Great Health

For today’s teen, being able to communicate clearly in front of an audience is essential. From class presentations to interviews to online videos, an engaging talk can not only inspire and electrify a room, it can change people’s minds, and even change the world. Thank You for Coming to My TED Talk is the definitive guide to public speaking for a teen audience. Drawing from a teen’s day-to-day world - school, extracurriculars, online videos, college admissions procedures, bat and bar mitzvahs, debates, and more - head of TED Chris Anderson shares proven techniques.

Ever since cancer invaded his adoptive mother’s life, Brett feels like he’s losing everything, most of all control. To cope, Brett fuels all of his anxieties into epic fantasies, including his intergalactic Kid Condor comic book series, which features food constellations and characters not unlike those in his own life. But lately Brett’s grip on reality has started to lose its hold. The fictions he’s been telling himself—about his unattractive body, the feeling that he’s a burden to his best friend, that he’s too messed up to be loved—have consumed him completely.

Plague and pestilence have both fascinated and terrified humanity from the very beginning. Societies and individuals have struggled to make sense of them, and more importantly, they’ve often struggled to avoid them. Before the scientific age, people had no knowledge of the microbiological agents - unseen bacteria and viruses - which afflicted them, and thus, the maladies were often ascribed to wrathful supernatural forces.

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in 19th-century Britain. It argues that it was in the 19th century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.

Losing weight has often become a losing battle for most people. It’s easy to come up with the decision to live healthier, but the difficult part is to stick to that decision. Does this sound like you? do you feel as if you lack the drive to stick to your meal plan and exercise regimen? Then this book is for you!

¿Estás cansado de recurrir a medicamentos tóxicos que pueden ser perjudicial para tu salud? Hoy en día la mayoría de las personas dependen de la medicina convencional para curarse, centrándose más en tratar los síntomas y menos en solucionar la causa raíz del problema. Pero sabes que existe una alternativa más eficaz y natural sin necesidad de recurrir a medicamentos químicos que puedan tener un efecto secundario.

Great sexual confidence is one of your most powerful assets. Having it will make you feel secure, strong - and sexy. With this audiobook by Debs de Vries, one of the UK's top self-confidence teachers, you'll learn to express your needs and desires in ways that respect and protect you - and others. Debs will show you how to learn the vital skills of thoughtful inquiry so you avoid 'crash and burn' relationships - and you'll also get the low-down on how to nurture yourself to enjoy your unique sensuality.

Una cosa es llegar a ser viejo y otra muy distinta llegar a ser grande. Nuestras acciones de hoy determinan la calidad de nuestra vida futura. ¿Cómo podemos prepararnos en los aspectos físico, económico, psicológico y espiritual? En este libro encontrarás una guía para ayudarte a que hoy o mañana digas con orgullo: ¡Soy grande!

Have you ever imagined you could eat a deliciously fat dish, feel energetic, and at the same time lose weight? This can’t be real, right? But it is! The Keto diet may be the most amazing discovery in recent years. Based upon the scientific knowledge about the process of ketosis, this low-carb diet will improve your cholesterol level and blood pressure, boost weight loss, and reduce appetite. It’s really the solution we’ve been waiting for.

Abundance. Such a powerful, evocative word. It conjures up images of opulence, riches, and of plenty - all crowned with a spirit of benevolent generosity. It's a word that resonates with the promise of unbounded positive energy. The seven secrets will guide you through the process of discovering how much better your life can be.

La meditación es una técnica milenaria que ha sido utilizada durante generaciones con múltiples beneficios. Fuente de salud y bienestar, sus efectos positivos han sido científicamente comprobados: ayuda a mejorar la memoria e incluso desarrolla nuestro cociente intelectual. En este audiolibro Ramiro Calle, uno de los mayores expertos en yoga y técnicas de meditación, nos propone un detallado estudio de dichas enseñanzas y sus diversas vertientes.

Learn the simple and low-calorie way to enjoy a great life with diabetes! It isn’t unusual for people to think that diabetic diets and even recipes can be quite bland. However, this isn’t necessarily true, for there are many different diabetes-friendly recipes that meet all of the required dietary guidelines when it comes to people who have this illness. The best part would be the fact that these are also taste-approved by many people, ensuring that not only are these recipes healthy, they are also delicious.

America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of the American family. In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic climate, showing how it has come about, what it is doing to our families, and how we can fight back.

When the SARS virus broke out in China in January 2003, Karl Taro Greenfeld was the editor of Time Asia in Hong Kong, just a few miles from the epicenter of the outbreak. After vague, initial reports of terrified Chinese boiling vinegar to "purify" the air, Greenfeld and his staff soon found themselves immersed in the story of a lifetime. Deftly tracking a mysterious viral killer, China Syndrome takes listeners on a gripping ride that blows through the Chinese government's effort to cover up the disease and sounds a clarion call warning of a catastrophe to come.

El arma más fuerte contra la pandemia es la verdad. He aquí el relato definitivo de la epidemia de gripe de 1918. Magistral en su amplitud de perspectiva y profundidad de investigación, La gran gripe nos proporciona un modelo preciso y esclarecedor ahora que nos enfrentamos a nuevas pandemias.

El poder de nuestras mentes subconscientes es fuerte. Muchas personas no saben qué hacer con esas fuerzas misteriosas, por lo que en esta guía, puede explorar más qué significan y de dónde provienen. Además, estas cosas están conectadas a la inteligencia emocional, una disciplina y calidad que se ha destacado con mayor frecuencia desde hace poco.

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy.

Twelve-year-old Sara and her brother, Hawk, are told that they are not to bother the man - The Mister - who just moved into the silo apartment on their farm. It doesn’t matter that they know nothing about him and they think they ought to know something. It doesn’t matter that he’s always riding that unicycle around. Mama told them no way, no how are they to bother The Mister unless they want to be in a mess of trouble.

The story of one man who had the guts to lose his gut. This is an audiobook that will finally help an ordinary bloke lose weight. Ever struggled with your weight? Or did you stop struggling years ago and let the pies win? Peter FitzSimons has been there and eaten that. In The Great Aussie Bloke Slim-Down, he will lead you through the fads that failed him, the diets that died fast and left him furious, and the ways his waistline kept the belt industry in business.

A unique tour around the world in search of the great thinkers of our time and their next big ideas. With the world at the threshold of profound changes, the questions become: Where are the philosophers? Where are the great thinkers of today? Where is the next Jefferson, Curie, or Mandela? Which technologies and changes in the nature of life will they harness, embrace, or be inspired by?