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Hardcore Circuit Training for Men: Body Weight Workout

by Jim McHale & Chohwora Udu

Think circuit training is for the feeble and faint-of-heart? Think again. Hardcore Circuit Training for Men: Body Weight Workout is a no-nonsense approach to high intensity fitness training. This workout is...

Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy—Until You're 80 and Beyond

by M.D.HenryS. Lodge & Gail Sheehy

Co-written by one of the country's most prominent internists, Dr. Henry "Harry" Lodge, and his star patient, the 73-year-old Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women is a book of hope, a guide to aging without...

Hormones and Hot Flashes: Real Questions and Straight Answers from The Menopause Book

by Barbara Kantrowitz & Pat Wingert

Adapted from The Menopause Book-dubbed "Dr. Spock for aging women" by the North American Menopause Society-HORMONES & HOT FLASHES answers the most-pressing questions women have about hormones, hormone therapy,...

Blow

by K'wan & 50 Cent

NO GOING BACK

Prince, Killa-E, Daddy-O, and Danny grew up together in the projects, moving crack and cocaine, and answering to Diego, the neighborhood drug lord. They were small-timers playing for low stakes...

Menopause in Perspective

by Philippa Pigache

Increasing medicalisation of the menopause has left many women feeling unsure and unconfident about this stage of their lives. While doctors may be able to help with some of the more unpleasant symptoms, menopause...

Spartan Warrior Circuit Training: The 300 Workout

by Jim McHale & Chohwora Udu

Spartan Warrior Circuit Training: The 300 Workout is a no-nonsense approach to high intensity fitness training based on the workout used by the cast of the film 300. This workout is intense, diverse, creative,...

The Gentleman's Guide to Life: What Every Guy Should Know About Living Large, Loving Well, Feeling Strong, and Looking Good

by Steve Friedman

Whether you're a sensitive, bookish type or a beer-guzzling Cyber-jock--or just an average guy--The Gentleman's Guide to Life is a perfect and indispensable primer on looking, living, and feeling good, answering...

Voices of Breast Cancer: The Healing Companion: Stories for Courage, Comfort and Strength

by The Healing Project

More than 50 women and men from all walks of life who have been touched by breast cancer recount their personal journeys as patients, family members, and medical professionals. These perspectives on diagnosis, treatment,...

Water for Health, for Healing, for Life: You're Not Sick, You're Thirsty!

by F. Batmanghelidj

Asthma, allergies, arthritis, hypertension, depression, headaches, diabetes, obesity, and MS. These are just some of the conditions and diseases that are caused by persistent dehydration. But there is a miracle...

Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us

by Ina May Gaskin & Ani Difranco

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks...

User's Guide to Vitamin E:

by Jack Challem & Melissa Diane Smith

Can one natural vitamin slash your risk of developing heart disease, cancer, and a host of other disorders-and slow the aging process, too? The answer.....................

Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective & Judy Norsigian

ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO MAKE WISE DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR PREGNANCY AND THE BIRTH OF YOUR CHILD -- FROM THE EDITORS OF THE CLASSIC "BIBLE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH"

Pregnancy and birth are as ordinary and extraordinary...

The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book: 365 Fun, Physical Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

by Trish Kuffner & Laurel Aiello

The Wiggle & Giggle Busy Book offers 365 fun, lively games and activities to get toddlers and preschoolers moving. It includes outdoor, indoor, water, rhythm/music, and holiday activities for individuals and...

Men's Private Parts: A Pocket Reference to Prostrate, Urologic, and Sex

by James Gilbaugh

Straight Answers to Your Most Pressing Intimate Questions

Drawing on more than twenty-five years of clinical experience and familiarity with the anxieties and fears men have about their health, the physician...

Jane Bites Back: A Novel

by Michael Thomas Ford

Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves—but now it's because she's the owner of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy college town in Upstate New York. Every day...

First, You Cry: First You Cry

by Betty Rollin

NBC News correspondent Betty Rollin, glamorous,  successful, and happily married, had it all -- and then she learned that she had a malignant tumor in her breast.  Written with wit, warmth, and soul searching...

Relax, This Won't Hurt: Painless Answers to Women's Most Pressing Health Questions

by Judith Reichman

From a doctor millions of women already trust, Relax, This Won't Hurt is an in-depth, decade-by-decade look at the health issues that women face, wonder about, and worry about.

This book is the ultimate answer...

The End of Medicine

by Andy Kessler

You get sick; you go to your doctor. Too bad. Because medicine isn't an industry, it's practically witchcraft. Despite the growth of big pharma, HMOs, and hospital chains, medicine remains the isolated work...

What You Don't Know Can Kill You

by Laura W. Nathanson

In 2003, Dr. Laura Nathanson was widowed after the misdiagnosis of her beloved husband. After this tragedy, she was determined to help others protect themselves and their loved ones from similarly preventable...

Women and Stress: Practical Ways to Manage Tension

by Jean Lush & Pam Vredevelt

This bestselling classic offers solutions and hope for those suffering from emotional tension and stress in the home and on the job.