Eating well doesnt have to break the bank! By learning how to be a savvy shopper, you can make ends meet and replace expensive processed foods with high quality, readily available ingredients. In her new book, award winning reporter and journalist Ellen Jaffe Jones offers a game plan for the budget conscious cook. Jones scoured the shelves of popular supermarkets and big-box stores to calculate how to eat three nutritious, delicious, satisfying meals for no more than 4 a day per person. Ea...

Paleo diets hold a lot of appeal for athletes, people who want to lose weight quickly, and those who prefer to avoid processed foods in favor of eating more naturally. But with their heavy emphasis on meat, paleo cookbooks have had little to offer vegans…until now. Ellen Jaffe Jones—a certified personal trainer, running coach, and the author of Eat Vegan on 4 a Day and Kitchen Divided—speaks to audiences worldwide about how achieving fitness on a plant-based diet saves both money and lives...

Ellen Jaffe Jones and Beverly Lynn Bennett are a dream team when it comes to sharing knowledge on the vegan lifestyle and good food. You'll discover essential strategies for the single vegan cook, including how to set up the kitchen for one, plan exciting meals and menus, shop for fresh produce, choose the right tools and equipment, trim prep time, and save money. Both neophytes and experienced cooks will benefit from the valuable tips for extending the shelf life of produce, determining w...

Ellen Jaffe Jones addresses the heated issues that arise when vegans and meat eaters share the same kitchen. Ellen helps restore harmony and peace with anecdotes and coping ideas gleaned from a network of cooking classes, social media groups, and other vegans. Recipes feature vegan alternatives to conventional dishes typically based on animal products, along with versatile meatless main dishes that nonvegan diners can add meat to or enjoy on the side.

Designed for the average person, Vegan Fitness for Mortals is packed with practical information and achievable programs for both aerobic and weight-bearing exercise and provides enough great tips to motivate even the most avowed couch potato. Acclaimed athlete, trainer, and nutrition consultant Ellen Jaffe Jones describes how to develop basic routines for walking, running, biking, swimming, weight lifting, and yoga. She also explains how and why to incorporate warm-up and cool-down exercis...

Sexual intimacy is an intrinsic part of a healthy lifestyle, but how does what we eat affect what happens between the sheets? Vegan fitness expert Ellen Jaffe Jones and cardiologist Joel Kahn join forces to spotlight the latest research on how a vegan diet can enhance sexual vigor and satisfaction and boost libido for men and women alike. Recent studies have drawn a direct connection between erectile dysfunction and heart disease. Dr. Kahn offers vital information for how to prevent or rev...

Both the regulatory climate and the fiscal market in which mental health care is provided have continued to change since the first edition of Procedure Coding Handbook for Psychiatrists was published in 1993. Now in its fourth edition, this handbook not only outlines how correct coding and documentation are vital to getting paid, but also helps avoid audits from insurers and provides protection against malpractice allegations through knowledge of the coding system. This manual provides ess...

What parents, educators, and health professionals can do to recognize, prevent, and heal childhood trauma, from infancy through adolescence—by the author of Waking the TigerTrauma can result not only from catastrophic events such as abuse, violence, or loss of loved ones, but from natural disasters and everyday incidents like auto accidents, medical procedures, divorce, or even falling off a bicycle. At the core of this book is the understanding of how tra...

How is it that pets are able to travel thousands of miles through unknown territory to reunite with their beloved humans? How can dogs detect cancer with up to a 98 percent accuracy rate, and foresee epileptic or diabetic seizures in their owners? How do animals seem to know an earthquake is coming long before the world's best seismologists?In Animal Wisdom, veterinarian and animal advocate Linda Bender offers a wealth of amazing stories and research-based evidence indicati...

Ocean Countryis an adventure story, a call to action, and a poetic meditation on the state of the seas. But most importantly it is the story of finding true hope in the midst of one of the greatest crises to face humankind, the rapidly degrading state of our environment. After a near-drowning accident in which she was temporarily paralyzed, Liz Cunningham crisscrosses the globe in an effort to understand the threats to our dazzling but endangered oceans. This intimate account char...

"This is much more than a survival story. It is the story of how the scars of a woman can be and are passed through generations. It is about being a woman, a mother, and a daughter."—Gabriela Almeida, Continente"An infinite work."—O Estadão de São PauloA groundbreaking use of storytelling to bear witness to the Holocaust features three generations of women's own voices—Liwia's diary written upon liberation from Auschwitz; daughter Noemi Jaffe exploring the...

Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words.Some were widowed young, while others were married for decades. Some cared for their late partners through long terminal illnesses, while others lost their partners suddenly. Some had male partners, while others had female partners. Yet ea...