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Behavior Theory in Health Promotion Practice and Research: .

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Simons-Morton (Author), Kenneth R. McLeroy (Author), Monica L. Wendel (Author)Grounded in public health practice, this text offers a comprehensive study of the health behavior theories that are the foundation of all health education and promotion programs. Your students will come away with a clear understanding of essential relationships between human behavior and health, as well as the practical application of theory and approaches to health promotion re...

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Report copyright infringementby Dixie L. Dennis (Author)Many students wonder what it is like to die or how to cope when someone they love dies. Living, Dying, Grieving helps answer these important questions and provides a mature understanding of what death really is. Taking a "life education" approach, this book offers helpful tips and techniques for mastering a fear of death, suggests helpful ideas for taking care of the business of dying, and encourages students to live longer by adding exc...

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Report copyright infringementby Manish A. Shah (Author), Natasha A. Pinheiro (Author), Brinda Shah (Author)EMPOWER YOURSELF! About 21,700 Americans are diagnosed with stomach cancer each year and it occurs most often in people in their 60s and 70s. Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient with gastric cancer or a friend or relative of someone with cancer, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the patient's and doctor's views, this invaluable resource provides up-to-date, author...

100 Questions & Answers about Cervical Cancer: .

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Report copyright infringementby Don S. Dizon (Author), Michael L. Krychman (Author), Paul DiSilvestro (Author)The only text to provide both the patient fs and doctor fs views, 100 Questions & Answers About Cervical Cancer aims to provide a much needed primer for patients and their families and aims to address the questions most relevant to a woman following a diagnosis of pre-invasive changes or invasive cervical cancer. This text gives up-to-date, authoritative, practical answers to your...

100 Questions & Answers about Kidney Disease and Hypertension

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Report copyright infringementby Raymond R. Townsend (Author), Debbie Cohen-Stein (Author)Every year, high blood pressure causes more than 25,000 new cases of kidney failure in the United States. 100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Disease and Hypertension offers authoritative, up-to-date, practical answers about kidney disease, end-stage kidney failure, transplants, and dialysis. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this conditio...

Essentials of Public Health Communication: .

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Report copyright infringementby Claudia Parvanta (Author), David E. Nelson (Author), Sarah A. Parvanta (Author)The field of communications is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool in addressing the world's most imperative public health challenges. Effective communication in health campaigns can inform, empower, or persuade individuals to adopt healthier lifestyles as well as foster public debate and policy change. Featuring a full chapter on informatics, this book is devoted to the compe...

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Report copyright infringementby Allen St John (Author)The training journal that will help triatheletes go the distance! Triatheletes will find this spiral-bound diary the perfect tool to track and monitor their multi-sport training and conditioning progress. It's filled with instructional photos and illustrations, including distance charts and exercises to prevent injuries.Back JacketSet goals - track progress - see results! Take your triathlon training program to the next level Training for...

Divine Posture Influence upon Endocrine Glands

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Report copyright infringementby Cajzoran Ali (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert M. Shelton (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Numb...

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Report copyright infringementby Eugen Sandow (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Boericke (Author), Oscar E. Boericke (Introduction by)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to t...

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The Art of Simpling: An Introduction to the Knowledge and Gathering of Plants

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Report copyright infringementby William Coles (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of...

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Report copyright infringementby Adelaide Gardner (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number...

The Seven from Heaven: The Miracle of the McCaughey Septuplets

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Report copyright infringementby Kenny McCaughey (Author), Bobbi McCaughey (Author), Gregg Lewis (With)Seven from Heaven is the amazing story of the famous septuplets and thecourage of a family that changed medical history. This story of simplefaith recounts the events leading up to, during, and following thebirths of the only living septuplets in the world. Tradepaper conversion. Hardcover originally released in 1998. Number of Pages: 306 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN...

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Report copyright infringementby Nicole Markotic (Author) Literary and filmic depictions of the disabled reinforce an "ableist" ideology that classifies bodies as normal or abnormal--positive or negative. Disabled characters are often represented as aberrant or evil and are isolated or incarcerated. This book examines language in film, fiction and other media that perpetuates the representation of the disabled as abnormal or problematic. The author looks at depictions of disability--both dispa...

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Report copyright infringementby Chloe Atkins (Author), Bonnie Blair O'Connor (Foreword by), Brian D. Hodges (Afterword by)How Patients ThinkAt age twenty-one, Chloë Atkins began suffering from a mysterious illness, the symptoms of which rapidly worsened. Paralyzed for months at a time, she frequently required intubation and life support. She eventually became quadriplegic, dependent both on a wheelchair and on health professionals who refused to believe there was anything physically wrong wit...

The Rewired Brain: Free Yourself of Negative Behaviors and Release Your Best Self

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Report copyright infringementby Ski Chilton (Author), Margaret Rukstalis (Author), A. J. Gregory (Author)Most of us don't realize we have a surprising amount of control over our own thoughts and behaviors. While unconscious feelings and reactions from our past can unintentionally influence our behaviors negatively, we also have a great capacity to call upon the parts of our brain responsible for intentional choices in order to end destructive cycles. The ReWired Brain shows readers how to ref...

Watch Your Back!: How the Back Pain Industry Is Costing Us More and Giving Us Less--And What You Can Do to Inform and Empower Yourself in Seeking Trea

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Report copyright infringementby Richard A. Deyo (Author)Over the past twenty years, treatment of back pain has become ever more expensive and intensive. Use of MRI scans, narcotic painkillers, injections, and invasive spine surgery have all grown by several hundred percent. In some areas of medicine, newer treatments have improved quality and duration of life, but as back pain is treated more aggressively, annual surveys of people with back pain report steadily worse impairments. In Watch You...

The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy R. MD Jennings (Author)While growing older is inevitable, many of the troubles we associate with aging--including dementia, disability, and an increased dependence on others--are not. The choices we make now can help us to maintain our vitality, a sharp mind, and our independence as we age.Filled with simple, everyday actions we can take to avoid disease, promote vitality, and prevent dementia and late onset Alzheimer's, The Aging Brain is an easy-to-us...

Staying Dry: A Practical Guide to Bladder Control

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Report copyright infringementby Kathryn L. Burgio (Author), K. Lynette Pearce (Author), Angelo J. Lucco (Author)Staying Dry is the highly acclaimed book that offers help to the millions of adult Americans who suffer from urinary incontinence--the involuntary passing of urine. Based on a program developed at the National Institute on Aging in association with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, it combines medical advice with an action plan that can help you solve an incontinence ...

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Report copyright infringementby Tanya Titchkosky (Author)Argues for change in the meaning society ascribes to disability, seeing it as a useful life experience that affects all of society, rather than a temporary or chronic problem for the individual to overcome. Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 0.85 x 9.16 x 6.02 IN Publication Date: February 22, 2003

One in Three: A Son's Journey Into the History and Science of Cancer

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Report copyright infringementby Adam Wishart (Author)"Calming and illuminating . . . A story more gripping than frightening."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times Writer and documentary director Adam Wishart's poignant and timely book on cancer is the first of its kind--a seamless blend of memoir and medical history that simultaneously explains science in an elegant, non-intimidating way and connects to the experience of being a patient. When his father was diagnosed with cancer, Wishart couldn'...

Caring for the World: A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Drain (Author), Stephen A. Huffman (Author), Sara Pirtle (Author)Caring for the World assembles the stories, experience, and advice of prominent global health practitioners in this inspired guidebook for health care workers who are interested in - or already are - improving the lives of people throughout the world.Back Jacket'Caring for the World is an excellent resource for both beginners and experienced workers in the field of Global Health. Filled with ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sonya Huber (Author)Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn't worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber's ir...

Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals about What We Do and Why

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas E. Hough (Author)The health care industry in the U.S. is peculiar. We spend close to 18% of our GDP on health care, yet other countries get better results--and we don't know why. To date, we still lack widely accepted answers to simple questions, such as "Would requiring everyone to buy health insurance make us better off?" Drawing on behavioral economics as an alternative to the standard tools of health economics, author Douglas E. Hough seeks to more ...

Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

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Report copyright infringementby Sadhguru (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Thought leader, visionary, philanthropist, mystic, and yogi Sadhguru presents Western readers with a time-tested path to achieving absolute well-being: the classical science of yoga. "A loving invitation to live our best lives and a profound reassurance of why and how we can."--Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element, Finding Your Element, and Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS ...

The Vulnerable Empowered Woman: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health

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Report copyright infringementby Tasha N. Dubriwny (Author)Winner of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender 2013 Outstanding Book Award Winner of the 2013 Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the Feminist and Women's Division of the National Communication Association The feminist women's health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is credited with creating significant changes in the healthcare industry and bringing women's health issues to public attention. Decades late...

The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care

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Report copyright infringementby John S. Haller (Author), Michael Flannery (Foreword by)Although scorned in the early 1900s and publicly condemned by Abraham Flexner and the American Medical Association, the practice of homeopathy did not disappear. Instead, it evolved with the emergence of holistic healing and Eastern philosophy in the United States and today is a form of alternative medicine practiced by more than 100,000 physicians worldwide and used by millions of people to treat everyday ...

The Longest Goodbye: A Family's Hope-Filled Journey Through Alzheimer's

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Report copyright infringementby Shelly Calcagno (Author)Are we ever ready to say goodbye? She looked out into the yard sprinkled with spring dandelions. "Yellow flowers," she said, searching for her words. We knew something wasn't right. That's when things began to fall apart for our family, when our longest goodbye journey began-the defining before-and-after moment. And now, looking back, it's been almost a decade of slow loss and drawn-out grief as we slowly let go of our beautiful mom. In...

Beasts of the Earth: Animals, Humans, and Disease

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Report copyright infringementby E. Fuller Torrey (Author), Robert H. Yolken (Author)Humans have lived in close proximity to other animals for thousands of years. Recent scientific studies have even shown that the presence of animals has a positive effect on our physical and mental health. People with pets typically have lower blood pressure, show fewer symptoms of depression, and tend to get more exercise. But there is a darker side to the relationship between animals and humans. Animals are ...

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Report copyright infringementby William Marsiglio (Author)In what ways do men think about and express themselves as procreative beings? Under what circumstances do they develop paternal identities? What is their involvement with partners during the pregnancy and delivery process, and how do they feel about it? In Procreative Man, William Marsiglio addresses these and other timely questions with an eye toward the past, present, and future. Drawing upon writings ranging from sociology to biomed...