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The Truth About Back Pain: A Revolutionary, Individualized Approach to Diagnosing and Healing Back Pain
By Todd Sinett, DC, and Sheldon Sinett, DC

Chiropractic Doctors Todd and Sheldon Sinett have developed a new approach to diagnosing
and relieving back pain based on the idea that the causes of back pain come from three distinct influences: structural-actual physical damage; nutritional-an unhealthy diet; and emotional-stress and personal issues that affect health. Offering concrete and specific advice ranging from exercises and meal plans to methods for dealing with everyday stress, this book provides all the necessary tools to understand the root causes of back pain and take the appropriate measures for relief.


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Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
By Alex Abella

Soldiers of Reason is a chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been the driving force behind American government for sixty years. Born in the wake of World War II as an idea factory to advise the air force on how to wage and win wars, RAND quickly became the creator of America’s anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. RAND’s greatest contribution might be its least known: rational choice theory, a model explaining all human behavior through self-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-led transformation of our social and economic system but also unleashed a resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied— religion, patriotism, tribalism. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of America’s last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present.


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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
By Nick Heil

On May 15, 2006, a young British climber named
David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. If David Sharp’s death was shocking, it was hardly singular: despite unusually good weather, ten others died attempting to reach the summit that year. In this meticulous inquiry into what went wrong, Nick Heil tells the full story of the deadliest year on Everest since the infamous season of 1996. As more climbers attempt the summit each year, Heil shows how increasingly risky expeditions and unscrupulous outfitters threaten to turn Everest into a deadly circus.