Benbella Books imprint: 348 books
The Grassroots Health Care Revolution
How Companies Across America Are Dramatically Cutting Their Health Care Costs While Improving Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
When exploding health care costs threatened Serigraph’s solvency, CEO John Torinus Jr. went outside the box to find a solution. Using his findings, Torinus applied innovative, cutting-edge strategies to cut his health care expenses well below the national average while improving his employees’ care.Now,...
Toxic Beauty
How Cosmetics and Personal-Care Products Endanger Your Health... and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Splashy ads and commercials for personal care products are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied.But do consumers really know what they’re applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they’re...
The E-Factor
Entrepreneurship in the Social Media Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
As an entrepreneur, you’re not afraid to bend the rules and think outside the box. You’re not burdened with linear thinking, and thinking differently and trying new approaches enable you to solve problems.
As serial entrepreneurs and cofounders of the largest social network for entrepreneurs...
Harnessed
How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech too quickly and with almost no training and can seamlessly absorb enormous...
Bare Minimum Parenting
The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This isn’t a book about overachieving at parenting.
This isn’t even a book about achieving exactly the right amount.
This is a book about doing as little as possible without quite ruining your child.
Overachieving parents want you to believe the harder you work, the...
by Pamela Anderson, Emma Dunlavey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Sensuality uninhibited.
Behind the scenes look at one of Rock n’ Roll’s favorite women.
Captured by Emma Dunlavey.
Over a decade's worth of fly-on-the-wall style reportage.
Fun, sexy handwritten prose by Pamela expressing herself freely within the images.
Sexy...
Brain Changer
How Harnessing Your Brain's Power to Adapt Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Science-based actions that can transform the way we think—and feel.
Drawing on the latest research in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and communications, the author of What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite replaces self-help with “science-help,”...
The Boy Crisis
Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
What is the boy crisis?
It’s a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science.
It’s a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal...
In the Name of the Children
An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
"The voice that narrates In the Name of the Children: An F.B.I. Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators, which Rinek wrote with the journalist Marilee Strong, sounds warm and humane, qualities missing from much crime writing. Their book is a professional job, filled with illuminating...
The Setup
A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The incredible true story of the PI Moms scam and the small-time reporter who exposed it: “A jaw-dropping tale of ambition, crime, and reality TV” (Ira Glass, host of NPR’s This American Life).
In 2010, an unbelievable story came across the desk of Diablo magazine lifestyle reporter Pete...
Sex and War
How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A look at the evolutionary causes of violent conflicts that’s “worth reading, and arguing about” (Toronto Star).
Why does war seem to be so fundamental to our species? And is there anything we can do about it?
Sex and War explores these questions from the frontlines of war-torn...
by Frederick N. Lukash
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery, by Dr. Frederick N. Lukash, is the only complete guide to this ever-expanding phenomenon. Written by the American Society of Plastic Surgerys acknowledged expert and official media spokesperson on pediatric and adolescent plastic surgery, this book...
The HappyCow Cookbook
Recipes From Top-Rated Vegan Restaurants Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
**Sample amazing vegan dishes from around the world—right in your own kitchen: “**What a brilliant addition to any chef’s library!” —Mayim Bialik, author of Mayim’s Vegan Table
The HappyCow website helps millions of people find delicious vegan and vegetarian cuisine across the globe...
The Recipe Hacker Confidential
Break the Code to Cooking Mouthwatering & Good-For-You Meals without Grains, Gluten, Dairy, Soy, or Cane Sugar
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Unlock the secret to cooking mouthwatering and nutritious meals-without giving up your favorite dishes!In today’s era of rampant food allergies, gluten-free popularity, and the rise of paleo eating, putting together a meal that will satisfy everyone at your table is easier said than done. With Diana...