YOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner's Manual to Inner and Outer Beauty List price: $26.99 64 new & used available from $14.24. Most people think that beauty revolves around such things as lipstick, sweet eyes, or skinny jeans -- all those things that we can see (and obsess over) in the mirror. But the fact is that beauty isn't some superficial pursuit, and it's not some random act that you can thank (or curse) your ancestors for.There are, in fact, scientific standards to beauty. Beauty is purposeful, because it's how hum... |
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal JourneyList price: $15.00 1 new available from $10.20. Unabridged CDs • 5 CDs, 5 1?2 hours A brain scientist’s personal experience with a stroke and her journey to a full recovery.... |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals List price: $16.00 145 new, used & collectible available from $6.45. 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... |
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis List price: $23.95 6 new & used available from $14.26. A much-needed and hard-hitting plan, from one of the great Democratic minds of our time, to reform America’s broken health-care system. Undoubtedly, the biggest domestic policy issue in the coming years will be America’s health-care system. Millions of Americans go without medical care because they can’t afford it, and many others are mired in debt because they can’t pay their medical bi... |
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain List price: $26.00 93 new, used & collectible available from $6.94. Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species.Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compel... |
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association List price: $31.95 71 new & used available from $0.25. American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C. Authorship and style manual for researchers, students, and practitioners of psychology and other behavioral and social sciences. Includes new features on contemporary language issues and publishing standards. ... |
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child List price: $16.00 206 new, used & collectible available from $1.96. One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problemsHere Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for institu... |
The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health List price: $16.95 69 new & used available from $8.48. Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing an... |
You Can Heal Your Life (Gift Edition) List price: $17.95 105 new, used & collectible available from $5.95. This gift edition is a beautiful book complete with four-color illustrations throughout. "An excellent book for restructuring one's life and finding self- esteem and self-love."... |
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