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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease.
“Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book…Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs.
The New York Times Bestseller
“Riveting, heartbreaking, sometimes difficult, always inspiring.” —The New York Times Book Review
As seen/heard on Fresh Air, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, Weekend Edition and more
A holistic guide to improving your gut flora for better physical and emotional health
• Explores the influence of the gut microbiome and the mesentery on all other bodily systems, especially the brain and immune system
• Explains the central role of the digestive system in Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine and how these systems treat the microbiome
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"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR).
"MacKenzie's fascinating book gives us the scope and scale to be able to put this pandemic in perspective and, it begs the question, will we learn from this in time to prevent to next one?" -Molly Caldwell Crosby, Bestselling author of The American Plague
$17.00ISBN: 9780307386717Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Anchor - October 24th, 2017From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine.
$24.95ISBN: 9781523510740Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Workman Publishing Company - September 1st, 2020Break the cycle of pain with the Miracle Ball Method.
"After taking just one of Elaine’s ball therapy classes, I was asymptomatic for the first time in 15 years.$17.00ISBN: 9781400052189Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Broadway Books - March 8th, 2011#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The story of modern medicine and bioethics—and, indeed, race relations—is refracted beautifully, and movingly.”—Entertainment Weekly
$18.95ISBN: 9780806539317Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Citadel - August 27th, 2019Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
Boston Globe bestseller
#1 Canadian Bestseller$28.00ISBN: 9780525538318Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Riverhead Books - July 21st, 2020“Fun, interesting and credible.” –New York Times Book Review
A preventative medicine physician and staff writer for The Atlantic explains the surprising and unintended effects of our hygiene practices in this informative and entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics.
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
$18.00ISBN: 9780812973013Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - August 31st, 2004“[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views . . . Kidder opens a window into Farmer’s soul, letting the reader peek in and see what truly makes the good doctor tick.”—Nicholas Thomas, USA Today
