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Poser
My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses

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National Bestseller Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman...
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On Balance

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Every day, we are told that balance is a good thing. We are supposed to make balanced judgments, balance our budget, and preserve a balance of power in our...
  
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The Checklist Manifesto
How to Get Things Right

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A New York Times Bestseller In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and...
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The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

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In this unique neurological memoir, Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006,...
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The Philosophical Baby
What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life

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In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational,...
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The Perfect Scent
A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York

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The Perfect Scent is the thrilling inside story of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents....
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Rethinking Thin
The New Science of Weight Loss---and the Myths and Realities of Dieting

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In this eye-opening report, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with...
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Better
A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But...
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An American Checkup

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Includes a New Afterword A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice When hard-living, middle-aged American writer James McManus gets a three-day...
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Too Late to Die Young
Nearly True Tales from a Life

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A Washington Post Book World Rave Harriet McBryde Johnson's witty and highly unconventional memoir opens with a lyrical meditation on death and ends...

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Complications
A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

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In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge....
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Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Self-Help Book

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Walker Percy's mordantly funny and wholly original contribution to the self-help book craze deals with the Western mind's tendency toward heavy abstraction....