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Inseparable: the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history by Yunte Huang, Health Information Neighborhood 616.043 HUA
Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in1824. Huang depicts their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves.
Things that helped: on postpartum depression by Jessica Friedmann, Health Information Neighborhood 618.76 FRI
Things That Helped is a memoir in essays, detailing the Australian writer Jessica Friedmann’s recovery from postpartum depression. Occasionally confrontational, but always powerfully moving and beautifully observed, Things That Helped charts her return into the world: a slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured, and sometimes broke.
The compassionate connection: the healing power of empathy and mindful listening by David Rakel, Health Information Neighborhood, 615.851 RAK
In The Compassionate Connection, Dr. David Rakel explains how we can strengthen our bonds with others–all the while doing emotional and physical good for ourselves. He provides an innovative approach to improve our connections–whether between doctor and patient, husband and wife, parent and child, or boss and employee–and live with clarity, wisdom, and good health.
Forest bathing: how trees can help you find health and happiness by Qing Li, Health Information Neighborhood 615.8515 LI
As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees–what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing–can promote health and happiness. In this beautiful book–featuring more than 100 color photographs from forests around the world, including the forest therapy trails that crisscross Japan–Dr. Qing Li, the world’s foremost expert in forest medicine, shows how forest bathing can reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your immune and cardiovascular systems, boost your energy, mood, creativity, and concentration, and even help you lose weight and live longer.
Own the day, own your life: optimized practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping, and sex by Aubrey Marcus, Health Information Neighborhood 613 MAR
Human optimization thought leader Aubrey Marcus’s personal and professional mission rests on a single question: How can we get the most out of our body and mind on a daily basis? Drawing from the latest studies and traditional practices from around the world, Marcus answers that question in Own the Day, Own Your Life, an empowering handbook that guides readers to optimize every moment of the day, from waking in the morning, through work and play, until bedtime each night.
Genius foods: become smarter, happier, and more productive while protecting your brain for life by Max Lugavere, Max, Health Information Neighborhood 612.82 LUG
Discover the critical link between your brain and the food you eat and change the way your brain ages, in this cutting-edge, practical guide to eliminating brain fog, optimizing brain health, and achieving peak mental performance from media personality and leading voice in health, Max Lugavere. In Genius Foods, Lugavere uncovers the stunning link between our dietary and lifestyle choices and how our brain functions, revealing how the foods you eat directly affect your ability to focus, learn, remember, create, analyze new ideas, and maintain a balanced mood.
You can stop humming now: a doctor’s stories of life, death, and in between by Daniela Lamas, Health Information Neighborhood 610.92 LAM
As a critical care doctor treating people at their sickest, Daniela Lamas explores the complex answer to what comes after for those whose lives are extended by days, months, or years as a result of our treatments and technologies. Riveting, gorgeously told, and deeply personal, You Can Stop Humming Now is a compassionate, uncompromising look at the choices and realities that many of us, and our families, may one day face.
The clean 20: 20 foods, 20 days, total transformation by Ian Smith, Health Information Neighborhood 613.2 SMI
In his newest diet book, Dr. Ian K. Smith teaches readers the benefits of clean eating and how to implement it in their own lives. The Clean 20 includes a complete clean eating program with a daily meal plan, 60 recipes and substitutions, as well as 20 minute easy-to-work-in workouts. The Clean 20 is a life and body changer.
The consciousness instinct: unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind by Michael Gazzaniga, Health Information Neighborhood 612.82 GAZ
New research suggests the brain is actually a confederation of independent modules working together. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking about the mind, giving a big-picture view of what science has revealed about consciousness.
Because we are bad: OCD and a girl lost in thought by Lily Bailey, Health Information Neighborhood 616.85227 BAI
Beautifully written and astonishingly intimate, Because We Are Bad recounts a childhood consumed by obsessive compulsive disorder. It is an illuminating and uplifting look into the mind and soul of an extraordinary young woman, and a startling portrait of OCD that allows us to see and understand this condition as never before.
How to be well: the six keys to a happy and healthy life by Frank Lipman, Health Information Neighborhood 613 LIP
In How to Be Well, best-selling author and leading health expert Dr. Frank Lipman shares his formula for lifelong vitality–the Good Medicine Mandala. Illustrated by a circular system of six rings, the Good Medicine Mandala contains more than 100 simple steps to what really works to improve and strengthen your resilience, functioning, and overall health. It is a unique handbook with everyday habits and practices you can deploy to live your best, healthiest, and happiest life.
The spice diet: use powerhouse flavor to fight cravings and win the weight-loss battle by Judson Todd Allen, Health Information Neighborhood 613.25 ALL
Celebrity chef Judson Todd Allen presents the diet that helped him lose 160 pounds, featuring 60 guilt-free recipes packed with powerhouse flavor created especially for The Spice Diet. His program will not only help readers break their addiction to unhealthy foods without feeling deprived, but will also inspire them to get into the kitchen to prepare irresistible, healthy meals.
Glow15: a science-based plan to lose weight, rejuvenate your skin, and invigorate your life by Naomi Whittel, Health Information Neighborhood 613.25 WHI
Based on the breakthrough Nobel Prize-winning science of autophagy–the process by which cells remove toxins, recycle parts, and repair their own damage– Glow15 is a lifestyle plan that will make you look and feel younger. In just 15 days, you’ll begin to harness the power of autophagy to drop pounds, get glowing skin, and restore your energy.
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