Tattooing New York City or Confronting Your Spouses Pornography Problem

Tattooing New York City: Style and Continuity in a Changing Art Form

Author: Michael McCab

This book is an exploration into the unique continuity that exists in New York City between the past and present of the intriguing art form of tattooing. Here the electric tattoo machine was developed, and has had a unique influence in modern tattooing worldwide. The technical and artistic values that first coalesced here during the early 20th century now are intrinsic to the art form. This creative process was pushed underground in the early 1960s when tattooing was banned in New York. After 35 years of marginalization, the city re-legalized tattooing in 1997 in response to the unprecedented surge in public enthusiasm and demand. Today, tattoo artists explore their trade as never before in the five boroughs of New York City; such rapid growth and change has put pressure on an art that continues to emphasize the values formalized over 100 years ago. Hundreds of color photos illustrate this fascinating text, which includes commentary from artists past and present.

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Confronting Your Spouse's Pornography Problem

Author: Rory C Reid

Addressing the modern issue of addiction to Internet pornography, this evaluation guides spouses struggling to find ways to confront this problem in their married lives. Calling on years of counseling experience and clinical study, the authors cover the most concerning issues of this addiction, from understanding the importance of disclosure to reestablishing trust for the success of a long-term marriage. Containing valuable information gathered from experience, research, and the testimonies of clients struggling to overcome these issues, this guide helps couples confront and overcome the hurdles of related activities such as illicit chat rooms, cybersex, and predatory behavior towards minors.

Library Journal

While compulsive viewing of hard-core pornography is a prevalent and relationship-damaging problem, little has been written for those suffering its effects. Licensed therapists Reid and Gray, who specialize in sexually compulsive behavior and addictions, respectively, have developed a guide for partners or spouses wanting to put an end to the pornography issues. The authors frankly and respectfully address the emotional issues involved and help both the addict and the injured spouse set attainable goals and make realistic compromises to restore the relationship. Timely material highly recommended for all libraries. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

First Year Sobriety or New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder

First-Year Sobriety: When All That Changes Is Everything (Harper Sobriety Series, Volume 1)

Author: Guy Kettelhack

The first in a series of three recovery guides for the first three years of sobriety, First-Year Sobriety uses the voices of many women and men who are struggling in the often baffling territory of their first year of sobriety to show that despite their differing experiences, all are united in the process of giving life without alcohol or other drugs a chance.

These are people who are alternately amazed, appalled, delighted, depressed, illuminated, disturbed, or simply thrown by their first days, weeks, and months of sobriety. Kettelhack explores the challenges all seem to face: learning to break through loneliness, isolation, and fear; finding ways to deal with anger, depression, and resentment; and learning how to deal with a new and sometimes overwhelming happiness.

Guy Kettelhack has written seven books on recovery. He is completing a Master's degree in psychoanalysis, and is an analyst-in-training at the Boston and New York Centers for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. A graduate of Middlebury College, Kettelhack has also done graduate work in English literature at Bread Loaf School of English at Oxford University. He lives in New York City.

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New Hope for People with Bipolar Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions

Author: Jan Fawcett

The second edition of this groundbreaking guidebook provides up-to-date treatments and compassionate guidance for anyone affected by bipolar disorder—from the recently diagnosed to chronic sufferers and their families. You’ll receive tips from world-renowned experts—including coauthor Nancy Rosenfeld, herself a bipolar survivor—and learn about vital new options and innovations in bipolar treatment and research, such as:

•New precautions: why some patients can get worse rather than better when taking antidepressant medication

•The inside story on atypical antipsychotic medications, antidepressants, and other medications that affect neurotransmitters

•New genetic research, studies on serotonin, studies into childhood and adolescent bipolar disorder, and results of neuron imaging and neuropsychological testing

•Advice on making instant, effective lifestyle changes, coping with stigma, and deciding whether or not—and how—to disclose your illness to others.

•A guide to the many evolving forms of psychotherapy

Mary Ann Hughes - Library Journal

There are a number of self-help titles for people with bipolar disorder, but this one has several singular features. For starters, it's written by a full-treatment team-a psychiatrist (Fawcett), a psychologist (Bernard Golden), and a patient (Nancy Rosenfeld)-so readers are given a unique combination of expertise and practical tips for daily coping. Medications, forms of therapy, suicide prevention, childhood and adolescent bipolar illness, how to deal with the stigma of mental illness, and information for family members and friends count among the topics covered. This revised edition includes a new chapter titled "Questions and Answers Regarding Bipolar Disorder," updated resources, and new information on medications; the latter alone justifies the price of updating for those libraries that own the first edition (2000). This book, along with E. Fuller Torrey and Michael Knable's Surviving Manic Depression: A Manual on Bipolar Disorder for Patients, Families, and Providers, should be in every public library, no matter how small.

Back to Eden or Light Emerging

Back to Eden

Author: Jethro Kloss

Now in its expanded, updated revised edition, this is the original classic text (with more than 5-million copies sold) that helped create the natural foods industry. It remains today one of the major texts on herbs, natural diet and lifestyle and wholistic health.

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Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing

Author: Barbara Ann Brennan

Barbara Ann Brennan's bestselling first book, Hands of Light, established her as one of the world's most gifted healers and teachers. Now, in her long-awaited new work, she continues her ground-breaking exploration of the human energy field, or auro - the source of our experience of health or illness. Drawing on many new developments in her teaching and practice, she shows how we can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with our most fundamental healing power: the light that emerges from the very center of our humanity

In a unique approach that encourages a cooperative effort among healer, patient, and other health-care providers, Light Emerging explains what the healer perceives visually, audibly, and kinesthetically and how each of us can participate in every stage of the healing process.

Presenting a fascinating range of research, from a new paradigm of healing based on the science of holography to insights into the "hara level" and the "core star", Light Emerging is at the leading edge of healing practice in our time. You'll discover:

How each of us can tap our innate power to heal ourselves and others

A complete patient's guide to working with a healer: How a healer's technique and goals differ from those of a physician or a therapist and how these professinals can best cooperate to facilitate healing

The seven layers of the healing process: how to meet your needs on each level, plus step-by-step instructions for creating your own healing plan

Startling new information about energy interactions in relationships and how to break through negative patterns to new, positive contracts with those closest to us

The crucial connection between healing, creativity, and transcendence

And much more

Complete with case histories, exercises, and both black-and-white and full-color illustrations, Light Emerging offers a new path to healing, wholeness, and expanded consciousness.

Library Journal

Research physicist and founder of her own school, Brennan is a leading New Age healer. She provides here a useful introduction to the scientific background behind her laying-on-of-hands technique. Brennan offers an explanation of her healing perspective and its use in conjunction with medical therapy, the stages and importance of self-care, and healing relationships through auric field interaction and higher spiritual realities. She encourages taking personal responsibility for one's health through a holistic approach and consultation with nontraditional specialists as well as a physician. This self-help book may become a New Age classic. Highly recommended.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction. A New Paradigm: Healing and the Creative Process
Pt. I	An Overview of Healing in Our Time
1	The Gift of Healing	3
2	The Four Dimensions of Your Creative Energies	13
3	A New View of Healing - The Holographic Experience	31
4	Honoring Your Balancing System	43
Pt. II	The Techniques of Healing in Our Time
	Introduction. My Personal Perspective As a Healer	53
5	What Your Healer Will Do That Your Physician or Therapist Will Not	57
6	The Healer-Physician Team	67
Pt. III	The Personal Experience of Healing
	Introduction. Time to Take Care of Yourself	81
7	The Seven Stages of Healing	83
8	The Seven Levels of the Healing Process	91
Pt. IV	Creating a Healing Plan
	Introduction. Creating Your Personal Healing Plan	103
9	The Energies of the Earth As Foundation to Life	105
10	Your Physical Body As Spiritual Habitat	119
11	Healing Yourself with Love by Letting Go of Perfectionism	131
12	Healing Through Self-Awareness	145
Pt. V	Healing and Relationships
	Introduction. The Importance of Relationships to Your Health	159
13	Creating Healthy Relationships	161
14	The Three Types of Auric Field Interactions in Relationships	177
15	Observations of Auric Interactions During Relationships	203
Pt. VI	Healing Through Our Higher Spiritual Realities
	Introduction. Integrating Your Higher Spiritual Aspects and Deeper Dimensions into Your Healing Plan	261
16	The Process of Guidance in Your Life	263
17	Our Intentionality and the Hara Dimension	287
18	Our Divine Core	305
	Appendix A. Healing Session with Richard W.	319
	Appendix B. Types of Health-Care Professionals	325
	Appendix C. The Barbara Brennan School of Healing	329
	Bibliography	331
	Index	335

Theres Still a Person in There or Survival Handbook

There's Still a Person in There: The Complete Guide to Treating and Coping with Alzheimer's

Author: Michael Castleman

Alzheimer's patients sometimes have trouble recognizing their own families. They may become confused, disoriented, or lethargic -- and can even endanger themselves if not closely watched. Faced with the loss of their independence and skills, they may resent having to rely on others. Caring for someone with Alzheimer's is one of the most painful challenges a person can face. It can also be among the most rewarding. And although there is still no cure for this disease, there is, at last, hope.

In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in treating, managing, and preventing Alzheimer's. With information about the latest medical advances, coping strategies for caregivers, and affecting accounts from families dealing with this disease, There's Still a Person in There presents a new understanding of Alzheimer's -- one that is optimistic, courageous, and comforting.

Publishers Weekly

Alzheimer's disease strikes some 250,000 Americans annually, the editors maintain, and an estimated 2.4 million people care for the several million people who have the disease. What makes caring for someone with Alzheimer's particularly difficult is the transformation the victims undergo. As this book evidences through its case histories, people with Alzheimer's become almost unrecognizable: a quiet, shy person will suddenly shout in the middle of the street for hours at a time; a well-groomed woman will forget about showering and insist on wearing the same article of clothing for days at a time. Still, there is some cause for optimism, claim the authors (Castleman wrote Nature's Cures, Naythons is a physician and Gallagher-Thompson cared for her ailing mother). Diagnosis and treatment has changed over the past decade, so that with proper medication and a different approach by caregivers and health-care professionals, Alzheimer's sufferers can be made comfortable, which in turn helps their families. The case studies provide insights into the stages from diagnosis through progression of the disease. Practical information on new drug therapies, alternative treatments, tips on evaluating residential facilities as well as an appendix of other resources make this an indispensable guide for patients, caregivers and anyone who must deal with Alzheimer's disease. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

More than 70 percent of the two to four million people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease are cared for at home by family members, often until the disease's final stages. Numerous books for caregivers have appeared over the last decade, but the need for high-quality publications continues. This book's authors--Castleman, a health journalist, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, a psychologist specializing in caregiving, and Matthew Naythons, a physician turned Internet entrepreneur--have gathered the latest research on the causes, diagnosis, current and potential treatments for Alzheimer's and communicated these findings clearly and intelligibly. Essential information on getting a diagnosis, coping with behavioral changes, medications, and sources of support and assistance is provided. Such material is available elsewhere in greater detail (Nancy Mace and Peter Rabin's The 36-Hour Day, 3d ed., LJ 7/99); however, the authors emphasize the importance of families caring for themselves as well in order to avoid the physical and emotional tolls unrelieved caregiving can take. Stories of culturally and ethnically diverse families coping successfully with Alzheimer's plus an extensive bibliography and resource list increase the volume's reader-friendliness. A valuable addition to Alzheimer's and caregiving collections.--Karen McNally Bensing, Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Staten Island Advance

The book provides a list of early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, detailed discussion of treatments, as well as background on the disease ranging from its history to up-to-date scientific findings about its biology and progression. It also offers practical advice for caregivers, as well as various caregiver options when home care is no longer viable. The book features a series of profiles which demonstrate the human side to the disease and the ways it touches those struggling with it. The profiles vary from caregivers to patients afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.

County Living's Healthy Living

With authority and compassion, they cover everything from the history of the disorder to its warning signs, stages, and treatments-including new pharmaceutical and complementary therapies. The chapters focusing on caregivers will especially helpful for patients' loved ones; other sections present heartfelt profiles of Alzheimer's sufferers (including one man's moving reflections as he become increasingly afflicted with the disease) and their families.

What People Are Saying

Laura N. Gitlin
Laura Gitlin, Ph.D., Director, Community and Homecare Research Division, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director for Research, Senior Health Institute, Jefferson Health System

This absorbing, easy to read book provides comprehensive, up-to-date information about Alzheimer's Disease and ways of coping with its daily challenges. The real-life stories are powerful testimonies that show how patients and families who often lack basic information about the disease and the strategies that can preserve their own well-being.
—Ph.D., Director, Community and Homecare Research Division, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director for Research, Senior Health Institute, Jefferson Health System

William Haley
William Haley, h.D., professor and Chair, Department of Gerontology, University of South Florida

A comprehensive guide to what we know about Alzheimer's disease. The book is unique in providing a helpful review of controversial topics such as the use of alternative therapies and potential ways to prevent Alzheimer's disease. A must read for anyone interested in Alzheimer's disease.

Marcia Ory
Marcia Ory, Ph.D., MPH, Chief, Social Science Research on Aging, Behavioral and Social Research Program, National Institute on Aging

There''s Still a Person in There contains thorough, easily readable information that should inspire hope in patients and their families. Combining the latest in medical knowledge with a case history approach, the authors present what is known about new drugs and other helpful strategies for managing behavioral problems associated with dementia. The information about ethnic elders and people of color and dementia is an especially novel and welcome addition to books on dementia.

Jerome Yesavage
Jerome Yesavage, professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University

An outstanding new guide with the latest insights on coping with the tragedy of dementia in the family.

David Troxel
David Troxel, MPH, coauthor of The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer's Care, and Director, Santa Barbara Alzheimer's Association

There's a Still a Person in There reflects the latest thinking in Alzheimer's disease diagnosis, management and care. This is an important and valuable resource for professionals and families.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: New Insights, New Hope	1
1.	"There's Still a Person in There": Profile of Ann and Julian Davidson	5
2.	Worried About Someone?: The Warning Signs of Alzheimer's	30
3.	Dr. Alzheimer's Strange Discovery: The History, Biology, and Rising Toll of Alzheimer's	34
4.	"We Wanted Very Much to Take Care of Her": Profile of Jorge, Anna, and Rosa Flores	47
5.	Who's at Risk? Important New Insights into Risk Factors for Alzheimer's	65
6.	The Diagnostic Dilemma: Is It Really Alzheimer's?	86
7.	Coping With Alzheimer's Disease: The Experts' Ten-Step Program	101
8.	"Poor Tyrone" Profile of Sandra and Tyrone Worthington	107
9.	The Other Dementias: Some Causes of Dementia May Be Treatable	125
10.	The New Alzheimer's Treatments: The Latest Drugs, Medicinal Herbs, and Other Therapies	145
11.	"It's Nothing to Be Ashamed of, It's a Disease": Profile of Faith Hung and Her Family	176
12.	Before You do Anything Else, Take Care of Yourself: A Lesson for Caregivers	193
13.	A Practical Introduction to Loving Caregiving: How to Care for Someone with Alzheimer's	219
14.	When You Can No Longer Cope With Day-To-Day Caregiving: How to Evaluate, Select, and Pay for Residential Care	260
15.	"Oh, the Joy of Me": Profile of Debbie and Doris Hoffmann	279
16.	The New Science of Staying Mentally Sharp--for Life: The Latest Discoveries About Memory Preservation	296
	Epilogue	318
Appendix I.	Resources	320
Appendix II.	Alzheimers.Com	336
	References and Bibliography	337
	Permissions	361
	Index	363

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Survival Handbook: The Official U. S. Army Guide

Author: Department of the Army

No one knows more about survival than the U.S. Army. Their field manual, encompassing all-climate, all-terrain tactics, is the most authoritative guide to toughing it out on unfamiliar turf. This special edition for civilians is an essential companion for campers and other lovers of the outdoors.