Disease & Health Issues
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Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
$18.99 Add to cartIn Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundb
- Author: Dowsett Johnston, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 006224180X
- Language: English
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Healthy No Matter What: How Humans Are Hardwired to Adapt
$28.00 Read moreA provocative manifesto that teaches you how to take control of your own health, no matter your age or circumstances–from an innovative doctor and his philosopher daughter
“If you care about your hea- Author: Jadad, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0593240820
- Language: English
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Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships
$29.95 Read moreAsylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on.
In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forci- Author: Wipond, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1637741480
- Language: English
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Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
$34.95 Read moreHow scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases–and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.
After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be h- Author: Conniff, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047969
- Language: English
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The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice
$35.00 Read moreLee Johnson was a man with simple dreams. All he wanted was a steady job and a nice home for his wife and children, something better than the hard life he knew growing up. He never imagined that he wo… [more below]
- Author: Gillam, Carey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1642830569
- Language: English
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”–USA Today
“If any one person can be given credit for transfo- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980557
- Language: English
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A Number
$14.95 Read moreCaryl Churchill, hailed by Tony Kushner as “the greatest living English language playwright,” has turned her extraordinary dramatic gifts to the subject of human cloning–how might a man feel to disco… [more below]
- Author: Churchill, Caryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1559362251
- Language: English
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Hearing Loss for Dummies
$24.99 Read moreImprove your hearing, enhance your life
With new advice on just-released over-the-counter hearing aids
Hearing loss can be frustrating, but in fact it’s common and treatable. Hearing Loss For Dummies,
- Author: Frank Lin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1119880572
- Language: English
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We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine
$28.00 Read moreA Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s moving narrative of a group of patient advocates who are revolutionizing the way medical research is conducted.
For more than half a century, medical advances have- Author: Dockser Marcus, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0399576134
- Language: English
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Fentanyl Nation: Toxic Politics and America’s Failed War on Drugs
$29.00 Add to cartA passionate call to abandon ineffective drug-war policies, reframe addiction as a public health issue, and end the Fentanyl crisis.
The American overdose crisis has reached record-breaking heights; pr- Author: Hampton, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1250288932
- Language: English
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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
$24.95 Add to cart“Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.”
-Hannah Zeavin, Founding Editor, Paraprax… [more below]- Author: Proctor, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1839766050
- Language: English
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We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
$19.99 Add to cartNow with an afterword exclusive to the paperback edition: science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity–the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thin… [more below]
- Author: Adee, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0306826631
- Language: English
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Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe
$30.00 Add to cartA riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history–and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, just… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0593321111
- Language: English
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Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: DiGregorio, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0063071290
- Language: English
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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An essential book for those coping with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders that “reframe[s] our understanding of dementia with sensitivity and acc… [more below]- Author: Harper, Lynn Casteel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1646220560
- Language: English
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Blues Para Un Planeta Azul / Blues for a Blue Planet
$22.95 Read moreEl último desafÃo de la civilización para evitar el abismo del cambio climático
Cómo impacta el cambio climático en la salud y en el cáncer? Escrito con una claridad extraordinaria, Blues par- Author: Fueyo, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 8466672702
- Language: Spanish
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The Seafarer
$17.95 Add to cart“Conor McPherson, who [turned] 35 in August, is one of the genuine treasures of the English-language theatre. It is absolutely intoxicating to ponder what he will give us in the future.”–Irish Echo
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- Author: McPherson, Conor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1559363126
- Language: English
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Accidental Kindness: A Doctor’s Notes on Empathy
$19.00 Add to cartWe will all be patients sooner or later. And when we go to the doctor, when we’re hurting, we tend to think in terms of cause and condemnation. We often look for relief not only from physical symptoms… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1469671816
- Language: English
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A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security and Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario
$31.95 Add to cartFood insecurity takes a disproportionate toll on the health of Canada’s Indigenous people. A Land Not Forgotten examines the disruptions in local food practices as a result of colonization and the cul
- Author: Robidoux, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0887557570
- Language: English
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Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a psychiatrist on the frontlines of addiction medicine and an expert on the history of drug use comes the “authoritative, engaging, and accessible” history of the flower that helped to build (Boo… [more below]
- Author: Halpern, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 031641767X
- Language: English
