The liver is one of the busiest and most important organs in your body. When it functions properly, it detoxifies harmful substances and filters impurities, stores energy, processes carbohydrates, and breaks down fats. To help you digest your food, a yellowish brown fluid in the gallbladder is discharged to break down fats and lipids in the intestines. Unfortunately, a common, mild disorder may take place causing this yellowish-brown pigment in the bile to increase in high levels. This pig...

Richard Knight always wanted a family, and when he finally got married, he was sure that's what he would get. That is, until his wife makes a decision to abort their child without his knowledge and then finds sole consolation in her female friend. Disappointed and heartbroken, Richard, an attorney, fights not only for his rights but for those of men like him, who feel robbed by a woman's decision to choose. As he struggles to reclaim what he feels was owed to him, he discovers that he may ...

This book aims to be a single point of reference for advances in the care of geriatric populations across medical and surgical specialties. The aging population is a unique demographic with its own health challenges. Geriatricians are specifically trained to address these challenges but few medical students or residents enter geriatrics, even as the demand for geriatric expertise increases. The practices of many medical and surgical specialists are dominated by older patients who may thems...

In our own minds, we believe that we are perfect. The reality is: we are. Until we make that one tainted decision against wisdom that moves us from perfection to imperfection. This applies to all of us. Most of us are familiar with the story of that one angel who got in trouble for doing something bad, right? But what about the angel that gets in trouble for doing something good? Youve been there; your good intentions were mistaken for something totally contrary to what you set out to do? ...

In 1878, the three Muldie brother-ages eleven, eight, and three-and their father travel from Kentucky to Nicodemus, Kansas. Living in a dugout like other black pioneer families, they endure hunger and hardships before spring comes. Ed Muldie leaves the boys to take care of each other while he looks for a better homestead further west. They hunt, fish, and stay in the dugout until their father's letter arrives months later with a rough map. Following the Solomon River, they make the 150-mil...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that won’t let go, and one woman’s attempt to put her life back together after everything falls apartIn her bestselling memoir North of Normal*,* Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood—her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her st...

Learn to improve your assessment, investigation, and management of physical health conditions in people with severe mental illnessThe Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical Health Conditions in Psychiatry offers psychiatric and general practitioners an evidence-based and practical guide for the appropriate assessment, investigation, and management of common physical health conditions seen in people with severe mental illness. Written by a renowned team ...

What do you do when your marriage is so unhappy that you begin to fantasize about your husband's funeral? That's how bad it got for Alisa Bowman. . . So she launched a last-ditch effort to save her marriage. Project: Happily Ever After is her fearlessly honest and humorous account of how she went from being a "divorce daydreamer" to renewing her wedding vows -- and all of the steps in between.From bikini waxes to erotica, romance instruction manuals to second honeymoons, th...

Pain Assessment and Pharmacologic Management, by highly renowned authors Chris Pasero and Margo McCaffery, is destined to become the definitive resource in pain management in adults. It provides numerous reproducible tables, boxes, and figures that can be used in clinical practice, and emphasizes the benefits of a multimodal analgesic approach throughout. In addition, Patient Medication Information forms for the most commonly used medications in each analgesic group can be copied and given...

**Enjoy this warm Amish romance from bestselling author Vannetta ChapmanCan an Amish widow heal this bachelor’s heart?**After tragedy claimed her husband’s life and her son’s ability to walk, Hannah King doesn’t want a new man. She has her family, a home and mounting debts. Scarred Amish bachelor Jacob Schrock offers Hannah the job she desperately needs. But while Hannah helps Jacob resolve his accounting issues, can she and her little boy also heal his wounded heart?

“Powerful.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh AirNamed a best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, and BookPageDavid Federman has never felt appreciated. An academically gifted yet painfully forgettable member of his New Jersey high school class, the withdrawn, mild-mannered freshman arrives at Harvard fully expecting to be embraced by a new tribe of high-achieving peers. Initially, however, his social prospects ...

On a random night out with her girlfriends, Taye experiences something she hasn’t before.Instant attraction.Between vodkas and dance moves she probably shouldn’t be doing in public, never mind on a podium, she meets him.She’s never had a one night stand before, and to have one is on her list of things to experience in her life.Not only that, but the chemistry is off the charts.Decision made.She’s going home with this man, and she’s not going ...