Breathe easier and live a full life with proper asthma treatmentAsthma For Dummies is a reassuring and realistic guide to managing asthma, whether you're living with it yourself or have a loved one who suffers from the disease. It's packed with authoritative information on symptoms and diagnosis, plus resources you can use to enhance long-term asthma management. Find the best treatments and reduce asthma complications with compassionate advice and all the latest details on medication options, including asthma controller drugs, rescue asthma medications, and future trends in asthma therapy. Discover the most common triggers and suggestions for avoiding them in daily life. With the expert advice in this Dummies guide, you can tackle asthma. Learn all the basics about diagnosing and managing asthma in adults and childrenFind out about the newest treatments, therapies, and alternative strategiesPrepare for your doctor's appointment with questions to ask and ideas for working through financial concernsKnow what to do about complications, dual diagnoses, and special circumstancesThis updated edition of Asthma For Dummies is a must-have for asthmatics and parents of asthmatic children.
For Dummies
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9781119908081
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Paperback
How Memory Works--and How to Make It Work for You
By Phd, Robert Madigan
Do you wish you could recall the names of people you just met What if birthdays, important errands, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind Psychologist Robert Madigan is an expert in the memory arts--practical, proven methods for improving the ability to retain and use information. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, its important to exercise memory in simple ways every day. Thats where this science-based guide can help. Dr. Madigan explains how memory works and presents innovative mnemonic devices and visualization techniques that will help you sharpen your mental skills avoid embarrassing lapses and remember faces, appointments, facts, numbers, lists, and much more. Reclaim your brain--this book shows how.,
The Guilford Press; 1 edition
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9781462520381
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Hardcover
Demons
By Miller, Richard J.
Publishers Weekly10/28/2013
Historian of public health Berridge untangles complex perceptions of drugs, drink, and tobaccoproducts ubiquitous in the 1800s that are now mass-produced and regulated. Economics and technology played a major role in shaping their futures, she argues. For alcohol and cigarettes, technological changes would mean "a mass product for a mass market." For drugs, "the product was for a more restricted and medicalized market." Focusing primarily on the U.K., Berridge follows how drugs were "reconceptualized" after WWII, analyzing why some are legal now and others not. The fascinating evolution is also tracked through first-hand accounts that include a 19th-century pharmacist's ordering techniques for snuff; the startling conclusion that opium dens were far less objectionable than public drunkenness; the scientific call for a public health response to drug users spreading the virus causing AIDS; and the sensationalist headlines chronicling the uptick in binge drinking by teenagers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition
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9780199604982
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Hardcover
Medical Symptoms
By Dk,
A head-to-toe guide to symptoms, helping you self-diagnose and decide what to do nextWhether it's a symptom you have been ignoring for a while or something like a sudden pain after a fall, this book tells you what it could be and what action to take.Check out any health problem and discover what it might be and what you should do. A series of head-to-toe visual diagnostic guides help you identify suspected conditions or injuries. Once you've narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to easy-to-follow descriptions of the condition at the back of the book. Potentially life-threatening situations and ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged. Fully illustrated throughout, Medical Symptoms is an invaluable reference.
DK
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9780744051650
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Paperback
Taking Care of You
By M.d., Mary I. O'connor
A practical and extensive resource guide for women who want to understand and take charge of their own health and healthcare, presented in short, focused, easy-to-read chapters. Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long medicine has not recognized that numerous health conditions - like heart disease, stroke, stress, mental health and more - impact women differently than men. Orthopedic surgeon Mary I. O'Connor and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq want to change that by empowering women with knowledge about the current landscape of women's health, and showing them how to actively engage with their healthcare team. In a groundbreaking publication, Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Better Health, O'Connor and Haq have enlisted 111 leading women physicians and health experts from all across the country to create a practical resource guide for women to improve their health and obtain better healthcare.
Mayo Clinic Press
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9781945564147
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Paperback
Hear & Beyond
By Eberts, Shari
Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual -- until now. If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. Without a handbook to help you figure out how to actually live with it, you've likely been getting by on information pieced together from various sources -- and yet, communication often seems incomplete and unsatisfying. What's missing from this hearing care model is the big picture -- a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered not on hearing better, but on communicating better.
Page Two
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9781774581605
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Paperback
Sinkhole
By Patterson, Juliet
A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father's father had taken his own life; so had her mother's. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold?In three graceful movements, Patterson explores these questions. In the winter of her father's death, she struggles to make sense of the loss - sifting through the few belongings he left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning.
Milkweed Editions
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9781571311764
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Hardcover
Mayo Clinic Going Gluten Free
By Murray, Joseph A.
New from Mayo Clinic-the essential guide to living gluten-free. Whether diagnosed with celiac disease or just deciding if a gluten-free diet is right for you, Mayo Clinic Going Gluten-Free will help you create and maintain a gluten-free lifestyle. Both authoritative and approachable, the book includes core medical information on celiac disease in addition to focusing on practical, everyday issues, such as: --Determining if gluten-free is right for you--Common signs, symptoms and myths of celiac --Dealing with celiac if you are newly diagnosed--Maintaining a gluten-free lifestyle while traveling, during the holidays, on-the-go and at college--Helping your child manage a gluten-free diet--Properly reading and understanding food labels--A few recipes and meals to jumpstart your gluten-free life.
Oxmoor House
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9780848743888
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Hardcover
What Works for Autistic Children
By Beardon, Luke
Imagine a world where your autistic child is included, engaged and cherished for how they are; a world which changes for autistic children, rather than changing the child.What Works for Autistic Children brings the conversation about inclusivity into the forefront and turns it on its head. Instead of modifying the autistic child and making exceptions or special circumstances, Luke shows you, the parent, how the world can, should and must change to accommodate your child.He identifies the aspects that impact on your child's life most - the family, their school, their friends, their environment - and outlines the steps that can and should be taken by everyone involved to improve their outcome and create an autism-friendly landscape.From early communication, through pre-school, primary school, secondary school - on holidays, school trips and with friends - your child should not have to struggle to exist within the parameters of a world they don't understand.
Sheldon Press
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9781399801683
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Paperback
The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy
By Mcdowell, Brynn
Healthy Eating Is Simple with This Delicious, Modern Approach to the Worlds Best Diet . Dive into the Mediterranean diet with registered dietitian Brynn McDowell and discover all the reasons its been named the best way to eat year after year. Known for its amazing benefits for healthy, lasting weight loss, heart health, diabetes management and more, the Mediterranean diet takes a holistic, lifestyle-focused approach to help you reach your goals and embrace the joy in cooking and eating. Whether youre tired of the ups and downs of fad diets and are in search of a healthier approach to weight loss, or youre looking for a flexible way to feed your family nutritious meals theyll love, this book is packed with the recipes and inspiration you need to create healthy habits that stick. . Brynn breaks down the diet into easy-to-follow guidelines -- with an emphasis on whole ingredients and pantry staples -- so you can start cooking up new weeknight-friendly favorites without worrying about rules. Simple breakfasts like the Zesty Zaatar Avocado Toast with Poached Egg provide fuel for your day and spice to get you moving. For lunch, loading up on fruits and veggies is a no-brainer with the Sweet and Savory Apricot Couscous Salad. Quick, crowd-pleasing dinners like One-Pan Lemon and Artichoke Baked Chicken and Grilled Lamb with Pistachio-Olive Tapenade ensure that youll always have time to enjoy a relaxing, nourishing meal with family and friends. Find smart tips on how to cook on a tight schedule, source ingredients on a budget and practice balance. Whatever your personal goals, these recipes will blend seamlessly into your life, making eating for your health a pleasure, not a compromise.
Asthma For Dummies
By Berger, William E.
Breathe easier and live a full life with proper asthma treatmentAsthma For Dummies is a reassuring and realistic guide to managing asthma, whether you're living with it yourself or have a loved one who suffers from the disease. It's packed with authoritative information on symptoms and diagnosis, plus resources you can use to enhance long-term asthma management. Find the best treatments and reduce asthma complications with compassionate advice and all the latest details on medication options, including asthma controller drugs, rescue asthma medications, and future trends in asthma therapy. Discover the most common triggers and suggestions for avoiding them in daily life. With the expert advice in this Dummies guide, you can tackle asthma. Learn all the basics about diagnosing and managing asthma in adults and childrenFind out about the newest treatments, therapies, and alternative strategiesPrepare for your doctor's appointment with questions to ask and ideas for working through financial concernsKnow what to do about complications, dual diagnoses, and special circumstancesThis updated edition of Asthma For Dummies is a must-have for asthmatics and parents of asthmatic children.
How Memory Works--and How to Make It Work for You
By Phd, Robert Madigan
Do you wish you could recall the names of people you just met What if birthdays, important errands, and online passwords rarely slipped your mind Psychologist Robert Madigan is an expert in the memory arts--practical, proven methods for improving the ability to retain and use information. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator, its important to exercise memory in simple ways every day. Thats where this science-based guide can help. Dr. Madigan explains how memory works and presents innovative mnemonic devices and visualization techniques that will help you sharpen your mental skills avoid embarrassing lapses and remember faces, appointments, facts, numbers, lists, and much more. Reclaim your brain--this book shows how.,
Demons
By Miller, Richard J.
Publishers Weekly10/28/2013 Historian of public health Berridge untangles complex perceptions of drugs, drink, and tobaccoproducts ubiquitous in the 1800s that are now mass-produced and regulated. Economics and technology played a major role in shaping their futures, she argues. For alcohol and cigarettes, technological changes would mean "a mass product for a mass market." For drugs, "the product was for a more restricted and medicalized market." Focusing primarily on the U.K., Berridge follows how drugs were "reconceptualized" after WWII, analyzing why some are legal now and others not. The fascinating evolution is also tracked through first-hand accounts that include a 19th-century pharmacist's ordering techniques for snuff; the startling conclusion that opium dens were far less objectionable than public drunkenness; the scientific call for a public health response to drug users spreading the virus causing AIDS; and the sensationalist headlines chronicling the uptick in binge drinking by teenagers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Medical Symptoms
By Dk,
A head-to-toe guide to symptoms, helping you self-diagnose and decide what to do nextWhether it's a symptom you have been ignoring for a while or something like a sudden pain after a fall, this book tells you what it could be and what action to take.Check out any health problem and discover what it might be and what you should do. A series of head-to-toe visual diagnostic guides help you identify suspected conditions or injuries. Once you've narrowed it down, a cross-reference takes you to easy-to-follow descriptions of the condition at the back of the book. Potentially life-threatening situations and ailments that need urgent medical advice are clearly flagged. Fully illustrated throughout, Medical Symptoms is an invaluable reference.
Taking Care of You
By M.d., Mary I. O'connor
A practical and extensive resource guide for women who want to understand and take charge of their own health and healthcare, presented in short, focused, easy-to-read chapters. Women do not always receive the same healthcare as men. In fact, for too long medicine has not recognized that numerous health conditions - like heart disease, stroke, stress, mental health and more - impact women differently than men. Orthopedic surgeon Mary I. O'Connor and medical anthropologist Kanwal L. Haq want to change that by empowering women with knowledge about the current landscape of women's health, and showing them how to actively engage with their healthcare team. In a groundbreaking publication, Taking Care of You: The Empowered Woman's Guide to Better Health, O'Connor and Haq have enlisted 111 leading women physicians and health experts from all across the country to create a practical resource guide for women to improve their health and obtain better healthcare.
Hear & Beyond
By Eberts, Shari
Hearing loss doesn't come with an operating manual -- until now. If you have hearing loss, you already know that the conventional approach to treatment is focused on hearing-aid technology. Without a handbook to help you figure out how to actually live with it, you've likely been getting by on information pieced together from various sources -- and yet, communication often seems incomplete and unsatisfying. What's missing from this hearing care model is the big picture -- a real-life illustration of how hearing loss, its emotions, and its barriers affect every corner of your life. Now, hearing-health advocates, consultants, and speakers Shari Eberts and Gael Hannan offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that is centered not on hearing better, but on communicating better.
Sinkhole
By Patterson, Juliet
A sublimely elegant, fractured reckoning with the legacy and inheritance of suicide in one American family.In 2009, Juliet Patterson was recovering from a serious car accident when she learned her father had died by suicide. His death was part of a disturbing pattern in her family. Her father's father had taken his own life; so had her mother's. Over the weeks and months that followed, grieving and in physical pain, Patterson kept returning to one question: Why? Why had her family lost so many men, so many fathers, and what lay beneath the silence that had taken hold?In three graceful movements, Patterson explores these questions. In the winter of her father's death, she struggles to make sense of the loss - sifting through the few belongings he left behind, looking to signs and symbols for meaning.
Mayo Clinic Going Gluten Free
By Murray, Joseph A.
New from Mayo Clinic-the essential guide to living gluten-free. Whether diagnosed with celiac disease or just deciding if a gluten-free diet is right for you, Mayo Clinic Going Gluten-Free will help you create and maintain a gluten-free lifestyle. Both authoritative and approachable, the book includes core medical information on celiac disease in addition to focusing on practical, everyday issues, such as: --Determining if gluten-free is right for you--Common signs, symptoms and myths of celiac --Dealing with celiac if you are newly diagnosed--Maintaining a gluten-free lifestyle while traveling, during the holidays, on-the-go and at college--Helping your child manage a gluten-free diet--Properly reading and understanding food labels--A few recipes and meals to jumpstart your gluten-free life.
What Works for Autistic Children
By Beardon, Luke
Imagine a world where your autistic child is included, engaged and cherished for how they are; a world which changes for autistic children, rather than changing the child.What Works for Autistic Children brings the conversation about inclusivity into the forefront and turns it on its head. Instead of modifying the autistic child and making exceptions or special circumstances, Luke shows you, the parent, how the world can, should and must change to accommodate your child.He identifies the aspects that impact on your child's life most - the family, their school, their friends, their environment - and outlines the steps that can and should be taken by everyone involved to improve their outcome and create an autism-friendly landscape.From early communication, through pre-school, primary school, secondary school - on holidays, school trips and with friends - your child should not have to struggle to exist within the parameters of a world they don't understand.
The Mediterranean Diet Made Easy
By Mcdowell, Brynn
Healthy Eating Is Simple with This Delicious, Modern Approach to the Worlds Best Diet . Dive into the Mediterranean diet with registered dietitian Brynn McDowell and discover all the reasons its been named the best way to eat year after year. Known for its amazing benefits for healthy, lasting weight loss, heart health, diabetes management and more, the Mediterranean diet takes a holistic, lifestyle-focused approach to help you reach your goals and embrace the joy in cooking and eating. Whether youre tired of the ups and downs of fad diets and are in search of a healthier approach to weight loss, or youre looking for a flexible way to feed your family nutritious meals theyll love, this book is packed with the recipes and inspiration you need to create healthy habits that stick. . Brynn breaks down the diet into easy-to-follow guidelines -- with an emphasis on whole ingredients and pantry staples -- so you can start cooking up new weeknight-friendly favorites without worrying about rules. Simple breakfasts like the Zesty Zaatar Avocado Toast with Poached Egg provide fuel for your day and spice to get you moving. For lunch, loading up on fruits and veggies is a no-brainer with the Sweet and Savory Apricot Couscous Salad. Quick, crowd-pleasing dinners like One-Pan Lemon and Artichoke Baked Chicken and Grilled Lamb with Pistachio-Olive Tapenade ensure that youll always have time to enjoy a relaxing, nourishing meal with family and friends. Find smart tips on how to cook on a tight schedule, source ingredients on a budget and practice balance. Whatever your personal goals, these recipes will blend seamlessly into your life, making eating for your health a pleasure, not a compromise.