An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem....

The definitive guide to fighting coronaviruses, colds, flus, pandemics, and deadly diseases, from one of North America’s leading public health authorities, now updated with a new introduction on protecting yourself and others from COVID-19....

Tanya Talaga, the best-selling author of Seven Fallen Feathers and the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples - youth suicide....

Dr. Gilbert Welch builds a compelling counterargument that what we need are fewer, not more, diagnoses....

Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices....

The New York Times best-selling author of Better and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist ....

Making and maintaining lasting changes in nutrition and fitness is not easy for anyone. Yet the communication style of a health professional can make a huge difference....

How can you protect yourself against an enemy that you can't see? How can you meet the regulations of a policy you aren't aware of? Today's technology can complicate patient-record confidentiality....

We are facing an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies. We need a plan - before it's too late....

In Birth Without Fear, January Harshe - founder of the global online community Birth Without Fear - delivers an honest, positive, and passionate message of empowerment surrounding everything that involves having a baby....

When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion....

Hypomania, a genetically based mild form of mania, endows many of us with unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks. America has an extraordinarily high number of hypomanics - grandiose types who leap on every wacky idea that occurs to them....

Packed full of practical, creative and innovative ideas and strategies. This is the complete toolkit to help teachers and parents support learners with dyscalculia or those struggling with mathematics. Listeners are taken step-by-step through each aspect of the math, examples which illustrate why particular math difficulties occur, action plans which help teachers optimize children’s progress in mathematics.

Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United States. Beginning in the late 19th century, Tuchman describes how at different times Jews, middle-class whites, American Indians, African Americans, and Hispanic Americans have been labeled most at risk for developing diabetes, and that such claims have reflected and perpetuated troubling assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class.

Do you want to keep your hands as clean as possible because you're worried about germs? Do you have a job where you can't wash your hands anytime you want? Are you allergic to store-bought hand sanitizer? You've probably heard this a thousand times already: Wash your hands as often as you can, and use hand sanitizer when soap and running water aren't available. However, hand sanitizer is either out of stock or insanely expensive. And many people report allergies to the harsh chemicals used in many sanitizers. The solution? Make your own hand sanitizer.

Humans have achieved something no other species has ever experienced: the ability to live in a state of constant comfort. Our bodies are still hard-wired for coping with intense physical and environmental challenge — from famine to extreme temperatures. But our comfortable lifestyles never exercise these hard-wired systems. This is killing us. 

What is the Vagus Nerve?  Did you know that the human body has 12 cranial nerves? Did you know that each “nerve” is actually comprised of two nerves, typically left and right nerve intertwined to make the “one” cranial nerve. And these nerves are the link between your body and the brain? Have you ever wondered how the brain and body “talk” to one another? It is all through these cranial nerves. 

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination or COMLEX Level 2. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the COMLEX Level 2 Examination. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are key takeaways following each chapter to drive home key points and quizzes to review commonly tested questions.