The latest guidelines for lasting health from the American Diabetes Association

Completely revised and updated, this essential resource for people with diabetes includes new information on the rise of type 2 diabetes in children, metabolic syndrome, and the most recent recommendations for diet and exercise. It also provides up-to-the-minute findings on the new diabetes drugs on the market and updated lab test and clinical practice guidelines from the American Diabetes Association.

After the daughter of medical journalist David Drum was diagnosed with polycystic liver disease, he found precious little basic information available to the general public. Drum completed extensive research to help his daughter understand and manage her disease, then condensed the information into a short, useful, patient-centered book, the first of its type on this rare disease.Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients contains useful information for people with this rare disease involving multiple cysts on the liver. Less than 200,000 people in the United States have been diagnosed with the disease, but its symptoms are treatable.Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients contains useful information on diet, herbs, and lifestyle. It explains how liver cysts form, the risk factors for the disease, the important role of the liver in the body, and available treatments for the most common symptoms including the symptom of pain. There are five major invasive treatments used to treat symptomatic polycystic liver disease and Drum examines the benefits, drawbacks, and possible complications for each.Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients includes information on new drugs of potential benefit, new treatments on the horizon such as hepatic artery embolization, an explanation of liver tests which may be employed by your doctor, links to useful web sites, a glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography of sources.

The Chronic Pain Management Sourcebook is a compassionate and comprehensive look at the management of chronic pain for people with pain and their families. Medical journalist David Drum examines the causes of chronic pain, and lists proven ways to manage it and live with it. Includes practical strategies for coping including meditation, distraction, stress reduction, visualization, social support, hypnosis, dietary changes, exercise and more. This useful and supportive classic look at pain management includes many useful tips for managing chronic benign pain, and a chapter on managing the pain of cancer.

With the United States more divided than at any time since the Civil War, polarization, mistrust, and blame permeate not only the talking points of Washington and the news media, but also most of our conversations and social media feeds. Yet in a nation with so many claiming to be Christian, shouldn't following Jesus, the Prince of Peace, leave a different landscape?

In Peace Talks, pastor and community developer David Drum

• carefully examines how we got into such a mess,
  
• boldly discusses some of Jesus' priorities within both political parties, and
  
• provides practical guidance for turning your painful and frustrating conversations into productive and fulfilling ones.
  

If you're searching for a peace that speaks louder than today's cultural shouting match; if you're curious how those with an affinity for Jesus might offer a better way of listening and talking through deeply-held differences - if you're ready for some good news - join David Drum and discover how Peace Talks.

A ZANY, EPIC, HIGH STAKES ADVENTURE
An incredibly powerful new cell phone signal promises to make a giant corporation fabulously wealthy, but the signal has the potential to kill millions of people. A corporate scientist, Dr. Patricia Maypole, realizes the danger but is fired. She wages a lonely, uphill battle to expose the truth until a strange, down-on-his-luck Afro-American man appears to help her.
As a flying saucer from the planet Excellon approaches Earth, strange things begin to occur. A grad student's secret experiment goes terribly awry. Insect life changes. The corporate president is abducted. A Victoria's Secret model pulls out all the stops to save herself. Neanderthals, a wiccan love triangle, and a ditzy New York Times reporter add to to a wild mix of characters as the flying saucer lands and this zany, fast-moving novel speeds to its surprising climax.
Final Warning is a funny, thought-provoking fable for our times, highlighting the dangers inherit in a powerful new technology gone hog wild.

This epic story of high adventure and obsessive love is the untold story at the heart of Wuthering Heights. After Heathcliff flees Wuthering Heights on a stormy night, he is haunted by memories of his first love, Catherine Earnshaw. He embarks on an epic 18th century odyssey that takes him to Liverpool, on a slave ship to Africa, and then across the treacherous Middle Passage to the brothels and slave markets of Jamaica. Determined to better himself and return to Catherine, he arrives in London. He becomes entangled with the seductive French pickpocket Agnes Sorel who pulls him into a dangerous scheme that might kill him, or make his fortune.

A plot is underway to move the richest family in America's manufacturing plants to China. A crooked lawyer and son-in-law, a beautiful Chinese pro golfer, and a ditzy plastic surgeon have teamed together to convince America's richest man it's time to move the factories out of the U.S. to China. Standing against them is the family's only son, an idealistic interior director and transvestite subject to frequent panic attacks, and American the plant's management and labor unions. The plot comes to a head at a family board meeting in Santa Barbara, with hilarious fallout for all the players involved.