Health

Mindfire: Diary of an Anxious Twenty-Something

Publication Date: 05/13/2025

When your mind is on fire, how do you extinguish the flame? Here’s one thing college doesn’t teach you: Adulting is hard. Studies show that approximately 50 percent of adults ages eighteen to twenty-four suffer from anxiety. Mindfire takes readers along on the emotional journey that is growing up, and the anxiety…

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Veggie Smarts: A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables

Publication Date: 04/22/2025

A nerdy farmer—and doctor with expertise in nutrition—provides insight into how best to prepare and savor vegetables while recounting his journey in building an organic vegetable farm and discovering the family that farmed the same land some 200 years ago. Dr. Michael Compton shares his passionate approach to savoring vegetables…

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Breaking the Medicine Monopolies: Reflections of a Generic Drug Pioneer

Publication Date: 01/28/2025

Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a lawyer’s personal narrative of the events that led to the widespread use of low-cost generic drugs and the current drug price crisis. Breaking the Medicine Monopolies is a personal narrative about Alfred Engelberg’s fifty years of legal work in the drug industry. He takes…

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From Chaos to Calm: A Six-Step Strategy to Break Through Anxiety

Publication Date: 01/14/2025

If you’re ready to reclaim your peace and power, From Chaos to Calm is the first step to tame your anxiety, unleash your strength, and discover the calm within yourself. My heart was racing, my breath shallow, and my thoughts a chaotic storm. It was 2:42 a.m. in my tiny,…

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This Book Will Save Your Life: The New Medical Cure for Opioid Addiction

Publication Date: 12/10/2024

Renowned neurologist Dr. Russell Surasky reveals a precise and breakthrough medical treatment for opioid addiction. The book you’re holding in your hands contains the answers that can save your life, the life of a loved one, or—if you’re a doctor—the life of your patient. In the time it takes you…

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Fat And Unhappy: How “Body Positivity” Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself)

Publication Date: 11/19/2024

An honest examination of the contemporary body positivity movement, which explains how Big Food and Big Pharma have colluded to prey on our deepest insecurities to keep Americans fat, sick, and depressed. More than seventy years after Americans dutifully embraced the low-fat diet in an era of industrialized food, a…

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Herbs, Vitamins & Supplements for Wellness & Beauty: The Ultimate Guide

Publication Date: 10/29/2024

A comprehensive guide to herbs, vitamins, and supplements, including their history and uses. Herbs, Vitamins, & Supplements for Wellness & Beauty is the newest edition of the bestselling classic, Herbs That Heal. This ultimate guide is the only herbal book you’ll ever need. It includes all commonly utilized Western and…

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First the Patient: The Life and Times of David G. Nathan, MD

Publication Date: 08/06/2024

A fast-paced account of a giant of 20th century medicine, First the Patient details how David Nathan saved patients with his medical skill and rescued institutions with his visionary leadership. The miraculous triumphs of modern medicine—antibiotics, insulin, cancer cures, longer and better lives—are the fruits of its firm grounding in…

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First in Line: How COVID-19 Placed Me on the Frontlines of a Health Care Crisis

Publication Date: 07/23/2024

Sandra Lindsay, the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, takes the reader on her journey from humble immigrant beginnings in 1980s Bronx to national health equity advocate and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sandra Lindsay immigrated to the United States from Jamaica in 1986 with ambitions of…

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Cardiac Cowboys: The Heroic Invention of Heart Surgery

Publication Date: 02/20/2024

Cardiac Cowboys is the dramatic story of five deeply flawed geniuses who together—and in competition with each other—invented open-heart surgery against all conventional medical wisdom and saved millions of lives. A decade after World War II, there was still no such thing as open-heart surgery, and yet half a million…

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