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Holt Decisions for Health, Level Red, Decision-Making and Refusal Skills Workbook

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Holt Decisions for Health, Level Green, Decision-Making and Refusal Skills Workbook

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Holt: Decisions for Health [Grade 6]

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Holt Sexuality and Society

This Health Handbook reviews health fundamentals, the human body, safety, first aid and hygiene. Among the topics covered in this book include relationships, adolescent, family planning, human relationships, STDs and HIV/AIDS.

Holt Decisions for Health: Level Blue

Decisions For Health: Red Edition

Textbook on how to make good health decisions

Holt Decisions for Health

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Holt Sexuality and Responsibility

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Lifetime Health

Provide tips of how to stay being healthy, eat good food, do the right exercise. <P><P><i>Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.</i>

The Human Body: Concepts Of Anatomy And Physiology

This text is developed specifically for the one-term market and offers the essentials of anatomy and physiology in a direct, concise format. Students benefit from striking and precise full-color art that enhances the author's straightforward, clear writing style. The author's vast teaching experience enables him to accurately present the appropriate vocabulary and detail that an allied health/physical education major needs.

Holt Health

Health means different things to different cultures. In the United States, slender people are viewed as healthy and attractive. But in some less prosperous cultures, thin people are viewed as unhealthy and less attractive. A fuller figure is a sign of having enough money to eat well and is considered desirable and healthy. These examples show how physical health can be defined by one's cultural beliefs.

Holt Science and Technology: Human Body Systems and Health

The human body is composed of major systems that have differing functions, but all of the systems work together to maintain homeostasis.

Decisions for Health (Level Blue, Texas edition)

Good physical health is important, but there is more to health than feeling good physically. Health is a condition of your physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. Each part of your health is equally important.

Decisions for Health: Level Red, Grade 7 (Texas Edition)

This text contains Health and Wellness, Successful Decisions and Goals, Building Self-Esteem, Physical Fitness, Nutrition and Your Health, A Healthy Body, a Healthy Weight, Mental and Emotional Health, Managing Stress, Encouraging Healthy Relationships, Conflict and Violence, Teens and Tobacco, Teens and Alcohol, Teens and Drugs, Infectious Diseases, Noninfectious Diseases and Disorders, Your Changing Body, and Your Personal Safety.

Decisions For Health (Level Green, Texas Edition)

When you think of health, you probably think about your physical health. Your physical health is the part of your health that deals with the condition of your body. Things that you can do to maintain your physical health include the following: eating balanced meals, engaging in physical activity, getting 8 hours of sleep every night, maintaining good hygiene

Holt Lifetime Health (Texas Edition)

The brief contents of this healthy text book are Health and Your Wellness, Health and Your Body, Drugs, Diseases and Disorders, Adolescence, Adulthood, and Family Life and Reproductive Health. A Health Handbook also included.

The Dynamics of Health and Wellness: A Biopsychosocial Approach

An introduction to health and wellness, based on studies of healthy people, which describes the complex processes that are the result of the interaction of biological, psychological, and social systems.

The Psychotherapist’s Guide to Psychopharmacology

Gitlin (psychiatry, UCLA) provides a guide to medicines used for treating mental and emotional disorders, designed to familiarize mental health professionals who do not prescribe medicine with the latest medical treatment options. He describes the type of treatment used for numerous disorders, explaining in detail how each medication works and its effects.

The Dangerous Edge: The Psychology of Excitement

a GREAT book on people's attraction to danger

Hidden Truths: Magic, Alchemy, and the Occult

Covers the history, practices and beliefs of religions. Includes gnosticism, witchcraft, magic in cultures both ancient and modern. Themes and religious though extracted from "The Encyclopedia of Religion".

Weight Watchers Stop Stuffing Yourself: 7 Steps to Conquering Overeating

Why is one cookie never enough? Why does a bad day at the office seem to scream for a quart of rocky road? If you think the answer is a lack of self-control, you might be misunderstanding the reasons behind overeating. Trust Weight Watchers, the leading name in safe and sensible weight control, to address food issues that go beyond what to eat. If cutting calories or regular exercise hasn't been enough, the next step is understanding why you overeat. Stop Stuffing Yourself contains the latest information on the hottest topic in weight control, emotional overeating. Full of hands-on advice and reassuring coping techniques for winning the battle with food, Stop Stuffing Yourself covers issues ranging from stress and anger to boredom and loneliness, explaining how anyone can identify the causes of overeating and succeed at losing weight. Real-life stories of trial and triumph color each chapter, providing motivation, support and encouragement to anyone who ever thought she was alone in her struggle with food. Stop Stuffing Yourself is the must-have book for chronic dieters, the food-obsessed, and anybody who's ready to gain control over food and lose weight.

Baby Boomers Guide to Caring for Aging Parents

This easy-to-use handbook gives useful information to make caring for an aging parent easier to manage.

Weight Watchers Cut The Fat Cookbook

You'll find both old and new favorites, such as: HEARTY MAIN MEALS Eggplant Torte, White Chili Swordfish with Pasta and Sugar Snap Peas Broiled Tuna with Corn Relish Chicken and Squash Stew SENSATIONAL SIDES Tabbouleh, Mexican Baked Beans Kasha with Cremini Mushrooms and Leeks Moroccan Rice Salad, Bulgur with Apple Raita SUMPTUOUS SOUPS Cock-a-Leekie Soup, Cream of Asparagus Soup, Turnip Bisque with Crispy Shallots, Chilled Carrot and Orange Soup, Navy Bean Soup with Lemon and Herbs TEMPTING DESSERTS AND SNACKS Apple Pie-Spiced Popcorn, Maple Bran Muffins, Chocolate Apple Bars Strawberry-Rhubarb Tartlets, Lemon Snow with Fresh Fruit Salad Cinnamon-Raisin Granola

Neptune Princess

Poppy broke her leg and is sure the strange lady next door put a curse on her. She wants to enter the Neptune Carnival. Obtaining the goodwill of her neighbor may lift the curse.

The Moonlight Man

Fifteen-year-old Catherine and her father take their first joint vacation in Nova Scotia and finally get to know each other.