Hide 

Lisa Carlson, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, has compiled this 640-page consumer's guide to making funeral arrangements — with or without a funeral director. Included is a state-by-state guide to funeral law.

Today, more than ever before, our society is seeking ways to live more conscientiously. To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, MOTHER EARTH NEWS is recommending books to its readers. For more than 30 years, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has been North America’s “Original Guide to Living Wisely,” creating books and magazines for people with a passion for self-reliance and a desire to live in harmony with nature.

Hide 

Health professionals from all disciplines are sharing their skills and expertise to forge a new brand of medicine. Author Michael Castleman calls it blended medicine and says it will redefine health care for the 21st century. This 180-page book explains how to combine mainstream and alternative therapies to treat or prevent disease.

Hide 

The doctor said you have breast cancer. So now what? Authors Deborah A. Cohen and Dr. Robert M. Gelfand help you deal with the ups and downs of the breast cancer experience — from the shock of diagnosis to getting on with your life.

Hide 

If you're one of the millions of women beginning menopause, it's vitally important to know all of your treatment options and understand how they can work for you. This 288-page book presents dozens of treatments available today in one clearly written, comprehensive guide.

Hide 

This book reveals the hidden health dangers in many of the seemingly innocent products we encounter every day — a tube of glue in a kitchen drawer, a bottle of bleach in the laundry room, a rayon scarf on a closet shelf, a brass knob on the front door, a wood plank on an outdoor deck. A compelling exposé, written by a physician with extensive experience in public health and illustrated with disturbing case histories, How Everyday Products Make People Sick is a rich and meticulously documented account of injury and illness across different time periods, places, and technologies. It presents a picture not of one exceptional or corrupt industry but rather of how run-of-the-mill manufacturing processes and consumer marketing expose workers and the general public alike to toxic hazards. More troubling still, even when such hazards are recognized, calls for their control are routinely ignored. Written for a wide audience, it offers a critical and disquieting perspective on the relationship between industrial development and its adverse health consequences.

Hide 

Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist, who "may be the most controversial philosopher alive" (The New Yorker), now sets his critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it's produced, and whether it was raised humanely. Teaming up once again with attorney Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, Singer explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment.

In The Way We Eat, Singer and Mason examine the eating habits of three American families with very different diets. They track down the sources of each family's food to probe the ethical issues involved in its production and marketing. What kinds of meat are the most humane to eat? Is "organic" always better? Wild fish or farmed? Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make the best food choices. As they point out: "You can be ethical without being fanatical."

Hide 

CLEARANCE ITEM. PREVIOUS RETAIL PRICE WAS $22.95 AVAILABLE ONLY WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!

A lifelong environmentalist, Tim Matson groped to find out which was the more ecological choice — cremation or burial? What would happen to his body at the funeral home? What if he decided to donate his organs? Humor became his defense against his own squeamishness. Round-trip to Deadsville is a fable for our times, equally funny and probing.