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  • How to Eat

    All Your Food and Diet Questions Answered: A Food Science Nutrition Weight Loss Book

    Bestselling author Mark Bittman and physician David Katz cut through all the noise on food, health, and diet to give you the real answers you needWhat is the “best” diet? Do calories matter? And when it comes to protein, fat, and carbs, which ones are good and which are bad? Mark Bittman and health expert David Katz answer all these questions and more in a lively and easy-to-read Q&A format. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Essential Pulse Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine

    Mai Jing A-B-C Method

    Pulse diagnosis is a notoriously complicated area in Chinese medicine with very few practical or accessible resources available to practitioners to improve their skillset. This clear, didactic manual provides detailed yet user-friendly instructions for a pulse diagnosis method the author has developed called Mai Jing A-B-C, allowing for clinical competency and confidence in pulse diagnosis.Jamie ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Genius Kitchen

    Over 100 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Make Your Brain Sharp, Body Strong, and Taste Buds Happy

    by Max Lugavere ...
    Series Book 3 - Genius Living
    USA TODAY BestsellerWALL STREET JOURNAL BestsellerCombining the dietary recommendations in his bestselling Genius Foods and the lifestyle recommendations of The Genius Life, Genius Kitchen features shockingly delicious, nutrient-packed recipes that will energize your mind, strengthen your body, and pave a path to health that you’ll feel with the first bite.Max Lugavere’s debut book Gen... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • All Bleeding Stops

    Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

    A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, as told by a 40-year veteran of trauma care.For all the awe-inspiring medical stories we might hear and the hospital dramas that dominate the ratings on television, most of us have no conception of the daily, Herculean efforts of trauma surgeons. A good trauma surgeon must be a conductor presiding ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Social Transformation of American Medicine

    The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry

    by Paul Starr ...
    “A monumental achievement” (New York Times) and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History, this is a landmark history of the American health care system.Considered the definitive history of the American health care system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Essentials of Diagnostic Decision Making

    by Azad A. Kabir ...
    The Essentials of Diagnostic Decision Making is a text and a guide book for health care providers at every level of training - from the medical students to the master diagnosticians. This book is intended to help anyone become an expert diagnostician. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Heroes Need Not Apply

    How to Build a Patient-Accountable Culture without Putting More on Your Plate

    Everyone in healthcare knows that the lack of accountability negatively impacts care, and when accountability improves throughout your organization, care improves. What healthcare leaders don’t know, is how to improve accountability and why it so critically linked to improving patient care. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief

    Practices to Reclaim Your Body and Your Life

    Pain may be unavoidable at times, but suffering—in other words, how we relate to the pain—is optional.We know that practicing mindfulness can help reduce stress and cultivate deep, embodied well-being—but what about its value in dealing with physical pain and the suffering that ensues when it seems overwhelming or unrelenting?Jon Kabat-Zinn developed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Genius Foods

    Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

    Series Book 1 - Genius Living
    New York Times BestsellerDiscover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading voice in health Max Lugavere.After his mother was diagnosed with a mysterious form of dementia, Max Lugavere ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Thrive

    How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money

    A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Dance Me to the End

    Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS

    A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS.Marty, age 57, was given a preliminary diagnosis of ALS by his family doctor. Seven weeks later, the diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist. Ten months and ten days later, Marty passed away.From day one, Alison, Marty’s spouse of over twenty-five years, kept a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Language of Kindness

    A Nurse's Story

    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A moving, lyrical, beautifully-written portrait of a nurse and the lives she has touchedChristie Watson spent twenty years as a nurse, and in this intimate, poignant, and remarkably powerful book, she opens the doors of the hospital and shares its secrets. She takes us by her side down hospital corridors to visit the wards and meet her unforgettable patients.In the ... Read more

    $12.99 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 Worst Hard Time

    The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: A National Book Award Winner

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Black and Blue

    The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

    by John Hoberman ...
    Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today.Black & Blue penetrates the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Good Caregiver

    A One-of-a-Kind Compassionate Resource for Anyone Caring for an Aging Loved One

    A survival guide with an insider's perspective, for the millions of unprepared caregivers of aging loved ones.As Americans are living longer, an unprecedented number of people now require long-term care during their last years. More than 15 million adult children now care for their elderly parents, and unsuspecting caregivers are usually unprepared financially, emotionally, and practically for the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Clinical Ethics

    A Graphic Medicine Casebook

    Series series Graphic Medicine
    Mr. Ito’s children act as his informal translators, but his doctor isn’t sure their translations are accurate or complete. Is Mr. Ito getting the medical information he needs?Ten-year-old Hannah arrives for her checkup with a bruised nose and an irritable father. Medical student Melanie is concerned for Hannah’s safety but wary of making accusations without evidence.Dr. Joshi worries that her ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

    Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?Despite modern medicine’s infatuation with high-tech gadgetry, the single most powerful diagnostic tool is the doctor-patient conversation, which can uncover the lion’s share of illnesses. However, what patients say and what doctors hear are often two vastly different things.Patients, anxious to convey their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shapeshifters

    A Journey Through the Changing Human Body

    by Gavin Francis ...
    From birth to death, a lyrical exploration of the role of transformation in human lifeTo be alive is to be in perpetual metamorphosis: growing, healing, learning, aging. In Shapeshifters, physician and writer Gavin Francis considers the inevitable changes all of our bodies undergo -- such as birth, puberty, and death, but also laughter, sleeping, and healing-and those that only some of our bodies ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy - E-Book

    NEW! Includes the 2015 Dietary Goals for Americans which covers the latest guidelines and medications.NEW! MyPlate for Older Adults developed by the Tufts University Human Research Center on Aging and the AARP Foundation replaces former Food Guide Pyramid.NEW! Newly-approved Nutrition Labeling Guidelines incorporated into text along with the latest medications, research findings, and clinical ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Making Excellence A Habit

    The Secret to Building a World-Class Healthcare System in India

    by Dr. V. Mohan ...
    One of the few practising doctors in India who contributed to research, education and charity in such a large measure, the book documents the fundamentals of what makes a person achieve meaningful success. While hard work, passion and focus emerge as winning lessons, delicate and tender learnings from Dr Mohan's life, such as empathy or spirituality, are not forgotten. Written in Dr Mohan's ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Theft of Memory

    Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

    A Library Journal Best Book of 2015National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of the brain and his astonishing ability, at the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Doctors

    How Venezuela and Cuba Are Changing the Worlds Conception of Health Care

    Revolutionary Doctors gives readers a first-hand account of Venezuela’s innovative and inspiring program of community healthcare, designed to serve—and largely carried out by—the poor themselves. Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuela’s Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Metabonomics and Gut Microbiota in Nutrition and Disease

    Series series Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of metabonomics and gut microbiota research from molecular analysis to population-based global health considerations. The topics include the discussion of the applications in relation to metabonomics and gut microbiota in nutritional research, in health and disease and a review of future therapeutical, nutraceutical and clinical applications. It also ... Read more

    $89.99 USD