Health

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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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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My Addiction, My Superpower: From Mania to Motivates: 12 Tips for Overcoming Addiction, Crushing Life, and Inspiring Others

Publication Date: 01/09/2024

From Mania to Motivates, 12 tips for overcoming addiction, crushing life, and inspiring others.  In 2006, one week shy of his 19th birthday, Mitch Leff found himself in rehab for drug addiction. After spending time in rehab, halfway houses, and collegiate recovery programs, he moved to New York and made…

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Crisis and Chaos: Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against COVID-19

Publication Date: 10/24/2023

Hard truths and surprising insights about our COVID-19 response from America’s former top doctor. When COVID-19 began spreading rapidly, the world was taken by surprise. As the ensuing pandemic raged, we faced one constant—a lack of consistent, scientifically sound, and trusted information about dangers, risks, and mitigation strategies that the…

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