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Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body 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... (read more)

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The Last Lecture 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... (read more)

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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by Tracy Kidder

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Beautifully told, and entirely inspiring, Mountains Beyond Mountains is an exceptional look at the heroic life of Dr. Paul Farmer. Providing health care for hundreds of thousands in a remote, impoverished region of Haiti, Farmer's incomparable dedication... (read more)

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The Hot Zone 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).... (read more)

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales 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... (read more)

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You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty
by Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz

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The original "You: The Owners Manual" book showed how bodies work in general, and "You: On a Diet" explained how bodies lose weight and stay fit. In their latest book in the phenomenally bestselling series, Drs. Roizen and Oz illuminate the mysterious... (read more)

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How Doctors Think How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman

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A New Yorker staff writer, best-selling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the ultimate medical mystery: how doctors figure out the best treatments — or fail to do so. On average, a physician will interrupt a patient... (read more)

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 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... (read more)

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Position of the Day Position of the Day
by Nerve.com

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Humour meets impulse meets sex in this nifty little paperback. Whether displayed on the coffee table or in the bathroom, POD is sure to crack a smile.... (read more)

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWhen three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more)

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Eat Right for Your Type Eat Right for Your Type
by Peter J Dadamo

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The bestselling individualized diet solution to staying healthy, living longer and achieving your ideal weight.... (read more)

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You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management 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.... (read more)

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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by Steven Johnson

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In 1854, as a cholera epidemic ravaged London, prevailing wisdom blamed "miasma"; in other words, "bad air" was spreading the disease. One prominent physician disagreed. It was Dr. John Snow's work outside of the lab, however — his innovative... (read more)

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Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era
by Boston Womens Health Book Collective

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With more than four million copies sold, Our Bodies, Ourselves is the classic resource that women of all ages can turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being. Completely revised for the first time in a decade, these pages give... (read more)

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Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
by Caroline Myss

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Anatomy of the Spirit is the boldest presentation to date of energy medicine by one of its premier practitioners, internationally acclaimed medical intuitive Caroline Myss, one of the "hottest new voices in the alternative health/spirituality scene... (read more)

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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
by Studs Terkel

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In Terkel's powerful new book a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which they live. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of life, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and... (read more)

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Autobiography of a Face Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy

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"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I'vespent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than lookingdifferent from everyone else. It was the pain from that, fromfeeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great... (read more)

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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom

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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.  Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way... (read more)

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach

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In her remarkable debut, Stiff, Mary Roach explored what happens to the body after death, and in the process brought the corpse to glittering life. In her follow up, she stakes out similar terrain. What happens to the soul after death? And how can you... (read more)

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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
by Atul Gawande

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Who among us hasn't trembled at the very prospect of entering a doctor's office? It should give us all comfort, then, that bestselling author, general surgeon, and MacArthur Fellow Atul Gawande has written Better, a book that challenges surgeons to... (read more)

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