Needles Herbs Gods and Ghosts or 64 Ways to Beat the Blues

Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848

Author: Linda L Barnes

When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing? Barnes traces this story through the mid-nineteenth century, in both Europe and, eventually, the United States. She has unearthed numerous examples of Western missionaries, merchants, diplomats, and physicians in China, Europe, and America encountering and interpreting both Chinese people and their healing practices, and sometimes adopting their own versions of these practices.

A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.

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64 Ways to Beat the Blues

Author: Yolanda Nav

You're low. Really low. Haven't gotten off the couch all weekend. Stopped returning phone calls. It feels like the sun will never shine again, and you're living on chocolate and bad TV. There's Prozac, of course, but who can be bothered going to the doctor? What you need is immediate help. You need cheering up. And here it is.

Clever, witty, full of comfort and sympathy, 64 Ways to Beat the Blues offers instantaneous relief through the gift of laughter. Written and illustrated in full-color by Yolanda Nave--author of Breaking Up and Welcome to Our Company, together with 314,000 copies in print--it's a been-there, done-that guide to getting out of the dumps and getting on with your life. Try a pet--and watch him eat your rug. Phone a friend--though not one living in Paris while you're stuck in a snowstorm. Take in a funny movie--if you can stop crying long enough to laugh. Go shopping (and pretend you're not already wearing the push-up bra), find a good shrink (who won't fall asleep), or buy a brand new car (and tick off each payment). The situations are instantly recognizable, and whether the blues are seasonal, occupational, hormonal, or matrimonial, Yolanda Nave knows what it takes to laugh them away.

The Power of Sound or Living Well with Parkinsons

The Power of Sound: How to Manage Your Personal Soundscape for a Vital, Productive, and Healthy Life with CD (Audio)

Author: Joshua Leeds

Discover firsthand in this book/CD set the powerful effects sound has on you and learn to customize your own soundscape for a better quality of life.

• Sound pioneer Joshua Leeds shows how to use music to reduce stress, enhance learning, improve performance, and address conditions as diverse as dyslexia and depression.

• Includes accompanying CD featuring musical examples designed to induce specific mental states such as relaxation, receptivity, concentration, and creativity.

• Includes detailed guides for musicians and healthcare professionals

What we hear--and how we process it--has a far greater impact on our daily living than we realize. From the womb to the moment we die we are inescapably surrounded by sound, and what we hear can either energize or deplete our nervous systems. It is no exaggeration to say that what goes into our ears can harm us or heal us.

In The Power of Sound Joshua Leeds explores the importance of healthy auditory function. He investigates how noise- or stress-induced auditory dysfunction may result in difficulties in learning, communication, and social interactions, and he explains new techniques designed to invigorate auditory skills. The accompanying CD of psychoacoustically refined classical music provides immediate examples of the benefits of music explained in the book. Readers can experience the effects of a variety of sounds and begin the life-enhancing design of their own soundscapes.

Midwest Book Review

Readers will find that The Power of Sound gives them all the information and techniques they need to use their own marvelous ears and sound to enhance their lives...

Anabeth Cox

In this fascinating book, Joshua Leeds discusses the work done by Tomatis and Doman to stimulate the ear and, hence, the body...

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Living Well with Parkinson's

Author: Glenna Wotton Atwood

The long-awaited update to the definitive guide to successfully living with Parkinson's disease

Known for its upbeat, informative, and inspirational guidance, Living Well with Parkinson's includes a wealth of up-to-date medical information for Parkinson's sufferers, who number over 1 million in the U.S. alone. Combined with the author's poignant personal account of her own struggles with the disease, this new edition features coverage of pallidotomy (a new surgical technique), the dramatic implications of recent genetic research, and new drugs and therapies. The book also includes tips on dealing with social services and elder law, maintaining a positive attitude, handling issues with spouses and children, and finding support groups.

Glenna Wotton Atwood, a former home economics teacher from Maine, lived with Parkinson's for over two decades until her death in 1998. Lila Green Hunnewell (Rockaway, NJ) is a freelance writer and editor. Roxanne Moore Saucier (Bangor, ME) is a journalist with the Bangor Daily News.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Dr. Robert G. Feldman.

Preface to the Second Edition by Blaine Atwood.

Preface to the First Edition.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1: Do Not Disturb!

Chapter 2: It’s Not Fair!

Chapter 3: Coping with Frustration: Practical Suggestions for Everyday Living.

Chapter 4: Nutrition That Affects Our Lives.

Chapter 5: Exercise, the Means to an Active Life.

Chapter 6: Attitude Makes All the Difference.

Chapter 7: Doctors and Other Health Professionals.

Chapter 8: Medications and Therapies.

Chapter 9: Spouses—Special and Otherwise.

Chapter 10: Relationships with Our Adult Children.

Chapter 11: Out of the Mouths of Babes . . . .

Chapter 12: One Day at a Time!

Chapter 13: With a Little Help from My Family and Friends.

Chapter 14: Support Groups: Where You Learn What Your Doctor Hasn’t Time to Tell You!

Chapter 15: Is There Life with Parkinson’s?

Appendix A: Parkinson’s Self-Help Organizations in the United States.

Appendix B: American Parkinson Disease Association Information and Referral Centers.

Appendix C: Parkinson’s Organizations in Canada.

Appendix D: Sources of Adaptive Equipment, Clothing, and Other Good Things.

Appendix E: Bibliography for Chapter 8: Medications and Therapies.

Appendix F: General Bibliography (Not Including Sources for Chapter 8).

Index.

Marabout or Refined To Real Food

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Author: Editors of Larousse Marabout

These smaller-format books give sixty tips on how to reach personal goals such as loosing weight, reducing stress, or dealing with headaches. Each two-page spread gives an overview, specific examples, sources of additional information, and a summary.

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Refined To Real Food: Moving Your Family Toward Healthier, Wholesome Eating

Author: Allison Anneser

It's easy to give in to the convenience of processed foods, in spite of the negative health effects that result from eating foods low in nutrients and high in additives. Many families today want to re-connect with real food, but the prospect of "going organic" is overwhelming, especially when children are involved.
Refined to Real Food is a step-by-step program to make the transition to the right food for our families. the result is a natural (and appealing) daily diet and a healthier family. Included in the book are chapters on feeding health food to children, recipes, and an extensive resource section.
A certified teacher with thirteen years of experience, Allison Anneser has worked extensively with children, parents and the community. Her networks of health experts and like-minded colleagues have provided important collaboration and feedback for her book from people who know and care about real food. Dr. Sara Thyr is a naturopathic doctor who has helped hundreds of people to experience better health by altering their eating habits.

The Selfish Brain or Stay Young with Tai Chi

The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction

Author: Robert L DuPont

In this country, drug addiction and alcoholism have reached crisis proportions. The grim statistics illuminate the size of this crisis. More than 30 million Americans alive today will become addicted. The use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs causes one out of every four deaths in the United States. Illegal drug use now costs the nation & #36;67 billion a year.

The Selfish Brain: Learning From Addiction takes a comprehensive, no-holds-barred look at the easy path to drug addiction and the tough road to recovery. Written in an easy-to-understand style, this book can help people confront addiction in their own lives and in their families by exploring the biological roots of addiction and the way addicts are allowed to deny their addiction by compassionate, well-meaning people. Based on his experience as a specialist on addiction and as a policymaker, former drug czar Robert L. DuPont, M.D., advocates & ldquo;tough-love& rdquo; measures to strip away the denial that allows addicts to remain trapped in their destructive habit and place them on the road to recovery. He examines treatment options, especially 12-step programs, which he believes are the most effective path to recovery. Powerful and often controversial, The Selfish Brain provides an honest examination of an insidious, destructive disease.

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Stay Young with Tai Chi

Author: Ellae Elinwood

Tai chi is widely embraced as the

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Journey into Day or When Life Stinks

Journey into Day: Meditations for New Cancer Patients

Author: Rusty Freeman

Author Rusty Freeman has survived bouts with cancer—twice. In this spiritual guide for cancer patients, his focus is on surviving today. Freeman weaves his personal experiences with passages from Scripture to help other cancer patients identify with emotions and practical issues they will face, including depression, fear of death and the unknown, and dealing with people who just don't know what to say or how to relate to those struggling with cancer. Whether the reader is facing a fresh diagnosis, surgery, prolonged and painful treatment, or even the after-struggles of remission, these meditative insights and recommended Scripture passages will be a an uplifting but realistic source of encouragement for those facing a battle with cancer.

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When Life Stinks: How to Deal with Your Bad Moods, Blues, and Depression

Author: Michel Piquemal

Sunscreen(tm): A series that offers good advice in an appealing, portable package>

Ten percent of teenagers suffer from clinical depression and sixty percent of high schoolers have considered suicide. This timely and useful book examines dark moods and mental illness, and gives young people tools for coping, plus advice on when, where, and how to get help.

Publishers Weekly

Two new entries in the Sunscreen paperback series address drugs and depression: Drugs Explained: The Real Deal on Alcohol, Pot, Ecstasy, and More by Pierre Mezinski with Melissa Daly and Francoise Taud, illus. by Redge; and When Life Stinks: How to Deal with Your Bad Moods, Blues, and Depression by Michel Piquemal with Melissa Daly, illus. by Olivier Tossan. As with the previous titles, the volumes present accessible text, often against pastel backgrounds to break up the pages, along with inviting full-page and spot illustrations. The narratives present both sides to often provocative issues (such as whether or not tolegalize drugs), encouraging informed debate. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Francisca Goldsmith - KLIATT

Focusing on specific and well-defined topics such as becoming independent from parents, dealing with the topic of sex in conversations with peers, and identifying when mood swings are normal (however distressing), and addressing them in a paragraph or two on a page shared with colorful cartoon imagery, gives junior high readers an accessible place in which to search for the vocabulary and concepts they may need in order to talk or read about issues more substantively. The advice offered for dealing with parents and teachers is particularly prescient, although the assumption here is that the reader's parents are more likely to be protective than uninvolved. Layout, as well as the once-over-lightly tone, of this small book make it suited to browsing rather than research, even at an elementary level. The bibliography refers entirely to French titles, but the text is as oriented to contemporary US middle class kids as to any other demographic. While the cartoons are sweet, the preponderance of white faces may limit the book's appeal in some collections. There are extracts from teen writings included from about halfway through the book to its end. While not an essential purchase, this effort may be just the starting point some kids need when looking for explanations of their emotional turmoil. KLIATT Codes: J—Recommended for junior high school students. 2004, Abrams, Amulet, Sunscreen, 112p. illus. bibliog. index., Ages 12 to 15.

School Library Journal

Gr 6-10-This reassuring book will help readers to distinguish between age-appropriate feelings and more serious mood disturbances. Individual differences are emphasized as they contribute to emotional reactions and the ability to cope in challenging situations. Normal mood swings, striving for independence, physical changes, and frustration with parents and teachers are some of the topics that are explored. Recommendations for finding professional help when necessary are offered. The pleasing use of blocks of color and cartoon illustrations enhances the text. Web resources, hotlines, and an excellent index are included; the bibliography has only French titles. This book is similar in scope to Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman's Life Happens (Penguin, 1996). It offers brief coverage of specific challenges of growing up, treated more seriously than in Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens (Penguin, 2002). Using the common-sense suggestions provided, readers will more successfully navigate the turmoil of adolescence.-Sharon A. Neal, Alvernia College, Reading, PA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.