Author : Dawn Steel
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671738334
In a bestseller sure to be as hot as You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, one of Hollywood's key players shares the priceless experience of starting as a secretary and making it big as the first woman to run a major motion picture studio. 16-page insert.
Author : Freddie Odom
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2015-06-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781514302385
Tales of Freddie Odom, who wast surely raised by old ladies, who didst surely face off against the Ku Klux Klan, and who didst surely record his annals in this book after becoming mayor. "Finally, something that those of us without a Kindle can read!" - Abraham Lincoln
Author : Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1250066123
From the physician behind the wildly popular NutritionFacts website, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death. The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson's, high blood pressure, and more-and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives. The simple truth is that most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses but bad at preventing chronic disease. The fifteen leading causes of death claim the lives of 1.6 million Americans annually. This doesn't have to be the case. By following Dr. Greger's advice, all of it backed up by strong scientific evidence, you will learn which foods to eat and which lifestyle changes to make to live longer. History of prostate cancer in your family? Put down that glass of milk and add flaxseed to your diet whenever you can. Have high blood pressure? Hibiscus tea can work better than a leading hypertensive drug-and without the side effects. Fighting off liver disease? Drinking coffee can reduce liver inflammation. Battling breast cancer? Consuming soy is associated with prolonged survival. Worried about heart disease (the number 1 killer in the United States)? Switch to a whole-food, plant-based diet, which has been repeatedly shown not just to prevent the disease but often stop it in its tracks. In addition to showing what to eat to help treat the top fifteen causes of death, How Not to Die includes Dr. Greger's Daily Dozen -a checklist of the twelve foods we should consume every day.Full of practical, actionable advice and surprising, cutting edge nutritional science, these doctor's orders are just what we need to live longer, healthier lives.
Author : Joyce Daniels
Publisher : joyce daniels
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781591136965
Jackie Day was a pioneer of social justice for women, Native Americans, African Americans, and Vietnam Veterans. This compelling biography creates a sensitive and humorous portrait from her humble beginnings to her active and dedicated 80th decade.
Author : Dorothy Bloch
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 1977-07-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1461630746
In So the Witch Won't Eat Me Bloch draws on 25 years of psychoanalytic practice. Her book is both a summary of her experience as a therapist and a disclosure of what she has learned about the inner workings of the human mind. She believes that the fear of infanticide, which originates in our vulnerability as infants, is later compounded by the magical thinking that leads us as children to blame ourselves for any unhappy development in our environment and therefore to anticipate punishment. As she also demonstrates, psychoanalytic treatment can be very effective in resolving the resulting emotional problems.
Author : Riger Lynch
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741473801
"No, I'm..." George never got the chance to complete the sentence. His head exploded and showered Molly with blood, broken bone and brain matter. She screamed as the car went out fo control and veered left through the left lane, across the median strip and headlong into a twin trailer, eighteen wheeler. The last thought Molly had was that she was not going to see Little George Three today. Or ever.
Author : Kristi Coulter
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374717087
"Kristi Coulter charts the raw, unvarnished, and quietly riveting terrain of new sobriety with wit and warmth. Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human." —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency. When Kristi stopped drinking, she started noticing things. Like when you give up a debilitating habit, it leaves a space, one that can’t easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting. And when you cancel Rosé Season for yourself, you’re left with just Summer, and that’s when you notice that the women around you are tanked—that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they could be making other kinds of noise. In her sharp, incisive debut essay collection, Coulter reveals a portrait of a life in transition. By turns hilarious and heartrending, Nothing Good Can Come from This introduces a fierce new voice to fans of Sloane Crosley, David Sedaris, and Cheryl Strayed—perfect for anyone who has ever stood in the middle of a so-called perfect life and looked for an escape hatch.
Author : Sheila J. Brooks
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1664281134
Hopefully, this book will be the closest that ANY reader will get to an experience with COVID-19. This book will place you inside of the very grip of death as it exists inside of a COVID-19 reclusive medical ward! This book will take you from the very edge of DEATH (within moments - even seconds of DEATH!) to complete recovery and total victory over the DEVIL DISGUISED AS COVID-19! This is the story of 18 days that changed my life forever! In December of 2019 a new, strange, and previously unknown virus mysteriously “escaped a lab in Wuhan, Hubei, China. The virus, which would spark a pandemic, was first reported in China on December 31, 2019.” . . . The angel disguised as a doctor, said something very scary to me: “IF YOUR HEART STOPS, DO YOU WANT TO BE RESUSITATED? I said, “Yes, Of course I do!” . . . Thank God he did; because my heart DID stop!!!
Author : Brad Feld
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119363552
In #GiveFirst, Brad Feld advises entrepreneurs to give before they get. #GiveFirst is essentially the new motto of Techstars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator co-founded by Brad Feld. Feld has taken twenty years of experience as a venture capitalist and codified it into actionable principles and ideas. The core of the #GiveFirst philosophy is this idea: Expect nothing in return, and you’ll be delighted with what you do get back. Techstars has fostered a culture of help and reciprocity and hopes to share this culture with entrepreneurs throughout the world. The format will be similar to Startup Communities and Venture Deals— 15 medium length chapters that build on each other, including many sidebars reinforcing the content, and short sections within each chapter. Feld will lay out the basic principles of #Give First and cite specific instances where helping others has helped him grow.
Author : Dan Riskin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1476767130
A fun exploration of the darker side of the natural world reveals the fascinating, weird, often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself. It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless. Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors. Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating flora and fauna into vivid focus. Through his adventures— which include sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot that has taken root on his head, and coming to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.
