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New health books series: The Harvard Medical School Guide
- By Julie Silver, MD, Chief Editor of Books, Harvard Health Publishing
Need a new book to read on the Kindle you received as a holiday present? I’d like to recommend one or more of the eight just-published eBooks that kick off the Harvard Medical School Guide series. Published by RosettaBooks, this series aims to give readers help with tricky health issues, like trouble sleeping or dealing with picky eaters, as well as help with life at work and elsewhere.
Harvard Medical School Guides are short, practical original works authored by prominent physicians on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. The topics reflect the interests of and feedback from the millions of people who interact annually with Harvard Health Publishing via our newsletters, health reports, print books, blogs, and social media. The initial titles in the Harvard Medical School Guide series are:
- Your Brain on Yoga, by Sat Bir Singh Khlasa, MD, with Jodie Gould
- Getting Your Child to Eat (Almost) Anything, by Qian Yuan, MD, PhD, with Robin Westen
- Successful Sleep Strategies for Women, by Julia Schlam Edelman, MD
- Successful Sleep Strategies for Kids, by Dennis Rosen, MD
- Taming Your Child’s Temper Tantrums, by Victoria Rogers McEnvoy, MD, with Karen Weintraub
- Overcome Prejudice at Work, by Ranna Parekh, MD, and Carl C. Bell, MD, with Karen Weintraub
- CEO Psychology: Who Rises, Who Falls and Why, by Kenneth M. Settel, MD, with Joseph Cardillo
- The Making of a Surgeon, by Stanley Ashley, MD, and John Hanc
Brief descriptions are below. These books are available for the Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iBooks, and other ebook formats.
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Julie Silver, MD, Chief Editor of Books, Harvard Health Publishing
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