Breastfeeding is natural, but it is not entirely instinctive for either mothers or babies. The Nursing Mother's Companion has been among the best-selling books on breastfeeding for over 30 years, with over 1 million copies sold. It is...
Medicine, health and fitness
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Author:Huggins, KathleenSummary: - Author:Fung, Jason, Noakes, TimothySummary:
Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormones-in everyone-and only by understanding the effects of insulin and insulin resistance can we achieve lasting weight loss.
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- Author:Waltner-Toews, DavidSummary:
An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters. The Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, potty-training manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh air of everyone'...
- Author:Gilmer, BenjaminSummary:
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him to uncover an undiagnosed mental health crisis in our broken prison system--a powerful true story expanding on one of the most popular...
- Author:Tailor, KrisaSummary:
In The Patient Revolution, author Krisa Tailor-a noted expert in health care innovation and management-explores, through the lens of design thinking, how information technology will take health care into the experience economy. In the...
- Author:Pateguana, Nadia Brito, ND, Fung, Jason, MDSummary:
The author of the bestselling The Obesity Code joins forces with a naturopath who recovered from PCOS to offer methods for its prevention and reversal. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common reproductive disorder in the...
- Author:Hyman, MarkSummary:
Mark Hyman explains how to take the best aspects of the paleo diet and combine them with the vegan diet to create a delicious diet that is good for your brain, your body, and the planet.
- Author:Gravelle, KarenSummary:
Explains what happens at the onset of menstruation, discussing what to wear, going to the gynecologist, and how to handle various problems. Braille edition includes commonsense strategies from two blind women, and two tactile...
- Author:Macdonald, Betty BardSummary:
Tuberculosis. A terrifying word, as terrifying then as cancer is now. It meant entering a sanatorium for treatment, leaving her family, her children. And what if she did not recover? Hardly the basis for comedy, one would suppose. And...
- Author:Kahn, Joel K.Summary:
Are you ready to feel better, look better, and heal the planet at the same time? Then it's time to revolutionize your health from the inside out. With The Plant-Based Solution, leading cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn shows how everyone...
- Author:Farris, Russell, Mårin, Per, Huemer, RichardSummary:
This book clarifies the cause and consequences of hypercortisolism to help readers do something about it.
- Author:Mednick, Sara C.Summary:
You can handle anything that comes your way. Sleep expert Sara C. Mednick introduces the "downstate," a key to rejuvenation on a cellular level and how to maximize it for energy, balance, and vitality.
- Author:Bennett, JeremySummary:
“Jeremy Bennett’s remarkable story is familiar to me since I too suffered from an early bout with a difficult mental/physical disorder. In my case it was stammering and I found that by practicing magic in front of a mirror and doing...
- Author:Breus, MichaelSummary:
Most advice centers on what to do or how to do it and ignores the when of success. But research proves there is a right time to do just about everything. Dr. Breus shows that working with your body's inner clock for maximum health...
- Author:Mukwege, DenisSummary:
From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength,...
- Author:Mattingly, John B.Summary:
As practitioners, it is easy to fall into the trap of exaggerated self-importance as we complete our education and move into the world of the professional. At that moment, the aura of being something special is there for the taking. We...
- Author:Bard, Robert L.Summary:
The Prostate Cancer Revolution opens with a call to change the way prostate cancer is viewed, diagnosed and treated. In practical terms, readers learn the facts about changing world of cancer treatment, diagnosing prostate cancer using...
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Focuses on the illness as well as the disability trajectory and its impact on an individual's well being. This book also looks at the personal perspectives and stories of those faced with the many demands of living with a disability....
- Author:Davis, Jennifer PharrSummary:
Record-holding endurance hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis explores what makes women uniquely successful in the growing sport of endurance hiking and how those lessons can allow women to push themselves past their limits and to challenge their...
- Author:Davis, Ronald W., White, TracieSummary:
For six years, Whitney Dafoe was confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, to eat, to speak. This book tells the story of one father's desperate hunt for the insidious illness that stole his son away.
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