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The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

WEBParts of the discussion are self-evident Aldern doesn’t fully address human hardiness or specific measures to mitigate damage to brain health by violent weather …

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

WEBIt is a well-written, carefully-researched, complex saga of medical research, bioethics, and race in America. Above all it is a human story of redemption for a family, …

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Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change Our …

WEBThe story of nursing is woven into war, plague, religion, the economy, and our individual lives. In Taking Care, Sarah DiGregorio chronicles the lives of nurses past …

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A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave …

WEBPrograms such as Healthy Start, Nurse Family Partnership, and WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant and Children) have made …

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Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

WEBThomas Insel left his position as director of the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate all that was broken in the mental health care system—and what a …

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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

WEBThe appearance of yet another enthusiastic and erudite history from Simon Schama is an event always to be welcomed A thinly painted veil of a biography of one …

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What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

WEBAs professor and MacArthur fellow Montgomery and biologist Bilké explain, crops should be grown for their nutritional values, paying attention to basic vitamins and …

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Book Marks reviews of Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism …

WEBIn 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. …

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Book Marks reviews of The Anxious Generation: How the Great …

WEBThe Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt has an overall rating of Positive based …

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Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

WEBIt’s a shame that whoever was responsible for the jacket blurbs takes a shoving-a-finger-in-your chest approach that isn’t replicated by the variable tone inside, …

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

WEBOn a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to …

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Book Marks reviews of Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious …

WEBDouble biographies are fairly unusual and tend to be about people who were linked together in the minds of their contemporaries. But Anarcha was not associated …

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Book Marks reviews of Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, …

WEBBad Advice by Dr. Paul Offit offers smart, well-researched, and eye-opening answers, showing how 'expert' advice can become misleading and how ideas …

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All Book Marks reviews for Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

WEBMost of Ishiguro’s novels are slender books that are more complicated than they at first seem; Klara and the Sun is by contrast more simple than it seems, less novel than …

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WEBApril 22 – April 26, 2024. Marian Bull recommends eight cookbooks worth reading cover to cover; Colin Dickey considers Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’ legacy

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Book Marks reviews of Code Blue by Mike Magee Book Marks

WEBMagee’s insight is based on his deep personal experience with the health care industry Hospitals don’t take as critical a lashing as other players in the book, but …

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Book Marks reviews of Holly by Stephen King Book Marks

WEBLyrical and horrifying, Holly is a hymn to the grim pursuit of justice. The detective’s dogged search for truth drives the book; Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, Trump …

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The First Reviews of John Updike’s “Rabbit” Novels Book Marks

WEBThe novel, nevertheless, is a notable triumph of intelligence and compassion; it has none of the glib condescension that spoils so many books of this …

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Revisiting Lawrence Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind

WEBYesterday was the one-hundredth birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti: WWII veteran; co-founder of City Lights, one of the nation’s great independent bookstores; …

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