parties.Enter Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin and former health insurance executive. Obamacare: What's ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Medicine

    The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health

    An engaging history of the role that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin played in the origins of public health in America.Before the advent of modern antibiotics, one’s life could be abruptly shattered by contagion and death, and debility from infectious diseases and epidemics was commonplace for early Americans, regardless of social status. Concerns over health affected ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Health Gap

    The Challenge of an Unequal World

    In Baltimore's inner-city neighborhood of Upton/Druid Heights, a man's life expectancy is sixty-three; not far away, in the Greater Roland Park/Poplar neighborhood, life expectancy is eighty-three. The same twenty-year avoidable disparity exists in the Calton and Lenzie neighborhoods of Glasgow, and in other cities around the world.In Sierra Leone, one in 21 fifteen-year-old women will die in her ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Political Determinants of Health

    How do policy and politics influence the social conditions that generate health outcomes?Reduced life expectancy, worsening health outcomes, health inequity, and declining health care options—these are now realities for most Americans. However, in a country of more than 325 million people, addressing everyone's issues is challenging. How can we effect beneficial change for everyone so we all can ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Vaccine Nation

    America's Changing Relationship with Immunization

    by Elena Conis ...
    “A strikingly honest, fair-minded, and informed chronicle of the vaccine controversy in the United States.”—Age of AutismBy setting the complex story of American vaccination within the country’s broader history, Vaccine Nation goes beyond the simple story of the triumph of science over disease and provides a new and perceptive account of the role of politics and social forces in medicine.Vaccine ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fat Land

    How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World

    by Greg Critser ...
    “An in-depth, well-researched, and thoughtful exploration of the ‘fat boom’ in America.” —*TheBoston Globe***Low carb, high protein, raw foods . . . despite our seemingly endless obsession with fad diets, the startling truth is that six out of ten Americans are overweight or obese. In Fat Land, award-winning nutrition and health journalist Greg Critser examines the facts and societal factors ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great American Drug Deal: A New Prescription for Innovative and Affordable Medicines

    Developing life-changing drugs is risky and expensive—but that's not what makes them unaffordable.Drug pricing is a staple of every news cycle and political debate. And while we've struggled for decades to agree on solutions that serve all patients without jeopardizing the invention of new medicines, many Americans suffer because they can't afford the drugs they need.Do we really have to choose ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Safe Food

    The Politics of Food Safety

    by Marion Nestle ...
    Series Book 5 - California Studies in Food and Culture
    Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"—only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Reducing Gun Violence in America

    Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis

    Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThe staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year—is an urgent public health issue that demands an effective evidence-based policy response.The Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize relevant research and recommend policies that are both ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A History of Global Health

    Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

    A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives

    The inside story of the most audacious public health campaign of the twenty-first century.In 2002, a dynamic doctor named Thomas Frieden became health commissioner of New York City. With support from the new mayor, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, Frieden and his health department team prohibited smoking in bars, outlawed trans fats in restaurants, and attempted to cap the size of sodas, among other ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Origin of Overweight

    by Yvonne Foss ...
    Why is it so easy to gain weight and yet so difficult to lose it?Why is extra weight so bad for your health if it is just a store of energy?Why is obesity higher among the rich in poor countries and among the poor in rich countries?Why is the prevalence of obesity particularly high in island nations?What can we all do immediately (whatever our size) to improve our health and prevent weight gain ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Conversation

    A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care

    In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic end-of-life care: talking, medicine's oldest tool.There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes at bankrupting costs, even ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Overcharged

    Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care

    "Overcharged is just what the doctor ordered." —Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, former dean, Harvard Medical SchoolWhy is America's health care system so expensive? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated charges that com out of the blue from out-of-network providers or demands for services that weren't delivered? Why do we pay $600 for EpiPens that contain a dollar's worth of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD