Good Calories, Bad Calories

Written by Gary Taubes

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Price: $16.95

In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

For decades we have been taught that fat is... Read more >

Comfortably Numb
How Psychiatry Medicated a Nation
Written by Charles Barber

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $15.95

Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; in that same year... Read more >

101 Theory Drive
A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory
Written by Terry McDermott

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Price: $24.95

An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience–the physical makeup of memory–and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.

It’s not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist–malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious... Read more >

Stop Aging, Start Living
The Revolutionary 2-Week pH Diet That Erases Wrinkles, Beautifies Skin, and Makes You Feel Fantastic
Written by Jeannette Graf, M.D. and Alisa Bowman

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $13.95

Though other skin-care experts have identified free radicals and cellular inflammation as key triggers to the breakdown of healthy skin, renowned dermatologist and former National Institutes of Health fellow Jeannette Graf, M.D., has discovered a way to prevent these saboteurs from developing in the first place—rather than just treating the symptoms... Read more >

Medical Myths That Can Kill You
And the 101 Truths That Will Save, Extend, and Improve Your Life
Written by Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.

Format: eBook
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Price: $14.95

Do you know what’s really good for you?

In this age of countless miracle cures, it’s vital to separate the myths that endanger your health from the medical facts you need.

FACT:
Unfiltered coffee can clog your arteries.

FACT:
Donating blood may lower your risk of heart disease.

FACT:
You don’t really need eight... Read more >

Charlatan
America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Written by Pope Brock

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $14.95

In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen young con man–arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers.

It was... Read more >

Consciously Female
How to Listen to Your Body and Your Soul for a Lifetime of Healthier Living
Written by Tracy Gaudet and Paula Spencer
Foreword by Andrew Weil, M.D.

Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00

In this revolutionary new book, Dr. Tracy Gaudet, director of the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine, shares her remarkable vision of a new way of looking at self and wellness, which will change the way women think about their bodies, their health, and their lives.

Through her own personal journey as well... Read more >

Through the Glass Wall
A Therapist's Lifelong Journey to Reach the Children of Autism
Written by Howard Buten, Ph.D.

Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00

A remarkable testament of hope and love, these pages recount Howard Buten’s lifelong journey working with autistic children. For three decades his pioneering, often controversial approaches have enabled him to gain access to their strange and
solitary universe—a universe he shares in a book that is unlike any you’ve ever read... Read more >

Acquainted with the Night
A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
Written by Paul Raeburn

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter.

Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after... Read more >

Life and Breath
The Breakthrough Guide to the Latest Strategies for Fighting Asthma and Other Re spiratory Problems -- At Any Age
Written by Neil Schachter

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

The fourth leading cause of death in the United States, COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, affects an estimated 35 million Americans. Yet only half are aware that they are seriously ill. Life and Breath, by Dr. Neil Schachter, is the first book that alerts people to their risks for COPD... Read more >