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The Culprit and The Cure or Called to Heal

2009-12-05T22:38:00.000-08:00

The Culprit and The Cure: Why Lifestyle is the Culprit Behind America's Poor Health and How Transforming That Lifestyle Can be the Cure

Author: Steve Aldana

This book presents a wealth of evidence that reveals how a healthy diet, exercise, and other healthy lifestyles can impact life-span and the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases. It provides easy-to-follow guidelines that will help individuals begin and maintain a healthy lifestyle for life. No infomercials here, just the facts from an authority who knows.

New interesting textbook: Driving Dilemma or Alberto Salazars Guide to Running

Called to Heal: African Shamanic Healing

Author: Susan Schuster Campbell

Focuses on the master healers of Southern Africa, the individuals chosen by the ancestors to receive a spiritual calling.

Miladys Hair Care Product Ingredients Dictionary or Psychiatric Aspects of HIV AIDS

2009-12-04T18:27:00.000-08:00

Milady's Hair Care Product Ingredients Dictionary

Author: John Halal

"Milady's Hair Care and Product Ingredients Dictionar"y is a valuable reference resource of the names, definitions, and purposes of hair care product ingredients. For students, the phonetic pronunciations and detailed definitions provide an easy reference to further learning and retention. For instructors and professionals, this dictionary offers a complete source of hair care product ingredients with cross-referencing capabilities valuable for teaching and continuing education.

Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS

Author: Francisco Fernandez

This comprehensive text focuses on psychiatric issues associated with HIV/AIDS and provides clinicians with a basic understanding of epidemiology, virology, transmission, and medical treatments inclusive of occupational exposures. Psychosocial, spiritual, and sociocultural aspects of HIV/AIDS are covered, describing implications of HIV/AIDS across minority groups. The treatment section allows clinicians to organize an effective psychiatric treatment plan for all mental disorders associated with HIV/AIDS. Issues of adherence, prevention, and public well-being are emphasized throughout. The management of medical problems such as delirium, dementia, and pain management in special HIV/AIDS patients with co-morbid substance abuse as well as end of life care is also included.

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Reviewer: Michael J. Schrift, DO(University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)
Description: This is an outstanding, comprehensive new book covering HIV/AIDS all the way from the molecular level to public policy regarding the psychiatric problems encountered in this patient group. Written and edited by internationally recognized clinician-scientists in the HIV/AIDS field, this book is essential reading for all those involved in the care of patients with HIV/AIDS.
Purpose: The purpose, according to the editors, is to "bridge existing gaps in knowledge and communication among clinicians working in HIV/AIDS and others who are concerned with the psychological, social, cultural, spiritual, psychiatric, and neurobehavioral complications of HIV infection and AIDS." The editors and chapter authors have succeeded in creating an excellent multidisciplinary volume that will be the benchmark for all books in this area.
Audience: The intended audience includes psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, primary care physicians, infectious disease specialists, bioethicists, and policymakers.
Features: The first of the book's seven sections provides the basics: epidemiology, the biology of HIV/AIDS, and medical treatments. Section 2 reviews diagnostic tools in assessing the psychopathology, including psychiatric assessment, psychological/neuropsychological testing, and electrophysiology. Psychiatric comorbidity, which is a significant complicating factor in diagnosis and treatment, is covered in section 3. This is followed by a section on medical comorbidity, which is another complicating factor, and contains informativechapters on drug interactions, pain syndromes, and STD. Section 5 focuses on specific populations and the special problems encountered with chapters on Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, American Indians and Alaskan Natives, neonates and infants, children and adolescents, older adults, women, the gay and lesbian population, the homeless, prisoners, and the patient's family. Section 6 addresses such issues as ethical, forensic, and legal problems, religious and spiritual issues, psychotherapy, alternative medicine, suicide, and terminal care issues. The concluding section targets prevention and educational strategies and the difficult issues of physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Each chapter ends with pertinent and timely references.
Assessment: This is an important book for all to read since HIV/AIDS directly and indirectly affects everybody.

BACKGROUND: Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and its Clinical Implications, Margarita Alegria, Doriliz Vila, Sarah Train, Sandra Williams and Nabila El-Bassel / Virology, Immunology, Transmission, and Disease Stage, Karl Goodkin / Medical Treatment and Occupational Exposure, John Levenson and Ellen Morrison

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS: Psychiatric Assessment, Mary Alice O'Dowd / Psychological and Neuropsychological Testing, Joel Levy / Electrophysiology of HIV Disease, Harold W. Goforth and Lukasz Konopka

PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY: The Meaning of HIV-Related Illness: Psychological and Adjustment Reactions, Vicenzio Holder-Perkins and Jeffrey S. Akman / Stress-Distress Spectrum and Adjustment Disorders, Dimitri Markov, Elisabeth J. S. Kunkel and Howard Field / Anxiety Disorders, Annette Matthews / Clinical Management of Mood Disorders Among HIV/AIDS Patients, Pedro Ruiz / Personality Disorder and HIV Infection, Khenu Singh and Herb Ochitill / Cognitive Disorders in HIV/AIDS, Angela McBride and Francisco Fernandez / Psychotic Disorders Associated with HIV/AIDS, Ewald Horwath and Francine Cournos / Substance Use Disorders, Steve Ferrando / Sleep Disorders in HIV/AIDS, Carlos A. Santana and Francisco Fernandez

MEDICAL COMORBIDITY: Psychotropic Drug Interactions with Antiretroviral Medications, Philip A. Bialer, Kyle Kato and Vassilios Latoussakis / Pain Syndromes, William Breitbart / Sexually Transmitted Infections in HIV/AIDS, Angela Stotts, Mark Evans, Shelly L. Sayre and Katherine A. McQueen / Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment of Medically Hospitalized HIV/AIDS Patients, Stephen J. Ferrando and Constantine G. Lyketsos

SPECIAL POPULATIONS: HIV/AIDS Among Hispanic Americans, Pedro Ruiz and Frank Fernandez / HIV/AIDS Among African Americans, William Lawson / HIV/AIDS Among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans, Lynette J. Menezes, Todd Wills and Karina D'Souza / HIV/AIDS Among American Indians and Alaskan Natives, Carol E. Kaufman, Janette Beals, Sara Jumping Eagle and Christina M. Mitchell / Neonatal and Infant HIV/AIDS, Andrea Stolar and Johanna Goldfarb / HIV/AIDS Among Children and Adolescents, Andres J. Pumariega, Margaret Shugart and JoAnne B. Pumariega / Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS Among Older Adults, Maria Llorente and Julie Malphurs / HIV/AIDS Among Women, Isabel T. Lagomasino and Gustavo Rodriguez / HIV/Psychiatry Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, Milton L. Wainberg and Kenneth Ashley / HIV/AIDS Among Women Who Have Sex with Women, Alison R. Jones and Cynthia L. Hoyler / HIV/AIDS Among the Homeless, Jacqueline Maus Feldman and Stephen M. Goldfinger / HIV/AIDS Among Prisoners, Wade Myers / HIV/AIDS and the Patients' Family, James L. Griffith and Michael Golder

SPECIAL ISSUES: Ethical, Forensic, and Legal Considerations, James Satriano / Religious and Spiritual Considerations in HIV and AIDS, Daniel Hicks and Francis G. Lu / Psychotherapy Strategies for People with HIV Infection and AIDS, Claire Zilber / Complementary and Alternative Medicine and AIDS/HIV, Janet Konefal / Biopsychosocial Aspects of Living with HIV/AIDS: Implications for Disease Progression and Psychoneuroimmunology, Cheryl Gore-Felton, Cheryl Koopman and David Spiegel / Suicide and End-of-Life Care, Mary Ann Cohen

POLICY ISSUES: AIDS Prevention: The Clinician's Role, Michael Knox and Tiffany Chenneville / Physician Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Euthansia in HIV Infected Patients, Marshall Forstein

Appendices

Heart of a Woman or Miladys Art Science of Nail Technology

2009-12-03T14:15:00.000-08:00

Heart of a Woman: Preventing and Healing Heart Disease

Author: Pat Bondi Krantzler

This book could save your life!

This first-person account of one woman's experience chronicles her enduring a life-threatening heart attack (with no prior knowledge that she was even at risk for heart disease), her physical and emotional roller-coaster ride directly following the attack, her rehabilitation, her ongoing efforts to reverse heart disease, and, especially, her commitment to reclaiming her life and re-creating her self-image. It is a candid and intimate portrait, and a testament to the courage and faith necessary to successfully undertake a journey of healing, the magnitude of which inevitably results in self-transformation.

This is the first book to recognize that heart disease is the most serious killer of women in the United States--a fact of which women themselves are unaware--and that it deserves the same degree of attention that breast cancer and men's heart disease receive. The Heart of a Woman will eliminate the myths most women harbor about heart disease--myths that can kill if believed. While it is a book for all women, it will especially appeal to: women who have had heart disease or heart attacks, women with a history of heart disease in their families who may be unaware of their own genetic predisposition to heart disease, women seeking knowledge of preventive measures for themselves and their children, women who are unaware of the symptoms of a heart attack (different for women than for men).

Book about: Dogfriendly Coms Lodging Guide for Travelers with Dogs or Arizona and the Grand Canyon 2009

Milady's Art & Science of Nail Technology

Author: Milady

Designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to pass state licensing exams and to provide professional nail technology services, this newly revised resource will enable you to educate and graduate the most well prepared nail technicians the industry has ever had! It's the only nail resource that provides education current with today's ever changing workplace. This book includes all of the information required to become a licensed nail technician. Advanced topics are also included to make the text more complete and contemporary, and to give the student exposure to those skills that will make him/her particular marketable. The full-color art program includes photographs as well as line drawings of procedures, anatomy and physiology, nail diseases and disorders, the practitioner and the salon. Information has been compiled with the help and guidance of leading educators and nail professionals.

Tylers Herbs of Choice or Elements of Pharmaceutical Pricing

2009-12-02T10:04:00.000-08:00

Tyler's Herbs of Choice: The Therapeutic Use of Phytomedicinals

Author: Varro Tyler

You won't find folklore and spurious claims in Tyler's Herbs of Choice, only proven direction toward the safe and healthy use of a cornucopia of therapeutic herbs. This reliable follow-up to the original Herbs of Choice is source that will help you keep abreast of one of the most rapidly growing and expanding fields of medicine. You'll get the information and direction you need to make informed, cost-effective decisions toward healing choices - the natural way.

Healthline Magazine - Paul Insel

You won't find folklore and spurious claims in Tyler's Herbs of Choice — only proven direction toward the safe and healthy use of a cornucopia of therapeutic herbs....This book is a reliable follow-up to Herbs of Choice and an excellent source that will help you keep abreast of one of the most rapidly growing fields of medicine.

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Reviewer:Douglas McDaniel, MTOM, LAc(Mercy College)
Description:This is a clear, concise, well referenced guide to the use of herbal remedies in the treatment of many common conditions. The selection of the remedies included is based upon well- documented safety and efficacy data.
Purpose:The authors' intent is to educate the practicing physician, student, and lay person about recent clinical studies and advances in the understanding of the mechanisms of action and the important and ever-expanding role that high-quality phytomedicinals can play in the management of chronic conditions and health maintenance. They fulfill this intention by addressing the need for well-documented scientific evidence on the safety and efficacy of herbal remedies to support many years of similar claims based solely on anecdotal evidence.
Audience:This book is written with a wide audience in mind, from the practitioner of Western biomedicine who is thinking of incorporating phytomedicinals into his or her practice, to the student of any herbal tradition, and to the patient who is interested in the safe and effective use of herbal remedies to treat common, everyday ailments. The authors are extremely knowledgeable of phytomedicianls as they are used in the West, but seem to be lacking in understanding of the theories that inform the practice of Chinese and Indian herbal traditions.
Features:This is a brief, well-written overview of the basic principles of medical herbalism as practiced in the West, as well as a history of herbal regulation in the United States, including prudent suggestions as to the development of future regulations. Itis divided into common conditions that have been historically treated with phytomedicinals. The pathogenesis of each condition is clearly presented. Each herb represented has substantial scientific evidence supporting its inclusion. Diagrams illustrating various metabolic processes help the reader to understand what is occurring in the body and how an appropriate herbal intervention may help the body regain healthy function.
Assessment:This is a valuable resource for anyone looking for compelling scientific evidence that phytomedicinals are viable alternatives or complements to many standard forms of treatment.

Library Journal

Originally published as The Honest Herbal in 1982, Tyler's Honest Herbal is still the classic herbal guide for consumers and health practitioners alike, fully referenced with the latest peer-reviewed scientific data. As in previous editions, great emphasis is placed on safety concerns when taking herbs. Tyler's Herbs of Choice, a new edition of the 1994 Herbs of Choice, discusses the therapeutic application of herbal remedies for over 100 health problems. Objective and scientifically sound, it augments Tyler's Honest Herbal, although the titles do not need to be bought together. An added bonus is the useful chapter on "Herbal Regulations," as reliable and understandable information on this topic is hard to find. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Booknews

Provides readers with concise, science-based information on hundreds of herbs, organized by the conditions they are generally used for, from the digestive to the immune system. Introductory chapters discuss basic principles, faux herbal medicine, and regulatory concerns. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Tyler's Herbs of Choice provides an important treatise on the therapeutic use of phytomedicinals (herbal remedies) and provide important information on the most effective herbs, what they do, how they work. This is not for the casual reader: technical medical descriptions of common conditions and treatments cover details doctors will need to know and provide explanations of how the herbs interact with the body, and what constitutes acceptable levels of dosage.

Healthline Magazine - Paul Insel, Ph.D.

Haworth Press Incorporated The

This new edition, with additional scientific material, will become one of the most often used references by health practitioners of all types.
---Mark Blumenthal, Founder and Executive Director, American Botanical Council; Editor, HerbalGram

Fluent and free of unnecessary jargon....A splendid update to the original volume...addresses recent developments in the use of herbal medicines in the United States and elsewhere.
---A. Douglas Kinghorn, PhD, DSc. Professor of Pharmacognosy, University of Illinois at Chicago; Editor, Journal of Natural Products

One of the most useful and most quoted references in the field of herbal medicine.
---Jerry L. McLaughlin, PhD, Professor of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences, Purdue University.

	Preface
Ch. 1	Basic Principles	1
Ch. 2	The Herbal Regulatory Dilemma	23
Ch. 3	Contents and Use of Subsequent Chapters	41
Ch. 4	Digestive System Problems	47
Ch. 5	Kidney, Urinary Tract, and Prostate Problems	89
Ch. 6	Respiratory Tract Problems	111
Ch. 7	Cardiovascular System Problems	127
Ch. 8	Nervous System Disorders	153
Ch. 9	Endocrine and Metabolic Problems	185
Ch. 10	Arthritic and Musculoskeletal Disorders	199
Ch. 11	Problems of the Skin, Mucous Membranes, and Gingiva	211
Ch. 12	Performance and Immune Deficiencies	235
	Index	261

Interesting book: Healing with Aromatherapy or Mastering the Zone

Elements of Pharmaceutical Pricing

Author: Eugene Mick Kolassa

Elements of Pharmaceutical Pricing shows account managers, product managers, marketing researchers, and other practitioners in the pharmaceutical industry how to improve your marketing and pricing skills. By describing the process for reaching pricing decisions and clarifying the environment of pharmaceutical marketing, this book demystifies the area of pharmaceutical pricing and shows how to use prices to capture the value of products instead of lowering their value.

Recent pharmaceutical pricing decisions have reflected uninformed, emotional, and short-term thinking. Elements of Pharmaceutical Pricing shows you how to avoid these kinds of decisions, helping you refine your pricing skills and increase your firm's profitability by:

showing you how to determine the value of a pharmaceutical product
outlining a pricing philosophy that addresses the politics and problems you'll encounter
tracing the pricing research process
examining the role of price in the decision to purchase, prescribe, or use pharmaceuticals
addressing the challenges facing the industry in the future

As Dr. Kolassa explains in the Foreword, Elements of Pharmaceutical Pricing aims to “help create within [pharmaceutical] firms, and the industry, something that has been long overdue—the ability to 'price on purpose,’to make pricing decisions that are less emotional and more informed. This volume does not contain all the answers, but I believe it does pose many of the right questions, to help those charged with pricing to make informed decisions, to understand the likely implications of their pricing actions before taking them. This information should lead to better,more profitable pricing in the industry.”

Kenneth Witte

This book provides information on the various elements that cuurently go into, as well as those that should go into, the pricing of pharmaceutical products. The purpose of this book is to provide a framework for making pricing decisions on pharmaceuticals based on informative ""pricing on purpose,"" rather than pricing on emotion. Various elements in the pricing decision process are outlined and implications discussed with the intent of leading the reader through the various actions needed to make rational decisions in pricing pharmaceuticals. This book is targeted primarily to the marketing staff of the pharmaceutical industry and to the buyers of pharmaceutical products who deal with issue of price. This book provides the reader with the various elements of pricing pharmaceuticals to capture the value of the product in terms of other healthcare goods and services, rather than the concept of pricing just to move more unit volume. The author outlines the logical steps for the pharmaceutical pricing research process that helps reduce the uncertainty and risk in making pricing decisions. The book emphasizes the importance of knowing the terminology of the market place, the role of the changes in health care, the characteristics of patient and disease for which the product is used, the value of the therapy, public policy, the company needs, and other elements that should go into the price decision-making process of pharmaceuticals. Numerous examples and figures make the text easy to follow. Examples of pricing are given from different settings (retail, hospital, wholesale, etc.) and one can easily see the need for more rational pricing. This is an extremely useful reference forinformation on how pricing should be done and what considerations need to go into the decision making process of pricing pharmaceuticals. The objectives of the book are worthy and well met. The book should be a reference source for anyone involved in pricing pharmaceuticals.

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Reviewer: Kenneth Witte, PharmD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy)
Description: This book provides information on the various elements that cuurently go into, as well as those that should go into, the pricing of pharmaceutical products.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to provide a framework for making pricing decisions on pharmaceuticals based on informative "pricing on purpose," rather than pricing on emotion. Various elements in the pricing decision process are outlined and implications discussed with the intent of leading the reader through the various actions needed to make rational decisions in pricing pharmaceuticals.
Audience: This book is targeted primarily to the marketing staff of the pharmaceutical industry and to the buyers of pharmaceutical products who deal with issue of price.
Features: This book provides the reader with the various elements of pricing pharmaceuticals to capture the value of the product in terms of other healthcare goods and services, rather than the concept of pricing just to move more unit volume. The author outlines the logical steps for the pharmaceutical pricing research process that helps reduce the uncertainty and risk in making pricing decisions. The book emphasizes the importance of knowing the terminology of the market place, the role of the changes in health care, the characteristics of patient and disease for which the product is used, the value of the therapy, public policy, the company needs, and other elements that should go into the price decision-making process of pharmaceuticals. Numerous examples and figures make the text easy to follow. Examples of pricing are given from different settings (retail, hospital, wholesale, etc.) and one can easily see the need for more rational pricing.
Assessment: This is an extremely useful reference for information on how pricing should be done and what considerations need to go into the decision making process of pricing pharmaceuticals. The objectives of the book are worthy and well met. The book should be a reference source for anyone involved in pricing pharmaceuticals.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Not an Easy Target or Molecular Therapeutics

2009-12-01T05:53:00.000-08:00

Not an Easy Target: Paxton Quigley's Self-Protection for Women

Author: Paxton Quigley

Personal security expert Paxton Quigley has taught thousands of women how to protect themselves against criminal attacks. Her hugely successful "Self-Empowerment for Women" seminars and hundreds of national media appearances have made Quigley the most famous female authority on self-protection in the country.

Her message is loud and clear: regardless of where you live--in cities, suburbs, or small towns--you must discover how to protect yourself from criminal assaults on the streets, in shopping malls, in parking lots, in office buildings, and even in your bedrooms.

Not an Easy Target is a truly effective, up-to-date guide to self-protection that gives you the knowledge and strength to avoid criminal attacks and to fight back when trouble strikes.

Plus, Quigley recommends the most affordable state-of-the-art personal safety devices, services, and training schools.

Whether it's carjackings, robberies, sexual assaults, or domestic violence, Paxton Quigley offers a comprehensive, sensible approach that teachers women a vitally important lesson: Don't be an Easy Target!

New interesting textbook: IIS 6 or Pocket PCRef

Molecular Therapeutics: 21st Century Medicine

Author: Michelle McCulley

Molecular therapeutics refers to the developments in molecular biology that are focused on treating disease with new molecular-based drugs.

By taking advantage of recent advances and increased understanding in the field of human genetics, this book provides essential background knowledge and key literature on a broad range of novel approaches and disciplines. These include making recombinant proteins, xenotransplantation gene therapy and therapeutic cloning. Molecular Therapeutics: 21st Century Medicine describes the techniques - including their associated benefits, problems, pitfalls - and discusses their applicability with respect to treating microbial, inherited, multifactoral and acquired diseases. The book also pays specific attention to the ethical issues associated with this new field.

• Cutting-edge topics and clinically relevant materials engage and maintain student interest

• Self-assessment questions are included throughout the book

• Features an additional web site, with a web forum, regular updates and PowerPoint slides of figures from the book

Molecular Therapeutics: 21st Century Medicine is a comprehensive, accessible and engaging guide to the rapidly developing field of molecular therapeutics. It is essential reading for all students in this area of research and also of interest for health professionals involved in these novel therapies.

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Reviewer:Eugene A Davidson, PhD(Georgetown University School of Medicine)
Description:This book, derived from lecture notes used for an undergraduate level course, is an overview of current approaches to treatment of disease with a focus on genetic/recombinant methods.
Purpose:The apparent goal is to introduce students to current methods used to combat disease. In general, an awareness of these topics is of value, and the authors have partially achieved their goal.
Audience:Students taking a course in modern approaches to disease control are the intended audience, although it is not clear what the general concentration aim of such students may be. The material is presented at a level suitable for beginning undergraduates and presumably represents the distilled efforts of the authors who have extensive background in teaching such material.
Features:Disease control is a universal health goal. Targets in this ongoing struggle begin with childhood threats/vaccinations and continue through gene replacement, cancer management, transplantation, etc. In developing strategies to combat these problems, new methods are coming into use and this book provides a student-oriented overview of some of the common approaches. Each of the chapters has a reference set, several cover associated ethical issues, and the book concludes with a discussion of legal concerns. Naive students (presumed audience) will develop an understanding of many of the modern methods used, an appreciation of the diverse ethical issues, and some sense of the regulatory and legal hurdles encountered. With the clear understanding that all of the coverage issuperficial, most of the references are not to primary sources but to web-based sites, and essentially none of the science is critically assessed, this book can provide good background information for an uniformed audience. Students in the sciences need a more critical assessment of these issues.
Assessment:This book is suitable for uninformed students not majoring in a scientific discipline. The lack of critical assessment is a serious drawback and diminishes somewhat a generally good overview.

Prologue     xi
Introduction     1
Microbial diseases     2
Cancer and heart disease     3
Cancer     4
Heart disease     5
Genetic diseases     5
Dominant diseases     6
Recessive diseases     6
Role of molecular biology in therapeutics     7
Prenatal diagnosis and pre-implantation     11
Should we treat inherited diseases?     11
Genetic screening     12
Pre-implementation genetic diagnosis     13
Counselling     15
Simple protein replacement therapy     17
Preventing transfusion-transmissible infectious diseases in the UK     18
Ensuring the safety of organ transplants     19
Preventing transfusion-transmissible infectious diseases worldwide     20
HIV     20
Recombinant protein production     23
Choice of organism     23
Somatostatin: an example of protein produced in E. coli     27
Insulin: an example of a recombinant protein     27
Alternatives to E. coli for the production of recombinant proteins     29
Insect cells     29
Whole insects     30
Mammalian cells     30
Plants     30
Transgenic animals     31
Problems with recombinant protein production     31
Problems with glycosylation     32
Effect of glycosylation     33
Erythropoietin: an example of protein produced in mammalian cells     35
Production method     36
Preparation of Factor VIII     36
Transgenic pigs and Factor VIII     37
All recombinants must be tested before they are given to humans     38
Why make recombinant proteins?     39
Recombinant products     40
Generics     40
Recombinant vaccines     43
Vaccine history     43
Vaccines     45
Vaccine methods     46
Types of vaccine     47
The limitations of vaccine programmes     48
The role of the WHO     50
Problems specific to developing countries     51
Economics and logistics of vaccinology     52
Recombinant vaccines     54
Simple recombinant protein vaccines     55
Gene vaccines: the vaccinia virus approach     57
DNA vaccines     57
Edible vaccines from transgenic plants     58
Rational design: bioinformatics and proteomics     59
Other interesting area for vaccine development     60
Conclusion     60
Therapeutic antibodies and immunotherapy     63
Monoclonal antibodies     63
Monoclonal production     64
Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies     66
Human monoclonals     66
Humanised antibodies     67
Transgenic monoclonals     69
The uses of monoclonal antibodies in therapy     69
Specific examples of therapeutic strategies     70
Unconjugated antibodies - treatment of kidney rejection     70
HIV treatment     71
Cancer therapy and monoclonal antibodies     71
Herceptin in breast cancer therapy     71
Treatment of multi-drug-resistant cancer cells     72
Anti-endotoxin antibodies     73
Conjugated antibodies     73
Delivery of radionuclides to leukaemia and lymphoma patients     74
Drug delivery     74
Toxin delivery     75
Bispecific antibodies     75
Other recombinant proteins used in immunotherapy     76
Cytokines     76
Colony-stimulating factors and growth factors     79
Transgenic animals     83
Why do we want to engineer the genomes of animals?     83
Experimental procedure     85
Method 1: Germline manipulation     85
Method 2: Using embryonic stem cells     87
DNA constructs, insertional mutagenesis and homologous recombination     90
Uses of inducible and tissue-specific promoters     91
Introduction of the DNA into the cells     92
Uses of transgenics     93
Recombinant protein production     93
Animal models of human diseases     94
Transplantation: a form of gene therapy     99
Introduction     99
Bone marrow     100
Logistical problems with BMT     102
Solid organ transplantation     102
Heart transplantation     103
Lung     104
Kidney     105
Liver     105
Ovarian tissue     106
Other cells and tissues     106
Summary of the problems associated with transplantation     107
Transplantation statistics     108
Legislation     108
Religious beliefs and transplantation      110
Xenotransplantation     113
Introduction     113
Rationale for the use of non-human donors     114
Organs from non-human primates     114
Pigs     115
Can we pretreat the recipient to prevent rejection?     116
Problems with pigs     117
Will pig hearts function in humans?     117
Xenozoonoses     117
Religious objections     118
Animal activists     119
Government legislation     119
When will xenotransplantation start?     120
Patient attitudes     120
Ethics     121
Alternatives to xenotransplants     121
Reproductive cloning     125
History     125
Problems     127
Why was there so much interest in Dolly?     128
Was Dolly a lone example?     129
Why is cloning useful?     129
Is human cloning a reality?     130
Why can we not produce human clones that are identical?     131
So why clone humans?     132
What are the ethical and moral problems?     132
Stem cell therapy     137
The potency of cells     137
Cloning     137
Potency of stem cells     138
Potential sources of stem cells     138
Stem cells and therapeutic cloning     138
Legislation and therapeutic cloning     140
Other sources of stem cells     142
What can be done?     142
Experiments on embryonic cells     143
Experiments on fetal tissue and cord blood     143
Stem cells from adult tissues     143
Safety and technical problems     144
Perceived scope of therapy     145
Clinical trials of stem cell therapy     145
What are the future prospects for stem cell research?     146
Gene augmentation therapy     149
Introduction     149
Strategy     150
DNA delivery     151
Viral vectors and gene therapy     152
Artificial viruses     155
Non-viral delivery in gene therapy     155
What tissues can we currently target?     157
Targeting gene expression     159
Problems associated with augmentation therapy     160
Gene augmentation therapy vs. recombinant DNA therapy or transplantation     161
Current criteria for the use of gene therapy      162
The bystander effect     163
Candidates for gene therapy     163
Gene therapy trials for inherited diseases     165
Introduction     165
Examples of disease treated with retroviral gene therapy     166
Severe combined immunodeficiency     166
Hypercholesterolaemia     169
Cystic fibrosis     170
Rationale for adenoviral vectors     171
Early animal trials     171
Is CF gene therapy 'safe but not useful'?     172
Problems also found in in vivo delivery     172
Animal trials with Factor IX     173
Adenoviruses have also been used to introduce genes into brain     174
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy     175
Problems with adenoviruses     175
The uses of adeno-associated viruses     176
Haemophilia B treatment with Factor IX gene augmentation     176
AAV therapy for DMD     177
Liposome vector trials     178
Trials with polymer mareix delivery     178
Gene silencing technologies     181
Antisense therapy     181
Modification of antisense molecules     183
Replacement of oxygens in the phosphate bridge      184
Modifications can be made to the bases themselves     184
Other types of modifications     185
The ideal oligonucleotide     185
Uptake     185
Uses of antisense oligonucleotides     187
Examples     187
Catalytic antisense molecules     191
Triple helix (triplex) technology     191
Problems     193
Advantages over antisense strategies     193
Experimental data     194
Ribozymes     196
Examples of ribozyme therapies     197
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)     198
Clinical trials and siRNA     202
Is RNAi better than antisense?     202
Gene therapy for cancer     205
What causes cancer?     205
Cancer: a multifactorial disease     206
Cancer statistics     207
Best treatment currently available     208
Avoidance     208
Screening     208
Surgery     209
Chemotherapy     209
Radiotherapy     210
Do chemo- and radiotherapy cause problems?     210
New cancer therapies     210
Cancer models in animals     211
What kinds of gene therapy can we use to treat cancer?     212
Perceived problems in cancer gene augmentation therapy     213
Killing cells with ganciclovir or suicide therapy     213
Prodrug activation therapy     214
Enhancing the immune system with gene therapy     215
Gene silencing technologies and cancer     217
Conclusion     219
Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and therapy     223
Legislation, clinical trials and ethical issues     231
Legislative bodies     231
Clinical trials     233
The problems of placebo controlled trials     236
The need for informed consent     238
Trials in developing countries     239
Recent trial issues     241
Conclusion     242
Epilogue     245
Sourcing references     245
Index     247

The Sacred Art of Chant or Essential Oils for Horses

2009-11-30T01:42:00.000-08:00

The Sacred Art of Chant: Preparing to Practice(Preparing to Practice Series)

Author: Ana Hernandez

An introduction to chanting as a spiritual practice that anyone can do.

The Sacred Art of Chant not only tells us about the practice of chant, it invites readers to use their own voices to create sacred sounds. Ana Hernandez describes her personal exploration of spiritual chanting and reveals how chant can cultivate clarity, focus, and peace, and ultimately lead to a more complete spiritual life.

Drawing on chants from many faith traditions, The Sacred Art of Chant is an invigorating guidebook for anyone who wants to enliven their own prayer experience in a unique way. Includes sacred chants written out with notation, complete bibliography, a list of Internet resources, and advice on how to incorporate chanting into daily life.

Publishers Weekly

The newest installment in SkyLight Paths' series on sacred practices opens the door, and the mouth, to chanting. The author is a composer and performer of sacred music who also conducts workshops on the subject. All the basics are here: instructions for warm-up through meditations and vocal exercises, 21 straightforward chants and a simple explanation of what happens to the body during chanting, based on Eastern traditions' teaching about body energy. The book cruises religious traditions, since chant is an important practice in the world's religions. Christianity yields taize and liturgical chant; there is mantra chanting, Jewish and Hindu devotional chant and a Zuni sunrise call. Although Hernandez writes that "beautiful and fun aren't usually the first words I think about when I think spiritual discipline," this call to practice is indeed inviting. Some may find the author's breezy writing style a little too girlfriendishly casual ("If God were normal, that would be the end of it, right?"), while others will welcome her informal approach to a subject so often associated with high-raftered solemnity. Minimal musical notation is included with the basic chants, which may be useful for those who read music and unintimidating for those who don't. With a helpful bibliography of text, CD and Internet resources, this is a fine cross-traditional introduction for those exploring a profound and ancient practice. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Essential Oils for Horses: A Source Book for Practitioners and Owners

Author: Carole Faith

This illuminating source book can help horse owners and practitioners provide less invasive, gentler routes to health and well-being for their animals.

Natural Horse

For the aromatherapy beginner or the practitioner, this is a book that all will be very thankful to have.

Magical Oils by Moonlight or Her Last Death

2009-11-28T21:31:00.000-08:00

Magical Oils by Moonlight

Author: Maya Heath

Magical Oils by Moonlight is a unique work that explores the craft of blending and using oils for both pleasure and power, laid out across the monthly cycle of the Moon's phases. This is a complete guide to all aspects of wish magic and spiritual attunement, with an extensive essential oil reference section.Drawn from the lifetime study of a traditional practitioner, Magical Oils by Moonlight brings all of these elements together in one beautifully illustrated volume. From the basics of aromatherapy to complete recipes for magical oils, incenses, bath products and candles, this is treat for the eye as well as a rich reference for anyone seeking to explore the realm of magic and personal spiritual awareness. It is a must-have reference work for anyone interested in magical oils, from the novice to the experienced practitioner.

	Preface	7
	Introduction: The Act of Creating Reality	9
Chapter 1	The Tools of Change--The Power of Essential Oils	17
Chapter 2	Working With the Waning Moon	27
Chapter 3	Working at the Dark of the Moon	45
Chapter 4	Working With the Waxing Moon	61
Chapter 5	Working With the Full Moon	73
Chapter 6	Power of the Eclipse--Crucible of Change	85
Chapter 7	The Power of the Planets	93
Chapter 8	The Elements of Magic	115
Chapter 9	The Wish Spell and the Ritual	157
Chapter 10	Invoking the Divine	165
Appendix A	List of Oils by Property	185
Appendix B	Oil Properties Master List	203
	Index	219
	About the Author	223

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Her Last Death: A Memoir

Author: Susanna Sonnenberg

Her Last Death begins as the phone rings early one morning in the Montana house where Susanna Sonnenberg lives with her husband and two young sons. Her aunt is calling to tell Susanna her mother is in a coma after a car accident. She might not live. Any daughter would rush the thousands of miles to her mother's bedside. But Susanna cannot bring herself to go. Her courageous memoir explains why.

Glamorous, charismatic and a compulsive liar, Susanna's mother seduced everyone who entered her orbit. With outrageous behavior and judgment tinged by drug use, she taught her child the art of sex and the benefits of lying. Susanna struggled to break out of this compelling world, determined, as many daughters are, not to become her mother.

Sonnenberg mines tender and startling memories as she writes of her fierce resolve to forge her independence, to become a woman capable of trust and to be a good mother to her own children. Her Last Death is riveting, disarming and searingly beautiful.

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

"Her Last Death recounts "the true calamity of being daughter to this mother," and the wonder of this memoir is that the author survived her traumatic childhood and found a way of turning her memories into a fiercely observed, fluently written book that captures the chaos and confusions of her youth, the daughter of an unpredictable pill-and-coke addicted mother and a brilliant, self-absorbed father, neither of whom had the faintest idea of how to be a parent."

The New York Times

"Her Last Death recounts 'the true calamity of being daughter to this mother,' and the wonder of this memoir is that the author survived her traumatic childhood and found a way of turning her memories into a fiercely observed, fluently written book...Writing in sharp, crystalline prose, Ms. Sonnenberg... plung(es) readers into a sort of perpetual present tense in which we are made to experience, almost firsthand, the inexplicable and perverse behavior of an impossible woman from the point of view of her aghast, bedazzled -- and immensely gifted -- daughter."

Elizabeth Brinkley - Library Journal

This is one of the best memoirs to come on the scene since Jeanette Walls's The Glass Castle, though the world of Sonnenberg's childhood is as privileged as Walls's was marked by scarcity and want. With her two daughters, Sonnenberg's single mother, Daphne, managed to remain a part of this rarefied environment by the skin of her teeth, thanks to benevolent grandparents and the occasional contributions of a distant father. But while Daphne appeared electrifying and glamorous to the young Susanna, no amount of good fortune could keep her from descending, lie by lie, addiction by addiction, into as disappointing a figure as the father in The Glass Castle. Susanna's progressive disenchantment with her often abusive mother-Daphne introduced her daughter to cocaine and punched her in the stomach repeatedly for seemingly expressing interest in a new boyfriend-is charted with precise, unsparing, and luminous prose. A heartbreaking yet wickedly entertaining portrait of a magically seductive, immensely flawed mother who fails dramatically as a parent and of a daughter who learns to trust and love others despite an orphanlike upbringing marked by disillusion. Highly recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ9/1/07.]

Kirkus Reviews

A deeply personal account of the author's thorny relationship with her mother. One morning, while "leading an unremarkable life" with her husband and young sons in Montana, Sonnenberg received a phone call with the news that her mother had been severely, probably fatally injured in a car accident. She set about making arrangements to fly to Barbados, where her mother lived, then changed her mind. They were already estranged, but this decision put a definitive end to the single most important and dependent relationship of the author's life. It also led to a breach with her sister, who was outraged that she wouldn't come to an apparently dying woman's bedside, then was stuck with the caretaking responsibilities when their mother recovered. The author's remembrances are designed to justify her decision not to go. She depicts her mother as a stunning and seductive pathological liar with a long history of cocaine and painkiller abuse, as well as unscrupulous sexual behavior. The author spent many years entangled in her mother's capricious demands, often unable to discern truth from lies. The shocking details Sonnenberg provides about her upbringing certainly show her mother behaving recklessly. The lack of maternal nurturing prompted a hunger in her for fulfillment elsewhere, first in romantic relationships and then as a mother herself. Yet they were close for decades, albeit often in an unhealthy way. Readers may not entirely understand the author's extreme choice to end contact altogether, or entirely credit her assertion that the distance between them now serves as a comfort. The permanent rift with her sister serves as a reminder of the cost of Sonnenberg's choice, with which she grapplesto live. Tragic but arresting-a worthy companion to Simone de Beauvoir's and Vivian Gornick's explorations of the complicated mother-daughter dynamic.

Healing Immune Disorders or Cellulite Solutions

2009-02-20T18:55:00.000-08:00

Healing Immune Disorders: Natural Defense-Building Solutions

Author: Andrew Gaeddert

Immune system disorders, from cancer and HIV to allergies and infections, are epidemic in contemporary society, and the numbers are rising. In Healing Immune Disorders, author Andrew Gaeddert offers hope for combating both simple and serious immune conditions using Chinese and Western herbs, supplements, diet, and lifestyle approaches. The author's straightforward instructions help sufferers enhance quality of life beyond what conventional wisdom calls possible. The book focuses on natural approaches to improving immune function and treating autoimmune conditions: maximizing digestive health, reducing stress, self-nurturing through positive thoughts, and developing healthy habits. Integrating mainstream with non-Western approaches, combined with focused exercises, says Gaeddert, can trigger improved energy levels, more restful sleep, better digestion, freedom from pain, and more inner peace. While many immune conditions are not curable, they are treatable. Case studies drawn from the author's practice testify to the success of the book's strategies in a real-world setting.

Cellulite Solutions: Tips and Techniques to Lose the Lumps (52 Brilliant Ideas Series)

Author: Cherry Maslen

52 ways to get smooth!

90% of all women, young and old, fat and thin, couch potato and gym bunny alike, have cellulite, whether a little or a lot. With the bewildering range of treatment solutions available, ranging from muds, creams and herbal supplements to skin patches, aromatherapy and laser surgery, Cellulite Solutions dispels the myths and provides honest advice on what works and what doesn't, with ideas including:

- Idea #4: Give it the brush-off
- Idea #9: The green goddess
- Idea #31: Salon selectives
- Idea #42: Pedal power
- Idea #47: Bend it, stretch it
- Idea #48: Some like it hot

Chinese Home Remedies or Fitness Over Fifty

2009-02-19T14:43:00.000-08:00

Chinese Home Remedies: Harnessing Ancient Wisdom for Self-Healing

Author: Lihua Wang

Chinese Home Remedies is a book that offers an intriguing blend of traditional Chinese medicine-as practiced today-and a wide variety of ancient Chinese folk remedies. It contains more than 1,000 effective remedies, a treasure trove of information you can use every day. You'll often be surprised how easily a problem that has lingered for weeks or months can be cured. Making moderate lifestyle changes and following the easy-to-use instructions on how to prepare home remedies, you will see how easy it is to end long-term suffering and experience healthier living.

This book is a distillation of Ms. Wang's thirty years of clinical experiences, as both a physician in China and an acupuncturist and herbalist in the United States. It explains in simple-to-understand language how to treat yourself or a family member using a variety of techniques, including Chinese massage, Eastern food therapy, Chinese herbal formulas, as well as some heretofore unrevealed folk remedies, many of which have been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

Did you know, for example, that:
• Apple slices can ease itching skin?
• Hooking your middle fingers together can stop a nosebleed?
• Sunflower seeds can ease trigeminal pain?
• Eating peanuts can lower your blood pressure?

These are only a few of the more than 1,000 effective remedies that you will find in Chinese Home Remedies. By following just some of this book's advice, you will find yourself on a healthier life path.

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Fitness Over Fifty: An Exercise Guide from the National Institute on Aging

Author: John Glenn

Exercise is not just for the young!

That’s right. Studies show that people who stay active – no matter what their age – benefit from exercise. Not only can it help you feel better, but it makes doing all those day to day tasks easier and more enjoyable. So start exercising today, with Fitness Over Fifty, the National Institute on Aging’s guide to exercise for men and women over fifty.

You don’t need to join a gym or buy expensive equipment. Everything you need to begin your own exercise program is right inside this book.

Energy, strength, balance, and flexibility are the ingredients that add up to long-lasting vitality and health. And Fitness Over Fifty features practical advice about how you can reach those goals.

With nutrition tips, easy-to-follow exercises, and expert advice, Fitness Over Fifty is the last exercise guide you’ll need!

Fitness Over Fifty includes:
• Exercise safety tips
• Ways to get – and stay – motivated
• Endurance, flexibility, strength and balance exercises
• Tips on nutrition and healthy eating
• Daily, weekly, and monthly exercise and nutrition records, and more!

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: What Can Exercise Do for Me?

Chapter 2: Is It Safe for Me to Exercise?

Chapter 3: How to Keep Going

Chapter 4: Sample Exercises

Chapter 5: How Am I Doing?

Chapter 6: What Should I Eat?

Appendix

A. Target Heart Rate

B. Exercise Plan

C. Activity and Progress Charts

D. Resources

Index

Strength Training For Women or Medical Emergencies in Child Care Settings

2009-02-18T10:31:00.000-08:00

Strength Training For Women

Author: Paul Collins

Strength Training for Women has been developed as a training guide as more women begin to understand the health benefits of this activity.

Strength Training for Women is written in five parts. First, you will be educated about general strength training terminology. Second, major muscle groups of the body will be pinpointed, providing strength training exercises used in a gym using hand weights (dumbbells), barbells, various cable, pinloaded and weighted machines. Third, you will be provided with a series of strength training routines for use in the gym. Fourth is a body weight workout routine that can be performed at home or whilst travelling. Fifth is the take anywhere hand weight routine for the whole body.

Through regular participation in strength training, many women find a positive outcome with body image, confidence and self-esteem since the body changes shape as fat is reduced and lean muscle is maintained.

Introduction     6
About the Author     8
Building Stronger Bones     9
Strength Training Exercises     27
Getting to Know Your Muscles     28
Chest and Arm Region     31
Back and Arm Region     47
Arm Region     55
Shoulder Region     69
Leg Region     77
Lower Back and Abdominals     99
Strength Training Routines     108
Beginner Total Body Workout     111
Beginner Split Workout A     113
Beginner Split Workout B     115
Sports Strength Workout - 3 Day Cycle     118
Body Weight Workout     121
Hand Weights - Home and Travel Routine     136
Strength Training Index     142
Photo & Illustration Credits     143

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Medical Emergencies in Child Care Settings

Author: Charlotte M Hendricks

Childcare providers must respond to emergencies and urgent problems, whether medical or behavioral, effectively. These two easy-to-use references will help them respond with confidence.

Each Redleaf Quick Guide provides a list of signs and symptoms, prevention tips, and criteria for seeking additional help. Experts have reviewed the guides to ensure their accuracy and developmental appropriateness.

Addresses common emergencies, such as bleeding, poisoning, allergic reactions, burns, and head injuries.

What You Really Need to Know about Cancer or Massage for Beginners

2009-02-17T06:19:00.000-08:00

What You Really Need to Know about Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families

Author: Robert Buckman

As a medical oncologist, Dr. Robert Buckman has been taking care of people with cancer for more than twenty years. For most of those years, he says, he has spent much of his time talking with patients and their families -- describing what is known about cancer (and what isn't), explaining why specialists have recommended one type of treatment rather than another, or outlining the potential benefits and disadvantages of each treatment option. Many patients, he finds, are well informed about specific aspects of a disease or treatment, but few have a clear overall view. "The patients have a catalogue of the trees," he writes, "but not a map of the forest."

With this book, Dr. Buckman provides that much needed map: a concise and understandable guide to the basic facts about cancer and the general principles of treatment based on the most up-to-date medical information. Written for cancer patients and their families, it combines a complete and accessible general explanation of cancer with detailed information about specific kinds of cancer, all presented in a voice that is as authoritative as it is kind. Dr. Buckman's goal is to provide the background information patients and their families need to conduct more focused and productive discussions with their doctors about their own cases and concerns.

This easy-to-use guide covers the essential topics relating to cancer and its treatment:

• What is cancer? • What we know about the causes of cancer -- what makes cells turn cancerous and triggers the various mech-anisms involved in that process • What do the words cure and remission mean? • An overview of the most common cancers • Descriptions of the sites ofcancer and how specific cancers behave • Screening, early diagnosis, and prevention • The four types of conventional treatment • Surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and biologic therapy • Complementary, alternative, or unconventional treatments • Cancer, attitudes, and the mind • Can the mind change the outcome? • With so many breakthroughs, why is there no progress? • Why cancer research does not appear to be changing the situation for the cancer patient who needs help today • Living with cancer • How to control pain and manage common symptoms, how to recognize a medical emergency, how to communicate -- with friends and family, and the medical team

The text is fully illustrated with 76 line drawings and supplemented by appendixes on commonly used medical terms and what they mean, commonly asked questions, further readings and references, and other sources of help. What You Really Need to Know about Cancer is now available for the first time in a U.S. edition -- thoroughly revised for the patient in the U.S. health care system with the help of more than seventy cancer specialists at the renowned M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

"Dr. Buckman writes in a soothing conversational style and very effectively describes the pertinent facts about various malignancies and the types of treatment that are often employed. The book is an excellent resource for cancer patients and their families." -- Robert A. Brodsky, M.D., Johns Hopkins Oncology Center

Mary Dee McEvoy

This book is developed as a guide for patients with cancer as well as their families. The author believes that a well informed patient is better able to understand his or her disease, ask questions, and participate in decisions about care. The purpose is to provide extensive information to patients, their families, and friends. In this era of consumer involvement in healthcare, this is an important and worthy purpose. The target audience is the healthcare consumer. Although the author has attempted to simplify the complex concepts involved in cancer care, this book will be understood only by an educated and sophisticated consumer. The author is certainly credible in his field. In addition, the contents have been reviewed by a host of interdisciplinary professionals. The text is arranged in a manner that is easily understood. It begins with a description of the book and a ""How to Read"" section, thus preparing the consumer for the information presented. It is written in black and white, using gold color to highlight certain areas. Each chapter begins with a boxed, gold area of ""Summary of Key Facts."" There are many illustrations and they are pertinent to the topic under discussion. Tables are used throughout and highlight the text. Directed toward the public, this text covers a variety of topics related to cancer, including the cause of cancer, descriptions of the most common cancers, conventional and unconventional treatments, attitudes of cancer, cancer research, detection and prevention, and living with cancer. It is useful only for the educated and sophisticated consumer of health care; less educated people will find it confusing. The appendixes are a useful addition,covering common medical terms, commonly asked questions, further readings, and sources for help.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Mary Dee McEvoy, PhD, RN (Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center)
Description: This book is developed as a guide for patients with cancer as well as their families. The author believes that a well informed patient is better able to understand his or her disease, ask questions, and participate in decisions about care.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide extensive information to patients, their families, and friends. In this era of consumer involvement in healthcare, this is an important and worthy purpose.
Audience: The target audience is the healthcare consumer. Although the author has attempted to simplify the complex concepts involved in cancer care, this book will be understood only by an educated and sophisticated consumer. The author is certainly credible in his field. In addition, the contents have been reviewed by a host of interdisciplinary professionals.
Features: The text is arranged in a manner that is easily understood. It begins with a description of the book and a "How to Read" section, thus preparing the consumer for the information presented. It is written in black and white, using gold color to highlight certain areas. Each chapter begins with a boxed, gold area of "Summary of Key Facts." There are many illustrations and they are pertinent to the topic under discussion. Tables are used throughout and highlight the text.
Assessment: Directed toward the public, this text covers a variety of topics related to cancer, including the cause of cancer, descriptions of the most common cancers, conventional and unconventional treatments, attitudes of cancer, cancer research, detection and prevention, and living with cancer. It is useful only for the educated and sophisticated consumer of health care; less educated people will find it confusing. The appendixes are a useful addition, covering common medical terms, commonly asked questions, further readings, and sources for help.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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Massage for Beginners: The Hands-Free Guide to the Art of Self and Partner Massage

Author: Marilyn Aslani

A good massage is one of life's greatest pleasures: it relaxes muscles, relieves stress, tones the body, and boosts overall health and well-being. But to be truly effective, it has to be done correctly, and that is where Massage for Beginners comes in.

Massage for Beginners is the complete low-down on giving the perfect rubdown. Featuring an exceptionally easy-to-follow layout, it is specially constructed to stand open at eye-level alongside the bed or massage table so that novice masseurs will have their hands free and be able to devote their full concentration to the job at hand. In addition, to enable users to proceed with minimal disturbance throughout the massage, the book is organized so that each body part is covered in a single page. The masseur's hand only has to break contact just long enough to flip the page over before beginning the next sequence.

Covering a wide range of techniques, from Swedish to Shiatsu, Massage for Beginners guides readers through full-body massage for a partner, massage for muscle cramps, baby massage, and self-massage, and includes a review of the body's underlying structures and information on oils and aromatherapy.

Help Someone I Love Is Depressed or The Original Writings of Edward Bach

2009-02-16T02:07:00.000-08:00

Help! Someone I Love Is Depressed

Author: Archibald D Hart

Is someone you love depressed?

You're not alone. Depression is so epidemic it's often called the "common cold" of the emotions. Understanding depression and how it affects people is the first step toward a breakthrough. This book will answer such common questions as:

Why do people get depressed?

How can you recognize the symptoms of depression?

What are the types and levels of depression, and how do they differ?

What treatments are available?

When should someone seek professional help?

What can you do to help a friend or loved one who's depressed?

You can help someone you love get the practical information they need and give them hope for healing.

Answers to Focus on the Family's most frequently asked questions

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The Original Writings of Edward Bach

Author: Judy Howard

Wonderful insight into Dr. Bach's thoughts and precise intentions, compiled from the archives of the Bach Center.

Cancer an Integrative Approach or Bring Em Back Alive

2009-02-14T21:54:00.000-08:00

Cancer, an Integrative Approach (Second Edition, Revised and Updated): A Quick Reference Guide to Combining Conventional and Alternative Treatment

Author: John A Catanzaro

Cancer: An Integrative Approach is listed on the top fifty best-selling books on alternative cancer treatment listed in Barnes and Noble Bookstores. By popular request is now revised and expanded.

Dr. John A. Catanzaro, president and founder of the Health&Wellness Institute®, is a naturopathic physician who received his education and training at Bastyr University, America's leading university in alternative medicine.

About the Author:

Dr. John A. Catanzaro, president and founder of the Health&Wellness Institute, is a naturopathic physician who received his education and training at Bastyr University, America's leading university in alternative medicine. Dr. Catanzaro began Health&Wellness with the model of personalized health care, and his vision is to expand this new model and focus to restore the empathy in medical care. Quality care with compassion and putting the soul back in medicine is the mission statement of Health&Wellness Institute and Dr. Catanzaro's professional commitment.

What People Are Saying

Joseph Pizzorno Jr.
Dr. Catanzaro's work provides an excellent introduction to the wellness and health issues related to cancer and is a very useful, descriptive reference to the natural and conventional options available for treatment.
—Bastyr University, Kenmore WA; N.D. President Emeritus and Founder

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Bring 'Em Back Alive: A Healing Plan for those Wounded by the Church

Author: Dave Burchett

It was a story Jesus liked to tell. If a man owned a hundred sheep and one of them wandered away, he would, without hesitation, leave the ninety-nine and search for the one. And when he found that lost sheep he would celebrate with great joy. In the same way, Jesus concluded, our Father in heaven–like the shepherd–is unwilling for any of his sheep to be lost.
Yet all too often God’s sheep do wander from the flock. Sometimes, for reasons that are hard to discern, they stray on their own. Other times they’re driven away, perhaps wounded by an unkind word or thoughtless deed. In Bring ’Em Back Alive author Dave Burchett shows us the importance of bringing these lost and wounded lambs back to the fold–or, when we’re the ones who wandered, becoming willing to return. He explains, step-by-step, how to replenish the spiritual strength of Christ’s body. And he reminds us that we, like the shepherd, can know the joy that comes when a lost sheep returns home.
Every believer is a precious part of Christ’s body. When even one is missing, the church lacks power and is less than whole. Whether we’re victims, perpetrators, or innocent bystanders we’re called by God to seek restoration. And when one of God’s sheep goes missing we have no choice: We must Bring ’Em Back Alive.

Includes questions at the end of each chapter for discussion and reflection.

Living with Cancer or The Joy of Yoga

2009-02-13T17:42:00.000-08:00

Living with Cancer: Meditations on Patience and Love

Author: Melody Kee Smith

When cancer strikes, not only is the patient impacted, but all those within the patient's circle of family and friends are affected as well. A cancer diagnosis can create chaos characterized by medical consultations, surgeries, radiation and chemotherapies. Living With Cancer: Meditations on Patience and Love reveals a deep level of familiarity with these challenges to life and health. Melody Kee Smith and her husband Richard Smith know firsthand about the ups and downs of living with recurrent cancer. They have composed mediations that include brief prayers and an invitation to write or think through issues, such as being frustrated with the health care system, building support communities, and preserving a sense of the sacred in one's life. Living With Cancer is written for all those living with cancer: patients, their loved ones, and their caregivers.

The Joy of Yoga

Author: Jennifer Schwamm Willis

As interest in yoga continues to grow ever more broadly in the U.S., more and more Americans are trying out yoga and discovering its benefits. At the same time, millions of people who already practice yoga are finding that it can play many different roles in their life—from physical release to spiritual growth—and wonder how to unlock that potential fully. The Yoga Mind offers a bridge between yoga as a physical practice and yoga as a spiritual inquiry. A wide-ranging, considered investigation of the deep mind-body connection yoga promotes, it includes the best work of great yoga teachers and philosophers, as well as contemporary yoga teachers and practitioners who draw wisdom and insight from their practice. Selections include writings by Patanjali, B. K. S. Iyenger, Judith Lasater, Margot Anand, Stephen Cope, Geeta Iyengar, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Erich Schiffman, and many others. The Yoga Mind is for people who want to explore yoga's deepest potential to change and enhance their lives on the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes.

Childhood Feeding Problems and Adolsecent Eating Disorders or Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

2009-02-12T13:30:00.000-08:00

Childhood Feeding Problems and Adolsecent Eating Disorders

Author: Alan Stein

How should feeding problems arising in childhood and later eating disorders be assessed and treated?

Disturbances in eating arising in infancy, early childhood and adolescence are increasingly being recognized as a major source of distress and disturbance to young people and their families.

Childhood Feeding Problems and Adolescent Eating Disorders covers a wide spectrum of phenomena of variable clinical significance, ranging from variations of normal behavior to serious clinical conditions such as failure to thrive and anorexia nervosa. In three sections, the following subjects are covered:
· Feeding and weight problems of early childhood
· Nature of anorexia nervosa and of bulimia nervosa
· Treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
The contributors discuss important issues such as the influence of maternal eating problems, the consequences of early feeding problems and the management of early onset anorexia nervosa.

This book willbe an important resource for all the pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, nutritionists and other health professionals concerned with the assessment and treatment of these major clinical problems.

Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

Author: Bryan Lask

In the third edition of this accessible and comprehensive book, Bryan Lask and Rachel Bryant-Waugh build on the research and expertise of the previous two editions. First published in 1993, this was the earliest book of its kind to explore eating disorders in people under 15, a population that is very distinct from those in their late teens and adulthood.

The contributors' experience and knowledge has increased greatly in the past 15 years. This fully revised edition offers a distillation of current information in the younger population, and contains brand new chapters on areas of research and practice such as:

eating disorders and the brain
nutrition and refeeding
motivational approaches.

Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence offers the reader knowledge, perception and understanding of this fascinating but challenging patient group. It has both a clinical and research focus and will be an essential text for a wide range of professionals, as well as being readable for parents of children suffering from eating disorders.

Way of Silence and the Talking Cure or Ten Minute Hips Thighs

2009-02-11T09:18:00.000-08:00

Way of Silence and the Talking Cure: On Meditation and Psychotherapy

Author: Claudio Naranjo

Part I presents a theoretical and inter-disciplinary account of the of the classical forms of meditation. Chapters 1 and 2 tackle meditation from a trans-cultural and trans-systemic perspective, while Chapter 3 brings a similar perspective to bear on the issue of the subtle physiology of meditation and the transformation of the body in the course of the individual's spiritual evolution.

Part II considers the common ground between meditation and therapy - ranging from a theoretical understanding of the meditation/ therapy interface to the formulation of a solitary retreat methodology.

Part III, comprising a single chapter in seven sections, offers a panorama of the classical forms of meditation in the different spiritual traditions.

The integrative attitude conveyed throughout the book serves as an antidote to excessively sectarian tendencies and draws attention to the fundamental issues that underlie well known and specific forms of meditation and psychotherapy. It will be of interest to seekers, helpful to people-helpers and an inspiration to those in social situations ranging from self-help groups to educational initiatives.

Ten Minute Hips & Thighs

Author: Chrissie Gallagher Mundy

The newest title in the popular Ten Minute series targets two areas of the body that most women would love to fix: wide hips and flabby thighs. Tighten them right up with a proven set of exercises that will help build a leaner, more toned, and fit figure in practically no time at all. Anyone—no matter how busy—can make room for these more than 50 simple but highly effective routines. They are accompanied by advice on general fitness and healthy eating, and each exercise is presented with illustrations and detailed instructions on exactly how to perform it. There’s advice on figuring out just the right program for your particular body type, and fantastic tips for getting rid of that unwanted fat for good. From a plié (deep knee bend) aimed at toning the inner thighs to twisty stretches and kicks to shrink those hips, these exercises will work miracles.

	Using this programme	6
	Introduction	8
1	Your body shape	10
	Different body shapes	12
	Which shape are you?	14
	Heavy hips and thighs	16
	Your best shape	18
	Weight loss	20
	Your hip muscles	22
	Active quiz	24
	Great-looking hips and thighs	28
2	Ways to boost your circulation	32
	The truth about cellulite	34
	There is a place for massage	38
	Skin brushing	40
3	Boost your energy	44
	The importance of staying active	46
	Walking	50
	Interval training workout	54
4	Start your workout	56
	Make the most of the programme	58
	Prepare your body	62
	Warm up	64
5	Circulation workout	72
	Rebounding	74
	Yoga booster	80
6	Hip exercises	86
	Hip toners	88
	Hip stretches	100
7	Thigh exercises	106
	Thigh toners	108
	Thigh stretches	116
8	Cool down	122
	Index	128

Food Allergy or Why We Eat What We Eat

2009-02-10T05:05:00.000-08:00

Food Allergy

Author: Soheila J Maleki

Food Allergy provides clinicians, scientists, educators, and regulators with an authoritative, state-of-the-art review of the field. Written by acknowledged experts in the areas of medicine, biochemistry, immunology, bioinformatics, and food science, this book combines the current knowledge and hypotheses about food allergy treatments, research directions, bioinformatics tools, and industry and governmental regulation guidelines into one valuable reference source.

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Reviewer:Ron Purcell, MD(University of South Florida College of Medicine)
Description:The author presents a multidisciplinary review of recent findings and ongoing research regarding food allergy. Discussions of the food processing industry, clinical research, and basic immunology are presented in a single source.
Purpose:This book provides an up-to-date account of molecular and immunologic mechanisms of food allergy from a variety of viewpoints. An extensive group of experts from the fields of biochemistry, bioinformatics, industry, and immunology provide a unique perspective on areas of food allergy not generally addressed in the clinical arena. Areas of research as diverse as GI tract immunology, proteonomics and genomics of known food allergens are covered in detail. Clinical management of food allergy is covered but not emphasized.
Audience:Although sections covering clinical management of food allergy are in depth, the allergist/immunologist will not encounter much new information that is not covered elsewhere. The book is geared toward the physician researcher or non-physician scientist working in the field of food allergy who wishes to have multifaceted account of the current knowledge of food allergy.
Features:Each of the book's five sections addresses a distinct area of food allergy and features in-depth discussions that are well referenced. In addition to the clinical aspects of food allergy, ongoing research in potential treatment and prevention of food allergy is covered. Notable chapters include the discussion of an integrated database of allergenic protein amino acid sequences and the use of animalmodels to study food allergy. Sections reviewing food industry and government efforts to improve the safety of commercially prepared foods are well written and informative.
Assessment:Addressing the increasing problem of food allergy requires a multidisciplinary approach involving clinical medicine, science, and industry. This in-depth account of recent findings and ongoing research in the field of food allergy integrates current knowledge from these fields. The allergist/immunologist with a specific interest in food allergy and non-physician scientists working in the field will find this book to be a highly detailed and useful reference.

Interesting book: Tecnologia de Processamento Mineral:uma Introdução para os Aspectos Práticos de Tratamento de Minério e Recuperação Mineral

Why We Eat What We Eat: The Psychology of Eating

Author: Elizabeth D Capaldi

This volume explores the shift in eating research from the search for bodily signals that trigger hunger to a focus on eating patterns emerging from a learning process that is based on life experience. This new book offers hope that healthful eating patterns can be learned. The volume proposes models for normal eating behavior and discusses how and why eating deviates from these norms. Leading investigators in the field present their findings on four factors that influence how our eating patterns develop: physiological factors, including those factors leading to taste aversions; developmental factors, starting with the effects of a pregnant woman's food choices on her child's later food preferences; biological factors, including genetics and the search for internal cues that prompt eating factors; cultural factors, including the powerful influence of family and social norms. Why We Eat What We Eat explores how these factors interact to shape our individual eating preferences and discusses the implications of this research for practitioners. The volume also compares eating patterns in the nonobese and the obese person and discusses the short-term satiety factor that ensures consumption of a variety of foods. Why We Eat What We Eat expands on themes in the well-received volume Taste, Experience, and Feeding and makes the information accessible to a wider audience. It will be of value to anyone interested in eating and its psychological aspects: health psychology researchers and practitioners, physicians, pediatricians, nutritionalists, educators, students, and parents.

Hallucinations or Hypersomnia a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

2009-02-09T00:53:00.000-08:00

Hallucinations: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: ICON Health Publications

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

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

Author: Health Publica Icon Health Publications

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

Forward
Chapter 1. Studies on Hypersomnia
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Hypersomnia
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Nutrition and Hypersomnia
Overview
Finding Nutrition Studies on Hypersomnia
Federal Resources on Nutrition
Additional Web Resources
Chapter 3. Patents on Hypersomnia
Overview
Patents on Hypersomnia
Patent Applications on Hypersomnia
Keeping Current
Chapter 4. Books on Hypersomnia
Overview
Book Summaries: Online Booksellers
Appendix A. Physician Resources
Overview
NIH Guidelines
NIH Databases
Other Commercial Databases
Appendix B. Patient Resources
Overview
Patient Guideline Sources
Finding Associations
Appendix C. Finding Medical Libraries
Overview
Preparation
Finding a Local Medical Library
Medical Libraries in the U.S. and Canada
ONLINE GLOSSARIES
Online Dictionary Directories
HYPERSOMNIA DICTIONARY
INDEX

Fitness Aquatics or Alcoholism in America

2009-02-07T20:42:00.000-08:00

Fitness Aquatics

Author: Leanne Cas

Whether you want to get in better shape or get a training edge for competition, Fitness Aquatics has the right workouts for you. Inside you'll find tips for getting started, from buying the right equipment to testing your fitness; six color-coded workout zones with 60 workouts that allow you to train with the duration and intensity you prefer; and three sample programs to help in customizing your own training plan. Written by LeAnne Case, one of the leaders in aquatic exercise and a master certified water-fitness instructor, Fitness Aquatics is part of the Fitness Spectrum Series - a collection of books from Human Kinetics offering fitness enthusiasts and sports participants of all backgrounds a practical and flexible approach to training.

Library Journal

This three-part fitness aquatics manual is a thorough guide to preparing an excellent water exercise program. Case is a water fitness instructor with over 15 years of experience. The first section lists the benefits of aqua fitness and describes the necessary equipment. A comprehensive aquatic fitness assessment is included. Proper posture and breathing are explained. Part 2 contains 60 water workouts complete with warmup and more. A bright color coding system arranges the workouts according to duration and intensity. There are a variety of tempos and lengths of workouts, ranging from the "Green Zone 21 minute Conditioning Sport Circuit" workout to the "Red Zone 60 minute Mixer," which is predominately lap swimming. Part 3 gives information on cross-training and charting progress. Blank program forms are included for photocopying. This book demonstrates strong knowledge of the subject and maintains a positive and upbeat tone. For most fitness collections.Anita Goldman Horning, Lawrenceville, Ga.

Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition

Author: Sarah W Tracy

Despite the lack of medical consensus regarding alcoholism as a disease, many people readily accept the concept of addiction as a clinical as well as a social disorder. An alcoholic is a victim of social circumstance and genetic destiny. Although one might imagine that this dual approach is a reflection of today's enlightened and sympathetic society, historian Sarah Tracy discovers that efforts to medicalize alcoholism are anything but new.

Alcoholism in America tells the story of physicians, politicians, court officials, and families struggling to address the danger of excessive alcohol consumption at the turn of the century. Beginning with the formation of the American Association for the Cure of Inebriates in 1870 and concluding with the enactment of Prohibition in 1920, this study examines the effect of the disease concept on individual drinkers and their families and friends, as well as the ongoing battle between policymakers and the professional medical community for jurisdiction over alcohol problems. Tracy captures the complexity of the political, professional, and social negotiations that have characterized the alcoholism field both yesterday and today.

Tracy weaves American medical history, social history, and the sociology of knowledge into a narrative that probes the connections among reform movements, social welfare policy, the specialization of medicine, and the social construction of disease. Her insights will engage all those interested in America's historic and current battles with addiction.

La Recta Del Mejor Medico Para Tener Salud y Bienestar Extradinarios or Expectant Parents Companion

2009-02-06T16:30:00.000-08:00

La Recta Del Mejor Medico Para Tener Salud y Bienestar Extradinarios

Author: Jordan Rubin

A los 19 anos de edad, Jordan Rubin era un joven saludable de 1.82 de altura y 81 kilogramos. Su peso bajo-en forma impresionante- a 47 kilogramos en pocos meses. Su sistema inmuno logico decaia cada vez mas por la dolencia de la enfermedad de Crohn, produciendole alergia a las comidas, anemia, parasitos intestinales y toda clase de males. Tras ser visto por mas de 70 profesionales de la salud, empleando medicina convencional y alterna, Rubin fue enviado a su hogar en una silla de ruedas para que muriera.

Pero su historia no termino ahi. Con determinacion y una poderosa fe en Dios, Rubin rehuso rendirse a la enfermedad. Al contrario, aprendio por si mismo la medicina natural (convirtiendose en doctor en medicina naturopatica) y se aplico sus principios. Ahora, diez anos despues, Rubin esta completamente recuperado, por lo que desea compartir las claves de su propia condicion saludable. Estas claves no son solo para eliminar la enfermedad; son para cualquiera que desee vivir una vida abundante y saludable.

Go to: Dhanwantari or The Straight Path of the Spirit

Expectant Parents' Companion: Simplifying What to Do, Buy, or Borrow for an Easy Life with Baby

Author: Kathleen Huggins

This is the ultimate, all-around baby guide. Not only does it help you navigate the dizzying array of baby products or gear, it also helps you get ready for baby in numerous ways, from preparing for birth, to feeding your newborn, to sleeping arrangements, and to making your home safe for baby. Most other baby-gear guides make you think you need to build on an extra room in your house to accommodate all the necessary items. However, Kathleen Huggins' years of experience with moms and newborns have taught her what you'll need, what you'll want, and what you can definitely do without.

History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous or The Personal Trainers Handbook

2009-02-05T06:12:00.000-08:00

History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous: From the Beginning

Author: Audrey Borden

History, recovery, and wisdom from lesbians and gay men with long-term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for gay people convene in regularly in more than 60 cities in the United States and in 20 countries world-wide. Thousands of LGBT people have changed their lives for the better using the principles of AA. The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents and honors the ways they have carried AA's message. This illuminating chronicle presents interviews, transcripts of recordings, and documents that detail the compelling history, recovery, and wisdom of gay people in AA.

The social stigmas against both alcoholism and homosexuality are still strong. As the debate over the full inclusion of gay people in our society continues, Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the world's most respected organizations, has also grappled with this issue. The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents the challenges AA faced as the fellowship endeavored to become a more inclusive, cohesive community. The first-person accounts maintain appropriate anonymity while revealing the important work of many AA members, both gay and straight, leading to key events in AA's history. Appendixes review the steps and traditions of AA, the list of narrators, and ways the reader can become an ally to LGBT people on the road to recovery..

Topics in The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous include:

• The gay origins of AA's Third Tradition
• A comparison of treatments for alcoholism and homosexuality
• Compelling portraits of sober gay life in the 1950s and 1960s
• The debate in AA over meetings for gay alcoholics
• Interviews with members and co-founders of the first gay AA meetings
• The history of the first gay AA/Al-Anon conference
• Interviews with pioneering gay addiction professionals
• The history of AA pamphlet "AA and the Gay/Lesbian Alcoholic"
• Alcoholics Together, and why a parallel AA organization for gay alcoholics formed in southern California
• Strategies AA's gay members developed to make their meetings simultaneously safe and public—and why some of them are still necessary today
• And much more!

The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous is important, enlightening reading for members of the LGBT recovering community, heterosexual members of AA and other 12 Step programs, alcoholism and addiction professionals, physicians, counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, clergy, historians, sociologists, educators, students, or anyone interested in learning more about AA or this aspect of their community's history.

What People Are Saying

Sally Brown
This GROUNDBREAKING book about an important but little-known part of the history of Alcoholics Anonymous belongs on the shelves of every alcoholic and addict, straight or gay. Counselors, clinicians, clergy, and their teachers will find it an invaluable resource. Audrey Borden has done a MAGNIFICENT job of interweaving over 30 fascinating interviews of influential LGBT AAs and their contributions, spanning 50 years to the present, with factual information about the gradual acceptance by Alcoholics Anonymous itself. I wish my husband and I had had this excellent account ourselves when we wrote our own book about Marty Mann, one of AA's earliest leaders. (Rev Sally Brown, MS, MDiv, United Church of Christ, Board Certified Clinical Chaplain, Ret., Coauthor with David R. Brown: A Biography of Mrs. Marty Mann: The First Lady of Alcoholics Anonymous)

Thomas Weston
The author lets a number of people speak in their own voices, from their own powerful and moving experiences. These are voices that have not been heard enough over the past years. I was very impressed and edified by the quality of hope, faith, and service that they point to and draw from. . . . SHEDS LIGHT ON A LONG NEGLECTED TREASURE TROVE, and I am grateful that this is now available to fellow searchers and seekers. . . . USEFUL AND HOPEFUL AND MOST WELCOME. The men and women interviewed here are wonderful to meet, and wonderful to listen to. (Fr. Thomas Weston, S.J., Oakland, CA)

Thomasina Borkmman
ADDRESSES AN IMPORTANT AND LARGELY IGNORED TOPIC—gays and lesbians in Alcoholics Anonymous—through fascinating accounts from gays and lesbians in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who have been sober for many years and have lived through the changes in attitudes and treatment of gays and lesbians in the larger society and culture and within AA. This FASCINATING book is AN IMPORTANT FIRST STEP IN CHRONICLING AND UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES OF GAYS AND LESBIANS IN AA and is a window into the ways in which AA is like and unlike the larger society. Borden covers how the Third Tradition was developed in the 1940s which opened AA to all who suffered from their drinking. She sensitively deals with the pros and cons of separate gay/lesbian meetings and the attitudes of many that they should also be welcome and feel comfortable in general AA meetings. As in the larger society, there were many closeted gay meetings in the 1950s known only by word of mouth, but by the 1970s era of advocacy that began to change with open struggles found in various communities. As one narrator summarized, while AA had its biases and limitations in welcoming gays and lesbians, AA was also more accepting and less prejudicial than the larger society. (Thomasina Borkmman, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Emerita at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA)

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: From the Beginning: 1935-1970
Chapter 1. The Recovering Gay Community
Chapter 2. The Gay Origins of AA's Third Tradition
Chapter 3. Alcoholism and Homosexuality: A Brief History of Treatment
Chapter 4. Five Views of Sober Gay Life in the Fifties and Sixties
Chapter 5. Finding AA: Groups, Directories, and the First Gay Meeting
Chapter 6. Printer's Ink: A Conversation with Nancy T.
Chapter 7. Special Purpose Groups and the Debate Over Meetings for Gay Alcoholics in AA
Part II: Building Sober Communities: 1970-2004
Chapter 8. Washington D.C.
Chapter 9. New York
Chapter 10. New Jersey
Chapter 11. We Never Looked Back: A Conversation with NALGAP Co-Founders Drs. Dana Finnegan and Emily McNally
Chapter 12. San Francisco
Chapter 13. AA's Pamphlet for Gay and Lesbian Alcoholics
Chapter 14. Stories from Florida, Oregon, North Carolina, Illinois, and Texas
Chapter 15. On Our Way: A Conversation with Lillene Fifield
Chapter 16. Pass It On: Ali M. (Santa Rosa, California)
Chapter 17. Side by Side: Alcoholics Together in Southern California
Chapter 18. A Few Conclusions (and Mysteries Solved)
Appendix A. The Steps and Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous
Appendix B. List of Narrators
Appendix C. Becoming Allies
Notes
Bibliography
Index

New interesting book: How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Web Based Business or Excel 2007 PivotTables Recipes

The Personal Trainer's Handbook

Author: Teri OBrien

Starting your own personal training business or wanting to improve your existing practice? With the updated and expanded second edition of the popular The Personal Trainer's Handbook, you'll have all the advice and tools you'll need to succeed.

Like the popular first edition, this easy-to-use reference is written in everyday language and covers everything from designing safe and effective fitness programs to handling even the most difficult clients. You will learn how to achieve personal and financial success as a personal trainer, how to attract and keep clientele, and how to manage taxes and other business issues that are crucial to a personal training business.

With the new edition, you'll also get a succinct but comprehensive review of exercise physiology that's directly applicable to your business. This text includes a valuable new CD-ROM with the following features:

· 10 reproducible forms you can use and modify to manage the commercial, practical, and legal requirements of your business

· Forms for data collection and record keeping

· Charts and tables for writing the most beneficial exercise program for each client

· 3 case studies to help you hone your skills

· Excerpts from other Human Kinetics publications designed to help you improve your practice in everything from individualizing exercise prescription to applying principles of periodization to your clients' programs

The Personal Trainer's Handbook, Second Edition, also features an improved

resistance workout guide. The guide contains

· instructions and illustrations for 74 exercises and 17 stretches,

· important reminders to give your clients to ensure ongoing correct form, and

· tips on how to handle or avoid common problems that you or your clients may experience with each exercise.

In addition, the resistance workout guide now contains a handy box on the outer edge of each page that has listings of the primary and secondary muscles and the area of the body worked by each exercise. This will help you quickly locate appropriate exercises for each client.

The author, Teri O'Brien, is a well-known consultant on starting and growing personal training businesses and a former lawyer and personal trainer. She uses a clear, friendly, and entertaining writing style to share a wealth of practical guidance. With The Personal Trainer's Handbook, Second Edition, you will become a more effective self-marketer, businessperson, motivator, and teacher for your clients.

About the Author

Teri O'Brien is an author, speaker, radio personality, and founder and president of Teri O'Brien Fitness Systems, Inc., a fitness consultation firm located in the Chicago area. Since starting the company in 1991, shortly after completing her master's degree in exercise science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she has designed optimum performance programs for people of all ages and conditions. A variety of women's and professional groups have enjoyed her entertaining talks and workshops on effective exercise programming, personal effectiveness, successful aging, and optimum performance.

Teri is not your usual fitness expert. Coaching and motivational speaking are a second career for this self-described recovering (as in nonpracticing) lawyer, who practiced law for seven years. She received her bachelor of arts degree from Arizona State University (ASU), where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She discovered the energy-boosting and stress-busting powers of exercise while she was in law school at ASU. To relieve her anxiety from school pressures, Teri began running and continued for nearly 10 years, completing five marathons and dozens of 10K races. After abandoning running in favor of weight training, Teri competed in several bodybuilding competitions, including the Gateway Classic, where she placed fourth in the lightweight class.

Teri is certified as a health fitness instructor by both the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise. In addition, she is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

She hosted a popular radio talk show on health and wellness on a major Chicago radio station and was featured twice in Shape magazine's "One on One" column. Teri also wrote and was featured in eight videos for fitness professionals in the American College of Sports Medicine's Healthy Learning series.

The Treatment of Pain with Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture or Jewish Relational Care A Z

2009-02-04T02:00:00.000-08:00

The Treatment of Pain with Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture

Author: Peilin Sun

Although Chinese medicine views pain as one aspect of a pattern, focusing on pain as the main presenting symptom is a practical approach to arriving at a diagnosis. This text gives a thorough and analytical review of the diagnosis and treatment options for pain, using acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Based on the clinical experience of the author and supported by the expertise of respected acupuncturists in Chinese universities, The Treatment of Pain with Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture offers a comprehensive, detailed set of treatments for a wide variety of pain symptoms and conditions. Detailed modifications of specific treatments help the reader adapt theories to clinical practice.
• Includes thorough discussions of herbal and acupuncture treatments for common and complex pain conditions.
• Deals comprehensively with pain as the most common clinical presenting symptom.
• Presents treatment plans and suggests modifications to these plans, offering a wide range of treatment options.
• Includes detailed case histories that serve as examples of how to approach specific situations.
• Describes the etiologies and pathologies for pain in the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
• Offers clear discussions on the principles of treatment, and acupuncture point selection and combination.
• Explains and describes herbal and acupuncture treatments for common and complex pain conditions.

	List of contributors
	Forewords
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
Pt. 1	General Introduction	1
1	Introduction	3
2	Historical Development of the Pain Concept	9
3	Aetiology and Pathology of Pain	11
4	Occurrence of Pain	21
5	Differentiation of Pain	23
6	Treatment Differentiation	33
7	Selection and Combination of Acupuncture Points	41
Pt. 2	Generalised Body Pain	47
8	Pain in the Entire Body	49
9	Unilateral Pain	61
10	Pain Due to Cancer	71
Pt. 3	Sense Organ Pain	81
11	Facial Pain	83
12	Eye Pain	97
13	Ear Pain	111
14	Nasal Pain	125
15	Lip Pain	137
16	Tooth Pain	145
17	Tongue Pain	155
Pt. 4	Head and Neck Pain	173
18	Headache	175
19	Neck Pain	197
20	Throat Pain	209
21	Painful Swallowing	225
Pt. 5	Pain in the Front of the Trunk	239
22	Chest Pain	241
23	Breast Pain	259
24	Axillary Pain	273
25	Epigastric Pain	279
26	Hypochondriac Pain	297
27	Abdominal Pain	311
28	Dysmenorrhoea	329
Pt. 6	Back Pain	347
29	Pain in the Entire Back	349
30	Upper Back Pain	361
31	Scapular Pain	373
32	Middle Back Pain	385
33	Lower Back Pain	395
34	Coccyx Pain	409
Pt. 7	Upper Limb Pain	419
35	Shoulder Pain	421
36	Elbow Pain	431
37	Wrist Pain	437
38	Palmar Pain	445
39	Finger Pain	453
Pt. 8	Lower Limb Pain	461
40	Hip Pain	463
41	Knee Pain	477
42	Ankle Pain	491
43	Heel Pain	503
44	Sole Pain	515
45	Toe Pain	527
46	Leg Pain	537
47	Pain in All Four Limbs	549
Pt. 9	Genital Pain	559
48	Genital Pain	561
49	Pain Associated with Urination	571
50	Pain During Ejaculation	579
51	Pain During Copulation	585
52	Anal Pain	595
53	Pain During Defecation	603
	References and bibliography	611
App	List of the main channels and acupuncture points	617
	Index	625

Go to: Organ Transplants or Spacious Body

Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other's keeper

Author: Jack H Bloom

A collection of caregiving techniques combining the values of Jewish tradition with self-relations— for practitioners of ANY faith!
Self-relations is a powerful framework for doing respectful and human caregiving for your self as well as for others. Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other's Keeper is an extensive source for caregiving techniques based on both self-relations and Jewish tradition. Respected self-relation experts from several fields use Jewish traditions as a focal point as they provide insightful perspectives and effective strategies to assist caregivers of all faiths.
Jewish relational care is an effective teaching tool not only for Jewish clergy but also for non-Jewish clergy, to highlight how the Jewish tradition can broaden and improve any caregiving work. Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other's Keeper sensitively centers on relationships and the healing process, using the understanding that to spark healing in others, a loving, respectful relationship must first be present between every aspect of ourselves. Thirty-six categories of caregiving are comprehensively presented, allowing its use as a helpful resource for any clergy considering any of the included topics. Each author's personal reflections, and personal experiences care techniques clearly illustrate how love-respect relationships within oneself can transcend into effective care for others.
Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other's Keeper provides helpful techniques and explores:
the use of language as a relational care tool
time management for optimum performance for oneself and for others
compassion fatigue, the need for self-care, and nurturingyour own spiritual and psychological development
purposeful visiting as a sacred task
silence as an important part of spiritual care
the profound difference made in lives through relational listening
music as sacred power— a communion between humans and the Divine
chanting as an intimate expression of the soul
creative ritual in relational healing
spontaneous prayer, and its place in relational care
relational care with other faiths inside and outside of the community
care for those going through divorce
care when a pregnancy is unwelcome
relational care for sexual orientation and gender identity issues
successful caring for those who don't care about you
dealing with traumatic loss
care for those who have sinned sexually
fragile relationships
care with the healthy aging
relational care and retired clergy
care for those traumatized by sexual abuse
care for the cognitively impaired, mentally ill, and developmentally disabled
care for the final moments of life
care for the sick and dying
care within the grieving process
Jewish Relational Care A-Z: We Are Our Other's Keeper is practical, insightful reading for clergy and caregivers of all denominations, educators, students, and lay people who care about clergy and their work.

"This is AN EXCEPTIONAL BOOK on a relational approach to professional caring relationships. Jack H Bloom has assembled an extraordinary community of writers who talk as much about how to give care to others as how to care for one's self. This makes the book a remarkably practical and healing gift to its readers. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!" — Stephen Gilligan, PhD, Psychologist and Author of The Courage to Love: Principles of Self-Relations and Walking in Two Worlds

"A TREASURE HOUSE OF WISDOM possessing both religious and intellectual depth about care and caregiving, grounded in the insights of contemporary psychotherapy and a traditional yet present-day reading of the world of Judaism. The authors share with their readers many lifetimes of religious and practical experience, as well as intellectual and spiritual development, concerning almost every conceivable situation rabbis are likely to encounter in their caregiving role. These include their own inner struggles, their own and others' lifecycle crises, sexuality in all of its manifestations, marriage and intermarriage, and the divine/human encounter. Unlike some books in this genre, there isn't a false emotional or spiritual note within it. As with Bloom's 'The Rabbi as Symbolic Exemplar,' this book can be read with very great profit by congregants as well as rabbis, by churchgoers as well as clergymen." — Richard L. Rubenstein, PhD, President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Religion, University of Bridgeport; Lawton Distinguished Professor of Religion Emeritus, Florida State University

The Healing Garden or The Quick Reference Guide to Your Childs Health

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

The Healing Garden: A Natural Haven for Body, Senses and Spirit

Author: Sue Minter

This book shows you how to plan and create your own natural haven and rediscover the power of plants to heal, soothe, and stimulate. It shows you to design your own garden and select, grow, and care for plants with your own mental, emotional, and physical well-being in mind.

The Quick Reference Guide to Your Child's Health: Birth to Age Five

Author: Alia Y Antoon

Caring for children is a complex task, but now a Harvard clinical professor of pediatrics and a pediatric nurse specialist have compiled a comprehensive guide to symptoms and treatments for common childhood illnesses and injuries. Alphabetized and cross-referenced by symptom, each section includes a definition of the illness, immediate care, when to call the doctor, over-the-counter medications, and related health issues.

Alia Y. Antoon, M.D., an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Shriners Burns Hospital. She is a lecturer on pediatric health issues and a frequent commentator on national and local media. Denise M. Tompkins, R.N., M.B.A., is a pediatric nurse specialist who consults for hospitals and school systems on pediatric health care. She was media spokesperson for Shriners Burns Hospital for 10 years.

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Parents receive practical advice on how to handle common childhood symptoms, injuries and illnesses with the aid of a guide which covers everything from baby checkups and medications to developmental and behavioral issues. Packed with practical advice,Quick Reference Guide To Your Child's Health is organized in a form lending to quick and easy consultation.

After Surgery Illness or Trauma or Spiritual Recovery

2009-02-01T17:37:00.000-08:00

After Surgery, Illness, or Trauma: 10Practical Steps to Renewed Energy and Health

Author: Regina Sara Ryan

Once surgery is done, healing begins. After Surgery: Wellness in Recuperation helps readers survive, even thrive, during the necessary "downtime" in recuperating from surgery, trauma or illness. Filled with down-to-earth advice and wisdom, this book empowers readers to take an active role in their own recuperation, proving that they hold the key to how well and how quickly their healing is done. Whether readers are bedridden at home or in the hospital, for a few days, weeks or even months, this is the one guide they need to create a more balanced and productive recovery. A lifesaver for anyone recuperating from surgery, it follows a clear, reader-friendly wellness approach in addressing the following:

Managing and reducing pain
Coping with fear, anger, frustration and other unexpected emotions
Inspiration for renewed life during and after recovery
Becoming an active participant in your own healing
Dealing with well-meaning visitors, and caregivers and more.

Library Journal

Recovery is often thought of as linear, marked by daily improvements. In reality, it's often more like two steps forward, one step back. Ryan, the author of several mind-body health and wellness books, has revised her earlier The Fine Art of Recuperation to reflect changes in our understanding of the mind's influence on the healing process. Whether you're postsurgical or living with a chronic debilitating condition, stress and the conflicting emotions generated by pain, physical limitations, and even guilt can slow or inhibit recuperation. Ryan outlines useful ways to approach and defuse the negative aspects of illness, with techniques ranging from guided imagery to therapeutic silent screams. She also addresses the emotional and spiritual changes wrought by surgery or illness. The result is worthwhile reading, even for the well in body and spirit. An excellent resource; recommended for consumer health collections.--Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., NY Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Dolores Kreiger
Reading this book is like having a most welcome visit from an interested, intelligent, and caring friend. Its positive, commonsensical approach strongly empowers the recuperating person to regain personal control for self-healing. I highly recommend it to those who are recovering from illness or trauma, and to professionals in the health field. - Ph.D., R.N., author of Therapeutic Touch

Tom Ferguson, MD
This is an empowering, health-active guide to many complex aspects of illness and recovery including some that doctors rarely acknowledge or understand. It belongs on the bookshelf next to books by Norman Cousins and Bernie Siegel. The perfect gift for an ailing friend. Highly recommended. - author, "Health Online" and editor/publisher of "The Ferguson Report: The Newsletter."

Richard Moss, MD
Fills an important void between that which the healthcare provider is able to offer and what each recovering person must learn to do for him/herself." - author, How Shall I Live?

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Spiritual Recovery: A Twelve-Step Guide

Author: Grant R Schnarr

Spiritual Recovery is a back-to-basics, twelve-step approach to personal spiritual development. Adapted from the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, Spiritual Recovery's non-sectarian program charts a map to spiritual growth. Working through these steps brings freedom from the destructive power of guilt, fear, anger, want, and resentment. Applying the program's insights, spiritual seekers can break free from destructive compulsions and develop more loving, knowing relationships by making choices that arise from the wisdom of the heart.

Through compelling anecdotes, author Schnarr shows how to break free from the hold of destructive emotional behavior and move toward a loving, spiritual life. Thoughtful and rewarding exercises at the end of each chapter ground the insights and reinforce each individual step. The author also offers two appendices for the reader who wants to set up support groups.

Spiritual Recovery is a revision of Schnarr's 1990 Unlocking Your Spiritual Potential: A Twelve-Step Approach (Abbey Press). In this new edition, Schnarr meticulously examines the reasons for the success of the twelve-step philosophy. This book has been used in such groups on five continents and has been translated in part or whole into several languages. Over 10,000 copies have been sold.

Library Journal

Based on the 12 steps of Alcholics Anonymous, this book is designed to be used as a tool in small study groups that are working on spiritual growth by breaking free of destructive behavior. Spiritual exercises such as daily prayer and self-examination are suggested after a discussion of each of the 12 steps. A revision of Unlocking Your Spiritual Potential: A Twelve-Step Approach (Abbey, 1990), this work makes references to 18th-century scientist and theologian Emmanuel Swedenborg, whose works, along with the Bible, are the basis of a Christian denomination called the New Church, of which Schnarr is a minister. His encouraging insights are illuminated by his own honest struggles with personal failure and addiction.

The Healing Bath or Fashionably Buff

2009-01-31T13:25:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-01-30T09:13:00.000-08:00

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.

Library Journal

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!

Gut Instinct or Sculpting Her Body Perfect

2009-01-29T05:01:00.000-08:00

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

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

2009-01-28T00:49:00.000-08:00

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®.

	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

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

2009-01-26T20:38:00.000-08:00

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."

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

2009-01-25T16:26:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-01-24T12:14:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

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

2009-01-23T08:00:00.000-08:00

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.

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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

2009-01-22T03:48:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-20T23:36:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-18T13:31:00.000-08:00

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.

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

Interesting textbook: Financial Modelling with Jump Processes or Wireless Communications and Networking

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

2009-01-18T02:19:00.000-08:00

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.

	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

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

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.

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

2009-01-17T04:56:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

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

2009-01-16T19:45:00.000-08:00

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

2009-01-16T08:34:00.000-08:00

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.

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.

	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

2009-01-15T22:22:00.000-08:00

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.

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

2009-01-15T13:06:00.001-08:00

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.

	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

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

2009-01-15T13:06:00.000-08:00

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

Author: Dusty Miller

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

	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

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

Author: Cynthia Fox

M. Ian Phillips - Science

Nature

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 Lancet

The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Scientific American Book Club

Journal of Law and Medicine

Mary Chitty - Library Journal

Tattoos from Paradise or The Heart Revolution

2009-01-15T00:54:00.000-08:00

Tattoos from Paradise: Traditional Polynesian Patterns

Author: Mark Blackburn

Traditional tattooing designs are depicted from the exotic Pacific Polynesian cultures of Easter Island, Hawaii, the Marquesas, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga. The actual process and ceremonies involved in tattooing are described and illustrated with over 250 drawings and color illustrations of native people. Included are actual 19th century photographs as well as early exploration art, paintings, drawings, engravings, and artifacts all relating to tattooing.

Books about: Economic Change in China C 1800 1950 or Supervision

The Heart Revolution: The B Vitamin Breakthrough That Lowers Homocysteine, Cuts Your Risk of Heart Disease, and Protects Your Health

Author: Kilmer S McCully

A safe, effective, and revolutionary program for lowering homocysteine levels and cutting your risk of heart disease

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kilmer S. McCully explains what is really behind the epidemic of heart disease. For many years, clogged arteries have been inaccurately viewed as the cause, rather than a symptom, of heart disease. Now, McCully shows you how to cut your risk of heart disease by controlling the real culprit, homocysteine. Considered one of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent years, McCully's findings have been validated by numerous large-scale studies. The Heart Revolution:

Challenges the long-held assumption that lowering cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease
Explains how eating vitamin B-rich food can control homocysteine levels
Lays out a plan with menus for putting more B vitamins in our diet
Discusses how food processing and additives compromise our health
Explains how costly cholesterol-lowering medicines can actually harm our health

Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart

Pork Chops with Potatoes and Onions, Veal with Wine and Mushrooms, Guacamole, Omelettes. This is not your typical diet program. Dr. McCully offers real food choices with fresh ingredients available just about everywhere. The focus is on delicious foods that will leave you satisfied. The purpose is to make sure you're getting enough of the vitamins needed to prevent heart disease—B6, B12, and folic acid, as well as essential, phytochemicals, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential oils. It's easyto follow this plan as it relies on foods you want to eat with little preparation time and tons of variety.

What People Are Saying

Stanley Krippner
Eat your way to a healthier heart!

Heart disease is the number one killer in America, and the widespread belief is that it is caused by a diet high in fat and cholesterol. Why do many heart attack victims have "normal" cholesterol levels? Why do the French, who love foie gras and red wine, rarely develop heart disease? How is it that the native people of Greenland and the Masai of Africa, whose diets consists largely of animal fat, have almost no heart disease?

For eighty-five years, the cholesterol theory of heart disease reigned supreme. But it has never been scientifically proven that fats and cholesterol cause arteriosclerosis or that lowering the amount of fat and cholesterol in our diets will reduce our risk of developing heart disease.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kilmer McCully explains what is really behind the epidemic of heart disease. The Harvard-trained physician and researcher reveals how the vitamin B deficiency in our Western diet has produced harmful blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid produced in the body. Homocysteine damages the arteries, leaving them susceptible to cholesterol and fat deposits. For many years clogged arteries have been inaccurately viewed as the cause, rather than the symptom , of heart disease. Now McCully shows you how to cut your risk of heart disease by controlling the real culprit, homocysteine. Considered one of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent years, McCully's findings have been validated by numerous large-scale studies.

The Heart Revolution:

challenged the long-held assumptions that lowering cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease

explains how eating vitamin B-rich food can control homocysteine levels

lays pout a plan with menus for putting more B vitamins in our diet

discusses how food processing and additives compromise our health

exposes the politics within the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry

explains how costly cholesterol-lowering medicines can actually harm our health

In the 1970s, pharmaceutical houses were making huge profits on cholesterol-lowering drugs. When McCully dared to challenge the prevailing view that cholesterol caused heart disease, he was castigated by his peers. Thirty years later he has received international recognition for the very same work. The Heart Revolution is more than a revolutionary program for disease prevention, it is also an intriguing tale of medical discovery.

Kilmer McCully
From a barnesandnoble.com e-nnouncement

Good news for Americans trying to cut their risk of heart disease but tired of rigid fat-free dietary regimens! Cholesterol and clogged arteries are NOT the culprits of heart disease, but rather the symptoms. The real culprit is homocysteine -- an amino acid that builds up in the body due to a nutritional deficiency of vitamins B6, folic acid, and B12, the very nutrients lacking in the classic Western diet. This controversial link between homocysteine and heart disease was first proposed by a Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Kilmer McCully, over 30 years ago, but has only recently been corroborated by large scale studies. Dr. McCully's breakthrough book THE HEART REVOLUTION: THE VITAMIN B BREAKTHROUGH THAT LOWERS HOMOCYSTEINE LEVELS, CUTS YOUR RISK OF HEART DISEASE, AND PROTECTS YOUR HEALTH should change the course of heart disease in this country and help Americans cut their risk of heart attacks without dangerous cholesterol-lowering drugs. Read an exclusive essay written for barnesandnoble.com by Dr. McCully below.

The Heart Revolution by Dr. Kilmer McCully
Thirty years ago, I discovered that cholesterol and clogged arteries are not the culprits but rather the symptoms of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of people in this country. But powerful pharmaceutical houses, making huge profits on cholesterol-lowering drugs, scorned my theories and forced me out of my research positions at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Castigated by my peers but still believing in my work, I began the long fight to prove my theories, and my findings have recently been corroborated by large-scale studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and other publications. In my new book, THE HEART REVOLUTION: THE B VITAMIN BREAKTHROUGH THAT LOWERS HOMOCYSTEINE LEVELS, CUTS YOUR RISK OF HEART DISEASE, AND PROTECTS YOUR HEALTH, I share everything I've learned about homocysteine, how dangerous levels of homocysteine can be lowered simply by making minor modifications in your diet.
Most people who get heart disease have normal cholesterol levels in their blood. Even if your cholesterol goes down, your homocysteine may be high, meaning that your are still at risk. It's a matter of life and death that we control the level of homocysteine in our blood.
The link between homocysteine -- an amino acid that accumulates in the blood -- and heart disease was proposed by me in 1968, and now I've synthesize my findings for you, explaining the science behind my theories and laying out a safe and effective plan that shows you how to:
* Cut your risk of heart attack -- without -- dangerous cholesterol-lowering drugs
* Stop arteriosclerosis in its tracks -- and perhaps reverse moderate heart disease
* Add B vitamins to your diet, simply and deliciously, thereby lowering homocysteine levels
To keep homocysteine levels down, regardless of age or gender, you should:
* Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits daily to get 400 micrograms of folic acid, 3 milligrams of B6, and other beneficial nutrients
* Avoid canned or irradiated vegetables
* Steam fresh vegetables with a minimum amount of water
* Eat steel-cut oatmeal, whole-wheat cereal, brown rice, and root vegetables
* Eliminate white flour, white rice, and refined sugar
* Eat one to two servings of fresh fish, meat or eggs per day
* A couple of times a month, have liver or pate de foie gras -- rich sources of Vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid
* Consume 30 percent of calories in the form of beneficial fats to get the necessary fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K.
* Eliminate processed and packaged foods that contain powdered eggs, powdered milk, and partially hydrogenated oils.
Homocysteine was called one of the top-ten most important news stories of 1998 by Journal Watch, a publication of The New England Journal of Medicine, and THE HEART REVOLUTION provides you with the lowdown on it and a hands-on, easy-to-follow dietary program that addresses not only the foods we eat but also additives, contaminants, and preservatives and their relationship to homocysteine build-up and heart disease. I show why we don't get enough of the nutrients we need, and also challenge the proponents of the food pyramid, food manufacturers, food processors, and drug companies. Did you know that bagels are not healthy? Because they are made with refined flour, they provide none of the essential nutrients you need to be healthy. And vegetables that have been canned have lost up to 80 percent of their health benefits! When you go out to dinner and eat the bread in the bread basket with no butter and have pasta and then finish with the angel food cake, you feel pretty good about yourself for eating well and not indulging in fattier, less healthy foods. But the food you ate has little to no health benefit because all of the nutrients have been refined away from the white bread, the plain pasta, and the cake made from a box mix.
By reexamining the cholesterol hypothesis as myth, THE HEART REVOLUTION presents a new way of looking at our diets and provides a new understanding of the underlying cause of heart disease and other degenerative diseases associated with aging.

Bulimia or Clean Up Your Diet

2009-01-14T14:42:00.000-08:00

Bulimia: A Guide for Family and Friends

Author: Roberta Trattner Sherman

The classic book that offers understanding and a positive approach.Sherman and Thompson answer the questions asked most frequently by the families and friAnds of bulimics. Why do some women become bulimic? What are the medical risks? The authors—both experts on the causes and treatment of eating disorders—have created the first authoritative step-by-step guide to this complex disease. They reveal bulimia's insidious nature including the fact that those who care the most about helping can actually make things worse. Filled with practical information and advice, this essential resource offers hope to millions of bulimics and their loved ones.

Clean Up Your Diet: The Pure Food Program to Cleanse, Energize and Revitalize

Author: Max Tomlinson

Today’s processed foods are seriously lacking in nutritional value, and almost every week we hear about dangerous additives or carcinogenic pollutants in our meat, fish, grains, vegetables, or fruits. The results of this poor diet are increased susceptibility to illness, low energy, and premature aging. World-renowned naturopath Max Tomlinson has the antidote. He reveals how to choose and prepare healthy natural foods, and follow a diet free from toxins. The benefits include long-term well-being and vitality as well as protection from such diseases as arthritis, diabetes, and cancer. With tasty recipes and clear, authoritative advice on detoxing, improving digestion, and combating ailments, this is a plan that will help anyone harness the power of food to attain outstanding health.

This Thing Called You or Drive to Survive

2009-01-14T03:30:00.000-08:00

This Thing Called You

Author: Ernest Holmes

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

Look this: My Real Style or Celebration Games

Drive to Survive!

Author: Curt Rich

It's a hostile world out there! What do you do if you're being followed or harassed in your car? This dynamic guide teaches you evasive driving techniques such as the legendary bootlegger hairpin, J-turns, and how to run your assailant off the road. Filled with combat survival and race car driving techniques that are crucial for keeping your options open in life-threatening situations.

The Wellness Book or Cliff Sheats Lean Bodies

2009-01-13T18:19:00.000-08:00

The Wellness Book

Author: John Randolph Pric

A collection of Price's writings on health and healing, "The Wellness Book" covers such topics as holistic healing, spiritual preventive medicine, and living the truth of wellness.

New interesting book: Application Servers for E Commerce or Regionalism in a Global Society

Cliff Sheats' Lean Bodies: The Revolutionary New Approach to Losing Bodyfat by Increasing Calories

Author: Cliff Sheats

The author of The Lean Bodies Cookbook puts an end once and for all to the insanity of low-calorie and starvation diets--with a scientifically-proven, healthy eating program on which anyone can eat up to 3,500 calories a day and still lose weight. Includes 100 recipes for five meals a day, shopping advice and a list of restaurants that participate in the program.

Getting Our Bodies Back or Fallproof

2009-01-13T06:07:00.000-08:00

Getting Our Bodies Back: Recovery, Healing and Transformation Through Body-Centered Psychotherapy

Author: Christine Caldwell

A habitual movement as common as nail-biting or toe-tapping can be the key to pulling out addictive behavior by its roots. These unconscious movement "tags" indicate the places where our bodies have become split off from our psyches. When brought to consciousness and confronted they will often tell us very plainly where our psychological suffering originated, showing us where to begin reconnecting body and soul. Christine Caldwell, a pioneer in the field of somatic psychology, has created an original model for working with body wisdom called the Moving Cycle. She describes how this form of therapy has worked effectively in her own practice, and she provides practical techniques to show how we can learn to listen to what our bodies are telling us, confront addictive habits, and learn to celebrate our inherent wisdom and elegance.

	Foreword
	Introduction: Discovering the Source	1
1	It's All in Your Body	13
2	Jumping Ship: The Body's Role in Addiction	23
3	The One-Two-Three Waltz: Body Patterns in Addiction	42
4	Recovering Our Body: The Moving Cycle	69
5	Awareness as the Ground	91
6	Taking Responsibility Equals Taking Your Body Back	108
7	Recovery in Relationships: The Body Dancing	138
8	What Do I Practice?	149
9	Conclusion: Singing the Body Electric	169
	References	175
	Centers for Body-Centered Psychotherapy	179

FallProof!: A Comprehensive Balance and Mobility Training Program

Author: Debra Ros

Balance and mobility disorders resulting in falls among the elderly population pose a serious public health problem in the United States. Costs associated with falls among the elderly are estimated to range from $75 billion to $100 billion. Coupling this statistic with the fact that adults over the age of 65 represent the fastest-growing population in the United States suggests an immediate need for activity programs specifically designed to reduce physical frailty and the rising incidence of falls among the older adult population. FallProof! is the first comprehensive and structured balance and mobility training program to address these needs.

Traditionally, exercise programs designed to address physical frailty and falls have adopted one-dimensional approaches of aerobic exercise, resistance training, or flexibility training. However, research has shown that falls occur as a result of multiple risk factors, both internal and external, and the interplay of multiple body systems. FallProof! presents a multidimensional approach that systematically manipulates the individual's internal capabilities, the goals of the task being performed, and the environment in which the task is performed. This approach has been field tested with considerable success by fitness instructors and rehabilitative specialists working in a range of instructional settings.

FallProof! offers the following benefits:

Flexibility. Program participants can engage in group activities that takeinto account their individual abilities so that the program is not too easy or too difficult for them.
Guidance. FallProof! illustrates the easiest and safest ways to present each of the program's exercise components, addressing issues from safety concerns to the best ways to offer feedback to participants.
Supplemental materials. Reproducible health, assessment, and safety
Results. The FallProof! program has been proven to reduce the risk of falling in participants who've completed one or more rotations of the program.

FallProof! is divided into three parts. Part I provides an introduction to the body systems that contribute to balance and mobility and common age-related changes occurring in each of these systems. It also identifies the multifactorial causes of falls and describes the common medical conditions (arthritis, joint replacement surgery, osteoporosis, Parkinson's disease, and diabetes) and medications known to adversely affect balance and mobility. Part II provides suggestions on balance assessments and details the core program. And finally, Part III describes how to incorporate contemporary motor learning principles to foster optimal learning, develop lesson plans, organize the classroom environment for optimal safety and efficiency, and communicate with program participants.

FallProof! is a practical manual that blends the latest theory into practical applications. It will prove a valuable resource for physical activity instructors and health care professionals working with older adults in physical activity settings, and it will also be helpful for

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Barbara Jean Billek-Sawhney, PT, EdD, GCS (Slippery Rock University)
Description: This book presents the balance and mobility program developed by the author, a co-director of the Center for Successful Aging at California State University at Fullerton.
Purpose: The purpose of the book is to serve as a "resource for experienced health care professionals and physical activity instructors" who want to develop and implement programs addressing balance and mobility in older adults. These objectives are commendable, especially considering the depth and breadth of material on the topics of fall risks, assessment, and interventions. The book fails to meet the needs of physical therapists, but may prove valuable to physical activity instructors such as aerobic instructors who practice in geriatrics.
Audience: According to the author, the audience is "experienced health care professionals and physical activity instructors." From my point of view, the market is primarily fitness instructors who practice in the areas of geriatrics and entry-level physical therapist assistant students. In addition, it may be of benefit for the orthopedic or outpatient physical therapist who is interested in developing geriatric wellness programs. The author attained her PhD in 1985 in the area of motor control and motor learning.
Features: The book is divided into three sections with the first section addressing theory and falls in the elderly. The second presents screening and assessment tools and training strategies addressing topics such as center-of-gravity, multisensory, strength, and flexibility training, while the third part focuses on implementing the Fall Proof program. Illustrations and photographs, the progression of training exercises, and the easy-to-read writing style are strengths of book. Other unique features include the definitions, chapter tests, and practical problems. However, some material is outdated or incomplete. For example, supersensory strategies are not addressed. Comprehensive physical assessments of clients are essential, yet not covered here. Specifically, strength, range of motion, posture, and endurance assessments are critical when identifying risk factors for falls. In addition, the section on osteoporosis addresses the high risk for the Caucasian female but fails to address the Asian female, individuals who take steroids, have a calcium poor diet, are physically inactive, smoke, or consume excessive alcohol or caffeine. These omissions may lead the reader to ignore these risk factors.
Assessment: This book may be of value for fitness instructors or individuals developing a fall prevention program, but it is too basic for the entry-level physical therapist student. For that segment of the market, there are several neurorehabilitation and geriatric physical therapy books that address balance, postural control, and fall prevention.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Osteoporosis for Dummies or Super Healing Foods

2009-01-12T20:55:00.000-08:00

Osteoporosis for Dummies .

Author: Carolyn Riester OConnor

Facts and advice to help people understand and prevent osteoporosis

There are an estimated 55 million Americans over the age of 50 who have low bone mass. This easy-to-understand guide helps readers assess their risk and find a practical approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of osteoporosis. It covers bone density tests and a wide range of treatment options for osteoporosis-from hormone replacement therapy and acupuncture to calcium-rich foods, supplements, and exercise-and offers pointers on preventing broken hips and other common fractures.

Book review: Drunk Driving Defense or Building for Life

Super Healing Foods

Author: Frances Sheridan Goulart

This health-giving guide also gives you dozens of simple-to-prepare recipes, menus, and nutrition plans that show you how to put super healing nutrition into action... a comprehensive chart of the body's 10 target healing zones to help you zero in on the exact foods and recipes that could help a certain health condition...and innovative nutrition and support exercises to help you stay healthy and energetic.

In short, this is your total guide to using the incredible power of super healing foods to relieve whatever ails you and gain better health!

Living with Spina Bifida or Modern Primitives

2009-01-12T09:43:00.000-08:00

Living with Spina Bifida: A Guide for Families and Professionals

Author: Adrian Sandler

The most common complex birth defect, spina bifida affects approximately one out of every 1,000 children born in the United States. In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Adrian Sandler offers a wealth of useful information on the medical, developmental, and psychological aspects of this condition. Accurate, accessible, and up-to-date, Living with Spina Bifida is written especially for families and professionals who care for children, adolescents, and adults with spina bifida. This edition contains a new preface by the author, addressing recent developments in spina bifida research and treatment, as well as an updated list of spina bifida associations.

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Reviewer: Charles M. Kantrow, BS, MD (Ochsner Clinic Foundation)
Description: This book describes in detail the cause and effects of spina bifida with detailed descriptions of all involved systems and associated problems. It is written for both the parents of children with spina bifida as well as those providing medical care to them. This updated edition with a new preface replaces the 1997 edition.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide an insightful view into the life of spina bifida patients and their families. This is an important subject as these children often have subspecialty care but not always primary care. Issues surrounding this condition should be understood by all involved in care of these patients. This book fills that void.
Audience: The book was written for families of patients as well as medical and other professional personnel involved in their care. It is useful both for generalists as well as specialty physicians who care for the child. The author is very credible in this area.
Features: Specific issues of the cause of spina bifida, treatment and prevention are covered. The book provides a description of issues, both medical and psychosocial, that are significant to these patients at various stages of their life from infancy to adult. This book does an excellent job of providing both information as well as perspective from both the practitioner's and patient's points of view. It is very helpful having information clearly marked for patients and for medical professionals.
Assessment: This is an excellent, readable book that provides an abundance of useful and easily understandable information about this complex issue. I will recommend it highly to my patients and residents in trying to understand spina bifida.

Library Journal

Spina bifida ("divided spine") is a common if complex birth defect occurring during embryonic development and resulting in moderate to profound disabilities. Pediatrician Sandler has written a valuable handbook that addresses patients' biopsychosocial and developmental needs from birth through adolescence and into adulthood. Sandler's holistic approach encourages families to focus more on the child and less on the disability while providing abundant information about this condition. Parents of children with spina bifida add their personal insights in several chapters. Included are a glossary, a list of spina bifida associations, and suggested readings. Reassuring but realistic, this uniquely multidisciplinary guide is for parents, pediatricians, neurosurgeons, orthopedists, rehabilitation and physical therapists, teachers, and others involved in the care of children and adults with spina bifida. Highly recommended.Anne C. Tomlin, Auburn Memorial Hosp. Lib., N.Y.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment and Ritual

Author: V Val

Modern Primitives is the Bible of Body Modification, including tattoo, piercing, and scarification. An amazing 30-page interview with Fakir Musafar, as well as in-depth interviews with Ed Hardy, Lyle Tuttle, Leo Zulueta, Bill Salmon, Vyvyn Lazonga and other tattoo giants is featured. This book describes non-tribal people who felt and responded to strong "primitive" urges. A classic; this is the first book to chart out all the basic ways to creatively express one's individuality using the body as a canvas, especially emphasizing the need to find something rooted in one's own personal experiences and mythology. Inspiring and wide-ranging, Modern Primitives provides a vast anthropological context for implementing a truly unique body-decoration expression. An illuminating section of quotations rounds out this volume.

Folk Remedies That Work or Healing Art of QI Gong

2009-01-11T23:30:00.000-08:00

Folk Remedies That Work: By Joan and Lydia Wilen, Authors of Chicken Soup and Other Folk Remedies

Author: Joan Wilen

From the popular authors of Chicken Soup & Other Folk Remedies, this updated and revised edition of Live and Be Well features a range of remedies to cure whatever ails you, including a new section on the popular kombucha tea mushroom. Folk Remedies That Work offer a wide variety of helpful solutions for everything from arthritis to headaches to wrinkles -- with an emphasis on natural medicine that is practical, time-test, and doctor approved.

Inside you'll find remedies that will help you to:

Lose weight safely
Give up smoking
Get a better night's sleep
Get rid of a canker sore in 48 hours
Ease the pain of arthritis
Improve your sex life

New interesting textbook: 21st Century Cook or Keep Cooking the Maine Way

Healing Art of QI Gong: Ancient Wisdom from a Modern Master

Author: Hong Liu

In Mastering Miracles, Dr. Hong Liu tells us his extraordinary story and reveals the awesome mysteries of Qi Gong. Starting with his medical practice in China, Dr. Liu describes how he risked his life under the Communist regime to study Qi Gong and meet secretly with a master who lived in a mountain cave above Shanghai. Then he brings us true-life case studies of the people he has treated - "miracle" cures based on the exercises, mind/body therapy, nutrition, and lifestyle changes that he shares here in detail. Used for cancer, AIDS, hypertension, arthritis, headaches, allergies, weight loss, stress, depression, and other ailments, Dr. Liu's program of Qi Gong is a healing approach that, much like acupuncture, unblocks and revitalizes the energy meridians of the body. Along with a complete Qi Gong program readers can practice on their own, Dr. Liu includes the "Golden Eight Exercises" recommended for clearing the body's energy meridians as well as herbal remedies for specific ailments.

Library Journal

Liu is a Chinese physician and Qi Gong master who believes that he was chosen to bring Eastern and Western systems of medicine together into a complementary whole. Now practicing traditional therapies in California, Liu tells his story with the help of Perry, who coauthored the best-selling Saved by the Light (Wheeler, 1991; Random, 1994. reprint) with Dannion Brinkley. Partly biological, partly philosophical, and partly prescriptive, the book is written in the first person, which gives it a casual feel. The somewhat overly long first half describes Liu's quest to become a Qi Gong master. The second half is a more clinical description of the Qi Gong process, which uses a patient's own energy fields to achieve a state of "radiant health," or wellness, with a regimen of diet, exercise, and herbal remedies assisting in the process. Liu illustrates his method with case studies and includes recipes for healing foods. Qi Gong may seem odd to Western sensibilities, but Liu is careful to point out that it should be undertaken in conjunction with standard medical treatments and with the knowledge of a physician. Recommended for libraries with a large alternative medicine collection or where demand is high.-Betty Braaksma, Thunder Bay P.L., Ontario

	Foreword
Pt. I	Becoming a Master	1
1	The Master	3
2	The Pinnacle of Qi	19
3	Gong Fu	37
4	The Chosen	55
5	Qi Gong, M. D.	71
6	The Mission	85
Pt. II	Studies in Healing	101
7	The Practice of Qi Gong	103
8	The Golden Eight Exercises	121
9	AIDS	149
10	Allergies	165
11	Arthritis	177
12	Prostate Cancer	193
13	Headaches	213
14	Hypertension	225
15	Stress and Depression	241
16	Stroke	255
17	Weight Loss	267
	Afterword	281
	Resources	285
	References	287

Chasing Life or Leslie Sansones Eat Smart Walk Strong

2009-01-11T14:19:00.000-08:00

Chasing Life: New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today

Author: Sanjay Gupta

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Acknowledgments     ix
Beginning the Chase     1
Living to a Hundred     17
The Supplement Boom     47
Run for Your Life     75
Memories R Us     93
Taming the Beast     119
A Growing Problem     151
Sunny-Side Up     179
The Future is Coming     203
Chasing Life     235
Resources     239
Reading List     249
Index     251
About the Author     259

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Leslie Sansone's Eat Smart, Walk Strong: The Secrets to Effortless Weight Loss

Author: Leslie Sanson

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Supplement use in People with Diabetes or Mind Body Fitness

2009-01-11T02:07:00.000-08:00

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Supplement use in People with Diabetes

Author: Laura Shane McWhorter

All you need to know about alternative medicine

Taking an evidence-based approach, this book describes all the popular CAM (complementary alternative medicine) substances, presenting what is known about the product, the mechanism of action, potential adverse effects and drug interactions, and product-by-product recommendations.

Book review: How to Do Everything or Cleaning Windows XP For Dummies

Mind/Body Fitness

Author: Tom Seabourn

Fulfill your potential with practices ranging from eastern disciplines such as Martial Arts and Yoga to western methods such as visualization and stress-reduction.

Book of Herbal Wisdom or Proud Spirit

2009-01-10T15:55:00.000-08:00

Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants As Medicines

Author: Matthew Wood

Matthew Wood is recognized world wide as one of the United States' most reknown herbalists. His previous book, Seven Herbs: Plants as Healers, was a watershed in teaching herbal healing as a part of total wellness. In The Book of Herbal Wisdom, this is continued and enlarged in wonderful detail. This is a must-read for anyone working in the natural health field or interested in self healing with herbs. For those of us who consider not only our physical relationships to the herbs, but also the metaphysical ones, this book is invaluable. It affirms that when we work closely with nature, and the energies of the herbs and herbal medicine, we all are much better off. This is a work that empowers the reader and gives them a very deep knowledge of the herbs discussed.

New interesting textbook: Womans Belly Book or American Dietetic Association Guide to Eating Right When You Have Diabetes

Proud Spirit

Author: Rosemary Altea

Rosemary Altea, the internationally renowned medium and healer known to millions worldwide as "The Voice of the Spirit World," offered proof of life after death in The Eagle and the Rose.

Proud Spirit (TM) takes readers further along the path, exploring opportunities for spiritual growth in everyday life. Rosemary's storytelling skills inspire us as she recounts the time Christ laid his hands atop her own as she gave healing. Her spine-tingling tales of being visited by a group of spirit-world children and invited to a midnight picnic in a haunted house add awe, mystery, and magic to her work. Profound spiritual truths emerge: the need to know, value, and be gentle with ourselves, to be proud spirits who always quest for self-worth and that which lies within.

Library Journal

A tabloid clairvoyant regales us with tales of empowerment from beyond the grave.

Tobacco or The Hardgainers Body Building Handbook

2009-01-10T04:44:00.000-08:00

Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization

Author: Iain Gately

Tobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely -- a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success, and a coveted commodity that would transform the world economy forever. Iain Gately's Tobacco tells the epic story of an unusual plant and its unique relationship with the history of humanity, from its obscure ancient beginnings, through its rise to global prominence, to its current embattled state today. In a lively narrative, Gately makes the case for the tobacco trade being the driving force behind the growth of the American colonies, the foundation of Dutch trading empire, the underpinning cause of the African slave trade, and the financial basis for our victory in the American Revolution. Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant. "A rich, complex history ... Deeply engaging and witty." -- Carmela Ciuraru, Los Angeles Times "Ambitious ... informative and perceptive ... Gately is an amusing writer, which is a blessing." -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "[Gately] documents the resourcefulness with which human beings of every class, religion, race, and continent have pursued the lethal leaf." -- John Leland, The New York Times Book Review

KLIATT

What may begin as a reference source for a school project will turn into a full-blown read for some YAs. Tobacco looks at "the evil weed" from an historical perspective that begins 18,000 years ago in the Andes Mountains and spreads to the four corners of the earth. It provides a great deal of interesting information on the role tobacco has played in religion, economics, medicine, war, and many other aspects of society throughout the ages. The reader will find almost 400 pages of black print virtually devoid of illustrations and readability levels that range from tenth grade to college sophomore. The high readability is due, in large part, to long sentences rather than unfamiliar technical vocabulary. The author's conversational writing style does a great deal to counteract the relatively high readability levels. The text is well written, educational, and targeted to the general audience. It might even evoke a gasp of surprise or a chuckle. The reader will also find many interesting items that will perk up any report and spark further reading (e.g., why Adolph Hitler hated smoking; the use of tobacco as a cancer cure). KLIATT Codes: A—Recommended for advanced students and adults. 2001, Grove/Atlantic, 403p. illus. notes. index., Boyd

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The Hardgainer's Body Building Handbook: Powerful Secrets for Unleashing Your Muscle Mass--Fast!

Author: Hugo Rivera

Pack on muscle mass quickly and get bigger and stronger now-—an essential guide for the everyday weight trainer.

Are you tired of working out with nothing to show for it? Are you pumping iron but not getting big? Then you are a hardgainer, someone who needs a special plan for building a superbly muscled, strong, lean, and healthy physique.

Now you can get big faster than you ever imagined with the secret techniques revealed in The Hardgainer's Body Building Handbook.

The Hardgainer's Body Building Handbook will reveal:

* The 10 laws of ultimate muscle growth.
* The best exercises for building muscle mass.
* Essential equipment for your home gym.
* How to use nutrition to build muscle without increasing body fat.
* The scoop on supplements, the truth about aerobics, and much more.

Containing detailed beginner, intermediate, and advanced workout routines; packed with information on diet, cooking, and nutrition; filled with training schedules, exercise plans and nutrition logs; The Hardgainer's Body Building Handbook is a must for anyone who is serious about bulking up.

Chapter 1	The Science Behind Muscle Growth for the Hardgainer	1
Chapter 2	Mass Building Training Tactics	7
Chapter 3	Exercise Plan	17
Chapter 4	Mass Building Nutrition	35
Chapter 5	Supplementation for Maximum Growth	47
Chapter 6	Rest and Recovery	65
Chapter 7	Chest Exercises	73
Chapter 8	Back Exercises	93
Chapter 9	Shoulder Exercises	115
Chapter 10	Biceps Exercises	135
Chapter 11	Triceps Exercises	159
Chapter 12	Quadriceps Exercises	175
Chapter 13	Hamstring Exercises	193
Chapter 14	Calf Exercises	217
Chapter 15	Abdominal Exercises	235
	Conclusion	255
Appendix A	Meal Plan Schedule and Food Group Tables	257
Appendix B	Food Journal and Diet Samples	262
Appendix C	Break-In Routine	266
Appendix D	Further Information about Creatine	272
Appendix E	Glossary of Terms	274
Appendix F	Websites and References	280
	About the Author	285

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or Womens Health

2009-01-09T19:31:00.000-08:00

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Woman's Guide to Identifying & Managing PCOS

Author: Dr John Eden

Addressing the common, but often undiagnosed, hormonal condition of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), this medical guide gives women the confidence to ask their doctors the right questions and make informed choices. In easy-to-understand language, the latest advice about managing PCOS is offered to the one in four women with polycystic ovaries and the seven out of 100 of this group who suffer the effects of PCOS. The symptoms, including acne, excess hair, weight problems, and irregular menstruation are outlined. Such questions as What causes PCOS? How do hormones work? How is PCOS different from simply having polycystic ovaries? Does PCOS necessarily lead to infertility? How is it treated? and What is the connection between PCOS and diabetes? are answered. Case studies and the latest research for patients, pharmacists, doctors, and other health professionals are included.

Library Journal

Reproductive endocrinologist Eden (director, Sydney Menopause Ctr., Royal Hosp. for Women) has written a much-needed reference on polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Approximately one in four women of reproductive age has polycystic ovaries (PCO), in which follicles (cysts) form around the ovaries in a pearl necklace pattern. While the vast majority of these women do not have the additional symptoms that constitute PCOS-e.g., excessive body hair, acne, irregular menstruation, hair loss, and fertility and weight problems-PCOS is very much an underdiagnosed disorder. Eden stresses the importance of further testing for women with PCO to determine whether the condition is in fact part of a larger picture of PCOS; he provides clear explanations and treatment possibilities and dispels myths associated with the syndrome. Although much is still unknown about PCOS, Eden emphasizes that there have been significant advances during the past 20 years, primarily via evidence-based medicine protocols. This is the latest of several recent contributions to the lay literature on PCOS, which includes Colette Harris's PCOS and Your Fertility and Milton Hammerly and Cheryl Kimball's What To Do When the Doctor Says It's PCOS. Compared with these, Eden's book is up-to-date; its more comprehensive approach doesn't stress alternative/complementary treatments or focus on the fertility problems associated with PCOS. Recommended for all consumer health collections.-Linda M.G. Katz, Drexel Univ. Health Sciences Libs., Philadelphia Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Women's Health: Hormones, Emotions and Behavior

Author: Regina C Casper

This book offers an overview of the complex interplay between hormonal activation and individual and environmental influences on health and disease in women. The book provides useful information and background material important for treating problems related to the reproductive cycle, eating disorders, drug treatment of women, and clinical and treatment issues in coronary artery disease and breast cancer. This is a medically-oriented book written firstly for the practicing physician in primary care, psychiatry, internal medicine and gynecology/obstetrics. This book takes a much broader view than others on the market by combining consideration of both psychological and physical disorders affecting women and by discussing treatment issues.

New England Journal of Medicine

The observation that women have more psychiatric disorders, coexisting conditions, and refractory illnesses than do men is an implicit call for a more comprehensive and creative understanding of prevention and treatment in women. This book is an important step in that direction.

Shirley Hartlage

This collection of recent writings examines an array of psychiatric disorders and physical diseases affecting women, and discusses those meriting further study. The range of problems addressed include eating disorders, breast cancer, anxiety and depression, the intricacies of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system, and women's increasing risk for coronary artery disease. The editor (who is also a contributor) has assembled an ambitious book in a usable and straightforward manner. Evident throughout is the theme that hormonal balance and environmental factors, along with genetic predisposition, greatly influence the presentation of disorders in women. Also evident in the commentary from the 17 contributors is the scarcity of research in the field of women's health, as well as a call for more funds for further study. The purpose is to report recent data on the interactions between hormonal activity and individual and environmental influences on women's health. The target audience is psychiatrists, physicians practicing in internal medicine and gynecology and obstetrics, and medical students. The book has few illustrations, but they are not vital to the book's purpose. The references appear current and relevant. A helpful table of contents is provided. The book has an attractive purple cover, but may not be as durable as one would like. Physicians dealing with women's health will no doubt find useful information in every chapter, but four chapters are particularly noteworthy. Chapter 1, ""Growing up Female,"" surveys the variety of physiological and societal forces at play throughout the maturation process for a young woman in western culture. Chapter 7 examines theinterweaving of psychosocial factors and physiological processes in the etiology of eating disorders. In Chapter 8, the contributors consider the evolution of women's role in the workplace and point out that women with Type A personalities have an increased risk for coronary artery disease. Chapter 10 highlights gender differences in drug response, as well as drug safety during pregnancy and breast feeding. Although the editor capably presents a variety of related topics in one book, the value of the book would be increased if more information was provided in many of the chapters. In part, this appears to be a function of the paucity of existing knowledge about some of the subjects. Despite this, those who regularly treat women in practice should find the book a useful update of current knowledge.

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Reviewer: Shirley Hartlage, PhD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This collection of recent writings examines an array of psychiatric disorders and physical diseases affecting women, and discusses those meriting further study. The range of problems addressed include eating disorders, breast cancer, anxiety and depression, the intricacies of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical system, and women's increasing risk for coronary artery disease. The editor (who is also a contributor) has assembled an ambitious book in a usable and straightforward manner. Evident throughout is the theme that hormonal balance and environmental factors, along with genetic predisposition, greatly influence the presentation of disorders in women. Also evident in the commentary from the 17 contributors is the scarcity of research in the field of women's health, as well as a call for more funds for further study.
Purpose: The purpose is to report recent data on the interactions between hormonal activity and individual and environmental influences on women's health.
Audience: The target audience is psychiatrists, physicians practicing in internal medicine and gynecology and obstetrics, and medical students.
Features: The book has few illustrations, but they are not vital to the book's purpose. The references appear current and relevant. A helpful table of contents is provided. The book has an attractive purple cover, but may not be as durable as one would like.
Assessment: Physicians dealing with women's health will no doubt find useful information in every chapter, but four chapters are particularly noteworthy. Chapter 1, "Growing up Female," surveys the variety of physiological and societal forces at play throughout the maturation process for a young woman in western culture. Chapter 7 examines the interweaving of psychosocial factors and physiological processes in the etiology of eating disorders. In Chapter 8, the contributors consider the evolution of women's role in the workplace and point out that women with Type A personalities have an increased risk for coronary artery disease. Chapter 10 highlights gender differences in drug response, as well as drug safety during pregnancy and breast feeding. Although the editor capably presents a variety of related topics in one book, the value of the book would be increased if more information was provided in many of the chapters. In part, this appears to be a function of the paucity of existing knowledge about some of the subjects. Despite this, those who regularly treat women in practice should find the book a useful update of current knowledge.

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5 Stars! from Doody

Spirit of Reiki or Get with the Program

2009-01-09T07:19:00.000-08:00

Spirit of Reiki: From Tradition to the Present Fundamental Lines of Transmission, Original Writings, Mastery, Symbols Treatments, Reiki as a Spiritual Path and Much More

Author: William Lee Rand

This is a handbook that reports on all of the major aspects of Reiki in a concentrated and extensive manner, including the latest information, developments and traditional knowledge. Beginning with definitions of Reiki associations, traditions, and representatives like Usui, Hayashi, Takata, and many others, and teaching methods, application techniques, and symbols like the Reiki Kanji, it covers a large variety of themes-even the latest rediscovery of Japanese healing techniques.

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Get with the Program!: Getting Real About Your Weight, Health, and Emotional Well-Being

Author: Bob Green

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A Cancer Battle Plan Sourcebook or Dream Healer

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

A Cancer Battle Plan Sourcebook: A Step-by-Step Health Program to Give Your Body a Fighting Chance

Author: David Frahm

A comprehensive naturopathic manual and companion to the bestselling book that has helped thousands of people fight cancer.

Since its publication, A Cancer Battle Plan has sold more than 200,000 copies and continues to be a source of inspiration and information for people struggling with cancer and other degenerative diseases. Now, Dave Frдhm offers a companion book of practical help and guidance for those who want to build a natural program to lighten their toxic load, better their health, and find a healthy, safe way to fight chronic disease.

In A Cancer Battle Plan Workbook readers will start to regain control of their health and learn how to:

identify the stressors impacting health;
detoxify the body;
restore the body's natural healing power and protective system;
assess how the body is performing and what help it needs; and
develop six key characteristics of people who have won back their health.

With A Cancer Battle Plan Workbook, readers can begin to win the war against cancer

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Dream Healer: A True Story of Miracle Healings

Author: Adam

DreamHealer was originally self-published by Adam when he was sixteen, and has gone on to become an underground bestseller, selling more than 30,000 copies in Canada. The book tells the story of how the author came to discover his unique energy healing abilities, and how he became one of the most talked about healers in his country. He has been called "a miracle worker"by The Globe and Mail and his high-profile healings of astronauts and rock legends have catapulted him into standing-room-only events and consistent national media.

DreamHealer is a story of both his coming to terms with his healing gift at such a young age, and his remarkable healings of people with myriad health concerns. His writing is inspirational and enlightening, and his insights into healing offer hope to anyone. Like James Van Praagh's Talking to Heaven and Sylvia Browne's Adventures of a Psychic, Adam's DreamHealer heralds a new voice in spirituality that has bestselling franchise potential.

Ten Days to Optimal Health or Coming to Our Senses

2009-01-08T10:55:00.000-08:00

Ten Days to Optimal Health: A Step-by-Step Guide to Nutritional Therapy and Colon Cleaning

Author: Kristina Amelong

This step-by-step guide to nutritional therapy and colon cleansing includes important self-help strategies for people who want to take responsibility for their own health and well-being. Author Kristina Amelong is a colon hydrotherapist and nutritional counselor who describes her own five-year battle with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the tools she used to recover.

The program that Kristina has designed includes the nutritional research work of Dr. Weston A. Price who studied the diets of fourteen traditional societies during the 1930s and 1940s. His goal was to understand what made human beings healthy and what allowed them to have perfect teeth. The food Kristina recommends to readers are the traditional foods that gave health to the populations that Price researched.

When people remove accumulated waste material in their bowel, the body can regenerate with the nutrients available in the Weston A. Price diet. Detoxification and simple, nourishing foods cause people to thrive much like the disease-free native cultures that Price studied.

Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

Author: Jon Kabat Zinn

From the bestselling author and renowned mindfulness teacher, scientist, and educator. . .a guide to living a meaningful life.

This follow-up to the widely praised national bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are is yet another revolutionary offering from Jon Kabat-Zinn, showing readers how the power of mindfulness can bring radical change to their lives.

In the national bestseller Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabat-Zinn struck a chord in contemporary society that continues to reverberate to this day. It has been embraced by politicians, business leaders, and celebrities and endures as a classic with readers. In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Kabat-Zinn teaches us how to harness the power of mindfulness to effect profound change in our personal lives and in the world.

As stress continues to exact a toll on everyday life, people are increasingly turning to ancient, meditative methods, which have been tested by science, to relieve the ill effects and become more focused, healthy, and proactive. Kabat-Zinn has been for decades at the forefront of this mind/body movement and the revolution in medicine and health care it has spawned, demystifying it and bringing it into the mainstream. In Coming to Our Senses, he shares how every human has the capacity to mobilize deep, innate resources for continual learning, growing, healing, and transformation through mindfulness.

Woven into eight parts, Coming to Our Senses uses anecdotes and stories from Kabat-Zinn's own life experiences and work in his clinic to illustrate healing possibilities. At its core, the book offers remarkable insight into how to use the five senses — touch, hearing, sight, taste, and smell, plus awareness itself — as a path to a healthier, saner, and more meaningful life.

This is the definitive book for our time on the connection between mindfulness, health, and our physical and spiritual well-being.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, as well as Professor of Medicine emeritus. He leads workshops on stress reduction and mindfulness for doctors and other health professionals and for lay audiences worldwide. He is the bestselling author of Wherever You Go, There You Are and Full Catastrophe Living, and, with his wife Myla Kabat-Zinn, Everyday Blessings, a book on mindful parenting. With Dr. Andrew Weil he created the CD program Meditation for Optimum Health. He was featured in the PBS series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers, as well as on Oprah. He lives in Massachusetts.

Publishers Weekly

A passionate tour de force that blends personal experience with cutting-edge science, poetry, and insights culled from many traditions.

Publishers Weekly

"For any of us, perhaps our greatest potential regret may be that of not seizing the moment and honoring it for what it is when it is here," writes bestselling author Kabat-Zinn (Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; etc.). The scientist who pioneered the use of the Buddhist technique of mindfulness (or moment-by-moment awareness) to help patients cope with the stress and pain of illness arrived at this poignant lesson after seeing the way his father, an eminent immunologist who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, lost all sense of who he was and what was happening to him. In a passionate tour de force that blends personal experience with cutting-edge science (his own and others'), poetry and insights culled from many traditions, Kabat-Zinn sets out to awaken us to the true potential and value of a gift that most of us take for granted: sentience. Our lack of awareness of our impact on the rest of the world amounts to "a kind of auto-immune disease of the earth." Borrowing an analogy made by the neuroscientist Francisco Varela, Kabat-Zinn compares the way our immune system senses the whole of our bodily self to our potential for a mindful awareness. That is, the practice of cultivating this conscious, heightened sentience leads to the realization of our wholeness, as we begin to realize that we don't live just within the envelope of our own senses, sensations and thoughts but within the whole of all that is. Kabat-Zinn illuminates the many facets of this selfless way of being, not just with Buddhist understanding and verse but with quotes from Einstein ("A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe' "), Dickinson, Rilke and many other Western greats. Ardent, personal, frankly opinionated in places, this book seeks to wake up as individuals and as a culture. It is a treasure trove of contemporary wisdom. Author tour. (Jan.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Dr Ros Ten Secrets to Livin Healthy or The Wine Lovers Healthy Weight Loss Plan

2009-01-08T00:42:00.000-08:00

Dr. Ro's Ten Secrets to Livin' Healthy

Author: Rovenia M Brock

In this one-of-a-kind book, Dr. Rovenia M. Brock—known as Dr. Ro™ to fans of Black Entertainment Television’s Heart & Soul—reveals practical, satisfying ways for African American women to eat healthy, get fit, and overcome weight problems and the health risks that accompany them.

From the “Big Ten” myths about miracle weight-loss diets to how eating the right foods can help you live longer and why soul food (if prepared properly) really can be good for you, Dr. Ro shows how many serious illnesses can be largely prevented—and even reversed. And you don’t need Oprah’s salary to do it. Using her own inspiring story and those of many other women as well, Dr. Ro discusses the health, fitness, and even cultural issues that are unique to black women, and outlines a diet and nutrition program to fit every lifestyle.

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The Wine Lover's Healthy Weight Loss Plan: 100 Recipes That Let Your Enjoy the Health Benefits of Your Favorite Wines

Author: Tedd Goldfinger

Now there's a heart-healthy weight loss program that lets you enjoy the benefits of your cherished Chardonnay

For some time the media has been abuzz with news of the health benefits of wine, but until now there has been no authoritative source for those interested in making wine part of a healthy diet. Coauthored by a noted cardiologist and an award-winning chef, The Wine Lover's Healthy Weight Loss Plan shows how you can easily shed unwanted pounds, while maximizing the health benefits of your favorite wines.

Sample recipes include:

Scampi with Chipotle-Orange Sauce, paired with a 2004 Marquis-Philips "Holly's Blend," Verdelho, McLaren Vale, Australia
Roast Duck with Lavender-Lemon Honey Sauce, paired with a Bergstrom Winery 2004 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir

Tedd Goldfinger, M.D., is a physician certified in cardiovascular disease and internal medicine.

Lynn F. Nicholson graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Program at the Western Culinary Institute.

The Portable Therapist or The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook

2009-01-07T15:31:00.000-08:00

The Portable Therapist

Author: Susanna McMahon

Drawing from questions her patients ask most, the author teaches how to deal with the issues you car about. With compassion, wisdom and enlightening ideas, this book encourages you to be true to yourself, develop social interests and discover the positive, capable, confident human being you are meant to be.

The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook: Your Comprehensive Reference to the Best Herbs for Healing

Author: James A Duk

Praise for Dr. Duke and the best-selling The Green Pharmacy:"Lively, fun to read and filled with gems of wisdom-- a treasure of information from a man who knows as much as anyone in the world about medicinal plants."--Jean Carper, author of Miracle Cures and Food-- Your Miracle Medicine "The Green Pharmacy is a tour de force by the world's leading authority on the herbal healing traditions...a treasure house of practical advice for the newcomer and pearls of wisdom for the herbal practitioner."--Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D., author of Total Wellness and coauthor of Encyclopedia of Natural MedicineA Complete Guide to 180 Healing Herbs-- From America's Favorite Herbalist In this handy companion to his best-selling book, The Green Pharmacy, leading herbal authority James A. Duke, Ph.D., delivers the lowdown on virtually every healing herb available in today's marketplace: its description and history, therapeutic uses, medicinal properties, prescription counterparts, dosage options, safety and effectiveness rating, and precautions. Dr. Duke's inimitable folksy tone and friendly manner shine throughout The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook, making it as entertaining to read as it is practical. The most thorough and comprehensive herb reference of its kind, the handbook was culled from the thousands of entries in Dr. Duke's database of the world's medicinal plants. The database, which he began during his career as a top botanist with the USDA, is a lifelong project for Dr. Duke and has become a major reference resource for herbalists worldwide.Dubbed "America's herbal laureate," James A. Duke received a Ph.D. in botany from theUniversity of North Carolina and did postdoctoral work at Washington University and the Missouri Botanical Gardens, both in St. Louis. Following extensive fieldwork in the rainforests of Panama, Dr. Duke joined the USDA, where he played a leading role in the study of medicinal plants. Over the course of his 27-year tenure with the USDA, he interviewed thousands of traditional folk healers and scientists while compiling a comprehensive technical database of the medicinal compounds found in common and exotic plants. Now retired, Dr. Duke travels across the United States and around the world, spreading his message about the healing power of plants. He is an advisor to the American Botanical Council and several herb companies and author of The Green Pharmacy and Dr. Duke's Essential Herbs. He and his wife, Peggy, live in Fulton, Maryland, where he cultivates his own 6-acre Herbal Vineyard, home to hundreds of species of healing plants.

3 Hour Diet or Three Deep Breaths

2009-01-07T03:19:00.000-08:00

3-Hour Diet: Lose up to 10 Pounds in Just 2 Weeks by Eating Every 3 Hours!

Author: Jorge Cruis

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Acknowledgments     xi
Foreword   David L. Katz, MD     xiii
From the Desk of Jorge Cruise     xvii
Time to Lose
The Key to a Slim Body     3
Why Low-Carb Diets Make You Fat     15
Why Other Fad Diets Make You Fat     32
How it Works-Visual Timing
How to Successfully Do the 3-Hour Diet     45
Secret 1-The 3-Hour Timeline     52
Secret 2-The 3-Hour Plate     67
Overcoming Obstacles
How to Make More Time     95
Overcoming Emotional Eating     107
Living the 3-Hour Lifestyle
28-Day Success Planner     125
3-Hour Diet Maintenance Plan: How to Lose More or Keep It Off     251
Bonus Exercise Options     259
3-Hour Plate Custom-Meal Food Lists     268
Premade-Meal Ideas     283
Jorge Cruise's Bio     329
Selected Bibliography     331
Index     335
The Synergy Pages     347

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Three Deep Breaths: Finding Power and Purpose in a Stressed-Out World

Author: Thomas Crum

"Three Deep Breaths uses the popular parable format to illustrate an effective antidote to anger, stress, and overwhelming busyness. Through the story of a harried worker struggling to balance work, life, and family pressures, readers learn three different ways to use breathing to live in the present, think positive thoughts, and release negativity and judgment. By actively practicing the prescribed breathing exercises, readers maintain clarity and purpose even when confronted with the most chaotic and stressful environments. Straightforward and easy to learn, these simple centering techniques can be done in as little time as it takes to walk to the next meeting.

Curl Talk or Eat Drink Be Merry

2009-01-06T17:08:00.000-08:00

Curl Talk: Everything You Need to Know to Love and Care for Your Curly, Kinky, Wavy, or Frizzy Hair

Author: Ouidad

At loose ends with your locks? Let the “Queen of Curl” show you how to bring out the best in your hair.

The lengths that women go to in order to tame their curls! If you've been blessed with curly hair, chances are that you've thought of it as a curse, complaining, “It's uncontrollable!” “It's a mess!” or “It's so frizzy and
tangly!” Out of frustration, you may have mistakenly resorted to methods (straighteners, irons, blow-dryers) that only cause more damage to your hair. Now renowned New York City stylist Ouidad sets the record straight on curly hair and shows you how to start loving the waves, kinks, and curls you were born with. In Curl Talk, Ouidad reveals the secrets to bringing out your natural beauty, including:
* Finding the right cut
* How often to shampoo (and why you never wrap your wet hair in a towel)
* Why brushes and mousses should be outlawed
* The best conditioning and styling treatments
* Blow-drying, coloring, and straightening the safe way

Based on Ouidad's experience catering solely to curly-haired clients at her exclusive Manhattan salon, Curl Talk is a straight-talking guide for your daily struggle with the frizzies, offering simple, step-by-step solutions for getting a gorgeous head of curls. It will revolutionize the way you treat your hair.

Author Biography: Ouidad is known throughout the beauty industry as the “Queen of Curl.” With a “curly hair only” salon and her own exclusive line of hair care products, she is the expert on how to cut, style, and treat curly locks.

Jennifer Schonbrunn Hinkle is a freelance beauty writer living inConnecticut.

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Eat, Drink, & Be Merry: America's Doctor Tells You Why the Health Experts Are Wrong

Author: Dean Edell

No wonder. How often have you felt whipsawed by the experts, confused by conflicting advice, or torn with guilt over what you eat, drink, think? Prepare yourself for a shock: You can relax, enjoy life, and still be healthy.

Renowned for candid straight talk on radio and television, Dr. Dean Edell applies his unique common-sense perspective to America's growing obsession with health. Frank and iconoclastic, Dr. Edell walks readers through a lifetime of experience from deep inside twin worlds of media and medicine. As one of the first media doctors, he knows better than anyone the dangers of distorted medical reporting. With colorful detail, he shows how medical consumers are made neurotic at a time when people are healthier than ever before. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing documentable fact from panic-inducing fiction. With trademark humor, grace, and style, he shares with us the essential reassuring facts about our health: you can be fatter than you think; too much exercise might kill you; and yes, sex will add years to your life!

Did You Know That...

People who crave ice chips may have a nutritional deficiency?
Saturated fat may reduce the risk of stroke?
Dementia appears to be less common among those who eat more fish?
You can lose weight by fidgeting, chewing on a pencil, or drinking coffee?
Sex can cure headaches?
Playing an instrument is not only good for your mental health, it burns 160 calories an hour?

The Natural Pharmacy or The NutriBase Nutrition Facts Desk Reference

2009-01-06T05:55:00.000-08:00

The Natural Pharmacy: Complete home reference to natural medicine

Author: Schuyler W Lininger

This fully revised edition to the bestseller includes the most up-to-date information on the use of vitamins, minerals, herbs, and homeopathic remedies for common health conditions.

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The NutriBase Nutrition Facts Desk Reference

Author: NutriBase Staff

"The NutriBase Nutrition Facts Desk Reference is an essential tool for monitoring the nutritional value of your diet. It is recognized by health experts as the best source of information on food values and is used widely by physicians, nutritionists, and health-conscious consumers alike." Now completely revised and updated, this valuable resource presents information for a wide range of foods. It contains the very latest information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on whole foods, from apples to zucchini, and staples, from cereals to vegetable soups; baby foods; brand names from Ben & Jerry's to Snapple; and fast foods and chain-restaurant foods from Arby's burgers to Wendy's chicken nuggets. There are also new sections with data on medical nutritionals and sports and diet foods and supplements. For each item, information is provided for a variety of nutrients. Included are listings for calories, protein, carbohydrates, sodium, fiber, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, percentage of calories from fat, and essential vitamins and minerals. And all figures are based on the most current research and databases available.

No More Sleepless Nights Workbook or Food Mood Body Connection

2009-01-05T20:42:00.000-08:00

No More Sleepless Nights, Workbook

Author: Peter Hauri

Praise for No More Sleepless Nights

"The best book this reviewer has seen on insomnia." –Library Journal

"Nearly everything you always wanted to know about sleep and what can go wrong with it . . . with step-by-step suggestions." –Publishers Weekly

Give yourself a good night’s rest If you suffer from poor sleep, help is in your hands––literally. In this sensible, simple-to-follow workbook, based on the acclaimed No More Sleepless Nights program, one of the world’s leading insomnia experts gives you the tools to be your own sleep therapist. Filled with interactive quizzes, sleep logs, and self-evaluation exercises, which may be used in conjunction with the patented Sleep Timer, the workbook will help you uncover the underlying cause of your own sleep problem, and then put together a personalized action plan for getting a good night’s rest.

With advice on improving sleep hygiene and diet, the right exercise, relaxation techniques, and more, No More Sleepless Nights Workbook helps you conquer your own poor sleep right now. More importantly, it equips you to beat it again if it ever returns to disturb your dreams.Visit us on the Web at Sleepplace.com

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Food-Mood-Body Connection: Nutrition-Based Approaches to Mental Health

Author: Gary Null

Many conditions that are generally believed to be purely mental disorders are actually caused by vitamin deficiencies, food allergies, hormonal imbalances, and environmental factors. In this book, the best-selling health and fitness expert who has been called "Mr. Natural" by Time magazine presents nutrition-based treatments for the underlying biochemical imbalances that cause many of today's mental problems.

Publishers Weekly

The host of the syndicated daily health radio program Natural Living with Gary Null here takes on the current epidemic of mental-health problems in the U.S. and shows that many of these disorders can be remedied more effectively, faster and much less expensively with natural means than with traditional approaches. Null (Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program), a longtime champion of alternative health care, makes a good case for looking at the nutritional and environmental factors that may be causing such chronic conditions as depression, alcoholism, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and eating disorders. Tapping more than 50 physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and holistic doctors, Null presents research, case studies and opinions that support his claim that most mental and emotional conditions can be helped, and often cured, by treating biochemical imbalances. For those who have had lifelong battles with depression, eating disorders and schizophrenia and been given little hope for recovery, the news that, for example, administration of liquid zinc has cured people of anorexia within a few months will be most welcome. Null reports that more than 500,000 children are on antidepressants and that rates of schizophrenia are rising; his book is sure to find a big audience among those (including families) affected by these conditions. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

	Author's Preface	7
	Introduction	9
	Nutritional and Environmental Influences on Mental States	15
	Food Allerigies	19
	Heavy Metal Toxicity	22
	Chemicals and Other Environmental Factors Contributing to Mental Conditions	32
	What We're Up Against: The Political and Social Dimensions of Nutrition and Mental Health	40
	The Promise of Vitamin Therapy (Orthomolecular) Psychiatry	52
I.	Disorders of Mood or Behavior
1.	Addictions	61
	Drug and Alcohol Addiction	63
	Food Addiction	74
2.	Alzheimer's Disease	77
3.	Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks	89
	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders	96
4.	Eating Disorders	101
5.	Depression (Unipolar Disorder)	115
	Depression and Tobacco	134
	Effect of Exercise, Nutrition, and Lifestyle on Depression	135
6.	Manic Depression (Bipolar Disorder)	141
7.	Schizophrenia	145
	Schizophrenia and Alcoholism	155
8.	Insomnia	157
9.	Thinking Disorders	171
10.	Tardive Dyskinesia	175
11.	Building Better Brains	179
II.	Disorders In Children
12.	Aggression	199
13.	Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity	205
14.	Autism	227
15.	Behavioral Disorders	235
16.	Chronic Depression	243
17.	Food Allergies	247
III.	Organic Conditions Commonly Misdiagnosed As Mental Disease
18.	Blood Sugar Instability (Hypoglycemia)	263
19.	Candidiasis	269
20.	Chronic Fatigue	285
21.	Hormone Imbalance	303
22.	Nutrient Imbalances in the Body and Brain	309
23.	Premenstrual Syndrome	315
24.	Thyroid Disorders	319
Appendix A	Resources	333
	Biographies & Addresses of Practitioners	333
	Clinical Studies	345
	Environmental Causes of Mental Disease--A Bibliography	412
	Useful Books	414
	Websites	418
Appendix B	The Dangers of Prozac	419
Appendix C	Autism: Is There a Vaccine Connection?	437
	Index	473

Yoga for Equestrians or Basic Weight Training for Men and Women

2009-01-05T08:30:00.000-08:00

Yoga for Equestrians: A New Path for Achieving Union with the Horse

Author: Linda Benedik

A unique program of yoga for riders that cultivates both mental and physical flexibility and balance--vital keys to achieving harmony between horse and human. Profusely illustrated with color photos and drawings.

Yoga Journal - Phil Catalfo

This guide to Yoga in and out of the saddle is not only well written, illustrated, and photographed, and of obvious interest to equestrians, it will likely prove to be of surprisingly high interest even to yogis who vever come near a horse, let alone spend much time riding one.

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Basic Weight Training for Men and Women

Author: Thomas D Fahey

This popular text for is a comprehensive, practical guide to developing a personalized weight-training program with both free weights and machines. Weight training concepts and specific exercises are grouped by body region, and many photographs, illustrations, diagrams, and figures demonstrate proper technique and form.

Preventions Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss or Lord Heal My Hurts

2009-01-04T23:19:00.000-08:00

Prevention's Shortcuts to Big Weight Loss

Author: Chris Freytag

Getting slim, fit, and toned often seems like a daunting challenge. That’s why Prevention, America’s leading health magazine, has developed proven shortcuts that work. Prevention contributing fitness editor Chris Freytag details how you can lose up to 30 percent more weight than you can with traditional 40-minute exercise programs. The secret is fun, fast 10-minute workouts that blast fat. In this book, you'll find:

-a dynamic plan for losing 25 pounds or more—without getting discouraged along the way

-a program to jump-start stalled weight loss and quickly shed those last stubborn 10 pounds

-exercises tailored to build maximum lean muscle tissue to burn calories even when you're not working out

With Prevention's supereffective program and Chris' motivating advice, you, too, can drop up to two dress sizes in just 8 weeks.

Lord, Heal My Hurts: A Devotional Study on God's Care and Deliverance

Author: Kay Arthur

Enjoy the expanded and updated editions of the best-selling "Lord" Bible Study Series from Kay Arthur.  The "Lord" study series is an insightful, warm-hearted Bible study series designed to meet readers where they are--and help them discover God's answers to their deepest needs.
        No Matter How Deep the Wounds, God Can Heal Your Hurts.

        Everyone hurts. The pain runs deep, the scars never seem to fade, the memories torment us. As a result, our growth is stunted, our walk crippled, our relationships infected. Will relief never come?
        Yes -- when you put yourself in the hands of Jehovah-rapha, the God who heals! No matter what you've done or what's been done to you, He wants to be your refuge. He loves you. And He offers healing for your deepest wounds.
        Discover how God can turn your sorrow into joy in Lord, Heal My Hurts. Let Kay Arthur guide you through the Scriptures so you can be set free from past hurts by the power of God. This powerful, insightful study will minister to you in deeply restorative ways. And these are truths you will want to share with others.

Calm Energy or Family Guide to Fighting Fat

2009-01-04T12:07:00.000-08:00

Calm Energy: How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise

Author: Robert E Thayer

You are what you eat, but why are you eating so much? Your moods! Why can't you stay with a reasonable exercise program, and why is obesity at epidemic proportions in our society today? Negative moods hold the explanations.
Feeling down? Wish you had more energy and less stress? If this describes you some or most of the time, you are probably among the millions today who respond to increasing stress and low moods with food—a candy bar, or perhaps a cup of coffee and a sweet. Such "emotional eating" may temporarily boost your spirits, but this effect is a short-lived quick fix that perpetuates chronic overeating and obesity. Moreover, the same negative moods that have grown to substantial proportions in society today, sap your resolve to exercise.
In this breakthrough book, an acclaimed mood researcher tackles the problem of overweight and inactivity from the perspective of mood. Thayer compellingly argues that it is our moods—beyond nutritional needs—that signal our bodies to desire food we really don't need in order to replenish our energy and to lower stress levels. Consciously or unconsciously, we constantly seek "calm energy" to face the challenges of the day. Eating is often our first response to a bad mood—as opposed to other, less-fattening forms of self-medication, like listening to music or just slowing down—but, as Thayer explains with clarity and abundant scientific research, we would do much more to raise our spirits in the long run by something as simple as a 10 minute walk. Various forms of exercise are proven mood regulators in ways this book describes in detail. Sound like common sense? Perhaps, but if the choice is exercise or a snack, the snack usually wins out unless we understand our moods. This understanding is the real key. We must see why we eat too much before we can control what and how much we eat. From this we learn the reasons for the inevitable failures at diet and exercise.

This provocative new approach to understanding and fighting overeating offers practical advice and biological explanations for your cravings and moods, and it shows how both are indicators of energy and stress levels. Thayer describes how most people's daily energy cycles function, and he explains how you can apply this in scientifically proven ways to fight the urge to eat when you are down and to achieve the optimum goal of "calm energy."

About the Author:
Robert Thayer is a well-known mood researcher and Professor of Psychology at Califonria State University, Long Beach.

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Family Guide to Fighting Fat: A Parents' Guide to Battling Obesity, Diabetes, and Eating Issues at the Family Table

Author: Texas Childrens Hospital

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY

More than 30 percent of American children are overweight. Childhood obesity has become an epidemic in this country, leading to early onset diabetes and a general health crisis for children. The best plan to attack obesity starts at home and engages the whole family. And now, the experts at Texas Children’s Hospital are providing the tools to do it.

This book gives parents the information and strategies they need to help their children eat less fast food and boost fitness. It features information on healthy eating and exercise options for every age group. It gets families off to the right start for losing extra pounds and guides them through a step-by-step approach to creating a personalized plan for controlling weight.

Through this guide, the experts at Texas Children’s Hospital empower parents to establish healthy family habits. With numerous nutritious recipes, fun activities to get the family fit, and helpful tips to overcome weight management roadblocks, this guide is an excellent resource for parents who want to make a healthy lifestyle a way of life.

Drawing on the expertise of the wide range of health professionals at Texas Children’s Hospital, this book is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to family weight management and smart nutrition.

Texas Children’s Hospital is one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States. Consistently recognized as one of the top children’s hospitals in the nation by Child magazine and the U.S. News & World Report, Texas Children’s Hospital is committed tocreating a community of healthy children through excellence in patient care, education and research. For more information, visit texaschildrenshospital.org.

Marcia Welsh - Library Journal

Statistics show that up to 30 percent of American children are overweight and therefore at risk of developing juvenile diabetes, hypertension, and other conditions. Here, medical specialists at the Texas Children's Hospital present their ROAD guide to handling this epidemic: role modeling, organizing and creating opportunities for improved health behaviors, availability and accessibility of healthy food choices, and decisions that need to be made to change behaviors that contribute to weight gain. Individual chapters are devoted to infants, preschoolers, elementary school children, preteens, and older teens. Included are self-quizzes to help readers create personalized eating plans; suggestions for making healthy food choices while eating out at fast food, ethnic, or other restaurants; kid-friendly recipes; and advice on how to incorporate more fitness activities into a child's life. The American Academy of Pediatrics' A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Road Map to Healthis another excellent and practical guide, but most libraries will want to have more than one good book on this important issue. Highly recommended.

Acknowledgments     ix
Foreword   Ralph D. Feigin, M.D.     xi
Introduction     1
Creating Your Plan of Action     5
Creating Change: The Road to Success     7
Smart Behaviors to Start Slimming Down     29
Healthy Food Choices     42
Making Fitness Fun and Effective     75
Customizing Your Plan for Your Child's Age Group     91
From the Beginning; Feeding Your Infant     93
Setting Good Habits with the Pre-K Set     113
Action Is Everything in Grade School     133
Staying Tuned to Tweens     144
Older Teens: Teaching Without Telling     158
Considering the Next Steps     175
When Your Child Needs an Expert     177
Successful Journeys     194
Family Recipes     201
Breakfasts     203
Soups and Main Dishes     206
Side Dishes     225
Breads     232
Fruity Treats     238
Forms     241
Family Assessment Tool     243
Family Goals     244
Daily Food Record     245
My Pyramid     246
Tools     247
Food Quiz     249
Low-Fat Recipe Substitutions     251
Food Group Portion Sizes     253
Healthy Shopping List     254
Can You See Obesity? Calculating Body Mass Index     257
Growth Charts     259
Nutrition Glossary     267
Websites     271
References     273
About the Authors and Contributors     281
Index     285

The Fat Girls Guide to Life or Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine

2009-01-04T01:56:00.000-08:00

The Fat Girl's Guide to Life

Author: Wendy Shanker

Vibrant, vivacious, and gorgeous, Wendy Shanker is a fat girl who has simply had enough-enough of family, friends, co-workers, women's magazines, even strangers on the street all trying (and failing) to make her thin. Written in Wendy's wonderfully funny and candid voice, The Fat Girl's Guide to Life provides thought-provoking insights, statistics, and body-image resources intended to restore a realistic standard of beauty and self-acceptance to the 68 percent of American women who wear a size 12 or larger. The Fat Girl's Guide to Life invites you to step off the scale and weigh the issues for yourself.

Publishers Weekly

This send-up of the thin-is-in mentality is funny enough to make even diehard dieters consider replacing their baby carrots with Krispy Kremes. Shanker, one of Us Weekly's Fashion Police commentators and a self-proclaimed fat girl, estimates she's spent 16 years trying to lose weight: "I've met with seven weight loss specialists, worked with three nutritionists and three personal trainers, tried a dozen weight loss programs, taken thousands of pills, joined six gyms, read thirty-one books and spent enough money on weight loss to buy myself an Ivy League degree." Out of this context, Shanker takes on the media, corporate America and even the medical establishment, arguing with their belief that it's impossible to be both fit and fat. "Let's take the focus off `fat' and put it on health," she lectures. "Let's take the focus off `skinny' and put it on good common sense. Let's take the focus off body image and put it on education, women's rights, human rights, the economy, baseball cards, anything." Although Shanker's opinions on full-figured fashion and feminist philosophy are entertaining, she's at her best writing about her stint at Duke Diet and Fitness Center, one of the country's oldest and most successful weight management centers. As her optimism about the hardcore Duke University Medical School program flags, her diary of adventures becomes increasingly irreverent, refreshing and human. Anyone who has ever tried to lose a pound will gain confidence and a sense of humor from Shanker's story. (Apr. 17) Forecast: Shanker writes a humor column for Grace magazine, and her readers will probably want to buy her book. Author appearances in New York will further round out sales. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Prickly Pear Cactus Medicine: Treatments for Diabetes, Cholesterol, and the Immune System

Author: Ran Knishinsky

HEALTH

“A comprehensive and detailed review of the benefits of this remarkable plant and a compelling argument for its acceptance into modern herbalism.”
Mark Blumenthal, executive director of the American Botanical Council and editor of HerbalGram

“An excellent blend of good science and real life applications.”
David Hoffmann, FNIMH, AHG, author of Medical Herbalism and The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal

“Ran Knishinsky has done a masterful job unearthing details on the use of the prickly pear cactus for food and for medicine. This book provides the spark to move the prickly pear from beyond ethnic use to mainstream acceptance.”
David Winston, AHG, dean of the Herbal Therapeutics School of Botanical Medicine

The prickly pear cactus--a plant that has the distinction of being a vegetable, fruit, and flower all in one--may be destined to be the next big herbal superstar, following in the footsteps of St. John’s wort and Echinacea. One of the driving forces behind its popularity is that each part of this plant functions as both food and medicine. It has been a staple in the diets of the people of the southwestern portion of the United States, the Middle East, parts of Europe and Africa, and Central and South America for hundreds of years.

Traditionally, the prickly pear cactus has been used as a panacea for over 100 different ailments. Its use in the treatment of diabetes is now gaining attention in scientific circles, and it has been the subject of blood cholesterol research trials sponsored by the American HeartAssociation. In addition to the results of recent scientific research, Knishinsky also includes ethnobotanical information on the use of prickly pear cactus in treating obesity, gastrointestinal disorders, and skin ailments. A resource section details the natural food companies that supply prickly pear cactus and a chapter of recipes offers twenty-four traditional and modern dishes using the pads and fruit of the cactus.

RAN KNISHINSKY is a professional health researcher and writer and is the founder of NutraConsulting, a consulting firm to the natural products industry. He frequently appears on radio and is the author of The Clay Cure and The Prozac Alternative.

Ran Knishinsky is a professional health researcher and writer and the founder of NutraConsulting, a consulting firm to the natural products industry. He is the author of The Clay Cure and The Prozac Alternative.

Visit the author's web site at cactusmedicine.com.

Strength Training for Muscle Development or Words for the Cure

2009-01-03T16:44:00.000-08:00

Strength Training for Muscle Development

Author: Staff of Sterling

Strength Training provides exercises and workouts carefully structured for the maximum benefit in the minimum time. Ideal for anyone new to resistance training, but equally inspirational for the more experienced, this book provides precise, step-by-step instructions on how to increase muscle strength and endurance, and improve mobility and posture. Suitable for both men and women, Strength Training is your own personal trainer, advising you on safety, equipment, and strength training principles, and encouraging you to build day-to-day to a healthier, stronger body.

Words for the Cure: Inspiration, Hope, and Comfort for Today and Tomorrow

Author: Susan G Komen for the Cur

Since 1982, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been leading the fight against breast cancer by empowering people, ensuring quality of care for all and energizing science to find the cures. This book is filled with uplifting messages of hope and celebrations of inner strength from survivors and co-surivors. Anyone who has been touched by breast cancer is sure to find encouragement and hope in this collection of quotes. A portion of the sales will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

1	Disease concept(s) of inebriety	25
2	Cultural framing of inebriety	63
3	Institutional solutions for inebriety	92
4	Public inebriate hospitals and farm colonies	122
5	The "Foxborough experiment"	147
6	Building a boozatorium	196
7	On the vice and disease of inebriety	226

	Introduction
	How to Use This Book
	Codes and Abbreviations
	Table of Measurement Conversions
Pt. 1	General Nutrient Values	1
Pt. 2	Vitamin and Mineral Values	665
Pt. 3	Fast-Food/Chain Restaurant Values	867

Ch. 1	Tips for a healthy immune system	9
Ch. 2	Immune herbs and nutrients	115
Ch. 3	Conditions and treatments	175
Ch. 4	Digestive clearing diet	295
Ch. 5	Commonly asked questions and answers	307
App	Common acupuncture points used in the treatment of immune disorders

	Preface	7
1	Patience	9
2	Reverence	14
3	Happiness	21
4	Clarity	25
5	Devotion	32
6	Compassion	39
7	Grace	48
8	Courage	54
9	Melancholy	64
10	Harmony	69
11	Energy	79
12	Unity	85

	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