Disease & Health Issues
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They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
$30.00 Add to cartA landmark investigation of the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health cr… [more below]
- Author: Blake, Mariah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1524760099
- Language: English
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs–And May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
$35.00 Add to cartThe centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning–and the pitfalls of ego–as it does about microbes.
Scientists and enthusiastic amateu- Author: Levenson, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593242734
- Language: English
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The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs
$32.95 Add to cartHow the very fact of being human makes us vulnerable to pandemics–and gives us the power to save ourselves.
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t be our last–because what makes us vulnerable to pandemics also- Author: Sholts, Sabrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 026204885X
- Language: English
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Survive and Thrive! How Cancer Saves Lives: Inspiring Stories of Courageous Cancer Thrivers
$18.95 Add to cartAccording to the Cancer Council, 1 in 2 Australians will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85. Similar figures are reported for the USA and UK. Inevitably everyone in these countries will be impa
- Series: Survive and Thrive! #1
- Author: Spicer, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0648436101
- Language: English
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Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The End of Overeating comes an illuminating understanding of body weight, including the promise–and peril –of the latest weight loss drugs.
The struggle- Author: Kessler, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1250381274
- Language: English
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Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take
$30.99 Add to cartA leading medical expert explains why too many of the medications Americans take are poorly evaluated, overpriced, or pose unwarranted risks–and what we can do to fix that.
Groundbreaking research ha- Author: Avorn, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1668052849
- Language: English
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Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer
$18.95 Add to cartAn expansive, darkly funny, and deeply personal reflection on the reality of living with–and dying from–metastatic breast cancer.
Deena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. “D
- Author: Gore, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1558613366
- Language: English
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The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture
$29.99 Add to cartFor more than 150 years, the question of nature versus nurture has been one of the most contentious issues in the human sciences. On the one side are “blank-slaters,” who believe we are mainly shaped
- Author: Conley, Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092637
- Language: English
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Generation Care: The New Culture of Caregiving
$30.00 Add to cartWriter and founder of national online support group Caregiver Collective and herself a caregiver Jennifer N. Levin offers a comprehensive look at our current culture of care–with an emphasis on Mille… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Jennifer N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0306832038
- Language: English
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
$30.00 Add to cartJohn Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217168422
- Language: English
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For the Love of a Son: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Hope
$19.99 Add to cartInstant Toronto Star Bestseller
From Hockey Night in Canada‘s Scott Oake, a raw and honest memoir about his son’s struggle with opioid use and how he turned a father’s worst nightmare into a second ch- Author: Oake, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668045478
- Language: English
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The Dorito Effect
$18.99 Add to cartA lively argument from an award-winning journalist proving that the key to reversing America’s health crisis lies in the overlooked link between nutrition and flavor: “The Dorito Effect is one of the … [more below]
- Author: Schatzker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1476724237
- Language: English
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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
$32.00 Read moreA bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system.
“Healing is truly one of the best books ever written about mental illness, and I think I’ve read- Author: Insel, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0593298047
- Language: English
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Suicide: Understanding and Ending a National Tragedy
$29.95 Read moreAn urgent call to action on a rising–and preventable–trend.
Each year in the United States alone, nearly 50,000 individuals die by suicide; more than 1.2 million others attempt it. John Bateson, form
- Author: Bateson, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1421449412
- Language: English
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Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles
$30.00 Add to cartSociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.
In 2022, Los Angeles became the US county with the largest- Author: Gong, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2024
- ISBN10: 022658190X
- Language: English
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Abortion in the Age of Unreason: A Doctor’s Account of Caring for Women Before and After Roe v. Wade
$28.99 Read moreThis vivid account by a prominent doctor reports the challenges of offering and receiving abortion services through stories from the front lines-from protecting patients and staff from protesters’ att
- Author: Hern, Warren M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: September 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1032847859
- Language: English
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Missed Conceptions: How We Make Sense of Infertility
$26.99 Read moreInfertility is one of the most painful and painfully common of human experiences. One in six couples will experience fertility challenges when they attempt to get pregnant, and while more and more peo
- Author: Stollznow, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 150648526X
- Language: English
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Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl
$24.95 Add to cartFat girl problems.
Derided by her high-school peers for being overweight, Rachel finally found a sense of purpose and belonging in a promising career as an EMT–that is, until her body got in the way.
- Author: Thomas, Rachel M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1637790791
- Language: English
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The Coronation: Essays from the Covid Moment
$19.95 Read more*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Rising To The Moment-Focused Topic: COVID Pandemic
“There are moments in our history in which the art of the written word captures the extraordinary beauty
- Author: Eisenstein, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021785
- Language: English
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Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
$48.75 Read moreAlgorithms-rules written into software-shape key moments in our lives: from who gets hired or admitted to a top public school, to who should go to jail or receive scarce public benefits. Today, high s
- Author: Robinson, David G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0871547775
- Language: English
