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41) Advice for future corpses*, *and those who love them: a practical perspective on death and dying
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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We Are All Future Corpses. Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Informed by her many years working as a nurse, with more than a decade in palliative care, Tisdale provides a frank, direct, and compassionate meditation on the inevitable. From the sublime (the faint sound of Mozart as...
42) The everything guide to raising a toddler: all you need to raise a happy, healthy, confident toddler
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Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The toddler years are a wondrous time of exploration and independence. If you're prepared, you can enjoy the toddler years with ease and confidence. Filled with practical advice and sound strategies, this guide give you tips on handling technology and toddlers, a slew of activities to build brainpower, and recipes that will help keep toddlers performing at their best.
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Bush of athenahealth leads readers through the underbelly of American health care, which has missed the customer service revolution of the past two decades, while reflecting on his own journey from ambulance driver to CEO of one of the nation's fastest growing tech companies. He offers a vision and plan for disrupting the current system and pushes to restore the sanctity of the physician-patient experience. The key, he argues, is more innovation,...
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Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories that could change the status quo. Welsh takes readers across North America and...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times best-selling author and beloved healing authority reveals how taking your liver off overload can help resolve a wide range of symptoms and conditions--and transform your health in ways you've never imagined. What if you could focus on one aspect of your well-being to transform all the others--and at the same time prevent health problems you didn't even know were lurking beneath the surface? In today's world, we have no idea...
Publisher
Bantam books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The most up-to-date, expert advice for mothers, fathers, and care providers from the American Academy of Pediatrics From the most respected organization on child health comes this essential resource for all parents who want to provide the very best care for their children. Here is the one guide pediatricians routinely recommend and parents can safely trust, covering everything from preparing for childbirth to toilet training to nurturing your child's...
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife offers invaluable advice for addressing the health of our bodies and the health of the planet by identifying common products and behaviors that are harmful and providing alternatives that are non-toxic and life-enhancing"--
"The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For Readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, an Intensive Care Doctor Reveals How Everyday Emotions Are Taken to Extremes in the ICU Dr. Aoife Abbey takes us beyond the medical perspective to see the humanity at work inside our hospitals through the eyes of doctors and nurses as they witness and experience the full spectrum of human emotion with every shift. It is their responsibility to mitigate the grief of a family in mourning,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Over 99% of people who try to lose weight don't succeed. They don't get slender and they don't stay slender long term. The average dieter spends a significant amount of money and makes four or five new attempts each year. Four or five new attempts each year with almost no hope of success. Only 1% of people will get down to their goal weight on traditional diets. Susan Peirce Thompson. Ph.D., suggests that there's something fishy going on here, something...
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Publisher
Voracious / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Let's Face It is a compendium of super-simple principles for healthy skin, helping readers move beyond branding or the recommendations of influencers to discover the remedies that will solve their skin concerns—and to find them in products at any price point."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The things we do every day to keep ourselves clean can have surprising and unintended effects, as this entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics reveals Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually works. What one person says is vital another says is toxic. We have not cured acne or eczema, allergies keep getting worse, and autoimmune conditions are becoming...
Author
Publisher
Viva Editions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"There's a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care-nearly 44 percent of all deaths-and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hospice care helps make the end of life the best it can be, yet the experience can be both rewarding and stressful to those involved. Karen Claytons stories address end-of-life choices, palliative care, mixed feelings about hospice, care for the caregivers, managing dramatic incidents and fear, social isolation, saying goodbye, and remembering.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This book is for ICU patients' families, suddenly immersed in an alien and intimidating world. It clearly explains intensive care ranging from the details of the equipment and environment, to decisions about end-of-life care, focusing on how the reader can become an effective advocate for their loved one"--
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English
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This brand new edition of America’s pregnancy food bible covers it all through those nine months of baby-making and beyond: the latest facts on superfoods, food trends, food safety. Foods to chow down on, foods (and drinks) to limit, and those to cut out altogether. Realistic, body-positive advice and savvy strategies on how to eat well when you’re too green to come face-to-fork with broccoli. Or too bloated to eat at all. Or on the run. Or on...
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English
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"A goblin-inspired lifestyle guide that focuses on embracing imperfection in areas such as dressing, decorating, foraging, and crafting"--
"Embrace your inner goblin! Learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the goblin principles of community, diversity, and joyful mess. Do you ever feel strange, gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don’t quite fit in? Great news: you might be a goblin! That means your imperfections...
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