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The Anti-Inflammation Zone: Reversing the Silent Epidemic That's Destroying Our Health (Zone (Regan))
Barry Sears Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Combat silent inflammation -- the most serious health threat you never heard of
Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans.What do these devastating illnesses have in common? All three have been linked to silent inflammation, a condition that occurs when the body's natural immune response goes awry. Silent inflammation attacks the heart, arteries, and even the brain -- and you will not even know it. Obesity is the primary cause of silent inflammation and excess body fat is causing today's epidemic rise in countless health threats.
Now Dr. Barry Sears shows you how to combat silent inflammation in this comprehensive guide. His research shows that following the Zone dietary plan, including supplements of ultrarefined fish oil concentrates, is the best way to ensure the future of your health. You can reduce your risk of each disease and condition, or reverse silent inflammation if you have it already -- in only thirty days. The Anti-Inflammation Zone includes a week of Zone meals, exercises that you can do at home, and tools and tests for determining your level of silent inflammation. Follow this plan and enjoy these benefits:
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The ZoneTM, comes a groundbreaking look at how inflammation is the silent source of almost all disease - and how to stop it using the Zone dietary plan and fish oil supplements. The Anti-Inflammation Diet provides convincing evidence that shows the deleterious effects of long-term inflammation-and specific plans to combat it. Whatever your health concern, you'll learn that we are only now beginning to understand the mechanisms that make us sick. And most important, you'll have a clear blueprint toward health that starts with the Zone.
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There are some good ideas in this book, but Sears' sloppy argumentation is a burden on the reader.......2007-08-29
helpful.......2007-05-12
A Must Read.......2007-04-01
So far it's been very helpful.......2006-11-03
It's not as complicated as Sears wants you to believe.......2006-08-14
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Silent Treatment
Michael Palmer Manufacturer: Bantam Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0553572210 Release Date: 1996-02-01 |
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In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill....Customer Reviews:
The thrill faded.......2004-07-12
Good solid potboiler.......2004-04-17
The book was a pleasant read. I found myself wanting to keep track of it because there are always several books floating around the house, which is a good sign. It was competently written in boring old third person past tense. The author included enough frissons in the form of dangerous situations to keep the plot, which was straightforward enough, moving along at a decent pace.
The book is 447 pages long, a good size; anywhere between 120K and 140K words, a typical airport-bookstall book.
In real life I find the case of the UK doctor who murdered well over a hundred patients in real life far more horrifying than medical thrillers.
In this particular plot, an evil 'inner circle' of medical practitioners conspire to murder several patients a week. The patients are of course, this being set in America, selected on the basis of the most costly to treat, go first.
Medical thriller.......2003-02-04
"Silent treatment" is about Dr. Korbet, a general practicioner (if I understood right, "gp"s are low in the "scale of doctors") whose wife is suddenly murdered during pre-op procedures. Korbet's life begins to go down the drain when he's accused of the murder and has no way to prove his innocence. On the other hand, a bunch of hot-shots of the medical-insurance industry are making reunions to, in a most unorthodox way, receive more money from their contributors. Obviously, the two plots are linked in some way or another.
This is not "the ultimate thriller", but is a light enterteinment, and an easy reading. There are many flaws, the most obvious being the very shall development of characters. The "bad guy" had a very good premise, but went underdeveloped as well, unfortunately.
If you are a Michael Palmer fan, read this one. If you're not, give it a try, if you have some time to spare.
Grade 8.1/10
Another great meducal thriller!.......2002-11-23
Good book but female characters are Barbie dolls.......2002-06-11
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The Silent Thief: Osteoporosis, Exercises and Strategies Prevention and Treatment (Your Personal Health)
Karine Bohme , and Frances Budden Manufacturer: Firefly Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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Are you at risk? Osteoporosis is often called "the silent thief" because bone loss occurs without symptoms. Today, 15 million Americans suffer from osteoporosis and, with the increasing proportion of older people in the population, this disease is on the increase. Although osteoporosis commonly affects people over the age of 50, it can strike at any age.
The Silent Thief is an authoritative book for those with osteoporosis and are concerned with lessening the symptoms, as well as for those who want to prevent the onset of the disease. It fully explains osteoporosis, discusses hereditary and lifestyle factors that contribute to its onset, outlines dietary and supplementary options, and illustrates detailed exercise programs for prevention and treatment at any age.
Endorsements for The Silent Thief
"To read The Silent Thief is but half of the equation -- put its bone-building exercises into practice, and you'll recognize the full impact and great benefit of its wisdom."
- Miriam E. Nelson, Ph. D.,
School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
"This well-written book is a gold mine of valuable information ..."
- Christine M. Derzko, M.D., F.R.C.S.,
Director of Midlife and Menopause Clinic,
St. Michael's Hospital and Associate Professor, University of Toronto
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Silent Treatment: New Poems
Richard Howard Manufacturer: Turtle Point Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1885586388 |
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"Richard Howard is an indispensable, unique poet, whose work instructs by delighting, and delights by instructing . . . he is Browning's authentic heir at rendering the inner voices of the cultural past and present."-Harold Bloom
In a recent conversation with Priscilla Becker, published by the Poetry Society of America, Richard Howard commented on his many personae:
"I don't like direct self-expression. All the work that I do is some kind of invocation or transaction with others, whether it's criticism, translation, or poetry. There are poems that are direct self-expression, but certainly, with some sense of preference, there is an enterprise which involves speaking through a mask, a persona. That's what the word means: sounding through-sonans per-and I like the idea of the mask or the masks, because I'm more interested in the dialogue of others than in merely the dialogue with another-the dialogue of others who are out there, who are not me."
Hannah Arendt, George Eliot, Cosima Wagner, and a boy in a photograph by Arkansas photographer Mike Disfarmer are among the speakers in The Silent Treatment.
Richard Howard is a poet, scholar, teacher, translator, and critic. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including most recently Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965â2003, shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and Inner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963â2003. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Robert Frost Medal.
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Silent Treatment: Poems (National Poetry Series)
Lisa Lewis Manufacturer: Puffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0140589023 |
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In poems at once dauntless and thoughtful, Lisa Lewis reveals the unspoken thoughts, hidden fears, and secret desires of a contemporary woman. She reminisces about the lost joys of childhood ("I was one of those girls who grew up / Loving horses, but now I can't afford to ride. . . ."), writes movingly of her mother's last days in a nursing home, and offers a witty recap of a visit to old college friends ("They're good people, I just can't stand to be near them. . . ."). Stanley Plumly writes, "Rilke once said that poetry is one silence speaking to another silence. The poems in Silent Treatment seem anything but that--yet their large meditating presences live within a great still space, within a passionate need to speak and a palpable fear of not being heard. The longing in Lisa Lewis's poems is real not only in the full narrative argument of her lines but in the mindful ambivalence she feels about her body--its sexuality, mortality, earth-transcendence. It is as if she were trying to write her way into silence as well as finding her way from silence, and this is that poetry."Customer Reviews:
Write on!.......2004-02-22
Excerpts from a longer review of Lewis's book.......1998-09-24
I've always been engaged by the mixing, in Lewis's poems, of near oracular grace with sometimes ungainly everyday speech; by her peculiar balancing of irony, tenderness, and self-deprecation with fierce. . .well, with fierce *crabbiness*. The speaker in these poems, though thoroughly self-scrutinizing, is also a resister, a veritable warrior. And one of the things she seems intent on battling is silence. By silence I mean an ontological space, free and clear of language and the mind; the infamous "outside" or "center" which we still argue with and about. And I mean also the social silence which protects an abuser, any silence that conceals hypocrisy or harm, and the one so often imposed on those with little power over what gets heard. I've always been struck by how Lewis can just *say* certain things in her work, however tabooed they may be. Nearly every poem, in fact, happily violates some unacknowledged, consensus-enforced gag order. Every piece shakes us awake, sometimes gently, sometimes not.
She can say, for instance, that ". . .my students/Are stupid." In one sense, this is an astoundingly rude and crude acknowledgment of what every college teacher in America has surely (in at least one warranted or unwarranted, sacrilegious and punishable-by-death-or-loss-of-tenure moment of weariness and irritation), spoken or thought. "My students," she says, "[a]re stupid." But almost in the same instant in which the statement slams into the reader, it buzzes softly open with all its ironic over- and under-tones. It's an implicit and amusingly deadpan comment, for one thing, on our cherished but mostly unexamined view of teachers as angelic social martyrs. It's also an overtly provocative pronouncement that cannot help but bait someone -no doubt a student or two, no doubt a critic or two to battle, which, for Lewis, seems always preferrable to a life of submission; in this case, the grind of tenure-track teaching. And it's also overt finger-pointing, which, as it typically does in her work, rapidly results in the speaker's awareness of her *own* culpability: "I do what I can butnothing matters..."; "I wanted them to save the world"; "What they don't know is how pissed off I am/I can't just *be* them again,. . ." and so on. Admitting, after all, that one's students are stupid is inherently self-condemning, since it obviously suggests weakness on the part of the teacher. She can identify her strengths as well (she herself was a better student; she "only needed a little help, getting started") but she seems to feel that such strengths are mostly past, unrecoverable ("I can't just *be* them again"), and she is now helpless before the immense power of time, and the insidious glances of students who suspect their teacher is "full of s. . t." This is not a comfortable way to be. Lewis doesn't let anyone off the hook, least of all herself.
So this is a poet intent on looking the world and herself dead-on. Her poems insist on the hard, terrible, sometimes ridiculous reality of an essentially material universe. . . They seek out and try to know or "nail" the awkward social moment, the sexual embarrassment, the difficult memory in all its corporeality -only to find those things, ultimately, unknowable and unsayable.
A rape, for example, is not something which should ever be viewed as harmless or forgivable, especially, one would think, by a committed feminist (Lewis heads the Oklahoma chapter of NOW). In "Bogart," however, a description/nailing of such an event only leads to the revelation of its ambiguity and even, disturbingly, its possible harmlessness. (There are even moments of humor in the poem.) The rape is not, in the end, deemed funny or harmless, but the speaker does not arrive at such a conclusion easily. The process of writing poems, for her, is an affirmation of and engagement with *manners* (in Flannery O'Connor's sense of the word), even as she struggles with the *mystery* that very process unleashes. Language is a glass boat that keeps us above water, safe, bounded, and fixed while at the same time making present to us a vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing mere inches away making present, perhaps, the boat itself as that vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing. Or perhaps language in its practical and everyday functions creates the illusion of safety so that we may effectively be and act in the world--while language in its literary functions may reveal that illusion for what it is, reveal even the precariousness of language itself. (Literature as the antidote to language!)
For this poet, however, a better metaphor than the glass boat is, of course, the horse. Where would any good warrior be, after all, without one?. . .Poems, like horses, were "invented to bring us back to earth." But if one is brought back close enough to, or confronts deeply enough, that earth (body/memory/love; burdensome everyday life), what seems to be encountered are intolerable contradictions, a profusion of opposites: indulgence in self/erasure of self; talk/silence; isolation/communion; oblivion/godhead, and so on. All things simultaneously resisted and sought-for by this doomed and persistent poet, so intent on *speaking* what the world actually is. . .Language freed of intent, while nonetheless still profoundly grounded in, and grounding, a particular body and life and grammar and readiness and necessity and suffering and *judgment*--such is the language of literature, or at least Lisa Lewis'brand of literature
Excerpts from a longer review of Lewis's book.......1998-07-29
I\222ve always been engaged by the mixing, in Lewis\222s poems, of near oracular grace with sometimes ungainly everyday speech; by her peculiar balancing of irony, tenderness, and self-deprecation with fierce. . .well, with fierce *crabbiness*. The speaker in these poems, though thoroughly self-scrutinizing, is also a resister, a veritable warrior. And one of the things she seems intent on battling is silence, especially when it conceals hypocrisy or harm. I\222ve always been struck by how she can just *say* certain things in her work, however tabooed they may be. Nearly every poem, in fact, happily violates some unacknowledged,consensus-enforced gag order. Every piece shakes us awake, sometimes gently, sometimes not.
She can say, for instance, that "my students/Are stupid." In one sense,this is an astoundingly rude and crude acknowledgment of what every college teacher in America has surely (in at least one warranted or unwarranted, sacrilegious and punishable-by-death-or-loss-of-tenure moment of weariness and irritation), spoken or thought. "My students," she says, "[a]re stupid."
But almost in the same instant in which the statement slams into the reader, it buzzes softly open with all its ironic over-and under-tones. It\222s an implicit and amusingly deadpan comment, for one thing, on our cherished but mostly unexamined view of teachers as angelic social martyrs. It\222s also an overtly provocative pronouncement that cannot help but bait someone\227no doubt a student or two, no doubt a critic or two\227to battle, which, for Lewis, is always preferrable to a life of submission; in this case, the grind of tenure-track teaching. And it\222s also overt finger-pointing, which, as it typically does in her work, rapidly results in the speaker\222s awareness of her *own* culpability: "I do what I can but nothing matters..."; "I wanted them to save the world"; "What they don\222t know is how pissed off I am/I can\222t just *be* them again,. . ." and so on. Admitting, after all, that one\222s students are stupid is inherently self-condemning, since it obviously suggests incompetence on the part of the teacher, whose job it is to make students less stupid. She can identify her strengths as well (she herself was a better student; she "only needed a little help, getting started") but she seems to feel that such strengths are mostly past, unrecoverable ("I can\222t just *be* them again"), and she is now helpless before the immense power of time, the autonomous flow of events in her life, and the insidious glances of students who suspect their teacher is "full of s. . t." This is not a comfortable way to be. Lewis doesn\222t let anyone off the hook, least of all herself.
So this is a poet intent on examining a flawed and brutal world--as well as her own complicity in that world--dead-on. Her poems insist on the hard, terrible, sometimes *ridiculous* reality of an essentially material universe. . . They seek out and try to know or "nail" the awkward social moment, the sexual embarrassment, the difficult memory in all its corporeality\227only to find those things,ultimately, unknowable and unsayable.
A rape, for example, is not something which should ever be viewed as harmless or forgivable, especially, one would think, by a committed feminist (last I heard, Lewis heads the Oklahoma chapter of NOW.) In "Bogart," however, a description/nailing of such an event only leads to the revelation of its ambiguity and even, disturbingly, its possible harmlessness. (There are even moments of humor in the poem.) The rape is not, in the end, deemed funny or harmless, but the speaker does not arrive at such a conclusion easily. The process of writing poems, for her, is an affirmation of and engagement with *manners* (in Flannery O\222Connor\222s sense of the word), even as she struggles with the *mystery* that very process unleashes. Language is a glass boat that keeps us above water, safe, bounded, and fixed\227while at the same time making present to us a vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing mere inches away\227making present, perhaps, the boat itself as that vast, deadly, profoundly unfixed thing. Or perhaps language in its practical and everyday functions creates the illusion of safety so that we may effectively be and act in the world--while language in its literary functions may reveal that illusion for what it is,reveal even the precariousness of language itself. (Literature as the antidote to to language!)
For this poet, however, a better metaphor than the glass boat is, of course, the horse. Where would any good warrior be, after all, without one?. . .
Poems, like horses, were "invented to bring us back to earth". But if one is brought back close enough to, or confronts deeply enough, that earth (body/memory/love; burdensome everyday life), what seems to be encountered are intolerable contradictions, a profusion of opposites: indulgence in self/erasure of self; talk/silence; isolation/communion; oblivion/godhead, and so on. All things simultaneously resisted and sought-for by this doomed and persistent poet, so intent on *speaking* what the world actually is...
Language freed of will and intentionality, while nonetheless still profoundly grounded in (and grounding) the particular human body and grammar and experience and readiness it requires for its very existence--such is the language of literature, or at least Lisa Lewis\222s brand of literature. It is what she says despite herself; it is what gets said despite language itself. Despite silence itself. It is what shakes both poet and reader awake to "sharply human woes."
And it is this book of funny, frightening, wise and accomplished poems.
Lisa Lewis's SILENT TREATMENT is a deeply feminist project........1998-07-24
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3 Titles By Michael Palmer : Natural Causes - Silent Treatment - Fatal
Michael Palmer Manufacturer: Bantam Spectra ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000T9IQX0 |
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multiple books ship as one item. save on shipping/handling charges.
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7 Titles By Palmer - Extreme Measures - Natural Causes - Silent Treatment - Miracle Cure - Paitent - Fatal - The Society
Michael Palmer Manufacturer: various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000PEGSPC |
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7 massmarket paperback Titles By Palmer - Extreme Measures - Natural Causes - Silent Treatment - Miracle Cure - Paitent - Fatal - The Society
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9 Titles By Palmer - Side Effects - Flash Back - Extreme Measures - Natural Causes - Silent Treatment - Critical Judgment - Miracle Cure - Paitent - Fatal
Michael Palmer Manufacturer: various ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000PEB7H6 |
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9 massmarket paperback Titles By Palmer - Side Effects - Flash Back - Extreme Measures - Natural Causes - Silent Treatment - Critical Judgment - Miracle Cure - Paitent - Fatal
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Osteoporosis, the Silent Stalker: A Woman's Illustrated Guide to the Prevention & Treatment of Osteoporosis
Timothy J. Gray Manufacturer: Bookpartners ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 096222698X |
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The Silent Male Cancer: Knowledge for the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Emotional Healing of Prostate Cancer
K. S. Dunlap Manufacturer: iUniverse ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595279120 |
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The Silent Male Cancer was constructed out of a personal experience K. S. Dunlap had with a family member who was diagnosed with prostate cancer. His period of denial and an initial misdiagnosis almost cost him his life.With diligence and divine guidance they pursued more information than that supplied by the physicians. In a quest to be proactive toward a more accurate diagnosis, she found limited resources relating to the emotional and spiritual aspects of cancer. This lack of information increased her resolve to provide a tool that would support others through a more appropriate diagnosis and guide them in understanding the possibility of denial.
It is her belief that there is a necessity for knowledge that combines both God and ones need for spirituality in the midst of receiving a proper diagnosis, treatment, and healing. This compilation of material will afford you the knowledge you need as you move toward a cure.
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Well Done---Just Makes You Feel Good.......2003-07-12
Exceptional Read - Knowledge in Laymen Terms.......2003-06-22
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