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The Women's Complete Wellness Book
This comprehensive, easy to read and informative book for women, written by top women physicians in their field, has just been published by AMWA. The Women's Complete Wellness Book emphasizes prevention, screening and early detection as it presents a complete picture of women's health. The 596 page hardcover book is filled with photographs, drawings, charts, and special "wellness tips" and "wellness warnings" which are presented on almost every page in a lively magazine-like format.

Debra R. Judelson, MD and Diana L. Dell, MD, both Past Presidents of AMWA, designed this readable guide to empower every woman to take control of her health, well-being and quality of life. The Women's Complete Wellness Book is much more than a reference book -- it's a guide for healthy living through all the stages of a woman's life, focusing on disease prevention and specific concerns that are commonly or uniquely present in women. Emphasizing a dynamic approach for a longer and healthier life, this book helps women learn about the key elements of a healthy lifestyle and how to optimize their healthcare relationship.

The Double Helix

In The Double Helix, James Watson shares his account of his codiscovery (along with Francis Crick) of the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick won Nobel Prizes for their work, and their names are memorized by biology students around the world. But as in all of history, the real story behind the deceptively simple outcome was messy, intense, and sometimes truly hilarious. To preserve the "real" story for the world, James Watson attempted to record his first impressions as soon after the events of 1951-1953 as possible, with all their unpleasant realities and "spirit of adventure" intact.

The Miracle of Castel di Sangro by Joe McGinniss

A soccer team from a small town called Abruzzo is invited to play in the professional league in Italy against any likelihood that they would win any games. All they want is a miracle, to finish high enough to avoid relegation back to the minors. 

Memoirs of a Geisha

Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social situation where careers are made or destroyed by a witticism, a too-revealing (or not revealing enough) glimpse of flesh under the kimono, or a vicious rumor spread by a rival "as cruel as a spider."

Golden has has created a plausible female protagonist in a vivid, now-vanished world, and he gloriously captures Japanese culture by expressing his thoughts in authentic Eastern metaphors.

Off Keck Road

Off Keck Road seems an off-putting title for a book--just try saying it out loud. But that might be the point. Mona Simpson has written a novel about life's left-behinds. Her characters are people no one really wants, and Keck Road, in a dingy Wisconsin suburb, is a place where no one wants to live. Simpson's story follows tenderhearted Bea Maxwell, daughter of one of Green Bay's leading families, as she befriends first one, then another of the road's residents.

The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. The real Plath committed suicide in 1963 and left behind this scathingly sad, honest and perfectly-written book, which remains one of the best-told tales of a woman's descent into insanity.

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