How to navigate healthily and tastily from conception through delivery and beyond-at home or at the office, in restaurants or over the holidays, when you're short on time or money, and when you're too queasy to eat. How to satisfy your taste buds and your baby's nutritional requirements at every meal (and in between). How to keep your weight gain on target, ease pregnancy symptoms, gratify your inner gourmet, and nourish yourself pre-pregnancy and postpartum. Plus the latest lowdown on low carbs, vegetarian diets, caffeine, supplements, food safety, and more. Includes 175 delicious, easy-to-prepare, and nutrition-packed recipes, developed especially for mom-to-be and her baby (but yummy enough to satisfy the whole family). Expect to eat well!
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child--and the lack of understanding that led to tragedy.
This concise guide to cannabis delivers the dope on using and cultivating weed. Learn about ganja history and culture, legal and health issues, and identifying varieties.The Little Black Book of Marijuana also Includes marijuana recipes and a 14-page section of full-color photographs of marijuana varieties and strains. 158 pages. Author Steve Elliott is a journalist and editor of the Village Voice Media blog, Toke of the Town: Cannabis Culture News and Views (www.tokeofthetown.com). His specialties are drug policy reform, medical marijuana, and marijuana legislation. Steve is also the cannabis/dispensary critic for Seattle Weekly (www.seattleweekly.com) print and Web column ''Toke Signals.'' He is based in the Greater Seattle area.