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Hypokalemia a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or Mastoiditis a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

2009-12-05T19:54:00.000-08:00

Hypokalemia - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Health Publica Icon Health Publications

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to hypokalemia. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to hypokalemia.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

Forward
Chapter 1. Studies on Hypokalemia
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Hypokalemia
E-Journals: PubMed Central
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Nutrition and Hypokalemia
Overview
Finding Nutrition Studies on Hypokalemia
Federal Resources on Nutrition
Additional Web Resources
Chapter 3. Alternative Medicine and Hypokalemia
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Chapter 4. Books on Hypokalemia
Overview
Book Summaries: Federal Agencies
Chapters on Hypokalemia
Chapter 5. Periodicals and News on Hypokalemia
Overview
News Services and Press Releases
Academic Periodicals covering Hypokalemia
Chapter 6. Researching Medications
Overview
U.S. Pharmacopeia
Commercial Databases
Appendix A. Physician Resources
Overview
NIH Guidelines
NIH Databases
Other Commercial Databases
Appendix B. Patient Resources
Overview
Patient Guideline Sources
Finding Associations
Appendix C. Finding Medical Libraries
Overview
Preparation
Finding a Local Medical Library
Medical Libraries in the U.S. and Canada
ONLINE GLOSSARIES
Online Dictionary Directories
HYPOKALEMIA DICTIONARY
INDEX

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Mastoiditis - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Icon Health Publications

This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to mastoiditis. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to mastoiditis.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.

Tabla de calor as or Ejercicios para la espalda

2009-12-04T15:53:00.000-08:00

Tabla de calorнas

Author: Neil Stevens

Estas tablas ponen a disposiciуn del lector esta importante informaciуn, mostrando las calorнas y la aportaciуn de grasas, hidratos de carbono, proteнnas, colesterol, sodio y fibra de mбs de 1.500 alimentos diferentes, relacionados por orden alfabйtico para facilitar su consulta.

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Ejercicios para la espalda: Mientras trabaja, caminando . . .

Author: Achim Schmauderer

Beautifully packaged, pocket-sized references to feeling good inside and out, these guides focus on nutrition and exercise with advice, tips, and methods for achieving maximum physical and mental health. Bellamente empacadas referencias portátiles de cómo sentirse bien por dentro y por fuera, estas guías para la buena salud se concentran en la nutrición y el ejercicio con ideas, consejos, claves y métodos para alcanzar la máxima salud física y mental.

South Beach Heart Program or Fluent Bodies

2009-12-03T11:52:00.000-08:00

South Beach Heart Program: The 4-Step Plan that Can Save Your Life

Author: Arthur Agatston

Over a million men and women in this country will suffer a heart attack this year. Another 600,000 will have a stroke. Doctors who practice aggressive prevention see another statistic entirely. Because the truth is, the great majority of these heart attacks and strokes can be prevented - right now, with medical knowledge we already possess. But instead of focusing on prevention, too many doctors and hospitals push for invasive procedures like bypasses that produce more income. In his most personal and passionate work, Dr. Arthur Agatston, who has helped millions of people find a healthy lifestyle, now hopes to champion a revolution in preventive medicine that will save lives. Drawing on nearly three decades as a practicing cardiologist, he outlines the key elements of his program:
Non-invasive imaging of the heart and blood vessels

Advanced blood testing

A regimen of diet, exercise, and medication

Repeat testing to assure the patient and physician that the treatment is working

Dr. Agatston has watched his patients thrive as a result of his prevention strategy. With expert advice from an expert they have learned to trust, the American public can join his Prevention Revolution and take the necessary steps to live healthier and longer.

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Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

Author: Jean M Langford

Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice Ayurveda in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of healing practices into a sign of Indian national culture, it was reimagined as a healing force not simply for bodily disorders but for colonial and postcolonial ills.

Interweaving theory with narrative, Langford explores the strategies of contemporary practitioners who reconfigure Ayurvedic knowledge through institutions and technologies such as hospitals, anatomy labs, clinical trials, and sonograms. She shows how practitioners appropriate, transform, or circumvent the knowledge practices implicit in these institutions and technologies, destabilizing such categories as medicine, culture, science, symptom, and self, even as they deploy them in clinical practice. Ultimately, this study points to the future of Ayurveda in a transnational era as a remedy not only for the wounds of colonialism but also for an imagined cultural emptiness at the heart of global modernity.

What People Are Saying

Vincanne Adams
This rich study incorporates a wide range of contemporary and historical materials to make wonderful theoretical interventions into the literature on Ayurveda and India. Langford pulls the reader into a new understanding of the nuanced relationships between history, nation, modernity, clinical debate, and the practices of Ayurveda.
— Vincanne Adams, author of Doctors for Democracy: Health Professionals in the Nepal Revolution

Lawrence Cohen
This is an important, ethnographically compelling work. Langford's insights will substantially change the field of studying Ayurveda.
— Lawrence Cohen, author of No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

Childhood Emergencies or Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy

2009-12-02T07:51:00.000-08:00

Childhood Emergencies: What to Do - A Quick Reference Guide

Author: Marin Child Care Council

Children are especially prone to accidents and medical emergencies, and relying on medical references designed for adults can be costly in every way. Childhood Emergencies addresses this problem simply but comprehensively. Written by the staff of the respected Marin Child Care Council, this book is widely used by parents, schools, and daycare centers as a handy source for current, reliable information in a practical flip-book format. Topics include burns, cuts and wounds, broken bones, abdominal pain, toothaches, eye and ear injuries, choking, insect or animal bites, abrasions, and bleeding. Also included is information on when to call for medical assistance.

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Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy: From Conception to Childbirth

Author: Penelope Ody

In this essential guide for new mothers, one of the world's leading herbalists provides information for each stage of a woman's pregnancy, from conception to the immediate postpartum period. Beginning with a brief overview outlining fetal development and the changes women can expect during the 40 weeks of pregnancy, this book then details each pregnancy-related ailment—from potential miscarriage, anemia, and urinary and kidney problems to cramping, hemorrhoids, sleeplessness, and thrush and Candida—and offers suggestions for remedies from both Western and Chinese herbal traditions. Comprehensive and accessible, the book features a section on breast-feeding, a chart summarizing the baby's first twelve weeks, a complete materia medica, and:Complete information about the 30 to 40 most relevant herbs for use during pregnancy and childbirth A look at fertility problems and herbs to avoid for anyone planning a pregnancy Simple instructions for making teas, infused oils, massage oils, and tinctures

Total Detox Plan or Managing with Asperger Syndrome

2009-12-01T03:50:00.000-08:00

Total Detox Plan: A Comprehensive Program to Cleanse Your Mind and Body

Author: Sarah Brewer

Detox Yourself will explain why our body needs help in coping with the onslaught of chemicals everyday, and how it functions to do this.

Managing with Asperger Syndrome

Author: Malcolm Johnson

Full of practical advice, this book will be essential reading for anyone with AS in employment as well as their managers, colleagues, family and friends, and supporting professionals.

Lost Secrets of AyurVedic Acupuncture or Fearless

2009-11-29T23:48:00.000-08:00

LOST SECRETS OF AYURVEDIC ACUPUNCTURE: AN AYURVEDI

Author: Frank Ros

Ayurvedic Acupuncture is based upon the Suchi Veda, a 3,000 year old Vedic text which, in the Ayurvedic system, is the Science of Acupuncture. It has been practiced as an accessory therapy since it was used in conjunction with other forms to effect healing. It belongs more correctly to the branch of surgery, one of the eight medical disciplines of Ayurveda.

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Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women

Author: Paul Henry Danylewich

"Fearless: The Complete Personal Safety Guide for Women" is an extensive manual that offers a unique balance of practical advice on personal safety and an array of self-defence strategies, with an academic exploration of the psychology of offenders and victims. While presenting the reader with detailed self-defence material, including strategies for safety awareness and effective physical and non-physical resistance techniques, Paul Henry Danylewich investigates the social patterns of sexual assault and domestic violence using the material from interviews with 50 sex offenders, as well as the resources provided by law enforcement agencies, rape crisis centres, hospitals, and public safety organizations in North America.

Written by the director of White Tiger Street Defense, a group specializing in safety issues for women, "Fearless" offers clear instruction on physical and non-physical self-defence strategies. The two principles guiding this manual are that women in general are not conditioned or socialized adequately to defend themselves in threatening situations, and, more generally, that knowledge is power. Danylewich offers prevention tips to reduce the individual's chances of becoming the target of an aggressor and debunks myths surrounding sexual assault. He describes in detail the techniques for reducing the likelihood of being victimized in various circumstances, including: dating relationships and parties, while driving alone, working late, walking alone, taking public transit, and at home when answering the phone or the front door. To help women learn these easy and effective techniques, the guide is packed with over 140 action photo illustrations.

"Fearless" contains information every woman should have to help her live more safely and with less fear. This guide is a complete personal safety manual that can empower women with the resources necessary to help recognise and avoid potentially violent situations.

AA to Z or Steps of Transformation

2009-11-28T19:47:00.000-08:00

AA to Z: An Addictionary of the 12-Step Culture

Author: Christopher Cavanaugh

AA to Z is the first book to document the richness and diversity of the lives of recovering people and to provide an encyclopedic look at this unique subculture. Less self-help than enlightenment and entertainment, AA to Z is comprised of real-life stories of recovering addicts as well as an "addictionary" of recovery terminology. Everything from the well-known slogan "One Day at a Time" to more esoteric terms like "pigeon" (a lovingly insulting term for a newcomer to the program) and "Wharf Rats" (sober Deadheads) is explained with clarity, insight, and humor. Conversational, witty, and engaging, AA to Z is a must-have for all 12-step participants and their loved ones, and it offers the uninitiated a fascinating firsthand look at one of the most influential yet least-documented cultural movements of our time.

Library Journal

AA to Z is a reader-friendly paperback chock full of useful information for new Alcoholics Anonymous participants, students of 12-step programs, and the general reader curious to know how such programs operate. Cavanaugh, managing editor for Reader's Digest General Books, presents a brief overview of AA's beginnings, its connection to the Oxford movement, and its enduring steps to sobriety. "Through the years," Cavanaugh states, "the people who live a 12-step life have formed a unique culture, with a language, history, and set of customs all its own. This book attempts to document that culture." Introductory comments are followed by "Jack's Story," a prototype of addiction and recovery, as well as an alphabetic "addictionary" of AA jargon. In A Sponsorship Guide, which is set up in interview format, a group of 17 active, experienced sponsors, primarily from New York City and the West Coast, comment on issues such as same-sex sponsorship, the place of friendship in a sponsor/sponsee relationship, gay sponsorship, and qualities of a good sponsor. Each of the 12 steps is discussed, as well as various methods for working them with sponsees. Readers are assured that there are many ways to be an effective sponsor and that no one path to success exists. Included are a suggested reading list and step worksheets. Although the author remains anonymous, she reveals that she is a Los Angeles screenwriter and director.Catherine T. Charvat, John Marshall Lib., Alexandria, Va.

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Steps of Transformation: An Orthodox Priest Explores the Twelve Steps

Author: Meletios Webber

Addictions and struggles with the passions are rampant in our culture. Fr. Meletios Webber, an Orthodox priest with a doctorate in counseling, helps us to understand addiction and explores ways to overcome it. He clearly and skillfully explains the Twelve Steps of the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. In correlating the Twelve Steps with basic Orthodox theology, Fr. Mel identifies the implication of the Twelve Steps for Orthodox, and for all Christians. Using examples from the life of the Orthodox Church, he shows how the Steps can be a valuable resource for our own spiritual journey.

Multicoloured Mayhem or Arthritis Survival

2009-11-27T15:46:00.000-08:00

Multicoloured Mayhem: Parenting the Many Shades of Adolescence, Autism, Asperger Syndrome and AD/HD

Author: Jacqui Jackson

Jacqui Jackson has seven children. Amongst them, Luke (author of Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome) has Asperger Syndrome, Joe has AD/HD, Ben has autism, and Matthew has dyspraxia and dyslexia. Life is anything but straightforward, but the chaos of the Jacksons' lives is threaded through with humour and common sense. Full of anecdotes and lively thinking, her book vividly explains what it is like to parent young people with such a range of conditions, and provides a wealth of helpful and creative advice for other parents and carers.

1	Introduction	13
2	Meet the Jacksons	18
3	An Autism Cocktail	24
4	Autism	49
5	Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)	74
6	Asperger Syndrome	103
7	Family Fun	126
8	Sibling Situations	147
9	Adolescence	163
10	Holidays: Coping with Change	183
11	Put Safety First	205
12	The Parents' Survival Guide	223
13	A Conclusion to the Chaos	237
App	Diagnostic Criteria (With apologies to those of you like Luke who feel that either you or your children are actually not 'disordered' at all!)	239
	Useful Websites	246
	Recommended Reading	250
	References	251
	Index	252

Arthritis Survival: The Holistic Medical Treatment Program for Osteoarthritis

Author: Robert S Ivker

The only arthritis guide you'll ever need-from the author of the landmark health classic Sinus Survival.

Arthritis can be healed. But the healing will not arise from adopting a single miracle treatment or taking a magical herb or pill. Living successfully with arthritis can be achieved by the simple, committed lifestyle changes and combination of healthful natural and traditional treatments explored in easy-to-understand detail in Robert S. Ivker's Arthritis Survival.

The twenty-one million Americans who suffer from osteoarthritis are often also suffering from unhealthy nutritional, physical, and even emotional lifestyles. Yet too frequently they are told simply to reach into their medicine cabinet for a cure. While conventional medicine plays an invaluable role in alleviating the symptoms of this disease, the Arthritis Survival program will help readers truly relieve their pain and replace it with a feeling of wellness and hope.

In meticulous and easily understood detail, Arthritis Survival begins with a "quick fix" guide that outlines the herbs, vitamins, and other substances that can begin to relieve pain right away. Dr. Ivker then lays out a program of lifestyle changes-from exercise, to eating choices, to emotional factors-that will help readers to gain mastery over arthritis. He provides specific recipes for healthful eating, a wellness self-test, and an extensive guide to resources that will allow readers to further shape their own arthritis survival program. Resource guide. Index.

Author Biography: Robert S. Ivker, D.O., is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine and a clinical instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, and past president of the American Holistic Medical Association. Todd H. Nelson, N.D., is a widely recognized naturopathic physician and the director of the Tree of Life Wellness Center in Colorado.

Library Journal

Here are two new titles offering natural or holistic approaches to the treatment of arthritis. Alternative health writer Brown (Nature's Pharmacy) uses her research and her own bout with arthritis and fibromyalgia to argue that arthritis can be reversed. Her theory is that joint disease is caused by poor nutrition, the build-up of toxins in joints, stress, and energy blockage. Brown describes how she rejected conventional medicine's treatment anti-inflammatory medications, cortisone, and surgery and instead, after some research, began a trial-and-error, self-treating "eclectic protocol" that included fasting, detoxification with niacin, supplements, clay packs, diet, yoga, and relaxation. She provides detailed chapters on these and other therapies such as homeopathy, acupuncture, and copper bracelets for gout, arthritis, and the soft-tissue rheumatic diseases. Brown also lists over 23 pages of references to papers and books on both conventional and alternative medicine. Much of the information Brown offers is not new, and some of it is incorrect or flawed by her interpretation. For instance, she describes fibromyalgia as an autoimmune disease, but the American College of Rheumatology does not classify it as autoimmune or inflammatory in nature. Furthermore, by her own admission, she developed a plan by trial and error that worked for reasons she cannot pinpoint. Not an essential purchase. Ivker, a clinical professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, and alternative health author (Self-Care Guide to Holistic Medicine) joined with naturopath Nelson to develop a holistic self-care program, the "Arthritis Survival Program," that offers "therapeutic options for treating, preventing, and possibly curing osteoarthritis." In a clear and readable style, the first chapter, "The Quick Fix," outlines the essentials of the program and describes herbs and vitamins that can relieve arthritis pain immediately. With Chapter 4, the book goes into the details of the program, addressing the multiple causes of arthritis (unhealthy diet and nutrition, poor sleep, stress, inactivity, environmental causes, negative beliefs and attitudes, etc.). True to their holistic approach, the authors offer chapters dedicated to "Healing Your Body," "Healing Your Mind," and "Healing Your Spirit." These chapters and the worksheets for symptoms, advice on supplements, a Wellness Self-Test, menus, and recipes reinforce the concise information found in Chapter 1. The authors are not reluctant to suggest that there are times when conventional or alternative professional practitioners need to be consulted for care and assistance in safely and effectively using some therapies. These two books handle the healing process similarly, but Ivker and Nelson's training and credentials make them more qualified to interpret and apply available evidence. Recommended for consumer health collections. Lisa McCormick, Health Sciences Lib., Jewish Hosp., Cincinnati Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

In the Beat of a Heart or Can I Still Kiss You

2009-11-26T11:45:00.000-08:00

In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy, and the Unity of Nature

Author: John Humphreys Whitfield

"Visionary biologists have advanced a new theory that explains how all the living creatures of the world - from the tiny amoeba to the vast rain forest - are constructed, providing a fresh perspective on the essential interconnectivity of living systems." "This revolutionary theory explains a variety of phenomena, helping us understand why a shrew eats its bodyweight in food each day, why a mammal's heart beats about 1 billion times in its lifetime, why there are no trees as tall as the Eiffel Tower, and why more species live at the Earth's equator than at its poles. By looking at how living things use energy, we can answer these and a myriad of other intriguing questions." In the Beat of a Heart combines biography, history and science, and nature writing to capture the exciting advances - and the people who are making them - that are triggering a revolution as potentially important to biology as Newton's insights were to physics.

Library Journal

Why are there 700 species of North American birds instead of seven? Why do the tropics have more species than the polar regions? If different species-whether tree, bear, or bacterium-are subject to the same physical laws, is there a general unified theory of biology? Freelance science writer Whitfield tackles these questions by exploring the role of energy and metabolism as the unifying force in nature. Writing in an engaging style, he describes the work and lives of key scientists whose often controversial ideas also help contribute answers. While similar to Kevin J. Gaston and Tim M. Blackburn's Pattern and Process in Macroecology, which is suitable for a more academic audience, Whitfield's book does not overwhelm the reader with innumerable scientific studies and details. Instead, it gives a glimpse of the history and science behind the search for a new theory explaining the simplicity and complexity of life. Recommended for all libraries.-Teresa U. Berry, Univ. of Tennessee Libs., Knoxville Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Can I Still Kiss You?: Answering Your Children's Questions About Cancer

Author: Neil Russell

As a successful, loving father, Neil Russell had to deal with one of the mostdifficult and important responsibilities he had ever faced as a parent: speaking to his children about his cancer. Diagnosed at age 47 when his children were only 11 and 13, this is Neil's emotional account of the disease's life-changing impact on himself and his family. Can I Still Kiss You? is both informative narrative and interactive journal; it will help parents speak to their children about the cancer that has come into their lives.

The prospect of sitting down with a child in an attempt to make sense out of a disease that we barely understand ourselves is daunting. Russell provides a chapter-by-chapter series of questions and answers dealing with diagnosis, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy during and after treatment. Through his own experience and research he presents clear, straightforward questions followed by answers that are understandable to children. Additional space encourages parents to add personal responses to children and children to write back expressing fears, concerns or encouragement-in essence, a "message board" for sharing emotions that are difficult to articulate. Some of the questions he addresses are: What is cancer?, When I get older will I get cancer because you did?, and Can I still kiss you?

This insightful book ends with a warm and powerful essay written by Neil's son, Trevor. Can I Still Kiss You? reveals the remarkable inner strength and courage of a family dealing with a parent in need.

Forbidden Drugs or Healing by Design

2009-11-25T07:44:00.000-08:00

Forbidden Drugs

Author: Philip Robson

This new edition of Forbidden Drugs details the various illicit drugs and their effects, and considers the reasons people use them and become addicted, the risks involved, and treatments for drug-related problems. The new edition includes additional chapters on drugs that have been illegal in the past, or still are in some countries, such as alcohol and tobacco, and a new chapter on drug use in sport. The style and format of the book have also been changed to make it more reader friendly, and to give it greater appeal to a wider audience.

ch. 1	Why use drugs?	1
ch. 2	The consequences of drug use	19
ch. 3	Alcohol	35
ch. 4	Tobacco	54
ch. 5	Cannabis	66
ch. 6	Cocaine, amphetamines, and other stimulants	87
ch. 7	Psychedelics and hallucinogens	109
ch. 8	The inhalants	127
ch. 9	Ecstasy and other 'party drugs'	137
ch. 10	Anabolic steroids	150
ch. 11	Tranquillizers and sleeping pills	155
ch. 12	Heroin and the opioids	170
ch. 13	The nature of addiction	197
ch. 14	Helping problem drug users	217
ch. 15	Drug policy - a time for change?	239
	Selected bibliography and references	260
	Index	287

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Healing by Design

Author: Scott Hannen

Radically restore your body's health by tapping into its built-in healing mechanisms. Learn how your body works, how to take control of your healing, and how to maintain your God-given health like never before. This is good health made easy! Whether you have a chronic degenerative condition, ADHD, a neurological problem, or are dealing with trauma, childhood obesity, or any other type of health issue, Dr. Hannen demonstrates how your body can heal itself when proper balance is restored. Updated and expanded to include in-depth personal application, this revised edition arms you with the tools you need to make better health choices for yourself and your family. Get ready! Everything you once believed regarding health care is about to change.

Great Book of Tattoo or Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder

2009-02-21T09:56:00.000-08:00

Great Book of Tattoo

Author: Spider Webb

Enjoy this dynamic collection of tattoo imagery. Over 500 vintage photographs display hundreds of people decorated with thousands of tattoos. This historic tattoo art dates from the 1800s through the 1980s and includes images of love, military, religious, exotic, parlor, and tribal markings. Sailor boys, circus performers, and lovely daring women are among those who celebrate tattoo art by showing off their collections.

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Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder

Author: James Lock

Always harmful and potentially deadly, eating disorders can wreak havoc on families. Unfortunately, the same can often be said of their treatment: blaming parents for the illness, many eating disorder programs exclude parents and widen the rift in an already shattered family. This powerful and controversial book by top researchers James Lock and Daniel le Grange argues that parents are not the culprits but the key to their teen's recovery. Based on new research, Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder shows how parents can break the disorder's control over their child's mind and re-establish normal eating and family relations. The odds for full recovery drop precipitously if treatment is delayed. A radically important wake up call, this book urges parents to act now.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Tammy Yuen, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book on adolescent eating disorders is geared towards parents and families to help them better deal with a very difficult condition.
Purpose: The purpose is to help parents understand and deal with a teenager's eating disorder on many levels. The objectives set out by the authors are very worthwhile and are easily met within the context of the book.
Audience: The intended audience is parents, but there likely is some value for pediatricians and school workers as well. The authors are quite credible and knowledgeable on the topic.
Features: The book does an excellent job at helping parents to identify, understand, and work with treatment of eating disorders. A particularly nice feature is the inclusion of examples of various presentations of teenagers with eating disorders at various stages of the disease. The book has references of other helpful materials or books at the end of each chapter. In addition, at the end of the book there are many valuable resources to help families. It is particularly nice that the issue of how families can work with healthcare professionals is addressed.
Assessment: The book is of high quality and would be of help to any family facing this difficult situation.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Lyme Disease or Change One

2009-02-20T05:54:00.000-08:00

Lyme Disease: The Cause, the Cure, the Controversy

Author: Alan G Barbour

Lyme disease is one of the least understood of the new diseases--and one of the most dreaded. Because undiagnosed or untreated Lyme disease can pose serious health threats, people who develop symptoms such as joint pain and tiredness worry that they may have chronic Lyme disease. Even people with confirmed acute Lyme disease worry that the treatment they're getting won't cure the disease and that it may reappear later in a more debilitating form. These fears are made worse by the well-publicized uncertainties surrounding diagnosis and treatment of the disease.

In this book, noted Lyme disease researcher and clinician Alan Barbour presents a comprehensive and even-handed discussion of what we know about the disease and offers medical science's current thinking about its more controversial aspects. Throughout the book, Dr. Barbour uses the stories of four "patients" to illustrate the varying course of the disease in different individuals and under different circumstances. A fifth "patient" stands as the model for people who, in the absence of a clear diagnosis, remain convinced that Lyme disease explains their symptoms--and as a result suffer for too long without appropriate treatment for what's really ailing them.

Including illustrations of ticks and the rashes caused by their bites, as well as maps showing the worldwide distribution of Lyme disease and the relative risk of the disease across the United States, the book offers a wealth of useful information for patients, family members and caregivers, and those who live, work, and play in high-risk areas:

Explains how Lyme disease is spread, and who is at risk Describes the symptoms and consequences of Lymedisease, from the rash following a tick bite to the most serious complications, such as infection of the nervous system, joints, and heart Describes all the diagnostic tests for Lyme disease and explains what the test results mean Compares Lyme disease with other conditions, such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, and explains why they are often mistaken for Lyme disease Presents a compassionate and convincing discussion of depression, which is often the correct diagnosis for a patient who clings to a diagnosis of Lyme disease despite repeated negative diagnostic tests Carefully explains proven and unproven treatments, and summarizes the debates about antibiotic and other treatments Outlines what individuals can do to avoid getting Lyme disease as well as what the community can do to reduce the number of Lyme-carrying ticks

Here at last is an intelligent and interesting guide for patients, as well as an insider's tour of medical science. The author includes an explanation of how the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium was discovered in the laboratory and how it was first connected with the disease, a fascinating account of modern medical detective work.

Library Journal

Although Lyme disease is named for a town in Connecticut, the first recorded case occurred in Europe at the turn of the century. The incidence has been rising since the 1970s, due partially to increased awareness and partially to the fact that it is a fashionable diagnosis for unexplained symptoms. This book by a physician doing research on the disease is an objective, comprehensive, up-to-date source that explains the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease using case histories to illustrate the symptoms and problems associated with it. Barbour shows how antibiotics and laboratory tests work and why they are not always useful and/or accurate. He discusses the differing opinions about chronic Lyme disease and other conditions such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that have similar symptoms. He tells us why this disease is not a major public health threat (it's confined to certain areas and victims have to be bitten by an infected tick) and offers advice on preventing it. Illustrations of ticks and rashes, maps showing the worldwide distribution of Lyme Disease, and a list of American and international agencies complete the text. While Polly Murray's The Widening Circle (LJ 2/15/96) offers a personal and historical perspective on Lyme, this book is full of current scientific information. Highly recommended for all health collections.Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., Cal.

Lyme disease is one of the least understood of the new diseases - and one of the most dreaded. In this book, noted Lyme disease researcher and clinician Alan Barbour presents a comprehensive and even-handed discussion of what we know about the disease and offers medical science's current thinking about its more controversial aspects. Including illustrations of ticks and the rashes caused by their bites, as well as maps showing the worldwide distribution of Lyme disease and the relative risk of the disease across the United States, the book explains how Lyme disease is spread, and who is at risk; describes the symptoms and consequences of Lyme disease, from the rash following a tick bite to the most serious complications, such as infection of the nervous system, joints, and heart; describes all the diagnostic tests for Lyme disease and explains what the test results mean; compares Lyme disease with other conditions, such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, and explains why they are often mistaken for Lyme disease; presents a compassionate and convincing discussion of depression, which is often the correct diagnosis for a patient who clings to a diagnosis of Lyme disease despite repeated negative diagnostic tests; carefully explains proven and unproven treatments, and summarizes the debates about antibiotics and other treatments; and outlines what individuals can do to avoid getting Lyme disease as well as what the community can do to reduce the number of Lyme-disease-carrying ticks.

Change One: The Diet and Fitness Plan

Author: Readers Digest

Three years since the trade release of ChangeOne, approximately 60 million people around the world have read and used this most sensible of weight-loss plans! Now Reader's Digest has revised and expanded this "proven to work" diet and fitness program. Its balanced, no-fad, everyday approach is what scientists today confirm is the best weight-loss system there is. And its users tell us over and over again that they are losing weight--and keeping it off!

Navigating the Alzheimers Journey or Out of This World

2009-02-19T01:53:00.000-08:00

Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey: A COMPASS for Caregiving

Author: Carol Bowlby Sifton

Caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease is more stressful than almost any other caregiving role. You may already know firsthand how true this is. While there is currently no cure for the disease, there are treatments, and it is truly your care that is the most meaningful treatment for your loved one. Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey is your best guide to providing that care. Whether the diagnosis is still fresh or you are well into your caregiving journey, the suggestions in this book will smooth your way. Filled with reassurances and practical advice, Navigating the Alzheimer's Journey gives you the encouragement and tools you need to manage the daily care of someone with dementia in a caring, compassionate, and supportive way. As a longstanding professional Alzheimer's specialist and a former caregiver herself, Carol Bowlby Sifton knows exactly what information you need to know. You will find your most pressing day-to-day needs met in this comprehensive and informative book. Just like a compass, it will keep you confidently pointed in the right direction at each stage of your caregiving journey.

New interesting book: Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana or Gourmet Vegetables

Out of This World: A Journey of Healing

Author: Mary Swander

When a life-threatening allergic illness demanded that she eat only organically grown food, writer and professor Mary Swander built a new life in a former one-room Iowa schoolhouse in the middle of the largest Amish community west of the Mississippi. In this rich and engaging memoir, which follows the course of a farmer's year, she writes from the well-named Fairview School to share the radical transformation of her life.

From her perch in rural Kalona, Iowa, Swander discovers new strength and self-reliance along with a community of hardworking and hospitable neighbors. Raising goats and poultry, participating in barn raisings and auctions, protecting her garden from a plague of grasshoppers, creating a living crèche at Christmastime, all the while laughing at her attempts to wrestle with the pioneer challenges of midwestern winters and summers, she explores what it means to be a lone physical and spiritual homesteader at the end of the twentieth century.

Everyones Guide to Cancer Survivorship or A Womans Guide to Living with HIV Infection

2009-02-17T21:49:00.000-08:00

Everyone's Guide to Cancer Survivorship: A Road Map for Better Health

Author: Rn Holly Gautier

The CDC's National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship estimates that there are "9.6 million persons living following a cancer diagnosis." And this number is strictly related to patients. It does not include family members, friends, or caregivers.

For anyone approaching life from the perspective of remission, respected oncologist Dr. Ernest Rosenbaum leads a team of 34 oncology specialists and medical contributors—some of whom are both doctors and survivors themselves—in creating a guide specifically geared for cancer survivorship.

The growing number of people approaching life post-cancer will find solace, understanding, and opportunity with information specifically geared to managing the lingering effects of cancer treatment, such as:

· Lifestyle changes to improve health and longevity

· What survivors need to know following anticancer therapy

· How to manage the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy

How to set goals for the future

Foreword     ix
Preface     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Contributors     xv
Introduction     xvii
A Physician Guidance Program     1
The Need for Survivorship Care     3
Guidelines for Survivorship Care     7
Posttherapy Screening Guidelines     23
Toxicities of Selected Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Drugs     28
Cognitive Changes and Psychological Support for Cancer Survivors     46
A Survivor's Road Map to Health and Longevity     55
Strategies and Solutions for Cancer Survivors     57
What Survivors Need to Know After Anticancer Therapy     65
Genetics and Cancer Survivorship     73
Work and Insurance Issues     79
Ways to Improve Lifestyle and Quality of Life     87
Diet and Cancer Survivorship     89
Lifestyle Recommendations for Controlling Weight     100
Exercise and Survival     110
Alcohol     123
Tobacco     127
Psychological Support     132
Survival with Disease Prevention and Control     135
Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Strokes     137
Prevention of Osteoporosis     143
Prevention of Diabetes     152
Prevention of Skin Cancer     156
Survival with Side Effect Control     161
Pain and Pain Management     163
Toxic Side Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy     173
Coping with the Side Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy     178
Fatigue     188
The Role of Sleep in Health, Disease, and Therapy     191
Changes in Sexuality and Sexual Dysfunction     196
Infertility Problems in Cancer Survivors     211
Body Image, Wigs, and Makeup     219
Falls: A Major Cause of Disability     224
Lymphedema     226
Urinary Incontinence     230
Infections     233
Improved Survival with Creative Expression     243
The Importance of Creative Expression     245
The Role of Poetry and Prose in Health     250
The Role of Humor in Health     257
The Role of Music in Health     259
Getting Your Affairs in Order     261
Summary and Review     264
References     272
Bibliography of Selected Cancer Survivorship Resources     293
Useful Web Addresses      298
Index     303

Look this: Mindful Cook or Violence Hospitality and the Cross

A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection

Author: Rebecca A Clark

Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection is a medically informational, comprehensive, and deeply compassionate resource for women with HIV and their families and friends. While addressing the entire range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV, the authors cover topics of special interest to women -- gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and pregnancy.

The authors offer clear advice on these and other crucial topics:

•Testing for HIV and coping with the diagnosis•Finding a physician and preparing for the first visit•Recognizing symptoms and preventing complications•Understanding the latest treatment options, including new medical research and clinical trials•Coping with gynecological infections and STDs•Considering pregnancy and birth control•Assuring breast, bone, and heart health•Treating drug and alcohol dependence•Dealing with partner violence and abuse

Also included are lists of recommended books, support groups, Web sites, and other resources for people with HIV. The practical advice in this book can help the thousands of women diagnosed with HIV every year lead to fuller and healthier lives.

Library Journal

Every year thousands of American women are diagnosed with HIV. Currently, a quarter of the 850,000 to 950,000 Americans with HIV or AIDS are women. Internist Clark, obstetrician/gynecologist Robert Maupin, and psychologist Jill Hayes Hammer merge their expert perspectives on living with HIV to produce a comprehensive, practical, yet consultable and reassuring guide. They address a multitude of topics in great detail that relate specifically to women with HIV/AIDS: adjusting to life with HIV; treating symptoms, complications, and the virus itself; sexual, contraceptive, and reproductive issues; and a variety of important related subjects. Appendix 1 is a sample tracking sheet for medications, tests, and vaccinations, and Appendix 2 lists resources for people with HIV. An excellent glossary is also provided. Although other books (e.g., Patricia A. Lather's Troubling the Angels; Dorie J. Gilbert and Ednita M. Wright's African American Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical Responses) address the issue of women and HIV/AIDS, most offer a sociopolitical perspective and are rather old. This is the most complete and up-to-date consumer guide available. Strongly recommended for all consumer health and most health sciences libraries.-Linda M.G. Katz, Drexel Univ. Health Sciences Libs., Philadelphia Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Countdown to Baby or Is Our Food Safe

2009-02-16T17:47:00.000-08:00

Countdown to Baby: Answers to the 100 Most Asked Questions about Pregnancy and Childbirth

Author: Susan Warhus

9...8...7...6...5...4...3..2..1... Delivery!

One of life's brightest moments is fast approaching-you are about to become a mother! You'll enter the magical world of rubber duckies, booties, and lullabies, and your heart will never be the same.

But before all the fun of caring for your child begins, you need answers to all the lingering questions you have about pregnancy and childbirth.

In Countdown to Baby, Dr. Susan Warhus answers your questions and provides the facts you need to make well-informed decisions during your pregnancy. A board-certified OB/GYN who has delivered more than 3,000 babies in her 15 years of clinical practice, Dr. Warhus is also a mother who knows first hand the many questions that expectant mothers have throughout their pregnancy.

Whether you have questions about your treating swollen feet, painting the nursery, taking medications, or traveling across the country, Dr. Susan's clear, concise responses, will make you feel knowledgeable and confident.

Dr. Warhus answers questions such as:

What changes in diet, exercise, and lifestyle do I need to make during my pregnancy?
How do I cope with morning sickness?
Should I be considering a doula or midwife?
What can I expect to happen during my prenatal visits? What will my prenatal visits be like?
How will I know when it's time to go to the hospital for delivery?
What are the three phases of labor?
What happens at the hospital before and during delivery?
Why are C-sections performed?
What are my pain management options?

All recommendations, guidelines, and medical information are in complete agreement with those sanctioned by the prestigious American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

The Book to Read as You Prepare for Childbirth!!

Is Our Food Safe?: A Consumer's Guide to Protecting Your Health and the Environment

Author: Warren Leon

Every day, new warnings emerge about the safety of the food in our markets, school cafeterias, and restaurants. As industry and government officials rush in with reassurances—and food alarmists call for drastic changes in the American diet—ordinary consumers are caught in the middle. Is Our Food Safe? separates the facts from the rumors and offers straightforward, reliable advice on how to protect your health and the environment without going to extremes.

Is Our Food Safe? answers common questions about the safety of meat, dairy products, fish, fruits, and other foods that make up our daily diet. It assesses the positive and negative aspects of genetically engineered foods, compares organic and conventionally produced foods, and makes recommendations about when (and if) you should choose local suppliers over industry giants. It also explains which foods to eat and which to avoid if you are concerned about clean water and air and a safe environment. Finally, it provides valuable information on how you can improve the quality of the food available in your communities, including specific issues to raise with grocers and food service providers.

Library Journal

This guide presents the facts and myths about the safety of meat, dairy, seafood, breads, pastas, fruits, vegetables, water, and other food products, whether conventional, organic, or genetically engineered, that we consume daily. Leon, executive director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, and DeWaal, director of the Food Safety Program at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a food industry watchdog organization, give commonsense advice on protecting oneself against illnesses caused by contaminated or spoiled food. Focusing on three issues food safety and food-borne illnesses, environmental aspects of food choices, and sound diet and nutrition the book describes the symptoms of food-borne illnesses, the dangers of exposure to bacteria, toxins, chemicals, waste products, pesticides, and other contaminants, and the way these contaminants get into our food supply. The text also explains how to avoid food hazards, what to look for when shopping, and how to cook and prepare food that's free of contaminants. Naturally occurring substances may put consumers at risk as well; to find out more, read James P. Collman's Naturally Dangerous: Surprising Facts About Food, Health, and the Environment. For basic information on food contaminants, this book is solid and well crafted. Irwin Weintraub, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., NY Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	If Our Food Is So Safe, Why Are We Worried?	3
Ch. 2	Bugs, More Bugs, and Superbugs: Handling Hazards in Our Food	12
Ch. 3	Eating for the Environment	49
Ch. 4	Pesticides and Chemicals in the Food Supply	82
Ch. 5	Ten Steps to a Healthy Diet	112
Ch. 6	The Farmer's New Genes: The Safety of Biotechnology	132
Ch. 7	Microwave Ovens, Shade-Grown Coffee, and Other Good Environmental Choices	162
Ch. 8	Building the Safest Food Supply: A Menu of Actions to Improve Your Community and Influence the Government	175
Ch. 9	Putting It All Together: Advice for Safe Eating	192
App. A	A Week's Food	201
App. B	Resources for Eating Safely	205
App. C	About the Center for Science in the Public Interest	215
	Notes	217
	Index	241

Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes or Prozac and the New Antidepressants

2009-02-15T13:46:00.000-08:00

Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes: Therapeutic Effects and Mechanisms of Action

Author: John Hawley

Over the past 50 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of interrelated metabolic disease states, including obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. In modern Western nations, the population-based prevalence of insulin resistance is approaching 20%, and type 2 diabetes is now the most common endocrine disorder in adults. No longer a disease reserved for the aging population, type 2 diabetes is also on the rise in adolescents. Approximately 30% of all newly diagnosed cases (between 1982 and 1994 in the United States alone) are among people 10 to 19 years of age.

For those engaged in a struggle against this modern-day epidemic, Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes provides cutting-edge research to energize current efforts in diabetes prevention, management, and treatment. The most in-depth and up-to-date book on the topic, Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes presents a series of independent but related chapters authored by the foremost researchers of insulin resistance examining topics such as these:

•Physical inactivity as a primary cause for the rising incidence of insulin resistance
•The emergence of an "exercise-deficient" phenotype
•The effects of exercise training on selected aspects of substrate metabolism
•The role of endurance and resistance training programs for the prevention and treatment of insulin resistance
•The identification of new molecular targets and pathways useful for the treatment of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes provides a four-part, in-depth examination of the relational nature of diabetes andphysical activity. Part I begins with a description of the scope and extent of the "diabesity" epidemic. The risk factors for diabetes, the underlying causes of the epidemic, and its potential consequences are outlined as well as the role of physical inactivity in the pathogenesis of diabetes and plans for preventive exercise biology.
Part II continues with an examination of some of the major defects of substrate metabolism in individuals with insulin resistance, while in part III the authors discuss the impact of exercise interventions in the prevention, management, and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Part IV presents recent developments in molecular and cellular biology that may provide treatment therapies for the prevention of type 2 diabetes.

Based on extensive research, Physical Activity and Type 2 Diabetes presents a wealth of information to assist the biomedical and research community in creating prescriptive therapeutic tools for type 2 diabetes intervention-and offers hope for the alleviation of the global epidemic of insulin resistance.

Prozac and the New Antidepressants: What You Need to Know About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Serzone, Vestra, Celexa, St. John's Wort and Others

Author: William S Appleton

It is estimated that more than eleven million people were taking Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and the other "new antidepressants" when the original edition of Prosac and the New Antidepressants was published three years ago amid a national debate about their effectiveness, their dangers, and their societal implications. Today the number of people using these drugs is estimated to have doubled , and the number of new drugs to treat depression has increased significantly. The newly-updated Prozac and the New Antidepressants is a practical and user-friendly guide by Harvard Medical School professor William Appleton. It answers all the nuts and bolts questions users of Prozac and the other antidepressants may have, and includes a compendium of all the new drugs approved since the original publication.

What People Are Saying

Leston Havens
From Leston Havens, M.D., professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Much wise advice, to both patients and their helpers, from a broadly experienced, honest, and modest clinician

Dying to Quit or Community Mobility

2009-02-13T21:30:00.000-08:00

Dying to Quit: Why We Smoke and How We Stop

Author: Janet Brigham

Someone dies of a tobacco-related disease, somewhere in the world, every 10 seconds. Why do so many of us - one in every three persons worldwide - smoke? And what can science tell us about how we can stop? This book follows the smoking-life of a young woman hoping to quit, and explores the myths and mysteries of addiction.

Publishers Weekly

Although seemingly writing for clinicians, Brigham, a research psychologist with a California think tank, has much to tell general readers about smoking. Is it an addiction or a habit? Studies are inconclusive, we learn here. But much is known, such as the connection between mood and tobacco use: nicotine, a mild euphoriant, provides "quick relief" to anxiety. With some 16 million smokers trying to quit every year, just 1.2 million succeed, according to studies quoted in this well-documented book. Brigham notes factors involved in avoiding relapse, such as a support network, low stress and a stable life. She explains that although the experience of withdrawal differs from individual to individual, among the constants is weight gain, an average 8-10 pounds but up to 30 pounds for some. The book also reviews the medical hazards of smoking, among them circulatory, coronary and lung diseases, and cancer of the esophagus. Brigham's material is all the more terrifying for its calm delivery. And only after motivating readers with so much alarming information does she discuss quitting techniques, noting that cessation usually requires many attempts and is more successfully accomplished with aids like nicotine replacements (patch or gum) or counseling lasting eight or more weeks. 20,000 first printing. (July)

Library Journal

Tobacco researcher and psychologist Brigham examines the complex effects of addiction and usage in this fascinating account of tobacco history and research. Interviews regarding one young woman's personal smoking experience lead each chapter into the scientific story of nicotine's effects on the mind and body as an addictive agent, appetite suppressant, emotional stabilizer, and toxic polluter. Tobacco usage and research, company sales strategies, social and peer pressures, and smoking-cessation products are all investigated, and Bingham presents staggering statistics on the number of people worldwide addicted to tobacco. Her impressive, fascinating volume, similar in scope to Simon Bryant's Know Smoking (Middle Way, 1997) but more scholarly and in-depth, will prove valuable to any person researching this subject. Highly recommended.Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans' Hosp., Tampa, FL

Kirkus Reviews

A useful overview of the science and sociology surrounding the smoking debate. Former science journalist Brigham, now a research psychologist, observes that where smoking had been declining in the US since the surgeon generalþs 1963 report on smoking and cancer, the number of smokers has now begun to climb; Hollywood, she says, glamorizes smoking (65 percent of male leads in recent films are depicted as smokers), cigars are in, and teenagers are lighting up in record numbers. At the same time, the number of smokers worldwide is growing (as is, of course, the worldþs population); it now stands at more than a billion, a cigarette manufacturerþs dream come true. American smokers are likelier, she writes, to live in the industrial northeast than in California or Hawaii, where the rates of smoking are lowest; they are likelier as well to be uneducated, and the less educated they are, the less probable it is that they will quit smoking. Brighamþs text becomes occasionally tangled when she departs from mere numerical observations—but only because the science surrounding smoking is itself confused and confusing. Brigham notes that nicotine and other active ingredients in tobacco affect different smokers in different ways, that some smokers can puff away for seven or eight decades without becoming ill, while others are felled by coronary disease in early middle age, and that nicotine offers powerful therapeutic value in combating such maladies as Alzheimerþs disease while posing undeniable health risks in other areas. Her text is straightforward, if sometimes marred by a too anecdotal approach, and she makes a good case—as if one were needed—for whythose who smoke should stop and those who do not smoke should not start. Good reading for high-school health classes and for anti-smoking activists.

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Community Mobility: Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons

Author: Ellen D Taira

Affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible transportation options are vital to older adults' quality of life. Community Mobility: Driving and Transportation Alternatives for Older Persons provides physical and occupational therapists with recent research findings on older driver assessment, remediation/rehabilitation, and the use of alternatives to the car in the event that older adults need to “retire” from driving. This unique book addresses changes in driving patterns over time, the impact of climate conditions on driving, mental and physical health issues, self-regulation by drivers, and driver safety.

Community Mobility addresses changes in driving patterns over time, the impact of climate conditions on driving, mental and physical health issues, self-regulation by drivers, and driver safety. This unique book also includes summaries of recent consensus conferences held in the United States and Canada to determine the best approaches to therapist services and counseling.

Community Mobility examines:

the effect of alternative forms of transportation on drivers in declining mental and physical health
safety interventions
the relationship between chronic illness and an elderly driver’s “home range”
road conditions versus driving patterns
factors that can act as predictors in mobility patterns
self-regulation and adaptation strategies
effective remediation techniques
a comprehensive driving evaluation (CDE)
and much more!

Community Mobility is an essential resource for anyone working with elderly drivers who face the loss of independence and the decreasedaccess to social activities, medical services, and other basic needs that accompany “retirement” from the driver’s seat.

Healing Threads or Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials

2009-02-12T17:28:00.000-08:00

Healing Threads: Traditional Medicines of the Highlands and Islands

Author: Mary Beith

A fascinating guide to the traditions of the ancient Gaelic pharmacy, with a directory of remedies and practices.

Book review: Community Mental Health Reader or Aging with HIV

Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials

Author: Mary Clifford

Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials gives readers a rare, hands-an approach to the study of security issues. Written in a clear and easy-to-understand style, this new text from Prentice Hall will help readers understand the history and fundamentals of security.

Special features of Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials

Newspaper articles, case studies, and other examples bring the material to life
Sample security tools — including a physical security survey
Each chapter concludes with review questions and detailed discussion questions
Wide array of appendices cover security careers, associations and certifications, Internet resources, and a historical security timeline

Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials goes beyond technical security information to show how to actively identify, meet, and evaluate security objectives in multiple environments. This book provides test cases and activities for readers to review, evaluate, and critique. These activities will help readers become confident in their abilities as they identify, research, and explore multiple levels of security-related information.

	Preface
Pt. I	Reviewing the Basics	1
Ch. 1	A History of Private Security: A Pervasive Enterprise	37
Ch. 2	Identifying the Essentials	64
Ch. 3	Studying Security Threats and the Related Risk Levels	91
Ch. 4	A Prevention System Overview: Defining the Overall Security Objective	102
Pt. II	Internal Resources and Integration: Identifying Resources from Within	119
Ch. 5	Physical Security and Asset Protection	123
Ch. 6	Information and Computer Security	142
Ch. 7	Personnel and Security Management	163
Ch. 8	Integration as the Centerpiece: Meeting Overall Security Objectives	192
Ch. 9	A Sampling of Settings	213
Pt. III	Exploring Essential External Connections	235
Ch. 10	Public and Private Police Interactions	237
Ch. 11	Legal Liability Issues	270
Ch. 12	Preparing an Emergency Plan and a Disaster Response	287
Ch. 13	Securing Tomorrow: Drafting the Future of Public Safety	303
Ch. 14	Review of the Target Environments	319
App. A	Basic Security Plan	323
App. B	Company X Request for Proposal: Contract Security Service Specifications	342
App. C	Protection Officer Code of Ethics	359
App. D	Security Time Line	365
	Index	373

Professional Development or Contraception

2009-02-10T13:55:00.000-08:00

Professional Development: The Dynamics of Success

Author: Mary Wilkes Hull

This book provides the essential foundation necessary for the aspiring professional. It covers personal appearance, money management, job campaigning, values, ethics, and other key topics.

New interesting textbook: Lalmanach Du Whisky Pur Malt or Safe Handling of Foods

Contraception: Your Questions Answered

Author: John Guillebaud

Contraception: Your Questions Answered is the established primary source of information about reversible methods of contraception. Presented in an informal - and yet highly informative - question-and-answer style, it represents a dialogue between general practitioner (asking the questions) and reproductive health specialist (providing the answers). The main aim of the book is to give practical guidance to busy clinicians when they are faced with patients who want help with choosing the best means of controlling fertility. Most chapters conclude with questions frequently asked by patients - the answers to which can be very difficult for the unprepared and busy clinician to improvise 'on the spot' in the surgery.

Written by contraception expert Professor John Guillebaud, this book is an invaluable resource for GPs, family planning doctors and nurses, trainee and consultant gynaecologists, medical students and the interested general reader.

Popular question and answer format.

Practical focus.
Detailed consideration of reversible birth control technology.

	Preface
	Preface to the first edition
	How to use this book
1	Introduction: the population explosion, sexual and contraceptive history taking and counselling - the importance of fertility control	1
2	Aspects of human fertility and fertility awareness: natural birth control	19
3	Male methods of contraception	41
4	Vaginal methods of contraception	57
5	The combined oral contraceptive - selection and eligibility	95
6	The combined oral contraceptive - follow-up arrangements and new routes of administration	229
7	The progestogen-only pill	277
8	Injectable and implants	315
9	Intrauterine devices	357
10	Emergency (postcoital) contraception	451
11	The present and the future	485
	Further reading	531
	Believable websites in reproductive health	533
App. A	Use of licensed products in an unlicensed way	535
App. B	Factors to be considered in giving contraceptive advice	537
	Glossary	545
	List of questions frequently asked by users	547
	List of figures	551
	List of tables	553
	Index	555

Culture of Public Problems or Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

2009-02-09T09:53:00.000-08:00

Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order

Author: Joseph R Gusfield

"Everyone knows 'drunk driving' is a 'serious' offense. And yet, everyone knows lots of 'drunk drivers' who don't get involved in accidents, don't get caught by the police, and manage to compensate adequately for their 'drunken disability.' Everyone also knows of 'drunk drivers' who have been arrested and gotten off easy. Gusfield's book dissects the conventional wisdom about 'drinking-driving' and examines the paradox of a 'serious' offense that is usually treated lightly by the judiciary and rarely carries social stigma."—Mac Marshall, Social Science and Medicine
"A sophisticated and thoughtful critic. . . . Gusfield argues that the 'myth of the killer drunk' is a creation of the 'public culture of law.' . . . Through its dramatic development and condemnation of the anti-social character of the drinking-driver, the public law strengthens the illusion of moral consensus in American society and celebrates the virtues of a sober and orderly world."—James D. Orcutt, Sociology and Social Research
"Joseph Gusfield denies neither the role of alcohol in highway accidents nor the need to do something about it. His point is that the research we conduct on drinking-driving and the laws we make to inhibit it tells us more about our moral order than about the effects of drinking-driving itself. Many will object to this conclusion, but none can ignore it. Indeed, the book will put many scientific and legal experts on the defensive as they face Gusfield's massive erudition, pointed analysis and criticism, and powerful argumentation. In The Culture of Public Problems, Gusfield presents the experts, and us, with a masterpiece of sociological reasoning."—BarrySchwartz, American Journal of Sociology
This book is truly an outstanding achievement. . . . It is sociology of science, sociology of law, sociology of deviance, and sociology of knowledge. Sociologists generally should find the book of great theoretical interest, and it should stimulate personal reflection on their assumptions about science and the kind of consciousness it creates. They will also find that the book is a delight to read."—William B. Bankston, Social Forces

Go to: Assunzione di personale strategica: Un sistema completo per l'efficace pianificazione della mano d'opera

Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

Author: Mason W Freeman

From the experts at one of the world's most respected medical schoolsyour complete guide to managing cholesterol and staying healthy for life

Everybody knows that high cholesterol is something to be concerned about. But what does it really mean when your doctor tells you that your cholesterol levels are high, and what should you do about it? If you're worried about your cholesterol, here's your chance to get the answers you need from a top expert at the Harvard Medical School.

As founder and chief of the prestigious Lipid Metabolism Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Mason W. Freeman treats hundreds of patients each year and oversees breakthrough cholesterol research. In The Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol he explains:

What cholesterol is and the difference between "good" and "bad" cholesterol
How to assess your risk for high cholesterol
How to work with your doctor to develop the best treatment plan for you
Cholesterol-lowering drugswho should take them, what to look out for, and how to be sure your doctor is monitoring you properly
How to manage your cholesterol through diet and exercise
The latest scientific findings on alternative therapies

About the Harvard Medical School health guide series

Each book from Harvard Medical School gives you the knowledge you need to understand and take control of your health. In every book, a world-renowned expert from Harvard Medical School provides you with the latest information on diagnosis, traditional and alternative treatments, home remedies, and lifestyle changes that can make a powerful difference in your health.

Heads or Beauty Feng Shui

2009-02-08T05:52:00.000-08:00

Heads

Author: Alex Kayser

Unmasked and stripped of makeup and hairdos, what do the human face and head tell us? This striking book provides the answers.

A hat designer, Punk musician, sculptor, fireman, professional rent-a-Buddha, heavyweight boxer, peace movement worker, gourmet chef, United Nations official, dog trainer, chiropractor, sanitation worker, Marine Corps pilot, tire retreader-these and many more: 184 men and women with only one thing in common. They are bald. Unmasked, void of make-up and shorn of hair, stripped of civilized disguise, what does a human face say? And how does it make us feel? Avant-garde photographer Alex Kayser launches us on an odyssey into the emotionally charged topography of the human countenance. Kayser shares the story of his work in a delightfully candid conversation, and National Book Award winner Richard Howard provides a brilliant and provocative afterword.

Other Details: 184 duotone illustrations 128 pages 11 x 11" Published 1997

did you decide, then, who was going to be in the book?

AK: This was simply a mathematical decision, and not an aesthetic or even personal one. It was hard, though, since these pictures are all the same in any of their qualities. I felt like I wanted to pick and choose with closed eyes.

LM: But, as an artist and photographer, didn't you get bored doing the same kind of shot over and over again?

AK: One would think so, but I could still do more. Originally, I had planned to do a series of twelve, maybe twenty heads. But then the response I got from people, their suggestions and introductions, was so overwhelming that I just went on with it. Also, since I was making groups out of the individual pictures, I would always need another particular face to match the one of Duane, Bill, or Annie. Or I was waiting for another black guy with a big beard. Each of the models brought his or her own aura into the picture. So, somehow, when I put the groups together, these different auras became like different colors when you paint or different spices when you cook. Depending on how they are put together, each group turns out to have a very specific feeling of its own. I went on and on. Even when this work started to become routine—and the shooting itself took only ten minutes—meeting with this incredible variety of people remained enormously interesting. Some days you had to be up very early to receive a Wall Street broker at 8 a.m. So, over a small breakfast, you would hear some news from the stock market. Then at 9 a.m. you would shoot this yoga teacher, who has to be out by 10, because he is teaching an 11:30 class at Riker's Island prison. At 3 p.m. a rock musician would show up, playing you a cassette of his group's latest concert, commenting on his work. At 4 you would have an inspector from the New York City Health Department, a man who inspects hospitals. He is very kind and modest and at first does not quite know why I would ask him to model for me. Then at 5 p.m. the actor Harve Presnell, already with some make-up on for tonight's show (or for me?), would tell me about what it was like playing Daddy Warbucks in Broadway's Annie 1,600 times. . . .

Interesting book: Sexual Assault on the College Campus or Jane Brodys Allergy Fighter

Beauty Feng Shui: Chinese Techniques for Unveiling Your Inner Beauty

Author: Chao Hsiu Chen

Use the principles of feng shui to promote both inner and outer beauty.

• Includes daily exercises to deepen self-awareness, alter destructive behavior patterns, and create an effective spiritual practice.

• An excellent way to treat skin-care problems such as wrinkles, acne, and dryness without resorting to medications.

• By the author of Body Feng Shui.

Many people are now familiar with the use of feng shui to design living spaces that harmonize with the landscape and that enhance the positive aspects of one's life. Few people know, however, that these same feng shui principles can be applied to the human body to chart the relationship between inner character and outer appearance. Focusing on the special needs of women, Beauty Feng Shui explains the spiritual and physical meaning of each part of the body according to min xiang shue--body feng shui--and provides exercises and meditations to restore harmony to those areas compromised by energy imbalances. A wide spectrum of specific beauty and health concerns is addressed, including acne, menstrual cramps, wrinkles, and overly dry or oily skin.

But beauty is not only skin deep. Chao-Hsiu Chen also discusses inner beauty and how to strengthen it through meditation, visualization, and imagination. She includes daily exercises that allow the reader to deepen self-awareness, alter destructive behavior patterns, and create an effective spiritual practice. More than one hundred illustrations show these exercises and special Chinese characters for use in meditation and visualization.

Napra ReView

The spiritual meaning of each body part is revealed, with clear step-by-step instructions for exercises and meditations designed to raise the vitality level of each part and increase its effective interation with the whole.

Secrets of Good Carb Low Carb Living or Treasures and Pleasures of India

2009-02-07T01:50:00.000-08:00

Secrets of Good-Carb Low- Carb Living

Author: Sandra Woodruff

From the top-selling author of The Good Carb Cookbook comes a comprehensive and motivating guide to the good-carb lifestyle.

Lately, low-carb diets have been all the rage, but until recently little scientific research has been available regarding their effectiveness and potential health consequences. Now, studies are proving that low-carb diets do work and, contrary to popular belief, they don't pose health risks-if they are done right. But with so many diets to choose from, it is hard for many people to find a program that is realistic for their lifestyle and to which they can adhere.

Nationally recognized nutritionist Sandra Woodruff demystifies the process and explains how anyone can tailor a low-carb plan to their individual needs to achieve long-term weight loss. She provides hundreds of delicious recipes, innovative menu plans, instructive cooking tips, and helpful advice for eating out. The healthy eating plan in Secrets of Good-Carb/Low-Carb Living includes lean proteins, healthy fats, and good carbs to not only lose weight but also to lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels and help correct metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Now anyone can get better results from their low-carb diet or formulate a new eating plan specifically for their needs. With Sandra Woodruff, low-carb living never tasted so good!

Author Biography: Sandra Woodruff, M.S., R.D., is the author of several top-selling books, including The Complete Diabetes Prevention Plan, Secrets of Fat-Free Cooking, Diabetic Dream Desserts, and The Good Carb Cookbook.

Publishers Weekly

Woodruff (The Good Carb Cookbook; etc.) is a dietician and nutritionist who eschews the Atkins diet's controversial no-carbohydrate, high-fat, no-exercise-necessary diet for a healthier, more sustainable approach to keeping carbs in check. Urging readers to avoid refined sugars and flours, she suggests sensible portions of lean proteins, moderate whole grains, lots of vegetables and allows Atkins-forbidden but nutritious fruit, stressing the importance of exercise. She explains the benefits of low-carb diets, the carbohydrate-insulin connection, and demystifies terms like "ketosis" and "glycemic index." Woodruff's approach is more vegetarian-friendly and holistic than Atkins or Arthur Agastston's South Beach Diet. Unfortunately, after the introductory chapters, the pages quickly begin to fill with skim-only material, such as charts showing the calorie count of various low-carb foods, a "Good-Carb Life Plan Pyramid," and banal, beauty magazine weight-loss hints like "get plenty of rest," "exercise for an hour a day," and, of course, when dining out "pass up the bread basket." The book's second half is devoted to uninspired low-carb recipes: Portobello Pizzas, Chicken-Pesto Quesadillas and Microwave Egg Scramble. (June 7) Forecast: Although Woodruff does offer an alternative to the two giants of low-carb eating (Atkins and South Beach), she is joining a very crowded marketplace. Total Health Care Partners published Beyond Atkins earlier this year, and Sterling will bring out Living the Low Carb Life in May. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

	Preface	vii
	Introduction	ix
Part I	Benefits of Low-Carb Living
1.	Taking a New Look at Low-Carb Diets	3
2.	The Low-Carb Way to Weight Loss	13
3.	Carbohydrates--The Good, the Bad, and the Glycemic Index	23
4.	Choose How You Want to Lose	31
5.	Stocking the Carb-Conscious Pantry	54
6.	Eating Well When You're Away from Home	85
7.	The Exercise-Carbohydrate Connection	98
Part II	Recipes for Carb-Conscious Living
	About the Recipes and Nutritional Analysis	107
8.	Appetizers and Snacks	109
9.	Great Starts--Breakfasts	122
10.	Savory Soups and Stews	141
11.	Light and Easy Entrees	153
12.	Sensational Salads	184
13.	Simply Delicious Side Dishes	208
14.	Smart Sandwiches	223
15.	Something for the Sweet Tooth	234
	Selected References	253
	Index	256

Treasures and Pleasures of India

Author: Ron L Krannich

A part of the "Best of the Best" series, this guide takes today's discerning travelers into the fascinating worlds of artisans, craftspeople, shopkeepers, and fine hotels, restaurants, and sightseeing. Designed to acquaint readers with unique and exotic cultures, peoples, and products, this book is for those who seek quality travel experiences that go beyond the standard descriptive guidebooks.

Mind Body Fitness for Dummies or Complete Kids Allergy and Asthma Guide

2009-02-05T21:49:00.000-08:00

Mind-Body Fitness for Dummies

Author: Therese Iknoian

Mind-Body Fitness For Dummies is the complete guide to the world of holistic fitness -- from Yoga and Tai Chi to Pilates and Qigong. Get started the smart way with expert advice on the essentials, such as breathing, posture, and choosing a program that best fits you and your fitness goals. Filled with instructional photos and illustrations, this book also features expert advice on warming up and cooling down, as well as taking your workout program beyond the basics with coverage of bodywork techniques including NIA and the Alexander technique. Mind-Body Fitness For Dummies will also help answer common questions about equipment and space needs, as well as other issues to consider before committing to a new fitness plan.

Complete Kid's Allergy and Asthma Guide: The Parent's Handbook For Children of All Ages

Author: Milton Gold

Medically-proven strategies for parents and caregivers.

The Complete Kid's Allergy and Asthma Guide gives parents a comprehensive, authoritative guide with common-sense guidelines, recommendations and tips on dealing with the asthmatic condition and the multiple allergic problems of children. Developed in collaboration with The Hospital for Sick Children, this book provides the most up-to-date, expert advice available, with easy-to-read information about every aspect of allergy and asthma.

The guide includes:

The most common types of allergic problems
How an allergy or asthma develops
How to minimize allergic reactions
How to avoid allergens and irritants
How to prevent a child's asthma from getting worse
How to prepare for an emergency

For a child who has not yet received a medical diagnosis, The Complete Kid's Allergy and Asthma Guide provides parents with vital information on how to read the signs of allergy and asthma -- from keeping a food diary, to monitoring asthma symptoms, to tracking allergic reactions. A record of these observations is crucial to isolating a child's allergy and asthma triggers.

This comprehensive guide offers daily coping strategies (how to check food labels, managing social situations, traveling tips), as well as dealing with more serious aspects of preparing for and handling severe allergic and asthmatic reactions.

Get Rid of the Blues or Gaining

2009-02-04T17:48:00.000-08:00

Get Rid of the Blues: Everything you always wanted to know about Varicose and Spider Veins But Didn't Know Who to Ask

Author: Mary T Johnson

Eighty million Americans suffer from venous problems. The bad news is that vein disease is progressive, so if it's mild and simply unattractive, it could progress to severe. The good news is that treatment is available and preventative measures may help stop the progression.

As a nurse educator, writer and consultant, Mary T. Johnson, R.N. is an advocate for those who suffer from this condition and from a lack of good, clearly written, well-researched information on the subject.

Get Rid of the Blues is for the millions of people who think there is no way to prevent varicose and spider veins and for those who think they have to live with them. Get the answers to your questions in plain, easy-to-understand language.

You will learn:

top tips for preventing varicose veins

lifesaving tips for preventing blood clots when you fly

why varicose veins may be the first sign of pregnancy

one of the best kept secrets for preventing vein disease

eight things you must know before having laser treatment

what effect high impact aerobics and weight lifting has on veins

seven things you can do to prolong the life of your stockings

eleven questions to ask when shopping for medical treatment

	About the Author	9
	Foreword	10
	Introduction: Who is this book for?	11
	Overview	15
	Summary: causes and treatment
Chapter 1	What is Vein Disease?	19
	Normal and abnormal circulation
Chapter 2	The Weak Link	23
	The role of valves in vein disease
Chapter 3	A Varicose Vein is Born	25
	What goes wrong?
Chapter 4	Sex, Lies, and Varicose Veins	27
	Learn the truth about vein disease
Chapter 5	Who Says Real Men Don't Get Varicose Veins?	29
	Men and vein disease
	Who's at risk?
	The role of pregnancy in vein disease
Chapter 6	Looking for Veins in all the Wrong Places	33
	Where else can varicose and spider veins appear?
Chapter 7	Achy-Breaky Legs	35
	Are veins making your legs hurt?
Chapter 8	Restless Legs Syndrome	37
	Important new information for people who suffer from Restless Legs Syndrome
Chapter 9	Try A Little Tenderness	39
	What happens if you don't have treatment?
Chapter 10	Cut to the Chase	43
	Treatment options: traditional and new surgical methods, sclerotherapy, and laser
	What to expect--and what not to expect
Chapter 11	Beam Me Up, Scotty!	49
	What you should know before you have any kind of laser treatment
	Tips for shopping for laser treatment for vein disease
Chapter 12	How To Shop for Treatment	53
	Become an informed health care consumer
	Questions to ask
Chapter 13	Getting an Audience With the Wizard of Oz	55
	Learn how to compare treatment plans
	What about insurance?
Chapter 14	An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure	57
	What is the difference between support and graduated support hose?
	Learn one of the best kept secrets for what you can do if you are at risk for vein disease
Chapter 15	I'm Gonna Walk Those Veins Right Out of my Legs	61
	The role of walking in the prevention of vein disease
	Exercises that promote varicose or spider veins
Chapter 16	Danger In The Skies	63
	Lifesaving tips for preventing blood clots when you fly
	Top Tips For Preventing Varicose Veins	66
	The Care and Feeding of Graduated Compression Hose	67
	Seven things you can do to prolong the life of your stockings
	References	69
	Appendices	73
	Comparison of Graduated Compression Hose	75
	Learn what role nylon and spandex play in the comfort and appearance of hose
	A complete guide to shopping
	Ordering information
	Physician's Guide to Ordering Compression	85
	Information for physicians to prescribe graduated compression
	Prescription form
	FYI: Referral and Support Group Information	87
	American College of Phlebology
	American Society of Phlebectomy
	National Health Information Center
	Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation
	Glossary	88
	Index	90

Look this: Trade Policies and Developing Nations or Born at the Right Time

Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders

Author: Aimee Liu

If you have ever suffered from an eating disorder - or cared for someone who is anorexic or bulimic - you may think you understand these illnesses. But do you really understand why they occur? Do you know how eat disorders affect life after recovery? Now, nearly three decades after she detailed her first battle with anorexia in Solitaire, Aimee Liu presents an emotionally powerful and poignant sequel that digs deep into the causes, cures, and consequences of anorexia and bulimia nervosa.

Publishers Weekly

Thirty years after Liu penned Solitaire documenting her teenage experience with anorexia nervosa, she recounts her midlife relapse and recovery. Liu exposes many myths surrounding eating disorders, with a combination of research and in-depth interviews with other former anorexics and bulimics. She interviews men and women of various cultural and economic backgrounds to refute the notion that anorexia and bulimia affect only "modern rich white girls." Liu's interviewees range from Rob, a 50-year-old physician, to Jessica, an Australian 25-year-old aspiring actress. Liu devotes many chapters to the impact of family on the anorexic or bulimic, contradicting the accepted belief that the victim is "the sick one"; rather, she locates the starting point of the disease in genetics, family life, shame and personality. Like other victims, Liu finds a history of mental disorders in her family, ranging from alcoholism to obsessive-compulsive disorder. According to Liu, a manifestation of an eating disorder is a call for help and should be treated as early as possible, and she fleshes out facts and statistics with her personal interviews, making this book poignant even for those who have not suffered from an eating disorder. (Feb. 22) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Stem Cells or Hair Coloring

2009-02-03T13:46:00.000-08:00

Stem Cells (Health and Medical Issues Today Series)

Author: Evelyn B Kelly

Every day, newspapers and television news programs present stories on the latest controversies over healthcare and medical advances, but they do not have the space to provide detailed background on the issues. Websites and weblogs provide information from activists and partisans intent on presenting their side of a story. But where can students - or even ordinary citizens - go to obtain unbiased, detailed background on the medical issues affecting their daily lives? This volume in the Health and Medical Issues Today series provides readers and researchers a balanced, in-depth introduction to the medical, scientific, legal, and cultural issues surrounding stem cells and its import in today's world of healthcare.

Book about: Espacios de Esperanza

Hair Coloring: A Hands-on Approach

Author: Patricia A Spencer

Taking a "learn by doing" approach, this in-depth resource provides 46 hands-on projects and experiments from analyzing of hair, formulating and applying color, to evaluating results. This book is to be used in conjunction with the hair coloring curriculum of all cosmetology programs from beginner to advanced. It guides any level student through exploration of the true form of hair coloring. Chapters include semipermanent hair coloring, white and gray hair, theory of lightening, dye removers and more. Features: -Review questions at the end of each experiment challenging students to analyze their educational activity and assess their achievement of lesson objectives -Essay questions designed to improve students' reading comprehension and composition writing skills -Lab experiments that can be used in a classroom setting or independently -Theories, facts and methods that are applicable regardless of product brand name

Osteoporosis Prevention or Chi Kung

2009-02-02T09:45:00.000-08:00

Osteoporosis Prevention: A Proactive Approach to Strong Bones and Good Health

Author: Renee Newman

Written for laypeople and professionals, Osteoporosis Prevention is a guide to maintaining healthy bones and taking charge of your health care. Besides thoroughly discussing the types of nutrients and exercise required for avoiding bone loss, the book addresses consumer issues such as how select a bone density test center, how to avoid being duped by testimonials, how to get maximum benefit from your bone density tests, and how to be a savvy patient.

Chapter titles of Osteoporosis Prevention include: Density versus Strength, Who is at Risk?, Basic Bone Terminology, Making Exercise Safe and Fun, Posture and Osteoporosis, Calcium, Other Bone Nutrients, Fighting Osteoporosis and Losing Weight, Osteoporosis Drugs: Pros and Cons, Vibrating Platform Therapy, Understanding Density Reports, Bone Density Testing, Side Benefits of Bone Density Tests, Pro's and Cons of Giving Patients Their Medical Reports, Hip & Spine DXA Tests: A Case Study, and How to Help Prevent Osteoporosis and Broken Bones.

Midwest Book Review

"Very strongly recommended reading for anyone having to deal with the condition of osteoporosis in their family or family history and is seeking to avoid bone loss themselves, Osteoporosis Prevention: A Provocative Approach To Strong Bones And Good Health by consumer writer Renee Newman is a competent and thoroughly "reader friendly" approach to preventing osteoporosis..."

What People Are Saying

Ronald Lawrence
"This is helpful for the lay person because not all doctors discuss osteoporosis with their patients or fully understand it. The fact that the author has struggled with bone loss and can talk from personal experience makes the book more interesting and easy to read. Another good feature is that the book has nice illustrations and tables, which help clarify important points. I congratulate the author for writing a sound and thorough guide to osteoporosis prevention."
—MD, PhD, co-chair of the first Symposium on Osteoporosis of the National Institute on Aging

Chi Kung: The Chinese Art of Mastering Energy

Author: Yves Requena

Chi Kung, Chinese for "energy mastery," is an ancient physical discipline that utilizes deliberate movement, slow breathing, mental concentration, and visualizations. The discipline is based on the same energy meridians used in Chinese acupuncture and is fully integrated into the traditional five-element wisdom of Chinese healing. Chi Kung exercises not only promote physical well-being, but transform consciousness by amplifying one's sensitivity to both the natural world and one's own personal potential. With regular practice of no more than 15 to 30 minutes a day, the author shows how we can develop a more sensitive perception of our environment, allowing us to feed our own life energy from the magnetic resonance of the world around us.

The author's simple series of exercises is well within the capability of anyone, regardless of age or physical condition.

The Listening Hand or The Art of Stone Healing

2009-02-01T05:41:00.000-08:00

The Listening Hand: Self-Healing Through the Rubenfeld Synergy Method of Talk and Touch

Author: Ilana Rubenfeld

The Rubenfeld Synergy Method is an elegant, powerful system that integrates bodywork, intuition, and psychotherapy. Memories and emotions stored in our bodies can result in energy blocks and imbalances. Rubenfeld Synergy utilizes talk, movement, awareness, imagination, humor, and compassionate touch as gateways — contacting and melting frozen tensions and emotions, freeing the body from pain and the mind from suffering.

The Listening Hand includes:

• Body-mind exercises designed to awaken awareness, free breathing, and reveal the body metaphors that tell your life story

• Guided steps that break through inner barriers and lead to concrete improvements in your daily life and relationships

• Energy explorations for contacting the energy field in yourself and others — and how you can use it to heal

• Experiments for couples that gently increase communication, intimacy, and sexual openness

• Practices that enable helpers to avoid physical, emotional, and spiritual burnout

• A complete 7-day Mind Your Muscles program for tension release, body alignment, and enhanced flexibility

Look this: Buddhist Yoga or The Blood Pressure Book

The Art of Stone Healing: Where the Past Meets the Present

Author: Sonia Alexandra

The Art of Stone Healing is a comprehensive guide: covering the history, background of the stones, application and treatment, procedures and effects. This guidebook was created to ensure the safe and effective practice of this new modality for the many people who are discovering the healing properties of Stone Therapy. As Humans We Experience stress and trauma in our lives daily, once accumulated this can be stored in the body blocking our energy and damaging our mental well-being and physical health. Healing stones are specifically chosen for their ability to transmit energy. The power of the stones is to act as a catalyst moving energy from over-stimulated areas of the body to re-energize depleted ones. Stone Therapy combines deep healing massage techniques with the electro-magnetic energy of the stones and an understanding of the human body. As stone massage heals the body stress is eliminated, we experience relief from pain and enter into a state of deep relaxation. Emotional and physical wounds are healed restoring balance and harmony within the body.

Expert Guide to Beating Heart Disease or Growing Up with Diabetes

2009-01-31T01:40:00.000-08:00

Expert Guide to Beating Heart Disease: What You Absolutely Must Know

Author: Harlan M Krumholz

What Do the Best-Trained Doctors Do to Beat Heart Disease?

In today's avalanche of medical information, how can you distinguish between proven evidence and unfounded claims? This is the first book to translate key medical data into clear guidelines capturing the highest treatment standards for heart disease. Renowned cardiovascular expert Dr. Harlan Krumholz presents seven strategies for reducing cardiac risk—what professionals agree really works. In this indispensable handbook, he also profiles care alternatives from supplements to stress reduction as well as treatments on the horizon. A "Tools for Success" section helps you track blood pressure, cholesterol, exercise, and weight.

Read also Hauptsache der Immobilien-Finanz

Growing Up with Diabetes: What Children Want Their Parents to Know

Author: Alicia McAuliff

A chance to step into your child’s shoes. When your child was diagnosed with diabetes your first priority was probably to learn everything you could about diabetes and how to manage it. Whether your child is a youngster or a teenager, you’ve done your best to help with injections, meals and snacks, and the many other elements of a diabetes management program. But through all this, you may be overlooking the importance of your child’s social and emotional development. Children want to be normal, and diabetes makes them "different." Many well-meaning parents inadvertently focus too much on their child’s diabetes, and not enough on other aspects of their child’s life. This unique book, written by a young woman who was diagnosed with diabetes at age 11, gives you the opportunity to understand and relate to your child’s feelings. Drawing on the author’s own experiences and those of the many children and young adults she’s counseled, this sensitive guide explains:

How children feel when they’re diagnosed
Why diabetes is a bigger adjustment for you than for your child
How to encourage a healthy approach to diabetes
The importance of diabetes education
How to make your child’s life as normal as possible
Dealing with outside forces (school, day care, relatives, etc.)
Eliminating the power struggle for independence in adolescence

• Books to Fund A Cure • A portion of this book’s proceeds will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, a not-for-profit voluntary health agency, whose primary objective is to support and fund research to find the cause, cure, treatment, andprevention of diabetes and its complications. Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Library Health

VOYA

These two different approaches to diabetes cover the basic details while at the same time making the point that life can go on in a relatively normal fashion for someone with diabetes. Kelly's book is the "work horse" title, while McAuliffe's is a self-help, inspirational call to action.

Kelly's recent addition to Rosen's Coping with . . . series, addresses issues of concern to today's teens. This competent, thorough examination of the disease and its treatment includes a look at the role of diet and exercise, possible complications to watch out for, family dynamics when a member is diagnosed, how to deal with health care professionals (in particular the members of the diabetic health care team), and how living with a chronic condition like diabetes can affect a teen's life. Addressing the teen reader, the author provides clear-cut, concise information about the disease and how to handle it. Teens with diabetes share their stories of problems faced and overcome. Both insulin-dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes are covered in text easily accessible to the teen reader.

As the mother of two children with juvenile diabetes, I wish McAuliffe's book had been around when they were first diagnosed with the disease as pre-schoolers. An impressive young woman who tells it like it is, the author was eleven when she was diagnosed and ten years later is a healthy, well-adjusted college student working toward a chiropractic degree. McAuliffe's supportive, concerned parents were there for her, but she was also there for herself-taking charge of her diabetic management, getting actively involved in helping others by counseling children and young adults with the disease, even founding a not-for-profit camp specifically for young people with diabetes. The message here is loud and clear-treat the child, not the disease.

Both parents and child have to come to terms with coping with a chronic disease, and get on with their lives. It is vitally important to acknowledge the

Library Journal

Managing childhood diabetes is essential to avoid short- and long-term complications. At the same time, the child must be able to enjoy normal activities despite the condition. This balancing act frequently results in overly protective parents and a child who rebels against the regimen of shots, tests, and meal plans. McAuliffe, a 21-year-old chiropractic student, was diagnosed with diabetes at age 11 and is a peer counselor, support group leader, and founder of a diabetes camp for young people. Her book explores the disease's emotional and psychological aspects with the hope of making diabetes management less of a battle between parent and child. Notwithstanding her personal experiences, there is little of substance here to help struggling parents. McAuliffe writes of the need for educating the child's teachers and classmates about diabetes but does not explain how parents might do this. The few quotes from young people on a child's view of diabetes, e.g., "Get an attitude of determination and get on with life," are too generic to be either revealing or helpful. The scant bibliography consists almost solely of materials from the publisher. A better choice is Pat Kelly's Coping with Diabetes (Rosen, 1998).Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland

Fat Chicks Rule or 100 Questions and Answers about Ovarian Cancer

2009-01-29T21:38:00.000-08:00

Fat Chicks Rule!: How to Survive in a Thin-Centric World

Author: Lara Frater

"I can't wait for this book!"-Marilyn Wann, author of FAT! SO?

A fun, fact-filled guide to living the big girl's life with style, Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World, tackles the weighty issues that large women face in our thin-obsessed society. This lavishly illustrated book provides information on everything that the plus-size woman needs to know, including where to shop, the dieting scam, how to be fat and sexy, the fat acceptance movement, famous fat chicks in history, fat chick entertainment, snappy comebacks against the fat-phobic and much more. Dedicated to every woman who feels she needs to lose a few pounds but really doesn't, Fat Chicks Rule! shows you how to live fat and happily ever after.

Lara Frater is a New York City-based fat acceptance activist.

Go to: Eating Soulfully and Healthfully with Diabetes or Loving God When You Dont Love the Church

100 Questions and Answers about Ovarian Cancer

Author: Don S Dizon

Whether you're a newly diagnosed ovarian cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this completely updated second edition gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Written by a gynecologic oncologist and a gynecologic surgeon, with actual patient commentary, this is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of ovarian cancer.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Julia M. Fine, RN, PhD, FNP-C(Indiana State University)
Description:This book, written by a team of a gynecologic oncologist, a gynecologic surgeon, and a woman who has experienced ovarian cancer, offers answers to 100 questions about the disease. The questions range from basic definitions to diagnosis, treatment choices, management of symptoms, and dealing with both relapse and treatment failure.
Purpose:This book was written to answer the common questions about ovarian cancer and to serve as a resource for women or anyone whose life has been touched by ovarian cancer. The authors seek to impart knowledge both to enable women to make informed choices and to decrease fear that can interfere with living with and fighting the disease.
Audience:The primary audience for this book is women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer or persons who are friends or relatives of these women. It would also be useful as a short review for practitioners who do not specialize in gynecologic cancers to highlight the subtle early symptoms of the disease and to provide an overview of diagnostic, screening, and treatment options.
Features:Additional features of the book are an extensive list of resources, such as organizations, Internet sources of information, clinical trials, financial and support services. A glossary and index help to locate information quickly. In the book, technical words are in bold and are defined on each page. Questions are organized by chapters and build from initial diagnosis to treatment, management of symptoms and, finally, to end of life issues. Occasional tables and pictures serve to clarifyinformation.
Assessment:The team approach and the empowerment of the woman who is experiencing ovarian cancer is strongly emphasized. The message from a survivor of ovarian cancer is that responsibility and choices must be shared with the team of physicians and support persons. Occasionally, the questions seem simplistic, but the depth and thoroughness with which each question is answered quickly leads the reader through terminology. The comments from an ovarian cancer survivor add both personal insight and connection.

Foreword to the First Edition     vii
Preface     xi
Introduction     xiii
The Basics     1
Where are my ovaries? What do they do?
What does it mean to have cancer?
What is a cyst? Is it related to ovarian cancer? How do a complex ovarian cyst and a simple cyst differ?
Risk Factors, Diagnosis, and Staging of Ovarian Cancer     11
What does it mean to have ovarian cancer?
Are there risk factors for ovarian cancer?
Is hormone replacement therapy associated with ovarian cancer?
Treatment of Ovarian Cancer     31
How do I decide on where to be treated?
Who's involved in my treatment?
Who should do my surgery?
Coping with Treatment-Related Side Effects     69
Should I take special precautions while on chemotherapy?
What kind of diet should I follow while on treatment? What about after treatment?
Will I be able to tolerate treatment if I am older?
Symptom Management     85
How does ovarian cancer cause abdominal pain?
What can I do for constipation?
How do I manage pain?
Relapse     91
How can my ovarian cancer come back if my ovaries have already been removed?
What happens if the cancer comes back?
How do you make a diagnosis of recurrence?
If Treatment Fails     109
How do I know when it's time to stop treatment?
What is a PEG tube? Do I need one?
Does intravenous feeding play a role?
Prevention, Screening, and Advocacy     117
Can I protect myself from getting ovarian cancer?
Can I get ovarian cancer if I've had my ovaries removed?
Will fertility drugs increase my risk of ovarian cancer?
Appendix     129
Glossary     149
Index     155

Defeating Depression or Five Quarts

2009-01-28T17:37:00.000-08:00

Defeating Depression: Real Help for You and Those Who Love You

Author: Howard W Ston

While books on depression abound, what makes this book unique is that it speaks both to the person experiencing depression and to that person's network of family members and friends. Informed by a practitioner in the field of psychology, the book examines depression, what it is, and how to deal with it.

About the Author:
Howard W. Stone, Ph.D., professor emeritus at Texas Christian University

Acknowledgments     vi
Is It Depression or Something Else?
Introduction     3
Are You Depressed?     12
Depression on the Rise     20
Faces of Depression     28
Masquerade: Depression and Other Maladies     41
Hope Is a Future Word     51
The Four Faces of Depression: What You Can Do
Body and Brain: The Physical Face of Depression     64
Physical Remedies     75
Medical Remedies     86
What Do You Think? The Cognitive Face of Depression     98
Those Negative Thoughts Keep Running through My Head     108
Think Again: How to Transform Your Thinking     117
Journey of a Thousand Miles: The Behavioral Face of Depression     135
Doing What Needs to Be Done     145
Effective Action: If It Works, Do It!     158
Living with a Depressed Person: The Interpersonal Face of Depression     171
A Healing Network: What Family and Friends Can Do     176
Help for the Whole Family     187
Help for Depression
How to Save a Life: Suicide Prevention     194
Desolations: Depression and Spirituality     202
The Healing Spirit: Values and Purpose Can Defeat Depression     212
Getting Help     220
Hope and Happiness for a Lifetime     233
The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale     235
Suggested Readings and References     239
Index     243

Book about: L'Art de Travail :une Anthologie de Littérature de Lieu de travail, l'Édition Étudiante

Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood

Author: Bill Hayes

"We're born in blood. Our family histories are contained in it, our bodies nourished by it daily. Five quarts run through each of us, along some sixty thousand miles of arteries, veins, and capillaries."
-from Five Quarts

In the national bestseller Sleep Demons, Bill Hayes took us on a trailblazing trip through the night country of insomnia. Now he is our guide on a whirlwind journey through history, literature, mythology, and science by means of the great red river that runs five quarts strong through our bodies.

Profusely illustrated, the journey stretches from ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where high-tech machines test blood for diseases and dedicated scientists search for elusive cures. Along the way, there will be world-changing triumphs: William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood; Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's advances in making the invisible world visible in the early days of the microscope; Dr. Paul Ehrlich's Nobel-Prize-winning work in immunology; Dr. Jay Levy's codiscovery of the virus that causes AIDS. Yet there will also be ignorance and tragedy: the widespread practice of bloodletting via incision and the use of leeches, which harmed more than it healed; the introduction of hemophilia into the genetic pool of nineteenth-century European royalty thanks to the dynastic ambitions of Queen Victoria; the alleged spread of contaminated blood through a phlebotomist's negligence in modern-day California.

This is also a personal voyage, in which Hayes recounts the impact of the vital fluid in his daily life, from growing up in a household of fivesisters and their monthly cycles, to coming out as a gay man during the explosive early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco, to his enduring partnership with an HIV-positive man.

As much a biography of blood as it is a memoir of how this rich substance has shaped one man's life, Five Quarts is by turns whimsical and provocative, informative and moving. It will get under your skin.

Wired - Jennifer Kahn

[Hayes'] account of the vital fluid is sure to make your heart beat faster.

Publishers Weekly

Hemophobes beware: there are five quarts of blood in the human body, and Hayes (Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir) pours all of them into this book. A gay man living in San Francisco with an HIV-positive partner, Hayes uses his own encounters with blood's ability to save and destroy lives as a launching point for anecdotes in the larger story of blood. His personal history runs like a river through this book, picking up the flotsam and jetsam of blood lore. He launches into an account of the discovery of blood's components and its function in the body, and meanders through cultural perceptions of blood, from the sacred (the Eucharist) to the profane (Dracula). Hayes ranges far beyond red and white blood cells, platelets and plasma, taking readers inside a modern blood bank and to the bedside of a woman with hemophilia; his keen perceptions show how the ancient view of blood as the essence of a person's soul still pervades our modern vocabulary and views on the vital fluid.His sometimes irreverent commentary on misconceptions about blood doesn't shy away from the gruesome, particularly a cringe-inducing description of early blood transfusion techniques. With his strong writing and a unique approach, Hayes satisfyingly addresses this life force. B&w illus. Agent, Wendy Weil. (On sale Jan. 25) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A spry personal tour of hematology, from the author of Sleep Demons (2001). In blood, Hayes finds many of life's milestones. We are born in it, our family histories are defined by it, it permeates our religion and art. That first shaving nick, that first menstrual period-voila, adulthood! Blood also has a lengthy and fascinating history, drawn here with a sure if selective hand. Hayes starts his investigation some 1800 years ago with a Greek doctor named Galen. As an overseer of injured gladiators, he had a ringside seat when it came to the inner workings of the body. Galen was a big believer in the body's humors and in the art (as it were) of bloodletting, a practice that endured into the 20th century. Hayes moves about, looking into the enduring taboos associated with menstruation, the history of blood typing, the fictional Dracula and the very real blood-bathing Transylvanian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the renegade phlebotomist Elaine Giorgi, and the Italian bank robbers, all infected with AIDS, who knew if caught they would be freed under the "compassionate release" law that prevents the terminally ill from serving time. He profiles the pioneering experiments of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who first looked at blood under a microscope ("it consists of small round globules driven through a crystalline humidity of water," the Dutchman wrote in 1674), Paul Ehrlich's work with antibodies, and Jay Levy's discoveries concerning AIDS. The author also recounts life with his partner Steve, who learned he was HIV-positive in 1994. Being so close to the matter, Hayes wanted to know just what lay behind the nerve-racking, quarterly blood tests Steve underwent; his text brings us into the lab workinvolved and the research being done, submerging readers in blood's biology, chemistry, and politics. A popular and memorable recounting of blood's social and natural history, as well as Hayes's own close encounter with the vital fluid. (Illustrations throughout)Agent: Wendy Weil/Wendy Weil Agency

Nine Months Till Baby or Hunger Pains

2009-01-27T13:35:00.000-08:00

Nine Months Till Baby: The Comprehensive Month-By-Month Planner & Resource for Expectant Parents: The Essential Guide for Your Preganancy

Author: Marguerite Smolen

A comprehensive planner that includes important information on what to expect during each month of pregnancy. From the same team that created the incredibly successful The Bride's Year Ahead, this gorgeous book includes nine section tabs in a month-by- month countdown format. Features include pockets, a resealable secure pouch, room for notes and lots of charts and planning tools.

Go to: Is There a Nutmeg in the House or Best Food Writing 2003

Hunger Pains

Author: Mary Pipher

We live in an appearance-obsessed culture. Fashion ads, magazine covers, TV shows, and movies idealize a body type that is impossible for most real women to achieve. In this comforting, liberating book, Dr. Mary Pipher, bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia, offers advice, counsel, and practical solutions for understanding our needs, our fears, and our many hungers. She shows us how we can at last learn to live at peace with the natural differences in our bodies and appetites.

The rates of anorexia, bulimia, and depression for women are the highest they have ever been, and begin at ever younger ages. Dr. Pipher reveals how society encourages our misery and prevents us from accepting our looks. Indeed, for many women the humiliation of overweight or obesity is a wound that never heals. Dr. Pipher reminds us that accepting our bodies the way they are is the greatest gift we can give ourselves.

VOYA

Pipher has done women of all ages a great service by writing a book that clearly explains eating disorders, offers suggestions for help, and gets to the heart of the causes of these problems. Chapters on such subjects as bulimia, anorexia, obesity, and diets are written in a clear, concise manner. The author covers each topic thoroughly and offers excellent advice and tips at the end of most chapters. Among tips for those struggling with anorexia: "Don't diet, skip meals, or weigh youself. Avoid magazines, TV shows, or exercise classes that focus on the importance of being thin." One suggestion for feeling good about your body is to "break the habit of comparing yourself to others in terms of appearance." The reader also encounters many eye-opening statistics that contribute greatly to this thought-provoking, compelling book. For example, the ratio of women to men with eating disorders is fifty to one, and ninety percent of all women overestimate their own body size. Most important, Pipher offers profound insight into the pressures of women to be thin in a culture where "the cost of being overweight is social suicide." Many problems stem from a society prone to lookism, including, says Pipher, the stereotyping of individuals on the basis of their appearance." Media depictions of women and commercial ads focus on extremely thin women, thus exacerbating the lookism problem. Reading Hunger Pains is an enlightening experience. This book raises the consciousness about cultural icons and media messages for females; it also reveals a great deal about women's self-images. Pipher is an advocate for women's wellness and positive cultural change; hers is a voice that should be heeded. Women of all ages would benefit greatly from the information contained in this well-written book. Further Reading. VOYA Codes: 5Q 2P M J S (Hard to imagine it being any better written, For the YA with a special interest in the subject, Middle School-defined as grades 6 to 8, Junior High-defined as grades 7 to 9 and Senior High-defined as grades 10 to 12).

Somersize Chocolate or Understanding Your Health with Powerweb and OLC Bi Card Package

2009-01-26T09:34:00.000-08:00

Somersize Chocolate: 30 Delicious, Guilt-Free Desserts for the Carb-Conscious Chocolate-Lover

Author: Suzanne Somers

Everyone loves chocolate!

Chocolate is often a dieter's downfall, but if you Somersize, it doesn't have to be. In the tradition of her bestselling Somersize Desserts comes Suzanne Somers' newest contribution to the Somersize phenomenon—guilt-free recipes for mouthwatering goodies that satisfy chocolate cravings without causing a dieting disaster. Thanks to SomerSweet, Suzanne's revolutionary sweetener with less than one gram of carbohydrate and zero sugars per serving, you can enjoy scrumptious low-carb desserts such as:

• Molten Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Lava

• White Chocolate Pots de Crème

• Chocolate Crepes with Mascarpone Filling

• Grasshopper Pie with Chocolate Curls

• Chocolate-Dipped Cocoa Meringue Cookies

• Chocolate Cheesecake Petit Fours

With these thirty recipes, you'll never have to trade dessert for a smaller waistline. By incorporating these tasty treats into your Somersize program, you can look and feel great without depriving yourself of any of your favorite foods.

Publishers Weekly

Somers's latest is little more than a pamphlet of 30-odd recipes, many of which readers can find in other books. But it's bound to please its target readers-women who love chocolate and want to lose weight-because it's everything they need it to be: it gives instructions for making easy, quick desserts that are low in carbohydrates (though not always low in calories). Somers designs her book around the chocolate version of her own sweetener, SomerSweet, which is available for sale on her Web site. The book is therefore practically useless if readers don't purchase SomerSweet Chocolate Baking Bars (although Somers does give measurements for making the desserts with sugar and sugared chocolate, those results won't please carb-counters). Quibbles aside, there's no arguing with the decadence of such treats as Molten Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Lava, Mini Coconut Baked Alaska, or Caramel Chocolate Brownie Sundaes. Somers's relentlessly upbeat tone runs through the book ("I have always loved pound cake. Now that it's chocolate, there's even more reason to love it!"), and she gives the level of difficulty for each recipe (oddly, though, no recipe is tougher than "level two"). 30 color photos. (Nov.) Forecast: Somers seems to have the golden touch, whether she's talking about hormone replacement, mastering the art of obtaining slim thighs, or selling her wares on the Home Shopping Network. Ads in Family Circle and Ladies' Home Journal will bump holiday sales for this book. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Interesting textbook: 400 Best Ever Budget Recipes or Yoga for Health

Understanding Your Health with Powerweb and OLC Bi-Card Package

Author: Payn

This text offers an exciting and practical approach to the teaching of the traditional content areas of personal health. Its two key themes--the six dimensions of health and the five developmental tasks--help students apply the text's content to their own lives by improving their decision-making skills. The new PowerWeb: Personal Health, linked by chapter in the Online Learning Center (and available free with every new copy of the text) provides students with the latest information in the constantly changing field of health.

Preface

A Visual Guide to Understanding Your Health

Chapter 1: Shaping Your Health

Part One: The Mind

Chapter 2: Achieving Psychological Health

Chapter 3: Managing Stress

Part Two: The Body

Chapter 4: Becoming Physically Fit

Chapter 5: Understanding Nutrition and Your Diet

Chapter 6: Maintaining a Healthy Weight

Part Three: Preventing Drug Abuse and Dependence

Chapter 7: Making Decisions About Drug Use

Chapter 8: Taking Control of Alcohol Use

Chapter 9: Rejecting Tobacco Use

Part Four: Preventing Diseases

Chapter 10: Enhancing Your Cardiovascular Health

Chapter 11: Living with Cancer

Chapter 12: Managing Chronic Conditions

Chapter 13: Preventing Infectious Diseases

Part Five: Sexuality and Reproduction

Chapter 14: Exploring the Origins of Sexuality

Chapter 15: Understanding Sexual Behavior and Relationships

Chapter 16: Managing Your Fertility

Chapter 17: Becoming a Parent

Part Six: Consumer and Safety Issues

Chapter 18: Becoming an Informed Health Care Consumer

Chapter 19: Protecting Your Safety

Chapter 20: The Environment and Your Health

Part Seven: Completing Life's Journey

Chapter 21: Accepting Dying and Death

Appendix A: First Aid

Appendix B: Body Systems

Appendix C: Canadian Health

Appendix D: Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating

Glossary

Credits

Index

Walkers Companion or The Fitness Factor

2009-01-25T05:31:00.000-08:00

Walker's Companion: A Think Book

Author: Malcolm Tait

Whether you're a rambler or an ambler, a hiker or a nature-liker, this is an ideal companion. It's packed with useful--and not so useful--information, including the ten oddest things ever done by sleepwalkers, the number of Bob Dylan songs that contain the word "walk," and how to prepare for a trek in the jungles of Borneo.

Ever wonder what happens to the 36,000 tennis balls used at the annual Wimbledon championships? Or what was on the menu at Henry IV's coronation? Would you like to know how to master the Japanese art of packing a rucksack? Or how to say hello in 20 different languages? The delightfully eclectic, exceedingly collectable volumes in The Companion Series are bursting with useful trivia and quirky facts to amuse and amaze. Pleasingly designed, eminently browsable, downright addictive.

New interesting textbook: Fiestas for the Four Seasons or Recipes

The Fitness Factor: Every Woman's Key to a Lifetime of Health and Well-Being

Author: Lisa Callahan

Imagine picking up the morning paper and seeing a banner headline that reads: miraculous new anti-aging pill discovered. In The Fitness Factor, Lisa Callahan, M.D., shows us that such a magic pill already exists in the form of regular daily exercise. As cofounder and medical director for the country's premier sports medicine center for women and a well-known medical spokeswoman, Dr. Callahan is uniquely qualified to write this book. She has treated thousands of patients-from housewives to professional athletes-and has helped them change their lives forever by instilling in them the knowledge that an essential connection exists between fitness and health. She speaks honestly and intelligently to women, helping them understand that the benefits of regular exercise go well beyond the cosmetic. Fitness, in fact, is the single most important factor when it comes to:

-preventing heart disease -beating osteoporosis
-lowering cholesterol

Can I Exercise Sitting Down or Classical Homeopathy

2009-01-24T01:30:00.000-08:00

Can I Exercise Sitting Down?

Author: Renee Wiggins

This energizing exercise guide will jumpstart your fitness program with an easily followed thirty-day workout plan.

After a long, hard day at the office, who wants to go to the gym and be intimated by an overzealous trainer? Author and fitness professional Renee Wiggins offers a simple thirty-day workout plan you can do from the comfort of your favorite chair.

With detailed instructions and helpful photographs, Wiggins's easy and effective exercises will start you on the road to better health. To help you stay on track, you'll begin each day with a positive affirmation of your commitment to weight loss; you will also plot your progress in the exercise log. Additionally, Can I Exercise Sitting Down? provides the following tips:

How to stay motivated
How to conquer your excuses
How to eat healthy
How to set realistic goals

If you've ever started an exercise program only to quit two weeks later, then Can I Exercise Sitting Down? is perfect for you. With a no-nonsense, understanding approach, Wiggins will help you overcome self-destructive habits and create a new, healthier you!

Interesting textbook: Blowing the Whistle on Genocide or Power and Protest

Classical Homeopathy

Author: Michael Carlston

Part of Micozzi's Medical Guides to Complementary and Alternative Medicine series, this practical text provides a thorough introduction to classical homeopathic medicine--incorporating its unique view of health and disease, its place in the health care system, and homeopathic clinical practice. It evaluates this alternative system of medicine in terms of its clinical, scientific, philosophical, sociological, and historical contexts. In addition to a well-referenced, evidence-based research chapter, the book also addresses the practice of homeopathy, pharmacology, and specific applications of homeopathy. With its emphasis on scientific research, including discussions of clinical trial design, homeopathic theory, and clinical applications, this book serves as an informed, rational critique of this controversial subject.
• This introduction to homeopathy is scientifically grounded, written in terms appropriate for health professionals.
• Well-referenced content is clinically relevant and evidence-based, lending validity to the text.
• An appendix on specific clinical applications of homeopathy provides practical information for those referring patients for homeopathic treatment.
• The unique, comprehensive compilation of information on homeopathic medicine enables faculty to use it as a stand-alone text for health sciences students.
• Logical organization allows a segmented approach to studying various aspects of homeopathic medicine.
• Research summary and methodology discussion is useful for researchers considering investigations into homeopathy
• Information on how homeopathy is practiced and the application ofprinciples in the clinical setting helps clinicians and patients understand the process of seeing a homeopath.
• A pharmacy section provides information related to the pharmacological aspects of homeopathy.

Weight Watchers Great Cooking Every Day or Sexual Male

2009-01-22T21:29:00.000-08:00

Weight Watchers Great Cooking Every Day

Author: Weight Watchers

America-America's leading professional cooking school-to offer this cutting-edge collection of flavorful, healthful recipes that both eager beginners and experienced cooks will enjoy. Whether the goal is to lose weight or to cook with a lean touch, this must-have volume points the way. It includes:

250 delectable recipes that reflect fine cooking techniques
Recipes ranging from appetizers to desserts that bring high flavor to healthful dishes such as Risotto with Scallops and Asparagus, Grilled Flank Steak with Pineapple and Roasted Shallots, and Chocolate Truffles
Weight Watchers' phenomenal 1-2-3-Success Weight Loss Plan POINTS values, plus nutrition information for every recipe

Chapter 1: Healthy Eating in the Twenty-First Century.
Chapter 2: Appetizers and Hors D'oeuvres.
Chapter 3: Salads.
Chapter 4: Soups.
Chapter 5: Pizzas, Sandwiches, and Wraps.
Chapter 6: Pasta.
Chapter 7: Fish.
Chapter 8: Shellfish.
Chapter 9: Poultry.
Chapter 10: Meat and Game.
Chapter 11: Grains.
Chapter 12: Eggs, Beans, and Tofu.
Chapter 13: Vegetables.
Chapter 14: Fruits.
Chapter 15: Breads.
Chapter 16: Desserts.
Index.

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Sexual Male: Problems and Solutions

Author: Richard Milsten

Most men will at some time experience sexual problems, and if they lack the knowledge to address the problem they may fall victim to myths about performance. Their partners may become confused and frustrated, placing stress on the relationship.

This accessible new book brings together the expertise of a leading urologist and a prominent psychologist and sex therapist to answer the questions that men -- and women -- ask most about male sexual function.

Publishers Weekly

This could have been titled "The Dysfunctional Male," since the entire work is devoted to helping men and their partners (of either sex) overcome and prevent impotence. Authors Milsten, a urologist and director of the New Jersey-based Center for Sexual Health, and Slowinksi, a psychologist and sex therapist, offer a comprehensive look at male impotence--its causes, effects and treatments. Helpful chapters, such as "What is Impotence" or "Myths and Fallacies that Promote Impotence," begin with a box of commonsense, albeit obvious, points ("The average time to ejaculation is simply not known"). A section, "Topics of Special Interest," effectively examines a range of interesting issues such as "Is There a Male Menopause" or "Is It Safe to Resume Sex After a Heart Attack." And a self-evaluation section offers more than 20 questions that can help a man start the process of dealing with actual or potential impotence. Unfortunately, the book is marred by somewhat stiff and stilted medical-textbook language ("Any of these situations just mentioned can underlie both primary and secondary erectile difficulties and will require therapeutic attention"). But overall this is a practical health book that takes men's sexuality seriously. (Aug.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

In the men's health arena, no subjects receive more attention than sexual dysfunction and impotence. In this comprehensive male sex manual for the lay reader, Milsten, a urologist and the medical director of the Center for Sexual Health in Woodbury, NJ, and Slowinski, a clinical psychologist and professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, present state-of-the-art knowledge about the sexual anxiety-provoking subjects that all males may experience at some time in their lives. The material represents the combined advice of both a urologist and a psychologist because problems of impotence may involve both specialties. Intended for the general public--all ages and both sexes--this book covers the spectrum of male sexuality from anatomy to Viagra in clear, straightforward, easy-to-understand prose. Recommended.--James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

What People Are Saying

John Money
John Money, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Medical Psychology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School

Milsten and Slowinski are on the cutting edge—as much at home in the organics as the psychogenics of erectile disability.

Pepper Schwartz
Pepper Schwartz, Ph.D. co-author of What I've Learned About Sex

There is no book quite like this in the marketplace. The Sexual Male balances psychological and medical information that men, and their partners, will want to know so that they can be intelligent advocates in their own behalf. I can't think of a man who wouldn't benefit from reading this book.

Arnold A. Lazarus
Arnold A. Lazarus, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Rutgers University

What a splendid idea for a prominent urologist to team up with a knowledgeable psychologist and write a state-of-the-art account of sexual dysfunction and its remedies. This user-friendly book is a delight to read, and its messages are very clear, easily found, and readily understood.

Sandra R. Leiblum
Sandra R. Leiblum, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Center for Sexual and Marital Health, UMDNJ

The Sexual Male is a wonderful synthesis of sound, sane and sensible advice for dealing with male sexual problems. The writing is exquisitely clear and precise and each chapter provides useful suggestions for not only dealing with existing problems but preventing new ones.

Raymond C. Rosen
Raymond C. Rosen, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Sexual and Marital Health, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Milsten and Slowinski have broken new ground in their approach to the subject of male sexual dysfunction. This is one of the most thoughtful and intelligent books on the topic, and it will be an invaluable resource to the many men and women who are coping with sexual dysfunction and its consequences. I recommend it highly.

Beverly Whipple
Beverly Whipple, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., President, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists

This easy-to-read book provides male and female readers with the latest information about male sexual function and dysfunction. It is extremely 'user friendly' and provides practical approaches to many of the concerns faced by couples today. I highly recommend it to people who want to lean more about themselves and their relationships and to those who want to improve their sexual lives.

June Machover Reinisch
June Machover Reinisch, Ph.D. Director Emerita, The Kinsey Institute

Whether young or old, currently experiencing erection problems or still believing, "it could never happen to me (or him)," this book speaks clearly and effectively to all who seek and expect a full and enjoyable sex life.

Alan J. Wein
Alan J. Wein, M.D., Professor and Chair, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania

The Sexual Male addresses many aspects of male sexual dysfunction in a scientific fashion, and manages to do so with a logical and practical viewpoint, interspersed with humor and personal philosophy.

Harold I. Lief
Harold I. Lief, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

This is a book for every guy and gal in the country. At some time in his life every man will experience erectile dysfunction. The quip about the difference between anxiety and panic tells it all: Anxiety is the first time a guy can't get an erection twice; panic is the second time he can't attain an erection once. Why not prevent panic? This book will definitely help.

David Schnarch
David Schnarch, author of Passionate Marriage

Men (and women) trying to understand the causes and treatments of erection difficulties will welcome The Sexual Male. Broad coverage and clear presentation of important facts make this a useful resource.

Richard Sadovsky
Richard Sadovsky, M.D., M.S., State University of NY Health Science Center

The Sexual Male is a uniquely thorough review of sexual problems and solutions that will undoubtedly clarify how sexual health contributes to better relationships and personal well-being_. A useful tool to educate both the patient and the caring clinician.

Derek C. Polonsky
Derek C. Polonsky, M.D., author of Talking About Sex

Drs. Milsten and Slowinski have produced an engaging, comprehensive way the body works to the impact of the many psychological subtleties that influence how we behave and function sexually.

Tom Nesbitt
Tom E. Nesbitt, Sr., M.D., past president, American Medical Association

This book may well be the best source of analysis as to the physiology, pathology and management of erectile function that I have yet to find.

Ridwan Shabsigh
Ridwan Shabsigh, M.D., Director, New York Center for Human Sexuality

This book fills an urgent need to inform and educate patients with impotence or erectile dysfunction. The authors are two highly knowledgeable senior professionals in the field of sexual medicine who bring balance and sensitivity to the subject.

Terrence R. Malloy
Terrence R. Malloy, M.D., F.A.C.S., Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, Pennsylvania Hospital

With wit and brevity, Milsten and Slowinski combine practical information with timely assessments of diagnosis, treatment, and medical therapy. This text will enlighten all men with sexual dysfunction as well as their frustrated partners.

So Idle a Rogue or Thai Massage

2009-01-21T17:26:00.000-08:00

So Idle a Rogue: The Life and Death of Lord Rochester

Author: Jeremy Lamb

One of the brightest and most outrageous luminaries at the court of Charles II, he was to drink himself to death by the age of 33. Famous for the obscenity of his amorous poems, he may have also penned some of the most moving, witty and lyrical love poetry of all time. Lamb rescues the man who blazed through his short life in glory and tragedy, genius and despair.

Book about: War and Decision or The Seventeen Traditions

Thai Massage: Using Massage, Yoga and Acupressure to Balance the Body's Natural Energies

Author: Nicky Smith

This is a relatively new practice outside Thailand, now rapidly gaining popularity in the West, and there a very few books to date aimed at a mainstream Western reader.

Breathing for a Living or Lose That Baby Fat

2009-01-20T13:25:00.000-08:00

Breathing for a Living: A Memoir

Author: Laura Rothenberg

Now in paperback comes the moving account by an extraordinary young woman who mounted a daily struggle with cystic fibrosis in an effort to lead an ordinary life.

Twenty-one-year-old Laura Rothenberg had always tried to live a normal life -- even with lungs that betrayed her and a constant awareness that she might not live to see her next birthday. Like most people born with cystic fibrosis, the chronic disease that affects primarily the lungs, Laura struggled to come to grips with a life that had already been compromised in many ways. Sometimes healthy and able to attend school, other times hospitalized for weeks, Laura found solace in keeping a diary. In her writing, she could be open, honest, and irreverent, like the young person she was. Yet behind this voice is a penetrating maturity about her mortality, revealing a will and temperament that is fierce and insightful.

Laura Rothenberg was a student at Brown University until her death at age 22.

Booklist

Completely original … a crash course in the history of twentieth century culture . . . leaving us shaking with laughter.

The New York Times

"I'm a typical college student, if there is such a thing," she writes. "Except that I won't be able to look back on my life from an old age." An awareness of that immutable fact colors everything about Ms. Rothenberg's story, and yet her book is much more scrappy, tenacious and vibrant than it is sad. She succeeded resoundingly in turning those proverbial lemons into lemonade. — Janet Maslin

The Washington Post

Breathing for a Living tells the story of Rothenberg's fears and hopes as she waits for new lungs, and her discouragement, suffering and flashes of joy once she has received them. Woven among the descriptions of medical procedures and the inspiring, imperfect love of friends and family, an immense courage is on display here, a marvelous and rare courage. — Laura Rothenberg

Entertainment Weekly

Remarkably clear-eyed.

San Francisco Chronicle

It provokes a rush of feeling . . .

Boston Globe

Through the patient and painstaking detail of her plight, Rothenberg manages to convey a sense of who she was.

San Diego Tribune

The Laura Rothenberg that lingers in the mind is a . . . witty and precocious New Yorker.

Publishers Weekly

"I'm a typical college student, if there is such a thing," writes Rothenberg in this far from typical work. "Except that I won't be able to look back on my life from an old age." Rothenberg, who died in March at the age of 22, originally wrote these calm, devastating lines in an essay as a freshman at Brown University. During her sophomore year, after Rothenberg became so ill from cystic fibrosis that she had to leave school, she decided to weave this essay into a much longer account. Starting early in 2001, as she waited in Boston for a double lung transplant, and continuing until her death, Rothenberg collected her personal diary entries, poems and copies of the e-mails she wrote to her many friends-dispatches from the battlefield of her own body. Shining through every report, every raw or bittersweet detail, is a fierce dedication to honesty and an immense desire to connect to friends and to life. "We have lungs," one of her doctors calls to tell her early one morning. Rothenberg describes repeating the phrase into the phone to her still-sleeping parents; they were on their feet and packing by the time she repeated the joyous phrase to other friends, who repeated it like a mantra into mobile phones until the waiting room at Boston's Children's Hospital was overflowing with people who loved her-"Team Laura." Too soon, however, the joy of the transplant and her return to Brown gives way to descriptions of one setback after another, culminating in rejection of the lungs. Refusing to indulge in even a wisp of false hope or consolation, Rothenberg reminds us that there is a power in us that is greater than even the greatest suffering. This slim book will help anyone whose life has been touched by cystic fibrosis, and countless others as well. It is an unforgettably real testament of the strength of one human spirit, and of our common human wish to know and say and be the truth. First serial to Glamour magazine. (July) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

"It provokes a rush of feeling . . . " (San Francisco Chronicle)

Kirkus Reviews

A posthumously published account of the 21-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer's decision to undergo a lung transplant offers a memorable testament to her resilient spirit. This finely wrought chronicle about choosing to live to the full in the face of death admirably balances the author's fears and hopes. NPR Radio Diaries contributor Rothenberg is neither mawkishly self-pitying nor unrealistically optimistic as she reviews her life and the choices she faces. After she was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and underwent surgery when she was three days old, she experienced countless operations, hospital stays, and ER visits. She saw fellow sufferers die young, and had no illusions about the disease; statistically, her midlife expectancy was 28. But at 19, the year the memoir begins, she is contemplating a lung transplant. A student at Brown, she swims, loves writing, and has numerous friends, but, as she notes, "here I am at college, and I can't write about the future." Her pancreas doesn't function, she must take insulin, her lungs are congested, and she can't have children. She'd be happy to have vacations that didn't involve hospitalizations. As she mulls over whether she should undergo the 12-hour operation that will deter the disease's progression, she admits fearing that it won't work. Once decided on surgery, she writes in diary entries and e-mails about her feelings, activities, friends, and family as she waits for a suitable tissue match. The operation in July 2001 is brutal, and so is her recovery; she suffers bowel obstructions, pneumonia, and lymphoma as her body rejects the lungs. But despite the hospital stays, Rothenberg sees friends, goes back briefly to Brown, and isdetermined not to let "my health rule my life." An epilogue written shortly before her death in March 2003 acknowledges that she's experiencing acute rejection, and doesn't know whether it is easier to live or die. Moving for all the right reasons.

Lose That Baby Fat!: Bouncing Back the First Year After Having a Baby--A Mom Friendly Fitness Program

Author: LaReine Chabut

In this easy-to-follow program that blends into a mom's new (and busy) lifestyle, LaReine, a fitness expert, model, and exercise guru, emphasizes realistic weight loss, positive self-image, and renewed overall fitness, helping new mothers feel great and energetic. Detailed photos walk the reader through the step-by-step process of weight loss, featuring exercises that jumpstart fitness while targeting specific problems like losing tummy fat and toning upper arms. Stressing minimum effort and maximum results, moms gain strength, flexibility, and endurance from quick ten minute sessions that can be accomplished in their homes without expensive equipment or a babysitter.

Library Journal

Here are two books that aim to help mothers get into shape. Fitness instructor, personal trainer, and mother Chabut presents an encouraging and supportive 12-month fitness guide including chapters like "Three Months After Birth: Phenomenal Abdominals" that feature clearly explained and illustrated exercises. Varied workouts using an exercise ball, jump rope, resistance bands, and hand weights are included, along with useful month-by-month advice on topics such as "How You May Be Feeling" and "How Your Body May Look." Nutrition coach Keller offers a 30-day guide also customized for new mothers hoping to lose postpartum pounds. Combining gentle exercises with detailed daily meal plans, her easy-to-understand guide provides valuable explanations of nutrition topics. Included are 100-plus healthy recipes, alternative meal plans for vegetarians, shopping lists, and suggested exercises for mom and baby to do together. Lose is well suited to first-time mothers seeking guidance and reassurance about their changing bodies and who want a clear time line for resuming physical activity of increasing intensity. Though the eating plan in Body is sensible and balanced, some readers may object to Keller's frequent mentions of her celebrity clientele, the possibly unrealistic subtitle, and the requirement of making several recipes each day. Still, both books are recommended for larger public libraries.-Ingrid Levin, Florida Atlantic Univ. Libs., Jupiter Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

La nueva revoluci n diet tica or Yoga Abs

2009-01-18T06:21:00.000-08:00

La nueva revoluciуn dietйtica (Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution)

Author: Robert C Atkins

A thorough introduction to the weight-loss diet that has swept the nation, this book outlines the science behind, and the practice of, Dr. Atkins's diet. Based on the premise that less insulin in the body results in less fat storage and fewer food cravings, the Atkins diet is extremely low in carbohydrates, which helps to regulate insulin production and decrease circulating insulin. Included in the book is a carbohydrate gram counter as well as delicious low-carbohydrate recipes written using culinary terms most common in Spain and Latin America.

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Yoga Abs: Moving From Your Core (Rodmell Press Yoga Shorts Series)

Author: Judith Hanson Lasater

Yoga Abs outlines a series of exercises, yoga poses ( asana), and breathing practices ( pranayama), designed to achieve optimal health for this crucial area, which houses the organs of both digestion and procreation.

Jesus the Village Psychiatrist or There Are No Secrets

2009-01-17T19:19:00.000-08:00

Jesus the Village Psychiatrist

Author: Donald Capps

All of the Gospels and the whole of Christian tradition depict Jesus as a miraculous healer who can cure blindness, leprosy, hemorrhages, and a host of other maladies. But how did Jesus actually heal? In this fascinating book, Donald Capps argues that Jesus was keenly attuned to the psychological causes of illness and through his ministry brought healing to body and soul alike.

Capps argues that one of Jesus' purposes was to heal people from mental illnesses, which people in the ancient world would have called possessions and seen manifested in physical ailments such as blindness, paralysis, or other symptoms. As Capps argues, Jesus' mission involved attending to and overcoming the various psychological and cultural causes behind these illnesses.

Fully engaged in historical Jesus scholarship, Capps carefully examines Jesus' deep concern for both physical and emotional health and shows how his proclamation of the kingdom of God envisioned a world without mental illness.

About the Author:
Donald Capps is William Harte Felmeth Professor of Pastoral Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey

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Jesus has worn so many masks-country boy, unacknowledged king, sex magician-that it can hardly surprise us to see him don another. Capps (pastoral theology, Princeton Theological Seminary) selects several of Jesus's "healing miracles" and makes of them something not beyond the order of nature but prodigies of psychological and psychiatric insight and healing. Capps is necessarily reliant on Freud's definitions of hysteria-broadly rejected by his own profession-so his analysis has a shaky foundation. Yet the kernel of his idea is striking, and this provocative study may give rise to others with better grounding.

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     xi
Somatoform Disorders
From Psychosomatic Illness to Somatoform Disorders     3
A Short History of Hysteria     15
Freud's Writings on Conversion Disorder     27
Jesus Cures
Two Paralyzed Men     37
Two Blind Men     57
The Demon-Possessed Boy     81
Jairus's Daughter and the Hemorrhaging Woman     105
Epilogue: The Woman Who Cared for Jesus     133
References     137
Index     141

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There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man-Ch'ing and His TaiI Chi Chuan

Author: Wolfe Lowenthal

"Wolfe Lowenthal's quiet little memoir will with window-opening wisdom reinforce, I think, my view of how Cheng stood on Tai Chi. It tells how a young writer reacted to this strange Chinese man when he appeared in New York City in the mid-1960s and stayed there for a decade before returning to Taiwan to die in 1975. In a nickel town where neurosis is a cardinal virtue, the Tai Chi center established by Cheng soon became an oasis of learning. In my visits there I was invariably approached by a quiet fellow with a ready smile and loads of questions. His form and sensing hands improved but he never lost his kindly ways. This led me once to tell the three seniors that the one person in the club who best exemplified Tai Chi was this junior. That man who has since become a teacher of the art is the author if this book."
-Robert W. Smith, from the Preface

Dr McDougalls Digestive Tune Up or Static Contraction Training

2009-01-17T10:17:00.000-08:00

Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up

Author: John McDougall

Instructional material that explains the how's and why's a plethora of digestive disorders that plague our society can be healed and/or prevented by changing to the dietary principles and lifestyle recommended by Dr. McDougall.

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Static Contraction Training

Author: Peter Sisco

"This is truly an incredible discovery that could cause physiology books to be rewritten." -- Ironman Magazine "A thorough, productive weight workout in less than three minutes? You better believe it! Larger muscles. Stronger techniques. Fewer injuries. What more do you want?" -- Martial Arts Training Magazine From bodybuilding and fitness pioneers Peter Sisco and John R. Little comes this revolutionary guide to building maximum muscle size and strength--using workouts that last as little as two minutes! Based on the authors' groundbreaking new research, Static Contraction Training reveals how a program consisting of only six 15- to 30-second exercises per workout will build muscle size and strength more efficiently than any other method. Learn firsthand the concepts that are revolutionizing bodybuilding, including:

Why training more than once a week--or longer than five minutes--can compromise your progress
How to stimulate maximum muscle mass
Nutritional fact vs. fiction
Gaining muscle without fat
Your weak link and how to overcome it in your next workout
The "law" that guarantees you huge muscle growth Whether you are a weekend athlete, beginning bodybuilder, or champion, the information in this book will forever change the way you view bodybuilding and strength training exercise. Peter Sisco is editor of Ironman Magazine's Ultimate Bodybuilding series and co-author of Power Factor Training and The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout. John R. Little, the innovator of the Static Contraction Method of strength training, is the editor of the Bruce Lee Library Series and co-author of Power Factor Trainingand The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout.

Hand Reflexology or Fast and Simple Diabetes Menus

2009-01-16T22:15:00.000-08:00

Hand Reflexology: Stimulate Your Body's Healing System

Author: Louise Keet

Use pressure points on the hands to stimulate the body’s healing system. That’s reflexology, and it has been a popular therapeutic tool for more than 5,000 years. Here are more than two dozen treatments—each lasting from 10-15 minutes—that can balance and detoxify the body, combat stress, and improve emotional well-being. Relieve the symptoms of common ailments, including headaches, indigestion, muscle aches, colds, and motion sickness. Alleviate the discomforts of pregnancy and menopause. Soothe a fussy baby. Hand
reflexology is safe for everyone, including children and the elderly—and, because it can be done discreetly in small spaces, it’s a great alternative to traditional foot reflexology. Color photos illustrate every treatment, and information on reflexology theory and basic techniques help you maximize its benefits.

Introduction     6
Why reflexology?     6
Why hand reflexology?     6
Why is reflexology so popular?     8
Who can reflexology help?     8
History of reflexology     10
Modern reflexology     11
Clinical evidence     12
How does reflexology work?     14
The theories behind reflexology     16
Reflexology and the hand     22
Cross-reflexes     24
Anatomy and physiology of the body     26
A hand reflexology session     40
Things to bear in mind     42
Preparation     44
Opening moves     48
Closing moves     50
Basic techniques     52
How to use the treatments     57
Treating common conditions: Treating yourself: 10-minute treatments     58
Head conditions     60
Ear, nose and throat conditions     62
Neck and shoulder conditions     64
Hand and wrist conditions     66
Respiratory conditions     68
Digestive conditions     70
Urinary conditions     74
Reproductive conditions     76
Balancingthe body systems: Treating others: 10-minute treatments     78
Skin conditions     80
Musculo-skeletal system     82
Circulatory system     84
Immune system     86
Nervous system     88
Endocrine system     90
Respiratory system     92
Digestive system     94
Urinary system     96
Reproductive system     98
Specialized hand reflexology: Treating yourself and others: 15-minute treatments     100
Pregnancy, weeks 14-36     102
Pregnancy, weeks 37-40     104
Babies     106
Young children     108
Menopause     110
Golden years     112
Terminal illness     114
Coping with stress     116
Counteracting stress     118
Emotional wellbeing     120
Nutrients and detoxification     122
Index     124
Acknowledgements     128

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Fast and Simple Diabetes Menus

Author: Betty Wedman St Louis

Fast and Simple Diabetes Menus provides more than 125delicious and easy diabetic-friendly recipes, plus guidelinesfor adapting menus and recipes to accommodate complicatingfactors that often accompany diabetes, including high bloodpressure, high cholesterol, kidney disease, and celiac spruedisease. Based on the latest exchange lists and research, thebook includes four weeks of menus.

Betty Wedman-St. Louis, Ph.D., R.D., C.N.S., is a former president of the American Association of Diabetes Educators. She is the executive director of the American College of Nutrition and the author of several cookbooks for people with diabetes. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

A Meat Eaters Guide to Vegetarian Children or The Cultures of Caregiving

2009-01-16T13:14:00.000-08:00

A Meat-Eater's Guide to Vegetarian Children

Author: Lauretta Benson

The author understands the challenges of finding vegetarian products on a regional and national level. This guide is a sharing of her knowledge in satisfying the palate of vegetarian children and teens as easy as possible.

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The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers

Author: Carol Levin

As the population ages and the health care system focuses on cost-containment, family caregivers have become the frontline providers of most long-term and chronic care. Patient care at home falls mainly on untrained and unprepared family members, who struggle to adjust to the new roles, responsibilities, and expenses. Because the culture of family caregivers -- their values, priorities, and relationships to the patient -- often differs markedly from that of professionals, the result can be conflict and misunderstanding.

In The Cultures of Caregiving, Carol Levine and Thomas Murray bring together accomplished physicians, nurses, social workers, and policy experts to examine the differences and conflicts (and sometimes common ground) between family caregivers and health care professionals -- and to suggest ways to improve the situation. Topics addressed include family caregivers and the health care system; cultural diversity and family caregiving; the changing relationship between nurses, home care aides, and families; long-term health care policy; images of family caregivers in film; and the ethical dimensions of professional and family responsibilities. The Cultures of Caregiving provides needed answers in the contemporary crisis of family caregiving for a readership of professionals and students in medical ethics, health policy, and such fields as primary care, geriatrics, oncology, nursing, and social work.

Contributors: Donna Jean Appell, R.N., Project DOCC: Delivery of Chronic Care; Jeffrey Blustein, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Barnard College; Judith Feder, Ph.D., Georgetown University; Gladys Gonzalaz-Ramos, M.S.W., Ph.D., New YorkUniversity School of Social Work and NYU Medical School; David A. Gould, Ph.D., United Hospital Fund in New York City; Eileen Hanley, R.N., M.B.A., St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan / Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, New York City; Maggie Hoffman, Project DOCC: Delivery of Chronic Care; Alexis Kuerbis, C.S.W., Mount Sinai Medical Center; Carol Levine, M.A., United Hospital Fund, in New York City; Jerome K. Lowenstein, M.D., New York University Medical Center; Mathy Mezey, R.N., Ed.D., New York University; Thomas H. Murray, Ph.D., The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York; Judah L. Ronch, Ph.D., LifeSpan DevelopMental Systems; Sheila M. Rothman, Ph.D., Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Rick Surpin, Independence Care System.

Living with Cancer or 365 Ways to Keep Kids Safe

2009-01-16T02:12:00.000-08:00

Living with Cancer

Author: Zoann Dreyer

Cancer is a disease characterized by the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. The spread of these cells in the body can be fatal. There are more than 100 types of cancer, each with a special kind of treatment, unique problems, and general outlook. Cancer is largely a disease of older adults, although young people can have some types of cancer too.

Living with Cancer explains this disease and provides teens with the information they need to understand it. The book addresses the causes of cancer, specific cancers common in teens, what to expect from treatment, paying for care, and how to help yourself, friends, or family members who may have cancer. Lists of suggested reading and resources guide readers' further research. This accessible book is the ideal one-stop guide for those living with cancer, whether in themselves or a loved one.

About the Author:
ZoAnn Dreyer, M.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology/Oncology, at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She is also a medical director of the Long-Term TV's Healthline. Dreyer is additionally the medical director of the Long-Term Survivor Team at Texas at Texas Children's Cancer Center, Texas Children's Hospital

What Is Cancer?     1
Causes of Cancer: What Do We Know?     11
Your Genetic Blueprint: What Are Your Risks?     20
Types of Cancer Most Common in Teens     27
If You've Been Diagnosed     32
Radiation Treatment: What to Expect     39
Chemotherapy Treatment: What to Expect     52
Preventing Cancer: How You Can Live a Healthy Life     65
When Someone You Love Has Cancer     77
Paying for Care     86
National Organizations     94
Headwear and Wig Mail-Order Options     155
Cancer Centers     157
Camps for Kids with Cancer     171
Glossary     188
Read More about It     192
Index     195

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365 Ways to Keep Kids Safe: How to Make Your Child's World Safer

Author: Don C Keenan

Written by a nationally recognized child advocate attorney, Don C. Keenan reveals 365 Ways to Keep Kids Safe. Included in the book are user-friendly outlines and checklists to prevent injuries caused by everyday hazards. Parents and childcare providers who use this book will certainly provide a safer world in which children can play.

Fight Cancer with Vitamins and Supplements or Healthy Habits

2009-01-15T16:09:00.000-08:00

Fight Cancer with Vitamins and Supplements: A Guide to Prevention and Treatment

Author: Kedar N Prasad

• Clear information on why vitamins and micronutrients are essential to prevent cancer and to recover from it.

• Includes the latest studies from the field of dietary cancer prevention.

• Provides a simple program of nutritional supplements that will improve your odds of avoiding cancer.

• Written by the nation's leading expert on vitamins and cancer research.

The evidence is in and it is overwhelming: the micronutrients found in certain foods and supplements can have a positive and powerful effect in the battle to prevent cancer. For those with cancer, these same micronutrients can enhance the beneficial effects of conventional cancer treatments, reduce the toxic side effects of those treatments, and improve the long-term prognosis. Fight Cancer with Vitamins and Supplements explains the latest studies in this cutting-edge field, gives you a simple nutritional program to follow, and separates the facts from the myths on the most promising anticancer compounds, including the antioxidants coenzyme-Q10 and lipoic acid and herbs such as green tea and garlic. It explains everything from the surprising role of selenium in cancer prevention to the reason why many vitamins in foods are destroyed during storage. It also shows how the same simple program recommended for preventing cancer is equally effective in preventing heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease.

Foreword
Preface
1. Fact and Fiction about Antioxidants, Diet, and Cancer
2. Free Radicals and Antioxidants
3. The Facts about Cancer
4. Mutagens and Carcinogens in the Environment, Lifestyle, and Diet
5. Cancer Prevention Studies and Recommendations
6. Antioxidants in Combination with Standard Therapy in the Treatment of Cancer
7. Recommended Dietary Allowances
Appendix: Major Centers for Studies on Antioxidants, Diet, and Cancer
Further Reading
Index

Kedar N. Prasad, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Vitamins and Cancer Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. An eminent scientist who has spent 30 years researching cancer, he has published more than 200 papers on the topic and is the former president of the International Association for Vitamin and Nutritional Oncology.

K. Che Prasad, M.D., is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a fellow at the University of California, San Francisco.

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Healthy Habits: 20 Simple Ways to Improve Your Health

Author: David J Frahm

After the publication of A Cancer Battle Plan, Anne FrahmЖs riveting account of her successful fight against cancer, thousands of people wrote asking for more help in knowing what to do to avoid degenerative diseases. Healthy Habits, an easy-to- follow guide to taking personal responsibility for your health, is the FrahmsЖ response. Based on years of research and the findings of hundreds of doctors, scientists, and nutritionists, this book provides all the information needed to begin preventing serious disease, curing minor ailments, and feeling better. While most of us have only a few critical bad habits standing in the way of improved health, our most dangerous tendencies often are things we believe are good for us. Using the strategies proposed in this book, readers can easily start to develop good habits to replace bad ones. Healthy Habits offers an invaluable nutritional program for anyone wishing to perpetuate good health.

Chi Gung or Oddball Ointments Powerful Potions and Fabulous Folk Remedies Thatll Cure Almost Anything That Ails You

2009-01-15T07:07:00.000-08:00

Chi Gung: Chinese Healing, Energy and Natural Magick

Author: LV Carni

Would you like to be able to heal yourself or others? How about communicate with spirits or pick up the energies within objects? Would you like to be able to use your mind to make things move? And would you like to do all of this without any sort of expensive paraphernalia? Then you need to get Chi Gung by L. V. Carnie.

This is truly an astonishing book, filled with all sorts of rarely revealed techniques. The book instructs in everything from diet to exercise. It shows you how to prepare mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It teaches the exercises you need to learn in order to see what the energy of the body (called "chi) feels like, how to enhance it and cycle it throughout your body, and then how to use it for everything from healing to magick.

You'll discover that breathing properly is the single most important concept in chi gung. It enables you to increase or decrease the amount and flow of chi in your body. There are three main styles of breathing for chi gung: natural breathing (what happens when you concentrate on the movements or positions of the various exercises while not thinking about any breathing pattern), Buddhist breathing (deep breathing that coordinates your breathing with the movement of your diaphragm and stomach muscles), and Taoist reverse breathing (the opposite of Buddhist breathing). How they are used is explained in the book.

The practice of the techniques in this book will help you to stay sharp and even get smarter. They will help you withstand heat, cold, and pain. They will even help you to defend yourself by discovering how to sense danger.

In a very real sense, the possibilities that are open to a student of chigung are almost limitless. If you are already practicing any system of magick, spirituality, or martial arts, you owe it to yourself to add the techniques of Chi Gung to your practices.

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Oddball Ointments, Powerful Potions and Fabulous Folk Remedies That'll Cure Almost Anything That Ails You

Author: Jean Karen Thomas

Recipes for homemade tonics, salves, and poultices that can prevent, heal, and cure common health ailments are featured in this reference to folk medicines. Products in the kitchen cabinet, refrigerator, medicine chest, and garden can replace or supplement many expensive medicines through the innovative formulas detailed. Easing arthritis with a hot pepper cream, relieving back pain with a hot tea toddy, and lowering cholesterol with a dash of lemon juice are examples of the benefits of using these home remedies.

Author Biography: Jean Karen Thomas has written more than 30 books about health.

The Yoga of Sound or A Womans Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause

2009-01-14T19:05:00.000-08:00

The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant

Author: Russill Paul

The eye dominates the world, calculating and evaluating through the visual. Yet sound and music are the essential carrier waves of consciousness. For thousands of years, Hindu spirituality has understood the profound effect that sound has on human well-being. Largely unknown in the West, yet developing alongside the popular form of hatha yoga that has swept the world, the yoga of sound is a 3,500-year-old spiritual system for reducing stress and maintaining health.

In this inspiring book and accompanying CD, renowned musician and teacher Russill Paul explores the four powerful streams of this system: mantras (sound), mudras (sacred gestures), pranayama (breath control), and dhyana (meditation). Like his award-winning music, Paul's presentation of this ancient tradition is accessible for modern Western tastes and lifestyles. In lucid exercises presented both in the book and the CD, Paul shows how everyone can learn the art of mantra simply by training the voice, and how these practices can help reduce stress, enhance emotional well-being, and optimize the flow of energy within the body.

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A Woman's Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause

Author: Mary Jane Minkin

Recent groundbreaking research has provided abundant new information on menopause and how women should approach it. This book carefully considers all these findings, explains in detail what we now know about menopause and its treatment, and offers sound guidance for women dealing with the physical and emotional health issues surrounding menopause.
Menopause specialist Dr. Mary Jane Minkin, nationally known not only for her expertise but also for her approachability, answers all the questions about menopause that women want—and need—to ask their health care providers. Dr. Minkin presents scientifically grounded information, explained helpfully and in a non-judgmental manner.

Among the topics included in this volume:

• Hormone replacement therapy, its pros and cons

• Controlling the symptoms of PMS

• Treatments for menopause-related hot flashes, insomnia, and depression

• Menopause and sexuality

• Osteoporosis

• Preventing and detecting cancer of the reproductive organs

• Healthy lifestyle choices for menopausal women

• What the Women’s Health Initiative study findings really mean

Library Journal

In 2002, the National Institutes of Health ended the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) study that was part of the Women's Health Initiative after it was discovered that hormones-which were supposed to prevent heart disease and osteoporosis while relieving hot flashes and night sweats-actually increased the risk of heart attack, stroke, blood clots, and breast cancer. Minkin (obstetrics & gynecology, Yale Univ. Sch. of Medicine) and freelance writer Wright have revised and updated their 1996 work, What Every Woman Needs To Know About Menopause, to help women cope with the resulting confusion. In a brief history of HRT and an explanation of the Women's Health Initiative study, the authors explain how to interpret the findings and put the risks of breast cancer and heart disease in perspective. The pros and cons of HRT, PMS and its possible link to perimenopause, treatments for menopausal symptoms, sexuality, and osteoporosis are discussed. The authors also cover cancer of the reproductive organs, heart health, general fitness for midlife women, surgical procedures, and "fibroids, incontinence, itching, and other midlife annoyances." Owing to its objective coverage of the HRT controversy and the Women's Health Initiative, this valuable resource and worthy replacement for Morris Notelovitz and Diana Tonnesson's Menopause and Midlife Health is essential for all public and consumer health libraries.-Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

	Foreword
1	The women's health initiative and what it means to you	1
2	The physiology of menopause : how it happens	9
3	Signs and symptoms	18
4	Perimenopause or PMS?	45
5	Menopause and your body	58
6	Menopause and your mind	74
7	Coping with the symptoms	90
8	The risks and benefits of hormone therapy	108
9	A practical guide to hormone therapy	128
10	Osteoporosis and heart health : two long-term issues	152
11	Menopause and sexuality	170
12	Fibroids, incontinence, itching, and other midlife annoyances	189
13	Cancer of the reproductive organs	221
14	Major and minor surgical procedures	284
15	You and your doctor	321
16	Lifestyle	343

The Healthy Diet Calorie Counter or Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Diabetes

2009-01-14T09:04:00.000-08:00

The Healthy Diet Calorie Counter

Author: Kirsten Hartvig

Helps readers identify foods that are both low in calories and rich in essential nutrients the body needs to be healthy. At-a-glance tables show the nutritional value of more than 600 foods.

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Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Diabetes

Author: Elaine Mage

Here's the revised and updated edition of the important and useful book that has sold more than 100,000 copies since it was first published four years ago. It gives a detailed, yet non-technical overview of diabetes, specifically Type II diabetes. The author clearly presents the latest medical findings on what causes diabetes, available treatments, and the dietary implications of this disease with:

A new A-Z guide to heart-healthy eating (because people with diabetes are at increased risk for heart disease).
An updated section on trans fatty acids and how to be a "trans fat" detective.
A new section on smart snacking.
The 10 food steps to freedom.
The latest research and findings on diet and Type II diabetes.
The key steps that have been particularly successful for weight loss in people with Type ll diabetes.
Dozens of healthful, practical, mouth-watering recipes, plus supermarket and restaurant advice.

Parents Nutrition Bible or Shabby Chic

2009-01-13T22:02:00.000-08:00

Parents' Nutrition Bible: A Guide To Raising Healthy Children

Author: Earl Mindell

Dr. Earl Mindell, internationally bestselling author of Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, now provides you with an invaluable guide to selecting the vitamins, foods, nutrients, and supplements that are right for your child.

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Shabby Chic: The Gift of Giving

Author: Rachel Ashwell

Now your gifts can reflect your warm, caring thoughts and reflect the beautiful and comforting style that is Shabby Chic. Rachel Ashwell shares the wonderful gift ideas she has collected throughout the years and shows you how to express your sentiments with a classic alluring style. She shows you how to pick the perfect gift for the perfect person or occasion and then how to wrap and decorate it with style. For example, instead of giving your fashion-obsessed best friend a sweater in a box, why not put it on an old antique dressmaker's dummy? Instead of giving an impersonal holiday card from Hallmark, why not create personalized cards that fit every occasion? The Shabby Chic Gift of Giving is a perfect book for the holiday season, and it will offer year round gift giving guidance for birthdays, Valentine's Day, Christmas or Hanukkah, Mother's Day, Father's Day and other special occasions.

Hands On Healing for Pets or The Side Effects Bible

2009-01-13T13:00:00.000-08:00

Hands-On Healing for Pets: The Animal Lover's Essential Guide to Using Healing Energy

Author: Margrit Coates

This book can teach you how to make a real difference in your pet's happiness and well-being through hands-on energy healing. Energy healing is a non-invasive, complementary, yet very effective therapy that can be used to improve your pet's health and behavior. Practitioner Margrit Coates provides practical advice on when, where, and how to use hands-on healing; whether you're caring for a dog or cat, rabbit or gerbil, bird or reptile, the essential steps are provided. Hands-On Healing for Pets also includes sections on other alternative treatments, including crystals, massage, and flower remedies, as well as fascinating case studies.

Go to: Book of Tea or Bakers Dozen Cookbook

The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications

Author: Frederic J Vagnini

Fatigue, dry mouth, weight gain, nausea, liver damage, stroke, heart failure. The list of side effects caused by over-the-counter and prescription drugs is seemingly endless, and every year tens of millions of Americans suffer from such unwelcome consequences of their medications. Most believe these side effects are the inevitable price they must pay for good health. But that is not the case.

Bringing to light the most cutting-edge scientific research, The Side Effects Bible explains to readers how up to thirty percent of drug-induced side effects are caused because the drug saps the human body of essential vitamins and minerals-everyday nutrients that can easily be replaced by following simple, healthy dietary guidelines. This first-of-its-kind reference guide outlines the specific foods and supplements to take to counter the side effects of over 300 common medications. For example:

• Eat leafy greens to replenish folic acid depleted by oral contraceptives and over-the-counter pain relievers like ibuprofen or aspirin.
• Take coenzyme Q10 supplements to guard against the effects of antidepressants like Elavil and cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor.
• Eat bananas when you use laxatives to prevent irregular heartbeat, muscle weakness, and nausea caused by potassium depletion.
• Salmon, sardines, and egg yolk's contain Vitamin B12, which can counteract the risk of anemia and nerve damage caused by Zantac, Pepcid, and other ulcer medications.
• Eat parsley to help prevent problems with blood clotting caused by penicillin and other drugs that rob you of Vitamin K.

The Side Effects Bible is anessential—even lifesaving—guide that tells readers exactly what to eat for every drug they take, as even minor deficiencies of necessary nutrients can bring on major difficulties.

Does This Make Me Look Fat or The Whartons Back Book

2009-01-13T00:59:00.000-08:00

Does This Make Me Look Fat?

Author: Leah Feldon

With a rousing “we’re all in this together” attitude, Leah Feldon proves that a well-chosen wardrobe can render any figure fabulous. “All we have to do,” writes Feldon, “is choose the right clothes—clothes that camouflage any real or imagined figure flaws rather than highlighting them—and learn how to do it with ultimate style and confidence.” Take five pounds off your look with a new hemline; disguise a bit of bulge with a cleverly designed blouse; highlight your best assets with the perfect accessories. The key to “camouflage chic” is dressing to suit your body type, comfort level, and lifestyle—all while maximizing your own personal flair.
Instead of spending another moment agonizing in front of the closet, you’ll learn how to:
* distinguish between “yes” and “no” colors
* lose the tummy without the tuck
* perk up your basic black
* create optical illusions for a long, lean look
* conquer the dreaded bathing-suit challenge
* follow timeless tenets of good taste
Packed with empowering, easy-to-implement tips, fun illustrations, and celebrity style secrets, Does This Make Me Look Fat? provides all the information you’ll need to create a slimmer, more stylish, and better-proportioned look (and to help your man do it, too!).

Author Biography: Leah Feldon has been helping people dress well for more than twenty years with her books — Dress Like a Million, Dressing Rich, WomanStyle, and Traveling Light — and through television shows and magazine articles. A former Today show contributor and PM Magazine host, she mostrecently created and hosted her own series for The Learning Channel. Currently working as a media spokesperson and personal consultant, she splits her time between New York City and Nashville.

Interesting textbook: Green Blacks Chocolate Recipes Revised Edition or Squeamish about Sushi

The Whartons' Back Book: Stretching and Strengthening for Prehab, Rehab, and Everyday Life

Author: Jim Wharton

Don't just rehab your back--PREhab it!

Father-and-son training team Jim and Phil Wharton have served as physical therapists to everyone from Olympic medalists to Broadway and Hollywood stars. Now they're here to relieve your back pain quickly, easily, and permanently. Their methods not only target and resolve current conditions, they also can help you PREhab your back, to prevent any future pain or disability. With this book, you will:

Understand how the back works and why back problems can often be traced to injuries in other parts of the body

Ease pain and keep your back strong with a simple 20-minute routine that meets your lifestyle

Identify the source of current hurt and follow a short-term program to relieve pain and restore flexibility

Understand the latest diagnostic tools with an overview of cutting-edge treatment options

Reverse or completely cure back problems stemming from more than 50 conditions, activities, and sports-related injuries

Relieve back-related troubles caused by anything from extra pounds to osteoporosis, work, tension, or the way you sleep

Publishers Weekly

About 31 million Americans experience back pain, and the Whartons are on an enthusiastic mission to help sufferers approach injuries "not as a patient, but as an athlete" and get back in action, pain-free. For a book on back pain recovery and prevention, this is a surprisingly entertaining read, with anecdotes from the authors' New York City physical therapy practice-and even some celebrity name-dropping. The book is so crammed with information that it could be overwhelming, but readers can select applicable sections. Following a detailed introduction to the back, the authors include sections on what they call PREhab ("that is, helping our athletes prepare properly so that injuries never happen"), stopping the pain, protecting the back, stress and slumber, and situations and solutions. They explain and apply their unique Active-Isolated method, suggest exercises (with helpful demonstrative photos) and provide real-life case studies throughout. The Whartons believe every part of a person's lifestyle can impact the back-and they cover it all. (Aug.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

How to Quit Smoking Even if You Dont Want To or Aromatherapy and Massage for Mother and Baby

2009-01-12T15:56:00.000-08:00

How to Quit Smoking Even if You Don't Want To

Author: Barbara Miller

People often say, "I am not ready to quit smoking." This book gives you a step-by-step plan that will show you how to get ready to quit. Quitting smoking is like going into battle. With this plan in place you will be ready to win!

You will learn how to develop your willpower and tap into an incredible source of "Self-Power." This plan shows you exactly what to do.

How To Quit Smoking Even If You Don't Want To is in textbook format with ten brainstorming exercises you must do. People who smoke are often on "auto-pilot-thinking." This plan interrupts the "auto-pilot" and shows you how to re-write the script.

It is true that you do not have to want to quit smoking but you do have to want to change something about how you make decisions. It is not complicated. As a matter of fact it is all very easy. By doing the exercises and following through with the plan you will "see" exactly what is holding you on to cigarettes. When you "see" what is keeping you addicted it becomes a whole lot easier to let go.

This book will show you how to eliminate 75% of the nicotine fits, if not more.

When you are all done the "work" you will have made a one-of-a-kind, custom-made tool that will tell you what to think, when to think it, what to do and when, and how to act and how not to act. You will use this tool when you open your last pack.

This method tells why I do not recommend "Cold Turkey." You will know when the best time to quit is and how to use your last pack.

I often hear people say, "I have tried everything." My response is, "Have you looked in the mirror?"

The answers lie inside you, not in the drugstore. This book isabout finding your inner strength. You can quit smoking! It is not impossible!

Some of the exercises can help you change other areas of your life that you are not completely satisfied with.

My plan and method is about transforming your mind into one that will make empowering decisions. You will be empowered!

This is a serious subject with a twist of humor. I am sure you will enjoy it!

Do not be afraid of trying to quit smoking. Be afraid of what will happen if you do not! Be free! Go for it!

Interesting book: In Great Taste or License to Cook Alaska Style

Aromatherapy and Massage for Mother and Baby

Author: Allison England

Newly revised edition of the definitive guide to using essential oils during pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood.

• Special sections on massage give complete instructions for easing the discomforts of pregnancy, relieving the pain of labor and birth, and facilitating the bonding of mother and child.

• Written by a registered nurse trained in herbal medicine, reflexology, and massage.

Fragrant, gentle essential oils are ideally suited to the special needs of women during pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood. This newly revised edition of the definitive guide provides the reader with expert advice on using essential oils in massage, baths, compresses, lotions, and inhalations. Special sections on massage for pregnant women and newborns give complete instructions for using massage to ease the discomforts of pregnancy and relieve the pain of labor and birth, as well as to soothe and comfort restless babies and facilitate the bonding of mother and child. The author also explains how to successfully treat common disorders such as morning sickness, water retention, cellulite, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, and stretch marks. Safe, effective remedies for babies are also covered, including colic, diaper rash, and teething pain.

Massage Magazine

. . . an excellent reference for both mothers-to-be and health professionals serving this population. I will continue to recommend this book for those interested in learning safe ways to use essential oils in caring for new mothers and their babies.

Mirine Dye

Overall, I liked the aromatherapy content, Allison England's views on pregnancy and birth, and the easy-to-read and reference style-structure of the book. As a childbirth educator, I would recommend this book to pregnant women with confidence...

Urine Therapy or Life Is Hard Food Is Easy

2009-01-12T04:54:00.000-08:00

Urine Therapy: Nature's Elixir for Good Health

Author: Flora Peschek Bohmer

An introduction to urine therapy's amazing effectiveness in treating a wide array of physical complaints.

• Contains effective treatments for acne, asthma, hair loss, indigestion,
infections, migraines, warts, wrinkles, and many other common ailments.

• Examines the historical use of urine therapy in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

• Includes a program for overcoming initial aversion to urine therapy.

If you are like most people, trained from their earliest years to regard urine as a mere waste product, the thought of using it for its healing powers may seem shocking. Yet urine has long played an important role in the holistic medical traditions of societies all over the world, and is even mentioned in the Ebers Medical Papyri of ancient Egypt. For centuries people have been availing themselves of urine's incredible curative powers for ailments ranging from anemia to warts. Urine is free, sterile, and acts homeopathically to "prepare" the immune system.

Urine Therapy includes many case histories of people who have successfully treated their ailments with urine, along with cogent explanations of why urine does what it does, how to ensure that the wastes flushed out with your urine aren't taken back in, and why urine may be the best tonic available for your immune system. In addition to protocols for using urine to treat a wide array of diseases, the book offers a program that teaches you step-by-step to overcome any initial aversion to urine therapy. Still playing an important role in the medical systems of countries as diverse as Germany, Japan, and India, this surprising health treatment has been gainingpopularity in the United States.

Preface
Conversations with My patients
Still Skeptical?
For the Real Skeptics
It Only Tales Effort in the Beginning
The Quality of Your Own Urine
About the Right Moment
The Strategy
The Psychological Experiences of My Patients
Cocktail Hour
A Quick Course in Treating Yourself
Treatment Results and Applications
Head/Throat
Chest
Arms/Hands
Abdomen/Back
Genital Area
Legs/Feet
Skin
Body
Emotional Disorders
Different Countries, Different Customs
Other Benefits of Urine

Flora Peschek-Bohmer, Ph.D., manages a naturopathic healing center in Hamburg, Germany.

Gisela Schreiber, a medical journalist, also lives in Germany.

New interesting textbook: Examen de Fraude con CD-ROM

Life Is Hard, Food Is Easy: The 5-Step Plan to Overcome Emotional Eating and Lose Weight on Any Diet

Author: Linda Spangl

This book reveals how you can cope with your feelings of frustration, boredom, or loneliness, and offers a unique step-by-step program to stop your emotions from interfering with your eating habits.

Publishers Weekly

The traditional emphasis on diet and exercise fails to address the underlying psychological causes of overeating, argues this engaging self-help book. Instead of eating to satisfy physical hunger, we indulge in "emotional eating" to make up for low self-esteem, to distract ourselves from unpleasant moods (anger and frustration make us crave crunchy, chewy foods, while loneliness and depression demand creamy comfort foods) or to act out and defuse suppressed feelings. Spangle, a registered nurse and weight-loss counselor, recommends a number of techniques, including writing projects, hugging exercises and positive-thinking mantras to help overeaters unearth and deal with their food-related emotions, and gives practical advice on sticking to weight-loss regimens. She writes insightfully of the ways people interact emotionally with food, and includes first-person confessionals from her clients; by turns poignant ("[eating] helps me stop thinking about how much I hate my life" says one lost soul) and lascivious ("I pull out a stack of curved golden morsels" writes a woman on a Pringles binge, who finds the munching sounds "soothing, like water lapping softly on the beach"), these attest to food's psychic power. But her tips are sometimes silly ("Pound on your pillow until your arms are too tired to lift food to your mouth") and her five-step-plan to combat cravings (which, with some practice, you can "flash through" in "less than a minute") can seem inadequate to deal with the emotional traumas she feels are at the root of obesity. (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Yoga Heals Your Back or Running and Walking for Women

2009-01-11T18:52:00.000-08:00

Yoga Heals Your Back: 10-Minute Routines that End Back and Neck Pain

Author: Rita Trieger

Simple, quick yoga routines that stop back, shoulder, and neck pain for good! Back pain is the number one reason people stay home from work, and the best way to help chronic back pain is with exercise. Yoga, with its gentle stretching and breathing, is one of the most effective ways to combat back pain, along with reducing stress and improving overall fitness.

New interesting textbook: L'Effet de Medici :les Aperçus de Percée à l'Intersection d'Idées, Concepts et Cultures

Running and Walking for Women

Author: Kathrine Switzer

A consistent program of running or walking is the fastest, easiest, and least expensive road to overall fitness and well-being for women and men at any age. For women over forty it can be the key to the most fulfilling years life has in store.

Katherine Switzer, a pioneer in women's fitness since 1967, when she became the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon is once again blazing a trail with the very first running and walking program designed specifically for women over forty. Now every woman can benefit from Katherine's highly personal, motivational, and step-by-step advice.

"For women beginning fitness programs at age forty, fifty, and beyond, the results can be nothing short of dramatic. For the first time they are reaching the body weight and physical conditioning they've always dreamed of. Women who have been reasonably active off their lives can also firnd a new and exciting road of fitness ahead of them after age forty. Some even find themselves outrunning women half their age!" --Katherine Switzer

Womens Mental Health or A Consumers Dictionary of Food Additives

2009-01-11T09:51:00.000-08:00

Women's Mental Health: A Life-Cycle Approach

Author: Sarah E Romans

Women's Mental Health: A Life-Cycle Approach brings together the latest research and clinical information on the wide variety of psychiatric problems that affect women in unique ways. The book is organized around the female life cycle—childhood, adolescence, adulthood, reproduction, and aging—and addresses specific disorders as they present at each stage. Chapters examine the biological, hormonal, and psychosocial foundations of female psychiatric disorders at each life-cycle stage and offer a framework for thinking about clinical problems. Expert commentaries are included to expand on key issues and provide an insightful overview of each life-cycle stage. The international group of contributors ensures complete coverage of cross-cultural issues. Concluding chapters discuss mental health services for women worldwide.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Steve C. Lee, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book is an organized survey of the state-of-the-art of women's mental health research. The structure is quite deliberate beginning with an overview of issues divided into development, culture, and stress. The remaining bulk of the book is divided into four sections that follow these issues chronologically by life cycle as the title suggests. Commentaries are included following or preceding certain sections.
Purpose: The purpose is to shed light on the research done so far in this field. It also sets out to be an impetus for further research. Evidently, there are many sorely understudied areas in the field of women's mental health as the prototypical object of research has been the Caucasian male.
Audience: This book is intended for all mental health professionals, whether in training or practicing, and general health students. Although a myriad of researchers are involved in the authorship, the book maintains a fairly consistent tone which should be palatable for most readers.
Features: Most chapters begin with a cursory but helpful historical perspective of the material. The authors for the most part are remarkably thorough. They do a commendable job of reviewing the literature, presenting current controversies, and suggesting future directions. This is all achieved in a well organized structure. References are conveniently cited at the end of each chapter.
Assessment: This book fulfills its purpose successfully. For those interested in the area of women's mental health, it will likely spark further interest and inquiry into the literature available. Well-written and well-organized, this book is amenable to future focused reading.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

1	A relational-cultural theory of human development : the power of connection	3
	Ch. 1 Commentary	13
2	Women, culture, and development	15
	Ch. 2 Commentary	32
3	Women and stress	35
	Ch. 3 Commentary	48
4	Depression and anxiety in girls	53
5	Gender identity disorder in girls	71
6	Developmental pathways of ADHD	85
7	Conduct disorders in girls	93
8	Eating disorders and body image in adolescence	111
9	Prodromal phase of psychosis in adolescent women	123
10	Substance use, abuse, and dependence in adolescent girls	133
11	The origins of emotion regulation : clinical presentation and neurobiology	147
12	Gender differences in depression and anxiety disorders	163
13	Substance use and abuse in women	179
14	Psychotic disorders in women	191
15	Sexuality and sexual disorders in women	205
16	Post-traumatic stress disorder	221
17	Living with intellectual disability	237
18	Menstrual cycles and mental health	257
19	Pregnancy and mental health	269
20	Postpartum and its mental health problems	283
21	Menopause and mental health	297
22	Mothering and depression	311
23	The psychosocial challenge for older women	323
24	Aging and cognition in women	337
25	Vicissitudes and disappointments : loss and illness in late life	351
26	Mental health services for women	367
27	Women's mental health : from hysteria to human rights	377
28	Mental health services for women in Third World countries and immigrant women	393

Go to: Markstrat3 or Principles of Accounting

A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives: Descriptions in Plain English of More Than 12,000 Ingredients Both Harmful and Desirable Found in Foods

Author: Ruth Winter

The essential guide for making sure your food is safe

A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives is back again, in an updated sixth edition. This valuable reference gives you all the facts about the relative safety and side effects of more than 12,000 ingredients that end up in your food as a result of processing and curing, such as preservatives, food-tainting pesticides, and animal drugs. For example, drugs used to tranquilize pigs may sedate diners!

There are hundreds of new entries to this edition, and topics covered include information about recently discovered resistant strains of bacteria credited to the antibiotics added to animal feed, as well as startling statistics on the amount of money spent on certain additives each year—$1.4 billion—on just flavorings and flavor enhancers.

A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives is a precise tool that will tell you exactly what to leave on supermarket shelves as a reminder to manufacturers that you know what the labels mean and which products are safe to bring home to your family.

South Beach Diet or White Logic

2009-01-10T21:49:00.000-08:00

South Beach Diet: The Delicious, Doctor-Designed, Foolproof Plan for Fast and Healthy Weight Loss

Author: Arthur Agatston

For years, cardiologist Arthur Agaston, M.D. urged his patients to lose weight for the sake of their hearts, but every diet was too hard to follow or its restrictions were too harsh. Some were downright dangerous. Nobody seemed to be able to stick with low-fat regimens for any length of time. And a diet is useless if you can't stick with it.

So Dr. Agaston developed his own. The South Beach Diet isn't complicated, and it doesn't require that you go hungry. You'll enjoy normal-size helpings of meat, poultry, and fish. You'll also eat eggs, cheese, nuts, and vegetables. Snacks are required. You'll learn to avoid the bad carbs, like white flour, white sugar, and baked potatoes. Best of all, you'll lose that stubborn belly fat first!

Dr. Agaston's diet has produced consistently dramatic results (8 to 13 pounds lost in the first 2 weeks!) and has become a media sensation in South Florida. Now you, too, can join the ranks of the fit and fabulous with The South Beach Diet.

Publishers Weekly

Despite the glitzy title, this is one of the more appealing diet books among the new "anti-carb" programs. Agatston, a doctor based at Miami Beach's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, found that his patients not only were unable to stay on various popular diets but their cholesterol and blood sugar levels remained dangerously high after trying these plans. The doctor chose to alter his own diet-first avoiding all carbohydrates and fruit and then reintroducing these foods in moderation. Feeling better and losing weight, he then consulted a nutritionist to modify his strategy to devise a sound method for his patients. The South Beach diet begins with a somewhat restrictive two-week program, generally producing a weight loss of from eight to 13 pounds. The initial phase may be difficult for those who crave bread, pasta and fruit. But there are still choices, and snacks (cheese, hummus, vegetables) are a necessary part of the diet. People shouldn't feel hungry on this part of the diet, stresses the author. The second phase offers somewhat more choices, including whole wheat bread and other selected carbohydrates. Agatston advocates combining the "bad" with the "good." For example, take whole wheat bread and dip it into olive oil, rather than using butter. Eat a very small amount of pasta with lots of vegetables, meat and healthy oils. Complete meal plans along with simple recipes comprise roughly half the book. Of course, there's no perfect diet that works for everyone but the enthusiasm of the conversational tone and the inviting manner make the book more appealing than many other diet tomes. (Apr.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction

Author: John William Crowley

"There are no second acts in American lives." F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous pronouncement, an epitaph for his own foreshortened career, points out a pattern of imaginative blight common to writers of the Lost Generation. As John W. Crowley shows in this engaging study, excessive drinking had a crucial effect on the frequently diminished fortunes of these writers. Indeed, the modernists - especially the men - were a decidedly drunken lot. The first extended literary analysis to take account of recent work by social historians on the temperance movement, this book examines the relationship between intoxication and addiction in American life and letters during the first half of the twentieth century. In explaining the transition from Victorian to modern paradigms of heavy drinking, Crowley focuses on representative fictions. He considers the historical formation of "alcoholism" and earlier concepts of habitual drunkenness and their bearing on the social construction of gender roles. He also defines the "drunk narrative," a mode of fiction that expresses the conjunction of modernism and alcoholism in a pervasive ideology of despair - the White Logic of John Barleycorn, London's nihilistic lord of the spirits.

Booknews

Crowley (English, Syracuse U.) examines the relationship between intoxication and addiction in American life and letters during the first half of the 20th century. He focuses on representative fictions by authors such as W.D. Howells, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, defines the "drunk narrative," and considers the historical formation of alcoholism and earlier concepts of habitual drunkenness and their bearing on the social construction of gender roles. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

On Their Own or Essiac

2009-01-10T11:48:00.000-08:00

On Their Own: Creating an Independent Future for Your Adult Child with Learning Disabilities and ADHD: A Family Guide

Author: Anne Ford

An indispensable guide to the special challenges faced by parents of learning-disabled children as they enter adulthood, by the author of Laughing Allegra, a leading activist and parent of an adult child with LD.

In 2003 Anne Ford (great-granddaughter of Henry Ford) published Laughing Allegra, about the struggles of raising her learning-disabled daughter, and received a flood of letters from parents of children with LD, ADD, and ADHD, many expressing concerns about what to do as their children age.

On Their Own is an invaluable road map to ease these parents' fears and answer their questions, especially the one that haunts them daily: Will or can their child be on their own, and how? In a candid, sympathetic style, laced with real-life stories, the book covers such topics as:
• Social skills and dating
• Staying healthy
• Sibling relationships
• Interaction with employers and co-workers
• Job hunting
• Finding the right college or trade school
• Estate planning

Also included are a comprehensive resource guide and exclusive interviews with prominent professionals who have surmounted their learning disabilities: CEO's Sir Richard Branson, John Chambers, David Neeleman, and Charles Schwab, and former governor Gaston Caperton.

Book about: Macular Degeneration or Curas de la Cocina Latina

Essiac: A Native Herbal Cancer Remedy

Author: Cynthia Olsen

This book gives a complete account of the recipe, the doses and of Essiac's uses now available through health food stores. Tells of experience of patients who have attained relief or regeneration from this remarkable herbal preparation.

How to Quit Smoking without Gaining Weight or Skinny Bitch

2009-01-10T00:46:00.000-08:00

How to Quit Smoking Without Gaining Weight

Author: American Lung Association

Do you rely on smoking to keep your weight in check?

Are you afraid to quit smoking because you're worried about gaining weight?

Have you gained weight after quitting smoking...and gone back to smoking with hopes of losing the weight?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, it's time to learn

HOW TO QUIT SMOKING WITHOUT GAINING WEIGHT

Based on the American Lung Association's smoking cessation program, here is expert advice on how to quit smoking in a healthy way that allows you to kick the habit without ruining your waistline. This groundbreaking book will show you:

How quitting smoking can add years to your life
Why vegetables and fruits are the most important foods to eat while you're quitting
How to add more physical activity to your day
Which foods to turn to during a nicotine craving
How to stay motivated, even during tough times

...and dozens of other strategies that can help you to work with your cravings -- instead of against them -- to attain a healthy and fit smoke-free life.

Includes meal plan suggestions, recipes, and snack ideas!

	Preface	ix
1.	Facts and Fictions about Quitting Smoking and Managing Your Weight	1
2.	Healthy Living 101	19
3.	Preparing to Quit: The First 2 to 3 Weeks	55
4.	Preparing for and Getting Through Your Quit Day	77
5.	Staying Smoke-free: Managing Your Weight Through Physical Activity	93
6.	Staying Smoke-free: Making Healthy Eating Choices	111
7.	Three Weeks to Six Months After Quitting	133
8.	Six Months and After: The Healthy New You	159
9.	Sample Menus and Recipes for Healthy Eating	181
	Index	207

Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous

Author: Rory Freedman

Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a rallying cry for all savvy women to start eating healthy and looking radiant. Unlike standard diet books, it actually makes the reader laugh out loud with its truthful, smart-mouthed revelations. Behind all the attitude, however, there's solid guidance. Skinny Bitch espouses a healthful lifestyle that promotes whole grains, fruits, and vegetables, and encourages women to get excited about feeling "clean and pure and energized."

Associated Press

The authors are brazen...They're not trying to win popularity contests...they just want healthy people.

Chicago Sun Times

Ready to jump-start 2006 with an electric prod to the system? ...They tell it like it is, and without delicacy.

Metro

Don't hate them--be them. The authors of 'Skinny Bitch' offer women a no-holds-barred approach to being thin and fabulous.

Austin American Statesman

This 224-page gem...tells it like it is.

Florida Today

What are you waiting for, you moron? Go buy this book!

bitch

...there's more solid information about health and nutrition in Skinny Bitch than in most diet and health books...

Energy Times

...have achieved the seemingly impossible by writing a diet book that's as sassy and entertaining as it is packed with reliable information.

iVillage

...many priceless-yet-unprintable dictums certainly make you laugh in a way few diet books can.

Weight Loss Kit For Dummies or Stretching in the Office

2009-01-09T15:45:00.000-08:00

Weight Loss Kit For Dummies

Author: Carol Ann Rinzler

This bestselling author gives the skinny on how to shed those excess pounds. From Sugar Busters and Slim Fast to Dr. Atkins and The Zone, this easy to follow guide takes the mystery out of fad diets and trends and promotes weight loss as a lifestyle choice instead of a quick fix. Provides the reader with timely tips for losing weight from finding the right scale to realistic goals, also contains expert advice on finding a weight loss plan based on individual body types and health needs.

Includes a CD-ROM with diet journal, meal planning and shopping checklists, calorie count charts for favorite fast food, ethnic items, and more.

About the Author:
Carol Ann Rinzler, noted authority on nutrition and health, is also the author of the international bestseller The Complete Book of Food.

New interesting textbook: The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East or Constitutional Law

Stretching in the Office

Author: Bob Anderson

Staying Loose provides simple stretching routines to make high-tech life healthier. Easy-to-follow instructions and line drawings accompany each stretch. The book also includes tips on creating an ergonomic workstation.

Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body or Natural Health Remedies

2009-01-09T03:43:00.000-08:00

Craniosacral Therapy and the Energetic Body: An Overview of Craniosacral Biodynamics

Author: Roger Gilchrest

This useful book discusses craniosacral therapy’s history and present situation as well as its spiritual implications and practical contributions in the world of healthcare. Gilchrist demonstrates how the subtle patterns of this practice become a dynamic force in the body, and how this influences overall functioning. What most sets the book apart is Gilchrist’s discussion of the relationship of the craniosacral system and biodynamic functions to the human energy system. Though dealing with a complicated topic, the book provides a grounded, progressive approach that is both specific and insightful.

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Natural Health Remedies

Author: Janet Maccao

Your body has a natural God-given ability to heal itself, but there are times when you may need to protect it and help it along. Dr. Janet Maccaro shows you how you can experience a safe, peaceful journey to good health. From acne to zoonosis, here are health tips and tools that you can start using today.

Publishers Weekly

In recent years, some evangelical Christians have abandoned their traditional suspicions of "alternative medicine" and begun to cautiously embrace the natural arts of holistic medicine, vitamin therapy and even yoga. This A to Z guide urges readers to "take advantage of all that God has provided" in the way of natural remedies such as herbs, vitamins, minerals and water. (Water is definitely the hero of this book. One section even recommends drinking an ounce for every pound of body weight a day during "detox" periods.) Unlike such books as "Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook" or "What Would Jesus Eat?" this one does not weave a Christian perspective throughout, but mentions it very briefly at the beginning and tacks on a Scripture verse. The how-to advice is similar to those other books, however, particularly regarding the need for a high-fiber, low-sugar diet. One especially helpful feature of the book is its quick-reference guide to ailments ranging from acne to zoonosis. (Yeah, we didn't know that one either. Basically, it means you got a disease from an animal.) (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

	Introduction	xv
	Taking the Challenge	xv
	A Christian Perspective	xv
Part 1	Natural Medicine 101
1	Natural Medicine 101	1
2	Healing Herbs--A to Z	11
	Three Grades of Herbs	11
	Food-grade herbs	11
	Medicinal-grade herbs	12
	Poisonous herbs	12
	Herbal Friends	12
	Alfalfa	12
	Aloe vera	12
	Astragalus	12
	Bilberry	12
	Black cohosh	13
	Black walnut	13
	Butcher's broom	13
	Cascara sagrada	13
	Cat's claw (una de gato)	13
	Cayenne (capsicum)	13
	Chamomile (grandma's favorite)	13
	Corn silk	14
	Cranberry	14
	Damiana	14
	Dandelion	14
	Dong quai (angelica)	14
	Echinacea (coneflower)	14
	Ephedra	14
	Eyebright	15
	Fenugreek	15
	Feverfew	15
	Flax	15
	Garlic	15
	Ginger	15
	Ginkgo biloba	15
	Ginseng (American, Siberian, Chinese, Korean)	16
	Goldenseal	16
	Gota kola	16
	Green tea	16
	Hawthorn	16
	Hops	16
	Horsetail (bottlebrush, shavegrass)	17
	Hyssop	17
	Kava	17
	Lavender	17
	Licorice	17
	Lobelia	17
	Marshmallow	17
	Milk thistle	17
	Mullein	17
	Nettle	18
	Papaya	18
	Passionflower	18
	Pau d'arco (taheebo, lapacho)	18
	Red clover	18
	St. John's wort	18
	Saw palmetto	18
	Suma (Brazilian ginseng)	18
	Tea tree	18
	Turmeric	19
	Uva ursi (bearberry)	19
	Valerian (nature's Valium)	19
	Wild yam	19
	Willow bark (nature's aspirin)	19
	Wormwood	19
	Yohimbe	19
	Yucca	19
3	Your Toolbox for Building Health	21
	Detoxification	21
	Baths for Purification	25
	Sugar Sabotage	26
	Green Superfoods	31
	Power Mushrooms	32
	Water Wisdom	32
	Antioxidants	35
	Juicing	36
	Top Ten Life-Enhancing Supplements	38
	Probiotics: Gastrointestinal Defenders	41
	Natural Antibiotics	42
	Focus on Fats	43
	Enzymes for Improved Immune Function	44
4	Natural Healing Protocols	47
	Taking Responsibility	47
5	Nature's Natural Therapies	51
Part 2	Determine Your Personal Health Needs
	Balancing the Five Systems of the Body	67
Part 3	Family Health Remedies: A-to-Z Ailment Guide
	Acne--Blemishes/Pimples	89
	Adrenal Exhaustion	92
	Aging	95
	Alzheimer's--the Long Good-bye	100
	Andropause (Male Menopause)	102
	Angina	104
	Anxiety	105
	Arteriosclerosis	107
	Arthritis	108
	Asthma	111
	Athlete's Foot and Other Skin Infections	113
	Bladder Infection	114
	Brain Drain	115
	Breast Disease	118
	Bronchitis	120
	Burns	121
	Calluses/Corns	122
	Cancer	123
	Cancer, Cervical and Uterine	124
	Cancer, Colon and Colorectal	124
	Cancer, Kidney and Bladder	125
	Cancer, Liver and Pancreatic	125
	Cancer, Lung	126
	Cancer, Ovarian	127
	Cancer, Prostate and Testicular	127
	Cancer, Stomach and Esophageal	129
	Candidiasis/Candida	129
	Cholesterol--High	131
	Chronic Fatigue Syndrome	134
	Circulation Problems	136
	Colds	137
	Colitis	138
	Colon Health	139
	Congestive Heart Failure	141
	Constipation	141
	Crohn's Disease--Regional Enteritis	142
	Cystitis	143
	Cysts and Polyps	144
	Dandruff	145
	Dental Problems: TMJ, Periodontal Disease, Toothaches and More	146
	Depression	148
	Dermatitis	150
	Diabetes--Juvenile and Adult	151
	Diverticulosis	154
	Earaches	155
	Eating Disorders--Anorexia/Bulimia	156
	Eczema	158
	Endometriosis	158
	Epstein-Barr Virus	159
	Eye Health/Problems	159
	Fibromyalgia	160
	Flu/Influenza	162
	Food Allergies	163
	Gallbladder Disease/Gallstones	165
	Gastric Disease: Gastritis, Gastroenteritis and GERD	166
	Gout	167
	Headaches: Migraines, Cluster	168
	Hearing Loss	169
	Heart Attack and Related Heart Conditions	171
	Heartburn	173
	Hemorrhoids	175
	Hepatitis	176
	Hiatal Hernia	179
	High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)	179
	Hormonal Imbalance	181
	Hypoglycemia (Low Blood Sugar)	181
	Hypothyroidism	182
	Immune System Health	184
	Insomnia	186
	Kidney Problems	188
	Liver Problems	189
	Lupus	190
	Menopause	192
	Pain	194
	Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)	195
	Prostate Health	198
	Rheumatic Fever	198
	Sciatica	199
	Shingles	200
	Sinusitis	201
	Skin Health	202
	Smoking	203
	Sports Injuries	205
	Strep/Sore Throat	206
	Stress	207
	Tumors	214
	Warts	214
	Weight Control/Obesity	215
	Zoonosis	217
Part 4	Self Tests and Natural Body Maintenance
	For Vibrant Health Promise Yourself	220
	Adrenal Gland Function Test	221
	Stress Test	221
	Liver Flush	223
	Bowel Function Test	224
	Ear Candlin--an Ancient Technique	225
	Candida Test	227
	Enzyme Test	230
	Stress Relief	231
Appendix A	Ten Popular Homeopathic Remedies	233
Appendix B	Amino Ammo	235
Appendix C	Stress Busters From Nature	237
	Siberian Ginseng	237
	Valerian	237
	Passionflower	238
	St. John's Wort	238
	Kava	238
	5-HTP	239
	Which Way to Go: Drugs or Herbs?	239
Appendix D	Natural Protocol for Stress	240
	GABA	240
	Liquid Serotonin	240
	L-Theanine	240
	Magnesium Gel Caps	241
	Brain Link	241
	Anxiety Control 24	241
	Vitamin B[subscript 6]	241
Appendix E	Tips for Beating Stress	242
Appendix F	CLA = Weight Loss	244
	Notes	245
	Product Information	249
	References and Suggested Reading	251
	For Further Help	252

Herbs for Healthy Living or Heart Thoughts

2009-01-08T18:42:00.000-08:00

Herbs for Healthy Living

Author: Ute Kunkel

Healing plants can be found anywhere in the natural world; by the wayside, in damp meadows, in your own garden. But how do you gather and recognize the produce of the herbs, shrubs, and tree? How do you avoid confusing them with poisonous species? What parts of the plants--leaves, flowers, roots, fruits or bark--are garthered and how do you use them?

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Heart Thoughts: A Treasury of Inner Wisdom

Author: Louise L Hay

"Hay talks to a great middle area in our lives and our beings, that inner area that is simply sensible, filled with an eternal good cheer, with all the things that spirit is heir to . . . perfect for keeping on the night table, the coffee table, the kitchen counter".--The Book Reader.

What Dying People Want or Low Carb Smoothies

2009-01-08T07:41:00.000-08:00

What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life

Author: David Kuhl

Facing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, Western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological and spiritual distress that comes with the knowledge of death. In What Dying People Want, Dr. David Kuhl begins to bridge that gap by addressing end-of-life realities--practical and emotional--through his own experiences as a doctor and through the words and experiences of people who knew that they were dying.

Dr. Kuhl presents ways of finding new life in the process of dying, understanding the inner reality of living with a terminal illness, and addressing the fear of pain, as well as pain itself. He also offers concrete guidance on how to enhance doctor/patient relationships and hold family meetings, and provides an introduction to the process of life review.

It is possible to find meaning and peace in the face of death. What Dying People Want "helps us learn to view the knowledge of death as a gift, not a curse." (New Times)

Library Journal

Drawing from case studies that he conducted as part of the Soros Foundation's "Death in America" project, Kuhl provides a balanced perspective on caring for the terminally ill. An M.D. himself, he acknowledges that doctors sometimes have poor interpersonal skills, and he offers helpful insight into why this is so and how patients can foster better communication. Besides discussing the physician's account of the clinical aspects of the dying process, Kuhl sensitively examines the harder-to-define psychological and spiritual issues. Unfortunately, he often focuses too much on certain patients whose stories are interesting but perhaps less applicable to the average person. Written for a general audience, this book will also fit well into medical libraries and other healthcare collections. Kuhl's research makes a good companion to Cynthia Pearson and Margaret L. Stubbs's Parting Company: Understanding the Loss of a Loved One. [The Soros Foundation, named after Hungarian American philanthropist George Soros, is a group of nonprofit organizations dedicated to creating and sustaining open societies around the world. Ed.] Annette Haines, Art & Design Field Lib., Anne Arbor, MI Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

Drawing on ten years of interviews with terminally ill patients and their families for the Project on Death in America, and literary and other sources of wisdom, a Vancouver, BC physician to cancer patients penetrates the denial shrouding death in our culture. Dr. Kuhl gives advice on improving communication and palliative care for psychological and spiritual as well as physical pain. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Low-Carb Smoothies: More Than 135 Recipes to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Without Guilt

Author: Donna Pliner Rodnitzky

Watching your carbs? Look inside for more than 135 fabulous recipes for frosty drinks so delicious it's hard to believe they're legal.

If you're a committed carbohydrate counter or a calorie-conscious eater, you can reclaim the pleasure of sipping a yummy, nutritious smoothie. Donna Pliner Rodnitzky, a proven master at whipping up palate-pleasing glassfuls, presents a host of great-tasting, sin-free delights.

In Low-Carb Smoothies, you'll learn how to transform a carb-and calorie-laden smoothie into a guiltless treat by replacing forbidden ingredients with intensely flavored sugar-free syrups, low-glycemic fruits, and protein powders. Get tips on how to find the best fruit and the basic equipment you'll need to create low-carb smoothie perfection. With both low-carb and ultra-low-carb options, you'll find recipes to suit every phase of your diet, whether you're on the most stringent plan or in a less-restrictive maintenance phase. All the recipes minimize the carb count and maximize taste.

Discover too a host of ideas for low-carb garnishes, from strawberry fans to carb-friendly peanut-butter cookies, to make your smoothies not only taste great but look great. A smoothie is the perfect treat to serve your guests at the end of a meal or as a midday refresher—they'll never know it's diet-friendly.

Choose from a host of delectable recipes, including:
•Huckle-berry Thin
•Blueberry Chill
•Coconut CarbBuster
•Raspberry Tornado
•South Peach to Diet For
•Raspberry Chocolate Espresso
•Chocolate Almond Bar Smoothie
•Peanut Butter Cup
•Happily Ever Apple
•And more .. .

	Introduction	XIII
1	The Skinny on Low-Carb Diets
	What's It All About?	1
2	Fruit for Thought
	Low-Carb Smoothie Ingredients	7
3	Getting up to Speed
	All You'll Ever Need to Know to Prepare a Low-Carb Smoothie	19
4	Simple Pleasures
	Basic Low-Carb Favorites	25
	Ultra Low-Carb (6 grams or less)	27
	Low-Carb (10 grams or less)	53
5	Frosty and Fortified
	Pumped-Up Smoothies For Your Health	77
	Ultra Low-Carb (8 grams or less)	79
	Low-Carb (12 grams or less)	107
6	Maintenance Low-Carb Smoothies
	Now That You've Taken it off, Keep it off!	131
	Ultra Low-Carb (12 grams or less)	133
	Low-Carb (15 grams or less)	157
7	The Garnish Factor
	How to Embellish a Low-Carb Smoothie	185
8	Mail-Order and Online Shopping
	Where to Get Low-Carb Ingredients	207
	Index	211

Food Fight or My Best Friend Will

2009-01-07T21:39:00.000-08:00

Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do about It

Author: Kelly Brownell

"The evergreen subject of American gluttony and sloth brings out the best in scientist-advocates, and the authors, while drawing on a mountain of statistics and studies, make their indictment both funny and appalling."
--Publishers Weekly

"Brownell and Horgen uncover some of America's biggest diet hazards and how to avoid them."
--Self magazine

"This is a fascinating, empowering must-read filled with practical ways to take action."
--Shape magazine

"Food Fight is . . . an important contribution to the discourse around the obesity epidemic. I highly recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about the role of the food industry, and especially to public health advocates looking for clearly presented research and ideas for positive change."
--Michele Simon, founder and director of the Center for Informed Food Choices

Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., is one of the nation's best-known experts on nutrition and weight disorders. He is a psychology professor at Yale University and the director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. He regularly appears in the media as an expert on obesity, nutrition, and eating disorders.

Katherine Battle Horgen, Ph.D. , is on the staff at the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders.

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My Best Friend Will

Author: Jamie Lowell

In My Best Friend Will, enter Willie's world through Jamie's eyes as it unfolds at school, at home, and at play. In the process, you will gain a rich understanding and appreciation of Willie's many unique qualities and come to accept that these are all a part of who he is.

Older Americans Vital Communities or Surgery of the Breast

2009-01-07T12:37:00.000-08:00

Older Americans, Vital Communities: A Bold Vision for Societal Aging

Author: W Andrew Achenbaum

This thought-provoking work grapples with the vast range of issues associated with the aging population and challenges people of all ages to think more boldly and more creatively about the relationship between older Americans and their communities.

W. Andrew Achenbaum begins by exploring the demographics of our aging society and its effect on employment and markets, education, health care, religion, and political action. Drawing on history, literature, and philosophy, Achenbaum focuses on the way health care and increases in life expectancy have transformed late life from a phase characterized by illness, frailty, and debility to one of vitality, productivity, and spirituality. He shows how this transformation of aging is beginning to be felt in programs and policies for aging persons, as communities focus more effort on lifelong learning and extensive civic engagement.

Concerned that his own undergraduate students are too focused on the immediate future, Achenbaum encourages young people to consider their place in life's social and chronological trajectory. He calls on baby boomers to create institutional structures that promote productive, vital growth for the common good, and he invites people of all ages to think more boldly about what they will do with the long lives ahead of them.

	Introduction : a new demographic revolution demands novel structural responses
1	The new faces of individual aging	1
2	The new age of production and consumption	25
3	(Re)creating networks for lifelong learning and sharing talents	49
4	Reforming the U.S. health care system to care for an aging population	76
5	Renewing religious experiences and spiritual practices for a new age	103
6	Extending the civic engagement of senior citizens	129

Book review: Body Mind Psychotherapy or Healing with Love

Surgery of the Breast: Principles and Art

Author: Scott L Spear

Expanded to two volumes and thoroughly updated, this profusely illustrated text/atlas is the most comprehensive "how-to" reference on surgery of the breast. More than 90 of the world's leading surgeons describe and demonstrate the most advanced and successful techniques for all types of breast surgery—oncologic management of breast disease, breast reconstruction, reduction mammoplasty and mastopexy, and augmentation mammoplasty. The text is illustrated throughout with over 3,700 drawings and full-color preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative photographs. Emphasis is on how to solve surgical problems and how to perform various techniques. Editorial comments in each chapter provide an alternative perspective and address current controversies.

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Reviewer:Jeffrey S Rosenthal, m.d.(Bridgeport Hospital)
Description:The unifying theme of this two volume set is that there are a multitude of procedures to sculpt or reshape a breast for cosmetic or reconstructive purposes. This set sheds light on the very complex field of breast surgery. Dr. Spear has organized and edited an atlas/text that will instruct surgeons before they undertake such an endeavor.
Purpose:The editor and a cadre of authors have combined the art and science of breast surgery in order to bring into focus this expansive discipline that ranges from the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer to cosmetic surgery.
Audience:Dr. Spear, a seasoned and thoughtful plastic surgeon, has assembled over 60 esteemed authors in their respective fields to compile an authoritative treatise on breast surgery. This work will foster the knowledge base of those in many disciplines, including plastic and general surgeons and gynecologists and oncologists who are involved in the treatment of patients with breast disease.
Features:The full breadth of oncologic and cosmetic breast surgery is covered in this text/atlas using a "how-to" approach. The first volume offers information relating to breast cancer, including incidence, screening, diagnosis, pathology, types, treatments, and a host of alternatives and options for reconstruction. The second volume focuses on breast lifting, reshaping, reduction, and augmentation from an esthetic perspective. Many of these same techniques are also appropriate for individuals who have physical disabilities relating to their breast size or shape. The chapters areillustrated well and include photographic documentation of the surgical results. Each topic includes editorial comments that focus the reader's attention on details and perspectives that may be lost in the enormous amount of information that is presented.
Assessment:The care of the breast and subsequent surgery to rebuild it after cancer or to cosmetically enhance its shape is a difficult task at best. Breast contouring procedures require a great deal of skill to maintain a natural appearance and symmetry. This publication will afford both patients and physicians the opportunity to achieve these laudable goals.

Booknews

A unified source of information for surgical management of the breast. Although the section dealing with oncology is primarily text, most of the remaining chapters are in atlas format that provides a "how to" outline for many procedures. The most relevant underlying principles include knowing the ideal beautiful normal; diagnosing before treating; replacing tissue losses in kind; reconstructing in units; making a plan, a pattern, and a second plan; considering the secondary donor area; following up with a critical eye; and teaching as the best legacy. Illustrations are in color and b&w. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain or Now That I Have Cancer I Am Whole

2009-01-07T00:22:00.000-08:00

10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain: How to Stop Pain from Controlling Your Life

Author: Blake H Tearnan PhD

In many cases, traditional approaches to chronic pain-drugs, physical therapy, medical procedures-just don't work. Sufferers fritter away their lives and their saving accounts on one ineffective treatment after the next, trying to get relief from pain-but sometimes the pain never goes away. This discouraging cycle can be as damaging as pain itself. To address this problem, the most current approaches to pain management stress living well despite pain. They encourage pain sufferers to set aside their struggle with pain and learn the skills they need to keep living. Distilled from the very best of these techniques, this little book offers ten simple, effective solutions for living well with chronic pain.

First, you'll get a quick introduction to the physiology of pain. Then it's down to the business of living well: You'll learn tips for getting better sleep, ways to build a strong support system, and techniques for overcoming fear, anxiety, and depression. You'll discover better ways to communicate with doctors about their problems and find out which treatment options are likely to do them the most good. With the advice in this book, you can move from a debilitating cycle of pain to a full and rewarding life.

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Now That I Have Cancer, I Am Whole: Reflections on Life and Healing for Cancer Patients and Those Who Love Them

Author: John Robert McFarland

The Centers for Disease Control reports that more than 20 million people in the United States are currently diagnosed with cancer, and 1.4 million people will be diagnosed in the coming year. At some point in their lives, virtually everyone is touched by this disease, and every patient, survivor, family member, and friend will find hope, strength, and comfort in Now That I Have Cancer, I Am Whole.

Throughout this moving account, survivor John McFarland shares his Everyman approach to everyday life with cancer in brief meditations full of unflinching honesty, humor, and optimism. This revised edition also shares McFarland's continued relationship with cancer, seeing it through his eyes as a grandfather to one-year-old Joey, who struggles to fight a rare and ravaging form of the disease.

The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan or Understanding the Alcoholics Mind

2009-01-06T14:20:00.000-08:00

The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan: Discover how to Make the Glycemic Index--the Most Significant Dietary Finding of the Last 25 Years--the Foundation for a Lifetime of Healthy Eating

Author: Dr Jennie Brand Miller

With each passing day, yet another health, diet, and nutrition expert or author gets on the glycemic index (GI) bandwagon. In 2003 The South Beach Diet joined New York Times best-selling books by Dr. Andrew Weil, Harvard's Dr. Walter Willett, Dr. Robert Atkins, Dr. Barry Sears, and many others in advocating taking into account the GI values of foods as a key element in a healthy, lifelong diet. But the authoritative source of information on the GI remains the Glucose Revolution series-and The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan is the book that situates the GI within today's complete nutrition picture. Both an introduction to the benefits of low-GI foods and an essential source of new information for those already familiar with the concept, it charts a clear course through today's complicated nutrition maze-and offers easy-to-follow guidelines for choosing the right diet. This new edition has been revised throughout in two-color with an 8-page photo insert featuring some of the fifty delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes offered in the book, as well as a complete, up-to-date table of GI and new glycemic load values for more than eight hundred foods and beverages.

	Introduction	vii
Part 1	The New Glucose Revolution Plan for Life
Chapter 1	The New Glucose Revolution--Revisited	3
Chapter 2	Fats: Facts and Fallacies	17
Chapter 3	The Omega Story	29
Chapter 4	The Benefits of Mediterranean-style Diets	41
Chapter 5	The Benefits of Asian-style Diets	57
Chapter 6	Paleolithic Nutrition: The High Protein Diet	67
Part 2	Putting the New Glucose Revolution Life Plan Into Action
Chapter 7	The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan Eating Style	79
Chapter 8	Get Moving!	107
Chapter 9	The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan Menus	113
Part 3	The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan Recipes
Chapter 10	About the Recipes	133
Chapter 11	Spreads, Sauces and Dressings	139
Chapter 12	Soups	144
Chapter 13	Salads	150
Chapter 14	Vegetables	157
Chapter 15	Main Dishes	164
Chapter 16	Desserts and Baked Treats	202
Part 4	The New Glucose Revolution Life Plan Tables
	The A to Z of Glycemic Index, and Glycemic Load Values	216
	Glossary	229
	For More Information	233
	Acknowledgments	236
	Recipe Index	237
	Index	239
	About the Authors	245

Interesting book: The Best American Recipes 2005 2006 or Low Carb Juices and Smoothies

Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind: The Nature of Craving and How to Control It

Author: Arnold M Ludwig

Despite the immense obstacles they face, many alcoholics do manage to recover. In this groundbreaking book, Arnold M. Ludwig--a doctor with over twenty-five years of experience working with alcoholics--goes inside the minds of alcoholics in order to explain the behaviors and thought processes they use to get and stay sober. Whether alcoholics achieve recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, a church, counseling, hospitalization, or entirely of their own initiative, the basic methods remain essentially the same. This book offers the first detailed examination of these successful methods. Ludwig has discovered that in most cases a lasting recovery can only begin after certain crucial attitude changes occur. Regardless of the motivation of alcoholics, powerful forces lure them back to drink. To remain sober, alcoholics not only must recognize these forces and the dangerous frame of mind that fuels them, but also must use a variety of techniques for resisting temptation. Recovery involves far more than simply not drinking; it means a sober life style. Over the years, Ludwig has worked with over one thousand alcoholics from all walks of life and within many different settings, including hospital clinics, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, detoxification centers, and private homes. Using clinical vignettes, research findings, and personal anecdotes, he documents the basic principles necessary for conquering craving and achieving recovery. Ludwig offers an optimistic message: no matter how bad things get, there is always hope. This book will provide insights not only for recovering alcoholics, but also for their families, counselors, and doctors.

Mens Health Best or Demystifying Autism Spectrum Disorders

2009-01-06T03:19:00.000-08:00

Men's Health Best: The 15 Best Exercises

Author: Joe Kita

Men’s Health Best: The 15 Best Exercises gives readers all the information they need to create an effective exercise program for total-body strength and toning. It offers information on diet and stretching, tells which muscles are being worked with each exercise, and shows how to combine the 15 exercises into a wide range of workouts that are both varied and challenging.

Interesting textbook: The Economics of Imperfect Information or Leviathans

Demystifying Autism Spectrum Disorders (Topics in Autism Series): A Guide to Diagnosis for Parents and Professionals

Author: Carolyn Thorwath Bruey

Parents of a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) need clear, comprehensive information to decipher the complex, behavior-based diagnostic evaluations and definitions. This invaluable guide for lay readers -- parents, educators, and caregivers -- describes the five developmental disorders that fall under the ASD umbrella, spells out the distinctions among them, demystifies the technical jargon, and provides an overview of treatment.

Written by an experienced psychologist and behavior consultant, Demystifying Autism Spectrum Disorders is an excellent tool for parents who don't fully understand their child's diagnosis or wonder whether there is another ASD diagnosis that's more appropriate for their child. It's also useful to parents who suspect their child has an ASD but doesn't yet have a diagnosis.

With Demystifying Autism Spectrum Disorders, parents will have the confidence to participate in their child's diagnostic process and thus be better prepared to understand and play a critical role in their child's treatment.

Good Fat Bad Fat or Strength Band Training

2009-01-05T18:17:00.000-08:00

Good Fat Bad Fat: Lower Your Cholesterol & Reduce Your Odds of a Heart Attack

Author: William P Castelli

A lifestyle handbook, this work includes easy-to-use and understnad charts and a complete and easy low-saturated fat, low cholesterol diet. The authors explain how to get cholesterol under control and keep it that way. They discuss the pros and cons of cholestrol-lowering medications. The 200 recipes have been tested and include entrees, side dishes, breads, desserts, and snacks.

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Strength Band Training

Author: Phil Pag

Maximize your strength, speed, and power through the use of resistance bands and tubing. As a complete workout on their own or a supplement to free weights and machines, strength bands are the ultimate tool for customizing workouts and isolating muscles. And the portable bands and tubing make the perfect travel workout.

Strength Band Training shows how to use resistive bands and tubing in 106 exercises addressing every major muscle group. These exercises have been used by strength professionals and many top athletes because the bands and tubing allow you to add resistance in multiple directions-something free weights and machines can't do. As a result, your resistance routine can simulate sport demands, strengthening core and supporting muscles or targeting specific rehabilitation needs.

Easy to adjust, bands and tubing are designed to provide resistance for users at any level of strength and ability. Add Strength Band Training to your conditioning program for the most complete and versatile workouts possible.

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Lovers Yoga or Lit from Within

2009-01-05T06:16:00.000-08:00

Lovers' Yoga: Soothing Stretches for Two

Author: Darrin Zeer

Best-selling author Darrin Zeer knows it takes two to tango and two to yoga! His latest winner, Lovers' Yoga, shows how easy it is for couples to indulge in nurturing, soothing partner exercises to relax, rejuvenate, and create deep, lasting bonds. Delightfully illustrated, this little handbook outlines 60 surprisingly simple stretches organized into five chapters Playful, Powerful, Peaceful, Patient, and Passionate. The exercises build on one another, so couples can indulge in one stretch, a chapter sequence, or the entire book from beginning to end. Whether time allows for a few minutes or a few hours, Lovers' Yoga aims to renew the connection and reignite the passion.

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Lit from Within

Author: Victoria Moran

A well-tended soul creates true beauty, says woman's wellness visionary Victoria Moran. In this inspirational and wise book she shows women how to transform their thinking about true beauty, while providing simple guidance for creating that radiance that only comes from within.

True beauty comes from a sense of wholeness. To foster this sense of wholeness, the author provides an essay about diet next to one about prayer, or a chapter on dedicating your life to a higher purpose adjacent to one about taking a lucurious bath. When you do something delightful for your physical well being, your soul benefits too.

The suggestions inthis book are designed to acquaint you with your true identity. As long as you remember who you really are in the face of the world's expectations about what you're supposed to be, says Moran, the light that is in you will take care of the rest.

Jennifer Louden

...The book that we've all been waiting for. What a sensible, loving, liberating guidebook to feeling truly beautiful... (full of) refreshing ideas.

Kristine Carlson

A true spiritual friend, filled with thoughtful inspiration on loving and experiencing your own unique beauty at the soul level.

	Preface: My Story	xi
	Introduction: The Inner Side of Beauty	1
Part I	Attitude
1	Let Your Exterior Reflect Your Interior	9
2	Think Well of Yourself	12
3	Give Yourself Positive Messages	15
4	Surround Yourself with People Who See Your Light	20
5	Get Past the Weight Thing	23
6	Have an Ageless Outlook	28
Part II	Actions
7	Adopt One Better Habit	35
8	Look Good Enough Every Day	38
9	Groom Yourself Impeccably	41
10	Move Your Body	46
11	Take a Saturday Night Bath	52
12	Get Your Beauty Sleep	57
13	Bring Your Body to the Silence	62
Part III	Body and Soul
14	Befriend Discipline	69
15	Explore Yoga	73
16	Purify the Instrument	76
17	Help Your Form to Function	80
18	Speak with Your True Voice	84
19	Avoid the Uglies	89
Part IV	Just for Fun
20	Dress like Yourself	95
21	Give Yourself a Name That Suits You	99
22	Select a Symbol	103
23	Establish a Self-Care Fund	106
24	Take Yourself Lingerie Shopping	110
25	Develop Your Sense of Style	113
26	Play with Sounds, Stones, and Flowers	118
Part V	Quality of Life
27	Handle Small Things with Care	125
28	Preserve and Protect	129
29	Immerse Yourself in Beauty	135
30	As Often as Possible, Do Something Thrilling	139
31	Map Your Dream	143
32	Master Simple Living and High Thinking	147
Part VI	Quality of Character
33	Regard Others as Significant	155
34	Become Magnanimous	160
35	Let Other Women Be Beautiful, Too	164
36	Understand: "Beauty Is Truth and Truth Beauty"	168
37	Be Trustworthy and Tolerant	171
38	Forgive Someone Something	174
39	Go Graciously Through Your Day	178
Part VII	Nourishing Yourself
40	Invite Your Soul to Dinner	187
41	Dine like a Yogi	192
42	Consider a Gentler Diet	196
43	Stay Hydrated	200
44	Breathe the Best Air	204
Part VIII	Nurturing Your Spirit
45	Dedicate Your Life	211
46	Trust the Process	214
47	Memorize Words of Inspiration	217
48	Respect Who You Are and What You Value	221
49	Be Ready for Light Times	225
50	Look for Connections	228
	Afterword	233
	Acknowledgments	237
	For Further Reading	238

Forbidden Foods Diabetic Cooking or Lymphedema Management

2009-01-04T21:14:00.000-08:00

Forbidden Foods Diabetic Cooking

Author: Margaret Powers

This groundbreaking new cookbook dispels the myths about diabetes and "forbidden foods" by showing people how they can incorporate into their meal plan many food items they assume they must avoid. The American Diabetes Association Forbidden Foods Cookbook includes more than 150 recipes which feature fried chicken, cheesecake, fettucine alfredo, devil's food cake, and many others.

Acknowledgments

A Note about Food Labels

Introduction

Better Beverages

Starters and Snacks

Sauces, Gravies, & Dressings

Faux Fried Foods

Mom's Favorites

Pizza and Pasta

Quick Breads and Muffins

Cookies and Bars

Classic Cakes

Pies, Crumbles, and Cobblers

Puddings and Creamy Desserts

Chocolate Magic

Index

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Lymphedema Management

Author: Joachim Zuther

Gain a full understanding of all aspects of modern lymphedema management with this comprehensive reference. Covering everything from anatomy, physiology, and pathology to detailed treatment techniques and patient education, the book is complete and clinically useful in every situation involving lymphedema.

Special features include:
• Clearly outlined anatomy, physiology, and pathology for easy mastery of the complex lymphatic system
• Detailed, hands-on treatment techniques, with a special focus on Manual Lymph Drainage (Vodder Technique) and Complete Decongestive Therapy
• Complete coverage of primary and secondary lymphedemas, including the extremities, head and face, external genitalia, pediatric lymphedemas, and malignancies
• Therapeutic approaches to wound care of skin lesions associated with lymphedema and venous insufficiencies
• Step-by-step measurement techniques for swollen extremities and compression garments
• Helpful instructions on self-management issues, such as the do's and don'ts of self-bandaging, self-MLD, and skin care
Comprehensive and practical for daily use, this book even includes administrative tips on billing, marketing, sample forms, and guidelines for setting up a lymphedema treatment center. For any level of training—physicians, therapists, nurses, students, and patients—this straightforward text will answer all your questions on lymphedema management to maximize your treatment success.

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Reviewer: Deborah Lynn Bryan, SPT (Slippery Rock University)
Description: This book, written by Joachim E. Zuther, the founder and director of the Academy of Lymphatic Studies in Sebastian, Florida, examines the intricacies of lymphatic system anatomy and physiology, as well as the comprehensive nature of treatment of both primary and secondary lymphedema.
Purpose: This book provides a rather clear explanation of the lymphatic system and progresses to the treatment method of manual lymph drainage. The author not only strives to address physiology and treatment of the lymphatic system but also the clinical aspects of treatment. Sample forms are included for patients to complete.
Audience: The audience includes experienced clinicians who require a comprehensive reference for the complicated specialty of lymphedema treatment. The author provides extensive information about his credentials and reasons for penning this book.
Features: This book consists of six chapters that progress from anatomy and physiology to treatment to administration within the physical therapy clinic. Specific treatment methods include complete decongestive therapy with a brief history and manual lymph drainage. The chapters are written so that readers do not easily become confused with the intricate details of the lymphatic system. Color figures and photographs are valuable for readers who may not be familiar with certain presentations or treatments. Colored key boxes provide the reader with quick reference to key points. The tables serve as another valuable resource. A detailed glossary provides clarification and quick reference.
Assessment: This is a comprehensive reference on a subject that is sparsely researched. It serves as a valuable tool for clinicians whose practice includes patients with lymphedema or as a basis for therapists investigating this area of treatment. The lack of resources in this area led the author to write this book. The overall organization is easy to follow, although the organization of figures with numbered structures gets somewhat confusing as the key is written in paragraph form. The sample forms are rather useful for clinic usage. This book is a valuable resource for those clinicians who see patients with lymphedema. Clinicians can easily use this as a quick reference in the clinic or as a teaching tool. (Barbara Billek-Sawhney, PT, EdD, GCS, contributed to this review.)

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Brenda Kinsels Fashion Makeover or Kevyn Aucoin

2009-01-04T10:13:00.000-08:00

Brenda Kinsel's Fashion Makeover: 30 Days to Diva Style!

Author: Brenda Kinsel

Brenda Kinsel is the fairy godmother of fashion. Drawing on 20-plus years as an image consultant, in Fashion Makeover Kinsel helps women over 40 catapult themselves out of fashion ruts in one short month. Real women who may feel alienated by fashion magazines get the tools they need to overhaul their look from their clothes to their hair and makeup to, perhaps most important, their attitude all while staying true to their personality and not spending a fortune. Fashion Makeover presents a four-week plan of attack with clear, attainable goals. Packed with real life success stories, style solutions for every body type, confidence-inspiring motivation, and full-color fashion illustrations, this gorgeous manual puts women on the fast track to fantastic style.

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Kevyn Aucoin: A Beautiful Life

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

There has never been a more influential and beloved makeup artist than Kevyn Aucoin.

He was the makeup artist of choice for every major movie star, pop icon, and supermodel around; presidents and princesses knew him by name; and his work appeared on countless catwalks, red carpets, and magazine covers. While his life was a dizzying mix of fame and glamour, Kevyn's goal wasn't simply to make beautiful people even more alluring. Inspired by his difficult childhood in a homophobic Southern town, he chose to see beauty everywhere, in all people, and to help them see it in themselves. It's no wonder his books, The Art of Makeup, Making Faces, and Face Forward, were immediate bestsellers.

Kevyn Aucoin: a beautiful life chronicles the magical journey of this makeup guru as seen through the eyes of his family, friends, lovers, and fashion-industry insiders. It traces his beginnings in a Louisiana orphanage to the mysterious illness that tragically ended his life at age forty. Here, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears, Tina Turner, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Hilary Swank, Christy Turlington, Isabella Rossellini, and dozens of other luminaries reveal in exclusive interviews what made Kevyn so talented, funny, fiercely loyal, and ultimately irreplaceable.

Also included are the makeup techniques that made Kevyn so legendary, accompanied by easy-to-follow step-by-step photos. He refined these signature tricks throughout his career and relied upon them to turn every face into something extraordinary.

Cosmopolitan

A makeup must-read.

	Introductions
	Gwyneth Paltrow	16
	Carla Aucoin Hoffkins	19
	Tina Turner	20
	Shalom Harlow	22
	Tracey Ullman	24
	Eric Sakas	26
	Linda Wells	28
Chapter 1	The Foundation Years 1962-1977	33
Chapter 2	The Independent Years 1978-1981	48
Chapter 3	The Lean Years 1982-1985	61
Chapter 4	The Cover Boy Years 1986-1989	75
Chapter 5	The Super Years 1990-1994	93
Chapter 6	The Dream Years 1995-1998	110
Chapter 7	The Legend Years 1999-2002	135
Chapter 8	Beauty Evolution	162
	Amber Valletta	165
	Christy Turlington	168
	Gwyneth Paltrow	172
	Isabella Rossellini	177
	Janet Jackson	180
	Julia Roberts	184
	Naomi Campbell	188
	Sharon Stone	192
	Tori Amos	197
Chapter 9	Essential Aucoin: Kevyn's Best Beauty Advice	200
	Afterword	230

Good Hair or Absolute Perfection

2009-01-04T00:11:00.000-08:00

Good Hair: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Weaves when the Chemicals Became Too Ruff

Author: Lonnice Brittenum Bonner

Good Hair is more than a guide to having good hair without relying on harsh treatments and chemicals; it is a funny, folksy, personal, and very wise reflection on the powerful role that hair can play in creating a positive self-image. 33 black-and-white photographs.

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Absolute Perfection: Your Complete Program for a Slim, Lean Waistline

Author: Editors of Oxygen Magazin

Nothing screams fit and sexy like a tight, lean waistline. More than ever, women are looking for a lean midsection with no bulges. Oxygen's Abs issue was a top-seller, and now they've taken it one step further with a total program. Women will lose body fat, especially around the middle where they want to lose it the most. Get ready to see lots more hiphuggers!

The Kosher Billionaires Secret Recipe or Travel Yoga

2009-01-03T15:10:00.000-08:00

The Kosher Billionaire's Secret Recipe

Author: Stacy Cohen

You can have a glorious life and still keep your mind, body, and spirit integrated. In this opulently designed, full-color book, author Stacy Cohen shows how her gourmet kosher lifestyle can inspire each and every reader to take better steps to lavish themselves with the finest wines, freshest foods, and most calming getaways.

The Kosher Billionaire's Secret Recipe touches all facets of living well and living healthy, with the goal of helping readers achieve their dreams. Featuring a unique mix of nutritional advice, inspirational living, and self-help tips, including:

- Unique and delicious kosher recipes from around the world

- A total well-being nutritional program

- Tips on how to make everyday meals more romantic and special

- Creative food and wine pairing strategies from world-class sommeliers

- A foreword by renowned health expert Dr. Dean Ornish

Travel Yoga: Stretching in Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and More!

Author: Darrin Zeer

Ease the aches, ease the pains, and ease on down the road. From the creator of the best-selling Office Yoga comes the ultimate guide for harried travelers and commuters. Taking the age-old practice of yoga and adapting it for our modern lives, author Darrin Zeer has compiled more than 50 techniques to help travelers relieve muscle tension, master the art of waiting, create hotel room harmony, blow off steam, and arrive revived. The removable guide in back is especially useful for frequent fliers, outlining stretches perfectly suited for small spaces. Packed with playful illustrations by Frank Montagna, Travel Yoga offers a host of techniques guaranteed to soften any landing.

Palliative Care Nursing or Tiger Bone and Rhino Horn

2009-01-03T03:09:00.000-08:00

Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care to the End of Life, 2nd Edition

Author: Deborah Witt Sherman ANP BC FAAN

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award

The second edition of this award-winning text provides the essential guide to achieving best practices in palliative care nursing. It offers a blend of holistic, spiritual, cultural, and humanistic caring coupled with aggressive management of pain and symptoms associated with advanced disease. With over 20 percent of the book covering pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic pain management, and with a focus on both clinical and holistic treatment, major figures in the field of palliative care nursing outline eleven specific skill competencies in this specialty.

Used as a resource in the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Cancer Institute, which has successfully trained thousands of nurse educators, and organized around the competencies in palliative care nursing developed by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, this book is an essential resource for both students and practitioners.

New to the 2nd Edition:

• Updated information in each chapter
• New chapter on professional organizations and certification in palliative care nursing

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Reviewer: Lisa Stepp, PhD, RN, APN, AOCN, CRNH (Private Practice)
Description: Although palliative care and hospice have been an important part of medical service now for many years, clinician education in this area remains relatively new. Numerous nursing and physician education programs have started to integrate palliative care into their curriculum and appropriate texts are necessary to support this process.
Purpose: Clinicians are unable to provide services for which they have not received appropriate instruction. This book proposes to provide such instruction for students and established clinicians in palliative and end-of-life care. All contributing authors to this book are experienced in the area of palliative care and well respected in the field. The wealth of knowledge they bring to the topic is unsurpassed.
Audience: This book is most appropriate for nursing students, but clinicians just starting in palliative care as well as social workers and chaplains can benefit. The terminology is somewhat technical and will require some basic knowledge of nursing and science. Excellence in quality nursing care can only be achieved through appropriate education and direction. This book provides a framework that facilitates such quality care.
Features: This book provides the most essential information regarding end-of-life care and is orgainzed around 15 core competencies. With an understanding of the holisitic approach of palliative care, the reader is exposed to a comprehensive curriculum to guide their practice and success.
Assessment: Although there have been many books written regarding nursing care at the end of life, this book provides new information regarding appropriate curriculum development and implementation. Overall, the book is most appropriate for educators and use as a class textbook.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

List of Education Plans for Achieving Competencies
Contributors
Foreword, Betty Rolling Ferrell
Preface, Deborah Witt Sherman and Marianne LaPorte Matzo
Section I: Looking at the Whole Person in Palliative Care

• Spirituality and Culture as Domains of Quality Palliative Care, Deborah Witt Sherman
• Holistic Integrative Therapies in Palliative Care, Carla Mariano
Section II: Social and Professional Issues in Palliative Care

• Death and Society, Marilyn Bookbinder, Margaret Kiss, and Marianne LaPorte Matzo
• Professional Organizations and Certifications in Hospice and Palliative Care, Judy Lentz & Deborah Witt Sherman
• The Nurse's Role as a Member of the Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team, Lisa M. Krammer, Jeanne Martinez, Eileen A. Ring, Mary Beth Williams, and Mary Jo Jacobs
• Ethical Aspects of Palliative Care, Judith Kennedy Schwarz
• Legal Aspects of End-of-Life Care, Marianne LaPorte Matzo and Gloria C. Ramsey
Section III: Psychosocial Considerations

• Communicating with Seriously Ill and Dying Patients, Their Families, and Their Health Care Providers, Kathleen O. Perrin
• Caring for Families: The Other Patient in Palliative Care, Suzanne K. Goetschius and Marianne LaPorte Matzo
• Loss, Suffering, Bereavement, and Grief, Mertie L. Potter
Section IV: Physical Aspects of Dying

• Symptom Management in Palliative Care, Mary K. Kazanowski
• Pain Assessment and PharmacologicalInterventions, Nessa Coyle and Mary Layman-Goldstein
• NonDrug Pain Interventions, Mary Layman-Goldstein and Nessa Coyle
• Peri-Death Nursing Care, Marianne LaPorte Matzo
Index

Tiger Bone and Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Richard Ellis

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	Acknowledgments
1	(Re)inventing Ayurveda	1
2	Ayurvedic Interiors	25
3	Healing National Culture	63
4	The Effect of Externality	97
5	Clinical Gazes	140
6	Medical Simulations	188
7	Parodies of Selfhood	231
	Epilogue	263
	Interlocutors	271
	Glossary	273
	Notes	281
	Bibliography	291
	Index	305

1	Why Detox?	6
2	Assess	9
3	Cleanse	17
4	Balance	48
5	Refresh	67
6	Energize	75
7	Relax	83
8	Indulge	89
9	Enjoy	93
10	Live	96
11	Grow	98
12	Total Detox Plan	103
	Resources	122
	Index	127

1	The Decision	1
2	Waiting for the Transplant	31
3	In Between: The Beginning	79
4	Post-Transplant	83
5	What Others Wrote About My Transplant	171
6	Epilogue	235

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