Healing Cuisine of China or Finding Your Way to Say Goodbye

Healing Cuisine of China: 300 Recipes for Vibrant Health & Longevity

Author: Zhuo Zhao

A comprehensive guide to the Chinese art of healing with food 

• Provides more than 300 authentic Chinese recipes for curing specific ailments and for promoting happiness and vitality 

• Explains the theories behind traditional Chinese beliefs about health and diet and reconciles these beliefs with contemporary Western medical knowledge 

• Includes a complete fitness program centered on the popular Chinese qi gong exercises 

Through 5,000 years of recorded history the Chinese have developed an unequaled pharmacopoeia of food remedies and have turned this knowledge into a delicious cuisine that is simple to prepare. This cuisine has little in common with the dishes on the menus of many Chinese restaurants--which have sacrificed traditional Chinese principles to appeal to high-fat Western tastes. Instead, it emphasizes all-natural ingredients eaten in season and in the most beneficial combinations. 

The Healing Cuisine of China features more than 300 authentic Chinese recipes, ranging from simple preparations to cure specific ailments to traditional "longevity banquets." The authors also explain the underlying theories behind traditional Chinese beliefs about health and reconcile these ancient beliefs with Western medical knowledge about bacteria, viruses, and other causes of disease. A complete fitness program, centered on the popular Chinese qi gong exercises, and a questionnaire to help readers discover their individual body requirements make this the most comprehensive guide to the healthy lifestyle of China ever published.

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New interesting book: Chestnut or Canadians at Table

Finding Your Way to Say Goodbye: Comfort for the Dying and Those Who Care for Them

Author: Harold Ivan Smith

You are unsure of the future. You've been told the diagnosis is terminal, but still you want to fight it. You don't know what it will feel like as death approaches, and the unknown is frightening. You want someone to take your hand and help you through it. Harold Ivan Smith has been holding the hands of the dying for years, and he knows how to help. Whether you are the one with the diagnosis, or the one who is caring for the dying, this book will offer support, encouragement, and some helpful tips. From dealing with the medical staff to talking with family and friends who are in denial, Finding Your Way to Say Goodbye is an ideal companion for perhaps the most important journey of all.

Beautiful Skin Workout or Depressed Child

Beautiful Skin Workout: The Eight-Week Skin Workout to Get the Smoothest, Healthiest Skin of Your Life

Author: Michelle Copeland

A world-renowned cosmetic, plastic, and reconstructive surgeon shares her clinically proven techniques for achieving your healthiest and youngest-looking skin ever.

Current understanding of skin's cellular structure is so advanced that it’s possible to turn back the clock on aging without resorting to costly treatments or surgery.  You can erase 90 percent of your skin’s flaws in eight weeks by following Dr. Copeland’s advice, no matter how your skin appears right now.

Dr. Copeland’s Beautiful Skin Workout will teach you how to:
* Follow the Ten Commandments of Creamy Skin

* Eliminate lifestyle habits that prevent you from looking your best

* Identify everyday products that are either ineffective or outright harmful for skin

* Master the Five Exercises: Cleanse, Exfoliate, Activate, Moisturize, and Protect

* Design a custom program based on your skin type.  
With Dr. Copeland's proven plan, illustrated by some of her patients’ inspiring and instructional case histories, achieving Creamy skin is easy and inexpensive. Your skin will soon reveal the only truth that matters—how young and vital you feel.

Book review: From Lifeguard to Sun King or Beauty by Nature

Depressed Child: A Parent's Guide for Rescuing Kids

Author: Douglas A Riley

By emphasizing how parents can talk to their children about thoughts and feelings, exploring how children develop negative beliefs about themselves, and teaching parents how to help their children change those hopeless self-perceptions, this book outlines practical methods that parents and children together can use to find solutions to the dark thoughts that plague so many young people today.

Publishers Weekly

Clinical psychologist Riley (The Defiant Child) tackles a difficult subject with aplomb in this keenly insightful guide for parents. "For children and adolescents, the depressive state makes them feel like astronauts whose tethers have been cut, and they are drifting in space," he writes. He not only explains how to identify the symptoms of depression and the "negative beliefs" "no one will ever like me," "I am made of inferior stuff," "death is an option," and so on that are so often at its core, but also provides tools for what he terms "Planning the Rescue Mission." Ten brief but thorough chapters cover the most common negative beliefs that trigger depression and such companion problems as substance abuse, prematurely intense relationships (what he calls "miniature marriages") that blindside adolescents when they come to an end, and suicide. Riley illustrates each point with case studies that offer readers a chance to learn from his dialogues with his patients. He suggests strategies for everything from closing "the physical distance between you and your child" in order to soothe and encourage them, to some particular lines of questioning for uncovering negative beliefs, to the crucial, often overlooked act of listening ("your ears cannot be fully open until your mouth is fully shut"). He also discusses when to seek professional help and how to step in swiftly and effectively in the case of a suicidal child. Riley's advice is commonsensical and sound, and the concrete tools he offers in this slim, practical volume provide a lifeline to parents of any child struggling with depression. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Children and teens are increasingly being diagnosed as depressive--perhaps because modern life is becoming more challenging or possibly because treatments that have proven effective for adults also work well for children. A staff physician with the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, Kaufman presents a good primer on treating teen depression. All of the major topics are covered in clear-cut language: how to find a therapist, possible treatments (including therapy and drug treatments, as well as alternative remedies), suicide prevention, and treatment of related substance abuse and anxiety disorders. Recommended if your library doesn't own Gerald D. Oster and Sarah S. Montgomery's Helping Your Depressed Teenager: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers (Wiley, 1994). The Depressed Child, on the other hand, is not recommended. Riley, a clinical psychologist, offers some interesting suggestions here and there (e.g., the importance of hugging a depressed child), but his idea that a parent should undertake to "rescue" a child who is suicidal or hallucinating is irresponsible. Such kids need professional help. David G. Fassler and Lynne S. Dumas's "Help Me, I'm Sad": Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression (Viking, 1997) is a better recent title. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Wilderness First Aid Field Guide or Control Diabetes in Six Easy Steps

Wilderness First Aid Field Guide

Author: Alton L Thygerson

Emergency response presents unique challenges for both patient and rescuer while in remote or isolated areas. The Wilderness First Aid Field Guide offers instant guidance in overcoming these obstacles, and provides responders with information on general emergency medical procedures as well as specific symptoms and accidents. The Wilderness Field Guide also includes the latest Wilderness Medical Society and American Heart Association CPR guidelines!

New interesting textbook: Nutrition and Food Services for Integrated Health Care or The Livebait Cookbook

Control Diabetes in Six Easy Steps

Author: Maggie Greenwood Robinson

Diabetes has reached near-epidemic proportions in America. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with it, you need to keep blood sugar in normal ranges and avoid serious complications. But how can you help control diabetes and not let it control you?

This handy guide offers step-by-step pointers to not only handle diabetes and keep it from getting worse-but also to reverse the harmful effects of the disease. It covers:

* What you need to know about the disease
* Six simple diet principles that can control blood sugar!
* Nutrients with remarkable healing power
* Herbs that bring blood sugar down
* A smart program for daily testing
*The right exercises to do
* Essential tips for taking medication
* The sugar-stress connection

Low Calorie Dieting For Dummies or Runners World Best

Low-Calorie Dieting For Dummies

Author: Susan McQuillan MS RD

Break your bad habits and start enjoying a low-cal lifestyle!

Want to lose weight and keep it off for good? This no-nonsense guide shows you how to consume fewer calories than you burn, providing a delicious, easy, and safe low-calorie plan you can follow for life! You'll find tools to improve your eating and exercise habits, cope with stress and boredom, assess your progress, and live healthier and happier.

Discover how to:

• Understand your metabolism.

• Set realistic, attainable goals.

• Maintain a healthy weight.

• Stock a low-cal kitchen.

• Eat right with simple, scrumptious, low-calorie recipes.

• Stay motivated long-term.

• Find outside support.

Order your copy today!

Book about: Digital Media Youth and Credibility or Adaptive Information

Runner's World Best: Run Faster

Author: Staff of Runners World Magazin

In Run Faster, readers learn how to achieve faster times with f exclusive tips from the editors of Runner’s World. Complete with full-color photographs that illustrate proper running technique and equipment, Run Faster is packed with a variety of speed-intensive drills. The book also provides strategies for complementing running with flexibility, strength training, core conditioning, and cross-training routines, while helping runners set realistic goals for going further and faster.

Meaningful Scents Around the World or The Diabetic Traveler

Meaningful Scents Around the World

Author: Roman Kaiser

In recent years, our knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of olfaction has grown enormously, accompanied by a growing appreciation of scent. This is reflected in the fact that the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for discoveries of 'Odorant Receptors and the Organization of the Olfactory System'. This book naturally supports such developments, and takes the reader on a fascinating fragrant journey around the world to some of the exciting places the author has visited during his 30 years of olfactory research. Following an introductory section to the world of natural scents, including their biological meaning and history, the fragrance and flavor chemist, Roman Kaiser, who is renowned for his 'headspace' analytical technique, revisits some memorable scents. In doing so, he leads us to such exotic places as Lower Amazonia, Papua New Guinea, India, and many rain-forest biotopes in his quest for new molecules and new scent concepts, showing us along the way how a scent like tatami can be linked to culture. The third and final section describes the analysis of the compositions of the presented scents.

Interesting book: Professional Widgets with CSS DOM and AJAX or Mcitp

The Diabetic Traveler

Author: Davida F Kruger

This one-of-a-kind new guide features complete how-to information on preparing and packing necessary supplies for a trip; traveling by land, sea, or sky; eating well; coping with unexpected illness; taking insulin; and more. An international glossary includes helpful, diabetes-specific phrases in five languages.

Davida F. Kruger, M.S.N., C.D.E., R.N., has Type I diabetes and is vice chair of the Diabetes Research Foundation.

Speaking of Sadness or 101 Tips for Diabetes Self Management Education

Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness

Author: David Allen Karp

"Even though depression has periodically made me feel that my life was not worth living, has created havoc in my family, and sometimes made the work of teaching and writing seem impossible," writes David Karp, "by some standards, I have been fortunate." Indeed, depression can be devastating, leading to family breakups, loss of employment, even suicide. And it is a national problem, with some ten to fifteen million Americans suffering from it, and the number is growing. In Speaking of Sadness, Karp captures the human face of this widespread affliction, as he illuminates his experience and that of others in a candid, searching work.
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, Karp's interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in dealing with extraordinary and debilitating pain. We hear what depression feels like, what it means to receive an "official" clinical diagnosis, and what depressed persons think of the battalion of mental health experts--doctors, nurses, social workers, sociologists, psychologists, and therapists--employed to help them. We learn the personal significance that patients attach to beginning a prescribed daily drug regimen, and their ongoing struggle to make sense of biochemical explanations and metaphors of depression as a disease. Ranging in age from their early twenties to their mid-sixties, the people Karp profiles reflect on their working lives and career aspirations, and confidestrategies for overcoming paralyzing episodes of hopelessness. They reveal how depression affects their intimate relationships, and, in a separate chapter, spouses, children, parents, and friends provide their own often-overlooked point of view. Throughout, Karp probes the myriad ways society contributes to widespread alienation and emotional exhaustion.
Speaking of Sadness is an important book that pierces through the terrifying isolation of depression to uncover the connections linking the depressed as they undertake their personal journeys through this very private hell. It will bring new understanding to professionals seeking to see the world as their clients do, and provide vivid insights and renewed empathy to anyone who cares for someone living with the cruel unpredictability of depression.

Library Journal

This sociological consideration of illness and disease in contemporary America comes from a professor (Boston Coll.) who uses his own suffering, treatment, and theory along with reports of 50 others who volunteered to talk with him about their major depressive episodes. Karp writes well, addressing psychological, chemical, and cultural perspectives, with much credit to C. Wright Mills, Erving Goffman, and Arthur Kleinman. Many psychiatrists would agree that too little attention is paid to the nature of the pain and the impact of social context on our definitions of normality and treatment. "Self-help" comes under fire, too, as shallow ideology in a time of advancing anomie. A careful, honest writer, Karp has produced a classic equal to William Styron's Darkness Visible (LJ 8/90) and Clifford Beers's A Mind That Found Itself (1908). Highly recommended for sufferers, would-be healers, and anyone interested in the effects of depression.-E. James Lieberman, George Washington Univ. Sch. of Medicine, Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents:

1	Living with Depression	3
2	The Dialectics of Depression	22
3	Illness and Identity	50
4	The Meanings of Medication	78
5	Coping and Adapting	104
6	Family and Friends	134
7	Sickness, Self, and Society	165
	Postscript: Sociology, Spirituality, and Suffering	189
	Appendix: Thinking about Sampling	197
	Notes	203
	References	221
	Index	233

Interesting book: Colour Forecasting or Qigong A Legacy in Chinese Healing

101 Tips for Diabetes Self-Management Education

Author: Martha Mitchell Funnell

Educate patients individually or as a group about managing their diabetes with these practical tips from the esteemed educators at the University of Michigan Diabetes Research & Training Center. These 101 Q&A tips are designed to help you develop and foster an effective self-management education program. Your guidebook begins with developing your vision and designing your curriculum and advances through the program’s phases from marketing and needs assessment to evaluating your program. Includes powerful tips for effectively communicating with patients.

Healing with Music and Color or 101 Conditioning Games and Drills for Athletes

Healing With Music And Color

Author: Mary Bassano

This handbook gives the beginning student of healing a basic guide to the therapeutic use of color and music. In a clear, concise text, Dr. Bassano explains how musical tones and color rays can be used for physical, emotional, and mental healing. Though practical, with easy--to--follow instructions, Bassano's methods are based on spiritual precepts.

The concepts is simple: we are all spiritual beings who are highly susceptible to both positive and negative energies. These energies can cause imbalances that make us ddepressed, physically ill, or spiritually vacant. They can also uplift us, make us well, and keep our lifes in emotional and mental balance. You can easily learn which colors to wear in order to change your life, which musical tones will bring you peace, and how the body's chakras---the seven hling centers---are tuned into both music and color.

Unlock the potential of these subline cosmic energies--heal yourself and help others do it, too!

Look this: Kennedy Men or Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan

101 Conditioning Games and Drills for Athletes

Author: Jay Dawes

Traditional training can be perceived by athletes as a monotonous chore to be endured rather than enjoyed. 101 Conditioning Games and Drills for Athletes presents 101 skill-based and competitive games designed to help coaches motivate and challenge their athletes while maintaining training intensity, building teamwork, and increasing participant enjoyment. Each game or drill is thoroughly explained, and includes materials needed (if any), the approximate playing area, coaching notes, as well as hints on how to vary the activities.

Cyber Rules or Babys Day at a Glance

Cyber Rules: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet

Author: Joanie Farley Gillispi

Ground rules for kids and their families in the new digital environment.

Although the social and psychological impact of Internet and wireless communication use is unknown, educators and parents must help steer children and adolescents through this new digital terrain. Filled with stories, self-assessment features and quizzes, and practical advice, this user-friendly guide will aid the Internet wary and experienced alike as they strive to make the best decisions for their children and clients.

New interesting book: Stuart Cookery or Taste of Montreal

Baby's Day at a Glance: A Workbook for Child Care Providers

Author: Arianne Weinberger

Finding it hard to keep track of your infant's and toddler's day while you’re at work? Feeling disconnected from your child’s daily schedule? If you answered yes to either of these questions, this book is for you.

Baby’s Day At A Glance is a helpful and detailed journal for your child care provider to quickly record your child’s daily eating, sleeping and playing schedule. This easy to use workbook will minimize the host of questions you would normally have at the end of the day for your child care provider. It will help you become more in tune with your child, allowing you to see how his or her day progressed at a glance. This book will also help you answer doctor’s questions about feeding and sleeping, and there is ample space for keeping track of medication.

Baby’s Day At A Glance is a lightweight workbook that can also be used in a day care setting. It’s made to last six months for a single child, but also works well for multiple children. You will finally be able to have a concise, organized and written record of your child’s day, leaving your mind at ease.

Encyclopedia of Food and Color Additives or Mindful Eating

Encyclopedia of Food and Color Additives, Vol. 3

Author: George A Burdock

This 3-volume set provides all the answers to technical, legal, and regulatory questions in clear, nontechnical language. Information once scattered among the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), other government and technical publications, or only available through the Freedom of Information Act, is made easily accessible. You will find descriptions of all substances listed in the Everything Added to Food in the U.S. (EAFUS) database, including categories and substances not considered to be "additives," such as corn oil. All data is clearly organized in alphabetical or numerical order, so having only minimal knowledge about any additive, you can locate it instantly. The Encyclopedia provides you with a quick, understandable description of what each additive is and what it does, where it comes from, when its use might be limited, and how it is manufactured and used.
•What? FDA or PAFA name. List of Synonyms. Current CAS Number. Other CAS Numbers. Empirical Formula. Specifications.
•Where? Description. Natural Occurrence. Natural Sources.
•When? GRAS status. Regulatory Notes. Table of Regulatory Citations.
•How? Purity. Functional Use in Food.You get all this data, plus an index by CAS number and synonym to make your research even easier.

Go to: One That Got Away or Down with Big Brother

Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

Author: Jan Chozen Bays

Here is an accessible and encouraging exploration of how and why to apply the Zen art of mindfulness to transform our “issues” with food. Whether we are overweight (as are two-thirds of American adults today) or suffer from an eating disorder, learning to eat mindfully can liberate us from the suffering we experience with food. Practiced for centuries in the Zen tradition, mindful eating is an approach that involves bringing one’s full attention to the process of eating—becoming fully present to the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. Preliminary research funded by the National Institutes of Health indicates that mindfulness is effective in treating eating disorders.

Dr. Bays, a physician and Zen teacher, offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help us create a healthier relationship with food. In Mindful Eating she shows us how to rediscover the simple act of eating, thereby gaining control of our eating problems from the inside out. Along the way she reviews the relevant research, offers medical information, and presents numerous practical exercises drawn from her workshops. Through mindful eating we not only overcome our issues with food, but we can reawaken our sense of pleasure and satisfaction. This book shows us how.

Childhood Ear Infections or Power Tennis Training

Childhood Ear Infections: A Parent's Guide to Alternative Treatments

Author: Michael A Schmidt

Research increasingly questions the safety and efficacy of antibiotics in treating ear infections in small children. This guide explores the underlying causes of the problem and suggests new strategies. The author discusses diet, homeopathic care, and children's vitamin absorption process. The book includes a checklist that advises parents when they should take their children to the doctor, and provides specific questions to ask in determining the appropriateness of antibiotics or surgery.

Book review: The Supreme Court or Jefferson and Monticello

Power Tennis Training

Author: Donald A Chu

Don Chu, training consultant to the United States Tennis Association and top tennis pros, presents an easy-to-follow, balanced conditioning program specifically designed to help tennis players at all levels put more power into their game. Through a regimen of stretching, weight training, plyometrics, medicine ball exercises, and court drills, you'll become faster and able to hit the ball harder. You'll also find that you're less injury-prone and can bounce back from injury sooner.

Let Power Tennis Training put more power into your game.

About the Author:
A frequent contributor to the National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal, Don Chu is a leading authority on power training and conditioning. In addition to serving as a consultant for the United States Tennis Association, Chu has been a conditioning consultant for the Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Detroit Lions, and Chicago White Sox. He is owner, director, and consultant to individual athletes at the Ather Sports Injury Clinic in northern California.

Dr. Chu earned his PhD in physical therapy and physical education from Stanford University and is a professor emeritus of kinesiology and physical education at California State University, Hayward. In 1978, his only year as a head coach, Dr. Chu was named the Far Western Conference Track and Field Coach of the Year. He is a registered physical therapist, a certified athletic trainer through the National Athletic Training Association, and an National Strength and Conditioning Association-certified strength specialist.

Pervasive Developmental Disorder a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or Piroxicam a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Pervasive Developmental Disorder - a Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

Author: Icon Health Publications

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

See also: Principes fondamentaux de Design Graphiques

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

Author: Icon Health Publications

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

Table of Contents:

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

Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant Overcoming Infertility and Managing Your High Risk Pregnancy or The Warrior as Healer

Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant: Overcoming Infertility and Managing Your High-Risk Pregnancy

Author: Diana Raab

You Dream of Having a Baby. You just never dreamed conceiving would be so difficult. Or you never expected to have a high-risk pregnancy. Here is a sensitive guide to the medical and emotional landscape of these conditions, written by a nurse and medical writer who battled infertility and difficult pregnancies herself, and emerged with three healthy children.

The first part of the book focuses on infertility: causes and symptoms, female and male fertility tests, the latest reproductive technologies and alternative methods of conception such as surrogate parenting. The second section covers all aspects of high-risk pregnancy, including dealing with prolonged bed rest and the use of medications to prevent preterm labor. A special chapter addresses birth defects and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The book includes vital new information on amniocentesis; miscarriage; premature birth; and delivery options, including vacuum-assisted delivery, cesareans and vaginal birth after cesarean.

Woven with illuminating personal stories, Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant will give you the thoughtful, practical advice you need to help make your dream of parenthood come true.

Go to: Multicultural Cookbook of Life Cycle Celebrations or 101 recetas con pasta

The Warrior as Healer: A Martial Arts Herbal for Power, Fitness, and Focus

Author: Thomas Richard Joiner

A comprehensive and easy-to-use guide to the herbal formulas traditionally used in martial arts for healing injuries, increasing vitality, and focusing meditation. 

• Over 100 authentic Chinese formulas. 

• Complete instructions for preparing your own decoctions, medicinal wines, pills, and salves.

American Herb Association

This unique approach to herbalism blends the Old World with the new.

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Dhanwantari or The Straight Path of the Spirit

Dhanwantari: A Complete Guide to the Ayurvedic Life

Author: Harish Johari

A guide to living the Ayurvedic way from one of its most celebrated practitioners.

• A vast and practical presentation of Ayurvedic principles addressing diet, breathing, meditation, bathing, sleeping, exercise, medicine, jewelry, and sex

Over the past 20 years Harish Johari's books and workshops on India's Ayurvedic traditions of cooking, massage, numerology, gemology, meditation, and Tantra have changed the lives of countless individuals in the West and have established Johari's reputation as the foremost ambassador of the Ayurvedic life. Now, for the first time, Johari's vast knowledge of Ayurveda and Yoga has been distilled into one convenient volume.

Named for the classical Indian god of medicine, Dhanwantari is a complete guide to living the Ayurvedic way. Chapters focus on diet, breathing, bathing, meditation, sleeping, exercising, medicine, jewelry, and sex. Anyone seeking a logical, scientific, and practical set of principles for daily life will discover an excellent guide in the time-tested system presented here. By improving the health of their bodies and minds, individuals will find that a greatly expanded breadth of life experiences is suddenly open to them.

Yoga Journal

Harish Johari is Ayurveda's Renaissance man.

Hinduism Today

A fine introduction both to the science of Ayurveda and to its cuisine.

Table of Contents:

Book review: Secrets of a New Orleans Chef or New Wok

The Straight Path of the Spirit: Ancestral Wisdom and Healing Traditions in Fiji

Author: Richard Katz

The inspiring story of one man's exploration of indigenous healing in a culture fighting to preserve its spiritual health.

• A firsthand account of a little-known healing tradition.

• A dramatic story of self-transformation by a well-respected Harvard-educated anthropologist.

In the late 1970s Richard Katz, a clinical psychologist trained in anthropology, spent two years living in a remote island community in Fiji, hoping to record the practices of its healers. At the foundation of their healing, he discovered, was the concept of the straight path, a journey through life whose truth is revealed only to the extent that it is searched for with honesty and faith. It is a way of healing that in its very essence is a way of living, a path that emphasizes the spiritual dimensions of health and the relevance of these to the community. But while interviewing healers at work, Katz was drawn into an increasingly suspenseful drama. Unexplained deaths, rumors and suspicions, and the intrusion of a zealous evangelist rocked the village and soon revealed to the author the dangerous alternative to the straight path: the misuse of power that some call witchcraft. 

The Straight Path is an engrossing story of indigenous healers and a dramatic account of cultures in collision. Through the story of his own self-transformation, Katz reveals not only those aspects of life essential for the Fijians as they struggle to hold onto their identity, but also what is of importance to all of us who seek to retain our humanity.

American Herb Association

His presentation is in the academic style of the psychologist and anthroplogist that he is, yet he makes the book readable and engaging.

What People Are Saying

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
This is no New-Age vapor, but a sensitive, penetrating insight into a deeply mysterious aspect of humanity that has no parallel in Western culture. Katz was blessed by the Fijians, and imparts his blessing to us. (Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Harmless People and Reindeer Moon)

Mental Retardation or In the Pursuit of Winning

Mental Retardation: Nature, Cause, and Management

Author: George S Baroff

Mental Retardation, now in the third edition, was hailed as a "classic" when it was first published in the 1970's. This edition provides up-to-date material on the major dimensions of mental retardation-its nature, its causes, both biological and psychological, and its management.

Mani Pavuluri

This is a comprehensive book on mental retardation in which the presentation, etiology, and management are outlined. An added unique feature in this third edition is a series of potential discussion questions at the end of each chapter. The reference list has benn expanded to include the most recent publications. This book is particularly readable and includes well-organized details in all areas that are relevant for mental retardation. Authors intend to highlight "person." They have met their objectives in providing accurate information on the most recent definitions of mental retardation, biopsychosocial variables, and the obstacles and rewards in treating mental retardation. According to the authors, this book is written for upper level undergraduate and graduate students and for the professionals in the field. I agree that it will be of immense interest to those in the fields of psychology, child psychiatry, pediatrics, education, and social services. Both the senior author and the guest author have extensive experience in the field of mental retardation and it is a treat to get a distilled version of their experience in the form of a readable textbook. Definitions, biological factors, and environmental factors are all well covered. Psychiatric disorders and mental retardation, comprehensive services, and support services are well covered for all age groups, severity, and in various settings. Authors have covered all the key concepts related to mental retardation. This book has all there is to learn on the topic. While the medical management of various behavior/psychiatric problems is mentioned in some detail, the presentation lacks a systematic approach. This, however, isa small detail compared to the rich detail in other areas.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Mani Pavuluri, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This is a comprehensive book on mental retardation in which the presentation, etiology, and management are outlined. An added unique feature in this third edition is a series of potential discussion questions at the end of each chapter. The reference list has benn expanded to include the most recent publications.
Purpose: This book is particularly readable and includes well-organized details in all areas that are relevant for mental retardation. Authors intend to highlight "person." They have met their objectives in providing accurate information on the most recent definitions of mental retardation, biopsychosocial variables, and the obstacles and rewards in treating mental retardation.
Audience: According to the authors, this book is written for upper level undergraduate and graduate students and for the professionals in the field. I agree that it will be of immense interest to those in the fields of psychology, child psychiatry, pediatrics, education, and social services. Both the senior author and the guest author have extensive experience in the field of mental retardation and it is a treat to get a distilled version of their experience in the form of a readable textbook.
Features: Definitions, biological factors, and environmental factors are all well covered. Psychiatric disorders and mental retardation, comprehensive services, and support services are well covered for all age groups, severity, and in various settings.
Assessment: Authors have covered all the key concepts related to mental retardation. This book has all there is to learn on the topic. While the medical management of various behavior/psychiatric problems is mentioned in some detail, the presentation lacks a systematic approach. This, however, is a small detail compared to the rich detail in other areas.

Rating

4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	The Nature of Mental Retardation
	Personality and Mental Retardation
	Biological Factors in Mental Retardation: Chromosomal and Genetic
	Nongenetic Biological Factors: Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal
	Psychological Factors in Mental Retardation
	Introduction to Services and Supports
	Services and Supports to Children and Youth
	Services and Supports to Adults
	Maladaptive or "Challenging" Behavior: Its Nature Treatment

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In the Pursuit of Winning: Problem Gambling Theory, Research and Treatment

Author: Masood Zangeneh

Gambling is an underrecognized problem from both a clinical and a public health point of view. It is not uncommon for an adolescent or adult to participate in one form of gambling or another on a regular basis, be it the lottery, card playing for money, sports wagering, or gambling on electronic gaming devices. Nor is it uncommon for such participation to reach excessive or destructive proportions, with negative effects on the individual's psychological, social, economic, and family life. The results of the National Research Council's 2000 review of empirical studies suggest that 85% of adolescents report having gambled during their lifetime, with 73% of adolescents reporting having gambled in the past year. Despite gains in knowledge concerning the correlates and risk factors associated with severe gambling problems among youth during the past ten years, a general lack of public and parental awareness exists. This raises serious mental health and public policy concerns.

Written from an international perspective, this book covers gambling research and interventions in the following categories: role of helpline services; a Jungian–transpersonal approach to treatment; cognitive therapy for problem gambling; pharmacological interventions for problem gambling; desensitization/biofeedback as treatment for problem gambling; binge gambling; pathological gambling; past and contemporary aboriginal peoples' experiences with gambling; problem–gambling counselor certification; measurement of outcomes in problem gambling treatment; overview of teen gambling–related issues from leading researchers.

20 Common Problems or Indian Head Massage

20 Common Problems: End of Life Care

Author: Barry M Kinzbrunner

The most practical book available for caring for the needs of dying patients and their families

End of Life Care: A Practical Guide offers unmatched coverage of all the real-world issues and challenges that arise daily for those caring for dying patients and their families. The Second Edition has been made even more essential with the addition of chapter-ending questions and answers, the addition of the latest guidelines and evidence-based information on outcomes in end of life care and on prognosis in cardiac and neurological disease. You will also find a new chapter on multicultural medicine and an increased number of algorithms to assist you through decision making on complicated clinical, legal, and ethical issues.

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Reviewer: Lisa Stepp, PhD, RN, APN, AOCN, CRNH (Private Practice)
Description: End-of-life care continues to be a very challenging area of medical care. Authors continue to explore and report on the evolution of caring for individuals and their loved ones during this difficult time. This book continues an emerging tradition of disseminating information to clinicians regarding end-of-life care.
Purpose: This book has been specifically designed to help clinicians overcome their own feelings of distress and provide quality care during difficult times. Although certain symptomatology is common for hospice and palliaitve care patients, each situation requires its own form of individualized intervention. The authors' attention to detail provides a framework in which the clinician can design and implement this individualized care.
Audience: Due to the tone, writing style, and vocabulary of this book, the most appropriate audience is clinicians involved in and those preparing to practice in the hospice and palliative care arena. The authors and editors are well respected in the field of end-of-life care.
Features: The book is divided into three main areas, preparing for the transfer of the patient to end-of-life care, common symptomatology, and ethical dilemmas in end-of-life care. The section on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia is of particular interest. The authors approach this sensitive topic in a very compassionate, straightforward manner.
Assessment: To date, there have been numerous articles, journals, and books produced to address the issues that patients, caregivers, and clinicians face at the end of life. The overlapping of information can be seen however in most cases as unavoidable. This book is well written and accurately reflects the state of end-of-life care in America.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Preparing Patients for Enf of Life CareHow to Decide When End of Life Care is Needed: Predicting Prognosis How to Help Patients Access End of Life Care How to Inform the Patient: Breaking Bad News How to Work with an Interdisciplinary Team How to Measure Quality of Life near the End of Life Common Symptoms at the End of Life Pain Dyspnea Gastrointestinal Symptoms Disorders of the Nervous System Disorders of the Skin and Mucous Membranes Depression and Other common Symptoms Near the End of Life The Last Days: The Actively Dying Patient Psychosocial and Spiritual Disorders Near the End of Life Bereavement Ethical Issues and Controversies Near the End of Life Advance Directives and the Question of CPR Nutritional Support and Parenteral Hydration Near the End of Life Diagnostic Studies and Invasive Therapies Near the End of Life Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Special Groups End of Life Care for Patients with HIV Care of the Pediatric Patient Near the End of Life

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Indian Head Massage

Author: Helen McGuinness

Indian Head Massage covers the fundamentals of the subject, from anatomy and physiology to health and safety, massage routines and marketing techniques. The new edition contains new information on Ayurveda and hair oils and covers the specifications for all major examining boards including the VTCT and ITEC diplomas as well as the Indian head masage units for Beauty Therapy NVQ 2 and 3. Full of step-by-step photographs, FAQs and definitions, and including a free CD-ROM with interactive revision activities, this is an essential text for all students of Indian head massage.

Whats Love Got to Do with It Love Power Sex and God or Ironmans Ultimate Guide to Building Muscle Mass

What's Love Got to Do with It? Love, Power, Sex, and God

Author: Frank A Thomas

This workbook is designed to provide you with a personal and in-depth focus on the messages in What's Love Got to Do with It? Love, Power, Sex, and God, by Frank Thomas. This companion workbook features a twelve-week format, with five daily devotions in each week, as well as focus questions for each day's topic. In the daily section "Reflect on the Message," you will be directed by page number to read and reflect on a selection in the original book. Whether you are working alone or as a part of a small group that meets weekly to discuss what love has to do with your life, this companion workbook will open up an avenue for your personal spiritual growth. Includes Leader's Pages to guide the twelve weekly meetings.

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Ironman's Ultimate Guide to Building Muscle Mass

Author: Ironman Magazin

Continuously published since 1936, Ironman is the dean of bodybuilding magazines. It has been showcasing every major bodybuilder, training technique, scientific advance, and other aspects of the iron game longer than any other bodybuilding magazine. With articles by and photos of the greatest names in bodybuilding, the Ironman archives represent the best of bodybuilding. This definitive, information-packed volume contains the best that Ironman has to offer for building muscle mass. Ironman's Ultimate Guide to Building Muscle Mass is a how-to guide that includes the best mass-building routines of the greatest bodybuilders so that reader's can get the maximum, proven results. Included is complete information on:

• arm training for mass
• leg training for mass
• back training for mass
• shoulder training for mass
• chest training for mass
• mass training for hardgainers
• the science of supersetting
• targeting muscle fibers
• high-intensity training
• mass training versus strength training
• power bodybuilding
• bodybuilding nutrition
• and much, much more

This authoritative resource contains the step-by-step methods used by champion bodybuilders and top bodybuilding researchers. For instance, you will learn Vince Gironda's training secrets, Bill Pearl's secrets for building massive size and power, and Sergio Oliva's saturation bombing arm routine. Beginners and seasoned bodybuilders alike can pack on more muscle mass than ever before by using the tricks and secrets revealed by experts who have spent decades examining every technique of the sport. Editor Peter Sisco is the author or coauthor of numerous fitness andbodybuilding books, including Power Factor Training, Power Factor Specialization: Chest & Arms, Power Factor Specialization: Shoulders & Back, Power Factor Specialization: Abs & Legs, Static Contractions Training, and The Golfer's Two-Minute Workout.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
1	Power-Mass Training: Work Heavy and Get Huge	1
2	Mass Machine Training	9
3	Resurrection: Tried-and-True Workouts for Modern-Day Mass	23
4	The Mass-Building Hardgainer Solution	35
5	Compound Aftershock: Science-Based Training for Arms	49
6	The Science of Supersetting	59
7	Hardgainer's Call to Arms	69
8	Giant Splits: Stretch Your Routine for Maximum Recovery and Gains	79
9	Size Made Simple: Blast Your Bodyparts with One Exercise per Muscle Group	89
10	Mass Versus Strength: Target-Training Your Muscle Fibers	99
11	High-Intensity Training	107
12	Mass Mania: Radical Routines for Shocking Size	117
13	How to Turn 10 Good Exercises into Explosive Mega-Mass Boosters	127
14	Power Bodybuilding for Serious Size and Strength	139
15	Monster Pump: Tips for Outrageous Muscle Growth	161
16	Vince Gironda's Training Secrets	173
17	Bill Pearl's Secrets for Building Massive Size and Power	179
18	Sergio Oliva's Saturation Bombing Arm Routine	189
19	Dinosaur Training: The Secrets to Building Jurassic Size and Strength	201
20	6 X Nutrition for XL Results	227
	Index	239

How to Feed a Teenage Boy or The New Glucose Revolution

How to Feed a Teenage Boy: Recipes And Strategies for Good Eating

Author: Georgia Orcutt

As parents of teenage boys know, providing our ravenous, junk food-loving sons with tasty and nutritious meals and snacks is a daily challenge. How to Feed a Teenage Boy comes to the rescue with solid information on growing boys' nutritional needs and savvy shopping and organizational strategies so we don't have to spend untold hours in the store and in the kitchen. This book presents more than 150 recipes for simple, satisfying fare the whole family can enjoy, including Greek Pizza, Slow-Cooker Vegetable Chili, Tuesday Night Pork Sandwiches, Sweet Potato Fries, and Turkey Lasagna.

Georgia Orcutt's food expertise and her understanding of boys and their quirks shine through in a cornucopia of road-tested parent-to-parent advice, including: how to get a green-phobic boy to eat salad, ideas for easy, junk-free snacks, the lowdown on protein powder supplements, ways to share kitchen chores and nutritional knowledge with teenagers. With a focus on healthy food choices, balanced nutrition, and flexible meal planning, How to Feed a Teenage Boy makes it easy for even the busiest parents to feed their hungry boys well every day-and to inspire them to eat well for life.

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The New Glucose Revolution: Pocket Guide to the Metabolic Syndrome and Your Heart

Author: Jennie Brand Miller

The latest medical research clearly confirms that the glycemic index (GI)—an easy-to-understand ranking of foods based on their effect on blood glucose levels—is vitally important for heart health and the prevention of the Metabolic Syndrome (aka Syndrome X and insulin resistance). Slowly digested, low-GI carbohydrates like pasta, grainy breads, and cereals based on wheat bran and oats play an important role in treating and preventing heart disease—in addition to controlling blood sugar and aiding weight loss. This handy pocket guide shows readers how to choose the right amount of the right carbohydrates for reducing the risk of heart attack and for lifelong health and well-being. Included is a 7-day, low-fat, low-GI meal plan for heart health, a healthy-heart pantry checklist, and the glycemic index values, fat, and carbohydrate content for over 300 foods and drinks.