Derived from the title of one of the artist's works, Keeper's Keep alludes to British usage of the term "keeper" for "curator" and plays on the double meaning of "keep" as both a noun and a verb. Aggie Zed was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and raised among farm animals on Sullivans Island. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.F.A. in painting and sculpture. Although Zed's work derives much of its meaning from literary associations, her imagery teems with invention and startling leaps of imagination. Her visual poetry conjures a world in which logic and...

I delivered twenty babies in the summer of 1977. I was hardly more than a baby myself, just turned twenty-four and starting my third year of medical school.--from Birth Day So began Mark Sloan's three-decades-long exploration of the wonders and oddities of human childbirth. Pediatrician, husband, and father, the author has attended nearly three thousand births since that long-ago summer, encountering everything from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Birth Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture...

50% of people will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes. This statistic is absolutely terrifying, but guess what?It doesn't have to be you.

When I was 12 years old my mother died of cancer. Because of the chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery she received, her last months were spent in agonizing pain.

After my mother was gone, I made a promise to her in my heart that I would find the cause and cure for cancer so that no child would have to go through what I did, ever again... This book is my promise.

Backed by over 2300 scientific and clinical studies,...