Synergetic Press, April 2018. Hardcover. A defining scholarly publication on the past and current state of research with psychedelic plant substances for medicine, therapeutics, and spiritual uses. Certain plants have long been known to contain healing properties and used to treat everything from depression and addiction, to aiding in on.....
The MIT Press, September 2022. Hardcover. A lavishly illustrated guide to the magnum opus of the great seventeenth-century anatomist, master embalmer, artist, and collector of specimens. Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731) was a celebrated Dutch anatomist, master embalmer, and museologist. He is best remembered today for strange tableaux, crafted from fetal skeletons.....
Jones & Bartlett Learning, April 2022. Trade Paperback. Everything you need to know from the creator of the exam! IMPORTANT: Purchase this study manual if you are taking the exam AFTER JUNE 3, 2022. The ONLY official study guide aligned to the ATI TEAS Version 7 exam and written by.....
Penguin Books, October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in.....
Storey Publishing, LLC, July 2018. Trade Paperback. The fifth edition of this best-selling handbook features the same detailed approach that has made it the trusted source for raising healthy, productive rabbits -- plus a total redesign with color photos and graphics. Whether you're interested in raising rabbits for show, meat.....
Draycott Publishing, LLC, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Did you ever wonder how acupuncture works? This book strips away the mystery. Each acupuncture point has unique functions, which are explained in plain English for the non-acupuncturist. How to do acupressure effectively to treat yourself. ---- New Book Available: Acupressure Made Simple.....
Harvard University Press, June 2020. Hardcover. A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year A Guardian "Best Book about Ideas" of the Year No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom and how to listen to what it is telling you, so you can live.....
Ten Speed Press, October 2018. Hardcover. From the authors of the bestselling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, Cocktail Codex is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors' unique "root cocktails" approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute.....
St. Martin's Essentials, February 2021. Trade Paperback. The Spirit of Animal Healing is the follow up to Dr. Marty Goldstein's bestselling book on holistic veterinary medicine, The Nature of Animal Healing. It is chock full of the very latest integrative medical knowledge (which combines conventional therapies with complementary and alternative.....
Arcturus Publishing Limited, September 2013. Hardcover. Written in the 1850s by a young doctor, Henry Gray, Gray's Anatomy was the most comprehensive and accessible anatomy of its time. This beautifully produced slipcased volume contains the historic text of the second edition and all of Henry Vandyke Carter's masterly drawings. It.....
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2014. Trade Paperback. We are all storytellers--we create stories to make sense of our lives. A moving collection of short, personal encounters between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complicated, confounding, and.....
Shambhala, November 2009. Trade Paperback. A Buddhist teacher draws from her years of experience in caring for the dying to provide inspiring lessons on how to face death with courage and compassion The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds--as has been demonstrated.....
Princeton University Press, May 2022. Hardcover. A revelatory tale of how the human brain develops, from conception to birth and beyond By the time a baby is born, its brain is equipped with billions of intricately crafted neurons wired together through trillions of interconnections to form a compact and breathtakingly.....
Da Capo Press, November 2016. Hardcover. Whether it's an umbrella cockatoo who's not eating, a depressed chinchilla, a pregnant potbellied pig, or a ferret possibly needing surgery, exotic animal vet Laurie Hess is at the front lines with some remarkable pets-and their equally eccentric, dedicated, and sometimes demanding owners. Following.....
Harper Perennial, January 2006. Trade Paperback. "Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us." -- Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb The Great Plague is one of the most.....
Avery, October 2021. Hardcover. An essential guide to understanding the health benefits of marijuana and CBD Marijuana has been used for thousands of years as a medicine, but pot has been illegal in the United States for most of our lives. Almost all states have now legalized its medical use.....
Park Street Press, January 2019. Trade Paperback. A deeply personal account of the scientific, shamanic, and metaphysical encounters that led to the development of Metzner's psychological methods - Recounts the author's meetings and friendships with Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin, the McKenna brothers, Wilson Van Dusen, Myron Stolaroff, and Leo Zeff.....
Vintage, January 1995. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The definitive resource on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. Even more relevant than when it was first published, this edition addresses contemporary issues in end-of-life care and includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that.....
Shambhala, March 2018. Trade Paperback. Eat your way to increased energy, balanced emotions, and an overall state of calm and relaxation. In Ayurvedic medicine there are said to be three main energies that affect our mind: - sattva, the state of contentment and calm; - rajas, the state of reactivity.....
W. W. Norton & Company, November 2022. Hardcover. Control is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls "a defining idea of the twentieth century." Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America.....
Vintage, March 2020. Trade Paperback. From the best-selling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests--from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storyteller, is.....
Vintage, September 2020. Trade Paperback. Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars, and the bestselling The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat have been acclaimed for their extraordinary compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is.....
Scribner, August 2011. Trade Paperback. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yorker)--a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the.....
Yale University Press, October 2019. Hardcover. As seen on "60 Minutes" a "brilliant and sobering" (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaks The World Economic Forum #1 book to read for context on the coronavirus outbreak "Well-written, highly entertaining and relevant."--Financial Times.....
Doubleday, March 2021. Hardcover. "A fascinating look at how scientists are working to help doctors treat the aging process itself, helping us all to lead longer, healthier lives." --Sanjay Gupta, MD Aging--not cancer, not heart disease--is the underlying cause of most human death and suffering. The same cascade of biological.....