Maintain healthy blood pressure with timeless wisdom and new breakthroughs in prevention and treatment

High Blood Pressure For Dummies explains all you need to know about blood pressure--and what to do when it gets too high. High blood pressure can lead to serious complications, but with lifestyle changes and medication, it's easily treatable. This jargon-free, compassionate book walks you through the necessary changes to help lower blood pressure and live a healthy life. You'll be well equipped to determine if you're at risk and consider the medical consequences of hypertension. From there, develop a successful treatment plan and choose the right foods for you. With this Dummies guide, you can learn to prioritize you and your health.

• Learn what hypertension is, what causes it, and how it can be prevented and treated
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This new edition of High Blood Pressure For Dummies is great for people with high blood pressure, their caregivers, and anyone with a family history who wants to better understand the condition.

Defector in Paradise is the second novel in the Owen Roberts' trilogy. The year is 2024, and a Russian agent is just a step away from making it to the White House. Tragic circumstances force Owen to team with a cagey Soviet defector to expose one of the Cold War's last and biggest secrets: the identity of a high-level mole operating within the US government.

This is not the same Owen we read about in The Clandestine Education of Owen Roberts. It is twenty years later, and he is no longer the young, idealistic intelligence officer he once was. He wants to be, but life in the world of espionage is beginning to wear on him. His career is going nowhere, and once again he finds himself fighting against invisible forces he cannot control while he questions his own moral code.

As Owen walks down a violent path of death and destruction, he realizes that he has become the last man standing between the mole and the White House. What follows is a high stakes game of cat and mouse fought at the highest levels of the intelligence community, but the question is: who's the cat and who is the mouse?

At its heart, Defector in Paradise is a novel about the unimaginable manipulation of American politics, and the actions of those who refuse to believe truths they cannot accept. Owen Roberts teaches us once again that the truth can set you free, but sometimes it's better just not to know. The truth, after all, is the most dangerous weapon of all.

The easy way to take charge of your adrenal health

Despite their small size, the adrenal glands play an important role in the body, producing numerous hormones that impact our development and growth, affect our ability to deal with stress, and help to regulate kidney function. In Adrenal Fatigue For Dummies, you'll find clear self-evaluations and treatment guidelines that will empower you to take charge of your adrenal health through nutrition, vitamins, herbs, bioidentical adrenal hormone supplementation, and self-care practices.

Adrenal fatigue is in essence a tired out adrenal gland that is not able to support the body the way that it should. The effects can be far-reaching and affect the quality of one's daily life. It can affect the immune system, cause inflammation, decrease sex drive, and inhibit the ability to get up in the morning. But now there's hope!

• The 4-1-1 on the structure and function of the adrenal gland
• Linking inflammation and adrenal fatigue
• Connecting food allergy and adrenal issues
• How to test for adrenal fatigue
• Information on eating patterns for all-day energy and improved concentration
• Dealing with other medical conditions and adrenal fatigue
• Relaxation tips to reduce stress

Adrenal Fatigue For Dummies helps those suffering from this debilitating illness reclaim their lives by addressing the delicate balance among the adrenal glands--which can make the day-to-day difference between feeling awful and feeling good.

The Iraq War is a raging storm of blood and violence, the Service is fighting for its survival on and off the battlefield, and an Iranian diplomat in Paris reaches out to a retired spy. Enter Owen Roberts, a young, idealistic spy who joins the Service after 9/11 to make a difference. After a tour in Baghdad, he is assigned to an off-the-books operation that plans to steal the Iranian diplomat from underneath the Agency's nose and bring glory to the Service.

During his first year on the street, Owen gets in over his head as he tries to recruit the hard-drinking Iranian lothario and capture a Hezbollah terrorist. It's a tough task for a young officer, where things never work out how they should, and where innocence is always the first thing to go. Owen discovers that the Schoolhouse has taught him how to be a spy, but not about the hard lessons that come afterward. It is the street that provides the answers to the big lessons in life: lessons about loyalty, betrayal, and courage, and about friends who are enemies and enemies who are friends.

In Richard Snyder's debut spy thriller, we learn that The Clandestine Education of Owen Roberts is a tale of self-discovery. But it's more than just one man's story; it's about the grand arc of espionage, how history never lets go of the present, how the injustices and demons of the past are always with us, lurking beneath the surface, ready to pull us down into the darkness. Along the way, we see Owen's humor, cynicism, and boyish wonderment as he fights in the bare-knuckled arena of espionage. Owen and his comrades and enemies operate in a sphere of deceit and self-delusion, creating paths of destruction wherever they go. No one is ever safe in this world.

Score your highest in a medical dosage calculations course

A recent shortage of nurses in a society with an aging population has triggered the demand for students to enter the field of medical study. A dosage calculations course is required for most students earning an applied science degree in nursing, pharmacology, or paramedic programs.

Medical Dosage Calculations For Dummies tracks a typical dosage calculations course and provides helpful content in an approachable and easy-to-understand format. Plus, you'll get examples of the various calculations made to determine the appropriate quantity of drug or solution that should be administered to patients.

• Calculating drug dosages utilizing ratio-proportion, formula, and dimensional analysis
• Systems of measurement, including metric and apothecary and other conversion equivalents for a global audience
• The ins and outs of the charting systems for MAR (Medicine Administration Records)

If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of students aspiring to enter the medical field, Medical Dosage Calculations For Dummies is your ticket for scoring your highest on exams.

During the past two decades, virtually all developing countries shifted from state-led to market-oriented neoliberal economic policies. This book analyzes fresh evidence from Southern Mexico about the effects of this global wave of policy reforms. The evidence challenges the widely held view that these reforms have set countries on a convergent path toward unregulated markets. The analysis shows that free-market reforms, rather than unleashing market forces, trigger the construction of different types of new regulatory institutions with contrasting consequences for economic efficiency and social justice.

For a good number of years my family has been urging me to commit to paper a record of my experience of paralysis. There is both sorrow and joy. It is all true, to the best of my memory. It occurred in August-September, 1977 when I was 41 years old. My wife, Darlene, and I lived in southwestern Michigan with six children. Our first born, Steve, was going off to college. Our youngest, Ruthie, was nearly seven. I was pastoring a church when the problem arose. I was out of the pulpit until November when I could stand long enough to preach a message. I give thanks to my wife for her faithful encouragement and substitution for my responsibilities in our home. I also want to express my great appreciation to my second son, Daniel, for his repeated driving to transport me to the hospitals and stay with his mother to protect and comfort her during those early days of my illness. Becky, my daughter, made a big contribution in editing my manuscript. I am aware that possibly hundreds of people across the country, especially in Michigan and Iowa, took my name before the Lord. And, finally, I give praise to God for His mercy and grace in restoring my health when He allows so many others to go through similar problems for a lifetime without relief.

During the past two decades, virtually all developing countries shifted from state-led to market-oriented neoliberal economic policies. This book analyzes fresh evidence from Southern Mexico about the effects of this global wave of policy reforms. The evidence challenges the widely held view that these reforms have set countries on a convergent path toward unregulated markets. The analysis shows that free-market reforms, rather than unleashing market forces, trigger the construction of different types of new regulatory institutions with contrasting consequences for economic efficiency and social justice.