Minerals Books

Human Motor Energy Fatigue and the Origins of Modernity or Complete Idiots Guide to Knockout Workouts for Every Shape Illustrated

2009-12-05T19:57:00.000-08:00

Human Motor - Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity

Author: Anson Rabinbach

Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature--even human nature--under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor.
From nineteenth-century theories of thermodynamics and political economy to the twentieth-century ideals of Taylorism and Fordism, Rabinbach demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.

Publishers Weekly

Drawing analogies from the 19th-century discovery of the laws of thermodynamics, European social scientists envisioned the toiling worker's body as a ``human motor,'' a living machine; maximizing work-force efficiency and eradicating the ``disease'' of fatigue seemed within reach. Psychologists and physiologists subjected the body's rhythms and movements to laboratory study. The psychiatric complaint of neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion, was epidemic, and German scientists in the early 1900s sought a vaccine to cure fatigue. In a dense, rewarding study, Rabinbach ( The Crisis of Austrian Socialism ) shows how the ``science of work,'' spreading beyond such areas as industrial management, physical education and accident prevention, pervaded the language of technocrats, Marxists and fascists who viewed the worker as a machine. He pinpoints a source of modern spiritual malaise: the transformation from a strictly work-centered society to one in which work has been abandoned as a source of self-fulfillment. (Nov.)

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Complete Idiot's Guide to Knockout Workouts for Every Shape, Illustrated

Author: Patrick S Hagerman

It's time to get into shape … the easy way!

Author and fitness expert Patrick Hagerman provides comprehensive information and customized workout plans for every age, ability level, and physical condition. With Hagerman as their coach, readers will be on the right track to fitness in no time, improving their health, self-esteem, and appearance.
* Presented in a style easily referenced and cross-referenced for all ages and ability levels
* Written by an experienced author and fitness expert
* Well-illustrated for increased comprehension of programs and exercises
* Caters to everyone from pregnant women to older men with lower back pain

Como ensenar a manejar el estres or Tricks or Treats

2009-12-04T15:46:00.000-08:00

Como ensenar a manejar el estres

Author: Connie C Schmitz

Growing up healthy—physically, mentally, and emotionally—is increasingly difficult for teenagers today. To survive and thrive, teens need to learn life-management skills and how to deal with stress. With this book, teachers and parents can help young people achieve mastery of the essential skills needed to meet their daily challenges with confidence.

Crecer de manera saludable—tanto en lo mental como en lo físico y lo emocional—es difícil para los adolescentes de hoy. Para lograrlo necesitan aprender cómo manejar el estrés y cómo guiar su vida. Con este libro, maestros y padres de familia pueden ayudar a los jóvenes a lograr la maestría de las habilidades escenciales que necesitan para superar los retos que enfrentan diariamente.

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Tricks or Treats: A Realistic Look at Diet Fraud and Weight Loss Quackery

Author: Phyllis Jager

About the Author

Phyllis Jager, PhD, DD, CHT is the president and founder of Off The Hook Charities, Inc, a Not-For-Profit Organization working in the fights against Cancers, Epilepsy, Eating Disorders, Drug And Alcohol Abuse And Addiction, Missing Children, And Abused And Exploited Children.

Phyllis is also an Ordained Interfaith Minister and has her PhD in Religion and one in Clinical Hypnotherapy, is certified in Acupressure, Clinical and Medical Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, Hypno-birthing, Substance Abuse Counseling, First Aid, EMT, Non-Profits Industry, Reiki, Hypnotic Anesthesia, Psychological Trauma, PTSD, Healing and Recovery, Grief and Loss, Adolescent Depression, Anti-psychotic Treatment Options, and Stress Management.

Phyllis is a practicing Hypnotherapist, and holds a Doctorate of Divinity from the Universal Life Church.

With additional training and qualifications through N.E.S.T.A as a Mental Skills Training Specialist, Lifestyle and Weight Specialist, Mind Body Fitness Specialist, Fitness Management/Marketing Specialist, Life Strategist, Holistic Stress Management, Personal Trainer, and Sport Yoga Phyllis was able to bring this much needed information to all of her readers.

Falling Leaf Essences or Asthma

2009-12-03T11:35:00.000-08:00

Falling Leaf Essences: Vibrational Remedies Using Autumn Leaves

Author: Grant R Lambert

A pioneering look into the benefits of essences prepared from autumn leaves, the latest development in vibrational remedies.

• Includes descriptions of 160 falling leaf essences and which aspect they best heal--physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual.

• Contains case studies, comprehensive charts, and guidelines on how to choose the most effective essences to treat specific ailments.

• Includes falling leaf essence combinations for additional treatment possibilities.

In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Lambert introduces us to an exciting new type of vibrational remedy: falling leaf essences. Autumn embodies the energy of change, transformation, and release. Essences prepared from autumn leaves demonstrate unique healing qualities that can relieve the physical, emotional, and spiritual ailments that are associated with the autumn experiences of our lives: separation, job changes, or the simple release of old patterns.

Through testimonies, case studies, and charts, Dr. Lambert demonstrates how falling leaf essences can be used to treat a wide spectrum of maladies--from racism and fear of love to influenza and rheumatoid arthritis. This comprehensive guide contains descriptions of 160 essences and their individual healing properties--including other new essence types such as bark, seed, and modified flower essences from Dr. Lambert's alchemical laboratory--as well as the theory, history, and philosophy of falling leaf essences.

Libby Gordon

Falling leaf essences are so profound yet so simple to use, and they appeal to the beginner as well as the professional practitioner. I have never come across a range of essences that are so diverse and so complete in their entirety. This book is a delight to read. The information is well documented with very clear explanations and represents many years of testing in the marketplace...

Preface: Advanced Alchemy

1 The World of Essences

2 Matching Essence to Need

3 Release and Let Go: The Primary Need of the Twenty-First Century

4 The Energetics of Falling Leaf Essences

5 A Compendium of Falling Leaf Essences

6 Complex and Combination Falling Leaf Essences

7 Making and Storing Falling Leaf Essences

8 Using Falling Leaf Essences in Practice

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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Asthma: The Complete Guide to Integrative Therapies

Author: Jonathan Brostoff

A comprehensive program to help asthma sufferers identify their triggers, make changes in their environment, diet, and lifestyle, and reduce their dependence on drugs.

• Evaluates the full range of therapies, including acupuncture, herbalism, massage, yoga, and breathing exercises, as well as standard pharmaceuticals.

• By the authors of the bestselling Food Allergies and Food Intolerance.

• Provides special advice for parents with asthmatic children.

Almost everyone with asthma could be feeling better and using fewer drugs; this book shows you how. Internationally recognized authorities on allergies and asthma, Dr. Jonathan Brostoff and Linda Gamlin provide a comprehensive step-by-step program to help you identify your personal asthma triggers and make changes in your environment, diet, and lifestyle that can reduce your exposure to allergens and your need for drugs. The authors have examined the most up-to-date research to offer a critical survey of the full range of asthma therapies, from alternatives such as acupuncture, herbalism, yoga, and breathing exercises to the commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals. Expectant mothers and fathers with asthma will appreciate the information on how to reduce the risk of their unborn child acquiring the disease, and parents will find advice that can help their asthmatic children lead happier, healthier lives.

Whole Life Times

Everyone who breathes-or would like to breath without wheezing-should have Asthma on his bookshelf. This is a lifesaving book. . . . if you want your children to grow up without wheezing, then this is the book to help you deal with this underrated disease.

Bookwatch

Asthma: The Complete Guide To Integrative Therapies is simply the best guide currently available to asthmatics and their families.

Internet Book Watch

Jonathan Brostoff, M.D. and biochemist Linda Gamlin bring together their extensive expertise on evolutionary biology, the immune system, integrative medicine, and allergies therapies to present the non-specialist general reader with a clear, accessible, comprehensive guide to all aspects of on of today's most common and widespread health problems in Asthma: The Complete Guide To Integrative Therapies. This exhaustive tome surveys and evaluates all manner of asthma therapies ranging from common pharmaceuticals to alternative medicine approaches. The authors include a step-by-step program to help asthma sufferers identify triggers and make healthful changes. Special advice is provided parents with asthmatic children for the purpose of helping families insure those children live happier, healthier lives. Of special note is the information provided expectant parents with asthma to reduce their risk of their unborn child in acquiring this respiratory affliction. Asthma: The Complete Guide To Integrative Therapies is simply the best guide currently available to asthmatics and their families.

Pilates Workout or Natural Hormone Balance

2009-12-02T07:24:00.000-08:00

Pilates Workout

Author: Lynne Robinson

From the world's bestselling author on Pilates. The thinking person's guide to the gym!

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Natural Hormone Balance

Author: Suzannah Olivier

In Natural Hormone Balance, Suzannah Olivier presents a simple, comprehensive and effective all-natural program to keep hormonal problems in check using nutritional and alternative methods.

Aromatherapy or Beasts of the Earth

2009-12-01T03:13:00.000-08:00

Aromatherapy: To Heal and Tend the Body

Author: Robert B Tisserand

The use of aromatic oils to soothe both physical and psychic disorders was recognized in early Egypt. Only recently has it been rediscovered as a pleasant treatment for a wide range of ailments. The therapeutic properties of the essential oils, together with the relaxation induced by the massage, have been found to relieve many conditions and are particularly helpful for stress-related problems. In this book, Robert Tisserand has provided a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to this increasingly popular form of complementary therapy.

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Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease

Author: E Fuller Torrey

"Beginning with the domestication of farm animals nearly 10,000 years ago, Beasts of the Earth traces the ways that human-animal contact has evolved over time. Today, shared living quarters, overlapping ecosystems, and experimental surgical practices where organs or tissues are transplanted from non-humans into humans continue to open new avenues for the transmission of infectious agents. Other changes in human behavior like increased air travel, automated food processing, and threats of bioterrorism are increasing the contagion factor by transporting microbes further distances and to larger populations in virtually no time at all." While the authors urge that a better understanding of past diseases may help us lessen the severity of some illnesses, they also warn that, given our increasingly crowded planet, it is not a question of if but when and how often animal-transmitted diseases will pose serious challenges to human health in the future.

1	The smallest passengers on Noah's ark	1
2	Heirloom infections : microbes before the advent of humans	14
3	Humans as hunters : animal origins of bioterrorism	23
4	Humans as farmers : microbes move into the home	33
5	Humans as villagers : microbes in the promised land	48
6	Humans as traders : microbes get passports	56
7	Humans as pet keepers : microbes move into the bedroom	68
8	Humans as diners : mad cows and sane chickens	97
9	Microbes from the modern food chain : lessons from SARS, influenza, and bird flu	112
10	The coming plagues : lessons from AIDS, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease	124
11	A four-footed view of history	139

A Modern Horse Herbal or Love Your Looks

2009-11-29T23:02:00.000-08:00

A Modern Horse Herbal

Author: Hilary Page Self

Simply put, this is the most complete work available on medicinal herbs for horses and how to use them. It covers the A - Z of common ailments and conditions that can be effectively and safely treated with herbs.

Among these are allergies, arthritis, coughs, colic, eczema, hay fever, hoof weaknesses, head shaking, laminitis, muscle and joint stiffness, navicular disease, nervousness, rheumatism, scouring, sweet itch, ulcers, warts, worm infestation and wounds. In addition, many stable management applications for herbs such as fly repellents, coat conditioners, shampoos and disinfectants are included. For background, a descriptive list of over 50 readily obtainable herbs is included, giving details on habitat, collection, actions and uses. Useful non-herbal products such as cider vinegar and honey are discussed. Complete guidelines on making herbal preparations are offered, along with advice on selecting remedies and determining dosage. For horse owners seeking a more natural approach to their horse's health, A Modern Horse Herbal is a must!

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Love Your Looks: How to Stop Criticizing and Start Appreciating Your Appearance

Author: Carolynn Hillman
If you're like most women, there's at least one part of your body that you wish you could change or "improve." It might be your weight, your thighs, or your nose -- but no matter what it is, it keeps you from feeling good about yourself. In Love Your Looks, Carolyn Hillman shows you how to get beyond societal or self-imposed standards and learn to accept -- and appreciate -- your own special attractiveness. Full of affirming, hands-on exercises, this compassionate guide
-- reveals how your upbringing affects the way you view your appearance, then shows you how to revise that perspective
-- teaches you how to regard your weight in a healthy and nurturing way, rather than in one that makes you feel unattractive and insecure
-- shows you how to improve your sex life with techniques that foster body love
-- tells you how to celebrate the uniqueness of your own beauty, instead of obsessing about how you're "supposed" to look Most important, Love Your Looks will teach you how to develop positive feelings of acceptance and approval of your appearance, so you can feel good about your body and yourself.

Bipolar Disorder or Stem Cell Divide

2009-11-28T18:51:00.000-08:00

Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Patients and Families

Author: Francis Mark Mondimor
"Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that affects about two percent of the population. Such famous politicians, writers, artists, and musicians as Winston Churchill, George Frederick Handel, Lord Byron, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Vincent van Gogh had bipolar disorder, but most persons affected by bipolar disorder are just ordinary people who want nothing more than to get back to their everyday lives after they or their family members have been diagnosed with the illness. This book is written for them." -- from the Preface
In this book for persons with bipolar disorder and their families, Dr. Frank Mondimore offers a comprehensive, practical, compassionate guide to the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and causes of this potentially devastating psychiatric illness, formerly known as "manic-depression." He offers practical advice for getting the most out of the various treatments that are now available -- from medication, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive treatment to new approaches such as St. John's wort and transcranial magnetic stimulation. For each, he discusses advantages, disadvantages, side effects, and other information to help patients make informed decisions about treatment options. He also describes what it is like to live with bipolar disorder and discusses how lifestyle changes can improve quality of life. Throughout, he focuses on the importance of building a support system, of planning for emergencies, and of giving one's self permission to seek help.
Bipolar disorder is a particularly difficult illness to diagnose and treat, Dr. Mondimore acknowledges, and it can be incredibly destructive to relationships and careers, canwreak havoc on family life and, when not properly treated, is a potentially fatal disease. In his wide-ranging discussion of this unpredictable disorder, Dr. Mondimore describes problems that are unique to women, whose disease may be affected by the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and childbirth,. He includes new information on the forms the illness takes in children and adolescents, in whom it can sometimes be mistaken for more common problems such as "hyperactivity" or Attention Deficit Disorder. He explains what we know about the genetics of the disease, how symptoms fluctuate with the seasons in seasonal affective disorder, and how illness can be made more difficult to treat because of alcoholism or drug abuse. He discusses coping with the stigmatization of psychiatric diagnosis, gives advice on picking a psychiatrist and on dealing with medical insurance issues, and even explores the fascinating relationship between bipolar disorder and artistic creativity. Finally, Dr. Mondimore tells family members what they can do to help the person with bipolar disorder -- and themselves -- and he offers hope for the future as researchers learn more about the disease and how to control it.

Emily K. Tedesco
This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to this devastating psychiatric illness. The author incorporates an easy to understand format that includes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for those affected with bipolar disorder. The purpose is to help educate and inform. The author does a great job in fully explaining the advantages and disadvantages of treating this illness. The most important component is the effective way he combines all the current facts and data into a practical and useful guide. The book is targeted toward patients with bipolar disorder and their families. It would also be useful for students and mental health professionals who work with this special population. The author is credible and quotes respected professionals in the field. This book includes modern treatment options, tips for getting and staying well, a full explanation of the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, and how the illness affects special populations. The author includes a section on coping with medication side effects. The most important feature is the full section of up-to-date resources, including support groups, informational Internet sites, and suggested readings. This book is an invaluable tool for patients and families living with bipolar disorder. The author incorporates real life stories, expert advice, symptoms and diagnosis, modern treatment options, and resources to help make living with this disorder tolerable. Most importantly, the concepts and information presented in this book are practical.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: Emily K. Tedesco, BA, CADC (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book is a comprehensive and practical guide to this devastating psychiatric illness. The author incorporates an easy to understand format that includes the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options for those affected with bipolar disorder.
Purpose: The purpose is to help educate and inform. The author does a great job in fully explaining the advantages and disadvantages of treating this illness. The most important component is the effective way he combines all the current facts and data into a practical and useful guide.
Audience: The book is targeted toward patients with bipolar disorder and their families. It would also be useful for students and mental health professionals who work with this special population. The author is credible and quotes respected professionals in the field.
Features: This book includes modern treatment options, tips for getting and staying well, a full explanation of the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria, and how the illness affects special populations. The author includes a section on coping with medication side effects. The most important feature is the full section of up-to-date resources, including support groups, informational Internet sites, and suggested readings.
Assessment: This book is an invaluable tool for patients and families living with bipolar disorder. The author incorporates real life stories, expert advice, symptoms and diagnosis, modern treatment options, and resources to help make living with this disorder tolerable. Most importantly, the concepts and information presented in this book are practical.
Booknews
A guide to the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and causes of this potentially devastating psychiatric illness, formerly known as manic-depression. Mondimore (psychiatrist and clinical faculty member at the U. of North Carolina) offers practical advice for getting the most out of the various treatments that are now available<-->from medication, psychotherapy, and electroconvulsive treatment to new approaches such as transcranial magnetic stimulation. He also describes problems that are unique to women, forms the illness takes in children and adolescents, the genetics of the disease, and ways to cope with the stigma of psychiatric diagnosis. Throughout, he focuses on the importance of building a support system, of planning for emergencies, and of giving one's self permission to seek help. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Kirkus Reviews
An exhaustive, scientific, yet compassionate assist for sufferers of "the chameleon of psychiatric disorders" and their families. Psychiatrist Mondimore (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) looks first at the symptoms and diagnosis of bipolar disorder, or manic-depression: the disease wears many masks that can make diagnosis difficult. Mondimore concedes that at present psychiatrists are generally working with the same diagnostic tools that were used in the 19th century: their eyes and ears. He goes on to discuss treatment. Medications are first and foremost—primarily mood stabilizers, antidepressants, and antipsychotics. He follows with a thoughtful considerations of electroconvulsive therapy, counseling, and psychotherapy. Mondimore is especially clear on medication side effects (and how to avoid them), how various treatments have been used and misused, and what a reasonable standard should be. In part three, Mondimore considers how bipolar disorder affects children, adolescents, and women; and how it is affected by alcoholism and drug abuse, seasonal affective disorder and chronobiology, genetics, and other medical conditions such as stroke and hormonal problems. In part four, Mondimore offers real, detailed help for living with the disease. The key is to recognize that bipolar disease is relentless and that the way to keep it at bay is for the patient to be relentless, too—"about getting needed treatment and sticking to it". Illustrative case studies here make it clear this can be done, but it isn't easy. An absolute gold mine, then, for those with the disorder and their families: thorough, candid, and up-to-date advice, full of new possibilities for help.

Rating
3 Stars from Doody

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Stem Cell Divide: The Facts, the Fiction, and the Fear Driving the Greatest Scientific, Political, and Religious Debate of Our Time

Author: Michael Bellomo
"The debate about the merits, dangers, and nature of stem cell research rages on. Some see in it the answer to every debilitating disease known to man, while others see it as a sinister gateway to human cloning." With The Stem Cell Divide, Michael Bellomo debunks the distortions and exaggerations that come from every camp. In the search for the truth about stem cell science, he has interviewed many of the scientists whose research is at the very heart of this divisive issue. The book lays out what research has (and hasn't) accomplished so far, what current initiatives are focused on, and what may be coming in the near and distant future.

Table of Contents:
Pt. I Discovery of the stem cell's unique abilities
1 Morning on the devil's highway 7
2 Head of the Hydra 19
3 The furnace of creation 31
4 The ugliest thing in medicine 41
5 The starter culture 51
Pt. II The race to harness the power of life
6 California dreaming 65
7 Investing in hope and hype 75
8 From Roe to Dickey 87
9 Division on the Hill 97
10 Stem cell superpowers 107
11 The rise and fall of South Korea's cloning king 119
Pt. III Stem cell cures and curses
12 Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine 133
13 Resolving the debate : adult vs. embryonic stem cells 143
14 Germ of an idea 153
15 Needles and haystacks 159
16 Banking on cord blood 167
17 So close and yet so far 175
18 Cautionary tales : the coming stem cell decade 197
20 Epilogue : the coming stem cell century 207
App. A Protocols and nutrient mixes for culturing human cells 219
App. B The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative : selected text from California Proposition 71 227

Abnormal Pap Smears or The Womens Migraine Survival Guide

2009-02-20T16:14:00.000-08:00

Abnormal Pap Smears: What Every Woman Needs to Know

Author: Lynda Rushing
More than 4 million women each year experience abnormal Pap smears. This comprehensive guide discusses the relationship of cervical cancer to infection by the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) and underscores how crucial Pap smears are for cervical cancer prevention. The authors cover the meaning of different Pap smear diagnoses, ranging from atypical to full-blown cervical cancer, while simple and clear line drawings illustrate pertinent female anatomy and normal-to-abnormal cell changes.
Vital to the book are interspersed personal interviews, which provide firsthand information on women's feelings about their abnormal Pap smears as well as their experiences with cervical disease. These personal vignettes offer insights into the social and emotional effects that often result from an abnormal Pap smear. Since suboptimal tests can produce misleading results, tips are provided to help women improve their chances of receiving the most accurate Pap smear.
New to this revised edition is the most current information on cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer and their treatments. It details the latest developments in HPV testing, as well as the new liquid-based Pap test. Last, the future of Pap smears and cervical cancer prevention is explored, with special emphasis on the recently approved HPV vaccines.
The first edition was chosen by Nurse Practitioner and Library Journal as one of the best consumer health books available. Now fully updated, this clearly written, very approachable guide fills a vital women's health need.
About the Author:
Lynda Rushing, MD, is a pathologist affiliated with Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates and a clinical assistantprofessor at Tufts University Medical School
About the Author:
Nancy Joste, MD, is professor of pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, director of anatomic pathology and cytopathology at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, and codirector of anatomic pathology at TriCore Reference Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: Marilee M. Means, B.S., M.A., Ph.D. , SCT (ASCP) (University of Kansas Medical Center)
Description: This book attempts to explain the causes of cervical neoplasia, the treatment procedures used, and the terminology that a woman might encounter when being evaluated for cervical neoplasia after an abnormal Pap smear result.
Purpose: The authors express a desire to help women understand the significance of an abnormal Pap smear result as well as the role HPV has in the development of cervical cancer and its precursors. The book fulfills these objectives quite well.
Audience: The authors, both women cytopathologists with years of experience, have written an exceptionally clear and easy to use book for the lay audience. Patients often become quite upset when learning of an abnormal Pap result. This book is not only medically accurate and up-to-date, but also provides a much needed resource for patients.
Features: The authors begin with an enviably clear explanation of female anatomy, normal and abnormal histology of the female genital tract, and cytology and its role in evaluating Pap smears. Simple, easy to understand diagrams show the various stages of cervical disease. The authors discuss the relationship of cervical neoplasia to HPV, and how women can deal with the treatment needed to combat cervical disease. They share personal stories of women affected by the disease and offer advice in getting the best possible results from the test. There is a list of frequently asked questions as well as two appendixes listing both questions for one's doctor and additional resources. A glossary of medical terms is a most helpful feature.
Assessment: This well-written, easily understandable book for a lay audience is medically accurate and, most of all, a source of information and comfort for any woman going through the pain, anxiety, and uncertainty of diagnosis and treatment for cervical disease. At a time when the death rate from this preventable cancer is much higher than what is optimally possible, this book fills a gap in the public's understanding that can help women combat this quite personal and distressing disease.
Library Journal
Millions of women experience abnormal Pap smears each year, but how many of these patients know what the test screens for, what they can do to ensure optimal results, how laboratory errors can affect their results, what various diagnoses mean, and what to expect in follow-up and treatment procedures? Rushing, medical director of cytology and gynecologic pathology at Pathology Services, Inc., and Joste, a medical doctor and associate professor of pathology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, cover these topics and more. They also consider the link between cervical cancer and human papillomaviruses, new Pap smear technologies, suggestions on how to deal with a cervical cancer diagnosis, cervical cancer prevention, personal stories from women who have experienced abnormal Pap smears, and a Pap smear FAQ. Selected chapter references, a glossary, and a very brief appendix featuring general references, web sites, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers complete the book. The authors do an excellent job of explaining concepts, procedures, and test results, but the frequent, albeit necessary, use of medical terminology and acronyms may make some readers' heads spin. Still, this book fills a void in women's consumer health literature. Recommended for public libraries and other libraries with consumer health collections. (Index not seen.) Samantha J. Gust, Niagara Univ. Lib., NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Rating
4 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:
Foreword   Christopher P. Crum, MD     9
Foreword   Alan G. Waxman, MD     11
Preface     13
Cervical Cancer and Human Papillomaviruses: Sexually Transmitted Diseases     15
Pap Smears 101     31
How to Read Your Pap Smear Report     61
Follow-up and Treatment of Abnormal Pap Smears: What You Can Expect     85
The Problem Pap Smear     121
Cervical Cancer: Dealing with the Diagnosis     133
Women's Stories     159
Obtaining an Optimal Pap Smear Result     183
The New Technologies: Better Cervical Cancer Prevention     203
Lifestyle and Cervical Cancer Prevention     231
New Directions in Cervical Cancer Prevention: The Promise of the HPV Vaccine and Other Advances     245
Your Turn: Frequently Asked Questions About Pap Smears and HPV     267
Understanding Your Abnormal Pap Smear     299
Questions for Your Doctor     305
Additional Information     309
Selected References     313
Glossary     329
Index     339
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The Women's Migraine Survival Guide: The Most Complete, Up-To-Date Resource on the Causes of Your Migraine Pain--And Treatments for Real Relief

Author: Christina Peterson
Of the 23 million Americans who suffer from migraines, nearly 18 mil-lion are women. Factors such as hormones, lifestyle, and diet--which vary vastly in women and men--are now being shown to affect what is still considered an unpredictable and hard-to-treat ailment.
The Women's Migraine Survival Guide offers pragmatic, practical advice specifically for women to help them understand their migraines and find treatments for real relief. It reveals the latest in breakthrough medications like Imitrex,Amerge, Zomig, and Maxalt and the new forms they are taking( nasal sprays and rapidly dissolving tablets). It also offers sound advice on alternative holistic remedies such as supplements, acupuncture, and herbs.

You'll Find Out:

What a migraine really is and why it affects more women than men
What your personal triggers are and how to prevent an oncoming attack
What menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause have to do with migraines which prescription and nonprescription drugsbest relieve your individual symptoms
Which vitamins and alternative remediesare safe, reliable, and offer real relief
How to keep migraines from restricting your life

Publishers Weekly
As a neurologist specializing in migraine and headache care (and one of America's 18 million female migrane sufferers as well as), Peterson is well prepared to advise women on coping with this chronic problem. While admitting up front that medical science has not yet learned just how or why migraines begin, she nevertheless provides a great deal of basic, helpful information, describing the different kinds of migraines and their symptoms and demolishing the many confusing myths about them. She outlines the most common factors that trigger migraines and demonstrates how to keep a headache diary that will help a woman and her physician identify her specific triggers and thus avoid them. The all-important matter of finding the right doctor is treated frankly, and the vast assortment of medications and alternative therapies currently available is described fully. Since hormonal changes are the reason why three times as many women as men have migraines, Peterson's discussions of the effects of menstruation, pregnancy and menopause on migraines are especially valuable. Helpful tips on coping with migraines at work and at home are also included in this practical, accessible guidebook. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

The Thrifty Girls Guide to Glamour or 25 Natural Ways to Control Irritable Bowel Syndrome

2009-02-19T12:02:00.000-08:00

The Thrifty Girl's Guide to Glamour: Living the Beautiful Life on Little or No Money

Author: Susie Galvez
Everyone wants that "just got out of the salon look" everyday but financially for most of us, it's a bit unrealistic. This practical yet posh little volume shows you inventive, inexpensive ways to look as if you've just stepped out of the pages of Vogue. You'll learn the secrets of top salons, couture dressing, and perfect poise-all for little or no money. From free cosmetics and makeovers to free plastic surgery, all the tricks and tips you dream about are right here-for nothing or next to nothing. Here's to a fabulous new look-at a fraction of the cost!
Author Biography: A well-known beauty expert and leading consultant in the spa industry, Susie Galvez is a frequent speaker at international spa conventions and has been featured on radio and TV programs around the nation, as well as in publications such as Allure, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Fitness, Self, Oxygen, Woman's World, Health, First for Women, Woman's Own, and iVillage.com. The founder of Face Works Day Spa in Richmond, Virginia, Galvez is an esthetician, makeup artist, and the author of seven books on beauty, weight loss, and successful spa management. Her new line of makeup "Hello Beautiful" is now available at www.hellobeautifulspa.com. She lives in Virginia.

Books about: Low Carb Italian Cooking with the Love Chef or Family Circle Eat What You Love Lose
25 Natural Ways to Control Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Author: James Scala
James Scala presents simple, natural ways to control this debilitating disorder, which affects 10 to 20 percent of all adults in America. The book covers vitamins, herbs, supplements, and visualization and relaxation techniques and shows how exercise and a balanced diet can lead to a cessation of symptoms.
James Scala, Ph.D., is a certified nutrition specialist who supervised nutrition programs for the Voyager crew, the U.S. Olympic Ski Team, and three expeditions to Mount Everest.

Sanar a traves de la oracion or Everything Parents Guide to Childhood Illnesses

2009-02-18T07:50:00.000-08:00

Sanar a traves de la Oracion: Tecnicas y ejercicios para la curacion espiritual

Author: Jose Argent
We can all use prayers to heal our body, mind and spirit. Prayer is one of the most powerful sources of health and wellbeing in existence. The only thing you need is faith and a clear intension to help, either somebody else, or yourself. This book explores the laying on of hands and healing techniques specific to different illnesses, in addition to visualization, aura, chakra study, and more.
Using the easy-to-follow exercises in this book, you will learn how to improve your health and spirit.

Books about: Workouts With Weights or New Hope for People with Alzheimers and Their Caregivers
Everything Parent's Guide to Childhood Illnesses: Expert Advice for Recognizing Symptoms Understanding Treatments and Knowing When to Call a Doctor

Author: Leslie Young
Written by a recognized M.D. with his own pediatric office, The Everything[Registered] Parent's Guide to Childhood Illnesses debunks myths and offers you a trusted reference for recognizing and trouble shooting common childhood illnesses. With this book, you'll feel confident that you can handle common ailments and gauge the seriousness of your child's condition. This helpful guide covers newborns to adolescents, offering detailed information and helpful tips on: Diaper rashes and skin problems, Antibiotics and vaccines, When to worry about a fever, Cold remedies for infants, Bedwetting. Dr. Young gives you the straight facts, enabling you to avoid costly doctor visits and worrisome, sleepless nights. The Everything[Registered] Parent's Guide to Childhood Illnesses is a reliable reference you'll turn to time after time for reassuring advice and practical know-how.
About the Author:
Dr. Leslie Young works at Kaiser Permanente in southern California
About the Author:
Dr. Vincent Iannelli an associate professor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center

Mind Magic or The Waistline Plan

2009-02-17T03:38:00.000-08:00

Mind Magic: Techniques for Transforming Your Life

Author: Marta Hiatt
The key to changing your life for the better lies in the ability to change your thoughts and beliefs. Easier said than done? Yes, if you don't know where to begin or how to let go of your negative programming.
Mind Magic was written to let you accomplish the miracle of transforming your life by transforming yourself. Marta Hiatt, an experienced psychotherapist, gives you a full set of easily mastered techniques including self-hypnosis, guided visualizations, and self-healing affirmations. These tools will let you erase the negative mental patterns that poison your life and let your light shine as it was meant to. Dr. Hiatt also explains in clear, non-technical language why these methods are so effective-and reveals some surprising truths about the role of consciousness in the universe.
Your future is being formed right now within your conscious and subconscious mind. What you believe and habitually visualize is the underlying basis of everything you experience as reality. If a negative inner life creates a negative outer life, then the opposite is also true. The secret to success is in learning how to transform your inner landscape so your life fulfills your highest promise, and not your worst fears.
This is the purpose of Mind Magic. These techniques are easily understood and readily mastered, yet their effect cannot be overstated. Health, love, prosperity, self-confidence, inner peace: there is nothing you can not create when you work with the source-your own mind.
Author Biography: Marta Hiatt, Ph.D., (California) holds a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Long Beach, California.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations xi
Introduction xiii
Part 1 The Evolution of Consciousness
1. Attributes of Consciousness 3
2. The Great Power Within You 19
3. Reprogramming Your Mind 31
Part 2 Techniques for Transformation
4. Self-Hypnosis: The Magic Doorway 45
5. Imagination: Your Key to the Kingdom 67
6. How to Achieve Prosperity Consciousness 91
7. Attracting Love into Your Life 115
8. Guidance from Your Higher Self 137
9. Self-Healing Through Visualization 145
10. How to Stay Healthy All Your Life 159
11. Cosmic Consciousness: The Ultimate Goal 191
Appendix A Relaxation Process 205
Appendix B Suggestions for Self-Hypnosis 209
To Lose Weight
To Stop Smoking
To Gain Self-Confidence
Bibliography & Suggested Reading 217
Index 225

Interesting book: Con El Mantel Sobre El Terreno or Food Choice and the Consumer
The Waistline Plan: Beat Middle-Age Spread In Just 6 Weeks!

Author: Sally Lewis
Middle-age spread isn't just about looks; it involves hormonal changes that affect cholesterol level, bone density, memory, and mood, and it can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. The Waistline Plan attacks the problem at its source, with a unique combination of diet and exercise that achieves amazing results in just 6 weeks. The diet side of the plan offers day-by-day menus of satisfying foods that not only promote weight-loss, but also supply vital nutrients to balance hormones and reduce stress. The Waistline Wonder Workout takes just minutes a day, but provides slimming, tummy-tightening exercises and toning, with strengthening moves for every part of the body. Together, this diet and workout form an essential health regime for anyone over 30.

Raising Healthy Eaters or Food and You

2009-02-15T23:26:00.000-08:00

Raising Healthy Eaters: 100 Tips for Parents of Children of All Ages

Author: Henry Joseph Legere III MD
From a pediatrician who specializes in childhood obesity, 100 healthy eating tips for parents of children of all ages.
One of the most important steps that parents can take to prevent childhood obesity or simply to get their children to a healthier weight is to teach them good eating habits. Establishing such habits at an early age will contribute to lifelong health. Indeed, when kids learn that a snack should be an apple or carrots instead of chips or a candy bar-a deceptively difficult lesson to teach-they are better equipped to resist the temptation of junk food on a regular basic.
In Raising Healthy Eaters, Dr. Legere offers 100 easy-to-follow and easy-to-implement tips for parents of children of all ages and eating preferences. He includes healthy, quick recipes that kids will actually like, as well as specific suggestions for parents who want to serve only organic foods or whose children have allergies or aversions. Raising Healthy Eaters is the essential resource for parents working to raise healthy kids in a fast-food world.

Go to: La Chef or The Federation Cook Book
Food and You: A Guide to Healthy Habits for Teens

Author: Marjolijn K Bijlefeld
What is the BMI? How much should I be eating? Do I really need to exercise? Find the answers to these questions and other food, body, and health questions in this guide to understanding the fundamentals of good nutrition and its partner for optimum health--physical activity. Healthy eating can be a habit--and good habits started earlier in life are easier to maintain. Good nutrition and physical activity complement each other in weight loss, cardiovascular health and other benefits. This book provides the advice you need on how to get the most out of what you eat and how to develop healthier habits that will help keep you fit for a lifetime.
VOYA
This resource introduces a different aspect of nutrition in each chapter. Beginning with vitamins and the food pyramid, the authors branch into a variety of topics including eating disorders, vegetarianism, exercise, and fast food. Rather than just instructing teens on what they should eat and how much exercise they need, the book explains the biological reasons behind every topic covered, and the authors back up their reasoning with statistics. Chapters on how to set up a first kitchen and save money at the supermarket are especially impressive because they include details not usually covered, such as what types of knives are essential to new cooks and how to choose them. The annotated list of Internet sites points readers to the most up-to-date research available from reputable agencies and organizations. These include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the American Heart Association as well as commercial sites such as Taco Bell, where teens can find the nutritional breakdown of fast food products. At the end of each chapter there is an alphabetical list of additional reading. Unfortunately, there is no endnote to explain which articles or books in the list provide statistics discussed in the text. A detailed table of contents makes up for a small index. Although the black-and-white format does not create much visual appeal, the comprehensive presentation makes this book a worthwhile purchase for public and high school libraries. Glossary. Index. Charts. Further Reading. Appendix. VOYA CODES: 4Q 2P J S (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses; For the YA with a special interest in the subject; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9; Senior High, defined as grades 10to 12). 2001, Greenwood, 272p. PLB $45. Ages 12 to 18. Reviewer: Melissa Sanders SOURCE: VOYA, February 2002 (Vol. 24, No.6)
School Library Journal
Gr 7 Up-A multicourse repast on good eating habits, this book covers everything from basic nutrition to vegetarianism, fast food, exercise, weight loss, and eating disorders. An entire chapter is devoted to special diets prompted by various types of digestive disorders. Savvy consumer advice and culinary skills and safety receive ample attention, and the authors even include a chapter on the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and drugs. The consistent context for such a smorgasbord is the need to make good choices for one's overall health and well being. The information is presented matter-of-factly and clearly, with the occasional graph or table providing the only illustration for the text. This "white bread" presentation is the only real drawback to an otherwise fine volume; readers may be put off by the lack of visual appeal for such a sensory subject. Of special value are the extensive appendixes that include a lengthy glossary, list of healthy substitutions for junk foods, list of RDAs, sample menus for different levels of caloric intake, suggestions for a well-stocked pantry, and nutrition Web sites. Karen Bellenir's Diet Information for Teens (Omnigraphics, 2001) is similar in scope and approach, but includes sidebars that enhance the visual friendliness. Nonetheless, Food and You is a valuable addition for reports and general readers.-Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Booknews
Having collaborated previously on a book about teenage financial management, freelance writer Bijlefeld and librarian Zoumbaris offer teens advice on choosing healthy food. They begin with the fundamentals of nutrition, then explore such aspects as vegetarianism, fast food, losing weight, smart shopping, and setting up a first kitchen. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Leanness Lifestyle or First Steps to Fitness

2009-02-14T19:13:00.000-08:00

The Leanness Lifestyle

Author: D Greenwalt
The Leanness Lifestyle is a complete body-transformation resource for women and men sick of dieting and ready to permanently lose weight and get in shape.

New interesting book: Ten Days of Birthright Israel or An Unbroken Agony
First Steps to Fitness: How to Stop Thinking about it and Start Doing it

Author: Elizabeth Williams
This easy-to-use, non-threatening fitness book focuses on the psychological aspects of weight loss and fitness, teaching women that their attitudes toward their bodies are more important than an iron will or unswerving commitment to exercise or diet. The author uses the metaphor of building a house in showing women how to achieve the physique they desire. In each chapter, the author suggests that you use your childhood memories to create an enjoyable diet and exercise routine.

Requiring much introspection and writing in a journal, the author guides readers to pick out patterns in their lives regarding self-image and to work on overcoming negative experiences and thinking of themselves in a more positive light. In addition to her advice concerning the mental side of fitness, the author also provides specific suggestions for exercising and eating. She encourages women to be positive and flexible, stressing the point that attitude is everything.

Nurtrition in Pharmacy Practice or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

2009-02-13T15:01:00.000-08:00

Nurtrition in Pharmacy Practice

Author: Ira Wolinsky
Provides pharmacists with the information needed to make sound decisions and give patients accurate advice in nutrition counseling.Based on a survey conducted by the American Pharmaceutical Association, this book equips pharmacists with the knowledge to advise patients on nutrition, weight control, diet and disease, nutrient-drug interactions, pediatric nutrition, enteral and patenteral nutrition, ergogenic aids, and herbal supplements. The book's nine chapters have been thoroughly researched and referenced, and highly useful appendices include dietary reference intakes and tolerable upper intake levels, selected nutrition references, and selected Websites.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Essentials of NutritionChapter 2: Communication and Counseling of Dietary Needs and the Role of the Pharmacist Chapter 3: Drug Nutrient Interactions Chapter 4: Ergogenic Aids Chapter 5: Herbal Medicines as Nutritional Supplements Chapter 6: Pediatric Nutrition Chapter 7: Basics of Specialized Nutrition Support: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Chapter 8: Energy Balance and Weight Control Chapter 9: Diet and Disease Appendices
Book about: The Best Poor Mans Country or Europe Unites
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Your Natural Guide to Healing with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Exercise, and Other Natural Methods

Author: Michael T Murray ND
One of the most controversial modern diagnoses, chronic fatigue syndrome can lead to a continual cycle of muscle and joint pain, headaches, low-grade fever, and swelling of the lymph nodes. This book explores the causes and recommends detoxification purifiers, nutritional support, adrenal balance and stress management techniques, and more.

The Anatomy of Hope or Cardio Free Diet

2009-02-12T10:49:00.000-08:00

The Anatomy of Hope: How Patients Prevail in the Face of Illness

Author: Jerome Groopman
An inspiring and profoundly enlightening exploration of one doctor’s discovery of how hope can change
the course of illness

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, human beings have believed that hope is essential to life. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Harvard Medical School professor and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman shows us why.

The search for hope is most urgent at the patient’s bedside. The Anatomy of Hope takes us there, bringing us into the lives of people at pivotal moments when they reach for and find hope--or when it eludes their grasp. Through these intimate portraits, we learn how to distinguish true hope from false, why some people feel they are undeserving of it, and whether we should ever abandon our search.

Can hope contribute to recovery by changing physical well-being? To answer this hotly debated question, Groopman embarked on an investigative journey to cutting-edge laboratories where researchers are unraveling an authentic biology of hope. There he finds a scientific basis for understanding the role of this vital emotion in the outcome of illness.

Here is a book that offers a new way of thinking about hope, with a message for all readers, not only patients and their families. "We are just beginning to appreciate hope’s reach," Groopman writes, "and have not defined its limits. I see hope as the very heart of healing."

The New York Times
If there is an ''anatomy'' here, it isn't an archetypal, unitary anatomy. Instead, hope turns out to be something negotiated between patients and physicians, imagined and reimagined at every visit. Oncologists need to rely on an incredible team of specialists: palliative-care physicians, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. Even so, the day-to-day practice of oncology is routinely humbled by the task. In its most introspective passages, Groopman's book manages to convey the perverse subtleties of these negotiations: Dan has to be tricked into hope; for Eva, hope becomes a joke that she snickers at, but never quite gets. In the end, you might not know how to define hope precisely - but that seems to be the point. Groopman succeeds principally because he refuses to offer a simple, easily digestible thesis. — Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Washington Post
Groopman writes with profound compassion. The kind of hope -- the kind of love -- that shines through this book's pages could have saved a cardiac patient like my father who, despising doctors and distrusting their motives, chose to die when his heart failed, rather than submit to surgery. It will undoubtedly save many other patients and their families. In body and in spirit. — Judith Warner
Publishers Weekly
In this provocative book, New Yorker staff writer and Harvard Medical School professor Groopman (Second Opinions; The Measure of Our Days) explores the way hope affects one's capacity to cope with serious illness. Drawing on his 30-year career in hematology and oncology, Groopman presents stories based on his patients and his own debilitating back injury. Through these moving if somewhat one-dimensional portraits, he reveals the role of memory, family and faith in hope and how they can influence healing by affecting treatment decisions and resilience. Sharing his own blunders and successes, Groopman underscores the power doctors and other health care providers have to instill or kill hope. He also explains that hope can be fostered without glossing over medical realities: "Hope... does not cast a veil over perception and thought. In this way, it is different from blind optimism: It brings reality into sharp focus." In the final chapters of the book, Groopman examines the existing science behind the mind-body connection by reviewing, for example, remarkable studies on the placebo effect. By the end of the book, Groopman successfully convinces that hope can offer not only solace but strength to those living with medical uncertainty. (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
Readers wary of the "miraculous recovery" genre need not pass on Groopman's latest book (after The Measure of Our Days; Second Opinions). Despite its title, the text contains a satisfyingly gritty realism-in fact, Groopman's first four case studies end in death. That, in itself, quickly drew this reviewer into subsequent chapters in which the author develops the concepts of hope and choice and pursues both his personal interest in and his professional quest for their biological effects. Chair of medicine at Harvard and staff writer in medicine and biology for The New Yorker, Groopman investigates recent research detailing the effects of placebos, emotion, and belief on the nervous system. He finds that hope can begin a domino effect that neither patient nor health provider can predict. In comparison, Dr. Howard Spiro, in The Power of Hope, focuses on placebo history and research and its place in the context of other alternative remedies. Excelling in narrative, The Anatomy of Hope is strongly recommended for most public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/03.]-Andy Wickens, King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Doctor/author Groopman (Second Opinions, 2000, etc.) insightfully examines the nature of hope and the role it plays in recovery from illness. Stories from his medical education and 30 years of practice reveal what New Yorker staff writer Groopman (Medicine/Harvard) has learned about the connections between hope and illness. He was still in medical school when an Orthodox Jewish woman confided in him that she believed her cancer was a punishment from God. "Well prepared for the science [but] pitifully unprepared for the soul," Groopman was unable to reach out and give her the hope she needed to pursue a course of therapy. Then, as a young resident, he followed an older doctor's lead in offering false hope to a terminally ill woman, a disturbing experience that subsequently led him to veer too far in the direction of hope-crushing cold facts as a specialist in oncology and hematology. Perhaps the most powerful story Groopman tells is about a professor of pathology who, in full possession of all the grim facts about his stomach cancer, nevertheless held onto hope, persisted in excruciating therapy, and survived. From his patients, the author observed that hope is at the very heart of healing, whether it derives from faith in God and belief in an afterlife or from a personal philosophy that gives meaning to life and mortality. The author's personal experience of pain, frustration, and despair was also instructive. After suffering severe back pain for 19 years, Groopman followed the advice of a physician to seek relief by changing his beliefs about pain and acting on those new beliefs. Experiencing for himself the physical changes caused by regained hope, he began to question neurologists,experimental psychologists, and others about the biology of hope. He relates their discoveries here, going on to consider why some people can sustain hope but others cannot and clearly delineating the difference between false hope and true hope. A thoughtful message, movingly yet unsentimentally presented by a physician alert to medicine's human as well as its scientific side. Agent: Suzanne Gluck/William Morris

Book about: Refugee Rights or International Ethics
Cardio-Free Diet

Author: Jim Karas
Are you constantly pounding away on the treadmill but never losing a pound? Does every step on the StairMaster become more and more painful? Are you tired of endless workouts that only make you want to eat more?
Cardiovascular workouts do burn a few calories, but far fewer than you think. And the more cardio you do, the hungrier you feel. Not only does cardio fail to help you lose weight, but it kills -- it kills your time, your energy, your joints, and your motivation. You burn a few measly calories but then eat twice as many afterward. The result? Weight gain -- and lots of it.
The Cardio-Free Diet is a revolutionary four-phase program that emphasizes strength training to boost your metabolism; build lean, sexy muscles; and achieve all the same heart-healthy benefits of cardio. With just twenty minutes a day, three days a week, you can look and feel noticeably leaner, stronger, and younger than ever before.
Weight loss expert Jim Karas has shaped the bodies of Diane Sawyer, Paula Zahn, Hugh Jackman, and even Oprah's best pal, Gayle King. With easy-to-follow instructions, Jim shows you how to exercise the right way in order to see incredible results. You won't just lose weight -- you'll sculpt a whole new physique.
Watch the pounds disappear as you prepare delicious dishes such as apple balsamic chicken, Dijon turkey, feta vegetable omelets, and grilled tomato tuna. You can even enjoy a daily glass of wine! With detailed shopping lists, a variety of daily menus, and helpful tips on how to maintain your diet when eating out or ordering in, you'll never have to worry about what to eat.
The Cardio-Free Diet offers maximum results in minimal time -- so break free from the mindless, ineffective cycle of cardio and get the body you've always wanted!

Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Cardio's Reign of Terror
CHAPTER 2 The Body Weight Equation
CHAPTER 3 Cardio Kills
CHAPTER 4 Turn Back the Clock by Going Cardio-Free
CHAPTER 5 Cardio-Free Works for Both Men and Women
CHAPTER 6 Are You Mentally Prepared to Go Cardio-Free?
CHAPTER 7 Strength Training 101
CHAPTER 8 The Cardio-Free Exercise Program
CHAPTER 9 How to Progress Your Cardio-Free Exercise Program
CHAPTER 10 The Cardio-Free Eating Rules
CHAPTER 11 The Cardio-Free Eating Plan
CHAPTER 12 Eating Out While Cardio-Free
CHAPTER 13 The Seven Rules for Living Cardio-Free
APPENDIXES
Appendix A: Preventing Diabetes with the Cardio-Free Diet
Appendix B: Shopping Lists
Appendix C: Exercise Logs and Daily Food Diaries
Read an Excerpt
Chapter One
Cardio's Reign of Terror
In 1977 Jim Fixx published his first book, The Complete Book of Running. It sold more than a million copies, and at the time it was the bestselling nonfiction book ever published. With that one book, the whole cardio craze was unleashed. Since then, we have heard hundreds, if not thousands, of doctors, exercise physiologists, and fitness experts go on and on about all the benefits of cardiovascular exercise.
In 1981 I was living in London and was about to turn twenty-one. Determined to drop some weight (I just couldn't face that milestone birthday feeling so out of shape), I took up running. I was twenty pounds overweight and trying to quit smoking for the fifty-third time, so I used the running to offset the extra calories I feared I would be consuming when a cigarette wasn't in my mouth. I didn't gain any more weight, but I didn't lose any either. For months I was running every day for an hour to an hour and a half, for a total of about ten hours per week, and didn't lose an ounce. If you eat, eat, eat and run, run, run (or perform any form of cardio) as I did, at the end of the day, you won't lose any weight. Learn from my mistake, and don't blow ten hours a week exercising for nothing.
As running became more popular, high-impact aerobics was also hitting the scene. To relieve some stress and try to get rid of the extra pounds (since the running didn't work), I took up high-impact aerobics, still convinced that cardio was the key to weight loss. One Saturday the teacher did not show up for the eight a.m. high-impact aerobics class. About a hundred of us, mostly overweight regulars, stood around forfifteen minutes until I said, "If someone can find a tape, I'll teach." I had the routine memorized, which is never a good thing (as you will soon learn), so up I went to teach the class. Since the teacher didn't show up for the nine o'clock class either, I taught that one as well.
After that class, the manager of the club approached me and asked if I wanted a job as an instructor. I asked what the offer was and he said, "You get four dollars an hour plus a free membership." So began my career as an aerobics instructor.
From that day on, my doomed relationship with cardio was official. Okay, I want to be honest. I am a recovering cardioholic. I have been "clean" for many, many years, and continue to stay as far away from straight cardio as possible, and I'm in the best shape of my life! But for quite a long period of time, I, too, was adamant that cardio was the key to weight loss. Boy, was I ever wrong.
Here is the rest of my history with cardio, which I refer to as the Karas Cardio Rap Sheet:

Low-impact aerobics: Same concept as high-impact, but less jumping, so it wasn't quite as painful on my body, but I still didn't lose any weight.

The Step: Similar to low-impact, but there was a lot of flailing around like a crazy person and almost tripping and falling as I went up and down, up and down a step.

The Slide: It was sort of fun to slide back and forth on a slick surface. I didn't lose any weight, but I did relive childhood memories of sliding on the ice.

Spinning: Spinning really took the cardio world by storm. To this day, spin class is popular among those who still haven't figured out that all that cardio won't get them the results they are looking for. And for the record, spinning is brutal on your body (more on that in Chapter 3).

Tae Bo: I jumped around and repeatedly popped, or hyperextended, my joints, which can lead to major pain and injury. When you box, you are supposed to hit something, not air.

Boot Camp: Since I wasn't in my early twenties and my daily life didn't resemble a war zone, this wasn't a good fit either, nor should it be for any of you.
I believed, like so many people, that working up a "good sweat" equates to a good, effective workout. Basically: More Sweat = Better Workout. This is a common misconception. As with everything else in life, we have to learn to work smarter, not harder, to get ahead.
In the past thirty years since the cardio craze has taken off, do you think Americans, on the whole, have lost weight? In 1987 there were 4.4 million treadmill users. By 2000 that number had exploded to forty million users -- more than a 900 percent increase. Consumers spend more on treadmills than any other home exercise equipment. Since 1980, the number of overweight Americans has doubled. According to Duke University, "Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults were overweight or obese in 2005, compared to 58 percent in 2001." Given that there are three hundred million Americans, that's an additional fifteen million Americans who became overweight or obese in just four years.
How can this keep happening?
It keeps happening because Americans continue to listen to the wrong advice. They want to believe that the answer to their problems is as easy as putting one foot in front of the other, but nothing worth accomplishing is that easy.
Copyright © 2007 by Jim Karas
Chapter Two
The Body Weight Equation
Some people are shocked to learn that their present body weight is the function of every single calorie they have ever consumed minus every single calorie they have ever expended through metabolism and activity. Your body weight is simply the result of the following equation:
Calories In -- Calories Out = Body Weight
To be more specific:
Calories In (Food) -- Calories Out (Your Resting Metabolism and Activity) = Your Present Body Weight
We all know what food and activity are, but what is resting metabolism? Your resting metabolic rate is the number of calories that your body requires on a daily basis if you stay in bed all day, doing nothing. Approximately 60 to 70 percent of your daily caloric expenditure goes toward your resting metabolic rate. It includes the functioning of vital organs in your body (such as the heart, lungs, brain, liver, kidneys, and skin), temperature regulation, and -- most important to our discussion -- your muscles.
For years I have heard people say, "I can't lose weight because I have a bad metabolism." But according to Steve Smith, MD, an associate professor of endocrinology at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center of Louisiana State University, "The variation in resting metabolism is likely to be less than 3 percent. If two equally active thirty-eight-year-old women are both five foot five and weigh 130 pounds, one might have a resting metabolic rate of 1,800 calories and the other 1,854 calories." That's a difference of only 54 calories per day, about half of a medium-size apple. Guess what else? The more you weigh, the higher your basal metabolism. The heavier you are, the more your heart, lungs, liver, and so on have to work because of the additional size. So if you are overweight, realize you have a higher metabolism than you would have if you were lighter.
Gary R. Hunter, PhD, director of the exercise physiology lab and professor at the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says, "Research shows that building and maintaining muscle can speed up metabolism." This research goes on to say that "muscle burns ten to twelve times the calories per pound each day that fat does -- you're boosting your metabolism not just during exercise but all day." If muscle burns ten to twelve times the calories per pound that fat does, and most research shows that fat burns 2 to 3 calories per pound per day, then muscle must burn between 20 and 36 calories per pound per day. Tufts University states that strength training has the potential to increase your metabolism by as much as 15 percent. If you go back to our example of a thirty-eight-year-old woman who is five foot five and 130 pounds and burns 1,800 calories a day resting, that 15 percent increase in her metabolism would translate to 270 extra calories burned (that's ten calories fewer than a full-size Snickers bar) each and every day.
Strength training is the key to weight loss because it is the only way to maintain and build lean muscle, which boosts your metabolism. Most women fear it because of the belief that it will make them big and bulky, but quite the contrary: Strength training will actually make you lean and incredibly sexy. Muscle is natural and aesthetically pleasing to the eye, and it is the key to weight loss. If you have this preconceived notion, then please flip to page 36, where I explain why "getting big" is simply not possible for women and should not be a concern.
In order to lose weight, you need to create a caloric deficit, which means you have to take in fewer calories than your body requires for metabolism and daily activity. Here is an example:
1,200 calories (food) -- 1,700 calories expended(metabolism and activity) = -500
That five-hundred-calorie deficit will force your body to use some of its own stored energy. Another word for stored energy is fat, of which 3,500 calories equals one pound. If you eat 3,500 more calories than your body requires, your body will store those calories as one pound of fat. If you create the caloric deficit of 3,500 calories, you will lose a pound. That's how you lose weight. A lot of other experts would lead you to believe it's more complicated than that, but it's just that simple.
There are four ways to achieve a caloric deficit:
1. Eat less.
2. Increase your activity.
3. Elevate your basal metabolic rate.
4. All of the above -- also known as The Cardio-Free Diet.
Looks pretty simple, doesn't it? But there is a long-term problem with how we have traditionally addressed the first two ways, and it is the reason Americans haven't been able to keep off the weight -- until now. The only effective solution is number four, The Cardio-Free Diet, because it incorporates all three ways to lose weight. Here is why any other approach, bar none, will fail:
1. Eat less. The first problem is that we keep buying books and listening to diet doctors (who are often overweight themselves) and experts tell us to count carbs, fat, protein, fiber, or whatever else is being hawked that day, and that you don't have to count calories to lose weight. Guess what? They are all dead wrong. You must count calories to succeed at weight loss. Most people don't want to hear this, but it's the simple truth. If you don't count calories, you have no idea what you are consuming on a daily basis. You are shooting in the dark when something so simple as reviewing and understanding the numbers could get you the results you have always been looking for.
The Journal of the American Dietetic Association published a report that showed that "85 percent of women who were asked to estimate the number of calories they ate in a day underreported their intake by an average of 600 calories." Do that just half the time and you've just underreported your way to more than thirty additional pounds a year! Startling research by Judith Putnam, a USDA economist, showed that "80 percent of women underestimated their daily food intake by 700 calories." Another study showed that the more overweight we are, the more we underestimate our total calories consumed each day. The Journal of the American Medical Association says, "When you see a book cover that touts 'never count calories again,' RUN."
Even if you successfully reduce your calories, you then come to the big problem. Your brain is very smart and adaptive. When you go on a restricted-calorie diet, it says to you, "There must not be a readily available source of food. I must be stuck on a deserted island, so I need to slow down your metabolism so that you can live longer on this limited amount of food. To slow it down, I need to get rid of the most metabolically active tissue on your body. Since muscle burns the most calories, we have to cannibalize some muscle so you can exist on fewer calories." By dieting without strength training, you may end up losing some fat, but you will definitely lose muscle as well. Research indicates that it can be anywhere from 40 percent muscle loss and 60 percent fat loss to as high as 50 percent muscle, 50 percent fat. That's a big problem for two reasons.
First, as you diet and lose weight, your body will require fewer calories on a daily basis. If you go from 180 pounds to 150, your body will not require the same number of calories to function at 150 as it did at 180. Your heart, lungs, kidneys, and so on don't have to work as hard, because there is less of you to service. Plus, every daily activity, from getting out of bed to rushing to catch a bus or train to clearing the table, requires fewer calories simply because you are moving around less body weight and you possess less lean muscle tissue.
Second, if you then resume your pre-diet eating pattern, as most people do once they have lost some weight, you will immediately start to gain the weight back. Your "calories in" part of the equation is going up, because you are eating more, and your calories out is going down due to less muscle, which according to the equation causes your body weight to go up. Only now, you are gaining just fat and not muscle -- you are in worse shape than when you started! It is this very phenomenon that I believe is the main culprit behind our obesity epidemic. This is the reason yo-yo dieting is well known to wreak havoc on one's metabolism and why so many Americans continually struggle to lose weight and then keep it off.
2. Increase your activity. Everyone thinks activity means cardio. It does burn a few calories, but the operative word is few. Here's how cardiovascular exercise works: When you take a step, either on the ground or on any piece of cardio equipment, your large muscles ask for oxygen, which is transported by your blood and pumped by your heart -- it is this process that expends calories. When you raise your heart rate, you burn calories at an accelerated rate. The only way to accurately determine the number of calories you have burned during any activity is by your actual heart rate. People are constantly asking me, "What cardio machine or activity burns the most calories?" A machine does not determine how many calories you are burning while performing cardio. Your heart rate determines that number. It doesn't matter whether you are on a treadmill, bike, stair stepper, elliptical trainer, or rowing machine. If your heart rate is 120 beats per minute, you are burning the same number of calories during any activity. Period.
I am always shocked to hear people say, "Oh, I burned eight hundred calories in the past hour" when referring to their cardio workout. Maybe, just maybe, you burned half that, but you had to work really hard for that hour to burn even that many -- and that is for a whole hour! Plus, the majority of cardio machines inflate the true number of calories burned, with the elliptical trainer holding the title of cardio's ultimate "Weapon of Mass Distraction." Everyone loves that machine, because when they enter their height, weight, and age, the readout -- which is based on a flawed and generic equation -- tells them that they have burned hundreds of calories in just minutes. Whoever came up with that idea was brilliant, as elliptical sales have soared in recent years. Great for the elliptical manufacturers, bad for weight loss, because the calories represented on the machine are just not true.
A Wall Street Journal article entitled "The Diet That Works" says, "It takes an enormous amount of exercise to burn a meaningful number of calories. A woman who walks thirty minutes a day, six days a week, will burn a paltry 830 calories a week. Theoretically, it would take her more than four weeks to expend the 3,500 calories needed to lose one pound."
A University of Kansas study conducted in 2002 showed that after eighteen months, women who walked thirty minutes a day, three times a week, only lost 2.1 percent of their original weight. For a 160-pound woman, that would mean exercising for eighteen months would produce a weight loss of a little more than three pounds. That same study took another group of women and had them walk for fifteen minutes, twice a day, for the same eighteen-month period. Do you know what they lost? Any guesses? Nothing. Not a single pound.
The American College of Sports Medicine did a sixteen-month study and put overweight college students on treadmills for forty-five minutes a day, five days a week. At the end of the study, the women had gained one pound. You exercise for forty-five minutes a day, five days a week (that's almost four hours a week) for sixteen months, and you gain a pound? And these were college-age women. Just think of what those numbers would be for a middle-aged, stressed-out mom of two!
The second bit of bad news about cardio is that as you become more "fit," you burn fewer calories performing the same activity. That occurs because your entire cardiovascular system improves, which is really the point of doing cardio in the first place, and your heart doesn't have to work as hard to transport oxygen during exercise. The improvement is an increase in the heart's stroke volume. Basically, each time the heart beats, it's able to transport more oxygen-rich blood to the working muscles. As a result, your heart becomes more efficient, and fewer heartbeats equals fewer calories burned. Good for your heart, bad for your weight loss goals. The only way to continue to burn the same number of calories once your heart becomes more efficient is to progress the activity. Progressing a cardiovascular program is accomplished through increasing one or more of the following:

Frequency: exercising more often to burn more calories. Downside: loss of time each week.

Intensity: working harder to burn off more calories. Downside: increased risk of injury.

Duration: exercising for a longer period of time to burn off more calories. Downside: loss of time each day.
Do you want to exercise more often, with more intensity, for a longer period of time -- just to keep burning the same number of calories? Possessing more lean muscle tissue is the way to burn more calories when performing any activity. Let's go back to our thirty-eight-year-old, five-foot-five, 130-pound woman and assume that she is 25 percent body fat. If, through strength training, she changes her body's composition to 20 percent body fat but stays the same weight, then she has successfully lost six and a half pounds of fat and gained the same amount of muscle. In her "new and improved" state, everything she does in terms of activity, from going to the grocery store to taking the stairs to even getting dressed in the morning, will burn more calories. More muscle on the body equals more calories burned when in resting state and when performing any activity -- as more muscle fibers are recruited and required during each and every activity.
Finally, here is the biggest reason not to rely on cardio to count as an increase in activity for losing weight. According to an article in Men's Fitness, "many studies show that aerobic exercise interferes with your body's ability to build muscle. Canadian researchers found that guys who trained six days a week, alternating between strength and endurance workouts (cardio), had impaired strength gains compared with guys who only lifted weights. This, and subsequent studies, showed that although endurance performance improved (when performing cardio and strength-training), gains in muscle strength, power and size actually suffer."
By performing both cardiovascular exercise and strength training concurrently, you are asking your body to adapt both aerobically (cardio) and anaerobically (strength training), which results in different hormonal triggers. When performing high-intensity, steady-state cardiovascular exercise, the body's chemical response is to release cortisol, a catabolic (or muscle-depleting) stress hormone. As your muscle glycogen stores become low, the cortisol starts to mobilize amino acids in the muscle, and fatty acids in body fat, to use for fuel. Increased levels of cortisol break down amino acids in the muscle tissue for energy -- chewing up muscle for fuel and inhibiting protein synthesis (muscle building), which contradicts the very purpose of exercise in the first place. The word "exercise" should only apply to strength training.
Regular cardiovascular exercise also predominantly recruits slow-twitch muscle fibers, which are more efficient in utilizing oxygen than fast-twitch muscle fibers. By continuing to perform high-intensity cardio, your body will adapt by atrophying (shrinking) the fast-twitch muscle fibers in favor of the development of slow-twitch fibers, so your body can become even more efficient at utilizing oxygen. Sure, you are becoming more aerobically fit, but at the same time, you're actually diminishing your chances of building the long, lean muscles that will boost your metabolism and help you lose weight.
The introduction of any cardiovascular activity promotes the use of slow-twitch muscles over fast-twitch muscles -- and subsequently causes those fast-twitch muscles to atrophy or diminish. This will occur even if you are regularly performing strength training as well. Fast-twitch muscle fibers are essential for developing your body's most aesthetically pleasing composition (shape) in addition to achieving the overall strength that comes with more lean muscle tissue.
The article also says that the worst thing you could ever do for your muscles is to perform a cardiovascular activity for more than thirty minutes. After thirty minutes, you increase the chances that your body will break down your hard-earned muscle for fuel.
How many times have Americans been told to exercise for sixty minutes a day? For what? To burn a few measly calories and your most precious bodily tissue, muscle? Do you see how disastrous that advice is and why it is leading us to continue, each and every year, to gain more and more weight?
Increasing activity with strength training instead of cardio, on the other hand, burns calories both during and after the exercise, builds muscle instead of destroying it, and, if done properly, offers heart health as well. Most research indicates that strength training burns between 5 and 10 calories a minute, depending on the size of the muscle group that you are working. That means that you are burning between 150 and 300 calories in a thirty-minute exercise session, which is more than most people burn doing pure cardio for the same amount of time. Not bad, considering that you then get a huge postmetabolic calorie burn as your muscles repair and, most important, you are left with more lean muscle tissue than when you started.
Many people assume strength training is static and cardio is active. My formula for strength training is very active, and the term "interval training" is far more applicable than "pumping iron." You are not sitting and looking around in between each set or exercise like you've seen many "bench heads" in the gym doing. In my program, you finish one set of an exercise, document, drink water, and prepare for the next movement. You keep moving, and that increase in intensity will translate into more calories burned and improved overall cardiovascular performance -- about 85 percent of the benefits of cardio alone. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association followed 452 men for twelve years and showed that the reduction in heart disease from weight training was the same as that of walking, running, and rowing. Strength training does not neglect heart health. It can give you heart health and increased metabolism at the same time. In this time-crunched world, who can afford to ignore a "two birds with one stone" solution?
3. Elevate your basal metabolic rate. In order to succeed at weight loss, your metabolism must go up, or at the very least stay the same, but never, ever decrease. If you diet without strength training, you will lose fat and muscle. As a result of the muscle loss, your metabolism will go down. If you diet and perform cardiovascular exercise, you will lose fat and possibly even more muscle. As a result, your metabolism will go down even farther. If you diet and perform strength training, you will lose only fat, increase your muscle, and make your metabolism go up. Sounds to me like the only winning combination. Muscle is preserved and increased only through strength training, and the single most important goal of any exercise must be to preserve and increase your body's lean muscle tissue at all costs. If you are not prepared to combine strength training with dieting, don't do anything -- dieting alone or dieting with cardio will leave you in worse shape than you started.
If you want to see the results of a muscle-enhanced metabolism, take the "Jim Karas Challenge." Go to your favorite health club or gym and peek into the very large cardio room. What do you see? Dozens, possibly hundreds, of overweight individuals toiling away on the treadmills, bikes, elliptical trainers, and stair steppers. They don't look happy, they're not losing weight, and most of them are just using the cardio as an excuse to watch television. I was recently at Club Industry, which is the yearly convention to introduce the latest and greatest new exercise equipment, and virtually every new piece of cardio equipment comes with a built-in TV. Some even have Internet access. Why is our exercise experience resembling more and more our time on the couch? How many of you are only in need of a remote?
Now go to the much smaller strength-training room. It's one-fifth the size of the huge cardio room. What do you see? Maybe a couple of dozen lean, toned, sexy individuals with great posture and a confident aura. It doesn't matter what gym you walk into -- I guarantee this is what you will see anywhere in the world. Which room would you rather be in?
Copyright © 2007 by Jim Karas

Infecting the Treatment or Reiki Way of the Heart

2009-02-11T06:36:00.000-08:00

Infecting the Treatment: Being an HIV-Positive Analyst

Author: Gilbert W Col
As HIV/AIDS has evolved from an acute crisis into a chronic, long-term problem, it remains what it has always been: a medical condition that is far more than a medical condition. As Gilbert Cole relates, we still struggle with the need to read HIV/AIDS as a moral text that links certain sexual practices and stigmatized identities with punishment, suffering, and death. Thus, two decades into life with the virus, the revelation of being HIV positive remains a disclosure fraught with meaning. Infecting the Treatment: Being an HIV-Positive Analyst is an intimate and deeply insightful examination of the impact of Cole's disclosure of his HIV seropositivity on his analytic sense of self and on his clinical work with patients.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
A Communication from the Analyst's Dreamlife
1 Knots of Meaning: The HIV-Positive Psychoanalyst's Subjectivities 1
2 The HIV-Positive Analyst: An Anomalous Identity 33
3 Disclosure and Contagion 56
4 A Duty to Disclose? 84
5 Other Analysts' Experiences 114
6 An Analyst Prepares 151
Afterword 185
App.: A 189
App.: B 191
App.: C 192
References 193
Index 203

Look this: Clinical Oncology or Complete Idiots Guide to Walking for Health
Reiki - Way of the Heart: The Reiki Path of Initiation

Author: Walter Lubeck
Reiki is among the most popular esoteric paths of perception today. Reiki describes the ability to use the universal life energy to heal oneself and others. This book gives a precise description of which possibilites are open through the direct experience of Reiki power. It describes the path of initiation through the three Reiki degrees, shows what can be experienced, and how life can change through progressive contact with Reiki energy.

Oral Thrush a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or Prostate Infection a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References

2009-02-10T02:24:00.000-08:00

Oral Thrush - 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 oral thrush. 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 oral thrush.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.

Books about: Soldi e mercati dei capitali: Istituzioni finanziarie e strumenti in un mercato globale
Prostate Infection - 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 prostate infection. 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 prostate infection.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 Prostate Infection
Overview
The Combined Health Information Database
Federally Funded Research on Prostate Infection
The National Library of Medicine: PubMed
Chapter 2. Alternative Medicine and Prostate Infection
Overview
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Additional Web Resources
General References
Chapter 3. Books on Prostate Infection
Overview
Chapters on Prostate Infection
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
PROSTATE INFECTION DICTIONARY
INDEX

Textbook of Natural Medicine e dition or Venus in the Dark

2009-02-08T22:12:00.000-08:00

Textbook of Natural Medicine e-dition: Text with Continually Updated Online Reference, 2-Volume Set

Author: Joseph E Pizzorno Jr
Unsurpassed in its authority and scope, the 3rd Edition of the most thoroughly researched and carefully referenced text on natural medicine has been revised to include the most up-to-date information on its application to specific health problems. With over 90 well-known contributors and 10,000 citations of peer-reviewed research literature, practitioners will find 36 new chapters on topics such as medicine philosophy, therapeutics, as well as pharmacology and conditions. The e-dition provides online access to the text, plus weekly updates and an expanded full-color image collection.
• Clearly organized into 6 distinct sections and written by the leaders in complementary and integrative medicine for an easy-to-reference, authoritative text.
• Covers in-depth, evidence-based natural medicine approaches on over 70 specific diseases for the most comprehensive information on the actual practices and recommendations of naturopaths and complementary practitioners.
• A glossary of Section V, on natural medicines, clarifies and defines terms allowing botanical information to be read with ease.
• Every chapter has been updated to include the latest research and knowledge on natural medicine.
• Natural medicine interventions in Section V include a section on Drug Interactions to help practitioners avoid adverse interactions between natural and conventional medicines.
• 36 chapters have been added to sections on Philosophy of Natural Medicine, Therapeutic Modalities, Syndromes and Special Topics, Pharmacology of Natural Medicines, and Specific Health Problems to bring readers up to speed on newly emerging and important treatments.
•Four appendices have been added — Current Hormone Replacement Therapy Prescriptions, Glycemic Index, Seligman Attributional Style Questionnaire, and The Optimal Food Pyramid.
• E-dition features allow users to search the entire text online, view the expanded image collection, stay current with weekly content updates, get breaking news stories, and use references linked to MedLine.

Your purchase entitles you to access the web site until the next edition is published, or until the current edition is no longer offered for sale by Elsevier, whichever occurs first. If the next edition is published less than one year after your purchase, you will be entitled to online access for one year from your date of purchase. Elsevier reserves the right to offer a suitable replacement product (such as a downloadable or CD-ROM-based electronic version) should access to the web site be discontinued.

Interesting textbook: Knowing Practice or Baldness
Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture

Author: Janell Hobson
Western culture has long been fascinated by black women, but a history of enslavement and colonial conquest has variously labeled black women's bodies as "exotic" and "grotesque." In this remarkable cultural history of black female beauty, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the "Hottentot Venus."

In 1810, Saartjie Baartman was taken from South Africa to Europe, where she was put on display at circuses, salons, and museums and universities as the "Hottentot Venus." The subsequent legacy of representations of black women's sexuality--from Josephine Baker to Serena Williams to hip-hop and dancehall videos--continues to refer back to this persistent icon. This book analyzes the history of critical and artistic responses to this iconography by black women in contemporary photography, film, literature, music, and dance.

Table of Contents:
1 Re-presenting the black female body : an introduction 1
2 Venus and the Hottentot : the emergence of an icon 19
3 The Hottentot Venus revisited : the politics of reclamation 55
4 The "batty" politic : toward an aesthetic of the black female body 87
5 Mirror, mirror : framing the black female body for still and motion pictures 113

Quiet World or Get Rid of Him

2009-02-07T18:00:00.000-08:00

Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss

Author: David G Myers
Some 28 million people in America and 350 million people worldwide live with hearing loss. How do these people and their families cope? What are their experiences of pain, humor, and hope? What support do medicine and technology now offer them, and what is on the horizon? In this engaging and practical book, David Myers, who has himself suffered gradual hearing loss, explores the problems faced by the hard of hearing at home and at work and provides information on the new technology and groundbreaking surgical procedures that are available.
Drawing on both his own experiences and his expertise as a social psychologist, Myers recounts how he has coped with hearing loss and how he has incorporated technological aids into his life. The family and friends of the hard of hearing also face adjustments. Myers addresses their situation and provides advice for them on how best to alert loved ones to a hearing problem, persuade them to seek assistance, and encourage them to adjust to and use hearing aids.
About the Author:
David G. Myers is John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Hope College. His psychology textbooks are studied at nearly a thousand colleges and universities. He is the author of The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty, published by Yale University Press.
Publishers Weekly
"Some 28 million Americans and 350 million people worldwide live with hearing loss," psychologist Myers (The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty) explains in his compassionate and humorous new work; and he is one of them. As he maintains, to be without hearing is to be socially isolated. And, even more important, since language is necessary for learning, without an equivalent for the spoken word, childhood development can lag behind. In this 10-year journal of his experiences and observations, Myers charts the progression of his own hearing loss and compares it with that of his mother, who became profoundly deaf and, despite her family's efforts, increasingly isolated in a silent world all her own. As a loving observer, Myers's wife shares her sadness and frustration with her husband's growing problem and unwillingness, for many years, to do anything about it. In turn, he stresses that it is up to the affected individual to seek available help (he discusses new research and technological developments and provides a list of important resources) and to inform family, friends and colleagues so they can learn how to better communicate. As our society continues to age and more of us suffer from hearing loss, Myers offers an instructive and insightful memoir. (Dec.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Doody Review Services
Reviewer: Diane M. Brewer, MA, CCC-A (George Washington University)
Description: Communication difficulties experienced by hearing impaired individuals and their families are presented in a journal/diary format in this book.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide answers about hearing loss to those who are hard of hearing themselves and also to their loved ones. This is a worthy objective because there is a need for a range of self-help books on this topic.
Audience: The book is written for a lay audience who is either hearing impaired or has a loved one who is hearing impaired. The book provides concrete information as well as understanding of feelings surrounding the loss caused by hearing impairment and decreased communication ability.
Features: The communication problems posed by hearing loss and associated feelings for the hearing impaired person and their family members is discussed. This book is unique in that it is told in the form of a diary or journal. This gives a warm, personal feel to the book. It might be considered difficult to use as a quick factual reference (although there is a detailed index), but the value is the journey through the book. Chapters are organized by adjustment, communication issues, and more factual information issues about hearing aid technology. They could actually be read in any order.
Assessment: This book is a welcome addition to the limited collection of lay and self-help books on hearing loss. It has a good deal of important factual information for the hearing impaired person, but perhaps more importantly it provides information about coping with the communication difficulties provided by hearing loss. It does this with an encouraging and optimistic tone.
Library Journal
In this gentle, insightful, and moving book, psychologist Myers (The Pursuit of Happiness: Who Is Happy and Why) describes his personal experience with gradual hearing loss--a common symptom of aging. Writing in graceful prose sprinkled with self-deprecating humor, Myers recalls his initial denial of his increasing deafness, his struggles to understand what people were saying, and his gradual acceptance of his handicap and exploration of changing hearing-assistance technologies. He concludes by acknowledging that he can face his loss without fear and with the certainty that he will be able to adapt to his increasingly silent world. Myers's writing is so honest and sympathetic that one need not be dealing with a handicap to feel his optimism and inner strength. Since the challenges of living with hearing loss must be met by the entire family, Myers also includes entries written by his wife, adding an important, often overlooked, perspective. Any library serving an aging population--and is there a library that doesn't?--will do patrons a great favor by putting this book on the shelf. (Index not seen.)--Ann Forister, Roseville P.L., CA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Booknews
Myers, the son of a woman who went deaf late in life, and who has himself experienced gradual hearing loss, explores the problems faced by the hard-of-hearing at home and work, and elucidates the new technology and surgical procedures now available. The author draws on not only his own experience but also his expertise as a social psychologist in order to describe the effects of hearing loss on the sufferer and on those around him. He provides advice on how best to alert loved ones to a hearing problem, persuade them to seek assistance, and encourage them to adust to and use hearing aids. Myers remarks that those with hearing loss are a fast-growing group because of the aging population and because of the "cumulative effects of amplified music, power mowers, motorcycles, and blow dryers." An appendix offers a substantial list of international resources for the hard-of-hearing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
What People Are Saying
Mary Pipher
In shared affliction, there is great comfort. With this book, psychologist Dave Myers invites us into his life to share his experiences of hearing loss. He is the perfect guide to a quiet world. He is honest and aware of the difficulties, and yet optimistic and humorous as well. As Dave comes to grips with his hearing loss, he has a wry, engaging sympathy for himself and his family. This book educated me in the true sense of the word. I am a different person now, with new ways to behave when I am with loved ones who are facing hearing loss.
—(Mary Pipher, Author of Reviving Ophelia )

Mark Ross
A delight to read. The author's rich repository of anecdotes sensitizes the public to the impact of a partial hearing loss.
—(Mark Ross, University of Connecticut)

Rating
4 Stars! from Doody

Go to: Hot Cocktails or Hobart Boulevard Cook Book
Get Rid of Him

Author: Joyce L Vedral
Not a Man-Bashing Bookplain . Should you keep him or would you be much better off without him? I have thousands of letters from women telling me that this book has become their "Bible." After reading it, women tell me they "know" what to do, "I guess I really always knew, but just reading about all those other women, I used to think it was just me!" It doesn't bash men. It shows women how to stop blaming men and empower themselves.
Discover your inner courage. Feel good about yourself. Whether you're in a relationship or a marriage, or trying to figure out why he left you, or if you're looking for clues on how to find the right man, this is the book for you. Please E mail me.
Joyce L. Vedral, Ph.D at jvbody@aol.com Will Answer any Questions Regarding Get Rid Of Him.
Publishers Weekly
Vedral, author of The Fat-Burning Workout , here encourages women to shed still more unwanted pounds--those of the undesirable men in their lives. Organizing her material under slogan-like headings (``You Can't Work It Out if There's Nothing to Work With''; ``Stop Blaming Him''), she identifies traits that make a man ``bad'' for a woman--if he's not ``on the mainland,'' that is, he has too many psychological problems; if he ``cheats on you and has a double standard''; if you ``can't stand'' to go to bed with him. Prescribing the remedy suggested in her title, Vedral offers 15 ways to enable oneself to end a relationship. These include ``Realize That Solitude and Freedom Are Priceless Gifts, Not Punishments--Then Do It'' and ``Improve Your Self-Image,'' in which she recommends obtaining a makeover at a department store cosmetics counter. Even the references to Jung and Joseph Campbell can't disguise this tome's superficiality. (Jan.)
Library Journal
Vedral, author of self-help books for teenagers (e.g., My Teacher Is Driving Me Crazy, Ballantine, 1991) and fitness books for women (e.g., The Fat-Burning Workout , Warner, 1991), advises women: ``Stop wasting your time with a relationship that is draining your life rather than enhancing it.'' Her purpose here is to encourage women to take control of their lives. Vedral describes 11 reasons, ranging from boredom to abuse, for ending unsatisfactory relationships and, in a chapter entitled ``Fifteen Ways to Leave Your Lover,'' offers strategies for action. Vedral avoids discussing complications of codependence and relationship addiction and treats problems of short- and long-term relationships jointly. Readers keen on taking her advice will need more assistance than this book. Not an essential purchase. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/92.-- Lucille Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal.

Comfort at Your Computer or The Yoga of Sound

2009-02-06T07:43:00.000-08:00

Comfort at Your Computer: Body Awareness Training for Pain-Free Computer Use

Author: Paul Linden
"[Comfort at Your Computer] is an excellent resource for anyone who uses a computer. True to its title, the book shows the reader in clear and easy to understand steps how to use a computer in comfort. Dr. Linden adroitly synthesizes knowledge from his physical education background...This is an excellent book for people at risk for computer stress and for the clinicians who treat them. It functions both as a resources book and as a self-help text. It should also be of interest to companies whose workers use computers."
-Physical Therapy, December 1996

New interesting book: La Dolce Vita or Lights Out
The Yoga of Sound

Author: Russill Paul
Ancient chants and sacred sounds have spiritual properties believed to transform living, working and meditation spaces. The Yoga of Sound is 3-CD set of contemporary music and chant created by renowned sound musician Russill Paul. Three distinct sound volumes are influenced by great Yogic traditions: Shabda Yoga, focusing on mantras or sacred words; Shakti Yoga, emphasizing sacred sounds flow through body & chakras; and Bhava Yoga, using Tantric chants to enhance the senses, heighten sensuality and the connection to one's body.

Caring and Curing or Shopping as an Entertainment Experience

2009-02-05T03:31:00.000-08:00

Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions

Author: Ronald L Numbers
Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of involvement in medical issues of life, death, and health. Religious values influence our behavior and attitudes toward sickness, sexuality, and lifestyle, to say nothing of more controversial subjects such as abortion and euthanasia. The essays in this important book illuminate the history of health and medicine within the Judeo-Christian tradition. Bringing together 20 original articles by expert scholars in the fields of the history of religion and the history of medicine, Caring and Curing provides a fascinating and enlightening overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care.

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In this reprint of 20 articles originally published in 1986, scholars of the history of religion and the history of medicine "diagnose" the influence of diverse Judeo-Christian traditions on medical practice<- ->regarding cultural and ethical views about illness, beginning and end of life issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Interesting textbook: Born to the Mob or Mr Lincoln Goes to War
Shopping as an Entertainment Experience

Author: Mark Howard Moss
iShopping as an Entertainment Experiencei explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the mall, the e-store, and the department store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people indulge in to occupy themselves.

Things That Work or Win the Battle

2009-02-03T23:19:00.000-08:00

Things That Work: A No Nonsense Guide to Recovery by One Who Knows

Author: Barry Bocchieri
A lucid, practical, and profoundly simple book that answers the question: "What does it take to find and remain on the path to recovery?"

Interesting textbook: Planification Financière Personnelle
Win the Battle: The 3-Step Lifesaving Formula to Conquer Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Author: Bob Olson
Based on the author's personal recovery experience, this book reveals a three-step formula for beating depression and bipolar disorder (manic-depression).

Bipolar Teen or The Complete Idiots Guide to Food Allergies

2009-02-02T19:08:00.000-08:00

Bipolar Teen: What You Can Do to Help Your Child and Your Family

Author: David J Miklowitz
If your teen has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder-or your child's moods seem out of control-Dr. David Miklowitz can help. The bestselling author of The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide has tailored his proven treatment approach to meet the specific needs of teens and their families. The Bipolar Teen provides tools you can use to make home life manageable again. You'll learn to spot the differences between normal teenage behavior and the telltale symptoms of mania and depression. Together with your child's doctors, you'll be able to strike a healthy balance between medication and psychotherapy, recognize and respond to the early warning signs of an oncoming episode, and collaborate effectively with school personnel. Like no other resource available, this powerful book delivers practical ways to manage chaos and relieve stress so everyone in your family-including siblings-can find stability, support, and peace of mind.
About the Author:
David J. Miklowitz, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Boulder
About the Author:
Elizabeth L. George, PhD, is coinvestigator with Dr. Miklowitz on the Colorado Family Project
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Reviewer:Nicholas Greco IV, MS, BCETS, CA(College of Lake County)
Description:This is a reference tool and instructional guide for families with bipolar teens. It provides the necessary knowledge for families on such topics as diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in an easy to read, easy to understand format. Most importantly, the book provides realistic expectations, not meaningless banter.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide understanding, awareness, and a tremendous amount of knowledge for families of bipolar teens. The book emphasizes family-focused treatment as well as a combination of medication and psychotherapy. The authors advocate a combination of treatments to meet the needs of the bipolar teen. The book provides a realistic view of the disorder with the ups and downs associated with it, while highlighting the strengths of the teenager, which can provide needed optimism.
Audience:Families with bipolar children and adolescents will find comfort and substantial benefit from this book. Additionally, this is a worthwhile and important read for any child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychologist to integrate into their treatment plans. Both authors are experienced members of the field, and their latest work further supports their expertise.
Features:The highlight of the book is its no-nonsense approach to the disorder. It is realistically optimistic, unbiased, and supportive. Of the four solid chapters on understanding bipolar disorder, two, covering how to obtain an accurate diagnosis and what the family can expect, are essential reading. A frank discussion on psychopharmacology and psychotherapy helps guide andeducate the family on available treatment options, but the most valuable chapters are the ones dealing with prevention and maintenance.
Assessment:This is the only book on adolescent bipolar disorder that truly offers realistic expectations, meaningful treatment options, and clearly provides families with invaluable knowledge on their child's illness. One of the best books of the year!

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Food Allergies

Author: Lee Freund
With the increase in processed food and additives in our diets, food allergy problems are expected to escalate in number and severity. But in The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Food Allergies, readers will find expert answers to such problems as:

- How to tell an allergic from a non-allergic reaction - Food allergy treatments and their effectiveness - Allergies and diet: useful shopping advice for the supermarket - Alternative medical treatments for food allergies - Special food menus for specific allergies (e.g., eggs, milk, etc.)

About the Author:
Lee H. Freund, M.D., has been practicing adult and pediatric allergy medicine for more than 30 years and is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy and the American College of Allergy and Immunology. He teaches at the University of Southern California.

Jeanne Rejaunier is the author of eight books and a freelance screenwriter.

Happiness is Your Creation or Your Personal Trainer

2009-02-01T14:56:00.000-08:00

Happiness is Your Creation

Author: Rama
Inspirational teachings excerpted from Living with the Himalayan Masters that identify the causes of unhappiness and provide direction to keep centered and joyful.

New interesting book: The Little Mac Book Tiger Edition or Geek Silicon Valley
Your Personal Trainer: The Expert Training Companion for Total Fitness

Author: Douglas Brooks
Douglas Brooks - one of the top personal trainers in the United States - shares his no-nonsense, results-oriented approach to training. You won't find any quick fixes here. But what you will find are proven effective exercise programs and techniques similar to those he prescribes to his clients every day. By following Brooks's programs and advice, you will: maximize your workout gains, lose more weight, gain more muscle, increase your endurance, stay motivated and committed, and add variety to your routine.
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Presents individually tailored training programs and customized fitness workouts designed to maximize workout goals, shed pounds and add muscle, increase endurance, and stay motivated. Chapters are organized in sections on training essentials and components, training programs, and training targets. Includes b&w photos, assessment forms, and planning sheets. The author is a certified personal trainer and is fitness training director at Snowcreek Resort and Athletic Club. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Natural Hair Care and Braiding or First Aid for Horse and Rider

2009-01-31T10:44:00.000-08:00

Natural Hair Care and Braiding

Author: Diane Carol Bailey
This book aims to bring standard cosmetology practices into balance with the beauty of natural hair care. With the use of illustrations and color photographs, it details traditional braiding techniques with and without extensions. It discusses the holistic approach to natural hair care, offering herbal treatments and remedies. For professional stylists, it s an invaluable guide to updating one s skills and expanding alternative, chemical-free services to one s clients.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Ch. 1 History Overview 1
Ch. 2 Bacteriology/Sanitation & Prevention Control 13
Ch. 3 The Client and You 33
Ch. 4 The Professional Consultation 47
Ch. 5 How Hair Types and Structures Differ 59
Ch. 6 Hair and Scalp Diseases and Disorders 73
Ch. 7 Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and Nutrition 97
Ch. 8 Shampoos, Conditioners, Herbal Treatments and Rinses 111
Ch. 9 Textured Hair is Manageable 167
Ch. 10 Braiding and Sculpting Techniques 181
Bibliography 257
Glossary/Index 261

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First Aid for Horse and Rider

Author: Nancy Loving
This is the long-awaited how-to handbook for treating riding injuries in the field for both rider and horse, with step-by-step numbered instructions for the most common injuries and what to do until help arrives. Injuries range from insect and animal bites, allergies, and broken bones to head injuries, hypothermia, and hoof wounds. This is an authoritative pocket reference that combines advice from a reputable veterinarian and a medical doctor, a perfect package for first aid kits.

Pt. I	Discovery of the stem cell's unique abilities
1	Morning on the devil's highway	7
2	Head of the Hydra	19
3	The furnace of creation	31
4	The ugliest thing in medicine	41
5	The starter culture	51
Pt. II	The race to harness the power of life
6	California dreaming	65
7	Investing in hope and hype	75
8	From Roe to Dickey	87
9	Division on the Hill	97
10	Stem cell superpowers	107
11	The rise and fall of South Korea's cloning king	119
Pt. III	Stem cell cures and curses
12	Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine	133
13	Resolving the debate : adult vs. embryonic stem cells	143
14	Germ of an idea	153
15	Needles and haystacks	159
16	Banking on cord blood	167
17	So close and yet so far	175
18	Cautionary tales : the coming stem cell decade	197
20	Epilogue : the coming stem cell century	207
App. A	Protocols and nutrient mixes for culturing human cells	219
App. B	The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative : selected text from California Proposition 71	227

	List of Illustrations	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part 1	The Evolution of Consciousness
1.	Attributes of Consciousness	3
2.	The Great Power Within You	19
3.	Reprogramming Your Mind	31
Part 2	Techniques for Transformation
4.	Self-Hypnosis: The Magic Doorway	45
5.	Imagination: Your Key to the Kingdom	67
6.	How to Achieve Prosperity Consciousness	91
7.	Attracting Love into Your Life	115
8.	Guidance from Your Higher Self	137
9.	Self-Healing Through Visualization	145
10.	How to Stay Healthy All Your Life	159
11.	Cosmic Consciousness: The Ultimate Goal	191
Appendix A	Relaxation Process	205
Appendix B	Suggestions for Self-Hypnosis	209
	To Lose Weight
	To Stop Smoking
	To Gain Self-Confidence
	Bibliography & Suggested Reading	217
	Index	225

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	A Communication from the Analyst's Dreamlife
1	Knots of Meaning: The HIV-Positive Psychoanalyst's Subjectivities	1
2	The HIV-Positive Analyst: An Anomalous Identity	33
3	Disclosure and Contagion	56
4	A Duty to Disclose?	84
5	Other Analysts' Experiences	114
6	An Analyst Prepares	151
	Afterword	185
	App.: A	189
	App.: B	191
	App.: C	192
	References	193
	Index	203

1	Re-presenting the black female body : an introduction	1
2	Venus and the Hottentot : the emergence of an icon	19
3	The Hottentot Venus revisited : the politics of reclamation	55
4	The "batty" politic : toward an aesthetic of the black female body	87
5	Mirror, mirror : framing the black female body for still and motion pictures	113

	Introduction
Ch. 1	History Overview	1
Ch. 2	Bacteriology/Sanitation & Prevention Control	13
Ch. 3	The Client and You	33
Ch. 4	The Professional Consultation	47
Ch. 5	How Hair Types and Structures Differ	59
Ch. 6	Hair and Scalp Diseases and Disorders	73
Ch. 7	Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and Nutrition	97
Ch. 8	Shampoos, Conditioners, Herbal Treatments and Rinses	111
Ch. 9	Textured Hair is Manageable	167
Ch. 10	Braiding and Sculpting Techniques	181
	Bibliography	257
	Glossary/Index	261