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With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of The New York Times 's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body. Angier takes readers on a mesmerizing tour of female anatomy and physiology that explores everything from organs to orgasm, and delves into topics such as... (more)

Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition)

Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition)

by Toni Weschler

Celebrating 10 years of helping hundreds of thousands of women achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy naturally, and gain better control of their health and lives, the 10th Anniversary Edition of the classic bestseller will include: •New 'Preface to the 10th Anniversary Edition" •Updates on new fertility technologies •Natural approaches to conception •Updated Resources and Books For any woman unhappy... (more)

The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change

The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change

by Christiane Northrup

Through her bestselling books, groundbreaking PBS specials, and up-to-the-minute clinical knowledge, Dr. Christiane Northrup has earned a place as one of America’s most trusted medical advisors. In The Wisdom of Menopause , she once again challenges convention with this inspiring look at one of the most commonly misunderstood female health issues. The “change” is not simply a collection of physical symptoms to... (more)

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

by M.D. Northrup, Christiane, MD Northrup, Christiane, Christiane Northrup

A groundbreaking book on women's physical and emotional well-being, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom has become a classic, with more than 270,000 copies in print in the four years since its initial publication. Now it has been completely revised, offering the most up-to-date information available on women's health issues. Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response... (more)

A Woman's Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle

A Woman's Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle

by Joan Borysenko

Biologist and psychologist Joan Borysenko helped chart new territory in mind/body medicine at Harvard Medical School-and created a new map of that territory in one of the first bestsellers in the field. Now the author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind reveals the interconnected loop of mind, body, and spirit in women. This pioneering book will teach women how to maximize their health and well-being as well as... (more)

Our Bodies, Ourselves : A New Edition for a New Era

Our Bodies, Ourselves : A New Edition for a New Era

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian

America's best-selling book on all aspects of women's health With more than four million copies sold, Our Bodies, Ourselves is the classic resource that women of all ages can turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being. Completely revised for the first time in a decade, these pages give women everything they need for making key decisions about their health -- from definitive information from... (more)

The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth

The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth

by Marshall H. Klaus

The complete and essential guide to birth with a doula by the "undisputed experts in the field."-- Los Angeles Times More and more parents-to-be all over the world are choosing the comfort and reassuring support of birth with a trained labor companion called a "doula." This warm, authoritative, and irreplaceable guide completely updates the authors' earlier book, Mothering the Mother , and adds much new and... (more)

The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body

The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body

by Desmond Morris

Internationally bestselling author and world-famous human behaviorist Desmond Morris turns his attention to the female form, taking the reader on a guided tour of the female body from head to toe. Highlighting the evolutionary functions of various physiological traits, Morris's study explores the various forms of enhancement and constraint that human societies have developed in the quest for the perfect female... (more)

The Female Brain

by Louann Brizendine

Every brain begins as a female brain. It only becomes male eight weeks after conception, when excess testosterone shrinks the communications center, reduces the hearing cortex, and makes the part of the brain that processes sex twice as large. Louann Brizendine, M.D. is a pioneering neuropsychiatrist who brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women... (more)

The American Way of Birth

by Jessica Mitford

Traces the history of childbirth in America and assesses the conventional and alternative methods of childbirth, commenting on the state of American childbirth and health care. By the author of The American Way of Death. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The Fat Flush Plan

by Ann Louise Gittleman

Foreword by Barry Sears, Author of The Zone The Fat Flush Diet Plan is a revolutionary diet program from one of the Top 10 Nutritionists in the United States, according to Self magazine. Based on a satisfying, healthful, and cleansing combination of essential fats, balanced proteins, and quality carbohydrates, Ann Louise Gittleman's Fat Flush was first popularized on iVillage.com, The Women's Network, and... (more)

Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century: A Book by and for Women

Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century: A Book by and for Women

by Boston Women's Health Book Collective

The essential resource on women's health and sexuality comes of age in this newly revised and updated edition of a long-loved classic. Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations. In these pages, women will find new information, resources (including web sites!), and personal support for the... (more)

Spiritual Midwifery

by Ina May Gaskin

Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended by the Farm midwives. Also new is information about the safety of techniques routinely used in hospitals during... (more)

I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and Their Female Caregiver

I Knew a Woman: Four Women Patients and Their Female Caregiver

by Cortney Davis

"I cannot ignore the reality of the body, its glorious beginnings and its subtle endings," writes Cortney Davis in this intimate and startlingly original account of her work at a women's clinic. A poet and nurse-practitioner with twenty five years' experience, Davis reveals the beauty of the body's workings by unfolding the lives of four patients who struggle with its natural cycles and unexpected surprises:... (more)

A Good Birth, A Safe Birth : Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want, Third Revised Edition

A Good Birth, A Safe Birth : Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want, Third Revised Edition

by Diana Korte

Essential guide to the bewildering array of delivery options available.

The Woman's Yoga Book: Asana and Pranayama for All Phases of the Menstrual Cycle

The Woman's Yoga Book: Asana and Pranayama for All Phases of the Menstrual Cycle

by Bobby Clennell

In The Woman's Yoga Book , senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Bobby Clennell offers a comprehensive program of asana (yoga poses) and pranayama (breathing techniques) designed to support menstrual health from menarche to menopause, along with nutritional and lifestyle information for those times off the yoga mat. With over 30 years of teaching experience, she encourages women to draw on the strength that comes from... (more)

Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair and Statistics

Inconceivable: A Woman's Triumph over Despair and Statistics

by Julia Indichova

A memoir of hope for the thousands of women struggling with infertility, from one who beat the odds by simply tuning in to her body and tapping her well of sheer determination. At a time when more and more women are trying to get pregnant at increasingly advanced ages, fertility specialists and homeopathic researchers boast endless treatment options. But when Julia Indichova made the rounds of medical doctors... (more)

The Thyroid Sourcebook for Women (McGraw-Hill Sourcebooks)

The Thyroid Sourcebook for Women (McGraw-Hill Sourcebooks)

by M. Sara Rosenthal

Thyroid hormones are important to the functioning of a healthy body; but when the thyroid gland supplies too much, too little, or stops producing these vital hormones, many problems can occur. Women make up almost 80 percent of thyroid disorder patients; and when the thyroid gland starts to malfunction the repercussions for women are particularly serious. M. Sara Rosenthal, the acclaimed author of The Thyroid... (more)

Woman's Body: An Owner's Manual (Wordsworth Body Series)

Woman's Body: An Owner's Manual (Wordsworth Body Series)

by Diagram Group

Pregnancy, abortion, menopause, mind and body, food, illness, and aging are all topics of this bestselling guide. Densely illustrated, it is filled with the latest scientific information.

A New View of a Woman's BodyFederation of Feminist Women's Health Center

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by Natalie Angier