Complete Stretching or For Your Own Good

Complete Stretching: A New Exercise Program for Health and Vitality

Author: Maxine Tobias

30-minute stretch workouts for exercise through movement, breathing, and relaxation. A dramatic new entry into a crowded field; with full-color illustrations on every page!

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For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health

Author: Jacob Sullum

The tobacco controversy is usually portrayed as a battle between selfless defenders of public health and greedy merchants of death. In For Your Own Good, journalist Jacob Sullum argues that such a view conceals the true nature of the crusade for a smoke-free society. As Sullum demonstrates, this struggle is not about the behavior of corporations; it's about the behavior of individuals. It is an attempt by one group of people to impose their tastes and preferences on another. For Your Own Good shows that long before Philip Morris or R. J. Reynolds existed, tobacco's opponents condemned smoking as disgusting, immoral, addictive, unhealthy, and inconsiderate. In recent decades, they have used scientific evidence that smoking is hazardous to enlist the state in their crusade, arguing that the government has an obligation to discourage behavior that might lead to disease or injury. Given this country's tradition of limited government, however, Americans tend to be skeptical of this argument. Sullum justifies their misgivings, noting that achieving a 'smoke-free society' in a nation where tens of millions choose to smoke is necessarily an exercise in tyranny.

Peter Kurth

Before you read any further, folks, I'd advise you to lock your doors. Close the windows and draw the blinds. You're about to hear something you're not supposed to know.

"There is no evidence," writes Jacob Sullum in For Your Own Good, his trenchant analysis of the anti-smoking movement in America, "that casual exposure to second-hand smoke has any impact on your life expectancy." People who live for years with heavy smokers, it's true, run a slightly higher risk of developing lung cancer than people who don't, raising the "lifetime risk," Sullum tells us, "from about 0.34 percent to about 0.41 percent." Neither is there any convincing data to support the claim that smoking imposes a disproportionate financial burden on society, or that advertising, even when aimed at kids, "plays an important role in getting people to smoke, as opposed to getting them to smoke a particular brand."

"Because smokers tend to die earlier than nonsmokers," Sullum remarks crisply, "the costs of treating tobacco-related illness are balanced, and probably outweighed, by savings on Social Security, nursing home stays, and medical care in old age." Sullum, a senior editor at the libertarian Reason magazine and himself a nonsmoker, is dead set against a federal ban on cigarettes and other tobacco products. He's also against their further regulation, not because he thinks smoking is a good idea, but because he thinks that, under the specious guise of science, a moral crusade of 19th century dimensions is operating on the eve of the 21st. He is particularly irritated by what he calls "the Public Health establishment," which, having vanquished most natural epidemics in our time, now treats smoking and other "addictive behaviors" as if they were communicable diseases.

"Behavior cannot be transmitted to other people against their will," Sullum observes. "People do not choose to be sick, but they do choose to engage in risky behavior. The choice implies that the behavior, unlike a viral or bacterial infection, has value. It also implies that attempts to control the behavior will be resisted," especially among the young. Elementary child psychology, not to mention your grandmother's home wisdom, will confirm that the fastest way to get a child to do something is to tell him not to do it. We're all being treated like children anyway, Sullum thinks, when the federal government redefines cigarettes as "nicotine delivery devices" and ignores the truth that every smoker knows -- that smoking is pleasurable, sensual and utilitarian, "relieving boredom," as Sullum says, "soothing distress, aiding concentration [and] warding off loneliness." In other words, smokers are not mere "addicts" in search of a fix, still less the helpless victims of the tobacco companies. Nobody smokes without some benefit to themselves.

Sullum is not a polemicist, and he is not encouraging anyone who reads his book to rush out for a pack of Camels. He wants Americans to make health decisions on their own and for themselves, and he wants an end to smoking hysteria, which, as he vividly demonstrates, has come and gone at different times in history without any lasting result. In the meantime, don't be fooled by the federal government's high moral tone in its fight against Big Tobacco: No government on earth is going to forgo nearly $20 billion a year in tax revenue, no matter who the villains are. -- Salon

New England Journal of Medicine

A curious and challenging mixture of fact and philosophy is what makes this book so intriguing and worthwhile. Sullum marshals an impressive array of facts and arguments in tackling such fundamental issues as addiction, the risks of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, the legitimacy of taxing cigarettes, and the effects of advertising. He has undertaken a truly prodigious amount of research and frequently (but decidedly not always) demonstrates a striking sophistication in discussing technical issues. The history he presents is consistently accurate, and his enumeration of arguments for and against various propositions often exhibits a scholarliness not always found in the work of tobacco-control researchers.

Wall Street Journal - Richard Klein

Compelling. . .you can't help being chilled by the implications of this newly triumphant public health philosophy.

New York Times - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Finely reasoned. . .meticulously logical. . .fair and balanced.

Washington Post - Joshua Shenk

For Your Own Good is a must-read.

Richard Klein

Compelling. . .you can't help being chilled by the implications of this newly triumphant public health philosophy. -- The Wall Street Journal

Joshua Shenk

For Your Own Good is a must-read. -- The Washington Post

Kirkus Reviews

A somewhat predictable libertarian attack on antismoking efforts. Gadflies can perform an important service when public debate is one-sided. In this volume Sullum, a veteran journalist and senior editor of Reason magazine, assumes this mantle and boldly leaps into the ongoing tobacco wars, but is only partially successful. On one hand, he presents a thorough overview of the history of tobacco use and efforts to restrict it, is straightforward about the dangers, and makes a serious effort to shift the grounds of debate from public health to political freedom. On the other hand, he's too willing to focus attention on his opponents rather than on the issue, replicating the ad hominem and straw-man attacks for which he criticizes the antismoking movement. Sullum's argument is that efforts to eliminate smoking are tyrannical and run roughshod over the traditional distinction between other- and self-regarding actions that classical liberals use to distinguish between behavior that should and should not be subject to public control. This is a legitimate concern that has been shoved aside too easily, and his charge of collectivism should not be dismissed as quaint and archaic. However, after clearing the smoke away from the fundamental issue of political values, he asserts his libertarian position rather than arguing for it. Without recognizing that some individual behavior is appropriately restricted, identifying the criteria that distinguish that behavior, and assessing where smoking falls in relation to those criteria, Sullum is just circling the issue his book needs to address. If, as Sullum sarcastically concludes, 'freedom is the most pernicious' risk factor for disease and injuryin the eyes of antismokers, a more disciplined analysis of smoking in relation to freedom is badly needed.

Table of Contents:

	Author's note
	Introduction: Without a Doubt	1
1	From Devil's Weed to Soldier's Friend	15
2	Appropriate Remedial Action	40
3	Coughing Cowboys	82
4	Vice Charge	119
5	Smoke Alarm	138
6	Try, Try Again	181
7	Little White Slavers	220
8	Doctor's Orders	256
Appendix	Ten Myths of the Anti-Smoking Movement	277
	Notes	281
	Bibliography	321
	Acknowledgments	328
	Index	329

Your Guide to Living Well with Rheumatoid Arthritis or Why Beauty Matters

Your Guide to Living Well with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Author: Arthritis Foundation

Approximately 2.5 million Americans live with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a potentially debilitating disease that can cause inflammation and swelling in joints throughout the body. This book stresses the importance of early and aggressive medical treatment of the disease, but also underscores the importance of your role as manager of your disease and of your health-care team. It teaches practical ways to help you live better with RA.

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Why Beauty Matters

Author: Karen Lee Thorp

Why Beauty Matters explores up-to-the-minute research that has made Newsweek headlines, delves into the breadth of biblical wisdom about beauty, and listens to women as they struggle with issues of physical appearance and spirituality.

Consumer Behavior or Civil Warriors

Consumer Behavior: In Fashion

Author: Michael Solomon

Fashion is a driving force that shapes the way we live—it influences apparel, hairstyles, art, food, cosmetics, cars, music, toys, furniture, and many other aspects of our daily lives that we often take for granted. Fashion is a major component of popular culture—one that is everchanging. With a solid base in social science, and in economic and marketing research, Consumer Behavior: In Fashion provides a comprehensive analysis of today's fashion consumer. Up-to-date, thought-provoking information is presented in an engaging everyday context that helps students, business people and scholars understand how fashion shapes the everyday world of consumers.

Among other special features, this comprehensive text:

• Starts each chapter with a consumer scenario used to analyze concepts covered in the chapter
• Relates consumer behavior concepts specifically to fashion products and processes
• Integrates the rapidly-evolving domain of fashion e-commerce
• Uses numerous fashion ads to explore how fashion companies attempt to communicate with their markets
• Includes both a marketing and consumer approach to the business of fashion
• Highlights both good and bad aspects of fashion marketing and offers a chapter on consumer and business ethics, social responsibility, and environmental issues
• Includes a chapter on consumer protection by business, government, and independent agencies

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Civil Warriors: The Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry

Author: Dan Zegart

Ron Motley hardly slept the night before the verdict.

He went to bed in his suite on the seventh floor of the Radisson at ten o’clock complaining of a headache and never really dozed off. His bodyguard, a refrigerator-sized black man named Larry who once provided security for the Saudi royal family, watched television with him and retired to his room.

Larry was there because Motley had received a steady stream of death threats since he started suing tobacco companies four years earlier. Another came a week before.

“We know where you are and you’ll be dead by midnight,” said a voice on his answering machine back home in South Carolina.

By the spring of 1998, the anti-tobacco side had lost a lot of sleep worrying about stolen information, tapped phones, hidden documents and death threats. It gave rise to jokes about living in a John Grisham novel, but it wasn’t very funny for those on the inside of the experience. Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco whistleblower and close friend of Motley’s, moved out of Louisville, Kentucky after being threatened by telephone and having a bullet left in his mailbox. The bullet was an armor-piercing Israeli specialty round, a very nasty addition to the day’s bills and letters. A lawyer for another ex-tobacco insider became convinced he was being followed one day in traffic, jumped out of his car at a red light, ran back to the other car and screamed that if he ever saw the driver again, he’d beat him to a pulp.

Motley wondered whether it was all a continuum. Would an industry that lied and shredded also wiretap and have you followed? Would they put a bullet in your mailbox?Would they beat you up? Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Motley’s law firm in Charleston, South Carolina, which had spent $30 million on tobacco cases and so far received not a red cent in return, took no chances. They hired the best bodyguard they could find, and that was Larry.

It made eminent sense to me that if anyone was going to be knocked off, it probably should be Motley. I’d traveled with him enough to know he was the war-time consigliere, the chief soldier on the plaintiff’s side. Here in Muncie, Indiana, he put his case against the industry before a jury for six long weeks in February and March of 1998. He had spent almost five years building it, fighting to get documents, taking scores of depositions, developing elaborate charts and videos on how tobacco smoke assaults the lung, befriending people like Jeff Wigand, whom Motley flew to Charleston after Wigand lost his home, his job and his marriage.

And now, having completed the biggest fight of his tobacco life, Motley ached to go to sleep. But he couldn’t.

Forty other people from Ness, Motley had also come to Muncie, taking the whole third and seventh floors of the Radisson for offices and sleeping quarters and living there from January into the spring. While Motley tossed and turned upstairs, most of them were at a big, loud party in the Radisson bar, where they got drunker and blearier than they had gotten in a really long time. The men and women who attack giant corporations for a living aren’t shy and retiring, and there was a good deal of bright plumage in evidence — pastel suits, paisley ties and cowboy boots — and an abundance of comely female junior lawyers and aides in form-fitting dresses and short skirts. There was a lot of noise and a lot of laughter. A little later, some of the tobacco lawyers showed up, a quieter, more conservative breed. But in the end, the tobacco crowd and the plaintiff’s bunch made merry together, more or less, the steadily drinking tobacco men drooping in their trenchcoats over the Ness, Motley women.

Motley didn’t materialize downstairs until the next afternoon, a full day into the jury’s deliberations and long after the party had ended. He strolled into the lobby and sat down in a chair to wait for news. Within minutes he was surrounded by the secretaries and paralegals and junior lawyers who make his entourage one of the more fetching flying circuses outside of the rock ‘n roll world, about which a female reporter in Florida once remarked, “Aren’t there any male assistants?” Somebody opened a couple of beers and the ladies took turns massaging his neck.

It was a balmy March day in Indiana and by seven o’clock there was still no word from the jury. Someone arranged to have a Suburban come and take what was generally called the Motley Crew — and me — to a steak restaurant.

As we drove across the little city and its gloomy boarded-up downtown, I thought back to the summer of 1994, when I first met Ron Motley, which in retrospect seemed a time of such optimism and simplicity.

The man who answered the door of a New Orleans hotel room had slicked-back black hair and a deep Southern accent. He wore a hand-tailored blue silk suit, but his socks didn’t match. I later learned he was color blind. His handshake was ice cold, as if all the blood had gone to his face, which was red. He had piercing dark eyes, but a voice like warm bourbon.

We sat down and talked while he munched a waffle at a little glass-topped table near the window, his right leg bouncing up and down like it had electrodes on it.

He became steadily more intoxicated with his story as he explained why he was out to get the tobacco men.

“I’m telling you, you can’t find a family in America they haven’t touched,” he said, veins standing out in his neck.

“That’s why we’re going to beat ‘em.”

He sprang up and fluttered through the room, yanking papers out of a briefcase, stepping into the bathroom.

“Eventually,” he muttered, peering into the mirror.

Then he darted out and grabbed the phone, charming his way past a colleague’s child to learn whether Ness, Motley had won a court decision on a $1.3 billion asbestos lawsuit.

At that time, Motley and others were massing the talent of the biggest personal injury law firms in the country for an assault on the hitherto impregnable citadel of tobacco. This coalition improved the odds considerably for the plaintiff’s side against an industry that by a very conservative estimate had wiped out seven million Americans since the Surgeon General first warned that cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health.

Another set of arithmetic showed that the several dozen firms that joined forces with Motley had during their careers extracted billions of dollars from the asbestos and pharmaceuticals industries whose products had injured a tiny fraction of the lives laid waste by cigarettes. Yet the tobacco industry had never paid damages to a soul. To the plaintiff’s lawyers, the cigarette cartel was Mount Everest, or maybe Fort Knox. These two forces seemed destined to meet in some historic conflict.

Copyright 2000 by Dan Zegart

New York Times Book Review - Roger Parloff

[If] the reader is looking for a highly readable overview of the sprawling tobacco litigation, told briskly, comprehensively and comprehensibly by an excellent storyteller, then Civil Warriors is a good pick.

Kirkus Reviews

An account of the 30-year war waged by lawyers, scientists, whistle blowers, and health crusaders against the tobacco companies. Investigative journalist Zegart spent five years researching a complicated story of dying lung cancer victims who sued tobacco companies (such as Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and Brown & Williamson) through the efforts of Ron Motley, a southern lawyer who won many product liability cases involving asbestos. Motley could not forget the memory of his mother, a heavy smoker, dying painfully of lung cancer, and he gradually built up a file of research scientists (who proved that the biochemistry of human cells was changed by the addictive nature of nicotine) and whistle blowers (who provided the evidence that tobacco companies suppressed public knowledge of the addictive qualities of nicotine). He also discovered evidence that at least one company spiked extra nicotine into the cigarettes to create permanently addicted customers. When many state attorneys-general combined their efforts to defeat Big Tobacco in court, it was found that companies had known for years from their own research that cigarette smoking was a leading cause of lung cancer but had lied about it. An interesting story of a victory for justice led by a hero lawyer and gritty, never-say-die crusaders who worked around the clock for years. A glossary of the numerous characters coming in and out of the book could have aided the reader, however.

Subtle Aromatherapy or Carbophobia

Subtle Aromatherapy

Author: Patricia Davis

First book devoted solely to a subtle or spiritual level.

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Carbophobia: The Scary Truth about America's Low-Carb Craze

Author: Michael Greger

Everywhere you go these days, it seems, the Atkins "A" can be found. In the first six months of 2004, no fewer than 1,864 new "low-carb" products were launched-everything from low-carb pasta to low-carb gummy bears. Yet warnings from medical authorities continue to pour in. How have low-carb diet gurus managed to mislead millions of people onto a diet opposed by so many-including the American Dietetic Association, the American Medical Association, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health?

In the first book of its kind, Dr. Michael Greger draws together decades of research to decisively debunk the purported "science" behind the low-carb claims. Carbophobia documents just how ineffective the Atkins Diet and other low-carb plans have been in producing sustainable weight loss, and lists the known hazards inherent to the diet. This is not a case of academic "he said/she said." It is a case of major food industry players choosing to ignore all the current evidence-based dietary recommendations to protect their financial interests no matter what the human cost.

Publishers Weekly

Vegetarian nutrition specialist Greger dedicates this goal-oriented volume to discrediting the effectiveness and healthfulness of low-carbohydrate diets, especially the ubiquitous Atkins Diet. But the author, creator of www.AtkinsExposed.com, says his book is "not the Dr. Greger Diet versus the Dr. Atkins Diet. This is a century of medical science versus the Atkins diet." In fact, Greger cites hundreds of respectable resources that back up his theories; of the volume's 176 pages, 72 are filled with lists of references. The 104 remaining pages are generally reader-friendly and compelling, although readers might feel that they're stuck in the middle of a mud-slinging war instead of receiving helpful diet advice (for example, Greger points out that "on August 3, 2004, the legal department of the Atkins Corporation sent me a letter threatening to sue me for speaking out against the Atkins Diet on my website," and then spends a chapter refuting the corporation's claims). Still, this is an interesting counterpoint to a diet philosophy that has swept the nation, and it raises valid points that anyone concerned for their health may want to consider before committing to a low-carb existence. (Mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Mold and Real Estate or An Angel at My Side

Mold and Real Estate: A Handbook for Buyers and Sellers

Author: Carmel Streater

Mold is one of the most common and least understood of all living creatures. Yet, mold is involved in a number of highly publicized court cases involving real estate. How on earth is it possible for such a simple and common creature to be the cause of so much upheaval in the extremely complex business of real estate? Media reports of court cases involving mold and real estate are filled with references to the large settlements collected by plaintiffs. How these cases were made and what the actual findings were are more complex than they appear. In this book, Streater includes cases that illustrate the major findings of district and state courts. The variety of state statutes governing mold disclosures by real estate licensees is also examined. Mold and Real Estate is not intended to make you an expert in either mold or real estate. It will simply give you a general but factual knowledge of mold?s impact on real estate. After reading this book you will learn two facts: (1) not all mold problems are deal breakers, and (2) there need never be a mold problem serious enough to place a building in either physical or economic jeopardy if the appropriate management techniques are followed.

See also: The Martha Rules or GMAT For Dummies

An Angel at My Side: Surviving Leukemia Through Love

Author: Frances M Schindler

An inspiring, positive approach to surviving leukemia, a bone marrow transplant and severe Graft Versus Host Disease.

An Angel at My Side brings with it a powerful and inspiring message to any person faced with a critical illness, either of themselves or a loved one. Having been diagnosed twice with leukemia, Frances Schindler has faced inconceivable odds and challenges with courage, humor and unmistakable honesty. Portrayed within is the will of a warrior as she fights for her life. The reader will share in the journey of bone marrow transplant, toxic drug induced psychosis, numerous infections and illness, and a continuing battle with severe Graft Versus Host Disease. Schindler attributes her victory to faith, a positive attitude, and her own special angel.

Susan Derozier

One can't read this story without being lifted by its message, and inspired by a woman's capacity to forgive and love.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	ix
Chapter 1	Shock and Denial	1
Chapter 2	Hospital Routines	11
Chapter 3	Homeward Bound	21
Chapter 4	Life Goes On	29
Chapter 5	The Leukemia Is Back	36
Chapter 6	Bone Marrow Transplant	42
Chapter 7	The Journey Begins	55
Chapter 8	Reality Sets In	65
Chapter 9	Severe GVHD of the Skin	74
Chapter 10	Total Misery	84
Chapter 11	Strange Encounters of the Third Kind	91
Chapter 12	To Paradise and then Hell	101
Chapter 13	Deep Depression and Frustration Set In	113
Chapter 14	Five-Year Survival	125
Chapter 15	Healing the Mind, Body, and Soul	133
	A Donor's Message	141
	Epilogue	145
	List of Resources	147
	Supplement Therapies	149
	Photos	151

The Mature Mind or The Other Diabetes

The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain

Author: Gene D Cohen MD PhD

The Golden Years are being redefined. The fastest-growing segment of the population, those beyond the age of fifty, are no longer content to simply cope with the losses of age. Mental acuity and vitality are becoming a life-long pursuit. Now, the science of the mind is catching up with the Baby Boom generation. In this landmark book, renowned psychiatrist Gene Cohen challenges the long-held belief that our brain power inevitably declines as we age, and shows that there are actually positive changes taking place in our minds. Based on the latest studies of the brain, as well as moving stories of men and women in the second half of life, The Mature Mind reveals for the first time how we can continue to grow and flourish. Cohen's groundbreaking theory-the first to elaborate on the psychology of later life-describes how the mind gives us "inner pushes" and creates new opportunities for positive change throughout adult life. He shows how we can jump-start that growth at any age and under any circumstances, fine-tuning as we go, actively building brain reserves and new possibilities. The Mature Mind offers a profoundly different and intriguing look at ourselves, challenging old assumptions, raising bold new questions, and providing exciting answers grounded in science and the realities of everyday life.

Publishers Weekly

Old dogs can learn new tricks, says psychiatrist Cohen, drawing on the latest studies of the aging brain and mind. In fact, new scanning technologies show that in some ways the aging brain is more flexible than younger ones. How we look at the "mature mind" may change with the theories and research presented by Cohen (The Creative Age), founding chief of the Center on Aging at the National Institute of Mental Health. Aiming to debunk the myth of aging as an inevitable decline of body and mind, Cohen introduces the concept of developmental intelligence, a "maturing synergy of cognition, emotional intelligence, judgment, social skills, life experience, and consciousness." Expanding on Erik Erikson's developmental psychology, Cohen postulates that there are four phases of psychological development in mature life: midlife re-evaluation, "a time of exploration and transition"; liberation, a desire to experiment; the summing-up phase of "recapitulation, resolution, and review"; and "encore," the desire to go on. Drawing on the results of two groundbreaking studies, Cohen illustrates that the years after age 65 are anything but "retiring," and that creativity, intellectual growth and more satisfying relationships can blossom at any age. Agent, Gail Ross. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	The power of older minds	1
2	Harnessing developmental intelligence	29
3	The second half of life : phases I and II	51
4	The second half of life : phases III and IV	75
5	Cognition, memory, and wisdom	93
6	Cultivating social intelligence	115
7	Reinventing retirement	135
8	Creativity and aging	167

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The Other Diabetes: Living and Eating Well with Type 2 Diabetes

Author: Elizabeth N Hiser

Author Elizabeth Hiser offers a consumer guide to type 2 diabetes, the more common and less well-understood form of the disease. Of the estimated 16 million cases of diabetes in the United States today, nine out of ten are the "other" diabetes, type 2, the kind related to too much rather than too little insulin. The Other Diabetes reviews how genetics, excess calories, and a sedentary lifestyle contribute to type 2 diabetes; how insulin resistance is the hallmark of the disease; how people can lose weight and keep it off; how exercise can work for anyone; and how to avoid the most lethal complication of type 2 diabetes - early death from heart disease. The Other Diabetes is also a comprehensive nutrition handbook.

Library Journal

Type 2 diabetes affects over 16 million Americans, making it one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States. Hiser, a dietician and the nutrition editor of Eating Well magazine, rightfully credits diet as a major tool in the control of the disease and the prevention of disabling complications. Explanations of diabetes and why diet plays a critical role for the diabetic are clear and coherent. Exercise is emphasized in ways that all readers can adapt to their current lifestyles. Hiser advocates a Mediterranean diet that, while relatively high in monounsaturated fat, is primarily plant-based (i.e., grains, fruits, and vegetables), with a low emphasis on meat and dairy products. Concrete information and advice on "good" foods, supplements, and meal plans are covered, and recipes and a resource list of associations are included. A good addition to all health collections.--Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, FL Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Weiser Concise Guide to Yoga for Magick or Low Carb Barbecue Book

Weiser Concise Guide to Yoga for Magick: Build Physical and Mental Strength for Your Practice

Author: Nancy Wasserman

Spiritual power demands physical health and the contemporary Western practitioner can learn much from the ancient tradition of yoga. Yoga, meaning "union," is a multi-dimensional discipline designed to help the individual attain health, serenity, focus, and, ultimately, union with the Divine. In the words of one master, Aleister Crowley, "Magick is a Pyramid built layer by layer. The work of the Body of Light-with the technique of Yoga, is the foundation of the whole."

This succinct and uniquely helpful book explores the often-overlooked importance of bringing and maintaining a healthy body and a clear thinking mind to the practice of ceremonial magick or witchcraft. While many books on magick discuss the importance of ritual, few focus on the physical, spiritual, and moral qualities necessary to make those rituals effective.

"The physical body is the living temple of the Holy Spirit. A person who can't sit in one position with comfort and quiet, who can't breathe with evenness and regularity, who can't temporarily still the mind of its many warring thoughts, who can't channel powerful energies through the body because of ill health-will be hard-pressed to spiritually advance. This book will teach you do to every one of these things and more."

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Low-Carb Barbecue Book: Over 200 Recipes for the Grill and Picnic Table

Author: Dana Carpender

Over 200 recipes for backyard picnics and barbecues, from meats to side dishes to cocktails to desserts, that are all low in carbohydrates. This book features all-new recipes for condiments, sauces, and marinades that can replace the sugar-laden, store-bought varieties and allow the low-carber to enjoy previously forbidden foods like Honey-Glazed Babyback Ribs and pina coladas.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	9
Chapter 1	Techniques and Other Stuff You Need to Know	11
Chapter 2	Sauces, Rubs, Mops, and the Like	28
Chapter 3	Pork	79
Chapter 4	Chicken, Turkey, and Other Birds	98
Chapter 5	Beef and Lamb	124
Chapter 6	Fish and Seafood	144
Chapter 7	Kebabs	158
Chapter 8	Grilled Vegetables and Other Hot Sides	170
Chapter 9	Salads, Slaws, and Other Cold Sides	189
Chapter 10	Festive Grillside Adult Beverages (Plus One for Everyone!)	215
Chapter 11	Desserts--If You've Still Got Room!	228
Appendix	Where to Find a Few Less-Common Ingredients	246
	Index	249

The Elements of Effort or Heinermans Encyclopedia of Anti Aging Remedies

The Elements of Effort: Reflection on the Art of Science and Running

Author: John Jerom

All runners, from beginners to Olympians, will delight in this luminous compendium of wisdom wrought from many years of running. Applying his clear vision and wry wit to a smorgasbord of running-related topics, including stretching, dancing, bugs, falling, spaghetti, sweat, and the food police, John Jerome shares his contagious passion for the most basic of sports. Stripping the art of running down to its barest elements, he takes readers and runners with him on a joyous journey -- a run that revels in a profound affection and respect for the single sport that is as pure and simple as it is infinitely complex.

Kick!

This book is simply a delight....This is a book every runner should have in her or his gym bagfor both motivation and rumination — reading a page or two before your daily run will put an extra spring in your step and get you contemplating the reasons that you run.

Kick!

This book is simply a delight....This is a book every runner should have in her or his gym bag, for both motivation and rumination — reading a page or two before your daily run will put an extra spring in your step and get you contemplating the reasons that you run.

Table of Contents:

CONTENTS

Introduction

WINTER

Gifts Blah Running vs. Training Pointlessness Patience The Web The Other Half Efficiency Cold First Principles Child's Play Happiness Going Long, Getting Longer Information Listening to the Man Getting off Your Own Back Warming Up, Cooling Down Belief Systems Dancing with Fatigue Road Thoughts Shivering The Physiology of Confidence Rain in the Face Twenty-One Days from Now Rescue Readiness Letting Fly Wallet Protection, Part I Going Orthopedic Going Systemic Two Cultures Falling Whining Iliotibial Band Syndrome Dancing Sharpening

SPRING

Mariah Beginnings Grace Mechanics Wear-Dated Madness Callousness Taking a Break Pieces World Peace Gravity Deep Recreation The Heart of a Runner Inhale, Exhale Lengthening Antifreeze The Quiet Body Panaceas The W-Word Check It Out Relaxations Going Outdoors Cutting Apexes It's the Law Indoor Thinking Dissociation Proprioception Kettles and Pots Functionality Moods, Part I Virtual Realities Toleration Good News, Bad News The Suit of Lead Rhythmics The Interior Life Maintenance Adversaries Stride Length Ballistics Brains Taking Your Time

SUMMER

Bugs Touch So What?

The Elixir of Excellence Records Watering Up, Watering Down The Easiest Way Where the Walls Are Pumps The Annals of Spaghetti, Part I Energy Budgets When Fatigue Helps The Inclinometer The Glories of Muscle In Praise of Soreness Sinew Finishing When Silence Is Dangerous Molecular Theory Like the Wind A Penny Saved Tone Muscle "Pulls"

The Break-Over Point The Application of Pain Obsession -- and Other Perfumes Moods, Part II Us Weaklings Moans and Groans More Budgeting Stupidities Heart Gimme a BreakBellies Bored Horses Willpower-and Glycogen N = 1 Healing Wallet Protection, Part II Ignore at Your Peril Now Stale

FALL

Hunter-Gatherers On Taking a Little Off Repetitive Motion Volume Old Cats Running to Run Unified Field Theory Balance Big Veins Laws to Live By Waves Perceived Effort On Becoming Green Examining the Data Fashion Statement Putting It Back Take That, Pain For Fun Problem-Solving Pooped Discernment The Official Word Goofing Off Working at Play, Playing at Work Sugarplums The Annals of Spaghetti, Part II Objective vs. Subjective Eating Invulnerability Your Choice Choosing Your Pace

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Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Anti-Aging Remedies

Author: John Heinerman

Erase hundreds of effects of aging with proven remedies from best-selling author and medical anthropologist Dr. John Heinerman. Scores of effective, all-natural treatments and techniques from all over the world relieve and even reverse conditions like arthritis, stooped posture, impotence, expanding waistlines, and even gray hair. Natural, gentle, and proven remedies will turn back the clock for rejuvenated health, energy, and vitality. And they're safe, inexpensive, and found in the fruits, vegetables, and herbs sections of local supermarkets, health-food stores, and backyard gardens. Recapture the vim and vitality of five, ten, or 20 years ago with Dr. John Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Anti-Aging Remedies and begin feeling and looking younger today.

Space Time and Medicine or Macular Degeneration

Space, Time and Medicine

Author: Larry Dossey

What we call modern physics says something entirely new about the world and how it behaves. For many years, these theories have been accepted as the most accurate descriptions we have ever had about our world. Nevertheless, medicine has been reluctant to incorporate these ideas into itself, continuing to view the body as a clockwork mechanism, in which illness is caused by a breakdown of "parts." Drawing on his long experience in the practice of internal medicine and his knowledge of modern science, Dr. Dossey shows how medicine can and must be updated. Discussing the new theories of Bell, Godel, and others, he opens up startling questions for medicine: Could the brain be a hologram, in which every part contains the whole? Why have ordinary people been able to raise and lower blood pressure at will, control heart rate, body temperature, even one minute blood vessel, in a way no one can explain? What is the role of consciousness in health and illness? Perhaps the most startling of Dr. Dossey's discussions concerns nonlinear time. There is evidence that our obsession with time and our belief that time "flows" (a belief refuted by the new physics) may profoundly affect our health. "Time sickness" is becoming an accepted medical concept, a possible cause of the greatest killer of all—heart disease. Dr. Dossey presents remarkable clinical data showing that by changing their view of time, people have been able to positively affect the course of disease. Just as the clockwork picture of the universe was abandoned in the onslaught of new data, our mechanistic view of health and illness will give way to new models which, too, will be more consistent withthe true face of the universe.

Look this: Grill or Edge of Fusion

Macular Degeneration: The Latest Scientific Discoveries and Treatments for Preserving Your Sight

Author: Robert DAmato

Dr. Robert D'Amato, MD, PhD of Harvard Medical School,and recent winner of the Lew Wasserman award for his pioneering eye research, has teamed up with ARMD sufferer and writer Joan Snyder, to produce Macular Degeneration: The Latest Scientific Discoveries and Treatments for Preserving Your Sight. Endorsed by the Macular Degeneration Foundation, this easy-to-read large type edition is the only book written for laymen that covers all of the latest scientific discoveries and promising research for age-related macular degeneration. Learn more about Visudyne (photodynamic therapy), laser therapy, nutrition and drug therapy. Dr. D'Amato covers alternative or complimentaty therapies such as acupuncture, meditation, microcurrent stimulation and more. Promising medical research initiatives are discussed. Macular Degeneration offers hope and practical advice for the 13-15 million Americans suffering from this disease.

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The condition described here is age-related but has grown significantly in recent years as the population ages: Macular Degeneration provides an analysis of the disease, its progression and its symptoms. From the latest medical treatments to options for alternatives, Macular Degeneration focuses on understanding all aspects of the sight-robbing condition.

What People Are Saying

Karen McNally Bensing
An unpredictable disease that destroys the macula, the area of the retina responsible for central vision, age-related macular dengeneration (ARMD) affects more than 13 million older adults and is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. Few effective treatments are available, and the etiology is unclear. Ophthamologist and noted research D'Amato (Harvard Medical School) here teams with ARMD patient Snyder to write a reassuring, hopeful, and informative book providing the facts sufferers need to understand the disorder, handle treatment options, and live successfully with low vision. Their explanations are jargon-free and easy to understand but backed by solid medical evidence. Personal anecdotes from Snyder and others enhance the book's readability. Indicated that breakthroughs in preventing and treating ARMD are imminent, the authors also explore potential new treatments along with alternative therapies that may benefit the quality of life. Throughout, the text emphasizes the importance of patient involvement in monitoring and treating the disease and in leading an active, fulfilling life even with visual impairment. An oustanding addition to consumer health collections; highly recommended.
—(Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib. Cleveland, OH)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Preface	xi
	Preface	xv
	Author's Note	xix
Part 1	Understanding and Diagnosing Age-Related Macular Degeneration
1.	The Miracle of Eyesight	3
	The Anatomy of the Eye	5
	How We See	10
2.	Risk Factors for ARMD	12
	Demographics of ARMD	12
	Genetic Predisposition to ARMD	15
	Lifestyle and Environmental Factors	16
3.	Recognizing and Understanding ARMD	20
	Vision Specialists	21
	Symptoms	23
	Screening	26
	Understanding What Drusen Are	33
	Classifications of ARMD	36
4.	The Right Diagnosis	40
	Angiography	41
	Anticipating Angiography	45
	Optical Coherence Tomography	47
	Self-Screening for Vision Problems	48
5.	The Likely Course of ARMD	51
	Dry ARMD	52
	Wet ARMD	55
	Pigment Epithelial Detachment (PED)	58
	Retention of Peripheral Vision	59
	Watch Out for Other Eye Problems	60
	Be Your Own Best Expert	61
Part 2	Treatment Options
6.	Therapies for Dry ARMD	65
	Monitoring Your Status with the Amsler Grid	67
	Preventive Care	70
	Vitamins and Nutritional Supplements	74
7.	Medical Treatments for Wet ARMD	78
	The Pros and Cons of Laser Therapy	78
	Experimental Photodynamic Therapy	83
	Transpupillary Thermotherapy	85
	Drug Therapy	86
8.	Alternative Therapies	90
	Microcurrent Stimulation	91
	Rheo Therapy	94
	Acupuncture and Acupressure	95
	Yoga, Massage, and Other Body Work	96
	Meditation	99
	Homeopathy	100
	Aerobic Exercise	102
9.	Promising Medical Research Initiatives	104
	Surgical Procedures	105
	Radiation Therapy	110
	Steroid Injections	112
Part 3	Coping with Age-Related Macular Degeneration
10.	Don't Give in to the Prognosis	115
	Active Versus Passive Reactions	117
	Three Basic Actions	119
	Seeing in the Dark	121
	Getting by in Social Situations	122
	Adaptive Behaviors	123
11.	Low-Vision Support Tools	130
	Refractive Correction	131
	Illumination	133
	Magnification and Other Low-Vision Tools	133
	Your Home Environment	135
12.	The Low-Vision Community	138
	National Support Groups	138
	Helpful Web Sites	141
	Epilogue	147
	Glossary	149
	Resources	153
	Suggested Reading	159
	Index	161

Heartmates or Flesh Wounds

Heartmates: A Guide for the Spouse and Family of the Heart Patient

Author: Rachael Freed

This book shows cardiac spouses how to face their emotions and concerns and understand the new roles expected of them.

See also: Anlagengebäude & Gemeinschaftsentwicklung

Flesh Wounds: Culture of Cosmetic Surgery

Author: Virginia L Blum

When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery. From diverse viewpoints, ranging from cosmetic surgery patient to feminist cultural critic, she looks into the realities and fantasies that have made physical malleability an essential part of our modern-day identity.
For a cultural practice to develop such a tenacious grip, Blum argues, it must be fed from multiple directions: some pragmatic, including the profit motive of surgeons and the increasing need to appear young on the job; some philosophical, such as the notion that a new body is something you can buy or that appearance changes your life. Flesh Wounds is an inquiry into the ideas and practices that have forged such a culture. Tying the boom in cosmetic surgery to a culture-wide trend toward celebrity, Blum explores our growing compulsion to emulate what remain for most of us two-dimensional icons. Moving between personal experiences and observations, interviews with patients and surgeons, and readings of literature and cultural moments, her book reveals the ways in which the practice of cosmetic surgery captures the condition of identity in contemporary culture.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. The Patient's Body
2. Untouchable Bodies
3. The Plastic Surgeon and the Patient: A Slow Dance
4. Frankenstein Gets a Face-Lift
5. As If Beauty
6. The Monster and the Movie Star
7. Being and Having: Celebrity Culture and the Wages of Love
8. Addicted to Surgery

Notes
Works Cited
Index

The Way of Chinese Herbs or Weight Training For Dummies

The Way of Chinese Herbs

Author: Michael Tierra

Discussing preventive, holistic, and restorative properties, this remarkable book proves the merits of Chinese herbs as a truly natural path to well-being.

Book review: Freshness and Shelf Life of Foods or Health Effects of Tea and Its Catechins

Weight Training For Dummies: 2nd Edition

Author: Neporent

This second edition of Weight Training For Dummies, updated with more than 30% new material, takes you through the basics of strength training and identifies the tools of the trade-from free weights and machines to bands and other accessories-as well as how to get the most for the money when buying the equipment. This friendly guide includes:

• New chapters covering the latest trends in strength training-from Pilates and yoga to advanced weight training
• Updated photos and illustrations that demonstrate proper techniques for using free weights, machines, and resistance bands
• Information about how to improve flexibility, balance, and coordination
• The inside scoop on designing a balanced program based on individual lifestyles, abilities, and fitness goals

About the Authors:

Liz Neporent, M.A., (New York, New York) appears frequently as a fitness expert on CNN, CBS News, and ABC's The Home Show. She is the author of several titles including Fitness Walking For Dummies and Buns of Steel: The Total Body Workout.

Suzanne Schlosberg (Beverly Hills, California) is a former Senior Editor for Shape magazine, the country's largest women's fitness magazine. She is the author of The Ultimate Workout Log: An Exercise Diary and Fitness Guide, and is the coauthor (with Liz Neporent) of Fitness For Dummies.

Youre Only Young Twice or Dressing Smart for Men

You're Only Young Twice: 10 Do-Overs to Reawaken Your Spirit

Author: Ronda Beaman

The science of growing young (neoteny) underpins this book about maintaining or rediscovering ten youthful traits in ourselves as we age. The traits are resilience, optimism, wonder, curiosity, joy, humor, musicality (song and dance), work, play, and learning. Across all, there is love. The reader is encouraged to keep a Young Twice Chronicle for recording thoughts and outcomes as the book suggests do-overs and other activities for growing young-from the inside out.

Library Journal

Midlife coach Beaman maintains that the characteristics of youth are the ones those in and beyond midlife need to use to recapture their innate youthfulness. She draws on the concept of neotony (in science, the retention of juvenile traits by adults) to propose nine youthful traits to be regained as people age. "Do-overs" for each trait assist readers in developing such capacities as resilience, optimism, curiosity, humor, music, and play. Beaman tends to oversell her point about growing younger, but her guidelines and exercises will probably boost readers' spirits and help them find more pleasure in life. Recommended for most libraries. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Dressing Smart for Men: 101 Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make...and How to Avoid Them

Author: JoAnna Nicholson

This book identifies 101 dressing mistakes men often make that can negatively affect their careers. Includes errors such as looking too casual.

Great Physicians Rx for Health and Wellness or Understanding Cancer

Great Physician's Rx for Health and Wellness: Seven Keys to Unlock Your Health Potential

Author: Jordan Rubin

At 19 years old, Jordan Rubin was a healthy 6'1" and 180 pounds. Shockingly, his weight fell to just 104 lbs. in a matter of months. His immune system was at an all-time low, as he suffered from Crohn's disease, food allergies, anemia, fibromyalgia, intestinal parasites, and a host of other conditions. After seeing over 70 health professionals, using both conventional and alternative medicines, Rubin was sent home in a wheelchair to die.

But his story didn't end there. Through determination and a powerful faith in God, Rubin refused to give in to disease. Instead, he educated himself on natural health, and applied its principles. Now, ten years later, Rubin is fully recovered-and he desires to share the keys to his own good health. These keys aren't just for the disease-ridden; they are for anyone desiring to live an abundant life of health and wellness.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Introduction: Offer Your Body as a Living Sacrifice....................vii
Key # 1: Eat to Live....................1
Key # 2: Supplement Your Diet with Whole Food Nutritionals, Living Nutrients, and Superfoods....................75
Key # 3: Practice Advanced Hygiene....................107
Key # 4: Condition Your Body with Exercise and Body Therapies....................133
Key # 5: Reduce Toxins in Your Environment....................173
Key # 6: Avoid Deadly Emotions....................203
Key # 7: Live a Life of Prayer and Purpose....................229
Appendix A: Recipes....................265
Appendix B: A Refresher on Practicing Advance Hygiene....................325
The GPRx Resource Guide....................327
Notes....................357
Index....................361
About the Authors....................367
Acknowledgments....................369

Interesting textbook: Services Marketing or Organization Modeling

Understanding Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment

Author: C Norman Coleman

The greatest need of anyone with cancer is to understand the disease -- its diagnosis, treatment options, and the often devastating experience of having cancer. In Understanding Cancer, Dr. C. Norman Coleman explains how to gather information about treatments and how to interpret that information to make decisions. He helps the person with cancer prepare for visits to doctors and the hospital and to make those visits as productive as possible. He distills the often complex medical terms and concepts underlying the statistics and percentages used to characterize medical conditions. With clear, in-depth discussions of pretreatment staging of disease, the biology of cancer, how successful treatment is defined, and how best to manage one's time, Understanding Cancer helps people with cancer and their families become active participants in the decision-making process.

In the second edition of this highly respected guide, Dr. Coleman describes new treatments that target specific types of cancer as well as treatments that are designed for a particular individual. He discusses the era of molecular medicine, including biomarkers, novel imaging, molecular signatures and profiling, and molecular-targeted therapy. Many of these therapies are currently only available through a clinical trial, so Dr. Coleman includes a detailed discussion of what is involved in participating in research trials.

Compassionate, accessible, and informative, Understanding Cancer will increase the reader's knowledge of medical concepts and terms so the person with cancer, the family, and the health care team can work together efficiently -- and effectively.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Melody L. McKinney, DNS, RN(Indiana State University)
Description:Achieving success in cancer care is best accomplished with the active involvement of the patient and family. This book addresses the challenge of educating patients and families about participating in care and decision-making under the intense conditions often associated with a recent cancer diagnosis. As in the previous edition, an experienced radiation oncologist provides up-to-date basic cancer information. The new edition increases the emphasis on clinical trials and covers new treatments targeting specific types of cancer, individualized treatment, and molecular medicine therapies such as biomarkers, novel imaging, molecular signatures and profiling, and molecular-targeted therapy.
Purpose:This is intended to provide the information needed by patients and families to make informed treatment decisions and to increase their comfort level in managing life after a cancer diagnosis.
Audience:This book would be useful to the cancer patient, as well as to family, friends, and lay and professional caregivers. The author is an expert with over three decades of experience in the field of oncology.
Features:The nine chapters cover basic cancer topics such as what cancer is; diagnostic testing and staging; making treatment decisions; conventional treatments; molecular-targeted therapy; weighing risks and benefits; and clinical research trials. The final chapter includes four case studies that illustrate how decision treatments are made. The book also includes an index, bibliography, and four appendixes with information on cancer molecular biology, costeffectiveness, performance status scoring systems, and a patient checklist for recording diagnosis and treatment information.
Assessment:The author has met his goal to create a useful reference that provides cancer patients and their families with the information necessary to take an active role in treatment and management. This well written, up-to-date book is concise and easy to read and understand. Written in everyday language without being overly simplistic, the book provides clear explanations, examples, and practical advice that can serve as a framework for treatment decisions. Cancer is a life-altering experience and this book supports the author's belief that people with cancer can, with the appropriate tools, often lead fuller and more meaningful lives than they did before the diagnosis.

New Hope for People with Fibromyalgia or Coping with Chemotherapy

New Hope for People with Fibromyalgia: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions

Author: Theresa Foy Digeronimo

Discover Exciting New Treatments for Fibromyalgia
Now you can take control of your fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and begin enjoying life again—today! This book dispels the myths and clearly lays out the truth about FMS and what you can do for relief. Inside is compassionate, practical, and immediate guidance for anyone affected by fibromyalgia, including:
·The causes, symptoms, and patterns of fibromyalgia
·How to find the right doctor and avoid costly and unnecessary testing
·The latest drug treatments, including the use of antidepressants and pain relievers
·How to minimize fatigue and sleep disturbance
·Lifestyle solutions to manage your life and your work, such as the importance of exercise
·And much more!
"Fibromyalgia is not a 'clean' disease like diabetes, precisely classified and precisely treated. My own experience has taught me that fibromyalgia is an illness much like other chronic conditions that must be considered from biological, psychological, social, and spiritual perspectives. There has been a great lack of public information on this common debilitating condition, but this book should go a long way toward educating people. Theresa Foy DiGeronimo gives us a sensitive and comprehensive book that will be of tremendous value to people with fibromyalgia."
—From the Foreword by Joseph E. Scherger, M.D., M.P.H.

Booknews

Compassionate and practical guidance is presented on the causes, symptoms, and patterns of fibromyalgia, the latest drug treatments, lifestyle solutions, and alternative therapies, including acupuncture and massage. There is advice on finding the right doctor and avoiding unnecessary tests, and a chapter on exercise and relaxation techniques. An appendix lists support organizations. DiGeronimo is the author of numerous health books and teaches undergraduate and graduate writing courses at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Coping with Chemotherapy: Authoritative Information and Compassionate Advice from a Chemo Sufferer

Author: Nancy Bruning

After undergoing chemotherapy herself, author Nancy Bruning decided to write a candid and authoritative book to fill the void of information available for patients facing this procedure. In this completely revised, updated, and thoroughly researched edition, she details every step of the process, providing information even doctors neglect to tell their patients, including possible sexual and emotional side effects and ways to combat them.

Coping with Chemotherapy is a must-read for anyone battling cancer.

Author Biography: Nancy Bruning is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book and Dare to Lose (both with Shari Lieberman).

Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing or No Duty to Retreat

Narrative and the Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing

Author: Cheryl Mattingly

Inspired by the possibilities of narrative, the essays in this direction-setting volume present stories drawn from a range of ethnographic contexts. Stories of illness and healing are often arresting in their power, and they can illuminate aspects of practices and experiences surrounding illness that might otherwise be neglected. Recognizing the value of increased theoretical consciousness among those eliciting and analyzing narratives, these contributors explore narrative from a variety of perspectives.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

1. Narrative as Construct and as Construction: An Introduction
Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly

2. "Fiction" and "Historicity" in Doctors' Stories: Social and Narrative Dimensions of Learning Medicine
Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

3. Cultural Knowledge as Resource in Illness Narratives: Remembering through Accounts of Illness
Linda C. Garro

4. Strategic Suffering: Illness Narratives as Social Empowerment among Mexican Cancer Patients
Linda M. Hunt

5. Physician Autobiography: Narrative and the Social History of Medicine
Donald Pollock

6. "Even If We Don't Have Children [We] Can Live": Stigma and Infertility in South India
Catherine Kohler Riessman

7. Broken Narratives: Clinical Encounters and the Poetics of Illness Experience
Laurence J. Kirmayer

8. Emergent Narratives
Cheryl Mattingly

9. With Life in One's Lap: The Story of an Eye/I (or Two)
Unni Wikan

10. Psychotherapy in Clients' Trajectories across Contexts
Ole Dreier

11. Narrative Turns
Linda C. Garro and Cheryl Mattingly

Contributors
Index

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No Duty to Retreat

Author: E Antonio Hernandez

No Duty to Retreat is a fascinating tour through the neurological conditions Tourette Syndrome and Asperger's Syndrome. Tourette Syndrome, characterized by tics, and Asperger Syndrome, a mild form of autism, are vividly described in this superior learning odyssey by Bishop Hernбndez. It will also contain the fullest, most accurate and up-to-date information. This book is also an excellent resource on day-to-day living for those families affected by these conditions. Chapters on friends, social difficulties, medical community advice, expert tips on school difficulties, and much more are all included. The works of other experts are comprehensively quoted, and the manuscript had the advantage of being reviewed by several of the world's experts, including Asperger expert Dr. Tony Attwood and Tourette expert Dr. David Comings. Enjoy and benefit from this thrilling, absorbing history of neurological illness and wellness; much of the information you will read here will be for the first time. And, directly from the author, "Bless you, and thank you for buying my book!"

Bob Greenes Total Body Makeover or Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine

Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover: An Accelerated Program of Exercise and Nutrition for Maximum Results in Minimum Time

Author: Bob Green

From Bob Greene, bestselling author of Get With the Program!, comes a comprehensive, innovative twelve-week plan for transforming your body inside and out. With Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover, you'll achieve maximum results in a minimum amount of time!

Knowing that great health and fitness begin with the right state of mind, Greene addresses the important emotional issues behind poor exercise and eating patterns and provides the motivational tools needed to achieve your fitness goals, as well as develop practical and beneficial habits for lasting results. You'll be inspired and moved by reading the compelling true-life success stories of real people who have taken the challenge and who have changed their bodies -- and lives -- in ways they never dreamed possible! Whether you're struggling to lose that last ten pounds or searching for a radical weight-loss solution, the twelve-week makeover challenge is the answer to your fitness goals.

After committing to the program, you'll find illustrated step-by-step workout guides for all fitness levels, combining progressive cardiovascular and intensive strength training exercises designed to revitalize your metabolism and get noticeable results fast. Each of the accelerated workouts has been created to energize and invigorate your body and mind while you have fun and trim down in the process! In addition, Greene takes a fresh approach to the question of diets by providing key nutritional guidelines that work in conjunction with any healthy eating plan, and he explains many of the popular diets on the market today to help you choose the one that's right for you.

Finally, there is helpful advice on making the transitionback to your everyday life: how to avoid regaining the weight you've lost, and how to maintain healthy exercise and eating habits for life. While many books leave you wondering what to do next, Bob Greene's Total Body Makeover offers enthusiastic and informative hands-on advice and tips beyond eating and exercise, and teaches you how to make your own happiness and well-being the foundation of an active and healthy life.

Library Journal

Trainer Greene helped Oprah stop her yo-yo cycle of dieting and finally keep off the weight she had lost. Here he presents a 12-week accelerated version of his best-selling Get with the Program! exercise plan, which can easily be used with such currently popular diets as Atkins, South Beach, and The Zone. Greene's focus is on motivation-a good thing given the advanced nature of the workouts. He does clearly explain what exercisers should be feeling if they are doing the routines correctly. Although this fitness program is pretty tough, especially for beginners, the book will probably be in demand. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine: An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China

Author: Yanhua Zhang

Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedical model. Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine offers an ethnographic account of emotion-related disorders as they are conceived, talked about, experienced, and treated in clinics of Chinese medicine in contemporary China. While Chinese medicine (zhongyi) has been predominantly categorized as herbal therapy that treats physical disorders, it is also well known that Chinese patients routinely go to zhongyi clinics for treatment of illness that might be diagnosed as psychological or emotional in the West. Through participant observation, interviews, case studies, and zhongyi publications, both classic and modern, the author explores the Chinese notion of "body-person," unravels cultural constructions of emotion, and examines the way Chinese medicine manipulates body-mind connections.

About the Author:
Yanhua Zhang is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Clemson University

Table of Contents:

Tables     ix
Illustrations     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
Chinese Medicine: Continuity and Modern Transformations     17
The Chinese World of Shenti (Body-Person)     31
Contextualizing Qingzhi [Characters not reproducible] (Emotions)     53
Understanding Zhongyi Clinical Classification     75
Manifestations of Yu (Stagnations)     87
Clinical Process of Tiao (Attuning)     105
Conclusion     139
Transcription Conventions     145
Notes     147
Bibliography     169
Index     187

Oxford Book of Health Food or Hooked on Heroin

Oxford Book of Health Food

Author: J G Vaughan

The health food industry is a billion-dollar business in the United States today and is thriving worldwide. However, despite the widespread consumption of these foods, little information is available to validate their actual therapeutic and nutritional value.
The Oxford Book of Health Foods is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and scientifically based guide to a variety of foods associated with good health. From fruits, herbs, and grains to vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements, this new resource offers not only the claims associated with each food, but also the scientific truths behind these claims. Written in elegant and accessible prose, the book begins with an account of modern concepts of human nutrition, followed by a series of over one hundred entries on individual health foods and dietary supplements. Each entry provides full information on the food's origins, a thorough description, the claims and myths associated with it, and the scientific evidence to support--or refute--these claims. Beautifully illustrated throughout with botanical drawings, electron micrograph scans, and photographs (all in full color), the text is further supplemented by a glossary explaining the more technical terms and a bibliography listing sources for further reading. A straightforward and authoritative reference, The Oxford Book of Health Foods is a must-have for all who are interested in general health and nutrition.

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements and figure sources

Preface

Introduction

Articles on over 120 health foods, from Alfalfa and Algae, to Witch Hazel and Yarrow

Recommended reading

Glossary

Index

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Hooked on Heroin: Drugs and Drifters in a Globalized World

Author: Philip Lalander

Alarmingly, heroin is growing in popularity amongst young people. This is despite the fact that it is - more than any other drug - associated with failure, death, misery and poverty. This book explores why people are tempted by heroin and how globalization has played a key role in increasing the number of abusers. Rather than offer lofty and abstract theories on addiction, the author grounds his study firmly in the day-to-day lives of heroin users themselves. Norrköping in Sweden is a mid-sized former industrial city like countless others throughout the world. It has suffered high unemployment as a result of its rapid decline as a hub of commerce. Once well known for housing the giant telecommunications company Ericsson, it sadly gains more notoriety today through its associations with heroin, which continues to be the drug of choice for Norrköping’s young people. Through privileged access to users themselves, Lalander is able to show us the real motivations and lifestyle choices behind addiction. Personal testimonies candidly expose the underground activities of a thriving subculture and spark vexing questions as to why these young people choose to flirt with fatality. What media representations influence heroin users? Is this phenomenon the inevitable by-product of modern life? What are the root causes at play? Lalander’s in-depth investigation overturns many of the stereotypes associated with heroin use. Accessible and gripping, Hooked on Heroin brings a disturbing reality closer to home and shows how global and local practices are intimately linked.

Boosting Immunity with Power Plants or Essential Readings on Stress and Coping Among Parents of Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children

Boosting Immunity with Power Plants (Healthy Healing Library Series)

Author: Linda Rector Pag

Over 65% of Americans now use some form of alternative health care, from vitamins to massage therapy to herbal supplements. These succint, inexpensive Healthy Healing Library booklets by Linda Rector-Page, N.D., Ph.D. help people make informed choices.

Interesting book: Herbs in the Treatment of Children or Getting Pregnant the Natural Way

Essential Readings on Stress and Coping Among Parents of Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Children

Author: Idalia Mapp

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc./ Gordian Knot Books

This book provides a convenient single reference for better understanding the major sources of stress that parents of deaf and hearing-impaired children confront and the strategies and resources they use to cope with the experience of grief, depression, anxiety, panic, and other negative states that often threaten their personal and family lives. The authoritative studies presented in this volume dispel stereotypes about these parents by revealing differences in how they react to and cope with stressors—as individuals and as members of diverse social, ethnic, religious, and national groups.



Leading experts in psychology, social work, sociology, and psychiatry address vital questions about parenting deaf and hearing-impaired children: What are the most common stressors these parents face? Do white, black, and Hispanic parents use different coping styles and strategies for dealing with stress? Do hearing parents and deaf parents respond to and cope with stress differently? Does the passage of time alleviate the nature of stress or alter the coping strategies that parents use to deal with stress? Which parents can expect to benefit most from support groups? Do parents overlook specific important resources? Which coping strategies are the most and the least effective? What effect does a child’s hearing impairment have on the stability of the family in general and on the relationships between husband and wife and between parents and other children? This rich collection of facts, perspectives, and insights is a vital resource forparents of deaf and hearing-impaired children and their families.

Teaching Lifetime Sports or Addiction

Teaching Lifetime Sports

Author: Lawrence F Butler

The benefits of lifelong fitness activity are enormous, but the United States seems to be experiencing a decline in health-related fitness levels. This downward trend is of particular concern because it is occurring in children as well as adults. The book will serve as a guide for teaching lifetime sports, and more importantly, assist them in focusing their efforts on sound teaching principles based on current research.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations
	Tables
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	Importance of Physical Activity in Society Today	3
	Decline in Physical Fitness Levels	3
	The Great Leisure Myth	4
	Trends in Highly Developed Nations	4
	Physical Activity and Health - A Report of the Surgeon General	5
	What are Lifetime Sports?	9
	Why Teach Lifetime Sports?	9
Ch. 2	Basic Teaching Skills: The Art and Science of Teaching	13
	Before We Begin: Teacher Commitment	13
	Basic Teaching Skills	15
	Teaching Styles and Approaches	30
	Characteristics of Effective Teachers	34
Ch. 3	Fitness Walking	45
	The Nature of Fitness Walking	47
	Equipment	48
	Walking Skills and Techniques	51
	Instructional Cues	52
	Focus on Fitness - Target Zone	53
	Progression - How to Start a Walking Program	54
	Sample Lesson Plan	55
	Terminology	56
Ch. 4	Running	59
	The Nature of Running	59
	Instructional Area	60
	Equipment	60
	Running Skills and Techniques	63
	Instructional Cues: Running Form	64
	Focus on Fitness - Target Zone	64
	Progression: How to Start a Running Program	66
	Sample Lesson Plan	67
	Terminology	69
Ch. 5	Exercising with Equipment: Muscular Fitness Training	71
	The Nature of Muscular Fitness Training	71
	Instructional Area	72
	Equipment	72
	Types of Exercises	73
	Phases of Muscular Contractions	73
	Muscular Strength versus Muscular Endurance	73
	Principles of Muscular Fitness Training	74
	Sample Exercises Using Free Weights	77
	Sample Exercises Using Machines	81
	Sample of Free Body Exercises	85
	Progression: How to Start a Muscular Fitness Program	87
	Sample Lesson Plan	87
	Terminology	89
Ch. 6	In-Line Skating	91
	The Nature of In-Line Skating	91
	Instructional Area	91
	Equipment	92
	Skills and Techniques	93
	Focus on Fitness	96
	Sample Lesson Plans	97
	Terminology	99
Ch. 7	Mountain Biking	101
	The Nature of Mountain Biking	101
	Instructional Area	101
	Equipment	102
	Progression	104
	Skills and Techniques	104
	Instructional Cues for Riding	106
	Focus on Fitness	107
	Sample Lesson Plan	107
	Terminology	108
Ch. 8	Volleyball	111
	The Nature of Volleyball	111
	Instructional Area	111
	Skills and Techniques	112
	Cooperative Games	120
	Focus on Fitness	120
	Sample Lesson Plans	120
	Terminology	121
Ch. 9	Tennis	123
	The Nature of Tennis	123
	Instructional Area	123
	Equipment	124
	Skills and Techniques	125
	Focus on Fitness	142
	Teaching Large Groups	142
	Sample Lesson Plan	143
	Terminology	145
	Sport Specific Organizations	147
Ch. 10	Swimming	149
	The Nature of Swimming	149
	Equipment	150
	Swimming Safety	151
	Swimming Skills and Techniques	151
	Focus on Fitness	157
	Sample Lesson Plan	159
	Terminology	161
	Sport Specific Organizations	162
App	National and Sport Specific Organizations	163
	Index	165
	About the Author and Contributors	169

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Billions of dollars have been expended on educating the public about the dangers of drug and alochol addiction. Despite these massive expenditures, the powerful vortex of addiction continues. Why? Irving Cohen, MD looks at the profile of the addict, the nature of addiction, the pharmacologic nature of the drugs, and explains the roller coaster syndrome that can trap innocent people. Addiction: The High-Low Trapoffers a unique perspecive for both the addict and society on how to approach this problem.