Baby Massage or Party Like a Rockstar

Baby Massage: Parent-Child Bonding through Touch

Author: Amelia D Auckett

This classic handbook now back in print—a fully illustrated, time-tested approach to the techniques and benefits of parent-child touch.The latest research on infant development shows that not only is baby massage a pleasurable way to express love and establish an emotional bond between parent and child—it also has direct and crucial effects on the physical growth of infants. Over 30 b/w photos and drawings. With an introduction by Dr. Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Baby Massage includes information on:

• the process of bonding and body contact
• the positive effects of touch on premature babies
• how baby massage can heal the effects of birth trauma
• how baby massage can alleviate colic

Author Biography: Amelia D. Auckett has headed the Infant Welfare Centre in Frankston, Victoria, Australia as a trained and practicing nurse and has taught baby massage through lectures and workshops at hospitals, institutes, and universities since 1977. Tiffany Field, Ph.D. is Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where she directs the Touch Research Institute. She is the author of Touch (MIT Press).

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Party Like a Rockstar: Even When You're Poor as Dirt

Author: Camper English

Yesterday I ate two free meals, took two free shuttles, made a bunch of personal copies on someone else's machine, received a comped CD in the mail and saw the Stereolab show from the VIP section while sucking back complimentary top-shelf drinks.

After being laid off from his job as a computer programmer, freelance writer Camper English had to learn to make do on the salary of, well, a freelance writer. During the next two years, he discovered his social life wasn't impeded at all. "I was going out, drinking up and getting down without spending much of anything." In this book, English lays out the kind of financial advice we all need. I mean, who really cares what color your parachute is or where your cheese is? Just find out how to get designer duds for under 10 bucks, eat for free so you have more money for alcohol, get on the most exclusive guest lists, get into screenings and generally live fabulously for next to nothing!

Camper English has written for Instinct, Unzipped and The San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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Freelance writer English's unique financial advice compendium is destined to be read by many twentysomethings. Offered here are self-tested strategies on getting into clubs for free, shopping for new clothes, obtaining discounts on concerts, and dating on the cheap. Although some of his recommendations push the envelope-e.g., bring your own flask into a club to strengthen a weak drink-others are quite practical (wear one shirt eight ways) and humorous (rid your medicine cabinet of hemorrhoid creams before a party). English also includes tips on earning extra income and finding educational discounts along with web search terms for finding free local events. Recommended for any library with a substantial 18- to 30-year-old population. In a similar vein, Favreau maintains that there is a shortcut for every activity. Based on the latest research and the opinions of experts in a variety of fields, his book explains how to streamline common tasks like planning a vacation and negotiating a dispute. For entertainment value, he also throws in shortcuts for climbing Mount Everest, achieving marital bliss, and getting invited to dinner at the White House. The writing is straightforward and practical in its own way. Not essential but fun. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Cancer and Faith or Dim Maks 12 Most Deadly Katas

Cancer and Faith: Reflections on Living with a Terminal Illness

Author: John Tully Carmody

Cancer and Faith is particularly valuable for those facing a serious illness, and for those who love them. It provides an intimate and hope filled picture of a renewed, life giving relationship with God in the face of imminent death.

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Dim-Mak's 12 Most Deadly Katas: Points Of No Return

Author: Erle Montaigu

In this book, Master Erle Montaigue offers students quick, concise training in the 12 most deadly forms of dim-mak, based on the powerful points along the acupuncture meridians. Also learn to respond to attacks with 12 corresponding free-sparring techniques, or san sau. For academic study only.

16 Myths of a Diabetic Diet or The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet

16 Myths of a Diabetic Diet

Author: Karen Hanson Chalmers

In the absence of proper nutrition education, many people with diabetes have come to believe things about the relationship between food and diabetes that are not true. 16 Myths of a Diabetic Diet addresses the most commonly held myths about food and diabetes, explains the origins of the misconceptions, and offers breakthrough methods for establishing a healthy, enjoyable diet. Each chapter features a case example set as a dialogue between a patient and a dietitian, and includes tips on successfully addressing the dietary issue in question

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The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet: The Proven Program for Lasting Weight Loss through Fat-Burning Foods

Author: Cathi Graham

Cathi Graham lost over 186 pounds and kept if off for more than 20 years with a simple diet secret.

In 1982, Cathi Graham tipped the scales at 326 pounds and her doctor scribbled three words on her medical chart that would forever change her life: "patient morbidly obese." Horrified, she began intensive research and discovered the power of thermogenic foods—foods that stimulate your metabolism and help you burn fat.

The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet explains this revolutionary way to lose weight, and helps you create an overall plan to reduce your weight for a healthier life. Thermogenic foods, such as hot peppers, apple cider vinegar, salsa, and celery, help you lose weight no matter what your body type.

Complete with inspirational stories from people who have lost weight on the diet, The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet provides an eating plan to fit your specific needs and body type, including a special program to help end emotional eating.

A literal life-saver for people dealing with a diagnosis of morbid obesity as well as an effective diet for anyone who wants to shed pounds, The Fresh Start Thermogenic Diet is a tried and trusted way to lose weight and keep it off. 15 photos.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Cathi’s Story

PART I HARNESSING THE POWER OF THERMOGENIC FOODS

Chapter 1: What Are Thermogenic Foods?

Chapter 2: How to Make Thermogenic Foods Work for You

Chapter 3: Other Foods to Rev Up Your Metabolism

PART II DIETING FOR YOUR BODY TYPE

Chapter 4: Are You an Apple or a Pear?

Chapter 5: The Carbo Cleanout Plan for Apple Body Types

Chapter 6: The Glycemic Plan for Pear Body Types

PART III MAKING THE DIET WORK FOR YOU

Chapter 7: How to End Emotional Eating

Chapter 8: The Importance of Exercise

Chapter 9: How to Maintain Your Energy and Beauty

PART IV RECIPES FOR THE THERMOGENIC DIET

Chapter 10: Recipes Featuring Thermogenic Foods

Chapter 11: Recipes for the Carbo Cleanout Plan

Chapter 12: Recipes for the Glycemic Plan

Food Journal

Thermogenic Foods

Glycemic Index

Resources and Suppliers

Sources and References

Index

About the Author

Live Free from Asthma and Allergies or Cesarean Recovery

Live Free from Asthma and Allergies: Use the BioSET System to Detoxify and Desensitize Your Body

Author: Ellen W Cutler

Why Simply Alleviate Asthma and Allergy Symptoms When You Can address the root causes? In Live Free from Asthma and Allergies, Dr. Ellen Cutler introduces the Bioenergetic Sensitivity and Enzyme Therapy (BioSET) system, a method of reprogramming the body's response to foods and environmental factors to provide real relief without the use of medication. This comprehensive manual explains how to use the BioSET system to treat yourself at home. Combining enzyme therapy with proper nutrition and a noninvasive desensitization technique that utilizes acupressure meridian points to fully clear and reprogram most sensitivities, this holistic program will free you from sniffles, sneezing, and wheezing for good.

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Cesarean Recovery

Author: Chrissie Gallagher Mundy

The complete guide to a healthy recovery from the effects of C-section birthing.

Almost 1 out of 4 deliveries is by cesarean section. Whether or not the procedure is planned, cesarean section must be considered major abdominal surgery and surgical recovery is a necessary process towards complete healing.

Cesarean Recovery guides new mothers through the healing process in conjunction with her medical care. The new mother will discover when and how to start her recovery -- from her first attempts at sitting up in the hospital bed, through to standing and on to mastering her first exercises.

This special guide includes straightforward and detailed information on:

• Safe and effective exercises for regaining pre-pregnancy shape


• Regaining vitality and strength with daily and weekly exercise routines


• Fun-to-do and effective routines that include mother and baby


• Diet, breastfeeding and postpartum problems


• Incision care and advice for repeat cesarean sections

Written in an accessible style and illustrated with color photography throughout, Cesarean Recovery shows mothers, step-by-step, how to recover from the surgery as they care for their newborn.

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Reviewer: Marguerite Ann Fauber, BSN (Union Hospital)
Description: This book describes the physical and emotional stages a woman goes through in the hours and weeks following her birth experience and focuses on ways the woman can help herself recover through proper body mechanics, exercise, nutrition, and relaxation done at specific times during her postpartum period. The format of the book uses an index along the sides of the pages making it easy for the reader to find specific topics.
Purpose: The purpose is to help guide mothers through different stages of their recovery from a cesarean birth. There is particular emphasis on the physical recovery and exercises. This is needed information, as there are specific issues related to exercise after major abdominal surgery. This book meets the author's objectives very well with both description and illustrations.
Audience: This book is written for the woman who is recovering from a cesarean birth. It is written in a clear, concise, understandable way. There is not much information about the author, other than she is the director of The London Academy of Personal Fitness in London and is a qualified instructor of pre- and post-natal exercise and is the author of another book related to weight loss and exercise.
Features: This book covers proper body mechanics, diet, and exercise in the first few hours, days and weeks following cesarean birth up to 24 weeks postpartum. Emotional issues related to recovery are also addressed. This book covers the aspects of physical recovery in an encouraging, practical, positive, step-by-step way. The book has very good illustrations of mothers and their babies with simple, easy to follow directions. Natural healing remedies are suggested as is a statement about alcohol and caffeine use during breastfeeding without any references cited about the safety of using them. There's little information about the bottle feeding mother. Also, in the last pages of the book repeat cesarean and VBAC issues are addressed and the author gives information without citing any sources or references.
Assessment: This well written book gives general information about cesarean birth and covers the physical recovery thoroughly. The day-week format with many pictures and tables gives the book eye appeal and makes for easy reading. This book covers emotional, nutritional, and physical recovery all in one concise resource. However, it would have more credibility if the author would cite expert references and her own degrees or certifications.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Introduction


1. Having a cesarean


• Elective cesarean


• Emergency cesarean


• The procedure


• The incisions


• Anesthesia


• The first 24 hours


• Breastfeeding


• Early breastfeeding procedures





2. Going home


• The first post-operative week


• Moods and depression


• Days 1-4


• Days 4-7


• Ready to leave hospital


• Being at home


• Psychological adjustments





3. Weeks 2-12


• Caring for your incision


• Healthy eating


• Weeks 2-6


• Weeks 7-12


• Your postpartum check





4. Weeks 13-24


• Weeks 13-24


• Exercises for you and your baby


• Walking and jogging





5. Return to normal


• Your pelvic floor


• Posture pointers


• How to build your program


• Learn to relax


• Repeat cesareans




Frequently asked questions

Index

Acknowledgments

The Obsession or Oncology

The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness

Author: Kim Chernin

The Obsession is a deeply committed and beautifully written analysis of our society's increasing demand that women be thin. It offers a careful, thought provoking discussion of the reasons men have encouraged this obsession and women have embraced it. It is a book about women's efforts to become thin rather than to accept the natural dimensions of their bodies--a book about the meaning of food and its rejection.

New York Times Book Review

Eloquently written, passionate in its rhetoric and consistently absorbing.

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Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach

Author: Alfred E Chang

Oncology: An Evidence-Based Approach is a textbook designed to reflect the principles and current practice of oncology with contributors from the fields of medical, surgical, and radiation oncology. The textbook will incorporate an evidence-based approach, enabling the reader to make decisions on the basis of concrete data. Sections on solid tumors, hematologic malignancies and the practice of oncology address the natural history and therapy for the full spectrum of neoplastic diseases in the adult. Further sections present fundamentals of supportive care of the cancer patient, the management of oncologic emergencies and acute toxicities of therapy, as well as care of metastatic disease and the terminally-ill patient. Breaking new ground, the textbook features thoughtful, in-depth sections on cancer prevention and control, cancer surviorship, the economics of cancer care, and cancer informatics. Cancer imaging is covered with an organ system-based approach, with an additional chapter on the especially intriguing potential of PET.  Furthermore, a comprehensive section on translational basic science reviews the fundamentals of molecular biology, the cell cycle and signal transduction, carcinogenesis, cancer genetics, the biology of invations and metastasis, and tumor immunology.

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Reviewer: Gary R. MacVicar, MD(Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)
Description: This is a comprehensive book of oncology which emphasizes current evidence pertaining to the clinical care of cancer patients.
Purpose: The editorial board of the book state in the preface that the purpose is to discuss relevant oncology topics with an emphasis on an evidence-based approach to assist the busy clinician in making management decisions which are founded on current literature. Given the large number of patients most clinicians see and the rapid development of new treatments in a number of malignancies, staying "current" is becoming increasingly more difficult. Therefore, a book that summarizes key trials and other clinical evidence in a concise yet comprehensive fashion is valuable. The book meets these objectives.
Audience: According to the editors, this book is relevant for all persons involved in the care of cancer patients including residents, fellows, and practicing oncologists, as well as allied health professionals. The book is appropriately written for this audience. Those with particular interests in prevention, supportive care, or survivorship in relation to cancer would also find this book relevant. The editors are leaders in various disciplines in oncology, and many chapter authors are recognized experts from leading institutions.
Features: A wide variety of topics is covered, including chapters on a comprehensive array of solid and hematologic malignancies. In addition, new, unique, and evolving topics are discussed with chapters on translational sciences, informatics, ethical issues, targetedtherapies, and PET imaging. Supportive oncology and survivorship topics are also included. Many of these chapters contain practical information which is relevant to clinicians. An evidence-based approach is emphasized throughout the book and an effort is made to present current evidence. Most chapters contain a number of useful tables and figures summarizing trial data and presenting clinically relevant information. Multimodality approaches are stressed as well.
Assessment: This is a useful addition to the existing standard oncology textbooks. With its emphasis on current evidence and its comprehensive nature, this is an excellent resource for clinicians seeking answers to clinical questions, updated information regarding current care of cancer patients, and insight into translational sciences, supportive care, and survivorship issues.