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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Penguin ISBN13 9780143038580 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A national bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question What should we have for dinner Tracing from source to table each of the food chains that sustain us whether industrial or organic alternative or processed he develops a portrait of the American way of eating The result is a sweeping surprising exploration of the hungers that have shaped our evolution and of the profound implications our food choices have for the health of our species and the future of our planet Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition American Psychological Association (APA) duplicate publication plagiarism and self-plagiarism electronic presentation of data discussion of the publication process lengthy data sets digital object identifier DOI The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association is the style manual of choice for writers editors students and educators in the social and behavioral sciences It provides invaluable guidance on all aspects of the writing process from the ethics of authorship to the word choice that best reduces bias in language Well-known for its authoritative and easy-to-use reference and citation system the Publication Manual also offers guidance on choosing the headings tables figures and tone that will result in strong simple and elegant scientific communication The sixth edition offers new and expanded instruction on publication ethics statistics journal article reporting standards electronic reference formats and the construction of tables and figures The sixth edition has been revised and updated to include new ethics guidance on such topics as determining authorship and terms of collaboration duplicate publication plagiarism and self-plagiarism disguising of participants validity of instrumentation and making data available to others for verification new journal article reporting standards to help readers report empirical research with clarity and precision simplified APA heading style to make it more conducive to electronic publication updated guidelines for reducing bias in language to reflect current practices and preferences including a new section on presenting historical language that is inappropriate by present standards new guidelines for reporting inferential statistics and a significantly revised table of statistical abbreviations and new instruction on using supplemental files containing lengthy data sets and other media This book includes significantly expanded content on the electronic presentation of data to help readers understand the purpose of each kind of display and choose the best match for communicating the results of the investigation with new examples for a variety of data displays including electro physiological and biological data It offers consolidated information on all aspects of reference citations with an expanded discussion of electronic sources emphasizing the role of the digital object identifier DOI as a reliable way to locate information It features expanded discussion of the publication process including the function and process of peer review It contains a discussion of ethical legal and policy requirements in publication and guidelines on working with the publisher while The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health Benbella Books ISBN13 9781932100662 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Referred to as the Grand Prix of epidemiology by The New York Times this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6 500 adults in more than 2 500 counties across China and Taiwan and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease diabetes and cancer While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic effect on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as curbing obesity this text calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs such as the Atkins diet that are widely popular in the West The politics of nutrition and the impact of special interest groups in the creation and dissemination of public information are also discussed R You: On A Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management Free Press ISBN13 9780743292542 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a For the first time in our history scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz Americas most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist Theyre going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat knowledge By understanding how your bodys fat-storing and fat-burning systems work youre going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information motivation and change-your-life action to show you how your brain stomach hormones muscles heart genetics and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium In Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your bodys size and its health Youll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight but your waist size which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers youd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting about fat and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large YOU On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan Its a complete manual for waist management It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained YOU On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat youll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout Both are easy to learn follow and maintain Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start With Roizen and Ozs signature accessibility Book Description / R For the first time in our history scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting--and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz Americas most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist Theyre going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat knowledge By understanding how your bodys fat-storing and fat-burning systems work youre going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information motivation and change-your-life action to show you how your brain stomach hormones muscles heart genetics and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium In YOU On a Diet Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your bodys size and its health Youll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight but your waist size which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers youd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting about fat and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large YOU On a Diet is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan Its a complete manual for waist management It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained YOU On a Diet will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat youll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout Both are easy to learn follow and maintain Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care The Penguin Press ISBN13 9781594202346 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Bestselling author T R Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide revealing possible paths toward U S reform / R R In The Healing of America New York Times bestselling author T R Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States cant seem to do provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost R R In his global quest to find a possible prescription Reid visits wealthy free market industrialized democracies like our own-including France Germany Japan the U K and Canada-where he finds inspiration in example Reid shares evidence from doctors government officials health care experts and patients the world over finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality care at an affordable cost And that dreaded monster socialized medicine turns out to be a myth Many developed countries provide universal coverage with private doctors private hospitals and private insurance R R In addition to long-established systems Reid also studies countries that have carried out major health care reform The first question facing these countries-and the United States for that matter-is an ethical issue Is health care a human right Most countries have already answered with a resolute yes leaving the United States in the murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less just than our own R R The Healing of America lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate Reid sees problems elsewhere too He finds poorly paid doctors in Japan endless lines in Canada mistreated patients in Britain spartan facilities in France Still all the other rich countries operate at a lower cost produce better health statistics and cover everybody In the end The Healing of America is a good news book It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey Plume ISBN13 9780452295544 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientists own stroke led to enlightenment / R R On December 10 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisphere of her brain As she observed her mind deteriorate to the point that she could not walk talk read write or recall any of her life-all within four hours-Taylor alternated between the euphoria of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace and the logical sequential left brain which recognized she was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was completely lost It would take her eight years to fully recover R R For Taylor her stroke was a blessing and a revelation It taught her that by stepping to the right of our left brains we can uncover feelings of well-being that are often sidelined by brain chatter Reaching wide audiences through her talk at the Technology Entertainment Design TED conference and her appearance on Oprahs online Soul Series Taylor provides a valuable recovery guide for those touched by brain injury and an inspiring testimony that inner peace is accessible to anyone A brain scientists journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities / R R On the morning of December 10 1996 Jill Bolte Taylor a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain A neuroanatomist by profession she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk talk read write or recall any of her life all within the space of four brief hours As the damaged left side of her brain--the rational grounded detail- and time-oriented side--swung in and out of function Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realties the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace and the logical sequential left brain which recognized Jill was having a stroke and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely R R In My Stroke of Insight Taylor shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain It would take eight years for Taylor to heal completely Because of her knowledge of how the brain works her respect for the cells composing her human form and most of all an amazing mother Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insights gained from her right brain that morning of December 10th R R Today Taylor is convinced that the stroke was the best thing that could have happened to her It has taught her that the feeling of nirvana is never more than a mere thought away By stepping to the right of our left brains we can all uncover the feelings of well-being and peace that are so often sidelined by our own brain chatter A fascinating journey into the mechanics of the human mind My Stroke of Insight is both a valuable recovery guide for anyone touched by a brain injury and an emotionally stirring testimony that deep internal peace truly is accessible to anyone at any time / align left span class h1 Questions for Jill Bolte Taylor / / span Amazon com / Your first reaction when you realized what Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy Harper Paperbacks ISBN13 9780060746377 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a This new Mayo Clinic book on pregnancy provides you with practical information and reassurance on pregnancy and childbirth Compiled by Mayo Clinic experts in obstetrics it offers a clear thorough and reliable reference for this exciting and sometimes unpredictable journey This comprehensive book includes ul li A month-by-month look at mom and baby / li li In-depth Decision Guides to help you make informed decisions on topics such as how to select a health care provider prenatal testing options pain relief for childbirth and many others / li li An easy-to-use reference guide that covers topics such as morning sickness heartburn back pain headaches and yeast infections among others / li li Information on pregnancy health concerns including preterm labor gestational diabetes and preeclampsia along with an overview on being pregnant when you have pre-existing health conditions such as asthma diabetes or hyperthyroidism / li / ul The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (James H. Silberman Books) Penguin (Non-Classics) ISBN13 9780143113102 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable In this revolutionary look at the brain psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge M D provides an introduction to both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they ve transformed From stroke patients learning to speak again to the remarkable case of a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole The Brain That Changes Itself will permanently alter the way we look at our brains human nature and human potential The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, Second Edition New Harbinger Publications ISBN13 9781572243750 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Trigger point therapy is one of the most intriguing and fastest-growing bodywork styles in the world Medical doctors chiropractors physical therapists and massage therapists are all beginning to use this technique to relieve formerly undiagnosable muscle and joint pain conditions that studies have shown to be the cause of nearly 25 percent of all doctor visits The technique involves applying short repeated massage strokes to trigger points tiny contraction knots in muscle tissue where restricted circulation and lack of oxygen cause referred pain Trigger points create pain throughout the body in predictable patterns characteristic to each muscle producing discomfort ranging from mild to severe Trigger point massage increases circulation and oxygenation in the area and often produces instant relief This dynamic technique has made a huge impact among health professionals and the public alike becoming an overnight classic in the field of pain relief The book has sold over 220 000 copies since the release of the first edition in 2001 The second edition is a complete update and includes a new chapter specifically for massage professionals as well as a chapter on systematic muscle relaxation techniques that can reinforce the therapeutic power of trigger point work The first edition of this workbook is regarded as a classic in its field and was the first book to introduce trigger point therapy to the general public as a self-care tool for alleviating chronic pain caused by a variety of conditions including arthritis back pain carpal tunnel syndrome fibromyalgia headache muscle ache and repetitive strain injuries As the author makes clear all such conditions are related to lack of oxygen in exhausted or injured muscle tissue Trigger point therapy has been used for decades by doctors pain specialists and massage therapists to quickly stimulate the flow of oxygen and promote rapid pain reduction This book makes the same techniques available to the general public with instructions that are easy to follow and abetted by an extensive collection of charts and corresponding illustrations The author s interest in trigger point therapy began when he used it to successfully treat his frozen shoulder Since that time he has dedicated himself to teaching others the same techniques That dedication is obvious throughout his writing and the care he takes to make the therapy understandable to the lay public Also included in this new edition is updated information that should be of great interest to pain specialists and bodyworkers as well as useful instruction in a variety of relaxation techniques Overall this book is an excellent self-care resource for anyone interested in pain relief -- Larry Trivieri Jr Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, 2009 (Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy (Sanford)) Antimicrobial Therapy With bioterrorism avian flu and drug-resistant infections in the news doctors need a guide to antimicrobial therapy more than ever The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy continues to be one of the most frequently used and widely relied upon references in medicine With ever-increasing challenges posed by new and re-emerging infectious diseases this concise well-annotated pocket reference remains a staple in lab coat pockets throughout the world / r / r New material found in this edition includes updated recommendations for management of community-associated MRSA treatment options for highly resistant bacteria and current regimens for antiretroviral therapy All of the tables have been updated to reflect newly approved drugs new indications for existing drugs and updated dosage side effects and pharmacologic data