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Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University survey Allied health series (Meridian Education Corporation) America's national parks America's top 10 Creating all-around wellness National parks, America's best idea Salem health (Pasadena, Calif.) Total health (Princeton, N.J.) Understanding personal health Understanding Personal HealthFilter By Series
Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University survey Allied health series (Meridian Education Corporation) America's national parks America's top 10 Creating all-around wellness National parks, America's best idea Salem health (Pasadena, Calif.) Total health (Princeton, N.J.) Understanding personal health Understanding Personal HealthSummary: One of the last documentaries from ABC News journalist Peter Jennings, this program untangles a particularly complex problem: the rapidly growing number of Americans who lack health care coverage. With characteristic thoroughness, Jennings searches out specific reasons for the weakening and potential collapse of employer-subsidized health insurance. America's rising median age, medical advances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Murray, Louise
Summary: A guide to quality health care for pets covers everything pet owners need to know to ensure their animals' health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.089 MURSummary: "Provides basic health information about vision and disorders affecting the eyes and surrounding structures, along with facts about various eye disorders, guidelines for recognizing and treating eye emergencies, advice about protecting the eyes, and tips for living with low vision. Includes glossary, index, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.7 EYESummary: This episode tells how, by the end of the 19th century, industrialization had left many Americans worried about whether the country would have any pristine land left. Poachers in the parks were rampant, and visitors were littering or carving their names in wilderness sites. Congress had yet to establish judicial authority or set aside appropriations for protection of the parks. This sparked a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Following World War II, the parks were overwhelmed as visitation reached 62 million people a year. This final episode describes how a billion-dollar campaign, Mission 66, was created to build facilities and infrastructure to accommodate the growing flood of visitors. Biologist Adolph Murie introduced the revolutionary notion that predatory animals deserved the same protection as other wildlife....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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America's Test Kitchen (Firm)
Summary: A giftable and gorgeous book featuring the very best recipes from the America's Test Kitchen TV show in celebration of its 20th anniversary and its renowned celebrity cast. More than 500 recipes from the show's 500-plus episodes are included here along with all the recipes from the 20th season--a stunning array of must-have recipes aimed at how we want to cook today. As the longest-running and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: America's Test Kitchen 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 AMECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 AMEPotter, Wendell
Summary: Potter shows how a huge chunk of health care spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.2936 POTMental Health America
Summary: "A comforting and useful resource for anyone who’s struggling emotionally and looking for help - from the nation’s leading community-based nonprofit that addresses the needs of those living with mental illness It can be extremely hard to figure out what’s going on in our own heads when we are suffering - when we feel alone and unworthy and can’t stop our self - critical inner voice. And it’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2023
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Summary: "Elite New York City divorce attorney Jacqueline Newman is here to help, sharing her secrets from over two decades in the trenches. THE NEW RULES OF DIVORCE: 12 Secrets to Protecting Your Wealth, Health, and Happiness (Atria Books; Hardcover; January 7, 2020; $26.00; 978-1-9821-2793-0), is the first definitive guide for navigating modern divorce, full of advice to help readers: decide whether...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.89 NEWSummary: Womens Health is a comprehensive health guide for women of all ages. It covers a wide range of issues, including diseases that affect only women, diseases typically considered to be womens diseases, and health-related issues important to women of specific ages. These volumes provide in-depth articles on nearly 300 topics, arranged into easy-to-use broad subject categories. Designed for high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Reference, Call number: Reference 613 Buratovich 2019Ricciuti, Edward R.
Summary: Describes ten of the most unique and interesting skyscrapers in the United States including the Empire State Building, the Prudential Center, and the John Hancock Center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 720.483 RICMackell, Thomas
Contents: The fractured American retirement dream -- The new political reality -- The new realities of work and the workplace -- America's love affair with debt -- Employee benefits at a crossroad -- The retirement crisis -- The time is right for bold leadership -- A time for change -- How did we get where we are? -- A call to action -- Conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Reference Office, Call number: 331.25 MACKStone, Tanya Lee.
Summary: Introduces ten unique American constructions including the Sears Tower, the Erie Canal, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Alaska pipeline, the Grand Coulee Dam, the Louisiana Superdome, the Seattle Space Needle, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Gateway Arch, and Disney's Epcot Center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 624 STOSummary: "Salem Health's newest title, Nutrition, offers researchers a one-stop source for comprehensive, easy-to-understand information on all aspects of human nutrition. This new tool is designed to inform users about healthy eating, the nutritional value of various foods, diets, eating disorders, dietary conditions and so much more. Salem Health: Nutrition provides in-depth articles on 300 topics in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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3 available in Reference, Call number: Reference 613.2 Richman 2016Contents: The call of history : "We're gonna get this done" -- The house of Pelosi : deals and betrayals -- The power of one : Lieberman blocks the way -- The rescue : Obama's last chance -- Priority one : expanding coverage -- The individual mandate : how it will work -- The insurers : more customers, more resrnctions -- The insured : it's status quo for now -- Under thirty : joining the system, like it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 344.7303 WASSummary: Compiling and retrieving up-to-date information on patients' illnesses, injuries, and medical history is more important than ever for effective medical care. This video focuses on opportunities in the field of healthcare information management and technology. Examples of HIM-related positions are covered-including medical billing specialist, diagnostic and procedural coder, and privacy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Strange, Cordelia.
Summary: Discusses water pollution, including how drinking water becomes polluted, how it affects one's health and the environment, and what is being done to prevent it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AlphaHouse Pub. 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7394 STRSummary: The World Health Organization defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health. Referencing the WHO's Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, this program takes a close look at lifestyle approaches, preventive medical approaches, and public health approaches to health promotion. The importance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Healthy living presents special challenges for members of minorities living in lower-income neighborhoods-particularly senior citizens. This program examines those challenges, and the health problems that can result, by focusing on African-Americans and Latinos. Host Dr. Kevin Soden speaks with Dr. Terrance Fullham about difficulties faced by older African-Americans, including obesity and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Overall well-being requires not only physical health, but psychosocial health as well. What exactly is psychosocial health, and how is it achieved? This program explains the elements that compose psychosocial health, the internal and external factors that influence it, and methods to enhance it. The importance of taking responsibility for one's own psychosocial well-being through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Big Bend National Park covers 788,682 acres in the bend of the Rio Grande in Brewster County, Texas. Created in 1943, the park is in an area that the early Spanish explorers called "the uninhabited place" and was once home to fierce Apache and Comanche warriors. With its varied topography, the park is filled with a startling array of plants and animals, some of which are found nowhere else in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: GoodTimes Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.64 BIGSummary: This program takes us on a tour of what has become one of the most popular and prolific beats in television, on both the network and local levels. The depth and range of medical reporting have grown considerably in the last decade, but, with few exceptions, we were tragically late in reporting the scope and severity of the AIDS story. Controversial cures and dubious wonder drugs have always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The ability to be healthy is influenced by many factors-some of our choosing, and some not. This program examines how individual, sociocultural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors impact people's lives and what individuals can do to positively shape their health, both in the present and for the future. Topics range from modifiable and non-modifiable determinants of health, to how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Deaton, Angus
Summary: "The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting two hundred and fifty years ago,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2015