“Trust me; I’m a doctor” no longer has the credibility it once did. Nutritional therapy is often overlooked in medical school, and the information provided to physicians is often outdated. Advice to avoid healthy fats and stay out of the sun has been proven to be detrimental to longevity and wreak havoc on your system, and yet many doctors still regularly espouse this “wisdom.” What kind of advice is your doctor giving you? Is it possible you’re being misled? Dr. Ken Berry is here to dispe...

Updated and Expanded Edition of the Bestselling Book Common Sense Labs! Features the latest medical research and insights, offering a more comprehensive explanation of blood tests. Blood tests are one of the most effective and accessible tools for monitoring your health, but in today’s fast-paced healthcare system, patients often leave the doctor’s office with little understanding of which tests to request, why they’re important, or how to interpret the results. Doctors, often pressed for ...

A thriller that explodes along the border between Mexico and Texas. The Garcia family is living out the American Dream, serving their country, working hard, and spending as much time as possible together as a family. What appears to be an ideal location to retire and call home, suddenly finds itself immersed in a war that no one ever saw coming. And just a few months later, the entire family is fighting for its life. This book grabs you from the start and by the end you'll be cheering for ...

Underneath its gulf coastal charm, the tourist town of Oceanport holds secrets that nobody dares talk about. Children avoid the Roe Mansion, even if it means going out of their way. Their parents and grandparents have long told them the old Roe Mansion is haunted. After years of being alone, Arla Roe, the wealthy old widow that lives there, is childless and the last of her rice dynasty family line. She is thought by many to be a bit crazy. Is all that just old wives tales? Will anyone dare...

Secure the key science skills and knowledge students need to succeed in the new KS3 Science curriculum with Pupil Book 3.Engage students of all levels in KS3 Science with clearly differentiated material.Introduce fundamental ideas in the blue section, develop them in the orange section and extend them in the purple section.Embed progression with links to prior learning to help students build on what they already know.Put science into context with...

In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly romantic notion. Yet nothing is more crucial to the future of American democracy than to develop some way of spurring greater citizen participation. In this important book, Jeffrey Berry, Ken Portney, and Ken Thompson examine cities that have created systems of neighborhood government and incorporated citizens in public policymaking. Through careful research and analysis, the aut...

The works of Poe were dark and often disturbing. From dismembered corpses, rivals bricked behind cellar walls, murders in back alleys, laments for lost loves, obsessions that drive men - and women! - to madness, his stories have had a profound impact on both the horror and mystery genres to this day.In Quoth the Raven, we invite you to answer the call of the raven and revisit Poe's work, re-imagined for the twenty-first century. Here, the lover of mystery and Gothic horror will fin...

"We have given up to the agribusiness corporations a crucial part of our responsibility as human beings and we must now think of ways to take it back."- Wendell Berry, from the ForewordIn this eye-opening book, Sierra Club Director Ken Midkiff exposes the dangers posed by corporate control of agriculture (agribusiness)--to our health, and to the health of the nation's economy, security, and the environment.The Meat You Eat explores the current practices of the...

An episode from Rod Serling’s The Zero Hour radio program entitled “The Heir Hunters” and starring Edgar Bergen, Joanne Worley, and Ken Berry.

A father's impossible quest to return to his family. A son's magical journey. A single mother's heroic efforts to protect her son. And fate's sleight of hand bringing together baseball's past legends and today's major league stars in a game for the ages.

How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?Climate Politics and the Power of Religion is an edited collection that explores the diverse ways that religion shapes climate politics at the local, national, and international levels. Drawing on case studies from across the globe, it stands at the intersection of religious studies, environment policy, and global politics.From small island nations confronting sea-level rise...

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at onc...