The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world—but was everything we were told the truth? In this eye-opening book, inspired by the revelations of Dr. Bryan Ardis, we uncover the hidden agendas, financial incentives, and medical corruption that shaped the global response to the virus.From the controversial snake venom theory to the deadly consequences of hospital protocols, this book investigates how fear, misinformation, and cens...

This book, written in this most unusual manner, is the result of medical knowledge, scientific inquiry and thirty years of sharing with hundreds of alcoholics in different stages of recovery. It emerges out of the need to provide a simple and comprehensive explanation of what is considered a difficult disease to understand. It was written for those who suffer it, for third parties that are affected by it and for those who wish to successfully treat it. After only about ninety minutes, the ...

Inspired by the career of Judie Newman, a genuinely ground-breaking scholar in the fields of U.S. and postcolonial literature, this book moves beyond strict national or genre boundaries in its approach to American literature and cultural production.Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction derives its breadth and focus from an international range of contributors who examine the significant ways in which U.S. cultural texts travel across various contest...

Can we live robustly until our last breath?Do we have to suffer from debilitating conditions and sickness? Is it possible to add more vibrant years to our lives? In the #1 New York Times bestselling The End of Illness, Dr. David Agus tackles these fundamental questions and dismantles misperceptions about what “health” really means. Presenting an eye-opening picture of the human body and all the ways it works—and fails—Dr. Agus shows us how a new p...

Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, classic books such as Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, and The Secret Garden

The surprising truth about what it takes to be healthy In The Cure for Everything! health-law expert Timothy Caulfield exposes the special interests that twist good science about health and fitness in order to sell us services and products that mostly don’t work. Want great abs? You won’t get them by using the latest Ab-Flex-Spinner-Thingy. Are you trying to lose ten pounds? Diet books are a waste of trees. Do you rely on health-care practitioners—either mainstream or alternative—to provid...

Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit is one of the questions raised by journalist and 1999 CBC Massey lecturer Robert Fulford. Narrative, Fulford points out, is how we explain, how we teach, how we entertain ourselves - often ...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller**Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleFrom Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay**-**an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health.More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in hi...

"Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to t...

Skinny jeans at last! is a metaphor for what it feels like to feel healthier and how that translates into your life. The book describes why finding a method to lose weight and keep it off long term is both elusive and obvious. It describes stories of success and shares how these emotions can help us succeed. It describes why you can do it, and why most people don't. The secret to success is developing a mindset that allows you to follow some simple do-able eating rules. The book explains w...

A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calci...

“If you buy just one health book this year, then get The Lucky Years” (Howard Stern). In this groundbreaking guide, bestselling author David Agus shows how we can take control of our health like never before in the brave new world of medicine.In his first bestseller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to add vibrant years to your life by knowing the real facts of health. In The Lucky Years, he builds on that theme by showing why ...