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The NASW bookstore sells books, music, video, software, and other merchandise via Amazon.com. Every purchase helps support NASW programs and services. Books featured below were written by NASW members or reviewed in ScienceWriters magazine.

  • Author:
    George L. Blackburn, M.D., Ph.D. and Julie Corliss
    Publisher:
    Collins
    Reviewed in:
    Summer 2008
    Category:

    Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep it Off

    The book offers science-based explanations — and solutions — to the two biggest problems dieters face: hitting a weight-loss plateau and regaining lost weight. Losing just 10 percent of your original body weight, followed by a six-month period of holding steady at your new weight, can help reset your set point, or typical body weight. The advice draws from experts and the 30- year career of co-author Dr. Blackburn, associate director of the division of nutrition, Harvard Medical School. The result is a lifestyle plan that extends beyond recommendations about eating and exercising.

  • Author:
    George L. Blackburn and Julie Corliss
    Publisher:
    Collins
    Category:

    Break Through Your Set Point: How to Finally Lose the Weight You Want and Keep it Off

    Break Through Your Set Point offers science-based explanations — and solutions — to the two biggest problems dieters face: hitting a weight-loss plateau and regaining lost weight. Losing just 10% of your original body weight, followed by a six-month period of holding steady at your new weight, can help reset your set point, or typical body weight.

  • Author:
    Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph.D. and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
    Publisher:
    Bantam
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    Body Signs: How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective

    We all notice things about our bodies that don't seem quite right. But when are these simply harmless physical quirks and when are they signs that a visit to the doctor is in order? Liebmann-Smith, a New York City freelance, produced this comprehensive guide which covers every body part from head to toe — and everything in between — to help you decode the often mysterious messages your body sends you.

  • Author:
    Dana Desonie, Ph.D.
    Publisher:
    Chelsea House
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    Humans and the Natural Environment: The Future of Our Planet

    An Arizona freelance, Desonie writes "I have been an NASW member for over a decade and finally now have something to report. I have a set of eight reference books on environmental issues aimed at grades 6 to 13 coming out. They are being published by Chelsea House/Facts on File. The first are already out and I just found out this morning that Booklist has named Oceans: How We Use the Seas one of the top 10 environmental books for youth!"

  • Author:
    Alison Bass
    Publisher:
    Algonquin Books
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and the Truth about a Bestselling Antidepressant

    As the mental health reporter for the Boston Globe, Bass's front-page reporting on conflicts of interest in medical research, and her series on sexual misconduct among psychiatrists earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In this book she turns her investigative skills to a controversial case that exposed the increased suicide rates among adolescents taking antidepressants such as Paxil, Prozac, and Zoloft.

  • Author:
    Jack Henningfield, Patricia Santora, and Warren Bickel, Ph.D., eds.
    Publisher:
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    Addiction Treatment: Science and Policy For The 21st Century

    Two of the editors are clients of Dennis Tartaglia (NASW). The book features two dozen provocative original essays by leading scientists, policymakers, advocates, and artists. Tartaglia says the text provides material for anyone covering drug addiction and its treatment: "It will stimulate new thinking and perhaps provoke some readers — but it will never bore."

  • Author:
    Patricia Barnes-Svarney
    Publisher:
    Thunder Mountain Press
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    When the Earth Moves: Rogue Earthquakes, Tremors, and Aftershocks

    A freelance Endicott, NY writer/photographer, Barnes-Svarney says the concept for the book started with about 500 scientists — a group of geophysicists who crunched a bunch of data and developed a global seismic hazard map. When the Earth Moves is an account of everything you wanted to know about the fault line that runs through Manhattan's Upper West Side, tsunamis, and sea volcanoes — and how to prepare yourself for the earthquake that just might be waiting in your own backyard.

  • Author:
    Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone
    Publisher:
    Sterling
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    The Ultimate Guide to Your Microscope

    Levine is an award-winning author of children's science books and science toys/kits; Johnstone is head of a high school science department. The two Canadians have written more than 50 books. This book describes how to buy and use a microscope. Each step is illustrated and explained.

  • Author:
    Sidney Perkowitz
    Publisher:
    Columbia University Press
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World

    Sidney Perkowitz is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University. He is also a dedicated film enthusiast. In this entertaining book, he discusses the portrayal of science in more than 100 films, including scientific biographies and documentaries.

  • Author:
    Jerry Guo
    Publisher:
    SuperCollege LLP
    Reviewed in:
    Spring 2008
    Category:

    Science Whiz: How One Student Used Science to get into College and Win $100,000 in Scholarships (and You Can, Too!)

    A scholarship and college guide for aspiring scientists, the Science Whiz shows you how to take your interest in science to the next level while still in high school by developing powerful independent research projects, win competitions and scholarships, land a coveted research internship, get published, spend summers traveling the world on scientific expeditions, and more. Guo, a freelancer for Science, Nature, The Scientist, and Smithsonian, is a student at Yale who has won more than $120,000 in unrestricted scholarships.