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Health & Medicine

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Jew­ish Med­ical Resis­tance in the Holocaust
Michael A. Grodin, ed.
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Sex vs. Sur­vival: The Life and Ideas of Sabi­na Spielrein
John Launer
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Each Day I Like It Bet­ter: Autism, ECT, and the Treat­ment of Our Most Impaired Children
Amy S.F. Lutz
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Sex After…: Women Share How Inti­ma­cy Changes as Life Changes
Iris Kras­now
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End­ing Addic­tion for Good: The Ground­break­ing, Holis­tic, Evi­dence-Based Way to Trans­form Your Life
Con­stance Scharff
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The Fan­tas­tic Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Dr. Wei­gl: How Two Brave Sci­en­tists Bat­tled Typhus and Sab­o­taged the Nazis
Arthur Allen
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Ram­bam and Medicine

David Zul­berg is the author of best-sell­ing health and behav­ior mod­i­fi­ca­tion diet called The Life-Trans­form­ing Diet (Feld­heim Pub­lish­ers). His lat­est book called…
David Zul­berg
February 19, 2014
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The 5 Skin­ny Habits: The Ancient Wis­dom of Bib­li­cal Schol­ars and Doc­tors Can Help You Lose Weight and Change Your Life Forever
David Zul­berg
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The Life-Trans­form­ing Diet: Health and Psy­cho­log­i­cal Prin­ci­ples of Maimonides
David Zul­berg
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Liv­ing a Real Life with Real Food: How to Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Stay Ener­gized — The Kosher Way
Beth War­ren
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Vic­ki Oran­sky Wit­ten­stein on Research­ing For the Good of Mankind

To cel­e­brate the pub­li­ca­tion of her teen non­fic­tion book, For the Good of Mankind?: The Shame­ful His­to­ry of Human Med­ical Exper­i­men­ta­tion (Lern­er Pub­lish­ing…
Vic­ki Oran­sky Wittenstein
November 5, 2013
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Sea­son to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way
Mol­ly Birnbaum
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Get­ting Your Best Health Care: Real-World Sto­ries for Patient Empowerment
Ken Farb­stein
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Next Year in Marien­bad: The Lost Worlds of Jew­ish Spa Culture
Mirjam Zadoff; William Templer, trans.
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The Fam­i­ly Guide to Men­tal Health Care
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD
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Island Prac­tice
Pam Bel­luck
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