What is it about marriage that makes men hesitant to commit? Why is the divorce rate so high and why is it such an acceptable option? Why do men and women cheat? These issues and many others are discussed in this realistic and honest approach toward marriage. It's a must-read for anyone considering marriage, whether engaged or already married. The book takes a serious, sometimes comical, and even philosophical inside look at this intriguing institution, and why some dream of marriage, while others are less than motivated to get married. In short, it mentions things that aren't said but should be. Learn more about the author, his reasons for writing the book, and provide feedback log on to: Dont-be-a-statistic.com (or: Dontbeastatistic.com)

Being in the field of medicine and plastic surgery, I have realised just having knowledge and skills are not enough to be a successful plastic surgeon; you need to be a general surgeon, a doctor, and most importantly, a compassionate human being to be successful. You also need to be a good administrator, leader, businessman, and politician. You need to be a good teacher to continue the legacy. This is what I am striving to accomplish. My wish is that I will be able to follow my profession with dignity, sincerity, ethically and legally, and to teach the youngsters to do the same. This book is about a great discipline that is called plastic surgery. It is an intensely personal subject that causes a great deal of debate, often very emotional. More than any other branch of medicine, it is also surrounded by a dense, almost impenetrable fog of rumor, myths, and misconceptions. This book will educate you to understand what goes behind the scene. Not only that, but everything you need to know about the plastic and cosmetic surgery from choosing the right surgeon to avoiding disasters and getting the treatment you really need is here in the book.

Lose Weight, Gain Better Health There are fat persons and there are thin persons. In America, there are millions of overweight people eating "unhealthy foods" (fats) and "high" glycemic index carbohydrates. They must read -- DR. MICKEY ON ATKINS "THE MIAMI-DIET" Americans gained excessive weight when fast food giants covered the States, and when "white foods" (bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, sugar) entered their lives. Because Americans' weight has increased, the death rate has surged. "The Miami-Diet" solves the problem with its healthy "trio-of-foods." You'll eat healthy foods (fishes, chicken, vegetables, fruits), drink your favorite wines (*red* and white), and consume extra virgin olive oil (generously). You will gain better health This book is eclectic. It tells a true and successful story of "The Miami-Diet" and "comments" five diet books. It also refers to two other magnificent books. It is an encyclopedia of knowledge. It's all you need to walk in the maze of diets. The goal of this book is to teach millions of overweight persons how to lose weight and gain better health (longevity). The easy to follow regimen will control the pancreas: (1) will limit insulin secretion and (2) will activate fat-busting glucagon. "Comment" is a legal term appropo to the book's objective. The subject of the comment is the five diet books mentioned in the Cover. To accomplish its goal (e.g., weight loss and great health), the book considers passages from the five books, aspiring to educate the overweight population. In doing so, there are many "critiques" and "comments" followed by attributions. They will induce you to change your eating habits and change your life style. The true story is the author's success on "The Miami-Diet" (and his big mistake). From his experiences you will benefit, you will become an expert dieter (you'll get thin and healthier). There are no recipes. But the author tells you what to eat and not eat. There is a chapter on what to buy (

"The prospect of stopping smoking is scary as hell. I know-I've been there." So opens Escape from Nicotine Country, James Christopher's unique and uplifting guide to quitting smoking without pain or weight gain. A thirty-year smoker, Christopher gave up cigarettes in 1993, after a gradual period of individual withdrawal, exercise, and proper diet. Now he offers his remarkable and simple self-help program to all those who want to kick the habit.

While not weighed down with "just say no" rhetoric, overused shock statistics, or religious undertones, Escape from Nicotine Country goes against the grain of stop-smoking polemics by empowering the individual through motivational chapters. Christopher tells his own story of addiction and success in quitting. At the same time he promotes understanding of nicotine addiction and offers a simple solution to breaking the habit through reduction.

Christopher's program addresses many different types of nicotine addiction, the hunger that haunts those trying to quit, and the need for a healthy routine of exercise. The latter half of the book is an encouraging diary, which allows the reader to record the progress that will lead to a healthier, smoke-free life.

In today's competitive economic environment, knowing your customer has never been more important. Research shows that most companies do not segment their market by lifestyle. Instead, they rely solely on demographic factors to define their customers. This book helps marketers understand how to reach customers from children to tweens and singles to seniors. It demonstrates how such trends as cross-shopping and the blurring of gender roles can be accounted for by one's overall marketing strategy. Yet another consumer group evaluated here is the emerging affluent market. This book is a prerequisite to relationship marketing. It tells the reader how to reach carefully defined and described market segments. Because buyers' behaviors are so important to lifestyle market segmentation strategies, this book demonstrates how such trends as cross-shopping and the blurring of gender roles can be accounted for by one's overall marketing strategy.

Imagine that the very food you eat and the beautiful carpet on your floors start to make you feel violently ill. Your contact lenses cause your eyes to burn and water uncontrollably. Trace amounts of mold on other people's clothing cause you to become unable to hold a thought or get it from your brain to your mouth during an everyday conversation. The life you once knew is gone and you have become a prisoner of unexplainable and severe allergies and sensitivities. In this new life you can no longer shop or visit friends in their homes because there are too many chemicals and fragrances there. You become plagued by one mystery infection after another and no doctor or specialist seems to be able to give you any explanation of what's causing your terrifying symptoms. Depression sets in and becomes your constant companion as you try to cope with the stress of being sick and of struggling to live within your newfound limitations. "Allergic to Life: My Battle for Survival, Courage and Hope" is the story of one woman's journey through a battle to reclaim her life and overcome depression caused by an exposure to toxic mold in her workplace.

Guardian angels often appear most when they are least expected, but more often when and where they are needed most. They remind us that life is good and there are people who care. It was with those sentiments in mind that non-profit Wings for Injured Athletes, Inc. was started and spread its wings in 2011 with the creation of a "Cancer, One Day at a Time" inspirational book.
All of us could use a little motivation at some point in our lives and cancer patients, survivors and caregivers are extremely ingenious when it comes to positive thinking. This "Cancer, One Day at a Time" keepsake book includes insightful, thought provoking and stimulating quotes from cancer survivors, patients and caregivers from around the world. They come from the United States, Australia, Mexico, Sweden, Canada and London. The passages are humorous, entertaining, educational and heartfelt.
This book brings awareness to all forms of cancer. A portion of the funds raised will be donated to a various cancer causes and charities, allowing those who have experienced cancer firsthand to share their struggles, successes, losses and thoughts. There is a great deal of therapy in sharing and when circulated in print, it is enduring and everlasting.
It is true that angels come to us disguised. Wings for Injured Athletes, Inc. hopes that "Cancer, One Day at a Time" keepsake book, is one angel that many will recognize.

'Conjures up a world of pre-internet fun, a compendium of lost outdoor arts with an eclectic list of contributors' The Times THIS IS YOUR MAP TO A MORE ADVENTUROUS, WILDER FUTURE. With contributions from: Bear Grylls on embracing adventure; Ed Stafford on flirting with danger; Sir Chris Hoy on riding bikes; Judy Murray on rainy day kitchen games; Michaela Strachan on creative word games; Gordon Buchanan on toasting marshmallows; Caroline Lucas on protecting the planet; Wayne Bridge on garden football; and many more. The ultimate handbook for raising WILDER, HAPPIER, MUDDIER, MORE RESILIENT kids - whatever the weather and wherever you live. In the last few years parents everywhere have realised how crucial the freedom of the outside world is, not only for their kids' wellbeing, but the whole family's. They've also realised, however, that it's not always that easy. That's where this book comes in. Taking you through different environments and activities to explore, from minibeasts in the garden and pond dipping all the way through to beach Olympics and sea swimming (via rainy days, wild woods and river exploration), there are ideas small and big for all ages that will get them - and you - more engaged and involved with nature, and the wildlife in it.

Osteoporosis, the brittle-bone disease, was long considered one of the inevitable curses of aging. Many of us have watched our grandmothers and mothers gradually become more stooped, more prone to bone fractures. Recent medical evidence indicates that osteoporosis may be prevented if we increase our calcium intake beginning in our late twenties, and prevention is still possible even if we do not start increasing our calcium intake until our forties. For calcium to work most effectively against bone loss it must be taken in specific proportion to other kinds of foods something a simple calcium supplement does nothing to ensure. The Calcium Cookbook shows us how to do just that in two hundred delicious ways. It offers recipes that provide the calcium and other nutrients essential for prolonged well-being, without depending on high-calorie or high-cholesterol foods. Each recipe is carefully designed to maximize the absorption of calcium."

Is death merely the cessation of life? Are our final years simply a wearing out of the body? Are hospitals and funeral homes, the bureaucratic machinery of death, capable of handling the profound spiritual dimension of dying? In The Last Passage, Donald Heinz offers wise answers to these questions in a book that urges us to "recover a death of our own" and to view our final years as a fulfilment, a "last career". Despite the recent spate of books on death and dying, death remains a fact our culture tries desperately to ignore. In other times and in other cultures, preparing for death was seen as an important spiritual task, perhaps the most important task of our lives. Heinz argues that we can reconceive of death, reinvest it with meaning, and save it from becoming a meaningless biological event. Seeking appropriate models for such a reconstruction, Heinz offers a fascinating overview of the many ways death has been envisioned and ritualized throughout human history, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to 15th century Christian ars moriendi--manuals on the art of dying--and from Jean Paul Sartre to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. He also surveys the more recent contributions of psychologists, anthropologists, cultural critics, and death awareness advocates, whose efforts have largely failed to integrate death into a larger human story and the larger human community. Finally, Heinz shows us how we might create rituals through the use of music, visual arts, dance, drama, and language that would enable us to approach death with reverence, as the spiritual consummation of our lives.

The central part of this story is a fascinating account of the trials and tribulations associated with the author s determination to establish a heart transplant programme in Britain. He eventually performed Britain s first successful heart transplant at Papworth Hospital near Cambridge in 1979. At the time there were only four other centres in the world performing heart transplants. However, within a decade over 4,000 patients a year were being transplanted worldwide, and Papworth had become one of the best known hospitals for heart and lung transplantation.

The author s involvement in this work led to professional recognition and the presidency of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Amongst other responsibilities, he became engaged in trying to modify some of the more controversial reforms of the National Health Service being introduced at that time by the Thatcher government. Other honours followed, including a knighthood and seven years as Master of St Catharine s College in Cambridge, which added a new dimension of interest to his life.

The story also covers his early years in South Africa, including his work as a diamond-driller in Rhodesia and then qualification as a mining engineer before deciding to become a doctor. Prior to starting at Guy s Hospital in London, he engaged in mining exploration in Northern Quebec and the Yukon and during the next three years returned to Canada each summer for similar work. His training in cardiac surgery coincided with exciting developments in this new specialty, during which his background in engineering proved helpful.

A theme present throughout Terence English s autobiography is that of Follow Your Star . For him this meant being prepared to change direction if a brighter star seemed to appear on the horizon. This led to several false starts along the way, but most provided valuable and enriching experiences, even if they did not contribute to his eventual career.

Teddi Mervis lost her fight with cancer when she was 12 years old. Beginning with the diagnosis of her brain tumor, the story tells of her three-year battle for life--a struggle she eventually lost. Although Teddi passed away, her memory inspired those who had helped her to deal with her suffering to band together to aid other children who are facing cancer. These people and thousands of others inspired by Teddi's story--from construction workers to college students to bank presidents--helped form an organization whose primary purpose is to make the lives of children as happy and rewarding as possible. The organization, Camp Good Days and Special Times, Inc., has become one of the largest and most successful organizations of its kind in the world. It is credited with breaking down the barriers for children with cancer and creating pioneering new programs. The 2001 Edition carries the story forward from 1990 with new photographs and an afterword. This book serves to teach and guide those who must cope with the devastating ordeal of childhood cancer.

A Match Made in Heaven is a romantic, comedic and spiritual account of the Author, Theresa Wolmart's life after her husband of 27 years walked out on her. She chronicles how her faith in God and her desire to live and enjoy life healed her broken heart. She shares how her loved ones and her daughter fueled her passion to be happy again. Theresa shares how she and her husband, Roy met and their humorous and spirit-filled courtship. Theresa impacts the lives of her readers by encouraging them to pursue God because He is personable and reachable in all of our situations