Download or read book The Kidfixer Baby Book written by Dr. Stuart Altman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IF BABIES CAME WITH A USER’S MANUAL–THIS WOULD BE IT! Here is a lifeline of reliable, reassuring information for those busy days and often sleepless nights from pregnancy through the first year. This trouble shooting, sanity-saving book covers more than five hundred topics–everything from allergies to zoster (commonly known as shingles)–and is filled with warm, comforting advice from an experienced pediatrician and father of two. Wondering about those little bumps or spots? Worried that your baby sleeps or eats too much (or too little)? Coping with colic? Concerned about teething? Confused about car seats, medications, vaccinations? Designed to console even the most stressed-out parents during the always challenging first twelve months, this essential guide includes • Guidelines for a healthy pregnancy (tip: limit fish and avoid peanut butter)–and what supplies to have on hand when baby arrives • Advice on choosing a pediatrician: three vital questions for the prenatal interview • The advantages (and disadvantages) of breast- and bottle-feeding, as well as time-tested tips on feeding schedules • Hints for getting through the night–and avoiding ineffective bedtime rituals, including the “Sneaky” and “Buddy” approaches • Crucial facts about shots, screening tests, and immunizations (yes, kids still do get whooping cough) • At-your-fingertips information on common illnesses, fevers, when to call the doctor, and what to do in an emergency • Special advice for working moms, single parents, adoptive parents, and parents of twins, triplets, and preemies Plus–handy checklists, growth charts, eye-catching diagrams, “Myths and Truths” about baby care, and Kidfixer FAQs–real questions from parents and Dr. Altman’s helpful advice

Download or read book The Kidfixer Baby Book written by Stuart J. Altman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for new parents covers more than 500 topics relevant to a baby's first year, from chronic illnesses to sleepless nights and common misconceptions, in a volume complemented by frequently asked parenting questions.

Download or read book Health Promotion Throughout the Lifespan written by Carole Edelman and published by Mosby. This book was released on 2006 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text provides the most current and accurate health promotion and disease prevention information available. The book addresses health promotion for all ages and all population groups - individuals, families, and communities. It includes extensive coverage of growth and development throughout the life span, with an emphasis on normal development as well as the specific problems and health promotion issues common to each stage. A complete unit is devoted to health promotion interventions. It also offers a unique assessment framework based on Gordon's Functional Health Patterns to provide consistency in presentation and an approach in line with the promotion of health. Extensive coverage of growth and development throughout all stages of the life span. A unit on specific interventions for health promotion. Addresses health promotion for all population groups - individual, family, and the community. Incorporates Case Studies that depict actual clinical situations to give students a "real-life" perspective. Innovative Practice examples highlight unique and creative health promotion programs. Summarizes specific clinical interventions in Health Teaching boxes to provide students with "how-to" nursing actions. Think About It clinical scenarios provide critical thinking questions to help readers grasp important concepts. Multicultural Awareness boxes present cultural perspectives important to care planning. Introduces significant issues, trends, and controversies in health promotion through Hot Topics boxes to engage students in critical discussion and debate about these topics. Research Highlights emphasize current research efforts and research opportunities in health promotion. A new Study Questions section (with answers and rationales) helps you review and assess your understanding of chapter content. Care Plans are presented in a consistent format: Nursing Diagnosis, Defining Characteristics, Related Factors, Expected Outcomes, and Interventions. Healthy People 2010 boxes highlight current national health promotion priorities. A new full-color design helps to highlight important features and content. A new companion Evolve website offers case studies with questions and answers, WebLinks, content updates, and a Glossary with search capability to enhance your learning experience.

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Download or read book Honey I Blew Up the Kid written by Michael Teitelbaum and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Wayne Szalinski and his oldest son, Nick, try out Wayne's new invention, 2-year old Adam gets zapped and grows to 112 feet tall.

Download or read book The Trying Game written by Amy Klein and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of “Fertility Diary” for the New York Times Motherlode blog comes a reassuring, no-nonsense guide to both the emotional and practical process of trying to get pregnant, written with the smarts, warmth, and honesty of a woman who has been in the trenches. “A compassionate, often funny, well-researched, and ultimately empowering guide.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone There are so many ways to be Not Pregnant: You can be young, old, partnered, or unpartnered. Maybe you have endometriosis. Maybe you don’t have enough eggs or your partner doesn’t have enough sperm. Or maybe there’s nothing wrong except you’re Just. Not. Pregnant. Amy Klein has been there. Faced with fertility obstacles, she quickly became an expert. After nine rounds of IVF, four miscarriages, three acupuncturists, two rabbis, and one reproductive immunologist, she finally became a mother. And she wrote about it all for the New York Times Motherlode blog in her “Fertility Diary” column. Now, Amy has written the book she wishes she’d had when she was trying to get pregnant. With advice from medical experts as well as real women, she outlines your options every step of the way, from questions you should ask to advice on getting your mother-in-law to mind her own beeswax. In this comprehensive road map to infertility, you’ll find topics such as: • whether to freeze your eggs • finding (and affording) a clinic • what to expect during your first IVF cycle • baby envy—aka it’s okay to skip your friend’s shower • whether the alternative route—acupuncture, herbs, supplements—is for you • helpful tips, charts, and more! Empowering, compassionate, and down-to-earth, The Trying Game will show you what to expect when you’re not expecting with heart and humanity when you need it the most.

Download or read book Embracing the Beloved written by Stephen Levine and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From relationships we derive all that we know - love, life, birth, death, pain, healing, and, for those who learn how to make theirs bear fruit, joy and transcendence. For when we discover the relationship, we understand ourselves - in its reflected light. Each understanding feeds the other, resulting in a rich new path in life for both partners.

Download or read book The Good Karma Diet written by Victoria Moran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many popular diets call for avoiding some foods or eating others exclusively. But as The Good Karma Diet reveals, the secret to looking and feeling great is actually quite simple: Treat our planet and all its inhabitants well. In this revolutionary book, bestselling author Victoria Moran reveals that by doing what’s best for all creatures and the planet, you align your eating with your ethics—a powerful health and wellness tool if there ever was one! The Good Karma Diet shows readers how favoring foods that are karmically good for you will help you: - Sustain energy - Extend youthfulness - Take off those stubborn extra pounds - Reflect an enlightened outlook This book also includes the inspiring stories of men and women across the country who have made this simple mealtime shift and reaped “good karma” in every aspect of their lives. Follow this wise diet and lifestyle program and you will find yourself waking up in a good mood more often and having a luminous look that bespeaks health and clean living.

Download or read book Power Politics and Universal Health Care written by Stuart Altman and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for every American who must navigate the US health care system. Why was the Obama health plan so controversial and difficult to understand? In this readable, entertaining, and substantive book, Stuart Altman—internationally recognized expert in health policy and adviser to five US presidents—and fellow health care specialist David Shactman explain not only the Obama health plan but also many of the intriguing stories in the hundred-year saga leading up to the landmark 2010 legislation. Blending political intrigue, policy substance, and good old-fashioned storytelling, this is the first book to place the Obama health plan within a historical perspective. The authors describe the sometimes haphazard, piece-by-piece construction of the nation’s health care system, from the early efforts of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to the later additions of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. In each case, they examine the factors that led to success or failure, often by illuminating little-known political maneuvers that brought about immense shifts in policy or thwarted herculean efforts at reform. The authors look at key moments in health care history: the Hill–Burton Act in 1946, in which one determined poverty lawyer secured the rights of the uninsured poor to get hospital care; the "three-layer cake" strategy of powerful House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills to enact Medicare and Medicaid under Lyndon Johnson in 1965; the odd story of how Medicare catastrophic insurance was passed by Ronald Reagan in 1988 and then repealed because of public anger in 1989; and the fact that the largest and most expensive expansion of Medicare was enacted by George W. Bush in 2003. President Barack Obama is the protagonist in the climactic chapter, learning from the successes and failures chronicled throughout the narrative. The authors relate how, in the midst of a worldwide financial meltdown, Obama overcame seemingly impossible obstacles to accomplish what other presidents had tried and failed to achieve for nearly one hundred years.

Download or read book Longhaired Lads of London written by Inger Simonsen and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some snippets of feedback from readers communicated on Facebook from UK and USA: David Faill in UK, "I still think your book, Inger, gives a much better, and more enjoyable, flavour of London at the height of the sixties";Sioux Abernethy Lucas in USA, "I guess I don't want it to end!! 😁 I am finishing up the "Down The Speak" chapter. It's still the most fascinating read I've just about ever encountered! I almost feel like I am living those years with you, Inger, and I am most reluctant to finish it! What a wonderful, engrossing book! I shall get to the last chapter tomorrow night, and I'm sure I'll be wishing for, and dreaming of, a sequel!!"; Bob Smarse jr.in UK, "Philip Arthur Dennis Wadely! Does he still hold the key to your heart? I just finished the chapter 'Landing In Hollywood'! I am really beginning to read between the lines. What a life you have lived. Thank You So Much for all of your work putting your Excellent book together. I need to re-read certain chapters over again. Your encounter dancing with Kim Fowley was rather humorous. Jeff Beck! Glyn Johns! I do feel at many times you were in over your head, so to speak. But, you still forged ahead. A pretty blonde girl! Who would ever imagine the roller-coaster ride that phase would bring into your heart? I will continue to read but I can only imagine what it must have been like to mix it up with so many famous people, as well as times. There Shall Never be any other time like the period between 1963-1973. It's all there in your book! Dancing with Brian Jones! My Goodness!"It was the decade of long lasting changes and great creativity; it was the decade of miniskirts, bell bottoms, the British Invasion, flower power, sit-ins, be-ins, blowing minds and some of the best music ever played. And I was there!! This is my story about traveling through it all: From a small village deep in a Norwegian fjord to mingle with the in-crowd in London, after having been "rescued" by the R&B band, The Pretty Things; going to a Roman Polanski wrap party; back stage and to recording studios with The Rolling Stones, meeting The Beatles, love affairs and relationships with troubled gifted musicians like Phil May, Jeff Beck, Bob Weston and Keith Moon. And everlasting love and friendship with New York based musician Sal Maida. Living and working in New York, San Francisco, New-Mexico and Los Angeles, most of the time as a single mom. Poor, but still hanging with the rich and famous, spending an Easter Weekend at an old castle in Ireland as guest of folk singer Donovan and wife. The guest list also included George Harrison and Pattie Boyd. Independent, curious, and rebellious describe the author best. Or as long time friend Robert Altman, photographer of stars, put it: "Pleasing to the eye". The book contains some wonderful photos, and several of the celebrity photos are rare and to the author's knowledge, never before published." You did a bang up job and it was worth the while. I loved reading the life and times of Inger Simonsen." - Robert Altman

Download or read book Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring written by Stuart C. Gilson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated look at how corporate restructuring really works Stuart Gilson is one of the leading corporate restructuring experts in the United States, teaching thousands of students and consulting with numerous companies. Now, in the second edition of this bestselling book, Gilson returns to present new insight into corporate restructuring. Through real-world case studies that involve some of the most prominent restructurings of the last ten years, and highlighting the increased role of hedge funds in distressed investing, you'll develop a better sense of the restructuring process and how it can truly create value. In addition to "classic" buyout and structuring case studies, this second edition includes coverage of Delphi, General Motors, the Finova Group and Warren Buffett, Kmart and Sears, Adelphia Communications, Seagate Technology, Dupont-Conoco, and even the Eurotunnel debt restructuring. Covers corporate bankruptcy reorganization, debt workouts, "vulture" investing, equity spin-offs, asset divestitures, and much more Addresses the effect of employee layoffs and corporate downsizing Examines how companies allocate value and when a corporation should "pull the trigger" From hedge funds to financial fraud to subprime busts, this second edition offers a rare look at some of the most innovative and controversial restructurings ever.

Download or read book 52 Weeks of Resilience written by Ink & Willow and published by Ink & Willow. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infuse spirituality and peace into your daily life with this beautiful interactive journal that offers a simple way to lower stress and rediscover rest. Don't worry. It's easy to say these words because we know worrying doesn't accomplish anything, but when we're faced with our own uncertainties, worry is usually our first response. Drawing from biblical promises and wisdom, 52 Weeks of Resilience offers tried-and-true ways to let go of anxiety and live in peace and freedom. As you meditate on Scripture, reflect through journaling, and apply simple challenges to your every day, you will learn to intentionally: Choose gratitude and joy over worry without waiting for perfect circumstances Create a habit of prayer so you may find peace in surrendering your fears and worries to God Practice a spirit of thoughtfulness as you shift your instinctual responses from fear and disappointment to resilience and confidence Follow simple, practical action steps as you strive to capture every thought and replace them with truth On your journey toward resilience in the face of stress and life’s trials, you will experience freedom, peace of mind, and true contentment. Because even in times of stress and worry, you can still take control. You don’t have to let it rule your life. Instead, you can learn to thrive.

Download or read book The Eaves of Heaven written by Andrew X. Pham and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Ten Best Books of the Year, Washington Post Book World One of the Los Angeles Times’ Favorite Books of the Year One of the Top Ten National Books of 2008, Portland Oregonian A 2009 Honor Book of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association “Few books have combined the historical scope and the literary skill to give the ­foreign reader a sense of events from a Vietnamese perspective. . . . Now we can add Andrew Pham’s Eaves of Heaven to this list of indispensable books.” —New York Times Book Review “Searing . . . vivid–and harrowing . . . Here is war and life through the eyes of a Vietnamese everyman.” —Seattle Times Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham’s family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War. Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly re-creates the trials of everyday life in Vietnam as endured by one man, from the fall of Hanoi and the collapse of French colonialism to the frenzied evacuation of Saigon. Pham offers a rare portal into a lost world as he chronicles Thong Van Pham’s heartbreaks, triumphs, and bizarre reversals of fortune, whether as a South Vietnamese soldier pinned down by enemy fire, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese under brutal interrogation, or a refugee desperately trying to escape Vietnam after the last American helicopter has abandoned Saigon. This is the story of a man caught in the maelstrom of twentieth-century politics, a gripping memoir told with the urgency of a wartime dispatch by a writer of surpassing talent.

Download or read book My Detachment written by Tracy Kidder and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This extraordinary memoir is destined to become a classic. Kidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college and expecting a stateside assignment, when his orders arrived for Vietnam. There, lovesick, anxious, and melancholic, he tried to assume command of his detachment, a ragtag band of eight more-or-less ungovernable men charged with reporting on enemy radio locations. He eventually learned not only to lead them but to laugh and drink with them as they shared the boredom, pointlessness, and fear of war. Together, they sought a ghostly enemy, homing in on radio transmissions and funneling intelligence gathered by others. Kidder realized that he would spend his time in Vietnam listening in on battle but never actually experiencing it. With remarkable clarity and with great detachment, Kidder looks back at himself from across three and a half decades, confessing how, as a young lieutenant, he sought to borrow from the tragedy around him and to imagine himself a romantic hero. Unrelentingly honest, rueful, and revealing, My Detachment gives us war without heroism, while preserving those rare moments of redeeming grace in the midst of lunacy and danger. The officers and men of My Detachment are not the sort of people who appear in war movies–they are the ones who appear only in war, and they are unforgettable.

Download or read book Stalking the Vietcong written by Stuart Herrington and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a gripping memoir that reads like a spy novel, one man recounts his personal experience with Operation Phoenix, the program created to destroy the Vietcong’s shadow government, which thrived in the rural communities of South Vietnam. Stuart A. Herrington was an American intelligence advisor assigned to root out the enemy in the Hau Nghia province. His two-year mission to capture or kill Communist agents operating there was made all the more difficult by local officials who were reluctant to cooperate, villagers who were too scared to talk, and VC who would not go down without a fight. Herrington developed an unexpected but intense identification with the villagers in his jurisdiction–and learned the hard way that experiencing war was profoundly different from philosophizing about it in a seminar room.