Disease & Health Issues
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Viruses: A Natural History
$35.00 Read moreA comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of viruses
As parasites that are often hundreds of times smaller than bacteria, viruses exist in and on everything, everywhere. Rapidly- Series: Lives of the Natural World #5
- Author: Roossinck, Marilyn J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 069123759X
- Language: English
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Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
$24.95 Read moreA comprehensive collection of intergenerational voices on Liberatory Harm Reduction, mutual aid, and building community to save lives.
- Author: Hassan, Shira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598410
- Language: English
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Muzzled Truth: How The California Dept. of Public Health Rejected COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Health Risks Warnings
$13.99 Add to cartMuzzled Truth: How the California Department of Public Health Rejected COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccine Health Risks Warnings is a book revealing the actions California public health officials took be
- Author: Owens, Ronald F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989776900
- Language: English
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
$19.99 Read moreA physician’s “provocative” (Boston Globe) and “timely” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences — even for the white voters t
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644972
- Language: English
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The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
$19.99 Read moreApple Best Books of 2021
From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores th
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize- Author: Quinones, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1639730478
- Language: English
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Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First Book
Finalis- Author: Arsenault, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1250799686
- Language: English
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
$24.95 Add to cartIn Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure-the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It… [more below]
- Author: Clare, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 3, 2017
- ISBN10: 0822362872
- Language: English
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Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report
$18.99 Read moreThis powerful report on what went wrong–and right–with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times
Our national le- Author: Crisis Group, Covid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703804
- Language: English
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It’s Not about the Wine: The Loaded Truth Behind Mommy Wine Culture
$26.99 Add to cartAlcohol isn’t going to fix the systemic lack of support for mothers–and pretending it’s the solution to surviving motherhood does more harm than good.
A wine glass etched with “Mommy needs wine”; a
- Author: Yvonne, Celeste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1506486754
- 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
$30.00 Read moreScience journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity–the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing–its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will… [more below]
- Author: Adee, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0306826623
- Language: English
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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
$17.95 Add to cartIn recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it… [more below]
- Author: Kafai, Shayda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1551528649
- Language: English
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ – A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Kat… [more below]
- Author: Fink, Sheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0307718972
- Language: English
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Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
$32.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES and LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
This book is about pleasure
“Brilliant . . . riveting, scary, cogent, and cleverly argued.”–Beth Macy, author of Dopesick,
as heard on Fresh Air- Author: Lembke, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 152474672X
- Language: English
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Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down
$28.99 Add to cart“With his pioneering research, Corey Keyes put languishing on the map. In this powerful book, he brings it to life. Get ready to rethink your understanding of mental health, update your views on happi… [more below]
- Author: Keyes, Corey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 20-Feb-24
- ISBN10: 0593444620
- Language: English
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Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
$22.00 Add to cartRaj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health an
- Author: Marya, Rupa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1250849292
- Language: English
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
$19.00 Add to cartNow with a new Afterword from the author
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533407
- Language: English
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The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
$29.95 Read more“No journalist knows more about toxic chemicals in the workplace than Jim Morris. The Cancer Factory is the crowning achievement of his estimable career spent walking fence lines, factory floors, and … [more below]
- Author: Morris, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0807059145
- Language: English
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Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our World
$32.00 Read more“DiGregorio’s storytelling is pitch-perfect; narrative and nursing, she understands, come from the same place and both are concerned with a deep understanding of character and plot….This is a brilli
- Author: DiGregorio, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0063071282
- Language: English
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller
One of the top ten books of the year at The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Vulture/New York magazine
A best book of the year at Los Angeles Times, Time, N- Author: Aviv, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 125087291X
- Language: English
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Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine
$29.95 Read moreA beautifully illustrated history of the human encounter with unreason
The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the commonsense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional- Author: Scull, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173443
- Language: English
