Category - Health & Fitness
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We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eatsIn ...
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Offers a useful reminder of the role of modern science in fundamentally transforming all of our lives.” —President Barack Obama (on Twitter) “A...
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The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A definitive and compelling book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses.In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more...
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The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Science, Deception, and the War on Vaccines
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Investigative reporter Brian Deer exposes a conspiracy of fraud and betrayal behind attacks on a mainstay of medicine: vaccinations. 2021 IPPY Bo...
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Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Now in paperback, the cultural and medical history of dementia and Alzheimer's disease by a leading psychiatrist and bioethicist who urges us to ...
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /National Bestseller "Gives you all the context you need to understand the science of immunity. ... An Elegant Defense left me with [a] sense of a...
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Another Person's Poison: A History of Food Allergy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up wit...
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Upon its first publication more than twenty years ago, And the Band Played on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigative reporting....
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The Web That Has No Weaver
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A Doody’s Core Title for 2022! The Web That Has No Weaver is the classic, comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of Chinese alternative ...
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Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does for a week a...
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The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /For fans of Michael Pollan and Anthony Bourdain, this "surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines" (Kirkus STARRED)--from Neolithic bread to a...
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Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /How is it that Americans are more obsessed with exercise than ever, and yet also unhealthier? Fit Nation explains how we got here and imagines how ...
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The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific Journey
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart--not ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." --The New Yorker One of the New York T...
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American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body's Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author's quest to understand the source of h...
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Why Wellness Sells: Natural Health in a Pharmaceutical Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /How and why the idea of wellness holds such rhetorical--and harmful--power.In Why Wellness Sells, Colleen Derkatch examines why the concept of wel...
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Sane Asylums: The Success of Homeopathy Before Psychiatry Lost Its Mind
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /- Examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in the United States from the 1870s until 1920 - Focuses on New York's Middletown State H...
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Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Vitamin C: A 500-Year Scientific Biography from Scurvy to Pseudoscience is the compelling story of the history and science behind vitamin C.Vitamin...
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Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /“Overdosed America reveals the greed and corruption that drive health care costs skyward and now threaten the public health. Before you see a doc...
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Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life - 20th Anniversary Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The groundbreaking work exploring how ancient Chinese medicine can be an integral part of our lives today - now in a 20th anniversary edition.Woo...
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The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Visceral.”—Wall Street Journal “Illuminating.”—Publishers Weekly “Heroic.”—Science The immune system holds the key to human health. In T...
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The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A definitive and compelling book on one of today's most prevalent illnesses.In 2020, an estimated 5.8 million Americans had Alzheimer’s, and more...
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Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast can...
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