Medicine

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect--a minority with its own rich, sometimes ...

This is how Geneen Roth remembers her time as an emotional overeater and self-starver. After years of struggle, Roth finally broke free from the destructive cycle of bingeing and purging. In the two decades since her triumph, she has gone on to help tens of thousands of others do the same through her lectures, workshops, and retreats.

In her bestsellers "Louder Than Words" and "Mother Warriors," McCarthy told stories about healing children with autism.

Offers an account of when the highly infectious virus Ebola spread from the rainforests of Africa to the suburbs of Washington, DC in 1989.

When Roth, the bestselling author of "Women Food and God," lost her life savings in the Madoff debacle, she decided to explore how women's habits around money--as with food--can lead to the situations they most want to avoid.

Robison delivers a moving, darkly funny memoir of growing up with Asperger's at a time when the diagnosis simply didn't exist.