Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Complete Conditioning for Tennis or Como Mejorar la Salud Con la Reflexologia

Complete Conditioning for Tennis

Author: E Paul Roetert

Increase strength, power, agility, and quickness and take your game to a much higher level. Complete Conditioning for Tennis details how to make the most of your training time with exercises, drills, and programs designed to

  • assess your fitness level,
  • improve footwork,
  • increase speed and flexibility,
  • enhance stamina,
  • boost mental focus, and
  • prevent common injuries.

Additionally, the 90-minute DVD takes you on court and into the gym to demonstrate the drills and exercises used by the pros.

Endorsed by the United States Tennis Association, Complete Conditioning for Tennis is simply the best guide to developing the highest level of athleticism for success in the sport.

About the Author

E. Paul Roetert, Ph.D., is the Managing Director of the United States Tennis Association's Player Development Program. In addition, he serves as Tournament Director of the U.S. Open Junior Tennis Championships. Before re-joining the USTA in November, 2001, Roetert spent two years as the Executive Director of the American Sport Education Program. Prior to that position he spent eleven years as the Administrator of Sport Science for the USTA where he developed the sport science program. He also served as Vice Chairman of the sport science committee.

Roetert has published extensively in the field of tennis, including two books, 16 book chapters and well over 100 articles. He is a Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), a Master Professional with the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) and an Honorary Member of the Professional Registry (PTR). In 1998 he received the PTR's Plagenhoef Award for sport science; in 1999 the Editorial Excellence Award from the National Strength and Conditioning Association for his work on the Journal of Strength and Conditioning and Research; and in 2000 the Outstanding Alumni award from the University of Connecticut. He is also the 2002 Educational Merit Award recipient from the International Tennis Hall of Fame for outstanding service to the game of tennis.

Roetert holds a Ph.D. in biomechanics from the University of Connecticut. Originally from the Netherlands, he and his wife Barbara reside in Miami, Florida.

Todd S. Ellenbecker, DPT, MS, SCS, OCS, CSCS, is the clinic director at Physiotherapy Associates Scottsdale Sports Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. A licensed physical therapist, he has researched and taught in the field for 18 years.

Ellenbecker is certified by the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) as both a sports clinical specialist and orthopedic clinical specialist. The APTA also awarded him its Sports Physical Therapy Clinical Teaching Award in 1999. He was chairman of the APTA's Shoulder Special Interest Group and is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy and the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

In addition, Ellenbecker is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA). He is chairman of the USTA's National Sport Science Committee and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). In 2003, the NSCA named him the Sports Medicine Professional of the Year.

He has served as a member of the Thera-Band research advisory committee and is coauthor of The Scientific and Clinical Application of Elastic Resistance. He also has cowritten The Elbow in Sport, World-Class Tennis Technique, and Closed Kinetic Chain Exercise.

Ellenbecker lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife, Gail.



Book review: Terry or The Omega 3 Connection

Como Mejorar la Salud Con la Reflexologia: El Arte de Curar al Alcance de su Mano

Author: Mildred Carter

Mildred Carter--who coined the term reflexology--explains that perfect health and freedom from pain are available... only a fingertip away. Simple, safe and effective, her time-tested methods of rubbing, pressing, pulling and massaging away illness provide blessed relief from more than 50 debilitating ailments. Each chapter includes black and white illustrations and diagrams for accurate understanding.



15 Minute Gentle Yoga or The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan

15 Minute Gentle Yoga

Author: Louise Grim

No time to exercise? No problem! DK's new 15-Minute Fitness series gives you all the tools you need to squeeze regular exercise into your life. This fantastic new format offers: four detailed gatefolds for easy, step-by-step instruction; a DVD to walk you through each routine; and a fully-illustrated, fully-annotated book to help you perfect your technique. Choose one of four complete mini-workouts each day to target a specific part of the body, and to strengthen, stretch, and build your way to a more toned, more healthy you.



Interesting textbook: Foundations of Financial Management or Eight Months in Illinois

The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories

Author: Barbara Rolls

Dieters everywhere have the same complaint: they're hungry all the time. Now this revolutionary book, based on sound scientific principles, can help you lose weight safely, effectively, and permanently without those gnawing pangs of hunger.

The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan introduces the concept of "energy density" -- concentration of calories in each portion of food. Here you'll learn how to avoid high energy -- dense foods, and how such different nutritional factors as fat, fiber, protein, and water affect energy density and satiety. You'll discover which foods, eaten under which circumstances, allow you to consume fewer calories and still be satisfied. And you'll get to know the hidden calorie traps, seemingly innocuous foods that can sneak unwanted calories into your body. Finally, the authors offer 60 sensible, tasty and easy recipes, plus an integrated program of exercise and behavior management that can be sustained over a lifetime.

Washington Post

Refreshing. . . .Honest—and honestly motivating.

Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter

4-star—highly recommended.



Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsVIII
Part 1What Is Volumetrics?1
Introduction2
The Energy Density Breakthrough9
Part 2How to Lose Weight and Keep It Off24
Creating Your Own Weight Management Program25
Part 3What We Eat and Drink39
Fat41
Carbohydrates56
Protein76
Alcohol84
Water and Other Beverages91
Soup99
Part 4The Food Guide105
Volumetrics and the Food Guide Pyramid110
The Energy Density Spectrum: Single Foods116
The Energy Density Spectrum: Beverages and Mixed Foods133
Part 5The Menu Plan149
Menus154
Modular Food Lists173
Recipes190
Modifying Favorite Recipes253
Part 6An Active Life257
The Exercise Prescription258
Part 7The Satiety Lifestyle268
Are You Hungry?269
Variety281
Sizing Up Portions291
Meal Timing Myths: Questions and Answers295
Resources300
References304
Index315

Witchcraft Medicine or Surviving Schizophrenia

Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants

Author: Claudia Muller Ebeling

WITCHCRAFT / SHAMANISM

“Witchcraft Medicine is a work of brilliant and passionate scholarship, fabulously illustrated, that recovers the lost knowledge of the European shamanic tradition. It is both a guide and an enthusiastic ode to the visionary edge of the botanical realm.”
Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism

“This is a fascinating work of great importance that is incredibly well researched and documented. And brave. From the first impassioned paragraph to the last words, I was spellbound. Anyone interested in medicine, herbalism, the healing arts, and spiritual phenomena will find this book thought provoking and empowering.”
Rosemary Gladstar, president of United Plant Savers and author of Herbal Healing for Women

Witch medicine is wild medicine. It does more than make one healthy; it encourages knowledge and engenders ecstasy and mythological insight. In Witchcraft Medicine the authors take the reader on a journey that examines the women from centuries past who mixed the potions and became the healers. As humans left the “thorny brush” and settled into agrarian societies, elements of nature (including human nature) became identified as wild and destructive, and the culture of the witch was born. Through study of ancient and medieval texts and the artwork of the early Renaissance, the authors explore the demonization of nature’s healing powers and sensuousness, the legacy of Hecate, the sorceress as shaman, and the plants associated with witches. They describe importantseasonal festivals and the plants used in these celebrations and rituals. They also look at the history of forbidden medicine from the Inquisition to current drug laws, with an eye toward how sacred plants of witchcraft can be used once again.

CLAUDIA MÜLLER-EBELING, PH.D., art historian and anthropologist, is the coauthor of Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas and was editor in chief of Dao, a magazine about the health and longevity practices of the Far East. She lives in Hamburg, Germany. CHRISTIAN RÄTSCH, PH.D., is a world-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist who specializes in the shamanic uses of plants. The author of Marijuana Medicine and coauthor of Plants of the Gods, he lives in Hamburg, Germany. WOLF-DIETER STORL, PH.D., is a cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has taught at Kent State University, as well as in Vienna, Berne, and Benares. He lives in Allgäu, Germany, and is the author of Culture and Horticulture: A Philosophy of Gardening.

Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Ph.D., is an art historian and anthropologist and coauthor, with Christian Rätsch, of Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas, Witchcraft Medicine, and Pagan Christmas. She lives in Hamburg, Germany.

Christian Rätsch, Ph.D., is a world-renowned anthropologist and ethnopharmacologist who specializes in the shamanic uses of plants. He is the author of Marijuana Medicine and coauthor of Plants of the Gods, Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas, Witchcraft Medicine, and The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants. He lives in Hamburg, Germany, and lectures around the world.

Wolf-Dieter Storl, Ph.D., is a cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist who has taught at Kent State University as well as in Vienna, Berne, and Benares. He is coauthor of Witchcraft Medicine and has written a number of books on indigenous culture and ethnobotany. He lives in Allgäu, Germany.

Publishers Weekly

"Witchcraft medicine is more than factual knowledge of medicinal herbs, poisonous plants, psychedelic compounds.... It is the ability to converse with the animal and plant spirits and to forge friendships." So begins this manual on traditional European folk medicine, first published in German in 1998. The work of four writers including fluid translator Lee, this volume is not the pagan whirlwind concoction of recipes and how-to instructions that it might seem at first. It is instead a highly desirable reference work for people of many stripes: cultural anthropologists, gardeners, historians, ethno-botanists, mythologists and those broadly interested in Wicca. Tracing human relations with plants (and animals to a lesser degree) back to the Stone Age, the book is deeply thorough and rests on interesting scholarship. It leaves no myth unexamined. The first six chapters delve into the evolution of the witch, usually a woman, who became familiar with the wild world that lay on the far side of the hedgerow. Chapter Seven examines images of witches, especially in art history, often counterbalanced against images of Mary. The final chapter on "Forbidden Medicine" (coca, poppy, mescaline, etc.) disappoints because its overt, unbalanced polemical tone agitating for legalization veers too much from scholarship toward politics. Copious illustrations, quotations, plant lists and profiles make this work even more interesting. The critical index (not seen by PW) should cap this 90% excellent effort. (Dec.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.



Go to: The Ultimate Tailgaters Big Ten Handbook or Olive and the Caper

Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers

Author: E Fuller Torrey

and/or stickers showing their discounted price. More about bargain books

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Born Yogis or Touching

Born Yogis

Author: Susie Arnett

Adorable photos of babies in yoga poses make this enchanting book a perfect baby shower present--and an inspired gift for yoga practitioners as well Babies are born little yogis and yoginis. At every stage in development, babies naturally curl and rest into a variety of asanas (poses) that would make a yoga student green with envy. In Born Yogis, 50 black-and-white photographs of babies demonstrating the asanas pair with inspirational quotations from classic yoga works.

Each charming photograph by Doug Kim is accompanied by the baby’s name and age, along with a carefully selected passage from one of the classic yoga texts describing the pose and its benefits. Whether it is a 7-month-old baby doing the Bhujangasana (the "Cobra" pose) or a 36-month-old performing the Simhasana (the "Lion" pose), the new interpretations of an ancient practice in this beautifully designed book will charm and inspire yoga followers--and bring a smile to new parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, or anyone who loves babies.



Interesting book: The Conservative Soul or The King of California

Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin

Author: Ashley Montagu

With more than 300,000 copies sold, this landmark book is an impressive examination of the importance of touching. "All professionals concerned with human behavior will find something of value. . . . Parents . . . can gain insight into the nurturing needs of infants."--Janet Rhoads, American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Jules Older

The mother and father of all books written on touch.

Loren Eiseley

Dr. Montagu has produced a fascinating analysis...which should be read by all students of human behavior.

Psychology Today

Excellent and well-documented.



Table of Contents:
Preface to the First Editionix
Preface to the Second Editionxi
Preface to the Third Editionxiii
Acknowledgmentsxvii
1The Mind of the Skin3
2The Womb of Time47
3Breastfeeding69
4Tender, Loving Care96
5The Physiological Effects of Touching198
6Skin and Sex204
7Growth and Development237
8Culture and Contact292
9Touch and Age393
Envoi401
Appendix 1Therapeutic Touch404
Appendix 2The Effects upon the Mother of Removal of the Infant Immediately after Birth412
References415
Index479

Encyclopedia of Hair or No More Heart Disease

Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History

Author: Victoria Sherrow

Examines the ways in which hair has served as a signifier of class, gender, ethnicity, conformity/non-comfority, authority, and power throughout history. Countless issues and examples are explored in this volume including: hair styles of royalty; wigs worn by lawmakers and judges; ceremonial hairstyles of tribes throughout the world; Oliver Cromwell's "Roundheads;" hair in the counterculture (including the musical Hair); skinheads, Mohawks and punk style; the hairstyles of First Ladies; celebrity hairstyles; women shaving their heads to subvert gender and sexuality stereotyping; the entire hair-care industry; the search for a cure to baldness; and diseases and disorders related to hair. Broad topics in this book include hair arrangement/styling; care and cleansing; business and commercial aspects; laws and legal matters; trends and trendsetters; and health and science. An introductory essay explores the universal human interest in hair and hair-styling throughout history and around the world. It is followed by alphabetically arranged entries, each including sources for further reading. This work is highly relevant to the study of class, gender, popular culture, and politics. A lavish set of color and halftone illustrations completes this fun and useful title.

Library Journal

To many, hair is a reflection of personal style. It is also a signifier of class, gender, ethnicity, and even power. In this resourceful A-to-Z, Sherrow (Grooming) explores the impact of hair styles and their implications in various cultures throughout history. The essay-length entries, accompanied by black-and-white photos as well as a full-color photo insert, cover everything from celebrity hair (e.g., "the Rachel") and the hair care business (e.g., "Vidal Sassoon") to disorders (e.g., "dandruff") and organizations (e.g., "Locks of Love"). Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.



Go to: Ultimate Weight Solution Cookbook or The Stranger in the Mirror

No More Heart Disease: How Nitric Oxide Can Prevent--Even Reverse--Heart Disease and Strokes

Author: Louis Ignarro

Dr. Louis Ignarro discovered "the atom" of cardiovascular health--a tiny molecule called Nitric Oxide. NO, as it is known by chemists, is a signaling molecule produced by the body, and is a vasodilator that helps control blood flow to every part of the body. Dr. Ignarro's findings led to the development of Viagra. Nitric Oxide has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system as well.NO relaxes and enlarges the blood vessels, prevents blood clots that trigger strokes and heart attacks, and regulates blood pressure and the accumulation of plaque in the blood vessels. Dr. Ignarro's current research indicates that Nitric Oxide may help lower cholesterol by facilitating the actions of statin drugs like Lipitor. The goal of the regimen presented in NO More Heart Disease is to age proof the cardiovascular system, keeping the vascular network clean and elastic through enhanced NO productivity. The plan is easy-to-follow without extreme lifestyle adjustments, involving taking supplements to stimulate Nitric Oxide production, incorporating NO friendly food into the diet, and a moderate exercise program.



Monday, December 29, 2008

The Tree of Yoga or Appetites

The Tree of Yoga

Author: B K S Iyengar

Iyengar developed a form of yoga that focuses on developing strength, endurance, correct body alignment, as well as flexibility and relaxation. The Iyengar method integrates philosophy, spirituality, and the practice of yoga into everyday living. In The Tree of Yoga, Iyengar offers his thoughts on many practical and philosophical subjects including family life, love and sexuality, health and the healing arts, meditation, death, and Patañjali's Yoga Sutras. This new edition features a foreword by Patricia Walden, a leading American teacher of the Iyengar style.



Book about: Micro Politics of Capital or Managing the Guest Experience in Hospitality

Appetites: Why Women Want

Author: Caroline Knapp

"The smartest anorexia memoir ever written and a fascinating journey along the torturous pathways of female desire."—Salon

With a new discussion guide

What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer? In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts that question and boldly reframes it, asking, instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling women and their desires?

Knapp, best-selling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite—for food, for love, for work, and for pleasure—is shaped and constrained by culture. She uses her early battle with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers—and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying "I want."

Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully—and urgently—challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul.

Author Biography: Caroline Knapp was the author of Alice K's Guide to Life as well as the best-selling books, Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and died in June 2002 at the age of forty-two.

The New York Times

Appetites displays the same unflinching analysis she used to analyze her battle with alcoholism in Drinking: A Love Story. — Jillian Dunham

The Washington Post

Like Knapp's earlier work, Appetites is beautifully written, and her cultural insights, though not always original, are powerfully rendered. The images of her waiting all day for the moment when she will permit herself a piece of apple and cheese for dinner are stark and affecting. — Liza Featherstone

Publishers Weekly

What looks like a consciously altruistic effort to encapsulate one woman's entire life into lessons for the benefit of womankind may be just that: after divulging every gruesome detail of her spiral into anorexia and subsequent self-discoveries in this memoir, Knapp died of breast cancer last June at age 42. Similar in tone to her previous Drinking: A Love Story, this work is candid and persuasive enough to reach many women with analogous problems. But it's more than one woman's tragic story; multitudinous interviews with women with eating disorders, excerpts from classic feminist texts and sociological statistics lend credence and categorize the book under cultural studies as much as self-help. Knapp hypothesizes that the feminists who came after the revolutionary 1960s, herself included, were stifled rather than empowered by the overwhelming choices before them. They gained "the freedom to hunger and to satisfy hunger in all its varied forms." Unfortunately, writes Knapp, size-obsessed fashion magazines and other social messages contradict a woman's right to desire, contributing to the rise in eating disorders and other illnesses. Knapp observes an aspect of the backlash against the feminist movement: when "women were demanding the right to take up more space in the world," they were being told by a still patriarchal society "to grow physically smaller." Though Knapp admits it's "easier to worry about the body than the soul," she hopes creating a dialogue about anorexia will enable all women to nourish both. (May 1) Forecast: The bestselling success of Drinking and Knapp's death last year will certainly spike interest in this affecting book. Counterpoint plans a 75,000 first printing and ads in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Bloomsbury Review and the Women's Review of Books. Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Daniel Levinson - KLIATT

Caroline Knapp led a short, troubled life, and she wrote as insightfully and searingly about the troubles young women have today as anyone has. Knapp wrote a funny but heartfelt column in the Boston Phoenix for years that was the first thing many readers turned to each week. She struggled with anorexia and alcohol abuse, and she wrote the much-admired books Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bonds Between People and Dogs. Her problems with eating and drinking supply the impetus for this last, posthumous book (she died of cancer in 2002). Here she puts her own issues with food and drink in a larger philosophical context, the problem of how women struggle to deal with all of their desires and human appetites. Knapp isn't a true believer, convert or doctrinaire thinker of any sort. She boldly and sensitively fuses her own experiences, her observations and her reading. Some of her remarks are memorable, and some thoughts launch more rambling lines of reflection. While this is a brief book, it isn't a self-help text, easy to skim or use for quick life tips. A bright female college sophomore I asked to read this found it truthfully described and thoughtfully interpreted young female lives as they are often lived today. Some chapter titles: Add Cake, Subtract Self-Esteem; I Hate My Stomach, I Hate My Thighs; From Bra Burning to Binge Shopping; and Body as Voice. Not for everyone, but perhaps exactly what some young women might be looking for. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2003, Perseus, Counterpoint, 210p. notes. bibliog., Ages 15 to adult.

Library Journal

The hopeful celebration of Knapp's niece's birth in the epilog of her quest for an understanding of "why women want" belies the tragic fact of the author's death from cancer a year ago at the age of 41. In her previous work, Drinking: A Love Story, the author exposed her harrowing battle with alcoholism, and here she reveals her all-consuming struggle with severe anorexia, baring without a shred of solipsism her starvation tactics, strained relationship with her mother, and search for a love that could fill her hunger. In lucid, effortless prose, Knapp explores the personal and cultural influences around appetites such as food, shopping, and sex and a woman's drive for recognition and fulfillment. Countless statistics, interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, and quotes from experts in a variety of related fields are woven into a seamless narrative that rarely bends to sentimentalism. As a personal account of recovery and a provocative study of women in American society, Appetites is highly recommended.-Prudence Peiffer, Ctr. for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Final memoir from the late Knapp (Pack of Two, 1998, etc.), this one recording her decades-long struggle with anorexia. As she did in Drinking: A Love Story (1996), the author makes connections among different kinds of addictive behavior, be it self-starvation, getting blind drunk, or compulsive shopping. But rather than narrowly focusing on the behaviors, Knapp delves into the question of appetite as a symbol: why women suppress their "wants" in the first place. At 19, a junior at Brown, she began the spiral into anorexia. After spending Thanksgiving with her family, she returned to the campus to write a paper, but was too anxious and depressed to walk to the student cafeteria for dinner. Instead, Knapp purchased a container of cottage cheese and some rice cakes, stretching the small meal over the next three days. That purchase, she writes, "represented a turning point, the passage of a woman at a crossroads, one road marked Empty, the other marked Full. Not believing at the core that fullness--satiety, gratification, pleasure--was within my grasp, I chose the other road." What caused this choice? Knapp explores her relationship with her mother (somewhat distant, but not terrible by any means); media messages (women do internalize these messages, she notes, but not all of them become anorexic, so the media by itself isn't entirely to blame); and cultural trends from the Me Generation to the extravagant dot.com dreams of the '90s. After years of therapy, the love of her celebrated canine, rowing, and a solid romantic relationship, she finally chose to re-enter the world. Knapp concludes by saying that contemporary women live during a time when they may be psychically liberated, able tohave careers and make reproductive choices, but are not socially supported; for all the rhetoric, women still do most of the housekeeping and parenting. Her beautiful prose is bolstered throughout with nice anecdotes from research material and the author's personal experiences. An eloquent voice that will be missed. First printing of 75,000. Agent: Colleen Mohyde/Doe Coover Agency



Table of Contents:
Prologue
Introduction1
Add Cake, Subtract Self-Esteem22
The Mother Connection54
I Hate My Stomach, I Hate My Thighs83
From Bra Burning to Binge Shopping119
Body As Voice162
Swimming Toward Hope179
Epilogue193
Notes200
Bibliography211

Rolling Away or Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child

Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy

Author: Lynn Marie Smith

This all started as a choice, my choice, but now I was slave to it.

Every time I swallowed a pill I was tricking myself into seeing and feeling what was not there. But I could only trick myself for so long....

Lynn Smith never wanted to be an addict. A popular straight-A student from small-town Pennsylvania, she moved to New York City to pursue her dream of acting. In the city, she came in contact with new people, new ideas, and a completely new way of life -- a way that exposed her to drugs. She tried pot, acid, and cocaine, but it was the "love drug" Ecstasy that won her heart. Rolling Away is the story of Lynn's frenzied flight into addiction and her long struggle to come back down to earth. At once harrowing and inspiring, Rolling Away is a triumphant narrative about sex, drugs, and rock-bottom survival -- and how a second chance can save your life.

Publishers Weekly

Aspiring actress Smith dabbled in recreational drug use after moving to New York City from smalltown Pennsylvania. Sadly, the recent high school graduate quickly went from being a casual user to an addict. Smith's descriptions of "rolling" on ecstasy are appropriately disjointed and haunting. She deftly conveys an ecstasy user's sense of euphoria, especially the bubbling happiness that spreads like a wave through an "E"-fueled dance floor. But in tackling recovery, she falters. Although Smith's experience in treatment was difficult, and her description of it lends some insight into her subsequent triumph, she lingers too long in very well-trod territory. Once Smith is out of the hospital, though, the book regains its footing as Smith details her appearance in an MTV special about ecstasy use, and the difficulty of dealing with her somewhat emotionally unhealthy family. Smith has written a fervent cautionary tale; even when revealing the drug's joyful moments, her tone is one of warning and regret. As a member of the advisory board of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, Smith tours and lectures about ecstasy, and it's likely that this work will find wide readership. The book's greatest strength is its alarming passages about coming down from a high and about the emptiness of living for the next pill-popping moment. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Smith's revealing debut features prose that rolls by as smoothly as the book's catchy title ("rolling" on Ecstasy is the present-day equivalent of "tripping" on LSD). Taking readers on a journey from rural Pennsylvania to the concrete jungle of Manhattan, Smith relays her folly in succumbing to the thrills of Ecstasy and its attendant club scene. After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she takes her newly minted degree precisely nowhere. Rather than seeking acting roles, she tries on the hat of addict, at which she excels. Her life rapidly spirals out of control, and Smith suffers a psychotic breakdown that prompts a rescue mission by her mother and a return to Pennsylvania. Ultimately, Smith succeeds in staying clean and resumes life, complete with a triumphant return to New York City. A brutally honest memoir and testimonial to the courage of recovery; recommended for public libraries with holdings such as Go Ask Alice. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A young memoirist recounts her descent into and triumph over addiction. Smith arrived in New York City in 1997, fresh from high school in Danville, Pa. A natural on the stage, she came to the Big Apple to pursue her dreams of acting. But before she could be discovered, she discovered Ecstasy. The first pill she popped was a Mitsubishi, purchased from a dealer who looked like a J. Crew model and swallowed in the bathroom of McSwiggans Pub on Second Avenue. All of the sudden, the beer bottles glistened "like lights on a Christmas tree," Smith's skin turned to silk, and simply placing her palm on the top of the bar felt profound. She was hooked. Meanwhile, life in Manhattan rolled on. There were sublets to find, singing lessons to take, and kids to baby-sit. Smith fell head over heels for Mason, a Manhattanite home on winter break from a Vermont college. Then came the crash. She was plagued by panic attacks and nightmares about her father killing her family. Her period stopped; she occasionally flew into rages. Eventually, Smith got herself into rehab. She broke her addiction and quickly became an MTV-touted anti-drug spokeswoman. At the close here, she tells us that she's been clean for four years, and now gets "high on life." As that last cliche indicates, Smith's writing is uneven. Her descriptions of how good the highs feel are riveting. One wishes, however, that her editor had axed the poems. ("One pill has dissolved / Chills surge through my core / Before it wears off / I swallow one more.") And her rapturous prose about her love for Mason tends toward the sophomoric: "I knew he was my soul mate . . . .When I looked into his eyes, I felt like I had known him my whole life." Notrefined, wise or gritty enough to touch all readers, but likely to be a hit with teenagers and 20-somethings.



See also: Yoga and the Quest for the True Self or Elder Rage or Take My Father Please How To Survive Caring For Aging Parents

Keys to Parenting Your Anxious Child

Author: Katharina Manassis

How can parents recognize anxieties that affect their child's happiness and well being, and how can they help their child overcome them? An experienced child psychiatrist answers this important two-part question by describing various anxiety-caused behavior patterns and advising parents on ways to help their child within the context of both family and school environments. New in this edition are discussions of topics that include early adolescents coping with growth anxiety, mid-adolescents and peer pressure, and late adolescents facing social anxieties in an environment that also includes recreational drugs. She also discusses warning signs that indicate a need for professional counseling and tells parents how and where to find it. Titles in Barron's Parenting Keys series cover a wide range of childcare topics and are written by experts in pediatrics, child psychology, and related fields.



Sunday, December 28, 2008

Vegetarian Epicure or The Twelve Gifts for Healing

Vegetarian Epicure, Vol. 1

Author: Anna Thomas

Here are 325 glorious new recipes from Anna Thomas, whose fresh and delicious approach to vegetables and other fruits of the earth has made her first Vegetarian Epicure a classic — inspiring vegetarians to new culinary heights and giving non-vegetarians a source of wonderful dishes without meat. Now she is back with a whole new and rich variety of dishes for every occasion. Her Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two — with its forays into foreign cuisines, its menu ideas from many countries, its superb creations from her own kitchen — will be a joy to every good cook.



See also: Aging Well or Cancer and the Lords Prayer

The Twelve Gifts for Healing

Author: Charlene A Costanzo

A wonderful and compassionate illustrated gift book that will inspire readers to triumph over adversity of any kind.

The author of The 12 Gifts of Birth has produced another beautifully illustrated book that will uplift and inspire all who turn its pages. Everyone goes through some sort of loss in life, and in The Healing Place, Charlene Costanzo provides words of encouragement that will help readers triumph over adversity of any kind––whether it is cancer, job loss, divorce, or just a bad day. The book will give readers a renewed faith in themselves.

The Healing Place opens with a simple yet powerful story of a troubled woman searching for healing. The book then offers twelve healing aspirations that will reaffirm readers sense of peace and dignity, accompanied by beautiful illustrations and colorized photographs. The Healing Place is certain to become a cherished companion on life's journey.



Celiac Disease or The Secret of Scent

Celiac Disease: A Guide to Living with Gluten Intolerance

Author: Sylvia Llewelyn Bower

Celiac disease is a digestive disorder caused by a sensitivity to the protein gluten in wheat flour, which in turn can damage the small intestine and inhibit the body's absorption of nutrients from food. The disease is hereditary and can affect entire families. Cowritten by a registered nurse who lives with celiac disease, a dietician, and a clinical pharmacist, this indispensable guide tackles all aspects of the disease, including symptoms, diagnosis, management, complications, and current research. While many cookbooks and dietary manuals on gluten intolerance exist, Celiac Disease is the only book on how to live fully and richly while maintaining a gluten-free lifestyle. In addition to learning how to set up and maintain a gluten-free kitchen, readers find strategies for tackling emotional issues, nutrition and dietary guidelines, tips for dining out, and advice on raising a celiac child.

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Reviewer: Dale A. Schoeller, PhD(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Description: This moderately short book provides information to lay readers about the cause, symptoms, and related issues involved in living with celiac disease.
Purpose: The goal of the authors is to produce a summary of information on celiac disease that will help patients cope with their disease. It is intended to provide basic information on the disease and its symptoms and more extensive information on how to change one's diet and outlook on a life for someone with celiac disease with the goal of increasing the patient's quality of life.
Audience: This book is written for the lay reader who either has been diagnosed with celiac disease, or who has a family member, or is otherwise involved in caring for those who have been diagnosed with the disease. The language used by the author has been carefully chosen to avoid medical jargon and the book is written at a level appropriate for most adult lay readers. The primary author is an accredited nurse, and the two other coauthors are a dietician and a pharmacist. This combination provides the range of training and experience required to write this book.
Features: A short section covers the medical causes and symptoms of celiac disease, a short section discusses the psychological issues of coping with celiac disease or any chronic disease, and a large section covers managing celiac disease though dietary interventions to avoid foods containing gluten. The book also contains a sizable section of gluten-free recipes which should be very helpful to patients. There are few illustrations, but a wealth of helpfultables that summarize many of the lifestyle changes that can improve the quality of life for someone with celiac disease.
Assessment: The book accomplishes its goal of providing valuable information to lay readers with celiac disease. It is written in a very comprehensible style and covers most of the information a patient or caregiver requires for helping someone with celiac disease.



Table of Contents:
Preface     ix
What Is Celiac Disease?     1
Diagnosis     9
Dermatitis Herpetiformis     17
A Healthy Gluten-Free Diet   Mary Kay Sharrett     27
Complications     37
Tackling the Emotional Side of CD     45
Raising a CD Child     53
Eating and Baking Gluten-Free     59
Eating Out     71
Managing Celiac Disease     79
Pulling It All Together     85
Gluten in Medications   Steve Plogsted     97
Gluten-Free Recipes     103
Kitchen Basics
Darry's GF Flour Mix     104
GF Shake-n-Bake     104
GF Fry Magic     105
Thick Crust Pizza Dough     105
Breakfast
Breakfast Brunch Casserole     106
Corn Pancakes     107
Early Wake-Up Call     108
English Muffins     108
Gluten-Free & Dairy-Free Pancakes     109
Sunday Morning Waffles or Pancakes     110
Main Meals
Aunt Carol's Spinach Casserole     110
Chicken & Rice Bake     111
Corn Tortilla Pizza     112
Crunchy Chicken Nuggets     113
Eggplant Parmesan     113
GF Lasagna     115
Impossible Chicken 'n Broccoli Pie     115
Jamaican Jerk Chicken     116
Polenta Lasagna     117
Skillet Enchiladas     118
Spinach Pie (Quiche)     119
Sweet and Sour Pork     120
Soups
Chinese Corn Soup     120
Susan's Potato Soup     121
Tortilla Soup     122
Salads
Bean Salad     123
Broccoli Salad     124
Cole Slaw     124
Breads and Crackers
Banana Nut Muffins     125
Cheese Crackers     126
Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Muffins     127
Graham Crackers     128
Soft White Bread     129
West Tennessee Corn Bread     130
Cookies and Desserts
Buckeyes in Winter     131
Deluxe Buckwheat Almond Cake     132
Easy Flourless Chocolate Cake     133
Easy Fruit Salad     134
Fruit Fluff     134
Million Dollar Salad     135
Resources   Mary Kay Sharrett     137
Index     157

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The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell

Author: Luca Turin

One man's passion for perfume leads him to explore one of the most intriguing scientific mysteries: What makes one molecule smell of garlic while another smells of rose?

In this witty, engrossing, and wildly original volume, author Luca Turin explores the two competing theories of smell. Is scent determined by molecular shape or molecular vibrations? Turin describes in fascinating detail the science, the evidence, and the often contentious debate—from the beginnings of organic chemistry to the present day—and pays homage to the scientists who went before. With its uniquely accessible and captivating approach to science via art, The Secret of Scent will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about the most mysterious of the five senses.

Kirkus Reviews

A behind-the-scenes look at perfume research and development; a demanding course in the chemistry of fragrance; and the story behind the development of a scientific theory about how humans detect odors. Biophysicist Turin, dubbed The Emperor of Scent in Chandler Burr's 2003 biography, now serves as chief scientist of a company that creates fragrance molecules to order. He derived his still-controversial theory that a substance's odor is based on the frequencies of its molecules' vibrations from a 1977 article by R.H. Wright, who in turn derived it from Malcolm Dyson's papers of the 1920s and '30s. The author gives full credit to both men, whose work was not recognized in their lifetimes, and makes clear that he too still struggles to have his vibration theory accepted by those who believe that molecules' shape gives them their odor. Although illustrated with diagrams and drawings, the chemistry sections may still daunt some general readers. Turin's metaphors help, however. What distinguishes this account, besides the author's wit and his enthusiasm for fragrance, is his florid writing about scents. Turin has a remarkable ability to detect and describe their complexity: For him, they are not simply odors; they speak and have personality and colors. "The voice of Nombre Noir was that of a child older than its years, at once fresh, husky, modulated and faintly capricious," he rhapsodizes. "There was a knowing naivety about it which made me think of Colette's writing in her Claudine books. It brought to mind a purple ink to write love letters with." Along with lily of the valley, sandalwood and musk, however, the author provides a heavy load of aldehydes, acetophenone and proteinsemiconductors. Occasionally impenetrable, but overall a fascinating tour of the world of fragrance, provided by a knowledgeable and passionate expert.



Fix It and Forget It Diabetic Cookbook or Meditations to Heal Your Life

Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook: Slow Cooker Favorites - To Include Everyone!

Author: Phyllis Pellman Good

Packed with delicious recipes for everyone--including those who have to keep track of food exchanges, carbohydrates, sugars, calories and fats

Publishers Weekly

Wintry weather seems to demand slow-simmered soups and stews, and the bestselling Fix-it and Forget-it series has long been a source for these and other Crock-Pot meals. Good, who edited those homey collections, returns with a useful new diabetic edition. Each of the hundreds of recipes for appetizers, main courses, soups, vegetables, breakfast dishes and snacks comes with a nutritional analysis, and timely health tips are scattered among the recipes. Good also includes a week of sample menus (with nutritional breakdowns), answers the "Ten Most Asked Questions About Diabetes" and gives a brief reading list. Other than that, this book follows the same formula as its predecessors: recipe after recipe from people (mostly women) across the country. Some of the entr es are new, such as Autumn Harvest Pork Loin, with cider, apples and butternut squash, and Chicken Azteca, a savory mix of chicken, black beans, corn and salsa. However, many of the recipes from the original Fix-it and Forget-it are repeated here, verbatim, while others from that volume have been slightly modified to fit diet guidelines. As always with this series, lots of canned soup, frozen vegetables and cake mix go into the slow cooker in the name of ease and convenience; fortunately, those dishes have been lightened up enough so that diabetic cooks can enjoy them, too. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.



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Meditations to Heal Your Life

Author: Louise L Hay

Louise shares her philosophy of life on a multitude of subjects from addictions to fears to spiritual laws, and everything in between. Her loving insights will enrich you body, mind, and soul, while giving you practical knowledge to apply to your day-to-day life.


An excerpt from Meditations to Heal Your Life:
"The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities. As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue."—Louise L. Hay




Table of Contents:
Introductionix
Acceptance1
Addiction3
Affirmations5
Aging7
Aids9
Authority11
Barriers13
Beauty15
Bills17
Business19
Caregivers21
Changing My Thinking23
Child Abuse25
Children27
Choice29
Communication31
Community33
Comparisons35
Consciousness37
Control39
Creativity41
Criticism43
Death45
Decision Making47
Deserving49
Digestion51
Dis-ease53
Divine Guidance55
Doing57
Dreams59
Driving My Car61
Elder Years63
Employment65
Energy67
Enlightenment69
Enough for Everyone71
Expanding Horizons73
Expectations75
Family77
Fear79
Feeling Lost81
Feelings83
Finances85
Fixing It87
Food89
Forgiveness91
Freedom to Choose93
Giving and Receiving95
God97
Gossip99
Grieving101
Guilt103
Headaches105
Healing107
Highest Good109
Holidays111
Home113
Housekeeping115
Humor117
Hunger119
Immune System121
Improvement123
Income125
Individuality127
Lessons129
Loss131
Love133
Meditation135
Mirror Talk137
Money139
Money Worries141
New Outlooks143
News145
Nutrition147
Old Tapes149
Order151
Pain153
Parents155
Patience157
Peace159
Perfection161
Perfect Order163
Planetary Healing165
Planet Earth167
Power169
Prejudice171
Problem Solving173
Prosperity175
Purpose177
Relationships179
Releasing Habits181
Religion183
Resentment185
Responsibility187
Safe Sex189
Self-Love191
Self-Talk193
Sexuality195
Spiritual Growth197
Spiritual Laws199
Subconscious Mind201
Success203
Support205
Support Groups207
Surgery209
Teenagers211
Thoughts213
Time215
Transition217
Transportation219
Trust221
Unconditional Love223
Understanding225
Uniqueness227
Vision229
Wisdom231
About the Author233

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook or Instant Relief

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook

Author: Douglas J Mason

It happens in an instant-squealing breaks, a ladder that gives way, a pool cue swung in a moment of rage-but the affects of a blunt-force trauma to the head can last a lifetime. One of the more common injuries that can affect cognitive function, mild traumatic brain injury, or MTBI, affects more that half a million Americans each year, and research suggests that as many as 6.5 million Americans are living with the effects of MTBI. For the first time ever, this book assembles facts about MTBI together with a research-based program that readers can use to overcome the disadvantages of traumatic brain injury.

The book addresses the emotional issues that often accompany MTBI, especially anxiety and depression. Readers learn basic self-help strategies to counteract problems that may be caused by the injury. The later chapters discuss the four major domains of cognitive function and ways in which individuals can challenge their limitations and repair specific brain functions. The book concludes with an exploration of the various potential long-term affects of MTBI and the outside resources available to assist readers.

How to:

  • Recognize the symptoms
  • Assess the damage
  • Recover brain function
  • Improve memory and learning
  • Increase attention span
  • Cope with depression and anxiety
  • Regain self-esteem
A specialist in cognitive impairments offers sufferers of mild traumatic brain injury the only workbook designed to help them overcome emotional pain and regain their mental capabilities.

About the Author:
Douglas J. Mason, Psy.D., is a neuropsychologist who specializes in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of people with cognitive dysfunction. He completed his internship at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, and his residency at Duke University in Durham, NC. He has served on the state of Florida's Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Counsel. He is the author of The Memory Workbook and The Memory Doctor (to be released in May 2005).



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Instant Relief: Tell Me Where It Hurts and I'll Tell You What to Do

Author: Peggy W Brill

A renowned physical therapist helps you get rid of your pain in just 10 seconds.
In this one-of-a-kind book, Peggy Brill, acclaimed author of The Core Program, shows you how to find relief from chronic and everyday aches and pains as well as all those stress-related pains that can attack so suddenly--whether you’re at work, in a car or a plane, at home with your kids, recovering from surgery, or relaxing in bed. Instant Relief provides 100 clearly illustrated, easy-to-do 10-second exercises that provide immediate therapy for every part of your body--from your head to your toes.
• Does your upper body ache after hours of hunching over a report due by the end of the day?
Try doing the Brill Chicken. For extra relief,there’s the Dead Brill Chicken.
• Desperate to get rid of that tension headache?
Try the Tongue Press, the Ear Tug, the Cheek Release, or the Scalp Glide.
• Is your lower back killing you?
Do the Pelvic Rock or the Pelvic Clock.
• Feel those calves cramping up again? Do the Ankle Pump.
• Need something to relieve your aching feet?
Try the Foot Dome, the Toe Lift, or a simple self-massage.
• Does your knee hurt when you walk downstairs?
Do the Squeeze and Step.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Library Journal

Drawing on 15 years' experience, Brill, a board-certified physical therapist and author of The Core Program, offers 100 exercises for specific areas of the body to relieve stress-induced pain. There's the Brill Chicken for an aching upper body, the Tongue Press for headaches, and the Ankle Pump for cramping calves. Most of these moves can be done with minimal effort at home and in the office and public places, and each is illustrated by a pencil drawing. While practical in concept, the drawings are uneven in execution; some are too small, and shading can make them seem blurry. The text itself is written at about a tenth-grade level, which might be too challenging for some readers. In addition, some instructions are printed with white lettering on a black or gray background, which is hard to read. Although those flaws detract from the overall usefulness, this is still a good selection for consumer health collections.-Marge Kars, Bronson Methodist Hosp. Lib., Kalamazoo, MI Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.



Dialysis without Fear or Strength Training Over 50

Dialysis Without Fear: A Guide to Living Well on Dialysis for Patients and Their Families

Author: Daniel Offer

More than 400,000 people in the United States undergo kidney dialysis. If you or a member of your family are one of them, then the prospect of a regular appointment with a dialysis machine may seem like the end of life itself. But that reaction couldn't be more wrong.
In Dialysis Without Fear, psychiatrist and dialysis patient Dr. Daniel Offer joins with his wife, Marjorie Kaiz Offer, and daughter, Susan Offer Szafir, to reveal how life can be lived--and lived well--on dialysis. Drawing on his long medical career and more than seven years of personal experience with dialysis, Dr. Offer dispels many misconceptions surrounding this treatment, explaining how you can adapt to the new diet, travel, work and continue to partake in life's joys and celebrations. But the fears and hardships can be quite real, and Dr. Offer brings his years as a psychiatrist to bear as he provides practical advice on how patients can overcome them. Walking through each step of dialysis, he explains different types of treatment, examines the pros and cons of a transplant, and discusses side effects. Since dialysis affects the entire family, Dr. Offer and his coauthors also provide realistic insights into how relatives can cope and thrive together, sharing the humor, courage, and triumphs of real families who have successfully faced the challenges of dialysis. The result is an inspiring, practical guide that will help you and your family learn to overcome the difficulties of dialysis, live without fear, and enjoy every day.



Table of Contents:
Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Dialysis Misperceptions versus Realities     3
A Visit to the Suds Factory: Demystifying the Machines and Tubes     29
Dialysis Options: Choosing What Works Best for You     55
The Decision to Pursue a Transplant     73
The "K-Team": Working with Dialysis Professionals     94
Dealing with Emotions: The Psychological Impact of Dialysis     114
The Impact of Dialysis on Interpersonal Relationships: Love, Sex, Family, and Friendship     136
Work and Financial Implications of Being on Dialysis     160
Adapting to the Dialysis Diet, Curbing Liquids, and Embracing Exercise     183
Traveling and Planning for Emergencies while on Dialysis: Taking a Leap of Faith     204
Afterword     228
Glossary of Terms     231
Helpful Resources     235
General Educational Resources
Travel Resources
Professional and Financial Resources
Legal Resources
Books
Journals, Magazines, and Newsletters
Notes     245
Bibliography     247
Index     251

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Strength Training Over 50: Stay Fit and Fabulous

Author: D Cristine Caivano

Strength Training Over Fifty focuses on the health needs of more senior men and women. Men and women lose as much as 20-40% of their muscle mass, beginning in their 30's. This muscle loss, often thought of as an irreversible part of aging, is really the result of disuse. Strength-building enables you to regain this lost muscle. It is the key to feeling and looking great after 50. With over 80 explicitly described exercises and 350 color photographs, this user-friendly book will teach you what you need to know to get started, get strong, and stay motivated.

  • Get started with reassuring advice if you are just returning to training.
  • Stand straighter (and have a trim waist) by strengthening your core.
  • Improve functional strength, making all the actions of daily life easier.
  • Learn which muscles can be strengthened to alleviate specific problems such as back pain or achy knees.
  • Improve your balance.
  • Exercise safely, even with arthritis, osteoporosis, or if you are over 65 years old.
  • Learn about nutrition, motivation, and how to design your own work-out.
  • Follow extended exercise programs, including sessions for exercise on the road, a 15-minute work-out, and one to protect and strengthen your lower back.
From the foreword by Michael George, fitness expert and trainer to Richard Dreyfus, Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore, and James Spader:

"This fun and challenging book will help the older trainer rediscover" his or her body, beginning with the basics: posture, breathing, and motivation...Start training with this book and you'll never look back-I promise you."

About The Author:
D. Cristine Caivano
(MA Columbia University) is an exercise/movement therapist in private practice in NYC. A former dancer and teacher, her work now focuses exclusively on the needs of the over-50-year old exerciser.



Friday, December 26, 2008

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants or Beauty to Die for

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants

Author: Steve Brill

Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different plants for nutrition and better health, including such common plants as mullein (a tea made from the leaves and flowers suppresses a cough), stinging nettle (steam the leaves and you have a tasty dish rich in iron), cattail (cooked stalks taste similar to corn and are rich in protein), and wild apricots (an infusion made with the leaves is good for stomach aches and disgestive disorders).

More than 260 detailed line drawings help readers identify a wide range of plants -- many of which are suited for cooking by following the more than thirty recipes included in this book. There are literally hundreds of plants readily available underfoot waiting to be harvested and used either as food or as a potential therapeutic. This book is both a field guide to nature's bounty and a source of intriguing information about the plants that surround us.



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Beauty to Die For: The Cosmetic Consequence

Author: Judi Vanc

If you use any cosmetics you may be more at risk than you could imagine. Beauty to Die For is shocking, thought-provoking and rock solid in its research. This landmark book reveals the deathtraps in the cosmetics that we unwittingly use in our daily lives. It details the devastating toll that modern industry and government knowingly exact on the health of men, women, and children - and may sound the death knell for certain cosmetic industry practices. This book is a practical guide - an interactive tool - that teaches consumers how to shop safely and wisely. It translates the technical jargon into language that everyone can understand. It was written to help you identify the dangers in products you take for granted. Products you use everyday; products in which you put your faith and trust - yet these products threaten your very existence. This book not only illuminates the hazards, it provides sensible suggestions for creating a less toxic life.



The New Sjogrens Syndrome Handbook or Easy to Swallow Easy to Chew Cookbook

The New Sjogren's Syndrome Handbook

Author: Daniel J Wallac

Afflicting nearly four million Americans, Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune disease that commonly causes dryness of the eyes, mouth, and nose, and that can lead to complications including profound fatigue, depression, and lymphoma. While there is no cure for Sjogren's, much can be done to alleviate the suffering of patients. This extensively revised handbook offers everything you need to know to cope with this disease.
The New Sjogren's Syndrome Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive and authoritative guide, produced by the Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation and its medical advisors and edited by physician Daniel J. Wallace, a leading authority on auto-immune disorders. This expanded edition provides readers with the best medical and practical information on this disorder, bringing together the current thinking about Sjogren's in an easily readable and understandable book. The handbook illuminates the major clinical aspects of the syndrome and is loaded with practical tips and advice to assist those seeking information. Indeed, it offers a wide-ranging look at the many faces of Sjogren's, covering diagnosis, the various organ systems that can be affected, the possible psychological problems, and the many treatment options, as well as an appendix listing the resources available for patients with the disease. It is a valuable aid that patients can use while discussing their illness with their physician and an excellent resource for family members. And because Sjogren's is greatly underdiagnosed, this handbook is a particularly valuable resource for healthcare professionals.
The most reliable and informative guide available, The New Sjogren's Syndrome Handbook, Third Editionis the first place for patients to look when they have questions about this little known but serious chronic disease.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Zarmeena Ali, MBBS (Washington University Medical Center)
Description: This book was last published in 1998 by the founder of the Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation, Elaine Harris, and her physician, Steven Carsons, MD. The handbook is now edited by Daniel Wallace, MD, to provide an easy to read resource about the syndrome for patients, their families, and healthcare professionals. The book is holistic, providing insight into the chronic psychosocial and medical issues that patients face in their daily lives.
Purpose: The purpose is to describe Sjogren's syndrome, update medical information, and address the concerns of patients with the disease. The authors are attempting to improve awareness about the disease, both to the community and medical profession.
Audience: The book is targeted at patients, families, and their healthcare providers. It does an adequate job of conveying essential information. The authors have met their objectives, although some chapters seem to be targeted at the medical community and other chapters are too simplistic for physicians, but appropriate for patients and their families.
Features: The book briefly discusses the history of Sjogren's Syndrome, and then delves into the common signs and symptoms and investigative tools to help aid in diagnosis. There is also a lengthy discussion of treatment modalities for Sicca complaints, and also alternative therapies. The appendixes are well organized, citing references that are useful for physicians. However, patients may find it difficult to get access to these papers, unless they go to a university medical library. The appendix for products for patients is useful as it lists phone numbers and websites to contact for products. There are several well organized tables throughout the book for a quick review of information.
Assessment: This is an interesting blend of information for both patients and rheumatologists. Some of the chapters are complex, with medical jargon that may be difficult for the layperson to understand. However, the book provides a handy resource of information and medications.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody




Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction : why write a book on Sjogren's syndrome?
1The history of Sjogren's syndrome3
2What is Sjogren's syndrome?5
3Who develops Sjogren's syndrome?10
4What leads to dryness?15
5Sjogren's syndrome : a genetic and immunologic perspective24
6Generalized symptoms and signs of Sjogren's syndrome35
7The dry eye41
8The salivary glands, ears, nose, and larynx52
9The dry mouth : a dental perspective on Sjogren's58
10The internal organs in Sjogren's68
11Manifestations of connective tissue diseases seen in secondary Sjogren's81
12Useful studies : blood tests, imaging, biopsies, and beyond97
13How can I be sure it's really Sjogren's?106
14Treatment of dry eye115
15Treatment of dry mouth121
16Systemic therapies in Sjogren's130
17Taming Sjogren's : fighting fatigue, lifestyle factors, and nondrug management145
18Conquering Sjogren's159
19Complementary and alternative therapies for Sjogren's syndrome175
20How are drugs tested for Sjogren's?186
21Adjunctive measures, comorbidities, and reproductive issues in Sjogren's193
22Can I work?207
23What will happen to me?215
24Is there hope for a cure?219
AppResource materials232
AppProducts for Sjogren's patients238

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Easy-to-Swallow, Easy-to-Chew Cookbook: Over 150 Tasty and Nutritious Recipes for People Who Have Difficulty Swallowing

Author: Donna L Weihofen

Delicious and nourishing recipes that are easy to eat and swallow

The simple act of eating is a challenge for millions of people whose ability to chew and swallow has been compromised by the debilitating effects of age or disease. The Easy-to-Swallow, Easy-to-Chew Cookbook presents a collection of more than 150 nutritious recipes that make eating enjoyable and satisfying for anyone who has difficulty chewing or swallowing. It also shares helpful tips and techniques to make eating easier for the elderly and those with such diseases as Parkinson's, AIDS, or head and neck cancers.

Donna L. Weihofen, RD, MS (Verona, WI), is a nutritionist and the author of The Cancer Survival Cookbook (0-471-34668-3) and Magic Spices (Wiley: 0-471-34683-7).
JoAnne Robbins, PhD (Madison, WI), is founder of the University of Wisconsin's clinical Swallowing Service.
Paula A. Sullivan, MS, CCC-SLP (Madison, WI), is a speech pathologist who specializes in swallowing rehabilitation.



Light on Pranayama or Overcoming Overspending

Light on Pranayama: The Yogic Art of Breathing

Author: B K S Iyengar

In this classic, a yoga master describes the techniques of breathing together with a comprehensive background of yoga philosophy in this authoritative, practical and indispensable guide.



New interesting textbook:

Overcoming Overspending: A Winning Plan for Spenders and Their Partners

Author: Olivia Mellan

Do you or someone you love have trouble saying "No" when the urge to spend strikes? Are you always living on the edge financially because your intention to save money is never as strong as your compulsion to spend it?

In Overcoming Overspending, acclaimed money therapist Olivia Mellan offers a dynamic, compassionate program that will help spenders understand why they overspend and how they can stop, and will empower their partners or family to provide the support so critical to this process.

Mellan has been helping couples and individuals adjust their attitudes toward money for more than twenty years, and she presents here the positive exercises, dialogues, and other communication strategies that are the focus of her private practice and nationwide workshops:
•self-assessment quizzes that pinpoint the deep-seated causes of overspending;
•innovative exercises to help control the impulse to spend;
•communication exercises and dialogues to help spenders and their partners heal a relationship distressed by money conflicts.

In addition, Mellan provides real-life stories of individuals and couples facing and triumphing over harmful spending habits.
If overspending is a central problem in your life, Overcoming Overspending is a win/win solution.

Publishers Weekly

Mellan, herself a recovering overspender, has been a psychotherapist specializing in money conflict resolution for almost two decades. Here she states her conviction that overspending is a societal addiction in the U.S. and cites sobering statistics: Americans took on $4.5 trillion in household debt between 1990 and 1994; in 1994, we charged $701 billion on credit cards. Pointing out that each individual's attitude toward money is established in childhood and adolescence, she offers practical suggestions for curbing the self-destructive behavior of either overspending or miserliness. While self-help groups such as Debtors Anonymous and Consumer Credit Counseling Services can help some people, Mellan feels that spouses or partners can be of the greatest assistance. The book, written with freelancer Christie, is never preachy and is enormously useful. (Nov.)

Library Journal

Mellan, a psychotherapist in the field of money conflict resolution and herself a recovering compulsive spender, presents not a personal finance book on budgeting, saving, and investing but a psychological self-help book for couple relationships in which one or both partners suffers from an addiction to spending. Mellan uses case studies, including her personal experience, to show what causes overspending and how couples can work to overcome it. Most of the cases involve couples in which one partner is a hoarder or a saver while the other is an overspender. Mellan encourages couples to talk about their spending and what emotions they feel when money is spent. She then wants couples to discuss ways they can fulfill these emotions without spending money. This is an excellent book that should be read by all couples whether they think they have a problem with overspending or not. Highly recommended.-Joel Jones, Kansas City P.L., Mo.



Thursday, December 25, 2008

The Bowflex Body Plan or Dual Diagnosis

The Bowflex Body Plan: The Power is Yours, Build More Muscle, Lose More Fat

Author: Ellington Darden

THE BOWFLEX BODY PLAN

Discover the super secrets for getting the most out of the hottest home workout machine ever.

We've all seen those attractive Bowflex bodies on television. Well, you don't have to resemble a model to achieve a Bowflex body. Now, you can apply the complete science behind what it takes to get that lean, muscular look. The course of action you're holding in your hands contains the best-possible routines and practices that, combined, cause greater and faster results.

The Bowflex exercise system is based on the simple bow-and-arrow principle. Its patented Power Rod technology flexes and extends to provide force or resistance, part of your week-by-week workouts, which focus on all major muscle groups. Merge the recommended Bowflex routines with Dr. Ellington Darden's guidelines on eating, hydrating, and resting, and you'll be well on your way to getting the results you've always wanted.

In addition to four fat-loss meal plans, you'll find complete programs for out-of-shape athletes, women who want to reduce their hips and thighs, and individuals who wish to focus on their abdominals. Choose the one that's right for you, depending on your age, experience, body type, and personal goals. Throughout these pages you'll be inspired by reports and photographs of real results from real people using a real Bowflex machine.

With a little discipline and patience, you'll see your extra fat begin to vanish, revealing your muscles' lean lines. In only six weeks, a man could drop 35 pounds of fat and 5 inches from his waist. A woman could lose 19 pounds of fat and 4 inches from her thighs. And both can build 3 pounds of muscle. Best of all, youwill experience strength, firmness, and muscular refinement as never before.

Elegant, instructive photographs of Dr. Darden's top 23 Bowflex exercises make this the ideal fitness manual for both men and women-- those who already use the Bowflex system as well as the many new users of this fast-growing home-exercise system. The only authorized book on the subject, The Bowflex Body Plan will help you lose fat, build muscle, and reshape your body-- fast.

Soon you will have the results you've always wanted. Soon you will have a Bowflex body.



Table of Contents:
Achieving a Bowflex Body2
Part I.Background
1.The Power Is Yours: Get Real Results!7
2.From Creation to Credibility: The Facts about Who, When, & Why16
3.The Components of a Fit Body: Endurance, Flexibility, Strength, & Leanness--Which Is the Most Important?22
4.The Gym Explosion: There's No Place like Home32
Part II.Exercises
5.Strength-Training Basics: Repetitions, Intensity, & Form40
6.Lower-Body Exercises: For Performance & Appearance54
7.Back, Chest, & Shoulder Exercises: What's Best for the Torso61
8.Arm & Abdominal Exercises: For Strength & Muscularity74
9.Basic Training: Routines for Beginners & Intermediates84
10.Advanced Techniques: Breakdowns, Double Pre-Exhaustion, & Negatives97
Part III.Science
11.Muscle: Hard to Get, Easy to Lose111
12.Fat: Easy to Get, Hard to Lose119
13.Thermodynamics: Something Old & Something New127
14.Fat-Loss Nutrition: Fundamentals, Simplicity, & Details135
15.Food Supplements: Concepts to Consider142
16.Superhydration: A Supercharged Practice149
17.Sleep: A Wake-Up Call159
18.Synergy: 1 + 1 + 1 = 5165
Part IV.Programs
19.Preparation: What to Do First173
20.The Body-Leanness Plan: A Six-Week Course for Losing Fat180
21.The Hard-Body Challenge: A Six-Week, Get-Ripped Course for Athletes194
22.Hips & Thighs--Tackling the Tough Spots: A Six-Week Lower-Body Course for Women206
23.Abdominal Focus: A Six-Week Course for a Flatter Stomach218
24.A Thicker Chest: A Two-Week Blitz for Pumped Pectorals228
25.Accent on Arms: A Two-Week Blitz for Bigger Biceps & Triceps236
Part V.Persistence
26.Those Last 5 Pounds: 30 Tips on How to Lose Them245
27.More Progress: A Few Twists for Continued Success248
28.Maintenance: Modifying Key Factors257
29.Questions, Please: Up-to-Date Answers to Prevalent Problems265
30.A Prescription for Life: The Power Is Yours--Today, Tomorrow, & Forever!278
Bibliography286
Index290

Book about:

Dual Diagnosis: Counseling the Mentally Ill Substance Abuser

Author: Katie Evans

The treatment of coexisting chemical dependency and psychiatric disorders has long been a serious challenge for care providers. With the advent of managed care, counselors, case managers, and other professionals increasingly are called upon to treat very ill and troubled clients in outpatient settings. Updated for today's health care climate, the revised and expanded second edition of this popular volume offers a thorough introduction to clinical work with this difficult-to-treat population. Providing a unique synthesis of chemical dependency and mental health models, the book articulates a framework for assessment and treatment and describes a range of effective counseling and motivational strategies for adolescents and adults. Updated to DSM-IV, the second edition includes discussions of the latest developments in treatment, sample treatment plans, increased coverage of ways to incorporate 12-step concepts into mental health interventions, and a new section on trauma-based disorders in addicted female adolescents. As in the first edition, the practical utility of the volume is enhanced by numerous clinical vignettes and clearly presented tables to aid in assessment. Appendices feature helpful reproducible forms.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Sharon L Coleman, PsyD (Cermak Health Services)
Description: This book updates and integrates mental health treatment with substance abuse treatment.
Purpose: The purpose is to update the reader on dual diagnosis and suggested treatment approaches. This book also seems to accurately incorporate other major clinical syndromes with substance abuse disorders. This is an important an necessary endeavor given the prevalence of substance abuse disorders. This book appears to have covered the relevant issues regarding dual diagnosis and treatment.
Audience: This book is written primarily for the practitioner, more specifically those trained in psychology or in mentally ill substance abuse (MISA) treatment. Although the author seems to target a more general audience, including substance abuse counselors, the information relating to other mental disorders and DSM-IV classifications may not be as familiar to this group. I do think that the authors are very credible in this area and provide significant depth of information to the reader.
Features: The book essentially addresses two main areas: dual diagnosis and treatment. It integrates major mental disorders with substance abuse disorders. It outlines the features and dynamics of symptomatology. It also highlights treatment modalities and even offers disorder-specific interventions. The book covers some practical assessment issues and also contains good examples for understanding key issues. The checklists and examples in the appendix are especially helpful. I do think that the book would have benefited from some additional discussion on cultural issues and influences related to dual diagnosis and treatment.
Assessment: This is an excellent addition to the literature on dual diagnosis. It is relatively comprehensive and offers important suggestions on treatment approaches. This book is exceptionally practical from this standpoint. The new edition is necessary since it updates diagnostic information from the current DSM.

Booknews

Uses 12-step recovery concepts as the main framework for integrating substance use disorder and mental health treatments. Schizophrenia, dementia, bipolar, ADHD, depression, anxiety, and antisocial personality disorders are all discussed. The second edition adds a section on trauma-based disorders in addicted female adolescents, and deletes the section on passive-aggressive clients. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Rating

3 Stars from Doody