TOP MEDICAL BOOKS

Product Descriptionam i happy enough?This has been a pivotal question since America’s inception. Am I not happy enough because I am depressed? is a more recent version. In the past twenty years, as antidepressants have become staples of our medicine chests — upward of thirty million Americans are taking them at an annual cost of more than ten billion dollars — more people have begun... Read the story →

Product DescriptionPublishers Weekly called this unique title an “extraordinary treatise on the history and making of perfume” and hails author Mandy Aftel’s ability to “bring sheer delight in the bouquet of aromas in the natural world” and her “irreverent sensibility that embraces ‘little-acknowledged’ aphrodisiacs like the smell of sweat.” ... Read the story →

Product DescriptionThis is the most complete account yet of Lollardy, the medieval English heretical movement derived from the ideas of John Wyclif that anticipated many of the ideas and demands of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century reformers and Puritans. Considering new evidence–such as texts composed or assembled by adherents of Lollardy, episcopal records, chronicles, and tracts written... Read the story →

ISBN13: 9780679740247 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was... Read the story →

ISBN13: 9780679724698 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionThe author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction  →

ISBN13: 9781890772185 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFrom the foremost living authority on Yoga comes the most comprehensive and reliable treatment of the subject available today. This is a work of impeccable scholarship by a person who has dedicated his life to the understanding and practice of yoga. The book offers a complete overview of... Read the story →

Book Description: Math’s infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this follow-up to the best-selling The Science Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous delights readers will learn about as they dip into this inviting anthology:... Read the story →

BOOK DESCRIPTION: At its present rate of growth, atherosclerosis will be the major cause of death from disease by the year 2020. Atherosclerosis is an extremely complex, biochemical, multifactorial process. This book will cover many aspects of atherogenesis, with particular emphasis on lipid and lipoprotein metabolism. We will cover all aspects of the regulation of cholesterol homeostasis and... Read the story →