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2) Expecting better: why the conventional pregnancy wisdom is wrong--and what you really need to know
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“Emily Oster is the non-judgmental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way.” —Amy Schumer *Fully Revised and Updated for 2021* What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting. From the author of Cribsheet...
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"Face is a book of fictional vignettes that examines the fear and vestigial evolutionary habits that have caused women and men to cultivate the imagined reality that older women's faces are unattractive, undesirable, and something to be "fixed." Based on "older face" experiences of the author, Justine Bateman, and those of dozens of women and men she interviewed, the book presents the reader with the many root causes for society's often negative attitudes...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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It's never too late to transform your body. if you have seen Dr. Jeffry Life before, you might have thought, How can this 72-year-old doctor have the body of a 30-year-old? But you can look just as good as he does when you take control of your health. Back in 1998, Dr. Life was a stereotypical aging man: overweight with a gut and little muscle tone. His libido was low. He felt tired all the time. Then he decided to make critical adjustments to his...
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This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men--and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life. The gap between what it's really like to be a woman and what people expect women to be is a primary cause of burnout, because we exhaust ourselves trying to close the space between the two. How can you "love your body" when everything around you...
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American Girl Publishing
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[2012]
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English
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"Our best-selling body book for girls just got even better! With all-new illustrations and updated content for girls ages 8 and up, it features tips, how-tos, and facts from the experts. You'll find answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and everything in between. Once you feel comfortable with what's happening, you'll be ready to move on to the The Care & Keeping of...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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English
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"[P]hysician and [...] author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is a [...] look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease,...
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"The funny, defiant memoir of Sarah Ramey's years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head--but wasn't. A revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored. In her darkly funny and courageous memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed...
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Pam Krauss Books
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2015.
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English
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"Chris Salgardo, the charismatic president of cult-favorite skin-care line Kiehl's, delivers the definitive guide to grooming every man needs--and was afraid to ask for. Manmade is the first grooming and skin-care guide created with a 21st-century man in mind. Rather than dispense one-size-fits-all advice, style icon and Kiehl's prez Chris Salgardo tailors his guidance to a man's lifestyle and interest level, devoting chapters to the specific grooming...
12) The smart woman's guide to midlife and beyond: a no-nonsense approach to staying healthy after 50
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
13) Bonding over beauty: a mother-daughter beauty guide to foster self-esteem, confidence, and trust
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Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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In this down-to-earth guide for moms of tweens, the author offers practical advice for building self-esteem, confidence, and trust.
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New Trends Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care makes the principles of traditional nutrition available to modern parents. The book provides holistic advice for pregnancy and newborn interventions, vaccinations, breastfeeding and child development, as well as a compendium of natural treatments for childhood illnesses, from autism to whooping cough. The work of Rudulf Steiner supports the book's emphasis on the child's spiritual requirement for...
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Mayo Clinic Press
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[2022]
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English
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Your Sexual Health provides answers to your burning questions about your reproductive health (and yes--even questions about vaginal burning!) and tells you things you may have never even thought to ask. As one of the country's leading gynecologists, vicechair of academics, director of the Fellowship in Complex Family Planning at Boston Medical Center, and associate professor of OB-GYN at the Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Kate White arms...
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English
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"Unearths the stories of the little-known but powerful elder women in European myth and folklore, inspiring readers to radically reimagine the last decades of their lives as the most dynamic of all"--
"RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE “There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.” — from the book...
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HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In this shocking, hard-hitting expose in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of Feministing.com, reveals how gender bias infects every level of medicine and healthcare today--leading to inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment that threatens women's lives and well-being. Modern medicine is failing women. Half of all American women suffer from at least one chronic health condition--from autoimmune...
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Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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What may be dirty to a grown-up isn't necessarily dirty to a youngster. In this program, fun, friendly animated characters guide children step by step through taking a shower, washing hair, brushing teeth, and clipping nails. In addition, young viewers will learn about germs, the importance of clean clothes, and when and how to wash hands properly.
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