Women's Diseases Book

Active Older Adults Ideas for Action or Fed up and Hungry

2009-12-05T17:54:00.000-08:00

Active Older Adults - Ideas for Action

Author: Lynn Allen

This manual provides a collection of 15 award-winning fitness programs for seniors. The ideas and activities, which have been gathered from programs across the country, are presented in a consistent and easy-to-understand format. Directions for implementing the programming ideas are included, as are sample charts, brochures, registration and safety forms, newsletters, and a listing of resources that will ensure a successful program. Active Older Adults presents a full spectrum of approaches to helping seniors get and stay fit. Some of the programs provide introductions to basic fitness principles while others explain how to lead older adults in specific activities, such as strength training, line dancing, and water walking. There are also low-stress programs for individuals with cardiovascular or joint problems.

Robert Topp

This manual provides examples of previously developed activity programs for older adults, as well as an extensive list of resources including publications, associations, vendors, and experts in the field of exercise programming for older adults. The purpose is to bring together a collection of fitness programming ideas for the older adult. The editor claims the manual will help solve the dilemma of many activity directors who work with this population. The editor and contributors do a good job of presenting ideas for fitness programs, but they do not address other critical issues in program development, including needs assessment and evaluation. This book is written for practitioners who are interested in developing fitness programs for older adults. The editor appears to be a credible authority in this area as evidenced by experience in developing such programs. The manual is divided into two sections. Section I presents examples of various activity programs that have been previously developed for older adults in the U.S. The second section is a listing of older adult activity resources. These resources include fitness-related organizations, individuals with expertise in the area of senior fitness, and printed materials. The manual omits a generic plan for senior activity program development. Such a generic plan might include documenting the need for a program, developing a program with a budget, and formative and summative evaluations. This is one of the few publications in the field which has attempted to document and describe previously developed activity programs for older adults along with resources for developing such programs. However, there is no critique of these programsprovided, nor is there an outline of how to select an appropriate program or evaluate a program's effectiveness.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Robert Topp, PhD, RN (Medical College of Ohio School of Nursing)
Description: This manual provides examples of previously developed activity programs for older adults, as well as an extensive list of resources including publications, associations, vendors, and experts in the field of exercise programming for older adults.
Purpose: The purpose is to bring together a collection of fitness programming ideas for the older adult. The editor claims the manual will help solve the dilemma of many activity directors who work with this population. The editor and contributors do a good job of presenting ideas for fitness programs, but they do not address other critical issues in program development, including needs assessment and evaluation.
Audience: This book is written for practitioners who are interested in developing fitness programs for older adults. The editor appears to be a credible authority in this area as evidenced by experience in developing such programs.
Features: The manual is divided into two sections. Section I presents examples of various activity programs that have been previously developed for older adults in the U.S. The second section is a listing of older adult activity resources. These resources include fitness-related organizations, individuals with expertise in the area of senior fitness, and printed materials. The manual omits a generic plan for senior activity program development. Such a generic plan might include documenting the need for a program, developing a program with a budget, and formative and summative evaluations.
Assessment: This is one of the few publications in the field which has attempted to document and describe previously developed activity programs for older adults along with resources for developing such programs. However, there is no critique of these programs provided, nor is there an outline of how to select an appropriate program or evaluate a program's effectiveness.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

	Introduction
	Marketing Guide: Tips for Promoting Your Fitness Program or Event
	A Report of the Surgeon General: Physical Activity and Health for Older Adults
Pt. I	Program Ideas	1
	Exercise Challenge	3
	5 Plus 5	7
	Line Dancing for Seniors	51
	Maple Knell Wellness Center	53
	Moving Targets	67
	Oak Hill Village Fitness Club	75
	Partners in Fitness, Inc	79
	Plano Senior Games	87
	S.E.E. S.A.W. Exercises (Seniors Exercising Effectively While Sitting Around Waiting)	93
	Silver Sneakers	103
	The Village at Duxbury	109
	Vital Life Center - "It's Never Too Late to Start Feelin' Great"	117
	Walk Well	127
	Water Walking	133
	Young at Heart	141
Pt. II	Resources	153
	About the Editor and the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association	193

Fed up and Hungry: Women, Oppression and Food

Author: Marilyn Lawrenc

This collection expands on Susie Orbach's claim that obsessive eating or non-eating behavior is an individual, albeit political, response to a "complex set of social circumstances" in which women find themselves. Theoretical pieces here bolster her views, exploring the neopuritanical replacement of sex by food, compulsive eating as anger, and symmetries between the bulimic and anorexic internalization of ego boundaries and strategies for control. Essays highlighting alternative therapies are full of case references and the compelling voices of sufferers.

Publishers Weekly

In the spirit of Orbach's seminal book Fat Is a Feminst Issue, the authors of this enlightened collectionoriginally published in the U.K.write from professional and personal involvement with the work on eating disorders being conducted at the Women's Therapy Center in London. Orbach maintains that obsessive eating or non-eating behavior is an individual, albeit political, response to a ``complex set of social circumstances'' in which women find themselves. Theoretical pieces here bolster her views: they explore the neopuritanical replacement of sex by food as ``the focus of guilt in women's lives''; compulsive eating as anger denied other, socially legitimate avenues of expression; and symmetries between the bulimic and anorexic internalization of ego boundaries and strategies for control. Essays highlighting alternative therapies are fertile with case references and the compelling voices of sufferers, like the anorexic who asserts that ``becoming what we are requires existential courage to confront the experience of nothingness.'' This book offers both solace and insight and is a vital contribution to a field where the need for a holistic approach grows with frightening urgency. (October)

AyurVedic Zone Diet or Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery

2009-12-04T13:52:00.000-08:00

AyurVedic Zone Diet: The Ancient Way to Health Rejuvenation and Weight Control

Author: Dennis Thompson

Ayurvedic Zone Diet combines the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda for health and healing with a modern scientific approach to body typing physiology. By focusing on the three basic body types and their corresponding zones of physiological function, this book offers practical solutions for everything from chronic health problems and weight control to proper exercise and lifestyle management. It is essential reading for all who want to lose weight, stay young, and be healthy.

Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery: A Hunger for Meaning

Author: Karen Way

Through the voices of twenty-one women, Karen Way presents the most objective, complete, and compassionate picture of what anorexia nervosa is about and, more importantly, of the complex individual variables and obstacles in the journey to recovery. From the premise that anorexia nervosa is an addiction--an obsession controlling all aspects of an individual's life--and that complete recovery is possible by finding meaning in life, this enlightening book contrasts sharply to other books written on the subject by clinicians and theorists which merely speculate on the nature and etiology of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery lets the reader hear the personal struggles of women who have fought this powerful disease. They describe how anorexia controlled their lives and how, once they overcame their obsessions with food, weight, and thinness, they were able to lead fulfilling lives.

This illuminating book encourages and inspires women who are in the throes of anorexia nervosa. They will recognize the emptiness in the voices and the descriptions of daily life. Therapists and clinicians who treat anorexic women will find intriguing chapters on events which trigger anorexia and what anorexics will do to maintain their strategies for coping. Concerned friends and family and others interested in understanding this controlling disease will be enlightened from this important and helpful book.

Booknews

Argues that the eating disorder is an addiction--an obsession controlling all aspects of someone's life--and that recovery is possible by finding meaning in life. Based on the personal experiences of 21 women who have gone through the process. Paper edition (0-918393-95-7), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet or The Dream of Eternal Life

2009-12-03T09:51:00.000-08:00

Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet

Author: Simon Johnson

Protect your children from dangers that lurk on the Internet. Learn to identify the real threats--be they pedophiles, cyber-stalkers, hackers, spyware, viruses, or adware--and formulate an effective protection plan. Choose the best software for your needs and your budget from the book's independent review of firewalls, web filters, anti-virus products, and more. Plus, a companion Web site hosted by the author will update data and threats.

Publishers Weekly

Johnson cofounded one of Australia's first IT companies and is an expert on Internet security. When he became a father in 2002, he realized his young daughter would soon be tooling around online and would inevitably encounter inappropriate spam messages, among other hazards. He promptly founded an information Web site for parents to keep their kids safe online, which then begot this comprehensive guide. The Web is still a "wild, undiscovered, and unregulated frontier," Johnson says, a tool pedophiles use to look for victims. Nearly 90% of kids encounter pornography online while doing their homework, he warns. The good news is parents can take steps to protect their children so they may safely and effectively use the Internet, which Johnson presents-in spite of the dangers-as essential for contemporary learning. Most importantly, Johnson asserts, parents should educate their children (e.g., tell them not to give out personal information online), monitor computer use (place the computer in a shared place, not in a child's bedroom) and buy computer software to filter and protect. He suggests five programs that parents should install and walks readers through individual products, explaining the pros and cons and making recommendations. Rather than offering a diatribe on the dangers of the Web, Johnson offers a practical, well-researched guide to help parents minimize the Web's potential drawbacks. (Aug. 19) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

These two books aim to educate parents about sexual predators. Johnson, a leading expert on children's safety, focuses on keeping children away from pedophiles lurking online. Owing to his intended audience-parents/caregivers with little computer knowledge-he provides a lot of screen shots to clarify concepts and terms. After running through the basics of the Internet, Johnson goes into detail about the threats posed by people intending to harm children on the Internet and ways to reduce the risks. He then offers a detailed examination and comparison of the software available to protect children online. Parents, who can find this topic scary and overwhelming, will be empowered by Johnson's manageable guidebook. A welcome addition to public libraries. Goldenflame, a recovering sex offender, offers an eyeopening examination of his life and inner struggle through rehabilitation. The book is not, as the subtitle suggests, a quick reference for parents/caregivers looking to protect their children from sexual predators. Instead, it is a memoir sprinkled with the odd tip; though suggestions are helpfully consolidated at the end, this is essentially Goldenflame's personal story, with telling anecdotes that could benefit fellow recovering sex offenders. Recommended for larger memoir/recovery collections.-Kari Ramstrom, MLIS, Plymouth, MN Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Books about: Manchester on a Plate or The Dinner Year Book

The Dream of Eternal Life: Biomedicine, Aging and Immortality

Author: Mark Beneck

Can we grow old without dying? Why do we have to grow old at all? In this fascinating book Mark Benecke investigates the biological meaning of life and death and the prospects for extending human longevity, or even achieving immortality.

The first section of the book discusses the biological fundamentals of why death exists and what modern biology, especially the biology of genetics, tells us about aging and death. Human life and death, Benecke explains, is shaped by cellular life and death, so he examines the mortality of the normal cell as well as the "immortality" of cancer cells. In the second part Benecke assesses the various ways that we humans cope with a finite life span and the looming certainty of death, including such topics as the link between sport and vitality, the legends of Dracula and the undead, melatonin, vitamin C, and "the French paradox" concerning the link between alcohol consumption and heart disease. The third part looks at the possibility for extending our lives through cloning, organ and brain transplants, live cell therapy (favored by Sir Winston Churchill among others), and deep freezing of humans for reawakening in a future age.

Finally, Benecke tells us what we can learn about the prospects for the human race from a study of the earth as a whole-for we can stay healthy only if the earth is healthy. Climate change, overpopulation, population "crashes," Gaia, and the possibilities of future emigration into space are explained and explored. The Dream of Eternal Life concludes with a look at the human genome project and developmental biology, and Benecke sheds light on what this knowledge will mean for us in terms of understanding the nature of humanlife and our place in the living world. Throughout, Benecke maintains a scientific and skeptical attitude to many of the claims and counterclaims made by countless experts and fellow scientists.

Booknews

In a balanced popular science treatment, a German molecular biologist explains why death is part of life; overviews the Human Genome Project and research questioning whether this is inevitable; and explains the Gaia concept linking human and planetary health. Illustrations include Biosphere 2, and examples of the ultra-aged and prematurely aged. This updated US edition is translated from . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Viagra Myth or AyurVeda and Life Impressions Bodywork

2009-12-02T05:50:00.000-08:00

The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact On Love And Relationships

Author: Abraham Morgentaler

In The Viagra Myth Dr. Abraham Morgentaler (a practicing urologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School) shows us that while Viagra has proved enormously helpful to many men, it has also uncovered previously ignored aspects of identity and authenticity in sexuality and relationships. Some men, for example, may fear telling their partner they are using Viagra, yet still struggle with the hope of being loved for their true self. Women who discover their partner has resorted to a secret sexual enhancer may complain, "I thought it was me who turned you on . . ." Viagra may improve a man's sexual abilities, but there may also be a profound cost involved.
If you or your partner is using or considering Viagra, or even if you are only wondered what it might be like to have a better sex life, this book is essential reading. It will provide insight and instruction about the reality of quick-fix solutions, sexuality, personal growth, and meaningful relationships.

Publishers Weekly

Morgentaler, a practicing urologist and a professor at Harvard Medical School who has done research on erectile dysfunction, wants to explode the "notion of Viagra as an automatic solution, as the quick fix to all sexual problems." He has no problems with the millions of prescriptions of Viagra that doctors have made since the drug was introduced in 1998. But he is effective at presenting facts that are not so well known, such as that the drug works in 80% of men with performance anxiety but only two-thirds of men with other types of erectile dysfunction. What he does best, however, is to demonstrate how "a firm erection cannot solve deeper problems." Each chapter describes a situation in which a patient who thought that Viagra was the answer to his problems finds that there are other explanations. In one, a man learns that his performance problems have to do with the lack of trust he and his partner share; in another, a man who thinks that Viagra will make his sexual performance last the right time learns that "studies have shown that humans average only a minute and a half for their sexual encounters." Short bullet-point summaries of important information at the end of each chapter and an excellent section on "Frequently Asked Questions About Viagra" help make this book an important resource for both physicians and patients who are contemplating prescribing or using the drug, but who may be doing so for all the wrong reasons. (Oct.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Viagra can help many men, asserts urologist Morgentaler (Harvard Medical Sch.; The Male Body). But its cure-all-penises reputation is only a myth. It is most effective for erectile dysfunction caused by performance anxiety, less so for premature ejaculation and for medically caused problems. Viagra cannot supply desire, guarantee partner satisfaction, or rescue a relationship aground on different issues. Moreover, secret use of the drug can raise issues of trust and honesty with a partner. Yet there are effective treatments for when Viagra fails-injections, implants, vacuum devices, and couple therapy. Morgentaler's needed corrective is readable and well organized, with case histories and summaries-plus a chapter on gay relationships. Unfortunately, it lacks a resource section, guidelines for finding a doctor/therapist, and illustrations. A good general work on sexual dysfunction is Lawrence Hakim's The Couple's Disease, and Robert Butler and Myrna Lewis's The New Love and Sex After 60 is also highly recommended. Morgentaler's books is a valuable if imperfect addition to collections where Viagra books circulate frequently. (Index not seen.)-Martha Cornog, Philadelphia Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Look this: The 4 Hour Workweek or Plan B 30

AyurVeda and Life Impressions Bodywork

Author: Donald Vanhowten

We all have holding patterns that are so habitual, that they literally leave an historic imprint on the membranes of the body. These membranes store our actions, experiences, emotions and beliefs. They in turn represent our impressions of life, in a "hard copy" of flesh. This book takes the wisdom from the East, specifically from the ancient science of Ayurveda, and combines it with a version of the Western medical model, stirs in large portions of awareness, safety, and support, adds practical visual techniques, and passes this recipe along into capable hands and hearts.

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
Sect. I	Who Are We?	7
Ch. 1	The Making of a Life Impression	9
Ch. 2	The Mother of All Healing	23
Ch. 3	Changing the Self-Image	49
Ch. 4	Membrane Function: Safety and Support	77
Sect. II	How We Change	97
Ch. 5	The Touch of Awakening	99
Ch. 6	The Components of the Human System	125
Ch. 7	Intervention	155
Sect. III	Treatments and Resources	185
Ch. 8	Vital Air Treatments	187
Ch. 9	Component Treatments	207
Ch. 10	Elemental Treatments	247
	Afterword	273
	Bibliography	275
	Resources	276
	Index	280

Prophetess of Health or The Face Lift Sourcebook

2009-12-01T01:49:00.000-08:00

Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White

Author: Ronald L Numbers

Respected historian of science Ronald Numbers here examines one of the most influential, yet least examined, religious leaders in American history - Ellen G. White, the enigmatic visionary who founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Numbers scrutinizes White's life (1827-1915), from her teenage visions and testimonies to her extensive advice on health reform, which influenced the direction of Adventism. This third edition of Prophetess of Health features a new preface and two key documents that shed further light on White - transcripts of the trial of Elder Israel Dammon in 1845 and the proceedings of the secret Bible Conferences in 1919.

About the Author:
Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Face-Lift Sourcebook

Author: Kimberly A Henry

In 1999, more than 80,000 people (90 percent women) underwent face-lift procedures. With compassionate insights from her own face-lift, as well as dozens of before-and-after photos of patients, Dr. Henry explains what surgery can realistically accomplish, average costs, what to expect during recovery, and how to find the right surgeon.

Kimberly A. Henry, M.D., is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who is also a lecturer with extensive media experience.

Internet Book Watch

Face-Lift Sourcebook opens with a discussion of how the face ages, then provides keys to understanding the face-lift process which helps readers determine whether surgery is the right option. From locating the best surgeon to considering costs and recovery, this provides detailed consumer information by a doctor who is herself a plastic surgeon.

Un Cuerpo a Su Medida or Peso Perfecto

2009-11-29T21:48:00.000-08:00

Un Cuerpo a Su Medida

Author: Editors of Prevention Health Books for Women

Sólo para mujeres reales! Es decir las que están hartas de las dietas " milagrosas " La que han gastado su dinero en productos " adelgazadores " que no funcionan. las que desean encontrar soluciones eficaces para sus zonas problemáticas: los muslos, las asentaderas y la barriga. Bueno aquí tiene un libro que le brindará eso mismo. En él se le esplicará como converti sus comidad favoritas en " cortacalorias " sin sacrificar el sabor y también le enseñara unos ejercicios sencillos que en un dos por tres remozarán esas zonas para que las puedad lucir en una discoteca, en una playa, en fin, donde usted quiera. Lo mejor de todo es que no necesita un plan estricto como muchos libros lo recomiendan. En cambio, aprovechara un programa flexible de alimentación y ejercicios que usted podrá modificar según sus necesidades. Si no le gusta una comida, hay un montón más que puede probar. Lo mismo sucede con los ejercicios. Literalmente encontrará docenas de opciones. Así que explore este libro. Descubra por qué le ha costado tanto trabajo adelgazar en el pasado y cómo podrá tener un " futuro flaco " . Logre por fin tener el cuerpo que siempre ha anhelado... hecho completamente a su medida.

	Prologo	ix
	Agradecimientos	xi
Parte 1	Como crear un cuerpo a su medida
	No es una dieta, sino un estilo de vida	3
	Su cuerpo unico	8
	Lo que puede cambiar...y lo que no	13
Parte 2	Comer para perder
	10 principios fundamentales para perder al comer	23
	Comidas que crean un cuerpo a su medida	27
	Alinos	28
	Bebidas	33
	Carnes	37
	Cereales	44
	Comida rapida	48
	Comidas de salchichoneria	52
	Condimentos y pastas untables	56
	Frutas	63
	Hamburguesas y hot dogs	68
	Huevo	72
	Meriendas	77
	Panes	83
	Papas	88
	Pasta	93
	Pescado y mariscos	98
	Pizza	103
	Pollo y pavo	107
	Postres	113
	Productos lacteos	119
	Queso	125
	Salsas	130
	Sopas y caldos	135
	Tacos, tamales y sandwiches	140
	Las mejores--y peores--tecnicas culinarias	147
Parte 3	Ejercicios moldeadores
	Claves para tener una cinturita en un dos por tres	159
	Ejercicios para caderas, muslos y asentaderas	180
	El estiramiento es esencial	204
	La ropa adecuada	212
Parte 4	Ejercicios aerobicos que adelgazan
	22 formas de quemar grasa y calorias	223
	Aerobicos: clases y videocasetes	228
	Aerobicos acuaticos	233
	Aerobicos con banca	238
	Bailar	243
	Caminar	248
	Caminar rapidamente	253
	Ciclismo	259
	Ciclismo estacionario	265
	Entrenadores elipticos	271
	Excursionar	277
	Floricultura y horticultura	281
	Mantenimiento del jardin	285
	Maquinas de esquiar a fondo	290
	Maquinas trepadoras y steppers	294
	Nadar	299
	Patinaje de navaja	305
	Remar	310
	Saltar la cuerda	315
	Spinning	320
	Tareas domesticas	325
	Tenis	329
	Trotar	334
Parte 5	Automotivacion
	Su nueva actitud alimenticia	341
	Sugerencias sencillas para ejercicios eficaces	349
	Adelgace al instante...con estilo!	355
Parte 6	Elprograma integral
	Un cuerpo a su medida en 28 dias	369
	Un cuerpo a su medida para siempre!	399
	Creditos fotograficos	403
	Glosario	404
	Indice de terminos	413
	Table de conversion	433

Peso Perfecto

Author: Deepak Chopra

El equilibrio mente/cuerpo es un programa para conseguir y mantener su peso ideal. Chopra nos enseña a conseguir su peso ideal sin necesidad de contar calorías y elegir alimentos que transformarán su metabolismo.. Y que producirán energía en lugar de grasa.

English Translation: Chopra helps readers reach their perfect weight.

Beyond Antibiotics or The Shamanic Way of the Bee

2009-11-28T17:47:00.000-08:00

Beyond Antibiotics: 50 (or so) ways to Boost Immunity and Avoid Antibiotics

Author: Michael A Schmidt

Officials from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control have reported that the overuse of antibiotics in medicine has created an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Doctors fear that if antibiotic use is not curtailed, we may soon approach the day when untreatable infections are rampant. In Beyond Antibiotics, Drs. Schmidt, Smith, and Sehnert explore the problems presented by the overuse of these drugs. More importantly, they show how to build immunity, improve resistance to infections, and avoid antibiotics when possible.

The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters

Author: Simon Buxton

SHAMANISM / SELF-HELP

“. . . brings radiant life to an ancient shamanic path.”
SANDRA INGERMAN, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth

Bee shamanism may well be the most ancient and enigmatic form of shamanism. It exists throughout the world--wherever in fact the honeybee is exists. Its medicinal tools--such as honey, pollen, propolis, and royal jelly--are now in common use, and even the origins of Chinese acupuncture can be traced to the ancient practice of applying bee stings to the body’s meridians.

In this authoritative ethnography and spiritual memoir, Simon Buxton, an elder of the Path of Pollen, reveals for the first time the richness of this tradition: its subtle intelligence; its sights, sounds, and smells; and its unique ceremonies, which until now have been known only to initiates. Buxton unknowingly took his first steps on the Path of Pollen at age nine, when a neighbor--an Austrian bee shaman--cured him of a near-fatal bout of encephalitis. This early contact prepared him for a later meeting with an elder of the tradition who took him on as an apprentice. Following an intense initiation that opened him to the mysteries of the hive mind, Buxton learned over the next thirteen years the practices, rituals, and tools of bee shamanism. He experienced the healing and spiritual powers of honey and other bee products, including a “flying ointment” used by medieval witches, as well as ritual initiations with the female members of the tradition--the Melissae--and the application of magico-sexual “nektars” that promotelongevity and ecstasy. The Shamanic Way of the Bee is a rare view into the secret wisdom of this age-old tradition.

SIMON BUXTON is a beekeeper, the British faculty for Dr. Michael Harner’s Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and the founder/ director of The Sacred Trust, a U.K.-based educational organization dedicated to the teaching of practical shamanism for the modern world. He lives in England and teaches internationally.

Simon Buxton, author of The Shamanic Way of the Bee, is the founder/director of The Sacred Trust in England, dedicated to the teaching of practical shamanism for the modern world. He is also the co-author of Darkness Visible. He teaches Darkness Visible workshops internationally and lives in England.

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Professor S. R. Harrop

1   Last Night, as I was Sleeping

2   The Gate of Transition

3   The Small Branch of the Great Tree

4   The Path of Pollen

5   The Web of Dreams

6   The Bee Mistress and the Melissae

7   Vitamin Pan

8   The Nightshade Isle

9   Earth’s Embrace

10 The Kelt Falls

Afterword

Bibliography

Situational Problems for the Cosmetology Student or More Alive with Color

2009-11-27T13:46:00.000-08:00

Situational Problems for the Cosmetology Student

Author: Catherine Frangi

A word-for-word, page-for-page Spanish translation of Milady's Situational Problems for Cosmetology Students. The text tests students' knowledge of how they should apply the information they have learned to real-life situations. While the exam review gauges their recollection of information, this text asks that information, this text asks that they apply that knowledge to situations that more closely reflect what they are likely to encounter as a salon employee, demonstrating that they know how to use the information they have learned. The questions are more complex than Exam Review questions, or attitudes. The student will have to take many factors into account to achieve the desired results, both from a technical and a communication perspective. Answers are included in the back of the book.

More Alive with Color: Personal Colors - Personal Style

Author: Leatrice Eiseman

What is the best thing you can do when you don't have a thing to wear? What's the secret ingredient that can instantly improve the way you look and feel? It's simple - discover your personal colors! America's color guru Leatrice Eiseman will show you how in her fun and practical new book, More Alive with Color! Here Lee will introduce you to her original, easy-to-follow "Color Clock" system - the quick way to find and use the colors that reflect your personal style and transform the way you look.

Based on the colors of your eyes, hair and skin and your psyche-discover your personal range of beautiful colors in Leatrice's "colortimes": Sunrise with the sparkling jewel tones of dawn, Sunlight with the soft pastels and fruit shades of noon, or Sunset with the fiery hues that mellow into dusk. Then add those natural yet practical Crossover colors to expand your wardrobe without breaking your budget. Choosing clothes, hair color, and makeup has never been easier. Leatrice will show you how to pull your wardrobe together with your personal colors - which are sexy, which are powerful for interviews and such; which accessories will magnify your personal style; and which cosmetic and hair colors will make your skin glow and flatter your natural coloring.

More than any other color system, More Alive with Color will give you the freedom to use color in your wardrobe with self-confidence, add trends without losing your style, plan a wedding where you are surrounded by your best colors, organize your closet and mix colors with ease; and set out for office, party, or lunch with friends knowing you look your best.

Washington Post

"For those who are intimidated by color or choosing colors, Eiseman's books provide plenty of reassurance, including a quiz to help readers determine their color preferences."

Allure Magazine - Elizabeth Einstein

"Lee Eiseman is the person I call for help in decoding color trends. She knows the 'why' behind what people want from season to season."

What People Are Saying

Marylou Luther
"Leatrice Eiseman knows more about the history of color, the psychology of color and the application of color than anyone I have ever interviewed. She can make color interesting to a convent of nuns who only wear black. Perhaps more importantly, she constantly updates the dynamics of color and how it responds to the pop culture, the economy and world events."
—editor, International Fashion Syndicate

Preface: A Personal Note from the Publisher

Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book

Part 1: What Color Can Do for You

Chapter 1: The Color Quiz
Â·What the Quiz Means
Â·Where Your Choices Take YouâЂ"More about You
Â·Choices: "Right" or "Wrong"

Chapter 2: Find Your Perfect Color Palette
Â·Inspiration of the Impressionists
Â·The Colortime Palettes
Â·What Color Can Do for You
Â·Color Your Thinking
Â·The Crossovers—NatureâЂ™s Most Versatile Colors
Â·Intimate Environments and Extended Environments
Â·Understanding Undertones
Â·Mixing Palettes
Â·Exploding Old Myths—White DoesnâЂ™t Go with Everything!

Chapter 3: Wearing Your Colors: What Goes with What
Â·Harmonious Relations—-Analagous Colors
Â·Thank You for the Complement
Â·One Color—Monochromatics
Â·Two Colors—Duochromatics
Â·Three Colors—Trichromatics
Â·Multicolors—Polychromatics
Â·Instant Irritants and Dramatic Discord
Â·The Most Basic Basics
Â·Goof-Proof Combinations

Chapter 4: How to Get the Look
Â·Personal Signature Colors
Â·Accessorizing with Color
o Shoes
o Hosiery
o Handbags
o Belts
o Jewelry
Â· Clothes to Go: Color Planning for Packing

Chapter 5: Instant Makeovers: Your Color Cosmetics
Â· Sunrise (AM)
Â· Sunset (PM)
Â· Sunlight(Midday)
Â· Can You Change Your Colortime Cosmetics?

Chapter 6: Hair Inspiration: Your Colors Count
Â· Blondes
Â· Redheads
Â· Browns
Â· Grays
Â· Blacks

Chapter 7: For Men Only
Â· Your Working Wardrobe
Â· Where You Live Can Color Your Style
Â· Men and Hair Color

Part 2: What Color Says about You

Chapter 8: Using Color to Influence Others
Â· Yang or Yin?
Â· Power Colors
Â· Casual Dressing in the Office
Â· Surface Language: Your First Impression
Â· Job Interviews
Â· Colors for Presentations
Â· Reading Marketing Messages
Â· Confessions of a Closet Organizer
Â· Colors for That Special Day
Â· Colors for Other Parties and Occasions

Chapter 9: Your Creative Energies and Color
Â· Red
Â· Pink
Â· Yellow
Â· Orange
Â· Brown
Â· Beige
Â· Green
Â· Blue
Â· Blue-Green
Â· Purple
Â· Lavender
Â· Gray
Â· Taupe
Â· Black
Â· White
Â· Changing Colors and Changing Lives

Conclusion

Pushing Ink or OncoLink Patient Guide

2009-11-26T09:44:00.000-08:00

Pushing Ink

Author: Spider Webb

A classic reborn, here is a book that opened new territory in 1979, revealing the bodies of those who patronized underground artists. The bodies of these tattooed men and women stand in testament to an ancient art, long forbidden in the West. This is a celebration of tattoo art, the artists, and the bold canvases who dance across these pages with unabashed joy in their beautifully adorned flesh. It is the story of the fight to legalize and legitimize an art undeniably beautiful in design, bold in color, and stamped indelibly upon God's own earthly temple.

New interesting book: Transformation Through Menopause or Remedies and Rituals

OncoLink Patient Guide: Colorectal Cancer

Author: James P Metz

This book provides you with the essential information that you will need throughout all stages of this disease. Avoiding jargon, it will answer all the questions that you have concerning risk and prevention, screening and diagnosis, through to all the various treatment options available - surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative therapies - and provides you with day to day lifestyle advice too. Attractively designed and clearly presented you can find quickly all the answers that you are looking for, safe in the knowledge that the information comes from one of the world's leading cancer internet resources - OncoLink. Compiled by international experts, and arranged in a question and answer style, this book is an essential purchase for all colorectal cancer patients, their doctors and their carers.

Bird Flu or 108 Insights Into Tai Chi Chuan

2009-11-25T05:43:00.000-08:00

Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know

Author: John Farndon

A bird flu pandemic is inevitable-so we are told. First identified in China, this apparently merciless virus, which originated in chickens, has the potential to mutate and kill thousands, even millions of people. John Farndon offers a compact, one-stop read that tells it straight. The public doesn't want to spend months doing research, and Bird Flu provides readers with all the necessary information.

This is something that can't be pushed aside and ignored——people really do need to know if there is anything to fear, and if so, what can they do about it?

Book review: Dirección de Operaciones y Paquete de CD Estudiantil

108 Insights Into Tai Chi Chuan: A String of Pearls

Author: Michael Gilman

A delightful variety of entries related to or arising from over thirty years of taiji and related practices. This is his second book of his meditations and it is well worth the investment-- More than a personal journal of daily meditations, 101 Reflections is instructional as well as inspirational. . . . What makes this set of reflections most valuable, however, is that while Gilman shares his expertise, experience, and philosophical approach; his is not a didactic voice. While he is not afraid to draw his own parallels between taiji practice and living fully in one's life, his intention seems to be only to share, not to insist . . . . it offers something for everyone. . .is deep, lyrical, and grounded in practicality.

Happiness in a Storm or Heart Disease Breakthrough

2009-02-21T07:55:00.000-08:00

Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor

Author: Wendy Schlessel Harpham

Harpham, a doctor and cancer survivor, offers an approach to illness that promotes physical healing and joyful living.

Award-winning author Wendy Schlessel Harpham, M.D., offers her program to getting good care and finding happiness when you are sick. Having coined the term "Healthy Survivor" while dealing with her own chronic lymphoma, Harpham encourages people dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, or any prolonged illness to simultaneously do all they can to overcome disease and live life to the fullest. Happiness in a Storm shows you how to set the stage for the miracle of physical healing by making the best treatment choices for you, nourishing realistic hope, and taking action. But when it comes right down to it, what good is surviving if you are never happy? Harpham opens your eyes to the opportunities for happiness in life despite medical problems and even because of illness. You'll see how becoming a Healthy Survivor does more than increase your chances of a good outcome: it frees you to pursue happiness.

Publishers Weekly

In 1990, Harpham, a physician with three young children, was diagnosed with chronic lymphoma. She has lived through reoccurrences, undergone a variety of therapies and is now in her sixth year of remission. In her latest book, she shares here the guidelines she has developed for becoming a healthy survivor: a patient who gets good care and lives as fully as possible. Harpham (After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life) is no Pollyanna and fully acknowledges the devastating physical and emotional toll diagnosis and treatment take. Harpham advocates first choosing a treatment that is based on current scientific knowledge, rather than alternative approaches. Even for chronic conditions, she says, an appropriate plan of action can help control the disease and pain, and provide a sense of empowerment and optimism. The author offers a wealth of suggestions on nourishing hope, and her advice on managing family and financial stresses related to illness is particularly well founded on her own experience. Rather than a rigid program, this is a sensible and realistic compendium of techniques that will help survivors cope with serious illness while embracing times of happiness. (Sept.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

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Heart Disease Breakthrough: What Even Your Doctor Doesn't Know about Preventing a Heart Attack

Author: Thomas Yannios

What are subclass A and subclass B—and what do they mean for your heart health? In The Heart Disease Breakthrough you'll find out it's not just your cholesterol count that matters. . . .

You can prevent heart disease, but what you have to know and do to achieve such safety is dependent on your individual mix of risk factors. You have to know what your risk factors are and what you can do to reduce their power over your life. That's what The Heart Disease Breakthrough will tell you, and it can make the difference between healthy longevity or early death from heart disease. This book presents for the very first time the newest, cutting-edge information now being taught to doctors; it is information essential to anyone interested in preventing a heart attack or recovering from one.—from The Heart Disease Breakthrough by Thomas Yannios, M.D.

You may think you already know everything there is to know about preventing heart disease. You count your total cholesterol, monitor your fat and sodium intake, and even do some moderate exercise each week. But consider these alarming facts: Many people who have heart attacks have cholesterol counts under 200. Low-fat diets can actually raise the heart attack risk in some people. And heart disease begins its onslaught on the body in childhood. But you can do something about it—and this book shows how.

Your true heart disease risk factors include far more than a simple total cholesterol test. New research has made substantial progress in unlocking the secret code of heart disease. The real risks are a combination of factors that you—and even your doctor—may never have heard of. Your risks aredetermined not only by how much cholesterol has accumulated in your bloodstream but by how big and sticky each particle of cholesterol is, your LDL subclass (A or B), and the levels of homocysteine and fibrinogen in your body. Your family heart health history provides the background for all these factors.

The Heart Disease Breakthrough is the first book to bring this array of startling new findings to lay readers. Packed with surprising, often alarming information and case studies of patients, it combines state-of-the-art medical research and the science behind the latest breakthroughs with a straightforward 10-step program to attain optimum heart health. Dr. Thomas Yannios walks you through the process of determining each of your risk factors and formulating a customized action plan.

The Heart Disease Breakthrough will inform you of the wide range of new medical tests that are available and what you need to do to counteract your individual risk factors. Filled with research-based information revealing everything from the nutritional pros and cons of everyday foods to the benefits (or ineffectiveness) of certain kinds of exercise, The Heart Disease Breakthrough gives you and your loved ones immediate access to the latest groundbreaking research. This is a book that can save your life.

Library Journal

Yannios, associate director of critical care and nutritional support at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, NY, here describes the smallest components of cholesterol, which can do more damage to the heart than the overall LDL levels that concern so many of us. He details the various particles that make up cholesterol, explains how these particles can help or hurt the body, and lists ten precautionary steps, including blood tests for LDL subclasses and HDL profiles, diet and exercise changes, and medications to lower cholesterol. Yannios warns that a low-fat diet may harm rather than help and advocates a strenuous exercise program, warning only that people in certain health categories should check with a physician first. No attention is given to the patient/ physician relationship or consultation, how to request tests, or how to discuss health plans and information with ones doctor. Thought-provoking but possibly hazardous for the unsophisticated; a dubious purchase.Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, FL

Kirkus Reviews

For those seriously concerned with preventing heart disease, this is your guide: detailed, current, strongly worded guidelines. Yannios, associate director of critical care and nutritional support at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y., isn't interested in cushioning the facts or the remedies in a feel-good framework—his horrifying case stories are successfully designed to propel readers into action, and he backs them up with the grim facts: most Americans already have well-advanced atherosclerosis by their 20s; low-fat diets "can actually raise cholesterol and increase risk in certain groups of people"; more than half the people who have heart attacks have total cholesterol levels under 200. So the remedy for those in peril, according to Yannios, takes some real work: assess your own risk; then, with the help of a physician, take advantage of the newest blood tests and make a stringent action plan—guidelines are set out here—involving diet, weight control, exercise, and medication. Yannios doesn't let readers off easily, but that doesn't mean he can't offer realistic help: for instance, "practically every cardiac risk factor can be countered by exercise"—it just has to be the right type of exercise. Heart disease prevention is among the fastest-advancing medical research areas, with new, often conflicting recommendations being published daily. For those at serious risk, this is an understandable, serious, and worthwhile approach.

Medicinal and Food Plants or 100 Questions and Answers about Sinusitis and Other Sinus Diseases

2009-02-20T03:54:00.000-08:00

Medicinal and Food Plants: With 200 Illustrations for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

Author: Ernst Lehner

This fascinating reference offers a crisp pictorial record of foods found on our tables today that emerged thousands of years ago in faraway lands. Scores of rare woodcuts enhance intriguing anecdotes about the origins of grains and coffee, the odysseys of pineapples and peanuts, and the mysteries behind breadfruit, pomegranates, others.

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100 Questions and Answers about Sinusitis and Other Sinus Diseases

Author: Rhoda Wynn

43 million Americans have chronic sinusitis, making it one of the most prevalent (16%) chronic diseases in the United States. More than half a million of these patients undergo endoscopic sinus surgery every year. 100 Questions and Answers about Sinusitus and Other Sinus Diseases will help elucidate the diagnosis and management of sinus disorders for patients and their families by answering the most common questions about this chronic disease.

Visionary Plant Consciousness or Stem Cell Wars

2009-02-18T23:52:00.000-08:00

Visionary Plant Consciousness: The Shamanic Teachings of the Plant World

Author: J P Harpignies

ENTHEOGENS / SHAMANISM

“Humans have long considered psychoactive plants as teachers. This book seeks to inform Westerners about these powerful plants and about the shamans who know how to use them. Their words are clear and simple and often based on personal experience. The result is an accessible book packed with knowledge.”
--Jeremy Narby, author of The Cosmic Serpent

Visionary plants have long served indigenous peoples and their shamans as enhancers of perception, thinking, and healing. These plants can also be important guides to the reality of the natural world and how we can live harmoniously in it.

In Visionary Plant Consciousness, editor J. P. Harpignies has gathered presentations from the Bioneers annual conference of environmental and social visionaries that explore how plant consciousness affects the human condition. Twenty-three leading ethnobotanists, anthropologists, medical researchers, and cultural and religious figures such as Terence McKenna, Andrew Weil, Wade Davis, Michael Pollan, Alex Grey, Jeremy Narby, Katsi Cook, John Mohawk, and Kat Harrison, among others, present their understandings of the nature of psychoactive plants and their significant connection to humans. What they reveal is that these plants may help us access the profound intelligence in nature--the “mind of nature”--that we must learn to understand in order to survive our ecologically destructive way of life.

J. P. Harpignies is associate producer of the national Bioneers conference (bioneers.org) and coproducer and founder of the Eco-Metropolis conference (ecometropolis.org) in New York City. He is the author ofPolitical Ecosystems and Double Helix Hubris and the associate editor of Ecological Medicine and Nature’s Operating Instructions.

Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines

Author: Eve Herold

According to stem cell research expert Eve Herold, the general public have become the victims of misinformation about this essential science. Over the last few years, the stem cell debate has been intensely political, religious, global, and confusing to many people. Now, Herold explains to a general audience what this science is all about, who is for and against it, and why it must go forward. In this startling book, Herold pulls together fascinating stories to highlight every aspect of this multifaceted field. She exposes the politics of stem cell research and demonstrates how these forces will intimately affect everyone. Packed with real-life stories of the people caught up in this groundbreaking struggle, Stem Cell Wars is a call to arms that will provoke debate and discussion for years to come.

The Field of Battle * Two Worlds Colliding * The Science that Started a Revolution * Hijacked by the Politics of Abortion* The Battle for Hearts and Minds * Political Spin and the Weapons of Mass Distraction * Ethics and the Embryo * Health Care and Hypocrisy * Korea: Great Expectations * Korea: The Fall * Winning the Peace

The Field of Battle * Two Worlds Colliding * The Science that Started a Revolution * Hijacked by the Politics of Abortion* The Battle for Hearts and Minds * Political Spin and the Weapons of Mass Distraction * Ethics and the Embryo * Health Care and Hypocrisy * Korea: Great Expectations * Korea: The Fall * Winning the Peace

Hit the Spot or KI in Daily Life

2009-02-17T19:48:00.000-08:00

Hit the Spot!: How to Target, Tone, and Slim Your Problem Areas

Author: Denise Austin

Do you want to look good in a bathing suit this year? Do you want to have a firm, flat stomach? Do you have "problem areas" that need to be toned and shaped up? Do you want to get rid of cellulite?

Hit the Spot! is a complete program to target and tone your problem areas, written in an upbeat, easy-to-follow style by America's #1 fitness authority, Denise Austin.

Denise Austin has spent her career helping people get energetic and fit, and now she zeroes in on the problem areas that cause the most concern for people. Hit the Spot! includes clear instructions and photos for exercises to firm and shape your:

Waist/ Hips and Thighs/ Upper Arms and Bust/ Buns

Denise offers positive thoughts and tips for success, including exercises you can do to lose inches from hips, thighs, waist, and other areas, as well as advice on clothes that make you look thinner instantly. She even includes a seven-day diet to improve the look of specific areas of your body.

Don't be afraid to wear that sexy suit on the beach this summer...Hit the Spot!

Ki in Daily Life

Author: Koichi Tohei

Technology today touches nearly every part of our lives. Through even more impressive development of machines, the process continues. Computers put men out of work; pushing a single button is enough to start a nuclear war.
Gradually, though, the world has begun to remember that it is man for whom the machines must work, and not the other way around. We recognize now that science, for all its achievements, has done little to help us understand ourselves or realize our potential.
There is no sense in waiting for science to do it for us. Each of us must now take it upon himself to understand his true nature and strength. The Chinese classic "Saikontan" says that we stand like beggars at the gate, forgetting the infinite power given us by the universe. Instead of shrinking from this potential, we should be thankful for it. we should strive to manifest it and help others to do the same.
The author regards his Four Basic Principles to Unify Mind and Body as having been given to him by the universe to spread the way of the universe. There have been many who have grasped unification of mind and body. Very few, however, could teach it. Fewer still could teach how to teach it. Those who learn the four basic principles as explained in this book have come to understand not only how to unify their own minds and bodies, but also how to teach it to others.
The author, founder of the Ki Society International, presents the philosophical groundwork and specific disciplines by which the individual may attune himself or herself with the hi-life energy of the universe and thrive in health and harmony, without fatigue or depression.

Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering or Bipolar 101

2009-02-16T15:47:00.000-08:00

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices

Author: Sarah Buckley

This authoritative guide to natural childbirth & postpartum parenting options speaks to a new generation of parents who are concerned about the medicalization of childbirth & want current & science-based information about alternatives. The author is both a doctor and a mother!

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Bipolar 101: A Practical Guide to Identifying Triggers, Managing Medications, Coping with Symptoms, and More

Author: Ruth C Whit

After receiving a bipolar diagnosis, you need clear answers. This straightforward guide to understanding bipolar disorder includes all the information you need to control your symptoms and live better. Authored by both a psychologist and a mental health expert who has bipolar disorder herself, this pocket guide is the only book on bipolar disorder you'll ever need.

What People Are Saying

Stephen Hinshaw
"The best primer ever written on the topic of bipolar disorder."--(Stephen Hinshaw, editor of Psychological Bulletin and chair of the department of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley)

Eng TEC and Pro Func Foods or Nicotinic Receptors in the Nervous System

2009-02-14T23:31:00.000-08:00

Eng Tec and Pro Func Foods

Author: John Shi

This single reference consolidates the latest information, developments, and technologies for the preparation of functional foods. From a process oriented approach, the book discusses extraction of bioactive components from raw material, including matrix and cell structure modification, supercritical CO2 fluid technology, and superheated water. Emphasizing applications of processing and technologies The book focuses on improving the bioavailability and stability of bioactive components in food products and covers separation technologies. Topics also include the latest dehydration technologies for retaining bioactivity in herbal medicine, microencapsulation, and bioprocessing.

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Nicotinic Receptors in the Nervous System

Author: Edward D Levin

This book provides cutting-edge research concerning neuronal nicotinic systems relevant to smoking addiction and cognitive dysfunction. The integrated approach is key for understanding function and dysfunction of nicotinic systems and the development of novel drug treatments. The contributors are distinguished active researchers in the field of nicotine research. The book gives academic and industry researchers reference to the latest research methods and findings concerning nicotine neural systems.

Booknews

Although nicotine is widely known to be the addictive ingredient in cigarettes and other tobacco products, some researchers believe that it may have psychotherapeutic uses. Levin (psychiatry and pharmacology, Duke U. Medical Center) presents 15 contributions that explore molecular and neurochemical behavioral applications related to nicotine's effect on the brain. The chapters are organized into sections that successively study nicotine's effects on the molecular, systemic, and behavioral levels. Specific topics include the effects of nicotine on dopaminergic neurotransmission, mouse models to evaluate genetic influences on responses to nicotine, nicotine and cognition in young and aged nonhuman primates, evaluation of pharmacologic treatments for smoking cessation, and nicotine effects on ADHD. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Drug Therapy and Premenstrual Disorders or Naptime Book

2009-02-13T19:29:00.000-08:00

Drug Therapy and Premenstrual Disorders

Author: Sherry Bonnic

Premenstrual syndrome plays a very real role in the lives of adolescent girls and women who suffer from its symptoms. Although this disorder has been misunderstood, undertreated, and disregarded as merely "all in her head," research confirms that PMS is a problem that can cause women to suffer poor relationships, lower academic grades, and physical and mental disturbances. Furthermore, doctors now understand that premenstrual disorders are legitimate medical conditions with real and serious implications for women's mental well-being.

In this book you can learn about premenstrual disorders, how they have been unfairly stigmatized, and how they are finally being understood. With new medical understanding has come new treatments. Learn about antidepressants and other medications currently being used to treat serious symptoms of premenstrual disorders. In addition, you can learn about the benefits, risks, and side effects associated with these drugs as well as alternative treatments for premenstrual disorders.

While you read, you will share in the experiences of many women from high school to perimenopausal age who have struggled with premenstrual disorders and their effects. In their stories, you will see that due to new understanding and treatments, women experiencing premenstrual disorders no longer need to feel stigmatized or alone.

Cathi I. White - Children's Literature

Have you ever seen a woman who was in a bad mood and acting really grouchy even though that was not her normal behavior? And then you might hear someone near her say, "Oh, it must be that time of the month!" Even though they may be joking, the truth is that some women have a hard time before and during their menstrual cycle. Doctors have learned that premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a real problem for women, not just something that is in their head. PMS may include changes in moods, depression, being tired, craving and eating sugary foods and high fat foods, headaches, and crying a lot. PMS effects both adolescents and adults. If PMS symptoms are not treated they can get worse. Medication such as Zoloft and Prozac can help relieve symptoms. Eating the right foods, exercise, vitamins, minerals, and psychological therapy have also proven to help with PMS. Each person's treatment needs to be individualized to work the best for him or her. This book is an excellent book for young girls to learn more about their menstrual cycles and could be used at home or in an educational setting. This book is part of the series "Psychiatric Disorders: Drugs and Psychology for the Mind and Body." 2004, Mason Crest Publishers, Ages 12 up.

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Naptime Book

Author: Cynthia MacGregor

Try to make naptime the same time every day because small children need routine practically as much as they need sleep. The stories, songs, games, and activities in this book help you tempt your child to bed for a nap with something fun and interesting to do. The activities themselves are soothing and engaging -- draw his attention away from a disappointment or worry, help her forget that she's afraid of missing something while she naps. Naps are good for small children -- and their caretakers. So be sure to check out "Time Out for Mom Too!"

Norah Piehl - Children's Literature

This compendium of pre-naptime rituals is designed to help parents and caregivers expand their repertoire from the "story and a song" routine. A follow-up to MacGregor's earlier Night-Night, this volume aspires to overcome kids' resistance to naptime and to reinforce the importance of good napping for preschool-aged children. Because of its focus on younger children's naptime needs, The Naptime Book relies on simpler stories and games than MacGregor's earlier book. It also offers games and activities that promote fundamental concepts such as color, numbers, and senses. The poems and silly songs included here are probably the least useful section of the book—why not use familiar Mother Goose rhymes rather than these new, hard-to-remember verses? Storytelling exercises that focus on the family (telling stories about the parent's childhood, for example, or well-known stories from the family history) can foster communication and closeness, even if sleep is not the ultimate goal. Many of the guessing games and quiet activities could also be used with great success on long car trips and on rainy afternoons. 2003, Conari Press, Ages Adult.

	Acknowledgments	viii
	Introduction: Even Without the Closet Monster	1
	Relaxing Story Activities	12
	Games and Activities that Promote Relaxation	38
	Silly, Soothing Poems	100
	Lull-a-Boy (or Girl): Lullabyes and Other Naptime Ditties	133
	Travels to the Lands of Imagination and Conceptualization	140
	Time Out for Mom Too!	147

Community Mental Health Reader or Aging with HIV

2009-02-12T15:20:00.000-08:00

Community Mental Health Reader

Author: Samuel J Rosenberg

The Community Mental Health Reader is an interdisciplinary resource for students preparing to become mental health professionals, those functioning as practitioners in community mental health settings or policy planners engaged in the evaluation and development of programs in the human services. Drs. Samuel and Jessica Rosenberg seek to clarify the issues surrounding community mental health.

Starting with an overview of the field, focusing on the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, the Reader goes on to cover: various treatment modalities (psychoeducation, self-help, peer groups, clubhouse programs and assertive community treatment teams); the economic, policy and treatment issues unique to vulnerable populations; .the issues surrounding September 11, 2001, and the many distinct aspects of post-9/11 care and preparedness planning. The final section five considers the present state of community mental health and future trends in managed care, potential terrorism and current research.

	Introduction : conceptualizing the challenges in community mental health	1
Ch. 1	Patient, client, consumer, survivor : the mental health consumer movement in the United States	7
Ch. 2	Consumer-providers' theories about recovery from serious psychiatric disabilities	15
Ch. 3	Pursuing hope and recovery : an integrated approach to psychiatric rehabilitation	25
Ch. 4	In the community : aftercare for seriously mentally ill persons from their own perspectives	35
Ch. 5	The wraparound process : individualized, community-based care for children and adolescents with intensive needs	47
Ch. 6	Evidence-based treatment for adults with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders	61
Ch. 7	Putting values into practice : involuntary treatment interventions in mental health	73
Ch. 8	Neuropsychiatric perspectives for community mental health theory and practice	83
Ch. 9	Public mental health systems : breaking the impasse in the treatment of oppressed groups	103
Ch. 10	Stigma, sexual orientation, and mental illness : a community mental health perspective	117
Ch. 11	African Americans and mental health	125
Ch. 12	Mental health issues of Chinese Americans : help-seeking behaviors and culturally relevant services	141
Ch. 13	Psychological intervention with Hispanic patients : a review of selected culturally syntonic treatment approaches	153
Ch. 14	Homeless shelters : an uneasy component of the de facto mental health system	169
Ch. 15	The practice effectiveness of case management services for homeless persons with alcohol, drug, or mental health problems	181
Ch. 16	We'll meet you on your bench : developing a therapeutic alliance with the homeless mentally ill patient	195
Ch. 17	Social work in a managed care environment	209
Ch. 18	Networks and organizational identity : on the front lines of behavioral health	221
Ch. 19	The uncertain future of public mental health systems : a West Virginia case study	233
Ch. 20	Mental health leadership in a turbulent world	247

New interesting textbook: Human Biology and Health or Fashion Apparel Accessories and Home Furnishings

Aging with HIV: Psychological, Social, and Health Issues

Author: Janice E Nichols

"Aging with HIV: Psychological, Social, and Health Issues is a comprehensive look into the struggles that older people with HIV face. The interviews offer an insight into the complicated struggles of a segment of the HIV population that has often been forgotten. Sex and substance use are alive and well in the older population. Providers involved with the care of older people need to have in-depth information on the impact of HIV on aging. This book is a real 'eye opener' for clinicians, care managers, and anyone who makes decisions about HIV care."
--Donna Gallagher, Director, New England AIDS Education and Training Center, Boston, U.S.A.

"The interweaving of descriptive findings from the 172 HIV+ subjects and the in-depth data from the 15 people living in Florida, along with a comprehensive application of the professional literature, enhances our understanding of the realities of aging and living with HIV/AIDS. This work is a 'must have' resource for providers and researchers interested in the lives of middle-aged and older people living with HIV/AIDS."
--Kathleen M. Nokes, CUNY, U.S.A.

"In one of the first scientific book length reports of older HIV positive people, the authors sensitively reveal the vulnerability, depression, poverty and isolation of one of the fastest growing portions of the epidemic. Their attention to these often hidden people, often living in minority communities, calls upon all of us to change our thinking about older adults and develop education, service, and support programs to address their needs."
--Nathan L. Linsk, Principal Investigator, Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center, Founding Co-chair, National Association of HIV OverFifty, University of Illinois at Chicago

Although the percentage of total HIV cases attributed to older adults is increasing, we know little about how the disease affects them. From providing appropriate medical and social services to combating ageism and social discrimination, health and social services workers can significantly increase their effectiveness if they recognize the differences between HIV/AIDS in younger and older people.

This study uses a broad, interview-based survey of people living with HIV over the age of 45 in the West Central Florida area. Encompassing demographics, health, treatment, accessed services and patients' social lives and mental health, its quantitative and qualitative data offers a thorough and useful profile of older adults with HIV.

Booknews

Referring to a West Central Florida research project survey of adults 45 and older living with HIV as a chronic rather than terminal illness, Nichols (aging and mental health, U. of South Florida, Tampa) and her colleagues discuss the growing incidence of the disease among older adults, and the prevention, medical, attitudinal, and support services challenges that this population poses in addition to the usual issues of aging. Based on their findings validating that such variables as education level, substance abuse, and pre-infection medical status correlate with mental health, recommendations are made regarding policy and service planning. Project details and the interview schedule are appended. The authors are also affiliated with the Louis de la Plarte Florida Mental Health Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Basic Steps to Godly Fitness or Keeping Control

2009-02-10T11:54:00.000-08:00

Basic Steps to Godly Fitness: Strengthening Your Body and Soul in Christ

Author: Laurette Willis

Have you ever committed to a diet or an exercise program, only to lose interest and quit long before reaching your goal? Who hasn't!

Popular speaker and certified personal trainer Laurette Willis shows you why most diets do more harm than good. She offers a much more biblical and helpful whole-person approach to fitness-a lifestyle that will enrich your spirit, refresh your soul, and nourish your body. Her inspiring personal testimony and practical suggestions show you how to turn mundane daily activities and exercises into acts of worship.

Library Journal

America's obesity crisis and the attendant (albeit largely fruitless) anxiety about health, diet, and exercise have now begun to converge with Christian spirituality. This book by actor, speaker, and aerobics instructor Willis is a useful and sensible representative of this fast-growing field. Part diet manual, part exercise regimen, part spiritual pep talk, it expounds BASIC ("Body And Soul In Christ"), showing the overweight and idle how to resist Satan through diet and exercise; she even has a Christian alternative to yoga. For most collections. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

	Bad News, Good News	7
	Introduction	9
Step 1	Body
1	Eating What's Right Will Solve What's Wrong	17
2	Breakfast: It's a Command	39
3	Success Strategies	45
4	Movement: Are You Sitting Down?	69
Step 2	Soul
5	Renewing Your Mind: Where Godly Fitness Begins	103
6	Emotions: Forgiveness, the Key to Answered Prayer	117
7	Stress: America's Number One Health Problem	123
Step 3	In Christ
8	Prayer, Praise, and Fasting: God's Power Tools	131
9	PraiseMoves: The Christian Alternative to Yoga	145
10	The Step-UP Program: 21 Days to a Not-So-Extreme Makeover by God's Design	169
11	BASIC Steps Recipes	209
	A Prayer to Receive Jesus Christ as Your Savior	221
	Resources	223
	Notes	225

Book review: Habilidades de Delegación Clínicas:una Guía para Práctica Profesional

Keeping Control: Understanding and Overcoming Fecal Incontinence

Author: Marvin M Schuster

Keeping Control is a compassionate, medically reliable, and thoroughly informative resource for anyone who wants to understand the possible causes of fecal incontinence, learn about important advances in management and treatment, and do something about the problem. Written by a noted Johns Hopkins physician and an experienced medical writer and editor, Keeping Control explains the mechanics of normal bowel function and describes the latest medical findings about what can cause incontinence, from pre-existing conditions and diseases to accidents and childbirth injuries. It thoroughly explains the wide range of treatment options, including remarkable successes with biofeedback and habit training. It includes special advice for managing incontinence in children and older people. And it offers important advice on how to work with your physician to take control of the problem.

Keeping Control also includes a glossary of terms and valuable information about contacting support groups and using additional resources. An epilogue by Nancy Norton, founder of the International Foundation for Bowel Dysfunction, describes the personal challenge of living with fecal incontinence and explains how she and many others have found the courage to cope with the problem and live life to the fullest.

Caring for Ourselves while Caring for Our Elders or Omega 3 Fatty Acid Research

2009-02-09T07:53:00.000-08:00

Caring for Ourselves While Caring for Our Elders

Author: Maren C Tirabassi

Includes 25 brief yet edifying chapters sharing the encouraging stories of family members who are caring for elders. Scripture is used to frame the stories - representing a diverse group of caregivers - as well as short psychological commentaries, discussion questions, assignments, and prayers.

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Omega 3 Fatty Acid Research

Author: M C Teal

EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids are contained in oily fish, such as salmon, lake trout, tuna and herring. These fatty acids are not essential to the diet; however, scientific evidence indicates that these fatty acids may be very beneficial in reducing Coronary Heart Disease among other things. This book brings together some of the recent studies on this important and interesting substance.

Ch. I	Principles for the analysis of omega-3 fatty acids	1
Ch. II	Conjugated linoleic acid : an anticancer fatty acid found in milk and meat	27
Ch. III	Association of pro-and anti-inflammatory cytokine genotypes with the response of advanced atherosclerotic plaque composition to dietary n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation
Ch. IV	Effects of biological and technological factors on the utility of fish as a source of n-3 PUFA	83
Ch. V	Kinetic analysis of autoxidative docosahexaenoate triglyceride in the presence of rosemary extract with oxygen sensor	109
Ch. VI	The role of omega-3 fatty acids in immune development and allergy prevention	119
Ch. VII	Omega-3 fatty acids in affective and psychotic disorders	143
Ch. VIII	Metabolism and functions of omega-3 fatty acids during development of the avian embryo	187
Ch. IX	Effect of dietary omega-3 fatty acids on meat quality of pigs and poultry	225
Ch. X	Effect of dietary supplementation of DHA on peroxidizability of rat retina	241
Ch. XI	Effects of dietary docosahexaenoic acid on spatial cognition of normal and Alzheimer's disease model rats	265

Blood and Marrow Transplantation or Understanding Dietary Supplements

2009-02-08T03:51:00.000-08:00

Blood and Marrow Transplantation: A Patient's Guide to Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Author: Fairview Health Services

This one-of-a-kind guide helps inform donors, transplant recipients, and their loved ones of what to expect from the procedure.

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Understanding Dietary Supplements

Author: MS Jenna Hollenstein

For many consumers, taking one or more dietary supplements is a natural addition to a healthy lifestyle. Information regarding dietary supplements abounds but can be misleading or contradictory. Understanding Dietary Supplements is a guide to making informed choices. Chapters provide: Both an overview and detailed information about key supplements, Coverage of a broad spectrum of vitamins and minerals, herbs and botanicals, drugs, and other options, Jargon-free explanations of how each supplement can work on the body, Safety concerns about interactions and misuse, Regulations imposed on the industry and recent trends in the industry's development, A glossary and listings of outside resources. Included here, the full text of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994-the model for the FDA's regulation of dietary supplements-affords guidance to deciphering labels and determining value. Understanding Dietary Supplements is an easy-to-use guide to a much demanded but often misunderstood group of products.

About the Author:
Jenna Hollenstein is clinical editor at the Pri-Med Institute of M|C Communications in Boston, Massachusetts

Bobbi Brown Beauty or Wealth Consciousness

2009-02-06T23:50:00.000-08:00

Bobbi Brown Beauty: The Ultimate Beauty Resource

Author: Bobbi Brown

In this manual, Bobbi Brown strikes conventional thinking about beauty. To her way of thinking , there is no one "perfect" beauty standard but countless expressions of personalized beauty. Bobbi helps readers recognize their own remarkable beauty traits and develop their own natural beauty styles. She also analyzes the styles of some of the most celebrated beauties of the past--Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Onassis, Grace Kelly--and of our time--Christy Turlington, Demi Moore, and Kate Moss.

Wealth Consciousness: A Guide from Babaji for Prosperity

Author: Roger G Lanphear

Wealth Consciousness is the trailblazing wisdom of 18 techniques that unlocks the secrets for prosperity given to mankind from Babaji.

Trailblazing mental techniques to open your consciousness to the qualities and powers every human owns. Prosperity is just one of the rewards for diligently practicing this simple wisdom given to mankind from Babaji through the author.

	Epigraph	v
	List of Techniques	xi
	Preface	xiii
	Introduction	xv
	The Preparation	1
	Rhythms of Reality	3
	The Basic Practice	6
	The Basis for Answers	13
	Correcting Subconscious Beliefs	18
	A New Belief System	25
	Coming to Grips With Fear	31
	Empowerment	38
	The Practice	41
	The Fundamental Habit	43
	Goal Setting	49
	A Plan of Action	55
	Managing the Flow	62
	Forgiveness	67
	Manifesting Your True Desires	73
	Ethics and Principles	79
	The Practice Revisited	86
	The Ramifications	91
	The Wealth of Possessions	93
	The Wealth of Health	98
	The Wealth of Relationships	103
	The Wealth of Love	106
	The Wealth of Peace	110
	The Wealth of the Subconscious	114
	The Quality of Life	117
	A Word from the Author	121

Foods Can Save Your Life or Todays Herbal Health for Children

2009-02-05T19:48:00.000-08:00

Foods Can Save Your Life: Leading Experts Tell You Why

Author: Neal D Barnard

Dr. Barnard brings you the latest information from 16 leading medical experts on the amazing effects that food can have to prevent and reverse illness.

Discover how the power of foods can assist in preventing a broad range of illnesses. Learn how to keep a healthy heart, prevent cancer, and prevent food poisoning. Learn how what you eat affects your mood and mental functioning and can lead to a longer life. Includes insights on natural food diets.

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Today's Herbal Health for Children: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Nutrition and Herbal Medicine for Children

Author: Louise Tenney

An overwhelming concern of modern society is that of staying healthy, and we know that it is easier to maintain health if we start out healthy. Recognizing this, Louise Tenney makes valuable information available to every parent in Today's Herbal Health for Children. The benefits of the natural treatment of ailments are emphasized, as well as the prevention of sickness by building a child's immune system using natural means. Making sure our children are healthy is one of the most important things we can do for them.

Feeling Good or Bridal Hair

2009-02-04T15:47:00.000-08:00

Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being

Author: C Robert Cloninger

All human beings have spontaneous needs for happiness, self-understanding, and love. In Feeling Good: The Science of Well Being, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger describes a way to coherent living that satisfies these strong basic needs through growth in the uniquely human gift of self-awareness. The scientific findings that led Dr. Cloninger to expand his own views in a stepwise manner during 30 years of research and clinical experience are clearly presented so that readers can consider the validity of his viewpoint for themselves. The principles of well-being are based on a non-reductive scientific paradigm that integrates findings from all the biomedical and psychosocial sciences. Reliable methods are described for measuring human thought and social relationships at each step along the path of self-aware consciousness. Practical mental exercises for stimulating the growth of self-awareness are also provided. The methods are supported by data from brain imaging, genetics of personality, and longitudinal biopsychosocial studies.
Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being will be of value to anyone involved in the sciences of the mind or the treatment of mental disorders. It will also interest theologians, philosophers, social scientists, and lay readers because it provides contemporary scientific concepts and language for addressing the perennial human questions about being, knowledge, and conduct.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Diana Marta, BSN, RN (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: In the age-old debate of mind vs. body, which route is the true one to well-being? This is the question posed by the author as he attempts to integrate the disciplines of biomedical and psychosocial theory into a single, though complex, path to self-awareness and ultimately well-being. The work is based on the author's 30 years of research and clinical practice.
Purpose: Although many have attempted to explain how to attain happiness, none have done such a thorough scientific study incorporating psychology, philosophy, biology, sociology, and genetics. In an age where material goods have often failed to bring such happiness, the author gives hope and reinforces the promise that much of what an individual seeks in within him.
Audience: This book will be of interest to a wide variety of professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and sociologists, philosophers, and virtually anyone serving mental health clients. However, its complexity will realistically limit that audience to those wanting to delve in great depth into the theory of well-being and the contingent controversy between biomedical and psychosocial approaches. Despite its complexity, the book also shares some of the same goals as today's more simplistic self-help books. For those who can stay with it, it is quite a cleverly presented theory and, clearly, the author has extensive experience as both a researcher and a clinician.
Features: Having expressed his desire to explore all the disciplines that in any way relate to the pursuit of well-being and his strong argument that mind and body cannot be separated, the author welcomes criticism and feedback on his work, which he suggests will guide him in refining his theories. I find this and his acknowledgement that it took him several false starts to complete this book quite refreshing and unusual in the academic arena. The detail and degree to which he examines all the contributing theories may be off-putting to some readers.
Assessment: This is a complex book with a very simple goal: to better integrate the sciences of the mind and body into a path to better self-awareness and well-being. It is a major contribution to the literature and a refreshing approach to the subject. What particularly resonated with me was the issue of intuition and how individuals must know and trust their own instincts before they can find their own path.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Bridal Hair

Author: Pat Dixon

Written by Pat Dixon, the internationally acclaimed expert within the world of bridal hair, this hardback book is an essential guide to dressing bridal hair. Packed with everything you need to know to offer a comprehensive bridal hair and beauty service - from helping your bride to choose her dress, head-dress and flowers, to co-ordinating this with a style that suits her hair type and texture - this book is a 'must-have' text for all professional hairdressers and students. Techniques, from the basic to the more complicated, are all illustrated in our easy to follow step-by-steps which fulfil much of the NVQ Level 2 and 3 criteria. The bridal style gallery will provide you and your bride with inspiration, whatever her hair length and there is also a selection of romantic styles for seasonal and themed weddings plus hints and tips on working with flowers, veils and hats. In fact everything you need to know to ensure that your bridal clients get exactly the look they want on their wedding day.

	Foreword	v
	Acknowledgements	vi
	Introduction	1
	Consultation	2
	Head-dresses	4
	Flowers	10
	Veils	12
	Hats	14
	Bouquets	16
	Accessories	18
	Dress rehearsal	20
	Bridesmaids	22
	Maids of honour	24
	Bride's mother & bridegroom	25
	The big day	26
	Bridal style gallery - 34 romantic looks	29
	Step-by-steps - 14 easy-to-follow techniques	63
	Iris	64
	Blossom	66
	Lavender	70
	Crystal	76
	Tulip	80
	Hellena	84
	Daisy	86
	Gypsy	90
	Aries	92
	Mimosa	94
	Rose	98
	Lily	102
	Genessa	108
	Ivy	114
	Seasonal & themed wedding styles	117
	Spring	118
	Summer	120
	Autumn	122
	Winter	124
	Medieval	126
	Classical	128
	Traditional	130
	Modern	132
	Back to the future	134

No Gimmick Guide to Raising Fit Kids or The Bliss Principle

2009-02-03T11:45:00.000-08:00

No-Gimmick Guide to Raising Fit Kids: The Parents' Plan for Overcoming Childhood Obesity

Author: Robert S Andersen

Raise fit kids without the gimmicks!

Obesity is affecting our children at an alarming rate. Today's high-calorie menus and low-effort lifestyles can lead to serious illness and social isolation. Some parents seek a quick fix, but gimmicks don't work! Dr. Robert Andersen, an award-winning pediatrician and experienced dad, has a commonsense, down-to-earth plan that does. In this easy-to-follow guide you'll discover . . .

tips on helping kids lead a healthy lifestyle

how to make changes that last

the basics of metabolism

how to stop obesity before it starts

nutritional advice for kids of all ages

fun physical activities for the whole family

motivators to help kids get with—and stick with—the program

Give your kids the gift of fitness—by helping them care for the wonderful, one-of-a-kind bodies God gave them.

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The Bliss Principle: 5 Easy Ways to Reduce Stress

Author: Kellye Davis

In our chaotic world, stress seems to be inevitable: stuck in line at the bank, trapped in rush-hour traffic, overwhelmed by workplace deadlines. Now yoga instructor and stress management counselor Kellye Davis has created a simple but effective program to show you that while pressure is a fact of life, it isn't an inescapable one.

Through clear, helpful language and detailed illustrations, Kellye Davis' The Bliss Principle will give you the tools you need to recharge and refuel, to reduce the stress of everyday living - no matter where the tension occurs:

* Deep breathing techniques that can instantly ease tension in both mind and body
* Easy-to-master yoga postures that don't require a class at the gym
* Meditation exercises that can be done whenever and wherever you need them
* 10 recipes that promote health and well-being
* Design tips that promote tranquility - in the home and in the office Kellye Davis finally delivers the wisdom that every stressed-out, worn-out soul has been looking for.

The road to serenity has never been easier -- rediscover your bliss with The Bliss Principle!

The Entrepreneur Diet or The Power of Your Plate

2009-02-02T07:42:00.000-08:00

The Entrepreneur Diet: The On-the-Go Plan for Fitness, Weight Loss and Healthy Living

Author: Tom Weed

A DIET FOR THOSE TOO BUSY TO DIET!

Mainstream diets, daily two-hour workouts . . . They just don't fit the lifestyles of busy entrepreneurs, or anyone who's crunched for time. If you have a daily routine that keeps you constantly on the go, you know just what we mean. That's why the publishers of Entrepreneur magazine and an advisory board of world-renowned experts in nutrition, health, exercise and goal-setting joined forces with Tom Weede to develop this groundbreaking diet and exercise plan.

Shed pounds, shape up and boost energy in just six weeks! Eat healthy without sacrificing taste or time with a six-week meal plan that offers both traditional meals and “Quick Fix” options from Starbucks, McDonald's, great restaurants and more. Start a workout plan that works with your schedule, not against it.

In addition to The Entrepreneur Diet Six-Week Meal Plan, Weede covers:>/p>

Eight must-have habits for shedding fat
The Quick-Start Action Plan that works with any busy schedule
Healthy selections from fast food to frozen dinners to restaurant fare
“Stealth” exercises that can be done on an airplane, at a desk or in a car
Four core elements that help control stress and increase energy
The business-fitness connection and how it boosts success

Designed exclusively for busy people with demanding schedules who don't think they have time for a weight-loss program, this easy-to-use diet and fitness plan delivers what's important-lasting weight-loss results.

The Entrepreneur Diet Advisory Board     xi
Acknowledgments     xv
Preface     xvii
Healthy Due Diligence
The Fit Entrepreneur     3
The Business-Fitness Connection     4
Looking at Entrepreneurs     5
It's Your Health Capital-Spend It Wisely     12
The Business of Fitness     13
The Bottom Line     15
The Quick-Start Action Plan     17
Quick-Start Exercise     18
Quick-Start Cardio-the Ten-Minute Energy Walk     22
Quick-Start Nutrition     24
Myth Busting     29
I'm Not Athletic, So Even If I Wanted to Become More Active, I Can't Do It     31
It's Too Late for Me to Exercise     32
Exercise Isn't Enjoyable     33
A Woman Will Get Too Bulky If She Lifts Weights     34
Exercise Is Dangerous     35
It Takes Too Much Time to Eat Right and Exercise     37
I Won't Be Able to Enjoy My Favorite Foods     39
No Pain, No Gain     40
It's Inevitable that I'll Gain Weight as I Age, So It's Not Worth Fighting It     41
I Have to Join a Gym or Buy Expensive Equipment to Get in Shape     42
Start-Up
Taking Stock     47
The Ingredients of Fitness     48
Weight and Body Composition     49
Cardiovascular Conditioning     54
Functional Strength     57
It's Time For a Change     63
All the World Is in a Stage of Change     64
Precontemplation     65
Contemplation     66
Preparation     68
Action     72
Maintenance     73
Building Your Body's Equity
Eight Must-Have Nutrition Habits of Shedding Fat     79
Don't Skip Meals     81
Eat Breakfast     82
Control Portion Sizes     83
Consume Colorful Fruits and Vegetables     84
Eat Whole Grains     85
Favor Healthy Fats     88
Cut Down on Added Sugar     89
Aim for Good, Not Perfect     91
The Entrepreneur Diet     93
Adjust the Plan to Your Weight     94
Know Portion Sizes     96
Expect to Lose One to Two Pounds a Week     96
Time Your Workouts     97
Stay Flexible     97
Hydrate     98
Plan Ahead     99
Start Small     99
Give Yourself a Break      101
The Entrepreneur Diet Six-Week Meal Plan     101
Smart Exercise     147
Weight Lifting Demystified     148
The Resistance Program     151
The Exercises     154
Cardio Matters     163
Team Cardio     164
Growing Stronger     165
Instant Booster     166
The Cardio Program     167
If You Don't Like Walking or Running     174
Taking It Up a Notch     175
Be Flexible     179
It's a Stretch     180
To Flexibility Program     182
The Stretches     184
Extra Credit     189
Guaranteeing Your Return on Investment
More Energy, Less Stress     195
Sleep     197
Food     202
Movement     205
Awareness     208
Healthy and Fit on the Go     213
Avoid the Jet-Lag Drag     214
Make Time for Exercise     221
Be Prepared for Dining Out     226
Healthy Considerations     229
Cholesterol     231
High Blood Pressure     234
Diabetes     236
Osteoporosis      239
Cancer     242
Staying Motivated     247
Do an Event     248
Take an Active Vacation     251
Join a Gym     254
Get Personal     257
Starting a Workplace Wellness Program     263
Calories Burned by Activity     267
Putting the Taste in Healthy Cooking     273
Health and Fitness on the Web     277
Entrepreneur Web Sites     281
About the Author     285
Index     287

Books about: Nuts or Juices

The Power of Your Plate: Eating well for Better Health--20 Experts tell you how!

Author: Neal D Barnard

This book presents the latest information from the country's leading medical authorities showing that food choices can improve your health. With the right foods you can lose weight permanently without restrictive diets, prevent and reverse heart disease, and reduce your chances of contracting many types of cancer.

100 Questions and Answers about Gastric Cancer or Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer

2009-02-01T03:41:00.000-08:00

100 Questions and Answers about Gastric Cancer

Author: Manish A Shah

Gastric cancer is a global problem, with almost a million new cases worldwide. About 21,700 Americans are diagnosed with stomach cancer each year and it occurs most often in people in their 60s and 70s. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient with gastric cancer, or a friend or relative of someone with cancer, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the patient's and doctor's views, this invaluable resource provides up-to-date, authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions. Written by a prominent expert physician in the field, from the renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, one of the few National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers with a specific program in treating cancers of the upper gastrointestinal tract, with "insider" advice from actual patients, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.

Helping Your Children Cope with Your Cancer: A Guide for Parents and Families

Author: Peter Van Dernoot

Cancer is bad news. It’s frightening to even think about it. Now think how frightening it would be for your children to know you have cancer. How do you tell them? How do you deal with the trauma and the pain? How do you prepare for the emotional and psychological upheaval a family endures when a parent has cancer?

Peter Van Dernoot has gathered the real-life stories and experiences of over twenty parents who have been diagnosed with cancer. They share their deepest fears and their highest hopes as they provide the reader with invaluable advice, guidance and inspiration. Now including all-new stories from parents and advice from professional counselors, this groundbreaking book is a very special gift from families affected by cancer to families affected by cancer.

Men Bleed Too or Basic Care for Naturally Textured Hair

2009-01-30T23:39:00.000-08:00

Men Bleed Too: A Compelling Story About One Man's Struggle to Help His Wife Fight Breast Cancer

Author: Thomas Brown

Men Bleed Too is a compelling, true story about one man's struggle to help his wife fight breast cancer.

Ever since I first found out that Barbara had breast cancer the thought of her dying plagued me almost daily. I never told her how I felt about this because I tried to be her coach and source of strength. There were many nights especially when she was in the hospital with the infections that I cried myself to sleep. I just kept thinking that it was so unfair for her to have cancer and suffer all that humiliation and sickness that came with the chemotherapy treatments. I never really got over the fear of losing her. I was so afraid of what would happen to me. How could I ever go on with my life without her? How would I cope with the thought of never seeing her or talking with her again?

I thought a lot about death during this period. I firmly believed in the afterlife and eternal salvation. I knew that Barbara was a good Christian and that her place in heaven would be a certainty. But I wanted her here on earth with me for the rest of my life. I wanted to see her grow old and comfort me. I couldn't stand the thought of her dying before me.

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Basic Care for Naturally Textured Hair: Cultivating Curly, Coily, and Kinky

Author: Diane Carol Bailey

Amazing locks, braids, weaves, twists, and wraps define some of the hairstyles worn best by those with very curly or African hair. Black Hair Care not only covers the internationally renowned and latest styles, it also shows how to care for your hair, and gives professional advice on hair coloring, chemical treatments, styling, and sculpting techniques. Learn all about hair structure, treatments for hair loss and its prevention, and products to help keep your hair healthy. Whether you're looking for unique styles that you can create at home, or natural, low-maintenance styles, let Black Hair Care help you care for your hair.

Arthritis What Exercises Work or Live Aware Not in Fear

2009-01-29T19:37:00.000-08:00

Arthritis, What Exercises Work: Breakthrough Relief for the Rest of Your Life, Even after Drugs and Surgery Have Failed

Author: Dava Sobel

What is the most powerful arthritis treatment ever developed to help restore you to a healthy, pain-free, and vigorous life--for the rest of your life'It's the very same breakthrough that has: --Helped more arthritis sufferers than drugs, surgery, or any other treatment--without dangerous side effects.--Been widely prescribed by medical doctors and other health practitioners.The answer? Exercise.Here are the right exercised for your kind of arthritis, pain-level, age, occupation, and hobbies.And they're the most effective exercises for arthritis available anywhere--rated "best" by arthritis sufferers themselves in an unprecedented nationwide survey...supported by medical doctors...and backed by the latest research.only this book has them.Let Arthritis: What Exercises Work work wonders in ending your arthritis pain--forever!

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Live Aware, Not in Fear: The 411 After 9-11, A Book for Teens

Author: Donna Koren Wells

Since September 11, life in America has been turned upside down. As frightening as it is for adults, for teens it is overwhelming. Donna Wells and Bruce Morris, public-safety professionals with years of firsthand experience, offer teens a book that will help them navigate uncharted waters and will also provide invaluable advice and reassurance.

Presenting first the myths then the facts, this guide also offers teens chapter-by-chapter question-and-answer sections, space to journal their feelings and reactions, and suggestions on how they can help themselves, their families and the communities in which they live.

Chapters include: The Home of the Brave (what terrorists target and why); Worried Sick (the truth about bioterrorism); Dollars and Sense (potential family economic impacts); The Land of the Free (school and community); From Sea to Shining Sea (travel); Instant Mess[age] (communications, entertainment, media).

Designed to be a handbook that teens can keep with them at all times, Live Aware is compact and chock full of important, easy-to-understand information. A reassurance to parents and teens alike, Live Aware is destined to become a huge hit-a unique book that respects teens' intelligence and powers of reasoning and empathizes at their levels.

This is a must-have for every teen concerned about safety, courage and community spirit.

VOYA

The purpose of this book is to present basic information on possible risks and appropriate actions related to the events of September 11, 2001. Each chapter starts with a risk scenario, giving a possible situation that teens can think about, discuss, and decide what their reactions would be in a similar situation. The authors provide a short quiz relating to the chapter topic; a section discussing myth versus fact, highlighting a fear that has become pervasive since 9-11; the truth about each myth; answers to questions relating to each myth; questions for teens to answer; and things teens can do to minimize their risk. A matrix to help readers assess their level of threat related to the vulnerabilities discussed appears at the end of each chapter. Topics presented include the threat of terrorism to all Americans, bioterrorism, the financial impact of 9-11, loss of freedoms, the impact on travel, and the impact on communication. The authors work for the Department of Public Safety for the Commonwealth of Virginia. They try to inform teens so that they can make responsible decisions and attempt to reassure students that there are things they can do to minimize their risk. This book could be used as a discussion guide and a workbook for groups concerned with the threats and changes brought about since the terrorist attacks. Although the book could be helpful for groups, it might create anxiety in some students who read it on their own. VOYA CODES: 3Q 2P S (Readable without serious defects; For the YA with a special interest in the subject; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12). 2002, Health Communications, 162p, Dubois

Barbara Jo McKee - KLIATT

Wells and Morris are public safety experts with backgrounds in preparing for terrorism. This small book is chock-full of information for teens who find themselves—as we all do—confused by the new world around us after the events of Sept. 11th. The informative chapters deal with what terrorists target and why; school and community; dollars and sense; and bioterrorism. There are questions to answer on how much you know; myths and facts; and a section on how to be proactive. At the end of each chapter is a matrix so you can assess your risk. These might seem like the "worst of times" but they have brought out the best in us, and information will always be the best way to deal with the things we fear. This book will be a comfort to teens and their parents. It should be in every school and public library. KLIATT Codes: JS—Recommended for junior and senior high school students. 2002, HCI, 160p.,

The Golfers Book of Yoga or La revoluci n diab tica del Dr Atkins

2009-01-28T15:36:00.000-08:00

The Golfer's Book of Yoga: Bring Your Game to the Next Level

Author: Drew Greenland

Yoga presented in a clear and accessible manner specifically with the golfer's needs in mind.

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La revoluciуn diabйtica del Dr. Atkins (The Groundbreaking Approach to Preventing and Controlling Diabetes)

Author: Robert C Atkins

Las estadísticas son asombrosas. Trece millones de americanos han sigo diagnosticados con diabetes tipo 2, y otros 5.2 millones ni si-quiera saben que la tienen. Durante los últimos treinta años, los casos de diabetes se han triplicado, y cada año, mueren aproximadamente 200,000 personas debido a complicaciones con la enfermedad.

En el caso de los latinos, las estadísticas son aún más alarmantes. De los latinos que viven en Estados Unidos, se estima que hay un total de 2 millones que sufre de diabetes, y se calcula que entre hispanos, la incidencia de la diabetes tipo 2 es el dos veces más común que en los demás grupos étnicos.

Pero la diabetes tipo 2 sí se puede prevenir. En La Revolución Diabética del Dr. Atkins, encontrará un programa completo que incluye numerosos menús, recetas y ejercicios especialmente diseñados para ayudarle a llevar un estilo de vida sano y lleno de vitalidad. Este innovador libro le ayudará a:

Identificar su riesgo de diabetes lo antes posible
Descubrir si tiene el síndrome metabólico
Cambiar su estilo de vida para evitar los desequilibrios metabólicos que llevan a la diabetes
Reducir sus posibilidades de tener un ataque al corazón, un derrame y algunas formas de cáncer
Reducir su riesgo de desarrollar una enfermedad del corazón, bajando su nivel de triglicéridos y aumentando su HDL o colesterol "bueno"

Practical Homeopathy or When Your Hormones Go Haywire

2009-01-27T11:34:00.000-08:00

Practical Homeopathy: A Comprehensive Guide to Homeopathic Remedies and Their Acute Uses

Author: Vinton McCab

For the first time ever, glossaries of comprehensive symptoms and homeopathic remedies collected in one volume.

This definitive gude is raelly two books in one: an introduction to the study and practice of homeopathy and a detailed reference book of symptoms and remedies. Vinton McCabe, a longtime educator of homeopathy practicioners and laypersons, begins with a brief history of the art and discusses the underlying philosophy of homeopathy as contrasted with conventional medicine.
The bulk of the book is made up of well-organized, accessible sections covering such topics as symptoms for use in diagnosis, corrective measures for emergencies andother easily diagnosed complaints, and a detailed listing of sixty homeopathic remedies and their uses. Practical Homeopathy will appeal to newcomers to homeopathy as well as to enthusiasts.

New interesting book: Ready Made Democracy or Program Theory Driven Evaluation Science

When Your Hormones Go Haywire: Solutions for Women over 40

Author: Pamela Smith

You Can Feel Good Again

A great book, loaded with practical information from an author I love and respect. If Pam Smith said it, I believe it. Shes the best!
DR. KEVIN LEMAN, Author of The Birth Order Book and Sex Begins in the Kitchen

In When Your Hormones Go Haywire Pam Smith draws on breakthrough research to provide you with proven step-by-step solutions that will help you regain hormonal balance as you choose how to navigate the challenges of midlife. It includes:

Help in deciding how to respond to the latest research on hormone replacement therapy.
Natural solutions for:
? Fatigue ? Weight Gain ? Anxiety ? Hot Flashes ? Irritability
? Low Libido ? Fuzzy Thinking ? Memory Loss ? Insomnia
? Depression ? Headaches ? Achy Joints
A 12 Week Action Plan to achieve hormone balance and nourish yourself, body and soul.
Recipes to help you increase daily energy and feel healthy again.

Pam Smith knows that midlife transition can sometimes be tough. In When Your Hormones Go Haywire she helps you discover how it can also be an opportunity for personal growth and renewal, a time in which you emerge as a stronger, healthier woman in every respect.

Bathshebas Breast or I Can See Tomorrow

2009-01-26T07:33:00.000-08:00

Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History

Author: James Stuart Olson

"Breast cancer may very well be history's oldest malaise, known as well to the ancients as it is to us. The women who have endured it share a unique sisterhood. Queen Atossa and Dr. Jerri Nielsen -- separated by era and geography, by culture, religion, politics, economics, and world view -- could hardly have been more different. Born 2,500 years apart, they stand as opposite bookends on the shelf of human history. One was the most powerful woman in the ancient world, the daughter of an emperor, the mother of a god; the other is a twenty-first-century physician with a streak of adventure coursing through her veins. From the imperial throne in ancient Babylon, Atossa could not have imagined the modern world, and only in the driest pages of classical literature could Antarctica-based Jerri Nielsen even have begun to fathom the Near East five centuries before the birth of Christ. For all their differences, however, they shared a common fear that transcends time and space." -- from Bathsheba's Breast

In 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijks museum stopped in front of Rembrandt's Bathsheba at Her Bath, on loan from the Louvre, and noticed an asymmetry to Bathsheba's left breast; it seemed distended, swollen near the armpit, discolored, and marked with a distinctive pitting. With a little research, the physician learned that Rembrandt's model, his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels, later died after a long illness, and he conjectured in a celebrated article for an Italian medical journal that the cause of her death was almost certainly breast cancer.

A horror known to every culture in every age, breast cancer has been responsible for the deaths of 25 million womenthroughout history. An Egyptian physician writing 3,500 years ago concluded that there was no treatment for the disease. Later surgeons recommended excising the tumor or, in extreme cases, the entire breast. This was the treatment advocated by the court physician to sixth-century Byzantine empress Theodora, the wife of Justinian, though she chose to die in pain rather than lose her breast. Only in the past few decades has treatment advanced beyond disfiguring surgery.

In Bathsheba's Breast, historian James S. Olson -- who lost his left hand and forearm to cancer while writing this book -- provides an absorbing and often frightening narrative history of breast cancer told through the heroic stories of women who have confronted the disease, from Theodora to Anne of Austria, Louis XIV's mother, who confronted "nun's disease" by perfecting the art of dying well, to Dr. Jerri Nielson, who was dramatically evacuated from the South Pole in 1999 after performing a biopsy on her own breast and self-administering chemotherapy. Olson explores every facet of the disease: medicine's evolving understanding of its pathology and treatment options; its cultural significance; the political and economic logic that has dictated the terms of a war on a "woman's disease"; and the rise of patient activism. Olson concludes that, although it has not yet been conquered, breast cancer is no longer the story of individual women struggling alone against a mysterious and deadly foe.

The Los Angeles Times

Bathsheba's Breast is an invaluable aid to those breast cancer survivors with an interest in taking the long view of their illness. It's a little too easy to lose perspective if one only reads the newspapers and magazines. There one finds headlines and claims about great strides being made ever since maps of the genome were first produced in 2000, ever since Herceptin was touted in 1999 as a cutting-edge therapy that attacked some forms of breast cancer at the genetic level. Though these breakthroughs are considerable and praiseworthy, Olson's book shows that, in reality, humanity has made a long, slow crawl toward understanding and treating breast cancer. — Nick Owchar

Library Journal

Olson (history, Sam Houston State Univ.) lost his left hand and forearm to cancer, an experience that led him to research the history of breast cancer. His narrative history shows that this disease was known in ancient Egypt and that it took the lives of prominent women, including Empress Theodora, wife of Justinian; Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV of France; Mary Washington, mother of George; the environmentalist Rachel Carson; and many others. Olson examines the evolution of cancer research, the politics and economics of the disease, the gender dynamics of female patients and male physicians, and the rise of patient activism. The book chronicles advances in breast-cancer diagnosis and treatment and the uncertainty that women must face while making difficult choices. Unlike Ellen Leopold's A Darker Ribbon, which focuses on the relationships of two specific women with their physicians, Olson takes a broader view, showing that there is still a long way to go but that women no longer struggle alone. This historical take on an important topic, backed by extensive notes, is a good choice for public and academic libraries. Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., CA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

The title refers to a contemporary physician's observations on the medical condition of Rembrandt's model for (pictured on the cover). Olson (history, Sam Houston State U.), who wrote this book while coping with cancer, traces the medical-cultural course of breast cancer from the Dark Ages to the Age of Liberation and Dr. Jerri Nielsen's newsworthy self-treatment at the South Pole. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Kirkus Reviews

How perceptions of breast cancer and its treatment have evolved over the centuries, particularly since the advent of the women's movement. In what he calls "self-administered psychotherapy" following the loss of his left arm to an epithelial sarcoma, Olson (History/Sam Houston State Univ.) immersed himself in the study of breast cancer's history. Not only is there a rich body of literature by prominent victims, but the gender dynamics of the disease—invariably female patients treated by generally male doctors—provide a fascinating view of the ways in which culture, politics, and science interact. Stories of individual women's battles with cancer, ranging from Persian Queen Atossa in the fifth century b.c. to American scientist Jerri Nielson in 20th-century Antarctica, provide a dramatic introduction. Olson then details how views of the disease have altered since the time of Hippocrates, who believed its cause was an excess of black bile in the body, and how treatments have evolved partly as a result of scientific advances and partly through cultural changes. While pre-anesthesia mastectomies seem downright barbaric, the widespread performance in the 1950s of mutilating and debilitating super-radical mastectomies followed by further surgery to remove the ovaries, the pituitary, and the adrenal glands, is no less repulsive. Today, Olson reports, such treatments have been supplanted by far less drastic surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. He recounts how the women's movement, the pop-culture obsession with breasts, the willingness of some physicians to test alternatives to radical mastectomy, and the development of mammography permitting earlier diagnosis have changed the optionsavailable to women with breast cancer. He describes how activists have moved from providing emotional support to breast cancer patients to challenging the medical establishment and lobbying the government for research money and legislative changes affecting insurance coverage. Its stigma disappearing, breast cancer has now moved onto book and magazine covers and into sitcoms. A lucid account of an ongoing war on a changing battlefield with at least the hope of new weapons.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Prologue: Across Time	1
1	Dark Ages	9
2	"Unkindest Cut of All": The Origins of the Mastectomy	27
3	William Stewart Halsted and the Radical Mastectomy	45
4	Superradicals and the Medicine of Mutilation	65
5	New Beginnings: Assault on the Radical Mastectomy	86
6	Beauty and the Breast: The Great American Obsession	100
7	Out of the Closet: Breast Cancer in the 1970s	124
8	Patient Heal Thyself: Quacks and Cures in the Age of Narcissism	145
9	Choices: Medical Treatment in the Age of Liberation	171
10	The Breast Cancer Wars	192
11	Biology, Society, and Destiny	221
	Epilogue: The New Millennium	243
	Notes	263
	Index	291

Interesting textbook: La Enfermería de Mando y Dirección:un Guía Práctico

I Can See Tomorrow: A Guide for Living with Depression

Author: Patricia L Owen

For those who are seeing the signs of depression in themselves and looking for answers, this thoughtful, respectful, and thorough book takes the mystery out of depression and points the way to recovery. Because dealing with depression is not a do-it-yourself project, Patricia Owen offers a hand and holds out hope. She outlines a practical, balanced approach to treatment that integrates biological, psychological, and social factors. The result is an invaluable volume that works as a self-help book or as an adjunct to professional treatment-and that could mean the difference between the darkness of depression and the light of a new day.

Patricia L. Owen, Ph. D. , is the director of the Butler Center for Research at Hazelden in Center City, Minnesota.

Cancer Cookbook or The Golf Magazine Golf Fitness Handbook

2009-01-25T03:31:00.000-08:00

Cancer Cookbook: Food For Life

Author: Roxanne Koteles Smith

THE CANCER COOKBOOK, Food For Life Finally, healthier food that taste great. Chef Roxanne masterfully presents beautiful, simple foods with a Japanese influence. Novice to Executive Chefs will find THE CANCER COOKBOOK a fabulous resource for sourcing health to others. Janet Germano's photos exquisitively represent how easy the recipes are to follow. The food is only the beginning. The success stories touch, move and inspire you to start your own personalized program. In just over 1 year Emilie DeCelles, a grandmother, takes her diagnose of Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer tumor 40x50 mm and cancer marker of 79 to "tumor not even large enough to quantify with a measurement anymore" and cancer marker to 9.8. Dr. Chuck Witkowski's story of losing 81 pounds, reducing insulin from 400 units to 10 units and some days none; and no more acid reflux, blood pressure or allergy medications within six months is a great example of what is possible. Brenda Anderson and others' stories remind us how easily we can get our energy, vitality and youthfulness back through foods.

Book about: The Male Stress Survival Guide or Ananda Yoga for Higher Awareness

The Golf Magazine Golf Fitness Handbook

Author: Gary Wiren

The Golf Magazine Golf Fitness Handbook presents a simple six-step exercise system that will enhance your performance, reduce the likelihood of injury, and promote golfing longevity. All of the exercises in this book have been designed especially for the golfer's needs and can be done in twenty to forty minutes.Whether you are a pro or a weekend player, you will find the keys to becoming a more fit, flexible, and better golfer. You will learn to: utilize three incredibly effective warm-up options; increase your range of motion and maximize your power; build stronger muscles and increase your potential for distance; dramatically improve your endurance for better performance throughout the round; master fitness activities that you can insert into your daily routine without sacrificing time; and employ strategies for protecting your back.Filled with invaluable tips and advice gleaned from intensive study and play, this book will help you get the best out of every round golf and keep you playing for many years. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 96 pages, b&w photos, diagrams)

Suzanne Somers Fast and Easy or The Autism Encyclopedia

2009-01-23T23:29:00.000-08:00

Suzanne Somers' Fast and Easy

Author: Suzanne Somers

Somersize the fast and easy way and lose weight by eating delicious, home-cooked meals that are perfect for the entire family!
For more than ten years, Suzanne Somers has been preaching, “Fat is your friend and sugar is the greatest enemy!” Her Somersize program lets you shed pounds by eating rich, flavorful foods like meat, cheese, cream, butter, and eggs. Medical professionals are now saying what Suzanne and millions of Somersizers already know—the best way to fight the growing obesity epidemic in this country is a diet higher in proteins and real fats, and lower in sugar and carbohydrates.
More than 3 million readers have lost weight the Somersize way after reading Suzanne’s New York Times bestsellers Eat Great, Lose Weight; Get Skinny on Fabulous Food; and Eat, Cheat, and Melt the Fat Away. Now, in her new book, Fast and Easy, Suzanne makes Somersizing simple, affordable, and fun for the whole family. Whether you are too busy to cook or worried about feeding your family a healthy meal on a budget, Somersizing is the solution. In Fast and Easy Suzanne teaches you what foods your body converts to sugar and why you need to eliminate them. She outlines her weight-loss program for life, where you’ll forget how to count calories, fat grams, or carbohydrates and simply enjoy delicious foods with no weighing, no measuring, no portion control, and no deprivation. Here you’ll find more reasons to Somersize, including:
* How Suzanne’s balanced weight-loss plan is just what the doctor ordered
* How to heal your metabolism from years of yo-yo dieting
* How to convert your body to a fat-burning machine
* How obesity is a growingfamily problem and how Somersizing can stop it
* How to make meals in minutes, and Somersize products that make it even faster and easier to stay on the program
* How SomerSweet allows you to say good-bye to sugar without saying good-bye to sweets
* Moving, motivating testimonials from enthusiastic Somersizers
* Answers to more than 300 of the most frequently asked questions about this remarkably effective and sinfully delicious program
And, of course, Suzanne treats you to more than 100 new fast and easy recipes that will delight everyone in the family, including Turkey Taco Wraps, Somersize Double Double Cheeseburgers with Fast and Easy Onion Rings, In a Hurry Beef Curry, Cherry Chocolate Trifle, and Boston Cream Pie Cake, plus hometown favorites like Somersize Shake It and Bake It Chicken, Somersize Macaroni and Cheese, Baby-Back Barbecue Ribs, and much, much more.

Author Biography: SUZANNE SOMERS is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers Keeping Secrets; Eat Great, Lose Weight; Get Skinny on Fabulous Food; and Eat, Cheat, and Melt the Fat Away. The former star of the hit television programs Three’s Company and Step by Step, Suzanne is one of the most respected and trusted brand names in the world, representing cosmetics and skincare products, apparel, jewelry, a computerized facial fitness system, fitness products, and a dessert line called SomerSweet.
More than 3 million Somersizers have lost weight—and kept it off—the Somersize way. Find out how you and your family can shed the pounds. It’s fast and easy!

Library Journal

Go to: Mercadotecnia

The Autism Encyclopedia

Author: John T Neisworth

This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is a clear, comprehensive guide to the wide range of terminology related to autism spectrum disorders. More than 100 respected autism experts have contributed items from various disciplines-including pediatrics, behavior analysis, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, psychiatry, education, psychology, and physical therapy-to bring professionals and parents reliable information on: assistive technology, causes, curriculum materials, diagnosis, early detection, hereditary/environmental causes, legislation, research, sensory difficulties, behavior, classification systems, daily living, diet, education, interventions, medical issues, screening and assessment, signs and symptoms. Synonyms and relevant cross-references are included for the terms, and two appendices describe assessment tools and curricula and list autism-related study centers and organizations. Every professional whose work involves autism spectrum disorders needs a copy of this essential resource-to keep on hand as a daily reference and to share with parents of children who have these complex disorders.

Library Journal

In this first reference book on autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), Neisworth and Wolfe (both special education, Pennsylvania State Univ.) have produced a much-needed resource on terms associated with this disorder. Around 500 entries-ranging from one to three paragraphs-cover topics like diagnoses, therapies, and associated disorders, with numerous cross references. The authors have written the entries in a clear style that makes understandable even the most complicated concepts associated with ASD. For example, the hard-to-grasp concept of mindblindness (also known as theory of mind) is defined as the "difficulty in sensing and appropriately reacting to the beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions of others." While fairly comprehensive in its coverage, the encyclopedia would have been improved by including profiles of prominent people in the ASD field, including Temple Grandin and Dr. Bernard Rimland. The entries also lack specific references and web sites that would have made the information more useful, though two appendixes list assessment tools and organizations. Bottom Line Despite its minor shortcomings, this is a welcome addition to the literature on ASD that will hopefully be expanded in subsequent editions. Recommended for all public libraries and academic libraries with ASD collections.-Corey Seeman, Univ. of Toledo Libs., OH Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

	About the Editors	vii
	Contributors	ix
	Preface	xix
	Using This Encyclopedia	xxiii
	Acknowledgments	xxvii
	AAC to AVB	1
	B[subscript 6] and magnesium therapy to brushing	23
	CA to curriculum-based assessment (CBA)	31
	DA to dysphasia	47
	Early infantile autism to eye gaze	63
	Face recognition to fusiform gyrus	79
	General case programming (GCP) to guided compliance	89
	Habit reversal to hyporesponsiveness	95
	ICD-10 to IWRP	103
	Joint attention	115
	Kinesthetic sense	117
	Lactose intolerance to LRE	119
	MA to mutually acceptable written agreement (MAWA)	127
	Natural environment to nutritional supplement	139
	Objective to overselectivity	145
	Patterning to pyridoxine	151
	Reactive attachment disorder of infancy or early childhood to rumination	171
	Savant syndrome to system of least prompts	179
	Tact to typical antipsychotic medications	213
	Vaccines to VSM	225
	Wait training to wraparound services	233
	Zero effect level to zone of proximal development (ZPD)	235
	References	237
Appendix A	Screening and Assessment Tools and Curricula	261
Appendix B	Organizations	293

100 Questions and Answers about Gatroesophageal Reflux Disease or Get Fit with Your Dog

2009-01-22T19:27:00.000-08:00

100 Questions and Answers about Gatroesophageal Reflux Disease (Gerd): A Lahey Clinic Guide

Author: David L Burns

More than 25 million Americans suffer from gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD). Whether you've recently been diagnosed with GERD, want to gain a better understanding of GERD, or know someone who suffers from this condition, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the patient's and physician's perspectives, this invaluable resource offers readers authoritative, practical answers to 100 of the most common questions asked about GERD.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Willem JS de Villiers, M.D.,PhD(University of Kentucky College of Medicine)
Description: This book, aimed at lay people and patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), is authored by two experts from the Lahey Clinic and presents authoritative information in a nonthreatening, user-friendly manner.
Purpose: GERD is the most common reason patients are referred for upper endoscopy. It affects one-third of Americans with some regularity and this book is aimed at patients and the public to dispel some of the myths regarding this disease. It provides down-to-earth information about causes and current treatment of heartburn. These are certainly worthy objectives and the authors succeed admirably in making the information understandable and palatable.
Audience: The book is aimed at GERD patients and their families.
Features: Different sections address definitions and facts; symptoms and atypical manifestations of GERD; hiatal hernias, the lower esophageal sphincter, and reflux; lifestyle, medications, diet and GERD; complications of GERD; doctor's evaluation; testing for GERD, H. pylori, GERD, and peptic ulcer disease; medications for GERD; and endoscopic and surgical options for GERD. Current information is provided in a common sense manner on the relationship between hiatal hernia and GERD, lifestyle issues, the impact of diet modification, and the importance of the identification of Barrett's esophagus as a precursor to esophageal cancer. The pharmacologic information as well as insights into surgical and endoscopic techniques are superb. The illustrations are also appropriate and informative. Iparticularly appreciated the comments by a GERD patient on his particular experience.
Assessment: This is a lovely informative addition to the 100 Questions and Answers series. GERD patients and families will find a great deal of useful information. Frankly, I can think of no other questions that these patients have asked me over the years. I will definitely refer my patients to this Lahey Clinic guide.

Look this: The Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy or The New Harvard Guide to Womens Health

Get Fit with Your Dog: A Companion Guide to Health

Author: Karen Sullivan

In recent years, obesity has become a nationwide problem among human beings-and also among dogs. Here's a helpful guide for dog owners who need to control both their weight and the weight of their chubby canine friends. Overweight dogs and overweight humans are prone to strikingly similar health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and reduced longevity. Author Karen Sullivan helps readers rate themselves with a Food and Fitness Questionnaire. Then she outlines a fitness regime for both master and dog that concentrates on healthful and enjoyable exercise together and sensible restriction of calories at meal times. She points out the danger of dog owners who love their pet too much by giving them too much food and too many treats. Just as important is her advice on how dog and master can be both happier and healthier as they get fit together. Approximately 150 color photos, charts, and sidebars.

Drifting Off to Sleep audio or Health Psychology

2009-01-21T15:26:00.000-08:00

Drifting Off to Sleep - audio

Author: Mitch Meyerson

Sleep deprivation has reached epidemic proportions in a culture that values keeping busy. Restless sleep may manifest as a temporary annoyance or become a serious and chronic condition such as sleep apnea or insomnia. Solutions abound - everything from natural remedies to pharmaceuticals to curious devices to meditation. For Mitch Meyerson, attacking the problem through a variety of natural strategies has proven successful, and these strategies form the basis for Drifting Off to Sleep. Meyerson's program creates the proper ambience for a gentle and restful sleep. Combining soothing synthesized and acoustic music delicately layered over digitally recorded sounds from nature, this tape encourages listeners to let go of the day's worries. Side A begins with an imagery exercise that quietly enhances a relaxing mood, replacing physical and mental tension with the ideal mind-set for floating into a soothing sleep. Side B combines soft music and nature sounds that create the perfect backdrop for winding down, meditating, or easing into sleep.

Interesting book: Psychologie der Investierung

Health Psychology

Author: Howard S Friedman

This book explains the timeless wisdom uncovered by psychology and other social sciences about the meaning of health, illness, and optimal health care. It provides a conceptual integration of the most important relevant research of the whole 20th century, as well as discussing the most important recent findings—but is not a complicated research compendium. Throughout, the biopsychosocial health psychology model is explicitly contrasted and compared to the traditional biomedical model. The Theory and Methods of the Field of Health Psychology. The Psychophysiological Basis of Health and Illness. The Social and Cultural Basis of Health and Illness. Belief, Pain, and Healing. Stress and Illness. Personality and Disease. Quality of Life and the Self-Healing Personality. Adaptation to Chronic Illness. Dying, Death and Grief. Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Drug Abuse. Nutrition, Exercise, and Prophylaxis. Patient Cooperation (Adherence). Communication between Patients and Practitioners. Health Care Professionals and Hospitals. Socio-Medical Ethics, Utilization, and Goals for the Future of Health Psychology. For anyone involved in health care.

Booknews

A general and comprehensive introduction. Topics include: social and cultural considerations, psychological contributors to and treatments of illness, institutions, future outlook. Seventy-three pages of references. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword	xiii
	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	About the Author	xix
Part I	Introduction to Basic Concepts and Methods	1
Chapter 1	The Field of Health Psychology	3
	Causes of Death	4
	The Emotional Context	4
	The Psychological and Psychophysiological Context	9
	The Social (Interactional) Context	11
	The Behavioral Context	13
	The Institutional Context	14
	The Societal and Cultural Context	15
	Medical Ethics	17
	Methodology	18
	The Discipline of Health Psychology	23
	The Organization of This Book	25
	Summary and Conclusion	25
Chapter 2	The Psychophysiological Basis of Health and Illness	27
	A Brief History of Psychophysiology	28
	Autonomic Nervous System	32
	Endocrine System	32
	Psychology and the Immune System	38
	Fitness	41
	The Traditional Biomedical Model	44
	Evaluation	47
	Summary and Conclusion	47
Chapter 3	The Social and Cultural Basis of Health and Illness	50
	Medical Help-Seeking	51
	What Is Illness?	54
	Cultural and Demographic Influences	56
	Social Cognition: Social Perception, Attribution, and Illness	58
	The Rewards of the Sick Role	65
	Wellness	66
	The Biopsychosocial Health Psychology Model	67
	Summary and Conclusion	72
Part II	Psychological Contributors to and Treatments of Illness	75
Chapter 4	Belief, Pain, and Healing	77
	Holistic Health	79
	Belief and Its Function in Health	82
	Religiosity	87
	Pain	89
	Pain Management	93
	Summary and Conclusion	98
Chapter 5	Stress and Illness	101
	What Is Stress?	102
	Models of Stress and Illness	103
	Loss, Life Change, and Illness	106
	Mastery and Control or Relinquishing Control	108
	Life Change	113
	Stress Psychophysiology	119
	Coping With Stress	120
	Self-Induced Stress	129
	Summary and Conclusion	130
Chapter 6	Personality and Disease	133
	Models of Personality and Disease	135
	The Coronary-Prone Personality	140
	The Disease-Prone Personality	146
	Personality and the Immune System	154
	Implications for Society	157
	Summary and Conclusion	159
Chapter 7	Quality of Life and the Self-Healing Personality	161
	Healthy Work	163
	Quality of Life	165
	Healthy Control	166
	Commitment	169
	Challenge	170
	Healthy Subtypes	172
	Optimism	174
	Salutogenesis and Coherence	174
	The Self-Healing Personality	175
	Social Ties and Social Integration	179
	Life-Time Predictors of Longevity	181
	Summary and Conclusion	185
Chapter 8	Adaptation to Chronic Illness	187
	Adaptation to the Crisis of Illness	189
	Coping With Chronic Illness	193
	Social Support and Rehabilitation	198
	Special Cases of Chronic Illness	204
	Summary and Conclusion	211
Chapter 9	Dying, Death, and Grief	214
	Reactions to Impending Death	216
	The Hospice	221
	Bereavement and Grieving	224
	The Caregiver's Reaction to Dying Patients	230
	Children and Death	232
	Suicide	236
	Evaluation	242
	Summary and Conclusion	242
Part III	Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, and the Health Care System	247
Chapter 10	Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illegal Drug Abuse	249
	Models of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention	250
	Tobacco	256
	Alcohol	264
	Illegal Drug Abuse	267
	Summary and Conclusion	272
Chapter 11	Nutrition, Exercise, and Prophylaxis	274
	Nutrition and Eating	276
	Exercise and Physical Activity	285
	Injury	291
	Human Sexuality	294
	Immunizations and Vector Control	296
	Summary and Conclusion	298
Chapter 12	Patient Cooperation (Adherence)	300
	The Problem of Noncooperation	302
	Consequences of Noncooperation	305
	Reasons for Lack of Cooperation	306
	The Care of the Patient	314
	Doctor-Patient Relations	318
	Models of the Practitioner-Patient Relationship	321
	Summary and Conclusion	324
Chapter 13	Communication Between Patients and Practitioners	326
	The Problem of Practitioner-Patient Communication	327
	Words and Medical Jargon	330
	Nonverbal Communication Between Patients and Practitioners	335
	Interviewing in the Health Care Context	346
	Summary and Conclusion	351
Chapter 14	Health Care Professionals and Hospitals	353
	Medical Training	354
	Stress and Its Effects on Practicing Health Care Professionals	360
	Decision-Making in Health Care	363
	Women in Medicine	368
	Hospitals	374
	Summary and Conclusion	382
Part IV	Society, Utilization, and the Future	385
Chapter 15	Medical Ethics and Utilization Issues	387
	Socio-Medical Ethics	388
	Health Care and the Poor	390
	Health Care Utilization	393
	The Future of Health Psychology	396
	The Promise of Health Psychology	402
	Summary and Conclusion	405
	Glossary	407
	References	427
	Name Index	491
	Subject Index	503

Breaking the Rules of Aging or One Bowl

2009-01-20T11:24:00.000-08:00

Breaking the Rules of Aging

Author: David A Lipschitz

This book draws on the latest medical research to shatter some of the biggest myths about aging, and to outline a new way to understand and manage the aging process.

Publishers Weekly

Old age gets a bad rap, argues geriatric specialist Lipschitz. The senior years do not inevitably mean loss of mental or physical prowess, he maintains: in fact, the cliched advice to "take it easy, you're not as young as you were" is exactly the wrong approach. Lipschitz cites studies showing that exercise is beneficial to the elderly, and that sexually active seniors live longer than celibate ones. He even decries the obsession to lose weight, claiming that "thin isn't healthy," since "pleasingly plump" (but not obese) people live longer. Lipschitz's approach is balanced and well reasoned, never fanatical. He argues against invasive surgery for most coronary disease, contending that if a person has no symptoms, surgery can cause more problems than it solves. However, he goes on to list specific conditions that do warrant surgical intervention. Many seniors are over-medicated, he notes, which leads to negative side effects, and he offers specific advice for replacing dozens of medications with a few carefully chosen ones. The host of a public television series called Aging Successfully with Doctor David, Lipschitz is articulate and entertaining, and he clearly explains medical terms and procedures for the layman. His upbeat book reassures seniors that if they look after themselves, their golden years can be their most rewarding. (Oct. 18) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Look this: Stopping Scoliosis or Sacred Power

One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit

Author: Don Gerrard

One Bowl proposes a simple but extraordinarily powerful idea: By adopting a single bowl as the vessel for your meals, you will become more aware of the food you eat, how you eat, and the effects (large and small) of particular foods on your body and your spiritual and physical well-being. Author Don Gerrard guides us through every process of adapting to the one-bowl philosophy of eating, including choosing a bowl, deciding what to fill it with, and being attentive to every stage of eating and digestion. Although not rooted in any single spiritual tradition, One Bowl is certain to resonate with everyone who can appreciate that the Buddha, for example, ate out of one bowl, in silence, whether eating by himself or in a group. The book is beautifully illustrated with black-and-white photos throughout.

Yoga and Psychotherapy or Thin Tastes Better

2009-01-18T04:20:00.000-08:00

Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness

Author: Swami Rama

Provides and in-depth analysis of Western and Eastern models of the mind and their differing perspectives.

Brain Mind Bulletin

The presentation is clear, free of spiritual and psychological jargon and obviously informed by extensive clinical practice. --Brain Mind Bulletin

Journal of Transpersonal

This superb work is probably the best book presently available on what might be called Yoga Clinical Psychology...marvelously clear and concise...The book is outstanding (and non-doctrinaire), from its fine introduction to its solid bibliography. In summary, this is a must read. --Journal of Transpersonal Psychology

Stanislav Grof

A very fortunate marriage of yoga, medicine and psychology.

What People Are Saying

Stanislav Grof
A very fortunate marriage of yoga, medicine and psychology.

Book about: Marketing

Thin Tastes Better

Author: Stephen P Gullo

Dr. Stephen Gullo, one of America's most well known diet gurus, shares his new and ground-breaking model for weight control and his dramatically effective Anti-Deprivation Diet. Advice that clients pay thousands of dollars for is offered here.

From the Hardcover edition.

Gluten Free Mamas Best Baking Recipes or Own Your Health

2009-01-17T17:18:00.000-08:00

Gluten Free Mama's Best Baking Recipes

Author: Rachel Carlyle Gauthier

Enjoy the success of creating delicious wheat free baked goods with over 100 gluten free recipes that are nutritious, easy to prepare and delicious! At your fingertips are over 100 wheat free recipes including breads, biscuits, rolls, hamburger buns, muffins, scones, cakes, brownies, cookies, bars, pancakes, crackers, pizza crusts, pie crusts and much more. Gluten Free Mama's Best Baking Recipes cookbook makes the gluten free lifestyle easy to maintain and enjoyable by providing great recipes the entire family will enjoy along with easy to use instructions and important tips on baking gluten free. These recipes have been specifically developed to be used with Gluten Free Mama's Rice Almond Blend Flour or Rice Coconut Blend Flour, both available on Gluten Free Mama's website at the click of your mouse. You won't believe that gluten free living can be so easy and taste so good!

Rachel Carlyle-Gauthier is the mother of three beautiful daughters, a wife and business owner. Rachel's passion for cooking began her senior year while attending a private school where she cooked for 200 students daily. She later attended the Bon Vivant School of Cooking in Seattle, Washington, earning certificates in Mastering the Basics, Art of Fine Cuisine, Cordon Bleu and the Art of Baking Bread. After Rachel's third daughter was diagnosed with Gluten Intolerance she dedicated her energy to creating gluten free recipes that tasted good and that everyday people would enjoy eating.

Billie McCrea is a mother of two children, teacher and business owner. She has a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics and Art with a teaching degree from the University of Montana. Billie became involved with gluten free bakingafter her mother's diagnosis with Celiac Sprue. Both authors are dedicated to making gluten free living easier and tastier.

Interesting textbook: Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation or Gaming the Vote

Own Your Health: Healthy to 100: Aging with Grace and Vigor

Author: Alexa Fleckenstein

You Can Be Healthy and Strong to 100!

Each day more and more seniors are busting the myth that it's all downhill after sixty; in fact, these people are proving that you can be vitally healthy and mentally sharp into your nineties and beyond. While great health is something we all want to enjoy for ourselves and those we love, it's even more important these days as insurance companies increase premiums and doctors decrease the time they spend with each patient. Own Your Health gives you the knowledge you need with reliable medical treatments from top doctors in the fields of conventional and alternative medicine. With tips, checklists and stories from caregivers and patients, you'll discover the most effective ways to prevent and treat:

Arthritis - Pain – Diabetes - Eye Problems – High Blood Pressure - Gout - Alzheimer's Disease - Osteoporosis - Parkinson's Disease – Stroke – Heart Disease – Respiratory Problems – Incontinence – Colds and Flu – and More.

With Own Your Health, you have all of the vital information you need about your health at your fingertips.

Exercise Guide to Better Golf or Rafael

2009-01-17T08:16:00.000-08:00

Exercise Guide to Better Golf

Author: Frank W Job

Shows how to perform the same muscle-strengthening and flexibility exercises top golfers on the PGA and Senior PGA tours use to get in shape and stay on top of their game.

About the Author

Frank Wilson Jobe, M.D., is a co-founder and president of the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic and Medical Director of the Biomechanics Research Laboratory at Centinela Hospital Medical Center. He is the orthopaedic consultant for the Los Angeles Dadgers Baseball Team and orthopaedic consultant to the PGA TOUR. In addition, he is Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine. He has authored over 100 medical articles and has given hundreds of lectures on orthopaedics and sports medicine.

Lewis A. Yocum, M.D., is also an orthopaedic consultant to the PGA TOUR, and associate medical director of Centinela Hospital's Biomechanics Laboratory. In addition, he is the orthopaedic consultant for the California Angels, physician to the Lewitzky Dance Company, and consultant to Centinela Hospital's Fitness Institute. Dr. Yocum is an orthopaedic and sports medicine specialist at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Inglewood, California. He is also Clinical Assistant Professor in Orthopaedics at the University of Southern California. He has published numerous articles and lectured extensively in his field.

Robert E. Mottram, PT, ATC, is a Registered Physical Therapist, Certified Athletic Trainer, and a clinical specialist in athletic rehabilitation. His background and expertise in golf span 15 years. He has been treating exercising professional golfers from the PGA TOUR, Senoir PGA TOUR, and LPGA TOUR for seven years. He presently writes health and fitness articles for golf instructional magazines.

Marilyn M. Pink, MS, PT, is the director of the Biomechanics Research Laboratory at Centinela Hospital Medical Center. For eleven years, she has combined her backgrounds of Physicl Therapy, Biomechanics and Biometry in order to understand, optimize and rehabilitate Olympic and professional athletes. She has published over 60 professional articles, has won numerous research awards and has lectured internationally.

Professional golfer All-time money-winner on the PGA Tour - Tom Kite

This unique book offers a golf-specific exercise program which all golfers can follow to lower the risk of injury, increase their enjoyment of the game, and possibly improve their performance.

Professional golfer 1993 Senior PGA Tour Player of the Year - Dave Stockton

When I first started playing golf, it was thought that nothing mattered in golf except hitting golf balls. Modern research has changed that. I wish I'd done this exercising all my life.

Rafael: Comunic?ndose con el arc?ngel para la curaci?n y la creatividad

Author: Richard Webster

A social worker finds sudden relief from a mysterious illness. A guilt-ridden widow reconnects with her daughter. These and other true stories, recounted by Richard Webster in Raphael, demonstrate the positive, healing impact this wise and benevolent archangel has had on countless lives. This book offers meditations, rituals, visualizations, amulets, and other practical techniques for contacting Raphael, who can assist with health problems, finding lost or stolen items, emotional recovery, travel, spiritual guidance, and learning.

Simply Ball or What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause

2009-01-16T20:14:00.000-08:00

Simply Ball

Author: Jennifer Pohlman

The exercise ball, also known as the Swiss, Fit, or Stability Ball, originally used in Europe during the 1960s for therapeutic purposes, has developed as a popular piece of exercise equipment. It has been found to improve body and movement awareness, as well as overall joint stability, posture, and muscle balance. Using the ball adds a new dimension to more traditional exercise routines.

Look this: Methods of Moments and Semiparametric Methods for Limited Dependent and Variable Models or Race Class Gender

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Hormone Balance

Author: John R Le

This book offers the exciting facts about natural progesterone-and how it can deliver what HRT and estrogen only promise. Premenopausal symptoms, endometriosis, weight gain, low sex drive, fibrocystic breasts, heart disease, and osteoporosis-most women will experience these or other hormone-related problems. And today, millions of women concerned about aging must decide whether or not to undergo synthetic hormone replacement therapy-and suffer its side effects and increased risks of cancer.

But there is revolutionary news about completely safe, natural progesterone, the only hormone supplement women may need as they age. And, the natural progesterone program in What Your Doctor. . . Menopause has already helped nearly a million women.

Now, in this expanded and completely updated edition, Dr. Lee brings you lifesaving facts that even your doctor may not know about Premarin, Provera, and other HRT drugs; gives you an easy-to-follow nonprescription "Hormone Balance" program; and tells you how to stay energized, strong, sexually vigorous, and free from "female problems" before menopause, during the menopausal years, and beyond.

Author Biography: John R. Lee, M. D., is retired from his 30-year family practice.

Virginia Hopkins, M. S., is a well-known co-author of books on natural hormone balance and nutrition.

	Foreword	xi
	Introduction	xvii
Part I	The Inner Workings of Hormone Balance	1
Chapter 1	The Crux of the Matter: Menopausal Politics and Women's Hormone Cycles	3
	Menopausal Politics	3
	What Is Menopause?	5
	The Rise and Fall of Hormones During the Menstrual Cycle	5
	Premenopause	7
Chapter 2	The Dance of the Steroids	10
	The Cast of Major Players	11
	Choreographing the Dance	13
	The Journey Along the Steroid Hormone Pathway	14
	The Dance of the Steroids	15
	Four Movements: The Flow of Steroids in Our Bodies	16
Chapter 3	The History of Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Estrogen Myth	19
	Menopause Becomes a Disease	20
	The Truth Behind the Hoopla	22
	Perpetuating the Estrogen Myth	26
	The HRT Chickens Come Home to Roost	30
Chapter 4	What Is Estrogen?	35
	How and Where Estrogens Are Made and Used in the Body	38
	Estrogen and Cell Division	39
	How Estrogen Affects a Woman's Body	40
	Estrogen Dominance	41
	The Myth of Estrogen in Hormone Replacement Therapy	43
	What Are "Normal" Estrogen Levels?	46
Chapter 5	Hormone Balance, Xenobiotics, and Future Generations	50
	Turning on the Hormone Switch	51
	The Canary in the Coal Mine?	53
	The Impact on Future Generations	54
	Safe Living in a Sea of Estrogens	56
	Pesticides and Plastics	58
	Solvents	59
	Xenoestrogens and Future Generations	63
	If You Want to Know More	65
Chapter 6	What Is Natural Progesterone?	67
	The Discovery and Use of Progesterone	68
	Exactly What Is Progesterone?	72
	The Cycle of Progesterone Production	75
	Progesterone and Procreation	75
	How Progesterone Affects the Body	77
	Progesterone and Steroid Synthesis	77
	Progesterone and the Brain	79
	Progesterone and Sex Drive	81
	Progesterone in Men	83
Chapter 7	The Dramatic Difference Between Progesterone and Progestins	85
	The Difference between Synthetic Drugs and Natural Compounds	87
	What Is a Progestin?	90
	Progestins Gave Birth to the Sexual Revolution	95
Chapter 8	Sex Hormones and the Brain	98
	The Basics of Brain Communication	98
	How the Inner and Outer Brains Regulate the Body	100
	Estrogen and the Brain	101
	Progesterone and the Brain	103
	Progesterone and Fetal Brain Development	103
	Progesterone and Brain Injuries	104
	Progesterone and the Elderly	105
	Progesterone and Libido	105
	Postpartum Blues	106
	Progesterone and Sleep Patterns	107
Chapter 9	What Are Androgens?	108
	DHEA	111
	Testosterone	112
	Androstenedione	113
Chapter 10	Hormone Balance and the Menstrual Cycle	115
	The Rise and Fall of Hormone Levels	116
	Anovulatory Cycles	120
Part II	Hormone Balance and Illness	123
Chapter 11	Progesterone and Menopause Symptoms	125
	The Mystery of Menopause	127
	A Brief Look at Premenopause	128
	Falling Estrogen and Progesterone, Rising GnRH, and Hot Flashes	128
	Progesterone Deficiency	130
	Menopause and Estrogen	131
	Androgens and Menopause	132
	What Can Be Done for Menopausal Symptoms?	134
Chapter 12	Hormone Balance and the Adrenal and Thyroid Glands	135
	Premenopause and Stress	135
	Follicle Burnout	138
	Estrogen Excess	139
	The Adrenal Glands	141
	The Adrenal Cortex	142
	Progesterone and Thyroid Hormone	151
Chapter 13	Hormone Balance, Nutrition, and Osteoporosis	154
	Debunking the Osteoporosis Myths	155
	What Is Osteoporosis?	156
	A Bit About How Bones Are Built	156
	Osteoporosis and Estrogen	158
	Osteoporosis and Progesterone	162
	Other Osteoporosis Treatments	171
	Keeping Your Bones Strong	174
	How Bones Are Depleted	183
	What Your Doctor May Not Know About Bone Density Measurement (BMD)	192
Chapter 14	Women and Cardiovascular Disease	198
	Estrogen and Heart Disease	199
	Progesterone and Heart Disease	200
	Only Half of Heart Attack Deaths in Women Are Caused by Blocked Arteries	200
	Insulin and Heart Disease	202
	What About Cholesterol?	207
	High Blood Pressure	208
	Iron Overload	209
	Homocysteine	212
	C-Reactive Protein (CRP)	214
	Nutrition and Lifestyle	214
	What About Aspirin?	216
	Strokes and Hormone Balance	218
	The Bottom Line	223
Chapter 15	Hormone Balance and Cancer	224
	Reestablishing Cellular Communication	225
	How Cancer Develops	226
	Estrogen Stimulates Cell Growth	228
	The Cancer-Protective Benefits of Progesterone	234
	Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer	239
	What About Mammograms?	240
	Tamoxifen and Aromatase Inhibitors	244
	Endometrial Cancer	245
	Transcultural Factors in Breast and Uterine Cancer	248
Chapter 16	Getting Off Conventional HRT and on to Natural Hormones	251
	Questions and Answers About Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy	252
Chapter 17	Natural Hormone Balance and Pelvic Disorders	255
	Vaginitis	256
	Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)	257
	Ovarian Cysts and Mittelschmerz	258
	Endometriosis	259
	Fibroids	261
	Endometrial Cancer	263
	Hysterectomy	263
	Staying Naturally Healthy	265
Chapter 18	Hormone Balance and Other Common Health Problems	266
	Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)	267
	Hypothyroidism (Low Thyroid)	271
	Fibrocystic Breasts	277
	Migraine Headaches	278
	Skin Problems (Acne, Seborrhea, Rosacea, Psoriasis, and Keratoses)	279
	Candida	281
	Allergies	282
	Arthritis	283
	Autoimmune Disorders	284
	Urinary Tract Problems	284
	Gallbladder Disease and Bile Flow	288
Part III	Creating and Maintaining Hormone Balance	293
Chapter 19	How to Use Progesterone Supplementation	295
	Types of Progesterone Supplementation	295
	Testing Hormone Levels	299
	Not All "Wild Yam Extract" Is Progesterone	301
	How and When to Use Natural Progesterone	303
	Possible Side Effects of Progesterone	304
	How to Get the Most Out of Progesterone Cream	308
	When During the Month to Use Progesterone Cream	309
	Where to Find Natural Progesterone	320
	A Final Reminder	321
Chapter 20	How to Use Estrogen, DHEA, Pregnenolone, the Corticosteroids, Testosterone, and Androstenedione	323
	Estrogen	324
	DHEA	325
	Pregnenolone	326
	The Corticosteroids	327
	Testosterone	329
	Androstenedione	331
Chapter 21	Nutrition for Healthy Hormones	332
	Refined Carbohydrates	333
	Excess Calories, Not Just Excess Fat	334
	Good Fats and Bad Fats	335
	Whole Foods Are Best	338
	Eat Organic Foods Whenever Possible	341
	Is Vegetarianism Protective?	341
	Opt for Free-Range Meats, Eggs, and Poultry	342
	Are Dairy Foods Right for You?	343
	Eat Your Phytochemicals	344
	Eat More Fiber	345
	Drink Plenty of Clean Water	346
	Take Your Multivitamins	347
	Minerals	350
	Your Ideal Diet	353
	Get Some Exercise	354
	How Are Your Adrenal Glands Working?	355
	Digestion	356
	Herbs for Hormone Balance	360
Chapter 22	Commonly Asked Questions About Using Natural Progesterone	364
	Glossary	373
	Resources	377
	Recommended Reading	389
	References	393
Appendix	The Structure of Steroid Hormones	425
	Index	431

New Holland Professional or Down That Aisle in Style

2009-01-16T11:13:00.000-08:00

New Holland Professional: Manicure and Pedicure

Author: Rosie Watson

These days, many people wouldn’t dream of going a week without enjoying a pampering professional manicure or pedicure. Salons and spas need people who can do a top-quality job—and that’s exactly what this manual teaches: the skills to give an expert manicure and pedicure, whether for pay or just for yourself. It’s filled with expert advice, including an introduction to nail structure, equipment lists, and detailed, visual demonstrations of soaking, filing, trimming, and polishing. Massage routines, exfoliation, buffing, and general nail care are all covered, along with information on artificial nails and the standard three-tiered system for applying them. You’ll even learn about the wonderful world of nail art, with inspirational ideas for adorning painted nails with gems, rhinestones, foil leaf, stick-ons, and transfers.

Down That Aisle in Style!: A Wedding Guide for Full-Figured Women

Author: Chamein Canton

More than 60% of American women are full-figured, yet there hasn't been a wedding style guide to help them look their very best on their wedding day … Until Now!

Introducing Down that Aisle in Style! A Wedding Guide for Full-Figured Women. Chamein Canton uses her unique mix of native New York sophistication, a touch of Southern charm, and her considerable experience in the wedding industry to address the needs of full-figured brides around the world. Her book reveals secrets that will flatter any woman's body, including wedding gown design, cosmetics, hair style, photography, and much more — all the resources that will help women around the world plan one of the most important days of their lives — their wedding day.

Medical Botany or The Darkest Days of My Life

2009-01-16T00:11:00.000-08:00

Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Human Health

Author: Memory P F Elvin Lewis

* Organized by body system and ailment makes it easy to locate appropriate therapies.
* Includes background on the physiology of major systems and ailments so readers can understand how and why a pharmaceutical, botanical, or dietary supplement works.
* Broad coverage includes green plants, fungi, and microorganisms.
* Includes extensive references and citations from both conventional and complimentary-alternative medical systems when natural products or their derivatives are involved.

The Darkest Days of My Life: Stories of Postpartum Depression

Author: Natasha S Mauthner

Having a baby is surely one of the pinnacle events of a woman's life, full of joy, serenity, and contentment—or so society tells a new mother, who thus finds herself ill-prepared for the exhaustion, boredom, and isolation that can follow childbirth. The resulting depression—how it is experienced, and how it might be relieved—is the subject of Natasha Mauthner's insightful and compassionate book, which recounts the stories of new mothers caught between a cultural ideal and a far more complex reality.

In Mauthner's interviews with thirty-five new mothers in Britain and America, we see how women contend with images of motherhood as a state of bliss for everyone but themselves. The British women tend to view their depression as a personal failure of strength; American women, as a result of hormonal fluctuation. But all vividly describe a similar state of paralysis and loneliness, with alternating love, resentment, and guilt toward their babies.

Most usefully, these women reveal the positive impact that other new mothers had on their depression. Far more important than their own family's support or understanding, the sense of not being alone in their trials emerges as a key source of strength and healing for women struggling with postpartum depression.

Yogilates or The Ostomy Book

2009-01-15T14:08:00.000-08:00

Yogilates: Integrating Yoga and Pilates for Complete Fitness, Strength, and Flexibility

Author: Jonathan Urla

Yogilates is the future of fitness. It is the unifying essence of yoga and the powerful, therapeutic value of Pilates fused together into one system. Yogilates gives a more balanced and complete workout than when either discipline is done separately. With regular practice readers will progress safely and quickly to a stronger, more flexible body and a more relaxed state of being. Drawing from his background in sports and dance, Jonathan Urla, a certified Yoga and Pilates instructor, has created original exercises that stimulate and enrich the mind, body, and spirit and is appropriate for people of all ages. Representing a new paradigm in holisitic fitness, Yogilates is perfect for anyone looking to improve their health and well-being.

Publishers Weekly

Personal trainer and yoga instructor Urla has created (and trademarked) Yogilates, a fitness regimen that combines calming Hatha yoga with Pilates, a body alignment system developed by deceased posture guru Joseph H. Pilates. If the combo seems a bit complicated, it is, and Urla's how-to manual doesn't make it easier to understand. Lessons such as "how to establish the pelvis in a neutral position" or "how to lift the legs into you using the core muscles" might be manageable if it weren't for their hard-to-follow instructions. The remaining third of the book is devoted to advanced Yogilates. As in previous sections, Urla as well as chiseled yoga and Pilates teachers grimly illustrate the positions. But even Urla warns "not to proceed in haste." He also urges, in addition to thrice-weekly Yogilates sessions, aerobics three to five days a week. Ultimately, trying to follow Urla's fitness program is the real workout-and may inspire readers to unfurl their yoga mats just to relax. b&w photos. (Sept. 17) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Interesting book: The Taoist Soul Body or John Barleycorn

The Ostomy Book: Living Comfortably with Colostomies, Ileostomies, and Urostomies

Author: Barbara Dorr Mullen

This book provides complete information on everything from the details of surgery to rehabilitation, and the eventual management of the appliances that are needed by patients.

El Gran Libro de la Medicina China The Complete Book of Chinese Medicine or Walking for Fitness

2009-01-15T05:06:00.000-08:00

El Gran Libro de la Medicina China [The Complete Book of Chinese Medicine]

Author: Wong Kiew Kit

Para la medicina tradicional china, el cuerpo humano es el espejo del universo, en la medida en que sus elementos constituyentes son los mismos que se encuentran en la naturaleza y están gobernados por las mismas leyes.

Se suele creer, erróneamente, que la medicina china no es más que acupuntura y fitoterapia. En realidad, la medicina china es un campo muy amplio que comprende muchos otros aspectos, como la medicina externa, el masaje terapéutico, la traumatología, el chi-kung y la salud mental y espiritual, que en este libro se explican de forma tan accesible como exacta y profunda. Estta obra, profusamente ilustrada, permite al lector occidental familiarizarse con esta tradición curativa milenaria y es, también, de gran utilidad para los profesionales del campo de la salud.

For the traditional chinese medicine, the human body is the mirror of the universe in the sence that the elements constitute as the same found in nature and govern by the same.

Can you believe erroneously that the chinese medicine is acupuncture and herbal medicine. In reality the chinese medicine is a country and clean.

Books about: Isms and Ologies or Lincoln Unmasked

Walking for Fitness: The Low-Impact Workout that Tones and Shapes

Author: Nina Barough

Whether you want to tone your body, strengthen muscles and bones, lose weight, or simply improve your quality of life, Walking for Fitness is a total walking resource that shows you how to achieve optimum results all at your own pace, in your own time.

Author Biography: Nina Barough began power walking in 1996 during the New York Marathon to aid breast cancer awareness. A year later she was diagnosed with breast cancer and founded Walk the Walk, a charity that organizes a wide range of events to raise money for breast cancer research.

Walking or The Tao of Healing

2009-01-14T17:05:00.000-08:00

Walking: A Complete Guide to the Complete Exercise

Author: Casey Meyers

“A GIANT STEP FOR IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF MANKIND.”
–Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.

It’s true: walking, the primary gait we use every day, is actually the safest, least expensive, and overall most beneficial way to lose weight and improve cardiovascular health.

Casey Meyers was diagnosed in 1995 at high risk for stroke or heart attack, and he has been out daily walking for his life–literally. Meyers (a fit and active 79) has conducted hundreds of walking clinics nationwide. In this revised and updated classic, he shows you how to achieve a healthier, happier life through exercise-walking. He tells you exactly what you need to know, including:

Benefits: weight loss, weight maintenance, losing fat, gaining muscle
Walking guidelines: how often, how far, how fast?
Pacing yourself: the stroll, brisk walking, and aerobic walking
Warm-ups: targeted stretches, posture, rhythm, and stride length
Gear: shoes, socks, and athletic dress for all types of weather
Safety: best times and places for secure exercise-walking
Lifestyle: eating smart, yoga, meditation
Questions and answers: the twelve biggest concerns of exercise-walkers

Walking is unrivaled in depth and breadth, truly comprehensive and invaluable for exercise-walkers at every level of fitness.

“Easy to follow and practical for people from eight to eighty.”
–Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly

Meyers ( Aerobic Walking ) is a man with a mission. He knows that walking is often viewed as the stepchild of aerobic exercise, suitable only for the out-of-shape. And he wants to correct that misconception: in his latest book, he argues that walkers can achieve out of context, `produce' a clumsy verb ``the cardiovascular fitness level and caloric expenditure of a runner without the injuries.''44 Meyers also believes that perambulation has a ``potential cross-training effect'' for people devoted to other sports--skiing, cycling, running, tennis.15 To demonstrate why walking for fitness works, he explains the biomechanics of the evolution of the human gait, with a nod to Lucy, our famous three-million-year-old female forebear.18 He recognizes that a lifetime fitness see below program108 must be sounds like Marxist jargon? simple enough for casual exercisers and yet challenging enough to maintain their interest. His walking program increases aerobic conditioning using intensity (how fast), frequency (how often), and duration (how far).60 In chatty prose, he extols the virtues of gradually increasing one's pace from strolling to brisk walking, with the goal being a 12-minute mile. He also dispenses advice on everything from stretching62 and diet216 to road safety 184 and how to choose a shoe174 . His design for fitness may not be glamorous, but it is inexpensive, easy to follow and practical for people from eight to 80. Author tour. (Apr.)

Library Journal

In his second book on walking, Meyers ( Aerobic Walking , Random, 1987) goes beyond ``how to'' and argues for walking's absolute supremacy as a method of weight loss and cardiovascular fitness. He backs up his assertions with scientific evidence, though he admits this evidence often runs counter to much of current thought. His arguments would be more easily acceptable if he did not harp on his feeling that the rest of the world gives walking short shrift (runners, he says, hold walkers in ``contempt''), and if he did not see fit to chop down other forms of exercise in order to elevate his own. Still, his book will stimulate some to give walking a try, and Meyers offers sound technical advice. Recommended with reservations for larger exercise collections.--Jim Burns, Broward Cty. Lib. System, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The Tao of Healing: Meditations for Body and Spirit

Author: Haven Trevino

Haven Trevino, a lifelong student of Taoism, was in the final stages of Lou Gehrig's disease when he wrote this book. His modern adaptation of the Tao Te Ching captures the power, depth, and simplicity of the ancient work, which lends itself beautifully to the subject of healing. These meditations offer insight, humor, and hope to both healers and those in need of healing.

Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer or Skinny Mexican Cooking

2009-01-14T07:03:00.001-08:00

Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer, Vol. 24

Author: Rhoda S Narins

This text covers tumescent liposuction and fat transfer techniques and how they have developed into extremely safe, reliable, and efficacious procedures. Thirty-five respected surgeons discuss the safety of tumescent liposuction techniques, an anatomical approach to tumescent liposuction surgery, and the latest and greatest surgical tips from the experts.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Jane S. Weston, MD (Atherton Plastic Surgery Center)
Description: This book on liposuction is edited by Rhoda Narins, MD, and written by a group of contributors that reads like the Who's Who of dermatologic liposuction. Chapters cover a wide variety of topics addressing practical and clinical concerns.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide inexperienced as well as experienced liposuction surgeons with the information necessary to assure safe and effective liposuction and fat transfer. The book also serves to defend the tumescent technique of liposuction, as performed primarily by dermatologic surgeons, as the safest technique available. The goal of promoting safety in liposuction is a worthwhile one. However, the scope of this book. combined with the wide array of authors, diffuses the focus. The early chapters address issues of interest to neophyte surgeons but most of the clinical chapters assume a familiarity with the technique that few novices possess. The thought of a novice reading this book and practicing liposuction without supplemental training gives little assurance of safety.
Audience: This book is intended for dermatologists. Residents in training and practitioners new to liposuction may benefit from the chapters discussing the basics of setting up a surgical suite, photographing patients, computer imaging, and obtaining informed consent. Dr. Narins' surgical results are impressive and establish her as a credible authority in the field.
Features: The editor has chosen her contributors well. The book includes several "classic" writings including, "The Weekend Facelift" by Drs. Cook, syringe lipoplasty by Pierre Fournier, MD, and structural lipoaugmentation by Sydney Coleman, MD. As with most multiauthored books, some chapters are more helpful than others. Detailed descriptions of the tumescent technique are offered in several chapters. Risks are addressed and specific hints for each anatomic site are detailed. The book includes up-to-date discussions of newer technologies such as ultrasonic liposuction and power-assisted liposuction.
Assessment: As an experienced liposuction surgeon, I found the book lacking in depth, addressing many topics superficially. Dr. Narins might have fared better had she written two books, each addressing one of her two intended audiences. Nonetheless, I think this book would be a helpful addition to a medical library, offering "one stop shopping" for a lot of basic liposuction and fat grafting information.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

	Series Introduction
	Foreword
	Preface
	Contributors
1	History and Development of Tumescent Liposuction	1
2	Initiating the Practice of Liposuction	9
3	The Surgical Suite for the Liposuction Surgeon	19
4	Tumescent Anesthesia	29
5	Liposuction: Consultation and Preoperative Considerations	41
6	Computer Imaging	69
7	Photography for Liposuction Surgery	79
8	Abdomen, Hourglass Abdomen, Flanks, and Modified Abdominoplasty	95
9	Violin: Hips, Outer Thighs, and Buttocks	121
10	Liposuction of the Medial Thigh, Knee, Calf, and Ankle	149
11	Liposuction of the Arms and Back	183
12	Surgical Approaches to the Aging Neck	197
13	Gynecomastia - Dynamic Technique	215
14	Weekend Alternative to the Face Lift	235
15	Ultrasonic Liposuction	269
16	New Techniques: Powered Liposuction	275
17	Assessing the Results and Liposuction Tips	287
18	Megaliposculpture and Therapeutic Megaliposculpture	307
19	Immediate and Long-Term Postoperative Care and Touch-Ups	329
20	Liposuction Complications	343
21	Safety of Liposuction	353
22	Managing Adverse Events: A Medicolegal Perspective	363
23	Handling the Dissatisfied or Difficult Patient	375
24	Fat Transfer Microliposuction and Liposuction for Advanced Repair of Liposuction Defects	393
25	Liposhifting Instead of Lipofilling: Treatment of Postliposuction Irregularities	399
26	Structural Lipoaugmentation	409
27	Syringe Fat Grafting	425
28	Syringe Techniques Used to Obtain Autolipocollagen	455
29	Periorbital Lipoaugmentation	463
30	Reduction Syringe Liposculpting	483
31	Facial Volume Restoration with the Fat Autograft Muscle Injection Technique: Preliminary Experience with a New Technique	511
32	Fat Viability Studies	527
33	Anticellulite Creams, Endermology and Other Nonsurgical Methods for Treating Excess Adipose Tissue	545
34	Nutrition and the Liposuction Patient	555
	Index	569

Skinny Mexican Cooking: Over 100 Low-Fat, Easy, Delicious Recipes from Nachos and Tamales to Chicken Mole, Snapper Vera Cruz and Caramel Flan

Author: Sue Spitler

Mexican food is America's number-one ethnic culinary choice. Now you'll be delighted to find that all of your old favorites--tamales, nachos, enchiladas, burritos, and chili (to name a few) taste just as wonderful stripped of excessive fat, calories, and sodium. Good taste and good health are synonymous in these 100-plus quick, easy-to-make, economical recipes that run the gamut from family meals to party snacks.

Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer or Skinny Mexican Cooking

2009-01-14T07:03:00.000-08:00

Safe Liposuction and Fat Transfer, Vol. 24

Author: Rhoda S Narins

Doody Review Services

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

	Series Introduction
	Foreword
	Preface
	Contributors
1	History and Development of Tumescent Liposuction	1
2	Initiating the Practice of Liposuction	9
3	The Surgical Suite for the Liposuction Surgeon	19
4	Tumescent Anesthesia	29
5	Liposuction: Consultation and Preoperative Considerations	41
6	Computer Imaging	69
7	Photography for Liposuction Surgery	79
8	Abdomen, Hourglass Abdomen, Flanks, and Modified Abdominoplasty	95
9	Violin: Hips, Outer Thighs, and Buttocks	121
10	Liposuction of the Medial Thigh, Knee, Calf, and Ankle	149
11	Liposuction of the Arms and Back	183
12	Surgical Approaches to the Aging Neck	197
13	Gynecomastia - Dynamic Technique	215
14	Weekend Alternative to the Face Lift	235
15	Ultrasonic Liposuction	269
16	New Techniques: Powered Liposuction	275
17	Assessing the Results and Liposuction Tips	287
18	Megaliposculpture and Therapeutic Megaliposculpture	307
19	Immediate and Long-Term Postoperative Care and Touch-Ups	329
20	Liposuction Complications	343
21	Safety of Liposuction	353
22	Managing Adverse Events: A Medicolegal Perspective	363
23	Handling the Dissatisfied or Difficult Patient	375
24	Fat Transfer Microliposuction and Liposuction for Advanced Repair of Liposuction Defects	393
25	Liposhifting Instead of Lipofilling: Treatment of Postliposuction Irregularities	399
26	Structural Lipoaugmentation	409
27	Syringe Fat Grafting	425
28	Syringe Techniques Used to Obtain Autolipocollagen	455
29	Periorbital Lipoaugmentation	463
30	Reduction Syringe Liposculpting	483
31	Facial Volume Restoration with the Fat Autograft Muscle Injection Technique: Preliminary Experience with a New Technique	511
32	Fat Viability Studies	527
33	Anticellulite Creams, Endermology and Other Nonsurgical Methods for Treating Excess Adipose Tissue	545
34	Nutrition and the Liposuction Patient	555
	Index	569

Skinny Mexican Cooking: Over 100 Low-Fat, Easy, Delicious Recipes from Nachos and Tamales to Chicken Mole, Snapper Vera Cruz and Caramel Flan

Author: Sue Spitler

Ultimate Sports Nutrition or Migraine Headaches and the Foods You Eat

2009-01-13T20:01:00.000-08:00

Ultimate Sports Nutrition

Author: Ellen Coleman

In every sport, good nutrition can differentiate the winners from the losers. This updated edition incorporates the latest research on fat, protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins; hydration and body composition; specific concerns of female athletes; controlling weight, losing fat, and gaining muscle; and on-the-road eating. New to this edition are discussions of creatine and other supplements.

Interesting book: Politics in Africa or From Cost to Performance Management

Migraine Headaches and the Foods You Eat: 200 Recipes for Relief

Author: Agnes Peg Hartnell

This book offers a revolutionary way to manage and prevent migraine and otherheadaches through diet. Readers will learn which foods can trigger headaches, how to determine which ones affect them, and how to prepare meals that reduceone's chances of getting a migraine. 260 pp.

MIGRAINE PREVENTION: GETTING IT RIGHT, GETTING IT DONE!
Is Your Diet Causing Your Headaches?
Why Some Foods Produce Migraines.
Are Your Medications Causing Headaches?
Managing Your Migraines Through Diet.
RECIPES (MIGRAINE-PROOFED).
Appetizers and Beverages.
Soups, Salads, and Salad Dressings.
Vegetable Entrees.
Meat Entrees.
Poultry Entrees.
Fish Entrees.
Side Dishes.
Sauces and Toppings.
Breads, Muffins, and Breakfasts.
Desserts and Sweets.
Index.
Sources.
About the Authors.

Overcoming Metabolic Syndrome or State Exam Review for Professional Barber Styling

2009-01-13T10:59:00.000-08:00

Overcoming Metabolic Syndrome

Author: Scott Isaacs

Twenty-seven Percent of Americans Have Metabolic Syndrome

It's now estimated that 55 million Americans have metabolic syndrome; however, if you're like most Americans, you may not have ever heard of the syndrome much less understand how it increases your risk of heart disease and stroke. Metabolic syndrome actually is a cluster of disorders, all of which are affected by both genetics and lifestyle. If you have three or more of the following, you considered as having metabolic syndrome:

A waistline of 40 inches or more for men and 35 inches or more for women
High triglyceride levels
High blood pressure
Elevated fasting blood sugar levels
Low HDL cholesterol levels (the good cholesterol)

There are no specific symptoms of metabolic syndrome, but it takes a toll on health. People with metabolic syndrome are 3.5 times more likely to die of a heart-related ailment and 5 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

The good news is that you can overcome this deadly syndrome. The authors of Overcoming Metabolic Syndrome, an endocrinologist and a cardiovascular surgeon, have treated thousands of patients; they know how to cut through the confusion and give you're the basics about how you can restore your health. Among the questions they answer:

How do I know if I have metabolic syndrome?
What is insulin resistance? Why is it a critical issue?
Why does insulin resistance make it so hard to lose weight?
What is the role of exercise, diet, and nutrition?
Which medications are used to treat the syndrome?
A Clear and Simple Guide to Better Health!
Consumer Connection
This book is written in a simple style. . . . Persons diagnosed with the syndrome would find it helpful.

Interesting book: Les Concepts de Base d'Estimer des Systèmes informatiques
State Exam Review for Professional Barber-Styling

Author: Milady Publishing Company
This book presents a review of the material that may be covered on a state licensing exam for barber-styling. It employs multiple-choice questions, a form of examination that has been widely adopted by the majority of the state boards and sponsors of nationally distributed tests. Groups of questions have been arranged under major area. It is advisable that the review of a particular subject take place soon after its presentation in the classroom, both to reinforce retention of the material by students and to provide instructors with a means of evaluating their students' knowledge. The content of the book mirrors advances in professional barber-styling. The book will serve as a valuable aid to students as they prepare for their licensing examination, whether it be a state or a national test.

Earthway or Getting Back in Shape

2009-01-12T22:58:00.000-08:00

Earthway: A Native American Visionary's Path to Total Mind, Body, and Spirit Health

Author: Mary Summer Rain

A new decade is upon us, the last of this century. Our eyes, minds and hearts have at long last returned to the earth: its environment and our own healthful survival as we walk and breathe upon us. The precious knowledge of the Native Americans has long been mistaken as magic or myth. But the truth of the native way is simple and strong. This is chance to meet our relationship with ourselves and our earth, to embrace a less complicated, more satisfying way to llive. This is Earthway.

New interesting textbook: The Kids Behind the Label or Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

Getting Back in Shape: 32 Workout Programs for Lifelong Fitness

Author: Bob Anderson

Written by top fitness experts, this book is designed to help the person who spends more time in front of the TV than on the Stairmaster get in shape through stretching, running, and weight lifting. While many exercise plans are overly ambitious, these structured, balanced workouts are appropriate for anyone who hasn't exercised for some time. Each of the 32 programs includes exercises that improve strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular function. The workouts fit into busy schedules, and special programs allow readers to exercise while at work or on the road.

The third edition of Getting Back in Shape includes a new section on running by Jeff Galloway, Olympic athlete and author of the bestseller Galloway's Book on Running.

God Knows Caregiving Can Pull You Apart or The V Zone

2009-01-12T13:55:00.000-08:00

God Knows Caregiving Can Pull You Apart: 12 Ways to Keep It All Together

Author: Gretchen Thompson

But How to Keep It All Together?

A great and courageous question! That's what this book is all about. It's for those who have crossed the threshold of "if" in regards to caregiving, and moved on now to the "how" of it.

Each chapter that follows focuses on a different way to "keep it together" while giving care to a loved one.

Included in each chapter are brief explanations about how a particular way might look or work for you, short quotes for inspiration, stories about how others have gone about it, and a number of exercises that you can use to pause and reflect, regroup, and expand your caregiving repertoire.

Because journaling in particular can be such a useful exercise for caregivers, and because its tools (paper, writing utensil) are compact and simple enough to be brought into almost any setting, most chapters will include at least one journaling suggestion. Many caregivers have told me that journaling-writing in a completely non-judgmental way about their lives and having one certain safe place to express their experience in all its complexity-gives them valuable insights that might not be gained as easily in any other way. All exercises, however, including journaling ideas, are only suggestions.

This is a book that need not be rushed through. In fact, it will probably serve you better if you wander through it slowly and thoughtfully, perhaps even in a spirit of well-deserved leisure. It might sit on your bedside table, get tucked alongside a favorite armchair, or travel with you in a purse, briefcase, or satchel. Its quotations and stories are intentionally brief, that they might easily be remembered for inspiration or sustenance at just the right moment.

Everyday, men and women become caregivers, often without warning. They find themselves feeling lost as they try to figure out how to adapt. They are forced to make choices they hadn't anticipated, much less prepared for. They need help understanding what is expected of them and what they can realistically provide. They need psychological and spiritual support to cope with the new demands being made on their time and energy. Insight, support and refreshment are what GOD KNOWS CAREGIVING CAN PULL YOU APART offers the dedicated and weary caregiver. These stories provide caregivers with the assurance that they are not alone.

Author Biography: An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Gretchen Thompson is a part-time chaplain working with a large medical center and a home health care and hospice agency. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College and a Masters of Divinity from United Theological Seminary, Minnesota. She has been a writer-in-residence at United Theological Seminary and The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, and her previous books include Slow Miracles and Souls Magnified. Thompson resides with her family in Minneapolis, where she was named a 1994-1995 Woman of the Year for her social action achievements.

Library Journal

America's population is aging, owing in part to improved medical care and the effective treatment of diseases that used to be considered terminal. Still, just because we are living longer doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing so without experiencing physical or mental deterioration, sometimes devastating. Thompson's book is designed to help people who find themselves in the role of caregiver to a parent, spouse, companion, or child, quite often unexpectedly and with no previous training for such a task. A major theme of the book is that "you are not alone." Thompson, an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, offers advice for connecting with other caregivers who may be encountering similar situations and stresses the importance of access to accurate information about medical conditions and to the various resources available to caregivers. Each section contains examples of dilemmas typically faced by caregivers, including the author, and simple exercises designed to provide the practical assessment of various solutions to problems. Thompson has written book that, like others in the "God Knows" series, is successfully aimed at providing quick information and will appeal to a wide audience. Recommended for public libraries. Mary Prokop, Savannah Country Day Preparatory Sch., GA Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Interesting textbook: Southern Accent or History in a Glass

The V Zone: A Woman's Guide to Intimate Health Care

Author: Colette Bouchez

Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Intimate Health Care

The V Zone answers those difficult and embarrassing questions women often are unable to ask their own doctor. Colette Bouchez, an award winning medical journalist, explains important health information in easy-to-understand language, and offers women a clear, concise plan for dealing with the most common gynecological complaints. In addition to describing currently available medical treatments, The V Zone reports on natural and alternative solutions, and helps navigate the wide array of over-the-counter products, including menstrual aids, home test kits, and feminine hygiene products. Know instantly what's safe to use, what's not, when it's okay to self-treat, and when it's time to seek professional care. Also included is the latest information on:

vaginitis
painful sex
urinary tract infections
yeast infections
STDs
and much more!

With advice from over two dozen medical experts, The V Zone is the definitive guide women can turn to and rely on, today and for years to come.

Library Journal

This is a wonderful, easy-to-read, comprehensive guide to all those questions women have regarding gynecological healthcare: from bumps and lumps to pain to vaginosis to yeast infections. Bouchez (coauthor, Getting Pregnant) encourages women to become familiar with their most intimate anatomy in a section titled "Your V Zone Road Map: Where To Begin." In sections titled "Mother Nature's Bounty," she then describes new diagnostic and treatment options for various gynecological problems and explores natural solutions. Bouchez also provides information on sexually transmitted diseases, painful sex, recurring urinary tract infections (UTIs), women and AIDS, new PAP smear technologies, and itches and rashes. A guide to a wide array of personal hygiene products includes indications of their safety and effectiveness. Throughout, there are clear guidelines on when to self-treat and when to seek professional help. Sidebars feature expert opinions. A resource list completes this instructive and helpful book. Highly recommended for all women's health collections. Jodith Janes, Cleveland Clinic Fdn. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Exploring Chakras or Vaccines Autism and Childhood Disorders

2009-01-12T02:53:00.000-08:00

Exploring Chakras: Awaken Your Untapped Energy

Author: Susan G Shumsky

Exploring Chakras opens the door to the potent, mysterious force called Kundalini. It also uncovers the chakra system, a network of energy within your subtle body. Inside you will discover the 14 main chakras responsible for physical, mental, and spiritual activity and evolution. As you delve deeply into the anatomy of this subtle energy system, you will find many keys to unlocking the secret of the ages: the mystery of your origin and your destination. Beginners and advanced students can benefit from the information and methods presented in Exploring Chakras. The book's authority rests not only on Susan's personal experiences but also on ancient scriptural sources.

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Vaccines, Autism and Childhood Disorders: Crucial Data That Could Save Your Child's Life

Author: Neil Z Miller

Is Measles dangerous? Mumps? Rubella? Do vaccines still contain toxic mercury? Find out in this extremely well-researched and well-documented exposй. This comprehensive book includes 28 charts and graphs plus more than 500 references. As a concerned parent, you may now make informed, responsible decisions regarding the benefits and risks of vaccinating your child.

About the Author:
Neil Z. Miller is a medical research journalist and Director of the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute. He is the author of numerous articles and books on vaccines, including "Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?" In addition, Mr. Miller is a frequent guest on radio and TV talk shows, including Donahue and Montel Williams, where he is often seen and heard debating doctors and other health officials. Mr. Miller has a degree in psychology and is a member of Mensa, the international high-IQ society. He lives in Northern New Mexico with his family.

From the Author:
When my first child was born, I researched vaccines and discovered that they are often unsafe and ineffective. I documented my findings in "Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?" so that other parents would be able to make more informed decisions regarding this controversial subject.

Today, new studies validate my early warnings. For example, the prestigious medical journal, Lancet, published a landmark study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield linking the MMR vaccine to bowel inflammation and "developmental regression to autism." In addition, several congressional hearings were held to determine why autism rates have soared. In some parts of the country 1 of every 150 children is now autistic.

My goal in writing this book is twofold:

to offer parents substantial evidence of MMR vaccine safety and efficacy defects - information that they are unlikely to hear from their doctors - so that truly informed decisions may be made; and
to chronicle MMR studies, congressional efforts to initiate positive change, and the continuing denials and coverups by vaccine proponents within the medical industry. I am opposed to bogus "proofs" of vaccine safety (such as studies funded by vaccine manufacturers), health mandates (forced immunizations), and other coercive tactics used to intimidate wavering parents. Thousands of children have already been hurt by MMR and other vaccines. Generations are falling victim to medical "progress." Regardless, autism and other developmental disorders are not childhood rites of passage. By mustering our collective outrage at this current state of affairs, shifts in consciousness and practices can occur.

What People Are Saying

Bernard Rimland
Neil Miller has once again provided us with an extraordinarily well-documented and important book. (Bernard Rimland, PhD, Director, Autism Research Institute)

Harold Buttram
Neil Z. Miller is one of our premier chroniclers of the current issues and controversies surrounding childhood vaccine programs. (Harold Buttram, MD, Internal and Family Medicine)

F. Edward Yazbak
After reading this book, parents will be better educated on the subject and their consent will then be truly informed. (F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP, Pediatrician, Autism Researcher)

Im Pregnant Now What Do I Eat or Reclaim Your Family from Addiction

2009-01-11T16:52:00.000-08:00

I'm Pregnant! Now What Do I Eat?

Author: Hope Ricciotti

From eating healthy during pregnancy to getting back to an ideal weight after birth, Dr. Hope Ricciotti has written the perfect book for the busy pregnant woman. Women will learn how to manage a healthy diet, reduce weight gain, and deal with common dietary problems during pregnancy.

Book review: 101 Tips for Raising Healthy Kids with Diabetes or Junk Science Judo

Reclaim Your Family from Addiction: How Couples and Families Recover Love and Meaning

Author: Craig Nakken

What happens to the "we" of a family when one member opts for the blind and single-minded "me" of addiction? In an instructive, reassuring way, Craig Nakken explains just how families and couples who have spent years building a life together can lose their cohesive identity and meaning in the wake of addiction. The perfect starting point in the healing process, this book also reminds us that recovery is possible—for individuals, couples, and whole families—if only we know what to do. With histories, personal stories, and the latest research, the book helps readers chart their own way out of the hell of addiction and back to the fullness of family by using principles that restore the "we" of lasting, loving relationships.

Craig Nakken, M.S.W., author of The Addictive Personality and Men's Issues in Recovery, lectures, trains, and specializes as a family therapist in the treatment of addiction. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Principles and Labs for Physical Fitness or Social Workers Speak out on the HIV AIDS Crisis

2009-01-11T07:50:00.000-08:00

Principles and Labs for Physical Fitness

Author: Werner WK Hoeger

Turn active learning into active living with PRINCIPLES AND LABS FOR PHYSICAL FITNESS, Sixth Edition, will guide you through the development of an attainable and enjoyable fitness program. With over 100 pieces of art that make this text truly engaging, the book gives you the motivation and techniques you need to apply what you're learning about fitness, including behavior change, nutrition, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, and strength. Perforated laboratory worksheets found at the end of each chapter help you analyze and understand concepts, and move to the next state of behavioral modification. With Hoeger and Hoeger, you'll soon learn how to take control of your personal health and lifestyle habits so you can make a constant and deliberate effort to stay healthy and realize your highest potential for well being.

New interesting book: Curveball or Rebuilding Native Nations

Social Workers Speak out on the HIV/AIDS Crisis: Voices from and to African American Communities

Author: Larry M M Gant

Written by a team of nationally recognized African American social work professionals with extensive and distinguished backgrounds in HIV/AIDS service, the book examines the magnitude and complexity of the crisis facing African American communities.

Preface by Vincent J. Lynch
Introduction by Patricia A. Stewart
HIV/AIDS and African Americans: Assumptions, Myths, and Realities by Larry M. Gant et al.
Social Work Practice with African Americans with HIV/AIDS...Challenges to Mind, Body, and Spirit by Patricia A. Stewart
Strategies for Effective Intervention with African Americans by Ednita M. Wright
The Challenges of an AIDS Service Organization Executive in Harlem by Willis Green, Jr.
When Silence Equals Death: Advocacy and Policy Perspectives in AIDS and African Americans by Larry M. Gant
Community Based Evaluation of HIV/AIDS Services for African Americans by Darrell P. Wheeler
Report from the Washington Summit on Social Work Leadership and AIDS in African American Communities by Larry M. Gant et al.
Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go: A Blueprint for the Future by Larry M. Gant et al.
Index

Sensational Sex in 7 Easy Steps or Keep It Off

2009-01-10T19:48:00.000-08:00

Sensational Sex in 7 Easy Steps: The Proven Plan for Lasting Health and Intimacy

Author: Ridwan Shabsigh

A leading clinician and researcher in the growing field of sexual medicine explains the connection between a man's sexual function and overall health—and delivers a 7-step action plan for him to enjoy sexual intimacy over his entire life

As director of the New York Center for Human Sexuality at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Ridwan Shabsigh treats thousands of patients with sexual dysfunctions. His more than 16 years of practice and trailblazing research at Columbia University have confirmed that health is intimately connected to sexual function and that the only way to treat declines in sexual desire, performance, and satisfaction is within the context of men's and couples' health.

Now Dr. Shabsigh brings his expert recommendations to the public in this book. Refusing to accept that sexual dysfunction is the inevitable consequence of aging, he lays out a 7-step program to help all men improve their sexual relations—and their health. The book contains:

• a self-test that assesses the reader's health, sexual satisfaction, and risk for sexual dysfunction

• information on how medical conditions such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and depression affect a man's sex life—and how sexual dysfunction is the first warning sign of serious illness

• recommendations for improving lifestyle choices that cause sexual problems and comprehensive approaches to treating any sexual dysfunction

The result is a book that helps every man achieve a lifetime of better sex and optimum health.

Interesting textbook: Fruit and Nuts or Religion and Wine

Keep It Off: The Positive Choice Weight-Loss Program

Author: Brian Alman

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The Prostate Cancer Treatment Book or The Triathletes Guide to Bike Training

2009-01-10T09:47:00.000-08:00

The Prostate Cancer Treatment Book

Author: Peter Grimm

The latest and most progressive treatment advice from prostate cancer experts at the nation's top medical centers

For each of the nearly 200,000 Americans diagnosed with prostate cancer annually, the months following the diagnosis are a time of momentous decisions and enormous emotional strain. This book offers readers complete answers to all their questions about the best treatment options for fighting and beating prostate cancer. Bringing together the insights and expertise of 21 of the nation's top prostate cancer specialists from the Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the Seattle Prostate Institute, and other leading treatment centers, The Prostate Cancer Treatment Book provides:

Expert information on all treatment options, including surgery, hormonal treatment, external beam radiation, and more
In-depth coverage of radioactive seed implantation therapy, the most promising new treatment currently available
Real-life accounts of dozens of men who beat prostate cancer

Peter Grimm, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Seattle Prostate Institute in Seattle, Washington. John Blasko, M.D., is the director of research at the Seattle Prostate Institute and cofounder of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. John Sylvester, M.D., is the director of education at the Seattle Prostate Institute.

	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part I	The Foundation
1.	What Good is a Prostate, Anyway?	3
2.	How is Heart Health Connected to Prostate Cancer Risk?	21
3.	How Do They Test for Prostate Cancer?	37
4.	What Part Do Spouses and Partners Play?	61
Part II	Treatment Options
5.	Is Watchful Waiting the Same as Doing Nothing?	69
6.	Should I Have My Prostate Removed?	75
7.	How Does External Beam Radiation Therapy Work?	93
8.	Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer: Are Seeds the Way to Go?	113
9.	What Happens After the Implant? Side Effects and PSA	139
10.	Will I Have to Be on Hormones?	155
11.	What Happens if the Cancer Returns?	167
Part III	Other Important Considerations
12.	What Should I Ask My Doctor?	179
13.	How Do I Find the Best Doctor for Brachytherapy?	187
Appendix A	The Bottom Line	193
Appendix B	Prostate Cancer Resources	195
	Notes	209
	About the Seattle Prostate Institute	211
	Index	217

Interesting textbook: Cocina para uno or Healthy Lunchbox

The Triathlete's Guide to Bike Training (The Ultrafit Multisport Training Series)

Author: Linda Wallenfels

This training manual is designed to take a triathlete's cycling performance to the next level. It includes step-by-step guides for setting up the bike for a perfect fit, analyzing strengths and weaknesses, and working out training plans geared toward getting athletes in peak condition for their races. It also provides clear descriptions of core training and flexibility exercises to reach a personal-best performance, as well as calculations to work out the goal events and race-specific limiters.

Higher Higher or Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

2009-01-09T22:46:00.000-08:00

Higher & Higher: From Drugs and Destruction to Health and Happiness

Author: Jost Sauer

Offering a fresh and uplifting perspective on every aspect of drug addiction and recovery, this empowering self-help resource, which speaks to addicts from all walks of life, guides readers to the ultimate healthy and sustainable high. This unique handbook explores the human need to feel good and how to integrate past drug experiences into a new, positive lifestyle with traditional Chinese medicine. Mind, body, and spirit workouts are interspersed throughout the guide with analytical material and real-life experiences, providing help for both victims of addiction and their families.

New interesting book: The Trans Fat Free Kitchen or Havana Salsa

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors and Street-Corner Punks, 1950-1965

Author: Samuel M Steward

Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!

In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of his years working in a squalid arcade on Chicago's tough State Street. During that time he left his mark on a hundred thousand people, from youthful sailors who flaunted their tattoos as a rite of manhood to executives who had to hide their passion for well-ornamented flesh.

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is anything but politically correct. The gritty, film-noir details of Skid Row life are rendered with unflinching honesty and furtive tenderness. His lascivious relish for the young sailors swaggering or staggering in for a new tattoo does not blind him to the sordidness of the world they inhabited. From studly nineteen-year-olds who traded blow jobs for tattoos to hard-bitten dykes who scared the sailors out of the shop, the clientele was seedy at best: sailors, con men, drunks, hustlers, and Hells Angels.

These days, when tattoo art is sported by millionaires and the middle class as well as by gang members and punk rockers, the sheer squalor of Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a revelation. However much tattoo culture has changed, the advice and information is still sound:

how to select a good tattoo artist
what to expect during a tattooing session
how to ensure the artist uses sterile needles and other safety precautions
how to care for a new tattoo
why peopleget tattoos--25 sexual motivations for body art

More than a history of the art or a roster of famous--and infamous--tattoo customers and artists, Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a raunchy, provocative look at a forgotten subculture.

Booknews

Subtitled A social history of the tattoo with gangs, sailors, and street-corner punks, 1950-1965. Nearly 40 years ago, the author gave up his career as an English professor to become a tattoo artist. At the urging of his friend Dr. Alfred Kinsey, he kept a daily journal for many years about his experiences, from which this anecdotal analysis is derived. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Using Your Chakras or Natural Healing with Herbs

2009-01-09T13:44:00.000-08:00

Using Your Chakras: A New Approach to Healing Your Life

Author: Ruth Whit

Using Your Chakras shows you how to connect more deeply with your chakras and use them to improve your life by promoting physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual development. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life - Family relationships, love and passion, sex, age and wisdom, death and rebirth - and presents simple exercises proven to guide your body's chakra energies in specific directions.

Whether you need to heal relationships; cope with physical illness; or remove blocks related to sex, money, and authority, Using Your Chakras provides the clear, loving guidance that will help you start your healing process today.

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Natural Healing with Herbs: The Complete Reference Book for the Use of Herbs

Author: Humbart Santillo

Fast becoming a classic handbook on herbal and naturopathic treatment, Natural Healing with Herbs has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive and practical book of its kind.

Sky Is Falling or Skiing and Snowboarding Fitness

2009-01-09T01:43:00.000-08:00

Sky Is Falling: Understanding and Coping with Phobias, Panic and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

Author: Raeann Dumont

Gracie hasn't left her house in thirty years out of fear she'll be contaminated. Jerry spent hours each day picking up debris on the subway platform. Norm's bridge phobia led him into alcoholism, messed up his marriage, and alienated his children. David - bright, young, ambitious - feared he'd lose his job because he so dreaded giving sales presentations. These are some of the case examples - exemplary of the approximately fourteen to twenty million people who suffer from anxiety disorders in this country - that are found in this riveting and helpful book. Raeann Dumont helps readers understand the features of obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, and panic. Utilizing cognitive therapy and self-help techniques, she helps readers recognize anxiety producing thoughts and shows how, through reality-testing and assessing anxiety situations, these compulsions can be managed. Included in this volume is a step-by-step self-help section, charts, and worksheets.

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Valerie Raskin, M.D.
A warm, informative, and practical book.... Eminently useful to anxiety sufferers and therapists alike.

Skiing and Snowboarding Fitness: Reach Your Potential on the Slopes

Author: Mark Hines

A valuable guide to pre -season training.

Proper training and conditioning are the best safeguards for an enjoyable and injury-free holiday of skiing or snowboarding. Unlike most sports, skiing and snowboarding put huge demands on both body and mind. A momentary lapse in coordination, concentration, flexibility or reflexes can lead to disastrous, even life-threatening injuries.

Skiing and Snowboarding Fitness is a well-organized, comprehensive illustrated guide to a realistic and dynamic fitness program that can be specifically tailored to an individual. The book recommends specific programs to guard against the most common types of skiing-related (or snowboarding-related) dangers:

• Spinal injuries
• Shoulder injuries
• Knee and ligament sprains
• Improper nutrition and hydration.

Step-by-step exercise programs treat the body as a whole, with attention on strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. Many of the exercises improve timing and balance, the two essential factors so critical on the hills and mountainsides.

The fitness programs can be completed in months or in weeks and will benefit skiers and boarders of all levels. Required equipment is remarkably simple, gimmick-free and commonly available.

Skiing and Snowboarding Fitness is a complete workout program that will help participants perform better, avoid injuries, and have more fun when they hit the slopes.

Johnny Bowdens Shape up or Training for Life

2009-01-08T16:41:00.000-08:00

Johnny Bowden's Shape Up!: The 8-Week Program to Turn Around Your Body, Your Health, and Your Life

Author: Jonny Bowden

A gifted motivator and nutritionist extraordinaire, Jonny Bowden has helped over 75,000 women lose weight successfully through his hugely popular eight-week iVillage shape-up challenges. The key to his phenomenal success is his ability to help participants take back control of the power food holds over them, and to help set goals based on what "shaping up" means to each of us.Jonny Bowden's Shape Up! is like no other "diet" program: it takes into account personal factors such as commitment, self-esteem, body image, impulse control, and addictions, as well as issues like metabolic type, genetics, ethnic heritage, and hormones, and shows readers how to tailor consistent low-sugar, low-carbohydrate nutrition to fit individual needs. With humor and a down-to-earth style, Bowden presents realistic and simple week-by-week eating plans-as well as recommendations on vitamins, minerals, and food supplements-and the tools to customize the program for long-term success. He shows readers how to analyze food's effects on moods, cravings, and energy levels, and also demonstrates the how and why of light workout routines. A wise and empowering program, Jonny Bowden's Shape Up! will help readers everywhere take charge of their lives and make changes that will dramatically improve their health, weight, and state of mind.

Oz Garcia

Jonny Bowden is one of the most knowledgeable nutritionists I've ever known. I could not have written The Balance without his invaluable input and wisdom.

Bill Humphries

In my fifteen years as a trainer and a coach in the fitness industry I have prided myself and my company on our ability to get results, particularly with actors and models, whose careers depend on achieving them. Jonny Bowden has been my teacher; his input has been the 'secret ingredient' for many of my greatest successes.

Publishers Weekly

In a previous life, Jonny Bowden was, like Eartha Kitt, a professional musician, touring with Herbie Hancock and Carly Simon. However, for the past three years, he has come to be known as the hugely popular weight-loss coach on iVillage.com. With Jonny Bowden's Shape Up!: The 8-Week Program to Transform Your Body, Your Health, and Your Life, he expands beyond the Web to reach fitness fanatics who want to own a copy of his program, which, he maintains, focuses on the individual, and not just her weight-loss or exercise goal. Confident, informative and direct, Bowden has a voice that commands attention. ( May) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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Training for Life: Walk Your Way to Fitness and Weight Loss in 14 Days

Author: Debbie Rocker

Celebrity fitness trainer Debbie Rocker is one of the original developers of Spinning, the international fitness phenomenon, and a world record holder in cycling. In TRAINING FOR LIFE, Rocker shows readers how to use walking, the body's most natural form of exercise, to achieve total transformation in a mere two weeks. She presents her personalized fitness philosophy in a 14-day program that includes walking basics, dietary recommendations, and additional upper body workouts that tone muscles, build bone density, and speed weight loss. Readers will discover how they can build confidence, attain total fitness, and train their minds to think of exercise and eating right as fulflling, important parts of life.

The Maffetone Method or Eat to Win for Permanent Fat Loss

2009-01-08T05:40:00.000-08:00

The Maffetone Method: The Holistic, Low-Stress, No-Pain Way to Exceptional Fitness

Author: Philip Maffeton

Dr. Maffetone's unique training system for champions proves that the kinder, gentler approach actually works the best. This fitness regimen has worked for champions and non-athletes alike- because it's based on Dr. Philip Maffetone's deep understanding of how the body works. Maffetone has used that knowledge to develop The Maffetone method, his successful low-stress fitness program, which can be tailored to any individual. It means "training slower to go faster," says Mike Pigg, world champion triathlete and Maffetone client. The Maffetone Method includes: A ten step program to reduce stress and increase overall fitness; Exercise techniques designed for increased results with decreased pain; The real lowdown on some of those fad diets. In short, this is a fitness regimen for champions that everyone can use to reach their own goals whether it be running a marathon or walking around the block.

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Eat to Win for Permanent Fat Loss: The Revolutionary Fat-Burning Diet for Peak Mental and Physical Performance and Optimum Health

Author: Robert Haas

In the 1980s, Robert Haas fueled a diet revolution with his number one bestseller Eat to Win. Now, with Eat to Win for Permanent Fat Loss, he shows you not only how to lose weight and dramatically improve your performance in all areas of life, but also how to keep the fat off—forever.

Based on cutting-edge research on how and why our bodies use carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, Haas created a "Mediterrasian" diet that combines the best and healthiest aspects of diets from the regions where people live the longest. His approach features a ratio of 50 percent carbohydrates, which includes grains, fruits, and vegetables; 25 percent protein; and 25 percent fat. Haas also provides the specific reasons why this is the ultimate ratio for maximum energy, fitness, and permanent fat loss.

Eat to Win for Permanent Fat Loss offers a remarkably flexible, healthy food plan that encourages both the use of the new "functional" foods, such as tofu hot dogs and soy-chicken nuggets, and treats that most diet plans forbid entirely, such as chocolate, wine, and coffee. In fact, Haas tells you why enjoying chocolate and coffee every day could actually make you healthier, providing both satisfaction and valuable phytonutrients that prevent illness. It's the kind of eating plan that works for the entire family.

As for exercise, Haas's recommendation is just as simple: Burn a minimum of 300 calories—the equivalent of 45 minutes of walking—throughout the day, through any activity you choose. Haas’s combined diet and exercise program changes lives.

Herbal Remedies For Dummies or Everything Calorie Counting Cookbook

2009-01-07T19:38:00.000-08:00

Herbal Remedies For Dummies

Author: Christopher Hobbs

People have been using herbs to fight disease and promote wellness since prehistoric times. In recent years, science has gotten into the act and amassed quite a respectable body of evidence to support what healers the world over have been saying for centuries – herbal remedies work. Experiencing the heartbreak of psoriasis? A little dandelion root can clear it up. Grandpa’s sciatica acting up again? St. John’s Wort ought to put the spring back in his step. Got a bad case of poison ivy? Stop the itch with echinacea. Ginger tames the morning sickness beast – lavender and peppermint leaf also work well. Use licorice, chamomile, and wild yam root to pacify an irritable bowel.

If you’re one of the millions of people who feel let down by conventional health care, or who’ve experienced unpleasant or harmful side effects from modern medicines, Herbal Remedies For Dummies is a book you’ll want to have. Written by fourth-generation herbalist Christopher Hobbs, it gets you up to speed on what you need to know to:

Choose safe and effective herbal products
Treat scores of common ailments and conditions
Find specific herbal remedies for women, men, and kids
Grow and harvest herbs
Create herbal products at home

Chris clears up much of the confusion surrounding herbal medicines. He anticipates just about every question you’re likely to have about herbal medicine, and he provides concise, interesting answers laced with fascinating details from history and folklore. From alfalfa to yerba santa, he describes an array of best natural remedies, and he supplies:

Easy-to-followinstructions on how to select the best herbal products
A Symptom Guide – simple and easy herbal remedies for more than 80 common conditions, listed alphabetically by symptom
An Aroma Guide – an A-to-Z guide to 100 easy-to-find medicinal herbs
More than fifty recipes for healing teas, oils, tonics, and more

This friendly, caring, and accessible introduction to the world of herbal medicine is an important resource for anyone looking for a safe, easy-to-use alternative, or supplement, to conventional medicine.

Library Journal

The successful "DummiesR" series gets into the alternative health field with these two titles. Dillard, head of Oxford Health Plans's Alternative Medicine Program, and Ziporyn have done an excellent job of compiling information related to the major alternative therapies. They discuss the limitations of alternative medicine and the dilemma arising from the paucity of scientific evidence on its effectiveness. The authors define the major therapies, outline benefits vs. harmful effects, and advise readers on how to talk with their doctors about alternatives. A final section lists specific health conditions and which therapies might help. Also listed are respected web sites, databases, and other information sources. The scientific literature is referenced throughout the text; tips and informational icons, as in the rest of the series, are quite helpful. Hobbs, an herbalist and botanist, explains the benefits of using herbal remedies, their selection and safe use, and growing and making herbals at home. He also provides recipes and dosages, identifies herbs for specific groups of people (such as senior citizens), and discusses aromatherapy and healing with spices from the kitchen. For easy reference, readers will find a symptoms guide, an herb guide, and a list of herbal suppliers and associations. Although Hobbs does not include a bibliography of evidence-based data to support his therapeutic claims, he covers the topic in a knowledgeable manner. His practical guide is an excellent introduction to the ways in which herbs can be used. Both titles are recommended for public libraries.--Kristine Benishek, Good Samaritan Hosp. Lib., Dayton, OH

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Everything Calorie Counting Cookbook

Author: Paula Conway

If counting calories makes you cringe, this easy-to-use cookbook is just what you need! Mix and match recipes to effortlessly map out your meals for a day, a week, or a month. Based on a 1,200-calorie-a-day diet, The Everything(r) Calorie Counting Cookbook features 300 mouth-watering recipes for every occasion, from super suppers to sensible snacks, including:

Banana Chocolate Chip Pancake Wrap
Honey and Cheese Stuffed Figs
Creamy Potato Soup
Beef Fondue
Chili-Crusted Sea Scallops
Chicken and Green Bean Casserole
Spicy Ranch Chicken Wrap
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Pie

Reward your taste buds while you count calories. You can have it all-and eat it, too!

Introduction     vii
Counting Calories     1
Eggs and Omelets     11
French Toast, Waffles, and Pancakes     23
Smoothies and Breakfast Shakes     31
Breads     39
Muffins     47
Appetizers     57
Dips     69
Soups     79
Beef and Pork     97
Fish     115
Chicken & Turkey     137
Vegetarian     159
Pasta     173
Meat Accompaniments and Sauces     185
Salads     191
Salad Dressings     209
Sandwiches, Wraps, and Melts     225
Low-Calorie Quick Snacks     241
Desserts     255
Suggested Menus     281
Resources     283
Index     285

The Biology of Human Longevity or Massaging Your Baby

2009-01-07T10:22:00.000-08:00

The Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans

Author: Caleb E Finch

Aging is a great scientific mystery. Longevity has increased remarkably in the last two hundred years, with doubling of the life expectancy from about 40 to more than 80 years. In the evolutionary past, the human species also evolved longer lifespans apparently doubling that of a great ape ancestor. These redoublings of longevity may be understood in terms of reduced levels of inflammation. There is a remarkable overlap of inflammatory processes in arterial disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes. In animal models, these diseases are attenuated by drugs with anti-inflammatory effects or by diet restriction which is also anti-inflammatory. Moreover, the evolution of the human lifespan from great ape ancestors required adaptation to new levels of inflammation during the shift from herbivory to our preferred meat-rich diet. In short, inflammation-diet interactions might well explain the evolution of human longevity and indicate its future potential.

The book The Biology of Human Longevity - Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans synthesizes several decades of top research, and expands a number of existing major theories, including the Barker theory of fetal origins of adult disease to consider the role of inflammation and Harmon's free radical theory of aging to include inflammatory damage. Future increases in lifespan are challenged by the obesity epidemic and spreading global infections which may reverse the gains made in lowering inflammatory exposure.

Professor Caleb Finch is one of the leading scientists of our time. Ranked in the top half of the 1 % most cited scientists, Professor Finch is director of the Gerontology ResearchInstitute and the Alzheimer Research Center at the University of Southern California. He has received most of the major awards in biomedical gerontology. This book will be a scientific publishing event on the same level as his "Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome", published in 1990.

- A new synthesis expanding on existing ideas about the biology of longevity and aging
- Incorporates important research findings from several disciplines, including Gerontology, Genomics, Neuroscience, Immunology, Nutrition.
- A book of major importance from one of the great scientists of our time.

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Reviewer:David O. Staats, MD(University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)
Description:This single-authored book describes mechanisms involved in human aging, including inflammation, oxidation, infections, and obesity. Nutrition and inflammation have paramount roles in human aging.
Purpose:Its purpose is to review the mechanisms of human aging. This is an extremely important topic and the author achieves a masterful discussion of the topic.
Audience:All persons involved in aging research and the study of mechanisms of disease in humans -- including all animal models -- will find this a most useful book. The author is one of the world's leading experts in gerontology.
Features:The six chapters cover inflammation, infections, calorics, developmental influences on aging, genetics, and evolution of the human life span. The clarity of organization, the depth of thought, and the tone throughout are all simply outstanding.
Assessment:Standing with his monumental Longevity, Senescence and the Genome (University of Chicago Press, 1994), Caleb Finch has written another masterpiece. In the former book he looks at aging as a biological phenomenon and sees where we lie in comparison to aging in all other living things. In this book he lays out a unified field theory of aging. He discusses the mechanisms of aging and lays out the interactions of the extrinsic and intrinsic factors that affect human aging. Then, harkening back to the first book, he weaves in genetics, evolution, and development. His call for new models of aging, cognizant of these latter factors, will influence the next generation ofhuman aging researchers.

Chapter 1: Inflammation and oxidation in aging and chronic diseases.
Chapter 2. Infections, Inflammogens, and Drugs.
Chapter 3. Energy balance, inflammation, and aging.
Chapter 4: Nutrition and Infection in the Developmental Influences on Aging.
Chapter 5: Genetics.
Chapter 6: The human the life span: present, past, and future.

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Massaging Your Baby: The Joy of Touch Communication

Author: Elaine Fogel Schneider

The power of touch is real and has been scientifically shown to have remarkable effects. For children, it encourages relaxation; improves sleep patterns; reduces discomfort from teething, colic, and gas; strengthens digestive and circulatory systems; and does so much more. For parents, it nurtures bonding, increases communication, promotes parenting skills, and actually reduces stress levels. Now, to help parents understand the power of massage and incorporate it into their daily childcare routine, massage expert Dr. Elaine Fogel Schneider has written the ultimate guide to using infant massage at home.

Based on the latest research, Massaging Your Baby begins by explaining how and why massage is so beneficial to young ones. This is followed by the basics: an explanation of the items you will need to have on hand, and of the best times to massage your child. The book then provides an easy-to-follow step-by-step guide to effective massage techniques. Included is a section on songs and rhymes that complement massage time. And as the child gets bigger, additional techniques are offered to treat sore muscles from sports and play. There is even a wonderful section designed for children with special needs, from autism to ADD, Down Syndrome, and spina bifida.

Whether you are a first-time parent, a seasoned pro, or a helpful grandparent, you will find that Massaging Your Baby can provide children with the gift of health, communication, and love that can last a lifetime.

Too Stressed to Think or Reasonable Rx

2009-01-06T22:21:00.000-08:00

Too Stressed to Think?: A Teen Guide to Staying Sane When Life Makes You Crazy

Author: Annie Fox

School pressures. Family problems. Dating and relationship issues. Multi-tasking, deadlines, the future, rules, rumors, worries, decisions, popularity, mean people, peer pressure, conflicts, expectations, an overloaded schedule... They all add up to stress.

Stress is part of life, and most people think there's not a lot you can do about it. Actually, there is. You can learn about stress. You can understand how stress affects your brain and body-how it blocks you from thinking clearly and making good choices, how it keeps you off balance and wears you down. You can create and maintain a less stressful lifestyle. This book is your guide, your teacher, your friend, and maybe your lifeline, depending on how stressed-out you are.

Children's Literature

Welcome to the real world of 2006. A teen's life is full of stress, whether it comes from school, family life, sports, or relationships. Fox and Kirschner have put together ten chapters that range from identifying stress and its effects on the body, to the various causes of stress for teens, and ending with what to do if the stress becomes overwhelming. For most teens the ideas given in the chapter "Your Stress Busting Tools" will suffice, but the authors recognize that some teens face bigger problems than worrying about the next history exam or a relationship break-up; therefore, they do not hesitate to advise teens to seek outside counsel, and they provide several avenues for teens to get the help they need. Realistic situations are interspersed throughout the book in the form of vignettes telling stories of teens in stressful situations. In addition, there are quotes from teens taken from interviews on the Internet. Both of these give teens a chance to recognize their own lives and experiences within the text. Designed to be read in any order, the pages often refer the reader to other sections if needed. While no book can solve everyone's problems, this one is a nice way to introduce teens to the concepts of good and bad stressors, relaxation techniques, and how to recognize when enough is enough and it is time to ask for help. Simple drawings, boxed text, and frequent headings break up the text, making it more reader friendly.

Amy Alessio - VOYA

This self-help guide is certainly needed by today's teens. It begins by going through physical and emotional reasons for stress and responses to stress of all kinds. Then adolescent physiology is covered, as is why sleep and food are so important at this stage. Techniques to respond to stress in a healthy way are explored, for dealing with simple to complicated situations. A great resource section contains links and books for teens to get help. Examples of stressful situations based on the authors' research with teens include interesting stories and quotes from teens themselves- the strength of the book. For example, one section addresses what to do when friendships end or change and how to respond from conversations to finding new friends. This book best handles daily stressful situations for teens, and spends less time on serious issues such as family situations and abuse, which are touched on, from possible warning signs of abusive boyfriends to eating disorders, but are covered in depth in other resources, including the associations listed in the back. The book is meant to be an engaging read for teens with an average amount of stress, and it succeeds. There are plenty of easy tips for those situations. Because it addresses sexual pressure in relationships, it may be placed in collections for older teens. VOYA CODES: 4Q 4P J S (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses; Broad general YA appeal; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12). 2005, Free Spirit, 176p.; Index. Biblio. Further Reading., Trade pb. Ages 12 to 18.

School Library Journal

Gr 7 Up-This well-organized, upbeat book discusses what stress is and how it affects the body and brain, talks about tools to reduce and control it, and gives suggestions for recognizing the myriad situations that can trigger stress at home and at school and seeking help when necessary. Best of all, each one of these scenarios includes information on how the situation might be addressed. Nice also are the tips that encourage readers to use breathing exercises to calm and center themselves. Sprinkled throughout the book are quotes from teens on what works for them and what causes them anxiety. Related helplines are appended. This volume is one of a number of other similar-themed books, but it is probably safe to say that a school library, in particular, cannot have too many such titles. It may well be the one that strikes the right cord with a distressed teen.-Carol Jones Collins, Columbia High School, Maplewood, NJ Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Reasonable Rx: Solve the Drug Pricing Crisis

Author: Stan Finkelstein

A Real Plan for Making Drugs Affordable–and Promoting Innovation, Too

“This book is a necessity for understanding the pharmaceutical industry. Both the pluses and minuses of the present system are set forth with a judicious combination of historical narrative, economic analysis, and statistical data. The highly original proposals for reform will be a major stimulant to analysis and policy-making.”

–Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

“This is a timely book by authors who know what they are talking about. They tackle a big problem: rising drug prices that are threatening to overwhelm us all–and especially those with limited or absent health care insurance. Will we drive people overseas for healthcare? Will there be social unrest? This book describes the problem and then offers a solution. Worth a careful read by everyone, pharmaceutical manufacturers and government policymakers especially.”

–Roger Williams, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of the United States Pharmacopeia and a former

senior official of the Food and Drug Administration

“This book confounds two sets of skeptics: Those who say there’s no way to resolve the conflict between the need to fund pharmaceutical research and our desire to keep medicine affordable; and those who think that economics never has anything good to say.”

–Honorable Barney Frank, Congressman from Massachusetts

“This book comes at the right time and could become thestarting point of discussions, which will eventually lead us into new era in the healthcare care industry. It will without a doubt become a must for insiders of the pharma- and biotech industries.”

–Dr. Jürgen Drews, retired President of Roche Pharmaceutical Group Global Research

Acknowledgments viii

About the Authors ix

Introduction xi

Chapter 1: Drugs and Drug Prices 1

Chapter 2: The American Way to Discover Drugs 21

Chapter 3: The Drug Industry Today 39

Chapter 4: Are Drug Companies Risky? 59

Chapter 5: How Not to Lower Drug Prices 77

Chapter 6: Squandering R & D Resources 103

Chapter 7: How to Lower Drug Prices 129

Appendix: Our Solution in Detail 155

Index 177

Acknowledgments     viii
About the Authors     ix
Introduction     xi
Drugs and Drug Prices     1
The American Way to Discover Drugs     21
The Drug Industry Today     39
Are Drug Companies Risky?     59
How Not to Lower Drug Prices     77
Squandering R & D Resources     103
How to Lower Drug Prices     129
Our Solution in Detail     155
Index     177

The Breast Health Cookbook or Confronting Cancer

2009-01-06T12:19:00.000-08:00

The Breast Health Cookbook: Fast and Simple Recipes to Reduce the Risk of Cancer

Author: Bob Arnot

In the late 1990s Dr. Bob Arnot's The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet stirred controversy as it broke new ground in revealing the links between breast cancer and nutrition. Today there is a consensus among scientists and clinicians that diet is one of the most important lifestyle factors when it comes to reducing the risk of breast cancer.

Focusing on foods and supplements that have been proven to act against cancer, this companion volume to The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet uses these healthful ingredients to create 172 New Mouthwatering, Easy-to-Prepare Recipes.

The book features a complete healthy-eating program -- breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert -- with menus encompassing Asian, Mediterranean, and New American flavors. Tips throughout on converting recipes to help fight prostate cancer allow men and women to support each other in their battle to reduce the risk of cancer.

Publishers Weekly

Having researched cancer-preventative foods, Dr. Arnot was disappointed when women seemed uninterested in his recommendations. He has since learned "the three most important criteria" for healthy meals: "Taste, taste, taste." In this companion volume to the bestselling The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, Arnot offers an array of recipes featuring the foods most likely to help people avoid breast cancer (and prostate cancer as well). With more than 150 recipes from nutritionists Rita Mitchell and Barbara Sutherland, the book is structured around ethnic categories of diet Asian, New American, Mediterranean along with suggested meals. Recipes are provided for main courses, sandwiches, soups, desserts and more. The recipes frequently involve soy products, which Arnot believes are key for preventing cancer. The quality and inventiveness of the recipes is uneven. There are, for example, healthier but not particularly original versions of minestrone soup and macaroni and cheese. Some recipes Goat Cheese with Melon may be appealing, but aren't specifically anti-cancer fare. Most interesting is the dessert chapter, which offers a number of enticing treats including a Cheese Tart and Ginger Yogurt. Overall, the recipes are not unique or superior to those found in many other low-fat or "healthier" cookbooks. But facts like "women in the Far East have 90 percent less breast cancer than American women" will grab the reader's attention. And given Arnot's visibility as chief medical correspondent for NBC News, early sales are likely to be brisk. National television and radio interview campaign. (Oct. 3) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Confronting Cancer: How to Care for Today and Tomorrow

Author: M M M Sherry

From the moment of diagnosis, the cancer patient embarks on a journey that can prove both daunting and overwhelming. Fears and choices abound, along with the need to understand the nature and ramifications of the specific illness. Having witnessed this devastating predicament among countless patients in his own extensive practice as a cancer specialist, Dr. Michael Sherry felt compelled to write a lucid and comprehensive cancer handbook for patients and their families coping with the daily reality of the disease. Confronting Cancer: How to Care for Today and Tomorrow is a practical and readily understandable resource book that interprets the complexities of cancer for the layperson. In order to guide the patient and caregiver through the successive phases of the disease, including diagnosis, treatment, and day-to-day living, Dr. Sherry has carefully organized the book into three parts: Part One emphasizes the distinctive nature of specific cancers (such as breast, lung, skin, and colon) and explains the basic rationale for treatment; Part Two discusses orthodox and unorthodox therapies; and Part Three details common problems encountered by the patient (including getting a second opinion, frequent symptoms, and pain control). The author also includes vital information on the nature and treatment of less familiar cancers affecting bladder and kidney function, the testicular area, and "unknown primary organ." While the vast majority of the over one million cancer patients in the United States receive technically sophisticated treatments, most patients are bewildered by the intricacies of the treatment process. Confronting Cancer clearly explains major cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, bone marrow transplantation, investigational therapy, "no therapy," and the dangers of cancer quackery. Through the gripping experiences of 54 patients, Dr. Sherry offers the reader important trouble-shooting advice on such issues as pain control, financi

Do You Really Need Back Surgery or Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers

2009-01-06T01:18:00.000-08:00

Do You Really Need Back Surgery?: A Surgeon's Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose Your Treatment

Author: Aaron G Filler

Most people have back surgery to relieve pain, but all too often it doesn't help. For the half million people who undergo back surgery each year, and the additional million who are seriously contemplating it, Do You Really Need Back Surgery? is a godsend--an informed, reliable guide to when you should consider surgery and when you should not.
Written by an internationally recognized expert in nerve and spinal surgery, this highly readable guide covers everything back patients need to know to make informed decisions about their treatment. The book discusses the details of spinal anatomy; explains the difference between acute, chronic, and recurring pain; shows how to keep the spine healthy; and defines such terms as spurs, stenosis, and slippage. It also reveals what clues your physician uses to predict whether a given type of pain is likely to go away with rest and exercise, and which types may become emergencies. Dr. Filler discusses the risks of surgery, the decisions you may be faced with and what options you have, and your expectations for recovery. He provides detailed explanations of the wide array of spinal injections and surgeries, including discectomies and fusions, as well as innovative procedures such as electrothermic and laser techniques and artificial disks. He explains the various medical imaging and diagnostic tests available and even covers the complexities of health insurance.
From Pilates to pedicle screws, and from osteoporosis to spina bifida, Do You Really Need Back Surgery? covers all the questions your doctor usually doesn't have the time to answer. Featuring more than 80 illustrations, it is an essential manual for every neck or back painsufferer.

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Advanced Skills for Health Care Providers

Author: Barbara Acello

Covering over 90 advanced procedures, this book includes such topics as: respiratory care, infection control, phlebotomy & IV therapy, cardiac care skills, surgical asepsis/staple and suture, wound care, speciment collection, urinary/fecal elimination, enternal feeding, and assisting with blood administration. The four nursing process components—Assessment, Plan, Implementation and Evaluation are featured in the book.

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Reviewer:Mary Allen Carey, PhD(University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description:This book details advanced skills for healthcare providers.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide advanced patient care information.
Audience:The target audience includes students and caregivers or patient care technicians who will perform advanced skills in acute care facilities, clinics, HMOs, home healthcare agencies, and other facilities.
Features:The book addresses such topics as sterile procedures, including preparing and working with a sterile field, using sterile technique, and performing sterile dressing changes and wet to dry dressings. Venipuncture technique is covered in several chapters as are intravenous procedures. Other areas covered include enteral nutrition, specimen collection, perioperative care, heat and cold applications, respiratory procedures (basic and advanced), cardiac care skills, and emergency procedures. The appendixes address guidelines for hand hygiene, abbreviations, and medical terminology and electronic communication.
Assessment:Most chapters contain special text boxes listing observations to be reported and recorded. Additional highlights include safety and infection control alerts and age related information. The layout and use of color illustrations is especially appealing and makes for a very interesting presentation.

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Written for caregivers and patient care technicians in training, this text covers 112 procedures ranging from basic documentation to procedures including wound care, phlebotomy, and cardiac care skills. Emphasizes safety, infection control, patients' rights, and communication skills throughout. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Health Care Delivery for the 21st Century. Obersvation, Documentation, and Reporting to the RN. Infection Control. Surgical Asepsis. Wound Care. Phlebotomy. Intravenous Tehrapy. Urinary and Bowel Elimination. Enteral Nutrition. Specimen Collection. Preoperative and Postoperative Care. Respiratory Procedures. Endotracheal Tube and Tracheostomy Care. Cardiac Care Skills. Emergency Procedures.

Native Plants Native Healing or Feel Fab Forever

2009-01-05T16:17:00.000-08:00

Native Plants, Native Healing: Traditional Muskogee Way

Author: Tis Mal Crow

This book is unique because it is about Native American healing techniques actually written by a Native American practitioner. This powerful set of herbal teachings draws strongly from the Muskogee tradition. In a clear and authoritative style Tis Mal Crow explains how to identify, honor, select, and prepare wild medicinal plants. Illustrated and indexed by plant name and medical topic. A great book for both beginners and serious students of healing with medicinal plants.

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Feel Fab Forever: The Anti-Ageing Health & Beauty Bible

Author: Josephine Fairley

In this completely revised and updated edition of their best-selling book, health and beauty experts Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey break new ground, revealing the latest news on all anti-aging methods. From cosmetic surgery and miracle creams to energy-boosting foods and inspiring wisdom from great beauty icons, this survey brings together everything a woman needs to know about anti-aging for face, body, mind, and soul.

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Multitalented UK journalists Fairley and Stacey present a compendium of conventional and holistic solutions for the many facets of aging, addressing both simple and complex treatments, and focusing on green means of addressing common issues. Exercises are illustrated for many target areas, such as feet and hands, but also encouraged for overall health; in fact, "exercise naturally induces many of the anti-ageing mechanisms that scientists try to bring about by much more complex means, from hormone supplements and calorie restriction to gene therapy." Readers will also find discussion of aromatherapy, massage and homemade hair treatments, as well as plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry and cosmetic products (rated by users). From prevention of dementia and osteoporosis to "sleep-easy strategies," this magazine-like guide-complete with sidebars and profiles of "Inspiring Women" (like aging supermodel Carmen Dell'Orefice and author Leslie Kenton)-provides readers with an accessible means of setting and reaching realistic personal health goals with a "five per cent rule" that discourages going overboard: "The trick... is to bite off what's chewable."
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Boxing or You Dont Have to Live with Cystitis

2009-01-05T04:15:00.000-08:00

Boxing: The Complete Guide to Training and Fitness

Author: Danna Scott

For men and women--the boxing fitness guide that will put new "punch" into every workout...
Endorsed By Everlast!
An easy-to-understand, fully illustrated guide to achieving new levels of health and fitness with the art of boxing, this is the perfect learning tool for both the novice fighter and those looking for an exciting new way to exercise. It explains in detail what every aspiring boxer needs to know, including tips on

equipment
punches and combinations
defensive skills and movement
ring strategy
boxing styles
proper training techniques
tricks of the trade
and much more

Danna Scott has trained Golden Glove winners and national contenders as well as novices, worked in various boxing venues including Madison Square Garden, and has been featured on Lifetime Television and MSG Sports.

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You Don't Have to Live with Cystitis

Author: Larrian Gillespi

Many women have been led to believe that a urinary tract infection signals the beginning of a chronic, painful problem that is fated to reoccur despite treatment. The good news is that You Don't Have to Live With Cystitis. Dr. Larrian Gillispie, a female uro-gynecologist widely recognized in the scientific and medical community and one of the few doctors with expertise in the area of pelvic pain, has shown that women can break out of the vicious cycle of cystitis. From the outset, You Don't Have to Live With Cystitis has helped millions of women. This updated edition reflects newly discovered causes and treatments:

•Immediate steps to reduce suffering: •The surprising role of excercise and lower back problems
•Updated treatment and prevention options --: from diet to surgery
•How antibiotics may cause hormone problems: •Which method of contraception may cause problems
•The effects of stress on the uninary tract: •Newest treatments for interstitial cystitis
•Cystitis in children and during pregnancy and menopause

Plus

•A Complete Guide to Commonly Prescribed Medications: •Essential Vitamin and Mineral Supplements
•An Anti-Cystitis Diet

Healthy Heart Walking Program or The Future is Yours

2009-01-04T19:14:00.000-08:00

Healthy Heart Walking Program, Vol. 1

Author: American Heart Association

Walk your Way to Health and Well-Being

Regardless of your level of fitness, you can improve your cardiovascular health, weight control, stress management, and overall well-being through a simple walking program. In the American Heart Association's Healthy Heart Walking CD, the leading crusader in the fight against heart disease and stroke presents two complete walking workouts to help you get started.

Designed to be listened to again and again, whenever you have time for a half-hour fitness walk, The Healthy Heart Walking CD includes:

• A 30-minute beginner's walk

• A 30-minute intermediate walk—for walkers ready for a faster pace

• Original music written exactly to American Heart Association-recommended paces

• Easy-to-do stretches and a diary in an illustrated booklet

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The Future is Yours: Do Something About It

Author: Raymon Grac

You can change your life!

If you keep on doing what your doing, you're likely to keep on getting what you're getting.

Is that what you want?

If you do nothing, nothing will happen. If you do something, something may happen.

Here's how to do "something" so you won't keep on getting what your getting.

There is order to the universe, a way in which life flows. If you've been looking for a way to tap into the logic and power of all things, you may be surprised to find the answer is literally right at your fingertips. The ancient art of dowsing--which is much more than a way to look for water--gives you the key to tapping into the flow of the universe for health, wealth, and positive change.

Raymon Grace has been studying forms of healing and connections with the universe for more than thirty years. In The Future Is Yours he shows you how to use dowsing to change the energetic flow of people, places, and situations, and how these simple changes can avert conflict, heal illness, and help people work together. Imagine the possibilities: settle differences at home and at work, find the best way to heal yourself and your family, remove bad energy (even ghosts) from buildings, and much, much more.

You don't need academic degrees, expensive equipment, or spiritual credentials. All you need is the willingness to learn the simple principles and put the techniques to use. This book shows you how to change your life.

	Foreword	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1	Learning the Basics	1
2	Misfits	23
3	Healing Techniques	31
4	Rolling Thunder	58
5	Snakes and Their Handlers	67
6	How It's Done	72
7	Introduction to Dowsing	83
8	Bill and Winnie	102
9	Water	121
10	Raising Energy	135
11	Exorcism	146
12	Spirit Helpers	156
13	Low-Class Spooks and Other Junk	167
	Pendulum Dowsing Chart	181
Appendix	The Battle for Your Mind	183
	Sources of Dowsing Information, Healers, and Sacred Geometry Structures	213
	About the Author	215

Raw Food Detox Diet or The Womens Book of Healing

2009-01-04T08:12:00.000-08:00

Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss

Author: Natalia Ros

The raw food craze has taken off: Raw restaurants are springing up, and celebrities, models, and other fans are swearing by the benefits of eating "all raw". But what if you're just curious about raw food and don't want to give up your lifestyle or the foods you love? The good news is, you can have your cake and eat it too! In The Raw Food Detox Diet, top nutritionist Natalia Rose shows you exactly how it's done.

Raw food is a powerful detoxifying agent that can cleanse your body of all the waste that you have accumulated from years of eating processed foods. A diet rich in raw foods can set you on a course toward greater energy, clearer skin, a slimmer figure, and amazing natural health. But detoxifying too quickly will only shock your system. Rose advises you to transition gently, based on your dieting history and individual needs. Complete the Raw Food Detox questionnaire, and determine your personal Raw Food Transition Number (1 to 5) to find out which suggested menus, recipes, and cleansing methods are just right for you.

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The Women's Book of Healing

Author: Diane Stein

DIANE STEIN is the author of more than 20 books on healing, natural remedies, metaphysics, women's spirituality, and the Goddess. She is the author of the best-selling ESSENTIAL REIKI. Diane lives in Florida with her dogs.

A Womans Guide to Recovery or Women Who Hurt Themselves

2009-01-03T22:11:00.000-08:00

A Woman's Guide to Recovery

Author: Brenda Iliff

Whether you are just embarking down the road of recovery or are well into the journey, consider Brenda Iliff's A Woman's Guide to Recovery your companion and guide. Brenda Iliff is a leading Hazelden clinician. She developed this guide to help women handle issues and challenges that come with their new life of recovery: How can you balance self-care with family responsibilities? What do you do about friends who aren't comfortable with your newfound sobriety? How do you rebuild family relationships? A Woman's Guide to Recovery offers real-life insight into what it means and what it takes to sustain healthy, lasting recovery.

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Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding 10th Anniversary Edition

Author: Dusty Miller

For years, the harm that some women do to themselves was ignored and silenced, both in psychological literature and in homes and hospitals. Dusty Miller’s eye-opening book revealed the truth about a syndrome that has plagued millions—and continues to do so today, endangering ever-younger lives. Filled with moving stories, this powerful book was the first to focus on women who engage in different forms of self-mutilation.Miller is widely recognized as the first expert to identify the roots of “cutting” and other self-injurious behavior in women. These women suffer from what she calls “Trauma Reenactment Syndrome” (TRS), a pattern of behavior in which they reenact severe psychological or physical harm done to them as children. In the decade since her work was first published, new research has supported Miller’s perspective. In her introduction to this tenth anniversary edition, Miller discusses what self-harming women and abuse survivors have known all along: that self-injury activates endorphins that actually calm the psychic pain of old wounds. She describes the latest treatments geared to this view—and offers, once again, hope and understanding to the women themselves and to those who care for them.

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Women traumatized in childhood hurt themselves more often than men do because men are socialized to act aggressively and fight back, notes psychologist Miller, who is director of Clinical Mentoring at Antioch/New England Graduate School. Here she addresses childhood trauma, to which the individual may react by dissociating, but such fragmentation of the personality becomes the basis of her failure to protect herself as an adult. While integrating various treatment approaches, Miller's program focuses on the ``triadic self,'' which she describes as the victim, abuser and nonprotecting bystander within. In the painful narratives culled from her private practice, Miller establishes that such self-destructive behavior as bulimia and cosmetic surgery ``tells the secret story of women's childhood experience over and over again.'' She describes the behavior of her clients as trauma reenactment syndrome (TRS), which, stresses Miller, explains why they are impervious to treatment in 12-step programs and conventional therapy, often being misdiagnosed and mistreated. The author presents evidence that TRS women can be helped to lasting recovery. (May)

	Foreword
	Introduction
Pt. I	Anxiety and Magic Thinking
Pt. II	Tales of Magic Thinking
Pt. III	How to Change Your Own Magic Thinking
	Appendix 1 - Glossary
	Appendix 2 - Self-Help Worksheets
	Resource Guide
	Index

	Introduction
Part I7
	How Foods May Help Protect You from Breast Cancer	9
	The Menu Plans	24
Part II	Recipes	45
	Breakfast	47
	Soups and Stews	88
	Sandwiches	111
	Main Courses	120
	Main-Dish Salads	166
	Side Dishes--Grains and Legumes	178
	Side Dishes--Vegetables	192
	Side Salads	200
	Desserts	221
	Index	253

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Active Older Adults Ideas for Action or Fed up and Hungry

Active Older Adults - Ideas for Action

Robert Topp

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Fed up and Hungry: Women, Oppression and Food

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AyurVedic Zone Diet or Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery

AyurVedic Zone Diet: The Ancient Way to Health Rejuvenation and Weight Control

Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery: A Hunger for Meaning

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Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet or The Dream of Eternal Life

Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet

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The Dream of Eternal Life: Biomedicine, Aging and Immortality

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The Viagra Myth or AyurVeda and Life Impressions Bodywork

The Viagra Myth: The Surprising Impact On Love And Relationships

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AyurVeda and Life Impressions Bodywork

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Prophetess of Health or The Face Lift Sourcebook

Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White

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The Face-Lift Sourcebook

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Un Cuerpo a Su Medida or Peso Perfecto

Un Cuerpo a Su Medida

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Peso Perfecto

Beyond Antibiotics or The Shamanic Way of the Bee

Beyond Antibiotics: 50 (or so) ways to Boost Immunity and Avoid Antibiotics

The Shamanic Way of the Bee: Ancient Wisdom and Healing Practices of the Bee Masters

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Situational Problems for the Cosmetology Student or More Alive with Color

Situational Problems for the Cosmetology Student

More Alive with Color: Personal Colors - Personal Style

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Allure Magazine - Elizabeth Einstein

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Pushing Ink or OncoLink Patient Guide

Pushing Ink

OncoLink Patient Guide: Colorectal Cancer

Bird Flu or 108 Insights Into Tai Chi Chuan

Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know

108 Insights Into Tai Chi Chuan: A String of Pearls

Happiness in a Storm or Heart Disease Breakthrough

Happiness in a Storm: Facing Illness and Embracing Life as a Healthy Survivor

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Heart Disease Breakthrough: What Even Your Doctor Doesn't Know about Preventing a Heart Attack

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Medicinal and Food Plants or 100 Questions and Answers about Sinusitis and Other Sinus Diseases

Medicinal and Food Plants: With 200 Illustrations for Artists and Craftspeople (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

100 Questions and Answers about Sinusitis and Other Sinus Diseases

Visionary Plant Consciousness or Stem Cell Wars

Visionary Plant Consciousness: The Shamanic Teachings of the Plant World

Stem Cell Wars: Inside Stories from the Frontlines

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Hit the Spot or KI in Daily Life

Hit the Spot!: How to Target, Tone, and Slim Your Problem Areas

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Ki in Daily Life

Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering or Bipolar 101

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices

Bipolar 101: A Practical Guide to Identifying Triggers, Managing Medications, Coping with Symptoms, and More

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Eng TEC and Pro Func Foods or Nicotinic Receptors in the Nervous System

Eng Tec and Pro Func Foods

Nicotinic Receptors in the Nervous System

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Drug Therapy and Premenstrual Disorders or Naptime Book

Drug Therapy and Premenstrual Disorders