Family Health

Keeping Your Child Healthy With Chinese Medicine: A Parent’s Guide to the Care & Prevention of Common Childhood Diseases

Written for parents, this guide to Chinese medicine covers all the most common pediatric diseases. Beginning with an overview of Chinese, it then discusses 38 of the most common pediatric complaints in chronological order, based on when children typically develop them. This book includes everything from colic and croup to whooping cough and hyperactivity. Under each disease, the …

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Still Breathin’: The Wisdom and Teachings of a Perfectly Flawed Man

Your life doesn’t have to suck. In the self-help book that breaks all the rules, Author/Publisher Brenden Dilley brings it directly to you… rough, rugged and raw. If you’re looking for a bunch of one-liners and “warm fuzzies,” you won’t find them here. This is NOT your “mom and dad’s” self-help book. Still Breathin’ is relevant, …

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Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Certification Study Question Book (Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Study Question Set)

The Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Certification Study Question Book is intended to work either as a stand alone or in conjunction with the Midwifery:Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Certification Review Guide. The Study Question Book has 300 additional problem-oriented, multiple-choice questions which are divided according to content area and include answers, rationale and bibliographic reference. Prepared by board certified …

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Raising Vegetarian Children : A Guide to Good Health and Family Harmony

When parents choose a vegetarian lifestyle for their child, it can set family fingers wagging in dietary disapproval. It’s no easier on steak-loving parents when Junior announces he’s sworn off meat. With the strategies in Raising Vegetarian Children, parents can ease family tensions and learn to accommodate the nutritional and emotional needs of their vegetarian offspring. It …

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman

Women who run with the wolves isn’t just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom and love. An oracle from one who knows. ‘ alice walker in the classic women who run with the wolves, clarissa pinkola estes tells us about the ‘wild woman’, the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives …

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Body Talk (Faithgirlz)

Knowledge is power, girlfriend. One day you were a happy-go-lucky kid, and the next―wham! Your emotions are out of control, hair is growing where it never dared grow before, and your best friend whispers to you in gym class that you need to start wearing some kind of torture contraption she …

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Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America

After World War II, the United States underwent a massive cultural transformation that was vividly realized in the development and widespread use of new medical technologies. Plastic surgery, wonder drugs, artificial organs, and prosthetics inspired Americans to believe in a new age of modern medical miracles. The nationalistic pride that flourished in postwar society, meanwhile, encouraged many Americans …

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Becoming Us: 8 Steps to Grow a Family that Thrives

“Weaving ancient wisdom and modern science, this warm, inviting and supportive book is a superb gift to the expecting couple.” Suzanne Arms, Birthing the Future.Babies bring ‘becomings’: women becoming mothers, men becoming fathers, couples becoming a family. Becoming “us” is much more than a physical transformation; it’s a mental, emotional and spiritual one, too. Older cultures honored parenthood …

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