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Pretty Is What Changes
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.00
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive... Read more >
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $14.00
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive... Read more >
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Written by David Shields
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.
Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers—from Lucretius to Woody Allen—Shields expertly renders both... Read more >
Written by David Shields
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.
Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers—from Lucretius to Woody Allen—Shields expertly renders both... Read more >
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Sickened
The True Story of a Lost Childhood
Written by Julie Gregory
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's... Read more >
The True Story of a Lost Childhood
Written by Julie Gregory
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $14.00
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's... Read more >
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Maimonides
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Sherwin B. Nuland—best-selling author of How We Die—focuses his surgeon’s eye and writer’s pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors.
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a daring philosopher. Eight... Read more >
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Sherwin B. Nuland—best-selling author of How We Die—focuses his surgeon’s eye and writer’s pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors.
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a daring philosopher. Eight... Read more >
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Maimonides
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work——The Guide for the Perplexed——attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim... Read more >
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $12.95
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work——The Guide for the Perplexed——attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Pretty Is What Changes
Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $24.95
Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $24.95
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Pretty Is What Changes
Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $14.00
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive... Read more >
Impossible Choices, The Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny
Written by Jessica Queller
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 1, 2008
Price: $14.00
A timely, affecting memoir from the front lines of medical science: When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live?
Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Making of a Nurse
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $16.95
The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.
Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life — at home for her family, at work for strangers — but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to... Read more >
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2008
Price: $16.95
The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.
Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life — at home for her family, at work for strangers — but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Written by David Shields
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $14.95
Read more >
Written by David Shields
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $14.95
Read more >
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Written by David Shields
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $23.95
“David Shields has accomplished something here so pure and wide in its implications that I almost think of it as a secular, unsentimental Kahlil Gibran: a textbook for the acceptance of our fate on earth.” —Jonathan Lethem
Mesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an... Read more >
Written by David Shields
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $23.95
“David Shields has accomplished something here so pure and wide in its implications that I almost think of it as a secular, unsentimental Kahlil Gibran: a textbook for the acceptance of our fate on earth.” —Jonathan Lethem
Mesmerized—at times unnerved—by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an... Read more >
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Written by David Shields
Read by Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $29.95
Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound... Read more >
Written by David Shields
Read by Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $29.95
Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound... Read more >
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The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
Written by David Shields
Read by Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $17.50
Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound... Read more >
Written by David Shields
Read by Don Leslie
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $17.50
Mesmerized–at times unnerved–by his ninety-seven-year-old father’s nearly superhuman vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an investigation of the human physical condition. The result is this exhilarating audiobook: both a personal meditation on mortality and an exploration of flesh-and-blood existence from crib to oblivion–an exploration that paradoxically prompts a renewed and profound... Read more >
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Delivering Doctor Amelia
The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
Written by Dan Shapiro
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
Doctor Dan Shapiro, a writer and psychologist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal journey into his treatment of a brilliant young obstetrician.
Doctors in our society are often viewed as omnipotent, highly trained professionals who do not make mistakes, but they are, after all, still human. In Delivering Doctor Amelia, Dan Shapiro... Read more >
The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
Written by Dan Shapiro
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.00
Doctor Dan Shapiro, a writer and psychologist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal journey into his treatment of a brilliant young obstetrician.
Doctors in our society are often viewed as omnipotent, highly trained professionals who do not make mistakes, but they are, after all, still human. In Delivering Doctor Amelia, Dan Shapiro... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Mom's Marijuana
Life, Love, and Beating the Odds
Written by Dan Shapiro
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds.
When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete screen of sunflowers), he... Read more >
Life, Love, and Beating the Odds
Written by Dan Shapiro
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds.
When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete screen of sunflowers), he... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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One Hundred Days
My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Written by David Biro
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00
A doctor's extraordinary account -- both harrowing and inspiring -- of his battle with a life-threatening illness.
At thirty-one, David Biro had everything going for him when he was diagnosed with a rare blood disease. As he charts his journey from doctor to patient, from professor of dermatology to high-interest medical oddity... Read more >
My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient
Written by David Biro
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.00
A doctor's extraordinary account -- both harrowing and inspiring -- of his battle with a life-threatening illness.
At thirty-one, David Biro had everything going for him when he was diagnosed with a rare blood disease. As he charts his journey from doctor to patient, from professor of dermatology to high-interest medical oddity... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Ordinary Daylight
Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
Written by Andrew Potok
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.95
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his competence as a... Read more >
Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
Written by Andrew Potok
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.95
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his competence as a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Making of a Nurse
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $26.95
The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.
Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life — at home for her family, at work for strangers — but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to... Read more >
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Hardcover, 328 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $26.95
The bestselling author of A Nurse’s Story is back with more insider stories.
Tilda Shalof has been a caregiver all her life — at home for her family, at work for strangers — but her skills didn’t come easily. From when she was a child taking care of her sick parents to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Lessons Out of School
From Detroit Gangs to New Healing Paradigms - Life Stories of Dr. John E. Upledger
Written by John E. Upledger
As told to Barry Kaplan and Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2006
Price: $24.95
John Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane, as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s, or telling the story of his life. In Lessons Out of School, he doesn't spare himself or others, or gloss over unpleasant bits. Raised... Read more >
From Detroit Gangs to New Healing Paradigms - Life Stories of Dr. John E. Upledger
Written by John E. Upledger
As told to Barry Kaplan and Charles Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 31, 2006
Price: $24.95
John Upledger has never avoided risks, whether performing an appendectomy in the eye of a hurricane, as he did while on Coast Guard duty in the 1950s, or telling the story of his life. In Lessons Out of School, he doesn't spare himself or others, or gloss over unpleasant bits. Raised... Read more >
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Cutting Remarks
Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon
Written by Sidney Schwab
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2006
Price: $15.95
"A surgeon can kill you...and you'll sleep right through it."
The most dramatic—and seemingly glamorous—of medical fields, surgery captivates the public's imagination. Written for inquisitive laymen as well as anyone in the medical profession, this fascinating first-person account documents the career of one of America's top surgeons. Readers accompany Sidney Schwab through... Read more >
Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon
Written by Sidney Schwab
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2006
Price: $15.95
"A surgeon can kill you...and you'll sleep right through it."
The most dramatic—and seemingly glamorous—of medical fields, surgery captivates the public's imagination. Written for inquisitive laymen as well as anyone in the medical profession, this fascinating first-person account documents the career of one of America's top surgeons. Readers accompany Sidney Schwab through... Read more >
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Maimonides
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $19.95
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work——The Guide for the Perplexed——attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim... Read more >
Written by Sherwin B. Nuland
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $19.95
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work——The Guide for the Perplexed——attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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A Nurse's Story
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2005
Price: $16.99
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her... Read more >
Written by Tilda Shalof
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2005
Price: $16.99
The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. Laura set the tone with her... Read more >
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Sickened
The True Story of a Lost Childhood
Written by Julie Gregory
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.00
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's... Read more >
The True Story of a Lost Childhood
Written by Julie Gregory
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $14.00
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. She's... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Delivering Doctor Amelia
The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
Written by Dan Shapiro
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
“Voices are a soul’s signature,” says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise, he admits he’s still terrified that “someone will keep something from me, and when they tell me the truth, I’ll be useless.”
Treating other physicians has become one of Shapiro’s... Read more >
The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician's Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her
Written by Dan Shapiro
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.00
“Voices are a soul’s signature,” says psychologist Dan Shapiro, who in his daily practice hears plenty of them. For all his expertise, he admits he’s still terrified that “someone will keep something from me, and when they tell me the truth, I’ll be useless.”
Treating other physicians has become one of Shapiro’s... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Freud for Beginners
Written by Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $12.00
The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday
Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id -- but somehow it slipped your mind.
Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life and thought of the man whose discovery... Read more >
Written by Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2003
Price: $12.00
The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- Newsday
Everything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id -- but somehow it slipped your mind.
Freud for Beginners is a perfect introduction to the life and thought of the man whose discovery... Read more >
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Ordinary Daylight
Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
Written by Andrew Potok
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $11.95
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his competence as a... Read more >
Portrait of an Artist Going Blind
Written by Andrew Potok
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $11.95
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages at the losses that are eradicating his life as an artist, his sources of pleasure, his competence as a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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