Beauty & Grooming Book

Teach Yourself Beauty or Living with Parkinsons

2009-12-05T20:17:00.000-08:00

Teach Yourself Beauty: Looking Good and Feeling Great

Author: Yvette Redmond

Be the fairest of them all

Peppered with insider tips from celebrities, top models,and fashion photographers, Teach Yourself Beauty is your complete guide to looking gorgeous. It takes a holisticapproach, offering tips on diet, exercise, skin care, relaxation, and lifelong body care. And, of course, with the help of numerous full-color illustrations and photos, it shares everything about the artful use of cosmetics for all ages and every occasion.

Yvette Redmond

Living with Parkinson's: A Guide for the Patient and Caregiver

Author: David Carroll

An accessible and vastly informative guide for the more than one million Americans who suffer from Parkinson's Disease.

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction or The Fasting Cure

2009-12-04T16:06:00.000-08:00

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction

Author: Stephanie Marohn

Your life may have been turned upside down and inside out by addiction, but if you're reading this, you've already taken the first step to recovery: admission of the problem.

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction offers proven natural solutions for addiction to anything from alcohol and cigarettes to drugs, painkillers, sex, gambling, food, and more. An approach to recovery that is based on natural medicine can reverse addictive behaviors and return you to a productive life free from addiction.

Accomplished health journalist Stephanie Marohn presents the work of eight prominent health practitioners whose array of addiction-reversing therapies include amino acid therapy, neurotransmitter restoration, allergy elimination, herbal medicine, flower essence therapy, heavy metal detoxification, psychospiritual work, and others.

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction gives you the tools to uncover the hidden factors that contribute to addiction such as genetic vulnerability, stress, allergies, and nutritional and hormonal imbalances. You'll read what recovering addicts have to say -- in their own words -- about the natural medicine approaches that have changed their lives for the better. Most importantly, The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction gives you the necessary resources to get beyond merely coping, to reach a real recovery that lasts a lifetime.

	Introduction	xiii
Part I	The Basics of Addiction
1	What Is Addiction and Who Suffers from it?	3
2	Causes, Contributors, and Influences	26
Part II	Natural Medicine Treatments for Addiction
3	The Biochemistry of Addiction: Amino Acids and Neurotransmitter Restoration	59
4	Allergies and Addiction: NAET	82
5	Energy Medicine I: Traditional Chinese Medicine	96
6	Energy Medicine II: Flower Essence Therapy	113
7	The Five Levels of Healing	137
8	Energy, Trauma, and Spirit: Thought Field Therapy and Seemorg Matrix Work	159
9	Psychic Healing	175
	Conclusion	193
Appendix	Resources	195
	Endnotes	201
	Index	217
	About the Author	225

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The Fasting Cure

Author: Upton Sinclair

Upton Sinclair was not only a prolifc and much admired author, but also a follower of Bernarr MacFadden's Physical Culture movement (see his Physical Culture Cook Book, 1901) and a member of the editorial staff of Physical Culture Magazine. Dedicated to MacFadden, this 1911 volume advocates the benefits of systematic fasting in producing long-lasting health benefits.

Pilates Personal Trainer or Pilates Personal Trainer Powerhouse Abs Workout

2009-12-03T11:55:00.000-08:00

Pilates Personal Trainer: Back Strengthening Workout

Author: Michael King

The easy starter program outlined here teaches Pilates exercises that are appropriate for strengthening the back in a safe and healthy manner. Dozens of photo sequences are featured in a simple-to-use lay-flat binding.

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Pilates Personal Trainer Powerhouse Abs Workout: Illustrated Step-by-Step Matwork Routine (Pilates Personal Trainer Series)

Author: Michael King

Add this advanced workout to your balanced Pilates program and take your abs to the next level. The high-intensity exercises in this book will strengthen and tone your abdominal muscles, giving you a flattened and sculpted mid-section. Michael King and Yolande Green, professional Pilates instructors with over 20 years experience, teach you proper Pilates techniques, including breathing, posture, control and concentration.

Total Concentration or The ECO Foods Guide

2009-12-02T07:44:00.000-08:00

Total Concentration: How to Understand Attention Deficit Disorder, Maximize Your Mental Energy and Reach Your Full Potential

Author: Harold N Levinson

This is the best book I have seen so far which describes Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder.--ADD Resources

	A Personal Note to Readers
	Preface
Ch. I	Introduction	1
Ch. II	Is There a Physiological Basis for Your Concentration Problems?: A Self-Test	3
Ch. III	Trapped in a Nightmare	10
Ch. IV	Attention Deficit Disorder: Diagnosis "By the Numbers"	26
Ch. V	Why Can't Josh Concentrate? A Search for the Truth	35
Ch. VI	Paths to a New Discovery	44
Ch. VII	A Model for Concentration	56
Ch. VIII	A New Way of Looking at ADD	65
Ch. IX	Completing the Picture of ADD	86
Ch. X	Psychologically Determined Concentration Disorders - Acquired Types I and II	102
Ch. XI	ADD and the Inner Ear	119
Ch. XII	Understanding the Symptoms and Inner-Ear Mechanisms of ADD	127
Ch. XIII	Responses to Medication	149
Ch. XIV	Transformations: More Responses to Medication	167
Ch. XV	Free of the Monster at Last	183
Ch. XVI	A Primer For Parents and Teachers: What You Can Do to Help the ADD Child	195
Ch. XVII	Not for Teachers Only: Techniques for Improving Attention	207
Ch. XVIII	Taking Control: How to Manage Stress, Fatigue, and Diet	222
Ch. XIX	Memory: The Black Hole of Neurobiology	239
Ch. XX	Concentration and Visualization	263
	References	279
	Index	292

Book about: Subtle Aromatherapy or Carbophobia

The ECO-Foods Guide: What's Good for the Earth Is Good for You!, Vol. 1

Author: Cynthia Barstow

We are what we eat, as the saying goes. So it follows that if we want to be healthy, we should buy healthy foods. And for foods to be healthy, the earth they grow in also needs to be in good health. This might seem like Ecology 101, but it's what many supermarket shoppers are grappling with nowadays as they try to decide what to feed the family.

The Eco-Foods Guide is a lively conversation with consumers that takes the gloom out of our grocery choices and empowers shoppers to vote with their food dollars for the environment and for a safe future for their grandchildren. Frankenfoods and more have made food shopping so frightening and complex that the result has often been paralysis or denial. But in this optimistic and even humorous jaunt through the topic, sustainable agriculture expert Cynthia Barstow encourages readers to walk away bubbling with opportunities to buy what's best-most of the time-and to even engage with the many others working to effect change in agriculture.

In a straightforward style, The Eco-Foods Guide ex-amines the downside: pesticides and growth hormones, biotechnology and processed foods, manufacturing concentration and animal husbandry, and the overuse of nonrenewable resources. At the same time, it highlights alternatives and solutions, including:

Eating seasonally

Buying local

Reforming school cafeteria menus

Shopping at farmer's markets

Eating at Chef's Collaborative restaurants

Supporting labeling, organic, and IPM production methods

Regarding our food again as sacred

Cynthia Barstow is adjunct faculty at the University ofMassachusetts and an environmental/sustainable agriculture marketing consultant and speaker. Previously VP of marketing for a $3 billion Manhattan restaurant, her clients have included the World Wildlife Fund and the University of Wisconsin Madison "Protected Harvest" eco-label program.

Ginseng the Divine Root or The Pennington Plan

2009-12-01T03:33:00.000-08:00

Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant That Captivated theWorld

Author: David Taylor

The story behind ginseng is as remarkable as the root itself. Prized for its legendary curative powers, ginseng launched the rise to power of China's last great dynasty; inspired battles between France and England; and sparked a boom in Minnesota comparable to the California Gold Rush. It has made and broken the fortunes of many and has inspired a subculture in rural America unrivaled by any herb in the plant kingdom.
Today ginseng is at the very center of alternative medicine, believed to improve stamina, relieve stress, stimulate the immune system, enhance mental clarity, and restore well-being. It is now being studied by medical researchers for the treatment of cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease.
In Ginseng, the Divine Root, David Taylor tracks the path of this fascinating plant—from the forests east of the Mississippi to the bustling streets of Hong Kong and the remote corners of China. He becomes immersed in a world full of wheelers, dealers, diggers, and stealers, all with a common goal: to hunt down the elusive "Root of Life." Weaving together his intriguing adventures with ginseng's rich history, Taylor uncovers a story of international crime, ancient tradition, botany, herbal medicine, and the vagaries of human nature.

Publishers Weekly

Take an ordinary root. Endow it with restorative capacities and a pungent flavor a bit like sarsaparilla or anise. Make it elusive to capture, and you've got a commodity worthy of myth-and, in the case of ginseng, one which will inexplicably boom and bust with the dictates of fashion (unless you live in China, in which case it will be omnipresent). The U.S. is experiencing a ginseng boom at the moment-in the more "rational" mid-century period it fell out of favor-evidenced not only by its frequent appearance on package labels but also by this intelligent, wide-ranging account by documentarian Taylor. Skeptical (though ultimately persuasive) about ginseng's subtle but genuine curative powers, Taylor uses the intriguing substance, prevalent in both China and the eastern U.S., as an occasion to ponder the different approaches to medicine in East and West and to present some amusing characters, including traders, experts and the "ginsengers" who hunt the "sang." There's little doubt that ginseng is as beguiling as Taylor's subtitle suggests-even its biggest American booster is wont to claim, paradoxically, that ginseng is good for "everything, and not really anything." Readers may also want to see Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant by Kristin Johannsen (Reviews, Jan. 2). (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Taylor is no stranger to discovering the secrets of natural history, having done documentary work for the National Geographic and Discovery channels and written for Smithsonian magazine, the Washington Post, and the Village Voice. Here, he takes us on a fascinating tour through ginseng's history, writing in a style that shows he obviously enjoyed his research and the people he met; in his descriptions of natural settings, he reads like a master storyteller. This is not a how-to guide for growing or using ginseng; instead, Taylor describes the cultural, political, and economic roots of ginseng, from China's Qing dynasty to the Colonial Americas to present-day dealers and hunters in Appalachia (where the plant grows). Amazingly, Taylor's prose jumps back and forth in time and place without seeming disjointed or losing flow. Who knew that this unassuming root had such a colorful history and promising future? Highly recommended for East Coast libraries and recommended for all libraries that collect in areas of popular natural history.-Marianne Stowell Bracke, Univ. of Arizona Libs., Tucson Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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The Pennington Plan: 5 Simple Steps for Achieving Vibrant Health, Emotional Well Being and Spiritual Growth

Author: Andrea Pennington

The former medical director and spokesperson for the Discovery Health Channel and Discovery Health Online and founder and president of the Pennington Institute for Health and Wellness offers her five-step plan for achieving wellness.

This empowering guide to balancing the mind, body, and spirit and achieving total wellness-not just freedom from disease-provides a program as practiced by Dr. Andrea Pennington at her wellness institute. In her book, she lays out a practical plan to help readers feel better, overcome chronic health problems, and tap the healing power within. Dr. Pennington's plan encourages readers to:

- deЮne goals that go well beyond the issues of physical health;
- Юnd the motivation to make positive change;
- design a personalized plan for achieving goals;
- chart progress and stay on track; and
- learn the value of celebrating success along the way.

Practical and inspiring, The Pennington Plan will give readers the power to reclaim their health and guide them on their way to total wellness.

Author Biography: Andrea Pennington, M.D., C.Ac., is the founder and president of the Pennington Institute for Health and Wellness in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she joined forces with her mother, Abigail Pennington, M.D., to bring more than thirty-five years of combined experience to the institute's holistic health solutions. The Pennington treatment style blends traditional medicine with fitness and nutritional consultation, inspirational counseling, and motivational support. Dr. Pennington is also the former medical director and spokesperson for the Discovery Health Channel and Discovery Health Online.

Abigail Pennington, M.D., has worked as an internist in private practice for 25 years. She is the cofounder and medical director of the Pennington Institute for Health and Wellness.

Publishers Weekly

Unflaggingly positive, this book promises a roadmap to wellness. For Pennington, who, with her mother, Abigail, cofounded a preventative medicine and holistic health services institute in Maryland, wellness goes far beyond physical health. In this hazily spiritual guide, she addresses states of mind, body and spirit-all of which, she says, must be in balance for optimal well-being. Pennington's advice, while sometimes New Agey, is broad enough for most readers and applicable to almost any goal, whether it's eating more healthfully, overcoming an addiction or finding a more meaningful career. For example, Pennington ends each chapter with a list of "affirmations," which range from "I will access my spirit regularly for guidance and peace" to "I will use the vision of myself enjoying my motivating factors to keep me on course." (Pennington also suggests quieting the mind by "practicing yoga or chanting at least two or three times each week.") Detailed stories from the author's patients help enforce the value of her advice, and her concrete, five-step plan, with its in-depth information on defining goals, devising a strategy and getting started, charting progress and celebrating success, ensures that readers will come away from this book closer to a state of holistic wellness. (Jan.) Forecast: Pennington has appeared on Oprah and The Jane Pauley Show. Her extensive Web site will soon be selling products, and if that move is matched by an aggressive marketing campaign, book sales should soar. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Christiane Northrup
Dr. Andrea Pennington is practicing the medicine of the future now. The Pennington Plan is beaming with wisdom.
—M.D., author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

Wayne Dyer
This Pennington Plan is filled with life-changing energy. Read it carefully.
—author of THE POWER OF INTENTION

	Introduction : the Pennington plan and how to use it	1
1	Wellness is your birthright - and you have the power to reclaim it	7
2	Spirit : the source of wellness	25
3	Mind : the great governor of life	43
4	Body : battered warhorse or royal chariot?	75
5	Requirements : desire, belief, and dedication	105
6	Step 1 : define your goals	115
7	Step 2 : define your motivations	135
8	Step 3 : devise a plan and get started!	143
9	Step 4 : chart your progress	159
10	Step 5 : celebrate your success	171
	Conclusion : applying the Pennington plan in your life	181

Fat Proof Your Family or Herbs and Nutrients for the Mind

2009-11-29T23:22:00.000-08:00

Fat-Proof Your Family: God's Way to Forming Healthy Habits for Life

Author: J RonMD Eaker

Improve Your Family's Future Today

Are you tired of losing weight that inevitably comes back? Are you concerned about your kids' health and want to be a fit family? If so, this book is for you.

The key to long-term success is to get the entire family involved in a healthy lifestyle. Not only does motivation jump when you realize the influence you have on your spouse and kids, but healthy habits are so much easier--and satisfying--when people you love enjoy them too. In Fat-Proof Your Family, Dr. Ron Eaker presents simple, practical, and livable ways to lose fat and achieve lasting health and wellness. Together you can:

• Stop the cycle of family-related weight problems

• Get fit with uncomplicated, age-specific goals and plans

• Pursue physical and emotional and spiritual health

• Enjoy variety rather than endure restrictions

• Learn what really works, based on science not fad

This isn't a pie-in-the-sky approach. And it's not about quick fixes, secret formulas, or even diets (they don't work!). The "Fat-Proof" lifestyle is for normal, busy families like yours. It represents hope for a better life now and in the future. As a parent, it's one of the best gifts you can give yourself and your children.

Regan Windsor - curledup.com

Fat-Proof Your Family provides a holistic approach to health that fills the void found in most health or diet books.... a guidebook for developing healthy habits for all aspects of health. While the book is written from the Christian perspective, the idea of holistic health works no matter what your spiritual orientation. To be healthy is truly a lifelong journey encompassing physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Jennifer Donovan - 5MinutesforMom.com

Dr. Eaker maintains that nothing happens in a vacuum, and so healthy living is more attainable when the whole family is involved. This really hit home with me. When I try to eat better for myself, I can often fail, but when I resolve to help my family eat healthier, that extra bit of motivation often helps me along.

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Herbs and Nutrients for the Mind: A Guide to Natural Brain Enhancers (Complementary and Alternative Medicine Series)

Author: Chris D Meletis

Two naturopaths introduce the world of brain biochemistry, translating the science into laymen's terms, so that the reader can understand the potential power of herbs and nutrients to enhance health, prevent disorders, and affect existing health disorders. These alternatives, or supplements, to medication are being used across the country to help treat health conditions with a psychological component--from ADHD and anorexia to insomnia, menopause, and Parkinson's Disease. Authors Meletis and Barker explain 18 of these conditions, and review the most current research into how--or whether--the use of herbs and supplements has been proven to prevent, affect or remove these health conditions, or at least some of their symptoms.

Feeding Your Appetites or Half a Brain Is Enough

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

Feeding Your Appetites

Author: Stephen Arterburn

Helps the reader understand our God-given appetites and how to short-circuit out-of-control cravings and achieve lasting change by satisfying natural hungers.Learn to control the things that control you!

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Half a Brain Is Enough: The Story of Nico

Author: Antonio M Battro

Half a Brain is Enough is the extraordinary story of Nico, a three-year-old boy who was given a right hemispherectomy to control his severe intractable epilepsy. Antonio Battro, a distinguished neuroscientist and educationalist, describes his work with Nico over several years and explains how a boy with only half a brain has developed into a bright child with relatively minor physical and mental impairment.Eight years later, he runs and plays with only a slight limp. So far, there is no significant cognitive or affective disorder and it appears that Nico's so-called right-hemisphere skills--mathematics, visual arts, and music--have migrated to the left hemisphere. At school, he performs as a child of his age in arithmetic and music; only his draftsmanship and handwriting are poor for his age, but he has not lost his cognitive spatial ability. Battro and his colleagues have been studying and teaching Nico with computers and he is mastering written language with a word processor and is able to make good graphic designs with a computer. Nico performs well above average verbally, a left-brain skill. Battro charts what he calls Nico's "neuroeducation" with humor and compassion in a book that is part case history and part a study of consciousness and the brain. Filled with fascinating details about Nico's abilities, Half a Brain is Enough also includes the latest information about brain surgery, neuronal architecture, and the use of technology in education. Throughout the book, it is clear that Battro and his collleagues are delighted with Nico's progress and grateful for the opportunity to help him and learn with him.Antonio Battro received his MD from the School of Medicine at theUniversity of Buenos Aires and his PhD in Psychology from the University of Paris. He has worked with Jean Piaget, Marvin Minsky, and others and is well known around the world for his publications in cognitive development. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Journal of American Medical Association - Gregory Kane

Beethoven composed his Ninth Symphony when he was deaf. A motorcycle is steered to the left by turning the front wheel right. Some things we believe because, even though they seem impossible, someone we trust says that they are true. It's like that with the little boy in Dr Antonio Battro's book, Half a Brain is Enough: The Story of Nico. Nico has half a brain–and a complete mind. Battro is so expert and likable and forthright that you come away from his book not only knowing Nico's story is true, but sharing his awe at that amazing fact.

Publishers Weekly

Nico is a remarkable eight-year-old boy who possesses a slight limp, an affinity for his laptop computer and a "well-kept secret inside his skull." At the age of three, doctors treated Nico's intractable epilepsy by excising the entire right hemisphere of his brain, a procedure conducted only on fairly young children (because of the greater plasticity of their brains) who experience severe seizures. In a brief academic analysis of the brain's compensatory capacity, Battro, a cognitive psychologist who has worked with Nico, compares the boy's rapid progression to developmental theories offered by Jean Piaget and other prominent psychologists. Supporting his own hypothesis that a half brain is a new brain, Battro notes that Nico's musical abilities, motor capabilities (when using a mouse and a keyboard) and attention span have all developed normally despite the fact that many researchers have determined that these functions are mediated by the right hemisphere. Nico's intact left hemisphere, Battro postulates, has acquired these skills and is a whole brain in itself. The only major deficit that Nico has yet to overcome concerns his poor drawing and handwriting skills, a handicap that Battro sought to conquer by giving him an "information prosthesis"--a computer. Now Nico can draw and type on the computer better than anyone in his class, and he has recently discovered the virtues of e-mail and computer programming. Although this technical and theoretical examination will not appeal to the lay reader, Battro's computer-based approach to rehabilitation should interest both clinicians and biopsychologists. (Feb. 1) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Tattoo or Toxic Churches

2009-02-20T16:34:00.000-08:00

Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West

Author: Nicholas Thomas

The history of tattooing is shrouded in controversy. Citing the Polynesian derivation of the word “tattoo,” many scholars and tattoo enthusiasts have believed that the modern practice of tattooing originated in the Pacific, and specifically in the contacts between Captain Cook's seamen and the Tahitians. Tattoo demonstrates that while the history of tattooing is far more complex than this, Pacific body arts have provided powerful stimuli to the West intermittently from the eighteenth century to the present day. The essays collected here document the extraordinary, intertwined histories of processes of cultural exchange and Pacific tattoo practices. Art historians, anthropologists, and scholars of Oceania provide a transcultural history of tattooing in and beyond the Pacific.

The contributors examine the contexts in which Pacific tattoos were “discovered” by Europeans, track the history of the tattooing of Europeans visiting the region, and look at how Pacific tattooing was absorbed, revalued, and often suppressed by agents of European colonization. They consider how European art has incorporated tattooing, and they explore contemporary manifestations of Pacific tattoo art, paying particular attention to the different trajectories of Samoan, Tahitian, and Maori tattooing and to the meaning of present-day appropriations of tribal tattoos. New research has uncovered a rich visual archive of centuries-old tattoo images, and this richly illustrated volume includes a number of those—many published here for the first time—alongside images of contemporary tattooing in Polynesia and Europe. Tattoo offers a tantalizing glimpse into the plethora of stories and cross-cultural encounters that lie between the blood on a sailor's backside in the eighteenth century and the hammering of a Samoan tattoo tool in the twenty-first.

Contributors. Peter Brunt, Anna Cole, Anne D'Alleva, Bronwen Douglas, Elena Govor, Makiko Kuwahara, Sean Mallon, Linda Waimarie Nikora, Mohi Rua, Cyril Siorat, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Nicholas Thomas, Joanna White

“Marking the body is a unique act of social and aesthetic primacy. The authors of Tattoo bring these extraordinary body-marking traditions to life, elucidating in a range of sites and perspectives both the historic and contemporary importance of these forms. Through the lens of this engaging, insightful, and multidisciplinary volume, body practice and theory, history and sociology, art and ritual, East and West not only not only rub up against each other, but also inform and transform each other.”—Suzanne Preston Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
“This historically rigorous and theoretically nuanced collection of essays takes the reader on a global journey marked by successive phases of incomprehension, clash, desire, appropriation, and indigenous renewal. Through their meticulous chartings of the permutations of local differences, changing constructs of art, and shifting power relations the book produces critical new understandings of the process of cross-cultural translation—and its impossibility—indispensable to students of world systems of art and culture.”—Ruth Phillips, Canada Research Chair in Modern Culture and Professor of Art History, Carleton University

Nicholas Thomas is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His books include Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook and Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters of Louis Becke and Vernon Lee Walker, published by Duke University Press. In 2002, he co-curated “Skin Deep: The History of Tattooing” at the National Maritime Museum in London.

Anna Cole is the Research Coordinator of the “Tatau/Tattoo: Embodied Art and Cultural Exchange” project based at Goldsmiths College.

Bronwen Douglas is a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. She is the author of Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology.

	Introduction	7
1	'Cureous figures' : European voyagers and Tatau/tattoo in Polynesia, 1595-1800	33
2	'Speckled bodies' : Russian voyagers and Nuku Hivans, 1804	53
3	Marks of transgression : the tattooing of Europeans in the Pacific Islands	72
4	Christian skins : Tatau and the evangelization of the Society Islands and Samoa	90
5	Governing tattoo : reflections on a colonial trial	109
6	The temptation of Brother Anthony : decolonization and the tattooing of Tony Fomison	123
7	Samoan Tatau as global practice	145
8	Multiple skins : space, time and tattooing in Tahiti	171
9	Wearing Moko : Maori facial marking in today's world	191
10	Beyond modern primitivism	205
	Epilogue : embodied exchanges and their limits	223

Interesting textbook: Uninsured in America or Great Feet for Life

Toxic Churches: Restoration from Spiritual Abuse

Author: Marc Dupont

Spiritual abuse devastates its victims perhaps more than any other form of violation, because it targets those who are most unprepared and vulnerable. In Toxic Churches, Marc Dupont reaches out to those who have given their time, money, and talents to the Body of Christ, only to find themselves hurting, frustrated, and confused. He also writes to Christian leaders who may have inadvertently hurt the flock of God entrusted to their care.

This book explores all aspects of spiritual abuse in the church. With care and tenderness, Dupont offers help and hope to those caught in abusive situations-people who might even be blaming themselves. He provides a healing balm to those with residual pain from past abuse. And he warns those engaging in abusive behavior, flagging telltale signs of warped and broken patterns. Those who have been used or abused by church leaders will find a deeper understanding of God's healing grace-both for themselves and for those who hurt them.

Tweakers or The Easy Fitness Workbook

2009-02-19T12:22:00.000-08:00

Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America

Author: Frank Sanello

Drawing upon conversations with addicts as well as experts in the gay community and at drug treatment centers, journalist Frank Sanello examines how crystal-meth abuse is reaching epidemic levels among gay men, and how almost one-third of the new cases of HIV are caused by the decreased mental capacity associated with crystal. Tweakers get a quick, cheap high, an exhilarating loss of inhibition and increased stamina at the price of permanent behavioral changes, brain damage and death.

Frank Sanello is a Los Angeles-based journalist whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and the New York Times Syndicate. He is the author of Opium Wars, The Knights Templar and To Kill a King.

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The Easy Fitness Workbook: The Complete Fitness Class in a Book

Author: Lorna Lee Malcolm

Get all the benefits of a personal trainer—in a book! This unique spiral-bound workbook and CD set presents a complete fitness program that targets three key areas: cardiovascular health, muscle strength, and suppleness. The twenty exercises that make up the plan’s core can be done in isolation, to focus on specific areas or train for a particular sport, or as part of a general full-body workout. And they can easily be modified to suit any level of ability. The 60-minute audio CD features spoken instructions for all the exercises in sequence, plus the warm up and cool-down: the result is an expertly guided, safe workout. Additionally, there’s an enlightening explanation of the basic principles of fitness and anatomy, and advice on creating a regime you can stick with.

Conquering Eating Disorders or Complete Guide to Gluten Free and Dairy Free Cooking

2009-02-18T08:10:00.000-08:00

Conquering Eating Disorders: How Family Communication Heals

Author: Sue Cooper

Tracey Desperately Wanted to look like the celebrities she saw in magazines. She would do anything to have their thin, flawless bodies. Skipping breakfast and eating an apple for lunch became routine. Meat began to disgust her. The pounds melted off and people noticed. "You look so good. You are so thin." Comments led to a tighter control on intake and more angst around anyone who tried to get in the way of what she was doing. It was working. It felt good. It was out of control. One out of every one hundred young women is anorexic. Four out of every one hundred are bulimic.

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Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking: Over 200 Delicious Recipes

Author: Glenis Lucas

More and more people are discovering that they’re allergic to wheat or dairy products. But finding interesting, affordable, and simple meals without those ingredients has been a challenge…until now. With this appetizing collection of over 200 gluten-free and dairy-free recipes, it’s easy to enjoy a wide variety of delicious and healthy foods, from soup and salad to incredible entrees including a surprisingly large selection of breads, pastries, desserts, and drinks. No one will feel deprived with such fabulous-tasting dishes as Beef Stroganoff; Celery, Leek & Fennel Quiche; and Light Whisked Chocolate Sponge Cake to dig into. There’s also essential information on the differences between a classical allergy and intolerance, diagnosis and treatment of allergies, and special deficiencies and sensitivities to food and drink.

Exercise Balls for Dummies or The Doctors Guide to Gastrointestinal Health

2009-02-17T03:58:00.000-08:00

Exercise Balls for Dummies

Author: LaReine Chabut

If you want to shape up or lose weight, get on the ball!

It’s inexpensive. It’s something you can do at home. It’s effective!

However, unless you have a personal trainer, using the exercise ball correctly to get maximum results can be tricky. That’s where Exercise Balls For Dummies comes in. You’ll discover how to turn an ordinary workout into a super workout that builds strength, increases flexibility, and sculpts a great-looking body. The book includes:

• Step-by-step details on using exercise balls in your regular workout program

• Tips on selecting and maintaining equipment

• Illustrated exercises covering a complete muscle workout: shoulders and upper back; biceps, triceps, and forearms; chest abdominals and lower back; legs and hips: flexibility in general

• Specific applications for Pilates, weight training, stretching, and aerobic exercise

• Mat workout routines

Admitted couch potatoes can start at the beginning; fitness fanatics can jump right in and integrate the exercise ball into their routines. Exercise Balls For Dummies was written by LaReine Chabut, a fitness model, actress, and writer who owns a women’s workout spa and stars in workout videos. Of course, she makes it look easy!

Introduction.

Part I: Rolling Exercise Balls into Your Fitness Program.

Chapter 1: Having a Ball Getting Fit.

Chapter 2: Choosing the Right Ball for You.

Chapter 3: Feeding and Caring for Your Ball.

Chapter 4: Gathering Your Gear and Getting Ready.

Part II: Workouts to Have a Ball With.

Chapter 5: Warming Up Your Body.

Chapter 6: A Swimmer’s Body: Shoulders and Upper Back.

Chapter 7: Shapely, Sexy Arms.

Chapter 8: Walking Tall: Chest, Abdominals, and Lower Back.

Chapter 9: Booty Patrol: Working the Butt, Legs, and Hips.

Chapter 10: Cool It! Wrapping Up Your Workout with Easy Moves and Stretches.

Chapter 11: Total Body Workout-in-One.

Part III: Variety Is the Spice of Life: Doing Different Activities on the Ball.

Chapter 12: Core Values: Pilates on the Ball.

Chapter 13: Gaining Muscle Power: Weight Training.

Chapter 14: Easy Stretch Workout on the Ball.

Chapter 15: Cardio and Go: Aerobic Exercise with the Ball.

Chapter 16: Adding Accessories to Your Workout on the Ball.

Chapter 17: Bending Over Backward: Yoga on the Ball.

Part IV: Using Exercise Balls in Special Circumstances.

Chapter 18: Come On, Mama! Pregnancy Workout.

Chapter 19: Senior Citizens Get on the Ball.

Chapter 20: Every Kid Loves a Ball.

Part V: ThePart of Tens.

Chapter 21: Ten Changes You Can Expect to See in Your Body.

Chapter 22: Ten Groups That Can Use the Ball.

Chapter 23: Ten Activities That Complement Your Ball Workout.

Chapter 24: Ten Things You Can’t (Or at Least Shouldn’t) Do with Your Ball.

Index.

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The Doctor's Guide to Gastrointestinal Health

Author: Marian Betancourt

"This is the reference guide you dream about—answers to all your important questions written in a language you can understand. For everyone who wants better health and peace of mind."

—Diane Sawyer, Co-anchor of ABC News' Good Morning America and PrimeTime Thursday

"An important, practical, easy-to-read, and easy-to-understand source of information for anyone with a chronic gastrointestinal problem."

—Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and bestselling author

Digestive ailments, whether mild or life-threatening, are a major concern for millions of people—and they can be difficult to diagnose and treat. Now, in this essential reference book, Dr. Paul Miskovitz, a physician at one of the world's top medical institutions, helps you understand the causes, symptoms, diagnoses, and medical treatments for a wide range of gastrointestinal disorders—everything from heartburn to IBS to hepatitis C.

This comprehensive, user-friendly guide begins with an overview of how your gastrointestinal system works and how it is affected by lifestyle, age, and emotions. Dr. Miskovitz then explains the disorders that can affect your esophagus, stomach, intestine, gallbladder, liver, pancreas, colon, and abdominal cavity—revealing how to identify and treat problems and, in most cases, prevent them. You'll also learn how to:

• Maintain a healthy gastrointestinal system through diet, exercise, checkups, and screenings

• Find the right gastroenterologist for you

• Identify symptoms and get anaccurate diagnosis

• Prevent gastrointestinal problems when you travel

Complete with a list of organizations that provide information and support, The Doctor's Guide to Gastrointestinal Health is the ultimate resource for you and your family.

Touch in Early Development or Stress Workload and Fatigue

2009-02-15T23:46:00.000-08:00

Touch in Early Development

Author: Tiffany M Field

A symposium titled, "Touch in Infancy" was held to celebrate the opening of the first Touch Research Institute in the world. Although touch is the largest sense organ in the body, it is the one that had been the most neglected and the only one to just recently have a research institute. Designed to conduct basic research on touch and on the skin, the institute will work with wellness programs such as massage therapy and other kinds of touch therapies to facilitate better health and to treat various diseases. The institute's opening symposium featured presentations from several of the world's leading experts in infant development. Published in this volume, their work addresses the relevance of touch to the neonate's well-being.

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Stress, Workload and Fatigue

Author: Peter A Hancock

The purpose of this volume is to seek out, describe, and explain the shared commonalities of stress, fatigue, and workload. To understand and predict human performance response, we have to reach beyond the sterile, information-processing models to incorporate the emotive, affective, or more generally, energetic aspects of cognition. These facets of behavior surface most readily when the individual acts under stress, is faced by significant cognitive workload, or is in the grip of fatigue. However, energetic characteristics are pervasive and exert a vital and ubiquitous influence, even when they are not obviously in play as in extreme circumstances. Indeed, one cannot hope to understand behavior without their inclusion and integration into models and theories. This text addresses such theoretical questions as one of its main thrusts. However, in addition to the drive for scientific understanding, there are requirements in our progressively more utilitarian society which generate the need for a more fundamental understanding of this particular topic.

Booknews

The Human Factors in Transportation series is intended as a forum for researchers and engineers in human factors, ergonomics, transportation engineering, experimental psychology, cognitive science, sociology, and safety engineering. In this volume, each of the three sections<-- >focusing on the components of stress, mental workload, and fatigue<-- >includes both theoretical and practical perspectives. Topics covered in 35 chapters include: stress and teams; stress in ambulance staff and among women police officers; safety effects from in-vehicle information systems; stress, workload, and boredom during tasks requiring vigilance; commercial driver fatigue; and examining work schedules for fatigue. Most chapters focus on the use of surface vehicles; a few are concerned with aviation and maritime systems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Series Foreword
	Preface
1.1	Levels of Transaction: A Cognitive Science Framework for Operator Stress	5
1.2	An Information-Processing Model of Operator Stress and Performance	34
1.3	Stress and Teams: Performance Effects and Interventions	83
1.4	On Grasping a Nettle and Becoming Emotional	107
1.5	A Transactional Model of Driver Stress	133
1.6	Stress in Ambulance Staff	167
1.7	Women Police: The Impact of Work Stress on Family Members	200
1.8	Stress and Driving Performance: Implications for Design and Training	211
1.9	A Strategic Approach to Organizational Stress Management	235
1.10	The Future of Human Performance and Stress Research: A New Challenge	249
2.1	Stress, Workload, and Boredom in Vigilance: A Problem and an Answer	267
2.2	An Autonomic Space Approach to the Psychophysiological Assessment of Mental Workload	279
2.3	How Unexpected Events Produce an Escalation of Cognitive and Coordinative Demands	290
2.4	Adaptive Control of Mental Workload	305
2.5	Assessment of Drivers' Workload: Performance and Subjective and Physiological Indexes	321
2.6	Automation and Workload in Aviation Systems	334
2.7	Causes, Measures, and Effects of Driver Visual Workload	351
2.8	The Value of Workload in the Design and Analysis of Consumer Products	373
2.9	Workload and Air Traffic Control	384
2.10	Secondary-Task Measures of Driver Workload	395
2.11	Evaluating Safety Effects of In-Vehicle Information Systems	409
2.12	The Human Capacity for Work: A (Biased) Historical Perspective	429
2.13	Workload and Situation Awareness	443
3.1	Active and Passive Fatigue States	455
3.2	Defining Fatigue as a Condition of the Organism and Distinguishing It From Habituation, Adaptation, and Boredom	466
3.3	Mental Effort Regulation and the Functional Impairment of the Driver	479
3.4	A Heavy Vehicle Drowsy Driver Detection and Warning System: Scientific Issues and Technical Challenges	503
3.5	Examining Work Schedules for Fatigue: It's Not Just Hours of Work	513
3.6	Managing Fatigue in the RoadTransport Industry: An Occupational Safety and Health Solution	531
3.7	Broadening Our View of Effective Solutions to Commercial Driver Fatigue	550
3.8	Fatigue and Workload in the Maritime Industry	566
3.9	An Overview of Fatigue	581
3.10	Coping With Driver Fatigue: Is the Long Journey Nearly Over?	596
3.11	What Is Stress and What Is Fatigue?	607
3.12	Stress, Workload, and Fatigue as Three Biobehavioral States: A General Overview	623
	Author Index	641
	Subject Index	663

Healing Images or Power Taiji

2009-02-14T19:33:00.000-08:00

Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health

Author: Anees A Sheikh

In the Foreword to this new work, the Dalai Lama writes, "The reality of human existence includes our experience of illness, suffering and death. Pretending that we are not sick when we are, or that we will never die, would be as foolish as to deny the possibility of ever getting well.

"As living beings, we all wish for happiness and seek to avoid suffering. One of the major factors here is our mental attitude. Physical health is closely related to our state of mind. Scientific experiments have shown that if the mind is stable and calm, basic physical functions like digestion and sleep improve. On the other hand, when someone is mentally distressed, even the presence of friends, comfort and wealth will not make them happy."

Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health details the function and capacity of imagination in health. This work consists of 22 chapters and discusses theory, research, and clinical applications. Presented is a brief history of the use of imagery for healing in both Eastern and Western traditions, a review of research that deals with the physiological consequences of imagery and related approaches, and an explanation of how images lead to such bodily changes. Healing Images covers the latest theory and research on the relationship between imagery, cerebral laterality, and healing. An attempt is also made to integrate modern systems theory with concepts of information and energy, which disclose the role of imagery and love in health. Imagery and music in health are also discussed.

Healing Images examines how and why mental images help in connecting with our inner wisdom and covers in detail applications of imagery in pain management, smoking cessation, weight management, sex therapy, and the treatment of phobic disorders, eating disorders, cardiovascular disorders, depression, trauma, and cancer. This volume also explores imagery in intuition and spiritual development and includes a discussion of transpersonal and death images along with their implications for health and growth.

Larry Dossey

Healing Images may prove to be the bible in the role of imagination in health. Dr. Anees Sheikh helped invent this field, and he remains one of the foremost authorities in the world. All interested in how mind and body interact should acquaint themselves with this important work.—M.D., Author: Healing Beyond the Body and Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine

Joan Boryserko

This is an exceptional book for health professionals who are seriously interested in adding imagery to their therapeutic repertoire.—Ph.D., Author: Minding the Body, Mending the Mind and Inner Peace for Busy People: 52 Simple Strategies for Transforming Your Life

Booknews

These 22 contributions extol the increasingly recognized as legitimate therapeutic uses of mental imagery. Sheikh (psychology, Marquette U.; psychiatry and behavioral medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin) contributes to introductory chapters on healing images viewed historically and physiologically. Other theoretical/ research-oriented papers discuss issues of how images can heal, a model linking imagery with right brain stimulation and stress reduction, an "info-energy" model integrating conventional and complementary medicine for understanding imagery's role, and approaches mixing music with imagery. Clinical applications such as treating pain and guiding spiritual growth are also addressed. The book includes a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Power Taiji

Author: Erle Montaigu

Move beyond the healing aspects of taiji and explore its martial side. You'll learn fast and explosive forms, as well as the slow-moving form that promotes the balance, coordination and timing needed for any fighting art. You'll also learn to augment your store of qi and channel it effectively in life-threatening situations. For academic study only.

Passion for Protein or The Manual That Should Have Come with Your Body

2009-02-13T15:21:00.000-08:00

Passion for Protein: High-Protein, Low-Carbohydrate Recipes for Food Lovers

Author: Henry Harris

Inspired by his wife's example following a well-known diet, Henry devised his own high protein, low carbohydrate regime with recipes that are both healthy and designed for food lovers. Within four months he had lost 28 poounds and was feeling healthier and more energetic, while still enjoying the foods he loved. The particular genius of his recipes is in the clever ways he finds of replacing — or living without — the carbohydrates traditionally paired with favorite proteins. As well as the more obvious chapters on meat, fish, salads and vegetables, etc., Henry provides help for the dieter where it is really needed, with selections on breakfasts, snacks, and quick easy dishes. There are also complete menus for entertaining.

The Manual That Should Have Come with Your Body: You Only Have One Body and It Must Last a Lifetime

Author: Cindy Heroux

The Manual That Should Have Come with Your Body tells you everything you need to know to keep your body running in peak condition. From nutrition and fitness, to living a less stressful life and how to get a good night's sleep, The Manual is filled with clear, concise, and practical information based on the latest research. It includes Basic Operating Instructions to help you achieve optimal health and wellness, Important Safety Precautions to reduce your risk of illness and injury, and a Preventative Maintenance schedule with guidelines on when to see your health care professionals for routine service. Your body didn't come with a warranty and you can't trade it in for a new one if it breaks down. If you want to feel great, look your best, and live the longest, healthiest life possible, The Manual That Should Have Come with Your Body is the one book you must have!

	Preface: Why You Need This Manual for Your Body	vii
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction: Your Life is in Your Hands	xiii
Part 1	Basic Operating Instructions
I.	Eat
Chapter 1	You Really Are What You Eat	5
Chapter 2	Let The Fluids Flow!	23
Chapter 3	To Carb or Not to Carb?	33
Chapter 4	Protein's Proper Place	43
Chapter 5	Fat: Friend and Foe	49
Chapter 6	Micronutrients: Small but Mighty	61
Chapter 7	Buying & Preparing Healthier Food	71
Chapter 8	A Roadmap for Restaurant Dining	87
II.	Move
Chapter 9	Get Your Body in Gear and Move!	95
Chapter 10	Activity	99
Chapter 11	Exercise	103
III.	Relax
Chapter 12	Put the Brakes on Stress	123
Chapter 13	Living a Less Stressful Life	131
Chapter 14	Relaxation Techniques	147
IV.	Sleep
Chapter 15	Recharging Your Batteries	167
Chapter 16	Getting a Good Night's Sleep	177
Chapter 17	Sleep Disorders	185
Part 2	Important Safety Precautions
Chapter 18	Safer Sex	191
Chapter 19	Tobacco Products	193
Chapter 20	Marijuana and Alcohol	199
Chapter 21	Over the Counter Medications	203
Chapter 22	Dietary Supplements and Herbs	207
Chapter 23	Protecting Yourself Outdoors	211
Chapter 24	Avoiding Exposure to Chemicals	221
Chapter 25	Food Safety	227
Chapter 26	General Safety Guidelines	233
Part 3	Preventative Maintenance
Chapter 27	Preventative Maintenance Schedule	237
Chapter 28	Tune-Ups	241
Chapter 29	Taking Care of Your Teeth	243
Chapter 30	Heart Health	245

Caring and Social Justice or Healing the Heart of the World

2009-02-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

Caring and Social Justice

Author: Marian Barnes

Drawing extensively on real-life examples, Caring and Social Justice reveals an uplifting alternative approach to caring that highlights its contribution to social cohesion and social justice. It offers a clear overview of the literature including debates about an "ethic of care" as well as a thought-provoking survey ideal for undergraduate and graduate study.

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Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and Your Planet

Author: Dawson Church

At the core of your being, what are the joys and the wounds that live most vividly in you? What touches the most vulnerable parts of you? Now imagine our beautiful sentient planet Earth. What are the joys and wounds that touch her most deeply? What is the healing touch she longs for? In what ways can you bind the wounds that afflict her heart?

These are some of the powerful questions asked by the thirty-three writers whose profound wisdom is collected in this book. From the core of their hearts to the core of the world's heart, they explore the issues and inspirations that lie at the center of the dilemmas facing humankind on the cusp of becoming a planetary species. Drawing on a rich variety of backgrounds, these entrepreneurs, doctors, educators, executives, healers, and leaders offer the personal and global solutions that point the way to a sane, hopeful and sustainable future.

*Contributors include many best-selling authors: John Gray, Caroline Myss, Prince Charles, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jean Shinoda Bolen, and Peter Russell
*Builds on the success of Elite's two previous anthologies, The Heart of Healing and Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves.
*Editor and some of the co-authors appear on many radio shows, television shows, and online sites.

Chakras and Esoteric Healing or NOPINESE HENOPALISTS HANDBOOK

2009-02-11T06:56:00.000-08:00

Chakras and Esoteric Healing

Author: Zachary Lansdown

Examines the relationship between chakras, states of consciousness, and pranic, telepathic and radiatory healing. Vital to healing is his discussion of meditation, self-hypnosis, spiritual development, psychic opening and telepath.

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NOPINESE HENOPALIST'S HANDBOOK: A PRACTITIONER'S REF

Author: Dagmar Ehling

The Chinese Herbalist's Handbook is a new tool for prescribing and modifying herbal formulas. This book makes the practice of herbs easily accessible to Chinese medical practitioners and students. For practitioners who rely upon patent herbal formulas, but would like to custom-tailor formulas to each patient's unique needs, this book demystifies the process, with instructions and exhaustive cross-referencing and indexing.

Clinical Oncology or Complete Idiots Guide to Walking for Health

2009-02-10T02:44:00.000-08:00

Clinical Oncology: Basic Principles and Practice

Author: Anthony J Neal

Now in its third edition, this comprehensive but concise textbook covering all aspects of modern cancer treatment has firmly become established as a favorite with residents, medical students and other health care professionals. The text considers the whole breadth of cancer medicine, from epidemiology, aetiology, pathogenesis and presentation through to diagnosis, staging, management and prognosis for any given malignancy.
For the 3rd edition, new developments in cancer treatments and more comprehensive coverage of tumor biology, palliative care, ethics, quality of life and communication have been included. There are also two additional chapters- on trail methodology and clinical evidence, and on the role of clinical case histories as an aid to understanding.

Theresa M. Yannaco

This second edition of this text provides the generalist practitioner with a readily available source of information on the epidemiology, etiology, pathology, presentation, management, and prognosis of most malignant diseases. In addition, it discusses the issues related to the principles of cancer diagnosis and staging, treatment decision making, palliative care, and common oncologic medical emergencies. The purpose of this concise textbook is to provide the generalist with insight into the basic principles and practice of current clinical oncology. Targeted for undergraduates in medicine, it also may be useful for the novice oncology advanced nurse practitioner as well as other healthcare professionals with an interest in oncology. This text is organized into 23 chapters. The first three chapters provide an overview on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, staging, and issues related to the decision-making process in clinical oncology practice. The next three chapters present the basic principles of surgical oncology, radiation oncology, and chemotherapy. The material presented in these six opening chapters provides the foundation for Chapters 7 through 21, which are devoted to the presentation of malignancies by major body sites as well as common pediatric malignancies. Each chapter is well organized, beginning with a brief presentation on the epidemiology, etiology, pathology, natural history, signs and symptoms, differential diagnosis, diagnosis and staging, treatment, complications of disease and treatment, screening, and prevention and concluding with the prognosis for each of the malignancies presented. Key concepts throughout the chapters are not only highlighted, but are alsowritten in short outline form for ready reference. The section on differential diagnosis in each of these chapters is a useful reference for the novice oncology advanced nurse practitioner. Throughout, the presentation and format of the chapters is consistent and well organized. As intended, this text serves as a quick and ready reference on the basic principles and practice of current clinical oncology.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: James F Brandman, MD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: This goal of this book is to acquaint medical students with the basic principles and practices of clinical oncology. It covers broadly the field of adult oncology with succinct overviews of all relevant topics. The previous edition was published in 1998.
Purpose: The book seeks to further the understanding of medical students in their oncology training. Most oncology texts and handbooks are geared to physicians with more advanced training and this book is helpful for its underserved target audience. Given the widely varying interests and needs of medical students, the book addresses all subjects that might be useful to this audience at an appropriate level.
Audience: The authors appear to have excellent general oncology backgrounds and seem suited to author this book.
Features: The traditional categories of oncology, including a basic understanding of carcinogenesis, staging, and diagnosis, and tumors grouped by organ systems are each covered at a level of depth appropriate for most medical students. Areas particularly well emphasized that may help stimulate critical thinking in students include clarification of the goals of treatment and communication skills with patients and families. Scattered case histories illustrate well points made in the main body of text. The absence of references may discourage further investigation by the reader.
Assessment: This book achieves its goal of informing medical students of the basic principles and practice of clinical oncology. The writing is clear and may be helpful in stimulating some students to pursue further training in medical oncology. As a third edition, the book augments previous therapies with newer approaches.

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Complete Idiot's Guide to Walking for Health

Author: Erika Peters

Taking a unique turn when it comes to exercise, this guide offers readers quick and easy ways to finding the time to walk; idiot-proof steps for turning leisure into exercise; and valuable advice on how to enjoy a walk.

1. Why Walk?
The Importance of Walking. Mental Health Motivators. A Walking Body Is a Healthy Body.
A Heart-to-Heart About Your Heart. Beautiful, Bountiful Bones. Weighty Issues. Enticingly Energetic. Joint Adventures. Balancing Acts.
Soulful Strides: Why Walking Is Good for the Soul.
Pausing for Breath. Clearly Clarifying. I Want My Mother Nature!
Just Step Out Your Front Door and You Are on Your Way!
For All Walks of Life. Easy as 1, 2, 3.

2. One Step at a Time.
How Do You Measure Up?
BMI. Waisting Your Hips Away: The Waist-to-Hip Ratio. Girth Measurements and Pants Size. Scaling It Down.
My, How Strong and Flexible You Are!
Upper Limits. The Lowdown on Your Lower Body. Stomach and Lower-Back Strength. Flexibility.
Knowing Your Cardiovascular Starting Point. The Importance of Understanding Your Heart Rate.
Heart Rate 1, 2, 3, 4. Intensity and Heart Rate.
Getting the Doctor's Okay.

3. Beginning a Program.
C Is for Commitment. Time Is of the Essence. Make Walking a Habit First. Establishing Long- and Short-Term Goals.
If Only ... Long-Term Goals. Breaking Down and Getting Down: Monthly and Weekly Goals. One Day at a Time: Daily Goals.
Reveling in Rewards. Building a Support System.

4. Gathering Your Gear.
Comfort vs. Style: Making the Right Clothing Choices.
Lotsa Layers. Hang'nLoose. The Long and Short of Things. Sports Bras and Other Supportive Gear.
Material Madness: Are Some Better Than Others?
Cotton Basics. Lycra: The Stretchy Stuff. Know'n Nylon. CoolMax and Polypropylene.
Shopping Resources. Accentuating Accessories.
Musical Moments. Sensible Sun Block. Sight for Sore Eyes. “You Can Leave Your Hat On” . Band-Aids for Blisters. Walking with a Big Stick. The Watered Walker.

II. PROGRESSING SAFELY.

5. Moving Forward.
Frequency: How Many Days a Week Is Enough? Interesting Facts About Intensity. Time: Are We Talking Minutes or Hours Here? Progressing Patiently. The Where, What, Why, and How of Walking.
Avoiding Routine Routes. Keeping Track of Time and Distance. Staying Vitalized by Adding Variety.
Safety Tips to Consider.
Walking Alone. Night Walking. Defense Do-Dads.

6. Now That You've Got the Basics, Let's Have Some Fun!
Turning the Heat up with Hills. Stepp'n on Stairs. Beach Bum. Tromping on Trails. Weights, Anyone? Breaking Up the Time: Fartlek and Interval Training.

7. Warming Up, Cooling Down, and Yes! Stretching.
The Importance of a Warmed-Up Walker. The Cool Cat Cool-Down. Why Stretch?
Perfecting Posture. Daily Doings. Joint Ventures.
How Often and How Much?
How? Coming Equipped. How Often. How Much.
Sample Stretches for Your Lower and Upper Body.

8. Why Weight?
The Importance of a Strong Body. How Often and How Much. The Tools You'll Need.
Free Weights. Machine Madness.
A Weight Walker's Wonderland.
Lower-Upper-Body Strengtheners.

9. Yes! Pain, No Gain.
Pondering Pain.
Overdoing Over-Training. If the Shoe Fits…or Not.
A Walk a Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Unexplained Pain. But I Don't Wanna!
No! Not Anytime You Feel Like It. Yes! You Can Do Other Activities; Substitutes in the Meantime.
Motivating Yourself to Start Again.

10. In the Beginning.
New Kid Around the Block?
Goal Mining.
Be Proactive.
Conscious Calendaring. Know Thyself. Psyching Out Your Psychology.
How Much? How Long? How Hard?
How Much? How Long? How Hard? A Sample for an Example.
Other Things to Keep in Mind.

11. And Now for the Rest of Ya!
How to Know? The Middle Man/Woman.
Pushing the Pace. Making It Harder with Hills. Implementing Intervals. A Sample Week.
Comparing with Competition.
Goal-Setting for the Advanced Walker.

12. Walking for Special Populations.
The Silver Saunter: How Walking Helps with Aging.
Osteoporosis: Battling Brittle Bones. Practicing Proprioception. Maneuvering Your Muscles. Getting Your Doctor's Approval.
What Is Arthritis and How Does Walking Help?
Painful Beginnings.
Diabetic and Dynamite.
Walking Your Sugar Down. Diet Do's and Don'ts.
Walking for the Cardiac Rehab Patient.
How Walking Helps. Heart-Rate Monitors and Supportive Supervision. Warning Signs While Walking.

III. WALKING FOR WEIGHT LOSS.

13. Weight Walkers.
Weight-Related Diseases and How Walking Helps. Psychological Barriers and Social Shyness. Setting Your Short- and Long-Term Goals. Keeping a Log. Getting and Staying Motivated.

14. Food for Thought.
How Weight Loss Works and How Exercise Helps. Why Diets Don't Work. The Balancing Act: Your Basic Food Pyramid. Changing Habits and Lifestyle. One Day at a Time.

15. Fast Feet, Not Fast Food.
Understanding the Nature of Caloric Expenditure. Pacing Yourself.
Frequency First. Adding Time. Intensity Last.
Suggestion for Adjusting Intensity. Walking Through the Discomfort. Postulating Plateaus. You Win Sum and You Lose Sum: A Summary.

IV. WALKING AS A LIFESTYLE.

16. Waste Not, Walk Not.
No Excuses! Daily Reminders.
Inspirational Images. Noticeable Notes. Supportive Situations.
Writing Walking into Your Schedule. Keeping Your Gear Handy. Changing Habits One Step at a Time. Staying Focused.

17. This Is a Walking World.
The Automobile Dilemma.
Parking Waaaaay Far Away. Walking Instead of Driving.
Going Up? The Stairs. Digesting Dinner: Taking a Post-Meal Walk. Walking to Work. Energizing Errands. Pacing It with a Pup. Shaping Up While Shopping.

18. The Weathered Walker.
A Winter Walking Wonderland.
Clothing for the Cold. Hydration. Know the Snow: Ice vs. Powder.
Heated Hikes.
Heat Index and Humidity. Hydration: Staying Cool Inside. Ventilation: Clothing That Breathes. Protecting Your Head: Hats and Other Accessories.
Damp Tramps.
Appropriate Attire. Covering Your Feet.

19. Exercising Your Alternatives.
Home Is Where the Heart Is. Terrific Treadmill Treds.
A Beginner's Base. Intermediate Inclines. Advanced Adventures. Safety. Keeping Yourself Occupied: Music, Books, and Socializing. Buying a Treadmill.

20. Taking It to the Next Level.
Take a Walk on the Wild Side.
Where to Go? Ideas for Trails and Treks. Comfortable Clothing and Durable Footwear: To Boot or Not To Boot? Training Tips: Preparing Your Heart for Hiking. Safety: From Wild Cats to Wild Flowers. Clubs and Agencies.
Walkers Without Borders.
Vacation Ventures and Trekking Tours. Clubs and Agencies.
Get Ready, Get Set ... Walk!
Setting Your Goals. Training for Events. Form. Groups to Contact.

V. YOUR FEET.

21. Preparing Your Peds.
How to Choose a Shoe.
Foot Type. Terrain and Mileage.
Shoe Shopping. Signs and Symptoms of the Wrong Shoe. When to Buy New Shoes. Wearing Other Kinds of Sports Shoes for Walking. Sockin' It to Ya. Lacing It Up.

22. Footloose and Fancy-Free.
Fashionable Functional Footwear. Inserts.
Insoles. Orthotics. Arch Supports.

23. The Walking Wounded.
Walking-Related Injuries. Shin Splints.
Ankle, Knee, and Leg Injuries.
Sprains and Strains.
Blisters and Bunions.
Bone Spurs and Plantar Fasciitis.
Hammertoe and Ingrown Toenails.

24. Merry Metatarsals.
Orthopedists: The Bone People. Your Local Foot Doctor, the Podiatrist. Marvelous Massages. Striking a Stretch: A Complete Guide. The Healing Touch: When to Use Ice and Heat. To Move or Not To Move.

25. Walking Wonders.
Historical Moments. Fastest Feet. Farthest. Good Cause.

VI. APPENDIXES.

Appendix A. Resources for Walking Fit.
Appendix B. Walking Words.
Index.

Serendipity or The Disabled Father

2009-02-08T22:32:00.000-08:00

Serendipity: An Uplifting and Practical Guide for Anyone Battling a Brain Tumor

Author: Peggy Prichard Ross

Multiple strategies for coping with brain cancer treatments and the unexpected joy you can find through fighting cancer. Includes information on Brain Biopsies, Radiation, Emergency Surgery, Stereotactic radio-surgery, Chemotherapy, Nutrition, Exercise, Managing Seizures, Coping with Headaches, Visualization, and Finding Joy.

Go to: Q Guide to Wine and Cocktails or Crazy About Chocolate

The Disabled Father: The Story of a Father and his Son

Author: Andrew B Appleton

The Disabled Father takes you deep inside the mind of a struggling father who is challenged with the guilt, pain and incredible responsibility of taking care of his severely disabled son. Marcus, who was born with cerebral palsy, will depend on complete assistance from his parents his entire life.

As Marcus's father continues to support a full and productive life he finds that involving Marcus in it presents challenges that more often than not leaves him frustrated and emotionally drained. Further, the knowledge that Marcus's short life expectancy leaves many unanswered questions as to why this could happen.

The Disabled Father speaks directly to the parent of a disabled child and passionately reaches out to their need to find understanding and acceptance of a situation that may seem under serving. As a spiritual path this book will leave you with a better understanding of God's work and how he has chosen you to be a parent of a very special child.

Eating for Diabetes or Healing with Complementary Alternative Therapies

2009-02-07T18:21:00.000-08:00

Eating for Diabetes: A Handbook and Cookbook - with More than 125 Delicious, Nutritious Recipes to Keep You Feeling Great and Your Blood Glucose in Check

Author: Jane Frank

Diet plays a central (even the central) role in how every person with diabetes manages his or her condition each day. While much is known about diabetes, exactly what everyone who has the condition should be eating continues to generate enormous debate among medical and nutrition professionals. Now, in Eating for Diabetes, nutritional therapist Jane Frank provides a complete overview of the best diet for people with diabetes. Based on the very latest diabetes nutrition research, Frank provides nutritional guidelines (including detailed information on the glycemic index and glycemic load), a menu planner, shopping advice, and over 125 delicious, nutritious recipes that cover every meal of the day: breakfast, snacks and drinks, soups and starters, beans and grains, poultry and fish, vegetables and salads, and desserts. Frank puts particular emphasis on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and provides with each recipe a complete nutritional analysis, including its GI and GL levels. This all-in-one up-to-date cookbook and healthful eating guide is an important, vital new addition to the diabetes cookbook shelf.

Go to: Spy Wars or Organizational Behavior and Management in Law Enforcement

Healing with Complementary & Alternative Therapies

Author: Lynn Keegan

This complete book presents healing techniques in complementary and alternative medicine as a way to promote optimal health care. It discusses the concept and origination of healing, as well as introduces the reader to healers and the techniques they use in the health care industry. It shows how healing fits in with our contemporary health care industry, and suggests the best place, time and condition for seeking alternative and complementary care. Documented, scientific research supports the effectiveness of healing techniques.
(KEYWORDS: alternative medicine, complementary medicine, holistic nursing, CAM, healing, natural medicine)

Booknews

Overviews healing techniques in complementary and alternative medicine. Begins by discussing the concept and origins of healing, then examines the theory and practice of some of the most common and popular healing modalities, including acupuncture, herbal medicine, Chinese medicine, and massage. Explores the process of becoming a healer, and examines what is known about the body-mind-spirit connection to health and illness. Includes information on Web sites, conferences, organizations, and support groups. Keegan is a nurse. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

How to Survive Your Doctors Care or Antibiotic Alternative

2009-02-06T08:03:00.000-08:00

How to Survive Your Doctor's Care: Get the Right Diagnosis, the Right Treatment, and the Right Experts for You

Author: Pamela F Gallin

This is the essential insider's guide for anyone who has to make healthcare decisions—for yourself or your loved one.

Interesting textbook: On Time within Budget or Social Work Experience

Antibiotic Alternative: The Natural Guide to Fighting Infection and Maintaining a Healthy Immune System

Author: Cindy LA Jones

Avoid the dangerous overuse of antibiotics by using natural herbal remedies to strengthen your own immune defenses.

• Protect yourself and your family from the misuse of antibiotics.

• Learn how to control and overcome infections with natural remedies.

• Maintain a vibrant and healthy immune system without antibiotic dependency.

When antibiotics were discovered they were hailed as the magic bullet that would put an end to the threat of infectious disease. In fact, in 1969 the U.S. Surgeon General stated that "the war against infectious disease has been won." But in the last fifteen years we have faced an alarming increase in cases of bacterial infections that will not respond to antibiotics. What is more, the use of antibiotics in agricultural feeds and the widespread overprescription of antibiotics has deepened the threat of resistant bacteria to potentially epidemic proportions. Even when appropriately prescribed, antibiotics weaken the immune system by altering the body's natural bacterial balance.

While antibiotics have their place in treating acute life-threatening conditions, The Antibiotic Alternative shows how the best defense against infectious disease is to strengthen your own immune system. With advice on stress management and diet and complete monographs of a dozen readily available herbs, Dr. Jones shows you how to ward off infectious disease naturally without antibiotic overdependence. She provides directions for making herbal teas, salves, and tinctures and includes specific herbal recommendations for more than twenty common ailments ranging from acne to wound treatment.

New Times

With advice on stress management and diet and complete monographs of a dozen readily available herbs, the author shows how to ward off infectious disease naturally without antibiotic over-dependence. The book gives directions for making herbal teas, salves, and tinctures, and includes specific herbal recommendations for over twenty common ailments ranging from acne to yeast infections.

Cindy Jones holds a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Cincinnati. She conducted oncology research for several years at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and currently works as a medical writer, consultant, and educator. She lives in the Denver area.

From Earth to Herbalist or Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus

2009-02-05T03:51:00.000-08:00

From Earth to Herbalist: An Earth-Conscious Guide to Medicinal Plants

Author: Gregory L Tilford

A full-color practical guide to the sustainable harvest and use of medicinal plants by an internationally renowned herbalist and naturalist. 12 line drawings. 100 color photos.

Booknews

A complete, compact guide to sustainable harvest and use of North American medicinal plants, emphasizing principles of ethical wildcrafting. Explains how to keep a field journal, harvest and handle herbs, and make herbal preparations. Profiles of 52 species of medicinal plants, accompanied by color photos, tell how to identify, harvest, and propagate herbs, how to make and use herbal remedies, and when to choose alternative or adjunct herbal medicines. A resource list directs aspiring herbalists to schools and suppliers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus: Nine Principles for Lasting Love, Increasing Success, and Vibrant Health in the 21st Century

Author: John Gray

In this powerful new book, John Gray turns his successful Mars and Venus healing advice toward living in modern times and expands his audience through new advice on love and all relationships—from couples to friends to parents and beyond. He exhorts readers everywhere to respond tolife's challenges with greater peace, joy, confidence, and love by following nine guiding principles:

Believe as if miracles are possible.
Live as if you are free to do what you want.
Learn as if you are a beginner.
Love as if for the first time.
Give as if you already have what you need.
Work as if money doesn't matter.
Relax as if everything will be okay.
Talk to God as if you are being heard.
Feast as if you can have whatever you want.

John Gray once again helps readers live a rich and fulfilling life. Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus presents an inspiring message of self-acceptance and joy for the new millennium.

A Practical Guide to Developing Resistance Training Programs or A Guide to Child Health

2009-02-03T23:39:00.000-08:00

A Practical Guide to Developing Resistance-Training Programs

Author: Nicholas A Ratamess

A Practical Guide to Developing Resistance-Training Programs is designed to help strength/conditioning and fitness professionals develop specific resistance training programs to enhance health and/or athletic performance. Covers basic muscle physiology, resistance-training principles and concepts, responses and adaptations to resistance training, types of resistance training, program design, periodization, strength testing and evaluation, and resistance-training facility design, exercises, and programs. Large format with over 200 photographs and diagrams, and includes bonus 212-minute DVD!

A Guide to Child Health

Author: Michaela Glockler

This acclaimed guide to children's physical, psychological, and spiritual development combines medical advice with issues of upbringing and education. Medical, educational, and religious issues often overlap, and in the search for the meaning of illness, it is necessary to study the whole child, as a being of body, soul, and spirit.

The authors theories and practice arise from seventeen years of experience in the children's out-patient department of the Herdecke Hospital in Germany, based on anthroposophic medicine. The first section covers childhood illnesses and home nursing. Part two looks at the healthy development of children and how to create the ideal conditions for them.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases or Jonathan Lerman

2009-02-02T19:28:00.000-08:00

Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Physician Tells You What You Need to Know

Author: Lisa Marr

Despite the emphasis on safe sex in the era of HIV and AIDS, sexually transmitted infections remain alarmingly common. Every year, more than 12 million people in this country will be diagnosed with one of the twenty STDs known to modern medicine -- from familiar diseases like HIV and syphilis to conditions such as chlamydia and herpes, which are less understood by the public. More than half of sexually active adults over age 35 will acquire one or more STDs at some point in their lives. The majority of STDs remain part of a "hidden epidemic" for reasons that range from reluctance of parents and teachers to talk about sex to the lack of symptoms produced by many disorders. Yet the long-term effects may be devastating and can include infertility, scarring, premature births, and death. There is a clear need for greater public awareness of how easily STDs are transmitted -- and how potentially dangerous they are.

With this book, Dr. Lisa Marr provides a much-needed resource on the subject of STDs in a comprehensive and easy-to-use reference format. As medical director at an STD clinic in Portland, Dr. Marr has worked on the front lines of the fight against STDs, and her approach is frank, nonjudgmental, and thorough. In Part One of the book, she describes male and female anatomy and reviews the symptoms that may indicate infection with an STD. She explains what an STD exam should include and discusses sexual communication as well as safe and unsafe sexual practices. Side bars, case studies, and illustrations help explain all of these important topics. Part Two is a comprehensive encyclopedia of STDs, with entries for each that describe symptoms, risk factors, transmission,testing, and treatment.

Throughout, Dr. Marr focuses on clearing up misconceptions by providing accurate, practical advice for people of all ages, races, sexual orientation, and economic means. All of the following statements, she notes, reflect commonly held beliefs about STDs -- and all of them are false:

• "If I don't have any symptoms, I can't have an STD."

• "If my partner and I get HIV tests and we're negative, that means we don't have to worry about using condoms."

• "When I get my yearly PAP smear, my doctor would tell me if anything was wrong."

• "If I use a condom, I can't get an STD."

• "Oral sex is safe. I can't get an infection from oral sex so I don't need to use a condom."

• "Only promiscuous people get STDs."

• "I had chlamydia before and I had symptoms. Since I don't have any symptoms now, that means I don't have an STD."

• "Douching after sex will help prevent getting an STD."

• "Lesbians don't have to worry about STDs."

• "I can't transmit herpes if I don't have an outbreak."

Dispelling these and other myths, Dr. Marr helps readers take steps to protect themselves against infection and, for those who develop symptoms or believe they have been exposed to infection, describes what to look for in appropriate medical care. She offers strategies for coping with chronic conditions such as herpes, as well as advice about STDs that respond to treatment if discovered early. This valuable book belongs in every public library and health clinic, and will be an important resource for all those who have been infected or who want to learn how to avoid becoming infected or infecting others.

"Because so many people are infected, it is very important to understand what STDs are, and how they are transmitted. Such knowledge allows people to take steps to protect themselves and helps to keep fear from controlling their lives. People who have information about STDs can lead a richer sexual life because they do not have to live in fear -- they know how to lower their risk of acquiring infection." -- from the Preface

David G. Strike

Written by an experienced physician, this book provides a complete medical discussion of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). It readily adapts to various purposes (e.g., review of symptom, review of a disease, review of safety measures) through an easy to access format. The purpose is to provide accurate information and guidance to sexually active or potentially active persons. The expectation is that understanding, rational planning, and open communication will help to reduce the risk of STDs and will empower patients to take responsibility for their own health. Although the book is written as a guide and reference for patients, it can also serve as a model for teaching and advising patients. As such it would be of interest to all healthcare providers. The most useful feature may be the organization of information allowing the reader to easily access discussions of key symptoms and appropriate management. The patient can then readily find additional information as needed from the STD encyclopedia, and the section defining basic anatomy. Terminology is defined in the glossary and information is completely indexed. This is an excellent, well-conceived, and well executed book that includes complete discussion of STDs and significant information pertaining to health maintenance. The author's matter-of-fact style is objective and unbiased. It should be useful to patients of all ages, both sexes, and all sexual orientations. It would be worthwhile reading for healthcare providers as well.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: David G. Strike, MD (HealthPartners)
Description: Written by an experienced physician, this book provides a complete medical discussion of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). It readily adapts to various purposes (e.g., review of symptom, review of a disease, review of safety measures) through an easy to access format.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide accurate information and guidance to sexually active or potentially active persons. The expectation is that understanding, rational planning, and open communication will help to reduce the risk of STDs and will empower patients to take responsibility for their own health.
Audience: Although the book is written as a guide and reference for patients, it can also serve as a model for teaching and advising patients. As such it would be of interest to all healthcare providers.
Features: The most useful feature may be the organization of information allowing the reader to easily access discussions of key symptoms and appropriate management. The patient can then readily find additional information as needed from the STD encyclopedia, and the section defining basic anatomy. Terminology is defined in the glossary and information is completely indexed.
Assessment: This is an excellent, well-conceived, and well executed book that includes complete discussion of STDs and significant information pertaining to health maintenance. The author's matter-of-fact style is objective and unbiased. It should be useful to patients of all ages, both sexes, and all sexual orientations. It would be worthwhile reading for healthcare providers as well.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Interesting book: Diseasing of America or Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts

Jonathan Lerman: Drawings by an Artist with Autism

Author: Lyle Rexer

"The story of Jonathan Lerman, a young artist with autism, seized the attention of the art world at the 2002 Outsider Art Fair. This selection of more than seventy drawings, with a text by critic Lyle Rexer, presents the full range and astonishing growth of Jonathan's extraordinary talent." "Diagnosed with autism and at first scarcely able to communicate, Lerman began drawing at age ten. By age twelve his drawings were exhibited in a solo exhibition at K.S. Art in New York. Working with the assurance of a Matisse, the speed of a Picasso, and the humor of a born cartoonist, Lerman has created an unforgettable body of work. His drawings include portraits of actual figures as well as figures from his own imagination, all rendered with great acuity. These drawings overturn the stereotype of the so-called savant artist as an unchanging talent sprung to life fully formed. Instead, they detail the restless experimentation and rapid growth of an artistic sensibility." Jonathan Lerman: Drawings by an Artist with Autism is a book not just for art lovers but for everyone who values the rich diversity of the creative imagination. In addition to an illuminating essay on Lerman's work, the book also contains an afterword by Caren and Alan Lerman, Jonathan's parents, describing the sudden appearance of his talent and the challenges and satisfactions of raising a gifted child with autism.

Pilobolus or Weight Watchers She Loses He Loses

2009-02-01T15:16:00.000-08:00

Pilobolus: The Human Alphabet

Author: Pilobolus

The company's dancers join limbs, twist, and grip to form 26 letters-- an alphabet made of the human body, captured in glorious color photographs. Alongside each letter, they've also composed a picture: Ants for A; Butterfly for B; Circus for C--and so on through Z, a human Zipper. Can you guess what each one shows? Pilobolus brings their creativity and hallmark visual style to a unique picture book.

Publishers Weekly

The dance troupe Pilobolus favors bold, acrobatic combinations of folding and unfolding bodies just the right group to literally form the letters of the alphabet. Dressed in jewel- colored leotards and presented against a white backdrop, 14 dancers take turns being the legs of a K, the curving tail of a J or the angles of an N. Each page features the smaller picture of a posed letter, and a larger picture in which the group creates an image whose name begins with that letter unlabeled, so children can guess what the picture portrays. Some depend on shrunken or manipulated images (the yo-yo for Y depicts a dancer holding a string from which a tiny image of two other dancers curled around each other dangles). The best, though, use simple, unaltered groups of figures: a Dinosaur (two dancers balanced on a third to form the body of a Tyrannosaurus rex, the topmost with hands outstretched claw-wise, a delighted snarl on her face), a Giant (one dancer on another's shoulders, the feet of the lower one sticking out from a huge black coat), and a Mirror, with two dancers opposite each other, viewer and her reflection, with just their index fingers touching. A list of answers appears in the back in case some elude the reader although few will. The endpapers, which reproduce all the posed letters in one spread, are the most charming of all (especially the tiny baby that acts as the tail of the Q). Ages 3-7. (Sept.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

K-Gr 4-Alphabet books are a dime a dozen, but it's fair to say that this offering by dance company Pilobolus is one of the most striking ones around. As photographed by Kane, the flexible dancers bring posing to a new level. They present the 26 letters and 26 corresponding images, par usual. However, their amazing ability to contort (with the help of some trick photography) induces a startling head rush of impressions. Some of the photos, such as L for Ladder, M for Mirror, and Z for Zipper, are quite clever. Others, frankly, are creepy-an overwhelming mess of bodies. Translating the fluid choreography of what is an obviously athletic dance troupe into still photography doesn't always work. Children may well have to consult the key to identify a good number of the images. All that said, The Human Alphabet is an extraordinarily inventive interpretation of what is becoming an overworked genre. Children, with their wonderfully open minds, will accept it for what it is-an alphabet book with bendy people. A must-have only if your alphabet collection needs beefing up, or if yoga is highly popular in your community.-Kara Schaff Dean, Needham Public Library, MA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

The acclaimed American dance troupe Pilobolus uses their extraordinary talents of balance, flexibility and strength to convey the alphabet. Like most alphabet books, the letters are depicted in upper case accompanied by a noun that begins with that letter, such as B for butterfly. The main difference here is that every letter and its noun is formed by twisting, contorting humans. The letters themselves are unique, sometimes verging on ingenious. It's the accompanying photos that are extremely difficult. They range from ponderous to impossible. They are all so abstract that the young reader they are meant to instruct, though perhaps amazed at the dancer's bendablity, cannot possibly puzzle out what the letter stands for. Thankfully, there is a code breaker included-otherwise the mystery, in some cases, might never be cracked. The letter N for nest, for example, is still baffling even after one looks up the answer. While the talent and ingenuity of Pilobolus can be applauded, their efforts will be lost on the intended audience. (alphabet key) (Picture book. 3+)

Book review: At Freedoms Table or Everyone Can Cook

Weight Watchers She Loses, He Loses: The Truth about Women, Men, and Weight Loss

Author: Weight Watchers

She loses, he loses . . . and everybody wins!

There's no doubt about it—when couples embark on a weight-loss program together, they improve their chance of success. Now Weight Watchers, the world's leader in providing weight-loss information, services, and support, presents this practical guide specifically designed to help women and men work together to lose weight and keep it off. It explains the many differences between the sexes when it comes to weight gain and loss and helps couples overcome these differences with dependable and insightful information on:

• The weight-health connection and how the genders differ

• Male and female differences in body image

• The language of weight loss

• Why men lose weight faster than women

• Different weight-loss motivators for men and women

• Eating and exercise strategies that work best for women and men

• How best to support your partner's weight-loss efforts

Research shows that women and men who live together—from newlyweds to empty-nesters—tend to gain weight at similar times. The good news is that, working together as a team, your chances of losing those extra pounds increase. Weight Watchers She Loses, He Loses gives you the information, strategies, and insights you need to make it happen.

Able Bodies Balance Training or Is It Love or Is It Sex

2009-01-31T11:04:00.000-08:00

ABLE Bodies Balance Training

Author: Sue Scott

ABLE Bodies Balance Training offers an activity-based program to improve balance and mobility for both fit and frail older adults. This practical instructor's guide provides more than 130 balance and mobility exercises that consider flexibility, strength, and cardiorespiratory endurance. The exercises enhance older adults' abilities to maintain balance in completing their everyday tasks, thereby fostering increased self-confidence, reducing the occurrence of falls, and improving quality of life.

The text is based on ABLE Bodies techniques, which were proven effective in a randomized, controlled study funded by the National Blueprint and Active Aging Partnership. Results showed that ABLE Bodies training significantly improved balance, mobility, activity levels, gait speed, flexibility, and strength for participants 70 years of age and older living in retirement and assisted living facilities.

ABLE Bodies Balance Training uses current research and a component-based approach to balance training. Instructors are encouraged to use activities covering all five components of the program: flexibility, posture and core stability, strength, cardiorespiratory endurance, and balance and mobility. The exercises and activities are easily implemented with the use of existing facilities and inexpensive equipment. They also encourage fun and social interaction, helping instructors to create and maintain an energized and positive environment that improves communication, motivation, and overall progress. The program may be used in group or individual settings and can be customized according to level of experience:

Beginning instructors can follow the 16-week sessionplan as a well-balanced training program that safely progress older adults through the exercises. The material is complete and may extend to a yearlong program.
More experienced instructors may select exercises and activities from each of the five component categories to meet the individual needs of their older adult clients. The component-based organization of the text allows instructors to easily incorporate both exercises and conceptual ideas in fun, engaging, and creative ways into their existing programs.

As a bonus, access to a dedicted ABLE Bodies Balance Training Web site is included with the book. It offers 15 downloadable activity handouts that instructors can print out and distribute to patients or clients for use at home. It also offers downloadable handouts of all the balance training activities in the book-over 130 conceptual ideas and activities to choose from either for planning their own sessions or for aiding their delivery of the 16-week session plan. The text also offers a variety of tools, including step-by-step instructions, sample phrasing to use when encouraging participants, ideas on making activities progressively more difficult, and tips on promoting safety while performing the exercises.

The proven exercises and conceptual activities found in ABLE Bodies Balance Training offer both fit and frail seniors increased independence in daily living. By incorporating the ABLE Bodies Balance Training program into their work, fitness and health care professionals will educate and motivate older adults to increase stability and improve self-confidence and health.

Part I: All About ABLE Bodies Balance Training

Chapter 1: Components of ABLE Bodies Training
There's more to balance training than just balance! This chapter outlines the five components that make up an ABLE bodies training program: flexibility, posture and core stability, strength for a purpose, balance and mobility, and cardiorespiratory endurance.

Chapter 2: Setting Up ABLE Bodies Training Sessions
You know the components, but how do you combine them to create a solid training program? This chapter explains how to set up classes, how to select and progress activities, and how to be a more effective instructor.

Chapter 3: Ensuring Safety in ABLE Bodies Training
No matter how well you set up your training sessions, they aren't any good without the proper safety guidelines in place. This chapter outlines how to create plans and establish rules, ensure the mental and physical well-being of your participants, and prepare for emergencies.

Part II: ABLE Bodies Balance Training Activities

Chapter 4: Flexibility
Flexibility offers a greater range of motion, and that is key in older adults. In this chapter, you'll find flexibility activities that can be done while seated or standing, as well as conceptual activities.

Chapter 5: Posture and Core Stability
A strong core is key to good posture and overall balance. This chapter offers activities specific to both posture and core stability, as well as activities that progressively increase strength in these two areas.

Chapter 6: Strength for a Purpose
Overall strength is a goal, but there are also specificareas that need more attention in older populations. In this chapter, you'll find lots of strength activities for the legs, back, chest, and triceps.

Chapter 7: Balance and Mobility
If you want activities that focus on balance, then this chapter is for you! Activities in this chapter focus on gait, activities of daily living, vision, and motor coordination. You'll also find games that target all areas.

Chapter 8: Cardiorespiratory Endurance
Adding cardiorespiratory elements to balance training is easy! This chapter offers lots of ideas for setting up sessions dedicated to cardiorespiratory endurance or adding cardiorespiratory endurance activities to your balance classes.

Appendix A: Sample Balance Training Sessions
Appendix B: Template for ABLE Bodies Balance Training Sessions
Appendix C: Certificate of Completion

New interesting book: Aprendizagem Informal:Redescobrimento dos Caminhos Naturais Que Inspiram Inovação e Realização

Is It Love or Is It Sex?: Why Relationships Don't Work

Author: Carla Wills Brandon

With the help of Is It Love Or Is It Sex?, Carla Wills-Brandon assists readers in examining why we may be experiencing difficulty in our primary love relationship. Problems of sex, intimacy, communication, loneliness and frustration can be resolved. Relationships do not have to fail and intimacy is possible. Love can blossom again.

Author Biography: Carla Wills-Brandon has authored numerous self-help books and has worked for close to two decades as a licensed marriage and family therapist, educator and lecturer. In her private practice, she and her husband, Michael Brandon, Ph.D. work with couples as a couple. Wills-Brandon has an MA in Psychology and a Ph.D. in nutrition.

Saving Your Skin or Tamilee Webbs Defy Gravity Workout

2009-01-30T06:52:00.000-08:00

Saving Your Skin: Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment of Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers

Author: Barney J Kenet

An all-around guide, "Saving Your Skin" includes information on how to detect melanoma in its early stages--with descriptions of what it is and what causes it--how to fight sun, the skin's worst enemy; how to perform a skin self-exam at home; how to pick a dermatologist; patient support networks; and more. Color photos. Illustrations.

Library Journal

Despite continued warnings about sun exposure, melanoma ``is increasing at a faster rate than any other cancer in the U.S.'' By the year 2000, one percent of all Americans will be affected; approximately 32,000 citizens were diagnosed with this cancer in 1993. Kenet, a dermatologist at Cornell Medical Center, and Lawler, a former consumer reporter and cofounder of the American Melanoma Foundation, provide statistics, history, a list of risk factors, and sobering vignettes in this comprehensive guide. Especially helpful is their information on identification, screening, treatment, and prevention of the disease. Experimental therapies and techniques such as vaccine therapy and biopsies through computer imaging are clearly explained. The authors' practical and thorough advice on such topics as choosing a physician and the stages of melanoma will answer worrisome questions faced by cancer patients and their families. Most books available on melanoma are expensive clinical texts; this is an excellent medium-priced selection. Recommended for popular health collections.-Catherine Greene, Bethesda Memorial Hosp. Lib., Boynton Beach, Fla.

Interesting textbook: Camp Cookery or Hey Leslie Whats Cooking

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

Author: Tamilee Webb

What do you do when you're renowned for being the "Buns of Steel woman" and you turn 40?

Gravity works against all of us as we age, even the fittest among us. Tamilee Webb knows firsthand how to use exercise to combat the drooping, sagging effects of gravity, and in this book she presents a comprehensive plan for lifting and toning your entire body.

This is the first book to address this need head-on, and who better to do it than Tamilee Webb, famous worldwide for her buns, thighs, and abs "of steel," now in her forties and looking more sensational than ever! Tamilee Webb's Defy Gravity Workout combines walking with resistance exercise to create a "miracle workout" for women over 40 who, despite doing aerobics and yoga, still face a droopy figure when they catch a glimpse in the mirror. This program does what other fitness programs can't because it works the muscles in the right order at the right time, helping women of all shapes and sizes truly defy gravity!

Yoga of the Nine Emotions or Detox Manual

2009-01-29T02:40:00.000-08:00

Yoga of the Nine Emotions: The Tantric Practice of Rasa Sadhana

Author: Peter Marchand

HINDUISM / SELF-HELP

Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. The tantric tradition recognizes nine Rasas that represent our basic emotions: Love, Joy, Wonder, Courage, Calmness, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Disgust. A study of the Rasas provides us with an objective language for examining our emotions and increasing our emotional intelligence. Those who practice Rasa Sadhana learn to overcome negative emotions in order to pursue better health, enhanced spiritual growth, and enduring happiness.

Our emotions are continuously affected by the interplay of our senses, the elements, food, and the life force in our body. In The Yoga of the Nine Emotions, Peter Marchand presents the “technology” for changing our emotional patterns in the form of practical physiological and philosophical tools from tantric and ayurvedic traditions. He explains the nature and purpose of each Rasa and how we can strengthen or weaken one Rasa through another. He also offers ayurvedic cooking guidelines and daily routines for balancing sensory input and strengthening emotional health, including fasting from negative emotions as well as how to energize positive ones. In addition, The Yoga of the Nine Emotions provides guidelines for integrating a Rasa Sadhana practice with other yoga practices. As we master our emotions through the practice of Rasa Sadhana, we gain true control of our lives and our relationships with others.

PETER MARCHAND became a student of Harish Johari in 1983 and is one of the founders of Sanatan Society, a networking organization of family and students of Harish Johari. He travels to Indiaannually and teaches Rasa Sadhana in Europe, America, and Asia. He lives in Belgium. Harish Johari (1934-1999) was a tantric scholar, poet, musician, composer, artist, and gemologist. He authored twelve books, including Chakras, Tools for Tantra, and Ayurvedic Healing Cuisine.

Book about: The Quick Python Book or Code Generation in Action

Detox Manual: Achieving Optimal Health through Natural Detoxification and Lifestyle Therapies

Author: Suzannah Olivier

Do you suffer from cellulite, headaches, rashes, fatigue, bad breath, non-arthritic joint aches or nausea? Beat them by following The Detox Manual.

Hal Higdons Smart Running or Allergies

2009-01-27T22:28:00.000-08:00

Hal Higdon's Smart Running: Expert Advice on Training, Motivation, Injury Prevention, Nutrition and Good Health

Author: Hal Higdon

Your running questions answered.

As the expert on Runner's World magazine's Web site, Hal Higdon receives nearly 1,000 questions a month from runners around he world. Questions from how to heal shinsplints to how to use running to safely shed pounds. Hal taps into 40 years of running experience and a wide network of exercise scientists and doctors to bring readers sound advice. And in Hal Higdon's Smart Running, he brings this same experience and knowledge to new and veteran runners.

You'll discover:

* How to fit running into a busy lifestyle
* What the best program is to lose weight
* How to run a faster 5-K
* How to motivate yourself to exercise consistently
* If you are ready to run a marathon
* What the best types of running shoes are
* What the difference is between muscle soreness and an injury
* What to eat before a race
* How to run safely at night
* How much cross-training should be in your running program
* If you should run less as you get older
* How to train for a marathon
* If your diet should be high in carbohydrates
* How much speedwork should be in your workouts
* What the newest fabrics in running clothes are

Kick!

...[C]hock full of solid advice that makes it a worthy addition to the bookshelf. While the experience of reading the book is a bit like scrolling through an online discussion board, Higdon somehow manages to make it all hang together.

Interesting textbook: Abortion and Life or Our Undemocratic Constitution

Allergies: Disease in Disguise

Author: Carolee Bateson Koch

Learn how to achieve complete and permanent recovery from allergies and gain invaluable understanding of health and well being. This book provides insight into why allergy is becoming more common, how it relates to environmental factors, food additives, diet, digestion, body chemistry, addiction, yeasts, molds, parasites and childhood illnesses - and why enzymes are the key to healing.

Younger by the Day or AARP Living with Heart Disease

2009-01-26T18:17:00.000-08:00

Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Author: Victoria Moran

Inspiring advice and tips for the reversal of aging-mentally and physically-with the promise that readers will look and feel younger after one year's time.

"Wouldn't it be delicious if, even for a little while, I could age in reverse? What if I could short-circuit time and gravity and those psychopathic molecules that oxidize and make the years show up bigger than life? How great would it be if I could get absolution for the suntans and sundaes, the late nights and worrying I indulged in once upon a time, or two weeks ago Thursday?"

With a resounding "Yes!" Victoria Moran's Younger by the Day: An Enlightened Guide to Aging in Reverse, Inside & Out, One Day at a Time, answers these questions and details the physical habits, mental attitudes, and spiritual disciplines that make this not just a lovely dream, but a dream come true.

While we believe we're worried about gray roots and smile lines, the truth is that we're really worried about what these represent: loss of identity, diminished regard from the culture at large, and less time to make the rest of our dreams come true. Younger by the Day does not gloss over this inner angst. Instead, it meets it-with empathy, compassion, humor, and immediately usable information from West and East, medicine and metaphysics. At the end of a year, the reader will look and feel like a younger woman. This book can deliver that promise. One might think of it as Simple Abundance for middle-age: designed to be used over a year's time, directed to women, and coming straight from the heart.

Younger by the Day is light, friendly, honest and witty. More importantly, it's both a practical guide to the adventure of growing younger and an inspiring companion for the journey. While many of the books are written by physicians or models, Victoria is much more like the reader herself. She's a big sister, a best friend, and she knows what it's like to be afraid of entering a new phase of life, has overcome those fears, and looks substantially younger because of it. The reader benefits from Victoria's experience with 365 select techniques to help her love her age instead of look it.

Interesting textbook: Interventions or Vietnam Wars 1945 1990

AARP Living with Heart Disease

Author: Larry Katzenstein

Chronic heart disease—heart attacks and strokes—causes more than 40 percent of all deaths in the United States. That’s 950,000 people each year or one person every 33 seconds. Statistically more vulnerable with age, hundreds of men and women begin the struggle to manage or prevent its occurrence every day. So naturally it’s on the mind of older Americans and the family members who cherish them. What exactly is heart disease—and what forms does it take? Who gets it, and how is it diagnosed? What steps can you take to prevent the problem from worsening? Which are the best therapies? How can you best reduce stress, lower weight, control blood pressure? AARP has the answers.
The superbly organized and authoritative text includes chapters covering key issues, which range from definition to diagnosis and from treatment to lifestyle changes that address issues specifically identified with heart disease. These include: nutrition, high cholesterol, prevention, smoking, and sex and intimacy. The book casts an eye on the future, too, with information on medicines and treatments currently under development or on the horizon. The appendix offers useful point-by-point checklists for managing your treatment, information on handling medical emergencies, and resources.
This guide provides expert medical information and valuable advice that no older adult will want to do without!

Biographies     viii
Credits     x
Editorial Board     xi
Introduction     xiii
The Healthy Heart     1 The Heart Is a Muscle A Fantastic Voyage through the Heart
What Is Heart Disease?     11
The ABCs of Coronary Artery Disease
What Is a Heart Attack?
The Warning Signs of Angina
Cardiomyopathy
Heart Failure
Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
Heart-Valve Disease
The Risk of Stroke
Recognizing the Symptoms of a Stroke
Heed the Signs of Impending Attack
Reducing Your Risk     33
Assessing Your Risk
Damn the Torpor!
High Blood Pressure
High Blood Cholesterol
Strategies to Control Cholesterol
Cigarette Smoking
Metabolic Syndrome
Diabetes
Being Overweight
The Dangers of Stress
Summarizing Your Risk Factors
Do You Have Heart Disease?     59
When Symptoms Matter
Patient, Heed Thyself
Health History & Physical Exam
Living Well with Heart Disease     87
Improving Heart Health with Exercise
Heart-Healthy Eating
If You Smoke, Stop!
Be Smart for Your Heart
Less Stress Is Best
Combining Lifestyle Measures to Control Hypertension & Cholesterol
When You Need Treatment     151
Medications
High Cholesterol
The Benefits of Drug Therapy
Treating Angina
Treatment for a Heart Attack
Treating Heart Failure
Treating Heart-Rhythm Problems
Treatment for Heart-Valve Disease
Recovering Physically & Emotionally     217
Cardiac Rehab & Secondary Prevention: A Second Chance for Your Heart
Who Needs Cardiac Rehab?
Recovering Emotionally from Heart Disease
Sex, Intimacy & Heart Disease
Treatment Advances on the Horizon     235
New Angina Treatment
Heart-Valve Improvements
Success in Stopping Failure
Hypertension & Its Newfound Nemeses
Patches for Damaged Hearts
Let's Build a Better Blood Vessel
The Stem-Cell Promise
A Scaffold for Heart Repair?
New Insight into an Old Drug
Appendices     251
Resources
Additional Resources from AARP
Dealing with Emergencies
Index     263

Expert Guide to Oncology or Yoga for Men

2009-01-25T14:05:00.000-08:00

Expert Guide to Oncology

Author: Jacob D Bitran

Expert Guide to Oncology provides the primary care physician with the essential knowledge of clinical oncology to address the needs of cancer patients and to build the framework for continuing dialogue with the oncology/hematology specialist, surgeon, and radiation oncologist. This book is designed to demystify cancer medicine and provide solid advice to physicians who care for cancer patients.

Kathleen A. Havlin

This book is an overview of the essentials of clinical oncology with the case presentations of some of the more complex issues and decision-making in oncology, The purpose is to provide the essentials of oncologic diagnosis and treatment through didactic material and case presentations. These are appropriate objectives, particularly in view of our aging population and with malignancy as the second highest cause of mortality in the U.S. The author's objectives are successfully met. The audience, according to the author, includes medical students, residents, and family practice and internal medicine practitioners. The audience is appropriate. The author is a credible authority in the field of hematology/oncology. In the first half of the text, general information regarding the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and staging of malignancy is presented, with specific topics related to the care of the patient with malignancy. In the second half there is a discussion of the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of specific malignancies. The use of case presentations and flow diagrams (evaluation of breast lump, lung nodule) are particularly instructive and demonstrate major concepts end salient points important to the management of oncology patients. Shortcomings include a somewhat liberal list of indications for PET scanning in Table 3-12 (not currently recommended for staging in NCCN guidelines for lung cancer); Table 5-4 has reversed dosages for granisetron and ondansetron; Table 12-3 lists CMF or MF as equivalent therapy for LN- ER- breast cancer, which is no longer accurate (updated data from 1997 NSABP meeting reveal statistically significant benefits for DFS and OS for CMF over MF). Inaddition, staging tables in Chapter 3 are repeated in subsequent chapters of specific malignancies and do add to the chapter. Although presenting a comprehensive guide to the approach of the patient with malignancy for the non-specialist is a daunting task for one author, Dr. Bitran is successful. The book contains useful information regarding the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of common malignancies. Flow diagrams and case presentations are instructive for any level practitioner. Although not as complex or in-depth as edited texts with multiple authors such as Weiss' Clinical Oncology (Appleton & Lange, 1993), students, residents, and primary care practitioners will find this a handy addition to their libraries.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Kathleen A. Havlin, MD (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: This book is an overview of the essentials of clinical oncology with the case presentations of some of the more complex issues and decision-making in oncology,
Purpose: The purpose is to provide the essentials of oncologic diagnosis and treatment through didactic material and case presentations. These are appropriate objectives, particularly in view of our aging population and with malignancy as the second highest cause of mortality in the U.S. The author's objectives are successfully met.
Audience: The audience, according to the author, includes medical students, residents, and family practice and internal medicine practitioners. The audience is appropriate. The author is a credible authority in the field of hematology/oncology.
Features: In the first half of the text, general information regarding the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and staging of malignancy is presented, with specific topics related to the care of the patient with malignancy. In the second half there is a discussion of the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of specific malignancies. The use of case presentations and flow diagrams (evaluation of breast lump, lung nodule) are particularly instructive and demonstrate major concepts end salient points important to the management of oncology patients. Shortcomings include a somewhat liberal list of indications for PET scanning in Table 3-12 (not currently recommended for staging in NCCN guidelines for lung cancer); Table 5-4 has reversed dosages for granisetron and ondansetron; Table 12-3 lists CMF or MF as equivalent therapy for LN- ER- breast cancer, which is no longer accurate (updated data from 1997 NSABP meeting reveal statistically significant benefits for DFS and OS for CMF over MF). In addition, staging tables in Chapter 3 are repeated in subsequent chapters of specific malignancies and do add to the chapter.
Assessment: Although presenting a comprehensive guide to the approach of the patient with malignancy for the non-specialist is a daunting task for one author, Dr. Bitran is successful. The book contains useful information regarding the presentation, evaluation, and treatment of common malignancies. Flow diagrams and case presentations are instructive for any level practitioner. Although not as complex or in-depth as edited texts with multiple authors such as Weiss' Clinical Oncology (Appleton & Lange, 1993), students, residents, and primary care practitioners will find this a handy addition to their libraries.

Booknews

Provides primary care physicians with knowledge of clinical oncology essential for addressing the needs of cancer patients and for building a continuing dialogue with oncology/hematology specialists, surgeons, and radiation oncologists. Features detailed case histories that highlight the diagnosis and management of cancer in situations typical of those frequently encountered by physicians in the office setting. The author is director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Lutheran General Hospital and Cancer Care Center. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

William L. Medd
An outstanding book for the general internist. It is succinct and to the point. (William L. Medd, MD, FACP)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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Yoga for Men: Postures for Healthy, Stress-Free Living

Author: Thomas Clair

Here is a comprehensive introduction to yoga geared to men of all ages and backgrounds-whether they're athletic or sedentary, young or old, or devotees of yoga who seek new information to enhance their existing practices or neophytes just starting out on their yoga journeys.

The information is presented in simple, how-to form so that you can perform a basic, yet complete, yoga session on your own. It provides an overview of all the major styles of yoga so that you can custom tailor a practice to suit your needs. In addition, Yoga for Men includes information specific to men-yoga and male health concerns, yoga for all phases of a man's life, how yoga can enhance performance for athletic activities (and your sex life!), and how yoga can be enjoyed with a partner.

Yoga for Men provides today's man with a prescription for a lifestyle that unites body, mind, and spirit.

	Epigraph	13
	Preface	15
	Getting Started: How to Use This Book	17
	Introduction	23
Part I	Overview: Yoga as a Living Tree	31
Chapter 1	The Tree of Yoga	33
Part II	Hatha Yoga: The Main Traditions	41
Chapter 2	Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy: Swami Rama's Scientific Approach to Training the Mind Through the Body	43
Chapter 3	Integral Yoga: Sri Swami Satchidananda's Meditation for the Body	49
Chapter 4	Iyengar Yoga: B.K.S. Iyengar's Dynamic Precision	55
Chapter 5	Sivananda Yoga: Swami Vishnu-devananda's Classical Five-Point System	61
Chapter 6	Ashtanga Yoga: Power Yoga	67
Chapter 7	Kundalini Yoga: Igniting the Fire Within	75
Part III	Contemporary Adaptations of Yoga	85
Chapter 8	Kripalu Yoga: Breath, Meditation, and Motion	87
Chapter 9	Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy: Yoga Therapy Meets Talk Therapy	93
Chapter 10	Endless Yoga: Other Traditional Approaches and Contemporary Syntheses of Yoga	99
	A Complete Yoga Practice Session for Men	112
Part IV	Yoga for a Man's Special Needs	141
Chapter 11	Yoga for the Phases of a Man's Life	143
Chapter 12	Yoga for Athletics and Sports: How to Use Yoga to Make the Most of Your Fitness Activities	153
Chapter 13	Yoga for Men's Health: How Yoga Can Help You Maintain Your Health/Address Specific Men's Health Concerns	159
Chapter 14	Yoga and a Man's Sex Life: Enhancing Your Sexual Life With Yoga	181
Chapter 15	Partnered Yoga: Yoga Exercises, Stretches, and Poses You Can Do With a Friend, Lover/Partner/Spouse, Family Member, Coworker, or Workout Partner	193
Part V	The Yoga Lifestyle	203
Chapter 16	The Yoga Lifestyle: Yoga as a Way of Being a Man	205
Part VI	Supplemental Resource Information	223
Chapter 17	Resources for Further Exploration	225
	Afterword: The Yoga Puzzle: Putting the Pieces Together	239
	Chapter Notes	245
	Bibliography	251
	Postscript	255
	Index	257
	About the Author	264

Fed Up or Stitch in Time Lifes Most Essential Hand Sewn Repairs

2009-01-24T09:51:00.000-08:00

Fed Up!: Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity

Author: Susan Oki

Once dismissed by the medical profession as a purely cosmetic problem, obesity represents an ominous health threat for our children. Obesity is now second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death. Without early intervention, overweight children often become overweight adults - and we know that at any age obesity can lead to diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, depression, and other life-threatening conditions. Diabetes and heart disease alone cause more than 780,000 deaths each year. In fact today's kids may be the first generation in U.S. history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

Publishers Weekly

Drawing on up-to-date research as well as personal stories, Okie presents the astounding statistics on what she calls "the fattest generation" and the dire health risk the obesity epidemic poses. Okie, a Harvard-trained family physician and Washington Post medical reporter, tackles obesity's causes methodically and without sensation, explicating the biology of body mass and appetite regulation and the relationship between calorie intake and energy expenditure. She also examines some of the rare hormone problems and genetic disorders that, in a tiny minority of children, can cause obesity. Having explored how obesity lowers self-esteem, the author persuasively shows that recent shifts in the environment are most likely to blame for today's childhood obesity epidemic: sprawling suburban neighborhoods that discourage walking, ballooning portions in restaurant food, poor choices in school lunches, a decline in home cooking and the resulting tendency to snack rather than sit down for a family meal are among the factors she cites. Commenting analytically on pediatricians' reluctance to deal with obesity, Okie documents the innovative efforts of certain states and schools to engineer healthy eating and exercise programs. She also meets and describes several families who have put diet and exercise plans into action, or whose children have been hospitalized for obesity. Never preachy or patronizing, Okie will inform and empower all concerned parents about a problem whose time has come (as shown by a New York Times Magazine piece on the subject and recent books like Generation Extra Large. (Feb.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Book review: The Prince or Molly Ivins Cant Say That Can She

Stitch in Time ... Life's Most Essential Hand-Sewn Repairs (Finishing Touches Series)

Author: Clarice Taylor

The basic skills of homekeeping once were at everyone's fingertips. But the days when a girl sat at her mother's knee and observed the proper way to sew on a button or a young boy learned how to shine his shoes are long gone. Today, we are more likely to pay someone else to perform these minor repairs, or worse, toss something away simply because we don't know how to mend or clean it.Finishing Touches is a new series of small and stylish guides to the home arts. Easy to understand and clearly illustrated, each book offers complete instruction in the most essential techniques of each topic, beginning with a basic materials guide that details all the basic tools and products one should have on hand at all times. A Stitch in Time… demonstrates the seven basic sewing stitches that everyone should know, along with thirteen emergency fixes-from catching a hanging hem to repairing a torn pocket or ripped zipper-all completed without a machine. Author Bio: CLARICE TAYLOR is passionate about needle arts and handicrafts. Working in humanitarian affairs she has, during her assignments, learned about sewing arts from all over the world.

Savvy Patient or Bach Flowers

2009-01-23T05:39:00.000-08:00

Savvy Patient: The Ultimate Advocate for Quality Healthcare

Author: Mark Pettus

The American health care system is an overwhelming and intimidating system to navigate. This is made even more challenging as we confront an illness or crisis in our lives or in the life of someone we love. For many patients and their families itâЂ™s like being cast adrift in the open sea during a storm. In his book, The Savvy Patient, Dr. Mark Pettus provides the information needed to understand the health care system in a caring and compassionate manner. Dr. Pettus helps you understand how to obtain the knowledge you need, communicate with health care workers, and negotiate and resolve conflicts as they come up. The Savvy Patient also provides question templates to guide you in acquiring the necessary information. If you ever wanted to just pick up the phone at any time of day or night and have a frank and caring talk with your doctor, The Savvy Patient is that conversation.

What People Are Saying

Daniel Goleman
"Dr. Mark Pettus has done us all a magnificent favor. In The Savvy Patient he shares the insider's view of medicine we need to get the care we want - a vitally important book that every patient should keep by the bedside."
—Author Emotional Intelligence.

Roger Fisher
"Excellent. Contains the best advice I know on doctor-patient negotiations. "
—Co-author Getting to Yes

Bernie Siegel
"An incredible source of information, which in the hands of an inspired patient, will help accomplish true healing."
—MD, Author Love, Medicine, and Miracles, Help Me to Heal and 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

New interesting book: The Busy Womans Guide to Total Fitness or Setting Love in Order

Bach Flowers

Author: Susan Holden

Innovative natural and holistic methods of healing are the subjects of these handy, portable guides to an improved body, mind, and spirit. From advice on how vitamins, minerals, and herbs can soothe the body, to information on the ability of plant oils, flowers, colors found in nature, and crystals to remedy both physical and emotional stress, these essential guides provide a fresh approach to self-healing.

Osteoarthritis or Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle

2009-01-22T01:27:00.000-08:00

Osteoarthritis

Author: Nigel K Arden

Osteoarthritis is a common disorder of the joints that affects more than 2 million people in the UK, and studies suggest that this number will double in the next 20 years. The condition is strongly associated with ageing and is believed to affect up to 30% of people over 60 years of age. There are a number of misconceptions surrounding osteoarthritis and this, combined with the lack of effective drug treatments, often leaves patients dispirited and confused about their condition.
Osteoarthritis: The Facts helps patients and their carers better understand their condition with a view towards self-management. The text is designed to be easy to read and is organized into two main parts. Part 1 details what osteoarthritis is, what causes it, who it affects, what the main symptoms are, how it is diagnosed and what the long-term outcome is. Part 2 summarises the current management of osteoarthritis, including the role of exercise, diet, medication, "nutriceuticals", alternative therapies, and surgery. The book also includes a useful resources section, including information on support groups, websites, and further reading.

Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle

Author: Linda Sparrow

This book offers a complete program of yoga poses designed for menstrual health, new medical information on diet and lifestyle, and instruction on meditation and breathing techniques that relieve common symptoms experienced by many women, including: Premenstrual syndrome; Menstrual cramps; Heavy periods; Bloating and pain from uterine fibroids; Pain from endometriosis and pelvic inflammatory disease.

Library Journal

These two books discuss how yoga can be incorporated into women's overall wellness routines. In Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle, Sparrowe (The Woman's Book of Yoga and Health) openly discusses this traditionally sensitive health topic in light of current medical information and provides instructions for the accompanying yoga sessions, which were designed by Walden, an internationally recognized yoga teacher. The photographs of her executing the poses are clear and easy to follow. The idea is to relax during this physically and mentally stressful time, which may relieve some of the common complaints associated with menstruation or reproductive disorders. In Yoga for Healthy Bones, Sparrowe uses a similar approach, except the aim is to help women prevent bone loss (osteoporosis) related to aging and to maintain lifelong healthy bones. She does not claim that yoga can prevent or reverse bone loss (which has not been proven), only that it can contribute to better general bone health. Both are recommended for health and wellness collections in public libraries. Academic libraries may find Yoga for a Healthy Menstrual Cycle especially informative and therapeutic for their female students.-Deborah Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Dunwoody Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

The Essential Atkins for Life Kit or Sexuality and Fertility after Cancer

2009-01-20T21:15:00.000-08:00

The Essential Atkins for Life Kit: Tools, Tips and Techniques for Maintaining a Low Carb Lifestyle for Permanent Weight Loss and Optimal Health

Author: Robert Atkins

A complete, easy-to-use program for sustaining lifelong weight loss from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Atkins for Life

The Essential Atkins for Life Kit Includes:

Eating for Life: 144-page book
- Menu Plans: 120 menu plans with controlled carbohydrate counts of 45, 60, 80, and 100 grams
- Carb Gram Counter: Listings and information on protein and fat grams for each entry
- Daily Carb Log: Pages to record your Net Carb intake

100 Recipe Cards: Delicious controlled carb recipes with important nutritional information

Staying -On-Track Card Deck: Hundreds of tips and strategies for Lifetime Maintenance

Choosing The Rich Carbs: Foldout guide with easy-to-use Atkins Glycemic Rankings

Compact Disc: 60 minute Motivation for Life CD with special introduction by Dr. Robert C. Atkins

Wallet-Size Dining Out Guide: Tips for eating out at Chinese, Italian, Mexican, and other restaurants

New interesting textbook: Affaires internationales :la Stratégie, la Direction et les Nouvelles Réalités

Sexuality and Fertility after Cancer

Author: Leslie R Schover

"Finally! Such a comprehensive resource for survivors has been long overdue." —Michelle Melin, M.P.P., Director of Patient Services Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization

"An excellent, well-researched book that responds to the needs of survivors." —Anna Meadows, M.D. Director, Division of Oncology and Children's Cancer Research Center Children's Hospital of Phildadelphia.

Now as never before cancer survivors are discovering their potential for renewed sexuality, which many may never have thought possible. In this comprehensive new book, the leading authority in the field carefully and reassuringly explains your options and gives you the accurate, up-to-date information you need to take advantage of them. Now you can make the decisions that are best for you based on recent medical advances and the newest perspectives. This unique guide covers:

The kinds of sexual problems both men and women are likely to face after treatment —and state-of-the-art solutions
The most effective infertility treatments
How to assess the risks of pregnancy
The latest information on body image, low sex drive, performance anxieties, medications, sex aids, and reconstructive surgery
Special topics such as sex after breast or prostate cancer, and the specific problems facing gays, singles, and survivors of childhood cancers.

Booknews

Addresses the needs of people who have sexual problems as the result of cancer and cancer treatments. Covers emotional and communication issues as well as the particular needs of those who have had breast, prostate, and many other types of cancer. Also discusses female and male infertility, survivors of childhood cancer, gay and lesbian cancer survivors, and sex after radical surgery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	How to Use This Book
1	Sex, Cancer, and Your Emotions	3
2	Am I Normal? Men's Sexual Health	14
3	Greater Expectations: Women's Sexual Health	21
4	Getting the Words Out: Talking about Sex	30
5	Going Back to Bed	42
6	Safer Sex after Cancer: Preventing Disease and Unwanted Pregnancy	52
7	Getting the Help You Need for a Sexual Problem	61
8	Where Did My Libido Go?	64
9	Enhancing Sexual Desire after Cancer	71
10	Causes of Erection Problems	79
11	How to Mend a Broken Part: Restoring Erections	86
12	The Bells Aren't Ringing: No Orgasms, Slow Orgasms, and Dry Orgasms	106
13	Causes of Painful Sex	112
14	Overcoming Pain during Sex	116
15	Empty Arms: The Pain of Infertility	135
16	Maybe a Baby? Researching Your Options	139
17	Sperm Manufacture: When Cancer Treatment Shuts Down the Line	145
18	Special Delivery: Getting the Sperm to the Egg	151
19	Women's Fertility: A Nonrenewable Resource	157
20	Pregnancy and Cancer: What Are the Risks?	165
21	Postcancer Kids: Are They Healthy?	168
22	Having Whose Baby? Third-Party Reproduction	176
23	Myths about Sex, Women's Health, and Breast Cancer	187
24	It's Not Prostrate Cancer	199
25	Sex with a Part Missing	207
26	Survivors of Childhood Cancer	220
27	Gay and Lesbian Cancer Survivors	226
28	Sex and the Single Survivor	234
	A Final Thought	244
	Resources	245
	Bibliography	251
	Glossary	273
	Index	281

Comprehensive Cancer Care or Super Nutrition for Women

2009-01-18T11:10:00.000-08:00

Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies

Author: James S Gordon

Based on the findings of the annual conference co-sponsored by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and the National Cancer Institute, a uniquely authoritative guide to the integration of conventional, complementary, and alternative medicines for cancer care.

Of the 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with cancer annually, fully half will seek alternative or complementary care for their disease. Drawing on the studies and critiques of many of the world's most gifted researchers and clinicians, this book scientifically explores the most promising complementary and alternative therapies -- and sifts through the often frustrating and confusing barrage of information and misinformation about them -- to provide readers with the direction and help they need to create an individualized cancer-care strategy. A powerful tool for making wiser decisions and more sensible choices to both treat and prevent cancer, the book includes:

Reports on the most accepted and researched complementary and alternative practices, including assessments of their efficacy, side effects, and cost effectiveness, and how they can best be integrated with conventional care
Empowering advice for patients with clear action steps for speaking to doctors and evaluative guidelines for researching available treatment approaches
Critical discussion of cutting-edge interventions-nutrition, Chinese medicine, herbal therapies, mind-body approaches, and energy medicine-that have undergone clinical trials and those which are now beginning to be employed.

Dean Ornish

This book represents truly pioneering work. It brings much needed information about the best of new cancer treatments to those who need it most and it does so with compassion and an inspired bedside manner.

Library Journal

Gordon (Manifesto for a New Medicine), a former chair of the Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine, and Curtin, a former cancer patient and medical writer, base their book on the findings of the annual Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference, created by Gordon and cosponsored by the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and the National Cancer Institute. Their text begins with a chapter on cancer types, diagnosis, and treatment, followed by chapters on mind-body therapies, nutrition, exercise, group support, acupuncture and Chinese herbs, and evaluation of the most promising alternative therapies. Each chapter presents stories of real cancer patients and how they made complementary and alternative therapies part of their treatment. While the book does not focus on step-by-step guidance but on presenting scientific research data and history of alternative medicine, cancers patients will still find it informative. Recommended for large public libraries.--Lily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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Super Nutrition for Women

Author: Ann Louise Gittleman

Winner of the Excellence in Medical Communications Award, SUPER NUTRITION FOR WOMEN is the first scientifically based nutrition program to take into account women's distinct body chemistry and dietary needs—and reveals the best way to incorporate them into any weight-loss or workout plan.

This newly revised edition includes the latest nutritional studies and addresses the unique health and dietary concerns that women are facing today. Whether they're on a vegetarian or a meat-and-potatoes regimen, no matter what their age or lifestyle, SUPER NUTRITION FOR WOMEN will show readers:

* How to evaluate which weight-loss plan is best for them—from low carb to low fat—and how to stay healthy and happy while shedding pounds

* How to prevent and combat a variety of illnesses, including osteoporosis, breast cancer, heart disease, yeast infections, and allergies

* Easy menus, recipes, and Super Female Foods—staples that should be on every woman's shopping list

SUPER NUTRITION FOR WOMEN is a revolutionary program that works with today's popular diet and exercise plans—to help every woman look better, feel better, and live longer.

Workbook Std Trng F Estheticians or Backache

2009-01-17T23:58:00.000-08:00

Workbook-Std Trng F/Estheticians

Author: Milady

Milady's Standard Comprehensive Training for Estheticians Student Workbook is designed to reinforce key information and concepts found in the corresponding textbook. This popular student workbook contains detailed, interactive exercises designed to reinforce learning and increase student comprehension and retention. Exercises range from fill-in-the-blank questions to more challenging word puzzles, and discussion questions that encourage the student to apply theoretical knowledge to real-life situations. Following the last chapter are two 100-item multiple-choice practice tests that will help the student to identify those areas in which further study is needed.

Book about: Gluten Free Mamas Best Baking Recipes or Own Your Health

Backache: What Exercises Work

Author: Dava Sobel

What is the most powerful backache treatment ever developed to help prevent recurring back pain and restore you to a healthy, pain-free life?The answer is exercise.Exercise has:Helped more bachage sufferes than drugs, surgery, or any other treatment--without dangerous side effectsBeen widely prescribed by medical doctors and other health practitioners.Been rated the best source of relief by backache sufferers themselvesBeen uniformly supported by current medical researchEach exercise is explained in words and diagrams so that even a beginner can put together an individualized exercise program that works. Included are:Exercises to relieve acute and chronic plain, plus preventative measuresSelf evaluation checklistsInstructions for increasing activity levelsTips on performing everyday activities without painLet Backache: What Exercises Work work wonders in ending your back pain. Only this book has the techniques you need.

	Foreword
Ch. 1	Exercise by Prescription	3
Ch. 2	Alternatives to Exercise	11
Ch. 3	A Program for Permanent Improvement	21
Ch. 4	A Special Message for People with Chronically Disabling Back Pain	29
Ch. 5	How to Work Exercise into Your Life	37
Ch. 6	How to Assess Your Exercise Readiness and Assemble Your Tailor-Made Program	43
Ch. 7	How to Sustain Your Motivation to Exercise	65
Ch. 8	Exercises for Low-Back Pain	73
Ch. 9	Exercises for Upper-Back and Neck Pain	111
Ch. 10	Exercises for General Fitness	135
Ch. 11	Exercises for Specific Conditions	143
Ch. 12	Yoga	155
Ch. 13	Meditation, Imagery, and More	167
Ch. 14	Positioning Yourself	177
Ch. 15	Accomplishing Tasks	187
Ch. 16	Enjoying Life	195

Hour That Changes the World or Tattoos of the Floating World

2009-01-17T14:47:00.000-08:00

Hour That Changes the World: A Practical Plan for Personal Prayer

Author: Dick Eastman

The Hour That Changes the World, first published by Baker in 1978, is a classic book on prayer that offers practical suggestions on how readers can revitalize their prayer lives. Dick Eastman challenges Christians to spend one hour each day in prayer, and he outlines a twelve-step prayer program to help them accomplish the task.

By dividing one hour into twelve five-minute "points of focus," such as praise, waiting, confession, and Scripture praying, believers will develop a more consistent habit of daily prayer. The Hour That Changes the World draws heavily on Scripture and classic devotional writers and includes an appendix titled "Scriptural Intercession."

This 25th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Eastman and a new foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada, in which she writes: "The Hour That Changes the World may appear small and modest, but don't let its size fool you. Full of biblical insights about prayer, packed with testimonies of prayer warriors from years past, brimming with practical suggestions that will help you carve out a purposeful time of praise and intercession, Dick Eastman's book is arguably the most significant book on prayer written in modern times."

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Tattoos of the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Motifs in the Japanese Tattoo

Author: Katie M Kitamura

This unique book by tattoo artist Takahiro Kitamura (Horitaka, a pupil of Horiyoshi III) discusses the art of the Japanese tattoo in the context of Ukiyo-e, concentrating on the parallel histories of the woodblock print and the tattoo. Through high quality illustrations it shows that the Japanese tattoo is highly reliant on and linked to the woodblock print and that it deserves a position among the other art forms. A range of typical ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo are discussed and illustrated by the original Japanese prints, and sketches, drawings and tattoos by tattoo master Horiyoshi III. The book ends with a special essay by Don Ed Hardy.

	Foreword	6
	Preface	8
	Introduction	10
1	A brief history of Japanese tattooing	14
2	The popular arts of ukiyo-e and irezumi	22
3	Triumvirate in arts	30
4	The artist's circle	40
5	The tattoo as higher art	46
6	Separate ways	49
7	Ukiyo-e motifs in the Japanese tattoo	51
8	The Japanese tattoo: a personal view	102
	Short Biography: Horiyoshi III	106
	Short Biography: Don Ed Hardy	108
	Notes	110
	Bibliography	111
	Glossary	116
	Acknowledgements	118

Lowfat Cooking for Dummies or Ashtanga Yoga for Beginners

2009-01-17T02:36:00.000-08:00

Lowfat Cooking for Dummies

Author: Lynn Fischer

If a skimpy salad doused with a tasteless dressing is your idea of lowfat dining, hold on to your calorie counter. Lowfat cooking has come a long way. In fact, many of your high-calorie food favorites have an enticing, healthier equivalent in a lowfat version. Think chili. Potato pancakes. Or even cheesecake. It’s true. If done right, bite for bite, lowfat cooking can be as generous in flavor as its high-fat counterpart. And once you (and your body) have begun to sample the benefits of a lowfat menu, chances are you’ll turn lowfat cooking into a permanent lifestyle change.

With the help of Lynn Fischer, celebrated host of two TV cooking shows, Lowfat Cooking For Dummies helps you prepare meals worthy of a high-class health spa. In practically no time, you’ll see how simple and fun it is to slenderize your kitchen pantry and get your cooking regimen in gear. From finding hidden fats to reading labels, the book gives you the skinny on:

Cholesterol, saturated fats, trans fatty acids—what they are and where they come from
What “lowfat,” “fat-free,” and “reduced fat” really mean
Tips on stocking a lowfat pantry—including what canned and packaged foods to keep (including pretzels, popcorn, chips, and cookies!)
What oils, condiments, and flavorings to use—including a table of oils indicating saturated fat content and a comprehensive list of herbs and their uses
Meat, poultry, fish, and eggs—tips on finding sources of lowfat red meat, what lean really means, and telling “good” eggs from “bad”

Plus Lowfat CookingFor Dummies brings you quickly up to speed on the joys of lowfat cooking—making your transition into a lowfat menu as delicious as it is painless. You’ll reexperience old favorites like French Toast or a BLT or Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and discover how cutting calories in no way impairs taste. And you’ll get a fresh reinvigorating take on traditionally healthy salads, as well as a host of entrees:

One-pot Soups and Casseroles—including Chicken Soup with Vegetables, Lentil Soup, Chili, and Pork and Garbanzo Bean Stew
Fish and shellfish—including Cod with Ginger-Orange Sauce, Herbed Mahi Mahi, and Shrimp and Crab Gumbo
Meat and poultry—including Meat Loaf, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Roast Chicken
Sandwiches—including Chicken Salad, Deviled Ham, Egg Salad, Feta Cheese Hamburgers, and Grilled Cheese

The book is chockfull of hints on how to turn usually high-fat fare like Hollandaise Sauce and White Sauce into something light and tasty. Desserts such as Strawberry Cheesecake and Peach and Blackberry Tart can, at last, be enjoyed as a guilt-free pleasure. Brimming with suggestions for healthy, lowfat eating on every page.

Ashtanga Yoga for Beginners

Author: Michaela Clark

Everyone who's wanted to try Ashtanga Yoga, the fast-paced "power yoga" so many celebrities enjoy, will welcome this new beginner's course. In 14 core lessons that combine meditation with energy-packed workouts, students practice, at their own pace, a sequence of postures that develop flexibility, strength, and endurance. Fully illustrated with 250 color photos, it features advice on contraindications; alternatives for working safely and strain-free; quick-reference sheets to use without interrupting the workout's flow; and intermediate and advanced options. If you want to be healthy, happy, and youthful throughout your life, this is the way to go!

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health or Natural and Herbal Family Remedies

2009-01-16T17:24:00.000-08:00

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health

Author: Institute of Medicin

Damp Indoor Spaces and Health covers a broad range of topics. The book not only examines the relationship between damp or moldy indoor environments and adverse health outcomes, but discusses how and where buildings get wet, how dampness influences microbial growth and chemical emissions, the ways to prevent and remediate dampness, and the elements of a public health response to the issues. A comprehensive literature review finds sufficient evidence of an association between damp indoor environments and some upper respiratory tract symptoms, coughing, wheezing, and asthma symptoms in sensitized persons. This book will be of interest to a wide-ranging audience of science health, engineering and building professionals, government officials, and members of the public.

1	Background and methodologic considerations	17
2	Damp buildings	29
3	Exposure assessment	90
4	Toxic effects of fungi and bacteria	125
5	Human health effects associated with damp indoor environments	183
6	Prevention and remediation of damp indoor environments	270
7	The public health response	311
App. A	Workshop presentations and speakers	333
App. B	Committee, consultant, and staff biographies	336

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Natural and Herbal Family Remedies

Author: Cynthia Black

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

The Road to Immunity or Kickboxing Fitness

2009-01-16T06:13:00.000-08:00

The Road to Immunity: How To Survive and Thrive in a Toxic World

Author: Kenneth A Bock

By blending traditional medical treatments with proven alternative therapies, Dr. Kenneth Bock tells us exactly how to boost our immune systems to their maximum effectiveness. With treatments that range from nutritional supplements to hormone balancing, from homeopathic remedies to the latest bio-oxidative therapies, his cutting-edge approach helps dramatically reduce the risk of getting sick or developing allergies - and bolsters the power of antibiotics, cancer protocols, AIDS therapies, and medications for other chronic or acute illnesses.

	Foreword
	Introduction	1
I	Your Best Defense: Understanding the Immune System	7
1	Progressive Medicine	9
2	The Immune System Kettle	26
3	Immunology 101	47
II	The Immune System Empowerment Program: A Comprehensive Approach to Strengthening Your Immune System	75
4	Modern Life and Immune System Overload	77
5	The Immune Empowering Diet	127
6	Immune System Boosters	166
7	Alternative Therapies	211
8	Stress Management Techniques	231
9	Gut and Liver Function: What's the Story?	261
III	Finding Your Way Back to Health: Essential Steps Toward Well-Being	293
10	Immune System Super Boosters	295
11	Redox Medicine	337
12	Getting the Right Diagnosis	356
13	Healing Begins with Acceptance	373
	Endnotes	391
	Resources	405
	Index	411

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Kickboxing Fitness: A Guide for Fitness Professionals from the American Council on Exercise

Author: Tony Ordas

Kickboxing Fitness provides all the tools you need to safely integrate kickboxing fitness into a training program or group fitness class. Proper technique for each offensive and defensive kickboxing movement is described in detail. Smooth combinations and transitions are also emphasized, as is the importance of understanding exercise science as it applies this fitness modality. This book, which covers equipment-based and non-equipment-based classes, will remain a valuable resource throughout your career in the fitness industry.

Tattoo Road Trip or Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners

2009-01-15T19:58:00.000-08:00

Tattoo Road Trip: Southern California

Author: Robert E Baxter

Get up close and personal with Southern Californias most legendary and trend-setting tattoo artists. Join Skin & Ink magazine editor, Bob Baxter, as he drives from shop to shop in his 94 azure-blue Mustang. Follow along as he chats it up with Southern Californias living tattoo legends. Gather the inside info. Hear the spicy gossip. See the gorgeous gals and lusty men sport their traffic-stopping ink. Turn the pages. See their work in 565 color photos. Meet the artists. Take the trip! The Tattoo Road Trip! Featured artists include: Dave Gibson; Danielle Oberosler & Robert Atkinson; Shannon OSullivan; Mike Pike & Jojo Ackerman; Bob Roberts, Bryan Burke & Joe Vegas; Pat Fish; Jack Rudy; Judy Parker; Baba & Odie; Dottie M.; Corey Miller; Greg James; Patty Kelley; Fip Buchanan; Ethan Morgan; Steve Smith; Emelio Cusidor & Kerri Hodsdon; Kari Barba & Jeremiah Barba; Tennessee Dave James; John Saletra & Colin LaRocque; Riley Baxter; Shawn Warcot; Juan Puente, Mark Mahoney, Small Paul, & Chris Conn; Rori Keating; Baby Ray; and Eric Maaske.

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Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners

Author: William W Dunmir

Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners is the second book in a series by Dunmire and Tierney exploring native plant uses. Following the much-acclaimed Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province, this new book emphasizes prehistoric uses of plants in the Four Corners area, focusing on Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Aztec Ruins, Hovenweep, and other major sites of the region once occupied by the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, Hopi, and Apache peoples.

Dunmire and Tierney are able to eloquently illustrate the importance of the people-plant relationship that has existed throughout the ages among native peoples and how ancient traditional uses of these plants inform contemporary uses today. Through vignettes of background information drawn from lore and cultural traditions and interviews with tribal elders, Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners describes uses for edible, medicinal, and dye plants, as well as plants used for making baskets, tools, and shelters. Complementing these essays are profiles of fifty new trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and grasses common to traditional Native America.

AyurVeda and the Mind or SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR PARENTING

2009-01-15T10:45:00.000-08:00

AyurVeda and the Mind

Author: David Frawley

This book explores how to heal our minds on all levels to create wholeness.

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SURVIVAL STRATEGIES FOR PARENTING

Author: George T Lynn

"Survival Strategies for Parenting Children with Bipolar Disorder tackles the most difficult decisions parents can face, including whether to involve police or consider hospitalization if their children are a danger to themselves and their families. At the same time, it emphasizes the positive qualities these children often have and illustrates how their gifts and abilities can build their self-esteem and help them function better in society. However severe the child's symptoms, George Lynn's book will provide guidance, support and inspiration for parents and carers as well as being a useful resource for professionals working with the families who suffer as a result of this disorder."--BOOK JACKET.

	Acknowledgements	8
	Introduction: The Broken Necklace Rage	9
I	Bipolar Disorder in Children: Dealing with sudden rage, aggressive depression, oppositionality, and crazy thinking
1	Enter the Warrior: How to Identify the Presence of Bipolar Disorder in Children	18
2	The Brain Chemistry of Bipolar Disorder and the Drugs Used to Treat It	40
3	Martha's Story: Understanding and Managing Rage in Children with Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder	50
4	Tom's Story: Charting a Change Strategy for a Teen with Bipolar Disorder	73
5	Compassion Makes a Big Difference: The Empathy Factor in Children with Bipolar Disorder	87
6	Innovative Non-Pharmacological Treatment Approaches for Bipolar Disorder, ADD, and Depression in Children	110
II	Asperger's Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder in Teens: Managing inertia, school resistance, stimulus-craving, and lack of common sense
7	The Hermit: Asperger's Syndrome - Helping the Brilliant, Anxious and Oppositional Child Find His Way and Express His Gifts	120
8	Sean's Case: Helping a Child with the Dual Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and Asperger's Syndrome	145
III	Soothing the Hurt of Tourette Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder
9	Tourette Syndrome: The Wild Heart of the Restless Explorer	164
10	A Shoulder to Scream On: How to Help Children Living with the Fiery Extremes of Tourette Syndrome and Bipolar Disorder	178
IV	ADHD at Its Extremes
11	A Matter of Degree: How to Know the Difference between ADHD and Bipolar Disorder	190
V	Hard Decisions: Schools, professionals, psychiatric hospitals, and police involvement
12	How to Choose the Best Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Therapists, Schools, and Teachers for the Child with Wild and Extreme Behavior	198
13	The Hardest Decisions: How to Make Police Involvement or Psychiatric Hospitalization Part of Your Healing Plan	209
	Conclusion: When All Is Said and Done: Six Keys to Personal Wellness for Families of Children with Bipolar Disorder	219
	Appendix: Ten Essential Online Sites	223
	References	225
	Index	231

Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine or Feed Your Tiger

2009-01-14T22:33:00.000-08:00

Quintessence Tantras of Tibetan Medicine

Author: Barry Clark

The most thorough, detailed and systematic reference for Tibetan medicine.

Feed Your Tiger: The Asian Diet Secret for Permanent Weight Loss and Vibrant Health

Author: Letha Hadady

Forget about restrictive fad diets and "feel-the-burn" workouts. Drawing on Eastern healing principles that date back thousands of years, this is a decidedly different—and superbly effective—approach to weight control through energy balance

Feed Your Tiger is the first book to establish a connection between weight loss and energy type. Author Letha Hadady shows readers how to drop extra pounds through a combination of natural remedies and techniques that draw on both contemporary scientific research and traditional Chinese medicine.

By completing a short questionnaire, readers determine their own energy type: tiger, bear, dragon, or crane. With this information, they learn how to choose healing foods for their energy type; how to tailor their eating plans to their individual cravings; and how to further support their weight-loss efforts with specific natural remedies—including herbal and nutritional supplements, massage techniques, and stretches.

Feed Your Tiger was the subject of a controlled observational study, conducted at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. The findings confirmed that Hadaday's methods are as effective as they are unique.

Acknowledgments     vi
Preface     viii
Introduction     xii
Your Food Karma     1
Foods and You     3
The Baseline Diet     24
What's Your Energy Type?     57
Get Ready, Get Set     83
The Animal You     101
Feed Your Tiger     103
Balance Your Dragon     137
Soothe Your Bear     172
Free Your Soaring Crane     209
Get It Off, Keep It Off     245
Weight Loss Insurance     247
After 40     275
Your Weight Loss Lifestyle     295
Be a Winner!     297
Eating Out     312
Holiday Fitness     323
Conclusion     341
Stock These Healthy Foods     343
Natural Products and Information Resource Guide     348
Index     353

Take It off and Keep It Off or The Complete Idiots Guide to Detoxing Your Body

2009-01-14T12:21:00.000-08:00

Take It Off and Keep It Off

Author: Anonymous

The inspirational diet program for followers of Overeaters Anonymous.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Detoxing Your Body

Author: Delia Quigley

Cleansing for good health.

Toxic substances find a way into our bodies through air, water, food, and even household products. When these toxins build up in our bodies faster than we can get rid of them, we may experience premature aging, lethargy, chronic illness, and weight gain. This indispensable guide explains the why's and how's of detoxification and gives readers the tools to rid their bodies of toxins and enjoy a more vibrant, healthy life.

Secrets of Great Skin or Fit to Live

2009-01-14T01:10:00.000-08:00

Secrets of Great Skin: The Definitive Guide to Anti-Aging Skin Care

Author: David J Goldberg

At INNOVA we pride ourselves on publishing books that meet the highest standards. We concentrate on lifestyle topics such as parenting, health, nutrition, and self-improvement, recognizing that when changes in lifestyle occur, people turn to books for answers. Whether you're planning for a new baby, a new home, or a new you, INNOVA publishes intriguing books that inform and inspire at incomparable value.

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Fit to Live: 5 Steps to a Lean, Strong, Fearless You

Author: Pamela Peek

Dr. Pamela Peeke's New York Times bestseller Body-for-Life for Women has helped thousands of women transform their bodies. Now, in Fit to Live, she shines light on our 21st century lifestyle, with its fake food, desk jobs, clutter, and endless stress, and asks listeners, “If your life depended on it, could you run up four flights of stairs right now? Are you Fit to Live, not only to survive, but to enjoy life?” For most people, the answer is no and they don't know it.

Combining her trademark in-your-face wit with heart-stopping reality checks, Peeke offers an active health/lifestyle assessment and helps listeners gauge just how much fat—mental, nutritional, physical, financial, environmental—to cut to become Fit to Live. After following the plan, listeners will adjust better to life's stresses; get a stronger, leaner body; enjoy greater financial security; and create a healthier living space. Help Peeke help you become Fit to Live and lead a dynamic and exciting life, both now and for the future.

The Art of Breathing and Centering or Journal

2009-01-13T15:58:00.000-08:00

The Art of Breathing and Centering: Discover the Powerful Gifts of the Air You Breathe!

Author: Gay Hendricks

This life-enhancing program is now available on CD
Everyday, you breathe over 20,000 times! This automatic, unconscious action can be more than simply life-sustaining—it can be life-enhancing. You can manage stress and pain, boost energy, improve concentration and promote your overall well-being. Gay Hendricks has taught these proven effective methods to thousands of clients and workshop participants around the world. Easy to learn, these exercises require no special equipment and can be used anywhere.

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Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer

Author: Annabel Clark

With heart-rending honesty, in bittersweet moments as beautiful as they are difficult, yet with humor and optimism throughout, Annabel Clark's photographs and her mother Lynn Redgrave's journal entries illustrate a mother-daughter journey through the leading cause of cancer diagnosed in women today.

Library Journal

Acclaimed actress Redgrave kept her 2002 breast cancer diagnosis a secret from all but her closest family and friends. She followed surgery with chemotherapy and radiation and still managed to appear Off-Broadway in Alan Bennett's play Talking Heads. Her treatment and recovery are documented here through her daughter Clark's photographs and her own journal entries. The raw and honest photos present the intimate side of a disease that makes no exception for celebrity. The result is both inspirational and heart-tugging. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency or Embracing Our Mortality

2009-01-13T03:46:00.000-08:00

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency!: Rescue Strategies for the Overworked and Overwhelmed

Author: Diane Sieg

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency is for anyone caught up in the fast lane of life, who feels under the gun, and doesn't know how to live any other way. We have too much to do and not enough time to do it. We're overwhelmed, we're feeling the stress, our days are in chaos, and we don't know how to change the toxic habits that ruin our lives. Diane Sieg, a 20-year emergency room veteran and certified Lifestyle Counselor, says that it's time we deal with stress as the life-threatening affliction it is. After seeing thousands of crisis situations, she has come to realize that we create a lot of our own emergencies by trying to do too much, too fast, too often. Stop Living Life Like an Emergency explains how you can rejuvenate your life, increase your time, and rediscover the joy of living. Sieg shows you how to overcome your life-threatening lifestyle and build the future you want.

Stop Living Life Like an Emergency is a no-non-sense, down-to-earth guide. It's full of anecdotes, case studies, self-assessment quizzes, personal experiences, and proven action plans that Sieg has developed for her clients. Emergency living stirs up spiritual crises, too. We don't have the time or energy for the things that matter most -- our loved ones, our passions, our own souls. Sieg explains how to find "The Agonizing Gift" that opens the door to healing your pain and reclaiming your spirit. In this book Sieg shares the secrets that over 30,000 people have praised at her lectures and keynote addresses across the nation. Finally -- an antidote for emergency living that makes sense!

	Introduction	xiii
Chapter 1	Emergency Living	1
Chapter 2	Triage	15
Chapter 3	Assessment	29
Chapter 4	Hyperventilation	41
Chapter 5	Changing Status	51
Chapter 6	The Treatment Plan	61
Chapter 7	The Overdose	73
Chapter 8	The Adrenaline Junkie	89
Chapter 9	Inserting a Pacemaker	99
Chapter 10	The Disaster Plan	107
Chapter 11	Universal Precautions	117
Chapter 12	Take a Break	129
Chapter 13	The Pain Scale	143
Chapter 14	Discharge Instructions	155
	Recommended Reading	173
	Bibliography	177
	Index	181

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Embracing Our Mortality: Hard Choices in an Age of Medical Miracles

Author: Lawrence J Schneiderman

While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J. Schneiderman, a physician who is our leading expert on medical ethics at the end of life, urges all of us, including health care professionals caring for people at the end of life, to face these decisions with sensitivity and realism informed by both the latest medical evidence as well as the oldest humanistic visions. Dr. Schneiderman vividly demonstrates the wisdom of this approach by interweaving true stories of his patients, current empirical research in care at the end of life, displays of the power of empathy and imagination as embodied in the work of writers like Tolstoy and Chekov, and examples of how the distortion of medical research by media, and its misunderstanding even by health care professionals, cloud the ability to think, feel, and decide clearly about mortal concerns. He ends by addressing the question implicit in all of this which is how to achieve a just and universal health care.
Dr. Schneiderman proves a refreshingly honest, astringent, and life-affirming guide to thinking about the choices that we or people we love will face when we dienot if, as the technological imperatives of modern medicine can suggestand to making decisions at the end of life that respect all that has preceded it.

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Reviewer:Sarah Hetue Hill, MA(St. Louis University Center for Health Care Ethics)
Description:Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman, respected physician and well known expert on ethics at the end of life, presents this book as a guide for wading through the chaos that occurs when having to make difficult decisions at the end of life.
Purpose:The book provides readers with the tools necessary to navigate treatment decisions that will occur during our own serious illnesses and those of our loved ones. As suggested in the preface, although most of us would prefer to die at home, a large majority of us will die in a healthcare facility hooked up to a myriad of machines and devices. This book is a timely and needed response to society's current immersion in the milieu of the technological imperative.
Audience:This is appropriate for a broad audience and is written in a manner that will be accessible to many, including those unfamiliar with medical terminology or ethics. The book also provides enough relevant information on the topics of empathy and empirical research to be useful to healthcare professionals whose patients are facing these intricate decisions.
Features:Throughout the book, the author recounts cases from his own practice as well as famous cases to illuminate his points. He provides a useful chapter on completing advance directives and another on how to accurately assess facts and statistics on treatment outcomes. He also incorporates literary references from Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Tolstoy into the text, and provides an appendix with poems by William Carlos Williams and Anne Sexton. The author concludes with achapter addressing additional recent concerns in healthcare, including the need to provide universal healthcare and the inexorableness of rationing healthcare.
Assessment:This book is engaging, due in large part to the case studies and literary references. The concise arrangement of short chapters with numerous references makes the book manageable, but substantial enough to be valuable. The honest and realistic information is a welcome alternative to the inaccurate depictions of the end of life provided by the media.

Library Journal

As medical advances and lifestyle changes carry more and more Americans beyond the age of 80, decisions about quality of life and manner of death grow increasingly unavoidable. Schneiderman (Univ. of California at San Diego Medical Sch.) and geriatrician McCullough (The Little Black Book of Geriatrics ) remind us that the issues surrounding decline and death are not isolated, spectacular events happening to others, as in the Terri Schiavo case, but a part of all our lives. Here, they each discuss the need for advanced planning and thoughtful communication and care.

Schneiderman emphasizes the need for clear and current advance directives to balance the tendency of modern medicine, abetted by hopeful loved ones, to continue treatments to the detriment of the patient's comfort. Using many literary references (this M.D. is also a novelist, a short story writer, and a playwright) and calling on philosophy as well as science, Schneiderman argues that physicians need to work from an "ethic of care" that gives equal status to the relief of suffering and the restoration of health.

McCullough's concept of "slow medicine" is an example of that ethic of care in action. Having worked through these issues himself with his own mother's death, he here guides families as they move with an aging relative along what he calls the "eight stations of late life" preceding death. McCullough believes communication at this time is essential, and he emphasizes gentle, low-impact, and thoughtful care from the first signs of the body or mind's decline. Often, he points out, elderly patients can benefit more from attentive listening, conversation, touch, and a reduction in medications than fromacute interventions. Good additions to such works as Ira Byock's Dying Well , both these books are recommended for public libraries.-Dick Maxwell, Porter Adventist Hosp. Lib., Denver

Eating Alive Prevention Thru Good Digestion or Awakening Your Sexuality

2009-01-12T18:34:00.000-08:00

Eating Alive: Prevention Thru Good Digestion

Author: Jonn Matsen

This book provides practical information on how to improve health and prevent diseases through good digestion.

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Awakening Your Sexuality: A Guide for Recovering Women

Author: Stephanie S Covington

With candor and compassion, Stephanie Covington reminds us that recovery is about living life fully and completely and sexual recovery is integral to the fullness of your life. With comprehensive scope and individual focus, she addresses the following questions:

How is women's sexuality shaped by a male-based society?
How do dysfunctional families influence a woman's sexuality?
What did the sexual revolution do for women?
How are women affected by alcohol, drugs, and AIDS?
What is the connection between sexuality and spirituality?
How can recovery groups address sexual issues?

Most important, Awakening Your Sexuality gives women the tools to process their sexual histories, understand their sexual selves, and create the sexual lives they want. Covington provides the personalized exercises and positive, step-by-step guidance women need to confront guilt, shame, or addiction; become aware of body image and behavior patterns; honor and accept the past; and begin the liberating journey of sexual recovery and growth.

Stephanie S. Covington, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., nationally recognized for her pioneering work on women's issues, consults in the public and private sectors and maintains a clinical practice in La Jolla, California. She is the author of A Woman's Way through the Twelve Steps.

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Stephanie Covington writes with candor and sensitivity as she addresses how women's sexuality is shaped by a malebased society; how dysfunctional families influence a woman's sexuality; what the sexual revolution did for and to women; how women are affected by alcohol, drugs, and AIDS; what the connection is between sexuality and spirituality; and how sexual addiction and sexual abuse recovery groups address sexual issues. Awakening Your Sexuality is thoughtful, considerate, responsible, highly recommended reading which also provides personalized exercises and positive, stepbystep guidance for women needing to deal with issues of guilt, shame, addiction, destructive body image and behavior patterns, and begin the liberating journey of sexual recovery and growth.

Flax the Super Food or Food Allergy News Cookbook

2009-01-12T07:21:00.000-08:00

Flax the Super Food: Delicious Recipes for Better Health

Author: Barb Bloomfield

Flax is considered a "nutraceutical": a food with many nutrients and pharmaceutical properties. Containing essential fats, omega-3s and omega-6s, which the body needs to function properly, flax is also rich in lignans, which have antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal properties. Over 80 delicious recipes for using ground flaxseeds and flaxseed oil offer a complete range of breakfast foods, spreads and dips, salads and dressings, breads, soups, and entrees.

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Food Allergy News Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes from Food Allergy News and Members of the Food Allergy Network

Author: Anne Munoz Furlong

If the only cure for food allergies is to avoid the food completely… What is left to eat? How do you feed a child when favorite foods are no longer safe? How can you be sure you are avoiding the food? How can you maintain flavor and diversity in your diet? Allergy-free cooking can be challenging, stimulating, and fun. The Food Allergy News Cookbook is your comprehensive guide to understanding food allergies and learning how to eat properly. Getting started is easy with the support of:

• Basic shopping tips
• Easy-to-understand cooking tips
• Straightforward label reading guidelines
• Comprehensive listings of scientific and technical names for common allergens
• Detailed ingredient substitution guides

Enjoy cooking and creating tasty foods with:

• Over 300 easy-to-follow recipes
• Adaptations of all-time favorite recipes
• A full range of menu ideas from breads, pies, and cakes to pizza, soup, and spaghetti

The possibilities are endless when you understand your options. Explore the vast selection of choices and recipes provided in this book and start enjoying a diversity of tastes and flavors again.

Kundalini or Gemstone Reflexology

2009-01-11T21:09:00.000-08:00

Kundalini: The Arousal of the Inner Energy

Author: Ajit Mookerje

Today in the West, scientists and philosophers, mystics and seekers of higher consciousness are intensively searching for means of releasing the vital energy (kundalini) that lies latent in each of us. Tantra, which does not deny the body, but harnesses its energies and powers for spiritual growth, is the most detailed and authoritative teaching of this kind in existence. In Kundalini: The Arousal of the Inner Energy, Ajit Mookerjee writes of the core experience of Tantra, the process in which the energy is awakened and rises throughout the energy centers (chakras) to unite with Pure Consciousness at the crown of the head.

• The author drew on an extensive range of original manuscript sources for both the text an the magnificent illustrations found throughout the book.

• Kundalini: The Arousal of the Inner Energy examines the modern accounts of the kundalini experience, both Eastern and Western, and describes the findings of the clinical studies and research so far undertaken in the West.

Gemstone Reflexology

Author: Nora Kircher

ALTERNATIVE HEALTH / NEW AGE

Combining the healing energy of crystals with reflexology and acupressure therapies, Gemstone Reflexology offers a holistic approach to triggering the body’s self-healing energies to deal with a large number of mental and physical disorders, ranging from heartache to heart disease. The treatment is based on using eight gem sticks--amethyst, aventurine, fluorite, heliotrope, rock crystal, rose quartz, rutile quartz, and sodalite--that allow users to direct the healing power of the crystals to activate designated pressure points.

Every gemstone has specific healing properties. Amethyst, for example, alleviates pain and tension and when applied to the pressure points corresponding to the back muscles can significantly reduce back pain or even relieve it altogether; aventurine helps in the treatment of skin disorders; and heliotrope strengthens the immune system. When crafted into sticks, these gems intensify energy in the pointed end and distribute energy broadly through the blunt end. This enables the practitioner to apply the perfect amount of pressure at the appropriate location, combining into a powerful healing force the energies of the crystal with those released by the pressure on the reflexology or acupressure points. Gemstone Reflexology contains illustrated instructions that show the treatment areas for a wide range of conditions, including earaches, insomnia, joint pain, colds and flu, low blood pressure, stomach problems, menstrual cramps, and depression.

NORA KIRCHER is a natural health practitioner and teacher who has her own clinic where she treats adults and children using ear acupressure andbioresonance. She has practiced gemstone reflexology for many years and has written fifteen books on diet and alternative health, published in her native Germany.

The Essential AIDS Fact Book or The Mens Club

2009-01-11T11:57:00.000-08:00

The Essential AIDS Fact Book: Newly Revised and Updated

Author: Laura Pinsky

AIDS (Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome) is one of the most perplexing health problems confronting everyone today. The Essential AIDS Fact Book can help you to protect your health now -- while scientists work toward developing a vaccine and better treatments.

TRANSMISSION ROUTES -- the infection that causes AIDS is transmitted only through the transfer of infected blood or sexual fluids, or from mother to fetus

RISK REDUCTION GUIDELINES -- how to assess the risk of specific sexual activities; how to make your sex life safer, including proper use of condoms; what intravenous drug users should know about AIDS prevention

THE TRUTH ABOUT CASUAL CONTACT -- no danger from ordinary nonsexual contact with infected people, according to scientific studies

ANTIBODY TESTING -- why new developments in treatment mean that all those at significant risk for being infected should be anonymously antibody tested; why a positive test result is not the same as a diagnosis of AIDS; the importance of counseling

NEW TREATMENTS -- how infected people can stay healthier longer; immune function monitoring with T4 cell counts; the most dangerous infection in AIDS is now preventable; use of antivirals can slow the disease

INSURANCE AND LEGAL INFORMATION -- how to get and keep your health insurance; how to fight discrimination and preserve confidentiality

RESOURCE GUIDE -- hot line numbers, AIDS education, counseling, anonymous testing sites, medical information, legal advice.

A portion of the proceeds from this book will be contributed to AIDS education and research.

The Men's Club: How to Lose Your Prostate without Losing Your Sense of Humor

Author: Bert Gottlieb

What men with prostate trouble need to know--told from the perspective of a patient and his doctor.

Pre and Post Natal Fitness or 10 Essential Herbs for Lifelong Health

2009-01-10T23:46:00.000-08:00

Pre- and Post- Natal Fitness: A Guide for Fitness Professionals from the American Council on Exercise

Author: Lenita Anthony

ACE's Guides for Fitness Professionals provide the latest research and information on the most important aspects of the fitness industry. Each title picks up where ACE's Personal Trainer Manual and Group Fitness Instructor Manual leave off, providing the specific knowledge and skills fitness professionals need to develop effective and safe exercise programs or group fitness classes. Pre- and Post-Natal Fitness, which covers both personal training programs and group fitness classes, discusses the physiological changes associated with pregnancy and explains how these changes influence the design and effectiveness of exercise programming for this special population. This book also provides creative post-natal exercise recommendations, and will remain a valuable resource throughout your career in the fitness industry.

10 Essential Herbs for Lifelong Health

Author: Barbara Heller

Cycling Fit or Women under the Influence

2009-01-10T13:34:00.000-08:00

Cycling Fit

Author: Jamie Baird

With Lance Armstrong setting the pace, cycling is one of the world's fastest growing sports. Cycling Fit explains in detail how, as well as being a popular form of athletic competition, it's also an especially effective way for people of all ages to get in shape. In these pages, everyone from experienced cyclists to beginners getting ready to buy their first bike will find all they need to know about cycling fitness. Here's complete information about bike selection and maintenance; cyclists' clothing and accessories; exercise routines with mileages, speeds, and rest periods; and even guidelines on nutrition. And readers interested in taking cycling to the next level will find essential advice on performance training for triathlons and other types of organized competitions.

Interesting book: Simple Guide to Thyroid Disorders or Fit as a Fiddle

Women under the Influence

Author: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

This comprehensive and accessible book documents the physical and emotional effects of substance abuse in girls and women, explores the role of the advertising and entertainment industries in popularizing various substances of abuse, and discusses the way America responds to this enormous health problem.

Covering a broad range of substances -- nicotine, alcohol, prescription and illicit drugs -- the book addresses the unique reasons that girls and women smoke and abuse alcohol and drugs. It provides the most current information about the use of prescription and club drugs, key warning signs of addiction, and options for prevention and treatment. The book includes historical anecdotes and testimonies from recovering women.

Incorporating more than a decade of extensive research, Women under the Influence will help women, health care professionals, educators, and policy makers understand the scope of substance abuse in girls and women, the urgency of responding to the problem, the key points of intervention, and potential roads to recovery.

Library Journal

This first book by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse draws on more than ten years of research to illustrate how girls and women can become addicted to drugs and alcohol at faster rates than boys and men. Chapters on topics like smoking, alcohol, and prescription and illicit drugs contain eyeopening information on their negative effects on women's physical and mental health and on the history of these products and how advertising glamorizes them. The final two chapters offer practical suggestions for preventing substance abuse, e.g., tailoring treatment programs for women to take into account issues like child care and custody. Including extensive notes and an appendix of mostly organizational web sites that deal with the topics presented, this is an excellent starting point for patrons researching the topic, as it examines substance abuse in women of all ages. Recommended for academic, health sciences, and public libraries.-Rebecca Raszewski, Drexel Univ. Lib., Philadelphia Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Relax to the Max or Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat

2009-01-10T02:22:00.000-08:00

Relax to the Max: 50 Candles, Soaps, Scents and Potpourri Crafts to Create Your Own Bliss

Author: Marie Browning

Slow down (maybe even stop), and smell the roses--and the jasmine, sandalwood, peppermint, and citrus blends, too. These remarkable fragrant candles, soaps, and potpourris make it simple for overworked, stressed-out women to experience the relaxing pleasures of aromatherapy every day. Each deliciously aromatic item in this lushly illustrated manual uses pure essential oils that promote a sense of health and well being. Whether the oil permeates the air or gets absorbed through the skin, it works its magic. An introduction explains aromatherapy's benefits, and provides hints for purchasing, blending, and storing the oils. With the help of easy-to-follow directions, create a Lifting Lavender Embedded Marble Candle; muscle soothing Relief Bath with juniper, rosemary, lemon, and eucalyptus; Serenity Now soap with patchouli; and Spicy Potpourri.

Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat?: The Doctor's 28-Day Diet That Tests Your Metabolism as You Lose Weight

Author: Sanford Siegal

Are you dieting and exercising-and still gaining weight?

Are you taking vitamins and minerals-and still have dull skin and hair?

Are you sleeping eight hours a night-and still feel tired all day?

If so—you may be one of the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from hypothyroidism, a thyroid gland malfunction that makes it virtually impossible to lose weight and that can cause a wide range of other conditions. In this book, weight-loss trailblazer Dr. Sanford Siegal gives you a 28-day diet plan that helps most people lose pounds fast-and serves as an important indicator. That's because if you don't lose a lot of weight on the plan, you'll know that you may very well have a sluggish thyroid, a condition that most conventional tests fail to detect. A diet book with a difference, filled with groundbreaking medical insight and case studies, here is a guide to taking control of your weight and your health that finally answers the question... IS YOUR THYROID MAKING YOU FAT?

What People Are Saying

Robert Fried
This book is an absolute must for those who've almost lost faith in weight loss. For the multitude who've slogged through a mountain of weight-loss diet books to no avail: You can stop blaming yourself -- it may be your sluggish thyroid.
— (Robert Fried, Ph.D., co-author of The Arginine Solution)

Alan R. Gaby
From the foreward by Alan R. Gaby, M.D., former president American Holistic Medical Association, and author of The Patient's Book of Natural Healing

My own clinical experience with more than one thousand 'thyroid cases' unequivocally confirms Siegal's observations.

Dennis Gage
Low-dose thyroid supplementation -- even when a patient tests in the normal range of thyroid function -- can be a useful therapy. [This book] brings to light many unappreciated aspects of the dynamic thyroid activity and a number of maladies.
— (Dennis Gage, M.D., F.A.C.P., former acting director, The Obesity Center)

Hodgins
This book is great—I am giving it to my daughters to read, as they have a similar problem as me and are getting fed up with doctors who only go by lab results. Thanks for giving me some hope and having the courage to speak out against the 'establishment.' Wish there were more like Dr. Siegal.

Amy Shellase
If after you've read this book, taken all the tests, filled out the checklists, kept track of your temperature, and tried his 28-day eating test, you don't think you got your money's worth I'd be surprised.... Dr. Siegal also gives strong arguments for the use of natural thyroid supplementation as opposed to the use of synthetics.

S. Hileman
As a doctor of pharmacy candidate and published reviewer of medical literature, I am in constant contact with patients who complain that their doctor dismisses a metabolic problem as the cause of their obesity. While hypothyroidism certainly is not the cause of all obesity, Dr. Siegal makes a very convincing argument that, for many, it may be. ...This book offers hope to those who don't overeat but can't seem to lose weight on any diet.

An Invitation to Health or Nutritional Yeast Cookbook

2009-01-09T17:10:00.000-08:00

An Invitation to Health (with 1Pass Instant Access to HealthNow 2007 and InfoTrac)

Author: Dianne Hales

AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, Twelfth Edition has been a best-selling personal health text for many years, largely due to its ability both to introduce the topics of health and wellness and also to inspire students to put the facts of what makes good health and wellness into practice. The unique approach of Dianne Hales's text revolves around the student focus (i.e. examples students can relate to, contemporary coverage, visual appeal, testing preparation). This text is comprehensive in its coverage and includes the latest research and data on topics students care about, from personal relationships, to eating habits and understanding health risks. Because changing for life is a major theme of this edition, a new "Your Life Coach" section presents practical information on how to make healthful changes. To enhance the critical thinking aspect, case studies have been added in each chapter that will present a personal issue involving making a healthy choice. Also, "You Decide" boxes in each chapter ask a controversial question for student reflection, such as same-sex marriage and legalization of marijuana. They are also linked to Personal Response System "clicker" content and a new online journal. Additionally, with this updated Twelfth Edition, there is the new HealthNow™ Online assessment and learning tool, including pre- and post-tests, a personalized behavior change plan, and activities to add enjoyment to learning and allow students to explore, experience, and better understand the benefits of healthy living. We also now offer Pedometers, over 500 PowerPoint® slides, new ABC® video clips, and much more. The Twelfth Edition continues to offer the same great content, features,and support materials, and now is taking it even further by emphasizing the importance of behavior change and developing life skills.

A LIFETIME OF WELLNESS. 1. An Invitation to Health for the Twenty-First Century. 2. Personal Stress Management. 3. Feeling Good. 4. Caring for the Mind. II. HEALTHY LIFESTYLES. 5. The Joy of Fitness. 6. Nutrition for Life. 7. Eating Patterns and Problems. III. RESPONSIBLE SEXUALITY. 8. Communication and Relationships. 9. Personal Sexuality. 10. Reproductive Choices. IV. PERSONAL HEALTH RISKS. 11. Consumerism, Complementary/Alternative Medicine, and the Health Care System. 12. Defending Yourself from Infectious Diseases. 13. Keeping Your Heart Healthy. V. AVOIDING HEALTH RISKS. 14. Lowering Your Risk of Cancer and Other Major Diseases. 15. Drug Use, Misuse, and Abuse. 16. Alcohol Use, Misuse, and Abuse. 17. Tobacco Use, Misuse, and Abuse. VI. HEALTH IN CONTEXT. 18. Staying Safe: Preventing Injury, Violence, and Victimization. 19. When Life Ends. 20. Working Towards a Healthy Environment. Appendix: Hales Health Almanac. Glossary. Credits. Index.

Books about: Natural Health after Birth or Dieting Sucks

Nutritional Yeast Cookbook: Recipes Using Red Star Vegetarian Support Formula

Author: Joanne Stepaniak

Here are over 100 recipes featuring Red Star's Vegetarian Support Formula Flakes. Use this delicious, nutritional yeast to create wonderful substitutes for cheese sauces, sliceable cheese for cold snacks, and meltable cheese for toppings, fondues, and pizza. You'll soon learn how to make the most of this tasty product in your everyday cooking. Great for anyone who is lactose intolerant! And a great fource of B vitamins!

Step by Step Yoga for Pregnancy or Secrets of an Alkaline Body

2009-01-09T04:58:00.000-08:00

Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancy: Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year

Author: Wendy Teasdill

Yoga calms the mind, bringing a sense of peace, relaxation, and well-being as well as optimizing physical health, agility, adn strength. Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancy is an essential guide to the best exercises for each stage of pregnancy and the resources you need for a harmonious pregnancy, birth, and recovery. Step-by-Step Yoga for Pregnancy is:

a beautifully illustrated yoga handbook for all three trimesters and the weeks following delivery
the perfect resource for newcomers to yoga and invaluable for experienced students
a complete collection of safe, carefully selected postures
written in consultation with top yoga instructors, midwives, and doctors

approved by leading pregnancy experts Wendy Teasdill is an experienced yoga teacher and the mother of three children. She began teaching yoga in Hong Kong, where she adapted her teaching to meet the needs of pregnant students. She lives in Glastonbury, England.

Wendy Teasdill is a well-known and widely respected instructor of Iyengar yoga who lives in London.

Books about: Old Fashioned Dutch Oven Cookbook or Banana Split Book

Secrets of an Alkaline Body: The New Science of Colloidal Biology

Author: Annie Padden Jubb

This book provides a scientific explanation for cancer through an analysis of the blood. The Jubbs explain how LifeFood nutrition—a diet rich in vegetarian foods found wild in nature and served uncooked—can detoxify and rejuvenate the body. Included are four herbal formulas for making colloidal medicines for proper hydration. These alkaline beverages can be readily absorbed to purify "dirty blood"—acidic and full of toxins—making the body inhospitable to cancer. Secrets of an Alkaline Body is informatively illustrated and includes testimonials from clients who have successfully cleared cancer from their bodies using the Jubbs' techniques.

	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	Foundations of LifeFood Nutrition	9
	Life Is an Implosive Force	10
Chapter 2	Acid and Alkaline Body	15
	Mold, Fungus, and Yeast Are the Chief Undertakers of the Body	15
	Enzymes Are pH Sensitive	18
	Mold and Yeast Recycle Life	20
	What Is a Colloid (Kol oid)?	21
	Colloids and Bioelectric Resonance	22
	Electrons Are Light Matter	26
	From Dust We Come and to Dust We Return	27
Chapter 3	The New Science of Colloidal Biology	29
	A Morphogenic Field Assembles Life Colloids	29
	The Morphogenic Field of Conception	31
	Primitive Life Spontaneously Arises	33
	Colloids of Life	36
	Biological Water Is Living	40
	Colloidal Isotonic Protein Bathe Cells	41
	Breathing Changes pH of Blood	43
	Colloidal Protein in Evolution	45
	Immunity	50
	Autoimmune Challenges Explained	51
Chapter 4	The Procession of the Equinoxes	57
Chapter 5	Feeding the Light Body	61
	Mineral Colloids and Manna from Heaven Awaken the Light Body	61
	Monatomic Elements Light Us Up through Resonance	65
	From Mercury to Gold	68
	Gravity and Electricity Are Related	70
	Cells Are Formed from Mineral Colloids	71
	Space Dust, Life Colloids, Dinosaurs, and Blood	72
	Key Factors that Constitute a Colloidal System	73
	Water Moves Stone	73
	Colloidal Minerals as Vital as Vitamins	73
	Bioavailability of Minerals	74
	Water and the Chemistry of Life	76
	Atoms Gain or Lose Electrons	77
	Negative Ions Are Released in Nature	77
	Is Oxygen a Good Thing?	78
Chapter 6	Living Blood	81
	Blood Condition Wants Life to Arise	81
	Healthy Blood Spins Right	82
	Our Body Aura (L-Field)	84
	Warm Alkaline Body, Inactive Spores	85
	Food, Mood, and Surroundings Build Blood	86
	Enzymes, Immunity, and the Magic Wand	88
Chapter 7	Spontaneous Remission	91
	Spontaneous Remission Therapeutics (SRT)	94
	LifeFood Ingredients to Better Health	99
	LifeFood Stops Cancer in its Tracks and Clears Clogged Arteries	101
	Your Liver Is Your Genie in a Bottle	106
	Life Taps into Free Energy	107
Chapter 8	Current Affairs	113
	Immortal Timeless Cycles	113
	Artificial Flavorings and Antisocial Behavior	114
	Having Hollow Bones	116
Chapter 9	Vitality	119
	Vitality and Superconduction	119
	Today's Healers	121
	Zero Point and Vacuum Polarization	122
	How To Access Universal Energy	127
	Upstream Preventative Medicine	127
	Alkaline Water Is Superior to Antioxidants	128
	Spare Electrons Equal Downstream Cell Protection	129
	All Beings Are Ferments Given Certain Conditions	129
	Blood Alkalinity, Tachyons, and Energy	132
	Colloids of Life Change Shape	134
	Colloidal Biology, Blood, and Cells	135
Chapter 10	Cell Rejuvenation	137
	Keys To Solving Cancer	137
	Lengthen Your Lifespan	138
	Purifying the Lymph at the Top of the Mountain	143
	Blood Factors Maintain Vital Immunity	144
	Friendly Colloids of Life Live within Us	146
	Primitive Life Eats Tar and Resin	146
	Phytoplankton Turns On Immunity	147
	Untapped Antibodies and Metabolic Keys	148
	Soil-Born Organisms Equal Food for Humans	150
	Blood Protein and Colloidal Health	151
	Vital Pancreas Function Keeps Cancer at Bay	152
	Cancer Is a Single-Protein Disease	153
	Vitality Reveals an Alkaline Hyperoxia	154
	Electric Nutrients Keep Our Terrain Intact	155
	Body Chemicals Regulate Inflammation	156
	Cells and Biochemically Mediated Immunity	157
	Electric Foods Boost Immunity through Minerals and Hormones	158
	Body Cells Are Continuously Replaced	160
	The Principal Undertakers Are Mold, Fungus, and Yeast	162
	LifeFood and Electric Herbs Heal Cancer	162
Chapter 11	The Healing Powers of LifeFood and Electric Herbs	165
	Blood Purification and Lymph Revitalization Formula	165
	Three Cancer Elimination and Body Detoxification Formulas	167
	LifeFood Colloids and Cell Normalization	168
	Phytochemicals in LifeFood	169
	LifeFood Colloids Create Good Hygiene	170
	Cordyceps	171
	Electric Herbs Help Clear Cell Waste	172
	Bio-Resonance: Like Cures Like	173
Chapter 12	Common Challenges	175
	Candidia Dysbiosis	175
	You Have Electricity While You Are Alkaline	177
	Acid/Alkaline Colloidal Interaction	178
	Influencing the Absorption of Minerals	179
	Being Alkaline and Staying Trim	180
	Alkaline-Hyperoxia versus Acid-Hypoxia	181
	Life and the Balance of Mineral Colloids	181
Chapter 13	The Cosmic Human	183
	Light Opens Our Third Eye	183
	Celestial Bodies Affect Minerals in Solution	185
	Energy Comes from Sources Other than Food	186
	Nutrients Have Strange and Interesting Qualities	187
	Light Is a Nutrient	187
	Breathing and States of Consciousness	188
Chapter 14	Colloids and the Body Electric	193
	Snowflakes and Colloids	193
	Colloids, Galactic Vortices, and Blood	194
	Colloidal Nutrients Are Highly Absorbable	194
	Mineral Colloids Are the Condensed Effect of Stars	195
	Longevity Equals Having Spare Electrons	198
	It Takes Two Poles to Get a Current	199
	Electrons Are Our Light Body	200
	Solar Rays Animate the Electrons of Seeds	200
	Specific Colloidal Mineral Frequency	201
	The Body Has a Biogenic Energy Field	202
	Notes	205
	Index	211

Addicted or Taming Bipolar Disorder

2009-01-08T19:46:00.000-08:00

Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast

Author: Lorna Crozier

Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addiction can have devastating consequences, often shattering lives, sundering families, causing impoverishment, and even triggering suicide. Yet it can also be a source of inspiration. In these frank essays, leading American and Canadian writers explore their surprisingly diverse personal experiences with this complex phenomenon, candidly recounting what happened when alcohol, heroin, smoking, food, gambling, or sex -- sometimes in combination -- took over their lives.

New interesting textbook: Derivatives or Supplemental Readings to Accompany Public Speaking for College and Career 6 E

Taming Bipolar Disorder (Psychology Today Here to Help Series)

Author: Lori Oliwenstein

Living and thriving with bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder is about the wildest of euphorias and the deepest of depressions. Now, Alpha Books and Psychology Today present all the information, guidance, and support people with bipolar disorder—and their loved ones—need in order to thrive. This important book contains cutting-edge research and straightforward advice from the most respected names on bipolar disorder, along with the most up-to-date information on mental health organizations and support and advocacy groups. In addition, readers will find inspiring stories of courage and triumph.

• More than two million Americans live with bipolar disorder—and it's on the rise among children and adolescents • Includes strategies for navigating the health care system, nurturing relationships, advancing in the workplace, and repairing bridges burned during mania and depression • Features the latest research—from new pharmaceuticals to innovative therapies, dietary changes to acupuncture, light therapy to mood charting

Author Biography: Lori Oliwenstein, formerly a senior editor at Discovery magazine, has written on topics from evolutionary medicine to bacterial suicide for numerous magazines. She also coauthored Superhuman: The Awesome Power Within, the companion volume to the documentary series aired by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. She is currently a science writer for USC's Health Sciences Public Relations Office.

The Caregiver or Yoga Journals Yoga Basics

2009-01-08T08:33:00.000-08:00

The Caregiver: A Life with Alzheimer's

Author: Aaron Alterra

When Aaron Alterra's wife, Stella, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she was an active 80-year-old preparing for a cello performance. The diagnosis radically altered the author's role from husband to caregiver. This account describes his attempts to maintain a connection with his wife and help her live at peace with her condition. "The best and most expert book on Alzheimer's that I have read." - John Bayley, author of Elegy for Iris

Yoga Journal's Yoga Basics: The Essential Beginner's Guide to Yoga for a Lifetime of Health and Fitness

Author: Mara Carrico

Welcome to the world of yoga.

Yoga Journal's Yoga Basics offers the first truly comprehensive introduction to the practice of this popular ancient healing art. Produced by a teacher of yoga for over 25 years and the editors of Yoga Journal, it offers all the inspiration and instruction you'll need to develop your own at-home yoga practice. Beginning with an exploration of the roots of yoga, the book goes on to describe a variety of hatha yoga styles-- Iyengar, Ashtanga, Kundalini, and others-- so you can choose the method that's appropriate for you. Featuring easy-to-follow instructions and 140 black-and-white photographs to illustrate the postures, Yoga Basics provides a thorough understanding not only of the mechanics of technique but of all the important elements that make yoga so much more than a fitness regime. In this unique book you'll find:

* Tips on the use of the breath in yoga practice and breath awareness exercises
* Guidelines for regular practice, including health and safety considerations
* Dozens of illustrated postures-- standing, seated, supine, and prone-- with their benefits described
* Sample Yoga routines that can be done in as little as 15 minutes per day
* Instruction on the practice and power of meditation

Library Journal

Carrico, the choreographer of Jane Fonda's yoga video, and the staff of the well-respected Yoga Journal have produced both a good introduction to the history of yoga and helpful instruction in a range of basic poses. The book describes nine primary varieties of Hatha Yoga for the general reader and suggests ways of finding a good teacher. The beginner's postures are described in thorough fashion, with photos of correct and incorrect techniques. The book also includes recommended sets of postures, depending on the time of day, and advice on meditation. A class or video may still provide the best introduction to yoga, but this book is both an excellent complement to other instruction and a good reference source in itself.Norman Oder, "Library Journal"

The Estrogen Alternative or Power Healing

2009-01-07T22:22:00.000-08:00

The Estrogen Alternative: A Guide to Natural Hormonal Balance

Author: Raquel Martin

WOMEN'S HEALTH

“Any woman who is considering synthetic hormone therapy or who wishes to get off of it owes herself the reading of this book.”
World Health News

“Women need a book like The Estrogen Alternative to understand what is happening to their bodies during pre-, peri-, and postmenopause. It is a terrific resource for practitioners to recommend to their patients.”
John Hart, M.D.

More and more women are trying to find alternatives to synthetic hormones and their harmful side effects. Yet despite the increasing awareness of the dangers of conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), over-prescription of estrogen is still rampant, as is confusion among doctors and patients whether the benefits of HRT outweigh the risks.

This updated fourth edition of The Estrogen Alternative offers the latest information on how bioidentical progesterone therapy, also known as natural HRT, can provide safe, natural solutions for the numerous problems women face from hormone deficiency and imbalance including: thyroid disorders, osteoporosis, cancer (breast, uterine, ovarian), fibromyalgia, obesity, fibrocystic breasts, depression, menstrual irregularity, PMS, insomnia, vaginal dryness, hot flashes, night sweats, miscarriages, infertility, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, cardiovascular and heart problems.

The authors sift through the many layers of misinformation and contradictory studies, warning against corporate-sponsored research in a multi-billion dollar menopausal industry, and guide readers to natural alternatives. This fourth edition also includes new information regardingestrogen dominance as a cause of prostate cancer in men, the dangers of a diet rich in soy contributing to thyroid disorders and estrogen overload, unsaturated oils causing hormone imbalance, and the connection between birth control (pills, shots, implants) and infertility. The controversy over mammography and the importance of focusing on safer, more effective methods of cancer detection are also well documented.

RAQUEL MARTIN'S other works include Preventing and Reversing Arthritis Naturally and Today’s Health Alternative. JUDI GERSTUNG, D.C., is a chiropractic consultant and national speaker on hormonal and nutritional issues who specializes in environmental pollutants and their impact as endocrine disruptors.

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Power Healing

Author: John Wimber

A study of divine healing based on biblical scholarship and hands-on ministry experience.

Fit for God or Helping Child Overcome Eating Disorder

2009-01-07T13:10:00.000-08:00

Fit for God: The 8-Week Plan That Kicks the Devil Out and Invites Health and Healing In

Author: La Vita Weaver

La Vita Weaver, an ordained minister and fitness instructor, knows firsthand how being overweight affects every aspect of one’s life. During her own battle with extra pounds—she gained eighty following the birth of her first child—she found herself struggling also with profound emotional and spiritual problems. Once a size five, she had skyrocketed to more than two hundred pounds, and her sense of self-esteem and well-being plummeted to an all-time low.

After trying countless diets, she began exercising at home, playing Gospel music to keep her going. Before long, she was reciting Bible verses and singing hymns during her routines. Not only did she shed pounds and build muscle, but Weaver had gained an unexpected benefit—her exercise sessions had become precious times of praise, prayer, and inspiration. Now, the only thing she didn’t like about exercising was when she had to stop!

Weaver’s sessions in her living room grew into a video series called Hallelujah! Aerobics and, ultimately, a fitness plan designed to meet the needs of the whole person.

In FIT FOR GOD, her inspirational voice and her expertise as the leader of hundreds of successful fitness workshops are woven together in a highly effective eight-week program of diet, exercise, prayer, and praise. Combining solid nutritional information and exercise routines with inspiring passages from the Bible, her program will encourage even the most reluctant workout candidate to follow her example and embrace the rewards of becoming “fit for God.”

Interesting book: Guant namo and the Abuse of Presidential Power or The Dark Side of Camelot

Helping Child Overcome Eating Disorder

Author: Bethany Teachman

Helping Your Child Overcome an Eating Disorder is comprehensive, practical, and filled with scientifically based strategies for parents of children with bulimia or anorexia, written by the directors of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. Puberty and adolescence are difficult enough; adding an eating disorder makes it doubly difficult for the parent who may already feel overwhelmed. This guide shows parents how to talk with their children about this touchy subject, access the latest cognitive-behavioral techniques, deal with eating and exercise in the home, find a good therapist, and take charge of ensuring a child's recovery. The book explores issues like depression and anxiety and includes questionnaires, checklists for ongoing evaluation, and charts for monitoring and developing positive eating patterns. Each chapter includes case studies and a "Creating Solutions" section.

Publishers Weekly

This thorough "introductory resource" for parents of children with eating disorders comes from therapists and researchers at the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, and its frank language, efficient summary of assorted studies, multiple anecdotes and straightforward worksheets will help them both understand their children's issues and create an environment conducive to recovery. In well-organized chapters, the authors present warning signs of eating disorders, offer guidance in understanding their roots, summarize different theories on why they develop and give tips on everything from choosing a therapist (or a particular type of therapy) to shopping for groceries. Communication is key, they maintain, and though parents may not find the "Topics for Family Discussions" easy to broach (dinner table talk with a teenager can be awkward enough, even when one doesn't need to discuss why "our society value[s] physical appearance and thinness so much"), such topics will open lines of dialogue and help parents stop assigning blame on either their kids or themselves. For parents who feel powerless in the face of their child's eating issues, this reassuring guide will show them how to play an active role in helping their child recover healthy eating habits. (Jan. 31) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Skin Care or Relax Your Neck Liberate Your Shoulders

2009-01-07T00:58:00.000-08:00

Skin Care: Beyond the Basics

Author: Milady Publilshing Company

Skin Care: Beyond the Basics, 3e is an invaluable resource for both the student and the professional esthetician seeking practical information and the latest in skin care breakthroughs. Written by one of the country's most noted skin care specialists, this text presents the most up-to-date information available on acne, aging treatment, rosacea management, sensitive skin care, and plastic surgery patient care. New information on non-invasive anti-aging programs and new ingredient technologies are presented, as well as new photos to aid in skin analysis and the identification of various conditions. The text presents numerous examples and application techniques throughout, which can be utilized in daily practice.

Chapter 1: Advanced Anatomy and Physiology of the Skin

Chapter 2: The Immune System

Chapter 3: AIDS

Chapter 4: Hygiene and Sterilization Techniques

Chapter 5: Hormones

Chapter 6: Sensitive Skin, Rosacea, and Allergies

Chapter 7: Essential Knowledge of Chemistry

Chapter 8: Cosmetic Chemistry and Functional Ingredients

Chapter 9: Active Agents and Performance Ingredients

Chapter 10: Skin-Care Products

Chapter 11: Claims in Cosmetics

Chapter 12: Acne and the Esthetician

Chapter 13: Comedogenicity

Chapter 14: Extraction

Chapter 15: The Intrinsic Aging Process

Chapter 16: Sun and Sun Damage

Chapter 17: The New Science of Aging Skin Treatment

Chapter 18: Chemical Peeling and Exfoliation Procedures

Chapter 19: Treating the Plastic Surgery Patient

Chapter 20: Recognize and Refer Medical Conditions

Chapter 21: Medical Relations

Chapter 22: The Scientific Approach

Interesting textbook: Pro JavaScript Techniques or The New Language of Business

Relax Your Neck, Liberate Your Shoulders

Author: Eric Franklin

A foolproof guide to releasing shoulder and neck tension, this book shows how imagery and touch can be used to eliminate stiffness and pain. It provides simple and effective exercises that can be done at home, at work, or on the road. Sufferers of upper body pain will learn how to detect and eradicate early signs of tension by better understanding the connection between emotional states and tension. These individuals will learn how to survive stressful situations calmly and without tensing a single muscle. An explanation of the anatomy of the shoulders provides a better understanding of how improving the alignment of the head, neck, and shoulders will ease the strain on muscles and joints and promote an aura of confidence and health.

Author Biography: Eric Franklin is the founder and director of the Institute for Movement Imagery Education in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is the author of Breakdance, Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance.

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Each Day a New Beginning or What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders

2009-01-06T14:47:00.000-08:00

Each Day a New Beginning: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflection

Author: Karen Casey

Let me be grateful for my lessons today and know that all is well.

Inspired by millions of women who have made Each Day a new Beginning their daily companion, this journal version of the beloved meditation book allows you to personalize favorite passages. Record your hopes and fears, your triumphs and setbacks, as you reflect on the lessons found in living each new day. With insight and clarity, daily meditations explore common issues that women struggle with, from loneliness and shame to spirituality and hope. Women in recovery, as well as all women interested in personal development and self-discovery, will find guidance and affirmation in this invaluable journal.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Autoimmune Disorders

Author: Stephen B Edelson

An astonishing forty million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis. Since these disorders are difficult to understand and remedy, most doctors simply treat each symptom separately, often leaving sufferers misdiagnosed and mistreated. Now a pioneering specialist has made a stunning connection between environmental toxins and all autoimmune disorders and developed an integrated treatment approach that will help you achieve lasting, healing results.

Publishers Weekly

The immune system is a scapegoat for a variety of ills in this wide-ranging but tendentious guide to approaching diseases like lupus, Crohn's disease, MS, and rheumatoid arthritis. The author argues that autoimmune disorders, in which a malfunctioning immune system attacks healthy tissues, are caused or triggered by environmental toxins, especially heavy metals and free radicals. Drawing on his experience treating patients for the above disorders as well as chronic fatigue syndrome and autism, he recommends a variety of unconventional regimens to purge toxins from our bodies and surroundings, including chelation therapy, herb, vitamin and anti-oxidant supplements, an organic diet free of additives and allergens, sauna and massage, and the systematic use of air and water filters. Edelson provides detailed information in chapters covering specific autoimmune disorders, but his claims of a "fantastic" treatment record for some of them rely on anecdotal case studies of diseases that sometimes go into spontaneous remission. By the tenets of "clinical molecular medicine," he claims, "I don't need to know the specific autoimmune disorder a patient has, because the label doesn't matter." Since no specific disease label need be applied, such widespread and indeterminate "symptoms" as "fatigue," "depression," "muscle and joint pain," "frustration," "sparse hair," "brain fog" and "general malaise" can be construed as signs of the immune dysfunction. While this book offers information on conventional treatments and physicians, its orientation is decidedly elsewhere. (Mar.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

	Introduction	xi
Part I	Understanding Autoimmunity
Chapter 1	What Is Autoimmunity?	3
Chapter 2	The Evaluation: How Do I Know If I Have an Autoimmune Disease?	27
Part II	Common Autoimmune Diseases
Chapter 3	Autism	59
Chapter 4	Lupus	75
Chapter 5	Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders	98
Chapter 6	Rheumatoid Arthritis	117
Chapter 7	Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis	141
Chapter 8	Multiple Sclerosis	163
Chapter 9	Miscellaneous Autoimmune Disorders	185
Chapter 10	Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome: A "Partial" Autoimmune Disease	207
Part III	Treating Autoimmune Diseases
Chapter 11	Biodetoxification: How to "Clean Your House"	235
Chapter 12	Nutritional Therapies	266
Chapter 13	Immunotherapy	297
	Closing Comments	317
	Glossary	320
	Appendix	326
	Worth Reading	337
	Index	339

Save Karyn or STD Textbook for Proessional Estheticans

2009-01-06T03:34:00.000-08:00

Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back

Author: Karyn Bosnak

Drowning in $20,000 of credit card debt, shopaholic Karyn Bosnak asked strangers for money online -- and it worked!

What would you do if you owed $20,000? Would you: A) not tell your parents? B) start your own website that asked for money without apology? or C) stop coloring your hair, getting pedicures, and buying Gucci? If you were Karyn Bosnak, you'd do all three.

Karyn started a funny yet honest website, savekaryn.com, on which she asked for donations to help her get out of debt. Karyn received e-mails from people all over the world, either confessing their own debt-ridden lives, or criticizing hers. But after four months of Internet panhandling and selling her prized possessions on eBay, her debt was gone!

In Save Karyn: One Shopaholic's Journey to Debt and Back, Karyn details the bumpy road her financial -- and personal -- life has traveled to get her where she is today: happy, grateful, and completely debt-free. In this charming cautionary tale, Karyn chronicles her glamorous rise, her embarrassing fall, and how the kindness of strangers in cyberia really can make a difference.

Library Journal

Bosnak is the owner of the now famous-or infamous-www.saveKaryn.com. She had the audacity to run up $20,000 in credit card debt, lose her job, and, instead of declaring bankruptcy, put up the first personal web site to solicit donations. Here she details her descent into debt and the bumpy road to debt freedom, shares intimate details of her personal finances, and describes the emails that she received (both compassionate and hateful), her guest appearances on NBC's Today and CNN, and a write-up in People magazine. Her strategies for cutting expenses are not generally innovative, but readers should enjoy her upbeat, folksy writing style. Kicking the dollars up a bit, Hunt ran up $100,000 in credit card debt in the early 1980s. Soon after, she became the founder and publisher of Cheapskate Monthly and the author of several money management books. Her latest identifies methods to strengthen a marriage, particularly a couple's financial position. Packed with real-life advice and examples, Hunt's book covers everything needed to manage money as a team, ways to live beneath your means, and how to reconcile different behaviors and beliefs about saving, giving, and managing finances. She writes in an organized, personal style, motivating readers and teaching them how to take charge of their income. Both books teach the importance of thrift through real-life mistakes; however, Hunt's guide is much more detailed and practical.-Susan C. Awe, Univ. of New Mexico Lib., Albuquerque Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

"I'm not really great with money. I never have been," writes former TV producer Bosnak, though she's an old pro at spending it: on clothes and accessories, a personal trainer, furniture, a tony address, nightlife. By the time she loses her job, she has amassed $20,000 in credit-card debt. But she has optimism (in fact, she's relentlessly chirpy and hungry for your laughter) and an idea: Internet panhandling, through which she emerged from the red. Here she chronicles the call-and-response of her seriocomic website-she admits she was a fool and is asking others to pay for it-which she keeps lively with daily postings of her hard-bitten frugality. There are brief excursions into questions of self-esteem, obsession-compulsion, and superficiality, though Bosnak is more comfortable sending what she considers zingers back to the numerous lewd e-mails she receives: "If you'd like to see what I smell like, I'd rather send you my flip-flops than my panties." The bilious irony is that she's made a bundle on film rights for overspending on "a bunch of designer crap." Film rights to Escape Artists/Sony. Agent: Jennifer Unter at RLR Associates

Book review: Administración de recursos Humana

STD Textbook for Proessional Estheticans

Author: Joel Gerson

Now in its' ninth edition, Milady's Standard Textbook for Professional Estheticians has been thoroughly revised to include the most up-to-date information available today. Written by Joel Gerson, one of the industry's top authorities on skin care, and Alison O'Neil, a leading expert in the medical esthetics arena, this updated text contains all the essential information needed to ensure greater success for students taking the state board examinations. For the first time, this text is presented in full-color, incorporating a brand new, user-friendly four-color design that will help students learn the common links between the concepts and principles of skin care. Over 500 new full-color photographs and illustrations support the text content and include new step-by-step photographs for many of the procedures presented. All new photos have been incorporated in the chapter on skin disorders and diseases, special esthetic procedures, client consultation and skin analysis, and color theory and cosmetic techniques. A running glossary in each chapter helps the student become familiar with the language of skin care, and procedural notes and safety tips help to reinforce concepts. Expanded discussion on safety and sanitation topics reflects changes made in OSHA rulings and decontamination and infection control. Added discussion on advanced topics including AHAs, BHAs, glycolic, and microdermabrasion techniques give students exposure to those skills that will make them more marketable. Milady's Standard Textbook for Professional Estheticians, 9th ed., is the essential textbook for basic esthetics training.

PART I: Getting Started/Orientation, Skin Care: History and Opportunities, Your Professional Image
PART II: General Sciences, Sanitation and Disinfections, Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry and Analysis, Cosmetic Chemistry, Basics of Electricity.
PART III: Skin Sciences, History of the Skin, Skin Types and Conditions, Skin Disorders and Diseases.
PART IV: The Principles of Basic Esthetics, The Treatment Rooms, Massage, Basic Facials and Treatments, Intermediate Skin Treatments, Machines, Basic Hair Removal Techniques, Advanced Skin Treatments; an Overview, The World of Makeup.
PART V: The Business of Skin Care, The Salon/Spa Business, Selling Products and Services, Career Planning.

Does an Elephant Take a Bath or Confusing Love with Obsession

2009-01-05T18:21:00.000-08:00

Does an Elephant Take a Bath?

Author: Fred Ehrlich

Bathing is an important part of every young child's day. It's also an important part of some animals' days. In Does an Elephant Take a Bath?, children will learn why both animals and people need to keep themselves clean.

Children's Literature

As part of the "Early Experiences" series, this picture book along with the others posits a series of improbable situations. It is interesting that the author chooses an elephant, because in some cases they do get baths and generally enjoy the water as noted in other books, but in the wild they tend to use their trunks to spray water all over themselves. The other animals featured have other ways to keep clean—some like zebras take a dust bath to get rid of fleas and ticks; others use their rough tongues to groom themselves and their young. Many primates groom each other by picking bugs and debris from their fur. People take baths and showers to keep clean and some use the services of manicurists, hairdressers, and barbers to help them stay well-groomed. Like the other books in the series this one ends with a question—"How do you keep clean?" The illustrations are done in a cartoon style which makes the lesson easier to swallow. The final scene and endpapers are also amusing.

Confusing Love with Obsession: When Being in Love Means Being in Control

Author: John D Moor

Confusing Love with Obsession is a must-read for anyone involved in a dangerously obsessive relationship. Fueled by an overwhelming fear of abandonment, people involved in obsessive relationships will go to extreme lengths to control their partner. Here, John D. Moore draws from excruciating real-life stories and personal experience to reveal the inner workings of obsessive relationships. More important, Confusing Love with Obsession helps readers develop a new self-awareness and healthy relationship--free from preoccupation with an object of obsession.

I Am Not My Breast Cancer or The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies

2009-01-05T06:09:00.000-08:00

I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Women Talk Openly about Love and Sex, Hair Loss and Weight Gain, Mothers and Daughters, and Being a Woman with Breast Cancer

Author: Ruth Peltason

"I am not my breast, and I am not cancer; they are only pieces of who I am. What is my heart like, am I kind, strong, loving, compassionate. . . . Those are the things that count."

I Am Not My Breast Cancer gathers the warm, loving, frank, and informed voices of more than 800 women-from every state in the nation and from continents as far away as Australia and Africa-who reveal their fears, trade advice, share experiences, and express their deepest, most intimate concerns. Nothing before this groundbreaking book has captured the real experience of breast cancer. It is essential reading for any woman with this diagnosis.

I Am Not My Breast Cancer offers women the companionship of other women dealing with this disease. Ruth Peltason, who has twice undergone treatment for breast cancer, has woven their stories together while maintaining the authenticity of their voices. These are ordinary women dealing with this cancer and its many ramifications. They range in age from their early twenties to their late seventies. They are the collective face of breast cancer today. Their comments are moving, sometimes funny, always honest. They speak out on every topic, from lovemaking and intimacy to losing their hair, from juggling the day-to-day realities of being a patient, mother, wife, and coworker to the overwhelming worries about their own mortality. Remarkably, they emerge with grace and optimism and a determination not to be defined by disease.

Taking the reader chronologically through the stages of diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and self-discovery, I Am Not My Breast Cancer offers women a deeper understanding of themselves and living with cancer. As Peltason writes inher introduction, "My greatest wish for this book is that it offer comfort to any woman living with breast cancer and to those who care about her. If this book is kept on the bedside table, then I hope its need is brief and its impact lasting. I Am Not My Breast Cancer speaks of courage, heroism in deeds small and large, and incredible faith and fortitude."

"You can live without a breast. You cannot say the same for the human heart."

Publishers Weekly

Peltason, an editor and breast cancer survivor, founded and hosted the "First Person Plural" Web site project, an online forum for women facing the disease. Their dialogue provides the content for this book, culled from the entries of 800 women across the U.S. and around the world. Peltason organizes the material into three general parts: "Diagnosis," "Living with Breast Cancer" and "The Big Picture," with such subtopics as "Sharing the News," "Being Womanly" and "Anniversaries and Milestones." Participants use screen names for privacy, approaching their disease with candor and freely discussing their feelings about their bodies and their relationships. At times, those overcome by anger and fear far outweigh those with a bright outlook, but when these survivors "look in the mirror" at the conclusion of the text, many envision a hopeful future. Perhaps the most poignant entries are from younger women, some of whom have been driven into early menopause and infertility by chemotherapy. Although this is an informative book, some survivors may discover that these raw entries churn up disturbing emotions; others will find comfort in these voices, and in the knowledge that they aren't alone-either in their sorrow or in their strength and courage. (Feb.)

Bette-Lee Fox - Library Journal

"A moving and comforting book.... Consumer health libraries looking to develop psychological-support literature should definitely consider." (Xpress Reviews, 1/22/08; http://iamnotmybreastcancer.notlong.com)

Book review: Naked Conversations or Real World Adobe Photoshop CS3

The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies

Author: Louise Tenney

Louise Tenney continues the tradition of her best-selling publications with The Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies. Included in this broad-reaching volume are special sections on many common ailments, disorders related to the different body systems, children's health, health and endurance for athletes, and permanent weight loss. Whatever your illness or ailment might be, Louise provides a natural remedy that will make optimum health a reality once again.

Snacktivities or Fashions in Makeup

2009-01-04T20:58:00.000-08:00

Snacktivities!: 50 Edible Activities for Parents and Young Children

Author: MaryAnn F Kohl

This crafty cookbook encourages children to go beyond playing with their food. Like the creations of great chefs, the finished products are tasty works of art. Fifty easy activities turn the food that's already in your refrigerator into works of art.

Read also Fast Food Diet or Caribbean Rum

Fashions in Makeup: From Ancient to Modern Times

Author: Richard Corson

Fashions in Makeup has been a standard work of reference for over thirty years and is a fascinating survey of the history of cosmetic adornment through the ages, from Egypt, Greece and Rome to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Now brought up to date in this new edition by fashion writer James Sherwood, this profusely illustrated book is an essential work of reference that will be welcomed by makeup artists and beauty consultants, costume designers, actors, illustrators, social historians and all those interested in the use and application of cosmetics.

	Beauty and Fashion
1	Fashions in Makeup	1
2	Ancient Civilizations	7
3	The Middle Ages	73
4	The Italian Renaissance	93
5	Elizabethan Days	101
6	The Early Seventeenth Century 1603-1625	121
7	The Mid-Seventeenth Century 1625-1659	135
8	The Restoration 1660-1685	157
9	The Late Seventeenth Century 1685-1700	172
10	The Early Eighteenth Century 1700-1737	187
11	The Mid-Eighteenth Century 1737-1770	214
12	The Late Eighteenth Century 1770-1800	245
13	The Early Nineteenth Century 1800-1837	291
14	The Early Victorians 1837-1860	315
15	The Mid-Victorians 1860-1880	337
16	The Late Victorians 1880-1900	361
17	The Twentieth Century 1900-1910	393
18	The Twentieth Century 1910-1920	420
19	The Twentieth Century 1920-1930	453
20	The Twentieth Century 1930-1940	493
21	The Twentieth Century 1940-1960	519
22	The Twentieth Century 1960-1970	549
23	The Twentieth Century: The Seventies to the New Millennium	590
24	Into the Twenty-First Century to the Future	613
	Bibliography	620
	Index	626

Body Reflexology or Simple Taoism

2009-01-04T09:46:00.000-08:00

Body Reflexology: Healing at Your Fingertips

Author: Mildred Carter

With her daughter--also a licensed reflexologist--bestselling author and reflexology expert Mildred Carter offers a revised and updated version of her popular book. Features step-by-step instructions showing how to send healing flows of energy to the body to relieve back pain, headaches, arthritis, and other afflictions. Illustrated.

Simple Taoism: A Guide to Living in Balance

Author: C Alexander Simpkins

Simple Taoism is designed to help the reader understand what Taoism is about and to help apply its best aspects to everyday living. Divided into three parts, the book outlines the background and development of the philosophy, illustrated with stories to bring the history to life. It then explains key concepts and shows ways to incorporate the insights of Taoism into one's life through such activities as meditation, breathing exercises and exploring the natural world.
Drs. C. Alexander and Annellen Simpkins 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. They have also spent the past 25 years involved in the martial arts as practitioners, instructors, and writers. Their work in meditation spans their two worlds of professional interest: martial arts and psychology, adding a unique and comprehensive perspective to this book. In addition to contributing regularly to martial arts publications, they are the authors of Principles of Meditation, Living Meditation, Zen Around the World, and Meditation from Thought to Action, all published by Tuttle.

Mind Over Menopause or ABSolution

2009-01-03T23:34:00.000-08:00

Mind Over Menopause: The Complete Mind/Body Approach to Coping with Menopause

Author: Leslee Kagan

Control Your Menopause Symptoms with a Holistic Mind/Body Approach

Millions of women report the years after menopause as a time of increased confidence and feelings of empowerment. However, the menopause transition can be a difficult one. Maybe you've endured night sweats. Maybe you've begun asking friends and family, "Is it hot in here?" only to get a resounding "No." Maybe you're noticing that PMS is more than a monthly occurrence. If you're searching for a natural or integrated medical approach to navigate the midlife transition and improve your long-term health, you have picked up the right book.

Based on groundbreaking programs developed by clinicians at the Mind/Body Medical Institute, including Dr. Herbert Benson, Mind Over Menopause is the only book to combine the expertise of the Mind/Body Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, and a leading member of the North American Menopause Society to create a complete plan for coping with menopause symptoms, so that all women can attain that confidence and enhance their midlife experience.

Understanding Hormonal Changes The Relaxation Response Self-Nurture Exercise: Moving Through Menopause Nutrition: The Healing Plate Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Managing Symptoms Protecting Your Health: Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Breast Cancer, and Alzheimer's Disease The Power of Your Mind Resiliency: Inner Strength Putting It All Together Glossary Organizations and Resources Selected Books Selected Sources by Chapter Index Contents

ABSolution

Author: Shawn Phillips

The question I'm most frequently asked goes something like this, "Shawn, what's your secret--what's the one thing you do differently than everyone else that allowed you to build such great abs?" The one thing, the one thing, the one thing... So many people are looking for the one thing--the secret. Many people think the one thing is some ab-training device like the type you see advertised on television infomercials. It's not. Others would like you to believe that the one thing is some miracle fat-burning pill. It's not. Others would have you believe that the one thing--the big secret--is liposuction or some other quick fix. Once again, it's not. The fact is, and this is the first and most fundamental lesson of my ABSolution Program, the one thing is everything! Everything we do affects the way we look and the way we feel. It's when we exercise, how we exercise, and the exercises we do. It's when, what, and how much we eat. It's which vitamins and supplements we nourish our bodies with. It's how much we rest and recover. It's how we think and how we live. It's everything. And, that's what this book is all about. It's about everything you need to learn to build your own absolutely fantastic abs.

About the Author

ABSolution incorporates the many lessons Shawn Phillips has learned through his own pursuit of building a better body, which has spanned some 20 years. It also incorporates his countless hours of scientific research and real-world experience gained by helping numerous world-class athletes and people from all walks of life successfully reach their fitness goals. ABSolution is not a quick-fix, nor is it a "simple and easy" way to get in great shape. It's an effective, scientifically safe and sound approach. And it's a common-sense approach in a fitness industry where common sense is not common at all.

The Pathways to Sobriety Workbook or The New Age Herbalist

2009-01-03T14:23:00.000-08:00

The Pathways to Sobriety Workbook

Author: William Fleeman

Author William Fleeman believes chemically dependent people use drugs to transform painful feelings like anxiety, fear, and depression into pleasurable feelings like confidence, courage, and elation. This book helps readers unlearn this destructive pattern through a cognitive/behavioral approach. Chapters cover self-assessment, steps of recovery, what to avoid, methods and skills, anger and forgiveness, relapse prevention, and more. Includes 18 self-help lessons, which can be completed in18 to 20 weeks or less.

	Introduction	1
	The Problem	1
	Pathways to Sobriety: A Solution	1
	What Is Pathways to Sobriety? What Is The Pathways to Sobriety Workbook?	1
	How Should You Use This Workbook?	2
	Compatible with Twelve-Step Programs	2
	How Long Will It Take to Complete the Workbook?	3
	How Long Will It Take to Heal from Your Addiction?	3
	What You Should Do First	3
	What You Need to Know about the Withdrawal Syndrome	3
	To the Person Struggling to Recover from Addiction	4
	To Family Members and Significant Others	5
Part I	Understanding the Problem	7
Chapter 1	The Basics	8
	Why People Use Alcohol and Other Drugs	8
	History of Alcohol and Other Drug Use	8
	Classes of Drugs	9
	Signs and Symptoms of Physiological Addiction	9
	History of Addiction Counseling	9
	Recovery Models: Abstinence vs. Controlled Use	10
	Pathways to Sobriety	12
	Relapse Prevention	12
Chapter 2	Bill's Story	13
Chapter 3	Bill's Recovery	38
Chapter 4	The Self-Assessment Process	64
	The Importance of Self-Honesty	64
	Conclusion	68
	Self-Agreement	69
Chapter 5	Understanding the Nature of Addiction	70
	Social Use vs. Abuse and Addiction	70
	What Is Addiction?	71
	Developing Tolerance to Alcohol and Other Drugs	73
	Addiction as Learned Behavior	74
	How Did You Learn Your Addiction?	74
	Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Use and Abuse	75
	Addiction and Grief	75
	The Five Stages of the Grief Process	76
	Traumatic Events and Addiction	77
Part II	Understanding the Process of Recovery	79
Chapter 6	The Eight Parts of the Whole Self	80
	The Eight Parts of the Whole Self Compared to an Eight-Cylinder Engine	81
	The Biological (Physical/Emotional) Part of the Self	81
	The Environmental Part of the Self	84
	The Behavior (Actions and Words) Part of the Self	86
	The Skills (Learning) Part of the Self	87
	The Values/Goals Part of the Self	88
	The Beliefs Part of the Self	90
	The Mission Part of the Self	91
	The Transcendental Part of the Self	92
Chapter 7	The Eight Principles of the Pathways to Sobriety Recovery Program	94
Principle 1	Admitting to the Problem	94
Principle 2	Making Recovery Choices	95
Principle 3	Recognizing That the Use of Alcohol or Other Drugs Is Never Justified	98
Principle 4	Learning New Techniques	99
Principle 5	Choosing New Beliefs	100
Principle 6	Setting Meaningful Goals	100
Principle 7	Finding Our Purpose	101
Principle 8	Being Fully Committed to Recovery	102
Chapter 8	Motivating Yourself to Change	104
	Motivation Script	105
Chapter 9	Relapse Prevention	113
	Understanding the Relapse Process Using the Niagara Falls Metaphor	113
	The Five Stages of the Relapse Process	116
Chapter 10	Interrupting the Relapse Process	124
	Will You Ever Forget Your Alcohol or Drug Habit?	124
	Three Steps to Interrupt the Relapse Process	125
Part III	Changing Your Behavior	131
Chapter 11	Basic Considerations	132
	Nutrition	132
	Sleep and Rest	133
	Physical Exercise	133
	Relaxation	134
	Maintaining a Schedule	136
Chapter 12	Skills	138
	Maintain a Positive Mental Attitude	138
	Learning the Techniques	140
Chapter 13	What to Avoid	149
	Avoid Alcohol and All Other Drugs	149
	Avoid People, Places, and Situations Where Drinking or Drug Use Takes Place	150
	Avoid Media Images That Promote Alcohol and Drug Use	152
Chapter 14	Advanced Methods and Techniques	154
	Relapse Cues	154
	Change Your Posture, Breathing, and Voice to Manage Cues and Triggers	158
	Recite a Brief Poem	160
	Read a Joke Book or a Book of Cartoons	160
	Take a Timeout	161
	Go to a Pathways to Sobriety Meeting	162
	Establish and Use an Empowerment Cue or an Aversion Cue	163
Part IV	Changing Your Mind	169
Chapter 15	Values	170
	The Power of the Subconscious Mind	170
	Values, Addiction, and Recovery	171
	Valued Things and Valued Activities vs. Valued Feelings	171
	Identifying Valued Things and Activities	175
	Identifying Valued Feelings	175
	Putting It All Together	178
	Consequences of Relapsing into Active Use of Alcohol or Other Drugs	180
	Conclusion	181
Chapter 16	Goals	182
	What Is a Goal?	182
	Steps to Successful Goal Setting and Achievement	182
	Recovery Goals and the Eight Parts of the Whole Self	185
	Moving Toward Your Goals	188
	Setting a Goal to Maintain Your Recovery	189
Chapter 17	Beliefs	191
	What Are Beliefs?	191
	How You Acquired Your Beliefs	192
	Why You Must Change Some of Your Beliefs	192
	Beliefs and Addiction	193
	How to Change Beliefs about Alcohol and Other Drugs That Keep You Stuck in the Addiction Process	194
	Acquiring Positive Beliefs about Yourself, Others, and the World	197
	Beliefs about Death	199
Chapter 18	Life Mission	202
	What Is Your Life Mission?	202
	The Story of Viktor Frankl	203
	How to Discover Your Life Mission	204
	Why Should You Write Down Your Mission Statement?	204
	Mission Support	206
Chapter 19	The Transcendental Part of the Self	209
	The Importance of the Transcendental Part	209
	What Kind of Transcendental Belief System Should You Adopt?	210
	Nonreligious Transcendental Philosophy	211
Chapter 20	Forgiveness	214
	The Importance of Forgiveness	214
	Forgiving Others	216
	Forgiving Yourself	217
	Self-Contract	219
Chapter 21	Conclusion	221
Appendix A	Your Story	223
Appendix B	The Pathways to Sobriety Self-Help Program	233
	Overview: What Is Pathways to Sobriety?	233
	The Pathways to Sobriety Mission	233
	Pathways to Sobriety Members	233
	The Pathways to Sobriety Mentor Program	234
Appendix C	How to Start a Pathways to Sobriety Group in Your Area	235
	First Steps in Starting a Group	235
	Pathways to Sobriety Materials	236
	Pathways to Sobriety Group-Structure Guidelines	236
	Pathways to Sobriety Meeting Facilitator's Guide	238
	The Eight Principles of the Pathways to Sobriety Recovery Program	241
	The Pathways to Sobriety Rules	242
	The Pathways to Sobriety Definition of Addiction	243

The New Age Herbalist: How to Use Herbs for Healing, Nutrition, Body Care, and Relaxation

Author: Richard Mabey

We have all grown increasingly aware of the potential -- and documented -- dangers of the chemical toxins that surround us. The New Age Herbalist is a compendium of healthy alternatives, an indispensable guide for contemporary natural living. Created by a team of experts, it offers:

A full-color illustrated glossary of more than 200 herbs, describing their properties, active ingredients, and traditional uses around the world A guide to using herbs for scent, for decoration, and even as chemical-free housekeeping aids Tips on using herbs for skin care and beauty, by making natural shampoos, lotions, soaps, and cosmetics A review of culinary herbs, with some unusual recipes that use familiar herbs in delightful new ways An examination of the growing science of herbal healing, discussing herbal remedies -- including stress relievers -- and the scientific research that validates them A complete herb gardening plan, with advice on choosing symbiotic herbs, designing and scheduling plantings, and preserving the harvest by freezing and drying Fascinating, authoritative, packed with information presented in a stunning visual style, The New Age Herbalist will be the home herb user's bible for years to come.

Practical Sports Nutrition or Homeopathic Self Care

2009-01-03T02:11:00.000-08:00

Practical Sports Nutrition

Author: Louise Burk

As knowledge and practice of sports nutrition become increasingly sophisticated, there is new appreciation of the fact that basketball players, runners, gymnasts—all athletes—have different nutritional needs. Practical Sports Nutrition is the first text to provide detailed, sport-specific advice enabling you to approach individual athletes and teams with an understanding of their sport and unique nutritional needs.

Unlike other texts on the subject that get caught up with chemistry and science, this book provides information that is applied, practical, and useful. Nutrition expert Louise Burke engages readers with her easy writing style, and she explores a variety of popular sports—road cycling, swimming, sprinting, long-distance running, and many others. Each chapter offers a comprehensive review of competition, training, physique and physiology, lifestyle and culture, dietary surveys, sports foods and supplements—all tailored to the specific sport. Also included are discussions of issues and challenges arising in each sport that provide useful examples of how to successfully tackle sport-specific problems.

Athletes want to know that the person advising them understands their specific needs. With Practical Sports Nutrition, you will learn how to translate the latest ideas on nutrition into tailored recommendations on what athletes should eat before and after practices and competitions. More important, you will learn why those exact foods are beneficial to the athlete. Specific research cited in more than 200 pages of tables backs up the advice given on nutrition, food, supplements, and other topics, so you can feel confident the information is up to date and applicable in the real world.

Practical Sports Nutrition includes the following features:

Chapters organized around specific sport categories
Special elements that provide in-the-trenches insight and help you synthesize both practical issues and emerging research topics
Chapter appendix that includes up-to-date and comprehensive meta-analysis tables for quick comparisons of key research studies

There is no better one-stop guide for dietitians, nutritionists, exercise physiologists, or anyone who needs to know where and how principles of sports nutrition apply to the training and competition of athletes. Not only will you gain a thorough grasp of the specialized nutrition information needed in various sports and exercise activities, but you will also be able to give recommendations with confidence.

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Reviewer:Jamie A. Cooper, MS(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Description:This book addresses important nutritional obstacles or issues that arise in sports and provides the necessary information on how to deal with them. Nutritional information for training, precompetition, competition, and recovery from competition is provided based on current research.
Purpose:The purpose is to determine nutrition issues that arise in different sports that share similar lifestyle and physiological characteristics. Lifestyle and physiological characteristics are important factors to examine when determining proper nutrition for a given sport. This book provides scientific and research-based information that is essential for people interested in the field of sports nutrition.
Audience:According to the author, this is intended to provide nutritional information that can translate from the classroom to the field, court, or track. The book references and uses data from a number of research studies making it appropriate for a classroom or research setting, but is also written at a level that can be easily used by coaches and athletes in the sports that are covered.
Features:While the main focus of this book is on providing nutrition information for a variety of sports, it also addresses the physiological and cultural characteristics of each sport and how those impact proper nutrition for optimal performance. The book provides a comprehensive review of the current literature, which is summarized clearly in the appendix, and gives practical strategies for achieving nutrition goals in each sport category. Although it addresses manycomponents of nutrition, it is not designed to be a supplement guide and does not address many of the ergogenic aids available today.
Assessment:This book provides detailed information about nutrition issues that all athletes face and how to deal with these issues to achieve one's sports nutrition goals for optimal performance. The sound nutritional advice is backed up by a comprehensive review of the literature.

Homeopathic Self-Care: A Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family

Author: Robert Ullman

Homeopathy Is Now as Easy as 1, 2, 3
Homeopathy is growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. More and more people are realizing that it really does work, and can be used to treat a wide range of common health problems. Now, thanks to a new book by best-selling authors Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman and Robert Ullman homeopathy can be used easily, safely, and effectively by anyone.
In Homeopathic Self-Care: The Quick and Easy Guide for the Whole Family, readers will learn to recognize and treat more than 70 specific conditions using a clear, step-by-step approach. It really can be as easy as 1, 2, 3 if you look, listen, and ask the right questions.
The book is clearly written, and organized in an easy-to-use format that will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about homeopathy. In addition, dozens of the most commonly used homeopathic medicines are listed; a glossary is included; and there are tips for obtaining a homeopathic self-care medicine kit.

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The authors, practicing naturopathic physicians, aim to provide a "simple, practical, highly informative yet user friendly guide to self treatment," and in this they succeed. They emphasize that their guide is meant for treatment of first aid or acute conditions, not chronic or complicated ones. This well-organized book is divided into three parts. Part 1 explains homeopathy and how to use the guide and discusses "taking the case" as well as analyzing, selecting, and administering homeopathic medicines. Part 2, the bulk of the work, lists ailments from abscesses to motion sickness and the homeopathic medicines used to treat them. Icons prompt the user to follow the steps outlined in Part 1. Part 3 describes the main features of the most commonly used homeopathic medicines, and here it helps to have read Part 1 first. Appendixes include lists of books, organizations, homeopathy pharmacies, and information on how to find a homeopath. Recommended for public libraries and alternative medicine collections.Kate Kelly, Treadwell Lib., Massachusetts General Hosp., Boston

Addicted to Shopping and Other Issues Women Have with Money or Mindless Eating

2009-01-02T16:00:00.000-08:00

Addicted to Shopping and Other Issues Women Have with Money

Author: Karen OConnor

We laugh at the stereotype of the woman shopper, but the reality is that millions of women struggle with money. If money makes you uncomfortable or a bit crazy, Karen O'Connor knows what to do! Through real-life stories and insightful questions, she'll help you evaluate and understand your spending habits and attitudes. Do you... feel better when you spend money?, shop when you're under stress?, use credit often?, hate spending money on yourself, even for necessities?, juggle debt payments?, dread having your money-handling habits exposed?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you! Drawing on her own experiences, Karen shares how she faced her troubles head-on and learned to handle money wisely. Her compassion, insights, and encouragement will help you find solid financial health through the power of faith and the support of others who have made the journey to solvency.

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

Author: Brian Wansink

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating–or why you’re even eating at all.

• Does food with a brand name really taste better?
• Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?
• Does the size of your plate determine how hungry
you feel?
• How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly
refilled itself?
• What does your favorite comfort food really say
about you?
• Why do you overeat so much at healthy restaurants?

Brian Wansink is a Stanford Ph.D. and the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. He’s spent a lifetime studying what we don’t notice: the hidden clues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious, fun, and sometimes downright fiendishly clever experiments like the “bottomless soup bowl,” Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind our dietary habits. How does packaging influence how much we eat? Which movies make us eat faster? How does music or the color of the room influence how much we eat? How can we recognize the “hidden persuaders” used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to mindlessly eat? What are the real reasons most diets are doomed to fail? And how can we use the “mindless margin” to lose–instead of gain–ten to twenty pounds in the coming year?

Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at thedinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office–even at a vending machine–wherever you decide to satisfy your appetite.

The Family Guide to Homeopathy or Asylums

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

The Family Guide to Homeopathy: Symptoms and Natural Solutions

Author: Andrew Locki

A Safe, Natural, and Effective Alternative Medicine

Millions of people, including health professionals, are mining to homeopathy, a form of medicine that treats illness by stimulating the body's natural defenses. Dr. Lockie explains how homeopathy can help restore health, rather than simply fight disease.

This family reference guide provides all the information necessary to understand how homeopathy works, and how any individual can use it simply and safely to treat a wide variety of illnesses. Accessibly organized by symptoms affecting all parts of the body from head to toe, The Family Guide to Homeopathy offers a list of remedies for hundreds of conditions along with details on how often and how long to give the remedy. It covers everything from heart disease to menopause, from allergies to ulcers, including advice on when to consult a doctor. Special sections feature symptoms and solutions for special problems affecting men, women, infants, and the elderly.

Mind and Emotions Brain and Nervous System Skin, Nails, and Hair Eyes Ears Nose Teeth and Gums Mouth, Tongue, Throat, and Voice Lungs and Respiration Heart, Blood, and Circulation Muscles, Bones, and Joints Esophagus, Stomach, and Duodenum Small and Large Intestine, Liver, Gall Bladder, and Pancreas Kidneys and Bladder Special Problems in Women Special Problems in Men Hormones and Metabolism Sexual Problems Infections, Infestations, and Immune System Fertility and Pregnancy Childbirth and Postnatal Problems Special Problems in Infants Ailments and Diseases in Childhood Special Problems in Adolescents Special Problems in the Elderly

Part 6 NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS AND SPECIAL DIETS Appendix: Sixty Remedy Pictures

Useful Addresses Bibliography Index

Interesting textbook: The End of Advertising as We Know It or Placing Latin America

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

Author: Erving Goffman

Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"—closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside.

Staying Healthy with the Seasons or Lifting Depression

2008-12-31T21:22:00.000-08:00

Staying Healthy with the Seasons: 21st-Century Edition

Author: Elson M Haas

DR. ELSON M. HAAS is the founder and director of the Preventive Medical Center in San Rafael, California, one of the leading integrated health facilities in the country. He lives in beautiful Sebastopol, California.

Lifting Depression: A Neuroscientist's Hands-on Approach to Activating Your Brain's Healing Power

Author: Kelly Lambert

Today’s young adults are up to ten times more likely to experience depression than their grandparents were. Could it be that in our increasingly automated world, the reduced physical effort needed to accomplish anything may somehow interfere with our level of happiness and subsequent responses to stress? Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert finds compelling evidence that having to work hard for rewards significantly improves mood and prevents depression. Beginning with her innovative research on rats-she compared “trust-fund rats” (whose rewards came with no effort on their part) to hard-working “trained-to-succeed” rodents-Lambert offers hope of treatment for people without debilitating (and often ineffective) drugs. Drawing on a wealth of information from the fields of anthropology, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology, Lambert develops a unique theory suggesting that physical effort directed toward tangible outcomes activates particular regions of the brain and builds resilience against the emotional emptiness and negative thinking associated with depression. Whereas most therapies emphasize the importance of mental activity, Lambert reminds us of the importance of physical activity in establishing control in a fast-paced culture that is focused more on the prospect of immediate gratification than savoring the fruits of our labor.

Depression Strikes Deep     1
Why Are We So Depressed? The Lifestyle Paradox     25
Building the Effort-Driven Rewards Brain Circuit: Use It or Lose It     47
Giving the Brain a Hand     69
Coping Effectively with Stress     91
Our Social Brains     119
The Building Blocks of Resilience     143
Nonpharmacological Treatments for Depression: A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action     173
Effort-Driven Rewards and Our Evolving Brains     201
The New Rx for Preventing and Lifting Depression     227
Acknowledgments     245
Notes     249
References     261
Index     281

Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval or The All New Atkins Advantage

2008-12-31T12:10:00.000-08:00

Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval

Author: Alberto Villoldo

This fascinating book by psychologist and medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., explains the practices for healing outside of ordinary time and space. It shows how to enter the timeless now to heal events that occurred in the past, and to correct the course of destiny. Dr. Villoldo discusses ways in which you can heal yourself and your loved ones by employing intention through practices used by shamans of the Americas--which, until now, have been inaccessible to most of the world. The shamans of old called this journeying.

In this book, you'll discover that you have a four-chambered heart in the same way you have a four-chambered soul. In the first chamber, you store away the memory of a wound that derailed your destiny. In the second, you keep the limiting beliefs and soul contracts that you entered into at the time of your loss. In the third, you recover the grace and trust that will make you whole again; and in the fourth, you remember the calling and mission that you choose to unfold in this lifetime.

"While everyone has a future," Villoldo says, "only certain people have a destiny." This book shows you how to find and manifest yours.

Look this: Stealing Lincolns Body or Obama

The All-New Atkins Advantage: The 12-Week Low-Carb Program to Lose Weight, Achieve Peak Fitness and Health, and Maximize Your Willpower to Reach Life Goals

Author: Stuart M Trager

The proven diet that will slim you down, get you exercising, and change your life

The All-New Atkins Advantage is more than a diet: it features the Atkins proven-effective weight loss program in a 12-week, step-by-step plan, including instructions on how to incorporate healthy exercise into your life as well as guidance on maintaining the motivation to stick with the diet and exercise program.

Each week builds on the one before it to raise your level of competence and confidence:

Week 1: Combat cravings for sugars and starches with tasty, low-carb alternatives like veal parmesan and trout almondine.

Week 4: Achieve peak fitness with the Atkins approach to exercise. Fully illustrated stretching, cardio, and strength training plans will get you energized.

Week 6: Start an Atkins journal to maintain your motivation and continue your enthusiasm and success.

Week 9: Get out of your lunch rut! Go out for a special but speedy meal at a restaurant, instead of the nearby deli.

Week 12: All the work you’ve done thus far has prepared you for this moment: the beginning of the rest of your life!

Turn your life around and give yourself a dietary, exercise, and lifestyle makeover with THE ALL-NEW ATKINS ADVANTAGE.

The All-New Atkins Advantage will allow you to enjoy a wider variety of foods, tailor an individualized exercise plan, and do Atkins your way.

The step-by-step program is designed to allow you to move at your own pace.

Part I introduces you to the basics of the Atkins program, from a list of foods you'll want to have on hand to mental exercises to get you motivated.

Part II features the 12-week AtkinsAdvantage Program, including a fitness component that allows you to design your own workout, no matter what your level of fitness.

Part III includes 12 weeks' worth of delicious daily meal plans at varying carbohydrate levels.

At the end of the twelve weeks, you will have changed the way you eat and become healthier, slimmer, and happier.

STUART L. TRAGER, M.D. is a board certified orthopedic surgeon. He is an eight-time Ironman and a top ten finisher at the Ultraman World Championship who credits the Atkins Nutritional Approach for helping him achieve peak fitness and health.

COLETTE HEIMOWITZ, M.Sc., has been featured on national television networks such as NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC, and on radio programs across the country.

Ch. 1	Pathways to substance abuse among girls and women	1
Ch. 2	Women and smoking	18
Ch. 3	Women and alcohol	45
Ch. 4	Women and prescription and illicit drugs	73
Ch. 5	Pregnancy and substance abuse	103
Ch. 6	Getting over the influence	131
Ch. 7	Prevention and policy opportunities across the life span	164

	Introduction	6
Chapter 1	Scent Secrets	10
Chapter 2	Candle Diva	20
Chapter 3	Bathing Beauty	58
Chapter 4	Soap Star	78
Chapter 5	Potpourri Princess	114
	Index	140

Beauty & Grooming Book

Teach Yourself Beauty or Living with Parkinsons

Teach Yourself Beauty: Looking Good and Feeling Great

Living with Parkinson's: A Guide for the Patient and Caregiver

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction or The Fasting Cure

The Natural Medicine Guide to Addiction

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The Fasting Cure

Pilates Personal Trainer or Pilates Personal Trainer Powerhouse Abs Workout

Pilates Personal Trainer: Back Strengthening Workout

Pilates Personal Trainer Powerhouse Abs Workout: Illustrated Step-by-Step Matwork Routine (Pilates Personal Trainer Series)

Total Concentration or The ECO Foods Guide

Total Concentration: How to Understand Attention Deficit Disorder, Maximize Your Mental Energy and Reach Your Full Potential

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The ECO-Foods Guide: What's Good for the Earth Is Good for You!, Vol. 1

Ginseng the Divine Root or The Pennington Plan

Ginseng, the Divine Root: The Curious History of the Plant That Captivated theWorld

Publishers Weekly

Library Journal

The Pennington Plan: 5 Simple Steps for Achieving Vibrant Health, Emotional Well Being and Spiritual Growth

Publishers Weekly

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Fat Proof Your Family or Herbs and Nutrients for the Mind

Fat-Proof Your Family: God's Way to Forming Healthy Habits for Life

Regan Windsor - curledup.com

Jennifer Donovan - 5MinutesforMom.com

Herbs and Nutrients for the Mind: A Guide to Natural Brain Enhancers (Complementary and Alternative Medicine Series)

Feeding Your Appetites or Half a Brain Is Enough

Feeding Your Appetites

Half a Brain Is Enough: The Story of Nico

Journal of American Medical Association - Gregory Kane

Publishers Weekly

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Tattoo or Toxic Churches

Tattoo: Bodies, Art, and Exchange in the Pacific and the West

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Toxic Churches: Restoration from Spiritual Abuse

Tweakers or The Easy Fitness Workbook

Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America

The Easy Fitness Workbook: The Complete Fitness Class in a Book

Conquering Eating Disorders or Complete Guide to Gluten Free and Dairy Free Cooking

Conquering Eating Disorders: How Family Communication Heals

Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking: Over 200 Delicious Recipes

Exercise Balls for Dummies or The Doctors Guide to Gastrointestinal Health

Exercise Balls for Dummies

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The Doctor's Guide to Gastrointestinal Health

Touch in Early Development or Stress Workload and Fatigue

Touch in Early Development

Stress, Workload and Fatigue

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Healing Images or Power Taiji

Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health

Larry Dossey

Joan Boryserko

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Power Taiji

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Passion for Protein or The Manual That Should Have Come with Your Body

Passion for Protein: High-Protein, Low-Carbohydrate Recipes for Food Lovers

The Manual That Should Have Come with Your Body: You Only Have One Body and It Must Last a Lifetime

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Caring and Social Justice or Healing the Heart of the World

Caring and Social Justice

Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and Your Planet

Chakras and Esoteric Healing or NOPINESE HENOPALISTS HANDBOOK

Chakras and Esoteric Healing

NOPINESE HENOPALIST'S HANDBOOK: A PRACTITIONER'S REF

Clinical Oncology or Complete Idiots Guide to Walking for Health

Clinical Oncology: Basic Principles and Practice

Theresa M. Yannaco

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Walking for Health

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Serendipity or The Disabled Father

Serendipity: An Uplifting and Practical Guide for Anyone Battling a Brain Tumor

The Disabled Father: The Story of a Father and his Son