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Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body
by Jennifer Ackerman
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Be ready to geek out over your own body. A delightful and engaging book, Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream will fill you with wonder. Science writer Jennifer Ackerman lays out the latest developments and theories about the human body in a way that will keep you...
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You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
by Michael F. Roizen M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz M.D.
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Provides advice, an eating plan, and exercises designed to help people achieve a sustained loss of abdominal fat and live a healthier life....
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The Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe
by Emma Taylor
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From the hippest, smartest sex site on the web, Nerve.com, comes the only sex manual you'll ever need...No, really.
Think you don't need The Big Bang? Think again: Do you know which body part is the wallflower of the sexual prom? How about the real...
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Vintage)
by Oliver W. Sacks
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Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a...
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The Last Lecture
by Randy Pausch
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
— Randy Pausch
A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while...
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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
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Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a...
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My Stroke Of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
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A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities On the morning of December 10, 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain...
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The Hot Zone
by Richard Preston
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"Popular science writing at its best and the years most infectious page-turner" (People), this two-million-copy bestseller is "a top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall" (Newsweek)....
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What To Expect When Youre Expecting 4TH Edition
by Heidi Murkoff
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The best just got better.
Expect the best! A brand-new fourth edition — filled with the most up-to-date, accurate, and relevant information on all things pregnancy. Realistic, supportive, easy to access, and overflowing with practical tips...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
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In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's "The Man Who...
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Reflexology
by Barcharts
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This 4-page laminated guide contains detailed illustrations of pressure points of the hands & feet and is color coded and mapped from multiple views. Illustrations by award-winning medical illustrator Vince Perez....
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
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Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers (some willingly, some unwittingly) have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They...
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