Fixing Everything provides citizens with a blueprint to retake control of the federal government and reassert American leadership in a world gone astray. This integrated solution will limit government spending to a reasonable percentage of GDP; close agencies responsible for 60% of government spending; dramatically simplify taxes; reduce, quantify, and manage entitlement commitments; present a new form of free market healthcare organization; confront pension liabilities; encourage legal immigration, while discouraging illegal immigration; contain legal awards and costs, while encouraging early settlement; reduce crime; and put an end to the "nanny" state. Citizens will assume personal and financial responsibility for their actions and well-being. A new form of safety-net will avoid mal-incentives, while encouraging effort and initiative.

Based on Dr. Herb Robinson's lifetime of facilitating human development and reconciliation for over thirty-five years served as a counselor for couples in conflict and their families; a college teacher in Philosophy, Art History, and Music History; has over twenty years directing programs for court mandated men arrested for domestic violence, Through the Eyes of Wounded Men examines the masculinity stereotype throughout history from hunting and gathering societies, to potential gender power-sharing in America. It traces the differences in male/female psychological and social development-years one to three. Six men's life stories reveal their interior viewpoints of courting an intimate partner, living together, conflict, physical abuse, arrests, jail and outcomes of treatment. The study proposes a treatment model for dealing with male internal psychological constructs regarding their difficulty in differentiating affect.

The age of forty is a wonderful time of life. However, it can be filled with many physical and emotional changes and potential health concerns. Despite the challenges you may face, it is possible to take steps to enhance your wellness. This book discusses the essential principles of health and wellness that will dramatically improve your physical and emotional well-being. She shares: how to remain optimistic about the years to come; effective ways to prepare yourself for wellness; how to meet your nutritional needs as a woman over forty; advice about how to stay fit, including an illustrated body-weight workout and a stretching routine; strategies to help you cope with hormonal changes; tips to help you achieve restorative and rejuvenating sleep; and simple techniques to reduce the stress in your life. This book communicates the importance of eating well, staying active, and living healthy. It not only educates, but it encourages women over forty to live healthier, happier lives.

The author takes the reader on an incredible, tear jerking, journey of a misguided little girl so consumed with self- hate, misinformation, and distrust that it catapulted her into a life filled with unbelievable challenges. Repeated rejections, major disappointments and misunderstandings contributed to distrust of everyone she would encounter throughout her life, including her family. In her search for love, fulfillment and acceptance, the author depicts a life turned upside down through a confusing series of curves and detours destined to destroy her and anyone in her path, until she found the right recipe for healing which comes with "forgiveness of self and others." Forgiveness is presented as the key to putting the past in perspective, finding a way to emerge from the depths of despair, then, shifting the focus to overcoming addictions, moving forward, and living a healthy, God directed, victorious life. This book, an inspirational, lifeline for anyone trying to find themselves, quickly captures and holds the reader's attention. The author demonstrates ways for individuals to conquer their fears and fight, perhaps for the first time in their lives for well-deserved, overdue new beginnings. The book reminds us to let, no man or woman hinder us from achieving our ultimate goal(s).

A detailed exploration of leadership problems that can develop during public health crises such as the anthrax attacks, SARS, and Mad Cow disease. An imminent threat to the public health, such as the swine flu outbreak, is no time for a muddled chain of command and contradictory decision making. Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises explores the crucial relationships between political leaders, public health officials, journalists, and others to see why leadership confusion develops. Who's In Charge? begins by looking at the overarching issues of leadership, public health administration, and the threats of bioterrorism. It then examines five recent emergencies-the 2001 anthrax attacks and 1993 cryptosporidium outbreak in the United States, the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto, the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease crisis, and the decade-long battle against Mad Cow Disease in the U.K. A perfect text for schools in public health, or as a reference for elected officials at every level of government, the book shows how each event developed step-by-step to pinpoint specific leadership issues. Engaging and absorbing, the work presents official reports, medical literature, first-person accounts from officials and journalists, and discussions of the role of law enforcement and the military during health care emergencies. First-person accounts from leaders involved in the actual crises, as well as leading experts, scientists, and others Primary documents including excerpts from official reports and the medical literature Chronologies of five recent public health emergencies A comprehensive index organized by disease and by individuals involved in emergency response

After years of not paying attention to the honest voices inside you, you may not remember how to listen to your intuition. This disconnection may have caused you to feel worn down or depressed, weakened, and powerless, and left your immune systems vulnerable and open to illness. In "Empowered Healer, " author Dr. Susan Allison helps you relearn how to access and listen to your inner guidance and become empowered to take action to heal yourself completely-both physically and emotionally.

Allison has spent more than twenty years developing a formula to help you: Believe in yourself and stop blocking your healing
Fill with power and create a team to support you
Tune into and listen to your physical symptoms
Find the emotional causes of your distress
Release physical and emotional pain
Create and live the life of your dreams

Using anecdotes and examples from her personal experiences as a healer, Allison communicates the keys to believing in your own power to restore yourself to wholeness. A powerhouse of wisdom, "Empowered Healer" helps you heal from the inside out to create greater happiness in every area of your life.

Nutrition addresses the most hotly debated topics in the news today: obesity, food safety, irradiation, and vegetarianism and also describes the currently accepted principles of good nutrition for men, women, and children. Despite the abundance of advice on food and diet, more Americans are obese than ever before, diabetes rates are skyrocketing, and more foods are recalled due to contamination. It is high-time for non-biased answers to the question of what is healthy and safe to eat. Nutrition provides those answers. The book explains basic guidelines for healthy eating, along with the government's role in nutrition. It examines the issues of food safety and technology and the debates about genetically modified foods, organic foods, and vegetarian dining. Food bans, such as those on transfats are discussed, as are vitamins and supplements. After tracing the history of the study of nutrition and identifying principal researchers, the book examines seven major controversies in nutrition today. This basic guide to healthy eating will give both students and adults the tools they need to choose a diet that is healthy and safe.

Human Nutrition: From Molecular Biology to Everyday Life presents an integrated approach on how nutrients and non-nutrients affect cellular biochemistry, and how, in turn, they shape human physiology. Over the course of 14 chapters, and covering topics ranging from the importance of diet on health to nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, this book debunks myths and provides readers with the knowledge they need to critically interpret and navigate nutrition information. Intended for nutritionists, dieticians, pharmacists, public health professionals, and others working in related fields, this book provides a comprehensive source on advances in human nutrition.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The number of men who "keep fit" in this country has been surprisingly few, while the number of those who have made good resolutions about keeping fit is astoni-shingly large. Reflection upon this fact has convinced the writer that the reason for this state of affairs lies partly in our inability to visualize the conditions and our failure to impress upon all men the necessity of physical exercise. Still more, however, does it rest upon our failure to make a scientific study of reducing all the variety of proposals to some standard of exceeding simplicity. Present systems have not produced results, no matter what the reason. Hence this book with its review of the situation and its final practical conclusions.

What is Violent Communication? If "violent" means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who's "good/bad" or what's "right/wrong" with people—could indeed be called "violent communication." What is Nonviolent Communication? Nonviolent Communication is the integration of four things: consciousness, language, communication, and means of influence. Nonviolent Communication serves our desire to increase our ability to live with choice, meaning, and connection, connect empathically with self and others to have more satisfying relationships, and to share resources so everyone is able to benefit. 5,000,000 COPIAS VENDIDAS EN TODO EL MUNDO • TRADUCIDO A MAS DE 35 IDIOMAS ¿QuÉ es la comunicaciÓn violenta? Si ser "violento" significa actuar de forma que lastima o daÑa, una buena parte de nuestra comunicaciÓn – cuando incluye juzgar a otros, hacer bullying, tener prejuicios raciales, echar la culpa, acusar, discriminar, hablar sin escuchar, criticar a otros o a nosotros mismos, insultar, reaccionar cuando tenemos rabia, usar retÓrica polÍtica, estar a la defensiva o juzgar a otros de "buenos / malos" o de actuar "bien / mal" – podrÍa en efecto llamarse "comunicaciÓn violenta". ¿QuÉ es la ComunicaciÓn No Violenta? La ComunicaciÓn No Violenta es la integraciÓn de cuatro aspectos: • Consciencia: una serie de principios que ayudan a vivir desde la compasiÓn, la colaboraciÓn, la valentÍa y la autenticidad. • Lenguaje: entender cÓmo las palabras contribuyen a crear conexiÓn o distancia. • ComunicaciÓn: saber cÓmo pedir lo que queremos, cÓmo escuchar a otros incluso cuando no estamos de acuerdo y cÓmo orientarnos hacia soluciones que funcionen para todos. • Medios de influencia: compartir el "poder con otros" en ve

When the Great Depression of the 1930's forces the narrator's family to give up their conventional home in a respectable neighborhood and move to a flat on the wrong side of the tracks, for her parents it is a shameful descent into a temporary Hell; for their eleven-year-old daughter, the fall from financial grace drops her into a fascinating place where the Hart family, who rent the other half of the flat, speak candidly about life, love, and sex. The narrator immediately becomes Best Friends with Valentine Hart. The girls are drawn together by a mysterious magnet which they neither question nor doubt. Other than for being the same age and approaching the tremulous threshold between childhood and adolescence, their only common denominator is their love for the movies and their tendency to endow real life with the shining aura that the silver screen gives their romanced-drenched souls. The narrator's mother takes a dim view of the entire Hart family, and repeatedly cautions her not to get too close to them. She may as well have been speaking to the wind. The narrator is delighted when her mother decides it is her duty to use her skill in writing Gregg shorthand to fatten the family coffers and goes to work for a lawyer. With her mother absent all day, the narrator is free to experience the forbidden pleasure of living on the wild side of life. Lacey (Valentine's lively, lusty, beautiful mother) divides society into three categories: "People Just Like Us,"; those who" Wouldn't Say Shit If They Had A Mouthful,"; and the "High-Muckety-Mucks." The narrator is honored to be accepted by the Harts as "People Just Like Us," who along with Lacey include Big Hart whose tough workdays are softenedin Lacey's loving arms; Valentine's twin brother, Black, who will commit any sin but never tell a lie, a boy with a tender side which only the narrator discovers when he teaches her about sex in an alleyway; and little Broken, whose twisted body and mixed-up brain is a result of Lacey's foiled attempt to abort him. To the narrator, the difference between her respectable old world and her exciting new one can be summed up quite simply: she had moved out of the world of breasts and into the world of tits. As summer rolls around, Lacey forces Valentine to add to the family's small income by working for a family of former "High Muckety-Mucks," the Greys of Sycamore Lane. Mr. Grey is a handsome, charming man whose angry, bitter wife works in the five-and-dime. While Valentine baby-sits their young son, she and the narrator become aware of Mr. Grey's love affair with his child-like adoring young neighbor whose alcoholic long-distance truck driver beats her when he is home. The two young girls endow the forbidden love with the magical aura they view in their frequent visits to the local movie theatre. In their fierce loyalty and misconception of adult passion, they are blinded to the truth until, too late; they witness the reality of love and hate, betrayal and death, and become innocent co-conspirators in a terrible crime which will haunt them forever.

Thoughts from Heavy Leavy: Super Strength/Unlimited Power begins training under conditions where we receive an ounce or two of additional fabricated gravitational force each day; Place your body in a perpetual daily anticipation accommodation mode; The very need or desire to have gains and increases manifested as quickly as possible is actually one of the things that keep us from the very development we seek; The magnification and aligning assemblage of these three potentials (body, mind, and spirit) positions us within grasp of unlimited power. boundaries obstructing perpetual, unceasing physical prowess have been decimated; The time has come when men and women everywhere will begin comfortably adapting to a more difficult mock environment; thus intensifying the ease, comfort, and enjoyment of their lives in reality; It doesn't matter what you're game is; you can do it better, with amplified vigour, strength, power, endurance, comfort, grace, enjoying enhanced safety, and with greater ease having constructed a foundation of super strength; It's like working out harder and harder without having to work out harder and harder.

Remove the stigma of aging and grow young without plastic surgery; learn how to meditate and rejuvenate; assimilate the flux of Mother Nature and enrich your soul with spiritual energies.

"This book is a must have for all stages of your pregnancy. Thanks to "Bellie Fit Basics," I had a great pregnancy and 4 hour delivery. I will not have another child with out it "
-Aretha Hill, Three time Olympian

"I can't say enough about what this information did for me during my pregnancies. "Bellie Fit Basics" provided a wealth of knowledge for me and my patients."
-Nolana Newton, Doctor of Physical Therapy

"Bellie Fit Basics "offers tips on weight management, fitness, and exercise for women who want to improve their pregnancy and post-baby recovery.

Monique Hollowell, a former intercollegiate athlete with expertise in fitness programming, combines both her professional life and personal pregnancy experiences in order to share the details of the specialized fitness and nutrition program she created to promote the kind of lifestyle that allows pregnant women to achieve healthy weight gain, reduced complications, and ease of vaginal delivery with minimal medication. Hollowell provides insight into the issues that pregnant women face as well as simple and realistic solutions that will guide women through prenatal and postnatal care. She helps women understand the benefits of exercise and mindful eating by providing valuable information on:

Preparing for changes to the body during pregnancy
Planning and creating nutritious meals
Structuring cardio, flexibility, and resistance training programs
Losing baby weight quickly and effectively

"Bellie Fit Basics" provides the practical advice that will help women not only enjoy pregnancy, but also achieve a fit lifestyle and body after the baby is born