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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History [Hardcover]
“ I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. This book is extremely informative and well written. I love the humorous and witty writing style. The author made me laugh out loud a few times. She writes "Spiny anteaters and platypuses, rare egg-laying mammals, have no nipples, but they "sweat" milk to the puggle in their pouches through...” --mama_y_sol
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
"A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book Review Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses on the role of military and medical authority in the introduction of vaccines and looks at why some parents have resisted this authority....
Yours, Mine, and Ours: How Families Change When Remarried Parents Have a Child Together
Based on the author's experience as a family therapist and stepmother, and on interviews with more than fifty families, this book explores the ramifications for all concerned--remarried parents, his children, her children, and their baby--of having a mutual child.
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
"[Lewis] has such a gift for storytelling."--New York Times There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to...
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and A Fifty-Year Search
When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent of Roscrea, Co. Limerick, to be looked after as a `fallen woman' and at the age of three her baby was whisked away and `sold' to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising `Never to Seek to Know' what the Church did with him, she never saw him again. She would spend...