The 4 Day Diet

The VH1 "Celebrity Fit Club" diet expert and author of The Fat Smash Diet and Extreme Fat Smash Diet outlines a lifestyle program designed to retrain the brain to diet naturally, in a guide that covers such topics as setting realistic goals, using visualization exercises, and enjoying food while tracking one's intake.

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The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory

As the pace of technological change accelerates, we are increasingly experiencing a state of information overload. Statistics show that we are interrupted every three minutes during the course of the work day. Multitasking between email, cell-phone, text messages, and four or five websites while listening to an iPod forces the brain to process more and more informaton at greater and greater speeds. And yet the human brain has hardly changed in the last 40,000 years.
Are all these high-tech advances overtaxing our Stone Age brains or is the constant flood of information good for us, giving our brains the daily exercise they seem to crave? In The Overflowing Brain, cognitive scientist Torkel Klingberg takes us on a journey into the limits and possibilities of the brain. He suggests that we should acknowledge and embrace our desire for information and mental challenges, but try to find a balance between demand and capacity. Klingberg explores the cognitive demands, or "complexity," of everyday life and how the brain tries to meet them. He identifies different types of attention, such as stimulus-driven and controlled attention, but focuses chiefly on "working memory," our capacity to keep information in mind for short periods of time. Dr Klingberg asserts that working memory capacity, long thought to be static and hardwired in the brain, can be improved by training, and that the increasing demands on working memory may actually have a constructive effect: as demands on the human brain increase, so does its capacity.
The book ends with a discussion of the future of brain development and how we can best handle information overload in our everyday lives. Klingberg suggests how we might find a balance between demand and capacity and move from feeling overwhelmed to deeply engaged.

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NCLEX-RN New-Format Questions

NCLEX-RN® New-Format Questions, Third Edition provides 350 samples of the five types of alternate-format questions—multiple-response multiple-choice questions, fill-in-the-blank calculation questions, exhibit/chart questions, drag-and-drop questions, and "hot spot" questions—in the style and format used on the current NCLEX-RN® test plan. Each question contains a critical thinking test taking strategy, a reference citation, and the applicable integrative process. The book uses the popular two-column format with questions in the left column and answers with rationales in the right column. This edition also includes two brand-new comprehensive tests, each containing 75 questions.

A companion Website will include all questions in the book plus an NCLEX® tutorial.

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Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating With More Than 75 Recipes

The "Minimalist" columnist outlines an eating plan that is comprised of environmentally responsible choices, in a guide that shares insight into the risks associated with livestock production.

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The Diabetes Answer Book: Practical Answers to More Than 300 Top Questions

An easy-to-read, question-and-answer format provides up-to-date information on diabetes, its diverse symptoms, and treatments, discussing such topics as weight loss, the affects of stress on blood glucose, and lowering the risk of kidney damage.

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The 10 Best Questions for Living With Alzheimer's: The Script You Need to Take Control of Your Health

Outlines a proactive approach to managing Alzheimer's, from knowing what questions to ask and understanding available treatment options to selecting the most appropriate doctors and making decisions in accordance with legal and financial concerns.

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