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Breast Cancer: Blessing & Curse | Breast Cancer Roundup, September 1, 2012

By Bette-Lee Fox on August 27, 2012 Leave a Comment

In preparation for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, a roundup of cancer-related book and dvds.

Filed Under: Books, Nonfiction, Science & Technology Tagged With: breast cancer, cooking, health, memoir

Nonfiction Previews, Feb. 2013, Pt. 4: Animals, Food, and the Arts

By Barbara Hoffert on August 24, 2012 Leave a Comment

Arnot, Bob. The Aztec Diet. Morrow. Feb. 2013. 304p. ISBN 9780062124050. $25.99. HEALTH/DIET What has eight times the omega-3s of salmon, six times more calcium than milk, three times more iron than spinach, 15 times more magnesium than broccoli, four times more selenium than flax, and five grams of fiber in just 70 calories? The [...]

Filed Under: Nonfiction Previews Tagged With: adolescent psychology, Atria: S. & S., circus, criticism, Crown, diet, dogs, food, Free Pr: S. & S., health, Holt, Houghton Harcourt, Knopf, literataures, medicine, memoir, Morrow, parenting, performing arts, pets, psychopathology, pyschology, Random, relationships, Spiegel & Grau, Strebor: Atria, Viking, writing

Science and Technology Reviews, August 2012

By LJ Reviews on August 24, 2012 Leave a Comment

Reviews of David L. Culp’s The Layered Garden, Robyn Michele Levy’s Most of Me, and Jackson Landers’s Eating Aliens, plus a full list of science and technology reviews from the August issue.

Filed Under: Books, Nonfiction, Science & Technology Tagged With: David L. Culp, gardening, health, Jackson Landers, Robyn Michele Levy, starred reviews

Nonfiction Previews, Feb. 2013, Pt. 3: Chagnon, Kaplan, Shlaes, and Tuszynska Court Controversy

By Barbara Hoffert on August 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

Bouton, Katherine. Shouting Won’t Help: Why I—and 50 Million Other Americans—Can’t Hear You. Sarah Crichton: Farrar. Feb. 2013. 272p. ISBN 9780374263041. $26. HEALTH & FITNESS/HEARING Nearly 20 percent of Americans suffer from some form of hearing loss, and Bouton, who was a senior editor at the New York Times for over two decades, is one [...]