Shares the discovery stories of some of Harvard University's rarest natural history specimens, recounting the origins of such items as Nabokov's butterflies, George Washington's pheasants, a sand dollar collected by Darwin during his Beagle voyage, and the only stuffed bird remaining from the Lewis and Clark expedition. 25,000 first printing.

The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

History

Sloan, Mark

Pick, Nancy

Americas

Harper

I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school.”—from Birth Day So began Mark Sloan’s three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture into a fascinating—and often funny—tapestry of this fundamental human passage. Birth Day takes the reader on a remarkable journey, from the dawn of human history to the quiet efficiency of a modern operating room; from Aristotle and Julius Caesar to a trailblazing, cross-dressing British army surgeon; from a recent past filled with the horrors of childbirth gone wrong to a present day, in which every pregnancy is expected to end happily. Some of Birth Day’s many topics include • The evolution of human childbirth—or, why do gorillas have it so easy? • The first five minutes of life—scuba divers, astronauts, and the amazing adaptations that transform a fetus into an air-breathing, out-in-the-world baby • Cesarean section—a look at its origins, its future, and how it came to be the most frequently performed operation in American hospitals • Pain and politics—the age-old quest for painless childbirth, starring Adam and Eve, Queen Victoria, a nineteenth-century medical brawl, and the rise of today’s “epidural monoculture” • Daddies—raging paternal hormones, hidden anxieties, and the emotional evolution of men (including the author, his father, and grandfather) as they approach fatherhood • The five senses at birth—does light enter the womb? how loud is it in there? what is a newborn baby searching for with those first anxious glances? • A tour of the newborn body—springy skulls, hairy ears, innies and outies, the advantages (and disadvantages) of looking like your father, and why the United States is one of the world’s most circumcised nations Delightfully instructive and entertaining, Birth Dayoffers a fresh, sometimes irreverent take on a universally familiar topic. Warm, reassuring, and packed with stories from the author’s work and life, this unique book is one pediatrician’s meditation on the hiding-in-plain-sight marvels of human birth.

Birth Day: A Pediatrician Explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Ballantine Books

Strange, Startling, and Stupendous! Features more than 150 black-and-white photographs; a vintage collection of bizarre, unusual, and humorous pictures (dating from the 1840s to the 1950s) that explore the

Hoaxes, Humbugs and Spectacles: Astonishing Photographs of Smelt Wrestlers, Human Projectiles, Giant Hailstones, Contortionists, Elephant Impersonat

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Villard

Hoaxes, Humbugs & Spectacles

Random House Value Publishing

A collection of fantastic factual trivia that covers bizarre historical, natural, and cultural phenomena spanning the entire globe

Dear Mr. Ripley: A Compendium of Curioddities from the Believe It or Not! Archives

Humor & Entertainment

Manley, Roger

Van Parys, Michelle

Ripley, Robert Le Roy

Humor

Bulfinch Pr

You'll Never Believe It: A Compendium of Curioddities from the Bizarre World of Ripley's "Believe It or Not" Archives

Reference

Virgin Books

Remarkable period photographs by F. W. Glasier capture the colorful world of the Big Top in early twentieth-century America, portraying an array of parades, tent raisings, circus spectaculars, and the everyday lives of the performers.

Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus 1901-1927 as seen by F. W. Glasier, Photographer

Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd

Cancer Cured: Victory Over the War on Cancer

Where is the Cure for Cancer? What if I told you that all the research needed to end the disease of cancer forever has already been completed? Would you believe it? Well now you don’t have to! 
Cancer Cured is a 2-book Special Edition including two internationally #1 bestselling books titled The Cancer Industry and Cancer: The Metabolic Disease Unravelled. 
Backed by evidence from over 2400 scientific and clinical studies, Cancer Cured takes you on a comprehensive scientific investigation into cancer treatments, cancer screening programs and the cancer industry – and then you’ll find out what cancer is, what it isn’t, and the most efficient ways to heal it, without causing any harm whatsoever in the process.
Science writer Mark Sloan lost his mother to cancer when he was 12 years old and now his life mission is clear: To ensure that no child has to go through what he did, ever again.
By the time you're done reading this book, you'll know:
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<li>If surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and cancer screening programs save lives</li>
<li>That cancer is not a disease of genetic origin but one characterized by a dysfunctional metabolism</li>
<li>The single most powerful dietary change you can make to prevent cancer</li>
<li>At least 5 effective alternative cancer therapies and how they work</li>
<li>The single most important scientific cancer discovery ever made 
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</ul>
Prepare to say goodbye to your fear of cancer and hello to the confidence in knowing EXACTLY what a tumour is, EXACTLY what causes one to form and EXACTLY how to quickly and inexpensively prevent or reverse it, without causing any harm whatsoever in the process. 
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Cancer Cured: Victory Over The War On Cancer

Diseases & Physical Ailments

EndAllDisease.com

What if I told you that all the research needed to end the disease of cancer forever has already been completed? Would you believe it? Well now you don't have to! Cancer Cured is a 2-book Special Edition including two internationally #1 bestselling books titled The Cancer Industry and Cancer: The Metabolic Disease Unravelled. Backed by evidence from over 2400 scientific and clinical studies, Cancer Cured takes you on a comprehensive scientific investigation into cancer treatments, cancer screening programs and the cancer industry - and then you'll find out what cancer is, what it isn't, and the most efficient ways to heal it, without causing any harm in the process. Bestselling author Mark Sloan lost his mother to cancer when he was 12 years old and now his life mission is clear: To ensure that no child has to go through what he did, ever again. Pick up your copy now by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top of this page!

Lulu Press

Where is The Cure for Cancer? Have you ever wondered why in the past 100 years a cure for cancer has not been found? You’re not alone! 
We’ve all lost someone we love to cancer and we all want to see it gone. But after spending $500 Billion dollars of our generous donations on cancer research over the past 50 years, the people who promised us a cure have given us literally nothing for preventing or curing the disease. 
Are they incompetent? Or are cures and effective treatments purposefully being suppressed so the industry can keep raking in money? It’s time to find out the truth.
The Truth About Cancer After losing his mother to cancer at age 12, bestselling author Mark Sloan has conducted a historic and monumental investigation into The Cancer Industry to find out why she died such an agonizing death. I’m here to ask the difficult questions. Did my mother die of cancer? Or was she murdered for-profit by an industry that cares more about making money than saving lives?
Backed by evidence from over 600 scientific and clinical references, The Cancer Industry will guide you on a journey into cancer treatments - surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy - as well as cancer screening tests - Mammography and The PSA Test. Do they actually work or are they doing us more harm than good?
The Cancer Industry also includes an entire chapter on the question of whether or not cures or safe and effective treatments have been hidden from the public. It’s time to find out the truth.
Got a pulse? Then you need to read this book! 
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The Cancer Industry: Crimes, Conspiracy and The Death of My Mother (The Real Truth About Cancer)

EndAllDisease Publishing

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