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It is estimated that one out of five persons in the United States experiences at least one episode of hives in their lifetime. That is approximately sixty million people in the U.S., almost twice the population of California. Even if the actual number is over-estimated by fifty percent because of inaccurate diagnosis, thirty million remains an impressive number. Approximately five to ten percent of these patients may experience symptoms from six weeks up to two years or longer. This suggests that 1.5 to 3 million individuals in the U.S experience chronic hives.
There is a paucity of materials to assist health care professionals (HCP) and patients on these conditions.There is in fact no existing publication, past or present, that provides the practical approach discussed in this book for the evaluation and treatment of these conditions. The book will appeal to patients who are desirous of a self-help approach and to HCPs who need time-saving guidance to organize and standardize the evaluation of these conditions.
Many of the common questions that are asked by patients are answered in this book. It is our experience that addressing the following questions allays anxiety that patients experience and will improve their understanding as to why their symptoms are sometimes not diagnosed or brought under control.
•What are urticaria and angioedema?
•Why is it difficult to find the cause of urticaria and/or angioedema?
•Is there a common mechanism that causes urticaria and/or angioedema?
•Why do urticaria and/or angioedema remain only for a short time in some individuals, while other patients experience symptoms for longer periods, sometimes months or years?
•Can the duration of symptoms be predicted for chronic urticaria and/or angioedema?
•Why aren't antihistamines completely effective in treating urticaria and/or angioedema?
•How can you determine whether a food, food additives, dyes, preservatives, or undetected allergens are causing urticaria and/or angioedema?
•Do psychological factors play a role in causing urticaria and/or angioedema?
This book is very different than existing medical textbooks as it distills the information from a variety of scientific sources to a level that is understandable for patients and for health care professionals, who may not be familiar with these complex conditions.
This book provides time saving tools to gather information efficiently from patients. Key sections may be reproduced for use with multiple patients. The book organizes and standardizes the evaluation and treatment process and encourages a cooperative approach between HCPs and patients that improves outcomes. It can be used by:
•Health care professionals (HCPs) who can advise their patients to complete a workbook section. Based upon the workbook information, the HCPs can utilize a numeric algorithm to guide them to discussion(s) of possible diagnostic possibilities, laboratory test considerations and treatment recommendations. •Patients, who believe they have hives or swelling, can complete the workbook section. This is shared with the health care professional, who can use the information to consider diagnostic possibilities, laboratory considerations and treatment recommendations.
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Hives: The Road to Diagnosis and Treatment of Urticaria.......2006-08-30
Urticaria hives have plagued me for nearly 3 years. Many visits to a Dermatologist and an Allergist plus numerous blood work-ups have not been of any help. Dr. Wanderer's book "Hives: The Road to Diagnosis and Treatment of Urticaria" has been very beneficial in my understanding of Urticaria and has shown me what steps to take in an attempt to pinpoint the cause. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has Urticaria. It may not help you find the cause but it will help you understand what you are faced with. It is my belief that this book should be recommended by all Doctors to people with Urticaria.
Wonderfully validating and great reference material!.......2006-07-07
I have been a chronic urticaria sufferer for 5 1/2 years and have been on Prednisone for the last 4 1/2 years. My doctor ordered the book after my recommendation and we are using it together to try new medications and therapies. Thank you Dr. Wanderer!
Very helpful for a CU sufferer like myself.......2005-12-15
Should have gotten this book way before wasting so much time, energy, fraustration, and money on all the different doctors/medications/injections...etc. it is too bad Dr. Wanderer is not in Los Angeles otherwise I would love to see him also refer him to others
A must have for Chronic Urticaria sufferers.......2004-03-16
This is a terrific book that answers many questions for chronic urticaria sufferers. I wish I had found it sooner. I'm only on my first year of CU, but I really like to use this book as a reference for all the information scattered over the Internet. I brought it to show my allergist/immunologist and he had ordered it too.
Understanding Hives.......2004-02-25
I have been battling hives for several months. Dr. Wanderer was the third Dr. I encountered in an attempt to rid myself of this problem. On my first visit with Dr. Wanderer, he recommended a thorough series of testing to try and determine the cause of my outbreak of hives. During our interview time, it was apparent to Dr. Wanderer that I was in need of information on my illness. He suggested I read a book that he had written on the diagnosis and treatment of hives. I would encourage anyone who might have a bout with hives to get this book! It has helped me immensely with the understanding of the illness and more importantly, the diagnosis and treatments. I am still in treatment but I'm doing better and I've stayed the course of treatment ONLY because I have the book to go to for guidance and understanding. I'm hopeful of a positive outcome for my illness now because I have this book for reference. I would not have progressed to this point of recovery if not for the book Dr. Wanderer has published for us! It has given me strength daily!
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The beekeeper's year begins with a late winter hive inspection and ends with "putting the bees to bed" in the autumn. Richard Bonney believes that each beekeeping activity should be performed with an eye toward the overall well-being of the colony, as part of an integrated year-round program of hive management. Long-term success in beekeeping can only be achieved by understanding the intimate lives, behaviors, and motivations of honey bees ; the factors which govern the life of each colony. Richard Bonney explains the reasons behind common practices that many beekeepers perform without really knowing why. He also stresses when to take timely actions that will prevent problems in future seasons. Hive Management offers concise, up-to-date information on the whole range of beekeeping tasks, including: ; How to prevent, control, and capture swarms. ; What you can tell from an outside inspection of your hives. ; When and how to "take the crop" and harvest honey. ; How to successfully requee
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Anne McCaffrey concludes the saga of Angharad Gwyn, the Rowan, her husband Jeff Raven, and their family of powerful telepathically and telekinetically Talented offspring with The Tower and the Hive. ( The first four books in the series are: The Rowan, Damia, Damia's Children, and Lyon's Pride.) As usual, McCaffrey delivers vividly real characters struggling with personal, political, and ethical issues and finding humane solutions.
Federated Teleport and Telepath, dominated by the Gwyn-Raven clan, provides interstellar shipping and communications for the Star League of Humans and Mrdinis--weasel-like aliens. In following the aggressive, ant-like Hivers, whose "spheres" have repeatedly attacked League worlds, naval vessels have discovered many more habitable planets, including some occupied by Hivers. Who will get to colonize these planets, Humans or Mrdinis? Should all Hivers be destroyed, or is there some way to contain them? Where will more Talents to staff the vital Towers come from? And how best to defeat those whose resentment of the Gwyn-Raven family's powers and friendship with Mrdinis could lead to violence?
McCaffrey's protagonists are four Gwyn-Raven grandchildren, now young adults who find romance and mature while studying both alien races. Old and new fans alike can enjoy her masterful blending of scientific extrapolation and fantasy elements to produce a universe they'll leave regretfully. --Nona Vero
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The long-awaited final volume in the New York Times bestselling Rowan saga.
For generations, the descendents of the powerful telepath known as the Rowan have used their various Talents to help mankind--some are powerful telepaths, others can teleport through space, others are empathic healers. The clan has grown powerful. They have led Earth to ally itself with the alien Mrdini, and together the two races have held back the predatory Hivers, a deadly insectoid species that kills all life it finds.
Like all powerful families, the Rowan clan has also made enemies. There are those who say the treaties with the Mrdini gave away too much--especially, that the Mrdini get more than their fair share of new living space as habitable planets are discovered--that the Hivers should have been exterminated by now, and that far too much power is concentrated in one family.
The clan has two goals to keep the peace: to help the Mrdini control population growth, so that newly discovered planets are distributed more evenly, and to put a final halt to Hiver advances. They are confident of success--if they can survive sabotage and assassination attempts aimed at destroying all they have worked for.
"McCaffrey continues to hone and extend this universe, which has become more convincing with each novel." -Booklist
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Is this Anne McCaffrey?.......2007-03-17
Who really wrote this book? I have to wonder if Todd McCaffrey didn't in fact write this.
That's the only explanation I can come up with for her having seemed to forget her characters so completely.
I just finished reading the whole Talent series back to back and the difference between those books and this is striking.
What happened? I have been wondering what the deal is with her allowing her son Todd to tinker with Pern, the results
of which you can read about in other reviews here on this site. Suffice it to say, they have not been a roaring success.
I personally think he had a large hand in this one, even if he received no credit for it. Why?
After 5 years with no sequel, all of a sudden she decides to come back, like with Skies of Pern and just like that book, this
one has some major problems. For example, the woodenness, the unfamiliarity of all the characters we have come to love
from the last 4 books. The characters just feel all wrong, almost like in fanfic when someone tries hard to emulate the original,
but is just too self aware.
What about the Rowan? She makes glorified cameos, along with Damia and Afra. And frankly, they were the only reasons I
kept reading this book. But they don't appear all that much and the reader is left with the boring personalities of their cookie-cutter
children.
The once interesting and vibrant characters in the first novels have been radically changed, as if McCaffrey did indeed forget
them. In this book, Afra is described as being `methody' when in fact the entire background of the Damia novel was all about him
NOT being methody, which was why he had to leave Capella. Jeff Raven is now a Peter Reidinger clone, shamelessly manipulating
his horde of offspring and heavily pressuring them to accept outposts on planets light years away from family and friends. The
Rowan is somewhere in the background there. She has one or two paragraphs, but not much else. What happened to the Jeff Raven
who wanted to rebel? Or even the Rowan for that matter.
My other misgivings about this so-called `ending' are these:
1. The plot meanders all over the place. I mean, why is the Hiver Queen now into her third book of incarceration, and no one has
a clue how to talk to her yet? Zara was supposed to be the liaison with godlike gifts of empathy, but she goes on to other things and
never comes in contact with the Hiver Queen again. Later they attribute her understanding of the Queen's distress as having been
just chance. Now, this is the first break with canon that got my attention and why I think someone other than McCaffrey had a hand
in writing this thing. You may recall, that Zara felt the pain of the Queen from several light years away, and when she got close, she
immediately understood that she was freezing to death. The continuity error here is a step beyond the shoddily written intro where
Afra is listed as being Damia's brother, for Pete's sake. This is just a straight cop out, and if they didn't want to write any more,
they would have been better off not bothering at all. Of course, there's no money in that, is there?
2.The other children and their significant others go from one planet to the other, hypothesizing and theorizing about Hiver biology,
when what the reader wants to know is: What happened to so and so --? And it just goes on and on, along with the ridiculous
subplot of developing birth control methods for the `Dinis. The final answer of how to talk with the Hivers is very contrived and
goes against earlier canon. Uh, why weren't the pheromones detected in Damia's Children when Zara pulled her `antic'? Why
didn't the Queen react to Zara's pheromones? You might remember she stank so badly, she was rushed into the showers, and yet in
the Tower and Hive, the mere hint of garlic caused a Hiver to react to cleanse the air. It's all just nonsense. Forget writing the
Biology textbook for the 24th century, this story was always about the PEOPLE and I think the communication thing with the
Hivers could have been so much more interesting . . . as in, what if they are Telepathic in some new way? That would have
explained why Zara could hear her all those light years away and the instantaneous communication from the Queen to her workers.
Pheromones take time, because they require air. And air, even in a hurricane, can only go so fast.
3. Damia's children. To the last man (or woman) they are absolutely perfect. They don't gripe about working full time jobs from
the time they are 12 or so and don't seem to want to rebel against their grandfather's unceasing demands as well as his schemes to
turn them all into baby factories. They don't seem to mind being bred like cattle. In addition, we are left at the end of the book
knowing that they will all be searching for Hiver worlds forever on board navy vessels in order to drop the pheromones on them.
For years and years and years. And I thought my job was bad.
4. No interesting characters. The one possibility, Vagrian, is given more time in the book than the Rowan or Damia but turned out
to be a red herring. Why did they bring in this character? He adds nothing to the story and once he is mind-fixed, has no other
purpose. Why did McCaffrey introduce us to him, if he doesn't do anything important? He doesn't even seduce one of her available
daughters, so there's no reason for him to be in the story. You begin to wonder if there wasn't more planned for that character McCaffrey
(or Todd) just lost steam and tied it all up.
5. That's yet another problem. Too many pat answers, the most glaring of which is the Laria/Kincaid relationship. Now, why go to all
the trouble to reinforce that the man is gay in the other books, and then just have him forget all that and become straight just for her.
Because he loves her? It doesn't work that way. So now, we are left with their very implausible relationship and of course her entry
into the halls of baby making. How about a female Talent that -gasp!- chooses not to have ANY babies! Now that might be a good
story.
So, we are finally left with an incomplete and hurried story, up to an including the Final Solution for the Buggers -I mean Hivers.
(Wouldn't want Orson Scott Card to get mad or anything.) What made these books so great was the concept of Talent combined with
the interesting personalities. From Rhyssa Owen to Damia, even Jeff Raven before his character got ruined. It would have been better
not to end it like this, but leave it with the open ended finale in Lyon's Pride.
Nice end to a nice series........2007-01-18
Well - the "Tower and Hive" Series (Starting with "The Rowan") has seen better books - but it manages to tie up a couple of loose ends from "Lyon's Pride" and puts an acceptable end to the series without making another book impossible...
It gets 4 out of 5 because I expected more a little more from the story...
The Tower and the Hive.......2007-01-10
Just filling out my library, completing the series. I find McCaffrey's books very easy reads, but good tales and well written.
Good Book in Good Series.......2006-11-14
Anne McCaffrey has a great series using ESP powers with Interseller Travel, Aliens (Good and Bad). Great series
A realistic conclusion to an exciting series!.......2005-04-17
I have read most every book by Anne McCaffrey that is out there including the Pern books and Acorna books. I have enjoyed the Talent series the most for the creativity of the author and the reality checks that are included. I admit it would have been nice to have a perfectly completed and everything resolved type of ending but for me, I enjoyed that while the major issues of how to get the Hivers to not go out and destroy worlds populated with sentient beings and getting the Gwyn-Raven-Lyon grandchildren out on their own and starting their own dynasty are resolved more quietly than with a big bang!
Especially touching and interesting in this book was the more information we got on Mrdinis, their hibernation and reproductive habits as well as their attitudes and politics. The relationships between Asia and Rojer and Laria and Dano were also very nicely matured.
I enjoyed learning more about the "bad guys" -- the Hivers -- their habitat was so well described I could just picture it. I also swear that I have had a "sting-pzzt" type of experience -- when my husband used to work in a factory before we were married and came home with a sort of metallic powder all over him. It was definitely a smell/taste/feeling!!
I was also glad that this book had a few less tragedies since the last book had quite a few. The invasion of the Blundell building was exciting and showed how Jeff Raven and the Rowan have still "got it."
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In spring and summer, honeybees gather nectar to make into honey. These fascinating insects live and work together in complicated societies, complete with queen bees and workers. Read and find out about honeybees and their creation -- honey!
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In Hellstroms Hive, winner of the 1978 Prix Apollo, Frank Herberts vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology has never been more evident. America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the worldinsects. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstroms Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknessesit could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise.
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Agents and Insects.......2007-07-06
This probably worked better as a short story. Hellstrom's Hive is a 1950's, cold war sci-fi tale, nothing more, nothing less. A few grotesque situations in the hive are memorable, the "stumps" for example, but the endless pages of the Agency going through the motions is just plain mind numbing. Pass.
Interesting.......2007-05-30
the blurb is a little misleading, but the book was an overall adventure. It was very action packed and was a real page turner
The Return of a Classic .......2007-05-22
Frank Herbert is one of the all time greatest science fiction writers. He is best known as the author of the Dune series. However, Herbert wrote many other fine works of futuristic literary art. One such is Herbert's 1972 novel Hellstrom's Hive, a new edition of which has just been put out by Tor Books.
Hellstrom's Hive depicts an America that is ruled by a dictatorship. One dissident was a Doctor Nils Hellstrom who created a Project 40 that he persuaded the government to fund, but which Hellstrom was using as a secret laboratory. Upon discovering Hellstrom's duplicity, the dictatorship sends a special team of agents to shut down the lab.
When the agents arrive, they discover that inside the lab there is stuff that places the entire planet's survival in peril. Or it could affect the future evolution of humanity. In any event, it is clear that the mad scientist Dr. Nils Hellstrom has created something truly insane that is nothing short of sick and twisted in its potential effect upon the innocent people of the world.
Readers who try out this forgotten novel will be greatly satisfied by this tale of the future. It is heartily recommended.
Fascinating.......2007-04-06
In Oregon, filmmaking entomologist Nils Hellstrom establishes the human hive in which 50,000 peoplewill live together based on how insects work as a unit regardless of size. The Agency is concerned about the influence of the Hive and has begun spying on the entity especially wanting to steal a metallurgical technology for their personal gain.
Early information proves hard to gather as the agents are easily uncovered by the Hive. Those captured are placed in the dying vats and used as food for the members. Realizing that their first intrusion failed, the Agency sends in a more professional team of experts to learn more about Project 40 and the stunwand.
This is a reprint of an interesting 1980s tale focusing on two societies. Frank Herbert goes deep into the Hive so the audience obtains a discerning look at how humans could behave like the social insects that Nils wants to emulate in order for the members to work together for the common good. Within the Hive, a caste system exists for instance the scientists are out of 1950s B movie monster thrillers with all sorts of physical problems. On the other hand, the Agency remains in the shadows so that the audience knows little about them except their obsession over Project 40 and that they appear to be a secret part of the Feds. Science fiction readers will enjoy the HIVE that wants to spread out and assimilate the Outsiders.
Harriet Klausner
The Hive vs. The Outsiders.......2005-12-01
Core concept: the Hive, led by entomologist and filmmaker Nils Hellstrom, is located in remote Oregon. Population 50,000. They have based their lives and organization on lessons learned from insects. Their dwelling extends far underground.
The conflict: an outside agency, called The Agency, is surveilling the Hive, unaware of the reality and immensity of the Hive. The Agency thinks that Hellstrom has created a new metallurgical process. They hope to discover and leverage the technology for the benefit of those supporting The Agency, though the composition of that group is never detailed.
The Agency sends in several members to spy around Hellstrom's farm. They are captured and put in the vats, which are tanks that Hive members willingly go to at the end of their lives. The purpose of the vats is that these members become food for the rest of the Hive. Needless to say, those captured from The Agency did not willingly go the vats.
So, after this opening, The Agency sends in the "A" team to discover what is really going on.
What is really going on is that Hellstrom's film work is a cover (albeit one to bring in revenue) for Project 40. This is a major weapon system that is an extension of the stunwand, another weapon developed by the Hive scientists. The scientists themselves are pretty cool, with monstrous heads, stunted legs, withered arms, servants to carry them around, and massive intellectual capability.
I'll not go through a blow by blow recap; if it sounds interesting, read it. It is a quick read.
The writing about the Hive is fairly interesting, but never rises to that "this is reaaaally cool" threshold. The writing about the members of The Agency and their lives is booooooooring! Did Herbert mean to be so boring in the details of The Agency?
Project 40 actually only comes into any sort of detail at the very end of the book. The scientists perform a demonstration experiment in which they create a new island in the sea near Japan. How a destructive weapon can be used to create land doesn't make sense, but that is what they do. The story ends in a stalemate between the US government and the Hive, with their Project 40 weapon. Hellstrom's crew has the weapon targeted to destroy several hundred square miles around Washington, DC, if the government attacks the Hive.
The book ends by relaying that because of the destructive potential of Project 40, the Hive had acquired the time and space to continue existing. They would use this time to "swarm" out into the Outsider (their term for normal humans) world in order to assimilate Outsiders and take more of the Earth's surface for the sake of the Hive.
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Recapture Your Health presents an empowering, easy-to-follow health-improvement protocol called the 3LS Wellness Program. This combination of unique relaxation, diet, and exercise techniques can reverse chronic conditions, heal degenerative diseases, improve lifestyle conditions, and help one achieve a state of vibrant health.
The 3LS Wellness Program supports the body to heal itself, thus a majority of conditions can be addressed. Sufferers of major conditions like fibromyalgia, arthritis, and diabetes, along with individuals experiencing common "nuisance" symptoms like recurrent headaches, allergies, and fatigue, will see improvement or complete reversal of their health problems. The 3LS can be a godsend to people who have tried everything and have not gotten better, who have puzzling or unusual symptoms, whose doctor cannot provide a diagnosis, or who don't have health insurance. It is also very effective for mental/emotional symptoms, and for people who have been injured and cannot find relief from pain.
This unique program is very adaptable to the interests, age, and ability of a broad range of the population. Part I describes the three basic practices and how to apply them in daily life in the real world, thus avoiding common social and other pitfalls that usually derail most people from improving their health. Part II discusses the basic causes of illness and how the program addresses them, so that they can be applied consciously rather than by rote. Separate chapters give additional self-help practices, tips for working with practitioners, and instructions for using the 3LS for mental and emotional symptoms including depression, anxiety, alcoholism, schizophrenia, ADD, etc. A helpful resource guide includes a long list of recommended books and troubleshooting sections keep people moving forward dynamically in their healing process. An appendix for practitioners of all modalities gives tips for offering the program to patients or clients, especially those whose symptoms have not been relieved by clinical methods.
The name "3LS" is derived from the image of a wooden 3-Legged Stool such as you might find on a dairy farm. The three practices, like the three legs of a stool, are the basic support for total health. Dr. Stoll developed the program during his 38+ years as a medical doctor, and Jan DeCourtney provides additional perspective as a certified massage therapist. Both authors have followed this program to help their own health and bring the program to life by including details that make all the difference in being successful. Recapture Your Health is written in an easy-to-read and understand format. Thousands of people have improved their health using this protocol.
Customer Reviews:
Recapture Your Health.......2007-07-17
Recapture Your Health outlines a balanced solution to improving overall health. The authors call this program a 3LS solution named after the three legged stool which is perfectly balanced and fully functional without a lot of extras that aren't needed.
Like the three legged stool, the 3LS program contains three simple but sturdy elements (nutrition, exercise, and relaxation) that create a foundation for improved health. The nutrition section focuses primarily on minimizing damage caused by the high intake of refined foods in the modern diet. The authors promote a whole foods approach to nutrition that reduces and potentially eliminates all refined foods. This is very similar to the slow food philosophy that is gaining popularity.
Likewise, the exercise and relaxation portions of this program are not radical but are somewhat based in good common sense. Participants are expected to exercise twenty minutes three times a week of virtually any type of activity that gets them moving. Relaxation is guided through various types of formal relaxation exercises such as meditation or guided imagery completed for approximately twenty minutes twice a day.
A Recipe For Wellness.......2007-06-06
While conventional medicine tends to focus on covering up symptoms with medications, many of which cause dangerous side-effects, this book provides step-by-step instructions on how to potentially avoid the doctor's office altogether. Based on the premise of 'how to be healthy,' this book outlines what Dr. Stoll refers to as the '3-Legged Stool of Wellness' - Skilled Relaxation, A Whole Foods Diet, and Exercise. As simple as this sounds, there are many crucial aspects that one needs to be aware of in order to implement the Wellness lifestyle effectively. 'Recapture Your Health' provides all the knowledge, insight, frequently asked questions, and troubleshooting guides needed for anyone to do just what the title says. Jan DeCourtney's writing style makes this book both fun and motivational to read cover to cover as well as easy to use as a quick-reference using the detailed index in the back. Hats off to this book, a long-awaited tribute to a very important aspect of Walt Stoll's life's work of getting the truth about Wellness out to the public!
Priceless Information For Lifelong Health and Maintenance.......2007-04-25
Walt Stoll and Jan DeCourtney have given readers a chance to redeem their health or maintain it using three simple tools. Seemingly so simple, yet the authors have used their talents to give a good explanation of some of the who's, what's, and why's of the road back to health.
Even if you think you know the information to wellness they present, "Recapture Your Health" is still a great reference to have linking many common and not so common ailments to the modern day interpretation of stress. Many of us have used one of their key elements at one time or another, but in putting all the pieces of the puzzle together you have a great weapon to use in the war against disease.
If you have not yet had to deal with a serious illness or condition, you can certainly can go a long way to prevent it, according to the book, and maintain quality your quality of life for the years to come.
Something for everyone,
A+
Alternative Healing.......2007-02-07
"Recapture Your Health" focuses on relaxation, nutrition and exercise. This is the basis for the entire program so you can maintain optimal health. Not only does this show a way to a healthier lifestyle, it promises relief from a wide variety of chronic health conditions. Whether you are already suffering from a condition or want to take a more preventive approach, this book has many pertinent answers. The authors teach a more holistic approach and also explain the roots of illness.
What is the real cause of illness?
How can you reduce depression, anger and anxiety?
Is there a natural solution for chronic fatigue?
Throughout the book, personal examples are shown as people who followed this program explain how their symptoms disappeared. Some of the main things the authors recommend is the elimination of sugars, alcohol and caffeine. In order to follow the program there is also a handy list of foods you should include or avoid. If you enjoy reading labels, there is also a section about additives.
After following this program you can expect better sleep, happier moods and less headaches. As the authors say: "...most people lose health because of an unhealthy lifestyle." This book puts you on a fast track with a special section called "quick start guides." This allows you to get started even before you have read a third of the book.
The authors present a discussion about supplements, encourage healthy lifestyle changes and give lists of exercises like Pilates, Yoga and Walking. I also though their list of helpful ways to reduce stress was very helpful.
~The Rebecca Review
Fabulous Book everyone should read.......2007-01-19
Dr Stoll really empowers you to take control of your own health through his 3 pronged approach. (what he calls the "3 legged stool") I had never been exposed before to the whole foods concept - I guess I was living under a rock all these years. I like having the rationale behind things explained, like WHY skilled relaxation is important (we heal 24X faster than when sleeping) or WHY we should exercise 20 min 3X week (so we get at least 6 minutes past our "Second Wind") I found this book to be a compelling read and gave it to all my relatives as gifts. I also ordered The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia, and Raw Food, Real World.
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This book is about the inner workings of one of nature's most complex animal societies: the honey bee colony. It describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author. In his investigations, Thomas Seeley has sought the answer to the question of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research--including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance, and other, more subtle means by which information is exchanged among bees--offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works. By showing how several thousand bees function together as an integrated whole to collect the nectar, pollen, and water that sustain the life of the hive, Seeley sheds light on one of the central puzzles of biology: how units at one level of organization can work together to form a higher-level entity.
In explaining why a hive is organized the way it is, Seeley draws on the literature of molecular biology, cell biology, animal and human sociology, economics, and operations research. He compares the honey bee colony to other functionally organized groups: multicellular organisms, colonies of marine invertebrates, and human societies. All highly cooperative groups share basic problems: of allocating their members among tasks so that more urgent needs are met before less urgent ones, and of coordinating individual actions into a coherent whole. By comparing such systems in different species, Seeley argues, we can deepen our understanding of the mechanisms that make close cooperation a reality.
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How to make a machine that makes honey.......2004-11-06
Thomas Seeley has written an amazing book that will work for many different types of readers at many levels. The book outlines experiments that Seeley did with prepared hives to demonstrate the system dynamics of how a hive adapts to the resources around it. Seeley's style is easy for a layperson to read with clear charts and pictures. This is a great book to savor; read a chapter, then daydream about how these creatures could be constructed to perform their functions.
I got a lot out of the book. First of all, it's a narrative of Seeley's experimental method; he labels a hive (puts the bees in a hive in a refrigerator, pulls them out one by one and puts identifying tags on each), sets up feeding stations with different concentrations of sugar at different distances, then observes behavior to demonstrate how individual variation in bees optimizes the hive's collection of resources. Second, it's a pretty good introduction to bee physiology and the hive's social system. Seeley describes experiments tracking the individual jobs of bees as they age and, in doing so, he covers how and what the bees do. Third, Seeley reviews and describes the previous literature, giving a history of behavioral study of bees. Finally, he develops his thesis regarding the hive as a system, with parallels to systems theory and studies of hierarchies of organization.
This is a fun read; easy to get through, thought provoking, giving you appreciation for the author's work and for the creatures that are his subject.
One Amazing Book about Bees.......2000-04-22
This is a special scientific book, for the author tells the reader not only WHAT we know about the inner workings of honey bee colonies, but also HOW we know it. Through simple but graceful writing, accompanied by many diagrams, Seeley takes you on a step-by-step journey through his experimental analysis of how the members of a bee colony work together to gather the nectar, pollen, and water that they need. I think anyone interested in seeing how a human has dissected the complex internal organization of a bee hive will find this a rewarding read. I especially liked chapter 6, where Seeley explains that the bees have several kinds of communication dances, not just the famous waggle dance, to activate more bees for making honey.
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The first descriptive treatise of modern bee management. In a reader-friendly, enthusiastic style, Langstroth addresses every aspect of beekeeping: bee physiology; diseases and enemies of bees; the life-cycles of the queen, drone, and worker; bee-hives; the handling of bees; and many other topics. 25 plates.
Customer Reviews:
very hard to understand unless you're one hundred years old.......2007-10-09
I don't recommend this book except for it's historical value, it is hard to understand unless you're familiar with the way people talked 150 years ago.
Indispenable beekeeping primer.......2007-06-14
After reading this book, I can fully appreciate why Rev. L. L. Langstroth was dubbed "the father of modern beekeeping". As a novice beekeeper, I am always on the look out for "how to" books on beekeeping. I wish that I had read this book BEFORE I setup my first hive; I would have been able to get my bees through their first year with a lot less stress on them and me. The book explains the reasons behind the bees behavior - this is invaluable information, for just like training a dog or a horse, if you can understand what is motivating their actions you can better shape the results to your needs and desires. I highly recommend this book to both novice and experienced beekeepers - get the book, read it, and practice its principles - you will be glad you did!!
Great book! Possibly the only one with a non-evolutionary view on the honey bee........2007-03-02
This book is superb! Rev. Langstroth was the "Father of Modern Beekeeping" and his book contains a lot of vital information for the novice and experienced beekeeper. Some of his information is dated, as to be expected, yet to view the progress of vintage beekeeping to what it has evolved into today is fascinating! I find Rev. Langstroth's non-evolutionary view of the honey bee to be immensely refreshing as I study this fascinating creature.
Truly, this book is a classic for the beekeeping industry, and it should be read by all beekeepers no matter what experience level.
-Nathanael J. Beach
Secretary of the Aiken Beekeeper's Association
Member of the South Carolina Beekeepers Association
Certified Beekeeper
This is a Classic.......2007-02-02
This is a classic beekeeping manual written in the mid 1800's. Mr. Langstroth's innovations have shaped moden-day beekeeping practices. It is a must read for anyone interested in honeybees.
Great classic reference.......2006-11-05
This classic describes the insightful observations and knowledge of the father of modern beekeeping. It is dated, but extremely interesting.
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