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The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health

By: Karen J. Carlson M.D.,Stephanie A. Eisenstat M.D.,Terra Ziporyn Ph.D.

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The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health

By: Karen J. Carlson M.D.,Stephanie A. Eisenstat M.D.,Terra Ziporyn Ph.D.

With the publication in 1996 of The Harvard Guide to Women's Health, women seeking answers to questions about their health had access to the combined expertise of physicians from three of the world's most prestigious medical institutions: Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women's Hospital. With complete information on women's health concerns, physical and behavioral, this A to Z reference quickly became a definitive resource, praised especially for its coverage of topics not previously considered under the umbrella of women's health. The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health reunites the authors to bring a valued health reference up to date for a new generation--and for those women who have come to rely on the Harvard Guide and are now wondering what to do about their health as they enter a new stage of life, asking questions like the following: I've been on hormone replacement therapy. Should I stop? How? Could this rash be lupus? I've been on the Pill. What is my risk for stroke? Fat is bad, fat is good: What should I believe? And what's left to eat? When does ordinary worry become chronic anxiety? What screening tests do I need now? In addition to revised recommendations reflecting the current medical thinking on menopause and hormone replacement therapy, the New Harvard Guide includes updated recommendations about cardiac health and heart disease--the #1 killer of women in the United States entries reflecting recent advances in the understanding and treatment of autoimmune diseases better coverage of health concerns throughout a woman's life span, from her first period to menopause and beyond, with a new entry on perimenopause expanded nutritional recommendations, including a unique chart of the U.S. government's Daily Reference Intakes for micronutrients, broken down for teens and women whose needs may differ because they are pregnant, breastfeeding, or postmenopausal updated information on over-the-counter medications, prescription drugs, procedures, screenings, and diagnostic tests

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0674253248

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Decoration Day in the Mountains

Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians

By: Alan Jabbour,Karen Singer Jabbour

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Decoration Day in the Mountains

Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians

By: Alan Jabbour,Karen Singer Jabbour

Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground. These commemorations seem to predate the post-Civil War celebrations that ultimately gave us our national Memorial Day. Little has been written about this tradition, but it is still observed widely throughout the Upland South, from North Carolina to the Ozarks. Written by internationally recognized folklorist Alan Jabbour and illustrated with more than a hundred photographs taken by Karen Singer Jabbour, Decoration Day in the Mountains is an in-depth exploration of this little-known cultural tradition. The Jabbours illuminate the meanings behind the rituals and reveal how the tradition fostered a grassroots movement to hold the federal government to its promises about cemeteries left behind when families were removed to make way for Fontana Dam and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Richly illustrated and vividly written, Decoration Day in the Mountains presents a compelling account of a widespread and long-standing Southern cultural practice.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895695

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AGING BABY

By: Karen Kellock

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AGING BABY

By: Karen Kellock

The boomers marked the beginning of mental and moral decline. They’re so dumbed if you're too deep, all-encompassing, mystical, never heard before or not part of narrative you're out of line. The enemy sows discord and division to the mob who can't discern good from evil. You're not even supposed to reason with fools yet that’s the enemy's army against you. Don't envy when they flourish like a green tree for just as suddenly they're mowed down see. Cover by Karen Kellock, Inner page by Blaze Goldburst

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CHAMPION GUIDES

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1707632278

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Secrets of Longevity

By: Kandeel Judge M.D.,Karen K. Brees Ph.D.,Maxine Barish-Wreden M.D.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Secrets of Longevity

By: Kandeel Judge M.D.,Karen K. Brees Ph.D.,Maxine Barish-Wreden M.D.

Living life to the fullest now—and later. Modern life can be dangerous to one’s health. Things like burnout, excess weight, stress, lack of sleep, poor diet, and pollutants can have a negative impact on the quality of life and ultimately one’s health span. Written by doctors, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Secrets of Longevity provides a clear and easy path to unlocking the secrets to living healthier and looking younger. Readers will learn about: • Diet, exercise and supplementation. • The pitfalls of longevity-threatening lifestyle choices involving bad relationships, harried schedules, and lack of sleep. • Insights into toxins from food, cleaning products, and cosmetics. • The incredible power of laughter, optimism, and a positive attitude.

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Penguin

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1440653186

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Understanding Cystic Fibrosis

By: Karen Hopkin

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Understanding Cystic Fibrosis

By: Karen Hopkin

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common genetic disorder in the white population. Since the discovery of the CF gene in 1989, scientists have learned a great deal about the biology of this disease, which strikes one child in every 3.300 births. With the gene pinpointed, scientists are now working on ways to replace it and are developing better tests for early diagnosis. Understanding Cystic Fibrosis charts the progress that has been made in identifying the mutations that cause CF and in understanding how these genetic errors cause a disease whose symptoms can range from mild respiratory distress to life-threatening lung infections. This book features a review of current available treatments; research that can lead to therapies and perhaps a cure; advice and resources for families and patients; how to work best with health-care providers and HMOs; the history and diagnosis of CF; who gets CF and why; how CF affects the lungs, intestines, and other organs; and a list of organizations, support groups, and resources.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604739525

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The Jamestown Project

By: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

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The Jamestown Project

By: Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown migrants, merchants, and soldiers who had also sailed to the distant shores of the Ottoman Empire, Africa, and Ireland in search of new beginnings encountered Indians who already possessed broad understanding of Europeans. Experience of foreign environments and cultures had sharpened survival instincts on all sides and aroused challenging questions about human nature and its potential for transformation. It is against this enlarged temporal and geographic background that Jamestown dramatically emerges in Karen Kupperman's breathtaking study. Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, she shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Despite the settlers' dependence on the Chesapeake Algonquians and strained relations with their London backers, they forged a tenacious colony that survived where others had failed. Indeed, the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth. Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings, and the stark reality of Jamestown--for Indians and Europeans alike--through the words of its inhabitants as well as archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates these formative years with astonishing detail.

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Harvard University Press

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0674027027

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Learning and Education Games: Volume Two: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts

By: Karen Schrier Shaenfeld

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Learning and Education Games: Volume Two: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts

By: Karen Schrier Shaenfeld

The Learning, Education & Games book series is perfect for any educator or developer seeking an introduction to research-driven best practices for using and designing games for learning.This volume, Bringing Games into Educational Contexts, delves into thechallenges of creating games and implementing them in educational settings. This book covers relevant issues such as gamification, curriculum development, using games to support ASD (autism spectrum disorder) students, choosing games for the classroom and library, homeschooling and gameschooling, working with parents and policymakers, and choosing tools for educational game development. Learning, Education & Games: Bringing Games into Educational Contexts is the second in a serieswritten and edited bymembers of the Learning, Education, and Games (LEG) special interestgroup of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association).

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Lulu.com

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1329703561

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Trapped

The Story of the Cherry Mine Disaster

By: Karen Tintori

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Trapped

The Story of the Cherry Mine Disaster

By: Karen Tintori

A gripping account of the worst coal mine fire in US history—the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster that claimed the lives of 259 men. "Drawing on diaries, letters, written accounts of survivors and testimony from the coroner's inquest...Tintori's engaging prose keeps readers on the edge" (Publishers Weekly). Inspired by a refrain of her girlhood—"Your grandfather survived the Cherry Mine disaster"—Karen Tintori began a search for her family's role in the harrowing tragedy of 1909. She uncovered the stories of victims, survivors, widows, orphans, townspeople, firefighters, reporters, and mine owners, and wove them together to pen Trapped, a riveting account of the tragic day that would inspire America's first worker's compensation laws and hasten much-needed child labor reform. On a Saturday morning in November of 1909, four hundred and eighty men went down into the mines as they had countless times before. But a fire erupted in the mineshaft that day and soon burned out of control. By nightfall, more than half the men would either be dead or trapped as officials sealed the mine in an attempt to contain the blaze. Miraculously, twenty men would emerge one week later, but not before the Cherry Mine disaster went down in history as the worst ever coal mine fire in the US—and not before all the treachery and heroism of mankind were revealed.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743428048

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9780743428040

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

By: Karen Ferguson

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Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

By: Karen Ferguson

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as social workers and administrators, saw the inclusion of African Americans in New Deal social welfare programs as a chance to prepare black Atlantans to take their rightful place in the political and social mainstream. They also worked to build a constituency they could mobilize for civil rights, in the process facilitating a shift from elite reform to the mass mobilization that marked the postwar black freedom struggle. Although these reformers' efforts were an essential prelude to civil rights activism, Ferguson argues that they also had lasting negative repercussions, embedded as they were in the politics of respectability. By attempting to impose bourgeois behavioral standards on the black community, elite reformers stratified it into those they determined deserving to participate in federal social welfare programs and those they consigned to remain at the margins of civic life.

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UNC Press Books

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080786014X

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Play Therapy

A Psychodynamic Primer for the Treatment of Young Children

By: Pamela Meersand, Ph.D.,Karen J. Gilmore, M.D.

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Play Therapy

A Psychodynamic Primer for the Treatment of Young Children

By: Pamela Meersand, Ph.D.,Karen J. Gilmore, M.D.

Why play therapy? Introduction to the psychodynamic treatment of young children -- Play, playfulness, and the sequence of play forms in development -- Pretend play -- Play in the digital age -- Basic psychodynamic concepts and their use in play therapy -- Therapeutic action and the multiple functions of play therapy -- Play and developmental psychopathology, deprivation, or disability -- The logistics -- Getting started, creating an alliance and facilitating play -- Working with parents over the course of treatment -- Deepening play therapy via verbalizing inner states, expanding narratives and working -- With transference and defense -- Ending play therapy and the process of termination -- Play therapy, variations in development and serious psychopathology

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American Psychiatric Pub

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1615370439

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Being with Rachel

A Story of Memory and Survival

By: Karen Brennan

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Being with Rachel

A Story of Memory and Survival

By: Karen Brennan

Two courageous spirits--mother and daughter--are challenged by a new reality after a life-changing accident.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393019616

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9780393019612

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Power of the Enneagram

By: Herb Pearce M.Ed.,Karen K. Brees Ph.D.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Power of the Enneagram

By: Herb Pearce M.Ed.,Karen K. Brees Ph.D.

Empower yourself through through self discovery - uncover your personality type, become your best self, and learn about other personality types to improve your relationships In this ‘personality guide’, Author Laura Miltenberger covers the nine enneagram personality types. Each archetype is distinct and influences a person’s traits, how they work, reach goals, and relate to others. Let the pages of this enneagram workbook take you on a journey of self-discovery. The book will help you: • Identify your enneagram type • Learn about the defining characteristics of each type • Find out how your personality traits can influence your daily habits and interactions • Discover how to embrace the strengths of your type and overcome your weaknesses • Improve your relationships by deepening your understanding of others Discover your personality Unlock your potential and become your best self with this personality psychology book. This book offers a deeper understanding of the complexity of your personality. By working through the personality book, you’ll discover your strengths and weaknesses and quickly identify ways to reach your highest potential. Enneagram archetypes are determined by a personality assessment and then each type is analyzed by their strengths and weaknesses. Through illustrations and simple explanations, the author offers guidance on how to use this knowledge for self-awareness and personal growth. This book will keep you engaged and ready to implement what you’ve learned in no time!

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1440626448

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The Professor Is In

The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

By: Karen Kelsky

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The Professor Is In

The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job

By: Karen Kelsky

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

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Crown

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0553419420

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Introduction to Porous Materials

By: Pascal Van Der Voort,Karen Leus,Els De Canck

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Introduction to Porous Materials

By: Pascal Van Der Voort,Karen Leus,Els De Canck

The first comprehensive textbook on the timely and rapidly developing topic of inorganic porous materials This is the first textbook to completely cover a broad range of inorganic porous materials. It introduces the reader to the development of functional porous inorganic materials, from the synthetic zeolites in the 50’s, to today’s hybrid materials such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and related networks. It also provides the necessary background to understand how porous materials are organized, characterized, and applied in adsorption, catalysis, and many other domains. Additionally, the book explains characterization and application from the materials scientist viewpoint, giving the reader a practical approach on the characterization and application of the respective materials. Introduction to Inorganic Porous Materials begins by describing the basic concepts of porosity and the different types of pores, surfaces, and amorphous versus crystalline materials, before introducing readers to nature’s porous materials. It then goes on to cover everything from adsorption and catalysis to amorphous materials such as silica to inorganic carbons and Periodic Mesoporous Organosilicas (PMOs). It discusses the synthesis and applications of MOFs and the broad family of COFs. It concludes with a look at future prospects and emerging trends in the field. The only complete book of its kind to cover the wide variety of inorganic and hybrid porous materials A comprehensive reference and outstanding tool for any course on inorganic porous materials, heterogeneous catalysis, and adsorption Gives students and investigators the opportunity to learn about porous materials, how to characterize them, and understand how they can be applied in different fields Introduction to Inorganic Porous Materials is an excellent book for students and professionals of inorganic chemistry and materials science with an interest in porous materials, functional inorganic materials, heterogeneous catalysis and adsorption, and solid state characterization techniques.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119426588

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9781119426585

Women, the Family, and Freedom

The Debate in Documents, Volume I, 1750-1880

By: Susan G. Bell,Karen M. Offen

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Women, the Family, and Freedom

The Debate in Documents, Volume I, 1750-1880

By: Susan G. Bell,Karen M. Offen

This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.

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Stanford University Press

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0804711712

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9780804711715

Cherokee Women in Charge

Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America

By: Karen Coody Cooper

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Cherokee Women in Charge

Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America

By: Karen Coody Cooper

Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home. During the French and Indian War, Cherokee women resisted a chief's authority, owned family households, were skilled artisans, produced plentiful crops, mastered trade negotiations, and prepared chiefs' feasts. Cherokee culture was lost when the Cherokee Nation began imitating the American form of governance to gain political favor, and white colonists reduced indigenous women's power. This book recounts long-standing Cherokee traditions and their rich histories. It demonstrates Cherokee and indigenous women as independent and strong individuals through feminist and historical perspectives. Readers will find that these women were far ahead of their time and held their own in many remarkable ways.

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McFarland

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1476688184

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9781476688183

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Arthritis

Manage Your Arthritis. Enjoy Your Life.

By: Amye L. Leong M.B.A.,Karen K. Brees Ph.D.,Neal S. Birnbaum M.D.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Arthritis

Manage Your Arthritis. Enjoy Your Life.

By: Amye L. Leong M.B.A.,Karen K. Brees Ph.D.,Neal S. Birnbaum M.D.

No one has to live with the pain . . . There are over 46 million Americans who suffer from some form of arthritis. Here, longtime arthritis sufferer and internationally renowned consultant Amye L. Long and medical expert in the field of arthritis Dr. Neal S. Birnbaum offer a clear, jargon-free, and comprehensive guide to understanding this disease. • Includes detailed explanations of the various forms of the disease and symptoms, and how lifestyle can contribute to the severity of the conditions • Describes the full range of traditional medical treatments from prescription drugs and physical therapy to surgery, as well as alternative treatments including supplements, super foods, and detox • Coping methods such as meditation and lifestyle changes

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1101028904

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9781101028902

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pain Relief

Discover the Most Effective Ways to Treat Acute or Chronic Pain

By: Alpana Gowda, M.D.,Karen K. Brees, Ph.D.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pain Relief

Discover the Most Effective Ways to Treat Acute or Chronic Pain

By: Alpana Gowda, M.D.,Karen K. Brees, Ph.D.

Practical help for the millions who suffer. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Pain Relief offers readers advice on how to live with, manage, and treat their specific symptoms as they occur, and get quick and lasting relief from their discomfort through both traditional medical and alternative therapies. ?Includes the major sources of pain from head and back aches to chronic conditions such as fibromyalgia ?Clear and accessible information from a certified medical expert ?Covers the impact of diet and exercise on pain relief ?According to the National Institute of Health, over seventy-six million Americans suffer from sustained pain every day

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1101197331

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Experiencing Old Age in Ancient Rome

By: Karen Cokayne

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Experiencing Old Age in Ancient Rome

By: Karen Cokayne

Old age today is a contentious topic. It can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. There is frequent debate over how we value the elderly, and whether ageing is an affliction to be treated or a natural process to be embraced. Karen Cokayne explores how ancient Rome dealt with the physical, intellectual and emotional implications of the ageing process, and asks how the Romans themselves experienced and responded to old age. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary material - written sources, inscriptions, and visual evidence - the study brings into focus universal concerns, including geriatric illness, memory loss and senility; the status and role of the old, sexuality and family relationships. The book's unique emphasis on both the individual and society's responses to ageing makes it a valuable contribution to the study of the social history of Rome.

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Routledge

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1136000062

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Encyclopedia of Community

From the Village to the Virtual World

By: DAVID LEVINSON,KAREN CHRISTENSEN

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Encyclopedia of Community

From the Village to the Virtual World

By: DAVID LEVINSON,KAREN CHRISTENSEN

The Encyclopedia of Community is a major four volume reference work that seeks to define one of the most widely researched topics in the behavioural and social sciences. Community itself is a concept, an experience, and a central part of being human. This pioneering major reference work seeks to provide the necessary definitions of community far beyond the traditional views.

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SAGE

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0761925988

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Crash

Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

By: Karen Redrobe

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Crash

Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

By: Karen Redrobe

Artists, writers, and filmmakers from Andy Warhol and J. G. Ballard to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Ousmane Sembène have repeatedly used representations of immobilized and crashed cars to wrestle with the conundrums of modernity. In Crash, Karen Beckman argues that representations of the crash parallel the encounter of film with other media, and that these collisions between media offer useful ways to think about alterity, politics, and desire. Examining the significance of automobile collisions in film genres including the “cinema of attractions,” slapstick comedies, and industrial-safety movies, Beckman reveals how the car crash gives visual form to fantasies and anxieties regarding speed and stasis, risk and safety, immunity and contamination, and impermeability and penetration. Her reflections on the crash as the traumatic, uncertain moment of inertia that comes in the wake of speed and confidence challenge the tendency in cinema studies to privilege movement above film’s other qualities. Ultimately, Beckman suggests that film studies is a hybrid field that cannot apprehend its object of study without acknowledging the ways that cinema’s technology binds it to capitalism’s industrial systems and other media, technologies, and disciplines.

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Duke University Press

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0822392763

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9780822392767

Making Mice

Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955

By: Karen Rader

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Making Mice

Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955

By: Karen Rader

Making Mice blends scientific biography, institutional history, and cultural history to show how genetically standardized mice came to play a central role in contemporary American biomedical research. Karen Rader introduces us to mouse "fanciers" who bred mice for different characteristics, to scientific entrepreneurs like geneticist C. C. Little, and to the emerging structures of modern biomedical research centered around the National Institutes of Health. Throughout Making Mice, Rader explains how the story of mouse research illuminates our understanding of key issues in the history of science such as the role of model organisms in furthering scientific thought. Ultimately, genetically standardized mice became icons of standardization in biomedicine by successfully negotiating the tension between the natural and the man-made in experimental practice. This book will become a landmark work for its understanding of the cultural and institutional origins of modern biomedical research. It will appeal not only to historians of science but also to biologists and medical researchers.

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Princeton University Press

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0691187584

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9780691187587

Rhetorical Strategies for Composition

Cracking an Academic Code

By: Karen A. Wink, Ph.D

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Rhetorical Strategies for Composition

Cracking an Academic Code

By: Karen A. Wink, Ph.D

Cracking an Academic Code: Rhetorical Strategies for Composition is a worktext designed for composition students to apply rhetorical theory in their writing.The exercises interconnect rhetorical skill work for students to practice "thinking on paper" in style, language, and conventions.

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1475814321

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Productive Aging

An Occupational Perspective

By: Marilyn B. Cole,Karen Crane Macdonald

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Productive Aging

An Occupational Perspective

By: Marilyn B. Cole,Karen Crane Macdonald

Productive Aging: An Occupational Perspective is a concise and practical text that takes a fresh look at our rapidly expanding and diverse older population. Recognizing the unique identity of each older person, this text provides client-centered guidelines for maximizing function, independence, and wellness. Productive Aging also outlines self-management strategies for promoting participation and engagement in productive occupations for the older persons’ own continuing development, health, and well-being. Productive Aging not only summarizes current evidence, but it looks into the lives of forty productive agers who shared their personal perspective with the authors as part of an original qualitative study. These participant stories, often told in the participants own words, describe how current theories of aging are applied in the lives of older adults who are currently living the experience. Older adults ages 60 to 98 describe the effective strategies they used to manage their own aging process, to structure healthy lifestyles and social connections, and to intentionally direct their own productive occupations in satisfying and meaningful ways. The results of this qualitative research study have led to a grounded theory of Conditional Independence, which guides occupational therapy approaches to productive aging in practice. Authors Marilyn B. Cole and Dr. Karen C. Macdonald explore the six productive occupations that researchers have identified as typical of older adults today: self-management, home management, volunteering, paid work, care giving, and lifelong learning. In addition to summarizing current research and theories within each occupation, concrete strategies and techniques relative to these roles are detailed, with multiple examples, case studies, and learning activities. Throughout Productive Aging, interviews with experienced practitioners, administrators, and educators reveal some of the implications of various trends and techniques. For occupational therapists, descriptions of settings and types of intervention are consistent with the latest version of AOTA’s Occupational Therapy Practice Framework, Third Edition. In addition to promoting productive occupations within traditional institutional and medical-based practice, occupational therapy roles include that of consultant, educator, and advocate when treating individuals, groups, and populations in home care, organizational, and community settings. Special attention is given to developing the ability to become an effective self-manager, facilitating social participation, and maximizing clients’ applied functional abilities. Productive Aging: An Occupational Perspective is the perfect addition to the bookshelf of occupational therapy students, faculty, and clinicians, as well as any health care practitioner who would like to update his or her knowledge of the aging individual within his or her current practice settings.

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The Forgiving Self

The Road from Resentment to Connection

By: Robert Karen, Ph.D.

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The Forgiving Self

The Road from Resentment to Connection

By: Robert Karen, Ph.D.

A fascinating book about our struggle to forgive—and how we can—from a renowned psychologist and award-winning author. Why do we harden our hearts, even against those we want to love? Why do we find it so hard to admit being wrong? Why are the worst grudges the ones we hold against ourselves? When we nurse our resentments, Robert Karen says, we are acting from an insecure aspect of the self that harbors unresolved pain from childhood. But we also have a forgiving self which is not compliant or fake, but rather the strongest, most loving part of who we are. Through it, we are able to voice anger without doing damage, to acknowledge our own part in what has gone wrong, to see the flaws in ourselves and others as part of our humanity. Using movies, people in the news, and sessions from his practice, Karan illuminate how we can move beyond our feelings of being wronged without betraying our legitimate anger and need for repair. The forgiving self, when we are able to locate it, brings relief from compulsive self-hatred and bitterness, and allows for a re-emergence of love.

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Faking the Ancient Andes

By: Karen O Bruhns,Nancy L Kelker

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Faking the Ancient Andes

By: Karen O Bruhns,Nancy L Kelker

Nasca pots, Quimbaya figurines, Moche porn figures, stone shamans. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Andean art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Karen Bruhns and Nancy Kelker examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated as early as the 19th century. More important, they describe the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system. Unique to this volume are biographies of several of the forgers, who describe their craft and how they are able to effectively fool connoisseurs and specialists. This is an important accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud for archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike. A parallel volume by the same authors discusses fakes in Mesoamerican archaeology.

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She Is Everywhere! Vol. 2

An Anthology of Writings in Womanist/feminist Spirituality

By: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum,Annette Lyn Williams,Karen Nelson Villanueva,Ph. D. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

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She Is Everywhere! Vol. 2

An Anthology of Writings in Womanist/feminist Spirituality

By: Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum,Annette Lyn Williams,Karen Nelson Villanueva,Ph. D. Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum

Splendid, spiritual, and subversive, this anthology offers a sampler of just some of the feminisms emerging in academic seminars, street demonstrations for justice, and places where people are reclaiming their ancestral values. She Is Everywhere! Vol. 2 is comprised of international essays, poems, and works of art from the growing community of women and men who recognize Her and feel Her call to expression in many forms. This unique volume presents a fresh look at women in the Judeo-Christian Bible, in the Koran, and in the kaleidoscopic beauty of the world's women from her signs in caves, cliffs, and forests to her many faces, manifestations, and hidden places. Celebrate woman's spirituality, her colors, her islands and continents, her rages and blessings in weather, her silences, and her surprising epiphanies. She Is Everywhere! Vol. 2 leads the contemporary cultural and political nonviolent revolution for a radically democratic and harmonious world full of compassion, equality, and transformation!

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iUniverse

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0595466680

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Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do

By: Melinda Blau,Karen L. Fingerman

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Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter. . . But Really Do

By: Melinda Blau,Karen L. Fingerman

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ACCUSATION TO RUIN

By: karen kellock

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ACCUSATION TO RUIN

By: karen kellock

How she fights socially is most cruel. Suddenly you're deposed, fired or flunk school. You know she's discussing you with others [disgraced] judging from frowns on their faces. It’s a morally degraded society when females take control over thee. The Jezebel mothers became loudmouthed cranks addicted to power or they drank. Because Jezebel is out of grace, she messes up big time and now its your problem. Chapter art by Fox design. Cover design by Blaze Goldburst

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CHAMPION GUIDES

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Cultural Resources Archaeology

An Introduction

By: Thomas William Neumann,Robert M. Sanford,Karen Gayle Harry

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Cultural Resources Archaeology

An Introduction

By: Thomas William Neumann,Robert M. Sanford,Karen Gayle Harry

Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers the jobs and provides the funding. Few textbooks, however, are dedicated to teaching students the techniques and practices of this field. Cultural Resources Archaeology, now brought completely up date in this second edition and replete with new case studies from the western U.S., fills in the gap. Drawing on their decades of teaching and field experience, the authors walk students through the intricacies of CRM. They clearly describe the processes of designing a project, conducting assessment, testing, doing essential mitigation work (Phases I, II, and III), and preparing reports. The book's emphasis on real-world problems and issues, use of extensive examples from around the country, and practical advice on everything from law to logistics make it an ideal teaching tool for archaeology students who dream of becoming practicing archaeologists.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

By: Karen Fog Olwig

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Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

By: Karen Fog Olwig

Caribbean Journeys is an ethnographic analysis of the cultural meaning of migration and home in three families of West Indian background that are now dispersed throughout the Caribbean, North America, and Great Britain. Moving migration studies beyond its current focus on sending and receiving societies, Karen Fog Olwig makes migratory family networks the locus of her analysis. For the people whose lives she traces, being “Caribbean” is not necessarily rooted in ongoing visits to their countries of origin, or in ethnic communities in the receiving countries, but rather in family narratives and the maintenance of family networks across vast geographical expanses. The migratory journeys of the families in this study began more than sixty years ago, when individuals in the three families left home in a British colonial town in Jamaica, a French Creole rural community in Dominica, and an African-Caribbean village of small farmers on Nevis. Olwig follows the three family networks forward in time, interviewing family members living under highly varied social and economic circumstances in locations ranging from California to Barbados, Nova Scotia to Florida, and New Jersey to England. Through her conversations with several generations of these far-flung families, she gives insight into each family’s educational, occupational, and socioeconomic trajectories. Olwig contends that terms such as “Caribbean diaspora” wrongly assume a culturally homogeneous homeland. As she demonstrates in Caribbean Journeys, anthropologists who want a nuanced understanding of how migrants and their descendants perceive their origins and identities must focus on interpersonal relations and intimate spheres as well as on collectivities and public expressions of belonging.

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Duke University Press

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0822389851

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Normal Child and Adolescent Development

A Psychodynamic Primer

By: Karen J. Gilmore, M.D.,Pamela Meersand, Ph.D.

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Normal Child and Adolescent Development

A Psychodynamic Primer

By: Karen J. Gilmore, M.D.,Pamela Meersand, Ph.D.

Normal Child and Adolescent Development: A Psychodynamic Primer is a thorough introduction to how development unfolds as a complex transactional process progressing through the first three decades of life. The book embraces a nonlinear multisystem approach while maintaining the touchstones of traditional developmental phases.

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The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950

By: Karen Hunger Parshall

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The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950

By: Karen Hunger Parshall

A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I As the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their research, positioned themselves collectively within American science, and rose to global mathematical hegemony. How did they do it? The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 explores the institutional, financial, social, and political forces that shaped and supported this community in the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, Karen Hunger Parshall debunks the widely held view that American mathematics only thrived after European émigrés fled to the shores of the United States. Drawing from extensive archival and primary-source research, Parshall uncovers the key players in American mathematics who worked together to effect change and she looks at their research output over the course of three decades. She highlights the educational, professional, philanthropic, and governmental entities that bolstered progress. And she uncovers the strategies implemented by American mathematicians in their quest for the advancement of knowledge. Throughout, she considers how geopolitical circumstances shifted the course of the discipline. Examining how the American mathematical community asserted itself on the international stage, The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 shows the way one nation became the focal point for the field.

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