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A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge
by Tim Wirth Laurie Ann Mazur Martha Farnsworth Riche Susan Gibbs Steve Sinding Tim CohenThrough a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health and other environmental issues. It surveys the new demographic landscape--in which population growth rates have fallen, but human numbers continue to increase. It looks back at the lessons learned from half a century of population policy--and forward to proposetwenty-first century population policies that are sustainable and just.A Pivotal Moment puts forth the concept of "population justice," which is inspired by reproductive justice and environmental justice movements. Population justice holds that inequality is a root cause of both rapid population growth and environmental degradation. As the authors in this volume explain, to slow population growth and build a sustainable future, women and men need access to voluntary family planning and other reproductive health services. They need education and employment opportunities, especially for women. Population justice means tackling the deep inequities--both gender and economic--that are associated with rapid population growth and unsustainable resource consumption. Where family planning is available, where couples are confident their children will survive, where girls go to school, where young men and women have economic opportunity--there couples will have healthier and smaller families.
Pizza Day: A Picture Book
by Melissa IwaiA young boy and his father gather ingredients in the garden to prepare pizza on a hot day in this preschool picture book companion to Soup Day.On a sunny, summer day, a young boy and his father assemble the ingredients for a homemade pizza. From gathering fresh garden herbs to rolling out the dough for a crust to spreading on sauce and cheese, this picture book leads young chefs step-by-step through the process of making a favorite meal. A pizza recipe completes Melissa Iwai's appealing preschool offering, Pizza Day. A Christy Ottaviano Book
The Pizza Diet: How I Lost 100 Pounds Eating My Favorite Food--And You Can Too!
by Editors of Eat This Not That Pasquale CozzolinoEat pizza and lose weight! Learn how an Italian chef dropped nearly 100 pounds while eating the food he could not live without. Why do most diets fail? Why do so many people who initially lose weight quickly pack it all back on—and then some? It’s simple, really. Dieting, a.k.a. denying yourself certain favorite foods, is just too hard for anyone to do for any length of time. And how long could you deny yourself pizza? But what if you didn’t have to say “no”? Chef Pasquale Cozzolino of Naples, Italy, did just that and lost nearly 100 pounds. When his doctor warned him to lose weight or risk early death, Chef Cozzolino knew he had to find a diet plan he could stick with, one that would allow him to eat the food he grew up on and loved in his native country—pizza! So, he consulted nutritionists, immersed himself in the science of weight loss, and developed the Pizza Diet: Eat a hearty breakfast every morning, enjoy a 12-inch Neapolitan pizza for lunch every day, and finish off with a light yet satisfying meal of fresh vegetables and lean protein for dinner. The results? You will quickly reduce your daily calories without ever feeling deprived. Chef Cozzolino reveals his secret recipe for a healthier dough that won’t boost blood sugar or trigger cravings. The Chef also shares his recipes for pizza margherita with fresh mozzarella and basil, grilled vegetable pizza, even pizza with sausage or prosciutto de parma. With a simple eating plan that focuses on fresh vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains—plus delicious recipes for world class pizza—The Pizza Diet is the ideal plan for any food lover who wants to lose weight . . . and keep it off for good.
Pizzas, Flatbreads, Calzones, and Strudels: Robin Takes 5 (Robin Takes 5)
by Robin MillerThe host of Food Network’s Quick Fix Meals presents healthy pizzas, delicious flatbreads, and more in this volume of weeknight family meals.It’s 5:00 PM. Everyone’s hungry. Do you order takeout? Do you resort to nuking a processed meal from the freezer? Let Robin Miller give you a better option—one that doesn’t include an unhealthy heap of calories and fat. With this volume from the Robin Takes 5 series, you’ll be able to whip up a healthy and satisfying dinner for you and your family with just five fabulous ingredients. Each recipe is quick, easy, healthy, and a mouthwatering 500 calories or less.This eBook features a special video introduction by the author. The recipes featured here are also in Robin Miller’s fabulous cookbook Robin Takes 5.
Pizzas, Flatbreads, Calzones, and Strudels: Robin Takes 5 (Robin Takes 5)
by Robin MillerThe host of Food Network’s Quick Fix Meals presents healthy pizzas, delicious flatbreads, and more in this volume of weeknight family meals.It’s 5:00 PM. Everyone’s hungry. Do you order takeout? Do you resort to nuking a processed meal from the freezer? Let Robin Miller give you a better option—one that doesn’t include an unhealthy heap of calories and fat. With this volume from the Robin Takes 5 series, you’ll be able to whip up a healthy and satisfying dinner for you and your family with just five fabulous ingredients. Each recipe is quick, easy, healthy, and a mouthwatering 500 calories or less.This eBook features a special video introduction by the author. The recipes featured here are also in Robin Miller’s fabulous cookbook Robin Takes 5.
A Place Called Dead (Kids Have Troubles Too)
by Sheila StewartDeath is scary for everyone, and not just kids. When someone you love dies, you are likely to have a whole lot of different feelings and reactions. You might not believe it's true, you might be really angry, or you might want to cry all the time. All those reactions are normal. It's never easy to deal with death, and it's not easy to know how to talk to someone else who's dealing with it. Some reactions are more helpful than others, though, and talking to someone about what you are feeling can help you better handle the situation.
The Placebo Diet: Use Your Mind to Transform Your Body
by Janet ThomsonFed up with endless fad diets that never deliver the results you want, and leave you lunging for the chocolate with a guilty conscience? It's time to stop looking to crazy regimes for weight-loss solutions, and to start recognizing that the solutions are actually within you - in your own mind. In The Placebo Diet, life coach and nutritionist Janet Thomson explains that the key to losing weight is not calorie-counting but identifying and re-shaping your attitudes towards your body. This book will help you do just that, by utilizing the most powerful mind-tool we have - the placebo effect. This occurs when we have an absolute belief that something will work, which generates a feeling so powerful that it changes our physiology, often spontaneously. Using this tool The Placebo Diet incorporates a range of psychological techniques that will change the structure of your thoughts towards food, generating brand new beliefs and habits. Combined with a simple-to-follow nutrition plan that will maximize fat loss and increase energy levels, you will change not only your body, but also your entire outlook on life. Ditch the fad diets, deprivation, and guilt, and prepare to fall back in love with food and your own body, once and for all! This is an updated edition of Think More, Eat Less with all-new material focusing on the placebo effect.
Placebo Junkies
by J. C. CarlesonGoing Bovine meets Trainspotting in this gritty portrait of at-risk teens gaming the prescription drug trial system. Meet Audie: Professional lab rat. Guinea pig. Serial human test subject. For Audie and her friends, "volunteering" for pharmaceutical drug trials means a quick fix and easy cash. Sure, there's the occasional nasty side effect, but Audie's got things under control. If Monday's pill causes a rash, Tuesday's ointment usually clears it right up. Wednesday's injection soothes the sting from Tuesday's "cure," and Thursday's procedure makes her forget all about Wednesday's headache. By the time Friday rolls around, there's plenty of cash in hand and perhaps even a slot in a government-funded psilocybin study, because WEEKEND! But the best fix of all is her boyfriend, Dylan, whose terminal illness just makes them even more compatible. He's turning eighteen soon, so Audie is saving up to make it an unforgettable birthday. That means more drug trials than ever before, but Dylan is worth it. No pain, no gain, Audie tells herself as the pills wear away at her body and mind. No pain, no gain, she repeats as her grip on reality starts to slide. . . . Raw and irreverent, Placebo Junkies will captivate readers until the very end, when author J. C. Carleson leans in for a final twist of the knife.
The Placebo Response: How You Can Release the Body's Inner Pharmacy for Better Health
by Howard Brody Daralyn BrodyThe brain can heal the body: that's the remarkable truth behind the body's placebo response. As one of the nation's foremost authorities on the mysterious connection between mind and body, Dr. Howard Brody introduces a radical new understanding of this phenomenon -- and how it can be used to foster good health. The body, says Brody, has an "inner pharmacy" that the brain taps into, according to what we anticipate, how we are conditioned by experience, and how we interpret events. Consider the following:In one study, people with allergies showed no response when exposed to the irritant, when they were first convinced it was something. Sham surgery has sometimes produced lasting results, indistinguishable from the results of real operations.Patients recover faster from surgery when they have window views of trees or grass, rather than brick walls.But the placebo response is more than an astonishing medical fact -- it can be put to practical use. The Placebo Response gives you access to a new kind of alternative medicine, one proven by science and found within your own body.
Placebos (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by Kathryn T HallThe biological power of the placebo effect.The power of placebos to ameliorate symptoms has been with us for centuries. Western medicine today is finding it increasingly difficult to ignore the efficacy of placebos. In some clinical trials with placebos as controls, inert or sham replicas of active pharmaceutical drugs and even sham surgeries have been found to be as beneficial as the intervention being tested. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Hall examines the power of placebos, showing how their effects can influence our clinical trials, clinical encounters and, collectively, Hall argues, our public health. Hall, who has studied the placebo effect for years, reviews the history of the placebo in medicine, tracing its evolution from quackery and patent medicine to its use as a control in clinical trials. She considers the ways that expectations and learning affect our response to placebos; advances in neuroimaging that reveal the inner workings of the placebo effect; the &“nocebo&” effect; placebo controls in randomized clinical trials; and the use of psychological profiles and genetics to predict individual placebo response. The effects of placebos have been hiding in plain sight; with this book, Hall helps bring them into clearer view.
Placenta Accreta Spectrum: Basic Science, Diagnosis, Classification and Management
by Sherif A. Shazly Ahmed A. NassrPlacenta accreta spectrum (PAS), an obstetric emergency associated with significant maternal morbidity and mortality, has increasingly become a global challenge with the rising trend of cesarean deliveries. This book provides a comprehensive review of basic science-related to PAS, discusses modern practice in diagnosis and classification of PAS disorders, and appraise current recommendations on PAS management in view of recent studies, guidelines, and expert opinions.In the last few years, there have been many new updates to practice guidelines including ACOG, RCOG, and FIGO guidelines in addition to several new studies, some of which were unusually multicenter and of large sample size, that are eligible to make major changes in our PAS practice. In addition, the book aims at providing more comprehensive review of all aspects related to PAS from experts, including topics that are deficient in similar books e.g., vascular anatomy, risk reduction, adjuvant treatments.The book provides a single source that provides academic knowledge for researchers and investigators, and clinical guidance to best practice and recent updates in management of women with PAS.
Placenta Wit: Mother Stories, Rituals, And Research
by Nane JordanPlacenta Wit is an interdisciplinary anthology of stories, rituals, and research that explores mothers’ contemporary and traditional uses of the human afterbirth. Authors inspire, provoke and highlight diverse understandings of the placenta and its role in mothers’ creative life-giving. Through medicalization of childbirth, many North American mothers do not have access to their babies’ placentas, nor would many think to. Placentas are often considered to be medical property, and/ or viewed as the refuse of birth. Yet there is now greater understanding of motherand baby-centred birth care, in which careful treatment of the placenta and cord can play an integral role. In reclaiming birth at home and in clinical settings, mothers are choosing to keep their placentas. There is a revival, and survival, of family and community rituals with the placenta and umbilical cord, including burying, art making, and consuming for therapeutic use. Claiming and honouring the placenta may play a vital role in understanding the sacredness of birth and the gift of life that mothers bring. Placenta Wit gathers narrative accounts, scholarly essays, creative pieces and artwork from this emergence of placental interests and uses. This collection includes understandings from birth cultures and communities such as home-birth, hospital-birth, midwifery, doula, Indigenous, and feminist perspectives. Once lost, now found, Placenta Wit authors capably handle and care for this wise organ at the roots of motherhood, and life itself.
Placentation in Mammals: Tribute to E.C. Amoroso’s Lifetime Contributions to Viviparity (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology #234)
by Rodney D. Geisert Thomas E. SpencerThe present volume of the book series Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology brings together current reviews from leading experts to address the diversity of placentation by which species establish and maintain pregnancy. Development of viviparity and placentation in rodents, dogs, pigs, cattle, horses, marsupials, primates and elephants are discussed. The development of viviparity in mammals, including some invertebrate species, required the adaptation of the placenta to serve as a functional conduit for interplay between the semiallograftic fetus with the maternal uterus. Although the ‘placenta’ protects the fetus from maternal immune rejection and provides oxygen and nutrient flow to support it to term across all the species, structural differentiation of this fetal-maternal interface can vary from simple to very complex. E.C. Amoroso contributed greatly to our early understanding and knowledge of placentation across a great variety of species. His work on placentation provides numerous illustrations and histological sections which are used for teaching and stimulating research today. With this book, we want to pay tribute to his lifetime contributions to the field by reviewing our current understanding of the development of viviparity and placentation in different species. The book is written for researchers, physicians and medical students working in the field of reproductive science or with an interest in placentation and viviparity.
El placer de no fumar... nunca más
by Susana ReznikUn libro para los fumadores que desean dejar de serlo y para los que no conciben su vida sin el cigarrillo. El placer de no fumar... nunca más propone un detallado plan de acción y describe un método para abandonar el cigarrillo de manera definitiva y con mucho menos sufrimiento que el imaginado, sin apelar a tácticas o caminos perturbadores. Seguirlo es experimentar una verdadera metamorfosis hacia un estado físico y psíquico mejor. Además de ser una necesidad, dejar de fumar es un anhelo compartido por muchísimos fumadores. Sin embargo, a la hora de tomar la decisión, siempre aparece una excusa para aplazar ese momento hasta un mañana lejano e impreciso: "Ahora no puedo, tengo mucho trabajo", "Cuando solucione mis problemas", "Después de mudarme". Así, ese deseo se va convirtiendo para muchos en un sueño irrealizable. En el camino quedan aquellos que trataron infructuosamente de abandonar el cigarrillo y los que, por temor al fracaso -o al éxito-, ni siquiera se atreven a intentarlo. "Dejar de fumar no es fácil, pero se puede. Y vale la pena", sostienen las autoras de esta obra. Y saben a qué se refieren. Ambas fueron fumadoras empedernidas, y una de ellas, médica especialista en tabaquismo, lleva diecisiete años ayudando a los fumadores a dejar de serlo.
El placer de verte bien
by Juan Pablo Salazar Grau Maríam Gutierrez GomezUna guía para darle balance a tu estilo de vida. Con una visión moderna y atrevida, estás páginas son un compendio de bienestar, salud y entrenamiento, una guía para darle balance a tu estilo de vida. El placer de verte bien es un libro dedicado al ejercicio a la alimentación adecuada y a todo lo que tu cuerpo necesita para llegar a su nivel óptimo. Dos expertos en acondicionamiento físico y nutrición comparten consejos, recetas y técnicas para llevarte hasta límites sorprendentes. El equilibro es la clave para sentirte bien. Vive al máximo, muévete y ama tu cuerpo. Ven, nosotros te decimos cómo hacerlo.
El placer del jabón natural: Cómo elaborar el mejor jabón vegetal en tu propia cocina
by Claudia KasperInstrucciones detalladas para elaborar jabones naturales de todo tipo: más de 100 recetas, desde un jabón de aloe vera y yogur hasta uno de laurel, pasando por jabones para afeitar con arcilla de colores y bolas de jabón afrutadas. Además, esta edición incluye alternativas sin aceite de palma para casi todas las recetas. La elaboración de jabones es un arte con miles de años de historia. Los jabones naturales y artesanales modernos están confeccionados con aceites vegetales selectos, como el aceite de oliva, de almendras y de coco. Quien quiera también puede darse un lujo extra con un toque de aceite de aguacate o manteca de karité; existe un amplio surtido de donde elegir. Estos aceites y grasas saponifican con una fuerte solución cáustica (NaOH). Con un poco de planificación y una buena báscula, verás que elaborar un buen bloque de jabón perfumado en tu propia cocina no es cosa de brujería. En este libro encontrarás una explicación teórica detallada del proceso, incluyendo una presentación de todos los ingredientes y utensilios de cocina y moldes empleados, instrucciones paso a paso, tablas de saponificación e indicaciones de seguridad. También conocerás las propiedades de todo tipo de aceites, grasas y mantecas vegetales, al igual que las ventajas de utilizar diferentes hierbas y plantas en los jabones, e incluso recibirás una serie de consejos y sugerencias para usar aceites esenciales en los jabones, junto con numerosas mezclas de perfumes y recomendaciones para desarrollar tus propias creaciones aromáticas. Descubre multitud de recetas de jabones naturales nuevas, como un jabón afrutado de zarzamora y salvia o uno más sobrio de patata, así como jabones especiales elaborados con mantecas vegetales, agua salada o polvos de talco. Este libro también contiene instrucciones para crear tus propias recetas, consejos para resolver los problemas más habituales y recomendaciones de conservación, uso de las
El placer sexual ordenado por Dios
by Gaye De Wheat Ed WheatEl placer sexual ordenado por Dios es un manual completo; provee información básica, figuras ilustrativas y analises franco sobre todas las facetas de la sexualidad humana. Todos los problemas sexuales comunes son descritos y al mismo tiempo se presentan técnicas para resolverlos. Es un libro que ayudará a todas las parejas a comprender y disfrutar su propia sexualidad.
Los Placeres Secretos de la Menopausia
by Christiane NorthrupThe Secret Pleasures of Menopause is a groundbreaking book that is long overdue! Christiane Northrup, M.D., delivers a breakthrough message that will help millions and millions of perimenopausal and menopausal women just like you understand that at menopause . . . life has just begun! It is the beginning of a very exciting and fulfilling time, full of pleasure beyond your wildest dreams! Dr. Northrup believes that it’s time for you to step forward and learn to enjoy the best years of your life! Even though studies show that menopause doesn’t decrease libido, ease of reaching orgasm, or sexual satisfaction, the majority of menopausal women aren’t experiencing the pleasure and sexual satisfaction that is their birthright. It is a long-held misconception that menopause signals "the beginning of the end," and nothing could be further from the truth. In this fascinating book, Dr. Northrup candidly guides you toward experiencing life after 50 as the most pleasurable time of your life!
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema ChodronWe always have a choice, Pema Chödrön teaches: We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us and make us increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder. Here Pema provides the tools to deal with the problems and difficulties that life throws our way. This wisdom is always available to us, she teaches, but we usually block it with habitual patterns rooted in fear. Beyond that fear lies a state of openheartedness and tenderness. This book teaches us how to awaken our basic goodness and connect with others, to accept ourselves and others complete with faults and imperfections, and to stay in the present moment by seeing through the strategies of ego that cause us to resist life as it is.
The Plague
by Joanne DahmeIn a land overshadowed by death, fifteen year-old Nell’s uncanny resemblance to Princess Joan brings her to act as her double--what young girl wouldn’t want to leave a life of poverty and pretend to be a princess? But when the plague catches up to the royal entourage, thwarting the King’s plan for the princess to marry the Prince of Castile and seal an alliance between their kingdoms, Nell’s life could change forever. Princess Joan’s brother The Black Prince schemes to make the wedding go on declaring Nell will no longer double for Joan, she will become the princess and dupe Prince Pedro into marriage! With the aid and protection of a quirky band of friends--a Spanish minstrel, a monk, a gravedigger, a band of merchants--Nell must evade not only the Black Prince, a practitioner of the dark arts, but the plague as well, as she fights to return to the King and country. Based on historical truth, Dahme beautifully captures the dark terror ofa Plague-infested fourteenth century Europe, while bringing to life the daily existence of medieval life for young adult readers.
Plague: A History of Pestilence and Pandemics
by Ben HubbardPlague examines history's most destructive pandemics including The Black Death (Bubonic Plague), The Great Plague of London, the 1918 Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS and more. It uses a narrative structure to describe the causes, events and eventual cessation of each outbreak. It features case stories of those affected, the science behind each disease, the physical symptoms and effects, and the different approaches to stopping or eradicating the diseases. This is a highly topical book that addresses the outbreak of COVID-19. It offers a message of hope to those worried or affected by COVID-19. That is, that pandemics come and go, people have survived through them, and with each one our understanding of how to slow or stop them increases.The book features illustrations and etchings from the Middle Ages and photographs from pandemics later in history.
The Plague
by Tod OlsonLate in the year 1347, Italians began to die from a terrible disease. It started with fevers, headaches, weakness, and loss of balance. Then came the ugly swellings in the armpits. Horrible pain struck on the third or fourth day. Arms and legs started twitching. And the fifth day, almost without fail, brought death.
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347–1600
by Nükhet VarlıkThis is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies, and travelers' accounts, as well as recent scientific research, Nükhet Varlik demonstrates how plague interacted with the environmental, social, and political structures of the Ottoman Empire from the late medieval through the early modern era. The book argues that the empire's growth transformed the epidemiological patterns of plague by bringing diverse ecological zones into interaction and by intensifying the mobilities of exchange among both human and non-human agents. Varlik maintains that persistent plagues elicited new forms of cultural imagination and expression, as well as a new body of knowledge about the disease. In turn, this new consciousness sharpened the Ottoman administrative response to the plague, while contributing to the makings of an early modern state. The first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague from the late medieval to early modern era. Explores the relationship between plague and the process of state-formation in the early modern Ottoman Empire. Challenges some basic tenets of the field of scholarship, such as that plagues always spread from Ottoman areas to Europe.
Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science (Children’s Health Defense)
by Judy Mikovits Kent Heckenlively<P><P> Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant researcher shaking up the old boys’ club of science with her groundbreaking discoveries. And like many women who have trespassed into the world of men, she uncovered decades-old secrets that many would prefer to stay buried. From her doctoral thesis, which changed the treatment of HIV-AIDS, saving the lives of millions, including basketball great Magic Johnson, to her spectacular discovery of a new family of human retroviruses, and her latest research which points to a new golden age of health, <P><P>Dr. Mikovits has always been on the leading edge of science. With the brilliant wit one might expect if Erin Brockovich had a doctorate in molecular biology, Dr. Mikovits has seen the best and worst of science. When she was part of the research community that turned HIV-AIDS from a fatal disease into a manageable one, she saw science at its best. <P><P>But when her investigations questioned whether the use of animal tissue in medical research were unleashing devastating plagues of chronic diseases, such as autism and chronic fatigue syndrome, she saw science at its worst. If her suspicions are correct, we are looking at a complete realignment of scientific practices, including how we study and treat human disease. <P><P>Recounting her nearly four decades in science, including her collaboration of more than thirty-five years with Dr. Frank Ruscetti, one of the founders of the field of human retrovirology, this is a behind the scenes look at the issues and egos which will determine the future health of humanity. <p><p><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
A Plague Year
by Edward BloorIt's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. The drug rips through Blackwater, PA, with a ferocity and a velocity that overwhelms everyone.It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies and Sudafed from the supermarket where Tom works. But by year's end there will be ruined, hollow people on every street corner. Meth will unmake the lives of friends and teachers and parents. It will fill the prisons, and the morgues.Tom's always been focused on getting out of his depressing coal mining town, on planning his escape to a college somewhere sunny and far away. But as bits of his childhood erode around him, he finds it's not so easy to let go. With the selfless heroism of the passengers on United Flight 93 that crashed nearby fresh in his mind and in his heart, Tom begins to see some reasons to stay, to see that even lost causes can be worth fighting for. Edward Bloor has created a searing portrait of a place and a family and a boy who survive a harrowing plague year, and become stronger than before.From the Hardcover edition.