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The Plant-Powered Diet: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today
by Sharon PalmerRecipes, shopping lists, dining-out tips, and more for anyone from vegans to omnivores: &“Makes the transition to a plant-powered lifestyle simple.&” —Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, author of The Flexitarian Diet You can harness the power of whole-plant foods to lead a long and vibrant life—whether you&’re vegan, vegetarian, or omnivorous. Numerous studies indicate that by eating whole, minimally processed plant foods, humans can gain protection—against everyday illness, diabetes, obesity, depression, mental decline, heart disease, and even cancer. In The Plant-Powered Diet, registered dietitian Sharon Palmer marshals the most up-to-date findings in nutrition to explain why—and how—you should fill more of your plate with whole-plant foods. This guide includes: • Essential information on the healthiest plant foods—whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and even herbs, spices, chocolate, coffee, tea, and wine • Advice for navigating the supermarket, kitchen, restaurant menus, on-the-go meals, exercise, and more • A fourteen-day meal plan, plus daily action alerts to get you started • Seventy-five original plant-based recipes for every meal—all with complete nutritional data The Plant-Powered Diet is not a diet you&’ll go &“on&” today and &“off&” tomorrow. It&’s a simple, satisfying, and thoroughly delicious way of eating that can not only last your lifetime—but lengthen it. &“This book, which is based on compelling scientific evidence, will help you find your own plant-based eating style that&’s healthy, sustainable, and delicious.&” —Cheryl Forberg, RD, James Beard Award–winning chef, New York Times–bestselling author, and original nutritionist for NBC&’s The Biggest Loser
The Plant-Powered Diet: The lifelong eating plan for achieving optimal health, starting today
by Sharon PalmerHarness the power of plants to lead a long and healthy life - whether you're a vegan, vegetarian or meat-eater. Eat more whole plants. This simple recommendation is at the heart of a building consensus: the healthiest diet is a plant-based diet. Plants have spent millions of years evolving their defences against disease. Now, studies indicate that by eating whole, minimally processed plant foods, humans too can gain protection against everyday illness, diabetes, obesity, depression, mental decline, heart disease, and even cancer. In The Plant-Powered Diet, registered dietician Sharon Palmer marshals the most up-to-date findings in nutrition to explain both why you should fill more of your plate with whole-plant foods and how to do so, whether you're a vegetarian vegan or a committed omnivore. Here is: Essential information on the healthiest plant foods - whole grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and even herbs, spices, chocolate, coffee, tea, and wine Advice for navigating the supermarket, kitchen, restaurant menus, on-the-go meals, exercise, and more A 14-day meal plan, plus daily action alerts to get you started And 75 original plant-based recipes for every meal - all with complete nutritional data. The Plant-Powered Diet is not a diet you'll go 'on' today and 'off' tomorrow. It is a simple, satisfying, and thoroughly delicious way of eating that can not only last your lifetime - but lengthen it.
The Plant-Powered Plan to Beat Diabetes: A Guide for Prevention and Management - 100 Vegan Recipes Cookbook
by Sharon PalmerAn inspiring, 100% plant-based cookbook to help manage diabetes, prevent complications, and promote optimal health with easy vegan recipes, advice on meal planning, cooking tips, shopping lists, and more! Celebrated vegan nutritionist Sharon Palmer, aka The Plant-Powered Dietitian, presents 100 plant-based diet recipes for evidence-based diabetes management. Although there are many cookbooks tailored for people with diabetes, the vegan cookbook for diabetics is rare —a surprising fact given mounting research proving plant-based diets have lasting benefits for people living with diabetes. Nearly 12% of the U.S. population has diabetes, while 38% of adults have prediabetes—and it is our aging generation that carries the heaviest disease burden; roughly half of seniors in the U.S. have prediabetes. This book is especially for them. Sharon explains this research in an accessible and persuasive way with easy-to-understand graphs and charts, but also with a warm and friendly tone that will encourage readers. In The Plant-Powered Plan to Beat Diabetes, Palmer provides a comprehensive, 100% plant-based eating plan (meaning no meat, fish, eggs, or dairy) based on existing research for managing diabetes. The original photography of her inventive, globally inspired, and heart-healthy recipes make each culinary creation difficult to resist! Find step-by-step meal plans and learn plant-based cooking methods and strategies. Regardless of whether the goal is to go vegan or simply move to a more plant-forward eating style. Palmer makes it easy and convenient to shift eating patterns for good health, while enjoying delicious food!The popular PlantYou vegan cookbook by Carleigh Bodrug meets the diabetes-focused, Complete Diabetes Cookbook by America&’s Test Kitchen with this accessible plant-based cookbook and meal planning guide for people with diabetes. Palmer&’s simplified approach to plant-powered eating for diabetes management makes this cookbook an essential gift and tool for loved ones to share with family members living with diabetes, or for clinicians, nutritionists, nurses, or health practitioners who treat and manage patients with diabetes.
The PlantPlus Diet Solution: Personalized Nutrition For Life
by Joan Z. BorysenkoJoan Borysenko, Ph.D., a Harvard-trained cell biologist, health psychologist, and New York Times best-selling author, believes that when you’ve got the right information, you can make powerful choices to change your life. She cuts through the thicket of confusing—and often downright wrong—advice on nutrition and gives you easy-to-digest, bite-sized servings of real scientific information so you can discover which foods your body needs to heal and thrive.Since Joan wears two hats—as a psychologist and a cell biologist—you can trust her to psych out your inner saboteur, enabling you to make the changes you’ve been dreaming of. And as a busy woman who loves good food, she’ll teach you how to make simple, scrumptious, satisfying meals that you and your family will love whether you’re omnivores, vegans, or vegetarians. In this groundbreaking book, Joan will help you: • Get up-to-date information on the nutrition revolution • Make friends with the plants that feed your gut bacteria • Lose the weight and keep it off • Understand how diet changes your genes and how your genes determine your best diet • Fill out a health symptom checklist and track the changes as your personalized PlantPlus Diet optimizes your metabolism • Know which tests to ask your doctor for and why • Create a sleek and streamlined PlantPlus kitchen • Make fabulous meals in minutes with simple recipes and meal plans
The PlantPure Kitchen: 130 Mouthwatering, Whole Food Recipes and Tips for a Plant-Based Life
by Kim CampbellIs Your Kitchen a PlantPure Kitchen? The grassroots plant-based nutrition movement inspired by the film PlantPure Nation has helped foster a growing community of whole food, plant-based eaters. Key to its success has been the PlantPure Director of Culinary Education Kim Campbell's inspiring and delicious recipes. In 2015, her cookbook, The PlantPure Nation Cookbook, helped change the way people view the food they put in their bodies. Now, Campbell is back with even more inventive recipes bursting with flavor in The PlantPure Kitchen. Campbell builds on favorites from her last cookbook, turning recipes like the Creamy African Stew into tasty African Wraps, and shares tons of new recipes that will turn any plant-based eater into a chef with ease. With compassion for the challenges of following a plant-pure diet, Campbell lends advice about the best natural sweeteners, the most useful kitchen tools for plant-based cooking, vegan-friendly substitutions for making recipes gluten-free, and a whole lot more. Whether you are new to the lifestyle or looking to expand your own recipe repertoire, The PlantPure Kitchen makes committing to your health through eating plant-based exciting, accessible, and easy! From dips and spreads, like Crockpot Apple Butter, to classic dinners, like Welsh Rarebit, The PlantPure Kitchen's recipes will inspire you to lead a more plant-pure life. Recipes include: Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel Muffins Asian Noodle Salad Southwestern Chili Mac Potato-Crusted Mushroom Quiche Welsh Rarebit Slow Cooker Jackfruit Tacos Hot Fudge Sundae Cake Featuring a foreword by T. Colin Campbell, coauthor of the groundbreaking national bestseller The China Study, this book will become a kitchen staple for PlantPure veterans and newcomers alike.
The Plantiful Plate: Vegan Recipes From The Yommme Kitchen
by Christine Wong80 vibrant, colorful recipes to mix and match Yum + Ommm = Yommme! Christine Wong, creator of yommme.com, has made it her mission to help others discover how delicious mindful eating can be. In The Plantiful Plate, she shows how easy it is to prepare hearty, satisfying vegan (and gluten-free) dishes bursting with color and flavor. With a mix-and-match approach, these recipes offer maximum flexibility to account for individual tastes, diets, allergies, and perhaps most importantly, what happens to be in your kitchen that day. In addition to the recipes, she shares her tips for meal planning and shopping at markets to minimize plastic waste, and provides at- a- glance guides to nutritional content. Filled with Christine’s gorgeous photos, it’s truly a feast for the eyes. Eighty adaptaple recipes include: • Asian Pear Salad • Black Bean & Chard Empanadas • Kohlrabi Fries • Chocolate- Cherry Pancakes
The Play Ethic: A Manifesto for a Different Way of Living
by Pat KaneThe Play Ethic explores the real meaning of play and shows how a more playful society would revolutionize and liberate our daily lives. Using wide and varied sources from the Enlightenment to Eminem, Socrates to Chaos theory, Kierkegaard to Karaoke, this book shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world.
The Playdate Busy Book
by Heather Kempskie Lisa HansonIn The Playdate Busy Book (previously titled The Siblings' Busy Book) authors Hanson and Kempskie have outlined 200 activities that all the kids can enjoy together (ages 3 months to 9 years). Each activity write-up includes ways for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age kids to join in the fun. As in other Busy Books, the activities range from arts & crafts, seasonal decorating, outdoor adventures, and imagination stretchers to making music, learning together, and rainy-day family fun.
The Pleasure Is All Yours: Reclaim Your Body’s Bliss and Reignite Your Passion for Life
by Rachel AllynReconnect to your inner sense of pleasure and joy through embodiment practices, which put you in touch with the natural wisdom of your body and enhance your ability to connect with others. In this time of increased fatigue, loneliness, and anxiety, disconnection from our bodies and from each other is at the core of our personal pain and our collective suffering. Women in particular are rewarded for, and expected to participate in self-denial. By weaving together historical and cultural commentary, humorous and poignant anecdotes, and experiential tools backed by science, The Pleasure Is All Yours is a step-by-step guide to help you release barriers to receiving life&’s pleasures and deeper connections with others. In this timely guide, holistic psychologist, relationship and sex therapist, and yoga teacher Dr. Rachel Allyn introduces bodyfulness, an embodiment method she developed to help you to awaken into your body's own capacity for healing and deeper connection. Allyn explains how bodyfulness can connect you to four essential and overlooked types of pleasure—sensual, playful, lively, and erotic— which overlap in many ways, and helps you identify what can inspire your own pleasure in each category. Through bodyful activities such as breathing exercises, mindfulness, yoga, auditory release, and dynamic movements, this book helps you reunite with your inherent wisdom and soulful delight.
The Pleasure Plan: One Woman's Search for Sexual Healing
by Laura ZamBased on popular essays in New York Times&’ Modern Love and Salon, as well as an Off-Broadway one-person play, The Pleasure Plan is a sexual healing odyssey, a manifesto for women to claim pleasure as a priority, and a love story all at once.Fifty percent of adult women have some form of sexual dysfunction at some point of their lives, preventing them from enjoying vibrant, soul-satisfying sex. Such was the case with Laura Zam, who suffered the blame, shame, and embarrassment of feeling bedroom broken. For her, delving between the sheets meant physical pain, zero desire, and emotional scars from being molested in her early years. However, in her late forties, after meeting and marrying the love of her life, Zam was determined to finally fix her sensual self. This is her brave and bawdy plan to triage her flaccid romantic life, stepping into a void where intimacy, self-love, and playfulness could be experienced--the full monty of Eros that had been missing from her existence. The Pleasure Plan is what happened when she decided to challenge her hopelessness. In partnership with her initially reluctant husband, she visited 15 healers and tried 30 pleasure-enhancing methods: from dilators and dildos, to hypnosis and hosting a sex brunch, to cleansing chakras, to making love to her husband in front of a geriatric Tantric goddess. Packed with humor, heart, and a healthy dose of prescriptive advice, this book chronicles Zam&’s insight as she confronts many issues—from mismatched libidos to female erection enlightenment. Throughout this journey, she and her husband grow as individuals and as a couple, both in and out of the bedroom. Fearlessly honest and full of inspiration, Zam peels back the layers—or covers—and exposes her foibles, insecurities, and eventual wisdom as she excavates past traumas, accepts and embraces her worth, and claims her right to be completely alive. Today, Laura works as a sexuality educator, wellness coach, and speaker helping other women who suffer from sexual dysfunction, the effects of trauma, or those who would simply like more pleasure (of all kinds) in their lives. She also consults with health care providers so they may better assist their clients in achieving sexual well-being. While The Pleasure Plan is Zam&’s personal narrative, it demystifies pervasive taboos, encouraging women to make pleasure a priority, while teaching them how to claim (or reclaim) the power of their sexual selves. It also shows men how they can support their partners in this #Metoo era. Healthy, sultry intimacy is a right; it is time for women to learn—through glorious trial and error—how to embrace the sensual side of themselves. . . exuberantly and unabashedly.
The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation (Routledge Research in Aesthetics)
by Alberto Voltolini Jérôme PelletierThe general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one another? The essays in the book’s first section investigate important conceptual issues related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II, the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.
The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light
by Brian Swimme Barbara Hand ClowNoted astrologer and spiritual teacher Barbara Hand Clow channels the voice of Satya, a Pleiadian goddess. Satya describes the huge cosmic drama taking place simultaneously in nine dimensions, with Earth as the chosen theater. The Pleiadians are a group of enlightened beings who believe that the end of the Mayan Calendar will signal a critical leap in human evolution; the Pleiadians will be there to guide us for that leap. This shift is the coming Age of Light, and the entry of our solar system into the Photon Band and the Age of Aquarius.
The Pleiadian House of Initiation: A Journey through the Rooms of the Wisdomkeepers
by Barbara Hand Clow Mary T. BebenA step-by-step tour through our spiritual home in the Pleiades • Recounts the author’s spiritual trials to reach the highest levels of her soul’s celestial mansion and her encounters with immortal wisdom teachers such as White Buffalo Woman, Taliesin, Mother Mary, and Grandmother Spider • Includes lessons to help jettison fear and jealousy so we can continue our ascension to higher consciousness • Offers a prophetic glimpse into the future of life on Earth, how our planet is the key to conscious evolution, and humanity’s divine role as Keepers of Earth Inviting each of us to discover our spiritual home in the higher realms, Mary Beben provides a visionary tour of the celestial mansion of her family in the Pleiades, a home she inhabited prior to this incarnation on Earth. She explains how transitioning into materiality causes each of us to forget our starry origins, yet it is still possible to remember our Pleiadian heritage and divine reasons for choosing to manifest on Earth. Beben details her initiatic journey as she rediscovered the beautiful rooms on each floor of her Pleiadian house and learned to ascend to higher consciousness while remaining lovingly rooted in the Earth. She recounts her trials to reach the higher levels of the building and her encounters with immortal wisdomkeepers such as White Buffalo Woman, Taliesin, Mother Mary, and Grandmother Spider. Embedded throughout her story are lessons to help each of us jettison psychological baggage like fear and jealousy so we can continue our ascension and fulfill our Pleiadian birthright. Beben explains how her journey offers a prophetic glimpse into the future of life on Earth as well as the key to opening the heart to the higher realms of existence. She shows how ascension will not mean departing Earth but will place our Earthen reality in perspective and help solve problems that seem insurmountable from this dimension. In rediscovering the celestial origins of our souls, we recognize not only the Earth as the key to conscious evolution but also our role as the Keepers of Earth, the planet celebrated throughout the universe on which each of us is fortunate to have chosen incarnation.
The Pleiadian Tantric Workbook: Awakening Your Divine Ba
by Amorah Quan YinThe Pleiadian Tantric Workbook assists you with healing relationships. This sequel to The Pleiadian Workbook teaches advanced cellular clearing to heal the male/female split, and, with specific exercises and techniques practical for everyday life, shows you how to activate and clear kundalini and sexual channels through tantra.
The Pleiadian Workbook: Awakening Your Divine Ka
by Amorah Quan YinThe Pleiadian Workbook is a direct transmission from the Pleiadian Emissaries of Light--Light beings from the Pleiades--who say it's time now for spiritual growth, ascension, and healing. Through Amorah Quan Yin, we are taught to open our "Ka Channels," which pull energy from our multidimensional, holographic selves into our physical bodies. These galactic healing techniques align us with our divine selves, raise our vibratory rates, and rejuvenate and balance our bodies, while accelerating spiritual evolution and stimulating emotional healing.
The Pluralist Right to Health Care: A Framework and Case Study
by Michael DaSilvaHealth rights are a common but controversial legal phenomenon. Every country is signatory to a treaty that incorporates health rights, yet existing health rights do not fit easily into the traditional "claim right" model, and questions remain over how to theoretically incorporate health rights into domestic systems. The Pluralist Right to Health Care addresses this incongruity between theory and practice with an account of the right to health care that is both philosophically and practically sound. Utilizing a pluralist framework, Michael Da Silva argues that the right to health care is best understood as a set of claims to related ends: the goods necessary for a dignified existence, procedural fairness in determining what other goods to provide and in the provision of goods, and a functioning health care system. Through philosophical reasoning, analysis of relevant international human rights law, and a close study of the Canadian case, The Pluralist Right to Health Care provides crucial insight into the potential of law and policy to improve health care systems in Canada and beyond.
The Pocket Atlas of Trigger Points: A User-Friendly Guide to Muscle Anatomy, Pain Patterns, and the Myofascial Network for Students, Practitioners, and Patients
by Simeon Niel-AsherA simple, go-to guide to treating chronic pain with trigger point therapy for physical therapists, bodyworkers, and patients From the bestselling author of The Concise Book of Trigger PointsThis pocket-sized guide covers practical information about the trigger points—the painful knots that can form in tissues like muscles and fascia—that are central to addressing chronic pain with massage, bodywork, and physical therapy. Full-color illustrations and charts help practitioners, students, and patients identify trigger points and address referred pain patterns with ease.The first chapter introduces relevant information on fascia and myofascial meridians and provides an overview of trigger point symptoms, classification, and formation. Subsequent chapters are organized by muscle group and feature concise—yet comprehensive—sections on each of the main skeletal muscles and their trigger points. Conditions that commonly occur in the general population, such as headaches and back pain, are explored for all of the muscle groups, including the muscles of the:Face, head, and neckTrunk and spineShoulder and armForearm and handHip and thighLeg and footWritten in clear, accessible language, this go-to guide offers a wealth of knowledge to the lay reader, the student, or the practitioner.
The Pocket Book of Stones, Revised Edition: Who They Are and What They Teach
by Robert SimmonsThe spiritual and healing qualities of 390 members of the mineral kingdom are detailed here in The Pocket Book of Stones, Robert Simmons's condensed reference guide to to crystals and gems. Based on the bestselling The Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach, this guide describes 47 new stones not covered in the original encyclopedia and also contains an index of the spiritual, emotional, and healing qualities of the stones.This pocket edition has been requested by many readers who are looking for a compact reference that they can carry easily or give as an inexpensive gift to the rock-lovers on their gift lists. Incorporating beautifully lit, full-color photos of each stone, it imparts the spiritual understanding that made The Book of Stones the "bible" of many thousands of crystal lovers.This book is an ideal introduction to stones and their energies for those who are new to the field, as well as being an invaluable portable reference for well-versed readers. Every entry contains a vivid color photo and quick-look list of key words, elemental and chakra correspondences, plus the beneficial physical, emotional, and spiritual qualities of each mineral, crystal, or gemstone. Below the quick-look list, Simmons provides a description of each stone, including scientific data and the story of each stone's spiritual and healing qualities, as well as recommednations for other stones that combine harmoniously with it. The scientific information offered welcomes those not yet familiar with crystal energies by providing a familiar frame of reference and also broadens the knowledge of those who come to stones primarily for spiritual purposes.The Pocket Book of Stones includes a comprehensive index of the healing qualities and the emotional and spiritual properties of all the stones in the book.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Pocket Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach
by Robert Simmons• Features beautifully lit, color photos of each stone to aid in identification and to showcase the beauty of the crystals and gemstones • Provides a description of each stone, a quick-look list of keywords, elemental and chakra correspondences, scientific data, and the story of each stone&’s beneficial physical, emotional, and spiritual qualities • Based on the bestselling The Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach Detailing the spiritual and healing qualities of 390 members of the mineral kingdom, The Pocket Book of Stones is condensed reference guide to crystals and gems based on the bestselling The Book of Stones: Who They Are and What They Teach. This portable A-to-Z guide features beautifully lit, full-color photos of each stone to aid in identification and to showcase the beauty of the crystals and gemstones. This updated edition describes 47 new stones not covered in the original Pocket Book of Stones and contains a comprehensive index of the spiritual, emotional, and healing qualities of the stones. Every entry contains a vivid color photo, quick-look list of keywords, elemental and chakra correspondences, plus the beneficial physical, emotional, and spiritual qualities of each mineral, crystal, or gemstone. Author Robert Simmons provides a description of each stone, including scientific data and the story of each stone&’s spiritual and healing qualities, as well as recommendations for other stones that combine harmoniously with it. The scientific information offered provides a familiar frame of reference for those not yet familiar with crystal energies and also broadens the knowledge of those who come to stones primarily for spiritual purposes. This book provides an ideal introduction to stones and their energies for those who are new to the field as well as an invaluable portable reference for well-versed readers.
The Pocket Carbohydrate Counter Guide for Diabetes: Simple Nutritional Strategies to Lower Your Blood Sugar
by Shelby KinnairdThe Pocket Carbohydrate Counter Guide for Diabetes offers the simplest, most accurate strategies for counting carbs and lowering your blood sugar.When you have a strategy for counting carbohydrates, you don't need to consult lists of nutritional information every time you sit down to eat. The Pocket Carbohydrate Counter Guide for Diabetes makes it easy to manage diabetes in your daily life with simple nutritional strategies to accurately count carbs and maintain normal blood sugar levels.Written for recently-diagnosed and long-time diabetes patients alike, this handy pocket reference is a simple solution to eliminate guesswork and confidently judge the carbs in every meal. From setting targets and finding your personal sweet spot, to actionable strategies like meal planning, this carbohydrate counter book makes counting carbs as easy as 1,2,3.Never overestimate or underestimate carbs again. This carbohydrate counter book keeps your blood sugar levels in check with:Effective tools for counting carbs with clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrations for accurately measuring carbs, plus alternative methods such as meal planning and balancing your plateLifestyle advice that includes recommendations for smart snacking, and offers tips on what to order while eating outAn introduction on the connection between carbs and diabetes that provides an in-depth look at what happens in your body when you eat carbs, and an overview of foods that contain (and hide) carbsStop guessing—learn simple strategies for counting carbohydrates and lower your blood sugar with this carbohydrate counter book.
The Pocket First-Aid Field Guide: Treatment and Prevention of Outdoor Emergencies (Skyhorse Pocket Guides)
by George E. DvorchakPractical advice for the on-the-go outdoorsman, this field-friendly guide is essential for anyone interested in first-aid preparation and care. Here is advice useful on a hike or for any fishing trip, including step-by-step instructions on dealing with fractures, suturing wounds, treating eyes and ears, managing allergic reactions, and more. With common sense advice, and in a handy, portable package, this is one little book that no one should be without in a campsite or in their forest hideaway.
The Pocket Guide to Camping
by Linda White Katherine L. WhiteA kid&’s guide to camping, including everything from first aid skills to fun campfire songs and recipes. The Pocket Guide to Camping has all the camping basics for kids—or beginners of any age—from setting up a tent to hiking a trail to cooking over the campfire. The book covers camping skills and first aid, along with stories, games, activities, and campfire songs. It also includes great campfire recipes that kids can make. This inclusive, family-oriented guide takes you through planning your trip to getting home safely—and is chock full of information and fun ideas.
The Pocket I Ching: The Book of Change
by Thomas ClearyThe I Ching (Book of Change) is considered the oldest of the Chinese classics, and has throughout Chinese history commanded unsurpassed prestige and popularity. Containing several layers of text and given numerous levels of interpretation, the I Ching has been venerated for more than three thousand years as an oracle of fortune, a guide to success, and a source of wisdom. The underlying theme of the text is change, and how this fundamental force influences all aspects of life--from business and politics to personal relationships. This translation of the I Ching draws on ancient Confucian commentary, which emphasizes applying practical wisdom in everyday affairs.
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Being An Expectant Father
by Joe KellyFrom the home pregnancy test to handing out cigars . . . and beyond. Dads-to-be often worry more than they let on about the emotional, financial, and physical changes that come with their partners&’ pregnancies. The Pocket Idiot&’s Guide® to Being an Expectant Father shows you how to get ready for the most important role of your life. In this Pocket Idiot&’s Guide®, you get: • Idiot-proof tips on setting up the nursery and babyproofing your home. • Straight talk on how having a baby will impact your finances—and what you can do to prepare. • A trimester-by-trimester account of changes in both baby and mom. • Practical ways to get attuned to your baby&’s schedule—and bond with the little one, too!
The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Bioidentical Hormones
by Nancy Faass Ricki PollycoveFor the first time in history, millions of women have the opportunity to grow old as vigorous, vitally engaged, and productive people. Advances in health care and medical knowledge now offer a solid foundation for those who want to reduce their health risks and improve their quality of life. Wise use of estrogen can lower a woman's risk of colon cancer, osteoporosis, hip fractures, heart disease, and dementia, yet fewer than 17 percent of American women for whom hormone supplements are appropriate actually take them. Bioidentical hormones are created from plant molecules identical to those found in the human body. These new hormones provide women with another resource to meet the needs of aging-saftey when used intelligently. The Pocket Idiot's Guide® to Bioidentical Hormones provides the evidence on what is safe and what is not and presents a wide range of options for supplementing hormones, within an easy-to-answer discussion of Hormone Replacement Therapy in general. Completely objective, the book answers all the questions and coverage includes: • The case for hormones-bioidentical or otherwise • The safety issue-which hormones work and which may be harmful • Bioidentical hormones-beneficial effects on the heart, bones, and brain • Creating an individualized health plan-which hormones, in what combination-how much and how often