Health Problems

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?

Tiene que decidirse: su familia y Nueva York, su novio y su amor por la música clásica. Pero entonces, ocurre un accidente. Ya nada será como antes. Y solo le queda una decisión: vivir o morir.

Seventeen-year-old Chloe had a plan: work hard, get good grades, and attend a top-tier college. But after she collapses during cross-country practice and is told that she needs a new heart, all her careful preparations are laid to waste. Eight months after her transplant, everything is different. Stuck in summer school with the underachievers, all she wants to do now is grab her surfboard and hit the waves - which is strange, because she wasn’t interested in surfing before her transplant. (It doesn’t hurt that her instructor, Kai, is seriously good-looking.)

Lenny (short for Eleanor) feels like the world is about to end. Her best friend is moving to San Francisco and her dad is dying. To cope with her stress, Lenny is making a list of all the ways the world can end - designer pathogens, blood moon prophecies, alien invasion - and stockpiling supplies in a bunker in the backyard. Then she starts to develop feelings for her dad's very nice young doctor - and she thinks he may have feelings for her, too. Spoiler alert: he doesn't.

The Aging Man’s Survival Guide provides male (and female) readers with comprehensive insights into the often-avoided and under-discussed subject of male aging. The book is dedicated to helping all men live their best possible lives by establishing that aging, while inevitable, can immensely enrich our journey. Through knowledge, acceptance, and optimism, life after 60 can be filled with excitement, happiness, love, and contentment. Topics include: • Tell-tale signs of aging and how to deal with them. • How to navigate shifts in societal perception. • Recognizing male health issues ...

Are you frustrated by your struggle with infertility? Have you tried everything, and yet nothing has worked? Would you like to go the natural route instead of using potential harmful drugs? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, this book was written for you. Fertility problems can cause frustrations and pain. I've personally witnessed marriages fall apart because of how big this issue became in their relationship. What once was a deep, burning love turned into hate and sleepless nights.

Hazel ha sedici anni, ma ha già alle spalle un vero miracolo: grazie a un farmaco sperimentale, la malattia che anni prima le hanno diagnosticato è ora in regressione. Ha però anche imparato che i miracoli si pagano: mentre lei rimbalzava tra corse in ospedale e lunghe degenze, il mondo correva veloce, lasciandola indietro, sola e fuori sincrono rispetto alle sue coetanee, con una vita in frantumi in cui i pezzi non si incastrano più.

Do you often suffer from the fear of making the wrong decision? Find that emotions get the better of you when it’s time to think? Or maybe you’re just looking to take your thinking skills to the next level? If this sounds all too familiar, then this book just might be for you. Like many people, you might often feel that your lack of ability to think and make good decisions is something that can’t be changed, and criticism from others has taken its toll your confidence.

In No Sugar, No Problem, you will discover the reasons why sugar can contribute to weight gain. Knowing the concept first will help you understand the whole process.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, can lead to a series of consequences that prevent a good quality of life, if not treated properly. From problems with social interaction, to physical symptoms, they are consequences of ADHD that make it difficult for a person to live and feel good. However, this may change. It is the most complete book of its kind. If you are wondering why to buy this audiobook and not another one, the answer is simple: it is the most complete.

When 18-year-old Becky Andrews is diagnosed with the degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa, she finally understands her childhood challenges of softball strikeouts, notorious clumsiness, and why she's never been able to see the stars. As her vision narrows, she must give up driving and accept her need for a mobility cane. In the process, she learns to embrace her new identity as a blind woman, one step at a time.

This mini-book is the result of over forty years study and writing in the self-help field with the ultimate goal finally being achieved of simplifying this often complex subject matter. It’s a book that brings new empowering information written in a way that anybody can understand and benefit from. It may only be a thirty minute read but that’s all it needs to be, your life will never be the same again after you have read it. Then if you follow the simple technique described you will open the door to limitless possibilities. I guarantee you will wish you could have found this book ...

Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, and this time things will be different. She's making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles, the guy who makes her melt every time he walks into a room. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time...well, last time things got ugly.

All She wants is a normal life. Diagnosed with a rare and untreatable heart condition, Scarlet has come to terms with the fact that she's going to die. Literally of a broken heart. It could be tomorrow, or it could be next year. But the clock is ticking…All Scarlet asks is for a chance to attend high school - even if just for a week - a chance to be just like everyone else. But Scarlet can feel her heart beating out of control with each slammed locker and vicious taunt. Is this normal? Really? Yet there's more going on than she knows.

Taking behavioral economics from the cocktail party to the boardroom, with dramatic results Books like Predictably Irrational and Nudge have brought behavioral economics into the mainstream. But while we all marvel at how different-and weird-real people behave compared to the "rational actors" of traditional economics, in the end we go back to business as usual.

Jessica McMillian and Jeremy Travino are a perfect couple. But now Jessica has been diagnosed as having kidney failure. She is on dialysis three days a week and is so depressed that she's not sure she wants to live. Her one hope for a normal life is a kidney transplant, but she's an only child and her parents aren't suitable donors. Jeremy is determined to donate one of her kidneys to her, but his parents are terrified of losing their only child. Will Jeremy find the strength to go against his parents' wishes and do what he must to save Jessica?

Apply systems thinking in your problem solving, decision making, and strategic planning without the need to become a technical professional. Think in Systems is a concise information manual offering high-level problem-solving methods for personal and global issues. The guide presents the main features of systems thinking in an understandable and everyday manner, helping you to develop this skill top analysts and world leaders use.

Are you a parent, counselor or educator looking to equip your teens with the resilience and grit necessary to conquer life's inevitable challenges? Or perhaps you're a young adult, wrestling with self-doubts and hurdles, craving to unlock your full potential? Here's a harsh reality - The lack of a growth mindset can breed a fear of failure, damage self-esteem, and even limit problem-solving capabilities. Simply put, without a growth mindset, teens are holding themselves back from reaching their true potential.

Have you lost the seep habit? Do you wake more tired than when you went to bed? Sound familiar? You're not alone! Millions of people around the world suffer from this crushing, debilitating health problem. It could be for any number of reasons - thankfully this book provides answers for you! Insomnia is one of the most common issues in our modern society that can easily lead to a spiral of unhappiness together with both physical and mental illness. That’s why I’ve written this book for you!

With self-deprecation and surprising wit, Marla reveals what it's like to see the world through her eyes, how it feels to grow up "disabled" in a society where expectations are often based on perceived abilities, and what it means to compete at the world-class level despite the fact that - quite literally, for her - there is no finish line.