New Additions
Updated: May 2010
Topics:
Body Image
Title: This is Who I am: Our Beauty in all Shapes and Sizes
Artitsts: Olson, Rosanne
Published Date: 2008
Description: Fifty-four women with stories to tell prove that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes.
Eating Concerns
Title: 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food
Artitsts: Albers, Susan
Published Date: 2009
Description: "Susan Albers, author of Eating Mindfully, offers this collection of 50 mindfulness skills and practices for relaxing the body in times of stress and ending your dependence on eating as a means of coping with difficult emotions. You'll not only discover easy ways to soothe urges to overeat, you'll also learn how to differentiate emotion-driven hunger from healthy hunger. Reach for this book instead of the refrigerator next time you feel the urge to snack-these alternatives are just as satisfying!"
Title: Finding Your Voice Through Creativity
Artitsts: Jacobson-Levy, M. & Foy-Tornay, M.
Published Date: 2010
Description: This workbook combines art therapy exercises and guided journal writing for individuals who want to explore their relationship with food and their bodies in a new way.
Title: Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders and Body Image, The
Artitsts: Reel, Justine & Beals, Katherine
Published Date: 2009
Description: The Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders and Body Image strives to obliterate stereotypes that suggest only young, White affluentfemales have eating disorders. Research about body image and eating disturbances across social categories is reported and case illustrations are presented. This book seeks to explore diverse populations to better understand the person behind the stereotypical group. Studies that provide a wider representation of gender, social class, race/ethnicity, religion and other social categories are provided within these chapters so that the reader can better understand the complexity associated with helping diverse populations. A clinical perspective is offered for dealing with clients who fit a particular social category, so that helping professionals can demonstrate cultural sensitivity about a group's unique concerns
Title: Moving Away from Diets: New Ways to Heal Eating Problems and Exercise Resistance
Artitsts: Kratina, Karin, Nancy King, Dayle Hayes
Published Date: 1999
Title: Regaining Your Self
Artitsts: Sacker, Ira
Published Date: 2010
Description: Do YOU WANT TO GET BETTER, but are afraid to let go of your eating disorder? After all, your eating disorder has defined who you are, has been a constant in your life, and has helped you cope and navigate your own world. To leave it behind would mean you wouldn't know who you are, how to act, or where to begin. Right? Wrong. According to renowned eating disorder specialist and bestselling author Ira M. Sacker, M.D., thoughts like these are due to something he calls the Eating Disorder Identity, which is a major road block in preventing you from getting better. In Regaining Your Self, Dr. Sacker introduces and defines this concept for you, explaining that in order to move away from the Eating Disorder Identity, you must transition to a new identity— the true self you were meant to be. The journey of finding out who you really are without your eating disorder begins here. Regaining Your Self offers you hope as well as hope to individuals, loved ones, and treatment professionals who are working toward freedom from the power of the eating disorders.
Title: Religion of Thinness, The
Artitsts: Lelwica, Michelle
Published Date: 2009
Description: With so many women approaching their diets, body image, and pursuit of a slender figure with slavish devotion, The Religion of Thinness is a timely addition to the discussion of our cultural obsession with weight loss. At the heart of this obsession is the belief that in order to be happy, one must be slim, and the attendant myths, rituals, images, and moral codes can leave some women with severe emotional damage. Idealized images in the media inspire devotees of this “religion” to experience guilt for behaviors that are biologically normal and necessary, and Lelwica offers two ways to combat this dangerous cultural message. Advising readers to look hard at the societal cues that cause them to obsess about their weight, and to remain mindful about their actions and needs, this book will not only help stop the cycle of guilt and shame associated with food, it will help readers to grow and accept their bodies as they are.
Environmental Health
Title: Earth Democracy: Justice Sustainability and Peace
Artitsts: Shiva, Vandana
Published Date: 2005
Description: "A leading voice in the struggle for global justice, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental activist and physicist. In Earth Democracy, Shiva updates the struggles she helped bring to international attention—against genetic food engineering, culture theft, and natural resource privatization-—uncovering their links to the rising tide of fundamentalism, violence against women, and planetary death."
Title: Environmental Health: From Global to Local, 2nd edition
Artitsts: Frumkin, Howard
Published Date: 2010
Description: "The second edition of Environmental Health: From Global to Local, a comprehensive introductory text, offers an overview of the methodology and paradigms of this burgeoning field, ranging from ecology to epidemiology, from toxicology to environmental psychology, and from genetics to ethics."
Expressive Arts Therapy
Title: Bodyspeaks: Finding a Voice Through Art Therapy
Artitsts: n/a
Published Date: 2003
Description: This powerful film presents the artwork of women who explore, cope with, and resolve struggles with body image, anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating. Individual stories are told through art and personal narration.
Gender Identity & Expression
Title: Doing Gender Diversity: Readings in Theory and Real-World Experiences
Artitsts: Plante, Maurer
Published Date: 2009
Description: "This reader demonstrates the multiple ways in which the universe of gender is socially, culturally, and historically constructed. The complexity of our gendered lives can be confusing. This anthology focuses on gender itself—how gender operates socioculturally, exists, functions, and is presented in micro and macro interactions. In order to avoid balkanization, the authors examine the various ways in which culture intersects with individuals to produce the range of presentations of self that we call “gender,” from people born male who become adult men to lesbian women to transmen, and everyone else on the diverse gender spectrum. This cutting-edge book focuses on both hegemonic and transgressive gender development, roles, identities, and practices."
Holistic Health
Title: Holistic Herbal 4th Edition: A Safe and Practical Guide to Making and Using Herbal Remedies
Artitsts: Hoffman, David
Published Date: 2003
Description: Herbal provides sufficient overview of various herbal remedies to allow one to get their feet wet and feel competent while doing so.
Meditation
Title: Mindful & Mindless Eating
Artitsts: Maynard-Dobbs, Robin
Published Date: 2006
Description: This CD has seven tracks to support listeners in their desire to eat more consciously, diminish self-judgment, and treat themselves with loving respect. Included is an introduction to the Aware Eating approach and 3 key questions to ask yourself before you eat. Next is a grounding meditation for deep relaxation. A mindful eating process leads you to becoming fully present in savoring the delicious flavors and textures of your food. For those times when you feel out of control with food, a guided process channels the panic frenzy of a binge and leads you towards self discovery. There is a special track for when you eat in your car plus positive statements to set your intention towards health and vitality. With original background music.
Men's Health
Title: I Don't Want to Talk About It
Artitsts: Real, Terrence
Published Date: 1998
Description: A therapist himself, Terrence Real examines the dirty little secret of the American Male: chronic depression.
Nutrition
Title: Cultural Food Practices
Artitsts: Goody, Cynthia and Drago, Lorena
Published Date: 2010
Description: This comprehensive practical guide provides information on food practices for 15 cultures. Each chapter focuses on a particular culture, including such factors as diabetes risk factors; traditional foods, dishes, and meal plans; special holiday foods; traditional health beliefs; current food practices, and more. Culturally appropriate counseling recommendations are also discussed. A list of common foods including nutrient evaluations is included for each culture.
Personal Growth
Title: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Artitsts: Mantell, Michael
Published Date: 1988
Description: Dr. Michael Mantell, a popular television, radio and print personality has thoughtful and practical advice for all of us who take life too seriously as he discusses friendship, sex, marriage, divorce, children, aging, health, exercise, drugs, stress and anxiety. His wit and wisdom leave no stone unturned.
Title: Global Mind Change 2nd Edition
Artitsts: Harman, Willis
Published Date: 1998
Description: Global Mind Change startles us into reconsidering the role of consciousness in major areas of human concern: science and education, spirituality and consciousness research, health and healing, psychology and psychotherapy, economics and management. Revolutions are generally thought of as large-scale, bloody upheavals involving whoe countries and societies. B there are quieter revolutions that begin in the individual mind and create the kind of change that may be even more significant. By deliberately changing their internal image of reality, people are transforming the world. Right now we are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in histroy-a change in the actual belief structure of Western industrial society. Global Mind Change, first published in 1988, connects every major field of human endeavor in its exploration of the possibilities for social transformation through internal change.
Title: Power of Flow, The: Practicle Ways to Transform Your Life with Meaningful Coincidence
Artitsts: Belitz, Charlene and Meg Lundstrom
Published Date: 1998
Description: We catch every green light, get a parking space in the busiest section of town, lose a job and get a job offer the very same day. Most of know it as synchronicity. Authors Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom call it flow--the times when things happen effortlessly, everything falls into place, and timing seems perfect. Unfortunately, being in the flow often feels like an accident rather than a choice. By interviewing over 50 "flowmasters" and incorporating their own professional experiences, the authors came up with 14 practical steps to help us find our flow. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Title: Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decisions
Artitsts: Ariely, Dan
Published Date: 2008
Description: "In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities."
Sexual Health
Title: Good Sex: Feminist Perspectives from the World's Religions
Artitsts: Jung, Beattie & Hunt, Mary & Balakrishnan, Radhika
Published Date: 2000
Description: This volume brings together essays by feminist scholars from different religions and cultures to consider how women are redefining sexuality for the common good. Issues explored include: constructions of sexual identities and attitudes to women's sexual desires.
Sexuality
Title: So Sexy So Soon
Artitsts: Levin, Diane & Kilbourne, Jean
Published Date: 2009
Description: The authors (Levin is a professor of education; Kilbourne, an authority on the effects of advertising) accuse the media of sexualizing children. Constantly, American children are exposed to a barrage of sexual images in television, movies, music and the Internet. They are taught young that buying certain clothes, consuming brand-name soft drinks and owning the right possessions will make them sexy and cool—and being sexy and cool is the most important thing. Young men and women are spoon-fed images that equate sex with violence, paint women as sexually subservient to men and encourage hooking up rather than meaningful connections. The result is that kids are having sex younger and with more partners than ever before. Eating disorders and body image issues are common as early as grade school. Levin and Kilbourne stress that there is nothing wrong with a young person's natural sexual awakening, but it is wrong to allow a young person's sexuality to be hijacked by corporations who want them as customers.
Sleep
Title: How to Interpret Your Dreams: Practical Techniques Based on the Edgar Cayce Readings
Artitsts: Thurston, Mark
Published Date: 1989
Description: This book is a roadmap to greater self-knowledge through dream interpretation. Dr. Mark Thurston has combined insights from the hundreds of Edgar Cayce readings on dreams with his own background in dream interpretation to give us a clearly written, easy to understand spiritual handbook.
Stress Management
Title: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook, A
Artitsts: Stahl, Bob & Goldstein, Elisha
Published Date: 2010
Description: The workbook invites readers to participate in formal and informal practices and use fill-in exercises to reflect and track their progress. After each weekly session, readers can apply the techniques they learned that week into everyday life, gradually learning to replace stress-promoting habits with mindful ones. The audio CD bound with this book offers extensive and helpful supplemental material that readers can listen to anytime to receive a refresher course on MBSR techniques and useful guidance for incorporating these techniques into their days.
Women's Issues
Title: Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women, The
Artitsts: Later, Laure, Daniel, Jessica, and Banks, Eilzabeth
Published Date: 2003
Description: Trauma, Eating Disorders, Pospartum Depression, Anxiety, Psychopharmacology, Biopolar Disorder, Depression, Psychotherapeutic Treatments
Title: Don't Give It Away
Artitsts: Vanzant, Iyanla
Published Date: 1999
Description: A workbook of self-awareness and self-affirmations for young women.
Title: Field Guide to Happiness for Women
Artitsts: Kipfer, Barbara
Published Date: 2009
Description: FIELD GUIDE TO HAPPINESS FOR WOMEN is a book about using interesting tools to discover what makes you happy and sets you on a course to “choose” happiness. Topics such as food and exercise, ways of thinking, simplifying, and taking action; meditation and spiritual pursuits; gratitude and kindness - 200 ways to appreciate life, in all its messy imperfect excellence.
Title: Girl Source: A book by and for young women
Artitsts: A Girlsource production
Published Date: 2003
Description: Grade 10 Up--Written by 10 young women from the Bay Area, this teenage version of the classic Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves (Touchstone, 1998) is packed with good information about mental health, sexual health, relationships, women's rights, and planning for college or a career.
Title: I Am An Emotional Creature
Artitsts: Ensler, Eve
Published Date: 2010
Description: Fictional monologues and stories inspired by girls around the globe.
Title: Women Food and God
Artitsts: Roth, Geneen
Published Date: 2010
Description: Geneen adds a profound new dimension to her work in Women, Food and God. She begins with her most basic concept: The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning, tranformation and God.
