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Aging Wisely: Strategies for Baby Boomers and Seniors

Robert A. Levine M.D. · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Kindle Edition

Everyone ages. Not everyone ages well. Aging Wisely explains that much of what happens to our minds and bodies as we grow older depends on our approach to life and our attitudes and feelings about ourselves. Though there are elements beyond our control, we must take advantage of those things...
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The Dementia Caregiver: A Guide to Caring for Someone with Alzheimer's Disease and Other Neurocognitive Disorders

Marc E. Agronin · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 289
Format: Print book

Becoming a caregiver for someone with Alzheimer's disease or another neurocognitive disorder can be an unexpected, undesirable, underappreciated - and yet noble role. It is heartbreaking to watch someone lose the very cognitive capacities that once helped to define them as a person. But because...
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A Change of Appetite

Diana Henry · Mitchell Beazley
Format: Hardcover

What happened when one of today's best-loved food writers had a change of appetite? Here are the dishes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable-, fish-, and grain-based dishes - often inspired by the food...
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Healthy Dish of the Day

Kate McMillan · Weldon Owen
Format: Hardcover

What if a healthy lifestyle was as simple as incorporating one health-packed meal a day? Kate McMillan makes that possible with her latest book Healthy Dish of the Day.  Healthy Dish of the Day offers daily culinary inspiration for eating one healthy meal every day to keep you on the road...
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Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success

David B. Feldman · HarperWave
Format: Hardcover

Starting where resiliency studies leave off, two psychologists explore the science of remarkable accomplishment in the wake of trauma, revealing the surprising principles that allow people to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary things.Over four billion people worldwide will...
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Overcoming Shock: Healing the Traumatized Mind and Heart

Diane Zimberoff · New Horizon Press
Format: Print book

Whether it is suddenly losing a loved one, finding out your spouse is having an affair, learning that your child is using drugs, or discovering that a child has a major illness, shock is the bodys way of saying, I cant deal with this right now and I need a moment to collect myself. When...
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Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician

Sandeep Jauhar · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. Doctored, his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist. Hoping for the stability...
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Barron's Nursing School Entrance Exams, 5th Edition: HESI A2 / NET / NLN PAX-RN / PSB-RN / RNEE /TEAS

Sandra S. Swick R.N. B.C. Ed.D. C.M.S.R.N. · Barron's Educational Series
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

A multi-part model exam plus many shorter tests in each of this book's chapters will give nursing school applicants the review and test preparation they need before they take an actual nursing school entrance exam. Though entrance exams vary from one school to another, this manual offers...
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Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living: Awareness & Meditation Practices for Living in the Present Moment

Robert Butera · Llewellyn Publication
Pages: 364
Format: Print book

Enhance your awareness, achieve higher focus and happiness, and improve all levels of your health with the supportive practices in this guide to mindful living. Featuring over twenty-five leading meditation and mindfulness experts, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living shows you how to boost...
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The Alkaline Cure: Lose Weight, Gain Energy and Feel Young

Stephan Domenig · Harlequin Enterprises Ltd, 2014.
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

A clinically tested 14-day plan to help you lose weight, look younger and enhance your overall health. Our bodies can be classified as either acid or alkaline. To be healthy, feeling good and functioning well, our pH reading should be either neutral or slightly alkaline, between 7.3 and 7.5....
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It's Not Yet Dark: A Memoir

Simon Fitzmaurice · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

"Beautifully written. Utterly life-affirming." - Alan RickmanA luminous memoir in the tradition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and a #1 bestseller upon its initial release in Ireland, a young filmmaker gives us "a story of courage, of heart, of coming back for more,...
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Back to Butter: A Traditional Foods Cookbook - Nourishing Recipes Inspired by Our Ancestors

Molly Chester · Fair Winds Press
Format: Paperback

Welcome (Back) to Traditional Foods!What if butter and other “banished” foods like eggs, cream, and bacon had the inherent potential to restore our health and well-being—and that of future generations? It’s a pretty good question, isn’t it?Traditional foods...
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Sit Like a Buddha: A Pocket Guide to Meditation

Lodro Rinzler · Shambhala
Format: Book

How to meditate—a concise, pocket-size guide that tells you everything you need to know, from the best-selling author of The Buddha Walks into a Bar...      This is the ultimate go-to guide for learning how to meditate. It contains all the instructions you'll...
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