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NONFICTION

Released: July 16, 2013

PEOPLE, PARASITES, AND PLOWSHARES: LEARNING FROM OUR BODY'S MOST TERRIFYING INVADERS

by Dickson Despommier

"Despommier is an excellent popularizer, lacing his accounts of our invaders' ingenuity with history and anecdotes that underscore how grateful a modern society should be for clean drinking water and sanitary facilities."

The ick factor is high--20-foot tapeworms, skin nodules filled with writhing worms, etc.--but for parasitologists, the fellow travelers chronicled in this illuminating book command respect for the artful ways they have managed cohabitation since the dawn of life. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Aug. 5, 2013

FALLING INTO THE FIRE: A PSYCHIATRIST'S ENCOUNTERS WITH THE MIND IN CRISIS

by Christine Montross

"No triumphs of modern psychiatry on display here, but rather a sympathetic portrait of seriously ill patients that could guide future practitioners on the art of helping, if not always healing, the sick."

In her residency and now as a professor (Psychiatry and Human Behavior/Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown Univ.) and a hospital inpatient psychiatrist, Montross (Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab, 2007) describes her encounters with patients in crisis, first admitted to emergency rooms and then referred for hospital stays. Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Aug. 5, 2013

HALDOL AND HYACINTHS: A BIPOLAR LIFE

by Melody Moezzi

"A bold, courageous book by a woman who transforms mental illness into an occasion for activism."

An Iranian-American political activist and writer's memoir of how she came to terms with her bicultural heritage and bipolar disorder. Read full book review >

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