Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics, Volume Two
The Sentient Embryo, Tissue Intelligence, and Trauma Resolution
Written by Franklyn Sills
Illustrated by Dominique Degranges
Contribution by Cherionna Menzam-Sills

Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: December 18, 2012
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-58394-487-5 (1-58394-487-7)

Foundations in Craniosacral Biodynamics presents a comprehensive grounding in the clinical skills needed in a biodynamic approach to craniosacral therapy. Author Franklyn Sills places particular emphasis on developing what he terms “perceptual skills,” diagnostic skills that enable the practitioner to perceive the subtle sensations and intuitive insights that are the groundwork... Read more >

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Written by Rebecca Skloot

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Crown
On Sale: February 2, 2010
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-5217-2 (1-4000-5217-3)

Winner of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine’s 2011 Communication Award for Best Book
Winner of the 2010 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction
Winner of the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize
Named by more than 60 critics as one of the best books of 2010,... Read more >

The Killer of Little Shepherds
A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Written by Douglas Starr

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 1, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27908-8 (0-307-27908-1)

Winner of the Gold Dagger Award

A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation.

At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for years, and murdering twice as many victims as Jack The... Read more >

The Vital Psoas Muscle
Connecting Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being
Written by Jo Ann Staugaard-Jones

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-458-5 (1-58394-458-3)

Located deep within the anterior hip joint and lower spine, the psoas major (usually just referred to as the psoas) is critical for optimal postural alignment, movement, and overall well being. The psoas is the only muscle in the human organism that connects the upper body to the lower body, and... Read more >

The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners
The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants
Written by Wolf D. Storl
Foreword by Rosemary Gladstar

Format: Trade Paperback, 392 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: January 17, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-358-8 (1-58394-358-7)

Traditional herbalists or wise women were not only good botanists or pharmacologists; they were also shamanic practitioners and keepers of occult knowledge about the powerful properties of plants. Traveling back to the healing arts of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners takes readers... Read more >

Bad Shoes & The Women Who Love Them

Written by Leora Tanenbaum
Illustrated by Vanessa Davis

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-904-0 (1-58322-904-3)

Bad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted wake-up call to women to make informed decisions when buying and wearing fashionable shoes. Arming the reader with essential facts, citing medical literature as well as leading podiatric surgeons and orthopedists, Tanenbaum covers the history of high heels, Chinese foot... Read more >

Good Calories, Bad Calories
Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health
Written by Gary Taubes

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3346-1 (1-4000-3346-2)

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet despite this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates, like... Read more >

Why We Get Fat
And What to Do About It
Written by Gary Taubes

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27270-6 (0-307-27270-2)

In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates—not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough research, keen insight, and unassailable common sense, Good Calories, Bad... Read more >

The Bear's Embrace
A Story of Survival
Written by Patricia Van Tighem

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72165-3 (0-385-72165-X)

On a chilly autumn morning in 1983, during a relaxing escape to the Canadian Rockies, Patricia Van Tighem and her husband were attacked by a grizzly bear. Although they survived, their ordeal was just beginning. For years Van Tighem endured numerous surgeries as doctors attempted to reconstruct her face and ease... Read more >

My Own Country
A Doctor's Story
Written by Abraham Verghese

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75292-9 (0-679-75292-7)

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern life. But on August 11, 1985, the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, and before long, a crisis that had once... Read more >

The Anatomy of Stretching, Second Edition
Your Illustrated Guide to Flexibility and Injury Rehabilitation
Written by Brad Walker

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58394-371-7 (1-58394-371-4)

The multiple stresses of contemporary life–whether from excessive sports play, overwork, or overuse of technology–are increasingly taking a toll on the body. Symptoms range from muscle soreness and pain to pinched nerves to potentially more permanent disabilities, including serious body injuries. One safe, quickly productive way to address the problem is... Read more >

Dreaming Yourself Awake
Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
Written by B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: May 29, 2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-957-5 (1-59030-957-X)

Some of the greatest of life’s adventures can happen while you’re sound asleep. That’s the promise of lucid dreaming, which is the ability to alter your own dream reality any way you like simply by being aware of the fact that you’re dreaming while you’re in the midst of a dream... Read more >

Deadly Monopolies
The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future
Written by Harriet A. Washington

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-3123-6 (0-7679-3123-8)

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.

Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling... Read more >

Deadly Monopolies
The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.
Written by Harriet A. Washington

Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52892-4 (0-385-52892-2)

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours.

Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The U.S. Patent Office has either granted patents, or has them pending, on... Read more >

Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Written by Harriet A. Washington

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1547-2 (0-7679-1547-X)

Winner, 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award
Pen Oakland-Josephine Miles 17th Annual National Literary Award
Honor Book, Black Caucus of The American Library Association
2007 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western... Read more >

Overdiagnosed
Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health
Written by H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin

Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-2199-6 (0-8070-2199-7)

From a nationally recognized expert, an exposé of the worst excesses of our zeal for medical testing

Going against the conventional wisdom reinforced by the medical establishment and Big Pharma that more screening is the best preventative medicine, Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not... Read more >

The Match
"Savior Siblings" and One Family's Battle to Heal Their Daughter
Written by Beth Whitehouse

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0121-9 (0-8070-0121-X)

Selected as a 2011 University Press Book for Public and Secondary School Libraries
•Rated O - Outstanding

Katie Trebing was diagnosed at three months old with Diamond Blackfan anemia, a rare form of anemia that prevents bone marrow from producing red blood cells. Even with a lifetime of monthly blood transfusions, she faced... Read more >

Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words
Travels with Mom in the Land of Dementia
Written by Kate Whouley

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0319-0 (0-8070-0319-0)

A chronicle of the profound, life-changing, and laugh-out-loud funny moments in the journey of an Alzheimer’s caregiver who learns that memory is overrated, familiarity breeds compassion, and flute playing is forever.

In this unsentimental memoir of watching her mother fade away, of dealing with her bills, her housework, her increasing demands and... Read more >

Waiting for an Army to Die
The Tragedy of Agent Orange
Written by Fred A. Wilcox

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: September 13, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-136-6 (1-60980-136-9)

“I died in Vietnam, but I didn’t even know it,” said a young Vietnam vet on the Today Show one morning in 1978, shocking viewers across the country. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange–the first book ever written on the effects of Agent Orange–tells this young... Read more >

Fragile Beginnings
Discoveries and Triumphs in the Newborn ICU
Written by Adam Wolfberg, MD

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1166-9 (0-8070-1166-5)

Half a million babies are born prematurely in the United States every year. In this medical narrative, Dr. Adam Wolfberg brings students into the complex world of newborn intensive care, where brilliant but imperfect doctors do all they can to coax life into their tiny, injured patients. As a specialist in... Read more >

Fragile Beginnings
Discoveries and Triumphs in the Newborn ICU
Written by Adam Wolfberg, MD

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-1160-7 (0-8070-1160-6)

This is a gripping medical narrative that brings readers into the complex world of newborn intensive care, where brilliant but imperfect doctors do all they can to coax life into their tiny, injured patients. Dr. Adam Wolfberg--journalist, physician specializing in high-risk pregnancies, and father to a child born weighing under two... Read more >

Noe
A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death
Written by Phil Wolfson, M.D.

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
On Sale: May 31, 2011
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-55643-971-1 (1-55643-971-7)

Written with clarity and grace, this memoir of an adolescent boy’s four-year struggle with leukemia, his untimely death at sixteen, and the aftermath is presented from three perspectives. Using journals and recollection, Noe’s father Phil Wolfson recalls the events chronologically. His son’s chemotherapy journal offers a stricken teenager’s private view of... Read more >

Choosing Naia
A Family's Journey
Written by Mitchell Zuckoff

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: September 2, 2003
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-2817-9 (0-8070-2817-7)

A dramatic and carefully detailed account of one family’s journey through the maze of genetic counseling, medical technology, and disability rights; destined to become required reading for anyone touched by any of these issues.

“Choosing Naia . . . is a refreshing tale in an age in which medical technology encourages us... Read more >