Male Herbal or The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook

Male Herbal: The Definitive Health Care Book for Men and Boys

Author: James Green

In this long-awaited second edition of The Male Herbal, James Green gives men and boys the tools they need to create or maintain physical and emotional health through a customized herbal program. By following Green's newly developed constitutional model and referencing the comprehensive alphabetical herbal listings, men can create an herbal program attuned to their unique body type, lifestyle, and health needs. Featuring life-changing information about common plants, herbal alternatives to Viagra, medicinal uses of herbs for male-specific issues, and nearly thirty recipes for teas, tinctures, salves, and tonics, this updated guide emphasizes prevention and health with sensitivity and wisdom.

About the Author:
James Green is the founder of Simplers Botanical Company and is a professional founding member of the American Herbalists Guild and United Plant Savers

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The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook: Awakening Your Divine BA

Author: Amorah Quan Yin

The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook assists you with healing relationships. This sequel to The Pleiadian Workbook teaches advanced cellular clearing to heal the male/female split, and, with specific exercises and techniques practical for everyday life, shows you how to activate and clear kundalini and sexual channels through tantra.

Robert Crayhons Nutrition Made Simple or OncoLink Patient Guide

Robert Crayhon's Nutrition Made Simple: A Comprehensive Guide to the Latest Findings in Optimal Nutrition

Author: Robert Crayhon

Are you looking for one book to explain all of the basics of nutrition and the latest findings? Let Robert Crayhon guide you with his fun, direct, and scientifically documented approach.

Publishers Weekly

Crayhon, host of the nationally syndicated radio show ``The Voice of Wellness,'' and a New York-area nutritionist who heads Designs for Health, an organization devoted to devising customized nutrition plans for clients, has surveyed his audience's most commonly asked questions with bearing on health and addressed them in this useful book. In a chapter titled``Is Sugar Bad for You?,'' for example, he explains the effect of sugar on the immune system: ``When we are healthy and avoid sugar, our protective white blood cells circle the body like energetic prizefighters knocking out viruses and bacteria...yet these same protective pugilists can be knocked unconscious by sugar.'' Crayhon reconsiders the health benefits and drawbacks of alcohol (and lauds red wine for its antioxidants). He explains how to spur energy by natural means, such as aerobic exercise, quitting caffeine, and taking in ``energizing nutrients'' like magnesium and potassium. His writing, direct and concise, covers much ground in a well-organized and friendly manner that will bring current knowledge of nutrition to a broad audience. (Jan.)

Library Journal

The author of this well-organized and easily understood book is a certified nutritionist who operates six clinics and hosts two syndicated radio programs about nutrition. Although many of his recommendations echo those in other recent titles advocating good health through nutrition (e.g., Gene Spiller's The Super Pyramid Eating Program, LJ 3/15/93; Dean Ornish's Eat More, Weigh Less, LJ 6/1/93; and Neal Barnard's Food for Life, LJ 6/15/93), he also recommends supplementation as essential to obtaining optimum health. Crayhon believes that a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet is not healthful for some population groups and suggests that individuals look to their own ancestry and personal situation in choosing an appropriate diet. He cites hydrogenated fat, rather than cholesterol, as the culprit in our epidemic of heart disease and other diet-related illnesses. His book offers a thorough explanation of all nutrients, with explicit guides for selecting a beneficial combination. Crayhon also discusses specific health problems and nutrition, including high blood pressure, PMS, and osteoporosis. An excellent addition to nutrition collections.-Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

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OncoLink Patient Guide: Prostate Cancer

Author: James M Metz

This book provides the essential information that you need throughout all stages of this disease. Avoiding jargon, it answers all the questions that you have concerning risk and prevention, screening and diagnosis, through to all the various treatment options available: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative therapies and provides you with day-to-day lifestyle advice too. Attractively designed and clearly presented, the book allows you to be able to find quickly all the answers that you are looking for, safe in the knowledge that the information comes from one of the world's leading cancer internet resources - OncoLink. Compiled by international experts, and arranged in a question and answer style, this book is an essential purchase for all prostate cancer patients, their doctors and their carers.
• Comprehensive coverage from risk and prevention, and screening and diagnosis, through to treatment options (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative medicine), nutrition and living with prostate cancer.
• Attractively designed to aid instant access to the information.
• Published in collaboration with one of the world's leading internet cancer resources: OncoLink.
• Expert authors and contributors
• Arranged in an FAQ style

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Risk and prevention

Screening and diagnosis

Treatment [surgery/hormonal therapy/radiation therapy/chemotherapy]

Complementary and alternative medicine

Nutrition and prostate cancer

Living with prostate cancer

Resources

Cancer diary

Running Colorados Front Range or Mantra

Running Colorado's Front Range

Author: Brian Metzler

Running Colorado's Front Range Written for trail runners and road runners of all abilities, Running Colorado's Front Range offers insights on the best places to run in and around Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Golden, Fort Collins, Loveland and the nearby foothills. It provides a wealth of information on more than 50 Front Range running routes (dirt and paved) ideal for long, slow runs that will restore your soul. The book also includes coverage of the region's best trail, road and track races, profiles of some of Colorado's best runners and resources for group runs, running clubs and coaching services.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements	vi
	Foreword	vii
	Introduction	1
	How to Use this Book	3
	Front Range Run Location Map	4
	Key To The Maps	5
	Colorado's Front Range: A Runner's Paradise	7
	Leave No Trace	7
	Trail Running vs. Road Running	7
	Safety	8
	Hydration	8
	Running at High Altitude	9
	Equipment and Apparel	9
	Dogs	11
	Other Trail Users	12
	Wildlife	12
	Denver Metro Area	15
1	Barr Lake State Park (Brighton)	16
2	Big Dry Creek Trail (Westminster)	19
3	Cherry Creek Bikeway (Denver/Aurora)	23
4	City Park (Denver)	26
5	Coal Creek Trail (Louisville/Lafayette)	28
6	Highline Canal Trail (Northeast) (Denver/Aurora)	31
7	Highline Canal Trail (Southwest) (Cherry Hills Village/Greenwood Village/Littleton)	34
8	Platte River Trail (Denver/Littleton)	36
9	Sand Creek Regional Greenway (Aurora/Denver/Commerce City)	40
10	Washington Park (Denver)	44
	Other Denver Metro Routes	47
	Creigh Kelley: Denver's Running Man	48
	Denver Metro Running Resources	50
	Boulder	55
11	Boulder Creek Path	56
12	East Boulder Trail Teller Farms/White Rocks	60
13	Flagstaff Mountain	63
14	Heil Valley Ranch Wapiti-Ponderosa Loop	66
15	Marshall Mesa Loop	69
16	Mesa Trail	71
17	Mount Sanitas/Dakota Ridge	74
18	South Boulder Creek Trail	78
19	Boulder Valley Ranch Eagle Trail System	80
20	Walker Ranch Loop	84
	Other Boulder-Area Trails	86
	Boulder's Boldest	88
	Boulder Road Runners Keep on Running	90
	Boulder Running Resources	92
	Front Range West	97
21	Apex Park (Golden)	98
22	Bear Creek Lake Park (Lakewood)	101
23	Evergreen Lake Loop (Evergreen)	104
24	Elk Meadow Park (Evergreen)	107
25	Green Mountain Park (Lakewood)	110
26	Matthews/Winters Park (Morrison)	112
27	Maxwell Falls Trail (Evergreen)	115
28	Mount Falcon Park (Morrison)	117
29	Roxborough State Park (Littleton)	121
30	Waterton Canyon/Colorado Trail (Littleton)	123
31	White Ranch Park (Golden)	126
	Other Front Range West Trails	130
	Front Range West Running Resources	132
	Front Range North	135
32	Carter Lake (Loveland)	136
33	Hall Ranch (Lyons)	138
34	Horsetooth Mountain Park (Fort Collins)	140
35	Longs Peak Trail (Rocky Mountain National Park)	144
36	Lory State Park (Fort Collins)	146
37	Old Flowers Road (West of Fort Collins)	150
38	Pawnee Buttes (Keota)	152
39	Poudre River Trail (East) (Windsor/Greeley)	154
40	Poudre River Trail (West) (Fort Collins)	156
41	Round Mountain National Recreation Trail (West of Loveland)	160
	Other Front Range North Trails	162
	Jon Sinclair: Over 40 and Still Going Strong	164
	Front Range North Running Resources	165
	Front Range South	169
42	Barr Trail (Manitou Springs)	170
43	Castlewood Canyon (Franktown)	173
44	Columbine Trail (Colorado Springs)	176
45	Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs)	178
46	Monument Trail/Mount Herman Trail (Monument)	180
47	Palmer Park (Colorado Springs)	182
48	Pikes Peak Greenway/Fountain Creek Trail (Colorado Springs)	185
49	Rampart Reservoir Trail (Woodland Park)	189
50	Section 16 and Palmer Loop Trail (Colorado Springs)	192
51	Waldo Canyon Loop (Manitou Springs)	194
	Other Front Range South Trails	197
	Matt Carpenter: King of the Mountain	199
	Lisa Rainsberger: Giving Back through Coaching	200
	Front Range South Running Resources	202
	Races & Resources	205
	The Best Races on Colorado's Front Range	206
	Other Front Range Races	211
	Other Colorado Races	218
	Largest Races on the Front Range	220
	Colorado Coaching Services	222
	Colorado Running Camps	223
	Running Resources	223
	Front Range Triathlons/Multi-Sport Races	224
	Front Range Triathlon Clubs	226
	About the Author	228

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Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence

Author: Jehangir Mehta

Enter a world of adventure and indulgence in this exotic cookbook by the chef Bon Appétit has called "an anarchic artist of the last course."

Renowned chef Jehangir Mehta has relentlessly immersed himself in creating inventive desserts and other dishes at his new Manhattan food and wine bar, Graffiti, and as the creator of the sumptuous confections for his online store and event-management company, Partistry. He draws endless inspiration from his Indian heritage and from ayurveda, the ancient science of health and medicine. Now, in this gorgeous book , Mehta shares his holistic approach to refreshing the body, mind, and spirit through delicious recipes using only the purest and most beneficial ingredients.

• Wake up to the enticing aroma of fresh-baked Jasmine-Glazed Doughnuts or delectable Hazelnut Crêpes with Caramel-Pine Nut Sauce.
• Delight in one of Mehta's celebrated flavor fusions: Salty Caramel Tapioca Tarts, Green Papaya and Persimmon Salad with Pepper-Coconut Sorbet, and Lime-Brushed Melon Mille-feuille with Beet Sorbet.
• Enjoy Mehta's Persian Caraway Seed Cookies and Falooda with Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream, and experience the best of Mexico and India with a superlative Tres Leches Cake with Coconut-Curry Emulsion, Pears, and Almond.

Whether you are preparing a spectacular feast for a dinner party or a simple dessert on a whim, you'll be inspired by the amazing range of ingredients in the book—from the most common to the rather unusual. This captivating book is perfect for anyone interested in the intersection of the culinary artsand the restorative properties of nature.

American Dietetic Association Guide to Better Digestion or Womens Herbs Womens Health

American Dietetic Association Guide to Better Digestion

Author: Leslie Bonci

Self-manage digestive disorders through dietary choices

Suffering from a gastrointestinal disorder–whether it’s irritable bowel syndrome, gas, constipation, heartburn, or another condition–can be embarrassing and debilitating. While medical treatments and prescriptions can offer relief, one of the most important ways you can help yourself is to choose the right foods to eat.

Backed by the American Dietetic Association, this user-friendly guide shows you how to analyze your eating habits so that you can map out a dietary plan to manage and reduce the uncomfortable symptoms of digestive disorders. You’ll find practical recommendations for implementing changes in your lifestyle and advice on steering clear of common dietary mistakes. Your meals will be pleasurable and nourishing experiences–not painful ones–when you discover how to make the best and most comfortable food choices so you can embark on the road to digestive health.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Willem J.S. de Villiers, MD, PhD (University of Kentucky College of Medicine)
Description: This book serves as a dietary resource for persons suffering from a variety of gastrointestinal disorders.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide sound, nutritional information to persons with gastrointestinal disorders. The book discusses dietary modifications, lifestyle habits and eating survival tips from which patients can develop a specific dietary plan to manage uncomfortable symptoms. These are worthwhile objectives. As a practicing gastroenterologist, I see patients who often have questions regarding diet as it pertains to their specific symptoms or GI disorder. This will be a handy resource to refer them to.
Audience: The book is written for patients with specific GI disorders. It emphasizes a self-management approach, providing the reader with an understanding of the causes and triggers of various GI disorders and how dietary strategies may help to minimize symptoms. The author, a registered dietitian, is a credible authority. She has extensive experience in working with patients with digestive disorders and has the endorsement of several well respected gastroenterologists and the American Dietetic Association.
Features: The book begins with an overview of gastrointestinal physiology and nutrition principles that provides the reader with a basic framework of concepts. Following is a discussion of a number of GI disorders. Each chapter discusses causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and the role of diet for each disorder. Included are sample food diaries as well as personal diaries to aid patients in managing their disease. I found the sections on supplement use and medication and herb interactions to be very informative, especially as patients are turning to alternative therapies to manage or cure disease.
Assessment: This is a well-written, comprehensive, yet user-friendly book that focuses on the role of diet in the management of common gastrointestinal disorders. Unfortunately, "nutrition quackery" is all too commonplace in magazine and television ads. This book provides strategies and recommendations based on sound nutrition principles.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Gut-Works
Survival Skills for Self-Managing Your Digestive Condition
Getting Started
Food Borne Illnesses and Prevention
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
Ulcers
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Diverticular Diseases
Celiac Disease
Lactose Intolerance
Gas and Bloating
Nausea and Vomiting
Diarrhea
Constipation
The Supporting Cast: Disorders of the Liver, Pancreas and Gallbladder
Appendix A: Personal Food, Supplement(s) and Symptoms Diary
Appendix B: Personal Food/Supplement Diary to Record Fiber
Appendix C: Personal Foos Diary to Record Gluten-Free Foods Regularly Eaten
Appendix D: Personal Foos Diary to Record Dietary Fat Intake and Symptoms
Appendix E: Personal Foos Diary to Record Fluid, Sodium, and Protein Intake

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Women's Herbs, Women's Health

Author: Christopher Hobbs

Written by two acclaimed practicing herbalists, this books provides scientific information on how herbs work and which herbs are best for treating a variety of female conditions using both Western and Chinese herbs. Recipes for specific herbal preparations are included.

Diabetes Comfort Food or What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Parkinsons Disease

Diabetes Comfort Food

Author: Johanna Burkhard

Managing diabetes can include soul-satisfying comfort foods.

Many who are committed to managing diabetes feel deprived of the comfort foods others enjoy regularly. Everyone needs a soul-satisfying dish once in a while.

Diabetes Comfort Food offers 250 recipes that bring to mind the warmth of home and family. Each recipe has been reviewed by a Certified Diabetes Educator and features a data-box of complete nutritional analysis per serving as well as an "Exchanges per Serving box."

Anyone with diabetes can enjoy such comforting dishes as:

• Creamy mushroom soup, honey-garlic chicken wings


• Sunday roast beef with wine gravy, zesty barbecued spareribs


• Best-ever macaroni and cheese, baked penne with Italian sausage and sweet peppers


• Classic scalloped potatoes, creamed spinach and mushroom bake


• Butter tarts, oven French toast, classic chocolate chip cookies.

Also included are recipe tips, meal suggestions and make-ahead ideas that will appeal to both novice and experienced home cooks.

Managing diabetes can include interesting as well as healthful dishes. This book includes a wonderful variety of comfort foods that follow a sensible meal plan.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction


Appetizers

• 22 recipes

Soups

• 25 recipes

Sandwiches and Light Suppers

• 19 recipes

Main Dishes

• 26 recipes

Stews, Pot Roasts and One-Pot Simmers

• 15 recipes

A Pound of Ground

• 22 recipes

Pasta and Grains

• 29 recipes

Vegetables

• 23 recipes

Salads

• 15 recipes

Cookies, Muffins and Breads

• 24 recipes

Special-Occasion Desserts

• 17 recipes

Recipe Analysis

Index

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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Parkinson's Disease: A Holistic Program for Optimal Wellness

Author: Jill Marjama Lyons

More than one million people in the U.S. are living with Parkinson's disease -- and 50,000 more are diagnosed each year. Now an experienced neurologist and medical director of the Parkinson Center at the University of Florida provides an empowering guide to a range of effective new treatments -- including drugs, innovative surgical techniques, and groundbreaking alternative therapy -- for optimal physical and spiritual health.

Publishers Weekly

The latest in the What Your Doctor May Not Tell You series which currently includes guides on Fibromyalgia, Knee Pain and Surgery, and Migraines this book works as a resource for those who suspect they may have Parkinson s, for those seeking treatment, and for those choosing among conventional and alternative treatments. Marjama-Lyons is a neurologist and former director of the Parkinson Center at the University of Florida; Shomon has no medical degree, but is the author of Living Well with Hyperthyroidism and Living Well with Autoimmune Disease. Together, they begin with Signs, Symptoms, and Diagnosis, where they define the disease (called the shaking palsy in the early 19th century by James Parkinson), and run through what is known about its causes, mechanisms, risk factors and early indicators. The authors then carefully walk readers through diagnosis, treatments, care and Future Directions for combating the disease. There are first-person patient testimony and sidebar notes from Dr. Jill throughout, and appendices of references and state-by-state resources. The tone is calm, capable and reassuring. (Feb. 1) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Grounded Theory in Practice or Surgery SourceBook

Grounded Theory in Practice

Author: Juliet M Corbin

Grounded theory methodology and procedure has become one of the most influential modes of carrying out qualitative research when generating theory is a principle aim of the researcher. While there is no shortage of monographs or papers on grounded theory, much of the literature is not accessible for relatively novice researchers.

Grounded Theory in Practice, edited by the late Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin, presents a series of readings that emphasize different aspects of grounded theory methodology and methods. The selections are written by former students of Strauss and have been chosen for their accessibility and range. Strauss and Corbin provide commentaries for each paper that shed additional light and help make the book even more essential for researchers interested in the application of grounded theory.

Booknews

Presents a series of published articles written by former students of the late Anselm Strauss. The commentaries provided for each paper are meant to be particularly useful for readers of or . Topics include deciphering chronic pain; identity dilemmas of chronically ill men; the molecular biological bandwagon in cancer research; and temporality and identity loss due to Alzheimer's Disease. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Surgery Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information about Common Inpatient and Outpatient Surgeries

Author: Amy L Sutton

According to the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics, more than 75 million inpatient and outpatient surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Surgical procedures are often necessary to prevent or relieve pain, reduce problematic symptoms, improve body functioning, or search for signs of disease. Although making informed health care decisions about surgical procedures can be frustrating and confusing, research shows that patients who take time to learn about treatments prior to surgery often feel more satisfied with the outcome.

Surgery Sourcebook, Second Edition provides updated information about common types of surgical procedures-including oral, eye, gastrointestinal, gynecologic and obstetric, head and neck, heart and vascular, orthopedic, cosmetic and reconstructive, and urological surgeries-associated risks, and potential complications. Postsurgical healing and recovery concerns, such as caring for wounds, managing pain, and maintaining adequate nutrition, are discussed, and tips for choosing a surgeon, getting a second opinion, and paying for procedures, are included. A discussion of surgical innovations and current controversies is also provided, and the book concludes with a glossary of related terms and a directory of resources.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I Before Your Operation: An Introduction to Surgery and Surgical Procedures

Ch. 1 What You Need to Know If You're Having Surgery 3

Ch. 2 Types of Surgeons and Selected Specialties 11

Ch. 3 Approaches to Surgery 17

Ch. 4 Surgery Statistics: Most Popular Procedures and Surgical Trends 23

Ch. 5 Getting a Second Opinion before Surgery: Your Choices 29

Ch. 6 Guide to Health Care Quality 33

Ch. 7 How to Pay for Surgery 47

Ch. 8 Hospitalization for Surgery 55

Ch. 9 Hospital Choice and Surgical Patient Death Rates 69

Ch. 10 Frequently Asked Questions about Ambulatory Surgery Centers 75

Ch. 11 Guided Imagery May Reduce Preoperative Anxiety 79

Ch. 12 Just in Case: Preparations to Make before Undergoing Surgery 83

Ch. 13 Sedation and Anesthesia 89

Ch. 14 Surgical Considerations in Children and Adolescents 107

Pt. II Common Surgeries and Surgical Procedures

Ch. 15 Dental, Oral, and Maxillofacial Surgery 123

Ch. 16 Eye Surgery 131

Ch. 17 Gastrointestinal Surgery for Acute or Chronic Conditions 157

Ch. 18 Gastrointestinal Surgery for Severe Obesity 187

Ch. 19 Weight-Loss Surgery in Children and Teens 205

Ch. 20 Gynecological and Obstetric Surgery 211

Ch. 21 Surgery of the Head and Neck 233

Ch. 22 Implantable Devices for Heart Problems 251

Ch. 23 Heart and Vascular Surgery 257

Ch. 24 Surgery of the Nerves, Bones, Muscles, and Joints 285

Ch. 25 Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery 307

Ch. 26 Most Popular Cosmetic Surgeries 323

Ch. 27 Urological Surgery 351

Ch. 28 Surgery for Cancer 363

Ch. 29 Emergency, Critical Care, or Traumatic Surgical Procedures 383

Ch. 30 Organ Transplant Surgery 393

Pt. III Risks and ComplicationsThat May Occur during or after Surgery

Ch. 31 Surgical Infections 413

Ch. 32 Bleeding during Surgery 421

Ch. 33 Surgical Adverse Events Associated with Medications, Supplements, or Herbs 435

Ch. 34 Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism: Serious Complications from Surgery 445

Ch. 35 Immunosuppression: Impaired Immune Response Could Cause Surgery Complications 451

Ch. 36 Smoking Increases the Risk of Problems during Surgery 457

Ch. 37 The Importance of Blood Sugar Control before and after Surgery 461

Ch. 38 Surgery Carries Risk of Cognitive Dysfunction 465

Ch. 39 Medication Errors Injure Millions and Cost Billions Annually 469

Ch. 40 Doctor Fatigue Hurts Patients 475

Ch. 41 Avoiding Errors during Surgery and Hospitalization 479

Pt. IV Post-Surgical Healing and Recovery Concerns

Ch. 42 What You Need to Know about Pain Control after Surgery 495

Ch. 43 Nondrug Methods to Control Pain 505

Ch. 44 Acupuncture's Effect on Postsurgical Pain 513

Ch. 45 Reducing Children's Pain from Surgery: Tips for Parents 517

Ch. 46 Surgical Wound Care: Questions and Answers 521

Ch. 47 Care of the Jackson-Pratt (JP) Drain 525

Ch. 48 Using an Incentive Spirometer 529

Ch. 49 Nutrition after Surgery 533

Ch. 50 Other Postsurgical Concerns 555

Pt. V Surgical Innovations and Controversies

Ch. 51 Computer-Assisted Surgery: What Is the da Vinci Surgical System? 565

Ch. 52 Robots Lend Surgeons a Helping Hand 569

Ch. 53 Stereotactic Radiosurgery 579

Ch. 54 Cutting-Edge Surgical Techniques 583

Ch. 55 Surgical Trends and Controversies 589

Pt. VI Additional Help and Information

Ch. 56 Glossary of Terms Related to Surgery 601

Ch. 57 Directory of Agencies That Provide Information about Surgery 607

Index 619

Ending the Tobacco Holocaust or Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome

Ending the Tobacco Holocaust: How Big Tobacco is Wrecking Our Health and Finances -- And What We Can Do to Stop Them

Author: Michael Rabinoff

"Every day, at least 1,191 Americans die before their time. They die painful, lingering deaths that could have been prevented. Every three days, as many citizens die from their own smoking habit, or from exposure to second-hand smoke, as died in the Sept. 11 tragedy. Each and every pack of cigarettes costs American taxpayers $40 in higher medical premiums, unavailability of health services, and other hidden financial drains. And every year, 925 out of every 1,000 smokers who try to quit on their own fail to stay smoke-free for a year-while hundreds of thousands of children become addicted to nicotine.

Dr. Michael Rabinoff, a respected psychiatrist who holds two patents and has published repeatedly in the New England Journal of Medicine and other top-flight journals, shows the health and financial suicide we commit by allowing tobacco companies to continue doing business as usual-and, like any good doctor, provides a detailed prescription for what to do about it: simple actions you can take to save the lives of millions around the world."

Publishers Weekly

Almost everyone knows that smoking is bad. But thanks to political lobbies, misinformation campaigns and billions of advertising dollars spent by tobacco companies each year, it is hard to know just how bad. Psychiatrist Rabinoff goes a long way toward clarifying the questions surrounding the number one leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., responsible for about 450,000 deaths here each year. Nonsmokers will likely fume over Big Tobacco's cunning strategies for keeping people addicted—particularly children, who are tomorrow's smokers, after all. Smokers may feel browbeaten by Rabinoff's sometimes hyperbolic writing style. For aspiring nonsmokers, there are reasons to quit on nearly every page, whether political (e.g., collusion between the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries; how cigarettes are pushed to children overseas) or scientific (how cigarettes are chemically altered to heighten addiction, and the causality between smoking and mental illness). The evidence Rabinoff amasses is overwhelming, making this recommended reading for anyone who wants to quit. B&w photos. $25,000 marketing budget.(Mar.)

Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kathy Arsenault Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information - Library Journal

California psychiatrist Rabinoff provides a torrent of data and statistics in a passionate attempt to educate the public about the health and economic consequences of tobacco, to inform smokers about successful strategies for quitting, and to expose the devious and deadly machinations of the tobacco industry. Good intentions, however, do not necessarily make for good books. This work reads like a tobacco activist's clipping file, offering little that is original or new. Readers interested in the sins of the tobacco industry would be better served by Richard Kluger's authoritative, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, while libraries hoping to help patrons kick the habit should provide more focused titles, such as those produced by the American Lung Association. Recommended only for comprehensive collections.

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Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome

Author: John Smith

Reward plans encourage positive behaviour using the incentive of earning rewards. This book provides a thorough nuts-and-bolts guide to creating a reward plan for your child with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to help him or her develop positive behaviours, such as social and communication skills.

John Smith, Jane Donlan and their son Bob, who was diagnosed with AS at age eight, explain the importance of keeping a reward plan positive, specific and challenging enough to be stimulating. Helping your child to learn about positive behaviour while gaining a sense of achievement, a reward plan increases self-esteem, confidence and independence.

Create a Reward Plan for Your Child with Asperger Syndrome is full of advice and practical suggestions for how to tailor a reward plan to meet your child's specific needs.

About the Author:
John Smith is a mental health social worker and father of Bob

About the Author:
Jane Donlan is Bob's mum and is responsible for Bob's home education

About the Author:
Bob Smith is twelve years old and was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at age eight

Table of Contents:

Introduction     7
What is Asperger Syndrome?     11
The Triad of Impairments     12
Other characteristics     17
Positive aspects     18
A final word     19
Bob's comments on Asperger Syndrome     19
Making a Reward Plan     25
Positivity     26
Specificity     28
Giving points     29
Should you involve your child's school in the reward plan?     30
Reviewing the reward plan     31
Number of points     33
What to give points for     34
Rewards     38
Personalizing your child's reward plan record sheets     42
Going over your child's points together     45
Age     45
So, to sum up...     46
The original reward plan     47
The first revision to the reward plan     49
Subsequent revisions to the reward plan     49
Bob's comments on the reward plan     50
Other Techniques to Supplement the Reward Plan     51
Scripts     52
Signs     54
Sketches     60
Bob's comments on the supplementary techniques     67
Combining Techniques     69
Specific Reward Plans     75
The Bedtime Plan     75
Bob's comments on the Bedtime Plan     86
The 'Caring for myself tasks' Plan     86
Bob's comments on the 'Caring for myself tasks' Plan     97
What else might you create a specific reward plan for?     98
Conclusion     99
Looking after yourselves as parents     100
Useful Resources     103
Resources relating to Asperger Syndrome and autism     103
Resources relating to home education     106
Advice on and resources for financial help     108

101 Questions about Your Skin That Got under Your Skin until Now or Community

101 Questions about Your Skin That Got under Your Skin . . . until Now

Author: Faith Hickman Bryni

In the second book in this award-winning series, young readers find all the information they want about skin, hair, and nails in a question-and-answer format. The questions have been culled from thousands of suggestions made by young adults. The answers are succinct, interesting, and always include the most cutting edge information available.

Library Journal

Gr 7 Up-A superbly comprehensive and appealing treatment of the physical structure, functions, diseases, and care of skin. Hair, nails, aging, effect of sun exposure, cancer, and even tattooing and face-lifts are included in a question-and-answer format that is useful for reports or general information. Black-and-white illustrations, charts, graphs, photographs, and drawings enhance the text, and the question headings add further visual appeal. The writing is clear and concise yet thorough. Going far beyond teen skin care in coverage, this is a great update of and expansion on books like Alvin and Robert Silverstein's Overcoming Acne: The How and Why of Healthy Skin Care (Morrow, 1990) and more teen-oriented than Joseph Bark's Your Skin: An Owner's Guide (Prentice Hall, 1995).-Joyce Adams Burner, Hillcrest Library, Prairie Village, KS Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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Community: A Human Becoming Perspective

Author: Rosemarie Rizzo Pars

Dr. Parse sets forth definitions and examples of orginal community change concepts and processes arising from the human becoming school of thought, and expands the meaning of community beyond location and interest-related group.

Stranger on a Train or Our Overweight Children

Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking Around America with Interruptions

Author: Jenny Diski

Using two cross-country trips on Amtrak as her narrative vehicles, British writer Jenny Diski connects the humming rails, taking her into the heart of America with the track-like scars leading back to her own past. As in the highly acclaimed Skating to Antarctica, Diski has created a seamless and seemingly effortless amalgam of reflections and revelation in a unique combination of travelogue and memoir.

Book Magazine

This memoir/travelogue by the British author of Skating to Antarctica chronicles her journey from Europe to America by cargo ship, followed by two cross-country Amtrak trips. Diski's smoking habit serves as the storytelling vehicle as she desperately seeks out smoking sections throughout her travels in the increasingly health-conscious United States. Often assuming the role of listener, she records the tales shared by the diverse occupants of Amtrak's passenger cars, ultimately finding a piece of herself reflected in their lives. Diski's trek is an eloquent meditation on identity and individuality. —Ann B. Stephenson

Book Magazine

This memoir/travelogue by the British author of Skating to Antarctica chronicles her journey from Europe to America by cargo ship, followed by two cross-country Amtrak trips. Diski's smoking habit serves as the storytelling vehicle as she desperately seeks out smoking sections throughout her travels in the increasingly health-conscious United States. Often assuming the role of listener, she records the tales shared by the diverse occupants of Amtrak's passenger cars, ultimately finding a piece of herself reflected in their lives. Diski's trek is an eloquent meditation on identity and individuality.

Publishers Weekly

"I am not a travel writer in any reasonable sense of the word," Diski confesses. "I do not feel compelled to bring the world to people, or meet interesting characters, or enlarge my circle of acquaintance. I just want to drift in the actual landscape of my destination." Despite the disclaimer, the British novelist (Only Human) does all of the above in this eloquent exploration of the psyche America's and her own. The work is divided into two parts. Journey One begins aboard a transatlantic cargo ship where Diski is among a handful of passengers en route to Savannah, Ga. From there, she takes Amtrak to Arizona. Journey Two takes place a year later as Diski circumnavigates the U.S. from New York's Penn Station to Portland, Ore., and back, stopping in the suburbs of Albuquerque to stay in the backyard trailer of a friend from the first sojourn. As in the Hitchcock thriller of (almost) the same title, strangers whom Diski befriends in the smoking sections, or "sin bins," of the trains divulge the details of their lives; Diski, however, plays it close to the vest, sharing intimacies with readers only about her difficult childhood, struggles with substance abuse and more. "I became remarkably unhappy at having been chosen to survive," she recollects after her first trip, comparing the experience of saying goodbye to her travel mates to leaving the psych ward of England's Lady Chichester Hospital at age 14. As she did in Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World (1998), Diski again blurs the borders between traditional travelogue and memoir to create a transcendent work. (Oct.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

English novelist Diski (Only Human) mixes memoir and travelog in a sharp, vivid, but ultimately disappointing narrative written around two train journeys, one across the southern United States and the other around its perimeter. She begins each journey with seeming enthusiasm, but before long, she starts feeling that she has opened herself up too much to strangers. She then panics and withdraws, needing to hide away in her tiny cabin on the train. A short visit to the home of a woman she meets on the first journey ends in paranoid terror when Diski becomes convinced that the family won't let her leave. Intermittently, she flashes back to other times in her life, including an unhappy childhood and several episodes of severe depression. The places she visits (Phoenix, Chicago, Jacksonville) are entirely incidental to the story, the scenery is best seen through a train window, if at all, and the people she meets are unremarkable. In the end, Diski seems happiest when exiled to a dingy smoking car puffing desperately on a cigarette, heading home. Not a priority purchase. Linda M. Kaufmann, Massachusetts Coll. of Liberal Arts Lib., North Adams Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic

Author: Sharron Dalton

The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history, they are already turning up with an alarming assortment of "grown-up" maladies, from type 2 diabetes to high blood pressure. This book takes a clear-eyed look at what's behind the statistics and diagnoses, and what can be done about the major health crisis among American children.
Sharron Dalton begins with the basics: what obesity is, what causes it, and why it matters. Integrating information from scientific and popular sources, she reviews past remedies and their results and compares specific strategies and programs for children. When a third of our children are overweight or likely to become so, it's everyone's problem--and this book argues for a united approach, promoting the role of parents, health professionals, and school and community leaders. For each group, Dalton outlines actions to combat the epidemic. She suggests ways for parents to respond to their children in interactions centered on food and physical activities. And she illuminates a number of issues raised by childhood obesity, from the pain of fat discrimination to the economic, social, and political ramifications of an epidemic of obesity among the young.
At once authoritative and nontechnical, no-nonsense and compassionate, Our Overweight Children is a clear call to action--a prescription for treating the most dire problem threatening our children's health and our nation's future.

Twenty Four Hours a Day for Teens or Zero Balancing

Twenty-Four Hours a Day for Teens

Author: Anonymous

Twenty-Four Hours a Day for Teens, Hazelden's newest daily meditation book, was created to help young people navigate the peaks and valleys of developing an active spiritual life in recovery. As an abridged and revised version of the classic Twenty-Four Hours a Day, this volume reflects the time-honored wisdom that has helped millions of recovering people around the world in their program of living one day at a time.

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Zero Balancing: Touching the Energy of Bone

Author: John Hamwe

This is the first book to describe the well-established and powerful therapy called Zero Balancing, and to explain how and why it works. Uniquely, this therapy touches simultaneously the bones and joints of the body and the flow of energy through them. Areas of the body where there is a loss of function or potential, through stress, accident or habit, may be restored to full vitality. More generally, this is a book about the anatomy and physiology of energy: where it flows, how it behaves, and its relationship to the structure of the body. Whether you are a health-care practitioner or a client of one of the many complementary therapies, this book will explain the very foundations of the use of energy in healing and show how to enhance the effects of any therapy that involves touch.

Victims of Cruelty or Schizophrenia

Victims of Cruelty: Somatic Psychotherapy in the Healing of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Author: Marianna Eckberg

In Victims of Cruelty, Maryanna Eckberg incorporates work with Vietnam veterans (the first to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder) and the Chowchilla kidnapping victims. This personal testimony of how people can heal after trauma is also a professional book describing the effects of personal and political repression and how we can liberate our bodies and minds from terror.

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Schizophrenia

Author: Christopher Donald Frith

The schizophrenic patient presented to the public in sensational press reports and lurid films bears little resemblance to reality of the illness. This book describes what schizophrenia is really like, how the illness progresses, and the treatments that have been applied. It also summarizes the most up-to-date knowledge available about the biological bases of this disorder. Finally it attempts to give some idea of what it is like to have schizophrenia and what this disorder tells us about the relationship between mind and brain.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
1	The experience of schizophrenia	1
2	The concept of schizophrenia	24
3	Intellectual functioning in schizophrenia	47
4	Schizophrenia and drugs	72
5	Biological factors	92
6	Environmental factors	108
7	Understanding the symptoms of schizophrenia	123
8	The importance of schizophrenia	145
	References	171
	Further reading	185
	Index	189

Ayurvedic Massage or Essential Aromatherapy

Ayurvedic Massage: Traditional Indian Techniques for Balancing Body and Mind

Author: Harish Johari

Ayurvedic Massage is the first book on the subject, and the first new massage therapy introduced to the West since shiatsu. One of the oldest systems of medicine in the world, Ayurveda views the human being as intimately connected with the environment and all other life forms. Ayurvedic massage works on both the physical and mental levels, transmitting a life-giving energy that assists all systems of the body to repair and renew themselves. Practitioners concentrate on the marmas, subtle energy points that respond to gentle physical manipulation, and work with the needs of the different body types. The author guides both the novice and experienced practitioner through each step in the full body massage and explains which oils work best for particular body types.

•   Includes massage techniques for expectant mothers and their babies.

•   Outlines techniques and natural remedies for treating specific disorders, including arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica, and insomnia.

•   Offers a complete guide to the traditional forty-day beauty treatment as practiced in India, and includes recipes for massage oils, facial creams, and beautifying clay baths.
 

Table of Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction to Massage

Chapter 2 Ayurvedic Principles of Massage

Chapter 3 Massage Oils

Chapter 4 Preparation for the Massage

Chapter 5 Full-Body Massage

Chapter 6 Therapeutic Massage

Chapter 7 Massage During Pregnancy

Chapter 8 Massage of Infants

Chapter 9 Beauty Massage

Appendix: Marmas and Their Positions

Glossary

Sources of Supply

Index

Harish Johari (1934-1999) was a distinguished North Indian author, Tantric scholar, poet,musician, composer, artist, and gemologist who held degrees in philosophy and literature and made it his life's work to introduce the culture of his homeland to the West.

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Essential Aromatherapy: A Pocket Guide to Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

Author: Susan Worwood

Here is a complete guide to aromatherapy, a modern healing technique with ancient origins. Essential Aromatherapy organizes essential oils into handy alphabetical listings, providing their profiles, applications, and the physical and emotional conditions that warrant their use. Also included are detailed treatments for a variety of ailments, plus oil blends for many home and health uses. Dozens of helpful illustrations are included.

Mi beb y yo or Stroke and the Family

Mi bebй y yo

Author: Deborah Stewart

Offering solid guidance for mothers and mothers-to-be whose reading skills are limited and who may have limited access to adequate health care, this guide focuses on basics like prenatal care, lifestyle choices, nutritional advice, and a baby’s first few months. This updated edition includes new chapters on parent–newborn interaction; baby’s health, feeding, and safety; a more positive approach to breastfeeding; and current recommendations on immunizations, SIDS, and antibiotics. Checklists, a glossary, and a list of additional resources round out this invaluable book.
 
Ofreciendo ayuda para madres y futuras madres con poca habilidad de lectura y con acceso limitado a cuidado médico adecuado, esta guía se concentra en temas básicos como el cuidado prenatal, estilos de vida, consejos de nutrición y los primeros meses de vida. Esta edición incluye capítulos sobre la interacción entre el bebe y sus padres; la salud, el cuidado y la alimentación del bebe; una nueva perspectiva del amamantamiento y recomendaciones corrientes para las inmunizaciones, SMIS y los antibióticos. Un glosario y una lista de recursos adicionales también están incluidos.

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Stroke and the Family: A New Guide (Family Health Guides Series)

Author: Joel Stein

A young woman suffers a stroke; she rebuilds her career and personal life, but not before her marriage falls apart. An eighty-year-old man dies unexpectedly of stroke, leaving his grown sons to wonder whether they are genetically predisposed to stroke. A recently retired woman confronts her future with a husband suddenly disabled by stroke. How can she help her husband? Will he ever recover? How will she cope with her own emotional stress?

In Stroke and the Family: A New Guide, Joel Stein shows the many faces of stroke and the people it strikes. To the family just beginning to cope with the aftermath of a stroke, the diagnostic tests, drug regimens, rehabilitation strategies, and varied prognoses can be completely bewildering. Because stroke can affect memory, speech, and movement, the impact on everyday routines and close relationships can be especially intense. Stein has produced a book that allows general readers and nonphysicians working with stroke survivors to make sense of the confusing variety of diagnoses and treatment options, and goes on to explore challenges the recovering stroke patient and the recovering family will face during a long recuperation with an uncertain outcome. Stroke and the Family offers up-to-date information and places the current research findings in context.

The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness or Yoga

The Family Intervention Guide to Mental Illness: What You Need to Know About Symptoms, Therapy, Medication, and Recovery

Author: Bodie Morey

A Caring, Comprehensive Guide for Families.
Over 50 million Americans have a mental illness, but as many as 20 million don't have their illness detected. And many others get substandard treatment. Family members play a crucial role in recognizing mental illness, and helping a loved one get the treatment they need. The early signs of mental illness are clear if you know what to look for, and getting rapid and effective treatment will help your relative get better faster. If you think a family member or friend may be struggling with a mental illness, or isn't getting effective treatment, this guide will help you recognize symptoms, get the right treatment, and work together as a family to help your loved one get better.

Inside you'll find step-by-step support and information for determining whether someone you care about is suffering from a mental disorder, and what you can do to help. The book outlines the nine fundamental steps to recognizing, managing, and recovering from mental illness. It provides both diagnostic information and details about therapy options and useful medications. With the right advice, determined effort, and a lot of love, you can make a difference.

Dale Farris - Library Journal

According to data from the U.S. surgeon general, more than 54 million Americans have a mental disorder in any given year, while only eight million seek treatment. To educate the public, Morey (former president, Concord, NH, chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness) and Mueser (clinical psychiatry & community & family medicine, Dartmouth Medical Sch.) have assembled this solid, pragmatic lay guide to understanding and identifying common mental illnesses and assisting loved ones who suffer from them. Readers will learn how to recognize the signs of mental illness in a timely fashion and get effective treatment, as well as come to understand the role of family members in helping their loved ones manage and recover from mental illness. This highly useful material is organized into sections on finding out about and discussing various mental illnesses, how mental illnesses are diagnosed and treated, and long-term strategies for maintaining wellness. The superb appendixes provide further information on psychiatric medications, mental health resource organizations, and a handy nine-step guide to recognizing and managing mental illness. While targeted to lay readers, this book will also be of value to professionals. Highly recommended for public libraries.

What People Are Saying

Michael J. Fitzpatrick
"Above all, this is a book about love. Families will rely on it to help loved ones. They will share it with friends when their families in turn are confronted by mental illness. The book covers a broad spectrum of concerns from recognizing symptoms to maintaining wellness-and offers practical information and strategies. First-hand knowledge and down-to-earth perspective provide concise discussions of good steps, bad steps, wish lists, pitfalls, and recipes for success."--(Michael J. Fitzpatrick, MSW, Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI))

David Shern
"Morey and Mueser have written an invaluable resource for families on mental illnesses. Scientifically current yet easily read, this volume demystifies psychiatric jargon to help families correctly identify mental health problems and successfully respond to them. The volume is filled with practical advice about real-world situations, including helpful case vignettes. It will do much to build knowledge and improve access to and participation in care."--(David Shern, Ph.D., president and CEO of Mental Health America, formerly the National Mental Health Association.)

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Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

Author: Rodney Ye

Yoga is one of the hottest fitness trends today, and millions of people are looking to renowned yogi Rodney Yee for instruction. Fresh from a guest spot on Oprah where he taught yoga to the masses, Rodney Yee is well-known around the world and travels extensively both nationally and worldwide to teach weekend workshops, week-long teacher training workshops, and yoga retreats.

For the first time ever, Rodney Yee explains in writing his highly popular and successful approach to yoga. Yoga: The Poetry of the Body is an introduction to the practice of yoga in both its physical and spiritual aspects. Using more than 400 beautiful black-and-white photos, this book takes beginners, as well as more advanced students, step-by-step through 8 full yoga practices based on 45 of the most basic yoga poses. Using thought-provoking student-teacher dialogs, Rodney makes abstract concepts come alive, thereby allowing readers to better understand and appreciate the essence of yoga. All in all, this book presents a wonderful and stimulating journey into the world of yoga that reflects both the way Rodney teaches and his personal philosophy. It is sure to please yoga enthusiasts everywhere.

Dorothy Parkers Elbow or Optimizing Womens Health through Nutrition

Dorothy Parker's Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos

Author: Kim Addonizio

One the province of sailors and bikers, tattoos have emerged from backdoor parlors to suburban shopping malls. Today they adorn starlets' ankles, housewives' shoulders, and bankers' biceps. Fashionable? Most definitely, Respectable? Not always. Evocative, transformative, still dangerous? Just ask many of our most gifted writers across several colorful decades, who have found the images of the tattoo needle a vivid subject for the language of the pen. Brought to you by two editors who are themselves widely praised (and proudly tattooed) authors, these stories, poems, and memoirs span the range of human experience, from the awesome to the absurd. From Flannery O'Connor's likeness of God to Sylvia Plath's fifteen-dollar eagle, from Herman Melville's power of the primitive to Mark Doty's embrace of the ineradicable to Franz Kafka's lasting mark of the penal colony, this bold exploration of the illuminated body is guaranteed to get under your skin.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
	From The Illustrated Man	1
	A Toda Maquina	7
	Grapefruit Flesh	24
	Blackie, the Electric Rembrandt	37
	My Tattoo	38
	To the Engraver of My Skin	41
	Dyeing a Three-Dollar Bill	42
	From "The White Knights"	48
	Skin	52
	"When I was a kid ..."	53
	For Lysa, Who Tattoos Me in Her Miami Living Room	54
	Lace	56
	Triangle Tattoo	58
	It's Bad Luck to Die	59
	From The Tattoo Hunter	78
	Incision	80
	"After the surgery ..."	81
	First Poem for You	82
	Snakes	83
	Parker's Back	84
	"In 1992, I had the tattoo on my arm redone ..."	109
	Zowie	111
	"I got my tattoo at a time of great upheaval ..."	126
	"I'd wanted to get one for years ..."	127
	Tattoo Pantoum	129
	It Only Hurts a Little	133
	Tattoos	141
	From Typee	153
	From 7 Tattoos	160
	Embellishments	168
	Tattoo Thoughts	171
	The Fifteen-Dollar Eagle	173
	Herstory	190
	"I bring my book - prepared to wait ..."	193
	From Tree	194
	Becoming Bird	196
	Designing a Bird from Memory in Jack's Skin Kitchen	198
	Second Skin	200
	Portrait	202
	"When I muse about tattoos ..."	205
	In the Penal Colony	206
	Convict Koo457	239
	Mando	241
	The News	248
	The Y	250
	From "The Life and Death of Philippe"	251
	True Tattoo	252
	"I do not have a tattoo ..."	253
	Wings, Fish, Star	254
	Benediction	256
	Contributors	258
	Permissions	263

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Optimizing Women's Health Through Nutrition: Sex-Based Nutrition

Author: Lilian U Thompson

It is no surprise that women and men experience biological and physiological differences fundamentally and throughout the lifecycle. What is surprising is that faced with such a self-evident truth, there should be so little consideration to date of how these differences affect susceptibility to disease and metabolic response to dietary treatment. Understanding these differences and developing a gender-based approach focusing on the specific needs and conditions of women is crucial to achieve effective nutritional strategies for women's health.

Expanding the knowledge-base regarding sex, nutrition, and medicine, Optimizing Women's Health through Nutrition presents the biology, physiology, and metabology unique to women. The book demonstrates in a practical, accessible manner the scientific application of this data addressing lifecycle changes, disease prevention, and treatment. Based on sound research and supported by extensive references, it begins by describing recent research on biological and physiological differences and how these differences translate into varying disease trends between the sexes. Contributions describe the nutritional needs of women during the lifecycle, particularly during adolescence, pregnancy and lactation, premenopause, and menopause and midlife stages. The bulk of the book addresses each of the common major diseases or conditions that specifically affect the health of women. It emphasizes the role of nutrition in disease risk reduction as well as management and treatment of disease. Specific disease selection was dictated by those in which women are more vulnerable or have a higher incidence than men. The concluding section identifies areas forfuture research and strategic areas of investigation for researchers and health professionals, government regulators, and food industry professionals involved in creating novel foods that enhance women's health.

Could It Be Perimenopause or Herbal Remedies for Childrens Health

Could It Be... Perimenopause?

Author: Steven R Goldstein

Could It Be.Perimenopause? provides the facts you need to make smart decisions about your physical and psychological well-being. Armed with a clear understanding of medical therapies, natural remedies, and lifestyle choices, you will be able to understand and feel in control of the changes taking place in your body.

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Herbal Remedies for Children's Health

Author: Rosemary Gladstar

One of America's foremost herbalists provides concise, simple-to-understand, and practical information for using herbs for health and well-being. Each book contains profiles of specific herbs, cautions, contraindications, and easy-to-make recipes to relieve common ailments.

Table of Contents:

Preface

Chapter One

The Benefits of an Herbal Approach for Children

Chapter Two

The Children's Herbal Medicine Chest

Chapter Three

Basic Herbal Preparations

Chapter Four

Herbal Remedies for Common Childhood Ailments

Recommended Reading

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Esoteric Anatomy The Body As Consciousness or The Fashionista Files

Esoteric Anatomy: The Body As Consciousness

Author: Bruce Burger

Esoteric Anatomy offers a spiritual approach to massage, bodywork, and somatic psychology, demystifying an ancient transpersonal model for understanding energy in nature and working with consciousness in the healing arts.

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The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four Inch Heels and Faux Pas

Author: Melissa de la Cruz

A fashionista is a girl who always looks current and cutting edge, even when her clothes are vintage 1975. A fashionista can tell her Pucci from her Gucci and her Blahniks from her Choos, but she's as comfortable in Kmart as she is in Chanel. She wears what she likes and always looks fantastic. She's a clothing chameleon: a sharp tweed suit and ladylike driving gloves one moment, a punk rock T-shirt and studded belt the next. She's a gypsy, a princess, and a diva. She's fashion-forward, shopping-addicted, and full of fun. And you can be her, no matter your size, style, or budget.

Authors Melissa de la Cruz and Karen Robinovitz are fashionistas who share a love for impractical shoes, small dogs that fit in designer handbags, and wearing white after Labor Day. They eat, sleep, and breathe fashion. And they'll teach you how to

• Make a whole new wardrobe out of the awful duds that lurk in the back of your closet

• Use the words "postmodern" and "ironic" to fake your way through pseudo-intellectual cocktail conversation (really-it's easy, and so postmodern and ironic!)

• Score big with chic and cheap finds at thrift stores, consignment shops, and discount designer outlets

• Live like a socialite on a shoestring budget

In two weeks or less, you'll be living the lush life, from the brim of your Eugenia Kim fedora to the tip of your pointy Christian Louboutin pumps!

Aroma or Perfect Health for Kids

Aroma: The Magic of Essential Oils in Foods and Fragrance

Author: Daniel Patterson

A New Way of Thinking About Food and Fragrance

Turn a brilliant natural perfumer loose in a chef's kitchen and you get vanilla perfume, saffron, ginger, and blood orange bath salts, and a cucumber mist. Turn a brilliant chef loose in a perfumer's pantry and you get rose-infused steamed bass, peach-jasmine sorbet, and scores of other startlingly original recipes using floral and herbal aromas.

Aroma permeates every cuisine, from ancient to modern, in every culture and at every level, but what this pioneering cookbook, by chef Daniel Patterson and perfumer Mandy Aftel, makes evident is that aroma, not taste, is our primary experience of food. Without aroma there is no flavor. By focusing on aroma, we intensify all aspects of food, and immeasurably enhance the experience of cooking and eating.

While many cookbooks include some discussion of the use of aromatics in cooking, none concentrates on this essential link, where a few drops of a fragrant essence can make commonplace dishes memorable and good dishes great. Both the food recipes and the fragrance recipes in Aroma are powerfully alluring, whether it's a coffee cologne or an orange flower custard. Cumin vinaigrettes and lemon verbena mists waft off the page. Lavender makes a grilled steak sizzle while white ruffle makes for a haunting perfume.

Explicit information on ingredients, equipment, and terms and techniques complements one fragrance recipe and three food recipes for nearly thirty ingredients—lime, mint, green tea, black pepper, vanilla, and ginger, among others. This seminal work will open your senses to the aromatic, even sensual, dimension of food andfragrance.

Publishers Weekly

This rather precious cookbook contains two kinds of recipes: those for food, and those for making fragrances, with the latter occasionally used in the former as well as to perfume the body. With a few exceptions, such as White Truffle and Blood Orange Solid Perfume, these sound lovely. However, preparation of both types is complex. The use of essential oils in place of the actual materials in food seems unnecessarily complicated (e.g., the suggestion that readers "add a few drops of cinnamon essential oil to melted butter, then use that butter to make cinnamon toast"). Fragrances are equally elaborate: Coffee Cologne Spray requires four absolutes and six essential oils. The food itself is creative American, like Lavender Roasted Chicken and Mint-Infused Asparagus Soup. Patterson, of San Francisco's Frisson, opening in May 2004, writes competent recipes, although some call for expensive ingredients. Aftel, who creates custom scents, easily guides readers through production of such items as Ginger and Juniper Body Oil, although her list of equipment is daunting. The real question is whether consumers want to see recipes for Coriander and Grapefruit Body Oil and Crab Salad with Coriander Vinaigrette on the same page. Photos. (Sept.) Forecast: It remains to be seen whether book buyers will warm to the combination of perfume and food. An 11-city tour should help the authors introduce their admittedly unique concept and make it more user-friendly. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Perfect Health for Kids: Ten Ayurvedic Health Secrets Every Parent Must Know

Author: John Douillard

According to Ayurveda, an ancient Hindu science, health is a state of balance among the body, mind, senses and soul. This book shows specific ways to promote children's health and well-being using Ayurvedic principles. Douillard explains how to identify the signs of imminent illness, how to make the home chemical and allergen free, and how to stock a "Lazy Susan" of useful natural medicines. Appendices provide shopping lists and a directory of national health providers. Perfect Health for Kids is an accessible, illustrated guide that provides highly effective health maintenance for children.

Complete Conditioning for Baseball or The Zen of Eating

Complete Conditioning for Baseball

Author: Pat Murphy

In Complete Conditioning for Baseball, one of the premier college coaches and a major league strength and conditioning coach explain how to develop strength, power, speed, agility, and flexibility--the components of conditioning. Highlights of the book include drills and exercises players can do on the field and in the weight room, photos showing correct exercise techniques, and conditioning workouts. 111 illustrations.

What People Are Saying

Bob Welch
Pat Murphy and Jeff Forney present a tough program that requires extreme discipline. I love challenges and this program does that. The combination of strength, speed, quickness and the program specifies the importance of consistency. Pat Murphy does it again; this time in a book.
— Bob Welch, 1990 Cy Young Award Winner

Rod Delmonico
This book is a must read for coaches a well as players who want complete conditioning.
— Rod Delmonico, Head Baseball Coach, University of Tennessee 1995 National Coach of the Year

Steve Traylor
Speed and power are difference-makers when players of equal skill compete on the ball diamond. Coaches Murphy and Forney provide a baseball-specific training program that will give you the edge at the plate, on the base paths and in the field.
— Steve Traylor, Head Baseball Coach, Duke University 1992 ACC Coach of the Year

Table of Contents:

Introduction

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The Zen of Eating: Ancient Answers to Modern Weight Problems

Author: Ronna Kabatznick

When it comes to weight loss, the emphasis today is shifting away from fad diets and compulsive workouts toward sane, sensible techniques that incorporate both the mind and the body. This is the first book to apply the 2,500-year-old principles of Zen Buddhism to the modern struggle with the vicious cycle of dieting, losing, and regaining weight. From a Buddhist perspective, overeating is a disorder of desire. This book will teach readers how to find freedom from eating problems and the tyranny of desire that triggers them. Filled with concrete, practical exercises and the wisdom of the ages, The Zen of Eating provides, at last, an alternative to ineffective diet programs, products, and pills.

Everyday BLISS for Busy Women or Eat to Beat Cancer

Everyday Bliss for Busy Women: Energy Balancing Secrets for Complete Health & Vitality

Author: Maryam Webster

After rushing through your morning routine, dropping the kids off at school, completing your responsibilities at the office, and handling other daily duties, it's really no wonder that you feel drained at the end of the day. It is possible, though, to find room in even the most hectic schedule to enjoy life moment-by-moment and refocus on the goals that matter most to you.

This book shows you how to stop living at warp speed and reclaim your life for yourself.
You'll learn how to use cutting-edge energy psychology techniques and the power of intention to:
• Create a beautiful private space to escape stress and invite bliss
• Recharge throughout the day using the same quick, simple routines used by elite energy coaches
• Reduce mental clutter through deliberate acts of focused intention

Don't settle for just keeping your head above water and getting everything done. You deserve to find focus, balance, and everyday bliss. With what you'll learn in this book, you can.

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Eat to Beat Cancer: A Research Scientist Explains How You and Your Family Can Avoid Up to 90% of All Cancers

Author: J Robert Hatherill

If changing what you eat could keep you from getting cancer, wouldn't you do it?Dr. Hatherill's Super Eight Food Groups are the foundation of a strategy that will help you create a cancer-busting regimen for yourself and your family. In this courageous book, Hatherill takes on the pharmaceutical and food industries to disclose dangers inherent in common foods like dairy and meat products, as well as over-the-counter supplements."In...humbler times people rarely got cancer...Heart disease was so rare that medical textbooks from the mid-to late 1800s failed to include it. Something has gone fundamentally wrong in present times, as heart disease and cancer have emerged as the two most vexing killers in affluent countries...This book can help you convert your diet into a defensive anticancer solution. Throughout these pages you will be given practical techniques for solving the health problems that arise from eating a Western diet. Eat to Beat Cancer has identified the most protective, beneficial foods from around the globe and placed them in one simple, straight-forward diet." --from the introduction

The Science of Sexy or Ending the Tobacco Problem

The Science of Sexy: Dress to Fit Your Unique Figure with the Style System that Works for Every Shape and Size

Author: Bradley Bayou

A celebrity fashion designer gives every woman the red-carpet treatment in this foolproof guide to choosing clothes that make you look fabulous-with tailor-made tips for forty-eight body types.

The average American woman is 5"4' tall, weighs 160 pounds, wears a size 14, and bears no resemblance to the typical runway model. Yet the runway model sets the standard for "ideal" wardrobes. Top L.A. designer Bradley Bayou has dressed women of all shapes and sizes and knows that every woman has her own natural combination of silhouette shape, height, and weight. Style is not about fitting into the size you think is sexy, it is about picking clothes that fit your body correctly and that create balance. Perfect balance is perfect style.

In The Science of Sexy, Bayou helps readers identify their silhouette shape (triangle, inverted triangle, rectangle, or hourglass) and combines that information with a height/weight chart to determine which of forty-eight "fitting rooms" to go to in the book. Each fitting room has Bradley's specific advice for that woman on the clothes and accessories to wear and avoid, and how to create balance using color, scale, proportions, and fabric.

With a fabulous design and instructive and fun four-color illustrations throughout, The Science of Sexy takes the fear out of shopping and gives all women the gift of confidence that they deserve.

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Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation

Author: Institute of Medicin

This book reviews effective prevention & treatment interventions, considers a set of new tobacco control policies for adoption by federal & state governments, & provides background information on the history & nature of tobacco use, thus developing the context for the blueprint policy proposed.

Oral Health Bible or Ended Beginnings

Oral Health Bible

Author: Michael P Bonner

Another health revolution has arrived, says Dr. Michael Bonner in his well-researched new book The Oral Health Bible, and there is no longer any separation between mouth medicine and body medicine. The mouth is completely connected to the body, he says, and is a doorway to achieving peak health and wellness in all the body's systems. This informative book contains an action plan for taking charge of our oral health and it educates us and our physicians and dentists by detailing how many debilitating health problems -- conditions such as arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, rheumatoid arthritis, and premature and low-birth-weight babies -- are intimately linked to oral health and hygiene.

Dr. Bonner emphasizes the importance of finding and treating periodontal (gum) disease, because, untreated, it can lead to heart attacks and strokes. He sees more gum disease now than he did twenty-five years ago, he says, largely because of the increasing availability of harmful oral hygiene products on the market. Mouthwashes, for example, are generally considered trustworthy, but in reality, they are the cause of 36,000 cases of oral cancer a year. Moreover, 500 people are killed annually from alcohol ingestion related to mouthwashes.

Dr. Bonner discusses safe, effective oral health techniques and products that help to reverse gum disease with its far-reaching negative consequences. Best-selling coauthor, Dr. Earl Mindell also outlines how nutritional supplements can help deliver potentially enormous benefits to oral, as well as overall, health. In 1910, the Mayo (clinic) brothers said, "A person with a healthy mouth will live ten years longer."

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Ended Beginnings: Healing Childbearing Losses

Author: Claudia Panuthos

"Because of its wide scope (infertility, miscarriage, sudden infant death, abortion, release to adoption; emotional disappointments including handicapped babies, cesareans, premature or traumatic birth; and help for grieving children), this book will help parents and care-givers understand the great burden of all loss experience." American Baby's Childbirth Educator

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Peggy O'Mara McMahon
Preface
Personal Inspiration: Journey Through Loss
The Millions in Mourning
Others Who Grieve
The Voice of Grief
The Physical Impact of Childbearing Loss
Restoring Physical Health
Nutritional Needs
Our Mental Attitudes: The Key to Recovery
The Emotional Aspects of Mourning: The Grieving Heart
Letting Go: Releasing Emotion, Suffering, and Pain
Suffer the Little Children
Spiritual Resolution
Transformed!
Bibliography
Index

Cancer or Hysterectomy

Cancer: Fight It with Your Blood Type Diet

Author: Peter J DAdamo

America's most feared health problem just got dealt a major blow. Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of the Blood Type Diet, which has forever changed the way people approach health, now brings readers a targeted plan for fighting cancer. This volume of Dr. D'Adamo's Health Library has specific tools, not available in any other book, for preventing, treating, and reversing some of the many complications of cancer.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: New Tools to Fight Cancer	1
	Quiz: What's Your Blood Type Cancer Risk?	5
Part I	Blood Type and Cancer: A Basic Primer
1	The Dynamics of Cancer and Blood Type	15
2	Blood Type's Role in Common Cancers	25
3	Fighting Cancer with Conventional and Blood Type Therapies	35
Part II	Individualized Blood Type Plans
4	Blood Type O	49
5	Blood Type A	87
6	Blood Type B	125
7	Blood Type AB	161
	Appendices
Appendix A	A Simple Definition of Terms	197
Appendix B	Resources and Products	201
	Index	207

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Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options

Author: Edward E Wallach

Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. Because of new nonsurgical treatments and the rising opposition to the procedure from women's and patients' groups, hysterectomies are performed less frequently than in the past, but many disorders of the uterus -- fibroid tumors, uterine and cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometriosis, adenomyosis, and uterine prolapse -- still may require surgical treatment. For some women, the decision to have a hysterectomy is an easy one; for others, it is a difficult choice associated with concerns about risks, discomfort, and female identity.

In Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options, experienced gynecologists Edward Wallach and Esther Eisenberg provide complete and up-to-date information about every aspect of the procedure. Written with compassion for all women, this indispensable guide explains the anatomy of the uterus, describes the symptoms of gynecological disorders that may require hysterectomy, discusses the full range of diagnostic tests and treatments, provides details of the surgery itself and postoperative recovery, includes details about other approaches to treatment, and examines long-term consequences involving sexual and reproductive issues as well as hormone replacement therapy. Also included is useful advice about how to talk with your doctor and case studies illustrating the real-life experiences of a variety of women.

In Hysterectomy: Exploring Your Options, women will find the information they need to work with their physicians to make informed decisions about their health care.

Library Journal

Twenty percent of American women have undergone a hysterectomy, the second most common major surgery performed on females in the United States. Although these numbers are actually declining, owing largely to the availability of less invasive surgical techniques and drug treatments, the procedure is still "here to stay." For this reason, Wallach (gynecology, Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Medicine) and Eisenberg (obstetrics and gynecology, Vanderbilt Univ. Sch. of Medicine) decided to pen this helpful guide to provide the information women need to determine whether a hysterectomy is the best alternative in their specific medical situation. Part 1 reviews the anatomy and physiology of the uterus and related structures, Part 2 discusses the specific conditions that may indicate the need for a hysterectomy, Part 3 addresses the surgery itself, and Part 4 details post-hysterectomy issues. The authors stress two important points: hysterectomy is often performed unnecessarily, and the surgery is almost always done as an elective. This important decision-making tool for women should be included in most consumer health and public library collections.-Linda M.G. Katz, Drexel Univ. Health Sciences Libs., Philadelphia Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.