* For climbers who know the basics and are ready to venture higher * Written by longtime guides and climbing instructors certified by the American Mountain Guide Association (AMGA) * Teaches situational thinking and learning as well as technique This intermediate-level guide addresses tools, skills, and techniques used in alpine terrain including rock, snow, ice, and glaciers at moderate altitude-approximately 5000 meters (16,000 feet) and lower. The technical protection systems are covered, of course. But 30 years of alpine climbing experience has convinced the authors that mastery-and safety-lie in the far more difficult task of knowing exactly which techniques to use, where and when. Therefore, they teach step-by-step decision-making skills, providing scenarios, checklists, and self-posed questions to inform the decision process. Alpine Climbing assumes some prior knowledge, primarily in rock climbing skills and techniques. Basic knots, belaying, rappelling, building rock anchors, leading, placing rock protection, and movement skills on rock: variations of these skills that are of particular value in the alpine environment are addressed in this book. Kathy Cosley and Mark Houston have been guides and climbing instructors for more than 20 years. In 1988, Kathy was the first American woman to climb the Eiger's North Face. Mark was among the first guides certified by the International Federation of Mountain Guides Association. Together, they made a lightweight and fast ascent of the South Face of Aconcagua. Part of the Mountaineers Outdoor Expert series.

Alpine Climbing: Techniques to Take You Higher (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert)

Sports & Outdoors

Cosley, Kathy

Houston, Mark

Mountaineering

MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS+

The Hunters and the Hunted (The Boy Lane Crew)

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Mark Houston

The Truth About Heart Disease: How to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease and Personalize Your Treatment with Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Exercise and Lifestyle Tailored to Your Genetics

You can prevent coronary heart disease in yourself, but you need to have the knowledge of the risk factors, the presenting symptoms and take early actions with aggressive and proper diagnostic testing. Start a prevention program for your heart health with The Truth About Heart Disease. 
In this book, Dr. Mark Houston provides you with scientific prevention and treatment programs to reduce your risk of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction. These programs include optimal and proper nutrition, nutritional supplements, vitamins, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory agents, minerals, exercise, weight and body fat management, and other lifestyle changes. 
The Truth About Heart Disease is suitable for patients wanting to adopt preventive measures at home and anyone wanting to better manage their heart health. It will be of great value to all health care practitioners, cardiologists, and dietitians.

The Truth About Heart Disease

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

CRC-Press

This book addresses vital components in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. It presents information on diagnosis, genetics, pathophysiology, physiology, and prevention of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction. The book features several clinical trials and data on nutrition, nutritional supplements, lifestyle changes, weight management, exercise, stress reduction, and meditation to prevent and treat heart disease. Other topics include information on nutrigenomics, cardiovascular genetics, and gene expression analysis and treatment as well as non-invasive blood, cardiovascular, and urine testing allowing clinicians a better road map of how to select the best nutritional program.

When treating hypertension, physicians now have a huge range of drugs from which to choose in formulating a management strategy. This accessible guide helps the busy clinician access specific information on available drugs as components of an integrated care plan. 
The Handbook of Hypertension is a comprehensive review of the evidence base for hypertension and associated disease, providing tables, figures, charts, and summaries of principal findings from clinical studies on hypertension – putting vital information within reach of the busy practitioner. Containing the most recent guidelines for global cardiovascular risk analysis and evidence-based reviews on important new advances and recent trials, consulting the Handbook of Hypertension will save precious time and improve patient care.

Handbook of Hypertension

Medical Books

Medicine

Wiley/Blackwell

Mortality may be declining in people with heart disease, but more and more are experiencing a long lead-up to clinical disease, without an appropriate intervention. The toxicity of our environmental, social, and cultural worlds creates pathophysiologic disturbances such as obesity, diabetes, and, in some cases, heart disease. In Vascular Biology for the Clinician, Mark Houston, MD, MS, MSc, along with Joseph Lamb, MD, and Anita Hays, PhD, suggests to doctors ways to diagnosis cardiovascular diseases at an earlier stage and treat their underlying causes.
Houston is board-certified in hypertension, internal medicine, and anti-aging medicine. He runs an active practice and has authored nineteen books and 172 articles on hypertension and cardiovascular diseases and served as editor or reviewer for medical journals.

Vascular Biology for the Clinician

Lamb, Joseph

Hays, Anita

Outskirts Press

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