| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
| A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us--whether industrial or organic, alternative or processed--he develops a portrait of the American way of eating. The result is a sweeping, surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution, and of the profou...More
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| The Fat Flush Plan
| Kiss cellulite goodbye! The Fat Flush® Plan melts fat from hips, waist, and thighs in just two weeks and re-shapes your body while detoxifying your system. The Fat Flush Plan is a groundbreaking low carb/detox diet and fitness program. Fat Flush is known as the only diet program that gets rid of bloat, supports the liver, cleans up the lymph, and helps to eliminate the appearance of cellulite – for good. An international best-seller with legions of devoted followers, ...More
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| Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners
| Anatomy of Hatha Yoga is the only modern authoritative source that correlates the study of hatha yoga with anatomy and physiology. Hatha yoga is comprised of stretching, strengthening and breathing exercises in upright, lying down and inverted postures. Yoga teachers and students, personal trainers, medical therapists, or anyone who is curious or troubled about how the body responds to stretching and exercise will find in this book a cornucopia -- partly new and partly old -- of readable and re...More
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| The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental, & Spiritual Rejuvenation
| This book is a must read for those seeking to cleanse and detoxify their body and to gain spiritual energy and live a longer, healthier life.
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| Administering Medications
| This book provides the fundamentals of drug administration, drug laws, principles of pharmacology, drug handling procedures, physician's orders, routes of administration, dosage calculation, and drug actions related to specific body systems and disorders. New boxed readings for the fifth edition include Legal and Ethical Issues, and Health Care: Today and Tomorrow. Also includes 'CAUTION!' boxes, which provide critical information on common drug administration errors; 'Patient Education' boxes, ...More
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| The Top 100 Zone Foods: The Zone Food Science Ranking System
| With his number one New York Times bestseller The Zone, Dr. Barry Sears revolutionized nutritional thinking around the world. Now in The Top 100 Zone Foods he shows you how to incorporate the absolute best Zone foods into your diet. Using his new Zone Food Science Ranking System, Dr. Sears has analyzed thousands of foods to find the best proteins, carbohydrates,fats, and spices on earth. The Top 100 Zone Foods will introduce you to the exquisite flavors of Zone-perfec...More
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| Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications
| Medications for everything from depression and anxiety to ADHD and insomnia are being prescribed in alarming numbers across the country, but the “cure” is often worse than the original problem. Medication Madness is a fascinating, frightening, and dramatic look at the role that psychiatric medications have played in fifty cases of suicide, murder, and other violent, criminal, and bizarre behaviors. As a psychiatrist who believes in holding people responsible for their conduct...More
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| Neurology: Pretest Self-Assessment & Review
| "Pre-Test[registered]" is the medical student's most dynamic weapon for mastering the USMLE Step 2. Great for course review and clinical rotations, too! "Neurology: PreTest" asks the right questions so you'll know the right answers. "PreTest[registered]" is the closest you can get to seeing the test before you take it.This one-of-a-kind test prep guide helps you: get to know material on the medicine shelf exam and the USMLE Step 2; practice with 500 clinical vignette-style questions and referenc...More
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| Essential Concepts For Healthy Living
| Essential Concepts For Healthy Living, Fifth Edition Provides Students With A Clear And Concise Introduction To The Latest Scientific And Medical Research In Personal Health. With Its Unique Focus On Critical Thinking And Analysis Of Health-Related Behaviors And Attitudes, This Text Enhances Students’ Understanding Of Their Own Health Needs And Presents The Scientific Background Necessary For Students To Think Critically About The Reliability Of Health-Related Information They Encounter In The...More
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| Little Sugar Addicts: End the Mood Swings, Meltdowns, Tantrums, and Low Self-Esteem in Your Child Today
| Sugar Is Not LoveDo you have a smart, creative, loving child who is also cranky, inattentive, and sometimes downright obnoxious? If you’ve written off this negative behavior as “typical” for your child’s age—whether toddler or teen—stop and think: Does your child have a taste for soda, sugary breakfast cereals, and treats like candy and cookies? Does she eat regularly scheduled meals or skip them? What, exactly, does he drink and snack on throughout the day? Your child’s behavior ...More
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| Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
| Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of t...More
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| Medical Boards Step I : Made Ridiculously Simple (MedMaster Series)
| The most thorough, lighting fast review possible, with understanding, of material on Step 1, Step 2, or Step 3 of the USMLE Boards, in chart format. (Author scored in top 3% of USMLE Step1.)
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| Contraceptive Technology, 18th Revised Edition
| The 17th Edition of Contraceptive Technology has drawn on experts throughout the world to author chapters of this NEW book. So it is the BEST EVER!! It includes the 1998 STI guidelines from the CDC. We know you will enjoy this practical reference book. Ten Reasons to buy this book... Adolecent Sexual Behavior - James Trussell Pills- Robert Hatcher & John Guillebaud Managing the Abnormal Pap Smear - Michael Policar HIV/AIDS - Testing & Treatment - Felicia Guest Reproductive Tract Inf...More
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| Basic Flight Physiology
| This readable, updated textbook by a flight surgeon comprehensively covers the factors that affect ``medical airworthiness.'' Includes practical chapters on dealing with in-flight medical emergencies and on maintaining flight fitness with diet and exercise.
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| Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness
| Narrative medicine has emerged in response to a commodified health care system that places corporate and bureaucratic concerns over the needs of the patient. Generated from a confluence of sources including humanities and medicine, primary care medicine, narratology, and the study of doctor-patient relationships, narrative medicine is medicine practiced with the competence to recognize, absorb, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness. By placing events in temporal order, with beginni...More
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| Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access, 3e (Haines, Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Appl)
| A richly illustrated, clinically oriented textbook with well-balanced coverage of both neurophysiology and neuroanatomy provides all the knowledge you need for Board exam preparation and practice! This 3rd Edition offers meticulous updates from cover to cover ... a new, more user-friendly page layout ... 300 USMLE-style review questions, with answers and rationales ... and access to the entire text online, plus many other features, at www.studentconsult.com.Features author Duane E Haines, Recipi...More
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| Health in the Later Years
| Health in the Later Years is geared to help people make better-informed health choices to increase the quality of their later life. Further, knowledge of health and aging assists individuals to better manage the aging process of their family members. Finally, the study of aging and health enhances professional opportunities in the field of gerontology. The text provides a comprehensive overview of the most important topics in health and aging. The latest edition of the textbook is completely rev...More
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| SOAP for Obstetrics and Gynecology
| SOAP for Obstetrics and Gynecology features over 60 clinical problems with each case presented in an easy-to-read 2-page layout. Each step presents information on how that case would likely be handled. Questions under each category teach the students important steps in clinical care. The SOAP series is a unique resource that also provides a step-by-step guide to learning how to properly document patient care. Covering the problems most commonly encountered on the wards, the text u...More
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| The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders
| Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems—birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity—are now viewed as medical conditions. For better or worse, medicine increasingly permeates aspects of daily life.Building on more than three decades of research, Peter Conrad explores the changing forces behind this trend with case studies of short stature, social anxiety, "male meno...More
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| If Only I Had Known: Avoiding Common Mistakes In Couples Therapy
| Creating tactics for getting it right the first time.The co-authors draw on over thirty years of experience to show young therapists how and how not to conduct psychotherapy. Each chapter begins with a vignette illustrating a common mistake, then describes the error in detail, explains why therapists make the mistake and offers tactics for avoiding it.
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