ISBN: HB: 9781454937807,
GMC Group,
Sterling,
October 2020
176 pp.,
18.8x15 cm, colour illus.
Jessica Bippen, registered dietitian and founder of the popular Nourished by Nutrition blog, offers a captivating introduction to dietary collagen supplements and how to use them for personal wellness. Gorgeously packaged, it's perfect for the GOOP a...
ISBN: HB: 9780300228991,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
288 pp.,
23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United...
ISBN: HB: 9780300241440,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
208 pp.,
21x14 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk,...
At last, a solution to gut issues, which becomes a lifestyle for the health of the human body and planet earth, all wrapped into one very interesting and informative read.
Scott Mathias is a "self healed", upwardly mobile 60+ year old vegan chef and...
With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Be...
ISBN: HB: 9780300215854,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
296 pp.,
23.4x15.2 cm, 23 black&white illus.
As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fou...
ISBN: PB: 9780300256468,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
304 pp.,
23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the arm...
ISBN: PB: 9780226685113,
ISBN: HB: 9780226685083,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
272 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones
By focusing on chromosomes, "Heredity under the Microscope" offers a new history of postwar human genetics. Today chromosomes are understood as macromolecular assemblies and are analyzed with a variety of molecular techniques. Yet for much of the twe...
ISBN: HB: 9780226706801,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
280 pp.,
22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 5 tables
The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century – the so-called long eighteenth century of English history – was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long distance trade, and huma...
"The Science of Walking" recounts the story of the growing interest and investment of Western scholars, physicians, and writers in the scientific study of an activity that seems utterly trivial in its everyday performance and yet essential to our hum...