Finally! A concise set of practical, ignore-at-your-own risk guidelines that married couples and about-to-be-marrieds can consult for the definitive word on matrimonial relations. Rules for Husbands and Rules for Wives lay down the law in a way that's both hilarious and so close to the truth it hurts. James Dale covers it all, from "an appliance is not a gift" to "let him hold the TV remote; it makes him feel like he's in control of something." A gift for all occasions, or just to say "I love you" with a laugh. 作者简介： Jim Dale is the mastermind behind the Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday books, the Two of Us series, Stepwise: A Parent-Child Guide to Family Mergers, and The Joys of Motherhood humor book. His highly successful humor greeting cards, "The Dales," have sold millions worldwide.

“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved,too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feeldeserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be moresoul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals mostof us will ever meet. The effects of their work will lastforever.” –from the foreword by Anna Quindlen Now depicted in a bestselling book and a feature film, theFreedom Writers phenomenon came about in 1994 when Erin Gruwellstepped into Room 203 and began her first teaching job out ofcollege. Long Beach, California, was still reeling from the deadlyviolence that erupted during the Rodney King riots, and the kids inErin’s classroom reflected the anger, resentment, and hopelessnessof their community. Undaunted, Erin fostered an educationalphilosophy that valued and promoted diversity, tolerance, andcommunication, and in the process, she transformed her students’lives, as well as her own. Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writerswent on to establish t

"This little guide has a pretty great sense of humor, and itmanages to cover a wide variety of topics and answer reallycompelling questions with an easy, light-reading style that willkeep even sleep-deprived new mommies turning itspages."--"Sacramento Parent Magazine"

If you’ve been struggling with your weight, you know how hard itcan be to lose those extra pounds and keep them off. In thegroundbreaking Think Thin, Be Thin , nationally prominentpsychotherapist Doris Wild Helmering and award-winning healthwriter Dianne Hales assert that the true key to a healthy bodyweight is a healthy attitude toward food and exercise. Their logicis simple: Your brain ultimately controls what you eat and whetheryou work out. If you change the way you think, you can change theway you behave. And you can lose weight. Using proven psychological strategies and scientifically basedexercises, you will learn how to harness your thoughts to transformyour behavior, body, and life. With practical advice on suchtroublesome issues as curbing emotional eating, motivating yourselfto exercise, and overcoming diet plateaus, this book is the idealcomplement to any diet and weight-loss program.

For more than fifteen years, Caroline Myss has studied whysome people heal, while others do not. In her previous book,Anatomy of the Spirit, Dr. Myss illuminated the hidden interactionsof belief and body, soul and cell to show how, as she inimitablyputs it, "your biography becomes your biology." In this new book,she builds on her earlier teachings of the seven different energycenters of the body to provide a vital self-healing program forphysical and spiritual disorders. With her characteristicno-nonsense style and high-voltage storytelling, she exposes andexplodes the five myths about healing, explains the cultural andindividual contexts in which people become physically andspiritually ill and invested in "woundology," and teaches newmethods of working with the challenges that the seven energycenters embody. Both visionary and practical, Why People Don't Heal and How TheyCan presents a bold new account of the development of humanconsciousness and spirituality over the ages, and examines thedynam

Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be?Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email orsurfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy,distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing listsof things to do, superficial electronic connections, andinterrupted moments. The good news is that there arestraightforward and effective ways to restore communication andconnection, resurrect happiness and romance, and strengthen—evensave—a marriage. · Observe the natural sequence of sustaining love: attention,time, connection, and play. · Develop and nurture empathy—the essential building block tohealthy communication. · Carve out small moments of uninterrupted attention for eachother. · Identify the pressures that our crazybusy lifestyles put onlove and marriage, and fight back with tenderness andappreciation. Complete with *s, tips, communication techniques, and adetailed 30-day reconnection plan, as well as inspi

Drawing on his extensive clinical experience, Andrew Gaedderthelps the reader make sense of natural healing techniques based onChinese medicine, rotation diets, and anti-candida strategies. Casestudies illustrate how the author's clients were able to reduce oreliminate their digestive problems, enjoy greater energy, andreduce discomfort. Gaeddert explores food sensitivities, developingtolerance for certain foods, and preventing food reactions. Usefulappendices address obstacles to health, reducing fat intake,digestive-friendly grains, and food families. For the one out ofthree Americans who will have a digestive disorder in theirlifetime, this is an accessible, step-by-step guide for dealingwith digestive disorders.

From the man who catapulted the Covenant with Black America to number one on the New York Times bestseller listcomes a searing memoir of poverty, ambition, pain andatonment. Tavis Smiley grew up in a family of thirteen in rural Indian,where money was scarce and the sight of other black faces evenscarcer. Always an outsider because of his race, economicbackground, and Pentecostal religious beliefs, he was sustained byhis family’s love. But one day his world was shattered when hisfather brutally beat him, sending him to the hospital and then intofoster care for a period of time. In What I Know for Sure ,Smiley recounts how he overcame his painful history and became oneof America’s most popular media figures.

Examines the effectsof rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual,the family, and society.

How long will I be in the hospital? Do I need to give up allmy favorite foods? What are the side effects of that medication?Why do I feel so depressed? When can I have sex again? How can Iprevent a second heart attack? Heart surgery or heart attack can be the most frighteningexperience of your life. Dr. Paul Kligfield, MD, one of thenation's most respected cardiologists, answers all your questionsand many more in The Cardiac Recovery Handbook: The Complete Guideto Life After Heart Attack or Heart Surgery. In clear, everydaylanguage, Dr. Kligfield provides a reassuring andeasy-to-understand resource for the millions of Americans sufferingfrom heart disease, as well as their families, healthcareproviders, and friends. The Cardiac Recovery Handbook is an invaluable guide through thecomplexities and confusion surrounding heart disease. It covers allaspects of cardiac recovery–from the initial diagnosis of heartdisease to medications and surgical options, from hospitalizationto rehabilitation,

In 1960 the government of Trinidad invited V. S. Naipaul torevisit his native country and record his impressions. In thisclassic of modern travel writing he has created a deft andremarkably prescient portrait of Trinidad and four adjacentCaribbean societies–countries haunted by the legacies of slaveryand colonialism and so thoroughly defined by the norms of Empirethat they can scarcely believe that the Empire is ending. In The Middle Passage , Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movieaudience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “Thatis man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that thelocals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially chargedelection campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at theGallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains thefiction that its roads are extensions of France’s routesnationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes ofthe region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to informits language, politics, a

On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovereddrifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not asign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo—and nota trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the crew. Whathappened on board the ghost ship Mary Celeste has baffled andtantalized the world for 130 years. In his stunning new book,award-winning journalist Brian Hicks plumbs the depths of thisfabled nautical mystery and finally uncovers the truth. The Mary Celeste was cursed as soon as she was launched on theBay of Fundy in the spring of 1861. Her first captain died beforecompleting the maiden voyage. In London she accidentally rammed andsank an English brig. Later she was abandoned after a storm droveher ashore at Cape Breton. But somehow the ship was recovered andrefitted, and in the autumn of 1872 she fell to the reluctantcommand of a seasoned mariner named Benjamin Spooner Briggs. It wasBriggs who was at the helm when the Mary Celeste sailed intoh

One afternoon in 1989, Karen Overhill walks into psychiatristRichard Baer’s office complaining of vague physical pains anddepression. Odder still, she reveals that she’s suffering from apersistent memory problem. Routinely, she “loses” parts of her day,finding herself in places she doesn’t remember going to or beingtold about conversations she doesn’t remember having. Her problemsare so pervasive that she often feels like an impersonator in herown life; she doesn’t recognize the people who call themselves herfriends, and she can’t even remember being intimate with her ownhusband. Baer recognizes that Karen is on the verge of suicide and, whiletrying various medications to keep her alive, attempts to discoverthe root cause of her strange complaints. It’s the work of months,and then years, to gain Karen’s trust and learn the true extent ofthe trauma buried in her past. What she eventually reveals isnearly beyond belief, a narrative of a childhood spent grapplingwith unimaginable

Biochemist Stephen Cherniske gives readers all the informationthey need to take advantage of and maximize the properties of thissuperhormone--safely and effectively. Includes up-to-the-minuteresearch on DHEA's effect on women's health, the immune system,depression, and memory.

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The novelist Beverly Lowry was mourning her son’s death in ahit-and-run accident when she came across a newspaper story aboutKarla Faye Tucker, the infamous Houston murderer who was then ondeath row. The article captured Tucker’s innocent beauty, thestunning brutality of her crimes — committed with a pickaxe — andthe stories of her spiritual awakening on death row. Struck bythese apparent contradictions, Lowry found herself inexplicablydrawn to Tucker, who some ten years later would become the firstwoman to be executed in Texas since 1863. Lowry eventually began to visit Tucker in prison, and over thecourse of several years she listened to the tragic story of herlife before the murders and, in turn, told Karla Faye about her ownlife and the life and death of her son Peter. Crossed Over is amemoir of this time, a moving account of an unlikely but profoundand genuine friendship created in the confines of a visiting roomon death row. Now with a new foreword that recounts Tucker’s lastdays