Dr. Bernard Patten says: "Your life is quite literally in your hands. You have choices about how you can alter your life to live longer and happier." Therefore, it is critical to break down the growing body of myths and misinformation and to discover the truth about everyday health and well-being. Patten suggests that the benefits from even small changes in nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle are enormous, and properly applied will increase your life-span...

Ginger Holtzman has fought for everything she's ever had-the success of her tattoo shop, respect in the industry, her upcoming art show. Tough and independent, she has taking-no-crap down to an art form. Good thing too, since keeping her shop afloat, taking care of her friends, and scrambling to finish her paintings doesn't leave time for anything else. Which . . . is for the best, because then she doesn't notice how lonely she is. Christopher Lucen...

The 'change of life' means menopause. But what if it also means reinvention, with the help of a little bit of magic? Adie Bostock is a self-confessed 'basket-case.' She's 52, at the mercy of her haphazard hormones, and struggling to face the end of her marriage. Alone for Christmas and fed up with family drama, she lands at Teapot Cottage where she plans to wallow in guilt and self-pity in private.But the cottage, with its mysterious healing energy,...

Do you have a good business and want to make it great? Have you ever wondered why some businesses achieve massive success, while others fail or never reach their potential (even if they're in the same industry)? Want to know what those successful businesses focus on or change to drive growth, profit and sustainability? The answer is never just one thing. Most business owners aren't as successful as they should be. You reach a point where you get...

The road of rock is a rocky road, and no one's life exemplifies that more thoroughly than that of Derek Albion Smalls, who celebrates his 75th birthday with a hoped-to-be triumphant return to at least one of the echelons of the rock firmament.

"Thomas J. Sargent, Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics" "Winner of the 2003 for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Business Management & Accounting, Association of American Publishers" Thomas J. Sargent is Donald Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. A pioneer of the rational expectations school of macroeconomics, he is the author of The Conquest of American Inflation (Princeton),...

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