The mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel: genius, power, and deception on the eve of World War I

By Brunt, Douglas

Publishing Date: 2023

Classification: 600

Call Number: 609.2 BRU

"The hidden history of one of the world's greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I--this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel. September 29, 1913: the steamship Dresden is halfway between Belgium and England. On board is one of the most famous men in the world, Rudolf Diesel, whose new internal combustion engine is on the verge of revolutionizing global industry forever. But Diesel never arrives at his destination. He vanishes during the night and headlines around the world wonder if it was an accident, suicide, or murder. After rising from an impoverished European childhood, Diesel had become a multi-millionaire with his powerful engine that does not require expensive petroleum-based fuel. In doing so, he became not only an international celebrity but also the enemy of two extremely powerful men: Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil and the richest man in the world. The Kaiser wanted the engine to power a fleet of submarines that would finally allow him to challenge Great Britain's Royal Navy. But Diesel had intended for his engine to be used for the betterment of mankind and kept the technology out of the hands of the British or any other nation. For John D. Rockefeller, the engine was nothing less than an existential threat to his vast and lucrative oil empire. As electric lighting began to replace kerosene lamps, Rockefeller's bottom line depended on the world's growing thirst for gasoline to power its automobiles and industries. At the outset of this new age of electricity and oil, Europe stood on the precipice of war. Rudolf Diesel grew increasingly concerned about Germany's rising nationalism and military spending. The inventor was on his way to London to establish a new company that would help Britain improve its failing submarine program when he disappeared. Now, New York Times bestselling author Douglas Brunt reopens the case and provides an astonishing new conclusion about Diesel's fate." --

Healthy food for healthy kids: a practical and tasty guide to your child's nutrition

By Swinney, Bridget

Publishing Date: 1999

Classification: 600

Call Number: 613.2083 SWI

Offers a resource for parents concerned with building a healthy attitude toward food in their children.

Fast like a girl: a woman's guide to using the healing power of fasting to burn fat, boost energy, and balance hormones

By Pelz, Mindy

Publishing Date: 2022

Classification: 600

Call Number: 613.25 PEL

"A go-to fasting manual created specifically to address women's needs based on their hormones and menstrual cycle by Dr. Mindy Pelz, a well-known expert on women and fasting, whose fast-growing YouTube channel has become the destination for women who want to learn about fasting"--

Plant based health basics

Publishing Date: [2021]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 613.2622

"A book on plant-based eating for middle America, using familiar, easy-to-find ingredients to help readers eat more healthfully. Eating a diet higher in plant foods and lower in animal products has been shown to provide many health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes as well as aiding in weight loss. Dietary guidelines and recommendations from nutrition experts reflect this, encouraging the adoption of diets such as the Mediterranean, Flexitarian, Vegan or DASH diet that are heavy on fruits and vegetables and reduce or restrict the consumption of meat and meat products. Whether folks are choosing to boost their nutritional intake by consuming more plants within their meat-based diets, or avoid animal product once a week such as Meatless Mondays, or go all out vegan, they need support in starting out with this new way of eating. Understanding the importance of the nutrients in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains will help the reader grasp why eating more plants will improve their overall health." --

Peak: the new science of athletic performance that is revolutionizing sports

By Bubbs, Marc

Publishing Date: [2019]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 613.7 BUB

There is a revolution happening in sports as more athletes base their success on a unique combination of nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset. Peak is the groundbreaking book exploring these fundamentals of high performance, getting beyond the fads. It dissects the importance of consistency, not extreme effort, and it illustrates the value of patience, not rapid transformation. With input from leading experts who are influencing the top performers in team and individual sports on how to achieve world-class success, Dr. Marc Bubbs lays out how record-breaking feats of athleticism are rooted in this personalized approach. His performance protocol offers a way forward for the elite athlete, active individual, strength coach, nutritionist, or practitioner--anyone wanting to expand human potential. In Peak, Dr. Bubbs explains how creating personalized nutrition strategies for building muscle and burning fat contribute to success. He connects the importance of sleep, digestion, the microbiome, and blood glucose control metrics to performance. And he applies the new science of recovery and immuno-nutrition for optimal results, illuminating the path toward the next big breakthrough in athletic performance--Publisher's description.

The yoga bible: the definitive guide to yoga postures

By Brown, Christina

Publishing Date: 2003

Classification: 600

Call Number: 613.7046 BRO

A guide to yoga features 150 positions along with step-by-step instructions on how to achieve them, a summary of the various schools of yoga, and advice on breathing techniques, meditation, and the health benefits of yoga.

The official body control Pilates manual

By Robinson, Lynne

Publishing Date: 2001, 2000

Classification: 600

Call Number: 615.82 ROB

This is the complete color, illustrated guide to total well-being the Body Control Pilates way. Pilates is the fitness phenomenon of recent years and has gained widespread support from the worlds of sport and medicine. But how may of us really understand how to use it, and the full range of benefits it can offer?

Appetites: why women want

By Knapp, Caroline

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: 600

Call Number: 616.85 KNA

"In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, 'What do women want?' and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, bestselling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite - for food, love, work, and pleasure - has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers - and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying 'I want.' Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully - and urgently - challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul" --

The body remembers

By Rothschild, Babette

Publishing Date: 2000

Classification: 600

Call Number: 616.8521 ROT

"For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations. This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory." "It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains and bodies. That memory is often expressed in the symptomatology of posttraumatic stress disorder - nightmares, flashbacks, startle responses, and dissociative behaviors. In essence, the body of the traumatized individual refuses to be ignored." "Rothschild presents principles and non-touch techniques for giving the body its due. With an eye to its relevance for clinicians, she consolidates current knowledge about the psychobiology of the stress response both in normally challenging situations and during extreme and prolonged trauma." "Packed with engaging case studies, The Body Remembers integrates body and mind in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. It will appeal to clinicians, researchers, students, and general readers."--Jacket

Extra focus: the quick start guide to adult ADHD

By Anderson, Jesse J.

Publishing Date: [2023]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 616.8589 AND

Extra Focus is your personal roadmap to understanding and living with adult ADHD. It's a no-judgement zone filled with understanding and guidance from someone who understands what it's like to live with ADHD (in a world that doesn't seem to understand it).

The best minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions

By Rosen, Jonathan

Publishing Date: 2023

Classification: 600

Call Number: 616.89 ROS

"When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael and Jonathan both got into Yale, they seemed set to ascend to the heights of the American meritocratic elite. Leaving Jonathan behind, Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job for far more money than their parents had ever made. But all wasn't as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the fateful call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was institutionalized at a New York City psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He would stay there for nine months before transitioning to a halfway house. Facing the prospect of a life spent bagging groceries, Michael decided to play the one card left to him: just before his break, he had been accepted to Yale Law School, and now, against all odds, he planned to enroll. Still struggling mightily with schizophrenia, Michael made it through the top law school in the country. His extraordinary story soon made the front page of the New York Times; an agent sold his memoir to a major publisher for a large sum; Ron Howard swept in to acquire film rights, with Brad Pitt set to star. It was all a dream come true for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then, the unimaginable happened: in the grip of an unshakable paranoid fantasy, Michael stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife. To this day, Michael Laudor remains confined to a maximum-security forensic hospital in upstate New York. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of what happened to Michael Laudor, and why. Exploring the dramatic transformation of American culture and of society's relationship to mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a story about the power and limits of the bonds of family, friendship, and community, the lure of the American dream and the promise of academic achievement. At times tender and hilarious, and at times harrowing and almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely"--

An unquiet mind

By Jamison, Kay R.

Publishing Date: c1995

Classification: 600

Call Number: 616.895 JAM

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

Emergence: labeled autistic

By Grandin, Temple

Publishing Date: 1996

Classification: 600

Call Number: 616.8982 GRA

"A true story that is both uniquely moving and exceptionally inspiring, Emergence is the first-hand account of a courageous autistic woman who beat the odds and cured herself. As a child, Temple Grandin was forced to leave her "normal" school and enroll in a school for autistic children. This searingly honest account captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistics and their families and the quiet strength of one woman who insisted on a miracle."--Publisher's description.

Your pregnancy and childbirth: month to month

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 618.2

Revision of: ACOG guide to planning for pregnancy, birth, and beyond. 1990. "Your pregnancy and childbirth: month to month was developed by a panel of experts working in consultation with staff of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)."

Hypnobirthing: the Mongan method : a natural, instinctive approach to safer, easier, more comfortable birthing

By Mongan, Marie F

Publishing Date: [2015]

Classification: 600

Call Number: 618.45 MON

"HypnoBirthing helps women to become empowered by developing an awareness of the instinctive birthing capability of their bodies. It greatly reduces the pain of labor and childbirth; frequently eliminates the need for drugs; reduces the need for caesarian surgery or other doctor-controlled birth interventions; and it also shortens birthing and recovery time, allowing for better and earlier bonding with the baby, which has been proven to be vital to the mother-child bond. What's more, parents report that their infants sleep better and feed more easily when they haven't experienced birth trauma. HypnoBirthing founder Marie Mongan knows from her own four births that it is not necessary for childbirth to be a terribly painful experience. In this book she shows women how the Mongan Method works and how parents they can take control of the greatest and most important event of their lives --Provide by publisher".

Unassisted childbirth

By Shanley, Laura Kaplan

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 600

Call Number: 618.45 SHA

"Childbirth is inherently safe and relatively painless -- provided we refrain from physical or psychological interference. The problems often associated with birth can be traced to three main factors: poverty, unnecessary medical intervention, and fear. When these causes are eliminated, most women can give birth either alone or with the help of a partner, friends, or family."--Amazon.com

The six: the untold story of America's first women astronauts

By Grush, Loren

Publishing Date: 2023

Classification: 600

Call Number: 629.4097 GRU

"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender. From a candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected in 1978--Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. In The Six, acclaimed journalist Loren Grush shows these brilliant and courageous women enduring claustrophobic--and sometimes deeply sexist--media attention, undergoing rigorous survival training, and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit. Together, the Six helped build the tools that made the space program run. One of the group, Judy Resnik, sacrificed her life when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded at 46,000 feet. Everyone knows of Sally Ride's history-making first space ride, but each of the Six would make their mark" --

A city on Mars: can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through

By Weinersmith, Kelly

Publishing Date: 2023

Classification: 600

Call Number: 629.4533 WEI

The authors of the best-selling popular science book Soonish discuss the future of space settlements, explore what would be needed to have space kids, build space farms and create nations, ultimately questioning whether or not it<?char 146 ?>s actually a good idea.

Natural gardening

Publishing Date: 1995

Classification: 600

Call Number: 635.9

Presents simple skills to bring color, action, and beauty from planning the site to selecting a diversified collection of planting to attract wildlife.

Mice: everything about care, nutrition, diseases, behavior, and breeding

By Bielfeld, Horst

Publishing Date: 1985, 1984

Classification: 600

Call Number: 636 BIE

A pet owner's manual answers questions and contains drawings and photographs.