Screwtape or Tai Chi Chuan

Screwtape: : Letters on Alcohol

Author: Ira W Hutchison

Adapting C.S. Lewis's classic allegory, this book is a gathering of 33 instructional letters written between demons. With wit, insight and a fearless honesty, this book shows how alcohol addiction ravages human lives and relationships.

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T'ai Chi Ch'uan: The Internal Tradition

Author: Ron Sieh

T'ai Chi Ch'uan: The Internal Tradition is a clear and insightful approach to T'ai Chi, weaving mindfulness and body presence through stages of training and development of technique. Sieh's inquiry into the "fighting" aspect makes the emphasis on the internal or feeling style a powerful tool for bringing more integrity and clarity into our lives.

When Illness Strikes or Her Healthy Heart

When Illness Strikes: Let Edgar Cayce Help You Manifest Your Healing Response

Author: Elaine Hruska

What do you do when you get sick? Believe it or not, the answer can determine your recovery. Elaine Hruska has written a clear, concise book on healing and what it really means. While many books on health and healing are geared toward those who are not ill but trying to prevent illness, this book speaks directly to those who have been diagnosed with a sickness. It covers topics including the alternative causes of illness, such as attitudes or emotions; the modalities and treatments for illness ranging from homeopathic to conventional medicine; the thought that if we nourish the mind, the body will follow; and the belief that the choices we make can either help us in our healing or hinder our progress in getting better.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	vii
Chapter 1	Preparing the Soil: Understanding the Basics	1
Chapter 2	Sowing the Seeds: Holistic Concepts from the Cayce Readings	10
Chapter 3	Nurturing the Soul Body: Spirit Is the Life	28
Chapter 4	Nurturing the Mental Body: Mind Is the Builder	48
Chapter 5	Nurturing the Material Body: The Physical Is the Result	80
Chapter 6	Reaping the Harvest: The Fruits of Our Choices	117
Chapter 7	Being Channels of Blessing: Advice for Caregivers and Practitioners	154
	Appendix	175

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Her Healthy Heart: A Woman's Guide to Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease Naturally

Author: Linda Ojeda

With more women dying of heart disease than from all types of cancer combined, it is astonishing that the medical community understands far less about heart disease in women than it knows about the same condition in men. Because most of the available data on heart disease is based on research conducted on men, women and their doctors are forced to look for symptoms and risk factors that may be different or not charted in traditional medicine. Linda Ojeda's book is a valuable resource, telling women how to prevent heart disease without hormone replacement therapy or other medications.

Her Healthy Heart provides detailed information on how women can reduce their risk of heart disease by making changes in diet, increasing physical activity, and managing stress. It is designed for women who wish to combine Western medicine with complementary natural options. Individual chapters discuss fat, fiber, protein, B-vitamins, and antioxicants (which Ojeda refers to as "The Secret Weapon"). The book features Ojeda's 50-item lifestyle questionnaire so women can evaluate their current physical and emotional health and pinpoint areas to begin working on.

Stress and Your Child or I Remain in Darkness

Stress and Your Child

Author: Archibald D Hart

Stress can make kids moody, resentful, insecure, and even sick. This book is an invaluable resource for stress-management that will enhance kids' lives today-and may save their lives tomorrow. It offers insight on dealing with everyday stress and provides examples of simple things that can be done to safeguard against stress overload and the mental and health problems that come with too much stress.

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I Remain in Darkness

Author: Annie Ernaux

Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of her mother's steady decline spans a period of nearly three years. When her mother first becomes ill, Ernaux takes her in. Soon, it becomes painfully obvious that professional help is needed. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, her mother enters a nursing home, never to leave. As it explores the complexities of death and parent-child role reversal, Ernaux's latest work takes its place on the shelf beside John Bayley's Elegy for Iris and Roger Kamenetz's Terra Infirma. "As revealed by Ernaux, the details of a loved one's deterioration have such emblematic force and terror that the particular becomes universal." - The New York Times Book Review

Library Journal

Unlike Aaron Alterra's The Caregiver (LJ 10/15/99), this slim volume by noted French writer Ernaux (Simple Passion) is not a straightforward medical account of her mother's death from Alzheimer's; instead, it is a collection of the notes, in their original form, that Ernaux jotted down at the time of her mother's illness. "When I write down all these things, I scribble away as fast as I can (as if I felt guilty), without choosing my words." Here in their raw, uncensored form are the "vestiges of pain"--the anger, guilt, and grief that Ernaux felt during her mother's two-year decline. Here are the graphic images of her once-powerful mother wearing diapers, the woman in the next bed peeing on the floor, a drawer in the bedside table filled with a human turd. Because the notes have not been edited, there is a choppy, unpolished feel to the book, which is perhaps Ernaux's intention--as a possible counterpoint to A Woman's Story (1991), her fictionalized memoir of her mother's life and death. For literary and Alzheimer's collections.--Wilda Williams, "Library Journal" Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A small, powerful, and overwritten memoir of a mother's slow deterioration and death in a nursing home. Ernaux is a prize winning author (A Man's Place, 1992, also translated by Leslie) whose mother had been strict, controlling, but loving. When her aging, widowed mother first fell ill, Ernaux took her home. However, as her mother's senility turned into mind-wasting Alzheimer's disease, the author had her placed in an old-age home, where she visited and wrote this journal. This emotionally charged scenario has been handled before, notably in Rodger Kamenetz's Terra Infirma (1998). Erneaux's memoir is at its most effecting when describing details, such as her mother losing her glasses, dentures, modesty, posture, and possessiveness—rather than telling us she's losing her mind and body. Too often, however, poignant scenes are dampened by the memoirist's insistence on spelling things out. She precedes the heartbreaking realization that her mother "thinks that I have come to take her away and that she is going to leave this place" with the neon signs indicating that "it's beyond sadness" and promising "painful moments." Her disheveled mother is soiled with excrement, has to be spoon-fed, her right hand "grasping the left like an unknown object," yet Ernaux remarks: "I have no idea what she thought of sex or how she made love." The author is either in deep trouble or is French. Readers of all nationalities will sympathize with Ernaux's having to be her mother's mother, the good and bad memories of her girlhood evoked by these horrific scenes and emotions, and her tortured feelings of guilt in moments when she hates this former provider for draining her so. The pain doesn't ease atjournal's end, when Ernaux's mother abruptly passes away. The impact of this courageous, sometimes unsubtle little book is sure to not pass away quickly.

Meals That Heal for Babies and Toddlers or Dr Earl Mindells Unsafe at Any Meal

Meals That Heal for Babies and Toddlers

Author: Eileen Behan

For most childhood illnesses, rest and sound nutrition are the best medicine. When your little ones are ill, the foods you serve can alleviate their symptoms and even speed their recovery. But how do you know what to feed your ailing baby or toddler? What best soothes a sore throat, eases nausea, or relieves your baby's teething pains? Here Eileen Behan, registered dietitian, professional nutritionist, and mother of two, provides the answers. You'll discover:

• Comfort food classics like rice pudding and cinnamon toast
• Nutritious fluids and soups to soothe the symptoms of a common cold
• Easily digestible foods that can relieve an upset stomach
• Imaginative, no-sugar-added snacks for healthier teeth
• Iron-rich dishes, and foods that aid iron absorption
• High-fiber muffins, breads, dips, and desserts for regularity
• Fun foods with the right amount of cholesterol for growing bodies
• Just the right home remedies for fevers and flus
• Calming recipes for a good night's sleep

Eileen Behan explains the connection between food and common childhood illnesses from asthma to ear infections to headaches to vomiting—and gives you recipes for simple, delicious, kid-pleasing dishes that will actually help your child feel better faster.

Library Journal

Written especially for parents/care givers, this is another excellent book on the value of nutrition that will be highly useful when children are ill. Behan, a registered dietitian and mother (Cooking Well for the Unwell, LJ 5/1/96), has provided home-remedy nursing suggestions as well as recipes to use for common childhood illnesses, such as colds, nausea, ear infections, vomiting, sore throats, teething, asthma, upset stomachs, irregularity, fevers, and flus. This is an expansion of Cooking Well, which had a chapter on sick children. Included are tempting, low-cholesterol, low-sugar, low-fat, iron-rich, easily digested, high-fiber, and fun foods that will please kids and help make them well. Highly recommended for all health collections. [Index not seen.]Loraine F. Sweetland, Rebok Memorial Lib., Silver Spring, Md.

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Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal: How to Avoid Hidden Toxins in Your Food

Author: Earl Mindell

The ultimate health-defense guide for eating wisely and safely

Food manufacturers rely increasingly on the use of chemicals to produce larger crops and livestock and to extend the shelf lives of products. Foods once considered safe are being tagged as potential health hazards on a regular basis. Contaminated beef, orange juice carrying salmonella--the list continues to grow. The nearly 3,000 additives being concealed in food products can cause everything from asthma and headaches to heart problems, miscarriages, cancer, and more. Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal, a bestseller in its previous edition, is the consumer's best weapon against the hidden hazards in food, drink, herbs, and medicines.

Dr. Earl Mindell, one of America's leading nutrition experts, exposes the food industry's chemical cover-ups and provides crucial information on what to look out for when shopping, cooking, and taking medications. This thoroughly revised, updated edition includes coverage of genetically modified foods as well as foods designed to provide specific health benefits.

Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., has written extensively on health. A popular lecturer, he is an authority on nutrients, supplements, and natural health.

Hester Mundis is the author or coauthor of 26 books. She is a four-time Emmy nominee for outstanding achievement in writing.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	A Note to the Reader
1	The Lowdown on Labels	1
2	Those Unpronounceable Additives	25
3	Genetically Modified Food Fright	53
4	Is This Any Way to Start a Day?	65
5	Coffee, Tea, or Milk?	91
6	The Lunch Crunch	107
7	Scary Snacks	117
8	Think Before You Drink - Anything	141
9	For Whom the Dinner Bell Tools	157
10	The Hazards of "Health" and Healthy Foods	173
11	Cautions a la Carte	201
12	The Disease and Wellness Connection	229
13	May I Help You?	243
	Afterword	247
	Glossary	249
	Bibliography and Recommended Reading	261
	Index	265

Good End or American Cancer Society Consumers Guide to Cancer Drugs

Good End: End-of-Life Concerns and Conversations about Hospice and Palliative Care

Author: Michael Appleton

The prospect of dying can be overwhelming, whether it's happening to you, a family member, or a friend. In Good End, Dr. Michael Appleton addresses questions about hospice care and end-of-life issues with compassion and honesty. This is a must read for patients and families who are on hospice or considering hospice care.

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American Cancer Society Consumer's Guide to Cancer Drugs

Author: Gail Wilkes

Current knowledge of the drugs used in cancer care is critical for today's practicing nurse. Drugs covered are described in terms of their mechanism of action, metabolism, drug interactions, laboratory effects/interference, and special considerations. Potential toxicities, side effects, and the nursing process are detailed.