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Nov 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Victoria Moran |Bonnie Jean Stephens
A thoughtful and engaging reflection on what it means to get older, both physically and spiritually. Moran shares tips on aging well in a culture obsessed with youth. The author, a longtime yogi and prolific self-help writer, here focuses her attention on the concept of aging. While acknowledging that genetics and lifestyle choices greatly influence how one ages, she also draws attention to the cultural and spiritual aspects of the process.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Sam Parnia |Walter Isaacson |Bonnie Jean Stephens
This engaging blend of new research and personal experience tackles fundamental questions about existence and awareness. An expert in medical resuscitation explores emerging evidence that calls for new thinking about life, death, and purpose. The reality of life is that death comes for us all, whether we accept it gracefully or rail against the fading of the light.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Marty Makary |Bonnie Jean Stephens |Rebecca Skloot
An eye-opening look at how the American medical industry’s rigidity has stunted its reliability. The misguided prevalence of “gut feeling” in medical dogma. In his follow-up to The Price We Pay (2019), Makary, a public health researcher and professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, elaborates on the enduring misconceptions plaguing modern medicine in terms of research breakthroughs that have been largely underappreciated, overlooked, or simply ignored in a clinical setting.
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May 22, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Eboni Green |Jennette McCurdy |Bonnie Jean Stephens
A refreshingly simple manual that offers comfort to its audience in the form of actionable, workable steps. A wide-ranging guide that offers tips and tools for caregivers, whether their patient is a client or a loved one. Although Green differentiates between the roles of family caregivers and frontline caregivers, much of her advice applies in either capacity.
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May 3, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jennette McCurdy |Bonnie Jean Stephens |Brian F. Licuanan
A clear and essential guide to helping loved ones when they hit rock bottom. Licuanan offers a comprehensive guide to providing help to people who don’t necessarily welcome it.
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May 31, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Simon Schama |Rebecca Skloot |Bonnie Jean Stephens
A vivid account of the horror of epidemics and the breakthroughs that can bring them under control. A history of the contest between contagion and medical research. Schama, a professor of history and art history at Columbia, has won numerous awards for his many books and TV documentaries. At first glance, a book dealing with diseases would not seem to be a good match for the author, but his methods work well with the subject.
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Apr 25, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Bernie Sanders |John Nichols |Bonnie Jean Stephens
PARENTING IN THE AGE OF DIET CULTURE by Virginia Sole-Smith ‧ A freelance journalist and parent navigates the murky waters of raising children in a fat-biased society. As her daughters grew up, Sole-Smith, author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America, began to notice how often others commented on their bodies, and she understandably worried about the consequences of such superficialities.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Peter Attia |Bonnie Jean Stephens
It may not produce a new Methuselah, but Attia’s welcome book deserves the attention of anyone seeking a healthier life. A data- and anecdote-rich invitation to live better, and perhaps a little longer, by making scientifically smart choices. Trained as an oncological surgeon, Attia became interested in longevity because he saw that the “Four Horsemen” worked against it: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. All play a role in an unhealthy system, and all interrelate.
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Mar 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Bernie Sanders |John Nichols |Bonnie Jean Stephens
HOW TOXIC FASHION IS MAKING US SICK—AND HOW WE CAN FIGHT BACK by Alden Wicker ‧ Why our clothes could be slowly undermining our health. As Wicker shows, fast-fashion garments often have a cocktail of dangerous chemicals embedded in the fabric, and there is no effective national regulation of them.
