Answers questions asked by heart patients and includes information about drugs and therapies and new approaches to recuding stress, managing weight, stopping smoking, and finding an appropriate exercise program

Coming Back: A Guide to Recovering from Heart Attack

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cohn, Keith

Diseases & Physical Ailments

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Gathers New Orleans style recipes for gumbo, jambalaya, soups, stews, shrimp, crab, oysters, crayfish, fish, frogs, turtles, and alligators

Creole Gumbo and All That Jazz

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Mitcham, Howard

Regional & International

Traces the development of the computer, explains the fundamentals of the workings of computers, and surveys their various uses in everyday life

The Beginner's Guide to Computers

Computers & Technology

Laurie, Peter

Bradbeer, Robin

Debono, Peter

Computer Science

Lotus In The Lab: Spreadsheet Applications For Scientists And Engineers

Lotus in the Lab: Spreadsheet Applications for Scientists and Engineers

Ouchi, Glenn I.

Software

In the present volume, Phillip J. Siemens, who has been a seminal contributor to our understanding of the nucleus as a many-body system, and his able collaborator, Aksel S. Jensen, introduce graduate students and colleagues in other fields to the basic concepts of nuclear physics in a way which connects clearly the methods of nuclear physics with those of condensed matter, atomic, and particle physics. Their book thus provides a lucid introduction to the key facts and concepts of nuclei, including many of the most recent developments, while emphasizing the similarities and the differences between the behavior of nuclei, atoms, elementary particles, and condensed matter, It should thus prove useful, not only as a text for an introductory graduate course in nuclear physics, but as a reference book for all scientists interested in a unified picture of our understanding of physical phenomena associated with many-body systems.

Elements of Nuclei: Many-Body Physics With the Strong Interaction (Lecture Notes and Supplements in Physics)

Science & Math

Siemens, Philip John

Jensen, Aksel Stenholm

Physics

Here one of our leading literary scholars looks back on her own life in the classroom, and discovers how much of what she learned there needs to be unlearned. Jane Tompkins' memoir shows how her education shaped her in the mold of a high achiever who could read five languages but had little knowledge of herself. As she slowly awakens to the needs of her body, heart, and spirit, she discards the conventions of classroom teaching and learns what her students' lives are like. A painful and exhilarating story of spiritual awakening, Tompkins' book critiques our educational system while also paying tribute to it.

A Life In School: What The Teacher Learned

Biographies & Memoirs

Tompkins, Jane

Professionals & Academics

The Judas Economy: the triumph of capital and the betrayal of work

Wolman, William

Describes the history, plants and animals, and meditations encountered along a fifteen mile walk through Concord, Mass.

Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place

MITCHELL, John Hanson

Nature & Ecology

Stanley Greenspan, internationally known for his work with infants, young children, and their families, and his colleague, nationally recognized child psychologist Serena Wieder, have for the first time integrated their award-winning research and clinical experience into a definitive guide to raising children with special needs. In this essential work they lay out a complete, step-by-step approach for parents, educators, and others who work with developmental problems. Covering all kinds of disabilitiesincluding autism, PPD, language and speech problems, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and ADDthe authors offer a new understanding of the nature of these challenges and also specific ways of helping children extend their intellectual and emotional potential.The authors first show how to move beyond labels to observe the unique profilestrengths and problemsof the individual child. Next, they demonstrate the techniques necessary to help the child not only reach key milestones but also develop new emotional and intellectual capacities. Greenspan's well-known ”floortime” approach enables parents, as well as clinicians, to use seemingly playful interactions that help children actually move up the development ladder and often master creative and abstract thinking formerly thought beyond their reach. Including vivid case histories, the book also offers deep and compassionate understanding of the stresses and rewards involved in raising a child with special needs.whose amazing work with autistic and other special needs children is nationally known, and his colleague, child psychologist Serena Wieder, have integrated a lifetime of research and clinical practice into a single, comprehensive guide for parents. Covering all kinds of disabilitiesincluding cerebral palsy, autism, retardation, ADD, PDD, and language problemsthe book offers specific ways of helping all children reach their full intellectual and emotional potential.First the authors show how to move beyond the label and observe the strengths and problems of the particular child and the key milestones that must be reached. Next, they move step by step through the techniques necessary to help the child reach these milestones and show how to tailor these to each child. Finally, with a deep and compassionate understanding they outline the marital, educational, and social stresses and rewards in raising a special needs child.

The Child With Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Greenspan, Stanley I.

Simons, Robin

Wieder, Serena

Psychology & Counseling

On Becoming A Leader

The leadership classic, recommended by Vice President Al Gore to all his advisers, with a new introduction by the author.

Bennis, Warren

Business & Money

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