The Healing Bath or Fashionably Buff

The Healing Bath: Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy

Author: Milli D Austin

Many books discuss the aromatic power of essential oils, but The Healing Bath is the first to focus on using essential oils to cleanse, clear, and heal the energy field surrounding the physical body. If this energy field is damaged, the body's vitality, strength, and overall health and well-being is jeopardized. When energy fields in the subtle bodies are strengthened and energized, deep healing in the physical body is accelerated. This book describes essential oil therapy that can be used with conventional allopathic, herbal, and other healing methods. 

The author has been refining her essential oil techniques for ten years, and she draws on experiences from her personal practice to describe the method. 

Provides bath formulas for a wide range of physical and emotional ailments, including asthma, depression, substance abuse, headaches, sleep disorders, food intolerance, allergies, bladder and urinary tract problems, and hyperactivity.

A special section discusses the use of essential oils to heal infants and children. 

Table of Contents:

The Healing Bath
Using Essential Oil Therapy to Balance Body Energy

A Note to the Reader
Introduction
1. Human Subtle Bodies
2. The Chakra System and Human Evolution
3. Essential Oils and Their Healing Properties
4. Apple Cider Vinegar and Gemstones in the Bath
5. The Bathtub
6. Bath Instructions and Formulas
7. Instructions and Formulas for Massage
Appendix A: List of Essential Oils
Appendix B: Essential Oil Therapy Classes
Appendix C: Resources for Essential Oils

Milli D. Austin conducts workshops on essential oil therapy and has a private practice in Austin, Texas.

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Fashionably Buff: Essential Workouts for Looking Great in Anything You Wear

Author: Sue Fleming

Stay fit and look fantastic in every type of outfit–from the perfect pair of jeans to the best bikini to the little black dress! Everyone has at least one pair of “skinny jeans” hidden in the back of the closet. Well, it’s time to brush them off and bring them back out into the light. Fitness expert Sue Fleming, author of the popular Buff workout guides, now shares simple exercises, taylor-made to your body type, to tone and trim your figure– as well as indispensable wardrobe tips to flatter your frame. Inside you’ll find • your favorite clothes matched up with focused workouts: the tank top (arms), jeans (rear), the little black dress (chest and back), bikini (stomach), shorts (rear and thighs), and stilettos (calves)
• the Fashionably Buff golden rule: Enhance your appearance by drawing attention to your best features (i.e., working with what you’ve got)
• priceless wardrobe secrets for appearing taller, fitter, or slimmer in the eye of the beholder
• strategies for setting achievable goals, staying motivated, and keeping it fun
• step-by-step instructions for creating your own inexpensive home gym
• the six-week Total Buff Body Promise–an exercise routine for sculpting a new and improved you to go along with your new and flattering wardrobe Filled with photographs of the workouts and illustrations of the clothes that will look good on you, Fashionably Buff is like having your own personal trainer and stylist rolled into one. So get the skinny on exercise and style with the guide that has everything you need to be fashionably buff!

The Headache Cure or AstroFit

The Headache Cure: How to Uncover What's Really Causing Your Pain and Find Lasting Relief

Author: Joseph Kandel

Two top neurologists show the millions ofchronic headache sufferers how to identifytheir type of headache and unlock the keyto finding safe, soothing relief

Every year, countless people with chronic headachesare misdiagnosed. Often they receive medicationsthat exacerbate their problem, or they overuse overthe-counter painkillers, risking serious damage to theliver and kidneys. The Headache Cure shows sufferershow to identify the real cause of headache painthrough self-evaluations, develop an effective treatmentplan to deal with acute headaches, and control thetriggers that will limit their number and severity.

Joseph Kandel, M.D., is a board-certified neurologist, an associate clinical professor at Wright State University School of Medicine, and the founder and medical director of Neuroscience and Spine Associates in Naples, Florida. David Sudderth, M.D., also board-certified in neurology, specializes in neurology, psychiatry, and pain management and is a popular national public speaker on many neurology topics.

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There are a variety of reasons that might account for why we experience headaches. Neurologists Kandel (founder and medical director, Neuroscience & Spine Assocs., FL) and colleague Sudderth, who have written about back pain, here offer their own take on an ailment that affects millions of Americans. Readers are guided through getting a diagnosis and an appropriate treatment plan from their doctors. Topics covered include the more common types of headache, treatment options (and a timely chapter on Botox injections), and an illustrated section on neck and shoulder exercises. Do not expect an exhaustive study of every possible reason for experiencing headaches-the information is arranged in bite-sized pieces and does not answer all questions about headaches-but as an aid in helping readers see a pattern to their symptoms, this is a practical and accessible resource. Complementing the text are case studies based on the authors' patients. Highly recommended for all public libraries, even those with several pain/headache books in their collections, as the focus on diagnosis and the sections on cervicogenic headaches here are unique.-Elizabeth J. Eastwood, Mesa P.L., Los Alamos, NM Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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AstroFit: The Astronaut Program for Anti-Aging

Author: William J Evans

Turn your body's clock back by up to thirty years with a revolutionary anti-aging, slow-motion muscle-building fitness regimen developed for astronauts!

At the heart of AstroFit is a new, slow-motion E-Centric resistance-training regimen based on Dr. William J. Evans' breakthrough muscle-building research for NASA. Evans, one of the country's foremost advocates of slow resistance training, details his innovative strength-training regime centered on raising and lowering weights slowly to build more muscle. In just 30 minutes per workout -- and without any special equipment -- AstroFit helps you to shed extra pounds and retain a powerful, youthful body for the rest of your life. Dr. Evans also provides menus for two weeks of protein-rich meals that fuel your muscles, leave you energized, and allow you to eat for optimum health without hunger. And because it may sound too good to be true, first-person before and after accounts from his test subjects attest to incredible successes achieved in just ninety days!

The AstroFit program grew out of extensive scientific research. On long space journeys, accelerated "aging" occurs as a result of prolonged weightlessness, causing crippling muscle and bone loss, as well as balance problems. The dramatic need for a program of age reversal for astronauts became a call to action for Dr. Evans, an expert adviser to NASA. As a result of his remarkable initiatives, astronauts now in training for an eventual mission to Mars will return in good health. Better still, readers of AstroFit can achieve the same age-reversal benefits right here on earth.

With AstroFit you will: Prevent muscle loss and increasemuscle growth, while trimming and sculpting your body • Stop bone loss and osteoporosis • Improve balance while enhancing muscle "memory" • Ensure permanent loss of body fat • Reset your metabolism level • Boost your immune system to maximum levels!

Table of Contents:

Contents

Introduction: A Talk with John Glenn

ONE

THE ASTROFIT PROMISE

1 Reversing the Body's Aging, for Astronauts and for You

2 The Science Behind AstroFit

TWO

PREPARING FOR TRANSFORMATION

3 Building Muscle

4 The Keys to Training Success

5 Fitness by the Numbers

THREE

PUTTING THE ASTROFIT PROGRAM INTO ACTION

6 Design Your AstroFit Plan

7 Level One E-Centrics: The Super Seven

8 Level Two E-Centrics: With Dumbbells

9 Level Three E-Centrics: At the Gym

10 E-Centrics with a Partner

FOUR

PROTECTING BONE/ENHANCING BALANCE

11 Building Healthy Bones

12 Balance Training Can Save Your Life

FIVE

OPTIMAL NUTRITION

13 Fuel Your Muscles

14 Eating for Optimal Health and Strength

SIX

GAUGING YOUR SUCCESS

15 Looking Ahead

Appendix A: The Best Methods of Measuring Body Fat Percentage

Index

Gut Instinct or Sculpting Her Body Perfect

Gut Instinct: What Your Stomach is Trying to Tell You

Author: Pierre Pallardy

A noted French health practitioner who has treated famous patients from Pablo Picasso to Mick Jagger offers this cutting-edge book—already a bestseller in France—on how to stay healthy by keeping one’s stomach health in top shape

There is a growing trend in science to think of the stomach as a "second brain" that can impact the health of the entire body. Pierre Pallardy, a well-respected French nutritionist/osteopath has, over the course of 35 years, developed simple, effective methods for preventing illness by creating harmony between the body’s two "brains." Now for the first time he shares with the general public his method for improving the healthy functioning of the stomach and, consequently, the health of the entire body. The book:

• provides a 7-step method for improving stomach health that employs breathing techniques, diet, exercise, massage, and meditation

• explains how Pallardy’s methods can combat a host of afflictions, including allergies, anxiety, asthma, back pain, cancer, colitis, constipation, fatigue, headaches, insomnia, sexual problems, and many more

Gut Instinct is poised to become a popular preventive health title in North America.

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Sculpting Her Body Perfect

Author: Brad Schoenfeld

The best is now even better!

Sculpting Her Body Perfect has helped hundreds of thousands of readers improve muscle tone, sculpt their physiques, and tone up hard-to-reach and troublesome body areas.

This third edition of Sculpting Her Body Perfect not only provides the exercises you need to achieve your body-shaping goals, but it also demonstrates them in an easy-to-follow fashion on the accompanying 60-minute DVD!

With Brad Schoenfeld's proven conditioning program, you will build an essential foundation for further muscle development. Then, with targeted bodysculpting instruction to smooth out any remaining problem areas, you can add the specific definition you need to complete your new look.

The companion DVD provides even more exercise techniques along with tips on creating your own exercise combinations and workout plans. Seeing the program in action, you will learn the secrets of how pacing, transition, varying technique, and effective execution can take your workout to another level.

One of the most sought-after personal trainers in the United States, fitness expert Schoenfeld has a sculpting program tailored to the unique training needs and goals of women. Whether you're working out at home or in a gym, before work or after, his program is for you. Read it, watch it, perform it. You'll see the results!

BookPage

. . . an excellent book for women who want to strengthen, streamline, and shape their bodies. Loaded with training tips, illustrations, special maintenance programs, and safe workout routines for pregnant women, the book is a perfect guide to sculpting a beautiful physique.

Today's Librarian

A golden resource for any woman who can't afford a physical trainer, here's a sensible and easy-to-follow fitness system ... superior photos and training instruction.

About.com

. . . an excellent book for all women. From beginner to advanced athlete, women will get a world of knowledge on how to train their bodies. I highly recommend it!

Oxygen magazine

Very thorough... beg, borrow, or steal this book (from a friend).

IVillage.com

. . . an excellent primer that includes 80 exercises to burn fat, tone muscle, and shape your physique to the proportions you desire. This book will help you take your fitness program to the next level, and also help you avoid the pitfalls and myths typical of competitive bodybuilding.

What People Are Saying

Debbie Kruck
Brad has written the ultimate book on women's bodysculpting. It is a must-read for any woman who wants to change her physique for the better.
— Debbie Kruck, Ms. Fitness USA

Lovenia Tuley
Wow! Seldom have I read such a comprehensive and well-researched source on women's fitness. Not only does the reader receive an excellent selection of optimum exercises for each body part, but the kinesiology and logic behind the selections is outstanding.
— Lovenia Tuley, IFBB Fitness Pro

I have never read a more thorough, in-depth perspective on women's bodysculpting. As I was reading, I was amazed that as questions arose in my head they were answered in the next few lines. The program that Brad has set forth is identical to how I train as a fitness professional. This book will be a great benefit to any woman who desires to achieve her ideal physique.
— Michelle Ralabate, IFBB Fitness Pro

Lori Ann Lloyd
Brad has provided a valuable and accurate system of fitness training, outlining techniques that are essential to sculpt a lean body. The compound movements and supersets are terrific for conditioning, endurance, and flexibility.
— Lori Ann Lloyd, Extreme Fitness Champion

Shannon Meteraud
A clearly written book with a wealth of information for both beginners and advanced female exercise enthusiasts or personal trainers.
— Shannon Meteraud, Miss Super Fitness

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Sculpting the Ultimate Body
Chapter 2. Warm-Up and Flexibility
Chapter 3. Body Conditioning
Chapter 4. Toning and Shaping
Chapter 5. Targeted Bodysculpting
Chapter 6. Sexy Chest
Chapter 7. Hourglass Back
Chapter 8. Shapely Shoulders
Chapter 9. Beautiful Biceps
Chapter 10. Toned Triceps
Chapter 11. Defined Quads
Chapter 12. Lean Hamstrings and Glutes
Chapter 13. Diamond Calves
Chapter 14. Six-Pack Abs
Chapter 15. Fat Burning With Aerobics
Chapter 16. Safe Workouts During Pregnancy
Chapter 17. Maintaining Your Physique

Self Awakening Yoga or Kickboxing

Self-Awakening Yoga: The Expansion of Consciousness through the Body's Own Wisdom

Author: Don Heckman Stapleton

YOGA

“What an awesome and inspiring book. It beautifully illustrates how an external teacher can lead a person to the lotus feet of his or her own inner authority.”
Erich Schiffmann, author of Yoga: The Spirit and Practice of Moving into Stillness

“Don is an adept, an amazing contemporary yogi who has gone beyond ordinary convention. His mastery of the spiritual inquiry and his brilliance radiates through every chapter of this book.”
Todd Norian, certified Anusara Yoga teacher, former director of Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training

When artist and professor Don Stapleton discovered yoga, it marked the beginning of a journey into the awakening powers of prana--the energy of yogic purification--and the natural creative powers of the body. After twenty years of extensive yoga training and teaching, an accident left him with a severe injury to the spine. Faced with the challenge of physical recovery, Stapleton drew upon his knowledge of yoga postures and his years of exploration into prana flow to create a practice that allowed him to not only heal from the injury but also discover a greater physical ease and emotional expansiveness than he had ever known before.

Self-Awakening Yoga is the synthesis of Stapleton’s practice. More than 100 movement explorations enable the reader to unlock the wisdom of prana to stimulate the body’s innate power for transformation and self-development. His yoga exercises and prana-flow meditations focus on natural movements that encourage body awareness. Readers learn how to listen for messages from the body before entering intotraditional yoga postures, providing the opportunity for deep engagement with the postures and for recognizing the self as the highest yoga-teaching authority. Self-Awakening Yoga takes yoga back to its roots as a creative learning process and an expansion of consciousness, not just a technique for health and fitness.

DON STAPLETON, Ph.D., has taught yoga worldwide since 1976 and was a teacher and director of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health for nineteen years. His extensive training includes Kripalu, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Siddha Samadhi, and Oki-do styles of yoga. He lives with his wife and son in Costa Rica, where he is cofounder and codirector of the Nosara Yoga Institute and the director of Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Training.

In the accompanying 60-minute CD-V, the author leads readers through four of the explorations included in the book. The CD-V can be listened to on a CD player or viewed on a Mac or PC computer, where visual cues can be seen.

Don Stapleton, Ph.D., has taught yoga worldwide since 1976 and was a teacher and director of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health for 19 years. His extensive training includes Kripalu, Iyengar, Ashtanga, Siddha Samadhi, and Oki-do styles of yoga. He currently lives with his wife and son in Costa Rica, where he is co-founder and co-director of the Nosara Yoga Institute and the director of Interdisciplinary Yoga Teacher Training®.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	v
	Prologue: Your Body as Earthen Vessel	ix
Part 1	The Origins of Self-Awakening Yoga
1	The Path to the Teacher Within	2
2	"Who Am I?": Self-Awakening Yoga Methodology	38
3	Initiating Your Self-Awakening Journey: Using the Inquiries	54
Part 2	The Inquiry Exercises of Self-Awakening Yoga
4	Releasing into the Embrace of Gravity, Growing into the Light	58
	Heavy Body, Effortless Awareness
	Traveling to the Origin of the Breath
	Attuning to the Pulse of Being
5	Rooted in the Earth, Open to the Heavens	75
	Using Gravity to Realign Your Body
	The "Yes" Movement
6	Restoring Natural Alignment by Balancing the Cervical and Lumbar Curves	91
	Opening the Middle and Upper Back: Folded Empty Coat Sleeves
	Mobilizing and Synchronizing Movement in the Neck and Pelvis
7	Recharging the Body's "Energy Battery" in the Belly	110
	Locating and Energizing the Belly Center
8	Releasing into Movement from the Center of Being	123
	Moving from the Center
9	Opening the Hip Joints for Seated Postures and Simple Spinal Twists	133
	Locating and Anchoring the Sitz Bones for Grounded Seated Postures
	Differentiating Spinal Movements by Opening the Hips
10	Hugging the Planet Earth: Opening from the Belly into Front-Extension Postures	155
	Lengthening the Front Side to Hug the Planet
	Opening to Life by Engaging the Belly Core
11	Lifting onto All Fours: Balancing Stability with Mobility in Cross-Lateral Movement	184
	Stabilizing the Upper Body
	Balancing Upper Body Strength with Flexibility
12	Containing the Paradox of Polar Opposites: Individuation through Bilateral Movement	210
	Harmonizing Opposite Sides through Perpetual-Motion Rocking
	Balancing Strength with Flexibility in Side-Stretching Postures
13	Making the Hero's Journey: Traveling the Time Spiral of the Spinal Twist to Arrive Now in Seated Forward Bend	235
	The Paradox of Courage and Surrender in Hero Pose
	Spinal Twists
	Balancing the Upper and Lower Body in Seated Forward Bend
14	The Miraculous Journey to Standing in Now, the Open Moment	259
	Finding a Leg to Stand On
	Balancing Resolute Determination with Lightheartedness
	Walking through Life with the Strength of a Lion and Heart of a Lamb
15	The Practice of Flowing with Life's Unfolding Mystery	279
Integrative Flow 1	Angel Wings Breath
Integrative Flow 2	Salutation to the Child
Integrative Flow 3	Salutation to the Sun
Integrative Flow 4	Prana Posture Flow
	Epilogue: As You Prepare to Journey On...	302
	Resources	304

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Kickboxing: The Complete Guide to Conditioning, Technique, and Competition

Author: Christoph Delp

This comprehensive training manual features all the information needed for a successful start in kickboxing, right up to winning the match in the ring. Author Christoph Delp, an expert fitness coach and an experienced kickboxing and Muay Thai trainer, begins by describing kickboxing’s history, development, and rules. The technical section explains all of the attacking techniques, as well as important defense and feinting skills. In spectactular photographs, champion kickboxers demonstrate the skills step by step, enabling the reader to easily duplicate the exercises and to understand the technical fine points. Chapters dedicated to training and competition contain vital information on training plans and structure, contest preparation, and competitive strategy. An ideal companion for beginners, the book is also an excellent reference for active kickboxers and other martial arts athletes who want to improve their punching and kicking techniques. Readers can use the book to train on their own or as a complement to club training.

Fitness Walking or How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy

Fitness Walking

Author: Therese Iknoian

Add structure and variety to your walks with specific programs and 60 workouts to use on your path to improved fitness and health. Fitness Walking offers a full menu of walks from which you can choose the duration, distance, speed, and nature of the walk you prefer each day while staying on track to meet your overall fitness goals.

In addition to the specially designed walks, you'll find clear-cut training advice, instructions for creating your own walking schedule, and useful tips from one of America's foremost authorities on the topic. Fitness Walking is like having a personal trainer striding alongside you every step of the way. It's the best way to ensure you get the physical benefits and enjoyment you deserve out of every trek you take.

What People Are Saying

Linda Lewis
Linda Lewis, Fitness editor, SHAPE Magazine
"Filled to the brim with 60 different workouts, 12 complete 4-week schedules, and step-by-step instructions on creating your own program. A must-have for the dedicated walker."

Cedric X. Bryant
Cedric X. Bryant, PhD, FACSM Chief exercise physiologist and vice president of educational services American Council on Exercise
"Without question, this book is a must for anyone interested in walking as a fitness activity. It provides solid, easy-to-understand information and advice regarding many aspects of fitness walking, including detailed guidelines on proper walking technique and walking workouts to accommodate any person. Fitness Walking, Second Edition, is another excellent book from one of the foremost authorities on the topic."

Table of Contents:

Part I Essentials

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How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy: Solving Pregnancy's Most Common Problems - Quickly and Effectively

Author: Uzzi Reiss

Life just got easier for everyone expecting - thanks to How to Make a Pregnant Woman Happy. Every chapter of this guidebook is brimming with advice and helpful tips to solve pregnancy's most common problems. From ginger to ease morning sickness, a warm bath to reduce water retention, or a turkey sandwich to relieve insomnia - it's all here in this easy-to-navigate book. Helpful appendices explain the stages of the baby's development, foods and activities to avoid during pregnancy, and a glossary of terms. Plus, with good humor and wise counsel the authors provide pointers on how to be the best partner possible. With this handy guide, it's a cinch to help an expectant mother sail through her pregnancy - and keep her very, very happy.

The Hyperactive Child Book or Building Type Basics for Recreational Facilities

The Hyperactive Child Book: Treating, Educating and Living with an ADHD Child - Strategies That Really Work, from an Award-Winning Team of Experts

Author: Patricia Kennedy

Every parent of a child with ADHD (Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder) needs to know: How can I help my child, myself and my whole family not only cope but thrive?

The Hyperactive Child Book has the answers. Hailed by Child magazine as one of the ten best parenting books of 1993, this is the only book that offers the invaluable advice of an entire team of experts--a monther and the pediatrician and child psychologist she turned to when her son was diagnosed with ADHD--on every aspect of raising a hyperactive child, including:

Why it is essential to have your child evaluated by an expert diagnostic team--and how to go about finding more How to be sure your child is receiving the best possible medical care How to be your child's adocate in the school bureaucracy How to help your child acquire the specific study skills that will help him or her learn most effectively How to deal with day-to-day issues from homework to housework to relationships with siblings and peers

Detailed compassionate and endlessly useful, here at last is a book that goes beyond the myths and fads about hyperactivity to help your entire family live happily with an ADHD child.

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Building Type Basics for Recreational Facilities

Author: Richard J Diedrich

Here's your guide through the basics of programming, designing, and planning many types of recreational facilities.

• Including golf and country clubhouses; tennis, aquatic, skiing, and equestrian support facilities; and spas and fitness centers.

• Tackle the practical challenges architects, engineers, and consultants face in creating attractive and financially viable leisure facilities.

Order your copy today!

The Exercise Training Diary or Tobacco Control and Policy

The Exercise Training Diary: For Dummies

Author: Allen St John

The Exercise Training Diary For Dummies will get fitness enthusiasts to gear up even more. It includes a 52-week, fill-in calendar you can use to schedule workouts and record progress, plus helpful advice on a full range of health topics.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.
PART I: The Training Basics.
Chapter 1: Creating Your Workout Plan.
Chapter 2: Just Warming Up.
Chapter 3: Choosing the Right Workout.
Chapter 4: Cooling Down and Fueling Up.
PART II: The Exercise Training Diary.
Your Training Diary.
PART III: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 5: Ten Top Exercise Etiquette Tips.
Chapter 6: Ten Top Exercise Songs.
Index.
Book Registration Information.

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Tobacco Control and Policy

Author: James R Knickman

Required reading for anyone wishing to be conversant with tobacco control policy, the book is edited by Kenneth E. Warner—dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and a leading tobacco policy researcher—who leads with an overview of the field.  Warner’s overview is supported by reprints of some of the field’s most significant articles, written by leading scholars and practitioners. The topics discussed are:

• Taxation and Price

• Clean Indoor Air Laws

• Advertising, Ad Bans, and Counteradvertising

• Possession, Use, and Purchase (PUP) Laws and Sales to Minors

• Cessation Policy

• Comprehensive State Laws

Miladys Makeup Techniques or Fabric of Wholeness

Milady's Makeup Techniques

Author: Pamela Taylor

Students and professionals alike will benefit from this thorough, easy-to-use book. Through actual step-by-step photographs, the world of professional makeup is revealed in an easy -to-understand text, using behind-the-scenes techniques to create the remarkable look of models and celebrities in high fashion magazines, in films, and on television.

Look this: Practical Common LISP or Linux 2005

Fabric of Wholeness: Biological Intelligence and Relational Gravity

Author: Carol A Agneessens

A Rolfing trainer and practitioner for twenty-four years presents a unique and original inquiry into the nature of gravity and gravity's influence on human movement potential. The easy-to-read book links physics, human physiology, somatics, and Eastern understandings of underlying unity, bridging theory and practice with lively examples and concluding that gravity is fundamental to the development of biological intelligence.

Congregational Health or Post Pregnancy Pilates

Congregational Health

Author: Kristen L Easton

Churches and religious communities play a vital role in the well-being of their congregations. Written specifically for church leaders, including pastors, lay deacons, and youth workers, this guide offers practical assistance for addressing health concerns of congregation members and creating aware and educated communities. Over 200 diseases are explained, with symptoms, treatments, and signs for recognizing affliction. Topics include dealing with loss, open communication, legal and ethical concerns, and the relationship between health and spirituality. Guidelines are included for starting congregational health programs.

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Post-Pregnancy Pilates: An Essential Guide for a Fit Body after Baby

Author: Karrie Adamany

Target and tone your post-pregnancy trouble zones.

Every new mother struggles to lose those extra pounds, regain her energy, and cope with the stresses of motherhood. Karrie Adamany, a mother and Pilates instructor, explains how Pilates is uniquely able to address the problem areas for women after they give birth, with its attention to strengthening and toning "the core"-the abdominal muscles, lower back, and buttocks-while also relieving tension and balancing mood.

With a straightforward and friendly voice of experience, Adamany guides new moms through four fitness stages after pregnancy with unique workouts that help restore the body after giving birth; melt away excess weight; tone and strengthen ab, butt, and thigh muscles; renew strength and energy; and relieve common aches and pains. She even shows women how to take their training off the mat by providing Pilates-inspired tips for carrying a baby, breast-feeding positions, and improving posture while working or doing housework. The Post-Pregnancy Pilates Book can help any mom get her body into even better shape than it was before pregnancy.

Author Biography: Karrie Adamany is the founder of ab lab(tm), a service that sends certified Pilates instructors to hotels and private residences. Ab lab(tm) has been recognized as a hot fitness trend in magazines such as Elle, Gotham, and Australian Vogue.

Pray with Me Still or Tone Your Tummy Type

Pray with Me Still: Rosary Meditations and Spiritual Support for Persons with Alzheimer's, Their Caregivers and Loved Ones

Author: Holy Cross Family Ministries

The Rosary has been an important prayer tool for centuries, a source of tranquility and meditative peace. Praying the Rosary offers a special comfort to people suffering with Alzheimer's or dementia and to those who love and care for them. In these pages, caregivers and loved ones will find Rosary meditations to soothe and nurture, plus meditations created especially for sharing with Alzheimer's patients, offering a way to maintain or re-establish connections. With practical insight into the spiritual lives of Alzheimer's patients, plus a guide to praying the Rosary, Pray With Me Still is an ideal resource for caregivers of those suffering with Alzheimer's.

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Tone Your Tummy Type: Flatten Your Belly and Shrink Your Waist in 4 Weeks

Author: Denise Austin

Every woman yearns for a tight tummy and a narrow waist—and in this breakthrough target-toning book, bestselling author and fitness guru Denise Austin gives women the weapons they need to win the war against even the most stubborn belly fat.

All belly bulges is not created equal! Drawing on the latest scientific studies about the five different kinds of abdominal fat, Austin helps every woman identify her particular Tummy Type—and then carefully explains and illustrates the specific exercises that work for that type. Features that distinguish Tone Your Tummy Type:

• A cutting-edge program—combining nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle advice—that works to blast away belly fat faster and more effectively than ever before

• A 4-week weight-loss plan complete with recipes and shopping lists

• Inspiring success stories with before-and-after photographs

• The remarkable motivational skills that have made Denis Austin’s top-rated Lifetime fitness shows "Fit & Lite" and "The Daily Workout" so enormously popular

Women of all ages at all stages of life will find the right program for themselves in these pages—and there’s even a bonus chapter for men!

One Minute Wellness or Whiskeys Children

One Minute Wellness: The Natural Health & Happiness System That Never Fails

Author: Ben Lerner

No more dependence on cold medicines, prescription pills, and anti-depressants. With One-Minute Wellness, you will revitalize every area of your well-being. And the bonus fiction story uniquely illustrates the authors' strategies at work in ordinary lives-a terrific motivator as you optimize your own life.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Introduction: Out of the Country of the Blind....................xi
The Stories Elijah's Story....................3
Hope's Story....................36
The Facts 1. A System in Crisis....................101
2. A Saner Approach to Life and Health....................115
3. What Wellness Really Is....................128
4. Maximized Living: The Natural Health and Happiness System That Never Fails-One Minute at a Time....................136
5. The Essentials of Maximized Living Essential #1: Avoidance and Reduction of Chemicals, Toxins, and Medications Essential #2: Maximum Nerve Supply....................138
6. Essential #3: Quality Nutrients....................157
7. Essential #4: Optimum Oxygen Levels and Lean Muscle....................169
8. Essential #5: Peace of Mind and Strong Relationships....................179
9. Maximized Living in a Minimized-Living World....................209
10. The Chiropractic Advantage: Real Wellness, Real Health Care....................213
Appendix A: Further Information and Research on Chiropractic for Performance and Disease....................241
Appendix B: Food by God, Food by Man....................245
Appendix C: Testimonials....................249
Notes....................265

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Whiskey's Children

Author: Jack Erdmann

Whiskey's Children opens in St. Louis in 1934. That was when Jack Erdmann, the son of a Jazz musician and an ex-chorus dancer, first became aware of his father's drinking, of the destruction it wrought. Jack's own descent into the hellish world of alcohol abuse began when he was an eight-year-old altar boy, dipping into the communion wine. He drank his way through the loneliness and fear of adolescence and a successful stint in the Air Force before alcohol began to take its cruel toll: A marriage built on alcoholic dependency that ended in violence; the loss of a once-promising career; the price it exacted on his own deeply wounded children; the dizzying slide into a life of hallucinations, paranoia, suicidal longings, incarcerations and institutionalizations. Jack Erdmann's road to salvation was a long and harrowing one. But it led to a reincarnation of sorts: the chance to live again, to build a new life out of the bitter ashes of pain and defeat - a life based on kindness, unselfishness, empathy and, above all, honesty. After a lifetime of alcoholism, Jack Erdmann began the path to sobriety and rejoined the human race.

Publishers Weekly

As an eight-year-old altar boy in St. Louis, Erdmann learned that getting drunk on communion wine blotted out the pain and confusion he felt about living in a dysfunctional family dominated by an abusive, alcoholic, drug-addicted father. "I wasn't Jack Erdmann, I was a secret watcher with a warm belly," he remembers in this extraordinary tale of spiraling descent and recovery. By the time Erdmann was a teenager, his guardedly tender, reverent soul was buried under the classic alcoholic need to "to make it to the other side where things are different." Drinking hard in a bar every day after high school, Erdmann learned the alcoholic's code: "The pain can be killed" and "Kill the pain at all cost." For a time, Erdmann's wit, charm and considerable talent as a salesman allowed him to appear to have a life. Ultimately, of course, the charade cracked to pieces. While in rehab, a phrase from the 12 Steps of A.A. about God's willingness to help bloomed inside him "like stop-motion flowers. I know that something true has gotten inside." In her introduction, Lamott calls Erdmann a "vital and wise and honorable man." Most readers will agree. With wonderful emotional honesty and precision, Erdmann and Kearney (Streaming) offer up Erdmann's own suffering as a powerful source of healing and hope. You don't have to be an alcoholic to be inspired by the grace that pulled Erdmann "out of the machinery" of addiction. 50,000 first printing; author tour. (Oct.)

The Wellness Recovery Connection or The Great Physicians Rx for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

The Wellness-Recovery Connection: Charting Your Pathway to Optimal Health While Recovering from Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

Author: John Newport

A leading wellness advocate offers a step-by-step holistic plan for the 50 million people in recovery – a personalized blueprint for adding years to their life and life to their years. Includes a foreword by leading relapse prevention expert Terence T. Gorski.

Based on over thirty years in the trenches as a wellness professional and counselor, John Newport, Ph. D. shares the missing dimension in recovery and the reason why the majority of people battling alcoholism and drug addiction fail to reap the full benefits of recovery and optimal health: They don’t adopt a wellness-oriented lifestyle.

Newport breaks down the nebulous concept of wellness into 7 steps, and gives people in recovery – and their families – specific tools to design their own blueprint for optimal health, including:

Nutrition: nutritional hazards associated with alcoholism and drug addiction, and how to lay a sound nutritional foundation for recovery.

Exercise: role of exercise in preventing relapse and enjoying optimal health, with tips on how to get started.

Stress Management: practical tips on stress management and meditation, specifically geared to people in recovery.

Spiritual Needs: tips on how to manifest your unique sense of central purpose, and how this will help you stay clean and sober and move toward optimal health.

Social Supports: how to develop a strong social support system, sexuality in recovery, and more.

Conquering Substitute Addictions: including nicotine addiction, caffeine addiction and junk food binging.

HealthCare: why our health care system is "wired backwards", and how recovering people can effectively work with doctors and other health care resources.

A must read for people in recovery, and treatment professionals.

Publishers Weekly

For those with drug or alcohol addictions, arresting that dependency is, obviously, crucial for survival. But overcoming addiction's insidious effects on the body by taking charge of one's health is critical as well. Newport, a wellness professional and counselor with 25 years of experience, focuses on the "neglected stepchild" of recovery: basic wellness concepts that, he says, are often disregarded. Newport emphasizes that "taking it one step at a time" works for integrating a wellness-oriented lifestyle into recovery. Years of drinking and doing drugs produce an undernourished body that needs a decent nutritional foundation, which Newport covers in detail. Additionally, many former alcohol and drug addicts develop new addictions (to caffeine, nicotine or junk foods), and Newport discusses ways to prevent this from happening, including engaging in "moderate intensity physical activity," stress management and meditation. He outlines meaningful applications to accompany the spiritual dimension of wellness and recovery, and challenges readers to set long-term goals. Numerous resources, from literature to Web sites, will be of further assistance. This excellent book would be a fine supplement to any recovery program. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	xi
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xix
Part I	The Importance of Wellness to Recovery
1	Wellness: The Missing Dimension in Recovery	3
2	The Importance of Wellness to Early Recovery and Relapse Prevention	9
3	Claiming Your Birthright to Optimal Health	27
Part II	Integrating the Cornerstones of Wellness into Your Recovery Program
4	The Nutritional Hazards of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction	43
5	Your Nutritional Foundation for Recovery	57
6	Physical Exercise: Fitness and Recovery	89
7	Stress Management and Meditation	105
8	Developing a Strong Social Support System	125
9	Cultivating Your Central Purpose, Spirituality and Life Satisfaction	141
10	Conquering Nicotine Addiction	155
Part III	Your Personal Blueprint for Wellness and Recovery
11	Conducting Your Personal Wellness Assessment	179
12	Action Planning for Wellness: Getting Started, Monitoring Your Progress and Following Through	207
13	Making Optimal Use of Health Care Resources	231
14	Parting Thoughts	253
Appendix	Suggested Resources for Wellness and Recovery	259
	References	271
	About the Author	285
	Share Your Journeys in Wellness and Recovery	286
	Wellness and Recovery Web Site	287

Book review: L'apprentissage dans l'Ère Globale :les Perspectives internationales sur la Globalisation et l'Éducation

The Great Physician's Rx for Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Author: Jordan Rubin

Jordan Rubin, along with Joseph Brasco, MD, shows readers how to apply the 7 Keys to Health and Wellness and naturally fight Irritable Bowel Syndrom, a painful and debilitating disease.

Cool Cuisine or Healing Mudras

Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warning

Author: Laura Stec

Cool Cuisine Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming is a smorgasbord of scientific fact and culinary art where the reader learns new ways to look at the climate crisis. It is a quick, enjoyable, informative read, and is an entry point for readers new to the issues. It inspires personal life changes with in-depth research, easy recipes, ideas for your next book group "read and eat" tasting party, and simple tips on how to cook a global-cooling cuisine. The book presents the full cycle on how our agrochemical food system affects global warming and how global warming affects the food system. The reader embarks on a scientific and culinary exploration that feeds mind and mouth with art, science, food lore, culinary tips, and recipes on how to cook low carbon, high-flavor, high-vibe meals.

Table of Contents:

Preface .................................................................. 2
Introduction .......................................................... 3

PART 1 BACKGROUND
1 What Is the Global Warming Diet?..................... 11
2 Why All the Oil in My Soil?................................ 20
3 Global Warming and Tomorrow's Dinner........... 40
4 In Search of a Cool, Clean Drink ....................... 60

PART 2 SOLUTIONS
5 The Summer of Grapes ..................................... 90
6 Holy Cow! ........................................................ 100
7 Innovative Recipes for Success ....................... 120

PART 3 CULINARY HOW-TO
8 America's Changing Palate ............................. 150
9 Eat Your Vegetables!......................................... 170
10 Great Grains.................................................. 180
11 A Cook's Look................................................ 200

Epilogue: The Secret .......................................... 204 Appendix........................................................... 207 Index................. 220

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Healing Mudras: Yoga for Your Hands

Author: Sabrina Mesko

"The practice of mudras for at least three minutes daily will bring you health, wealth, balance, success, and happiness."
—from Healing Mudras

Mudras are yoga movements involving only the arms and hands. They are extremely easy to do, but so powerful that they can transform your life. How? Simply by liberating the energy locked within your body—in energy channels called nadis and energy centers called chakras—and directing it to help you meet your goals and deal with the problems of everyday life.

In this the first book to make the sacred healing techniques of mudra available to everyone, expert yoga teacher Sabrina Mesko includes dynamically illustrated instructions for performing the fifty-two most accessible mudras, with appropriate breathing exercises, eye movements, mantras, meditations, visualizations, prayers, and affirmations to enhance the power of each. Inside you'll find mudras for

- Creating inner peace and inner strength - Eliminating fatigue and overcoming anxiety - Protecting your physical and emotional health - Transcending stress, depression, guilt, and anger - Calming the mind and sharpening intuition - Promoting happiness, love, prosperity, longevity - Healing a broken heart - and much more!

No previous experience with yoga is needed. If you can move your arms and hands freely and pay attention to your breathing, you can use these ancient healing mudras to enrich your life—wherever you are—in as little as a few minutes a day!

Library Journal

These two titles address the benefits of practicing yoga. Finger's Yoga ZoneR Introduction to Yoga takes a broader approach. Creator of the ISHTA yoga taught at his New York City-based Yoga ZoneR studios, Finger explains his program and offers a brief history of different types of yoga. Outlines of two series of beginners' programs are well illustrated with photos of poses and accompanied by detailed instructions, tips, and variations. A section covers relaxation and meditation and breathing techniques. Healing Mudras has a much narrower focus. Mudras, in Buddhism and Hinduism, are symbolic gestures involving hands, fingers, and arms that are used in ceremonies and dance or seen in artwork. Mesko, a former dancer and certified yoga therapist, takes a mindful and introspective approach combining movement with chants in order to achieve specific self-affirming goals. All 52 mudras are demonstrated with photos of the author, along with instructions for breathing, eye movements, and mantras, which spoken aloud impart greater mental and physical energy and a healing quality. Experienced yoga students seeking to move beyond the basic postures or individuals with physical limitations will find this guide useful. Both titles are easy to follow and understand. However, since a number of introductory yoga books are already available, Finger's is an optional purchase. Because it concentrates on a very specific aspect of yoga practice, Mesko's guide is a preferred choice for a wellness collection or public library with a limited budget seeking to round out its yoga collection.--Deborah Anne Broocker, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Dunwoody Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

The Liver Disorders and Hepatitis Sourcebook or Facial Reflexology

The Liver Disorders and Hepatitis Sourcebook

Author: Howard J Worman

The latest information on living with and treating liver disorders

The Liver Disorders and Hepatitis Sourcebook, Revised Edition, gives you frank assessments of the latest therapies and drugs. It also provides advice on how you can navigate the day-to-day challenges of living with a liver disorder, and diet and nutrition guidelines, including the truth about the effectiveness of herbal remedies and liver-cleansing diets.

Howard J. Worman, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine, anatomy, and cell biology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and the director of the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases in the Department of Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center.

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Facial Reflexology: A Self-Care Manual

Author: Marie France Muller

HEALTH / BODYWORK

The main objective of facial reflexology--a Vietnamese system of facial acupressure--is to prevent health problems before they begin and to relieve existing troubles before they become entrenched. The system was originally developed in the 1980s by doctors in Ho Chi Minh City as a less invasive alternative to facial acupuncture. Made accessible to the West by Nhuan Le Quang, an émigré to France, Vietnamese facial reflexology--or Dien’ Cham’--promotes a healthy flow of energy throughout the body by stimulation of 57 acupressure points and associated “reflex zones” on the face. As with other reflexology systems, such as foot or hand reflexology, it is possible to visualize a projection of the entire human body superimposed over the face. One can then stimulate an organ or body part by massaging the corresponding facial reflex zone.

In Facial Reflexology Marie-France Muller introduces this Vietnamese healing practice to the English-speaking world for the first time. She presents 13 basic summary diagrams that locate all 57 numbered facial points and clearly delineates their corresponding reflex zones for the entire body. These diagrams are accompanied by easy-to follow instructions on basic massage and pressure-point techniques.

The author gives point-by-point instructions for two general health-maintenance routines and offers a dictionary of therapeutic sessions for more than 200 common ailments such as asthma, back pain, bronchitis, digestive problems, high blood pressure, insomnia, menstrual difficulties, and ulcers. Therapeutic instructions and simple diagrams of the relevant points and zones areincluded for every condition.

A chapter on advanced Dien’ Cham’ teaches readers how to select points for personalized health-maintenance routines and a final chapter on Dien’ Cham’ for animals applies the principles of facial reflexology to dogs, cats, and even horses. Appendices on Chinese facial massage and Japanese scalp massage will provide useful points of reference for practitioners more familiar with these other acupressure systems. Facial reflexology is simple enough that it can be self-administered by a beginner with immediate results but comprehensive enough to be a valuable tool for healthcare professionals as well.

MARIE-FRANCE MULLER, M.D., N.D., has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has worked as a naturopathic doctor for more than twenty-five years. She leads workshops and lectures throughout Europe on different aspects of natural healing, including mineral therapy and facial reflexology. She has written many books published in French and is the author in English of Colloidal Minerals and Trace Elements. She lives in France.

Table of Contents:

Introduction:    Managing Your Own Health with Facial Reflexology 

1    The History, Theory, and Practice of Dien' Cham': A Surprisingly Effective Vietnamese Method of Facial Reflexology 

2    Reflex Zones and Points: Main Diagrams 

3    Beginning the Practice of Dien' Cham' 

4    Using Dien' Cham' for Prevention and Treatment of Health Problems: A Practical Dictionary of Therapeutic Sessions

5    Correspondences, Effects, and Indications for Dien' Cham' Points

6    Advanced Dien' Cham': Personalized Sessions 

7    Dien' Cham' For Animals Too!

Conclusion:    Some Last Advice

Appendix 1:    Chinese Facial Reflexology   

Appendix 2:    Japanese Scalp Massage

Notes

Bibliography

Therapeutic Index of Dien' Cham' Point Correspondences

Marie-France Muller, M.D., N.D., has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has worked as a naturopathic doctor for more than 25 years. She gives workshops and lectures throughout Europe on differentaspects of natural healing, including mineral therapy and face reflexology. She has written 26 books published in French; this is her first book to be translated into English. The author lives in France.

Autism Sourcebook or Yoga for Pregnancy and Mothers First Year

Autism Sourcebook: Everything You Need To Know About Diagnosis, Treatment, Coping and Healing

Author: Karen Siff Exkorn

Practical advice and information from the world's foremost experts on autism -- and a mother's own hard-won lessons from helping her son recover from the disorder

When Karen Siff Exkorn's son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism, she struggled to pull together comprehensive information about the disorder. Fortunately, she was able to educate herself quickly, and her extensive at-home treatment of her son led to his amazing full recovery. But the journey wasn't easy, and now, in The Autism Sourcebook, Siff Exkorn offers parents the wisdom she wishes she'd had at the beginning.

Recent studies show that there is a worldwide epidemic of autism. More than 1.5 million people are affected in the United States alone, with one in every 166 children diagnosed. Early detection and early intervention are two of the key factors in improving prognosis -- but too often, writes Siff Exkorn, parents get bogged down in denial or confusion about the still mysterious disorder, and are unable to take the necessary steps. Providing accessible medical information gleaned from the world's foremost experts, Siff Exkorn offers an inside look at families with children who have autism, and ties in her own firsthand experience as a parent. The author shares valuable knowledge about the following:

• What the diagnosis really means
• Understanding and accessing treatment options
• Knowing your child's rights in the school system
• Coping with common marital and familial stress
• Making the stigma of autism a thing of the past

With extensive appendices, including the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, DiagnosticCriteria for the Five Pervasive Developmental Disorders, and carefully selected lists of Internet resources, recommended readings, and top autism organizations worldwide, The Autism Sourcebook is the single most comprehensive, practical resource available to parents and loved ones of children with autism.

Interesting textbook: Visual Studio 2005 All In One Desk Reference For Dummies or Reason 4 Power

Yoga for Pregnancy and Mother's First Year

Author: Franoise Barbira Freedman

The essence of yoga is to promote balance, energy, deep breathing, and relaxation. It is the perfect exercise for pregnancy, childbirth and those first months after your baby is born. Yoga is a gentle, safe means of keeping your body toned and supple, of keeping the aches and pains of pregnancy away, of allowing energy to flow freely, of relaxing your mind and body, and of preparing you for the physical demands of childbirth -- and motherhood itself. Yoga exercises, specially adapted for practice in water, have also proved to be therapeutic and supportive, allowing you to stretch and breathe far beyond your capabilities out of the water.

World-famous lecturer and pioneer teacher of yoga in pregnancy, Francoise Barbira Freedman has taken traditional yoga postures and adapted them to suit the different stages of pregnancy. Specially designed water exercises and swimming techniques, based on yoga principles, are also included. The emphasis each time is on meeting the special demands placed upon your body with gentle postures designed to strengthen, tone, align, and relax your body. Breathing exercises help you to prepare mentally and emotionally for motherhood and to bond with your growing baby.

The chapter on your baby's birth focuses on exercises to help reduce the pain of labor, to ease the birth, and to open your pelvis in preparation for delivery. If you aim to have a waterbirth, there are unique aqua yoga exercises to help you achieve a happy and successful birth.

After your baby is born, your body can feel drained of all energy and yoga again can help you to gradually regain your physical strength and tone. There are special routines for recovering from Caesarean or episiotomy, strengthening your pelvic floor, and having your first period. Energizing postnatal water exercises help tone your body and strengthen your abdominal muscles.

You need have no experience of yoga to use this book. But if you have enjoyed yoga before, the adapted poses will help you to tailor a special yoga program for yourself during your pregnancy. Whether you can swim well or not at all, the aqua yoga exercises are safe, simple, and effective to perform.

Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia or Your Child in the Balance

Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia

Author: Stephanie Marohn

For those suffering with schizophrenia, the idea of returning to a "full participation in life" seems like nothing more than a far-off fantasy. Yet, many people with schizophrenia -- as well as those who love them -- are seeing positive results using the alternative therapies introduced in this book. The truth is, schizophrenia does not have to turn your life upside down; you can recover from this illness, be symptom-free, and take back your life. The Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia offers invaluable information on ten ground-breaking therapies that have been shown to reduce the need for anti-psychotic medication. Drawing on the cutting-edge approaches of nine leading healthcare practitioners, health journalist Stephanie Marohn shows how alternative therapies have successfully reversed, reduced, and even cured the disease in many cases. Therapies discussed include orthomolecular psychiatry, biochemical medicine, homeopathy, and osteopathy. Marohn also documents the 21 factors that can trigger or worsen schizophrenia and provides an "action plan" to reduce these factors in your daily life. Marohn addresses the many falsehoods surrounding this mysterious disease and gives those suffering with schizophrenia a reason to hope for recovery. Hope that comes from real people who share their stories within these pages -- the onset of their schizophrenia, their history with anti-psychotics, and their astonishing successes with natural medicine.

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Your Child in the Balance: An Insider's Guide for Parents to the Psychiatric Medicine Dilemma

Author: Kevin T Kalikow MD

In Your Child in the Balance, child psychiatrist, Kevin Kalikow examines the highly topical and thorny question of whether and when to prescribe psychiatric medication to children. As parents, are we too ready to run to our pediatrician for Ritalin when our child shows the first sign of inattention at school? Or do we instead shy away from our doctor's recommendation to consider an anti-depressant for a chronically sad and withdrawn teenager? Among the ever-growing outcry that psychiatric medicines are over-prescribed to children and adolescents today, how is a parent to know whether medication is the right treatment for their troubled child?

Dr. Kalikow tackles these questions with the sensitivity and insight of years of experience helping families through the thicket of research and opinion to find the right answer for their child. Through many colorful vignettes, he explores our efforts to protect our children from the inevitable hurts and disappointments of childhood, and the role that medication can play in that attempt. On the other side, Kalikow shows us our determination to have our children succeed or fail on their own, the way we had to do, even to the point of refusing the medication that might help them overcome a serious and potentially chronic disability.

Dr. Kalikow guides readers through the maze of possible treatment decisions—the many different families of psychiatric medication, alternative treatments including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and perhaps the most difficult decision of no treatment at all. He closes the book by examining one family's difficult journey to the decision to medicate their acutely anxious daughter.

Your Child in theBalance: An Insider's Guide to the Psychiatric Medicine Dilemma is an important and timely book that will hit home to every parent who has seen their child in pain and asked themselves, "I wonder if medication might help."

Library Journal

What kind of information do parents want when deciding whether to give their child psychiatric medicine? Presumably, they are looking for timely, accessible advice from experts, which is just what these books provide (Kalikow and Roberts are both experienced child psychiatrists). In addition, they want information that is specific to their situation. Someone struggling with a hyperactive or aggressive child probably doesn't have the patience or the energy to read about the symptoms and treatments of depression. Roberts's book is better on this count, as it is arranged into chapters devoted to particular disorders and medications. Much of the same material is covered in Kalikow's guide, but it is scattered throughout the narrative. Indeed, Kalikow states that his goal is to illuminate the thought processes of a doctor as he makes choices about medication, not to list the uses and side effects of drugs. Yet it's nice to have something interesting to read, and Kalikow's book is definitely the livelier of the two, containing numerous anecdotes and a more in-depth look at the parents of one patient, "Rosie," as they struggle to decide how to help their anxious daughter. Neither book is a crucial purchase, though even the smallest libraries should have a few more specialized titles-at the minimum, one on childhood depression, one on anxiety disorders, and one on ADHD. For larger public libraries needing more material, these current titles are good supplementary works, with the Roberts book more likely to be checked out regularly.-Mary Ann Hughes, Neill P.L., Pullman, WA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	xi
	Introduction: The "Can Do" Age of Psychiatry	1
Chapter 1	The Challenge of Change	7
Chapter 2	The Elusive Criteria for Changing Your Body	15
Chapter 3	Bring on the Brain	23
Chapter 4	Psychiatry Welcomes the Brain	29
Chapter 5	A Duty to Treat	43
Chapter 6	The Challenge of Children	49
Chapter 7	The Evolving Diagnoses of Children	59
Chapter 8	The Burden of Proof	69
Chapter 9	The Benefits of Medicine	75
Chapter 10	Let's Be Practical	97
Chapter 11	The Risks of Medicine	111
Chapter 12	Subtle Psychological Side Effects	121
Chapter 13	Concealed Consequences	131
Chapter 14	Medicine's Competition	139
Chapter 15	Oh, to Be a Parent!	155
Chapter 16	The Pressures on the Prescriber	161
Chapter 17	Too Many Prescriptions?	173
Chapter 18	Rosie	193
Chapter 19	The Time Is Now	237
	Appendices
	Are You Wise If You Try an SSRI?	247
	Recommended Reading	251
	Acknowledgments	253
	Notes	255
	Bibliography	261
	Index	269

After Goodbye or The PowerBand Workout with DVD

After Goodbye: A Daughter's Story of Grief and Promise

Author: Lynette Friesen

Have you ever walked with a loved one who was preparing for death? Are you struggling with the meaning of the experience and how it has changed you forever?

In After Goodbye, author Lynette Friesen, SSND, shares her spiritual journey, with its painful struggles and life-shaking challenges, through the last years of her mother's life. Step by step, she relates heartfelt and detailed accounts of the various aspects of her mother's diminishment. Her open, familiar, and insightful telling invites readers to participate through the embrace of shared experience.

In revealing the depths of her own spiritual struggle, Friesen encourages others to reflect on theirs. She provides questions after each chapter to help readers facilitate the process. After Goodbye offers a window to self-reflection, encouraging readers to explore and share their own stories of caregiving and grieving.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	7
	Introduction	9
1	Dad's Death	13
2	Mom's Home	23
3	The Move	39
4	The Apartment	47
5	Mom's Fall	63
6	The Nursing Home	73
7	Mom's Death	91
8	Thin Places	103
9	My Memory Journey	113
	Afterword	123
	Resources	126

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The PowerBand Workout with DVD

Author: Paul Frediani

A revolutionary book detailing the use of the power band to build muscle, stamina, and burn fat.

For those who love fitness but don't have time for the gym, The PowerBand Workout is here! Trainers and specialists have known for years that the resistance band is one of the most effective ways to exercise. Plus, it's fun, simple, convenient, and provides a great workout.

Both beginners and experienced exercisers can benefit from the use of the band. Whether training for competition, to lose weight, or just for fitness, The PowerBand Workout will increase strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular, and muscular endurance. And with the bonus DVD, even couch potatoes will be inspired to get up and get fit! It's easy to do at home, in the office, or when traveling—standing up or on a special mat. With the 30-Minute Total Body PowerBand Workout, twice a week is all you need to maintain strength and endurance.

Paul Frediani, celebrity trainer and best-selling author of nationally recognized fitness books such as PowerSculpt and Golf Flex, brings this revolutionary exercise technique to the public. Join the band—the PowerBand!

This powerful, convenient, efficient tool is a must have for every fitness buff. So pick up a resistance band and get started on The PowerBand Workout. 200 photos.

Addictions and Trauma Recovery or Cell of Cells

Addictions and Trauma Recovery: Healing the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Author: Dusty Miller

A recovery model for use in conjunction with 12-step programs or on its own. Dusty Miller's treatment model for addiction and self-injury, outlined in the best-selling Women Who Hurt Themselves, has been expanded in this new work to include the physical and spiritual impact of trauma. This how-to manual introduces new ways of thinking about self-care, self-soothing, and self-expression. Designed for groups as well as individuals and their therapists/counselors...the "Addiction and Trauma Recovery Integration Model" ...[addresses] the core problems linked to trauma and addiction experiences. Its unique approach blends psychoeducational, process, and expressive activities to assess the effects of trauma on the body, mind, and spirit.

Author Biography: Dusty Miller and Laurie Guidry live in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
Part I	Introduction to the ATRIUM Model
	The Atrium Model	3
Part II	The Outer Circle
Session 1	First Steps to Creating Safety: Outside and In	47
Session 2	Understanding Trauma Reenactment	57
Session 3	Addictions and Trauma Reenactment: Finding Another Way	67
Part III	The Middle Circle
Session 4	Finding Emotional Expression and Balance	77
Session 5	Managing Dysregulated Anger: Whose Anger Is It Anyway?	87
Session 6	Cultivating Courage: Moving beyond Anxiety and Fear	97
Session 7	The Body Remembers What the Spirit Seeks to Forget	107
Session 8	Your Body Is a Gift	115
Session 9	Touch and Intimacy	125
Part IV	The Inner Circle
Session 10	From Reenactment to Reconnection	137
Session 11	Environmental Healing: Spirit in Community	147
Session 12	The Journey toward Hope	155
	Conclusion: After the Group Ends	161
	Handouts	167
	References	217
	Index	223

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Cell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell

Author: Cynthia Fox

Positioned at the cutting edge of science, Cell of Cells charts the international race to utilize the stem cell.

From a lab in the Sahara, where one problem is sand in the petri dishes, to an Israeli lab that narrowly escapes a terrorist bomb, stem cells have gone global. Not only are the cells studied in an escalating number of labs—and lands—but they are already being used. In Japan, a respected doctor uses the cells to make small women better endowed. In Connecticut, stem cell technology has created cloned cows that roam the hills displaying eerily identical personalities. In Texas, stem cells rejuvenate dying hearts. In China, clinics offer stem cells to patients suffering from everything from paralysis to brain trauma.

In elegant, cogent prose, science journalist Cynthia Fox has illuminated the reality and promise of stem cell therapies. Cell of Cells illustrates how the extensive, fervent experimentation currently under way is causing a revolution, both in the body and in the international body politic.

M. Ian Phillips - Science

In Cell of Cells, Cynthia Fox brings her impressive talent as a science writer and journalist to telling the story of (the stem cell) race. The hefty book offers a great read for anyone interested in the topic. Fox makes the story an adventure....For nonscientists, she gives pithy but effective explanations without disturbing the flow; for scientists, the book is a smooth read because Fox does not dumb down scientific terminology. The knowledge she acquired in her journeys is astonishing in range and depth, and she cites papers from the primary literature as rungs on the ladder to her overview. (The book includes 43 pages of references and interview notes.)....The author's fascination with "science trouncing science fiction," the potential of stem cells, and our desire to learn what happens next make this a rare can't-put-it-down science book. It reminds me of the fun of first reading The Double Helix. There are fights between and within labs, gossip, and different cultures, but there are also knowledge and exhilarating progress. Cell of Cells is a serious book, spiced up by Fox's wit and storytelling.

Nature

The portrait that Fox paints of stem-cell science and politics, and of the talented (sometimes flawed) individuals involved, is faithful to reality. She pitches her account squarely in the context of competition between individual scientists, labs and nations, not all of which have been proceeding honourably in the race to revolutionize medicine using stem cells. Few of the mainstream players are missed out. An entire chapter, 'Biopolis', is dedicated to Singapore (where I am based), which punches well above its weight in the stem-cell field. The Biopolis, a conglomeration of glamorous institutes with a world-class infrastructure, is just one of many places where Fox conducted a vast number of interviews, attended conferences and generally did her homework. The author has laboured to be thorough, and tells an interesting story.

The Economist

Ms Fox's book captures the adventures of scientists working towards this medical ambition with a realistic humanity...refreshingly unideological.

The Dallas Morning News

The book is as ambitious and wide-ranging as its subtitle...a living history....Ms. Fox delves deeply into the science, enabling readers to understand the research and its implications in detail.... Parts of the book read like a novel, with rich renderings of settings and fully fleshed-out characters....Cell of Cells is an essential handicapper's guide.

The Lancet

Peopled with quirky characters and crowded with strange and beautiful places, Cell of Cells reads like the best travel writing, but the author doesn't stint on the science, or the politics, of her subject. Cynthia Fox spent years touring the world's stem cell hotspots, staking out labs from Egypt to Israel to Singapore, and peering over the shoulders of scientists and surgeons. Her exhaustive legwork has produced a highly entertaining book.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation

(Cell of Cells) makes one think about the immense possibility science holds for society. It tells a great story...Aspiring students of science would benefit from this book, both as stimulation and as an example of the kinds of approaches undertaken in this particular scientific endeavor. The restrictions placed on hES cell research by religious groups will only delay success (assuming that there will be success at the end of this road). Fox's book is an excellent introduction to the field of stem cell research and makes for interesting and entertaining reading.

Scientific American Book Club

One of the most striking narratives in the book concerns Woo Suk Hwang, the South Korean researcher who racked up a seemingly impressive series of coups-including a claim to have cloned several new human embryonic stem cell lines-before his career collapsed in 2005 in what Fox dubs "the biggest act of fraud in science history." Charges of fudged results, not to mention paying for eggs from his own female researchers, dealt a crushing setback to South Korea's stem cell efforts. Hwang's story illustrates the high stakes and pressures that mark this ongoing saga. Cell of Cells deftly chronicles the international quest to apply the potentially life-saving power of stem cells.

Journal of Law and Medicine

Cynthia Fox is an award-winning science writer whose work has appeared in a variety of high-profile populist publications. Her new book on human embryonic stem (hES) cells is a fascinating and accessible work....The book contains a myriad of fascinating and disturbing tales. The reader cannot but be overwhelmed by the awesomeness of the discoveries which are in the process constantly now of coming to light. This early part of the 21st century is a remarkable time. Many of the components of stem cell research, though, are not so edifying. Fox chronicles frightening examples of greed, unethical conduct and utter indifference to ethical propprieties. Apart from anything else, stem cell reseearch is big business, huge business. Fox has done a fine job in documenting the early and inglorious years of stem cell research. She has rendered an important service in making much that is inaccessible understanding and engaging. The challenge now is for science, medicine and law to cooperate in ways which are meaningful and effective to curb the excesses of avarice and ambition in relation to stem cell developments. Fox's Cell of Cells should be compulsory reading for anyone wanting to understand where stem cell research has come from, where it is likely to head and the kinds of dilemmas that it will pose for the human race.

Mary Chitty - Library Journal

Science journalist Fox traveled to Egypt, Israel, Singapore, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States to talk with scientists, patients, and physicians dealing with stem cells through such work as laboratory research in mice; clinical applications in oncology, cardiovascular medicine, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and cosmetic plastic surgery; and attempts to clone mammoth DNA in Siberia. More is happening in the United States than might be readily apparent, given the ban on federal funding. But other countries are definitely racing to take advantage of U.S. restrictions. The issues are as much political as scientific. The promise of stem cells may never be exactly as hoped for, but some patients are being helped in truly new ways. A glossary with definitions and acronyms of all the varieties of stem cells—e.g., adult, embryonic, human embryonic—would have been helpful, but this is both a good introduction to a topic that isn't going away and a gripping and accessible guide to the ongoing work. Recommended for almost any library. [See Prepub Alert, LJ9/1/05.]

Addictions and Trauma Recovery or Cell of Cells

Addictions and Trauma Recovery: Healing the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Author: Dusty Miller

A recovery model for use in conjunction with 12-step programs or on its own. Dusty Miller's treatment model for addiction and self-injury, outlined in the best-selling Women Who Hurt Themselves, has been expanded in this new work to include the physical and spiritual impact of trauma. This how-to manual introduces new ways of thinking about self-care, self-soothing, and self-expression. Designed for groups as well as individuals and their therapists/counselors...the "Addiction and Trauma Recovery Integration Model" ...[addresses] the core problems linked to trauma and addiction experiences. Its unique approach blends psychoeducational, process, and expressive activities to assess the effects of trauma on the body, mind, and spirit.

Author Biography: Dusty Miller and Laurie Guidry live in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
Part I	Introduction to the ATRIUM Model
	The Atrium Model	3
Part II	The Outer Circle
Session 1	First Steps to Creating Safety: Outside and In	47
Session 2	Understanding Trauma Reenactment	57
Session 3	Addictions and Trauma Reenactment: Finding Another Way	67
Part III	The Middle Circle
Session 4	Finding Emotional Expression and Balance	77
Session 5	Managing Dysregulated Anger: Whose Anger Is It Anyway?	87
Session 6	Cultivating Courage: Moving beyond Anxiety and Fear	97
Session 7	The Body Remembers What the Spirit Seeks to Forget	107
Session 8	Your Body Is a Gift	115
Session 9	Touch and Intimacy	125
Part IV	The Inner Circle
Session 10	From Reenactment to Reconnection	137
Session 11	Environmental Healing: Spirit in Community	147
Session 12	The Journey toward Hope	155
	Conclusion: After the Group Ends	161
	Handouts	167
	References	217
	Index	223

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Cell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell

Author: Cynthia Fox

Positioned at the cutting edge of science, Cell of Cells charts the international race to utilize the stem cell.

From a lab in the Sahara, where one problem is sand in the petri dishes, to an Israeli lab that narrowly escapes a terrorist bomb, stem cells have gone global. Not only are the cells studied in an escalating number of labs—and lands—but they are already being used. In Japan, a respected doctor uses the cells to make small women better endowed. In Connecticut, stem cell technology has created cloned cows that roam the hills displaying eerily identical personalities. In Texas, stem cells rejuvenate dying hearts. In China, clinics offer stem cells to patients suffering from everything from paralysis to brain trauma.

In elegant, cogent prose, science journalist Cynthia Fox has illuminated the reality and promise of stem cell therapies. Cell of Cells illustrates how the extensive, fervent experimentation currently under way is causing a revolution, both in the body and in the international body politic.

M. Ian Phillips - Science

In Cell of Cells, Cynthia Fox brings her impressive talent as a science writer and journalist to telling the story of (the stem cell) race. The hefty book offers a great read for anyone interested in the topic. Fox makes the story an adventure....For nonscientists, she gives pithy but effective explanations without disturbing the flow; for scientists, the book is a smooth read because Fox does not dumb down scientific terminology. The knowledge she acquired in her journeys is astonishing in range and depth, and she cites papers from the primary literature as rungs on the ladder to her overview. (The book includes 43 pages of references and interview notes.)....The author's fascination with "science trouncing science fiction," the potential of stem cells, and our desire to learn what happens next make this a rare can't-put-it-down science book. It reminds me of the fun of first reading The Double Helix. There are fights between and within labs, gossip, and different cultures, but there are also knowledge and exhilarating progress. Cell of Cells is a serious book, spiced up by Fox's wit and storytelling.

Nature

The portrait that Fox paints of stem-cell science and politics, and of the talented (sometimes flawed) individuals involved, is faithful to reality. She pitches her account squarely in the context of competition between individual scientists, labs and nations, not all of which have been proceeding honourably in the race to revolutionize medicine using stem cells. Few of the mainstream players are missed out. An entire chapter, 'Biopolis', is dedicated to Singapore (where I am based), which punches well above its weight in the stem-cell field. The Biopolis, a conglomeration of glamorous institutes with a world-class infrastructure, is just one of many places where Fox conducted a vast number of interviews, attended conferences and generally did her homework. The author has laboured to be thorough, and tells an interesting story.

The Economist

Ms Fox's book captures the adventures of scientists working towards this medical ambition with a realistic humanity...refreshingly unideological.

The Dallas Morning News

The book is as ambitious and wide-ranging as its subtitle...a living history....Ms. Fox delves deeply into the science, enabling readers to understand the research and its implications in detail.... Parts of the book read like a novel, with rich renderings of settings and fully fleshed-out characters....Cell of Cells is an essential handicapper's guide.

The Lancet

Peopled with quirky characters and crowded with strange and beautiful places, Cell of Cells reads like the best travel writing, but the author doesn't stint on the science, or the politics, of her subject. Cynthia Fox spent years touring the world's stem cell hotspots, staking out labs from Egypt to Israel to Singapore, and peering over the shoulders of scientists and surgeons. Her exhaustive legwork has produced a highly entertaining book.

The Journal of Clinical Investigation

(Cell of Cells) makes one think about the immense possibility science holds for society. It tells a great story...Aspiring students of science would benefit from this book, both as stimulation and as an example of the kinds of approaches undertaken in this particular scientific endeavor. The restrictions placed on hES cell research by religious groups will only delay success (assuming that there will be success at the end of this road). Fox's book is an excellent introduction to the field of stem cell research and makes for interesting and entertaining reading.

Scientific American Book Club

One of the most striking narratives in the book concerns Woo Suk Hwang, the South Korean researcher who racked up a seemingly impressive series of coups-including a claim to have cloned several new human embryonic stem cell lines-before his career collapsed in 2005 in what Fox dubs "the biggest act of fraud in science history." Charges of fudged results, not to mention paying for eggs from his own female researchers, dealt a crushing setback to South Korea's stem cell efforts. Hwang's story illustrates the high stakes and pressures that mark this ongoing saga. Cell of Cells deftly chronicles the international quest to apply the potentially life-saving power of stem cells.

Journal of Law and Medicine

Cynthia Fox is an award-winning science writer whose work has appeared in a variety of high-profile populist publications. Her new book on human embryonic stem (hES) cells is a fascinating and accessible work....The book contains a myriad of fascinating and disturbing tales. The reader cannot but be overwhelmed by the awesomeness of the discoveries which are in the process constantly now of coming to light. This early part of the 21st century is a remarkable time. Many of the components of stem cell research, though, are not so edifying. Fox chronicles frightening examples of greed, unethical conduct and utter indifference to ethical propprieties. Apart from anything else, stem cell reseearch is big business, huge business. Fox has done a fine job in documenting the early and inglorious years of stem cell research. She has rendered an important service in making much that is inaccessible understanding and engaging. The challenge now is for science, medicine and law to cooperate in ways which are meaningful and effective to curb the excesses of avarice and ambition in relation to stem cell developments. Fox's Cell of Cells should be compulsory reading for anyone wanting to understand where stem cell research has come from, where it is likely to head and the kinds of dilemmas that it will pose for the human race.

Mary Chitty - Library Journal

Science journalist Fox traveled to Egypt, Israel, Singapore, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States to talk with scientists, patients, and physicians dealing with stem cells through such work as laboratory research in mice; clinical applications in oncology, cardiovascular medicine, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and cosmetic plastic surgery; and attempts to clone mammoth DNA in Siberia. More is happening in the United States than might be readily apparent, given the ban on federal funding. But other countries are definitely racing to take advantage of U.S. restrictions. The issues are as much political as scientific. The promise of stem cells may never be exactly as hoped for, but some patients are being helped in truly new ways. A glossary with definitions and acronyms of all the varieties of stem cells—e.g., adult, embryonic, human embryonic—would have been helpful, but this is both a good introduction to a topic that isn't going away and a gripping and accessible guide to the ongoing work. Recommended for almost any library. [See Prepub Alert, LJ9/1/05.]