Health Problems

The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more. Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally.

Seventeen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure to even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, her company is limited to her widowed father and her best friend. It isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local train station and plays for the people coming and going. Charlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads in his life - and the boy Katie has secretly admired from afar for years. When he happens upon her playing guitar one night, fate intervenes and the two embark on a star-crossed romance.

It’s comforting to think that we can be successful because we work hard, climb ladders, and get what we deserve, but each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Mark Robert Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, including interviews and research, to explain how luck and chance play out and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions - and finds some surprising conclusions.

Fully updated edition of the best-selling self-help book, now recommended on the national Reading Well scheme. This ever-popular guide offers a self-help programme, written by one of the UK's leading authorities on anxiety and based on CBT, for those suffering from anxiety problems. A whole range of anxieties and fears are explained, from panic attacks and phobias to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and generalised anxiety.

In Natural Eyesight Improvement Program, health guru Mike explains his system for improving eyesight using simple methods wherever you are. Step by step, he patiently explains several easy exercises to recondition the eyes and retrain the mind to optimize eyesight.

A practical guide to understanding and coping with anxiety, depression, addiction and suicide. Flagging The Problem: A New Approach to Mental Health investigates how the mood system in the brain and the body works and how problems in this system contribute to anxiety, depression, addiction and suicide. Best-selling author and GP Dr Harry Barry reveals a pioneering system using a coloured flag which represents a particular mental state or area of concern.

The Little Book of Therapeutic Rationality provides 300 quotations to help people improve their mental health in small 'bite-sized' chunks. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on what Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) has to contribute to mental well-being. The second part provides brief reflections on common emotional problems and how they can be addressed. The third part focuses on the therapeutic change process and provides encouragement to people who have embarked on this process to stay the course. The final part of the book covers a variety of general ...

Nick Ortner es autor, conferencista internacional y uno de los mejores maestros de “Tapping” en el mundo, método comprobado que enseña, paso a paso, cómo solucionar cualquier problema físico o emocional.

Der neue Bestseller von Nobelpreisträger Daniel Kahneman. Warum treffen wir, je nach Umständen, völlig unterschiedliche Entscheidungen auf ein und derselben Faktengrundlage? Wieso kommen zwei Experten, die über identische Informationen verfügen, zu komplett anderen Schlussfolgerungen? Zusammen mit Cass Sunstein und Olivier Sibony präsentiert Daniel Kahneman die Vielzahl von oft zufälligen Faktoren, die unsere Entscheidungsfindung stören und häufig negativ beeinflussen - sie sind im Begriff "Noise" zusammengefasst.

Candida and salicylate intolerance are often confused as the symptoms overlap. This book helps you discover if you are salicylate intolerant and gives you all the tools to deal with it. Includes foods to eat and to avoid along with meal, snack, and drink suggestions.

This book is a well-rounded introduction to the principles of critical thinking. The book provides tips and steps that are easy to follow, yet very effective in solving problems of all kinds. This guide is helpful to people of all walks of life. The techniques it provides are useful - cutting across careers, businesses, political and even the social arena. After listening to this book, you will be amazed at the amount of resources you can save just by making critical thinking part of your everyday life.

Muchos de nosotros asimilamos y procesamos información compleja todo el día, ya sea en el trabajo o en otro lugar. La capacidad de romper esa estructura compleja y presentarla en una versión simplificada a menudo es crucial para nuestro éxito, pero es algo de lo que muchos de nosotros carecemos. ¡Eso ha cambiado ahora! Este libro es ideal para cualquiera que nunca haya oído hablar de modelos mentales antes, o para aquellos que no obtienen el máximo provecho de los que están usando actualmente.

This book is for the food-battle weary. If you've dieted for far too long without lasting results, if you long to feel normal around food, if you're sick of thinking about this food-thing—this book is for you. You can be free. Free from food-preoccupation, weight-anxiety, body-hatred, rigid food-rules, and using food to numb uncomfortable emotions. Free to eat the foods you enjoy AND live in a body you enjoy. Free to be consistently peaceful and balanced around food.

When a dental emergency happens and professional care is out of reach, what do you do? Whether you're deep in the wilderness, traveling in remote areas, or facing a severe toothache on a holiday weekend, knowing how to manage dental problems on your own can make all the difference. In Emergency Dental Care – Pain Relief and Problem Management, survival expert Jack X. Wilder shares essential, real-world strategies to handle unexpected dental issues with confidence.

Do games hold the secret to better productivity? If you’ve ever found yourself engrossed in Angry Birds, Call of Duty, or a plain old crossword puzzle when you should have been doing something more productive, you know how easily games hold our attention. Hardcore gamers have spent the equivalent of 5.93 million years playing World of Warcraft while the world collectively devotes about 5 million hours per day to Angry Birds. A colossal waste of time? Perhaps. But what if and use it for more creative and valuable pursuits?

My personal and professional experience helping addicts for the last 20 years are combined in Death to Addiction. Putting death to my addictions by applying the strategies in this audiobook changed my life and will do the same for you.

In Find Who You Were Born to Be, you'll have it. I'll take you through some of the most influential and well-known personality-related studies, provide you their framework, and give you all the information necessary on how to deepen your knowledge about who you were born to be, and how you can become your best and happiest self.

In Life Finds a Way, biologist Andreas Wagner reveals the deep symmetry between innovation in biological evolution and human cultural creativity. Rarely is either a linear climb to perfection - instead, "progress" is typically marked by a sequence of peaks, plateaus, and pitfalls. For instance, in Picasso's 40-some iterations of Guernica, we see the same combination of small steps, incessant reshuffling, and large, almost reckless, leaps that characterize the way evolution transformed a dinosaur's grasping claw into a condor's soaring wing.

You will never come across a business person who wishes for his or her business to end when he or she leaves. If an organization chooses not to embrace change, it will have no customers because people only buy things that meet their needs. For this reason, an organization needs to ensure that it stays ready for what is to come. The way to do this is to continually sharpen own tools by creating a learning environment so that own employees learn all business and change-related tricks to help them maneuver the business world.