Ansel Adams: an Autobiography of
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life
Going Home : Finding Peace When Pets Die
Library Journal:Leave it to prolific author Katz (Soul of a Dog) to write this beautiful, heartrending book about saying good-bye to a loved pet. Katz draws from personal experience to discuss the difficulties of deciding to put a pet down, dealing with the guilt, and honoring that pet's legacy. He offers special prayers and rituals […]
Deadly Monopolies : the Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself, and the Consequences For Your Health and Our Medical Future
Publishers Weekly: Medical ethicist and journalist Washington, winner of the 2008 NBCC Award for Nonfiction for Medical Apartheid, spotlights the choices made within Big Pharma, and finds that they all point to one motive: profit. Washington begins with the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which "married the university to Big Pharma created a medical-industrial complex that eventually […]
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Library Journal Published posthumously, Stuntz's (law, Harvard Univ.) new work is a bracing critique of American criminal jurisprudence. He argues that because of harsh sentences, the few jury trials, poor policing methods, and misguided court decisions, the United States has a wasteful and destructive criminal justice system. Two things stand out in Stuntz's book: the […]
The Alzheimer's Prevention Program : Keep Your Brain Healthy For the Rest of Your Life
Publishers Weekly Director of the UCLA Longevity Center, Small and partner Vorgan (The Memory Prescription) have refined their program into a seven-day kick-start to master such frustrating memory problems as “tip-of-the-tongue†phenomena and forgetting names, while developing healthy habits that could delay or prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Their regime […]
OCD : a Guide For the Newly Diagnosed
Library Journal: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can cause frightening and often misunderstood symptoms, and there's often a long delay between onset and diagnosis. Tompkins (psychology, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Digging Out: Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding, and Compulsive Acquiring) provides patients with a resource that will not only help them understand their diagnosis but […]
Wanted Women : Faith, Lies, and the War On Terror : the Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui
Publishers Weekly For Scroggins (Emma’s War), two women who, despite a “weird symmetry†in their lives, embody the split among Muslims regarding the West and the war on terror. Ayaan Hirsi Ali “fights only with words†against Islam, calling it a “destructive, nihilistic cult of death,†while there are numerous indicators that Aafia Siddiqui was […]
Loving Someone With Bipolar Disorder : Understanding & Helping Your Partner
Overview Bipolar Disorder is characterized by alternating periods of dramatically manic behavior and episodes of extreme sadness and hopelessness, often with periods of normalcy in between. Those close to bipolar individuals may experience feelings of fear, loss, and anxiety and a constant uncertainty about the bipolar individual's mood. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder is the […]