Published July, 2013
By Carl Hart
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Examines the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. This title focuses on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing.

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Published June, 2013
By Kelly Rudnicki
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Founder of the Food Allergy Mama website showcases fast family meals that combat a number of common food allergies whilst still pleasing a hungry crowd.

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Published June, 2013
By Sebastian Seung
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What really makes us who we are? This book shows that our identity does not lie in our genes, but in the connections between our brain cells - our own particular wiring, or 'connectomes'. It reveals the secrets of the brain, showing how our connectome makes each of us uniquely ourselves.

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Published May, 2013
By Darian Leader
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What could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions, this title challenges the rise of 'bipolar' as a catch-all solution to complex problems, and argues that we need to rethink the highs and lows of mania and depression.

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Published May, 2013
By Frances Ashcroft
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From before birth to the last breath we draw, from consciousness to sexual attraction, fighting infection to the beating of our hearts, electricity is essential to everything we think and do. This title reveals the secrets of ion channels, which produce the electrical signals in our cells.

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Published April, 2013
By Keri Smith
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Helps you to collect a spectrum of quirky items: something that is miniature, a stain that is green, something from the year you were born, a used envelope, and more.

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Published April, 2013
By Irvin D. Yalom
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Why was Saul tormented by three unopened letters from Stockholm? What made Thelma spend her whole life raking over a long-past love affair? How did Carlos' macho fantasies help him deal with terminal cancer? This title gives the affecting accounts of the author's work with these and seven other patients.

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Published January, 2013
By S. Nassir Ghaemi and Nassir Ghaemi
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Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. This title offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership.

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Published January, 2013
By Allen Carr
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Lose weight without dieting, calorie-counting or using will-power. This book shows how you can: eat your favourite foods; follow your natural instincts; avoid guilt, remorse and other bad feelings; avoid worrying about digestive ailments or feeling faint; learn to re-educate your taste.

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Published November, 2012
By Nathan D. Wolfe
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Examines how viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu have almost wiped us out in the past - and may do so in the future. This title explores why modern life makes us so vulnerable to global pandemics, and what new technologies can do to prevent them.

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