Women's Health Books

Breaking the Silence or Sacred Cow Mad Cow

2009-12-05T17:13:00.000-08:00

Breaking the Silence: Inspirational Stories of Black Cancer Survivors

Author: Karin L Stanford

Cancer survivors, their family members, and their friends will find comfort in these inspirational stories told by black cancer patients. Covering every facet of the disease as it affects a person's life, including diagnosis, treatment, family involvement, spiritual strength, and healing, these stories, poems, journal entries, and letters address such complex issues as coping with the shock of the initial diagnosis, deciding among various forms of treatments, and dealing with conflicting emotions of anger, sadness, and hope. Helping to heal the mind, body, and spirit, these courageous and thoughtful reflections seek to lighten the burden that all cancer survivors and those who care for them must bear. Celebrated poet and cancer survivor Nikki Giovanni contributes a moving introduction to these inspirational pieces.

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Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears

Author: Madeleine Ferrieres

Contemporary concerns about food such as those stemming from mad cow disease, salmonella, and other potential food-related dangers are hardly new-humans have long been wary of what they eat. Beyond the fundamental fear of hunger, societies have sought to protect themselves from rotten, impure, or unhealthy food. From the markets of medieval Europe to the slaughterhouses of twentieth-century Chicago, Madeleine Ferrières traces the origins of present-day behavior toward what we eat as she explores the panics, myths, and ever-shifting attitudes regarding food and its safety. She demonstrates that food fears have been inspired not only by safety concerns but also by cultural, political, and religious prejudices.

Flour from human bones and pâté from dead cats are just two of the more unappetizing recipes that have scared consumers away from certain foods. Ferrières considers the roots of these and other rumors, illuminating how societies have assessed and attempted to regulate the risks of eating. She documents the bizarre and commonsensical attempts by European towns to ensure the quality of beef and pork, ranging from tighter controls on butchers to prohibiting Jews and menstruating women from handling meat. Examining the spread of Hungarian cattle disease, which ravaged the livestock of seventeenth-century Europe, Ferrières recounts the development of safety methods that became the Western model for fighting animal diseases.

Ferrières discusses a wealth of crucial and curious food-related incidents, trends, and beliefs, including European explorers' shocked responses to the foodways of the New World; how some foods deemed unsafe for therich were seen as perfectly suitable for the poor; the potato's negative reputation; the fierce legal battles between seventeenth-century French bread bakers and innkeepers; the role of the medical profession in food regulation; and how modern consumerism changed the way we eat. Drawing on history, folklore, agriculture, and anthropology, Ferrières tells us how our decisions about what not to eat reflect who we are.

Kirkus Reviews

An impressively researched addition to the Arts and Traditions of the Table series. French historian Ferrieres (Social History/Univ. of Avignon) has dug deep and wide in her exploration of anxieties about food: agricultural statistics, medical and veterinary journals, public health records, royal decrees, city and town ordinances and cookery manuals. Human fears about food, she notes, fall into two categories: concern about quantity and worry over quality. Her focus here is on the latter. Although she discusses Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, she gives the United States relatively short shrift, for Ferrieres's emphasis is on European, especially French, history. Her research turns up some fascinating facts, such as that in 14th-century Europe, horror of leprosy led to the erroneous belief that one could get it by consuming "leprous pork"; later, cabbage, cheese, beer and gamay grapes were also suspect. One bizarre tale involves a lawsuit in 1668 between Paris bakers and innkeepers in which bakery bread was alleged to be unhealthy because it was made with yeast; to settle the question, doctors weighed in, as did public prosecutors, judges, police and even parliament. European reactions-suspicion, aversion, phobia-of unfamiliar foods encountered in the New World are explored, as are some wild food rumors; e.g., English porter is made stronger than European beers by the addition of a skinned dog to the vat. She shows how food fears changed as industrialization distanced the consumer from the producer, examines the gap between scientific knowledge and political power in response to food risks and looks at the role of individual responsibility forfood safety. A densely written, scholarly work, not especially accessible but filled with choice nuggets of food lore, culinary information and social history.

John Barleycorn or Cooking for Life

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

John Barleycorn

Author: Jack London

It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California.

Upton Sinclair

Assuredly one of the most useful, as well as one of the most entertaining books ever penned by a man.

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Cooking for Life: Recipes for Healthy Living (Volume 1)

Author: Avera McKennan Foundation

For those who have experienced cancer or want to take preventative steps, understanding healthy eating habits are vital. With the guidance of Cooking For Life, Volume 1, creating or maintaining a healthy diet can be easy. This cookbook focuses on preparing healthy meals for you and your family.

Home Spa Feet or Inward Bound

2009-12-03T09:11:00.000-08:00

Home Spa Feet

Author: Tracey Kelly

A collection of instant, everyday cures for the feet, perfect to relieve aches and pains but also useful as part of an all-over beauty treatment.

	Firm footing	6
	Focus on feet	8
	Perfect posture	10
	Pilates arch strengthener	12
	Flexible feet	14
	Healthy circulation	16
	Foot massage basics	18
	Restorative reflexology	20
	Home spa treatments	22
	Setting the scene	24
	Daily warm-up for feet	26
	Instant foot revitalizer	28
	Hard skin softeners	30
	Essential stress-relievers	32
	Post-workout pummelling	34
	Immunity-boosting acupressure	36
	Beautifying pedicure	38
	Calming bedtime massage	40
	Rejuvenating recipes	42
	Botanical foot baths	44
	Smoothing foot scrubs	46
	Stimulating aromatherapy oils	48
	Herbal foot creams	50
	Soothing foot powders	52
	Nourishing masks	54
	Antibacterial boosters	56
	Hypertension reliever	58
	Rich lavender moisturizer	60
	Scented foot sprays	62
	Index	64

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Inward Bound

Author: Sam Keen

In this book, Sam Keen guides us on an enlightening journey across the emotional landscape of our own inner psyches. Using self-tests and practical advice, Inward Bound teachers us to master the art of emotional literacy -- how to understand what our minds and bodies are really telling us through the ups and downs of our emotions.

Paying special attention to "negative" emotions such as fatigue, depression, grief, and especially boredom -- the undiagnosed disease from which most "normal" people suffer -- Keen shows us how the low periods in our lives can actually be the impetus for the most profound and lasting change. While most people deny emotional lows in the hopes that they will go away; eat, drink, or tranquilize themselves; take mood elevators; or otherwise fill their time with empty activities, Keen instead teachers us how to re-vision negative emotions as positive way stations on the path to self-discovery.

In Inward Bound, Keen shows us how to recover the full spectrum of our feelings and points the reader on a journey to greater health, intimacy, vitality, and a renewed joy in life.

Alimentos Que Eliminan la Artritis or Masaje para tu bebe

2009-12-02T05:10:00.000-08:00

Alimentos Que Eliminan la Artritis

Author: Lauri M Aesoph

This completely revised and updated version offers a detailed, easy-to-follow program for treating arthritis at home to relieve, or even reverse, most cases of osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis without expensive drugs or equipment. The key is to substitute "restorative foods" for certain inflammation-generating foods stimulating the healing powers of the body and practicing easy-to-do exercises for increased flexibility.

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Masaje para tu bebe: Segun la tradicion ayurvedica

Author: Kiran Vyas

Manual ilustrado para mejorar el bienestar del bebé a través del masaje de tradición ayurvédica.

Ilustrado con numerosas fotografías, este volumen muestra en detalle, paso a paso, cómo prepararse para dar un masaje al bebé y cómo aplicarlo adecuadamente en cada parte de su cuerpo.
Tradición milenaria que tiene su origen en la India, el masaje de los bebés y los niños es una disciplina ampliamente practicada que se ha venido transmitiendo de generación en generación. Derivado de la tradición ayurvédica, permite una estrecha comunicación con el bebé y contribuye eficazmente a su bienestar general: le facilita un mejor sueño, le ayuda a adquirir una mejor conciencia de su propio cuerpo, le procura una excelente estimulación sensorial y le proporciona una gran tranquilidad y relax.

Overweight Kids or Healing Alternatives for Beginners

2009-12-01T01:09:00.000-08:00

Overweight Kids

Author: Linda Mintl

Raising Healthy Kids in an Unhealthy World teaches parents how to raise healthy kids in an over scheduled, fast-food, video-game world by making simple choices, easy changes and instilling good habits that will improve everyone's life today and forever.

This positive, practical, and inspirational guide will help parents find spiritual and behavioral solutions to help their kids achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Acclaimed specialist, Dr. Linda Mintle, gives parents the information and encouragement they need to raise happy, healthy kids. As childhood obesity rises to epidemic proportions, every parent is faced with challenges that werenot an issue a decade ago. Dr. Mintle addresses the toxic environment that impacts every family - overscheduling, eating on the run, sedentary options instead of active play, even school systems that no longer include physical activity. She then presents real life solutions that have immediate and long-term results for every family.

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Healing Alternatives for Beginners

Author: Kay Henrion

Many years ago, my family manufactured over-the-counter healing pharmaceuticals. We eventually sold the rights, but the result is that I have always been interested in alternative healing methods. And if you are interested in discovering what such methods are all about, I would like to recommend Healing Alternatives for Beginners. This book was written by Kay Henrion who is an advanced registered nurse. She has more than 24 years of experience in the nursing field. Even though she is very familiar with common medical practices, she also knows the complementary systems she describes in this book.

There are two broad styles of alternative healing. Those that affect you from the inside and those that work from the outside. Two of the basic methods of healing from within are visualization and meditation. In this book you will not only learn how to use these techniques, but you also will learn how to apply them to healing.

The methods of healing that affect you from the outside are far more numerous. In this book you'll learn about how to heal with color. For example, did you know that using an emerald green light can help a cut to heal? You'll also learn about the qualities of various foods and how you can use them to get healthy and stay healthy. Of course, you'll also learn about using herbs to heal and the entire medical system know as homeopathy (the medical system of choice of the royal family of England) which uses tiny amounts of medicinal substances to initiate healing.

This book is filled with wise advice that can get you started on a lifetime of good health. You'll even learn how to recognize and beat stress, one of the leading causes of disease.

If you'relooking to discover the secrets of true optimum health, this book is the place to start.

The South Beach Heart Program or How to Cook for People with Diabetes

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

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

Author: Arthur Agatston

This year more than 1 million Americans will have a heart attack or stroke, making heart disease the leading cause of death in men and women in this country. But thanks to his aggressive prevention approach to treating heart disease, renowned cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, creator of the Agatston Score for measuring coronary calcium, rarely sees a heart attack or stroke in his practice.
Now in his most passionate book yet, Dr. Agatston champions a revolution in cardiac care that will empower people to save their own lives.
Just as millions of people have successfully adopted Dr. Agatston’s South Beach Diet, now millions can lead longer and healthier lives thanks to his South Beach Heart Pogram. Living without heart disease is clearly within our reach.

How to Cook for People with Diabetes

Author: American Diabetes Association

Proper cooking techniques to help people with diabetes and those who cook for them spend less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying their meals.

Healing Skin Disorders or Nonprescription Drug Therapy

2009-11-28T17:07:00.000-08:00

Healing Skin Disorders: Natural Treatments for Dermatological Conditions

Author: Andrew Gaeddert

Gaeddert's approach to healing combines dermatological diagnosis with essential fatty acids, diet, supplements, and Chinese herbal medicine. The book features suggestions for promoting overall skin health, case studies, self-care strategies, and professional treatments presented in an accessible A-to-Z format. Also included are a workbook, a question and answer section, a description of acupuncture points, and a range of resources. Chapters cover such topics as tips for health and skin, herbs and nutrients, symptoms and treatments, acupoints, and digestive clearing diets.

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Nonprescription Drug Therapy

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Condition oriented and organized by body system, this quick reference is an excellent tool for point-of-care patient counseling on OTC products, offering the most current facts on conditions patients may choose to self-treat and appropriate nonprescription pharmacotherapy. Chapters include CNS, dermatologic, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, nutritional, ophthalmic, oral cavity, podiatric, respiratory, and women's health conditions. Coverage of each condition includes etiology, symptoms, treatment, and patient counseling. A Patient Interview section assists in determining whether nonprescription medication, nondrug therapy, or physician referral is appropriate. Patient Information boxes provide instructions on use of OTC products.

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Reviewer:Richard P Berardi, BSc, MHA(Temple University Hospital)
Description:This is a complete guide to over the counter drug therapy. The tables and charts are very helpful in determining proper therapy.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide healthcare professionals and consumers with a publication that will aid them in making appropriate, well informed decisions in the treatment of their conditions. The book is worthwhile and helps to fill a gap between online publications and existing publications.
Audience:The book is written for the practitioner in the ambulatory setting. The author suggests it is designed for the healthcare practitioner, but it is appropriate for the pharmacist.
Features:The book provides an overview of specific conditions and applicable drug therapies. The concise format in which the information is presented, with consistent subject breaks, are its best attributes. One shortcoming of a print resource is the volatility of product change or market variation.
Assessment:The book provides good value for the areas covered. It is concise and formatted effectively for the healthcare provider. It would be even better it if the content were expanded to include more categories of information.

Allergy Asthma Relief or Mommy Im Hungry

2009-11-27T13:05:00.000-08:00

Allergy & Asthma Relief: The Breakthrough Approach to Ending the Attacks and Feeling Great - All the Time!

Author: William E Berger

This practical action guide features the BreatheEasy Planan 8week program that puts you back in control of your life. The Plan features seven simple steps that show how to create an arsenal for relief, increase your resistance, adapt your home, and eat to beat allergies and asthma.

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Mommy, I'm Hungry!: Good Eating for Little Ones from Pregnancy to Age 5

Author: Jeanne Warren Lindsay

Discussing all areas of feeding children—from deciding between bottle or breast feeding to identifying food allergies—this sourcebook incorporates expert advice and first-hand experiences on how to raise healthy kids. Guidelines for addressing children who won’t eat, fighting obesity and childhood diabetes, and budgeting properly are applied to all ages—from prenatal care to toddlers and preschoolers. A section with recipes for healthy snacks and meals that children can prepare with their parents is also included.

Embellish Chic or Journey through the Dying Process

2009-11-26T09:04:00.000-08:00

Embellish Chic: Detailing Ready-to-Wear

Author: Connie Long

Designed for readers with little sewing experience, Embellish Chic is the perfect introduction to customizing clothing with style. The book covers simple techniques for adding glamour, whimsy, or character to ordinary fashions, showing how to re-create high-end looks with a minimum of time and effort. Sewing maven Connie Long explains a general technique followed by specific applications, demonstrating how to use a range of materials — hand or machine beading, fringed trim, lace, ribbons, couched cords, appliques, and borders — to transform basic garments into boutique-worthy dazzlers. Color photos and illustrations are featured throughout.

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Journey through the Dying Process: Caring for a Loved One at the End of Life

Author: Fairview Health Services Staff

This saddle-stitched booklet guides readers through the medical decisions they may have to make when a loved one is dying.

Vegetarianism or Tamilee Webbs Defy Gravity Workout

2009-11-25T05:03:00.000-08:00

Vegetarianism: A History

Author: Colin Spencer

Colin Spencer provides an in-depth account of vegetarianism. From prehistory to the present, he discusses those who came to vegetarianism by choice, from the religions who preach it such as Hinduism and Seventh-Day Adventism, to the individuals who practice it, including Leonardo da Vinci and, ironically, Adolf Hitler. Throughout history, vegetarians have been maligned and persecuted by their meat-eating brethren. Spencer looks at the psychology of abstention, the ideas behind a meat-free diet, as well as the environmental effects of meat production and the implications of genetic engineering. Although the vegetarian movement dates back to 600 B.C., it is only now becoming a practice valued by many who previously would have wondered, "Where's the beef?"

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Tamilee Webb's Defy Gravity Workout: The Revolutionary Workout Program that Lifts and Tones Your Entire Body

Author: Tamilee Webb

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One Hundred Strength Exercises or Do I Know You

2009-02-21T07:15:00.000-08:00

One Hundred Strength Exercises: A Guide for Exercise and Sport

Author: Ed McNeely

This book covers how to begin a strengthening program and how to progress in it, and includes clear instructions on how to strengthen every major muscle group in the body.

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Do I Know You?: Family's Journey Through Aging and Alzheimer's

Author: Bette Ann Moskowitz

How can one become a parent to one's parent? Moskowitz probes the heart of our culture--one that refuses to comprehend the inevitable process of aging.

El Gran Libro Del Yoga or Dangerous Doses

2009-02-20T03:13:00.000-08:00

El Gran Libro Del Yoga

Author: Ramiro A Call

Bien sea como medicina natural con sus propios metodos preventivos, terapeuticos y recuperativos, bien como actitud vital para alcanzar el equilibrio y la elevacion espiritual, el yoga representa uno de los mas importantes legados que la milenaria cultura india ha transmitido a Occidente.

Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America's Drug Supply

Author: Katherine Eban

In the tradition of the great investigative classics, Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of America's pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system-where it may reach unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness.

Katherine Eban's hard-hitting exploration of America's secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where tireless investigators follow the trail of medicine stolen in a seemingly minor break-in as it funnels into a sprawling national network of drug polluters. Their pursuit stretches from a strip joint in South Miami to the halls of Congress as they battle entrenched political interests and uncover an increasing threat to America's health.

With the conscience of a crusading reporter, Eban has crafted a riveting narrative that shows how, when we most need protection, we may be most at risk.

Publishers Weekly

It's hard to imagine that, with the U.S. government's oversight of the development and production of pharmaceuticals, the pills you get from your pharmacist may be counterfeit. But according to medical reporter Eban, those pills often pass through dozens of hands, exchanged in dark parking lots and the backrooms of strip clubs for thousands of dollars in cash, possibly resold and relabeled several times. It might contain a twentieth of the dosage written on the label, or nothing but tap water. Eban, formerly with the New York Times, follows a group of five investigators to reveal how pervasive a problem drug counterfeiting is in the U. S. Operation Stone Cold, as the South Florida investigation was called, comprised a hodgepodge of pharmacists and policemen who shared a fanatical devotion to stopping adulterated drugs from reaching the public, despite uninterested supervisors, understaffed regulatory agencies and state laws that made offenses almost impossible to prosecute. The book reads like a good novel, though the cast of villains is so dizzying and the timeline so complicated that the action is sometimes hard to follow. Unfortunately there is no happy ending the fight to protect the domestic drug supply continues. If this book receives wide attention, it could deal another blow to an already reeling pharmaceutical industry and users of prescription drugs will be wary after reading it. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

The Nation

Katherine Eban combines investigative diligence, a natural story teller's gift for narrative, and a consumer advocate's practical prescriptions for what to do about the counterfeit drugs that may have contaminated the supply at your local drug store. The result: A rare literary event -- muckraking with a human face.
—Victor Navasky, Publisher and Editorial Director

Boston Globe

In a style reminiscent of some of the best detective storytellers, Eban takes us breathlessly through robberies, back-room deals, cluttered and dirty warehouses, crooked dealers, sociopathic profiteers, shell companies, and state and federal laws so porous that convicted felons can become prescription-drug brokers

Publishers Weekly

The book reads like a good novel....If this book receives wide attention, it could deal another blow to an already reeling pharmaceutical industry and users of prescription drugs will be wary after reading it.

Newark Star-Ledger

Katherine Eban's expose on the poorly regulated prescription drug distribution system will have you calling your doctor to check your meds. To put it simply, she's done her homework on a terribly neglected system. " -- Razor magazine
"In "Dangerous Doses," Katherine Eban showed how vulnerable America's drug supply is to counterfeiters. With such dangers lurking, it often seemed as if the real world trumped fiction this year

Washington Post Book World

Warning: Katherine Eban's Dangerous Doses can give you headaches, raise your blood pressure and provoke anxiety. In extreme cases, it can leave you staring at a bottle of medicine and wondering: What do these pills really contain? ... In her vibrant tale, Eban introduces us to these people and makes the message clear: It shouldn't happen to anyone, and it could happen to you."

Kirkus

An investigative journalist digs into the chilling story of how degraded, expired, contaminated and diluted medicines are being sold to American pharmacies and hospitals. The result is a story rich in distinctive characters whose actions range form courageous to outrageous. Vivid writing and impressive documentation in a powerful indictment of a system in need of immediate repair."

salon.com

An exposé that wades into more rank Florida unseemliness than a Carl Hiaasen novel, and easily boasts three times the number of sleazebag villains.

New York Sun

A riveting tale. "Dangerous Doses" is part detective story, part pharmacological primer.

US News and World Report

A riveting account of a 2 1/2-year investigation in south Florida . . . . As Eban recounts, the scam was broken wide open by a ''ragtag'' group of seasoned investigators who seem as if they were cast right out of an episode of The Wire."
—Bernadine Healy

Library Journal

Americans pay top dollar to ensure that their prescription medications are safe, yet few realize that the current distribution process involves middlemen who open the way for criminal counterfeiting. Lax law enforcement and weak penalties have allowed counterfeiters to dilute or change the contents of the drugs and resell them for significant profit. Investigative medical reporter Eban spent more than two years conducting research and interviews to measure this problem fully. She follows the work of "the Horsemen"-a group of five dedicated drug inspectors and law enforcement officers in Florida who have diligently tried to put a stop to drug counterfeiting. The Horsemen have had many victories, but there is still a lot of work to be done. Few books have been written about this frightening topic, so Eban's expos will make a valuable addition to any library. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 1/05.]-Tina Neville, Univ. of South Florida at St. Petersburg Lib. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

An investigative journalist digs into the chilling story of how degraded, expired, contaminated and diluted medicines are being sold to American pharmacies and hospitals. Eban, a Rhodes scholar whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Observer, The Nation and other publications, spent two and a half years interviewing numerous government investigators and regulators, pharmaceutical wholesalers, doctors and patients, and reviewing surveillance videos, investigative reports, court records and other documents. The result is a story rich in distinctive characters whose actions range from courageous to outrageous. Fortunately, the author has provided an annotated list of the major players in her enormous cast. The story begins with a 2002 break-in at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Florida and follows investigators as they pursue those trafficking in counterfeit drugs. What Eban found was that large volumes of drugs made by U.S. pharmaceutical companies don't flow directly from manufacturer to hospital or pharmacy but are sold and resold in a gray market without a paper trail or with phony papers that obscure their origin. To become a pharmaceutical wholesaler in Florida requires only a refrigerator, an air conditioner, a security alarm, $200 for a security bond and $700 for a license. Aided by lax regulations, holders of these licenses, many of them criminal kingpins and street thugs, make fortunes trading in adulterated and counterfeit drugs. Eban shows the tragic results through her stories of patients whose lives have been affected by bogus medicines they believed were legitimate. Even more disturbing is what she reveals about the weakness of federal oversight in thedistribution of pharmaceuticals. Her concluding two-page summary of the steps consumers can take to protect themselves from counterfeit drugs is little comfort. Vivid writing and impressive documentation in a powerful indictment of a system in need of immediate repair.

What People Are Saying

Buzz Bissinger
This is a book that comes along so rarely in non-fiction -- brilliantly reported, written with the pace of a potboiler and harrowing in its societal repercussions. In Dangerous Doses, Katherine Eban takes us on a journey into the underbelly of the pharmaceutical industry so spooky and strange and sinister and deadly, you will have a hard time believing it is true. But it is, every word, which only makes Dangerous Doses shine even more.

Barnes and Noble Basics Migraines or Perfect Body Styling

2009-02-18T23:12:00.000-08:00

Barnes and Noble Basics Migraines

Author: Joan Raymond

It's not just another headache: when a migraine strikes, life stops while you deal with the blinding pain, sometimes accompanied by debilitating nausea, impaired sight, and sensitivity to light, sound, and smell. Unfortunately, many of the recommended cures just don't work. Find out exactly what a migraine is (and isn't) using the checklist of symptoms, and how to find relief. What are the newest remedies and who can they help? Does what you eat make a difference? Do hormone levels help cause migraines? And, why do women experience these killer headaches so much more than men? You'll see how to get the right diagnosis, and be your own best advocate. There's no need to suffer anymore, because this advice offers a variety of solutions to help you feel better.

	Foreword	6
Chapter 1	Getting the Diagnosis	7
	Experiencing the symptoms	8
	Seeing your doctor	10
	Similarities to other disorders	12
	Getting the diagnosis	14
	Keeping a headache journal	16
	What is a migraine?	18
	Why me, why now?	20
	You are not alone	22
	Migraine 911	24
	Helpful resources	26
Chapter 2	Migraine Explained	27
	Unraveling the mystery	28
	Headache vs. migraine pain	30
	The four stages of a migraine	32
	The prodrome	34
	The awe of the aura	36
	The big pain	38
	The postdrome phase	40
	Types of migraine	42
	Helpful resources	44
Chapter 3	Treatments for Migraines	45
	Goal-oriented treatment	46
	Migraine management	48
	Treating migraine pain	50
	Interrupting a migraine	52
	Preventing migraines	54
	Prevention medication primer	56
	The rebound headache	58
	Managing without drugs	60
	Your treatment plan	62
	Treatment guidelines	64
	Helpful resources	66
Chapter 4	Women and Migraines	67
	Hormones and headaches	68
	Treating menstrual migraines	70
	Magnesium therapy	72
	Hormonal therapy	74
	Risks of hormonal therapy	76
	Helpful resources	78
Chapter 5	Children and Migraines	79
	Headache in children	80
	Migraine symptoms	82
	What the doctor needs to know	84
	Getting a physical	86
	When the diagnosis is migraine	88
	A personal treatment plan	90
	Other strategies	92
	Helpful resources	94
Chapter 6	Putting Together your Team	95
	Your primary care doctor	96
	Neurologist	98
	Ophthalmologist	100
	Your advocate	102
	How to be a smart patient	104
	Support groups	106
	Helpful resources	108
Chapter 7	Using the Internet	109
	Top migraine sites for laypeople	110
	General migraine health sites	112
	Top medical research sites	114
	Alternative approaches	116
	Surfing for a specialist	118
	Online support	120
	Evaluating a Web site	122
	Helpful resources	124
Chapter 8	The Role of Nutrition	125
	Food fundamentals	126
	Trigger foods	128
	Caffeine and alcohol	130
	The elimination diet	132
	Improving the odds	134
	Eating for your health	136
	Helpful resources	140
Chapter 9	Complementary Therapies	141
	Stress management	142
	Biofeedback	144
	Meditation	146
	The complementary approach	148
	What to expect	150
	Herbs and vitamins	152
	Acupuncture	154
	Yoga, the "mindful" exercise	156
	Chiropractic therapy	158
	Massage and bodywork	160
	Helpful resources	162
Chapter 10	Cutting-edge Research	163
	Improved triptans	164
	Old drugs, new uses	166
	Botox for migraines	168
	Joining a clinical trial	170
	Helpful resources	172
Chapter 11	Stress and the Migraine	173
	What is stress?	174
	Chronic stress	176
	Assault on mind and body	178
	Smart coping strategies	180
	Take a stress inventory	182
	Learning to relax	184
	Your partner's concerns	186
	Talking about it	188
	Finding a support group	190
	Migraine and the job	192
	Managing the inconveniences	194
	Helpful resources	196
Chapter 12	Living with Migraines	197
	Life with a chronic illness	198
	Making the transition	200
	Stages of adjustment	202
	Beyond acceptance	204
	Beginning the journey	206
	Dealing with setbacks	208
	Helpful resources	210
	Glossary	211
	Index	218

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Perfect Body Styling

Author: Heiko Czichoschewski

If you want a well-shaped body, not a bulked-up, hardcore look, here’s a gentle, simple way to look svelte and feel great. Special exercises target specific muscles with light to medium weights, combined with techniques to improve cardiovascular health. Tips on diet and body care enhance your training and lessen the time it takes. If you already enjoy an endurance sport, subtle changes in your play, 30 minutes a day, three or four times a week, will speed you to your goals. Soon you’ll be stronger and more resistant to pain and injury, especially sedentary work-related sprains and strains. Best of all: ways to make body styling last so you don’t get bored just when things really start to work.

50 Secrets of the Worlds Longest Living People or Dying Time

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

50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People

Author: Sally Bear

Today we are living longer than ever before, and a few of us can expect to live to 100 or more. But many people feel that they will inevitably suffer the diseases of old age in their final years. Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars trying to find a cure for the "diseases of aging"—they may have found ways to stem some of the symptoms, but they have yet to find a panacea. Yet there are places in the world where, all along, people have commonly lived to 100 or more without suffering so much as a headache. How do they do it? The answer is simple: through sound dietary habits and balanced, healthy lifestyles. The 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People looks at the nutrition and lifestyle mores of the world's five most remarkable longevity hotspots—Okinawa, Japan; Bama, China; Campodimele, Italy; Symi, Greece; and Hunza, Pakistan—and explains how we too can incorporate the wisdom of these people into our everyday lives. It offers each of the secrets in detail, provides delicious, authentic recipes, and outlines a simple-to-master plan for putting it all together and living your best, and longest, life.

	Preface	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part 1	The World's Five Longevity Hot Spots
1	Okinawa-Island of World-Record Longevity	1
2	Symi-Home of Truly Ancient Greeks	9
3	Campodimele-Village of Eternal Youth	17
4	Hunza-"Happy Land of Just Enough"	27
5	Bama-Where Longevity Medicine Grows	39
Part 2	The Fifty Secrets
1	Eat Until You Are Only Eight Parts Full	49
2	Consume Five to Seven Servings of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables a Day	53
3	Choose Buckwheat, Brown Rice, and Other Whole Grains	59
4	Eat Sprouted Wheat Bread	66
5	Use Hemp	67
6	Eat Meat as a Treat	69
7	Prepare Your Meat Right	76
8	Choose Organic Goat's and Sheep's Cheese	79
9	Be Full of Beans	86
10	Have a Good Egg	87
11	Find Good Fats in Fish	91
12	Have a Handful of Nuts and Seeds Daily	97
13	Choose the Wonder Oil-Extra-Virgin Olive Oil	104
14	Beware of Fats in Disguise	106
15	Use Garlic and Onions-Nature's Healers	110
16	Discover the Power of Crunchy Vegetables	112
17	Keep Aging Away with a Salad a Day	115
18	Give Thanks for Sweet Potatoes	118
19	Enjoy Pizza ... Guilt Free	120
20	Snack on Apricots and Apricot Kernels	123
21	Find Long Life in a Bowl of Berries	125
22	Have Yogurt for Very Friendly Bacteria	128
23	Eat Fermented Foods	134
24	Choose Soy-the Traditional Way	138
25	Sprout Your Own Superfoods	141
26	Eat Magical Mushrooms	143
27	Remember Your Herbs	146
28	Don't Pass the Salt	148
29	Go Organic and Avoid "Frankenfoods"	152
30	Chew	157
31	Beware the Pastry Counter	160
32	Have a Glass of Red Wine with Dinner	165
33	Make Time for Tea-Green Tea	168
34	Drink Water-the Most Essential Nutrient	171
35	Combine Your Foods	173
36	Spring-Clean with Juices and Saunas	177
37	Supplement Your Diet	182
38	Exercise, Exercise, Exercise	192
39	Get Your Daily Dose of Sunshine	197
40	Jog Your Memory	200
41	Breathe-and Hum	202
42	Sit Still and Do Nothing	205
43	Have Faith	208
44	Laugh It Off	210
45	Sing in the Shower	213
46	Give Help to Others	215
47	Marry-or Get a Dog	217
48	Invite a Friend	219
49	Avoid the SAD-the Standard American Diet	221
50	Sleep	223
Part 3	Putting It All Together
	The Secrets of Living Long in Summary	229
	Aging Substances to Avoid	231
	Tips for Using the Secrets	237
	Recipes	243
	Acknowledgments	267
	Endnotes	269
	Index	279

Dying Time: Practical Wisdom for the Dying and Their Caregivers

Author: Joan Furman

"One of the best books available on caring for the dying, The Dying Time combines deep insight and down-to-earth practicality. All caregivers need to know what's between these covers. This book demystifies the process of death, yet honors the sacredness of life's final transition. Highly recommended."
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Prayer Is Good Medicine

"Living until we die can be difficult. This book can guide you through that time. It is practical, spiritual, and filled with wisdom."
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles

Here is a comprehensive and thorough handbook for the dying and their caregivers. Joan Furman and David McNabb walk the reader through the dying time, providing details on how to make the environment conducive to peace and tranquillity, give physical care, understand and respond to the emotional and spiritual crises that naturally occur, and stay healthy as a caregiver. They answer with honesty and sensitivity the questions most frequently asked, such as what actually happens at the time of death. The book also deals with arranging for a meaningful memorial service and handling grief for those who are left behind. And it offers guided imagery for coping with pain and suggests literature and music to ease the passage of those whose health is irreversibly failing.

Library Journal

In writing his guide, Klein draws on his extensive experience as a family therapist as well as his personal relationship with his 90-year-old father and the recent death of his mother. His examples and recommendations are both intriguing to read and practical. Klein explains recurring themes that confront adult children of aging parents, such as managing communication, unresolved feelings, emotional sensitivity, and the well-being of the caregiver. Later he recaps the five stages of dying identified by Elizabeth Kbler-Ross. Klein writes with empathy and ease, succeeding in presenting ideas to assist and encourage the growing number of us who want to accept the change from child to loving caregiver with courage and grace. Once the reader adjusts to its upbeat tone, The Dying Time offers hope and a unique point of view. Furman (holistic nursing, Vanderbilt Univ.) is a nurse practioner who has witnessed more than 1000 deaths; McNabb is a lawyer and AIDS activist. Hopeful in the extreme, this duo views death as "the last dance of life...not an end, but a new beginning." Cynics may challenge Furman's belief that she knows "that life continues after the death of the body," and some might say that she states the obvious when advising choosing music for the sickroom that avoids sudden tempo changes or gets "spooky or loud." However, suggestions abound for the mental, spiritual, and physical peace of both the dying and the caregiver. Many lists outline practical steps that can ease daily stress, including tips on how to write an obituary, scripts for creative imagery, and a foot reflexology chart. Touching personal stories are also included. Overall, the messages in this concise little book are practical, clear, and comforting. Well suited for the general reader, both books are recommended for all public libraries.Catherine T. Charvat, John Marshall Lib., Alexandria, Va.

Drug Therapy and Mood Disorders or Body Brilliance

2009-02-16T15:06:00.000-08:00

Drug Therapy and Mood Disorders

Author: Joan Esherick

Everyone experiences the "blues" now and then as well as times of joy and self-confidence. Most people even experience mood swings-times when they move quickly from feelings like joy to opposite feelings like sorrow. But what happens when normal moods become so extreme that a person can't think, feel, or act appropriately? What if a person is so "up" he does foolish, even dangerous, things? What if he's so "down" he can barely get out of bed?

The U.S. Surgeon General reports that, at any one time, between 10 and 15 percent of the adolescent population in the United States suffers from major depression. That's one in ten teens! According to the National Institute of Mental Health, 20 to 40 percent of those will develop bipolar disorder (manic depression) within five years.

Often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, mood disorders present major challenges, such as increased risk for illness, higher probability of social and interpersonal problems, and greater likelihood of substance abuse for those who suffer with them. Mood disorders, when left untreated, can even be fatal: seven percent of adolescents with major depressive disorder commit suicide.

What are mood disorders, and how can they be treated? Using numerous case studies and sidebars, and written in language that is easy to understand, Drug Therapy and Mood Disorders takes a comprehensive look at the causes and symptoms of mood disorders. In its pages, you will learn about the methods for diagnosis and treatment, specific drugs used to treat mood disorders, and alternative treatment strategies. Along the way, you will discover that mood disorders, though serious and challenging, are treatable, and help can be found.

Cathi I. White - Children's Literature

Everyone experiences certain "ups" and "downs" in life, but what if those times become more frequent until one can hardly function or act appropriately? What if the changes from joy to sorrow happen more often and to the extreme so that those moods affect how one acts toward others? It could be possible that a person in these situations may be suffering from a mood disorder. A mood disorder is a "condition rooted in the brain that causes disturbances in a way that a person thinks, feels, or acts, but especially affects the person's moods." This detailed, well-written and very comprehensive book explores the aspects of mood disorders in adolescents. The reader will learn about the history of mood disorders, how they are treated, the drugs available and how they can help, and also the possible risks and side effects from taking these drugs. Real case studies are given as examples to let the reader know that they are not the only one who may be going through what they are experiencing. Adolescents will know that there is help they can get from various sources such as those listed in the back of the book. This enlightening book is also jam packed with photographs, charts, and glossaries. This educational book, part of the "Psychiatric Disorders: Drugs and Psychology for the Mind and Body" series helps the reader to be well informed, in simple language, about mood disorders. 2004, Mason Crest Publishers, Ages 12 up.

Introduction     7
Foreword     9
Defining Mood Disorders     11
The History and Development of Mood Disorder Drugs     31
How Mood Disorder Drugs Work     47
Drug Treatments     67
Real People with Mood Disorders     83
Risks and Side Effects     99
Alternative and Supplementary Treatments     111
Further Reading     123
For More Information     124
Index     127

Interesting book: Planification de Site

Body Brilliance: Mastering Your Five Vital Intelligences

Author: Alan Davidson

This book is a warm, funny, encouraging, compassionate and deeply personal guide to waking your spirit fully in your body. It engages your "five essential intelligences"—physical, mental, emotional, moral and spiritual—and develops them fully. You feel a high level of energy when your potential is being fully expressed in one of these areas; it's important to your happiness to identify and improve the areas in which your energy feels low or weak.

Body Brilliance is filled with inspiring stories. It tells the surprising details of people who exemplified peak development in one form or another: Olympians Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph for physical intelligence; Albert Einstein for mental intelligence, and Rumi and his teacher Shams for spiritual intelligence. It provides powerful yet simple ways in which you can fully engage each level, by finding the wisdom that your body is trying to communicate with you—and then living that wisdom in powerful experience through your body. It teaches you to pay attention to your unique individual patterns, listening deeply to your body's messages.

Body Brilliance is also full of practical exercises to awaken each level, and to encourage you to find your personal levels of peak expression in that domain. When you wake up fully in your body, and harmonize all five layers, you discover a result that is more than the sum of the parts; you fall deeply in love with being alive, and infatuated with being fully present in your life.

About the Author
Alan Davidson, RMT, is the owner and director of Essential Touch Therapies in Houston, Texas. He has a B.S. from University of Houston, with an emphasis on psychology, sociology, philosophy, and religion. Alan is fascinated with the intersection of bodywork, psychology, ritual, and spiritual practice. He has taught massage, meditation, yoga, aromatherapy, and human transformation since 1990 and is a certified Nia White Belt. Alan is currently on the teaching staff at Source Vital College of Holistic Studies and NiaMoves Studio. You can see more about him, and subscribe to his health newsletter, at www.throughyourbody.com.

One Hundred Stretches or Breast Health and Common Breast Problems

2009-02-14T22:51:00.000-08:00

One Hundred Stretches: Head to Toe Stretches for Exercises and Sports

Author: Jim Brown

Stretching is an essential first-step for sports and activities of all kinds. One Hundred Stretches covers every part of the body from feet to head.

Book review: An Introduction to e Business or Big Basics Book of Windows 98

Breast Health and Common Breast Problems: A Practical Approach

Author: Pamela S Ganschow

Breast Health and Common Breast Problems will serve as a valuable tool for assessing and managing common breast problems and as a sensitive guide to understanding unanticipated perceptions and challenges when advising women about breast cancer risk, prevention, and benign breast disease.

Animals in Translation or Under an Equatorial Sky

2009-02-13T18:49:00.000-08:00

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Author: Temple Grandin

How is Animals in Translation different from every other animal book ever published'Animals in Translation is like no other animal book because of Temple Grandin. As an animal scientist and a person with autism, her professional training and personal history have created a perspective like no other thinker in the field, and this is her exciting, groundbreaking view of the intersection of autism and animal.

Publishers Weekly

Philosophers and scientists have long wondered what goes on in the minds of animals, and this fascinating study gives a wealth of illuminating insights into that mystery. Grandin, an animal behavior expert specializing in the design of humane slaughter systems, is autistic, and she contends that animals resemble autistic people in that they think visually rather than linguistically and perceive the world as a jumble of mesmerizing details rather than a coherent whole. Animals-cows, say, on their way through a chute-are thus easily spooked by novelties that humans see as trivialities, such as high-pitched noises, drafts and dangling clothes. Other animals accomplish feats of obsessive concentration; squirrels really do remember where each acorn is buried. The portrait she paints of the mammalian mind is both alien and familiar; she shows that beasts are capable of sadistic cruelty, remorse, superstition and surprising discernment (in one experiment, pigeons were taught to distinguish between early period Picasso and Monet). Grandin (Thinking in Pictures) and Johnson (coauthor of Shadow Syndromes) deploy a simple, lucid style to synthesize a vast amount of research in neurology, cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology, supplementing it with Grandin's firsthand observations of animal behavior and her own experiences with autism, engaging anecdotes about how animals interact with each other and their masters, and tips on how to pick and train house pets. The result is a lively and absorbing look at the world from animals' point of view. (Jan.) Forecast: Anyone who's enjoyed the work of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson-and especially those who liked it but felt it a bit warm and fuzzy in spots-should appreciate this valuable, rigorous book. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Entertainment Weekly

"Neurology has Oliver Sachs, nature has Annie Dillard, and the lucky animal world has Grandin, a master intermediary between humans and our fellow beasts . . . At once hilarious, fascinating, and just plain weird, Animals is one of those rare books that elicits a 'wow' on almost every page. A."

The New York Times Book Review

"Inspiring . . . Crammed with facts and anecdotes about Temple Grandin's favorite subject: the senses, brains, emotions, and amazing talents of animals."

the Oprah Magazine O

"Grandin's focus in Animals in Translation is not on all the 'normal' things autistics and animals can't do but on the unexpected, extraordinary, invaluable things they can."

Library Journal

A high-functioning autistic, Grandin (animal science, Colorado Sate Univ., Thinking in Pictures) has spent a lifetime empathizing with animals. She has also served as a consultant to farmers, ranchers, and slaughterhouses, helping them understand animals and their behavior in order to make their care (and/or slaughter) more humane. Grandin's new book on animal behavior draws on her experiences as both a scientist and an autistic person. Her compelling thesis is that there is a lot we still don't know about animal thought and learning but that her condition provides her with an insight into the issues that other people lack. Autism, Grandin argues, closely mimics the psychological condition of animals, in part because both lack facility with language. Indeed, she asserts that animals are autistic savants whose intelligence is unseen by most people. Grandin deals with wildlife only in passing, but she details some interesting laboratory studies using wild animals. A provocative title for universities and larger public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/04.]-Alvin Hutchinson, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Interesting textbook: Natural Food Cookery or Tassajara Dinner and Desserts

Under an Equatorial Sky

Author: Rebekah Trittipo

Question: What do you get when you drop a 40-something soccer Mom into the Brazilian Amazon jungle?Answer: An adventure of a lifetime. The Jungle Marathon of 2003 was a foot race that tested the limits of Rebekah Trittipoe. Never before had she run so far for so long. This wife and mother of two went to the jungle to compete in the inaugural Jungle Marathon, a self-sufficient, seven day race covering 250 km of sweltering jungle. With a week's worth of supplies strapped to her back, her journey began with a single step. The race thrust Trittipoe head first into a novel experience: six stages over a period of seven days, oppressive heat and humidity, poisonous snakes and spiders, chest-deep swamp crossings, swinging from jungle hammocks, relentless terrain, shoe-sucking mud and stalking jaguars. Far from her Virginia home, Rebekah found herself running with-and against-competitors from around the world through the harsh equatorial jungle. This book is about that race. It is a story of extreme sport. It is a story of highs and lows. It is a story of failure and success. It is a story of sustaining faith. It is a story meant to encourage, inspire and motivate. It is a story for the runner and non-runner, man and woman, adult and child. It is a story for you.

Understanding Cosmetic Procedures or Beauty Secrets of India

2009-02-11T15:16:00.000-08:00

Understanding Cosmetic Procedures: Surgical and Non-Surgical

Author: Efrain Arroyav

Understanding Cosmetic Procedures: Surgical and Non-Surgical is a book that is the first of its kind, focusing specifically on the growing popularity of a new breed of beauty specialists, the Skin Care Specialist. There is ever increasing interest from the baby boomer generation in looking and feeling younger, which in turn increases the demand for aesthetic procedures. The Skin Care Specialist is the answer to that demand. Skin Care Specialists provide pre and post-operative skin care as well as being able to offer many spa-type skin care procedures. Written in easily understandable terms, the reader will develop an understanding of both surgical and non-surgical aesthetic procedures without feeling overwhelmed. This book addresses all aspects of aesthetic medicine and will become and invaluable resource for the new learner, practicing professional, and curious individual considering an aesthetic procedure.

Interesting book: Cabernet Sauvigon or Plants

Beauty Secrets of India: From AyurVedic Techniques to Exotic Adornments

Author: Monisha Bharadwaj

With its friendly and informative approach, Beauty Secrets of India leads the reader into a rich and enticing world. The author, born and raised in Bombay, captures this romantic realm with a personal, easygoing style that includes family recipes. In the process, she shows Western women how to look and feel vibrant, healthy, and ravishing. Blending Ayurvedic techniques with other natural systems, this book encourages women to find simple ways to refresh and pamper themselves on a regular basis. Folk sayings, snippets of poetry, and tales of legendary Indian beauties adorn the text, combining a deeper sense of India's ageless knowledge with a contemporary approach to physical and spiritual beauty.

Fluent Bodies or Your Child and Epilepsy A Guide to Living Well

2009-02-10T11:14:00.000-08:00

Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

Author: Jean M Langford

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

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

What People Are Saying

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

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

Interesting textbook: Outsourcing America or Rome from the Ground Up

Your Child and Epilepsy: A Guide to Living Well

Author: Robert J Gumnit

The author of Living Well with Epilepsy provides information to help parents understand their childrens' epilepsy, suggestions on how to evaluate health care, to find better care if necessary, and advice on how to help children with epilepsy to develop self-confidence and self-motivation.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Your Child Can Live Successfully with Epilepsy	1
2	Your Child and Epilepsy	7
3	Understanding Epilepsy	13
4	The Causes and Diagnosis of Epilepsy	19
5	The Holistic Approach to Epilepsy Treatment	25
6	Finding Your Way to High Quality Care	29
7	Being an Effective Member of Your Child's Health Care Team	39
8	The Importance of Early and Accurate Diagnosis	47
9	Antiepileptic Medications: The First Choice to Control Epilepsy	55
10	Surgical Options for Children with Epilepsy	71
11	First Aid for Seizures	81
12	Seizures in Newborns	87
13	Seizures in Infants	93
14	Seizures in Childhood	101
15	Treating Seizures in Adolescence	109
16	Living Well with Epilepsy: The Preschool Years	115
17	Living Well with Epilepsy: The Elementary School Years	119
18	Living Well with Epilepsy - Adolescence	127
19	Living Well with Epilepsy - The Young Adult	135
20	Are Seizures Really the Problem?	141
21	Sexuality, Sex, and Birth Control	145
22	Sleep, Nutrition, and the Ketogenic Diet	151
23	Driving and Epilepsy	157
24	Instructions for Babysitters	161
25	Residential Facilities	167
26	Is It Time to Change Physicians?	171
27	Career Choices for People with Epilepsy	177
28	Protecting Your Child's Legal Rights	183
29	Obtaining Health Insurance	195
30	Where to Turn When You Need Help	203
31	Keeping Hope Alive Through Research	211
	Appendix One. First Aid for Epilepsy	223
	Appendix Two. Driving and Epilepsy	225
	Appendix Three. Other Useful Books	231
	Index	233

Marching to a Different Tune or This Thing Called You

2009-02-09T07:12:00.000-08:00

Marching to a Different Tune: Diary about an ADHD Boy

Author: Jacky Fletcher

Written by the mother of Stefan, a boy diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Marching to a Different Tune is a day-by-day, moment-by-moment account of how his unusual and difficult behaviour affects and disrupts their family life inside and outside the home. Jacky Fletcher describes the struggles, embarrassments and triumphs her family experiences throughout a four year period of Stefan's childhood. The diary ends with an expression of the family's love for Stefan - as he approaches adolescence, they will learn new ways to cope with the challenges of his behaviour, applying the knowledge they have gained through experience. Families whose lives have been touched by ADHD will recognise much in this touching and honest story; which brings the reader into the reality of life with ADHD.

Interesting book: Gods Heart Has No Borders or The Foundations of Modern Political Thought

This Thing Called You

Author: Ernest Holmes

The inspiration of Ernest Holmes has reached hundreds of thousands of readers through his classic works, many of which are just now becoming available in paperback.
Originally published in the first half of the twentieth century, these meditative, concise volumes have never previously appeared in paperback. Whether a newcomer to the philosophy Holmes founded or a veteran reader, you will find great power and practicality in the words that render Holmes one of the most celebrated and beloved mystical teachers of the past hundred years.

Tao in Ten or Coming Clean

2009-02-08T03:11:00.000-08:00

Tao in Ten

Author: C Alexander Simpkins

Tao in Ten is a simple, enlightened guide to living a life of balance and harmony. It includes ten simple lessons, eachinspired by a principle of Taoism, which helps readers explore Taoist ideas, exercies, and meditations. Each lesson is demonstrated through Taoist exercises-some physical, some mental, and some spiritual. Readers will discover wu-wei, the act of nonaction; yin and yang, elements that are at once opposite yet the same; chi, our vital life energy; martial arts, as a means to nurture inner strength; as well as many other Taoist concepts.

Author Biography: Drs. C. Alexander PH.D and Annellen Simpkins Ph.D live in San Diego and are both psychologists who have specialized in studies of the mind. They have devoted many years to the study of hypnosis and have taught meditation skills to people of all ages.

Book about: Complete Guide to Family Health Nutrition Fitness or Faith and Health

Coming Clean: Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment

Author: Robert Granfield

Despite the widely accepted view that formal treatment and twelve-step groups are essential for overcoming dependencies on alcohol and drugs, each year large numbers of former addicts quietly recover on their own, without any formal treatment or participation in self-help groups at all.

Coming Clean explores the untold stories of untreated addicts who have recovered from a lifestyle of excessive and compulsive substance use without professional assistance. Based on 46 in-depth interviews with formerly addicted individuals, this controversial volume examines their reasons for avoiding treatment, the strategies they employed to break away from their dependencies, the circumstances that facilitated untreated recovery, and the implications of recovery without treatment for treatment professionals as well as for prevention and drug policy.

Because of the pervasive belief that addiction is a disease requiring formal intervention, few training programs for physicians, social workers, psychologists, and other health professionals explore the phenomenon of natural recovery from addiction. Coming Clean offers insights for treatment professionals of how recovery without treatment can work and how candidates for this approach can be identified. A detailed appendix outlines specific strategies which will be of interest to addicted individuals themselves who wish to attempt the process of recovery without treatment.

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Recovery without Treatment: An Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Perspectives on Natural Recovery
Ch. 2	Slippin' into Darkness: Narratives of Use and Addiction	33
Ch. 3	The Process of Recovery without Treatment	61
Ch. 4	Circumventing Treatment and Salvaging the Self: Natural as Cultural Resistance	99
Ch. 5	The Social Context of Recovery without Treatment	130
Pt. 2	Implications of Natural Recovery
Ch. 6	Lessons for Practitioners from Self-Remitters	159
Ch. 7	Conclusion: Addiction, Society, and Social Policy	191
Appendix	Implementing Natural Recovery: Suggestions for Personal Change	223
	Notes	251
	Index	289
	About the Authors	295

Trying to Give Ease or Into the Shadows

2009-02-06T23:10:00.000-08:00

Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine

Author: John K Crellin

The authors here focus on the life, practices, and accumulated knowledge of the late Appalachian herbalist "Tommie" Bass. "This book merits praise as one of the best investigations of an herbalist and his context in the literature of folk medicine and as a powerful synthesis of important historical, social, and psychological factors in general folk medicine".--NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH CAROLINA FOLK SOCIETY. 352 pp.

Booknews

Reprint of the 1989 work published as . See adjacent reference to v.2 . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

What is uncovered in Trying to Give Ease is the practice of an empirical healer who held to no particular theory of medicine but implicitly followed diverse (often antiquated) principles such as humoralism and the notion of the body as a thermodynamic engine. . . . [T]here can be little doubt that Tommie Bass has left an impress upon the community he served. . . . [B]ecause of the unique and valuable perspective given to its subject, this book deserves to be on the shelves of those interested in the history of America's vegetable materia medica.

Appalachian Journal

Trying to Give Ease and A Reference Guide to Medicinal Plants are two of the best resources I've come across. I highly recommend Trying to Give Ease for anyone interested in the study of mountain culture, public health, or the interactions of humans and plants.

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

[V]ery pleasant to read. . . . The description and illumination of the special example [of] Tommie Bass might raise (critical) questions in the minds of those responsible for research into and organization of health care as well as in each individual reader.

Interesting textbook: The Absolute Beginners Guide to Internet Wealth or Google SketchUp For Dummies

Into the Shadows: A Journey of Faith and Love into Alzheimer's

Author: Robert F DeHaan

Husband tells story of caring for his wife who is struggling with Alzheimer's. In this intimate and moving chronicle, Robert DeHaan combines his finely honed skills as a professional psychologist with his unwavering Christian faith to show that the love and grace of God are far greater than this terrible disease.

Book offers message of hope to one in four adults affected by Alzheimer's, either as caregivers, relatives or friends. Insightful, sensitive, loving and God-honoring account of his wife's journey into Alzheimer's disease.

About the Author

Robert F. DeHaan is a graduate of Calvin College and the University of Chicato. He served for 12 years as professor of the Psychology Dept. of Hope College in Holland, MI prior to establishing the Philadelphia Urban Semester of the Great Lakes College Association.

No More Allergies or Extension

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

No More Allergies: Identifying and Eliminating Allergies and Sensitivity Reactions to Everything in Your Environment

Author: Gary Null

Null redefines a health problem that afflicts 40 million Americans: More than mere hay fever, contemporary allergic reactions include chronic fatigue syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, and even HIV infection. These conditions, he explains, occur when our immune systems break down. This ground-breaking book now prescribes effective solutions.

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ExTension: The 20-Minute-a-Day, Yoga-Based Program to Relax, Release and Rejuvenate the Average Stressed-Out Over-35-Year-Old Body

Author: Sam Dworkis

Perfect for anyone who feels too out of shape or old to exercise, this simple sequence of yoga exercises that can be tailored to individual fitness levels works every muscle, relieves tension, reduces stress, increases energy, and improves posture, balance, and concentration in 20 minutes a day.

The Fat Gram Guide to Restaurant Food or Low Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook

2009-02-04T15:07:00.000-08:00

The Fat-Gram Guide to Restaurant Food

Author: Joseph C Piscatella

You can't cut fat if you don't know where it is, and now Joseph C. Piscatella, author of Don't Eat Your Heart Out Cookbook and other diet and health books, with over 2 million copies in print continues his quest to make fat-reduction easier to implement. The Fat-Gram Guide to Restaurant Food gives the fat-grams, calories, and percentage of calories from fat for over 3,500 of the most commonly ordered restaurant dishes. It includes fast-food offerings by franchise, and it is the only guide to sit-down restaurant meals. Here are breakfasts, from McDonaldís Pancakes to Sausage McMuffin. (Choose the pancakes.) Lunches and brunches. And of course all manner of dinner foods, from beef to fish, Mexican to Japanese.

In addition to its convenient alphabetical listings, the guide provides Joe Piscatella's own strategy for making smarter choices in restaurants. And he should know. A tireless speaker and promoter for his books, he is on the road 100 days out of the year, eating out during every one of them.

Low-Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook

Author: Mary Dan Eades MD

Scrumptious, easy-to-make low-carb breads, pastries, and confections from a chef who is revolutionizing low-carb cooking and eating

"Ursula has worked tirelessly to develop scores of recipes for breads, biscuits, pastries, cookies, pies, cakes, candy, and confections that are not merely low-carb, they’re delicious to boot! Her culinary alchemy gives us all a leg up on the learning curve to make luscious low-carb treats that, if we use them wisely, will make it that much easier to stick to the low-carb plan for life."

–From the Foreword by Dr. Mary Dan Eades, M.D.

coauthor of The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook

In The Low-Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook, low-carb chef par excellence Ursula Solom–the ingenious chef who is revolutionizing the way the low-carb world cooks–proves that you don’t have to sacrifice the delights of your favorite high-carb treats to live a low-carb lifestyle.

From Basic White Bread, Date Bread, Peanut Butter Chocolate Muffins, Honey Spice Cookies, and Macadamia Nut Biscotti to Strawberry Soufflé, Tiramisu, and Praline Truffles, The Low-Carb Baking and Dessert Cookbook is packed with more than 200 easy-to-prepare recipes for savory treats and scrumptious sweets that will satisfy your high-carb cravings while helping you slim down, shape up, and realize all the benefits of low-carb living.

Library Journal

Despite the recent glut of low-carb cookbooks, few have focused only on baking and desserts, so this title might fill a special niche. However, not surprisingly, low-carb baking is not particularly easy. Solom, coauthor with Mary Dan Eades and Michael Eades of The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook, uses a variety of special ingredients to adapt baked goods to a low-carb program, from soy protein powder and almond meal to vital wheat gluten, sugar-free chocolate, and xylitol, an expensive "sugar alcohol" that, Solom notes, may have undesirable side effects. Many of the recipes have lengthy ingredients lists, and while some of them may be healthful, they don't have much appeal as a sweet treat (Soy Grit Cookies, anyone?). Unlike those with wheat allergies and the like who must monitor their diets carefully or suffer often severe consequences, most Atkins fans may not want to spend hours in the kitchen making breads and desserts when low-carb baked goods are increasingly available in supermarkets. For special collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

A Heartsongs Collection or Hot Flashes Hormones and Your Health

2009-02-03T11:05:00.000-08:00

A Heartsongs Collection: Heartsongs and Journey through Heartsongs (Unabridged)

Author: Mattie JT Stepanek

The Heartsongs Collection combines both of Mattie Stepanek's volumes of poetry into one audiobook.

Mattie J.T. Stepanek began writing poetry at the age of three. In Heartsongs, Mattie explores the uncensored reality of living with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and with the grief associated with the loss of his three siblings to the same life-threatening condition. Heartsongs is a collection of the early poems and artwork of this gifted, courageous, award-winning poet.

He takes us on a Journey Through Heartsongs with more of his moving poems.

The Heartsongs Collection will be read by Mattie himself.

Interesting book: Wagon Wheel Kitchens or Just the Two of Us

Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health: Breakthrough Findings to Help You Sail Through Menopause

Author: Joanne E Manson

What you should know about menopausal hormone therapy--from the renowned Harvard doctor who is one of the pioneers conducting the latest research in the field

Recent news stories on the safety of menopausal hormone therapy (also known as hormone replacement therapy, or HRT) have raised public awareness and sparked a national debate. Now learn the facts about this controversial treatment for menopause--from the field's go-to expert.

Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health explains the changes that occur during menopause. It also provides you with state-of-the-art information to help you make informed decisions about hormone therapy and other options for treating symptoms of menopause. The cutting-edge research and advice presented in this book will help you determine whether to start hormone therapy, or, if you are already taking hormones, whether you should continue to do so. This book will help you work more effectively with your health care provider to make the best decisions about your medical care. If you have taken hormones in the past, Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health will also be useful in understanding the overall health effects of this treatment.

So, if you are debating whether to start, continue, or stop hormone therapy, Hot Flashes, Hormones, and Your Health has the answers you need:

The latest scientific evidence on the benefits and risks of managing menopause with hormone therapy
Expert guidance in determining whether or not hormone therapy is the right choice for you, and, if it is, when to start, when to stop, and what type to use
The truth about bioidentical hormones
Healthful and effectiveoptions for women who cannot-or prefer not to-use hormone therapy

JoAnn E. Manson, M.D., is a professor of medicine and the Elizabeth F. Brigham Professor of Women's Health at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and codirector of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology. The only person to have served as a lead investigator on two of the most influential studies of women's health ever conducted--the Women's Health Initiative and the Harvard Nurses' Health Study--Dr. Manson is widely recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on women's health.

Shari S. Bassuk, Sc.D., is an epidemiologist and science writer at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who frequently collaborates with Dr. Manson.

Couples Confronting Cancer or Bone Breath Gesture

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

Couples Confronting Cancer: Keeping Your Relationship Strong

Author: Joy L Fincannon

Work through cancer together

Maintaining a healthy, long-term marriage or relationship in today’s society is challenging enough. When cancer enters the picture, it can become a source of further pressure and can cause you to reevaluate your life and your relationships. Couples Confronting Cancer provides information about the cancer experience, suggesting effective ways to work through conflict to create intimacy and to deal with cancer more successfully. It shows you how to solve or avert problems, allowing you and your partner to become closer and communicate more easily and truthfully with one another both during and beyond the cancer experience.

Key Features

Tips on how to develop successful relationships
Exercises to help you cope with special problems, resolve conflicts, strengthen relationships, and deepen intimacy

Bone, Breath, & Gesture: Practices of Embodiment

Author: Don Hanlon Johnson

This book is a collection of writings on principles and techniques by the pioneers of bodywork and body awareness disciplines. Together, they represent a historical record of the field of somatics. Ranging from hands-on workers like Ida Rolf to phenomenologist Elizabeth Behnke, their lives span this century. In these lectures, writings, and interviews, editor Don Hanlon Johnson has sought to revel the unbroken lineage, theoretical differences, and major similarities of these originators.

	Introduction
	Elsa Gindler	3
	Gymnastik for People Whose Lives Are Full of Activity	5
	Charlotte Selver	15
	Interview with Charlotte Selver	17
	Carola Speads	23
	Interview with Carola Speads	25
	Excerpts from Ways to Better Breathing	36
	Marion Rosen	51
	Excerpts from The Rosen Method	53
	Ilse Middendorf	65
	Interview with Ilse Middendorf	67
	Preface to The Perceptible Breath	74
	F. M. Alexander	83
	A Conversation with Marjory Barlow	85
	The Stutterer	93
	Moshe Feldenkrais	109
	Interview with Mia Segal	111
	Introduction to The Elusive Obvious	137
	Ida Rolf	149
	Introduction to Ida Rolf Talks about Rolfing and Physical Reality	151
	Excerpts from Ida Rolf Talks about Rolfing and Physical Reality	172
	Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen	183
	Excerpts from Sensing, Feeling, and Action	185
	Judith Aston	205
	Three Perceptions and One Compulsion	207
	Irmgard Bartenieff	221
	Interview with Irmgard Bartenieff	223
	Mary Whitehouse	239
	The Tao of the Body	241
	Gerda Alexander	253
	Interview with Gerda Alexander	255
	Excerpts from Eutony: The Holistic Discovery of the Total Person	273
	Emilie Conrad Da'Oud	295
	Life on Land	297
	Elizabeth A. Behnke	315
	Matching	317
	Thomas Hanna	339
	What Is Somatics?	341
	Deane Juhan	353
	Excerpts from Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork	355
	Bibliography	381
	Empirical Studies	385
	Resources	387

Cooking for Life or Healing Garden

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

Cooking for Life: Recipes for Healthy Living (Volume 3)

Author: Avera McKennan Foundation Staf

Diabetes is a very common disease, affecting over 18 million Americans and many more have diabetes, but are unaware of it. All of the recipes help provide a more healthy way to live successfully with diabetes. It will also help promote healthy eating habits.

Interesting textbook: Taste of Murder or Sauces for Savory Dishes

Healing Garden: A Practical Guide for Physical and Emotional Well-Being

Author: Sue Minter

A guide to planting to unleash the healing properties of your garden.

Completely revised and rewritten, Sue Minter's beautiful book on the healing properties of plants shows how to harness the healing potential of your own garden. The text covers both the history of plants that help humans, together with practical advice on creating a garden with healing porperties — from plants for minor ailments, to plants for a macro-biotic diet, to a secret garden as a fantasy, scented gardens, textured gardens, healing sounds, or, perhaps, a special feature such as a white garden. Extremely practical, it offers clear, step-by-step advice for gardeners with easily accessible charts for plant uses, how they should be applied and when and where to grow them.

Selling Sickness or Mutilating the Body

2009-01-30T22:59:00.000-08:00

Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients

Author: Ray Moynihan

Thirty years ago, the head of the drug company Merck made some remarkably candid comments about his distress that his company's market was limited to sick people. Suggesting he would like Merck to be more like the maker of Wrigley's chewing gum, the CEO said it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people, to "sell to everyone." That dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. From award-winning Ray Moynihan,—one of the world's top medical journalists—Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits. This in turn is driving up personal drug bills and threatening to bankrupt national health systems all over the world. As more and more ordinary life is "medicalized," the industry moves ever closer to being able to "sell to everyone."

Publishers Weekly

This accessible study about the collusion between medical science and the drug industry emphasizes how drug companies market their products by either redefining problems as diseases (like female sexual dysfunction) or redefining a condition to encompass a greater percentage of the population. Moynihan, a health journalist for the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet, and Cassels, a Canadian science writer, note, for instance, that eight of the nine specialists who wrote the 2004 federal guideline on high cholesterol, which substantially increased the number of people in that category, have multiple financial ties to drug manufacturers. Physicians now routinely prescribe cholesterol-lowering pills (statins) that may have perilous side effects, when many people could lower their risk of heart attack with less costly and dangerous steps, such as exercise and improved diet. Through aggressive merchandising, funding of medical conferences and expensive perks, drug companies win doctors over to diagnosing these "diseases" and prescribing drugs for them. Unfortunately for these authors, much of this territory has been covered by several books in the past year, most notably Marcia Angell's The Truth About the Drug Companies (due out in paperback from Random House in September). (July) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Book about: Mother Heal My Self or Saving Yourself

Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink

Author: Kim Hewitt

Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink is an analysis of the different ways in which people use their bodies for self-expression that considers the significance of body modification and how different forms of body art and alteration serve individual and cultural needs. The book also addresses eating disorders, self-cutting, and ritualized consensual sadomasochism.

	Preface: A Memory of Blood and Ink
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Etching Identity on the Body	7
2	Pain as a Pathway to Social and Spiritual Identity	27
3	Anorexia and Self-Mutilation Diagnosed as Pathological	41
4	Adornment: Tattooing and Piercing	65
5	Edging toward the Mainstream	95
	Conclusion: The Cultural Significance of Self-Mutilation	117
	Notes	125
	Bibliography	145
	Index	157

Powerful Medicines or Understanding Diabetes

2009-01-29T18:57:00.000-08:00

Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs

Author: Jerry Avorn

If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug's safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares his firsthand experience of the wide gap in our knowledge of the effectiveness of one medication as compared to another. In Powerful Medicines, he reminds us that every pill we take represents a delicate compromise between the promise of healing, the risk of side effects, and an increasingly daunting price. The stakes on each front grow higher every year as new drugs with impressive power, worrisome side effects, and troubling costs are introduced.

This is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at issues that affect everyone: our shortage of data comparing the worth of similar drugs for the same condition; alarming lapses in the detection of lethal side effects; the underuse of life-saving medications; lavish marketing campaigns that influence what doctors prescribe; and the resulting upward spiral of costs that places vital drugs beyond the reach of many Americans.

In this engagingly written book, Dr. Avorn asks questions that will interest every consumer: How can a product judged safe by the Food and Drug Administration turn out to have unexpectedly lethal side effects? Why has the nation's drug bill been growing at nearly 20 percent per year? How can physicians and patients pick the best medication in its class? How do doctors actually make their prescribing decisions, and why dothose decisions sometimes go wrong? Why do so many Americans suffer preventable illnesses and deaths that proper drug use could have averted? How can the nation gain control over its escalating drug budget without resorting to rationing or draconian governmental controls?

Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. He describes an innovative program that employs the pharmaceutical industry's own marketing techniques to reduce use of some of the most overprescribed and overpriced products. Powerful Medicines offers timely and practical advice on how the nation can improve its drug-approval process, and how patients can work with doctors to make sure their prescriptions are safe, effective, and as affordable as possible.

This is a passionate and provocative call for action as well as a compelling work of clear-headed science.

Publishers Weekly

In this pragmatic volume, Avorn sets out an impressive plan for the American health care system to get helpful drugs to those who need them, protect patients from dangerous side effects and keep costs within reasonable limits. Avorn, chief of the division of pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, argues, "[F]or a sum no greater than our current drug budget, medications could provide all Americans with the most productive and cost-effective interventions in all of health care." Avorn claims, "[W]e waste billions of dollars a year on prescription drugs that are excessively priced, poorly prescribed, or improperly taken." To remedy this situation, reform is needed in how new drugs are approved and marketed. In addition, practicing physicians need access to state-of-the-art information about new medications, including how well they compare to established (and often cheaper) products. Computer technology, Avorn shows, can bring together the latest information on treatment options and drug contraindications. But changes in the pharmaceutical industry itself-of which Avorn does not hold a flattering view-may be necessary to eliminate pressure to prescribe the most heavily advertised and costly new product when old standbys are equally effective. Though this informative and witty book is overly long, it makes a compelling case for prescription sanity and shows how constructive change can realistically be achieved. (Aug. 20) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Avorn brings 30 years' experience as a physician and researcher to the current debate about pharmaceuticals. In the opening sections, "Benefits" and "Risks," he provides an excellent overview of the research techniques necessary to evaluate a drug's safety and effectiveness, while in "Cost" and "Information" he covers some of the same territory as Merrill Goozner's The $800 Million Pill and Stephen Ceccoli's Pill Politics regarding the development, marketing, and pricing of new drugs. Avorn's analysis, however, goes further than just criticizing the industry-he puts drug costs in the bigger picture of health resource allocation while pointing out the difficulty that both doctors and patients face in trying to find unbiased information. In the fifth and final section, he suggests more rational public policy. Avorn's coverage is thorough and his writing style engaging and even humorous. While accessible to lay readers, this title would also be an appropriate text for health sciences students. Highly recommended.-Eris Weaver, Redwood Health Lib., Petaluma, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Cogent analysis of how pharmaceutical drugs are approved, promoted, and prescribed in this country, with some well-considered recommendations for improving the present system. According to Avorn (Medicine/Harvard Medical School), Americans waste billions of dollars on prescription drugs that are overpriced, poorly prescribed, and improperly taken. He draws on his extensive experience as researcher and physician to explore the relationships between benefits, risks, and the economic impact of prescription drugs. While the FDA comes under scrutiny for its failure to properly assess the risks of such medications as the diet drug Redux and the diabetes drug Rezulin, this is not another FDA-bashing book. Avorn's picture is bigger. Through case studies, he examines decisions made by the regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical companies, health policymakers, and physicians that reveal faults in the entire system. After examining how benefits and risks are discovered and measured, he turns to the difficult question of how these are balanced against each other when making decisions about a drug's use. Avorn finds that in the real world, the major source of information about drugs is the promotion departments of pharmaceutical companies. Surrounded by "an almost suffocating plethora of information of very uneven quality," physicians have not been prepared by their medical education to deal with it. He proposes an educational outreach program based in medical schools that would send academic "detail men" to doctors' offices just as drug companies do. They would provide neutral, evidence-based assessment of drug choices so that physicians would know which treatments were more better, safer, and morecost-effective. Avorn points to Canada, Australia, and Great Britain as countries whose drug-assessment procedures we can learn from. His final chapters offer concrete, practical ideas for improving the ways in which drugs are evaluated and pertinent information about them is disseminated. Marked by solid scholarship, measured criticism, and pithy comments: an informative and highly readable study that makes a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion of an important health care issue.

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Understanding Diabetes

Author: Marie Clark

Diabetes is one of the most common chronic medical disorders, and its incidence continues to rise. This book offers patients an overview of the disease and the latest treatment regimens. But unlike other books, it also explores the psychological aspects of the disease, focusing on the difficulty many people have in sticking to treatment regimens that typically include dietary restrictions, medication schedules, and frequent blood tests. Packed with insights and practical advice, it helps people understand why they behave the way they do, what’s at stake, and how to motivate themselves to adhere to their recommended treatment.

	About the author	vii
	Preface	ix
	Acknowledgements	xi
1	What is diabetes?	1
2	What are the physical consequences?	11
3	What are the psychological consequences?	29
4	What about interacting with other people?	55
5	Understanding and managing treatment	67
6	Understanding and managing lifestyle change	89
7	Living with diabetes	99
8	Where can I get help?	107
	Where can I get more information?	113
	Index	117

365 Days of Healthy Eating from the American Dietetic Association or American Diabetes Association Guide to Insulin and Type 2 Diabetes

2009-01-28T14:56:00.000-08:00

365 Days of Healthy Eating from the American Dietetic Association

Author: American Dietetic Association ADA

"A daily guide that should be on everyone’s nightstand or kitchen table."

–Marianne Smith Edge, MS, RD, LD, FADA, President, American Dietetic Association

As a health-conscious reader, you already know all about the benefits of healthy eating and active living. But some days it’s harder than others to put that knowledge to good use. Smart eating and an active lifestyle should be easy and enjoyable, not a chore! Let 365 Days of Healthy Eating from the American Dietetic Association show you an easier way to start living a healthier lifestyle, one day at a time.

Bestselling author and nutrition expert Roberta Larson Duyff provides easy-to-implement hints, tips, and strategies for:

• Having a smart eating mindset

• Making easy everyday food choices that benefit your health

• Buying right-for-you foods and supplements

• Preparing food for good nutrition, health, and great flavor–with easy-to-fix recipes that are as good for you as they are great-tasting

• Getting more health and phytonutrient benefits from foods you enjoy

365 Days of Healthy Eating from the American Dietetic Association is brimming with sensible, personal, and practical tips that can help you build lifelong healthy eating and fitness habits, one easy step at a time.

American Diabetes Association Guide to Insulin and Type 2 Diabetes

Author: Marie McCarren

User-friendly guide covers all aspects of insulin use in type 2 diabetes
The American Diabetes Association Guide to Insulin & Type 2 Diabetes addresses common fears about insulin therapy and what is involved with beginning to use insulin. Additional chapters discuss fine-tuning of insulin self-management, gadgets to make life easier, and troubleshooting steps to overcome any problems readers may have.
Marie McCarren has written six books for the American Diabetes Association, including Carb Counting Made Easy (1-58040-1635) and Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: Fears, Myths,Truths (1-580401902). Her books have sold in excess of 500,000 copies.

Alchemical Healing or Getting Back in Shape

2009-01-27T10:54:00.000-08:00

Alchemical Healing: A Guide to Spiritual, Physical, and Transformational Medicine

Author: Nicki Scully

“Richly detailed with experiential methodology and esoteric wisdom, Nicki Scully’s Alchemical Healing illuminates the path of the modern medicine woman in these times of tremendous change. A great read!”
Hank Wesselman, Ph.D., anthropologist and author of The Journey to the Sacred Garden and the Spiritwalker trilogy

“In Alchemical Healing, Nicki Scully creates an elixir that inspires us to use the power of the heart and the power of spiritual healing for our lives and the health of others. I loved it!”
Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth

“Nicki Scully is not just ‘talking about’ alchemical healing, she has lived it. She is a master translator of a myriad of healing systems and generously empowers us to awaken to our own inherent healing abilities.”
Justine Toms, cofounder of New Dimensions Radio and coauthor of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do

Alchemical Healing brings together innovative techniques from shamanism and energetic healing with the principles of alchemy, creating a practical form of physical healing, therapeutic counseling, and spiritual growth. With simple directions, readers are guided through a series of initiatory steps toward mastery of a powerful healing form that allows them to access the Universal Life Force energy; develop a working relationship with spirit allies from the animal, plant, and mineral realms; and utilize the healing power of the five elements. Starting with journeys of initiation andcommitment for the beginner, Alchemical Healing also offers advanced students instruction in powerful techniques such as psychic surgery, distant healing, and elemental balancing of the body. Those who follow the Alchemical Healing path accomplish a spiritual transformation of the self, turning the dark mystery of the subconscious into the alchemical gold of knowledge and enlightenment.

NICKI SCULLY has been a healer and teacher of metaphysics, shamanism, and the Egyptian Mysteries since 1982. She gives lectures and seminars worldwide and guides spiritual tours to Egypt, Peru, and other sacred sites. The author of Power Animal Meditations and numerous audiocassettes, she lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she maintains a healing center.

Nicki Scully has been a healer and teacher of shamanism and the Egyptian mysteries since 1978. She lectures worldwide and specializes in spiritual tours to sacred sites in Egypt, Peru, and other countries. She is the author of Power Animal Meditations and Alchemical Healing, and the co-author of Shamanic Mysteries of Egypt and The Anubis Oracle. Nicki lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she maintains a comprehensive healing and shamanic consulting practice.

	Acknowledgments
	Preface : purpose
Pt. I	Introducing alchemical healing
1	Rite of passage	2
2	Alchemy	6
3	The treasure hunt	17
4	Discovering the healer within	32
Pt. II	Basic alchemical healing
5	Initiation	44
6	Commitment	54
7	Forgiveness	62
8	Healing energy basics	72
9	Accessing the universal life force	78
10	The elements	98
11	Healing with spirit allies	120
12	Healing techniques	150
13	Ethics in healing	174
Pt. III	Advanced alchemical healing
14	The caduceus	192
15	Akasha	208
16	Advanced healing techniques	229
17	Sound and music	250
18	Self-healing	273
Pt. IV	Completion - alchemical gold
19	The four principles of alchemical healing	288
20	The wisdom of the heart	297
21	The crystal cauldron	314
	Afterword : alchemical gold	319
App. I	The emerald tablet	321
App. II	Authorized alchemical healing teachers and practitioners	323
	Index	326

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Getting Back in Shape

Author: Deborah Mackin

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John Barleycorn or Measuring Health Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents

2009-01-26T06:52:00.000-08:00

John Barleycorn

Author: Jack London

Upton Sinclair

Assuredly one of the most useful, as well as one of the most entertaining books ever penned by a man.

Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents: Implications for Research and Practice

Author: Dennis Drotar

Addresses critical needs in the field of health-related quality of life assessment in children and adolescents. It identifies and considers conceptual and methodological issues in research, & recommends how to advance research & clinical applications.

Iroquois Medical Botany or World of Light

2009-01-25T02:50:00.000-08:00

Iroquois Medical Botany

Author: James W Herrick

This is the first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora nations - is based on a strong cosmological belief system. This is evident, especially in their medical practices, which connect man to nature and the powerful forces in the supernatural realm. This book relates Iroquois cosmology to cultural themes by showing the inherent spiritual power of plants and how the Iroquois traditionally have used and continue to use plants as remedies.

Booknews

A guide to the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture and their place in Iroquois cosmology. Examines Iroquois folk conceptions of health and medicine, based on interviews with Iroquois elders. Describes medical practitioners such as herbalists and clairvoyants, Indian and white doctors, communal medicine, and counterwitchcraft. The bulk of the book is given to native names, uses, and preparations of medicinal plants from several different tribes. Black-and-white drawings accompany most entries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Plants in the Cosmos of the Iroquois	5
2	Folk Conceptions of Health and Medicine	25
3	Conceptions of Illness in Traditional Iroquois Culture	33
4	Medical Treatments in Traditional Iroquois Culture	65
5	Powerful Medicinal Plants in Traditional Iroquois Culture	89
6	Native Names, Uses, and Preparations of Plants	95
	References Cited	251
	Plant Picture Credits	255
	Index	257

Interesting textbook: O Manual de Meios de comunicação:um Guia Completo de Publicidade de Seleção de Meios de comunicação, Planejamento, Pesquisa, e Compra

World of Light

Author: Floyd Skloot

From the winner of the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction In his award-winning memoir In the Shadow of Memory, Floyd Skloot told the hard story of coming to terms with a brain-ravaging virus. A World of Light, written with the same insight, passion, and humor that distinguished the earlier volume, moves Skloot’s story from the reassembly of a self after neurological calamity to the reconstruction of a shattered life. More than fifteen years after a viral attack compromised his memory and cognitive powers, Skloot now must do the vital work of recreating a cohesive life for himself even as he confronts the late stages of his mother’s advancing dementia. With tenderness and candor, he finds surprising connection with her where it had long been missing, transforming the end of her life into a time of unexpected renewal. At the same time, Skloot and his wife are building a rich new life at the center of a small isolated forest on a hillside in rural Oregon, where a dwindling water supply and the bitter assaults of the weather bring an elemental perspective to his attempts to make himself once more at home in the world. By turns poignant, funny, and frightening, A World of Light balances the urgency to capture fragmented, fleeting memories with the necessity of living fully in the present.

Kirkus Reviews

Skloot sketches the similarities between his own mental deterioration due to a brain-ravaging virus and his nonagenarian mother's dementia. This sequel to In the Shadow of Memory (2003) opens shortly after Skloot moves his mother from her home in New York to a long-term care facility near his Oregon residence. For most of her life, Lillian Skloot was a bitter, harsh woman; her son now finds himself navigating an emotionally charged role reversal as he tries to accept the sweet, childlike dependent that she has become. Perhaps the most distinguished aspect of this book, sections of which were previously published in The Best American Science Writing 2003, The Best American Essays 2004 and The Antioch Review, is Skloot's economy in rendering his miserable childhood. Instead of lengthy, purple litanies of youthful horrors, he offers spare sentences that evoke a world. "For years I thought mothers normally bit deep gouges into their own wrists when children spilled a glass of milk," he writes. "I imagined all boys and girls listened while their mothers dialed the phone, asked to talk to the director of the county hospital's 'insane unit,' and asked if there was a room available for a little boy who had disobeyed his mother." The book does, at times, feel disjointed. (At one point, for example, Skloot interrupts an eloquent description of his mother for a seemingly irrelevant recollection of an adolescent romance. Perhaps this disjointedness pushes the reader even further into the author's territory, a place where our minds are not reliable, where we feel dislocated, where we have to come to terms with our own frailty and the frailty of those we love. Deserves a wide audience.

InStyle or Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa

2009-01-23T22:49:00.000-08:00

InStyle: Getting Gorgeous

Author: Jennifer Tung

Wouldn't you love it if your hair always looked as if it had just been perfectly cut and styled? Have you ever wished you could figure out the most flattering makeup look for your features? Getting Gorgeous: The StepbyStep Guide to Your Best Hair, Makeup and Skin has the answers. The experts at In Style will take you every step of the way to finding the best looks and products for your skin, eyes, lips, hair, body, nails and more.

Filled with famous faces, illustrated charts and stepbystep makeup application techniques, Getting Gorgeous provides quick, easy and comprehensive advice for every face shape and type. The book also features hundreds of classic beauty products that have appeared in the magazine's highly regarded annual "Best Beauty Buys" survey, which enlists more than 100 Hollywood beauty experts including dermatologists who've tested the products on themselves to determine the best goods on the market. But the real power of Getting Gorgeous is how it celebrates individual beauty. All the information in this book is offered with the understanding that everyone has a unique and compelling beauty all their own. The trick is identifying your greatest strengths and making the most of them. After all, the key to feeling great is looking your best.

Interesting textbook: Intel Threading Building Blocks or You Can Hear Me Now

Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa

Author: Alexander R Lucas

Emotionally and physically devastating, anorexia nervosa is the third most common chronic illness in teenage girls, striking one in every two hundred (boys only make up 10% of all cases). And while there are a plethora of books on the subject, most are either personal accounts of recovery or attempts to explain the disease from only one perspective, be it psychoanalytic, behavioral, cultural, or biological.
Now, in this much-needed resource, Dr. Alexander Lucas draws on 40 years of experience, mostly at the Mayo Clinic, to offer clear guidance and authoritative advice on how to overcome anorexia nervosa. Based on his own unique research with thousands of patients, and striking a careful balance between psychological, cultural, and biological approaches, Dr. Lucas demystifies this seemingly irrational disease and guides parents through the harrowing process of recovery. The book defines anorexia, illustrates how it can evolve and how common it really is, and outlines every part of the treatment process, from the early warning signs that parents should watch out for, to the initial evaluation, to specific treatment plans. Dr. Lucas emphasizes the patient's role in defining the healing process, with the support of the family and medical team. Throughout the book, he counsels optimism, stressing that in spite of the destructive power of the disease, most who suffer from anorexia nervosa fully recover and are able to live normal, healthy, and productive lives.
For anyone seeking level-headed, medically sound, and comprehensive guidance on the most effective treatments for this life-threatening disorder, Demystifying Anorexia Nervosa offers a wealth of reliable, reassuringinformation.

"Dr. Andy Lucas demystifies anorexia by providing us with the fascinating mysteries of clinical cases (and their solutions) along with the equally fascinating mysteries of his research efforts (and their results). A clear, informative book for every patient and parent to read and for every physician to recommend."--Lenore Terr, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco
"Dr. Lucas has infused an immense amount of wisdom and experience into this highly readable book. A must-read for patients and family as well as clinicians who want a concise, balanced, and up-to-date discussion of the art and science of the treatment of anorexia nervosa."--L. K. George Hsu, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts-New England Medical Center
"Andy Lucas has written an excellent book that respects the individuality of the patient with anorexia nervosa while offering sage advice, reassurance, and hope to their parents. Highly recommended."--James C. Harris, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics and Director of Developmental Neuropsychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Library Journal

Lucas, an experienced child psychiatrist affiliated with the famed Mayo Clinic, here targets the parents of children with anorexia nervosa. He begins by describing the disease and debunking the myths surrounding it. He then explains calmly and matter-of-factly what to expect in the diagnostic and treatment phases and provides pointers for parents to use with their children, primary-care physicians, and mental health specialists. Using case studies describing real patients to illustrate his points, Lucas views anorexia as a medical illness with a range of treatment options and explores each option carefully. Although he writes primarily about anorexia, his chapters on disorders that mimic anorexia and those on bulimia are also useful. The book will be valuable for the well-educated parent facing a family crisis and ready to read at length about the illness, but it may not be as helpful to families with lesser reading skills or for whom English is a second language. Recommended for public libraries and consumer health collections.-Ellen Detlefsen, Univ. of Pittsburgh Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	What Is Anorexia Nervosa?	3
2	How Does Anorexia Nervosa Evolve?	11
3	How Common Is Anorexia Nervosa?	20
4	What Causes Anorexia Nervosa?	28
5	The Signs of Trouble	54
6	What to Expect in an Evaluation	63
7	Making the Diagnosis	70
8	Disorders That Mimic Anorexia Nervosa	77
9	Physiological Effects of Starvation and Weight Gain	82
10	How Is Fertility Affected?	89
11	Bulimia, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating	94
12	Treatment	102
13	Is Recovery Possible?	137
14	Can Anorexia Nervosa Be Prevented?	154
	Message for Patients	159
	Resources for Families	161
	Notes	164
	Index	172

Biology of Women or The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana

2009-01-22T18:47:00.000-08:00

Biology of Women

Author: Ethel Sloan

Biology of Women 4th edition is a unique blend of biological depth with a readable women's health discussion. Reproductive, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors that affect women are covered in detail. New features include case studies, glossary of terms, and historical perspectives.

Books about: Yoga for the Three Stages of Life or Tips for Good Living with Arthritis

The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana: A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga

Author: Ian Whicher

The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana centers on the thought of Patanjali, the great exponent of the authoritative and Classical Yoga school of Hinduism and the reputed author of the Yoga-Sutras. In this textual, historical, and interpretive study, Whicher offers a plausible and innovative reading of the "intention" of the Yoga-Sutras, namely that Yoga does not advocate the abandonment or condemnation of the world, but rather supports a stance that enables one to live more fully in the world without being enslaved by worldly identification. Challenging and correcting misperceptions about Yoga drawn by traditional and modern interpretations of the Yoga-Sutras, the author argues for a fresh vision of the spiritual potential present in this seminal text, thereby contributing to our understanding of the meaning and practical relevance of Yoga and its reception today.

Booknews

Centers on the thought of Patanjali, the great exponent of the authoritative and Classical Yoga school of Hinduism and the reputed author of the Yoga-S-utras. Offers a plausible and innovative reading of the "intention" of the Yoga-S-utras, namely that Yoga does not advocate abandonment of the world, but rather supports a stance that enables one to live more fully in the world without being enslaved by worldly identification. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Selected Background Material on the Development of Yoga in Early Hindu Thought	5
2	The Yoga-Sutra: Introduction and Metaphysical Perspective	41
3	The Mind (Citta): Its Nature, Structure, and Functioning	89
4	Nirodha, Yoga Praxis, and the Transformation of the Mind	151
5	Cognitive Samadhi	201
6	From Knowledge to the "Aloneness" of the Knower	259
	Conclusion	301
	Notes	309
	Bibliography	387
	Index	401

30 Minute Celebrity Makeover Miracle or Nutrition Therapy

2009-01-21T14:45:00.000-08:00

30-Minute Celebrity Makeover Miracle: Achieve the Body You've Always Wanted

Author: Steve Steinberg

Wouldn't you love to have the body of a movie star without spending countless hours working out to get there? Top Hollywood trainer and Weekend Today fitness expert Steve Zim shows you how to sculpt a phenomenal physique faster and easier than you ever thought possible. In just thirty minutes a day, three times a week, Zim's revolutionary combined cardio and weight-training program will help you ramp up your metabolic rate, burn fat faster than conventional workouts, and produce the body of your dreams.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. What is the Celebrity Makeover Miracle.

Chapter 2. Celebrity Makeover Strength.

Chapter 3. Celebrity Makeover Cardio.

Chapter 4. Celebrity Makeover Nutrition.

Chapter 5. Getting Started.

Chapter 6. Celebrity Makeover Exercises.

Chapter 7. The Celebrity Makeover Walking Phase - Weeks 1 and 2.

Chapter 8. The Celebrity Makeover Marching Phase - Weeks 3 and 4.

Chapter 9. The Celebrity Makeover Jogging Phase - Weeks 5 and 6.

Chapter 10. The Celebrity Makeover Stepping Phase - Weeks 7 and 8.

Chapter 11. The Celebrity Makeover Lunging Phase - Weeks 9 and 10.

Chapter 12. The Celebrity Makeover RAW Workout.

Chapter 13. Your New Present and Future.

Index.

Book review: Last Minute Speeches and Toasts or Hugh Johnsons Pocket Wine Book

Nutrition Therapy: Advanced Counseling Skills

Author: Kathy King Helm

This practical text presents a wealth of fresh ideas and techniques for strengthening counseling skills to face real-world issues in nutrition therapy. It offers students and practitioners advice on ways to increase referrals, decrease no-shows, and overcome common barriers to effective counseling. The Third Edition also explores strategies for counseling patients with AIDS, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, for group therapy, for teaching developmental skills, and for end-of-life counseling. This edition has a new reader-friendly design and layout. New learning activities—including case studies and critical thinking exercises—encourage students to apply what they have learned to common situations in clinical practice.

The Memory Prescription or Myspace Safety

2009-01-20T10:44:00.000-08:00

The Memory Prescription: Dr. Gary Small's 14-Day Plan to Keep Your Brain and Body Young

Author: Gary Small

A two-week program to improve your memory significantly -- from the author of The Memory Bible.

In his bestselling book The Memory Bible, Dr. Gary Small showed us how to improve our memory by changing our diet and lifestyle and by incorporating physical and mental exercise. Now, in response to readers' requests, Dr. Small offers The Memory Prescription -- a simple, effective two-week program to improve memory quickly. Based on years of medical research at one of the country's leading memory loss institutions, Dr. Small focuses on "the Big 4": mental activity, healthy brain and body diet, stress reduction, and physical fitness, and he offers a step-by-step regimen that can be customized to each reader's specific needs.

The nation's preeminent memory expert, Gary Small, M.D., director of the UCLA Center on Aging, is at the forefront of the brain fitness movement. Dr. Small leads a major international memory loss research team, which is sponsored by the National Institute of Aging. He speaks around the world on memory loss and has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, and the Today show -- and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, and USA Today. He lives in Los Angeles.

Publishers Weekly

Director of the UCLA Center on Aging, Small (The Memory Bible) presents his "boot camp for the brain" program, which pulls together the four most well-proven strategies for brain and body health: mental activity, physical conditioning, stress reduction and a "healthy brain diet." Small admits no one has found "the fountain of youth," but claims to be "among the billions awaiting a first sighting." In the meantime, he suggests using this book's memory assessment tests, basic low-fat meal plans and brain-teasing exercises to achieve "quality longevity." He peppers his chapters with a "subjective memory questionnaire," "right brain" and "left brain" exercises and advanced memory drills that suggest assigning visual images to words and names (e.g., "Weinberger: a bottle of wine falling on a burger"). Employing a chatty writing style that occasionally lapses into infomercial-speak ("But wait, there's more!"), Small manages to intersperse authoritative scientific evidence from leading research universities throughout the text. But much of the information here can be found in a variety of other fitness and lifestyle books, such as relaxation and stress reduction techniques, healthy diet and exercise plans, and examples of the power of positive thinking and keeping mentally active. Small pays scant attention to popular (if unproven) memory-boosting rejuvenators like hormone replacement therapy and ginkgo biloba. Small's reporting on memory research may be up to the minute, but overall his book feels padded and unoriginal. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. (June 9) Forecast: The Memory Bible was a 2002 bestseller, and Small is now a recognizable name. He'll promote his book on the Today show, and will do a radio interview campaign. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Andrew Weil
Practical steps you can take in all aspects of lifestyle to keep your brain and mind in good working order.
—M.D., author of Natural Health, Natural Medicine

Judith Reichman
Engaging and stimulating, Memory Prescription provides us with the insights we need to stay healthy and maintain memory fitness.
—M.D., author of Slow Down Your Clock

Mark Goulston
Before your memory slips, use The Memory Prescription to improve your memory and keep it stronger than you thought possible.
—M.D., author of Get Out of Your Own Way

Stephen Salloway
I guarantee readers of The Memory Prescription will have more confidence in their memory and an increased sense of well-being.
—M.D., Brown University Medical School

Nicholas Perricone
Dr. Small's eminently readable book is an indispensable guide to improved memory, clear, rational thinking and increased mental agility.
—M.D., author of The Perricone Prescription and The Wrinkle Cure

Murali P. Doraiswamy
Small has put together a tight, neatly wrapped package that will jump-start nearly everyone's memory . . . perfect, timely, practical, and brilliant.
—M.D., Duke University Medical Center

Pierre Tariot
Worried about your brain? Don't be. The answers are finally all in one place -- this practical, light-hearted, and reassuring manual.
—M.D., University of Rochester School of Medicine

Rachel Doody
A straight-forward, easily-understood, entertaining book that explains how the brain ages and what we can do to slow it down.
—M.D., Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine

Alan Gelenberg
Dr. Small's 14-Day "Boot Camp for the Brain" is an easy way to safeguard your brain and body against aging.
—M.D., University of Arizona College of Medicine

Book review: Zone Meals in Seconds or All about Chicken

MySpace Safety: 51 Tips For Teens And Parents

Author: Kevin M Farnham

"MySpace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens and Parents" provides teens and parents with a common sense approach for using MySpace.com. The authors provide specific methods to minimize the risk that comes with having a MySpace.com account.

Each element of personal information requested by MySpace is analyzed to determine how the data is used. The safety tips describe where information entered into MySpace is displayed, and show how the information might be used by a person with malicious intentions. The book then provides recommendations on the actions a MySpace user should take with respect to the requested information, to minimize risk.

The book can also be applied as a user's manual for MySpace.com, since to define areas of risk and appropriate responses for safety the authors investigated and documented all facets and features of the MySpace.com site.

The 51 safety tips describe how to:
- prepare for opening a MySpace.com account
- enter the information required to join MySpace.com
- configure "profile" information tabs
- make and respond to MySpace friend requests
- manage contacts from the MySpace "extended network"
- eliminate unwanted contact from strangers
- avoid profile invasion, spyware, and phishing scams
- report inappropriate content and other problems to MySpace.com
- close a MySpace.com account

The book also includes programming script code that disables some MySpace options that allow strangers to track the actions of teens without the teens having any awareness that this is happening.

While the book specifically addresses MySpace.com, its lessons can be applied to any social networkingsite, to a person's blog, or to other places where a teen may establish an online presence.

Sensory Smarts or Holding Yin Embracing Yang

2009-01-18T03:40:00.000-08:00

Sensory Smarts: A Book for Kids with ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorders Struggling with Sensory Integration Problems

Author: Kathleen A Chara

Many children, especially those with autism-related problems, struggle with sensory integration-problems in the detection and/or processing of environmental or bodily events. Christian is a 12-year-old who has suffered from both aspects of sensory integration problems since birth. Following his experiences as a young child, Chara and Chara relate Christian's painful reactions to touch and extreme sensitivity to temperature, noise, taste and texture. Through detection, diagnosis, therapy and treatment, this book looks at the battles, frustrations and triumphs familiar to those with (or caring for those with) sensory integration problems. Sensory Smarts offers real solutions, such as a sensory sensitivity scale, a behavioral rating chart, and a list of helpful organizations, as well as genuine hope of overcoming sensory integration problems. With much of it written from the perspective of a child, this richly illustrated book encourages children to work with adults in overcoming their sensory difficulties. Based on mainstream psychological theories, this book will be indispensable to those grappling with, or trying to raise awareness of, sensory problems in childhood.

Holding Yin, Embracing Yang: Three Taoist Classics on Meditation, Breath Regulation, Sexual Yoga, and the Circulation of Internal Energy

Author: Eva Wong

In Holding Yin, Embracing Yang, Eva Wong presents translations of three key texts containing the highest teachings of the Eastern and Western schools of Taoist internal alchemy—the discipline of cultivating health, longevity, and immortality by transforming the energetic structures of body and mind. The texts are primarily concerned with meditation, breathing practices, and sexual yoga with a partner—all as means for developing within ourselves the same life-giving energy that sustains and nourishes the universe. The texts in this collection offer a clear view of the physical, mental, and spiritual methods of Taoist practice, showing why they are important and how these methods all can work together in the cultivation of mental peace, radiant health, and longevity. This collection will provide inspiration and the essential foundation necessary to begin Taoist practice under the guidance of a teacher. The three classics translated here are: Treatise on the Mysterious Orifice by Xuanweilun (sixteenth century), Discussion on the Cavity of the Tao by Daojiaotan (nineteenth century), and Secret Teachings on the Three Wheels by Sanjubizhi (nineteenth century). Included is an introduction in which Wong discusses the various schools of internal alchemy, as well as their main practices.

Atlas of Foreshortening or What to Eat for What Ails You

2009-01-17T16:38:00.000-08:00

Atlas of Foreshortening: The Human Figure in Deep Perspective

Author: John Cody

A unique visual encyclopedia for artists and illustrators

Like its acclaimed predecessor, the Second Edition of this outstanding photographic reference offers illustrators, fine artists, and animators immediate access to the human form in deep perspective, that is, foreshortened. With all-new photographs, the Atlas of Foreshortening features:

• Over 530 high-quality photographs

• Both male and female nudes

• Poses with slight, moderate, and marked foreshortening

• Detail shots and full-body photographs

• Many poses shot from multiple angles

THE FEMALE FIGURE.
Nonforeshortened Views: A Point of Reference.
Foreshortened Views.
Poses from Multiple Angles.
Poses with Marked Foreshortening.
Poses with Moderate Foreshortening.
Poses wi8th Slight Foreshortening.
THE MALE FIGURE.
Nonforeshortened Views: A Point of Reference.
Forshortened Views.
Poses from Multiple Angels.
Poses with Marked Foreshortening.
Poses with Moderate Foreshortening.
Poses with Slight Foreshortening.

What to Eat for What Ails You: How to Treat Illnesses by Changing the Food and Vitamins in Your Diet

Author: Winnie Yu

A comprehensive guide to health conditions, from everyday ailments to serious diseases, and the foods you should eat to help control them.

While it seems hard to believe, most doctors, in general, do not provide their patients with a natural health program after diagnosing them with a medical condition. While most illnesses can't necessarily be cured through diet and nutrition, often times you can help to control them, or improve your symptoms by identifying and avoiding specific foods, as well as lifestyle or environmental factors that trigger flare-ups or aggravate individual conditions. The Encyclopedia of What to Eat for What Ails You is a comprehensive guide to health conditions ranging from everyday ailments, such as bad breath or acne, to uncommon or less known maladies like rosacea and fibromyalgia, to serious diseases such as AIDS and cancer. Each entry in The Encyclopedia of What to Eat for What Ails You offers expert medical and nutritional advice from the respected medical field in which the professional works. The book is arranged alphabetically, and provides a description of the disease, instructs readers on the foods they should eat, the foods to avoid, and also offers suggestions on helpful nutritional supplements.

Hes Not Autistic but or Food Allergy

2009-01-17T07:36:00.000-08:00

He's Not Autistic But...: How We Pulled Our Son from the Mouth of the Abyss

Author: Tenna Merchent

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 166 children is born with autism. Tenna Merchent is only too familiar with this frightening statistic as she feared her own son might suffer from this devastating disorder. When her son was born, he seemed healthy. But by the time he was six weeks old, the infant cried for hours each evening if he wasn't constantly nursed. As the months went on, Clay frequently was seriously ill. By the time he was two years old, he could say only a few words, would bang his head for no apparent reason, often walked on his toes, was severely allergic to numerous things, constantly sick, and suffered from nose and chest congestion. He had systemic yeast, was terrified by sudden noises, wouldn't sleep for more than two hours straight, and was unhappy most of the time. All of his symptoms pointed to the possibility of autism. And to make matters worse, Merchent herself became seriously ill. This book describes her journey through traditional medicine, then the move to alternative care. The miracles begin when she discovers a master herbalist who reveals to her the primary cause of their ill health: aluminum. The simplicity of fully curing both herself and her son is astounding, and she illustrates the art of releasing in detail here. Also included is an invaluable list of remedies for common ailments, as well as a section on resources for herbs and homeopathies.

New interesting book: Handbook of Administrative Ethics Second Edition or The Gendered Economy

Food Allergy: The Complete Guide to Understanding and Relieving Your Food Allergies

Author: William E Walsh

"I wholeheartedly recommend Food Allergies."
—Christopher M. Foley, M.D.

"A powerful key to health. Dr. Walsh’s principles have revolutionized my personal health."
—Margaret L. Williams, D.C.

"The information in this book demystifies food and chemical allergies and gives patients courage."
—Loren C. Stockton, D.C.

"This book will help many people with symptoms and discomforts they have had for a long time."
—Walid A. Mikhail, M.D.

Food allergies can be subtle, insidious, and dangerous. Every year millions of people suffer from migraine headaches, persistent coughs, sore throats, eczema, abdominal discomfort, tiredness, and irritability–and don’t realize that their symptoms come from the food they eat. This book–the first comprehensive book on food allergies written by a noted allergist–helps us understand how different foods cause pain and discomfort and tells us how to identify the foods that have been afflicting us–so we can avoid them before the symptoms strike. In Food Allergies, Dr. William Walsh shares his extensive knowledge about the cause of food allergies, which foods and chemicals to avoid, and, ultimately, which foods will help you feel your very best. Filled with dozens of enlightening case studies and engaging writing, this unique guide offers a detailed, easy-to-follow diet tailored for adults and children who may be prone to allergies. It also includes clinically tested plans for cooking and advice on how to avoid troublesome foods at the store and when eating out.

Library Journal

As food allergy incidence and public awareness continue to grow, popular works on the subject abound. Walsh, an allergy specialist, author of an allergy newsletter, and food allergy sufferer himself, focuses on allergic reactions to (often hidden) chemicals found in many common foods. While providing an overview of the physiology and types of food allergies, Walsh concentrates on what he terms "MALS" (monosodium glutamate, acidic foods, low-calorie sweeteners, and refined sugar), the most common allergens identified in his patients. He lists MALS foods, provides a sample elimination diet, and includes information on common fast-food restaurant choices. Walsh writes with humility, stressing the unique aspect of each case. Jonathan Brostoff and Linda Gamlin's Food Allergies and Food Intolerance (LJ 5/1/00) provides more detail on the physiology of allergic response and other contributing factors and includes more accompanying material. However, given a typical American diet and the prevalence of MALS in seemingly "safe" foods, allergy sufferers would do well to consider this perspective in their search for a remedy. For public libraries and consumer health collections.--Andy Wickens, King Cty. Lib. Syst., Seattle Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Stephanie Oakes Burn Off 10 Pounds a Month or Change Your Mind Change Your Weight

2009-01-16T19:34:00.000-08:00

Stephanie Oakes' Burn Off 10 Pounds a Month: The Ultimate Exercise Program for Quick (and Lasting) Weight Loss

Author: Stephanie Oakes

Dramatic, lasting weight loss is possible if you know the secret to success-walking! Stephanie Oakes, fitness expert, Nike spokesperson, and mother of two, knows how to get fit and lose weight quickly and easily. She has developed ten unique programs that, combined with some simple, sensible dietary changes, can burn off 10 pounds a month! And this program works for people of any fitness level.

This book includes interval training walks that build muscle and boost metabolism, easy eating tips that rev up your body's fat-burning, and dozens of real-person testimonials from people who've lost the weight!

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

Change Your Mind, Change Your Weight

Author: Raeleen DAgostino Mautner

Rather than promoting a specific diet or exercise plan, Change Your Mind, Change Your Weight focuses on the key to lasting weight loss: rational optimism. Approaching life's challenges with a positive frame of mind correlates with better health, longevity, and a greater likelihood of achieving one's goals. In this book, the author presents real-life examples, exercises, and self-quizzes to help the reader achieve a positive, more realistic state of mind. Drawing on cognitive-behavioral psychology, Raeleen Mautner helps readers regain control of their emotions — and their weight.

Whats Love Got to Do with It Love Power Sex and God or Natural Progesterone Cream

2009-01-16T10:32:00.000-08:00

What's Love Got to Do with It? Love, Power, Sex, and God

Author: Frank A Thomas

This workbook is designed to provide you with a personal and in-depth focus on the messages in What's Love Got to Do with It? Love, Power, Sex, and God, by Frank Thomas. This companion workbook features a twelve-week format, with five daily devotions in each week, as well as focus questions for each day's topic. In the daily section "Reflect on the Message," you will be directed by page number to read and reflect on a selection in the original book. Whether you are working alone or as a part of a small group that meets weekly to discuss what love has to do with your life, this companion workbook will open up an avenue for your personal spiritual growth. Includes Leader's Pages to guide the twelve weekly meetings.

	Dear Reader	vii
Week 1	The Nonpursuing Love of God	1
Day 1	Addiction or Love?	2
Day 2	Holy Escapes	3
Day 3	Enabling: Dysfunctional Love	4
Day 4	Facing Pain	6
Day 5	Nonpursuing Love	7
	My Personal Reflections from Week One	9
Week 2	The Greatest Power on Earth	10
Day 1	Who's Got the Power?	10
Day 2	Victims of Love	12
Day 3	Sacrificing for Others	13
Day 4	"Globbing" a.k.a. "Auto-Destruct"	15
Day 5	Holding On to My Vision	16
	My Personal Reflections from Week Two	18
Week 3	Stuck on Stupid	19
Day 1	I Am Resourceful	20
Day 2	I Have Humor and Savvy	21
Day 3	I Have Persistence	23
Day 4	I Preserve My Inner World	24
Day 5	I Have Imaginative Capacity	26
	My Personal Reflections from Week Three	27
Week 4	Waiting to Exhale	28
Day 1	A God-Given Gift	28
Day 2	Drawing Breath	30
Day 3	Exhaling	31
Day 4	Breathing Space	32
Day 5	Controlled Breathing	33
	My Personal Reflections from Week Four	35
Week 5	A Time for Letting Go	36
Day 1	What Time Is It?	36
Day 2	Risking the Loss of Important Things	38
Day 3	Self-Surgery	39
Day 4	One Step Forward, Two Steps Back	40
Day 5	It's Time to Let Go	41
	My Personal Reflections from Week Five	43
Week 6	Help and Helplessness	44
Day 1	The Helpless King	44
Day 2	The Enabling Queen	45
Day 3	Acting Out	47
Day 4	Helplessness Disguised	48
Day 5	How to Help and Be Helped	49
	My Personal Reflections from Week Six	51
Week 7	Not Far from the Kingdom	52
Day 1	The Greatest Commandment	52
Day 2	Loving God	53
Day 3	Loving Myself	55
Day 4	Loving My Neighbor	56
Day 5	Close to the Kingdom	58
	My Personal Reflections from Week Seven	60
Week 8	My Baby Daddy	61
Day 1	Unloved	61
Day 2	A Business Deal	63
Day 3	The Stages of Love	64
Day 4	Misperceptions	66
Day 5	Equals in Love and Marriage	68
	My Personal Reflections from Week Eight	70
Week 9	Baby Daddy	71
Day 1	A Resource Strategy	71
Day 2	Mating and Parenting	73
Day 3	Getting Over	74
Day 4	Putting Together a Resource Strategy	75
Day 5	Necessary Relationships	77
	My Personal Reflections from Week Nine	79
Week 10	And Leah Was Lovely, Too	80
Day 1	Sex Appeal	80
Day 2	How Do You Rate?	81
Day 3	When You Don't Have Looks...and Even If You Do	83
Day 4	Personality Counts	84
Day 5	The Beauty of Intelligence	86
	My Personal Reflections from Week Ten	88
Week 11	An Enabling Escape	89
Day 1	Trying to Get Someone to Love You	89
Day 2	Second-Class Citizens	91
Day 3	Crippling Victim Thinking	92
Day 4	Keep Your Balance	93
Day 5	This Is Love	95
	My Personal Reflections from Week Eleven	97
Week 12	Sexcapades	98
Day 1	A Painkiller	99
Day 2	Pornography	100
Day 3	Conditioned Thoughts	101
Day 4	Fighting Personal Demons	102
Day 5	Victory Over Temptation	104
	My Personal Reflections from Week Twelve	105
	Leader's Pages	107
	Dear Director/Coordinator	108
	Dear Session Leader	110
	Ten Commandments for Group Discussion	111
	Explanation of the Leader's Pages	113
Week 1	The Nonpursuing Love of God	115
Week 2	The Greatest Power on Earth	116
Week 3	Stuck on Stupid	117
Week 4	Waiting to Exhale	119
Week 5	A Time for Letting Go	120
Week 6	Help and Helplessness	122
Week 7	Not Far from the Kingdom	123
Week 8	My Baby Daddy	125
Week 9	Baby Daddy	126
Week 10	And Leah Was Lovely, Too	128
Week 11	An Enabling Escape	129
Week 12	Sexcapades	131
	Order Form	133

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Natural Progesterone Cream

Author: C Norman Shealy

Used to treat PMS, migraines, osteoporosis, and more.

How to Eat Away Arthritis or Trauma Manual 4 E

2009-01-15T23:31:00.000-08:00

How to Eat Away Arthritis

Author: Lauri M Aesoph

This revised and expanded edition of the perennially popular self-help book details how arthritis sufferers can improve their conditions with the foods they eat. Using the simple dietary procedures described in this book, readers can reverse some cases of osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis without expensive drugs or equipment.

Helene Meurer

I found this to be a fascinating read. How To Eat Away Arthritis will be even more valuable to those who do deal with arthritis on a daily basis.—Alive Magazine

Library Journal

Numerous diet books are available for arthritics, but this appears to be one of the best and most comprehensive. Aesoph, a naturopathic physician and medical writer who has written many articles on this topic, covers both traditional and alternative resources. She gives natural dietary information that may reverse and certainly improve many cases of arthritis as well as other auto-immune diseases. Much of her material is not new, but it is refreshingly presented and useful to have compiled in one place. Aesoph discusses "restorative" foods as well as "stressor" food to avoid. She also explains food allergies, outlining simple methods to test for them, and gives medical references for her information. A better purchase than Philip Welsh and Leonardo Bianca's Freedom from Arthritis Through Nutrition (LJ 9/15/92), Aesoph's book is highly recommended for all health collections. (Index not seen.)Loraine F. Sweetland, Rebok Memorial Lib., Silver Spring, Md.

Book review: Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days or Programming in Visual Basic 2008

Trauma Manual, 4/E

Author: Ernest E Moor

An ideal companion from the authors' of Trauma, 4/e, this concise pocket manual is a quick reference to the most common diseases and disorders encountered by the trauma surgeon. Through the use of diagnostic and treatment algorithms, the companion gives the surgeon fast access to the appropriate surgical procedure.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: David J. Dries, MD (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Description: This is the fourth edition of a softbound guide to care of the injured patient.
Purpose: A pocket companion with the intent to provide broad scope of coverage is provided.
Audience: Students or trainees on a trauma rotation are an appropriate audience for this work. Editors represent trauma centers throughout the United States with occasional representation from Western Europe. Authors are widely recognized for their expertise.
Features: A comprehensive approach to trauma management is provided in this pocket-sized book. The 50 plus chapters are each approximately 10 pages in length. The book begins with an overview of trauma systems followed by general approaches to the injured patient, care of specific patterns of injury, and then related problems following trauma. Among the problems discussed are the confounding effects of age, drugs and alcohol, thermal injury syndromes, and radiation exposure. A final group of seven chapters covers some of the critical care issues surrounding the management of injury. Occasional use is made of figures and tables, but there are no photographs. References date to within two years of publication and may represent primary or secondary sources. The table of contents provides chapter titles while the detailed index includes separate citations for figures and tables.
Assessment: This manual follows the familiar and successful formula of the larger text, Trauma, 4th edition (McGraw Hill, 2000). Unlike many handbooks patterned after a parent text, however, this manual's presentations and references have been updated by the authors since the larger hardbound reference was published. I recommend the Trauma Manual for conciseness and clarity in presentation and consider this an effective pocket guide for the members of the trauma service.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

	Preface	xvii
Part I	Trauma Overview
1	Injury Severity Scoring	3
2	Triage and Transfer	7
Part II	Generalized Approaches to the Traumatized Patient
3	Prehospital Care	17
4	Kinematics of Trauma	31
5	Initial Assessment	43
6	Airway Control	61
7	Management of Shock	71
8	Tranfusion, Autofusion, and Blood Substitutes	84
9	Emergency Department Thoracotomy	91
10	Diagnostic Imaging in the Trauma Patient	99
11	Anesthesia	108
12	Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Infection	115
Part III	Management of Specific Injuries
13	Injury to the Cranium	127
14	Injury to the Eye	133
15	Facial Trauma	141
16	Neck Trauma	148
17	Injury to the Vertebrae and Spinal Cord	154
18	Indications for Thoracotomy	161
19	Injury to the Chest Wall	170
20	Injury to the Esophagus, Trachea, and Bronchus	178
21	Injury to the Lung and Pleura	188
22	The Injured Heart	195
23	Injury to the Thoracic Great Vessels	202
24	Indications for Celiotomy	214
25	Injury to the Diaphragm	231
26	Liver and Biliary Tract Trauma	240
27	Injury to the Spleen	249
28	Stomach and Small Bowel Injuries	256
29	Duodenum and Pancreas Injuries	261
30	Injury to the Colon and Rectum	270
31	Abdominal Vascular Injury	276
32	Pelvic Fractures	288
33	Urologic Trauma	295
34	Reproductive System Trauma	303
35	Trauma Damage Control	311
36	Upper Extremity Fractures and Dislocations	322
37	Hand Injury	337
38	Lower Extremity Fractures and Dislocations	344
39	Peripheral Vascular Trauma	356
40	Peripheral Nerve Injury	368
Part IV	Special Problems
41	Alcohol and Drugs	377
42	Pediatric Trauma	382
43	Geriatric Trauma	388
44	Wounds, Bites, and Stings	394
45	Burns and Radiation Injuries	405
46	Temperature-Associated Injuries and Syndromes	415
47	Rehabilitation	421
48	Management of Battle Casualties	428
Part V	Management of Complications After Trauma
49	Principles of Critical Care	441
50	Bleeding and Coagulation Problems	452
51	Cardiovascular Failure	460
52	Respiratory Insufficiency	466
53	Acute Renal Failure	476
54	Nutritional Support	485
55	The Immune Response	494
56	Postinjury Multiple-Organ Failure	501
	Index	507

The Complete Reiki Tutor or Guys Guide to Pregnancy

2009-01-15T13:28:00.000-08:00

The Complete Reiki Tutor

Author: Tanmaya Honervogt

With text by a foremost Reiki Master-Tutor and an endorsement by Reiki Outreach International—the world’s leading organization for the promotion of Reiki healing—this is simply the best guide on the topic. Expert author Tanmaya Honervogt addresses every facet of Usui Reiki, including the three Reiki degrees, symbols and mantras, and hand positions used to transfer the “Universal Life Energy.” She supplies an introduction to Reiki’s origins and development, explains how it works, and offers advice on finding the right Reiki course. Specialized sections focus on using Reiki for common ailments and healing the spirit, as well as setting up a professional practice and handling therapist/client issues. It’s the essential source book for all students and practitioners.

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Guy's Guide to Pregnancy: Preparing for Parenthood Together

Author: Frank Mungeam

Every day, four thousand American men become first-time dads. There are literally hundreds of pregnancy guidebooks aimed at women, but guys rarely rate more than a footnote. A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy is the first book to explain in "guy terms" the changes that happen to a guy's partner and their relationship during pregnancy, using a humorous yet insightful approach.

Future fathers will find out what to expect when they enter the "Pregnancy Zone." They'll discover the right and wrong answers to Trick Questions like "Do I look fat?" They'll also learn baby-shower etiquette ("It's sooo cute!"), the truth about sex during pregnancy (yes, you can touch her) and Boys' Night Out (negotiate it), plus delivery room dos (stay upright) and don'ts (complain about missing the big game).

A Guy's Guide to Pregnancy is designed to be guy-friendly -- approachable in appearance as well as content and length. It is divided into forty brisk chapters, one for each week of the pregnancy.

Frank Mungeam is the executive producer of local programs at the ABC-TV affiliate in Portland, Oregon, supervising the Emmy-nominated daily live talk show AM Northwest and the series Parenting in the 90's. Mungeam combines his years of expertise as a communicator and his personal experiences as an expectant dad to create a humorous yet helpful guide for guys.

Living Proof or Liquid Light of Sex

2009-01-15T04:26:00.000-08:00

Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny

Author: Michael Gearin Tosh

I was told I had cancer and that I must expect to die soon. Almost eight years later I still do my job and enjoy life. I have not had conventional treatment. Did my cancer simply disappear? Did I do nothing? Far from it. A number of things happened, some by accident, most by design.

Michael Gearin-Tosh is diagnosed with cancer at the age of fifty-four. The doctors urge immediate treatment. He refuses. Intuitively, not on the basis of reason. But as the days pass, Gearin-Tosh falls back on his habits as a scholar of literature. He begins to probe the experts' words and the meaning behind medical phrases. He tries to relate what each doctor says—and does not say—to the doctor's own temperament. And the more questions he asks, the more adamant his refusal to be hurried to treatment.

The delay is a high-risk gamble. He listens to much advice, especially that of three women friends, each with a different point of view, one a doctor. They challenge him. They challenge medical advice. They challenge one another. On no occasion do they speak with one voice. He also turns to unexpected guides within his own memory and in the authors he loves, from Shakespeare and Chekhov to Jean Renoir, Arthur Miller, and Václav Havel.

In the end, he chooses not to have chemotherapy but to combat his cancer largely through nutrition, vitamin supplements, an ancient Chinese breathing exercise with imaginative visualizations, and acupuncture.

No how-to book or prescriptive health guide, Living Proof is a celebration of human existence and friendship, a story of how a man steers through conflicting advice, between depression and seemingly inescapable rationalism, between themedicine he rejects and the doctors he honors.

Clear-eyed and unflinching, Gearin-Tosh even includes his own medical history, "The Case of the .005% Survivor"; explores general questions about cancer; and examines the role of individual temperament on medical attitudes, the choice of treatments, and, of course, survival.

Publishers Weekly

Gearin-Tosh, a tutor at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, was diagnosed with myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow) and told that if he did not begin chemotherapy immediately, he would be dead in less than a year. The recommended treatment, while probably extending his life somewhat, would not cure the condition. A second specialist confirmed the original prognosis, but the author rejected the proposed treatment after a former Oxford pupil consulted a cancer statistician who warned, "If your friend touches chemotherapy, he's a goner." Interwoven with engaging anecdotes from his professional life, Gearin-Tosh details his research into the world of alternative medicine, a journey that led him to Chinese breathing exercises and acupuncture. The treatment that he credits with saving his life he found in A Cancer Therapy, by Max Gerson, a doctor who died in 1958. Based on the daily drinking of freshly made juices and taking several coffee enemas a day, the Gerson Diet also includes a variety of supplements. Despite the time-consuming nature of this restrictive regime, eight years later Gearin-Tosh is alive and pursuing an active professional life. He is careful to point out that while this program is working for him, "each person should explore his own way with their physician." Gearin-Tosh's detailed, engaging memoir of a search for his own cure will inspire readers to take the time to consider their own treatments. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

This is a captivating, detailed, and enlightening account of surviving multiple myeloma, a rare and usually incurable cancer. Yet it is much more than the story of a man who questioned the prevailing therapies of conventional medicine. It is the tale of a contemplative person who gave himself the gift of time to reflect over his diagnosis, gather and interpret information, and enlist the support and resources of friends. Rather than rush into debilitating treatment with its incapacitating side effects and questionable benefits, Gearin-Tosh weighed his options and ultimately chose an unconventional, alternative route. Living Proof is also about Gearin-Tosh's relationships with his physicians and researchers and with the friends and colleagues who provided him with support and counsel during his illness. A fellow in English at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, he weaves literary selections from Chekhov to Yeats into his highly personal account, as well as excerpts of correspondence between his physicians and colleagues and relevant citations from the medical literature. It all comes together in an intelligent, beautifully written narrative sprinkled liberally with humor and aplomb. Recommended for consumer cancer collections and large general consumer health collections. Valeria Long, Grand Valley State Univ. Lib., Grand Rapids, MI Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A remarkable first-person account of surviving cancer on one's own terms. Gearin-Tosh (English/Oxford Univ.) received the news that he had incurable multiple myeloma in March 1994 and for the next year kept a journal of his efforts to research his deadly disease, assess his options, and find a benign treatment regimen. This journal, supplemented by numerous letters to and from doctors, colleagues, and friends, form the basis for the first part of Living Proof. He relates how, after consulting a number of doctors in both England and the US, he opts not to undergo the brutal chemotherapy recommended by orthodox medicine. ("If your friend touches chemotherapy, he's a goner" was the warning passed along by someone who had consulted Dr. Ernst Wynder on his behalf.) His research leads him to examine alternative medicine therapies, and he adopts a program utilizing Chinese breathing exercises, acupuncture, regular coffee enemas, and a stringent diet that relies heavily on raw fruits and vegetables supplemented with vitamins and minerals. Gearin-Tosh's fiercely intelligent account ends in 1995, but the second section, which he wrote six years later, sets this apart from the usual cancer-survival narrative. Prefaced by tributes from two physicians, it includes the author's analysis of the situation cancer patients are likely to find themselves in and his advice to them. He argues persuasively against being rushed into treatment by doctors' survival statistics, advocates active involvement in one's own therapy, and urges resistance to the notion that personal temperament or instincts have no place or value in cancer treatment. Also included is a lengthy medical case history, wryly titled "The Caseof the .005% Survivor," written by his doctor and directed to physicians, giving extensive details about his treatment. An afterword directs readers to a Web site where Gearin-Tosh's medical records will be kept up-to-date. Without a hint of bathos or self-pity, and a pleasure to read for its author's intelligence, wit, humanity, and conviction.

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Liquid Light of Sex: Kundalini, Astrology and the Key Life Transitions

Author: Barbara Hand Clow

A nationally known astrologer explores the connection between spiritual emergencies at age 30, 40, and 50 and key astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron.

• Provides techniques for directing the kundalini energy released during planetary passages for optimal personal and psychic development.

• Includes charts for birth years starting in 1930 so that readers can determine the timing of their planetary passages.

• By Barbara Hand Clow, author of the bestselling Pleiadian Agenda (60,000 copies sold).

Kundalini--the energy of eros that lies at the base of the spine--can be overwhelming once activated. Times of activation coincide with the key astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron in one's birth chart and are often experienced as periods of spiritual emergency, confusion, and imbalance.

In Liquid Light of Sex, Barbara Hand Clow opens up new dimensions for understanding what occurs during these key life passages, which most of us experience three times in our lives. In the author's words, "we form at age 30, we transform at age 40, and we transmute at age 50." Focusing on the transformation at age 40--the time of imbalance and spiritual confusion often referred to as the "midlife crisis"--she explores how kundalini energy, the liquid light of sex, can be creatively channeled by unblocking the chakras. Offering effective methods for achieving physical, emotional, and spiritual growth during this important life passage, Liquid Light of Sex presents a roadmap for using celestial cycles to navigate positively and productively in times of great life change.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction by Richard Gerber, M.D.
1. I'm in Mid-Life Crisis Now!
2. The Fundamentals of Astrology
3. The Cycles of Life: The Saturn Principle
4. The Cycles of Life: The Uranus Principle
5. Uranus and Personal Empowerment: The Lower Chakras
6. Uranus and Enlightenment: The Upper Chakras
7. The Cycles of Life: The Chiron Principle
8. Toward a Global Shamanic Paradigm
Update 1996: Reflections on Key Life Passages
Update 2001: How Saturn Directs the Cycles in Our Lives
Appendix One. Table 1: Key Life Passages
Appendix Two. Table 2: Key Chiron Passages
Bibliography
The Natal Chart
Index
About the Author

Living Beauty Detox Program or Acupuncture for Everyone

2009-01-14T16:24:00.000-08:00

Living Beauty Detox Program: The Revolutionary Diet for Each and Every Season of a Woman's Life

Author: Ann Louise Gittleman

"A youthful glow, skin that's soft to the touch, luster-rich hair, strong, healthy nails, a serene spirit, and a nourished soul...the answer for true beauty is here for each of us no matter what our age. It's only a matter of understanding how to create it."

Beauty is more than skin deep—our appearance reflects our inner health. The beauty problems we see in the mirror can result from hormonal imbalances, toxins, stress, and dietary deficiencies that cosmetics can't mask. Respected nutritionist and bestselling author Ann Louise Gittleman has developed seasonal diets to cleanse the body's systems and allow us to look our very best, accompanied by a unique test to help you determine which tips will enhance your "seasonal beauty type" year-round. Her straightforward advice can be used for three days to two weeks to clear out your own toxic blocks to beauty. In addition, Gittleman provides unique information and specific regimens for each hormonal stage of a woman's life, from adolescence through adulthood

The Living Beauty Detox Program is sound science based on Ann Louise Gittleman's years of study and reserach at Columbia University, the Pritikin Longevity Center, and her own practice. She presents the beauty fundumentals every woman needs to maintain a healthier, more radiant appearance. Understanding the essentials of detoxification and learning to read the body's beauty and health signals are the first steps. A balanced, fruit- and vegetable-rich diet, including powerhouse proteins and healing oils and supplemented with revitalizing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and purified water, improves the functioning of the body's internal systems, and helps rid it of harmful pollutants. Seasonal maintenance protects and regenerates the body inside and out, while clearing away mental, emotional, and spiritual blocks in order to reduce stress and help restore hormonal balance and outward radiance.

From teens seeking to build a strong foundation for beauty to women in their 30s and 40s who wish to maintain a youthful appearance and women 50 and beyond who want to rejuvenate their looks, The Living Beauty Detox Program offers outward beauty and inner harmony for a lifetime.

Earl Mindell

Ann Louise has literally turned the secrets of beauty inside out. The book is a must for every woman's beauty library.

Acupuncture for Everyone: What It Is, Why It Works and How It Can Help You

Author: Ruth Kidson

Learn how to find a good practitioner and what to expect from consultation and treatment

• Recommended for acupuncturists' waiting rooms.

• Designed for people with no previous knowledge of acupuncture.

In this revised edition of Acupuncture for Everyone--regarded by many practitioners as the most concise and useful book about acupuncture available--Dr. Kidson provides a clear understanding of how acupuncturists make their diagnoses and how this determines what treatment they implement. Illustrations are included to help the reader understand what the acupuncturist does and why. Kidson also explains the fundamental principles of Chinese medicine underlying this effective therapy, offers advice on how to find a good practitioner, and shows what to expect from consultation and treatment. Anyone considering acupuncture for treatment of a health condition will find their questions and concerns allayed by this invaluable book.

Bloomsbury Review

Kidson provides information on the fundamental principles of Chinese medicine underlying this therapy, advice on finding a good practitioner, and what to expect from treatment.

Ruth Lever Kidson qualified as a doctor from St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London and has studied a wide range of complementary therapies and, at present, is retraining as a psychotherapist. She is the author of Hypnotherapy for Everyone and A Guide to Common Illnesses and lives in England with her husband, who is a homeopath.

Restructuring Health Care or Unblemished

2009-01-14T06:22:00.000-08:00

Restructuring Health Care: The Patient-Focused Paradigm

Author: J Philip Philip Lathrop

A Patient-Focused Paradigm

Brilliant and timely, thoughtful and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S., the patient-focused idea can and must be implemented. Bravo!
--Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management

This in-depth book offers advice on how health care operations can shift from hierarchical organization structures to patient-focused approaches. Uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the challenges faced by organizations that have undertaken this type of restructuring.

	Foreword
	Preface
	The Author
	Introduction	1
1	What's the Big Problem?	4
2	The Nature of Structural Change	22
3	Compartmentalization and Its Discontents: High Cost and Poor Service	45
4	Patient Focus Begins with Demand	67
5	The Structure of a New Paradigm	89
6	Patient Aggregation: From Nursing Units to Patient Care Centers	110
7	Initial Deployment Decisions	134
8	Enablers for Change	158
9	Does It Work?	182
	Epilogue: The Patient-Focused Enterprise	205
	Recommended Readings	211
	Index	215

Book review: Unternehmerschaft: Erfolgreich Losfahrende Neue Wagnisse

Unblemished: Stop Breakouts! Fight Acne! Transform Your Life! Reclaim Your Self-Esteem with the Proven 3-Step Program Using over-the-Counter Medications

Author: Katie Rodan

It's a fact: Acne affects at least 50 million American men and women of all ages, ethnicities, and skin types. Yet so few of us understand why we have acne, and what we can do to treat it. Did I was my face the wrong way? Did I eat too much chocolate? Will that expensive new cream really work? Will my face ever look better?

In Unblemished, Drs. Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields- creators of Proactiv Solution, the country's #1 selling acne-care product- refute some of the most common misunderstandings about acne and present a groundbreaking guide using only over-the-counter medications to banish breakouts forever. Based on proven medical research and their extensive personal experience treating patients, the Rodan and Fields approach works in three basic steps. Rather than spot-treating blemishes and pimples reactively, their system- individualized for every skin color, type, and age- treats the entire face using an easy-to-follow regimen that is designed to attack acne at its source so you can get the clear, beautiful skin you've always wanted.

Having a BabyWhen the Old Fashioned Way Isnt Working or I Wish I Were Thin I Wish I Were Fat

2009-01-13T19:21:00.000-08:00

Having a Baby...When the Old-Fashioned Way Isn't Working: Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility

Author: Cindy Margolis

An Internet icon turns the spotlight on infertility-and inspires women who are struggling to start a family.

Cindy Margolis. listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "most downloaded woman on the Internet," was brought down to earth when she and her husband tried to conceive. Suddenly, she was just one of the more than nine million women each year who are desperately trying to have a child. After false starts, out-of-control hormones, five invitro fertilizations, and surrogacy, Cindy and her husband traveled a long journey that resulted in three happy and healthy children.

Now Cindy helps readers navigate the world of infertility treatments and procedures. Warm, supportive, and funny, she provides the wisdom, advice, and resources that could only come from a woman who's been there, and spreads an essential message of hope.

Publishers Weekly

Tackling a delicate issue with courage, wisdom and generosity, model Margolis (Celebrity spokesperson for "National Infertility Association" Resolve) shares the personal, emotional story of her long journey to pregnancy using in vitro fertilization. An oft-avoided subject, this guide to pursuing assisted reproductive therapies (ARTs) is meant to address the "biggest hurdle" in Margolis's own story, "the lack of readily available information and resources" that leaves couples facing the emotional and practical challenges of infertility with little support. Aside from a step-by-step look at the in vitro methods that eventually yielded Margolis a successful pregnancy, the authors provide a chapter on practical concerns ("Figuring out Costs, Insurance, and What Is and Isn't Covered") and, thoughtfully, stories from couples using an array different methods (surrogacy, adoption, etc.) for dealing with infertility; further, she sprinkles her text with the addresses and web sites of helpful organizations. Personal, easy to read and possessed of a warm, welcome sense of humor, Margolis's book makes an excellent introduction for anyone facing fertility issues, putting a hopeful face on a distressing topic, providing much-needed support and pointing the way forward.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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I Wish I Were Thin, I Wish I Were Fat: The Reasons We Overeat and What We Can Do about It

Author: Michelle Joy Levin

JUMP OFF THE WEIGHT GAIN/WEIGHT LOSS TREADMILL AND DISCOVER THE REAL REASON MOST DIETS FAIL!

With so many diet programs available, most overweight people try one after another, with varying degrees of temporary success, but never succeed in reaching the permanent weight loss they so desperately want. In the bestselling I Wish I Were Thin, I Wish I Were Fat, Michelle Joy Levine, a psychotherapist for over twenty years, uncovers the real reason why most dieters fail: an unconscious yet powerful fear of being thin or a desire to be fat! As incredible as this may sound, the poignant and revealing case histories presented in this book demonstrate how childhood experiences affect our eating habits, and the helpful exercises included will teach you how to stop sabotaging your goal of permanent weight loss.

Understanding why we overeat is the first step toward a healthy weight and happier life. This highly acclaimed, remarkably insightful book is a must for anyone who is serious about eliminating destructive eating habits from their lives forever.

What People Are Saying

Susan Sherman
...unique and powerful...join[s] with the reader in a real and deep way...vivid and relevant case examples...I highly recommend this important book.

Morton Kissen
...quite brilliant...innovative...a tremendous accomplishment...extremely useful for...[those] struggling with problems of overeating...fascinating insight into unconscious factors interfering with...weight reduction.

Annette Mont
At long last those of us who have an unhealthy relationship with food can understand why...a must read...

Frederick T. Sherman
I have struggled...to help my overweight patients....Finally, a book that goes beyond the mundane and stereotypical...real insight and valuable support.

Monica Rawn
...one of a kind...jargon free...richly informative book about why people need to overeat...an appetizing scholarly treat while we learn...what makes us tick and...want to eat to excess.

Medicine for the Earth or Quantum Consciousness

2009-01-13T10:19:00.000-08:00

Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins

Author: Sandra Ingerman

From cross-cultural legends recounting shamanic cures to the biblical accounts of the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes, many spiritual traditions are rich in stories about seemingly inexplicable transformations of the natural world. The ancient healing art of transmutation, in which toxic substances are transformed into "safe" substances, is mentioned in all the world's great spiritual traditions, including Hinduism and Taoism. And while many have tapped this body of work to heal the self, it has yet to be used to heal our environment.

For twenty years, Sandra Ingerman has studied alternative ways to reverse environmental pollution. In this book, Ingerman takes us on a remarkable journey through the history of transmutation, teaching us how we can use this forgotten technique to change ourselves and our environment. She provides us with creative visualizations, ceremonies, rituals, and chants derived from ancient healing practices that produce miraculous, scientifically proven results. In one dramatic illustration of what can be accomplished when consciousness and awareness fuel our actions, Ingerman describes her own success in transforming the nature of chemically polluted water.

Publishers Weekly

Based on the conviction that "we can reverse environmental pollution through spiritual methods," Ingerman (A Fall to Grace) coaches readers through inward and outward preparation for performing "transmutation," the channeling of spiritual energy to create positive physical effects. Given the firm belief that it can be done, the inner preparation of spiritual harmony and the creation of sacred space through ceremonial ritual in community with others, Ingerman promises that while pollution should be avoided, it can be dispelled after the fact. Citing the purportedly miraculous cures accomplished with natural water sources allegedly imbued with spiritual energy (e.g. the miracle cures of Lourdes, the parting of the Red Sea and the water that Jesus is said to have turned into wine), Ingerman illustrates her claims with controlled experimentation with water pollution. Her clear, practical exercises call upon a variety of ancient and current resources, including shamanism, to recruit assistance from the spiritual realm in executing her metaphysical prescription for reversing environmental damage: "intention + love + harmony + union + focus + concentration + imagination = transmutation." While Ingerman may not convert skeptics, she is highly regarded in New Age circles for her previous work focusing on personal transformation, soul loss, and recalling higher purpose. Fans of Carolyn Myss and Larry Dossey will appreciate her role in spearheading the movement toward using individual spiritual energies to heal the world around us. (Jan. 16) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Ingerman, a therapist and well-known practitioner of soul retrieval, provides a thorough, thoughtful treatise on personal and planetary healing through the spiritual transmutation of environmental toxins. Motivated by her near-death experiences, she contemplates unconditional love through respect for sacred space, divine power, and nature's elements. Key chapters cover the development of a personal creation story as well as releasing and calling-down ceremonies. First-person accounts (Ingerman chronicles healing chemically polluted water through spiritual applications), mystics' narratives, and "consciousness-raising" exercises help to clarify the lessons. Written as if she were walking with us on a daily journey, but one that is essentially ours, this text presents a "bringing heaven to earth" philosophy that will appeal to both motivated newcomers and advanced searchers of the psyche. Some psychotherapy rhetoric is included, but the thrust is fresh and original: spirit in action yields measurable results. Recommended for larger public libraries. Lisa Liquori, Syracuse, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Quantum Consciousness: The Guide to Experiencing Quantum Psychology

Author: Stephen Wolinsky

Dr. Stephen Wolinsky has created one of the most interesting and stimulating psychologies since Abraham Maslow. - Colin Wilson from the foreward

Tai Chi Chuan or Grow Hair Fast

2009-01-12T22:18:00.000-08:00

Tai Chi Chuan: 24 & 48 Postures with Martial Applications

Author: Liang Shou Yu

24 and 48 postures with martial applications.

New interesting book: Openvpn or Guide to Networking Essentials

Grow Hair Fast

Author: Riquette Hofstein

For more than three decades, Riquette Hofstein has been helping men and women reverse hair loss and grow healthy new heads of hair. Based on her extensive research of what works and what doesn't, Riquette really can help create permanent restoration of hair growth. Find out:
-- What you're doing wrong that's making your hair fall out
-- The secrets of using herbs and vodka to grow your peach fuzz back into a fine head of hair
-- What the makers of Rogaine don't want you to know
-- Riquette's famous haircut that makes hair grow faster
-- The only right way to shampoo
-- How to stimulate healthy hair growth from the inside out

Riquette reveals her exclusive, simple, seven-step program that has helped thousands of people re-grow their hair. Grow Hair Fast also includes Riquette's recipes for the best homemade hair-care products with special herbs, oils and mixtures that she has developed, plus important information on chemical and surgical hair-loss solutions.

The Osteoporosis Cure or Hair Savers for Women

2009-01-12T13:14:00.000-08:00

The Osteoporosis Cure: Reverse the Crippling Effects With New Treatments

Author: Harris McIlwain

Once considered a progressive, incurable disease, osteoporosis can be prevented and/or treated in both early and later stages thanks to recent breakthroughs and medical developments. Now a medical doctor tells you what you can do to head off the crippling effects of this disabling illness.

Find Out:

What are the symptoms of osteoporosis?
What are the factors that put you at risk?
Which common medications can increase your risk?
Should you take estrogen for the prevention of osteoporosis?
How is osteoporosis diagnosed?
Who should get a bone-density test and what does it involve?
What new bone-restoring drug has recently become available?
What part do diet and exercise play in the prevention and cure of osteoporosis?
What steps can you take to keep your bones strong and healthy

Plus:

Nutritional bonebuilders to add to your diet
Simple bone strengthening exercises
And Much More!

Hair Savers for Women: A Complete Guide to Preventing and Treating Hair Loss

Author: Margaret Greenwood Robinson

Today in America, there are 20 million women suffering from hair loss — a devastating problem that most certainly and often unnecessarily affects a woman's self-image. Whether the loss is due to stress, hormonal imbalance, illness, chemotherapy, or medical side effects, hair loss can be prevented.

Hair Savers for Women: A Complete Guide to Preventing and Treating Hair Loss is the first and only book to address this important cosmetic health issue. It covers the very latest solutions and advances in treating female hair loss, from medicine to natural remedies, and introduces women to a whole new world of safe, clinically proven baldness remedies. For women whose hair loss persists, the book discusses surgical alternatives such as hair transplants and scalp reductions, as well as the pros and cons of hair weaves and wigs.

Hamptons Diet or Seasonal Detox Diet

2009-01-12T02:13:00.000-08:00

Hamptons Diet: Lose Weight Quickly and Safely with the Doctors Delicious Meal Plans

Author: Fred Pescatore MD

Diet secrets of the rich, famous, and thin!

Where health meets style, where the world-renowned Hamptons meet the Mediterranean—that's the Hamptons Diet, a weight-loss plan that has been a breakthrough success for some of the world's leading celebrities. In The Hamptons Diet, Dr. Fred Pescatore, one of the world's most highly visible diet experts, offers you a prescription for losing weight quickly while looking great and staying healthy that's inspired by the healthy lifestyles and demanding palates of the rich and famous. With the Hamptons Diet, you eat healthy carbohydrates and ample protein, achieving a naturally low-glycemic balance. In this satisfying, easy-to-follow program, you get everything you need to lose weight quickly and safely, including thirty days of meal plans, a secret ingredient—macadamia nut oil, which boosts your metabolism and is the healthiest cooking oil on the planet—and almost 200 sumptuous recipes.

"Dr. Pescatore's diet is delicious and sound and represents one of the best options."

—Ann Louise Gittleman, author of the New York Times bestselling The Fat Flush Plan and The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet

"Dr. Pescatore's The Hamptons Diet takes the Diet Revolution to the next level—a healthy, sensible diet and lifestyle plan that will make us all thinner, happier, and healthier."

—Fran Gare, N.D., Southampton, author of Anti-Aging Diet Evolution

Seasonal Detox Diet: Remedies from the Ancient Cookfire

Author: Carrie LEsperanc

A dynamic program for using healing fasts to detoxify, tone, and restore the body for optimum energy and performance.

• Includes vegetarian recipes designed around seasonal changes and geared toward individual health concerns.

• Enables the body to detoxify from daily exposure to chemicals, additives, and pesticides.

• Increases energy levels, aids overall digestion and weight loss, revitalizes the skin, and cleanses the internal organs.

A unique blend of dietary world wisdom, The Seasonal Detox Diet provides readers with a dynamic program for using healing fasts to detoxify, tone, and restore the body for optimum energy and performance. Traditional cultures worldwide have wisely followed the art of eating according to the natural rhythms of the changing seasons. Keeping the body in peak condition requires occasional fasts, periods of rest for the body's hard-working systems. Today, faced with exposure to an increasing array of chemicals, additives, and pesticides, our bodies need these healing respites more than ever. Unlike modern notions of fasting, Carrie L'Esperance's concept of this practice emphasizes dietary alteration rather than abstinence. She offers recipes designed around seasonal changes and geared toward individual health concerns, including fatigue, digestive disturbances, and excess weight gain. You will increase your energy levels, aid digestion, revitalize your skin, and cleanse your internal organs with a rich variety of delicious recipes from Banana Coconut Ice Cream and Big Scene Salsa Salad to Curry Potato Salad with Kidney Beans and Japanese Soba Noodles with Sesame Miso Sauce. The author also includes instructions forhealing herbal baths and cleansers to round out your home healing program.

Yoga Journal

Fasting gives us an opportunity to cleanse and rejuvenate on many levels. In Carrie L'Esperance we find a knowledgeable guide who not only teaches us about the time-honored wisdom of seasonal fasting but also inspires us to live in a healthy way year-round. The recipes are delicious!

Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients

For those people already committed to the nutritional approach to health, The Seasonal Detox Diet will inspire and add a new dimension to their health practices. For those readers new to the concepts and principles of natural, nutritional healing methods, the use of a healing fast may improve their health and well-being dramatically, leading them to a whole new way of perceiving their bodies and preserving their health.

SageWoman - Anne Newkirk Niven

An invaluable resource for anyone who wishes to improve their health through conscious eating.

List of Recipes and Fasts
Acknowledgments
Special Note to Reader
Introduction
1. Restoration
2. The Four Sacred Seasons
3. Spring Restoration
4. Summer Restoration
5. Autumn Restoration
6. Winter Restoration
7. The Baths
8. Herbs
9. Wisdom Charts
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Sources
Index of Symptoms and illnesses
Index of Plants and Herbs
About the Author

White House Workout or Brides Big Day Bliss Box

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

White House Workout

Author: Andrew Flach

President George W. Bush knows the value of exercise and fitness to overall health. He exercises almost every day, no matter where he is. He even runs on a treadmill while traveling on Air Force One. He inspires us all to be more active in our lives. To encourage his fellow Americans to follow a path of healthy living, President Bush created the HealthierUS Initiative.

Now this new book details the vision and mission of the HealthierUS Initiative and provides ideas and information for Americans who seek a healthier lifestyle.

Constant reports from both government and private health agencies warn us that America is in a health crisis. More than half of all Americans are overweight and face increased health risks, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

In June 2002, President Bush responded by launching the HealthierUS Initiative, a health and fitness initiative designed to get Americans healthy and active. The plan makes recommendations in four important facets of health: physical activity, nutrition, disease prevention through screenings, and making healthy lifestyle choices.

The White House Workout is a simple plan of fitness and nutrition that every family and individual can follow to improve their health and longevity. Building on the "Four Pillars" of the HealthierUS Initiative, it provides specific exercise programs, nutrition information and recipes, screening checklists, and even logs to record your progress.

With the help of this book, everyone can learn to live a longer, healthier life. Special Features:
• Easy ways to add exercise to your daily life
• The essential ingredients of good nutrition
• Important health screenings no one should miss
• Smart and healthy lifestyle choices

Plus:
• Everyday flexibility boosters
• Walking, jogging, and running programs
• Strength building exercises
• 8-week workout plan
• Healthy recipes for every family
• A sneak peek at the President's fitness routine

About the Author:
Andrew Flach is certified by the American Council on Exercise. A nationally recognized expert in management and exercise, his work has been featured on National Public Radio and in hundreds of newspapers across the country. He is the co-author of Combat Fat!, Walk the Weight Away, and other popular titles on diet and exercise. RoseMarie Alfieri is certified by the American Council on Exercise. She holds a Master of Science degree in Health Education. She has written for scores of magazines and is a co-author of Combat Fat!

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Bride's Big Day Bliss Box: An Aromatherapy Kit for Inner Calm and Outer Beauty

Author: Valerie Ann Worwood

The ancient art of aromatherapy is one of the most enduring tools for an overall sense of well-being - a must for the bride who wants to feel relaxed and poised. Designed to calm pre-wedding jitters, this boxed kit contains a 32-page guidebook, aromatherapy recipes, a 60-minute relaxation audio CD, and two scented candles in travel tins. Best-selling author Valerie Ann Worwood covers beauty treatments for face, hair, skin, nails, feet, breasts, and more; recipes for bubble baths, cleansers, and tonics; treatments for stress; and recipes for romance.

Keep Moving or Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine

2009-01-11T07:10:00.000-08:00

Keep Moving: Fitness through Aerobics and Step

Author: Esther Pryor

This popular text includes plentiful illustrations that help to explain the basic movements of step and floor aerobics. Additionally, the text offers information and suggestions on mastering difficult movements and avoiding incorrect positions and injury. Useful appendices and worksheets help students apply concepts discussed in the text.

Booknews

A resource for both novice and seasoned aerobic dance students, explaining basic movements of step and floor aerobics and suggesting ways to master difficult movements and avoid injury. Diet and nutrition are also discussed. This fourth edition contains new material on step aerobics, spinning, kickboxing, and aqua aerobics, and new appendices of Web sites, measurement worksheets, and exercises during pregnancy. The authors' credentials are not stated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New interesting book: Das Einflussreiche Werden: Ein Guide für Krankenschwestern

Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Author: Stephen H Sheldon

This companion to Kryger et al.'s PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SLEEP MEDICINE focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of sleep disorders in children. Recognized leaders in the field offer definitive guidance on virtually all of the sleep-associated problems encountered in pediatrics, from sleep and colic...to obstructive sleep apnea, neurological disorders, and hypersomnias...to sleep-related enuresis.
• Presents up-to-date information of the field's hottest topics in chapters on Pharmacology of Sleep in Children · Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders During Childhood · Circadian Rhythm Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment · and Differential Diagnosis of Pediatric Sleep Disorders.
• Organizes information into separate sections covering normal and abnormal sleep, for quick reference.
• Makes further investigation easy with abundantly referenced chapters.
• Addresses both medical and psychiatric sleep disorders.
• Features the expertise of Drs. Sheldon, Kryger and Ferber - renowned authorities in the field of sleep medicine.

1	Introduction to pediatric sleep medicine	1
2	Differential diagnosis of pediatric sleep disorders	17
3	Epidemiology of sleep disorders during childhood	27
4	Anatomy of sleep	35
5	Case-based analysis of sleep problems in children	43
6	Polysomnography in infants and children	49
7	Physiologic variations during sleep in children	73
8	Chronobiology of sleep in children	85
9	Circadian rhythm disorders : diagnosis and treatment	101
10	Sleep and colic	113
11	Disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep	127
12	Attention deficit, hyperactivity, and sleep disorders	161
13	Narcolepsy in childhood	171
14	Idiopathic hypersomnia	183
15	Post-traumatic hypersomnia	189
16	Kleine-Levin syndrome and recurrent hypersomnias	193
17	Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in infants and children	197
18	Consequences of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome	211
19	Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in infants and children : clinical features and pathophysiology	223
20	Enuresis in children with sleep apnea	231
21	Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in children	235
22	Otolaryngologic management of sleep-related breathing disorders	249
23	Primary snoring in children	263
24	Sleep in neurologic disorders	269
25	Disorders of arousal in children	293
26	The parasomnias	305
27	Sleep-related enuresis	317
28	Pharmacology of sleep disorders in children	327

Everyday Cooking for Diabetics or Emotional Eating

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

Everyday Cooking for Diabetics

Author: Stella Bowling

Amazingly, the right diet can help control or prevent diabetes for the majority of people with this disease--especially those with adult onset (Type II) diabetes. Color photos, nutritional analyses, and food exchanges highlight the 200 recipes for the whole family.

Book review: Finanzbuchführung in einem Wirtschaftszusammenhang, Studienhandbuch

Emotional Eating: What You Need to Know Before Starting Your Next Diet

Author: Edward E Abramson

This revealing and useful book tells how emotions can cause bad eating habits and provides an effective antidote to radical crash diets. The author uses a cognitive-behavioral approach, and offers an encouraging alternative to current theories on the causes on overeating, such as psychopathology, addiction, or moral weakness. Emotional Eating shows how to identify individual patterns of emotional eating, and then tells readers how to respond to these patterns. Filled with tables charts, and self-assessment tests, Emotional Eating can help you learn self-control by identifying emotional triggers and developing alternative behaviors.

25 Nautural Ways to Lower Blood Pressure or Steroid Nation

2009-01-10T09:07:00.000-08:00

25 Nautural Ways to Lower Blood Pressure

Author: James Scala

Lower blood pressure--without drugs

Your high blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart attacks, congestive heart failure, and kidney failure. Using a simple, easy-to-read format, Dr. James Scala presents 25 simple, natural ways you can use to fight this silent killer. 25 Natural Ways to Lower Blood Pressure explains the different treatments, including herbs, diet, exercise, and visualization and relaxation techniques, and offers other resources for further information.

James Scala, Ph.D., is a certified nutrition specialist who supervised nutrition programs for the Voyager crew and the U.S. Olympic Ski Team.

	Introduction	ix
Chapter 1	Understand High Blood Pressure	1
	The Marvelous Vascular System	1
	How Blood Pressure Develops	3
	How High Is Too High?	5
	Symptoms of the Silent Killer	6
	Causes of High Blood Pressure	7
Chapter 2	Keep Score	9
	Start with Your Pulse	9
	Be Consistent	10
	Can You Reduce Your Resting Pulse Rate?	10
	Measure Your Own Blood Pressure	11
Chapter 3	Establish a Family History	15
	How Do I Know If It's in My Genes?	16
	What to Look For	19
Chapter 4	Understand and Take Care of Your Kidneys	21
	Sodium Reabsorption and Diet	22
	Hormonal Influences	23
Chapter 5	Balance Potassium and Sodium	25
	Dietary Changes	29
Chapter 6	Reduce Sodium	33
	Salt Substitutes	34
	Sauces and Gravies	34
	Food Tables: Do's and Don'ts	35
Chapter 7	Keep a Food Diary	63
	How the Diary Works	63
Chapter 8	Balance Fat	65
	Saturated Versus Unsaturated Fats	65
	Fats and Cholesterol	67
	The Prostaglandins	68
	Flax-Oil and Fish-Oil Supplements	70
Chapter 9	Modulate Sugar Absorption	73
	Complex and Simple Carbohydrates	74
	Dietary Fiber and Blood Sugar	74
	Diet for Modulating Blood Sugar	75
Chapter 10	Increase Dietary Fiber	77
	Fiber and Water	78
	How to Increase Dietary Fiber	79
	Fiber Supplements	82
Chapter 11	Eat More Garlic and Onions	85
	Garlic Tablets	87
	Garlic Do's and Don'ts	88
Chapter 12	Be Smart When Dining Out	89
	Do's and Don'ts for Dining Out	90
	Questions to Ask in Restaurants	91
	Beverages	92
	Airline Food	92
Chapter 13	Assess Your Weight and Fitness Level	95
	A Personal Weight Assessment	96
	Origins of Excess Weight	98
Chapter 14	Lose Weight Sensibly	101
	Basal Metabolic Rate	101
	Exercise	105
	Dieting	106
	The Seven-Day Quick-Loss Diet	108
	Weight-Loss Pills and Herbs	111
Chapter 15	Exercise	113
	Aerobic Versus Anaerobic Exercise	114
	Consult Your Doctor	117
	Exercise Programs	119
	Total Exercise	120
	Additional Benefits	123
Chapter 16	Understand and Control Stress	125
	The Relationship Between Stress and Disease	126
	Understanding How Stress Works	126
	Colonel Smith: A Typical Example	129
	Dealing with Stress	131
Chapter 17	Change Type A to Type B Behavior	133
	Decrease Time Urgency	135
	Become Less Aggressive and Competitive	136
Chapter 18	Channel Anger Constructively	139
	Control Negative Thoughts	140
	Handling Accusations	141
	Damage-Limiting Operations	142
	Handling Anger During Stressful Situations	142
Chapter 19	Control Alcohol	147
	Charlie's Story	148
	How Does Alcohol Affect Blood Pressure?	149
Chapter 20	Avoid Tobacco, Caffeine, and Cocaine	151
	Tobacco	151
	Caffeine	151
	Cocaine	152
Chapter 21	Take a Basic Daily Supplement	153
	Common Questions About Supplement Use	154
Chapter 22	Get Enough Calcium and Magnesium	157
	How Much Is Enough?	159
Chapter 23	Take More Vitamin B-Complex, C, and E	161
	B-Complex Vitamins	162
	Vitamin C	163
	Vitamin E	164
Chapter 24	Use Meditation and Biofeedback	167
	Meditation	167
	Biofeedback	169
Chapter 25	Use Herbs for Support	171
	Ginseng	171
	Valerian	173
	Kava-Kava	174
	Conclusion	175
	Index	177

Go to: Il prezzo di tutto: Una parabola della possibilit� e della prosperit�

Steroid Nation: Juiced Home Run Totals, 300-Pound Linebackers, and a Hercules in Every High School: The Secret History of America's True Drug Addiction

Author: Assael

When science lets us fulfill our greatest desires, where do we stop? Should Barry Bonds's startling achievements be listed in the record book with an asterisk because he has been accused of using steroids? Did performance-enhancing drugs play a role in Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France victories? And what does Arnold Schwarzenegger's continued success say about the appeal of his steroid-fueled bodybuilding persona?

In the tradition of And the Band Played On, award-winning journalist Shaun Assael looks at America's complicated love affair with steroids and how it has grown into the country's -- and perhaps the world's -- most insidious drug addiction.

Steroid Nation presents a chilling portrait of a nation enamored of artificially pumped-up success. Chronicling steroid use far beyond the headlines, it begins with the bodybuilders of Venice Beach in the 1970s and continues through to the NFL's Raiders of the '80s and '90s and the baseball scandals of today. Assael also reveals the dramatic story of the godfather of the steroid movement: Dan Duchaine, who wrote The Original Underground Steroid Handbook in 1981.

Part detective story, part medical investigation, and part sociological examination, Steroid Nation is a groundbreaking work on the most compelling story in the sports world today.

Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth or Nature Guided Therapy

2009-01-09T22:05:00.000-08:00

Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth: Healing for Mothers and Babies

Author: Benig Mauger

A therapist and childbirth educator shows how connection to nature and the spiritual world can heal birth trauma and preserve the health and well-being of mothers and babies.

• Encourages mothers to reconnect with nature and spirit to heal old wounds and have deeply satisfying birth experiences.

• Provides convincing evidence that prenatal and birth experiences have a lifelong effect on emotional health.

• Fosters a close and abiding bond between mother and child.

Have you had a birthing experience that fell short of your expectations? What was your mother's experience when she had you? Do you long for a deeper bond with your loved ones? In Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth, Benig Mauger suggests that our prenatal and birth experiences affect us for the rest of our lives. And because our modern approach to birth separates mothers from their primordial knowledge of natural delivery, many people suffer from lifelong birth wounds. Mauger invites women to reclaim the connection to their own instinctive, intuitive, and inherently spiritual creative powers.

The West's rational, mechanistic worldview wreaks havoc with the birth experience as it leads to ever increasing levels of high-tech medical intervention. Induced labor, fetal monitors, and pain-killing drugs alter the natural rhythms of delivery. This scientific approach puts medical personnel in control of the birth process, leaving mothers and their babies with a profound sense of loss. Drawing on her experience as a birth teacher, therapist, and mother, Benig Mauger suggests that by reconnecting with the natural and spiritual world an expectant mother can make the birth experience her own,thereby healing old wounds and allowing herself both a deeply satisfying delivery and an abiding spiritual connection to her child.

Books about: The Healing Craft or Health in the Later Years

Nature-Guided Therapy

Author: George Burns

In this new paperback version of this popular title, Dr. Rosenbaum, a practicing psychotherapist, explores the challenges and joys of making our lives into coherent wholes. In the midst of our daily busy activity, we often feel fragmented. We experience conflicting demands from our work, personal relationships, families, and spiritual practices.

Psychotherapy addresses this sense of fragmentation in an effort to help us be uniquely ourselves. Zen Buddhist practice insists we find ourselves in every moment of our lives and speaks to the basic connectedness of all things. Zen and the Heart of Psychotherapy attempts to integrate these two basic tenets. Each chapter examines some aspect of sewing together the practice of Zen with the practice of psychotherapy, and the subsequent implications for daily life. Though there is a logical progression to the chapters, each can be read on its own if the reader is interested in how a particular text might inform their psychotherapy or life circumstance.

Through the stories of his clients' as well as through his own difficulties and discoveries, the author invites each reader to actualize the fundamental point: to realize the joy and compassion that comes when we touch the basic ground of life, and to put this joy into play in our everyday activity.

Booknews

Presents an alternative psychotherapy treatment which sees a person not as an independent psychic entity but rather as an interactive element of the environment. The author combines evidence from cross- cultural sources and experimental evidence of science to demonstrate how a direct nature-mind-body connection can be utilized both practically and therapeutically. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Nature Heals	3
Ch. 2	Ecopsychotherapy	19
Ch. 3	Sensual Awareness	35
Ch. 4	The Sensual Awareness Inventory	57
Ch. 5	Inside Out	73
Ch. 6	Sensate Focusing	87
Ch. 7	Nature-Based Assignments	99
Ch. 8	Natural Ordeals	109
Ch. 9	Experiential Metaphors	119
Ch. 10	The Three R's of Nature-Guided Therapy	133
Ch. 11	Ecotherapy for Relaxation and Comfort	149
Ch. 12	Ecotherapy for Happiness and Pleasure	161
Ch. 13	Ecotherapy for Enhanced Relationships	171
Ch. 14	The Nature-Mind-Body Connection	189
Ch. 15	Nature-Guided Mind-Body Healing	201
Ch. 16	Being Well, Naturally	213
	A Story of Nature-Guided Healing	225
	References	227
	Author Index	241
	Subject Index	245

How to Prevent Your Stroke or The Little Red Book

2009-01-09T13:04:00.000-08:00

How to Prevent Your Stroke

Author: J David Spenc

This book is written in the hope of preventing strokes, based on advice Dr. Spence has given to the more than 16,000 at-risk patients he has seen. It is divided into two sections -- "What Your Doctor Can Do" and "What You Can Do."
In a (high in monosaturated fat) nutshell , quitting smoking, following a Mediterranean diet, taking appropriate drugs to reduce blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood clotting, and appropriate surgery for severely narrowed arteries in the neck can reduce stroke by as much as 75 percent in high-risk people.
This approach --with the "anti-stroke" meals Dr. Spence provides recipes for--is the powerful medicine for stroke prevention that patients and their physicians need.

Publishers Weekly

Although the number of strokes that occur annually continues to increase, up to 75 percent of them could be prevented if symptoms were accurately diagnosed and current treatment options applied, says Spence, director of the Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre at the Robarts Research Institute. And in his book, he aims to provide all the information that at-risk patients need to understand the underlying causes of strokes, risk factors and remedies, from diet and exercise to drugs and surgery. He discusses well-known risks (smoking, alcohol, a diet high in saturated fat, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol levels) and those that have more recently come to light (genetics, vitamin deficiencies, infections, stress). While Spence's style tends to be dry and technical, readers will likely glean insights not provided by their own doctors (the adverse effects of decongestants and appetite suppressants on blood pressure; the importance of arterial management after symptoms are under control). Recipes for a variety of delicious dishes based on the typical Mediterranean and Asian diet (barley stuffed peppers, pad thai noodles, Singapore chow mein fun and vegetarian paella, etc.) are among the most attractive elements of Spence's effort and could persuade confirmed carnivores to choose vegetarian meals more often. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Cheryll D Sweetnam, RN, BScN, MN(c)(Ryerson University School of Nursing)
Description:This book presents a guide to stroke prevention, outlining the causes and warning signs, and recommending steps to decrease the risk of having a stroke.
Purpose:The purpose is to offer life-saving advice aimed at reducing the incidence of stroke in high-risk individuals. This book is timely and much needed, as it heightens the awareness of the incidence and prevalence of stroke.
Audience:It is comprehensive and written at a level that is easily understood by all readers. The chapters are detailed and clearly outline methods of prevention. The author is one of the leading experts on stroke.
Features:Good illustrations, a glossary of medical terms and an index are provided, which facilitates reading and comprehension.
Assessment:This is a worthwhile contribution to the field of health and wellness. Proactive risk reducing measures to promote and sustain health that individuals can institute are outlined. Great recipes are included!

Library Journal

Spence (neurology & clinical pharmacology, Univ. of Western Ontario; director, Stroke Prevention & Atherosclerosis Research Ctr., Robards Research Inst.) offers a well-organized and engaging narrative with just the right amount of information to help readers make informed decisions regarding cardiovascular disease prevention. Arranged in two parts, the book gives the impression that the author is involved in a discussion with the reader. Spence presents preventative measures in a matter-of-fact, nonjudgmental manner that sustains interest. He closes with a short list of his favorite cookbooks and easy-to-make recipes. Libraries that purchase Hubbard's book should consider complementing it with titles on the physiology of stress and its effect on health as well as titles providing practice guidelines for dealing with stress (see Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and David R. Shlim's Medicine and Compassion). Spence's book is highly recommended for all consumer health and public libraries. Howard Fuller, Stanford Health Lib., Palo Alto, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

The Little Red Book

Author: Bill P

Designed as an aid for the study of the book, Alcoholics Anonymous, The Little Red Book contains many helpful topics for discussion meetings. Drawing from the practical experience of alcoholics who found peace of mind and contented sobriety by following a way of spiritual life set forth in Alcoholics Anonymous, The Little Red Book can help members quickly develop an acceptable 24-hour schedule of A. A. living.

Based on the many past study guide formats and beginner classes for The Little Red Book and modeled after Twelve Step instruction programs offered at A. A. meetings, this new study guide provides a solid and comprehensive study structure for men and women in A. A. Twelve Step groups and for individuals studying The Little Red Book on their own. While The Little Red Book interprets the Twelve Steps, the Guide gives newcomers to A. A. the structure needed to live them.

Holding a Masters degree in Addiction Studies with an internship at the Alcoholics Anonymous Headquarters Archives, Bill P. has worked in the alcohol/drug addiction field for 18 years as a counselor, historian, educator, and author, including four years with the AA Grapevine Magazine.

Recovering from Depression or Pranayama beyond the Fundamentals

2009-01-09T01:03:00.000-08:00

Recovering from Depression: A Workbook for Teens

Author: Mary Ellen Copeland

Do you know. . .
The warning signs of adolescent depression?
The best ways to respond to a teen considering suicide?

With suicide as the third leading cause of death among young people ages 15 to 24*, school administrators, guidance counselors, and psychologists must understand — and know how to address — adolescent depression. This workbook is the lifeline they need! Counselors can use it in their work with teens, who'll use the surveys, checklists, practical tips, fill-in-the-blanks, and brainstorming activities to recognize depression in themselves, learn what they can do to feel better, and build a safety plan to stay well. And all education professionals can work through the book to increase their knowledge of the symptoms, causes, treatments, and effects of depression. Recovering from depression is possible — and this interactive workbook guides and supports both teens and the professionals who help them on the journey.

This revised edition is packed with tips and activities on

dealing with suicidal thoughts and feelings
changing negative thought patterns to positive ones
reaching out to friends and supporters
avoiding substance abuse
solving problems constructively
recognizing and avoiding “triggers” of depression

*American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2001

Pranayama Beyond the Fundamentals: An in-Depth Guide to Yogic Breathing with Instructional CD

Author: Richard Rosen

For serious students of yoga who have an established pranayama practice, this book is a follow-up to Rosen’s previous book, The Yoga of Breath. Here he picks up where he left off, offering a selection of traditional yogic techniques for those who wish to deepen their practice of pranayama and their understanding of the ancient wisdom of yoga. Rosen skillfully puts forward an array of awareness disciplines, breathing practices, mudras, and seals, interspersed with anecdotes and quotes from ancient texts.

The enclosed instructional CD by the author offers a variety of guided practices so that listeners can create their own pranayama series, with guidance from the author in the appendix.

Yoga for Body Breath and Mind or Low Carb Gourmet

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

Yoga for Body, Breath, and Mind: A Guide to Personal Reintegration

Author: A G Mohan

Here is a practical and accessible introduction to the full, multifaceted richness of the yoga tradition. While most yoga books focus only on poses, Yoga for Body, Breath, and Mind integrates the three fundamental elements of a complete yoga practice: asanas (poses), pranayama (breathing practices), and meditation. A. G. Mohan, an internationally respected teacher, also explains essential philosophical concepts and offers the yogic perspective on health and healing. With step-by-step instructions and abundant illustrations, Yoga for Body, Breath, and Mind is the type of comprehensive guide that will be of interest to every yoga practitioner. The author explains that often when we feel stress or a sense that life has gotten out of control, it's not because of life events themselves, but because the state of our own mind has become chaotic and fragmented. When we are in a state of what he calls "personal integration," we are centered, contented, and able to see people and events in life as they truly are. In this state, people are most able to make decisions and take actions that are clear and positive. In Yoga for Body, Breath, and Mind Mohan provides a structured yoga program to help readers cultivate this state of balance and integration. The book also includes an introduction to the practice of yoga therapy.

Book about: The Global Internet Trust Register or The Theory and Practice of International Financial Management

Low Carb Gourmet: The Cookbook for Hungry Dieters

Author: Harriet Brownle

In The Low-Carb Gourmet, Harriet Brownlee proves that low-carbohydrate diets can be both rewarding and full of flavor. Her variations on soups, salads, main dishes, and even desserts are simple yet sophisticated, allowing each dieter to modify his or her food plan to suit taste as well as nutritional needs. In The Low-Carb Gourmet you will find

• more than 225 recipes-including appetizers, breads, pastas, ethnic foods, and desserts
• carbohydrate counts for every recipe and every portion
• nutritional hints for low-carb dieting
• comprehensive gram- and calorie-counting charts

This accessible guide is the perfect cooking companion for people who want to lose weight the low-carb way, as well as for those who simply want to maintain a healthy diet. It is a book for everyone who appreciates fine foods-but wants to stay slim.

The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga or Restful Sleep

2009-01-08T04:59:00.000-08:00

The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga

Author: Vishnu Devananda

Since 1960, more than 1 million people have used this classic guide to tap the incredible power of yoga. The attractive new edition, in a new size, will appeal to a wide audience of contemporary yoga students.

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Restful Sleep

Author: Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra, M.D., eminent physician and best-selling author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, explains how to fall asleep easily without trying, identify and eliminate the imbalances that cause your insomnia, and achieve a healthy balance of rest and activity in your life.

Think Thin Be Thin or The Back Pain Book

2009-01-07T18:58:00.000-08:00

Think Thin, Be Thin

Author: Doris Wild Helmering

If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard it can be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In the groundbreaking Think Thin, Be Thin, nationally prominent psychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning health writer Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy body weight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logic is simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whether you work out. If you change the way you think, you can change the way you behave. And you can lose weight.
Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically based exercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transform your behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on such troublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourself to exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the ideal complement to any diet and weight-loss program.

Library Journal

Therapist Helmering and health writer Hales posits that most diet books aim for the wrong target-the stomach-when they should be working on the brain. Only by changing our mental attitudes can we successfully lose weight. Using an eclectic mix of established psychological approaches, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Transactional Analysis, the authors help readers understand their own motivations and roadblocks and to work through them. No specific food or exercise programs are included. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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The Back Pain Book: A Self-Help guide for the Daily Relief of Back and Neck Pain

Author: Mike Hag

Eighty-five percent of Americans suffer from some type of back pain and our sedentary lifestyles only exacerbate the problem. Drugs and surgery are costly solutions for easing the symptoms. This book, written by physical therapy experts at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago—the top ranking rehab hospital in the nation—empowers you to take control of your pain by managing it, so that its impact on your life is minimized. Emphasis is placed on using posture, positioning, and movement to ease, relieve, and prevent the reoccurrence of pain.

Presented in a clear style, the book describes a better way of thinking about daily movements and activities and how they can influence the production of pain; it addresses immediate pain relief, good moves/bad moves for everyday activities, and provides strategic exercises for long-term relief. In this new edition, more functional exercises have been added along with positioning recommendations for workouts on gym equipment.

The Back Pain Book includes thorough guidance on how to:
Achieve quick pain relief
Heal and prevent pain during all of your daily activities
Perform all types of exercise, from gentle stretching to vigorous movement

The Back Pain Book offers user-friendly features such as:
Hundreds of helpful line drawings
Clear, easy-to-follow instructions
Complete cross references to help you locate all treatment procedures for your particular problem

Sex Food and God or Get Healthy Now With Gary Null

2009-01-07T09:42:00.000-08:00

Sex, Food, and God: Breaking Free From Temptations, Compulsions, and Addictions

Author: David E Eckman

People from all walks of life give in to temptations and adopt patterns of secrecy and shame. David Eckman reveals how appetites can dominate the lives of men and women, and addictions to sex, pornography, food, chemicals, and even work can take hold. This is a much-needed Christian look at fighting addiction that should be in every church and home.

With research support and biblical principles, Eckman shares

why unhealthy appetites take root in people
how to trade shame for a new identity in Christ
why commitment to prayer, confession, and growth protects us

Readers will discover how to break the pattern of out-of-control desires and extend grace, not judgment, to those facing such struggles.

New interesting book: AgeLess Body Timeless Mind or Reiki with Gemstones

Get Healthy Now! With Gary Null

Author: Gary Null

Nutritionist Gary Null has a proactive approach to healthcare that focuses on reaching optimal health through sensible diet and exercise. This accessible work leads readers through everything they need to know when maintaining good health or recovering from illness. An encyclopedic guide to alternative healthcare, it covers prevention, nutrition, and treatment options, and includes special sections which address the specific needs of women, children, and seniors.

What People Are Saying

Martin Feldman, M.D.
I finally have a book to recommend to my patients! Get Healthy Now! redefines the medicine model by presenting the road to optimal health.

Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar or Overcoming Anxiety and Depression

2009-01-06T21:41:00.000-08:00

Amazing Apple Cider Vinegar

Author: Earl Mindell

An ancient and versatile medical mainstay.

Book review: Investing in Your Future or Politics and Culture in the Developing World

Overcoming Anxiety and Depression: Practical Tools to Help You Deal with Negative Emotions

Author: Bob Phillips

Anxiety and depression are the two most common emotions that plague people, causing emotional distress and feelings of inferiority, loneliness, and despair. Help is available for these people in pain—help from God, from His Word, and from the experience of gifted men and women who seek to lead people to wholeness.

Readers will readily identify with licensed family counselor Bob Phillips as he provides descriptions of the potentially debilitating effects of these difficult emotions. He reveals the root causes of anxiety and depression, which are fear and anger, and he helps readers acknowledge and deal with these driving forces in an effective, godly way. He includes a gentle and helpful presentation of spiritual issues and the gospel that will benefit believers and nonbelievers alike.

This hands-on, user-friendly approach is written with the lay person in mind and includes plenty of practical and effective self-help exercises that readers can use to find freedom. Christian counselors will recognize that Bob's system is built on a solid foundation of scriptural principles and up-to-date technical research on mental health.

Yoga for Pregnancy or American Heart Association Fitting in Fitness

2009-01-06T11:39:00.000-08:00

Yoga for Pregnancy

Author: Francoise Barbira Freedman

With yoga, expectant mothers can achieve an inner harmony of mind and body that has far-reaching beneficial effects during pregnancy and beyond. Organized into two sections, this fully illustrated manual provides a basic introduction to yoga and practical instructions on how to do the breathing, postures and relaxation techniques, which have been carefully tailored to meet the specific needs of pregnancy. Designed to be used by pregnant women at all levels of fitness, it assumes no previous knowledge of yoga. The easy-to-follow exercises are arranged in sequences for each trimester, taking into account the different needs of each stage, and include useful labor and birthing positions. Through yoga, you can prepare your body and mind for birth, while keeping yourself and your baby happy and relaxed through this natural and beautiful process.

Look this: One Cake One Hundred Desserts or Drizzle of Honey

American Heart Association Fitting in Fitness: Hundreds of Simple Ways to Put More Physical Activity into Your Life

Author: American Heart Association

If you're like most people, your life is so hectic that it's hard to imagine squeezing in time for daily exercise. The good news is that you can get fit without an expensive gym membership or rigorous workout schedule. New research proves that you can "sneak up" on fitness by grabbing a little time here and there throughout the day so you total at least thirty minutes of moderate activity on most days. The American Heart Association's Fitting in Fitness guide will show you how to work spurts of activity into the way you live right now. Those few minutes can add up to huge rewards, including a stronger heart and bones, higher energy levels, better weight control, and more.

You'll find hundreds of tips for fitting in fitness in this easy-to-use, inspiring guide. You'll even learn how to bring your kids into the act and have a lifestyle program that works for all of you.

The Scleroderma Book or Show It Love

2009-01-06T00:38:00.000-08:00

The Scleroderma Book: A Guide for Patients and Families

Author: Maureen Mayes

The Scleroderma Book has long been considered the leading source of information for patients suffering with this disease. Now comes the Second Edition of this highly respected volume, extensively revised by Maureen Mayes, M.D., the leading authority in this field.
Writing specifically for patients and their families, Dr. Mayes draws on her extensive experience treating scleroderma to provide up-to-date, practical information that will help patients manage their symptoms and improve their quality of life. Dr. Mayes begins with an easily accessible description of the basic facts, distinguishing between the many manifestations of the disease, ranging from localized scleroderma (small patches of hardened skin, most common in children, which tend to clear up over time) to systemic scleroderma, which can attack the lungs, the kidneys, and the blood vessels, and can be life threatening. Equally important, she offers sympathetic and reassuring advice on matters that often concern patients, such as the best course of action for those who want children, what to do if the disease affects your sex life, and what you can do to help your doctor treat your illness more effectively. The book concludes with a good humored, frank discussion about how to cope, day in and day out, with an uncertain future--how to be a "person living with" scleroderma, not a "victim suffering from" it. The new edition has updated chapters on the genetics of scleroderma and on new treatments for complications of this disease.
Touching on virtually every aspect of this disorder, The Scleroderma Book provides a reliable source of information and reassurance for patients of any age and no matter how severe theirform of the disease.
Endorsed by the leading national advocate group, The Scleroderma Foundation

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Tammy P Cheng, MD (Barnes-Jewish Hospital)
Description: This is an information resource for patients with scleroderma and their families. The book explains in detail the basics about scleroderma, including the varied manifestations of scleroderma in different organ systems.
Purpose: The objective is to serve as a "guide for patients and families." This book will serve well as a comprehensive source of information for patients who wish to learn more about their disease.
Audience: It is intended for the lay population, specifically patients and their families, and the author appears to be a credible authority.
Features: The basic epidemiology, genetics, and manifestations of scleroderma are covered. A section at the end discusses how to cope with the disease. The organization is fairly pedantic, perhaps too much so for a lay target audience.
Assessment: This book does a good job of explaining the various facets of scleroderma to lay people interested in learning everything about disease. It should be a nice starting point for patients who want to find out everything about their potentially complicated disease. My concern is that in these days of Internet searches, the format may seem archaic compared to Google searches.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Interesting textbook: Bitter Fruit or American Scripture

Show It Love: A Three-Step Plan to a Stronger, Leaner You

Author: Kacy Duk

One of the hottest celebrity fitness trainers today gives you the toned arms, flat abs, sexy butt, and lean legs you dream about--with mental and spiritual empowerment to boot

Kacy Duke, one of the cofounders of Equinox Fitness Clubs, has been shaking up the world of fitness with her breakthrough workout plan. Her program is an effective combination of weights and cardio with dance movement that has changed the bodies of Hollywood’s brightest stars--Kirsten Dunst, Denzel Washington, Iman, Julianne Moore, and others.

Now Kacy offers her once-exclusive fun and empowering fitness plan to you so you can achieve the lean, strong body you have always desired. More than a workout regime, Kacy gives you a lifestyle plan that is easy to follow but still generates sexy, enviable results. Throughout her book, she inspires you with her “I Am, I Can, I Do” philosophy, so even if you are a fitness newcomer, you can become the goddess you always wanted to be.

In a “you-can-do-it” tone, The Show It Love Workout rewrites the rules on what a fitness book can be. The tools found in this guide are a catalyst for profound change--and they work. You will not only end up with a great body, you will achieve a true satisfaction with your physical self, a spiritual energy that encourages you to continue nurturing and caring for your body, and a major shift in attitude.

“Kacy Duke believes that physical and emotional fitness go hand in hand She is a wonderful trainer and a very perceptive human being, and I trust her implicitly with my body and my heart.”
--Julianne Moore, actress

“What brought me to Kacy is myvanity but what made stay were the results. After I gave birth to my daughter, Lexi, I realized I had packed on 50 pounds! Life is too short and I wanted to be fabulous right now . . . Kacy helped me achieve that.”
--Iman, model

Mary Grace Flaherty - Library Journal

Duke, a personal trainer to celebrities like Kirsten Dunst, Denzel Washington, and Julianne Moore, has crafted an inspirational volume to help women "celebrate the body you have, get the body you want." She addresses not only the physical aspects of fitness but also the spiritual and emotional components needed to maintain it. Women will appreciate her emphasis on sense of self; the point here is to realize the potential of one's individual physique, not aim for an unattainable Hollywood ideal. Each of the three parts ("I Am," "I Can," and "I Do") features motivational text, "woman warrior" exercises, healthy recipes, milestones, and a workout log. Duke has an approachable style and blends references to current scientific research with information on different cultural goddesses throughout. Her book creates the effect of having a personal trainer, and the general public will love it. Highly recommended for public libraries, particularly where self-help and fitness books are popular.

The Weight Training Diary or A Documentary Companion to a Civil Action

2009-01-05T15:36:00.000-08:00

The Weight Training Diary: For Dummies

Author: Allen St John

From free weights and resistance bands to Pilates® and yoga, weight-training is an exciting -- and healthy -- trend. The Weight Training Diary For Dummies is the perfect tool for any avid body builder. Filled with expert advice on health, nutrition, equipment, and accessories, it also includes injury prevention exercises and body fat to weight conversion charts to help you keep track of your progress.

Introduction.
PART I: The Training Basics.
Chapter 1: Creating Your Workout Plan.
Chapter 2: Just Warming Up.
Chapter 3: Giving Yourself a Lift.
Chapter 4: Cooling Down and Fueling Up.
PART II: The Weight Training Diary.
Your Training Diary.
PART III: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 5: Ten Weight Room Etiquette Tips.
Chapter 6: Ten Top Weight-Lifting Songs.
Index.
Book Registration Information.

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A Documentary Companion to a Civil Action

Author: Lewis A Grossman

A Documentary Companion to A Civil Action contains a broad selection of the documents from the litigation described in Jonathan Harr's book, A Civil Action. This is an indispensable supplement to Harr's best-selling portrait of the landmark toxic torts case, Anderson v. Cryovac. As you proceed through the Documentary Companion, you will encounter most of the types of documents that practicing lawyers prepare in the course of actual litigation. The documents illustrate, often in complex and fascinating ways, the operation of procedural rules studied in class. Examining these documents will not only help you master these rules but also help you see their relevance to the overall process of civil litigation. Moreover they will expose you to various styles of legal writing and argumentation.

Anderson v. Cryovac was an extraordinarily complex, lengthy and bitterly fought case. Consequently, the documents illustrate virtually every phase of the civil litigation process. The one major phase of litigation that we have not attempted to document in this book is the trial itself, because the issues raised by trial motions and transcripts are usually addressed in separate courses on evidence or trial practice. We have, however, included pretrial documents regarding the organization of the trial and selection of the jury and post-trial motions attacking and defending the verdict.

The Documentary Companion and A Civil Action together allow you to think about how the ethical rules interact with the procedural rules to guide the behavior of attorneys, both in theory and in practice.

What People Are Saying

Jonathan Harr
A Civil Action and A Documentary Companion taken together offer ... the fullest opportunity to render your own judgement about the merits of the case itself and how well or poorly the civil justice system dealt with it. (Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action)

Jeffrey C. Totten
A Documentary Companion offers the student a fascinating exploration of procedural issues, first by providing the actual court papers and judicial decisions in Anderson v. Cryovac, and then by illuminating and enlivening these materials with insightful and provocative questions and comments ... Using A Civil Action and the Anderson case, A Documentary Companion takes the student on a long and challenging journey ... by meticulously examining one complex case, it not only makes a continuing contribution to legal scholarship, but it also illuminates the power of procedure and the important lessons it teaches about the nature of justice in the civil justice system. (Jerome P. Facher, attorney for Beatrice Foods Company)

The Hypothyroid SourceBook or Thalia

2009-01-05T03:35:00.000-08:00

The Hypothyroid SourceBook

Author: M Sara Rosenthal

Hypothyroidism is one of the most common forms of thyroid disease. Myriad symptoms are attributed to this disease, including extreme fatigue, depression, headaches, chest pain, constipation, muscle spasms, weight gain, and more. Written by an acclaimed health author afflicted with hypothyroidism, The Hypothyroid Sourcebook offers in-depth explanations of the thyroid and the disease. The book discusses the pros and cons of possible treatments and provides an extensive list of additional resources.

M. Sara Rosenthal is a bioethicist, medical journalist, and author of over twenty widely recommended health books, including her two bestselling books on thyroid disease: The Thyroid Sourcebook, recommended by the New York Times, and The Thyroid Sourcebook for Women. She is also the medical ethics consultant for The American Foundation for Thyroid Patients. For more information, visit www.sarahealth.com.

Thalia: Belleza: Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness

Author: Thalia

She's had four number 1 hits and sold over 12 million albums worldwide. She's adored by telenovela fans in over 180 countries. She has her own ABC radio talk show. The icing on the cake? She's drop dead gorgeous. In this, her first book, Thalia delivers the ultimate guide to Latin beauty. Lavishly illustrated chapters on skin, hair, makeup, and inner beauty show Latinas how to make the most of who they are. Lush photos make techniques easy to master while dramatic before-and-after shots inspire la nueva belleza. Thalia's electric personality is stamped on every page. She reveals her personal beauty secrets; she dishes on beauty dos and don'ts; and she shares tips gleaned from working with top makeup artists and hairstylists. Thalia teaches women to use every beauty tool at their disposal be it a mascara wand or a fearless approach to life.

Strength Training for Seniors or Fighting Weight

2009-01-04T18:33:00.000-08:00

Strength Training for Seniors: How to Rewind Your Biological Clock

Author: Michael Feket

Regular exercise can reduce a person's biological age by 10 to 20 years, and the key to exercising effectively is maintaining and increasing strength. A higher level of strength also improves immune systems, helps prevent age-related diseases such as diabetes and osteoporosis, lowers stress, and increases mental acuity. Written by a master athlete over 50, this accessible book offers specific exercises for improving health and fitness, tips on maintaining and increasing mobility and motor skills, nutritional advice, strategies for stress management, and worksheets for personal strength training schedules.

New interesting textbook: The Assault on Reason or Magnificent Catastrophe

Fighting Weight: How I Found Healthy Weight Loss with Banding, a New Procedure that Eliminates Hunger--Forever

Author: Khaliah Ali

"It was more than that I had kissed away my twenties and was miserable. I couldn't be naked with anybody, couldn't wear a backless dress, couldn't go to the beach—all the things a person should be able to do."

hen Muhammad Ali's daughter Khaliah hit 325 pounds, she didn't need to be told again that she was morbidly obese. A lifetime of dieting, of starving, had not helped. She thought about gastric bypass surgery but couldn't pursue it after reading the statistic that as many as one in twenty-five people suffers complications, and sometimes death, from the operation. She could not afford to risk leaving her young son without a mother.

Miserable, depressed, and unable to walk up a flight of stairs without losing her breath, she did not know which way to turn—until a friend pointed her toward a new type of surgery called gastric banding. It is just as effective as gastric bypass with a fraction of potential complications. With the band placed around her stomach and completely taking away her hunger, Khaliah slimmed down to half her former size.

The band she used has been the surgical option of choice in Europe for more than a decade but is only just now arriving in the United States. It is sure to become number one here too. Unlike gastric bypass surgery, gastric banding is reversible, is completely safe during pregnancy, involves no nutritional deficiencies, and best of all, takes away hunger forever, not just for the first year or so.

Khaliah wraps her story of weight loss in this memoir of what it was like to grow up the daughter of one of the world's most famous men, and teams up with her surgeons at the NewYork University Medical Center to detail the lifetime of misery suffered by an obese girl; the ins and outs of the banding operation; and the joy, serenity, and health resulting from a solution that until now had eluded her.

Publishers Weekly

Khaliah, daughter of Mohammad Ali, struggled with obesity for most of her life. With a father famous for his athletic abilities (and one sister following in his footsteps) Khaliah felt insecure about her weight. She tried many diets and weight-loss programs, but hunger always got the best of her. At her heaviest, she reached 325 pounds, and even with diet and exercise couldn't seem to get below 220. Khaliah decided to try "laparoscopic banding"-a surgery this book claims has less risk, less recovery time and better results than gastric bypass. With the help of the band (which is wrapped around the stomach), Khaliah was finally able to lose the weight and step out of her shell. Khaliah is a likable person on the page; she seems to genuinely want to help others get results. The sections written by her doctors explain the mechanics of the surgery, who should or should not have it and what to expect if you do. The audience of the book is clearly limited to those curious about the surgery or at least in the market for a way to lose a large amount of weight. (June)

Susan B. Hagloch - Library Journal

With the rise in obesity in America, bariatric surgery is becoming more common, even among children. Gastric banding, a less drastic alternative to the better-known gastric bypass, was approved in the United States in 2001, after being developed in Europe and Australia. Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali and a well-known philanthropist and talk-show host, describes her own lifelong battle with obesity and the effect of her own gastric-banding surgery, the subject of a feature on the Today Show. Coauthor George Fielding, M.D., who performed Ali's surgery, explains the process and how it differs from other bariatric surgeries: a band is put around the area where the esophagus meets the stomach; the band, which affects the sensation of hunger, can be loosened, tightened, or even removed entirely. Regular foods can be eaten, and no nutritional supplements are necessary. A good combination of scientific information and personal narrative, this title belongs in all public libraries.

Acupressure Techniques or Qigong Meditation

2009-01-04T07:32:00.000-08:00

Acupressure Techniques: A Self-Help Guide

Author: Julian N Kenyon

This guide to the effective use of acupressure can treat a wide range of conditions, from migraines and carpal tunnel syndrome to tennis elbow and tendonitis. Designed for individuals seeking to alleviate their own physical ailments, these easily mastered methods use deep finger and thumb pressure over acupuncture points to enhance the natural energy flow of the body.

New interesting book: The Image of the City or Elizabeths Spymaster

Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing

Author: Yang Jwing Ming

Chinese Qigong can be generally categorized into External Elixir (Wai Dan) and Internal Elixir (Nei Dan) Qigong. The first step of practicing Internal Elixir Qigong has been known as Small Cyclic Heaven (Small Circulation or Microcosmic Meditation). After completing Small Cyclic Heaven, a practitioner will learn Grand Cyclic Heaven (Grand Circulation or Macrocosmic Meditation). The purpose of Grand Cyclic Heaven is to re-open the Heaven Eye (Third Eye) to unite the natural spirit and human spirit. This is the ultimate goal of spiritual enlightenment in both Daoism (Taoism) and Buddhism. Although these kinds of meditations are popular, very few scientific books or documents are available to the public. In order to reach the goal of longevity and spiritual enlightenment, the Qigong practitioner must learn Internal Elixir Qigong. The first step to learning is to understand the theory and the method of Embryonic Breathing. Practicing this breathing technique will help you to establish your central energy system, conserve your energy, and store this energy to abundant levels. Once you have established this foundation, you will be able to practice Small Cyclic Heaven (Small Circulation or Microcosmic Orbit) and Grand Cyclic Heaven (Grand Circulation or Macrocosmic Orbit) effectively. It is understood that without this foundation, the root of spiritual enlightenment will not be established and the study and the practice of spiritual enlightenment, through meditation, will be in vain.

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Romanization of Chinese Terms	viii
	Dedication	ix
	About the Author	xi
	Foreword	xvii
	Preface	xix
Part I	Foundations
Chapter 1	General Concepts
1.1	Introduction	3
1.2	General Qigong Concepts	6
1.3	The Network of Qi Vessels and Channels	31
1.4	Buddhist and Daoist Qigong Concepts	38
1.5	Four Refinements	43
1.6	Five Regulatings	63
1.7	Muscle/Tendon Changing and Marrow/Brain Washing Qigong	85
1.8	Small Circulation, Grand Circulation, and Enlightenment Meditation	88
1.9	Definition of Embryonic Breathing	94
1.10	Embryonic Breathing and Cultivation of the Dao	97
1.11	About This Book	102
Chapter 2	Theoretical Foundation of Embryonic Breathing
2.1	Introduction	107
2.2	Human Qigong Science	113
2.3	Theoretical Foundations of Embryonic Breathing	134
2.4	Meanings and Purposes of Meditation	144
Part II	Translations and Commentaries of Ancient Documents Related to Embryonic Breathing
Chapter 3	Translations and Commentaries of Ancient Documents
3.1	Introduction	155
3.2	General Concepts	157
3.3	About the Dan Tian	220
3.4	Regulating the Breathing	229
3.5	Regulating the Mind	241
3.6	Regulating the Spirit	267
3.7	Methods of Embryonic Breathing	287
3.8	Other Related Documents	306
Chapter 4	Summaries from Ancient Documents
4.1	Introduction	313
4.2	Summaries of Important Points	314
Part III	Practice of Embryonic Breathing
Chapter 5	Practice of Embryonic Breathing
5.1	Introduction	323
5.2	Preparation for Embryonic Breathing	324
5.3	Practice of Embryonic Breathing	329
5.4	Recovery from the Meditative State	343
Chapter 6	Conclusion	347
Appendix A	Translation and Glossary of Chinese Terms	349
	Index	385

Yoga or The Ultimate Guide to US Army Survival Skills Tactics and Techniques

2009-01-03T21:30:00.000-08:00

Yoga (101 Essential Tips Series)

Author: Sivananda Yoga Vendanta Center

Breaks down key information on yoga into 101 easy-to-grasp tips and gives quick answers to all your questions.

Book review: Ayurvedic Cooking Made Easy or Cote DOr

The Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Survival Skills, Tactics, and Techniques

Author: Jay Mccullough

Here for the first time in one place is everything you will ever need to know in order to survive just about any difficult or dangerous situation. Drawing from dozens of the U.S. Army’s official field manuals, editor Jay McCullough has culled a thousand pages of the most useful and curious tidbits for the would-be soldier, historian, movie-maker, writer, or survivalist—including techniques on first aid; survival in the hottest or coldest of climates; finding or building life-saving shelters; surviving nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks; physical and mental fitness, and how to find food and water anywhere, anytime. With hundreds of photographs and illustrations showing everything from edible plants to rare skin diseases of the jungle, every page reveals how useful Army knowledge can be.

Nurse to Nurse or No Nonsense Guide to Menopause

2009-01-03T12:29:00.000-08:00

Nurse to Nurse: Palliative Care

Author: Margaret L Campbell

A unique "mentor in a pocket" handbook covering the most emotionally-trying experience nurses face

From a world recognized expert on care for the dying, comes the first pocket-sized reference for generalist nurses on palliative care. This handy, portable reference assists nursing in dealing with one of the most emotionally trying situations they face in clinical practice.

Part of McGraw-Hill's Nurse to Nurse series, this title includes PDA download of the entire text, vignettes, nursing alerts that provide just-in-time information on complex or particularly important aspects of patient care, and clinical pearls which provide the benefit of other nurses' valuable experience in dealing with end-of-life care. Coated flex-binding repels stains.

The new Nurse to Nurse series is specifically designed to simulate the teaching experience nurses learn best from: trusted mentors carefully explaining what they must do in specific clinical situtions. Written in a consistent, single-author voice, this series brings the wisdom and experience of some of the foremost experts to non-specialist nurses in clinical care.

Margaret Campbell, R.N., Ph.D.(c), F.A.A.N., is Associate Director for Research at the Center to Advance Palliative Care Excellence, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, at Wayne State University, and Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics at the Detroit Receiving Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. She has published more than forty journal articles, six book chapters, and the book Foregoing Life-Sustaining Therapy: How to Care for the Patient Who is Near Death. She has served appointmentson various boards, including the Last Acts Task Force on Palliative Care through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing.

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No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause

Author: Barbara Seaman

For nearly as long as women have been around, they have been going through menopause. It is a bodily process as old as human birth, death, and of course, menstruation. Like many normal biological events, menopause was gradually medicalized, and with the rise of pharmaceutical medicine, women and their doctors were convinced that it was an "estrogen deficiency disease" that could be treated by supplementing the body's declining estrogen levels with hormones. By 2002 hormone treatment had been on the market for more than fifty years when doctors and women alike were shocked by the results of a massive clinical trial, the Women's Health Initiative: women taking hormones had more heart attacks, breast cancer, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, and blood clots than women who did not, and patients were left scrambling to find new and sometimes difficult answers to their menopause and midlife health questions.

In The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause, Barbara Seaman, a legendary figure in the women's health movement, and Laura Eldridge have written a comprehensive, easy-to-use resource that will give you all the information you need to make smart and informed decisions that will put you in control during this time of transition—medically, psychologically, sexually, and even financially.

With the latest research on everything from hormone replacement therapy to skin creams to preventing osteoporosis, The No-Nonsense Guide to Menopause is the definitive manual on this important subject. You'll find out which changes are expected and natural and which can be a cause for concern; how hormonal shifts can affect your heart, your sex life, and your mood; and what you can do toaddress these issues. Whether the authors are discussing the risk factors for heart disease, the benefits of lifting weights, or if you should consider a hysterectomy, they offer unbiased, straightforward information and advice with a signature blend of wisdom and sensitivity.

Perhaps most important, you'll learn how to evaluate what you read in magazines, hear on the news, and are told by your doctor, so you can distinguish between solid facts and dubious claims. By learning how to read and evaluate scientific studies and becoming familiar with what goes on behind the scenes in research labs, at doctors' offices, and at pharmaceutical companies, you will be able to become your own advocate. The next time you go to the doctor's office, you will know how to make the most of your visit and leave feeling confident, informed, and in command. There is no one way to experience menopause and no single way to handle the challenges it can present, but as a no-nonsense patient, you will have the tools you need to make decisions that are right for you.

Publishers Weekly

Recently deceased activist and cofounder of the National Women's Health Network, Seaman (The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women) reported on women's health for more than three decades. Here, she and associate Eldridge articulate the myths, controversies, statistics, economics and prevailing protocols that feed continued confusion about what, they argue, is an overmedicalized but profoundly natural experience. With the abrupt end in July 2002 of one segment of the hormonal trial of the Women's Health Initiative (begun in 1992), the authors state, many women, formerly led to view hormone therapy as a cure-all for a multitude of symptoms and conditions (hot flashes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis and memory loss, for example), began looking critically at recommended tests, surgical procedures and drugs. Seaman touches on nearly every aspect of women's health (nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress relief, vitamins and herbs, aging, appearance, etc.) as she helps readers frame key questions, evaluate research studies, consider treatment options and move gracefully through menopause and the years leading up to and following it. This volume sheds an invaluable light on a long-cloudy subject. (July)

Introduction     1
Are you going through menopause?     11
Flashing Back: A Brief History of Menopause     13
At First Glance: Perimenopause, Beginnings and Ends     24
Seeing Red: Excessive Bleeding, Menorrhagia, and Perimenopause     35
"Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just You?": Hot Flashes, Night Sweats, and Other Things That Keep You Up at Night     46
The Science of Sleep: Night Sweats, Wakefulness, and Getting Some Shut-Eye     66
Getting It On as You Get On: Menopause, Aging, and Sexuality     83
The Swing versus the Slump: Menopause, Mood, and Depression     104
The Secret Hystery: The Truth About Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy     119
Down Under: Vaginal and Reproductive Health as You Age     133
Menopausal approaches     147
The World Is Flat: The New and Changing Role of Hormone Therapy in Menopause     149
Menopause, Nnaturally?: What We Know about the Wild West of Natural, Alternative, and Bioidentical Menopause Medicine     196
The Skinny on Menopausal Weight: Is Gain Really Just Part of the Change?     215
Minding Your Peas and Caveats: Menopause Nutrition and Eating Healthfully in the Second Half of Life     232
Change of Pace: Menopause and Exercise     243
The pause     257
Mindful Menopause: Memory, Cognition, and Alzheimer's Disease     259
Loving the Skin You're In: Skin, Hair, and Midlife Beauty     279
The Great Pretender: Thyroid Disease and Menopause     299
Taking Heart: Menopause and Heart Disease     312
Close to the Bone: Osteoporosis, Bone Density, and Menopause     343
The Golden Bowl: Incontinence and Menopause     374
Meno-politics     385
Male Menopause: How the Other Half Changes     387
Half the Sky: Menopause Around the World     391
Afterword: becoming a no-nonsense patient: a crash course in the basics of health literacy     397
Notes     421
Index     463

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain or Natural Beauty for All Seasons

2009-01-03T00:28:00.000-08:00

Fourth Uncle in the Mountain: The Remarkable Legacy of a Buddhist Itinerant Doctor in Vietnam

Author: Quang Van Nguyen

Set during the French and American wars in South Vietnam, Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is the true story of an orphan, Quang Van Nguyen, adopted by a sixty-four-year-old monk, Thau, who carries great responsibility for his people as a barefoot doctor. Thau manages against all odds to raise his son to follow in his footsteps and in doing so saves him, as well as a part of Vietnam’s esoteric knowledge from the Vietnam holocaust. Thau is wanted by the French regime and occasionally must flee in to the jungle, where he is perfectly at home living among the animals. As wise and resourceful as Thau is, he meets his match in his mischievous son. Quang is more interested in learning Cambodian sorcery and martial arts than in developing his skills and wisdom according to his father’s plan. Fourth Uncle in the Mountain is an odyssey of a single-father folk hero and his foundling son in a land ravaged by the atrocities of war. It is a classic story complete with humor, tragedy, and insight, from a country where ghosts and magic are real.

Natural Beauty for All Seasons: 250 Simple Recipes and Gift-Giving Ideas for Year-Round Beauty

Author: Janice Hovasi Cox

Cox offers readers more than 250 brand-new recipes for body, bath, and hair care, with an eye toward special beauty needs and ingredient avail-ability in each of the four seasons.

The Pleasure Trap or Workouts for Dummies

2009-01-02T14:26:00.000-08:00

The Pleasure Trap

Author: Doug Lisl

The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses ad present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitaltiy.

	Acknowledgements	viii
	Foreword	ix
Chapter 1	Telling the Truth: Understanding health and happiness	3
Chapter 2	The Biological Purpose of Life: The motivational triad and the moods of happiness	7
Chapter 3	The Pleasure Trap: The rewards of pleasure; "magic buttons"	17
Chapter 4	The Miracle and Madness of Modern Medicine: The role of pain; the healing goal	25
Chapter 5	The Evolution of Diet: Modern civilization and the "Diseases of Kings"	41
Chapter 6	Looking for Health in All the Wrong Places: Mental biases; health by subtraction	51
Chapter 7	Losing Weight Without Losing Your Mind: The law of satiation; "yowel" circuits, "skinny" genes	63
Chapter 8	Magic Food: The dietary pleasure trap; rate your diet and lifestyle	83
Chapter 9	Getting Along Without Going Along: The Milgram experiment; preparing for integrity	95
Chapter 10	The Path of Least Resistance: Steps to a healthy life	109
Chapter 11	Environmental Revolution: A relentless advance; diet and cancer	119
Chapter 12	Let There Be Light: The need for sleep	143
Chapter 13	Heartbreak Hotel: The happiness strategy	153
Chapter 14	The Myths of Moderation: Breaking free	163
Chapter 15	Fasting Can Save Your Life: Escaping the pleasure trap	173
Chapter 16	"Show Me the Data" Removing the cause	187
Chapter 17	True North: The road home	203
	Appendices
	Sample daily menu	210
	Endnotes	211
	References	218
	Index	224

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Workouts for Dummies

Author: Tamilee Webb

Motivate your mind and shape your body with the exercise expertise of international fitness educator Tamilee Webb. Whether you're an avid gym rat or you're just looking for a few simple workout routines to do in the privacy of your own home, Buns of Steel expert Tamilee can help you design a new workout especially geared for your body type and personal goals.

Workouts For Dummies gives you step-by-step instructions and plenty of photos so you can create an exercise program that's perfect for you. Discover the secrets of warming up, cooling down, and stretching; listen to your body to prevent injury or strain; identify your body type and the best workout plan; and start toning and working your upper and lower body. Workouts For Dummies also features practical advice for special workouts at home, in the office, on the road, or in the gym, and a section devoted to workouts for seniors, kids, and pregnant women. So get fit fast in For Dummies style with Tamilee and start feeling like a new person -- the person you really want to be.

	Introduccion	11
Parte 1	La disciplina del yoga
1	El yoga y su alcance	21
2	El yoga fisico y el yoga mental	41
Parte 2	La practica del yoga
3	La practica del hatha-yoga o yoga fisico	61
4	La practica del yoga mental	201
	Apendice I	225
	Apendice II	233

	Introduction to parents, caregivers, and professionals	7
	Sensory smarts	11
	Sensitivity scale	60
	Sensory smarts reward system	62
	Sensory "diets"	70
	Calming and alerting activities	71
	Other fun sensory ideas	74

	Foreword	vii
	Introduction	1
	365 Days of Healthy Eating
	January	5
	February	27
	March	46
	April	67
	May	86
	June	108
	July	129
	August	148
	September	170
	October	191
	November	213
	December	233

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