Health Studies

Heather Shumaker has sparked much discussion with her "renegade rules for raising competent and compassionate kids". In this follow-up book, she takes on new hot-button issues like banning homework, technology use, and skipping kindergarten. Shumaker offers broader guidance on how parents can control their own anger and move from an overscheduled life to one of more free play.

Modern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific compared to modern Western medicine. Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K'ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices using evidence-informed Indigenous healing practices and traditions from around the world - from sweat lodges and fermented foods to Ayurvedic doshas and meditation.

In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped 40 pounds, and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics.

Nursing Pharmacology Through Study Stanzas: Poetic Insights Into Medications Dive deep into the world of medications with the evocative power of poetry! "Nursing Pharmacology Through Study Stanzas" provides both students and healthcare professionals an innovative approach to understanding drugs. Every poem becomes a mnemonic, every verse a guide, making complex pharmacological concepts not only comprehensible but memorable.

Weaving together information from official sources and personal interviews, Barbara Tomblin gives the first full-length account of the US Army Nurse Corps in the Second World War. She describes how over 60,000 army nurses, all volunteers, cared for sick and wounded American soldiers in every theater of the war, serving in the jungles of the Southwest Pacific, the frozen reaches of Alaska and Iceland, the mud of Italy and northern Europe, or the heat and dust of the Middle East.

Playwright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body - how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body - a disconnection brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and her mother’s remoteness. “Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth,” she writes, “I could not feel or know their pain.” But Ensler is shocked out of her distance.

America’s high divorce rate is well known, but little attention has been paid to the flip side: couples who creatively (sometimes clandestinely) manage to build marriages that last longer than we ever thought possible. What’s the secret? To find out, best-selling journalist Iris Krasnow interviewed more than 200 wives whose marriages have survived for 15-70 years.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells – taken without her knowledge – became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta’s family did not learn of her ‘immortality’ until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .

Do you have a “ride or die chick” in your life? A “ride or die chick” is a Black woman who holds down her family and community. She’s that friend or family member that you can call up in the middle of the night to bail you out of jail, if ever needed, and you know she’ll show up and won’t ask any questions. She does anything for her family, friends, and significant other, even at the cost of her own well-being. “No” is not in her vocabulary. She’s beloved by you and many others, but her ride or die trope becomes a problem when she does it indiscriminately.

What does your brain have to do with experiencing joy? A lot more than most of us realize. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Earl Henslin reveals how the study of brain imaging turned his practice of psychotherapy upside down—with remarkably positive results. Listen to this practical, easy-to-understand, and often entertaining book, and you'll know exactly how to nourish your mind, balance your brain, and help others do the same. After all, the capacity for joy is a terrible thing to waste.

Sex Matters tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes - family breakdown, declining female happiness, aimlessness among men, and increasing inequality. Marshaling copious social science research as well as her own experience as a professional as well as a wife and mother, Mona Charen calls for a sexual ceasefire for the sake of women, men, and children.

You can prevent - and even reverse - bone loss. In this concise audiobook, you'll discover a wealth of information that will help you build and maintain healthy bones, no matter your age. Learn biblical secrets about health and the latest medical research on how to overcome osteoporosis. Dr. Colbert has taken the confusion away from osteoporosis and made it simple and easy to understand.

Want to expand your Korean vocabulary with almost no effort? Are you planning a trip to Asia? Or sharpening your skills for work? Just press play on this audiobook when you’re sleeping, meditating, or doing chores around the house. Learn new vocabulary while actively listening, or passively while you’re doing other things.

There is hope! You can overcome depression and anxiety. Do you suffer from depression or anxiety? In this concise, easy-to-listen-to audiobook, youll discover a wealth of information that will help you break free! Dr. Colbert has taken the confusion away from depression and anxiety and made them simple and easy to understand.

What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of “health care services” for the sake of the patient’s subjective well-being.

Lo-fi music is currently booming as the preferred soundtrack to listen to for students all around the world when they want to relax, chill, and focus on their work. This collection brings you five stunning lo-fi features that have been designed to provide the perfect soundtrack environment to get you in that study mode zone.

"What happens when a child prodigy becomes a prisoner of his own fame? This is not just another Michael Jackson biography. It’s an intimate journey into his childhood traumas, obsessions, and psychological battles, revealing how the King of Pop became a global enigma. Discover: The Human Cost of Fame: How Joseph Jackson’s abuse and music industry exploitation shaped his body dysmorphia, chronic insomnia, and addictions. Thriller as a Life Metaphor: Why songs like Billie Jean and Man in the Mirror mirror his paranoia, loneliness, and quest for redemption. Medical Secrets and Betrayals: ...

This is an audio summary of Eat Fat, Get Thin, a book that explains in detail why we are overweight, sick, tired, and dying before we should.

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally. You will learn to reach for the "ultimate step", which brings you face to face with your personal spirituality.

Bridging the gap between the world of science and the realm of the spiritual, Wallace, a pioneer of modern consciousness research, offers a practical and revolutionary method for exploring the mind that combines the keenest insights of contemporary physics and philosophers with the time-honored meditative traditions of Buddhism.