Did you Know that the Mediterranean diet is the best kind of diet plan for pregnancy?According to research, eating a Mediterranean-style diet while pregnant reduces a woman's risk of developing gestational diabetes, premature labor, low birth weight, and preeclampsia.In this book, "Healthy Mediterranean Cooking for Expecting Moms," you'll gain clear answers on what makes the Mediterranean diet a healthy prescription for pregnant women to eat and why. Laura C...

The Obesity Diet Therapy is a comprehensive guide to help you take back control of your weight and your life. This book offers advice on how to develop healthy eating habits, create delicious and nutritious recipes, and incorporate exercise and activity into your daily routine. With its groundbreaking techniques and simple yet effective strategies, The Obesity Diet Therapy will provide you with the tools you need to lose weight and keep it off for good. Whether you are just beginning your ...

"The Psychology of Obesity" is an essential self-help book for anyone looking to make lasting changes to their lifestyle and achieve sustainable weight loss. Written by a renowned psychologist, Thomas Stanton, and Nutrition Expert, Laura Charles this book offers a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to understanding the psychological and physiological aspects of obesity and provides practical advice on how to tackle the issue. Through a combination of anecdotes, case studies, and res...

A complete and comprehensive guide to why kids behave and think the way they do-and how to bring out the best in them.In the U.S., more than 10% of children are diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, while countless others remain undiagnosed. Defining what is "normal" and what is not is of great concern to anyone who works with, guides, nurtures, teaches, or parents children.With new discoveries in mental disorders that affect children, Child Psychology & Development For...

Exploring Pittsburgh's Ups and DownsIn Pittsburgh, the elevation varies wildly, fluctuating 660 feet from highest to lowest points throughout the area and making it one of the hilliest cities in the United States. Throughout this unruly and physically challenging landscape, the city's first mass transportation system was built—a steadily expanding network of public stairways, locally referred to as city steps, these flights of stairs are a throwback to a very diffe...

As interaction in higher education among faculty, staff, students, and others becomes ever more digital, the welter of new online communication technologies have provided many unintentional opportunities for indiscipline and misconduct. As a result of this unfortunate increase is misbehavior, administrators and instructors in higher education are increasingly being called upon to remedy and forestall such actions. Misbehavior Online in Higher Education is rich in contemporary case studies,...

Feel that springtime breeze? Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with adorable animals frolicking in the springtime wind.

Springtime weather can bring big storms. Lyrical, rhyming text takes young readers on a journey with furry and feathery friends to experience springtime hail.

The good news on beating the bluesDo you want the good, the bad, or the best news first? OK, the bad news is that an estimated 264+ million people worldwide suffer from a depressive illness. The good news is that we know how to defeat these illnesses better than ever before using a growing range of highly effective psychotherapies, medications, and other therapeutic methods that are improving all the time. And the best news: because of these advances, the majority ...

If a fairy godmother can get one sister into a marriage, getting another out of one should be easy…Lady Theodosia Balfour has certainly gotten the short end of the stick—her stepsister, the newly crowned Princess Beatrice, is telling everyone in polite society that Theo, her sister, and their mother are evil, wicked, and horrid people who treated her like a slave. Though Theo knows this isn't exactly true, it seems her life is th...

Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Mobile Applications: Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies examines new research on how mobile technologies are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an epoch of increasing globalization and diversity. These enabling technologies are reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learning in higher education. Through case studies, surveys, and literature reviews, this volume will examine how mobile tec...

"Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Social Technologies: Facebook, e-portfolios and other Social Networking Services" uses case studies, surveys, and literature reviews to examine how these social media technologies are being used to improve writing and publishing skills in students, create engaging communities of practice, and how these tools are being used for e-Mentoring and constructing online reputations. Chapters include applying positive psychology and cognitive style...