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Here you can see what library staff are recommending and read a summary of each book.

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  • Select a title link to find that book's library location and availability.
  • Select the Full Review link to read the entire summary and view the book cover, both in a popup window.
  • To read previous recommendations by category, pick a category from the table to the right.

List 1 - 7 of 7 records in Health

You, The Owner’s Manual by Michael F. Roizen, M D. and Mehmet C. Oz, M. D.
“You control more than 70 % of how well and how long you live,” the co-author doctors tell us. They advise that it’s always a good time to choose healthy lifestyle in ...
Full Review (August 2009)

Caring For Your Parents, the Complete AARP Guide by Hugh Delehanty and Elinor Ginzler
Caring For Your Parents is a book with a simple title that addresses a formidable topic. The book is eloquent, not in its presentation, but in its thoughtfulness and comprehensiveness in coverage. ...
Full Review (September 2006)

Critical Condition : How Health Care in America Became Big Business & Bad Medicine by Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele
Evidently, what ails America's corporate medical system is beyond being cured with a "pass two tort reform bills and call me in the morning" remedy. Written by two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, this book diagnoses U.S. ...
Full Review (July 2005)

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
Zebras sprint across the African savanna to save their lives when chased by lions. Most animals are well adapted to this "fight or flight" stress-response in an occasional life-threatening emergency. On the ...
Full Review (June 2005)

Hello to All That : a Memoir of War, Zoloft, and Peace by John Falk
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” ~ Plato
“The unlived life is not worth examining.” ~ Alfred E. Neuman

With these quotes, the author embarks on a creative, absorbing, and ...
Full Review (April 2005)

The Color Code: A Revolutionary Eating Plan for Optimum Health by James A. Joseph, Pd.D., M.D., Daniel Nadeau, M.D., and Anne Underwood
Flavonoids, carotenoids, terpenes, anthocyanins—if these words excite you, perhaps you are ready for an exciting new book on nutrition! Not just another diet book, The Color Code is actually based on science. ...
Full Review (May 2003)

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
The “supersizing” of America has meaning not only in relation to the obvious appetite we as a society have for the appeal of the large (home, car, french-fries and soda…), but you ...
Full Review (March 2003)

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