Monday, November 21, 2011

Physical Examination and Health Assessment - Text, Mosby's Nursing Video Skills: Physical Examination & Health Assessment and Health Assessment Online (User Guide and Access Code) Package

This money-saving package includes Jarvis' Physical Examination and Health Assessment 5th edition text, Mosbys Nursing Video Skills: Physical Examination and Health Assessment, and a user guide and access code for Health Assessment Online.

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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
A renowned cardiologist explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shrink unsightly bulges, and reverse myriad health problems.
Every day, over 200 million Americans consume food products made of wheat. As a result, over 100
million of them experience some form of adverse health effect, ranging from minor rashes and high blood sugar to the unattractive stomach bulges that preventive cardiologist William Davis calls “wheat bellies.” According to Davis, that excess fat has nothing to do with gluttony, sloth, or too much butter: It’s due to the whole grain wraps we eat for lunch.
After witnessing over 2,000 patients regain their health after giving up wheat, Davis reached the disturbing conclusion that wheat is the single largest contributor to the nationwide obesity epidemic—
and its elimination is key to dramatic weight loss and optimal health. In Wheat Belly, Davis exposes the harmful effects of what is actually a product of genetic tinkering and agribusiness being sold to the
American public as “wheat”—and provides readers with a user-friendly, step-by-step plan to navigate a new, wheat-free lifestyle.
Informed by cutting-edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who
have experienced life-changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat
Belly
is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All (Publicaffairs Reports)

Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health Care Law and What It Means for Us All (Publicaffairs Reports)
The Washington Post’s must-read guide to the health care overhaul

What now? Despite the rancorous, divisive, year-long debate in Washington, many Americans still don’t understand what the historic overhaul of the health care system will—or won’t—mean. In Landmark, the national reporting staff of The Washington Post pierces through the confusion, examining the new law’s likely impact on us all: our families, doctors, hospitals, health care providers, insurers, and other parts of a health care system that has grown to occupy one-sixth of the U.S. economy.

Landmark’s behind-the-scenes narrative reveals how just how close the law came to defeat, as well as the compromises and deals that President Obama and his Democratic majority in Congress made in achieving what has eluded their predecessors for the past seventy-five years: A legislative package that expands and transforms American health care coverage.

Landmark is an invaluable resource for anyone eager to understand the changes coming our way.

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The Men's Health and Women's Health Big Book of Sex: Your Authoritative, Red-Hot Guide to the Sex of Your Dreams (and His!)/ Your Authoritative, Red-Hot Guide to the Sex of Your Dreams (and Hers!)

The Men's Health and Women's Health Big Book of Sex: Your Authoritative, Red-Hot Guide to the Sex of Your Dreams (and His!)/ Your Authoritative, Red-Hot Guide to the Sex of Your Dreams (and Hers!)
Good health and a fit body are inextricably entwined with great sex. On a physical level, fitness makes
one a more attractive and skilled lover. On an emotional level, studies show that body image plays a key role in sexual desire and satisfaction. Research has linked a healthy sex life to lower risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and obesity.
 
Based on the latest research on sexual health, behavioral psychology, fitness, and nutrition, The Men’s
Health and Women’s Health Big Book of Sex is brimming with useful tips, exercise photos, practical sidebars, and more. The two-sided book also features the Better-Sex Workout, the Better-Sex Diet, a Trouble-Shooter’s Guide to Sexual Health, and Q&A columns from the Men’s Health “Girl Next Door” and Women’s Health “Guy Next Door” and leading sexual health experts.

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition

Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition

Good Enough to Eat is one of a kind: the only guide to kids' nutrition written especially for kids. A practical, hands-on tool for families who want to eat a healthy diet, this book explains nutrition from carrots to cookies.

In this book, you will learn:

  • all about the nutrient groups—carbohydrates, protein, fat, water, vitamins, and minerals
  • each nutrient's function
  • which foods contain which nutrients
  • how much of each nutrient a kid needs each day
  • how the body digests food
  • all about calories

Good Enough to Eat includes kid-friendly recipes such as Alphabread and Full o' Beans Soup, and even shows kids how to test their food for fat. Perfect for parents, educators, librarians, and doctors trying to explain healthy eating to kids!

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Health and education

Health and educationThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Friday, November 18, 2011

Medical Terminology for Health Professions, 6th Edition

Medical Terminology for Health Professions, 6th EditionA proven and unique combination of learning principles and exercises, this highly acclaimed book continues to get better! Medical Terminology for Health Professions, Sixth Edition, simplifies the process of learning hundreds of complex medical terms. The See and Say pronunciation system makes pronouncing unfamiliar terms easy. Because word parts are integral to learning medical terminology, mastery of these “building blocks” is emphasized in every chapter. Organized by body system, chapters begin with an overview of the structures and functions of that system so you can relate these to the specialists, pathology, diagnostic, and treatment procedures that follow. Learning Exercises in each chapter offer a variety of formats that require written answers. Writing terms reinforces learning and provides practice to help master spelling and enhance comprehension.

Kindle textbooks are functionally equivalent to the print textbook. In some cases, individual items such as ancillary images or multimedia have been removed for digital delivery due to rights restrictions.

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Food and Health

Food and HealthThe book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Patent medicines; Women; Cookery; Medicine, Popular; Cookery, American; Self-Help / Personal Growth / General;

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need

The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever NeedWidely acclaimed by a host of medical, nutritional, and fitness experts, K.C. Craichy’s newest book, The Super Health Diet has been called “the most remarkable nutrition book of the twenty-first century” by Dr. Richard Lippman, who was a 1996 Nominee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in anti-aging. Working with some of the top minds in the nutrition, medical, and fitness circles, K.C. developed a dynamic, no-nonsense approach to diet and health that is already helping thousands of people of every age and every stage of health to supercharge their body, soul, and spirit!

In The Super Health Diet, Craichy provides readers with a comprehensive evaluation of the diet industry, tracing its history as well as evaluating the major health clubs, popular diet plans, weight loss books, spas, clinics, as well as the pills, prescriptions, and procedures being used today. He demonstrates how it leaves people with the dilemma of what might work for them and shows how often the goals and products being promoted in the diet industry are out of sync with the medical-nutritional ideals and principles of good health. Through his research-based analysis, readers will understand what works and what doesn’t among the myriad of diets and weight loss approaches.

Then Craichy provides readers with a wealth of clear, concise information that provides a revolutionary approach to obtaining optimal weight while reaching a higher level of health and wellness. The information on the Four Corners of Superfood Nutrition, metabolism, the dynamic role of proteins in weight loss, and combining superfoods with supplements is at the cutting edge of our knowledge of how the human body works. Integrating the best research available today on every facet of weight loss, he combines his simple and complete diet with his six other lifestyle keys to unlocking lifelong vitality: proper hydration, exercise, managing stress, controlling and eliminating environmental toxins, achieving restorative sleep, and meditation and prayer.

Dr. Robert Fishman, a renowned pioneer in the area of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy with 50 years’ experience of counseling doctors and patients on weight loss, states, “The Super Health Diet is simply the best book I have ever seen on this subject! A must read for anyone interested in reaching a higher level of health and optimal weight.” It truly is the last diet any person will ever need!

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Diet And Health: With Key To The Calories

Diet And Health: With Key To The CaloriesThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and Fitness

My Amazing Body: A First Look at Health and FitnessMany aspects of health and physical fitness are explained in a way that younger children can readily understand. This lively picture book explores the importance of a good diet and plenty of exercise, and encourages kids to make positive decisions about caring for themselves. Kids discover that even healthy people get ill sometimes, but that our bodies have special abilities to protect us and restore our health. Titles in this series for younger children explore emotional issues that boys and girls encounter as part of the growing-up process. Books are focused to appeal to kids of preschool through early school age. Written by psychotherapist and counselor Pat Thomas, A First Look At books promote positive interaction among children, parents, and teachers, and encourage kids to ask questions and confront social and emotional questions that sometimes present problems. Books feature appealing full-color illustrations on every page plus a page of advice to parents and teachers.

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Healthy Me: Fun Ways to Develop Good Health and Safety Habits

Healthy Me: Fun Ways to Develop Good Health and Safety Habits
This hands-on science activity book for children 5 to 8 promotes health and safety through 70-plus creative projects, recipes, and experiments. Handwashing becomes automatic and germs become real when children see the once-invisible microbes on their hands thriving in the tomato-soup cultures they’ve prepared. They rush to brush after watching the effects of sugary drinks on a tooth. Nutrition and exercise are fun with treats like Triple-Decker Mouthfuls and games such as Exercise Bingo. Lego people and Silly Putty help to demonstrate the importance of seat belts and bike helmets, and safety becomes a priority as children chant important numbers, identify exits in buildings, and more. All the activities are tested in homes and classrooms to be sure they are safe, effective, and fun.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Sexier, Healthier YOU!

The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Sexier, Healthier YOU!
The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever created, this makeover manual is a body-shaping power tool for both beginners and longtime fitness buffs alike. From start to finish, this 480-page makeover manual bulges with hundreds of useful tips, the latest findings in exercise science, and cutting-edge workouts from the world's top trainers.
 
Inside The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises you'll find 619 exercises all expertly demonstrated with color photographs, with dozens of movements for every muscle in your body, including:

* More than 100 core exercises! You'll never run out of ways to sculpt your abs.
* 74 biceps, triceps, and forearm exercises: Tone your arms faster than ever before.
* 64 chest exercises, to burn more calories and even help give your bosom a lift.
* 103 back exercises, to make sure you turn heads in your backless dress.
* 40 shoulder exercises, so you can wear a tank top with confidence.
* 99 quadriceps and calves exercises, to help you look great in a pair of shorts.
* 62 glutes and hamstrings exercises, for the perfect backside.
 
From cover to cover, you'll quickly see that there's a training plan for every fitness goal—whether you want to shrink your hip, find your abs, or shape your arms. Highlights include:

* The World's Greatest 4-Week Diet and Exercise Plan:
Lose 10 pounds of pure fat in 30 days! This scientifically proven plan, based on research from the University of Connecticut, shows what's truly possible when you combine the right kind of diet with the right kind of exercise. You'll build muscle and lose fat faster than ever.
* The Get-Your-Body-Back (Fast!) Guide:
If you've never even picked up a weight, you'll want to try this plan from Joe Dowdell, C.S.C.S. Joe makes his living training models, athletes, and celebrities, and has worked with such names as Anne Hathaway, Claire Danes, Molly Sims, and Kate Hudson, as well as Victoria’s Secret and Sports Illustrated swimsuit models. And the strategies he uses when designing workouts for his high-profile clientele are the same ones he employs to help you quickly burn fat, firm up, and improve your overall fitness.
* The Bikini-Ready Workout:
This fitness plan will help you flatten your stomach and tighten your butt. It’s designed by celebrity trainer Valerie Waters, who has perfected the body-shaping workouts you’ll find here on dozens of Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Garner, Rachel Nichols, Kate Beckinsale, and Jessica Biel. Add your name to Valerie’s client list to tone your total body and feel more confident than ever.
* The Skinny Jeans Workout:
Want to look sexier in a pair of Sevens? Try this routine from Women’s Health fitness advisor Rachel Cosgrove, CSCS. In a pilot study at Rachel’s gym, clients who tried the plan dropped two jean sizes in just 8 weeks.
* The Wedding Workout:
Look great—just in time for the big day (and your honeymoon!)
* The Hard-Body Workout:
Use this 12-week plan to tone your legs, arms, and abs faster than ever
* The Lose-the-Last-10-Pounds Workout:
Your guide to finishing off that last bit of flab for good
* The Total-body Arm-shaping Workout:
Blast fat as you shape and firm your arms
* The Best Three-Exercise Workouts:
Shrink your hips with just three simple moves
* The Prenatal Workout:
Stay fit and healthy during your pregnancy
* The Best Workouts for a Crowded Gym:
Sculpt a lean, fit body—no waiting!
* The Time-Saving Couples Workout:
Burn fat together (it's the secret to better sex!)
* The Best Bodyweight Workouts:
Take your workout anywhere with these no-weight routines
* The 10 Best 15-Minute Workouts:
Bust stress, blast fat, and build muscle in almost no time
 
Every page of The Women's Health Big Book of Exercises is filled with the fitness and nutrition tips and tricks you need to sculpt the body you want.

Throughout the book, you'll discover:

* The secret to burning 40 percent more fat.
* The 18 fitness mistakes you should never make
* The best stretch for every muscle
* The fastest cardio workout of all-time (just 4 minutes!)
* The best exercises you've never done
* The 8 healthiest foods you aren't eating
* The 4 perfect fitness foods
* The 25 super snacks that keep you lean
* The 5 biggest nutrition lies—exposed!
* The truth about saturated fat
* The simple way to master the pushup
* The 20 ways lifting weights helps you look great, stay healthy, and live longer

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Monday, November 14, 2011

The Men's Health Big Book of Food & Nutrition: Your completely delicious guide to eating well, looking great, and staying lean for life!

The Men's Health Big Book of Food & Nutrition: Your completely delicious guide to eating well, looking great, and staying lean for life!
In the aisles of the grocery store, the menus of chain restaurants, even in one’s own refrigerator, confusion about how to eat right reigns: Is low-carb good or is carbo-loading the better way to go? Fat-free or sugar-free? And when did those dreaded eggs become a health food? Americans are hungrier than ever for clear-cut answers to their most perplexing food questions, but a
private nutritionist or a membership in a diet club are expensive luxuries. What you really need is an authoritative, encyclopedic source at your fingertips. The Men’s Health Big Book of Nutrition is the ultimate guide to shopping, dining, and cooking for bigger flavor—and a leaner body. It answers the ongoing demand for definitive information about the food we eat and taps into a readership hungry for final-word answers. Based on the same format as the hugely successful The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises and filled with easy-to-swallow eating strategies—and backed by groundbreaking studies and interviews with the world’s most authoritative nutrition researchers—The Men’s Health Big Book of Nutrition will help you discover just how easy it is to unlock the power of food and stay healthy for life.

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Spanish for Health Care Professionals

Spanish for Health Care ProfessionalsExpanded in this edition with more words, phrases, and helpful exercises, this program also features two brand-new sections. One of them is directed at health care receptionists, and the other deals with health insurance forms. This bookis designed to help doctors, nurses, and medical assistants communicate in Spanish with Latino patients and their families who have little or no command of English. Every Spanish word in the book is followed by its phonetic pronunciation. The book also provides easy-to-follow tips on understanding colloquial spoken Spanish. Author William Harvey concentrates on words and phrases likely to be used in a medical setting. True-to-life dialogues dramatize situations pertaining to pregnancy, broken bones, pediatric care, heart and lung diseases, pharmacy prescriptions, drug problems, medical treatment of accident and crime victims, and much more.

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach

The 6th edition of this market-leading textbook offers a clear, straightforward way to understand the often intimidating subject of psychiatric mental health nursing. Its practical, clinical perspective and user-friendly writing style help you quickly master key concepts. Clinical chapters follow the nursing process framework and progress from theory to application with a wealth of real-world examples to prepare you for practice.

  • UNIQUE! A conversational, user-friendly writing style helps you quickly grasp complex psychiatric mental health nursing concepts.
  • Clinical chapters are logically and consistently organized with sections on the clinical picture, epidemiology, comorbidity, etiology, and application of the nursing process.
  • Clinical chapters follow the nursing process, providing you with consistent guidelines for comprehensive assessment and intervention.
  • Vignettes prepare you for real-world practice with personal, descriptive characterizations of patients with specific psychiatric disorders.
  • Coverage of psychopharmacology in clinical chapters familiarizes you with specific drug treatment options, including the most commonly used drugs and important nursing considerations for their use.
  • Assessment Guidelines boxes list essential guidelines for comprehensive patient assessment.
  • Case Studies with Nursing Care Plans present individualized histories of patients with specific psychiatric disorders and include interventions with rationales and evaluation statements for each patient goal.
  • A separate chapter on cultural implications, as well as Considering Culture boxes throughout the text, provides essential information on culture, worldviews, and techniques for providing culturally competent care.
  • Coverage of treatment and recovery in the community addresses the need for successful ongoing psychiatric mental health nursing care in the community setting.
  • A chapter on end-of-life care examines the psychological impact of terminal illness and death on patients, families, and nurses.
  • Updated nursing process and clinical chapters keep you current with the latest ANA Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice.
  • An increased focus on health promotion and recovery reflects federal, state, and local initiatives to improve screening methods, patient and family teaching, rehabilitation, and community treatment options for people who have mental illnesses.
  • Enhanced Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize the profound impact of research-and your potential role in that process-on the advancement of psychiatric treatment options.
  • A new chapter on sleep disorders covers the most common sleep disturbances and their relationships to psychiatric illness, as well as the nurse's role in their assessment and management.
  • A new chapter on sexual dysfunction and sexual disorders examines the complex issue of sexual behavior and provides the information you need to conduct a sexual assessment, identify sexual dysfunctions and disorders, recognize nursing implications, and formulate interventions.

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Dr. A's Habits of Health: The path to permanent Weight Control and Optimal Health

Dr. A's Habits of Health: The path to permanent Weight Control and Optimal HealthGo from surviving to thriving! If you've ever tried to lose weight only to gain it back, Dr. A's Habits of Health offers a life-changing breakthrough that shows you not only how to reach and maintain your healthy weight, but how to create a life of renewed vibrancy, health, and spirit all under the easy-to-follow guidance of one of America s most esteemed and compassionate practitioners of weight loss and optimal health. Join thousands of people worldwide who've gone from discouragement to confidence, from depletion to unimaginable vitality and discover how you can live better, happier, and healthier into your eighties, nineties, and beyond

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide for Men, Women and Couples

Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide for Men, Women and CouplesFor many years the focus of fear and disgust, the anus is actually one of the human body's most wondrous creations-elegant, efficient, and richly supplied with pleasure nerves. However, stress and ignorance can turn the anus and its functions from a source of delight into a painful disability. What's needed is an owner's manual-and here it is! Join therapist and sexologist Jack Morin, Ph.D., on this tour of the anus, complete with information and exercises to open the door to new sources of comfort and gratification. You'll unlearn habits that can cause everything from hemorrhoids to chronic pelvic pain- and, if you choose, learn new ways of achieving solo and partnered pleasures through this humblest of portals.

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Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based Practice

Essentials of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Concepts of Care in Evidence-Based PracticeWhether it an entire course on psychiatric nursing or integrating these principles into an existing course, this is the text that concise, engaging, and informative. It offers an evidence-based, holistic approach to mental health nursing in a streamlined format that explores nursing diagnoses for both physiological and psychological disorders. It the psychiatric nursing text that students actually read, understand, and use.Completely revised and updated throughout, the 5th Edition reflects all of the new knowledge in the field and the practice of mental health nursing today, including the new, core competences outlined in the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.

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Friday, November 11, 2011

B.K.S Iyengar Yoga the Path to Holistic Health

B.K.S Iyengar Yoga the Path to Holistic HealthAn anniversary edition of "BKS Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health", to celebrate BKS Iyengar's 90th birthday in January 2008. This book contains 30 pages of all-new material and features an introductory celebration of BKS Iyengar's life and teachings. The design of the book has also been refreshed and updated.

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The Women's Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts: A Leaner, Sexier, Healthier You--In 15 Minutes a Day!

The Women's Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts: A Leaner, Sexier, Healthier You--In 15 Minutes a Day!
Time is every woman’s most precious commodity—and a lack of it is the number one reason, in
survey after survey, that women give for why they don’t exercise. But research now shows that as
little as 15 minutes of resistance training is just as effective in spiking one’s metabolism as a
workout lasting more than twice as long. All it takes is 15 minutes to achieve lifelong results—and
women are more likely to stick to an exercise plan if it’s chopped down to those 15 minutes.
 
The Women’s Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts is both an introduction to the fundamentals
of short workouts and a comprehensive collection of hundreds of the most effective ones. These
workouts have been designed for every fitness goal, from total body conditioning to targeting trouble
spots with exercises like the 15 Minute Flat-Belly-without-a-Single-Crunch Workout. Other highlights
include:
-an eating plan with delicious meals that take 15 minutes or less to prepare
-workouts for when you’re stuck in traffic or traveling and can’t make it to the gym
-hundreds of tips from America’s best trainers, nutritionists, and exercise scientists

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Finding Your Own Inner Strength

Finding Your Own Inner StrengthOne woman's struggle to work past her pain and desire to end her life as she realized she had a purpose; that she needed to stay and find out who she was meant to be.

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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Economics of Health Reconsidered, Third Edition

The Economics of Health Reconsidered, Third EditionThis book reconsiders the field of health economics as it is traditionally taught and practiced. It critically examines economic theory as applied to the health sector and questions the prevailing belief that a competitive healthcare marketplace results in the best outcomes.

New information, including an overview of standard microeconomic theory, makes this new edition an ideal stand-alone text for health economics and health policy courses.

Expanded and thoroughly updated, this edition features: A new chapter on traditional microeconomic theory that includes an overview of demand, supply, competition, monopoly, and social welfare, an expanded overview of the role of government, added information about market competition and the implications for health policy, expanded information about the demand for health insurance and health services, a new chapter discussing for-profit versus nonprofit organizations in healthcare, including specialty hospitals and the nursing home and pharmaceutical industries, a new chapter on healthcare-workforce issues including the markets for physicians and nurses, an update on the different ways developed countries can and have organized their healthcare systems

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Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition)

Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Mental Health Nursing (2nd Edition)Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of mental-health nursing. Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering therapeutic communication, developmental disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, cognitive mental disorders, substance abuse, crisis intervention and suicide, death and dying, and much more.

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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan (9th Edition)

Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan (9th Edition)

This family-focused text that provides comprehensive coverage of maternal-newborn nursing and women’s health with special attention to evidence-based practice, cultural competence, critical thinking, professionalism, patient education, and home/community care. Accurate, readable, personal, and engaging, OLDS' MATERNAL-NEWBORN NURSING & WOMEN'S HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN, 9/e reflects a deep understanding of pregnancy and birth as normal life processes, and of family members as partners in care. This edition includes a deeper discussion of childbirth at risk; four new nursing care plans; updated coverage of contraception, complementary/alternative therapies, and much more. New teaching features include Professionalism in Practice and Health Promotion Education boxes, Clinical Judgment case studies, and Critical Thinking questions. This edition also aligns more closely with AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.

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Student Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination & Health Assessment

Student Laboratory Manual for Physical Examination & Health Assessment

Reinforce your understanding of essential examination and assessment skills and with this lab manual companion to Carolyn Jarvis' Physical Examination and Health Assessment, 6th Edition. A wide variety of checklists, activities, and exercises challenge you to apply your knowledge and provide hands-on practice.

  • A variety of review questions and study activities test your understanding of key points and procedures:
    • Short answer
    • Fill-in-the-blank
    • Multiple-choice
    • Matching
    • Anatomy labeling exercises

  • Regional write-up sheets familiarize you with physical examination forms and provide practice for recording narrative accounts of patient history and examination findings.
  • Reading assignments help you review relevant textbook content with convenient chapter and page references.
  • Clinical objectives for each chapter help you study more effectively.
  • A comprehensive glossary provides fast, easy access to key terms and definitions from the textbook.

  • New assessment tools and updated illustrations test your retention and understanding.

  • Updated evidence-based practice guidelines throughout the manual reflect the most current research and assessment practices.

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized, Trade Ed.)

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (Authorized, Trade Ed.)First published in 1875 and read by more than eight million people, this nondenominational book has a 119-year history of healing and inspiration. To attract a new audience, this time-honored message of healing has a powerful new cover, easy-to-read page layout, and word index. Named one of "75 Books by Women Whose Words Have Changed the World."

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Restoring Your Digestive Health: How the Guts and Glory Program Can Transfom Your Life

Restoring Your Digestive Health: How the Guts and Glory Program Can Transfom Your LifePocket-sized consumer text offers hope for those who are suffering from digestive disorders. Discusses common current treatments that do not work. Provides easy-to-understand information about the major reasons digestive systems revolt against modern dietary practices and step-by-step instructions on how to address gastrointestinal problems. Softcover.

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Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation

Timeless Secrets of Health and RejuvenationNew Book Helps People Tame Their Illnesses with Mind and Body Power: Flying in the face of mainstream medicine and society's many health myths-here is a book that finally proves that good health is not only easily achievable-no matter where you are right now-it's your natural state. In this new, expanded edition of Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation, best-selling author Andreas Moritz reveals the most common but rarely recognized reasons behind illness and aging. He offers powerful and time-tested self-help approaches to remove the root causes of illness and achieve continuous vibrant health, regardless of age. While most physicians attempt to combat or subdue illness-which has been known to cause more illness and death than cancer or heart disease-they know too little about employing the mind and body to actually help heal a person. Compiled over the course of 35 years of work and research in the health industry-and based on eye-opening experiences with thousands of people across the globe-Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation reveals everything you need to know in order to unleash the natural healing power that lies dormant within you. You may wonder, "How could one book possibly do all this?" After all, many books make big health promises and then fail to deliver. But the answer is simple: Timeless Secrets is different-and works-because (1) it gives you deeper insights and perspectives that literally put you back "into the driver's seat" of your body and mind, and (2) it reveals literally hundreds and hundreds of controversial, yet highly practical secrets proven to trigger health, wellness and accelerated healing. You'll get little-known, ancient secrets-successfully used for thousands of years. Plus, you'll discover newer ones that have been researched and documented by some of the leading authorities in the world, both mainstream and alternative. And most importantly, you'll discover the very secrets which have worked-time and time again-for the countless people Andreas Moritz has helped heal in his 30+ years of front-line experience. No matter what your current level of health and wellness, the scores of brand new tips, break-throughs, "aha!" moments, practices and discoveries you make while reading Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation are sure to help you quickly reclaim life's happiest, most valuable possession: Your health. The best part: You'll get it all in plain English, with step-by-step, "do-this-then-do-that" instruc-tions-so there's never an ounce of guesswork-thereby empowering you to live with more youthful-ness, balance and joy, from the very first moment you open the book. Numerous doctors, nurses, patients and health conscious individuals have called this book "The Bible of Good Health" for good reasons. So why not put Timeless Secrets to the test? It may prove to be the most comprehensive, life-changing health guide you ever read. "German-born, Ayurvedic medicine practitioner and health consultant, Andreas Moritz, has been very successful with terminal disease cases, which increases his credibility as an alternative medicine practitioner. His books are renowned for their comprehensiveness and readability. You don't need to be a health care expert to understand the everyday terminologies and fluid reasoning of the causes of disease. More importantly, you'll be amazed by the many overlooked things that influence our state of health. Reading with an open mind is highly recommended."BookReviewClub.com

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Child Health Nursing (2nd Edition)

Prentice Hall Reviews & Rationales: Child Health Nursing (2nd Edition)

Essential for course review and NCLEX review, this resource is a complete, concentrated outline of child health nursing. Each chapter contains objectives, pre- and post-tests with rationales, vocabulary review, practice to pass exercises, critical thinking case studies, as well as NCLEX alerts. Unique to Prentice Hall's Nursing Reviews & Rationales Series is a comprehensive CD-ROM, to provide additional review material.  Content includes all of the "need-to-know" information covering growth & development, nursing care for respiratory, cardiac, neurological, renal, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and other health problems, special considerations, and much more.  For nursing students in need of a resource that focuses on course review or NCLEX review as well as nursing professionals looking to familiarize themselves with a new specialty.

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Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?

Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever?

The solution for chronic inflammation, regarded as the cause of most common modern diseases, has been identified! And it is not blueberries. It is something right beneath our feet-the Earth itself!

Throughout most of evolution humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground, largely oblivious that the surface of the Earth contains limitless healing energy. Science has discovered this energy as free-flowing electrons constantly replenished by solar radiation and lightning. Few people know it, but the ground provides a subtle electric signal that maintains health and governs the intricate mechanisms that make our bodies work-just like plugging a lamp into a power socket makes it light up. Modern lifestyle, including the widespread use of insulative rubber or plastic-soled shoes, has disconnected us from this energy and, of course, we no longer sleep on the ground as we did in times past.

Earthing introduces the planet's powerful, amazing, and overlooked natural healing energy and how people anywhere can readily connect to it. This eye-opening book describes how the physical disconnect with the Earth creates abnormal physiology and contributes to inflammation, pain, fatigue, stress, and poor sleep. By reconnecting to the Earth, symptoms are rapidly relieved and even eliminated and recovery from surgery, injury, and athletic overexertion is accelerated.


This never-before-told story-filled with fascinating research and real-life testimonials- chronicles a discovery with the potential to create a global health revolution.

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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing

Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing
Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing is intended to be a source of encouragement, knowledge, and healing for those who have scoliosis and need to treat it, but want to avoid braces and/or surgery. The book looks at scoliosis not as a pathological syndrome but as a spiritual, and metaphysical pattern that embraces the multiple dimensions of the spine (vertical, horizontal, and sagittal). It briefly covers the history and treatment modalities of scoliosis and discusses the development of the spine in the embryo. Yoga and Scoliosis also explores the complexities of the concept of alignment in the body, with the main part of the book showing how to address scoliosis with Iyengar yoga. Four chapters give instruction in yoga asanas for scoliosis, and another chapter discusses yoga practice in daily living. Finally there is an advanced yoga chapter that was was developed by B. K. S. Inyengar.

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Works of Mary Baker Eddy. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, No and Yes, Rudimental Divine Science, Poems & more (Mobi Collected Works)

Works of Mary Baker Eddy. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, No and Yes, Rudimental Divine Science, Poems & more (Mobi Collected Works)This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.

Table of Contents

The Manual of the Mother Church
No and Yes
Poems
Pulpit and Press
Retrospection and Introspection
Rudimental Divine Science
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures 1875, revised through 1910
Unity of Good

Appendix:
Mary Baker Eddy Biography

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Friday, November 4, 2011

Touch For Health: The Complete Edition

Touch For Health: The Complete EditionNew & Revised Edition of the Healing Classic. Includes Updated Color Photographs and Illustrations.


With over a half million copies in print since 1973, John Thie's TOUCH FOR HEALTH phenomenon has flourished worldwide to help more than 10 million people in over 40 countries restore their natural healing energies and enjoy vibrant health through his unique treatment of posture and muscle balancing that combines simple aspects of acupressure touch and massage. From this book, you will learn the techniques that chiropractors, alternative health specialists, athletic trainers, and massage therapists have found invaluable in preventive health-care treatment.

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Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Doctors 5-Minute Health Fixes: The Prescription for a Lifetime of Great Health

The Doctors 5-Minute Health Fixes: The Prescription for a Lifetime of Great Health
Paging Dr. Jim, Dr. Travis, Dr. Lisa, and Dr. Drew! America needs your help—and your 5-minute health hints.
 
If you are like many, you probably think you just don’t have time to be healthy: It’s too much work, and there’s just too much conflicting information out there. Both leave you feeling powerless. But the best doctors know that an informed patient is a healthy patient. So before you lift your hands in defeat, know that great health is just a page away—and much easier to achieve than you think. After combing the very latest medical literature, the Doctors have isolated the seven factors that have been linked to the most vibrant, happiest, longest lives. The secret? Each body system (heart, brain, gut, skin) can be vastly improved with very small shifts in your lifestyle—most of which take less than five minutes to do. And whether it’s adding cinnamon to your coffee to balance blood sugar, sipping cold water through a straw to nix nicotine cravings, or brushing and flossing your teeth before you eat each morning to prevent heart disease, all are easy fixes that anyone can make.

Utilizing the show’s dynamic expert hosts, and based on interviews and research from the top authorities in multiple disciplines, The Doctors’ 5-Minute Health Hints is the one-stop source for readers looking for comprehensive, top-notch self-care advice and novel, cutting-edge tips, trivia, and information. Use these helpers as building blocks, and before you know it you’re easily on your way to 24-hour health . . . while preventing disease, reversing aging, getting the most out of your annual checkup, and looking fantastic.

 

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Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to KnowThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses - and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich.

How did such a bold reform effort pass in a polity wracked by partisan divisions and intense lobbying by special interests? What does Affordable Care mean - and what comes next? In Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol--two of the nation's leading experts on politics and health care policy--provide a concise and accessible overview. They explain the political battles of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the deals Democrats cut with interest groups, and the impact of agitation by Tea Partiers and progressives. Jacobs and Skocpol spell out what the new law can do for everyday Americans, what it will cost, and who will pay. Above all, they explain what comes next, as critical yet often behind-the-scenes battles rage over implementing reform nationally and in the fifty states. Affordable Care might end up being weakened. But, like Social Security and Medicare, it could also gain strength and popularity as the majority of Americans learn what it can do for them.

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

The Very Best Of Recipes for Health: 250 Recipes and More from the Popular Feature on NYTimes.com

The Very Best Of Recipes for Health: 250 Recipes and More from the Popular Feature on NYTimes.com
From the celebrated NYTimes.com food columnist come her favorite ways to use seasonal produce and a well-stocked pantry to create easy, nutritious meals every day of the week

From its inception, “Recipes for Health” has been one of the New York Times’s most-read (and e-mailed) features, showing health-conscious readers fast, no-fuss ways to turn seasonal produce, whole grains, and other nutritious ingredients into easy weeknight meals. Now, the most popular have been gathered into one comprehensive, convenient volume.

Shulman shows how to fill your refrigerator, freezer, and cabinets with healthy staples such as beans, grains, extra virgin olive oil, tuna, eggs, yogurt, and tomato sauce, so that you are prepared to cook delicious dishes like Asparagus and Herb Frittata, Quinoa Salad with Lime Ginger Dressing and Shrimp, or Pizza Marinara with Tuna and Capers in minutes. Vegans and vegetarians will discover an entire selection of tofu recipes, from stir-fries to sandwiches, and even a tofu cheesecake. Those who frequent the farmers’ market will appreciate her extensive collection of dishes for virtually every vegetable under the sun.

Full of lists, explanations, and tips, The Very Best of Recipes for Health will help you cook and eat better all year long.

 

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Health: The Basics, Green Edition (9th Edition)

Health: The Basics, Green Edition (9th Edition)

It’s current, it’s accurate, it’s user-friendly, and it’s FUN!

 

With an emphasis on environmental responsibility, the new Health: The Basics, Green Edition features compelling graphics and relatable content that bring health topics to life, keeping you hooked on learning and living well.

 

Now enhanced with an even more comprehensive package of student support materials, this edition makes learning personal health easier than ever. The Green Edition includes an environmental feature; new mini-chapters; a brand new art program with a new, lively design; and additional content on behavior change; in addition to a robust and expanded supplements package.

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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Health: The Basics (Custom Editon for Spokane Community College)

Health: The Basics (Custom Editon for Spokane Community College)The bible of natural medicine--(Larry Dossey, M.D.), Natural Health, Natural Medicine is a comprehensive resource for everything you need to know to maintain optimum health and treat common ailments. This landmark book incorporates Dr. Weil's theories of preventive health maintenance and alternative healing into one extremely useful and readable reference, featuring general diet and nutrition information as well as simple recipes, answers to readers' most pressing questions, a catalogue of home remedies, invaluable resources, and hundreds of practical tips. This new edition includes up-to-the-minute scientific findings and has been expanded to provide trustworthy advice about low-carb diets, hormone replacement therapy, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, reflux disease, autism, type 2 diabetes, erectile dysfunction, the flu, and much more.

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Spirituality and Health Research: Methods, Measurements, Statistics, and Resources

Spirituality and Health Research: Methods, Measurements, Statistics, and ResourcesEmergencies:

--when to call your child's physician immediately

-what to do in case of burns, bites, stings, poisoning, choking, and injuries

Common Illnesses:

-when it's safe to treat your child at home

-step-by-step instructions on dealing with fever, infections, allergies, rashes, earaches, croup and other common ailments

Behavior Problems:

-proven strategies for colic, sleep disturbances, toilet training problems, thumbsucking, and the video game craze

-no-nonsense discipline techniques for biting, temper tantrums, sibling fighting, and school refusal

Health Promotion: From Birth Through Adolescence:

-essential advice on newborn baby care, nutrition, cholesterol testing, immunizations, and sex education

-ways of preventing spoiled children, picky eaters, overeating, tooth decay, accidents, and homework problems

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Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health: 175 Teas, Tonics, Oils, Salves, Tinctures, and Other Natural Remedies for the Entire Family

Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health: 175 Teas, Tonics, Oils, Salves, Tinctures, and Other Natural Remedies for the Entire FamilyRosemary Gladstar is the mother of modern herbalism. Her wisdom and vision have inspired an entire generation of herbal healers, and her insights into the healing power of plants have helped people everywhere embrace more natural, healthy, and radiant lives.

Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health is the author's practical compendium of herbal know-how. Written with her signature warmth, this must-have reference will help readers of every life stage enjoy radiant well-being, every day. Limit stress and anxiety, get adequate rest, boost immunity, improve mental acuity, and embrace life balance — these are elements of Gladstar's prescription for wellness, longevity, and boundless energy. To help achieve these goals, she offers a number of general-wellness recipes, including 7-Herb Long-Life Soup, Long-Life Elixir, and energy-inspiring Zoom Balls.

The bulk of the book is dedicated to specific herbal remedies for everyone in the family — adults, babies, children, and elders. Good Vision No-Cook Herbal Jam, for example, will help keep aging eyes functional, while Rosemary's Itch Relief Remedy offers a soothing salve for poison ivy. Whether a reader wants to soothe baby's diaper rash, enjoy a better night's sleep, conquer headaches, cure a case of athlete's foot, or boost a sagging spirit, Gladstar's time-tested herbal remedies offer new options for natural healing.

These therapies are enhanced with an A–Z herbal apothecary featuring detailed information about more than 90 herbs, as well as tips for preparing herbal remedies from scratch.

The hardcover edition has become an everyday reference for tens of thousands of families. This paperback release brings Gladstar’s wisdom to even more people interested in embracing physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Core Concepts in Health, Brief

Core Concepts in Health, BriefInsel and Roth, "Core Concepts in Health" pioneered the concept of personal responsibility for health and individual behavior change back in 1976. Now in its 11th edition, it is still the market leader and is known for its scientific research base and its currency, comprehensiveness, and accuracy.

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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care Important and powerful...a rich tour of health care around the world."
-Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times


How is it that all other industrialized democracies provide health care for their citizens as a reasonable cost-something the United States has never managed to do? In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T.S. Reid shows how they do it, bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way. In his global quest to find a prescription for American health care, Reid finds that it's not all "socialized medicine" out there. Instead, many industrialized democracies rely on free-market models the U.S. could use to cure a health system that has failed us.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Men's Health: 6 Weeks to a 6 Pack: Sculpt rock-hard abs with the fastest muscle-up, slim-down program ever created!

Men's Health: 6 Weeks to a 6 Pack: Sculpt rock-hard abs with the fastest muscle-up, slim-down program ever created!Are you ready to take your shirt off at the beach? Men's Health: 6 Weeks to a 6-Pack will help you get there. It’s the magazine’s newest step-by-step program for losing belly fat and building abs that show! Drawing from the latest research in exercise physiology and nutrition, it provides the most cutting-edge advice and action plans for sculpting rock-hard abs by the time you hit the sand. What's inside: workouts that can burn up 200 calories in just 8 minutes; dozens of science-backed secrets for boosting metabolism and targeting belly fat; core workouts that will whip anyone into shape; dozens of belly-shedding recipes and nutrition tips; and instructional photos of 50 all-time best abs exercises. Plus, a special bonus chapter: 100 world-class workout secrets from America's top trainers. Edited by New York Times best-selling author of The Belly Off! Diet, Jeff Csatari, Men's Health: 6 Weeks to a 6-Pack is designed to help you turn stubborn belly fat into lean, hard muscle.

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Friday, October 28, 2011

The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular YOU!

The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular YOU!
The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises is the essential workout guide for anyone who wants a better body. As the most comprehensive collection of exercises ever created, this book is a body-shaping power tool for both beginners and longtime lifters alike. From start to finish, this 480-page muscle manual bulges with hundreds of useful tips, the latest findings in exercise science, and cutting-edge workouts from the world's top trainers.
 
Inside The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises you'll find 619 exercises expertly demonstrated with color photographs, with dozens of movements for every muscle in your body, including:

* More than 100 core exercises! You'll never run out of ways to sculpt your six-pack.
* 74 biceps, triceps, and forearm exercises: Build your arms faster than ever before.
* 64 chest exercises, and featuring dozens of variations of the pushup and bench press.
* 103 back exercises, so you can carve a v-shaped torso.
* 40 shoulder exercises, for a tank-top worthy torso.
* 99 quadriceps and calves exercises, to help you jump higher and run faster.
* 62 glutes and hamstrings exercises, for a more powerful, athletic body.

From cover to cover, you'll quickly see that there's a training plan for every fitness goal—whether you want to shrink your hip, find your abs, or shape your arms. Highlights include:

* The World's Greatest 4-Week Diet and Exercise Plan
Lose 10 pounds of pure fat in 30 days! This scientifically proven plan, based on research from the University of Connecticut, shows what's truly possible when you combine the right kind of diet with the right kind of exercise. You'll build muscle and lose fat faster than ever.
* 64 Ways to Add Inches to Your Arms
You'll learn how to mix-and-match the 12 best biceps exercises to create scores of sleeve-busting routines. The upshot: You'll never get stuck in a muscle-building rut again!
* The Get Back In Shape (Fast!) Guide
If you've never even picked up a weight, you'll want to try this plan from Joe Dowdell, C.S.C.S. Joe makes his living training celebrities, cover models, and professional athletes, such as NBA stars Troy Murphy and Mike Dunleavy. And the strategies he uses when designing workouts for his high-profile clientele are the same ones he employs to help you burn fat, build muscle, and get back in shape.
* The Ultimate Fat Loss Plan

You might call this the six-pack workout. That's because it's designed to help you finally finish off the flab that's hiding your abs. Created by Bill Hartman, P.T., C.S.C.S., a top fitness advisor to Men's Health, it's based entirely on the new science of fat loss. From the sets to the reps to the rest, every part of this workout is designed to optimize your body's ability to burn away belly-fat.

And:
* Boost Your Bench Press by 50 Pounds in 8 Weeks
World-class powerlifter Dave Tate shares the strategies that helped him lift a personal best of 610 pounds
* Triple Your Chinups in 6 Weeks
Use this simple routine that to master one of the world's greatest muscle-building exercises
* Add 4 to 10 inches to Your Vertical Leap
This high-flying plan from strength coach Kelly Baggett will have you jumping out of the gym in no time
* The Beach Ready Body Workout
Get-strong to get-big—this 8-week plan shows you how
* The Wedding Workout
Look great—just in time for the big day (and your honeymoon!)
* The Best Sports Workout
Train like an athlete, look like an athlete
* The Scrawny to Brawny Workout
Pack on muscle fast: your 4-week plan
* The Best Workouts for a Crowded Gym
Sculpt a lean, fit body—no waiting!
* The Best Bodyweight Workouts
Take your workout anywhere with these no-weight routines
* The 10 Best 15-Minute Workouts
Bust stress, blast fat, and build muscle in almost no time
* The 7-Minute Back-Saving Workout
End low-back pain for good!
 
Plus:
Every page of The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises is filled with the fitness and nutrition tips and tricks you need to sculpt the body you want.
Throughout the book, you'll discover:
* The secret to burning 40 percent more fat.
* The 18 muscle mistakes you should never make
* The best stretch for every muscle
* The fastest cardio workout of all-time (just 4 minutes!)
* The best exercises you've never done
* The 8 healthiest foods you aren't eating
* The 4 surprising foods that build muscle
* The 25 super snacks that keep you lean
* The 5 biggest nutrition myths, busted
* The truth about saturated fat
* The perfect foods to fuel your workouts
* The complete guide to protein powders
* The 20 ways lifting weights helps you look great, stay healthy, and live longer

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Health Power: Health by Choice Not Chance

Health Power: Health by Choice Not ChanceConsciously or unconsciously, most people make sacrifices of some sort. Unfortunately, they often sacrifice health, family, religion, or other priceless possessions in order to gain the transitory pleasures of wealth, power, status, or fame.

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls-work, family, health, friends, and religion-in the air, and you realize that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. BU the other four balls-your family, health, friends, and spiritual life-are much more fragile. If you drop one of these, it will be scuffed, marked nicked, damaged, or even shattered. It will never be the same again. You must understand that, and strive to balance all parts of your life.

This book will help you realize that all these aspects are largely under your control.

- Learn how you can prevent and even reverse many of today's major killer diseases.

- Learn how to make sense out of confusing and often contradictory health information and to understand why today's breakthroughs often become tomorrow's embarrassments.

- Learn how to strengthen your social and family relationships, and cultivate a more meaningful spiritual life.

This book will help you discover-day by day and step by step-not a better life, but the best life!

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior (Applications of Motivational Interviewin)

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.

(20100416)

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Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations

Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations

Covering the nurse's role in promoting community health, Community/Public Health Nursing, 5th Edition is known for its "upstream" preventive focus and social justice approach, photo novellas with clinical stories, and a concise, readable style. It shows how you, as a nurse, can take an active role in social action and health policy - especially in caring for diverse population groups. Expert authors Mary A. Nies and Melanie McEwen discuss today's issues and trends, and describe the key issues and responsibilities of contemporary community/public health nursing.


  • An "upstream" focus addresses factors that are the precursors to poor health in the community.

  • A "social justice" approach promotes health for everyone.

  • Photo novellas use photographs to tell stories showing real-life clinical scenarios and applications of important community health nursing roles.

  • Case Study: Application of the Nursing Process feature presents specific community components of the nursing process separately from individual and family.

  • Clinical examples offer snippets of real-life client situations.

  • Research Highlights boxes show the application of current research to chapter content.

  • Ethical Insights boxes highlight ethical issues and concerns.

  • Healthy People 2020 boxes summarize objectives and their importance in community health.

  • Objectives, key terms, and chapter outlines introduce important concepts and terminology at the beginning of every chapter.

  • Learning Activities at the end of each chapter ask you to apply concepts to the world outside the classroom.


  • New Health Promotion and Risk Reduction chapter details the promotion of health and presents strategies that can identify risk factors for illness.

  • Faith Community Nursing chapter reflects current terminology from the ANAÕs Scope and Standards of Practice, and includes more coverage of the spiritual health of clients.

  • Health: A Community View chapter expands its discussion of the continual challenges and strategies associated with the delivery of health care.

  • Communicable Disease chapter includes new information about public health surveillance, outbreaks, and bioterrorism.

  • Cultural Diversity and Community Health Nursing chapter features new content on complementary and alternative therapies.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement

The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement

The Health Care Data Guide is designed to help students and professionals build a skill set specific to using data for improvement of health care processes and systems. Even experienced data users will find valuable resources among the tools and cases that enrich The Health Care Data Guide. Practical and step-by-step, this book spotlights statistical process control (SPC) and develops a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement to yield better outcomes.

Provost and Murray reveal how to put SPC into practice for a wide range of applications including evaluating current process performance, searching for ideas for and determining evidence of improvement, and tracking and documenting sustainability of improvement. A comprehensive overview of graphical methods in SPC includes Shewhart charts, run charts, frequency plots, Pareto analysis, and scatter diagrams. Other topics include stratification and rational sub-grouping of data and methods to help predict performance of processes.

Illustrative examples and case studies encourage users to evaluate their knowledge and skills interactively and provide opportunity to develop additional skills and confidence in displaying and interpreting data.

Companion Web site: www.josseybass.com/go/provost

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Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement

Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and ReimbursementUnderstanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition is fully updated to the latest code sets, guidelines, and claim forms to provide you with the most essential and up-to-date knowledge on billing and reimbursement. With Understanding Health Insurance, Tenth Edition, you will learn about managed health care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methods, coding for medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. Exercises in each chapter provide plenty of practice for learning how to bill and reimburse, and the accompanying workbook provides more application-based assignments for each chapter as well as additional case studies to reinforce your knowledge. The text includes free software that allows you to test your knowledge.

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