A new book by Bill Gates that lays out a clear plan to prevent future pandemicsThe COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy Can we even hope to accomplish thisBill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from COVID-19, explains the science of fighting pandemics, and suggests what all of us can do to help prevent another one.
Publisher: n/a
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9780593534489
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Hardcover
The Gift of Caring
By M.s., Marcy Cottrell Houle
The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal - how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents and offers answers to questions we may not know to ask until it's too late. Author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer's, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions. Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory - watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as "just old age.
Taylor Trade Publishing
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9781493010035
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Hardcover
Fitness
By Naternicola, Nancy
Finally, a progressive, easy-to-follow plan for total-body fitness that produces results! Packed with group and at-home exercises, recreational activities, yoga, balance work, core work, and nutrition essentials, Fitness: Steps to Success provides a variety of options to create the perfect program for your goals, desires, and schedule. Step-by-step instruction, full-color photo sequences, and expert advice accompany the most effective exercises and activities for cardiorespiratory endurance, balance, strength, flexibility, and core strength. The easy-to-administer assessments will help you identify where to start your program and track your progress along the way. You'll also learn the benefits of each activity; recommendations for what, when, and how often; and the best exercises for achieving specific results. With tips for staying motivated, recovering from lapses, and avoiding missteps in your fitness journey, you have all the tools you need to feel better, look great, and lead an active, healthy lifestyle. As part of the popular Steps to Success series--with more than 2 million copies sold--Fitness: Steps to Success is an instant action plan you can trust.
Human Kinetics; 1 edition
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9781450468855
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Book
The Doctor's Kidney Diets
By Kang, Mandip S
In the United States alone, 26 million adults have chronic kidney disease (CKD) , and experts project that over half the country may develop CKD due to rising rates of disorders such as diabetes. While nephrologists can monitor kidney function and treat patients with medications, they can't always offer the nutritional guidance that every kidney patient requires. To fill this information gap, Dr. Mandip Kang has written The Doctor's Kidney Diets, a comprehensive guide to managing, slowing down, and even stopping the progression of CKD through diet. The book is divided into two parts. Part One provides a clear overview of kidney function, kidney disease, and the role that nutrition plays in the treatment of kidney problems. The doctor then reviews the special dietary considerations of individuals with CKD, including the need to limit certain nutrients, fluids, and other dietary components. Because different patients have different nutritional requirements, the doctor discusses the most commonly prescribed CKD diets -- the DASH diet, heart disease and diabetes diets, diets for dialysis, and more -- and concludes with important tips for enhancing overall health and maximizing treatment success. Then Part Two offers a wide variety of recipes for dishes that follow the dietary guidelines highlighted in Part One. Smart nutrition is essential to the treatment of kidney disease. With The Doctor's Kidney Diets, you can become an active, effective participant in your own treatment plan.
Square One Pub
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9780757003738
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Print book
Seeing Ghosts
By Chow, Kat
Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her. After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to reclaim and tell your family's story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss.
Grand Central Publishing
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9781538716328
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Hardcover
What You Must Know About Dry Eye
By Jeffrey,
While the condition known as dry eye may sound like a minor problem, it can cause tremendous discomfort, even pain. Worse, this disorder can lead to eye fatigue, blurred vision, and difficulty driving, especially at night. In a healthy eye, lubricating tears continuously bathe the cornea -- the dome-shaped outer surface of the eye. These tears provide a layer of liquid protection from the environment while nourishing the cells, keeping the eyes comfortable, and helping the eyes function properly. But when tears are not of adequate quality or quantity, dry eye disease occurs.Written by optometrist Jeffrey Anshel, What You Must Know About Dry Eye is divided into two parts. Part One begins by explaining the anatomy of the eye and how it works. It then focuses on dry eye -- what the condition is, what causes it, how it impacts vision, and how it is diagnosed.
Square One
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9780757004797
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Paperback
Natural Beauty
By Publishing, Dk
Looking for natural remedies that actually work? Natural Beauty is your resource for natural and organic products that give you the results that you want. Want healthy skin? Looking for clear skin without harmful chemicals? Natural Beauty is your guide to everything from home remedies to natural skin care products to essential oils. Natural Beauty makes it easy to understand organic skin treatments and makeovers. Browse the ingredients directory, discover natural remedies, and find recipes for homemade face masks and creams to try at home. This organic beauty and natural remedy resource has a huge variety of information, including healthy skin care products, how to make your own lip balm and homemade face masks, which natural deodorant actually works, and how to effectively use essential oils in your life.
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
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9781465429834
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Hardcover
The 6 Keys
By Michaels, Jillian
Eight-time New York Times-bestselling author Jillian Michaels presents a revolutionary program to reverse the effects of aging and maintain optimal health for life. With Master Your Metabolism, Jillian Michaels showed us how to take control of the metabolic machinery underneath our weight and health struggles. Now she's ahead of the curve again -- conquering the mayhem, myths, and misunderstandings associated with aging. After all, if you can decide your weight, why not your age?Drawing on interviews with top geroscientists and doctors, and on cutting-edge research, The 6 Keys presents an ageless health, fitness, and beauty plan that outstrips all others when it comes to scope and effectiveness. It addresses all six of what scientists and doctors have identified as the major age inciters -- metabolism, damaged macromolecules, epigenetics, inflammation, stress adaptation, and telomeres -- and gets them working for you instead of against you.Empowering and rigorously researched, The 6 Keys outlines powerful lifestyle interventions, dietary guidelines, exercise plans, and vanguard strategies for cultivating mindfulness that restore and protect human performance, keeping you fit, healthy, and beautiful for life.
LITTLE BROWN SPARK
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9780316448642
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Hardcover
E.R. Nurses
By Patterson, James
The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America's greatest unsung heroes. Around the clock and across the country, E.R. nurses are the heart and soul of our city, town, and county hospitals. They make a difference every day, to everyone they touch. E.R. Nurses puts names and faces to these men and women who are there for us whenever we need them, who fight for our lives and never give up. James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, acclaimed and bestselling co-authors of Walk in My Combat Boots, reveal why nurses do what they do, and all the reasons to say . . . Thank you for being here with me. Thank you for holding my hand. Thank you for looking into my eyes and telling me everything is going to be okay.
Little, Brown and Company
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9780759554269
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Hardcover
Sugar Crush
By Jacoby, Richard
What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body - in our feet, organs, and brain - why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body's nerves, and how eliminating them can mitigate and even reverse the damage.Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in sugar, processed carbohydrates, and wheat compresses and damages the peripheral nerves of the body, leading to pain, numbness, and tingling in the hands and feet, along with a host of related conditions, including migraines, gall bladder disease, and diabetes. If you suffer from ailments your doctors can't seem to diagnose or help - mysterious rashes, unpredictable digestive problems, debilitating headaches, mood and energy swings, constant tiredness - nerve compression is the likely cause.
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
By Gates, Bill
A new book by Bill Gates that lays out a clear plan to prevent future pandemicsThe COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy Can we even hope to accomplish thisBill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from COVID-19, explains the science of fighting pandemics, and suggests what all of us can do to help prevent another one.
The Gift of Caring
By M.s., Marcy Cottrell Houle
The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal - how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents and offers answers to questions we may not know to ask until it's too late. Author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer's, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions. Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory - watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as "just old age.
Fitness
By Naternicola, Nancy
Finally, a progressive, easy-to-follow plan for total-body fitness that produces results! Packed with group and at-home exercises, recreational activities, yoga, balance work, core work, and nutrition essentials, Fitness: Steps to Success provides a variety of options to create the perfect program for your goals, desires, and schedule. Step-by-step instruction, full-color photo sequences, and expert advice accompany the most effective exercises and activities for cardiorespiratory endurance, balance, strength, flexibility, and core strength. The easy-to-administer assessments will help you identify where to start your program and track your progress along the way. You'll also learn the benefits of each activity; recommendations for what, when, and how often; and the best exercises for achieving specific results. With tips for staying motivated, recovering from lapses, and avoiding missteps in your fitness journey, you have all the tools you need to feel better, look great, and lead an active, healthy lifestyle. As part of the popular Steps to Success series--with more than 2 million copies sold--Fitness: Steps to Success is an instant action plan you can trust.
The Doctor's Kidney Diets
By Kang, Mandip S
In the United States alone, 26 million adults have chronic kidney disease (CKD) , and experts project that over half the country may develop CKD due to rising rates of disorders such as diabetes. While nephrologists can monitor kidney function and treat patients with medications, they can't always offer the nutritional guidance that every kidney patient requires. To fill this information gap, Dr. Mandip Kang has written The Doctor's Kidney Diets, a comprehensive guide to managing, slowing down, and even stopping the progression of CKD through diet. The book is divided into two parts. Part One provides a clear overview of kidney function, kidney disease, and the role that nutrition plays in the treatment of kidney problems. The doctor then reviews the special dietary considerations of individuals with CKD, including the need to limit certain nutrients, fluids, and other dietary components. Because different patients have different nutritional requirements, the doctor discusses the most commonly prescribed CKD diets -- the DASH diet, heart disease and diabetes diets, diets for dialysis, and more -- and concludes with important tips for enhancing overall health and maximizing treatment success. Then Part Two offers a wide variety of recipes for dishes that follow the dietary guidelines highlighted in Part One. Smart nutrition is essential to the treatment of kidney disease. With The Doctor's Kidney Diets, you can become an active, effective participant in your own treatment plan.
Seeing Ghosts
By Chow, Kat
Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her. After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America. Seeing Ghosts asks what it means to reclaim and tell your family's story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation? The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss.
What You Must Know About Dry Eye
By Jeffrey,
While the condition known as dry eye may sound like a minor problem, it can cause tremendous discomfort, even pain. Worse, this disorder can lead to eye fatigue, blurred vision, and difficulty driving, especially at night. In a healthy eye, lubricating tears continuously bathe the cornea -- the dome-shaped outer surface of the eye. These tears provide a layer of liquid protection from the environment while nourishing the cells, keeping the eyes comfortable, and helping the eyes function properly. But when tears are not of adequate quality or quantity, dry eye disease occurs.Written by optometrist Jeffrey Anshel, What You Must Know About Dry Eye is divided into two parts. Part One begins by explaining the anatomy of the eye and how it works. It then focuses on dry eye -- what the condition is, what causes it, how it impacts vision, and how it is diagnosed.
Natural Beauty
By Publishing, Dk
Looking for natural remedies that actually work? Natural Beauty is your resource for natural and organic products that give you the results that you want. Want healthy skin? Looking for clear skin without harmful chemicals? Natural Beauty is your guide to everything from home remedies to natural skin care products to essential oils. Natural Beauty makes it easy to understand organic skin treatments and makeovers. Browse the ingredients directory, discover natural remedies, and find recipes for homemade face masks and creams to try at home. This organic beauty and natural remedy resource has a huge variety of information, including healthy skin care products, how to make your own lip balm and homemade face masks, which natural deodorant actually works, and how to effectively use essential oils in your life.
The 6 Keys
By Michaels, Jillian
Eight-time New York Times-bestselling author Jillian Michaels presents a revolutionary program to reverse the effects of aging and maintain optimal health for life. With Master Your Metabolism, Jillian Michaels showed us how to take control of the metabolic machinery underneath our weight and health struggles. Now she's ahead of the curve again -- conquering the mayhem, myths, and misunderstandings associated with aging. After all, if you can decide your weight, why not your age?Drawing on interviews with top geroscientists and doctors, and on cutting-edge research, The 6 Keys presents an ageless health, fitness, and beauty plan that outstrips all others when it comes to scope and effectiveness. It addresses all six of what scientists and doctors have identified as the major age inciters -- metabolism, damaged macromolecules, epigenetics, inflammation, stress adaptation, and telomeres -- and gets them working for you instead of against you.Empowering and rigorously researched, The 6 Keys outlines powerful lifestyle interventions, dietary guidelines, exercise plans, and vanguard strategies for cultivating mindfulness that restore and protect human performance, keeping you fit, healthy, and beautiful for life.
E.R. Nurses
By Patterson, James
The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America's greatest unsung heroes. Around the clock and across the country, E.R. nurses are the heart and soul of our city, town, and county hospitals. They make a difference every day, to everyone they touch. E.R. Nurses puts names and faces to these men and women who are there for us whenever we need them, who fight for our lives and never give up. James Patterson and Matt Eversmann, acclaimed and bestselling co-authors of Walk in My Combat Boots, reveal why nurses do what they do, and all the reasons to say . . . Thank you for being here with me. Thank you for holding my hand. Thank you for looking into my eyes and telling me everything is going to be okay.
Sugar Crush
By Jacoby, Richard
What Grain Brain did for wheat, this book by a leading peripheral nerve surgeon now does for sugar, revealing how it causes crippling nerve damage throughout the body - in our feet, organs, and brain - why sugar and carbohydrates are harmful to the body's nerves, and how eliminating them can mitigate and even reverse the damage.Sugar Crush exposes the shocking truth about how a diet high in sugar, processed carbohydrates, and wheat compresses and damages the peripheral nerves of the body, leading to pain, numbness, and tingling in the hands and feet, along with a host of related conditions, including migraines, gall bladder disease, and diabetes. If you suffer from ailments your doctors can't seem to diagnose or help - mysterious rashes, unpredictable digestive problems, debilitating headaches, mood and energy swings, constant tiredness - nerve compression is the likely cause.