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What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite
What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains "happy" leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which make getting out of our own way extremely difficult.

Author David DiSalvo presents evidence from evolutionary and
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Living with Coronary Disease
Living with Coronary Disease

With coronary heart disease one of the biggest killers in the Western world, this book will help people of all ages understand what coronary heart disease is and what can be done to prevent it, or at least, delay it for as long as possible. Highly accessible, and written by two experienced heart doctors, the text is designed to help dispel...

Color Atlas of Genetics, Third Edition (Flexibook)
Color Atlas of Genetics, Third Edition (Flexibook)

A remarkable achievement by a single author ... concise but informative ... No geneticist or physician interested in genetic diseases should be without a copy of this remarkable edition. --American Journal of Medical Genetics

More than ever, a solid understanding of genetics is a fundamental element of all medical...

The Human Foot: A Companion to Clinical Studies
The Human Foot: A Companion to Clinical Studies
The appendages at the end of our forelimbs tend to attract the evolutionary and clinical limelight, but our feet are as important as our hands for our survival and success as a species. We tend to take them for granted, yet the many millions of modern humans who run either competitively or for recreation, or who play sports such...
Filling a Need While Making Some Noise: A Music Therapist's Guide to Pediatrics
Filling a Need While Making Some Noise: A Music Therapist's Guide to Pediatrics

'This book teaches, provides painful insight, and creates awareness and empathy for the patients, families, and caregivers who are living and working every day within a framework of tragedy. This book is also great entertainment. You will laugh and cry, sometimes simultaneously, throughout your reading.'

- From the Foreword...

Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
Popular music compels, it entertains, and it has the power to attract and move audiences. With that in mind, the editors of Indigenous Pop showcase the contributions of American Indian musicians to popular forms of music, including jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae, punk, and hip hop.

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Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis (American Lives)
Out of Joint: A Private and Public Story of Arthritis (American Lives)
She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints: Can her ankles take the stairs? Will her fingers open a jar? Peel an orange? But it was not always this way for Mary Felstiner, who went to bed one night an active professional and healthy young mother, and woke the next morning literally out of joint. With wrists and elbows no longer...
History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
History and Health Policy in the United States: Putting the Past Back In (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
In our rapidly advancing scientific and technological world, many take great pride and comfort in believing that we are on the threshold of new ways of thinking, living, and understanding ourselves. But despite dramatic discoveries that appear in every way to herald the future, legacies still carry great weight. Even in swiftly developing...
Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss: A Guide to Prevention and Care
Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss: A Guide to Prevention and Care

In Baby Boomers and Hearing Loss, audiologist John Burkey shows readers how they can continue to enjoy youthful living, regardless of whether their hearing abilities are undiminished or severely compromised. In a reassuring and straightforward style, Burkey explains the typical causes of hearing loss, from genetic factors to...

AIDS in South Asia: Understanding And Responding to a Heterogenous Epidemic (Health, Nutrition, and Population Series)
AIDS in South Asia: Understanding And Responding to a Heterogenous Epidemic (Health, Nutrition, and Population Series)

South Asia's HIV epidemic is highly heterogeneous. As a result, informed, prioritized, and effective responses necessitate an understanding of the epidemic diversity between and within countries. Further spread of HIV in South Asia is preventable. The future size of South Asia's epidemic will depend on an effective two-pronged...

Cell-Penetrating Peptides:  Processes and Applications
Cell-Penetrating Peptides: Processes and Applications

One of the major problems with drug delivery is the inability of large hydrophilic compounds to pass through the lipid membrane of the cell, thus making drugs such as polypeptides and oligonucleotides of limited therapeutic value. Until recently, the transport of such molecules into the cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments of living cells...

Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar
Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar

Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year

Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression,
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