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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performa...

Atul Gawande

The New York Times bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession The struggle to perform well is universal: each o...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and t...

Deborah Blum

A beguiling concoction-equal parts true crime, twentieth-century history, and science thriller. A fascinating Jazz Age tale of chemistry and detection, poison and murder, The Poisoner's Handbook is a page-turning account of a forgott...

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Published: Jan 2011

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Jou...

M. D. Eben Alexander

A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFEThousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander kne...

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Published: Oct 2012

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall D...

Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doc...

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Published: Apr 2012

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of ...

Matthew Walker

A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this “stimulating and important book” (Financial Times) from the director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power ...

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Published: Jun 2018

The Lord God Made Them All (All Creat...

James Herriot

The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories. In this newly repackaged volume, after serving in the RAF in World W...

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Published: May 2015

As Nature Made Him

John Colapinto

In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment. On the advice of a renowned expert in gender identity and sexual reassignment at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the boy was surgically alter...

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Published: Aug 2006

Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Br...

Katrina Firlik

Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply hum...

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Published: Jun 2007

Poles Apart

Dr Robert Bakss

Having Bipolar Disorder is like going to bed at night and waking up the next morning not knowing whether Tigger or Eeyore will be making your decisions for you! For those who struggle with Bipolar and for the family and friends who l...

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Published: Nov 2016

Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief: The...

Katy Bowman

Don't just relieve foot pain-prevent it from happening again.Biomechanist Katy Bowman is back with an expanded edition of her popular book Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief, and it's for everyone-men and women, no matter what st...

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Published: Sep 2016

The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, F...

Theresa Brown

"Compelling and compassionate human drama. If you want to understand how modern medicine ticks, fasten your seat belt and spend a day in the hospital with Theresa Brown on The Shift." —Danielle Ofri, MD, author of What Doc...

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Published: May 2016

The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It ...

James Dinicolantonio

What if everything you know about salt is wrong? A leading cardiovascular research scientist explains how this vital crystal got a negative reputation, and shows how to lower blood pressure and experience weig...

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Published: Aug 2020

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get T...

Atul Gawande

In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it.The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continu...

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Published: Jan 2011

Every Living Thing (All Creatures Gre...

James Herriot

This fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki Woo) and introduces new ones, including Herriot's children Rosie and Jimmy and the marvel...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Good Doctor: A Father, a Son, and...

Barron H. Lerner

The story of two doctors, a father and son, who practiced in very different times and the evolution of the ethics that profoundly influence health care  As a practicing physician and longtime member of his hospital's ethics committe...

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Published: May 2015

Dying of Whiteness

Jonathan M. Metzl

A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white voters they promise to help. In election after election, conservative white Am...

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Published: May 2020

The New Art of Dying: How to personal...

Diane Burnside Murdock

How would you like to die? Only you can answer this. Whatever your age, cultural identity, ethnic background, or beliefs, read this book if you want to talk about dying but don't know what you want to say. Each of us has our own speci...

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Published: Jan 2014

Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Nee...

P. K. Newby

From gluten-free to all-Paleo, GMOs to grass-fed beef, our newsfeeds abound with nutrition advice. Whether sensational headlines from the latest study or anecdotes from celebrities and food bloggers, we're bombarded with "superfo...

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Published: Sep 2018

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pionee...

Janice P. Nimura

New York Times Bestseller "Janice P. Nimura has resurrected Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell in all their feisty, thrilling, trailblazing splendor." —Stacy Schiff Elizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she w...

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Published: Jan 2022

Suffered Long Enough: A Physician's J...

MD William C. Rawls Jr

For patients suffering from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, or Lyme disease, life can be extremely frustrating. Doctor visits that never yield a clear diagnosis, drug therapy that leaves you feeling weak and exhausted and medical bills...

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Published: Sep 2014

Climate Change: What Everyone Needs t...

Joseph Romm

"This is, for my money, the best single-source primer on the state of climate change." - New York Magazine"The right book at the right time: accessible, comprehensive, unflinching, humane." - The Daily Beast"A must-read." - The Guardi...

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Published: Apr 2016

On the Edge of Life: Diary of A Medic...

MS Mikkael a. Sekeres MD

An extraordinary tale, told by the freshly-minted doctors rotating through the Medical Intensive Care Unit of one of the world's greatest hospitals, collected and placed into context by Cleveland Clinic physician Mikkael Sekeres, M.D....

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Published: Apr 2014

Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories...

Terrence Holt

"Illuminates human fragility in tales both lyrical and soul-wrenching." ―Danielle Ofri, New York Times Book Review In this "artful, unfailingly human, and understandable" (Boston Globe) account inspired by his ow...

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Published: Oct 2015

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the YearFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "...

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Published: May 2017

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vi...

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Published: Mar 2011

Bacteria: A Very Short Introduction

Sebastian G. B. Amyes

Bacteria form a fundamental branch of life. They are the oldest forms of life and the most prolific of all living organisms, inhabiting every part of the Earth's surface, its ocean depths, and even such inhospitable places as boiling ...

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Published: Jun 2013

Ayurveda Beginner's Guide: Essential ...

Susan Weis-Bohlen

“Susan’s approach to Ayurveda is simplicity itself. In Ayurveda Beginners Guide she has described the complex network of Ayurvedic information in a very practical, straightforward way so that every person can understand the healin...

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Published: Feb 2018
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