Zoobiquity
What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
Written by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Kathryn Bowers

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $11.99

In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It... Read more >

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Written by Gary Taubes

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $12.99

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 >

January First
A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her
Written by Michael Schofield

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $12.99

Michael Schofield’s daughter January is at the mercy of her imaginary friends, except they aren’t the imaginary friends that most young children have; they are hallucinations. And January is caught in the conflict between our world and their world, a place she calls Calalini.  Some of these hallucinations, like “24 Hours,&rdquo...

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We Band of Angels
The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan
Written by Elizabeth Norman

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: June 29, 2011
Price: $9.99

"This is a gripping book. Elizabeth Norman presents a war story in which the main characters never kill one of the enemy, or even shoot at him, but are nevertheless heroes. . . . First on Bataan, then moved to Corregidor, they were under almost constant shell fire, were always hungry... Read more >

The Endless Web
Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality
Written by R. Louis Schultz, Ph.D. and Rosemary Feitis, D.O.
Illustrated by Diana Salles
Photographed by Ronald Thompson

Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $14.99

The result of more than two decades of research and practice, The Endless Web presents in clear, readable language a comprehensive guide to understanding and working effectively with the myofascial system, the 'packing material' of the body. Myofascia is a flexible network of tissue that surrounds, cushions, and supports muscles, bones... Read more >

Anatomy of an Epidemic
Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Written by Robert Whitaker

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $11.99

In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally ill in the United States tripled over the past two decades? Every day, 1,100 adults and children are added to the government disability rolls because they have... Read more >

The Thyroid Solution
A Revolutionary Mind-Body Program for Regaining Your Emotional and Physical Heal th
Written by Ridha Arem

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $13.99

It's sometimes called a hidden epidemic: One in ten Americans--more than twenty million people, most of them women--has a thyroid disorder. At any given time, millions of people have an undiagnosed thyroid disorder and experience a chronic mental anguish that almost certainly arises from the very same source. Yet many primary-care... Read more >

Living and Dying in Brick City
An E.R. Doctor Returns Home
Written by Sampson Davis and Lisa Frazier Page

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $12.99

A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving
 
Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become...

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Every Patient Tells a Story
Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis
Written by Lisa Sanders

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $11.99

A riveting exploration of the most difficult and important part of what doctors do, by Yale School of Medicine physician Dr. Lisa Sanders, author of the monthly New York Times Magazine column "Diagnosis," the inspiration for the hit Fox TV series House, M.D.

"The experience of being ill can be like... Read more >

Musicophilia

Written by Oliver Sacks

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $12.99

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 variety of what he calls “musical misalignments.&rdquo...

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