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At the of the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1948, Health was defined as being "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". This definition invited nations to expand the conceptual framework of their health...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy is the first children's novel written by English–American playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was originally published as a serial in the St. Nicholas Magazine between November 1885 and October 1886, then as a...

x Author:: Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Death Be Not Proud

Death Be Not Proud is a memoir by American author John Gunther, taking its name from Holy Sonnet X by John Donne. The story was portrayed in a 1975 TV movie starring Robby Benson as Johnny Gunther and Arthur Hill as John Gunther. In the book,...

x Author:: John Gunther

x Date of first publication:: 1949

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Five Patients

Five Patients is a non-fiction book by Michael Crichton that recounts his experiences of hospital practices during the late 1960s at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The book describes each of five patients through their hospital experience...

x Author:: Michael Crichton

x Date of first publication:: Jun 1970

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Body for Life

Body for Life is a 12-week diet and exercise program, and also an annual physique transformation competition. It was created by Bill Phillips, a former competitive bodybuilder and owner of EAS, a manufacturer of nutritional supplements. It has been...

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Snapping

Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change is a 1978 anti-cult book which describes the authors' theory of religious conversion, called snapping in terms of mind control, a mental process which the authors argue by which a person is...

x Author:: Flo Conway,; Jim Siegelman

x Date of first publication:: 1978

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The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston about the origins of incidents involving hemorrhagic fevers and both the Ebola and Marburg viruses. The basis of the book was Preston's 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis...

x Author:: Richard Preston

x Date of first publication:: 1994

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The Story of Doctor Dolittle

The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about...

x Author:: Hugh Lofting

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Summer of the Swans

Summer of the Swans is a novel by Betsy Byars that won the Newbery Medal in 1971 about fourteen-year-old Sara Godfrey's search for her missing, mentally retarded brother Charlie. Summer of the Swans was filmed as Sara's Summer of the Swans for an...

x Author:: Betsy Byars

x Date of first publication:: 1970

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The Emperor Wears No Clothes

The Emperor Wears No Clothes is a book written by Jack Herer. Starting in 1973, Jack Herer took the advice of his friend "Captain" Ed Adair and began compiling tidbits of information about cannabis and its numerous uses. In 1985, after 12 years,...

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His Family

His Family is a novel by Ernest Poole published in 1917 about the life of a New York widower and his three daughters in the 1910s. It received the first Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1918. His Family tells the story of a middle class family in New...

x Author:: Ernest Poole

x Date of first publication:: May 16, 1917

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On Being Ill

On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot's New Criterion in January, 1926; The essay was later reprinted, with revisions, in Forum in April 1926, under the title Illness: An Unexploited Mine. The essay seeks to...

x Author:: Virginia Woolf

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Pedro and Me

Pedro and Me is an autobiographical graphic novel by Judd Winick regarding his friendship with AIDS educator Pedro Zamora after the two met while on the reality television series, The Real World: San Francisco. It was published in September 2000....

x Author:: Judd Winick

x Date of first publication:: Sep 2000

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Ramona the Brave

Ramona the Brave is a juvenile novel written by Beverly Cleary and illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. The book was first published in 1975, seven years after the previous installment in the Ramona series, Ramona the Pest. As the story begins, Beezus...

x Author:: Beverly Cleary

x Date of first publication:: 1975

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The Art of Seduction

The Art Of Seduction is a book by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers which, while examining social power much like their book The 48 Laws of Power, does so through the lens of seduction. The book is divided into two sections. The first concentrates on...

x Author:: Robert Greene

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The Drone Virus

The Drone Virus is a 2004 sci-fi thriller based on a novel by Gerald Clarke. It was directed by Damon O' Steen and starred Billy Wirth. Billy Wirth plays Stephen Roland, a man whose daughter is dying of neuroblastoma. When the girl dies after an MRI...

x Author:: Gerald Clarke

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The Fat Smash Diet

The Fat Smash Diet is the book-length version of the nutrition and fitness regimen that Dr. Ian K. Smith has used to widespread acclaim on VH1’s weight loss reality show, Celebrity Fit Club. The diet aims to change the dieter's "relationship with...

x Author:: Ian Smith

x Date of first publication:: Apr 4, 2006

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Eight Lectures on Yoga

Eight Lectures on Yoga is a book by Aleister Crowley about the practice of Yoga. The book is number 4 of volume 3 of the Equinox, which was published by the Ordo Templi Orientis The work is largely a demystified look at yoga, using little to no...

x Author:: Aleister Crowley

x Date of first publication:: 1939

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My Name is Caroline

My Name Is Caroline, written by Caroline Adams Miller, is one of the first books written by a survivor of an eating disorder. It resulted in countless television and radio appearances by Miller, as well as international coverage in newspapers and...

x Author:: Caroline Adams Miller

x Date of first publication:: 1988

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Stoned Free

x Author:: Douglas Rushkoff

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The Weight-Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You To Know About

The Weight Loss Cure "They" Don't Want You to Know About is a weight loss book written by controversial author Kevin Trudeau. It was released in April 2007 by Alliance Publishing. Trudeau is a convicted felon with no certified medical training and...

x Author:: Kevin Trudeau

x Date of first publication:: Apr 1, 2007

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto is a 2008 book by Michael Pollan. It was number one on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 article Unhappy Meals published in the New York Times...