Lose to Win or The Hungry Self

Lose to Win: A Cardiologist's Guide to Weight Loss and Nutritional Healing

Author: Stephen T Sinatra

As you'll quickly see, this is not just a diet book, but much more. It's a resource for how to develop a healthier lifestyle in several areas, from the viewpoint of a cardiologist.

Stephen Sinatra, M.D., will show you how Roger Buffaloe lost over 200 pounds. He'll not only show you how to lose weight, eat healthier and live longer, he will also educate you on the effect of foods on the heart and body.

Based on the effects he's seen in his own life and the lives of his patients, Dr. Sinatra offers simple techniques to reach your personal weight loss and nutritional goals. He shares not just which foods to eat, but his own personal recipes for food preparation. "Healthy food is a cardinal ingredient in preventive medicine," Sinatra explains.

And through the entire process, his motto is "no deprivation and no loss of pleasure."

"This book is not limited to dieting and deprivation, but on nurturing the body with nutritional and emotional healing. Lose to Win supports a weight-reduction process in which the individual opens doors to creativity and aliveness."

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	IX
Chapter 1	Diets Don't Work: The Roger Buffaloe Story	1
Chapter 2	Obesity: The Problem	17
Chapter 3	At the Heart of the Matter	23
Chapter 4	The Nuts and Bolts of Nutrition	37
Chapter 5	Fiber: The Good	47
Chapter 6	Cholesterol: The Bad	55
Chapter 7	Fat: The Issue	67
Chapter 8	Salt, Water, Alcohol, and Caffeine	77
Chapter 9	Exercise	85
Chapter 10	Vitamins and Minerals	99
Chapter 11	Foods That Heal	137
Chapter 12	Recipes for Life	151
Chapter 13	Who Is This New Person In the Mirror	179
Chapter 14	Lose To Win	187
	Appendix	194
	Selected References	214
	Index	225

Book review: Very Special Agents or Child of War Woman of Peace

The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity

Author: Kim Chernin

Answers the need for help among the five million American women who suffer from eating disorders. "An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders."--Phyllis Chesler

San Francisco Chronicle - Robin Lakoff

Kim Chernin offers a perspective that is refreshingly different. Her identification of the roots of eating disorders in women's roles is a positive step, and her solution far more joyous and rational than any other I've seen.

What People Are Saying

Phyllis Chesler
An inspired psychoanalytic meditation on contemporary female identity and eating disorders.

Lillian B. Rubin
"Every woman will understand the problem of The Hungry Self--the hunger that is expressed through food but that covers our deepest need to realize a fully developed and autonomous self, a self that can satisfy the authentic hungers within us."

10 Steps to Better Living with Diabetes or Arthritis

10 Steps to Better Living with Diabetes

Author: Ginger Kanzer Lewis

A real-life daily guide to help you with diabetes

How do you manage your diabetes today? Manybooks discuss the ins and outs of diabetes medications,the need for weight control, and the ideal meal plan,but there is nothing for the you if you need informationon the day-to-day basics of diabetes. 10 Steps toBetter Living with Diabetes gives you the survival skillsyou need to master your disease in the real world,with chapters on building support networks, managinga social life, and tackling financial issues.

10 Steps to Better Living with Diabetes even devotes achapter to “When Things Go Wrong”—or what to dowhen everything doesn’t work out quite the way onethought. Whether you suddenly catch the flu or justhaven’t done everything you know you should, thischapter tells you what you need todo to get yourself back on track. No other book ondiabetes promises real solutions to real problems like10 Steps to Better Living with Diabetes.

Ginger Kanzer-Lewis, R.N.-B.C., Ed.M.,C.D.E.has nearly 25 years’ experience with patienteducation and is a past president of the American Associationof Diabetes Educators. She is the author of PatientEducation: You Can Do It (also published by the AmericanDiabetes Association).

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Arthritis: How to Stay Active and Relieve Your Pain

Author: Barbara Stokes

Addressing the growing number of individuals who suffer from this often debilitating ailment, this indispensable reference explains how to manage chronic or acute arthritis in straightforward language. Descriptions of the most common forms of arthritis and how they affect the body and its joints guide arthritis sufferers through the symptoms and show them how to manage their own treatment with the help of a health-care team. Self-management is emphasized and chapters cover topics such as pain management, working with health-care professionals, medication, exercise, surgery options, intimacy issues, emotional health, social interaction, and alternative treatments.

Table of Contents:

Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     x
Foreword     xi
Finding Out About Arthritis     1
What Is Arthritis and What Can I Expect from This Book?     3
What Are Joints and How Do They Work?     15
Is Arthritis One Disease or Several?     33
Where Can I Go For Help?     75
How Can Scientific Research Help Me Make Choices?     101
How Can Arthritis Medications Help Me?     119
How Can I Manage My Arthritis Pain?     155
How Can I Stay Well and Prevent Disability?     181
Why Should I Exercise?     195
Getting Healthy and Staying Well     209
Keeping Joints Mobile and Flexible     211
Building and Maintaining Your Muscle Strength     237
Improving Fitness and Endurance     259
Protecting Joints and Conserving Energy     279
Adjusting to the Emotional Impact of Arthritis     311
Enjoying Happy and Healthy Intimate Relationships     327
Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices     347
Exploring Options for Joint Surgery     367
Exercising Caution About Cures and Testimonials     381
Epilogue     405
Resources     407
Index     415

DK Living or Great Expectation

DK Living: Yoga Mind And Body

Author: Sivananda Yoga Center

Develop your mental and physical potential, nourish yourself with simple, natural food, and begin to control the stress and tension of everyday living by following the five main principles in Yoga Mind & Body. Practice the 12 basic Yogic postures and the advanced asanas, which are illustrated in easy-to-follow photographic sequences. Learn how to perform them properly, and how to increase your personal level of skill gradually in the time you have available. Discover the benefits of proper breathing through simple step-by-step exercises, and feel how this infuses you with renewed energy. Learn to relax physically and mentally, letting go of stressful situations by adopting a positive attitude and Yogic philosophy. Purify and strengthen your body and mind with nutritionally balanced meals, following dietary advice and imaginative vegetarian recipes. Unlock the hidden powers of the mind through meditation, explore the benefits of positive thinking, and discover within yourself a broader sense of purpose.

School Library Journal

YAA book that promotes the idea of strong minds and bodies in an appealing manner. Each page has colorful illustrations, charts, and large print. The straightforward presentation is devoid of New Age jargon and will lead readers to an appreciation and comprehension of this ancient art. Five main principles of yoga based on the tenet of "simple living and high thinking" are introduced. Each one is explained and illustrated in a separate section of the book. The chapter on proper exercise is the longest section and goes through a complete workout session with full-color photographs and drawings of each position. The mental and physical benefits of each position are listed as well as possible problems, and variations for different skill levels. The chapter on vegetarian diet has 20 pages of recipes using familiar ingredients and utensils.Penny Stevens, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

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Great Expectation: A Father's Diary

Author: Daniel Roch

In Great Expectation, Dan Roche gives a man's perspective on what it means to start and expand a family relatively later in life. Through a series of diary entries in turns humorous, angst ridden, and full of hope and joy, Roche describes his own thoughts and concerns during the nine months of his wife's pregnancy. With five years of parenting his irrepressible daughter Maeve under his belt, Roche, already forty-five years old, and his wife, Maura, face the prospect of another arrival and the myriad of emotions that come with a second child. From revelling in the joys of pregnancy such as Maura's delight at "having cleavage" and being able to eat whatever she desires; to assuaging the parental anxieties of choosing the right obstetrician, correcting the mistakes one made with the first child, and sending children to college in the future; to navigating the unforeseen, experiencing the unexpected death of a parent, and feeling trepidation toward the thought of having a son, Roche records his emotions with unusual candidness and intimacy. Reflecting on day-to-day events and their significance in his family’s life together, Roche wonders what he is getting himself into and how much deeper he can immerse himself into parenting. Together, he and his wife face the bittersweet intersections of death and new life, menace and hopefulness. With sincerity and a mature wit, Great Expectation stands as a wise recounting of nine months’ time, with all of its chaos and charms, and offers a fresh perspective for first-time and veteran parents alike.

Drink to Your Health or La Dieta Abdominal Para la Mujer

Drink to Your Health!: Delicious Juices, Teas, Soups and Smoothies That Help You Look and Feel Great

Author: Anne McIntyr

To Life!

From juices and teas to soups and smoothies, this imaginative collection of delicious drinks from around the world has been compiled to help you look and feel great. These luscious and easy-to-prepare recipes will help lift your spirits and soothe your soul, and warm you up and cool you down, as well as recover from a wide range of illnesses and ailments. Features include:

• In-depth profiles of the healing qualities and benefits of twenty-five key ingredients -- from almonds and apples to barley and beetroot, and from garlic and ginger to oats and onions
• More than 120 recipes from sources around the world -- from China and Russia to North and South America, the Caribbean, and Europe
• Specifics for vegetarians, vegans, and people suffering from certain food intolerances
• Traditional wisdom married with discoveries from modern medical science
• Gorgeous full-color illustrations and detailed step-by-step instructions

Beautiful, informative, and comforting, Drink to Your Health will show you simple ways to make yourself feel a lot better.

Table of Contents:

Contents
foreword
introduction
chapter 1
key ingredients
chapter 2
drinks for looking good, feeling good
chapter 3
drinks for recovering from illness
chapter 4
drinks for healing the soul and spirit
appendix
useful terms
additional reading
resources
recipe index
general index

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La Dieta Abdominal Para la Mujer

Author: David Zinczenko

El plan de 6 semanas para aplanar su abdomen y mantenerla esbelta para siempre. Ya sea que quiera cambiar su cuerpo con el fin de majorar su salud, su apariencia, su rendimiento atlйtico o su atractivo sexual, La dieta abdominal para la mujer le ofrece una promesa sencilla: si usted sigue este plan, transformarб su cuerpo para que pueda lograr todas y cada una de estas metas. Ademбs, La dieta abdominal para la mujer no sуlo mejorarб su vida, sino que tambiйn la salvarб al protegerla de enfermedades potencialmente mortales.

Healing Stones or The Pilates Workout Journal

Healing Stones: Natural Cures from Mother Earth

Author: The Book Laboratory Inc

Natural Cures from Mother Earth-A healing stone is paired with a book on the potent curative powers of the earth's minerals, stones, and crystals.

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The Pilates Workout Journal: An Exercise Diary and Conditioning Guide

Author: Mari Winsor

Health and fitness experts agree that keeping track of exercise habits helps to improve performance and motivates a person to continue an exercise regimen. Based on the hugely-popular book that introduced readers to mat-based Pilates, The Pilates Workout Journal will help all readers-from beginners to more advanced Pilates enthusiasts alike-track the progress of their exercise routines. With inspirational quotes and training tips throughout, The Pilates Workout Journal is a practical, motivational tool to help readers get the most out of their Pilates workout.

Marisa Tomei

Pilates gives me long, lean muscles and works deeper than any other workout I've ever done. Mari Winsor got me in great shape.

Melanie Griffith

Pilates has changed my life.

Elizabeth Berkley

Working with Mari Winsor and the Pilates technique has proven to be the absolute best workout for my body, mind and soul.

Im Too Young to Have Breast Cancer or The Longevity Factor

I'm Too Young to Have Breast Cancer!: Regain Control of Your Life, Career, Family, Sexuality, and Faith

Author: Beth Leibson Hawkins

Beth Hawkins supplies intimate and detailed anecdotes from sixteen real women under the age of 40 who encountered breast cancer at what was supposed to be their prime.

Library Journal

After hearing of a 27-year-old friend's diagnosis, 32-year-old Leibson-Hawkins became obsessed with the lack of information on breast cancer in young women. She pursued sources on the Internet and found 16 survivors who would speak to the everyday concerns cancer presents: lack of control, work and career, sexuality and dating, family and children, and spirituality. A useful book that fills a void; Beth Murphy's Fighting for Our Future (LJ 2/1/02) is an excellent source for medical detail on cancer in young women. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: How I Came to Write This Book	ix
Chapter 1	Regaining Control	1
	How Do I Regain Control of My Life? Roberta, 27: The Patient as Manager
	How Do I Regain Control of My Body? Lanita, 31: Marathon Runner
	Survivor Suggestions on Regaining Control
Chapter 2	Work and Career	35
	What If My Career Is No Longer Fulfilling? Helen, 32: The Career Switch
	What If My Career Priorities Change? Janis, 33: Setting Limits
	What If I Thrive on My Career? Anne, 27: Getting Back to Business
	What If I Have No Health Insurance? Nora, 27: Adventures in Medicaid
	Survivor Suggestions on Work and Career
Chapter 3	Sexuality and Dating	87
	Dating? You've Got to Be Kidding! Becky, 26: Wedding under the Arches
	How Does Breast Cancer Affect Sexuality? Amanda, 35: Healing Arts
	What If I Don't Want to Reconstruct? Mary, 36: Amazon Woman
	Survivor Suggestions on Sexuality and Dating
Chapter 4	Pregnancy, Children, and Family	133
	What If I Want to Have Children? Susan, 40: Breast-feeding in Dana Farber
	What If I Want to Adopt? Jacquie, 29: A Different Life, a Parallel Life
	What If I Have Children? Barbara, 26: Telling the Girls
	What If I Have the Breast Cancer Gene? Paulette, 25: Living with Uncertainty
	Survivor Suggestions on Pregnancy, Children, and Family
Chapter 5	Faith, Religion, and Spirituality	189
	How Can Ritual Help Me? Dana, 26: Feeling Blessed
	Can Faith Help with Uncertainty? Robin, 33: Finding Faith in All Things
	Can Faith Deepen? Dawn, 31: A New Relationship with Jesus
	Survivor Suggestions on Faith, Religion, and Spirituality
	Afterword: Life After Breast Cancer	241
	Glossary	249
	Resources for Additional Information and Assistance	255
	Acknowledgments	265
	Index	267

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The Longevity Factor: How Resveratrol and Red Wine Activate Genes for a Longer and Healthier Life

Author: Joseph Maroon

A groundbreaking examination of new scientific research that holds the secret to weight loss, increased strength, endurance, memory, and a healthier, longer life

In The Longevity Factor, noted neuroscientist and surgeon Joseph Maroon, M.D., offers the definitive look at recent scientific breakthroughs identifying a group of natural substances — including the much-publicized molecule resveratrol — that can actually activate a specific set of genes in humans that promote a longer, healthier life. These substances, which make red wine, dark chocolate, and green tea good for us, appear to stave off a wide array of age-related diseases and keep us feeling young and vital.

Resveratrol is the centerpiece of headline-making research being conducted at the Harvard Medical School and elsewhere. Only recently, however, have scientists discovered how to isolate resveratrol and concentrate it into an affordable and safe supplement. Already, more than 200 supplements featuring resveratrol have flooded the market, and there are countless more on the way. But which ones work best? What is a consumer to look for on the label? Since resveratrol is a natural substance, can you get enough of it through diet alone, or should you combine diet with a supplement? And what lies on the horizon from the pharmaceutical industry? All those questions and many more are answered in this immensely informative and practical book.

Joseph Maroon offers the first-ever inside look at the amazing research that has led to the discovery of resveratrol and similar substances with the miraculous ability to activate our own longevity genes. He also offers his own diet plan and sound,reader-friendly advice for living a longer, healthier, and more balanced life with or without supplements. The Longevity Factor promises to be the authoritative source for everyone who wants to know more about how we can shift from the current paradigm of aging to a disease-free golden age of health, longevity, and fitness.

Wild or Tell Me What to Eat to Help Prevent Colon Cancer

Wild: An Elemental Journey

Author: Jay Griffiths

In Wild, Jay Griffiths describes an extraordinary odyssey through wildernesses of earth, ice, water, and fire. A poetic consideration of the tender connection between human society and the wild, the book is by turns passionate, political, funny, and harrowing. It is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands-the wilderness of the mind-and Griffiths beautifully explores the language and symbolism that shape our experience of our own wildness.

Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author.

About the Author:
Jay Griffiths is the author of A Sideways Look at Time, winner of the 2003 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in Utne, the London Review of Books, The Guardian, The Observer, The Ecologist, and Wild Earth.

The New York Times - Elizabeth Royte

The lesson of Wild is simple: Our bland consumer culture is not only killing any wildness within us, but also turning wilderness into suburbia. Millions of indigenous people are "in limbo," caught between nature and the city as corporations pursue their land, minerals and plants. Having lost knowledge of their land, adults become alcoholics, and 13-year-olds "careless with their one-dollar lives" sniff gas.

Publishers Weekly

In her second book (after A Sideways Look at Time) Griffiths narrates her seven-year exploration of the wildest places left on the globe-the Amazon rain forest, the Arctic and New Guinea, among others. The book is divided into five sections representing the "elements": earth, ice, water, fire and air. Her search for what remains wild is as much a linguistic and spiritual journey as it is a physical one, although she does take real risks, like drinking psychedelic ayahuasca infusions with shamans deep in the jungle. Griffiths's central thesis-that by developing and destroying our last wildernesses we are impoverishing our lives-is not an original one, but she brings fierce conviction and impressive scholarship to her work. Although Griffiths has great erudition and a real sensitivity to language, her ultraromantic perspective, in which civilization is always bad and nature always idyllic, lacks nuance. For someone so inspired by nature, Griffiths doesn't allow her observations to speak for themselves; instead, every event becomes another opportunity to condemn modern man. The lack of a narrative arc makes the book a collection of variations on a theme, and although Griffiths is a gifted writer, after 60 such essays, the mind starts to wander. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Griffiths (A Sideways Look at Time), a freelance writer whose work has been seen in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, and the Ecologist (among other publications), has written an exhaustive and at times exhausting book on all things wild. She divides the text into six categories: "Earth" (jungle), "Ice" (polar regions), "Water" (sea), "Fire" (desert), "Air" (mountains), and "Mind" (internal). While her text is filled with some accounts of her worldly adventures in such regions as Amazonia, Nunavut, Indonesia, Australia, West Papua, and Mongolia, it is mostly a treatise on wilderness in general, with her take on its role in history, sociology, religion, and, yes, our human character. Although there are interesting facts-and more than a little etymology of words relating to forms of wildness-the text is also preachy, and Griffiths often comes off as pompous, self-absorbed, and pretentious. Furthermore, the book is laced with gratuitous vulgarity, which is a shame. An optional purchase.-Lee Arnold, Historical Soc. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

An exuberant and erudite exploration of the meaning of wilderness and its place in our lives. Griffiths (A Sideways Look at Time, not reviewed) traveled over seven years to some of the world's wildest and most remote places seeking to understand how wildness expresses itself. She has categorized her journeys by the four elements-earth, water, fire and air-adding a fifth, ice, and concluding with a trip into the recesses of the human mind. The first chapter, "Wild Earth," is an expedition into the Amazon basin, where she becomes immersed not just in the physical wildness of nature but in the culture of the indigenous people. When shamans introduce her to the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca, she feels herself being transformed into a jaguar, an experience she describes vividly. The next, "Wild Ice," takes her to Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic, where she lives among the Inuit and bears witness to the beauty of the land and the destruction by white newcomers of the native culture. In "Wild Water," she learns about the wildness of the ocean and the creatures in it from the Bajo people of Indonesia, sea gypsies who live on a small island off Sulawesi. The hot, dry Australian outback is the setting for "Wild Fire." There she lives among the Aboriginal people, comparing their spiritual understanding of the desert with the less felicitous attitudes of the white settlers. The highlands of West Papua are the setting for "Wild Air," and there she is again traveling with native guides through exceedingly rough country and climbing high mountains. In Griffiths's eyes, indigenous people are blessed with a wisdom and spirituality that the rest of us, herself excluded, just don't get; a persistenttheme is the harm done to the native people and their environment by intruding whites, especially Christian missionaries. Griffith's love for words and her skill in using them, her easy familiarity with a host of poets, novelists, naturalists and anthropologists, her openness to new experiences and her willingness to reveal so much of herself, make this a fascinating journey.

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Tell Me What to Eat to Help Prevent Colon Cancer: Nutrition You Can Live With

Author: Elaine Mage

Elaine Magee gives you all the information you can never seem to understand when the doctor rattles it off, and she answers all the questions you ever wanted to ask a dietitian about preventing colon cancer. You will find a host of specific recommendations-what to eat, what to avoid, and how to incorporate these changes into your lifestyle.
Tell Me What to Eat to Help Prevent Colon Cancer begins with an overview of colon cancer in all its forms. Readers get a detailed yet completely understandable explanation of how the cancer begins and how it spreads-an explanation that is based on the latest medical information. Readers gain a better understanding of what colon cancer is and what actions they can take now to help prevent it.

Also included are dozens of healthful, practical, tasty recipes focusing on fiber, and power produce items that anyone can incorporate in their diet.

Pathways to Spirituality or Younger by the Day

Pathways to Spirituality: Therapy and Spirituality

Author: Bill OHanlon

Skills and techniques from a master therapist on how to help clients connect to their lives in a spiritual manner.

Therapy and spirituality? Many therapists are taught that these don't mix. Here readers will learn how spirituality and therapy are inextricably bound together. Bill O'Hanlon also shows how spirituality can be used to benefit the most challenging clients, even those with an aversion to religion. Combining practical methods with research evidence, this book will help therapists expand their clinical repertoire.

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Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Author: Victoria Moran

Inspiring advice and tips for the reversal of aging-mentally and physically-with the promise that readers will look and feel younger after one year's time.

"Wouldn't it be delicious if, even for a little while, I could age in reverse? What if I could short-circuit time and gravity and those psychopathic molecules that oxidize and make the years show up bigger than life? How great would it be if I could get absolution for the suntans and sundaes, the late nights and worrying I indulged in once upon a time, or two weeks ago Thursday?"

With a resounding "Yes!" Victoria Moran's Younger by the Day: An Enlightened Guide to Aging in Reverse, Inside & Out, One Day at a Time, answers these questions and details the physical habits, mental attitudes, and spiritual disciplines that make this not just a lovely dream, but a dream come true.

While we believe we're worried about gray roots and smile lines, the truth is that we're really worried about what these represent: loss of identity, diminished regard from the culture at large, and less time to make the rest of our dreams come true. Younger by the Day does not gloss over this inner angst. Instead, it meets it-with empathy, compassion, humor, and immediately usable information from West and East, medicine and metaphysics. At the end of a year, the reader will look and feel like a younger woman. This book can deliver that promise. One might think of it as Simple Abundance for middle-age: designed to be used over a year's time, directed to women, and coming straight from the heart.

Younger by the Day is light, friendly, honest and witty. More importantly, it's both a practical guide to the adventure of growing younger and an inspiring companion for the journey. While many of the books are written by physicians or models, Victoria is much more like the reader herself. She's a big sister, a best friend, and she knows what it's like to be afraid of entering a new phase of life, has overcome those fears, and looks substantially younger because of it. The reader benefits from Victoria's experience with 365 select techniques to help her love her age instead of look it.

My Mothers Wedding Dress or The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Healthy Kids

My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes

Author: Justine Picardi

A glorious meditation on why clothes matter.

Beginning with the story of her mother’s wedding dress, a perfect black French cocktail dress bought in 1960, writer and former Vogue editor Justine Picardie affirms what all of us may have suspected: that the real value of our wardrobes lies in the history and associations woven into our clothes. Combining tales of her own family and friends, intimate stories from the fashion business, and reflections on clothes in literature and pop culture, Picardie uncovers the truths that lie underneath what we wear. She reflects on the strange disappearance of garments we love; the allure of uniforms; the house that Chanel built; the bridal and ghostly qualities of women in white; the fate of a ring belonging to Charlotte Brontë; the power of scarlet clothing; how Donatella Versace, Karl Lagerfeld, and Claude Montana dress themselves; and how the clothes we inherit from loved ones link us to the departed. Rich with fascinating stories from the public and private worlds of fashion, My Mother’s Wedding Dress is a gorgeously written book about what clothes cover up, and what they reveal.

The New York Times - Sarah Churchwell

In a sense, Picardie's book is about what constitutes a throwaway: it's about what we keep and what we lose; it's about perishability.

Publishers Weekly

A former British Vogue editor turned novelist (Wish I May) offers a stylish treatment of the significance of clothes to their owners and admirers. A black wedding dress belonging to Picardie's mother circa 1960 became the author's perfect little black dress 20 years later and serves as the elegant entr e to Picardie's narrative. Picardie devotes a chapter to each item: the wedding dress, cast off by her divorced mum, was added to the author's secondhand college wardrobe, a "rag-tag bundle of other people's identities"; a pair of plastic trousers, purchased in 1977, signified a transitory rebellion; a velvet jacket belonging to various relatives segues into a meditation on the frustrating elements of the unfinished story. Most poignant is the author's exploration of haunted clothing, seen in literary examples from Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Bowen, and exemplified in clothing favored by her terminally ill sister and abandoned in death. Picardie is amusingly digressive, moving from a discourse on the Gap's ability to bridge fashion and functionality to Zelda Fitzgerald's clothing memory as a grasp of her dwindling sanity. Picardie is also a terrific journalist, offering a shimmering chapter on the profane and sacred aspects of "scarlet women" and sharp interviews with Donnatella Versace and Karl Lagerfeld. (May 1) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Former British Vogue editor Picardie (If the Spirit Moves You: Life and Love After Death) has written a penetrating and absorbing book about the meaning of clothes in relation to their owners' memories and personal histories. Each chapter focuses on a particular item of clothing, a symbolic aspect of clothing (e.g., color), or a person (e.g., a designer). Some chapters are quite personal, such as those in which Picardie associates certain items with her deceased sister or reminisces about the black wedding dress of the book's title, which she had incorporated into her college wardrobe. Others, like those on the colors white and red, ponder the symbolic associations of color to clothes and examine the attire of fictional and historical characters. There was the white dress worn by the reclusive Emily Dickinson, the sinister white of C.S. Lewis's White Witch and Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen, and the contrast of the scarlet red of adulteresses with the blood red of religious martyrs. Also interesting are interviews with designers Karl Lagerfeld and Donatella Versace. This engaging book is recommended for general collections as well as libraries collecting books on fashion.-Sandra Rothenberg, Framingham State Coll. Lib., MA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1	My Mother's Wedding Dress	1
2	The Fairy Without Any Knickers On	12
3	The Orange Apple Dress	24
4	School Uniform	31
5	Plastic Trousers	36
6	Ghost Dresses	44
7	The One That Got Away	60
8	The Gap	72
9	The Velvet Jacket	84
10	The Return of the Little Black Dress	97
11	The Women in White	113
12	Bella Donna	138
13	Bella's Sweater	151
14	Scarlet Women	162
15	Charlotte Bronte's Ring	186
16	The Black Sash	219
	Acknowledgments	237
	Permissions	239

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The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Healthy Kids

Author: Dr Jennie Brand Miller

Doctors say that healthy eating habits should start at an early age, but planning a healthy diet that children will eat and enjoy can be a challenging task for parents. In this handy pocket guide, the world's leading experts on the glycemic index (GI)-a ranking of foods according to the rate at which their carbohydrate contents are digested and absorbed-clearly explain how parents can use it to improve and maintain the overall nutrition and health of their children. These authors of the New York Times bestseller The New Glucose Revolution describe which types of carbohydrates are best for children, shows how foods with low GI values can help guide important dieting decisions, and provides menus that even the pickiest eaters will love. With an accessible alphabetical listing of the glycemic index values, fat, and carbohydrate content of over 800 foods and drinks addressed to parents of children of all ages, The New Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to Healthy Kids will help them lay the foundation for a healthy future.

What Works for Bipolar Kids or Pharmako Dynamis

What Works for Bipolar Kids: Help and Hope for Parents

Author: Mani Pavuluri

It may be hard to believe your child will ever get better, but kids with bipolar disorder can and do lead healthy, stable lives. In this compassionate and optimistic book, expert clinician and renowned researcher Mani Pavuluri delivers information, advice, and proven strategies that empower you to deal with the challenges of bipolar disorder and help your child get well. Drawing on 20 years of experience with bipolar kids and their families, she provides solidly researched strategies for reducing or eliminating problems with mania, aggression, sleep disturbances, depression, and other issues. You'll discover practical ways to handle crises at home and in school, work with professionals to find an effective combination of medicine and psychotherapy, and cultivate a supportive community of friends and peers for your child. Dr. Pavuluri also helps you deal with the stress that comes with parenting, so you can maintain your poise, focus on the positive, and be a powerful advocate for your child.

About the Author:
Mani Pavuluri, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and Founding Director of the Pediatric Mood Disorders Clinic and Pediatric Bipolar Research Program at the Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants,Potions,and Herbcraft, Vol. 1

Author: Dale Pendell

"Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient connection between the bardic poet and the shaman."-Terence McKenna

In Pharmako/Dynamis, Dale Pendell continues his exploration of psychoactive plants begun in Pharmako/Poeia. Pharmacognosy is the study of the composition, production, use, and history of drugs of natural origin. Pendell covers these topics and more in this volume, charting a voyage around the world of plant teachers. Through poetry, chemistry, and a generous sprinkling of arcane lore, Pendell weaves and twists the many threads of tradition into a singularly bewitching brew. Pendell's voyage is a true circumnavigation. It divulges what Gary Synder called "dangerous knowledge" that is a formidable weapon against "even more dangerous ignorance."

Dale Pendell is a poet, software engineer, and longtime student of ethnobotany. His poetry has appeared in many journals, and he was the founding editor of KUKSU: Journal of Backcountry Writing. He has led workshops on ethnobotany and ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Botanical Preservation Corps.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Plant Allies: a poet's guide
	On the Nature of Poison	3
	Nigredo: A Turn of Darkening	7
	Excitantia: provokers and agitators
	Speed Limits	11
	Coffee: Coffea arabica	15
	Tea: Thea sinensis	45
	Chocolate I: Theobroma cacao	73
	Plant Wars	91
	Chocolate II: Theobroma cacao	93
	The Black Drink: Ilex spp., Guarana	108
	Kola: Cola nitida	116
	Betal: Areca catechu	119
	Hecate's Garden	125
	Ma Huang, Ephedra spp.	127
	Khat: Catha edulis	142
	Speed Freaking: amphetamine	149
	Coca: Erythroxylum coca	156
	Stealing from Tomorrow	178
	Wandering and the Vision Quest	185
	Empathogenica: mammalian raptures
	Cleansing the Temple	197
	Nutmeg Reveries: Myristica fragrans	199
	Flipping and Raving: MDMA, Ecstasy	206
	GHB	221
	The Gift	227
	Dream Stutters	228
	References	233
	Credits	271
	Index	277

The Courage Muscle or Balancing Your Body

The Courage Muscle: A Chicken's Guide to Living with Breast Cancer

Author: Monique Doyle Spencer

Author Monique Doyle Spencer shares her experiences dealing with, and surviving, breast cancer with reality and a sense of humor. Inspiring and witty.

Interesting book: Wests Business Law with Online Research Guide or Reforming Infrastructure

Balancing Your Body: A Self-Help Approach to Rolfing Movement

Author: Mary Bond

BODYWORK / HEALTH

"One of the most interesting and useful self-help books available."
--Massage Magazine

Going beyond good posture and movement efficiency, Mary Bond presents a unique self-help program of body transformation. Much of what we experience as physical tension or stress is the result of an imbalanced body. When our physical structure is habitually bent, twisted, and compressed, the body glues itself together with tension in order to remain upright. Bond demonstrates how the connective tissue that holds our bodies together is actually very flexible and will, with encouragement, adapt to new, healthy patterns of posture and movement.

Rolfing Movement combines touch and verbal messages to help you become more responsive to your body's inner cues. The author offers a practical series of structural awareness exercises that will help you redirect your awareness to internal sensations of tension or balance. These movement explorations are written as scripts so that you can practice the movements with detailed directions. By learning to recognize and respond appropriately to your body's internal messages, you will discover a new freedom of expression in your body, leading to a marked increase in health and vitality.

MARY BOND has a master's degree in dance from UCLA. She trained with Dr. Ida P. Rolf and is a certified Rolfer and Rolfing Movement teacher. Creator of the companion audiocassette, Balancing Your Body, she is also the author of numerous articles on bodywork and posture.

Mary Bond has a Master’s degree in dance from UCLA and trained with Dr. Ida P. Rolf as a Structural Integration practitioner. She isa movement instructor at the Rolf Institute and teaches movement workshops nationally. The author of Balancing Your Body and The New Rules of Posture, she has also published articles in numerous health and fitness magazines. She lives in California.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1   Blueprint for Structure

Chapter 2   Every Breath You Take

Chapter 3   How to Throw Your Weight
                   Around

Chapter 4   The Pelvis Connection

Chapter 5   Going with the Flow

Chapter 6   Wings to Fly

Chapter 7   Heads and Tails

Chapter 8   Sides of the Coin

Chapter 9   My Structure, My Self

Chapter 10  Winning the Game

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

A Taste Berry Teens Guide to Managing the Stress and Pressures of Life or What to Eat

A Taste Berry Teen's Guide to Managing the Stress and Pressures of Life

Author: Bettie B Youngs

Like its predecessors in this phenomenal series, this new addition tacklesthe pressures of being a teen through a combination of stories and compassionate wisdom provided by the mother/daughter team of Bettie and Jennifer Youngs.

In A Taste-Berry Teen's Guide to Managing the Stress and Pressures of Life, teens will learn how to:

• Understand what stress is-and isn't
• Examine how they respond to stressful situations and how effective it is
• Determine how stress affects their physical and emotional behavior
• Minimize stress and stay cool under pressure through some terrific (and time-tested) intervention and prevention strategies
• Get through stressful situations and use them to their advantage.

Stories written by teens demonstrate the issues that are a source of stress for them, including schoolwork, dating, moving, parents' divorce, weight problems and sexual identity. To cope with these problems, the author suggests three skills for helping teens "think" their way through stressful times. Practical stress-busting techniques are also provided in each chapter.

A Taste-Berry Teen's Guide to Managing the Stress and Pressures of Life is sure to be the next big success in this extraordinary teen series.

VOYA

This fifth book in the Taste-Berry series, a Chicken Soup look-alike, is a mixed bag. It provides clear guidelines on the nature of stress, what causes it, how to identify it, and how to cope with it. It advises wisely, "While you can't always control or change the event, how you respond is under your control." The format, however, is confusing. Seventeen appealing teen-written personal-experience essays appear up front, followed by chapters of various lengths containing didactic instructional material, miscellaneous worksheets, and teen essays sandwiched in. Unless a reader has a compelling interest in stress, he or she is apt to skip the instruction, pick out the few essays, and close the book. The chapters are organized into seven parts covering stress particular to teens, understanding the many personalities of stress, coping skills, and more. There is an epilogue, a list of suggested resources including hot line numbers, and a reading list, but no Web sites. The authors urge clean living, drug avoidance, and positive thinking to manage stress: "Make a decision to see life from the cup half-full point of view." Despite the liberal use of terms chosen for teen identification—teenville, joggin' your noggin, and the land of Overwhelm—the book, although not blatantly preachy, is teachy. Liberally funded libraries where mental self-help or Taste-Berry books are popular might find this guide a worthwhile purchase. Further Reading. VOYA CODES: 3Q 2P M J S (Readable without serious defects; For the YA with a special interest in the subject; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12). 2001, HealthCommunications Inc., 320p, $12.95 Trade pb. Ages 11 to 18. Reviewer: Mary E. Heslin

KLIATT

The popular mother/daughter team of Bettie B. Youngs, PhD, EdD, and Jennifer Leigh Youngs author this interactive book that is augmented by personal contributions from teens themselves. The integration of these experiences and observations of their peers creates a comfortably familiar common ground that can make it an appealing read for YAs through the senior high school level. Young persons are also provided with the valuable opportunity to put their emotions into visible, addressable, b/w order by filling in their own personal responses to the presented situational questions on the blank lines provided on those pages. Divided into seven parts, this book begins with "Teen Talk," where firsthand accounts from YAs serve to introduce some of the major issues that are stressing them today. It follows with divisions that define stress, relate reactions to stress, teach verbal and mental coping skills, and present the positive potential to be found in support systems. It concludes with a look at the contributing value of sleep, nutrition, and the use of relaxation skills in a final prevention and intervention section. Selections of titles for further reading as well as toll-free phone numbers for suggested resource groups are included at the back of the book. No index is provided, but the detailed subject breakdown and page listings in the Contents allow for some ease of referencing. An excellent selection for public, school, and personal library. Category: Health & Sex Education. KLIATT Codes: JS*—Exceptional book, recommended for junior and senior high school students. 2001, HCI, 310p. bibliog., $12.95. Ages 13 to 18. Reviewer: Linda Piwowarczyk; Romeoville, IL SOURCE:KLIATT, March 2002 (Vol. 36, No. 2)

Look this: Eating for Lower Cholesterol or Living with Diabetes

What to Eat: The Ten Things You Really Need to Know to Eat Well and Be Healthy!

Author: Luise Light

A research-based alternative to the USDA's food guide that cuts through the confusion of fad diets and big food lobbies

What should I eat?" If you're a health-conscious consumer, this is one of the hardest questions you face. Now this no-nonsense nutrition guide from former USDA nutrition director Luise Light offers a basic, balanced, and user-friendly food plan that cuts through the confusion and controversy of the latest fad diets, federal guidelines, and big food lobbies. Its ten simple rules are also adapted for a wide variety of nutritional needs--including weight loss, fibromyalgia, diabetes, and gastrointestinal disorders.

Luise Light, M.S., Ed.D., is a former director of dietary guidance and nutrition education research at the USDA. She has worked on nutrition programs with the Red Cross, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Society.

Library Journal

Forty years ago, everyone knew that eating healthy meant consuming balanced portions from each of the four food groups and cutting calories to lose weight. Today, we have a food pyramid with steps running up one side; the supermarkets are crammed with low-fat, low-carb, low-sugar concoctions; and yet we as a country are fatter than ever. What happened? These two books try to cut through the confusion to map out the basic facts of human nutrition and weight control. Dietitian Zied (spokesperson, American Dietetic Assn.) and science writer Winter (A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients) take a scientific approach, explaining the new U.S. dietary guidelines and demonstrating how the revised food pyramid can be adapted for each individual. Tables show age and activity levels for determining one's optimal caloric intake, and different foods are analyzed for the development of a personal menu plan. Light (former director, USDA Dietary Guidance & Nutrition Education Research), on the other hand, forgoes the technical stuff, opting instead for a flexible diet and exercise schedule. She also realistically addresses eating out and on the run. Both books include menus and recipes, and both provide useful tips for trimming empty calories from one's intake. Both emphasize the necessity of exercise, but neither mandates specific activities. Either would be a good choice for public libraries, depending on the education level of their clientele.-Susan B. Hagloch, formerly with the Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

The Food Intolerance Bible or The Dry Eye Remedy

The Food Intolerance Bible: A Nutritionist's Plan to Beat Food Cravings, Fatigue, Mood Swings, Bloating, Headaches, and IBS

Author: Antony J Haynes

Nearly everyone has an intolerance to some food. Co-authored by an award-winning cookbook writer and a leading practicing nutritionist, this book will appeal to alternative health professionals and food allergy sufferers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction     v
Do I Have a Food Intolerance?     1
How Can I Tell If I Have a Food Intolerance?     3
What Tests Can Confirm Food Intolerance?     27
Why Do I Have a Food Intolerance?     39
Is It What I Eat?     41
Digestive Difficulties     46
Digestive Enzymes, Yeasts and Parasites     57
How Healthy Is My Intestinal Ecology?     62
'Uninvited Guests'     72
Prescription and Over-the-counter Drugs     79
Intestinal Immunity     83
The Stress Factor     86
Leaky Gut Syndrome     96
The Weight Connection     123
Your Action Plan to Beat Food Intolerance     135
Food Intolerance Action Plan     137
Elimination and Challenge or Exclusion Diet?     149
Your Supplement Plan     154
What Can I Eat?     165
Introduction to the Recipes     167
Useful Ingredients     170
Recipes     173
Appendices     283
How to Do a Pulse Test     285
Food Intolerance Lab Tests and Where to Get Them     291
Other Lab Tests Available     295
SupplementInformation     304
Foods Containing Salicylate     307
References     313
Bibliography     321
Resources     325
Index     327

Look this: Introduction to Comparative Politics or Insurgency and Counter Insurgency in Iraq

The Dry Eye Remedy: The Complete Guide to Restoring the Health and Beauty of Your Eyes

Author: Robert MD Latkany

IMPROVE YOUR VISION, REDUCE WRINKLES AND REDNESS, AND RESTORE OVERALL EYE HEALTH

It can happen any time. Your eyes feel tired. You rub them. You look at yourself in the mirror and see lines, wrinkles, bags, redness that were never there before. Dry eye often starts as a minor irritation but can develop into a deeper problem affecting your vision and appearance.

Approximately 77 million Americans suffer from dry eye (also known as
dysfunctional tear syndrome). And traditional solutions, such as eyedrops and eyelid surgery, may actually make the problem worse.

The Dry Eye Remedy is the first book to give dry eye sufferers simple and
practical ways to restore eye health and appearance without surgery. Robert Latkany, M.D., offers:
• an innovative Home Eye Spa program with a soothing eye-cleansing massage
• easy environmental and lifestyle changes to help you look and feel better
• cutting-edge research on which medications and procedures may help and which to avoid.

The Dry Eye Remedy is an essential tool to ensure there is “not a dry eye in the house.”

Nutrition and HIV or New 8 Week Cholesterol Cure

Nutrition and HIV: A New Model for Treatment

Author: Mary Romeyn

Treating HIV with Nutrition

Nutrition and HIV addresses the issues of nutrition and HIV from the perspective of the patient as well as the physician. Everyone who is interested in the problems of--and solutions to--nutritional therapy in HIV owes it to themselves to read this book.
--Paul A. Volberding, M.D., director, Center for AIDS Research, San Francisco

This reference book offers a sound nutritional model for sustaining and improving quality of life for HIV positive men and women. It outlines an easy-to-follow program for the prevention and treatment of weight loss--a common problem that if left untreated could lead to serious health decline or even death.

Publishers Weekly

Romeyn, a San Francisco internist specializing in HIV and nutrition, posits wasting, or starvation from within, as the enemy in opposing the advance of HIV infection. Already a grandmother when she began her internship in 1988, Romeyn exhibits here a remarkable combination of compassion, common sense and expertise. She explains clearly how HIV infection promotes wasting and why maintaining lean body mass is essential. She provides a self-help program for monitoring one's condition, improving one's appetite, taking the necessary supplements and dealing with special problems. A strong patient advocate and a proponent of aggressive and early treatment, she offers advice on the therapies currently available for fighting both the virus and secondary infections, choosing a doctor and a health-care plan, getting into new drug trials and using computer sources of information. Ten appendixes and a glossary pack in additional useful information. Although its focus is on nutrition, this is a truly comprehensive guide to combatting the ravages of HIV infection. (Oct.)

Library Journal

Romeyn, a San Francisco-based internist and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, states that "HIV is a disease of decreasing nutritional status." Through the loss of nutrients and weight, the body loses the ability to fight off AIDS or opportunistic infectors. Her book arms HIV+ individuals with the knowledge to monitor and control their own nutritional status aggressively and thus maintain better health. Romeyn explains how individuals can perform their own nutritional assessment and preserve body mass through supplements and careful eating habits. Charts, recommendations, and scientific references are included. Special problems, medicines, lifestyle suggestions, and social support for the HIV+ individual are incorporated throughout the text. Although written for the highly educated reader, this book is readable and packed with useful information. Recommended for all health libraries serving HIV+ populations.-Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Second Edition
	Preface to the First Edition
Pt. I	Nutrition and HIV
1	A New Model for Treatment	3
2	Understanding the Process of Wasting	11
Pt. II	What You Can Do for Yourself
3	Starting Your Own Assessment	21
4	Vitamins, Minerals, and Trace Elements	31
5	Other Supplements That Enhance Immune Response	65
6	Improving Your Appetite	73
7	Improving Your Environment	85
8	Sex, Drugs, and Exercise	99
	Epilogue: Your Personal Program	129
Pt. III	What You Can Do with Your Doctor
9	Choosing a Doctor	133
10	Understanding Your Health Care Plan	147
11	Monitoring Your Nutrition	161
12	The Wasting Syndrome	171
13	Fighting the Virus	209
14	Secondary Infections	233
15	Special Problems	251
16	Joining Studies	277
17	Women and HIV	285
18	What to Do: Algorithms for Care	299
Pt. IV	Taking Charge: How to Direct Your Own Healing
19	Taking Charge of Your Medical Care	321
20	Feeding the Soul	331
App. I	1993 CDC Criteria for a Diagnosis of AIDS	345
App. II	Diet Diary and Nutritional Assessment Form	347
App. III	List of Caloric Values	364
App. IV	Vitamin Supplementation Sources	371
App. V	Types of Studies to Evaluate Drug Effects	372
App. VI	HIV Flow Sheet	375
App. VII	Recommended Schedules for Prophylaxis of Infection	378
App. VIII	HIV Intake Physical	381
App. IX	Buyers' Clubs and Information Sources	384
App. X	Partial List of Feeding Programs	389
App. XI	Water Safety	392
App. XII	Antiretrovirogram: Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors	395
	Glossary	397
	Index	407
	The Author	427

See also: Better Safe than Sued or Rose Recipes from Olden Times

New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure: The Ultimate Program for Preventing Heart Disease

Author: Robert E Kowalski

Much has happened in the years since 1987 when The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure changed the way Americans think about coronary heart disease. And while cholesterol is still a risk factor for heart disease, the story is more complex than we once thought. In this completely updated book, Robert Kowalski reveals the latest developments in what we now know about heart disease and tells how to effectively combat all the newly discovered risk factors, from homocysteine to the deadly cholesterol Lp (a). He explains why diet is not enough and when supplements must be used, showing how optimal cholesterol levels can be reached without prescription drugs.

Kowalski, who had bypass surgery of his own in 1984, has effectively beaten heart disease by practicing what he preaches. He requires no prescription drugs, lives an unlimited and rigorous lifestyle, enjoys foods like steak and eggs, and has been given a clean bill of health by his physician. Included as well are new cholesterol testing methods; new heart-healthy products; special considerations for women, children, and the elderly; and new recipes.

Library Journal

Since this book first appeared in 1987, scientists have learned much more about cholesterol and its components, associated risk factors, supplements such as B vitamins and niacin, exercise, diet, and stress reduction, and longtime medical journalist Kowalski covers the evolving scientific information in depth. However, he also espouses an initially low-carb, low-calorie diet to induce ketosis and burn fat stores. That's fine for the short term in healthy individuals. But as with any significant change in diet, this one should not be undertaken without a physician's review since it may alter blood sugar levels in diabetics (and many folks have diabetes without realizing it) or require a change in medication levels. For larger collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Meaning Medicine and Placebo Effect or Consumer Behavior in Fashion

Meaning, Medicine and Placebo Effect

Author: Daniel E Moerman

Traditionally, the effectiveness of medical treatments is attributed to specific elements, such as drugs or surgical procedures. However, many other factors can significantly effect the outcome. Drugs with nationally advertised names can work better than the same drug without the name. Inert drugs (placebos, dummies) often have dramatic effects on some patients and effects can vary greatly among different European countries where the "same" medical condition is understood differently. Daniel Moerman traverses a complex subject area in this detailed examination of medical variables. Since 1993, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology has offered researchers and instructors monographs and edited collections of leading scholarship in one of the most lively and popular subfields of cultural and social anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the CSMA series presents theme booksworks that synthesize emerging scholarship from relatively new subfields or that reinterpret the literature of older ones. Designed as course material for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and for professionals in related areas (physicians, nurses, public health workers, and medical sociologists), these theme books will demonstrate how work in medical anthropology is carried out and convey the importance of a given topic for a wide variety of readers. About 160 pages in length, the theme books are not simply staid reviews of the literature. They are, instead, new ways of conceptualizing topics in medical anthropology that take advantage of current research and the growing edges of the field.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: 'Pickle ash' and 'High blood';

Part I. The Meaning Response:

1. Healing and medical treatment;
2. The healing process;
3. Measurement and its ambiguities;
4. Doctors and patients;
5. Formal factors and the meaning response;
6. Knowledge and culture; illness and healing;

Part II. Applications, Challenges and Opportunities:
7. Psychotherapy: placebo effect or meaning response?;
8. The neurobiology and cultural biology of pain;
9. 'More research is needed': the cases of 'adherence' and 'self-reported health';
10. Other approaches: learning, expecting and conditioning;
11. Ethics, placebos and meaning;

Part III. Meaning and Human Biology:
12. The extent (and limits) of meaning;
13. Conclusions: many claims, many issues.

Books about: Principios de Finanzas Directivas

Consumer Behavior in Fashion

Author: Michael Solomon

In addition to contributing to the understanding of why people buy things, this book considers how products, services, and consumption activities contribute to the broader social world we experience. Consumer Behavior: In Fashion, Second Edition not only probes the psyche of the American consumer, but considers the multicultural perspectives of consumers from around the world. Models of consumer behavior underscore the complex interrelationships between the individual consumer and his/her social reality. Fashion and Interior Designers

Overcoming the Emotional Challenges of Lymphedema or Healthy Cooking for Kids

Overcoming the Emotional Challenges of Lymphedema

Author: Elizabeth J McMahon

Overcoming the Emotional Challenges of Lymphedema will help you understand the common emotional reactions to lymphedema and improve your coping by using a wide variety of self-help skills and other resources. These skills will help you understand what is going on, change your thinking and your actions, and improve your communications.

This comprehensive handbook includes specific information for people with lymphedema, their friends and families, parents of children with lymphedema, medical professionals and psychotherapists.

Intended Audiences
Overcoming the Emotional Challenges of Lymphedema is self-help book for:
Those with primary or secondary lymphedema.
The family and friends who care about people with lymphedema.
Medical professionals who treat people with lymphedema, even if the treatment they provide is not specific to lymphedema.
Psychotherapists working with people who have lymphedema.

This book will help you:
Understand the emotional challenges of lymphedema
Overcome these challenges and avoid common pitfalls
Recognize problems and know where to go for help
Communicate effectively with family, friends, coworkers, and healthcare professionals
Set and prioritize your goals
Identify where you are in the process of changing
Choose specific actions for reaching your goals
Monitor your progress and maintain your gains
and Learn the ten signs of good coping and six warning signs of ineffective coping.

This comprehensive guide includes specific information for people with lymphedema, their friends and family, parents of children with lymphedema, healthcare professionals, and psychotherapists.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Marilyn Sample, B.S. and M.S.(Indiana State University)
Description: This book focuses on the emotional challenges that people with lymphedema encounter. It combines a narrative presentation of the information with some components one might see in a workbook.
Purpose: The author offers this as a complement to other books that primarily focus on the pathophysiology of lymphedema. In her practice as a clinical psychologist, the author encounters patients with various chronic conditions that cause many emotions to be manifested and needs to be met. In addition, she became personally interested in the condition of lymphedema because one of her relatives developed the condition. This book will help meet the learning needs of readers regarding the emotional challenges that patients with lymphedema experience, as well as their caregivers, significant others, and family members. This book also contains suggestions about how to cope with the emotions. This book certainly meets the author's objectives of providing a resource that can be used to understand the emotional challenges of these patients.
Audience: This book is written for anyone who is in the position of dealing with lymphedema -- patients as well as the healthcare professionals who care for them. The author also suggests that patients' significant others and family members can benefit from this resource and I concur.
Features: The focus of the book is on the varied emotional challenges that one may experience once diagnosed with lymphedema. The author presents chapters devoted to specific feeling states such as anger, anxiety, sadness, etc. This book isalso a resource for others who want to know about the emotional needs of these patients. In most chapters, the author has boxed areas that contain coping suggestions for a particular emotion. Also, most chapters have a worksheet which encourages readers to be more interactive with the written content. The book is well organized, and the information is presented at a level that is not too technical.
Assessment: A helpful appendix describes the pathophysiology of lymphedema. I think it is essential to have some understanding of the condition in order to be able to understand the emotional sequelae that may occur. The book is very well written, the information is organized in a logical manner, and the text is not too technical. Besides information about emotional challenges encountered by these patients, many suggestions and opportunities to take personal inventories are presented. This is a useful adjunct to other books about living with lymphedema.

Library Journal

From the restful pastel drawing on its cover to the comprehensive closing index, this book offers a refreshing and inspiring journey through understanding and coping with lymphedema, an accumulation of lymphatic fluids that causes swelling. While other authors cover the physical aspects of the condition, clinical psychologist McMahon (coauthor, Living Well with Lymphedema) takes the study to a more introspective, reflective, and ultimately supportive level. Using a workbook style, she begins with a section on the emotional challenges of lymphedema, then turns to a section on planning and setting goals for change, and continues with skill-building information and exercises to help think about, act on, and communicate that change. Each chapter features pauses for reflection and further study on the concepts and suggestions presented. Final chapters provide specific information and advice for friends, family, parents of children with lymphedema, and professionals in the medical and mental health fields. This book is not designed to be read through once; instead, readers will consult it frequently like a reference tool. Recommended for public libraries, consumer health libraries, and the resource collections of mental health professionals working in oncology.-Beth Hill, Univ. of Idaho Lib., Moscow Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

What People Are Saying

Adrienne
"I found this book immediately comforting. Lymphedema can be isolating but this book helped me feel less alone.... I believe anyone with lymphedema or their loved ones will benefit from this book. "
—recently diagnosed with lymphedema

Beth Hill
"A refreshing and inspiring journey through understanding and coping with lymphedema. ... Readers will consult it frequently like a reference tool. Recommended for public libraries, consumer health libraries, and mental health professionals working in oncology."
—University of Idaho in Library Journal, October 2005

Claudia Kelsey
"A very encouraging book-like having your own therapist and a close friend along as you try new behaviors. "

Doris Laing
"I think this book is very valuable and a great tool for healthcare professionals and patients alike. I hope it will help strengthen my relationship with my patients and the effectiveness of our work."
—LMBT, CLT-LANA

Christine P. Thomas
"Empowering and practical, with exercises the reader can jump right into and know they are taking steps to help themselves. I love the emphasis throughout the book that the patient is in control. "
—MSPT, CLT-LANA

Pat Speckman
"I learned from each part. I'm going to copy a few pages for my employer; I've asked my husband to read the section for him; my therapist wants a copy."

Karen Kohr-Blinn
"Helping us know how to provide for our own needs and to overcome the emotionally crippling results of lymphedema."

Judith Janaro Fabian
"This book is full of basic psychological truths which are insightful, constructive, and very helpful."
—PhD, ABPP

Interesting book: 100 Meals for 5 or Less or Unique Vegetarian Recipes

Healthy Cooking for Kids: Building Blocks for a Lifetime of Good Nutrition

Author: Shelly Null

Our children are overfed and undernourished. Even if they are not living on pizza and ice cream, they may be eating foods that can have serious long-term effects on their health. An ever-growing body of research is revealing that the major diseases Americans suffer and die from are lifestyle related and to an extent preventable in that some of the root causes begin in childhood. Many cases of childhood imbalances, such as obesity, hyperactivity, dental problems, and learning disabilities can be aggravated by poor eating habits. Shelly Null has written a comprehensive guide to feeding children better, from the crib to young adulthood, without sacrificing flavor or fun.

What People Are Saying

Gary Null
I set very high standards for myself, and my daughter has set equally high standards for herself. I'm very proud of her achievements. This book is sure to have a positive impact and will be around for a long time.
—Gary Null, author of The Vegetarian Handbook and Good Food Good Mood

Your Right to Know or Sweet Kids

Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food

Author: Andrew Kimbrell

ANDREW KIMBRELL serves as the executive director of both the Center for Food Safety and the International Center for Technology Assessment and has been involved in public interest legal activity for nearly 20 years. His articles on technology and law issues have appeared in Harpers, Utne Reader, the Ecologist, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Andrew lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and two children.

Book about: Adobe PhotoShop Elements 50 A Z or Access for Windows 97 for Dummies

Sweet Kids: How to Balance Diabetes Control and Good Nutrition with Family Peace

Author: American Diabetes Association

In Sweet Kids, you get all of the practical, reassuring advice you need to care for children with diabetes. This new edition includes information on the latest medications and recommendations from the recently completed Diabetes Prevention Program.

Betty Page Brackenridge, M.S., R.D., C.D.E., is a diabetes educator whose publications are read in translation in more than 15 countries worldwide.

Richard Rubin, Ph.D., C.D.E., is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and on the staff of the Diabetes Center and Pediatric Diabetes Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Poder Curativo de la Mente or Eat Right for Your Metabolism

Poder Curativo de la Mente: Tecnicas Practicas Para Gozar de Buena Salud Y Aumentar El Poder Mental

Author: Rolf Alexander

El pder curativo de la mente

El desaparecido doctor Rolf Alexander estudió en Viena, Heidelberg y Londres, y durante varios años practicó la medicina en la Clínica Mayo.  Se dido perfecta cuenta de los límites de la medicina moderna y recorrió el mundo investigando las antiguas técnicas universales de curación. 

Este libro se basa en más de treinta años de investigaciones y observaciones de diversas culturas, especialmente la tibetana y la de la India, que el doctor Alexander transmite con perspicacia y con sentido espiritual y práctico, proporcionando además, consejos sobre la verdadera naturaleza del proceso curativo.

Mucho antes de que el libro de Bernard Seigel, Love, Medicine and Miracles, hiciera consciente al público de la relación que existe entre el cuerpo y la mente, el doctor Alexander ya había explorado la capacidad de poner en marcha la fuerza vital que reside dentro de todos nosotros.  El poder curativo de la mente nos enseña que la imaginación, el deseo, el poder de la sugestión, la influencia psíquica y la eliminación de las limitaciones, son herramientras valiosas para aumentar al máximo nuestra capacidad innata de autocuración.

El poder curativo de la mente tiene una enorme relevancia para comprender los malestares que aquejan a la sociedad de hoy.  La autenticidad de este texto clásico ha sido avalada por miles de pacientes que han encontrado el camino de la salud gracias a los sencillos ejercicios y prácticas curativas que recomienda.

 

Aformer physician at the Mayo clinic, Dr. Rolf Alexander became disenchanted with the limits of modern medicine and traveled around the world in search of healing techniques from other cultures.

Book about: For Love of Politics or Berlin Wall

Eat Right for Your Metabolism: How the Right Foods for Your Type Can Help You Lose Weight

Author: Felicia Drury Kliment

An easy-to-follow, customizable diet based on metabolic type that helps you get rid of excess fat and enjoy a healthy life

A diet that produces amazing results for someone else may fail miserably for you. Why? Researcher and nutritional consultant Felicia Drury Kliment explains that since people have different metabolic types, eating the wrong foods can lead to poor digestion, which causes weight gain and ill health. In Eat Right for Your Metabolism, you'll learn how to determine your metabolism type and customize a diet that helps you meet your goals for weight loss and long-lasting health.

Felicia Drury Kliment is a nutritional consultant in private practice and the author of the acclaimed book The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet. Visit her website at www.eatrightforyourmetabolism.com.

Publishers Weekly

Kliment (The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet) expands on her previous work to further pinpoint how the body's acid-alkaline balance, as well as issues regarding digestion, can disrupt metabolism, cause weight gain and initiate a series of other health concerns. The author purports that there are three main metabolism types-meat eaters, grain eaters and those with balanced metabolism-and that all can benefit from eating the right foods. To support her theories, Kliment cobbles together a mass of frequently unrelated medical studies, drawing conclusions about what they mean. In one instance, she links teens who drink milk, a theory that milk causes a growth spurt which in turn releases a growth hormone, and published medical research showing that taller people are at risk for certain cancers, to conclude that teens who drink milk are increasing their risk of cancer. In another instance, she suggests that eating cooked foods raises levels of stress hormones, "causing the body to produce more nutrients than it needs" which leads to "unwanted pounds." In addition to such examples, Kliment gives 26 recipes and a list of seven-day eating plans. Although her suggestions may resonate with some, in general, the book lacks cohesion, and its examples are too scattered to make real sense. (May) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Italian Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes or Less or New Hope for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder

Italian Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes or Less

Author: Robyn Webb

Every luscious Italian entree one can think of is here, madehealthy and diabetes-friendly thanks to food master RobynWebb. Who can resist sinking a fork into veal marsala orsalmon with leeks and mushrooms? Some of the 150 dishes arelow in carbs, and all of them are easy to fix—many can becooked in one pan! It comes with complete nutritional analysisand meets all ADA guidelines. Meals include pastas, meats,vegetarian dishes, and light desserts, all with a taste of Tuscany.

Robyn Webb, M.S. (Alexandria, VA) is an award-winning nutritionistand the associate editor and food columnist for Diabetes Forecastmagazine. She has been on “CBS News with Dan Rather” andon the Food Network, as well as in Woman’s Day, among manyother publications. She is the author of six cookbooks.

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New Hope for Children and Teens with Bipolar Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions

Author: Boris Birmaher

With proper diagnosis and early intervention, there is unlimited hope for children and teens diagnosed with bipolar disorder to lead fulfilling and enjoyable lives, starting today.

Inside, you'll discover compassionate and informative methods to help manage the diagnosis and develop the natural strengths, gifts, and skills that every child has to offer. Written by a top expert in the field, this life-changing book is presented in clear, straightforward language that dispels the myths about bipolar disorder and offers real solutions. You'll uncover keen insight and the latest options for helping your bipolar child or teen by understanding:

* The causes of bipolar disorder
* The path and outcome of bipolar disorder in children and teens
* The latest biological treatments and psychosocial therapies, and how to use them
* How to handle behavioral and academic problems, as well as assess and manage suicidal tendencies
* And much more

Intrinsic Motivation and Self Determination in Exercise and Sport or FDA Regulatory Affairs

Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise and Sport

Author: Martin S Hagger

The world of exercise and sport is fascinated by motivation and the factors that drive it. It's no wonder researchers-both in and out of the sport domain-will enthusiastically welcome Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise and Sport.

Motivation is central to many social psychological theories that aim to explain behavior, including self-determination theory, one of the most influential theories of human motivation developed in the last three decades. Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise and Sport examines the contribution of this theory to the understanding of motivation and behavior in the domains of exercise and sport. This is the first book to synthesize key research of self-determination theory as it relates to sport and exercise into one convenient volume. Written by a broad range of leading researchers, this reference will be a trend setter in the understanding of internal motivation and how to maximize performance and adherence. Furthermore, this volume will fill in research gaps, improve existing research, and set new directions for research in this vibrant area.

Self-determination theory is based on the premise that individuals pursue self-determined goals to satisfy their basic psychological needs to independently solve problems, interact socially, and master tasks. The book begins with an introductory chapter in which the founding fathers of self-determination theory, Edward L. Deci and Richard Ryan, provide an overview of the theory and its constituent subtheories and chart its history with respect to exercise and sport, highlighting classic studies and seminal works along the way. This introduction masterfullyprovides sufficient theoretical grounding and serves as an excellent prologue to subsequent chapters.

The remainder of the book is organized in two parts that cover research in the domains of exercise and sport. Part I examines the contribution of self-determination theory to the explanation of participation in and adherence to health-related exercise, and it examines the motivational experiences and contingencies that bring about exercise behavior and health-related outcomes. The recommendation sections that follow each chapter provide specialists interested in promoting exercise-including personal trainers, clinicians, health psychologists, and physical educators-with key strategies to motivate people to regularly participate in exercise for health.

Part II discusses the role that self-determination theory plays in explaining motivational processes involved in competitive sport contexts and summarizes the state of the literature concerning self-determination theory in diverse areas of sport, including athletes' motivation and sport performance, goal content and orientations, dropout, psychological well-being, and coaching behaviors. The recommendations outlined at the close of each chapter provide coaches, sport psychologists, sport promoters and managers, and physical educators with realistic, practical solutions to maximize sport performance, persistence in training, and, above all, enjoyment and well-being among athletes.

Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise and Sport also integrates self-determination theory concepts with other theoretical frameworks to highlight the versatility of the theory and encourage future research. Each chapter in the text closes with clearly explained, in-depth suggestions for future research and for transferring findings into practice.

Whether you're a researcher in sport and exercise or in any other area where performance and adherence issues are key, Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise and Sport will leave you inspired by the editors' and contributors' research and philosophy, brought together here to advance the knowledge of motivation in exercise and sport.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Active Human Nature: Self-Determination Theory and the Promotion and Maintenance of Sport, Exercise, and Health
Richard M. Ryan, PhD; and Edward L. Deci, PhD

Part I. Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise

Chapter 1. Exercise Participation Motives: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
David Markland, PhD; and David K. Ingledew, PhD

Chapter 2. Perceived Autonomy Support and Psychological Need Satisfaction
Jemma K. Edmunds, PhD; Nikos Ntoumanis, PhD; and Joan L. Duda, PhD

Chapter 3. The Trans-Contextual Model of Motivation
Martin S. Hagger, PhD; and Nikos L.D. Chatzisarantis, PhD

Chapter 4. Self-Determination and Motivation in Physical Education
Martyn Standage, PhD; Fiona Gillison, MSc; and Darren C. Treasure, PhD

Chapter 5. Self-Determination Theory and Motivational Interviewing in Exercise
David Markland, PhD; and Maarten Vansteenkiste, PhD

Chapter 6. Self-Determination Theory, Exercise, and Well-Being
Philip M. Wilson, PhD; and Wendy M. Rodgers, PhD

Chapter 7. The Flow State and Physical Activity Behavior Change as Motivational Outcomes: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
Michelle Fortier, PhD; and John Kowal, PhD

Chapter 8. Perceived Feedback and Motivation in Physical Education and Physical Activity
Vello Hein, PhD; and Andre Koka, PhD

Part II. Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Sport

Chapter 9. Measurement Issues inSelf-Determination Theory and Sport
Luc G. Pelletier, PhD; and Philippe Sarrazin, PhD

Chapter 10. Motivation in Elite-Level Sport: A Self-Determination Perspective
Darren C. Treasure, PhD; Pierre-Nicolas Lemyre, PhD; Kendy K. Kuczka, PhD; and Martyn Standage, PhD

Chapter 11. Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goal Promotion in Exercise and Sport: Understanding the Differential Impacts on Performance and Persistence
Maarten Vansteenkiste, PhD; Bart Soenens, MSc; and Willy Lens, PhD

Chapter 12. Competence Motivation in Sport and Exercise: The Hierarchical Model of Achievement Motivation and Self-Determination Theory
David E. Conroy, PhD; Andrew J. Elliot, PhD; and J. Douglas Coatsworth, PhD

Chapter 13. Understanding Young People's Motivation Toward Exercise: An Integration of Sport Ability Beliefs, Achievement Goal Theory, and Self-Determination Theory
Chee Keng John Wang, PhD; and Stuart J.H. Biddle, PhD

Chapter 14. Coaching Effectiveness: Exploring the Relationship Between Coaching Behavior and Self-Determined Motivation
Anthony J. Amorose, PhD

Chapter 15. A Self-Determination Theory Approach to Dropout in Athletes
Philippe G. Sarrazin, PhD; Julie C.S. Boiché, PhD; and Luc G. Pelletier, PhD

Chapter 16. Self-Determination Theory and Well-Being in Athletes: It's the Situation That Counts
Marylène Gagné, PhD; and Céline Blanchard, PhD

Chapter 17. A Hierarchical Model of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation for Sport and Physical Activity
Robert J. Vallerand, PhD

Conclusion. Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise and Sport: Reflecting on the Past and Sketching the Future
Nikos L.D. Chatzisarantis, PhD; and Martin S. Hagger, PhD

References
Index
About the Editors

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FDA Regulatory Affairs: A Guide for Prescription Drugs, Medical Devices, and Biologics

Author: Douglas J Pisano

This book covers the regulatory process for getting pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices approved. It examines the pertinent aspects of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act as it applies to human drug and device development, research, manufacturing, and marketing. Topics include: the drug approval process, Current Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Clinical Practices, Quality System Compliance and the corresponding documentation requirements, and FDA inspection processes and enforcement options. Although many references exist on this subject, this one is written in a general prose style that makes it useful to both students and professionals.

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Reviewer: William Hirschhorn, MSc (Temple University School of Medicine)
Description: This is a comprehensive, well crafted book valuable for regulatory affairs professionals and those involved in the drug development process, as well as clinical trialists pursuing clinical research at the academic medical center level.
Purpose: The editors of this well written guide to the regulatory process for developing a new therapeutic product more than adequately achieve their goal of presenting strategies in a logical sequence.
Audience: This book would be beneficial for students enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program in clinical research, regulatory affairs, or clinical trial management. Of course, individuals entering the industry or transitioning from research to clinical development will surely find this book a welcome orientation to clinical trials.
Features: Of particular value are the chapters discussing the FDA and drug development from a regulatory perspective; the IND application process with a brief, but useful, overview of regulatory strategies; and the NDA with appropriate steps for formatting, assembling, and submitting the application. Additional chapters include an interesting overview of biologics. The FD&C Act is not easy to understand for those not well versed with the law. To this end, chapter 13 delivers an easy to understand orientation to laws, statutes, guidance, and policies that will help one navigate those uncharted waters. Of course, a book of this type would not be complete without a thorough discussion of good clinical practices and a description of every clinical investigator's commitment to the research process along with the protections afforded the human research participant. I would have liked to learn more about each of the contributors' affiliations and expertise to give this book the pedigree it deserves.
Assessment: There are several very good books currently on the market dealing with this same topic:with more looming on the horizon. This one will be a welcome addition to anyone's library, although at first glance, the steep cost might be an element of concern, especially for students. Once the reader examines it, however, the wealth of deliverable knowledge clearly offsets the concern about cost. This book is a must have.

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3 Stars from Doody