【宋朝诡事录＋历史悬疑＋诡谲奇案＋权谋推理】小贩深夜捡钱，转眼就被吊死在房梁之上； 船头悬挂“红灯笼”，竟是灭门的暗号。 阎王散财，含笑索命；义庄诈尸，河神点灯……每一个传说都在制造谎言，每一个死人都在说真话。查得清案子，却看不透人性。 一个游走在灰色地带的“官场猎人”，十二桩夺命惊魂的离奇诡案，南宋朝堂多方势力的激烈角逐。比妖物更可怕的是人心算计，比鬼怪更凶残的是权欲獠牙。 翻开本书，今夜子时，提灯入卷。

《《飞轮效应》内容简介：在《从优秀到卓越》中，吉姆?柯林斯就已经描绘过企业的永续经营赖于公司飞轮的持续转动。 吉姆·柯林斯所说的飞轮是怎样的飞轮？公司的飞轮如何建立？飞轮应该包含哪些要素和环节？在本书中都得到了充分的说明和阐释。 飞轮对于企业究竟意味着什么？是盈利模式，是企业持续盈利的关键的动作，是企业长期坚持的战略举措。 掌握了本书所讲的飞轮效应的基本原理和设计方法，每家公司都能够通过借鉴成功企业的飞轮，挖掘出自身的经营优势，建立自己公司的飞轮，并通过长期持续的坚持，产生“飞轮效应”，帮助企业持续增长。 吉姆?柯林斯的所有研究都是探索公司持续增长和永续经营的根本原因和成功路径，《飞轮效应》更是这样一本书。 《从优秀到卓越（珍藏版）》内容简介：本书是超级畅销书《基业长青》的作者柯林斯的又一力作，它描绘了优秀公司实现向卓越公司跨越的宏伟蓝图。《基业长青》揭示了公司保持卓越的秘诀，但书中提到的公司自始至终都出类拔萃。对于那些业绩平平的公司，如何才能实现从优秀到卓越的跨越呢？是不是卓越的企业都有所谓的特殊“卓越气质”？发展的瓶颈是不是真的难以突破？ 　　针对这一问题，柯林斯和他的研究小组历时5年，阅读并系统整理了6000篇文章，记录了2000多页的专访内容，创建了3.84亿字节的电脑数据，收集了28家公司过去50年，甚至更早的所有文章，进行了大范围的定性和定量分析，得出了如何使公司从优秀到卓越的令人惊异而振奋的答案。 　　柯林斯发现，公司从优秀到卓越，跟从事的行业是否在潮流之中没有关系，事实上，即使是一个从事传统行业的企业，即使它**初默默无闻，它也可能卓越。柯林斯提出了一整套观点，“只要采纳并认真贯彻，几乎所有的公司都能**大改善自己的经营状况，甚至可能成为卓越公司”。 《选择卓越（中信管理经典）》内容简介：如何在一个不可预测的、动荡不安的、瞬息万变的时代打造一家真正卓越的企业？这是《选择卓越》这本书的主题。《选择卓越》不同于柯林斯先前的著作，这是因为它的关注重点不仅仅在业绩表现上，还在时下领导者所面临的不稳定的环境类型上。作者在全美国2万多家公司中进行了11层筛选，找出7家安然度过产业逆境与动荡的企业。基于超过20人的研究团队，柯林斯和汉森对那些在充满巨大力量和急剧变革——这都是领导者所无法预测或控制的——的环境中取得卓越成就的公司进行了研究。研究结果颇具争议性，亦让人感到吃惊。比如，*秀的领导者并不比对比组公司的领导者更具冒险精神、更具远见或更具创造性；他们更恪守纪律，更注重实证验证，更为焦虑。 在一个混乱的、充满不确定性的世界里，创新本身并不是一张王牌，更重要的是适度创新的能力和将创造性与纪律相结合的能力。 通过引人深思的、黏性的和极其有力的实践概念，作者对传统智慧发起了挑战。这些概念包括：10倍速领导者；20英里征程；先发射子弹，后发射炮弹；超越生死线；先将镜头拉远，后将镜头拉近；以及SMaC方法。 柯林斯和汉森在《选择卓越》的*后一章向读者呈现了他们*争议和*为新颖的分析：对运气角色的定义、量化和研究。卓越公司及其领导者并不比对比组公司及其领导者更有运气，但却获得了更高的运气回报率。本书是典型的柯林斯式著作：反传统、数据驱动、振奋人心。他和汉森以令人信服的证据表明，即便是在一个混乱的、充满不确定性的世界里，卓越也可以通过选择而非运气来实现。 《再造卓越》内容简介：为什么贝尔斯登 、雷曼兄弟公司、房利美这些业内翘楚纷纷陨落？ 为什么那么多卓越的公司难以基业长青？企业帝国是如何陨落的？我们又该如何尽早预测并避免这种局面出现？一个企业在坠入万劫不复的深渊之前颓势会延续多久？一个陷入衰退的企业又该如何自救？ 　　吉姆·柯林斯和他的研究小组直面这些难题，认真分析了11家在历史上走过从辉煌到衰落历程的企业，并对这些企业的历史进行了深入剖析。历时4年多的研究项目向我们揭示了企业衰落的五个阶段：狂妄自大、盲目扩张、漠视危机、寻找救命稻草和遭人遗忘或濒临灭亡。 　　但即使企业已经陷入了衰退，它们仍然可以扭转乾坤。如果对于上述五个阶段能做到了然于胸，那么领导者就能**大地降低企业坠入谷底的机率。强者恒强并非世间法则。但衰落是可以避免的，衰落是可以察觉的，衰落是可以逆转的。 《基业长青（珍藏版）》内容简介：《基业长青(珍藏版)》打破了旧有神话，提供了新颖的见解，并为那些有志于建立经得起时间考验的伟大公司的企业家提供了实际指导。如何建立一个伟大并长胜不衰的公司？有思想的人们早已经厌倦了“年度流行语“般稍纵即逝的管理概念，他们渴求获得能经受时间考验的管理思想。 柯林斯和波勒斯在斯坦福大学为期6年的研究项目中，选取了18家卓越非凡、长盛不衰的公司作了深入研究，这些公司包括通用电气、3M、默克、沃尔玛、惠普、迪士尼等，它们平均拥有近百年的历史。是什么使这些公司不同于它们的竞争对手呢？它们拥有什么别的公司所不具有的法宝呢？ 《基业长青(珍藏版)》作者超越了连篇累牍的专业术语，拒绝追逐时尚，发现了使杰出公司出类拔萃的永恒品质。全书有数百个具体的例子，并提供了实用的策略，能够适用于各个层次的经理人与创业者。《基业长青》为在21世纪建立长期繁荣的组织提供了一个宏伟蓝图。

《悉达多》是黑塞出版于1922年的中篇小说。青年悉达多厌倦了婆罗门生活，与好友乔文达一道跟随沙门修行。在舍卫城他们聆听了佛陀乔达摩的教义，侨文达选择追随乔达摩，悉达多则继续修行之路。他在城市中结识名妓迦摩罗，并开始追逐*的情欲和名利，直至对一切产生厌倦。他再次抛下世俗，决心结束自己的生命。在河边，在绝望的瞬间，他听到河水的声音…… 《德米安》是出版于1919年的长篇小说。读者将伴随少年埃米尔·辛克莱的成长，经历复杂世界的诱惑，品尝孤独、胆怯、彷徨、叛逆，渴望爱情与友谊，陷入对自我与外部世界的怀疑，直到遇见同龄人德米安，在他的影响下，一步步寻得答案，走向成熟。 《荒原狼》是出版于1927年的长篇小说，带有强烈的自传色彩。它是黑塞以对主人公哈里·哈勒的考察，力求揭示和解决其本人与大众文化、工业社会和权力阶级的冲突以及深层心理危机的文学表达。小说在创造性的多重视角间切换，匿名出版人、一本名为《论荒原狼》的手册、哈里本人，为读者展现了一幅生动的市民社会图景，以及游离期间的边缘人荒原狼。

理想国推出阿城先生的作品典藏系列。《棋王》收录“三王”小说经典，书中呈现珍贵文献、星星美展插画、《今天》杂志油印创作谈等。《闲话闲说》是关于“中国世俗与中国小说”的讲谈集，增订万字长文，作家二十年后重谈这本小册子，为了将中国文化与文明做更多的联系。《常识与通识》为出版二十周年纪念版。讲常识，常常煞风景。《威尼斯日记》是阿城先生一九九二年在意大利威尼斯游历的日记，作家摄影作品和手绘插画首次呈现。

沈鱼藻“民国旧梦三部曲”。三段民国旧梦：一段生离，一段死别，一段成全。【民国言情+BE美学+双向奔赴】千金小姐VS深情军官，商业大佬VS天真名媛，清醒女侓师VS爱国电影人。 《旧梦1913》 民国三年等不到一场雨，这一生等不到一句我爱你。我们在乱世中走散，匆匆一别重逢无期。 知府千金傅兰君因受情伤，赌气嫁给军官顾灵毓。起初二人剑拔弩张、针锋相对，在吵吵闹闹中逐渐感情升温。傅兰君初恋南嘉木归来，并卷入革命党的“叛乱”，顾灵毓奉命处决南嘉木，顾、傅二人感情陷入危机。随着政局的风雨飘摇，兰君父亲被害，证据指向的却是顾灵毓，两人的感情渐行渐远，*终分道扬镳，傅兰君携子远赴英国。多年后，傅兰君终于得知当年真相和顾灵毓的真实身份，但顾灵毓已经不知所踪、生死不明…… 《旧梦1937》 都说民国爱情十有九悲，能得一分圆满已是不易。 景家三小姐景明琛被家里安排参加宴会，结识了商界大佬蒋固北。景明琛忧心时局，对宴会心不在焉，谁知蒋固北突然向景家提亲求娶景明琛。原来蒋固北年少时曾得到过景明琛帮助，如今凭借镯子认出了景明琛。景明琛拒绝了求婚，但在一起转移烈士遗孤的过程中两人同生共死、感情加深。时局艰难、日军轰炸、特务环伺、家族追杀……他们被迫踏上了颠沛流离的逃亡之路。 《旧梦·望春归》 你有没有爱过一个无法白头偕老的人？故事始于金风玉露般的相逢，终于霜雪满头仍不绝的怀念。爱令人死，更令人生，那段携手度过的热烈时光，照亮了她漫长孤寂的余生。 女律师孟聆笙为女明星打离婚官司，与电影大亨云观澜发生冲突。事后，孟聆笙发现误会对方，两人成为朋友，惺惺相惜。云观澜遭遇炸弹袭击，孟聆笙勇敢解救；孟聆笙接到杀夫案，云观澜替其造势。神秘男人郑无忌的出现揭开了孟聆笙的血色过往，更令孟聆笙输掉杀夫案，当事人也自杀。孟聆笙备受打击，出国留学。几年后，孟聆笙与云观澜历经波折、终成眷属。此时，日本大举侵略上海，两人的命运再次被卷入时代的洪流中……

陈磊 (混子哥 )领衔的半小时漫画团队通过诙谐的语言和手绘漫画的形式，轻轻松松把英国史和法国史串起来讲。不枯燥、不费劲，一本书帮你彻底厘清复杂的世界历史! 《半小时漫画世界史》：简到崩溃的极简欧洲史、美国往事三部曲、一口气就能读完的日本史、肌肉猛男斯巴达300勇士、酷炫无比的加勒比海盗……每一页都有历史段子，每三秒让你笑翻一次。 《半小时漫画世界史2》：古巴比伦、古印度和古埃及和中国组团出道，人称“四大文明古国”，但*后只有中国延续到了今天。另外三个文明古国是怎么“领盒饭”的呢？ 古巴比伦所在的两河流域是块黄金地皮，一拨拨“地产开发商”不请自来搞建设。 古印度号称“欧亚群租房”，远看是一个文明古国，近看是一群文明古国。 古埃及特别费朝代，人家换5个，他换30个，硬生生把改朝换代这种大事干成了流水线。 翻开本书，在铺天盖地的段子中，看懂另外三大文明古国的前世今生！ 《半小时漫画世界史3》英法两国为啥总是对着干? 不仅仅因为两国的领地纠纷，还因为英法两国是亲戚! 血腥玛丽暴行的起因看似是父亲的婚变，其实是宗教冲突。 拿破仑充满刺激的人生简单概括为两次登顶、两次落魄，其实可以看成一个金拱门。 翻开本书，在哈哈大笑中看懂英法两国的王朝更迭、权力斗争!

Dr. Joe Colella knows the science of weight loss. He has been helping thousands of patients lose weight—and keep it off—for over twenty years. And here's one of his secrets: any diet that leaves you feeling constantly hungry is almost certainly destined to fail.In fact, hunger should be your first clue that your diet isn't working. Sound crazyIt's not. There is science behind it, and in The Appetite Solution, Dr. Colella reveals what is holding you back from the weight loss you desire and provides a six-week, three-phase plan to help you start to shed those pounds in a sustainable way.His revolutionary "Appetite Scale" is a measurement that shows which foods lead to weight gain and cravings, no matter how much you've cut back on calories. Often, much of our weight gain comes from failing to recognize how many simple sugars we consume. Once aware of those secret saboteurs of weight loss, you'll begin the six-week plan. In phase one, you start to incorporate more protein into your diet. Phase two involves a progressive reduction of the simple sugars that lead to weight gain. And in phase three, you gradually begin to incorporate moderate exercise. This step-by-step process allows your body to adjust to the changes without going into survival mode and a decreased metabolism. This means you are increasing your metabolism for the long run, allowing you to slim down and maintain your ideal weight forever.After following the program in The Appetite Solution, you will have the metabolism of a teenager and no longer feel like you pack on pounds despite the yo-yo diet lifestyle you've experienced. Whether you have twenty pounds to lose or two hundred, Dr. Colella provides a practical and realistic way to control your appetite, lose weight, and stay healthy for the rest of your life.

The Future Is Slim by Design!In this paradigm-shattering book, leading behavioral economist and food psychologist Brian Wansink—dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of food" and the "wizard of why"—offers a radical new philosophy for weight loss. The answer isn't to tell people what to do; it's to set up their living environments so that they will naturally lose weight. Using cutting-edge, never-before-seen research from his acclaimed Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, Wansink reveals how innovative and inexpensive design changes—from home kitchens to restaurants, from grocery stores to schools and workplaces—can make it mindlessly easy for people to eat healthier and make it more profitable for the companies who sell the food).In Slim by Design, Wansink argues that the easiest, quickest, and most natural way to reverse weight gain is to work with human nature, not against it. He demonstrates how schools can nudge kids to take an apple instead of a cookie, how restaurants can increase profits by selling half-size portions, how supermarkets can double the amount of fruits and vegetables they sell, and how anyone can cut plate refills at home by more than a third. Interweaving drawings, charts, floor plans, and scorecards with new scientific studies and compelling insights that will make you view your surroundings in an entirely fresh way, this entertaining, eye-opening book offers practical solutions for changing your everyday environment to make you, your family, and even your community slim by design.

Yoga, Meet Life.Sometimes an hour-long yoga class is the only chance we get to connect meaningfully with our bodies and our minds during a week otherwise full of work, family, and the daily grind. Have you ever wondered how would it feel to bring that experience of awareness and calm out of the yoga studio and into your everyday lifeAfter all, we know that practicing yoga can give us a leaner body and more sculpted limbs, but isn't its most important benefit the way it makes us feelIn Do Your Om Thing, master yoga teacher and creator of the popular blog OmGal.com Rebecca Pacheco shows us that the true practice of yoga is about much more than achieving the perfect headstand or withstanding an hour-long class in a room heated to 100 degrees. "Yoga is not about performance," she tells us, "it's about practice, on your mat and in your life. If you want to get better at anything what should you doPractice. Confidence, compassion, awareness, joy—if you want more of these—and who doesn't?—yoga offers the skills to practice them."In her warm, personal, and often hilarious prose, Rebecca translates yogic philosophy for its twenty-first-century devotees, making ancient principles and philosophy feel accessible, relatable, and genuinely rooted in the world in which we live today. And by illuminating how the guiding principles of yoga apply to our modern lives, Rebecca shows us that the true power of a yoga practice is not physical transformation, but mental and spiritual liberation.

Under pressure to get a tasty, nutritious dinner on the table in a flashLike the idea of preparing fork-tender beef stew in thirty minutes and pot roast in under an hourAll this and more is made possible by the pressure cooker, a magical appliance that produces soul-satisfying, homemade food in one-third (or less) the standard cooking time.In Pressure Perfect, Lorna Sass, the country's leading authority on pressure cooking, distills her two decades of experience into one comprehensive volume. First learn everything you need to know about buying and using today's 100% safe cookers. Then enjoy?more than?200 recipes for preparing soups, meats, poultry, grains, beans, vegetables, and desserts in record time. How about whipping up a savory risotto in 4 minutes, chicken cacciatore in 12 minutes, or a delectable chocolate cheesecake in 25 minutes?Because the pressure cooker tenderizes tough cuts of meat quickly, you can prepare fall-off-the-bone beef short ribs or lamb shanks on weekday nights instead of waiting for a special occasion. The pressure cooker also allows you to make delectable one-pot meals in minutes. Among the many innovative recipes and techniques, you'll learn to cook meatloaf and potatoes simultaneously in 10 minutes, and meatballs, pasta, and sauce at the same time in only 5 minutes. Many recipes also suggest Cook-Along ideas for preparing vegetables and grains along with the entrée.To further?help?those cooking under pressure (and who isn't nowadays?), each chapter contains timing charts for quick reference. Tips and Pressure Points in every recipe ensure optimum results.This ultimate guide to pressure cooking is a must for all busy cooks, boaters, brides, college students, and anyone looking for a great way to make irresistible, healthy, home-made food fast.

A wonderfully nostalgic and inspiring look at the center of the home front during World War II New York City More than any other place, New York was the center of action on the home front during World War II. As Hitler came to power in Germany, American Nazis goose-stepped in Yorkville on the Upper East Side, while recently arrived Jewish émigrés found refuge on the Upper West Side. When America joined the fight, enlisted men heading for battle in Europe or the Pacific streamed through Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station. The Brooklyn Navy Yard refitted ships, and Times Square overflowed with soldiers and sailors enjoying some much-needed R & R. German U-boats attacked convoys leaving New York Harbor. Silhouetted against the gleaming skyline, ships were easy prey debris and even bodies washed up on Long Island beaches until the city rallied under a stringently imposed dim-out.From Rockefeller Center's Victory Gardens and Manhattan's swanky nightclubs to metal-scrap drives and carless streets, Over Here! captures the excitement, trepidation, and bustle of this legendary city during wartime. Filled with the reminiscences of ordinary and famous New Yorkers, including Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, and Angela Lansbury, and rich in surprising detail from Macy's blackout boutique to Mickey Mouse gas masks for kids this engaging look back is an illuminating tour of New York on the front lines of the home front.

It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing "Alone Together" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and America's first billionaire. In her passionate, unflinchingly honest memoir of two outsize lives entwined, Theodora "Teddy" Getty Gaston—now one hundred years old—reveals the glamorous yet painful story of her marriage to Getty. As formidable as he was, Teddy was equally strong-minded and flamboyant, and their clutches and clashes threw off sparks. She knew the vulnerable side of Getty—he underwent painful plastic surgery and suffered terrible phobias—that few, if any, saw. A vivid love story, Alone Together is also a fascinating glimpse into the twentieth century from the vantage point of one of its most remarkable couples. This is how the other half lived—dinner dances, satin gowns, beach houses, hotel suites, first-class cabins on the Queen Mary. Teddy's extra-ordinary life story moves from the glittering nightclubs of 1930s New York City to Mussolini's Italy, where she was imprisoned by the fascist regime, to California in the golden postwar years, where Paul and Teddy socialized with movie stars and the elite. But life with one of the world's richest men wasn't all glitz and glamour. Though terrifically charismatic in person, Getty grew more miserly as his wealth increased. Worse, he often left Teddy and their son, Timothy, behind for years at a time while he built planes for the war effort in the 1940s or brokered oil deals—he was the first American to lease mineral rights in Saudi Arabia, which made him, at his death, the richest man in the world. Even when Timothy was diagnosed with a brain tumor, Getty complained about medical bills and failed to return to the United States to support his wife and son. When Timothy died at age twelve, the marriage was already falling apart. Teddy's unrelenting spirit, her valiant friendship, and her winning lack of vanity transform what could have been a sob story into a nuanced portrait of a brilliant but stubbornly difficult man and the family he loved but left behind, as well as an enchanting view into a bygone era. This was a life lived from the heart.

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Serial entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow delves into the reasons why some people and some organizations are able to achieve incredible things in implausibly short time frames, showing how each of us can use these "smartcuts" to rethink convention and accelerate success.Why do some companies attract millions of customers in mere months while others flopHow did Alexander the Great, YouTube phenom Michelle Phan, and Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon dash to the top in less time than it takes most of us to get a midlevel promotionHow do high-growth businesses, world-class heart surgeons, and underdog marketers beat the norm?Like computer hackers, a handful of innovators in every era use lateral thinking to find better routes to stunning accomplishments. Throughout history, the world's biggest successes have been achieved by those who refuse to follow the expected course and buck the norm.Smartcuts is about bucking the norm. In it, Snow shatters common wisdom about success, revealing how conventions like "paying dues" prevent progress, why kids shouldn't learn multiplication tables, and how, paradoxically, it's easier to build a huge business than a small one.Smartcuts tells the stories of innovators who dared to work differently and lays out practical takeaways for the rest of us. It's about applying entrepreneurial and technological concepts to success, and how, by emulation, we too can leapfrog competitors, grow businesses, and fix society's problems faster than we think.

An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bohemian Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer— secret lover of JFK, ex-wife of a CIA chief, sexual adventurer, LSD explorer and early feminist living by her own rules.She was a longtime lover of JFK.She was the ex-wife of a CIA chief. She was the sister-in-law of the Washington Post’s Ben Bradlee.She believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. She was a painter, a socialite and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War.And she ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK’s assassination.The diary she kept was never found.Until now. . . .

From Democratic Party rising star Jane Kleeb, an urgent and stirring road map showing how the Democratic Party can, and should, engage rural AmericaThe Democratic Party has lost an entire generation of rural voters. By focusing the majority of their message and resources on urban and coastal voters, Democrats have sacrificed entire regions of the country where there is more common ground and shared values than what appears on the surface.In Harvest the Vote, Jane Kleeb, chair of Nebraska’s Democratic Party and founder of Bold Nebraska, brings us a lively and sweeping argument for why the Democrats shouldn’t turn away from rural America. As a party leader and longtime activist, Kleeb speaks from experience. She’s been fighting the national party for more resources and building a grassroots movement to flex the power of a voting bloc that has long been ignored and forgotten.Kleeb persuasively argues that the hottest issues of the day can be solved hand in hand with rural people. On climate change, Kleeb shows that the vast spaces of rural America can be used to enact clean energy innovations. And issues of eminent domain and corporate overreach will galvanize unlikely alliances of family farmers, ranchers, small business owners, progressives, and tribal leaders, much as they did when she helped fight the Keystone XL pipeline. The hot-button issues of guns and abortion that the Republican Party uses to wedge voters against one another can be bridged by putting a megaphone next to issues critical to rural communities.Written with a fiery voice and commonsense solutions, Harvest the Vote is both a call to action and a much-needed balm for a highly divided nation.

A medical mistake during an IVF procedure. An unthinkable situation . . . you're pregnant with the wrong baby. You can terminate, but you can't keep him. What choice would you make?Carolyn and Sean Savage had been trying to expand their family for years. When they underwent an IVF transfer in February 2009, they knew it would be their last chance. If they became pregnant, they would celebrate the baby as an answer to their prayers. If not, they would be grateful for the family they had and leave their fertility struggles behind forever.They never imagined a third option. The pregnancy test was positive, but the clinic had transferred the wrong embryos. Carolyn was pregnant with someone elses baby.The Savages faced a series of heartbreaking decisions: terminate the pregnancy, sue for custody, or hand over the infant to his genetic parents upon delivery. Knowing that Carolyn was carrying another couple's hope for a baby, the Savages wanted to do what they prayed the other family would do for them if the situation was reversed. Sean and Carolyn Savage decided to give the ultimate gift, the gift of life, to a family they didn't know, no strings attached.Inconceivable provides an inside look at how modern medicine, which creates miracles daily, could allow such a tragic mistake, and the many legal ramifications that ensued with both the genetic family and the clinic. Chronicling their tumultuous pregnancy and its aftermath, which tested the Savage's faith, their relationship to their church, and their marriage, Inconceivable is ultimately a testament to love. Carolyn and Sean loved this baby, making it impossible for them to imagine how they could give him life and then give him away.In the end, Inconceivable is a story of what it is to be a parent, someone who nurtures a life, protects a soul, only to release that child into the world long before you're ready to let him go.

Eat. Drink. Detox. Breathe. Neutralize. Good health is that simple.In this groundbreaking health-and-lifestyle guide, nutritionist and superfoods expert Darin Olien provides the keys to understanding and utilizing five life forces—Quality Nutrition, Hydration, Detoxification, Oxygenation, and Alkalization—the factors that determine whether we will be healthy, fit, and free of illness.Olien has traveled the world, exploring the health properties of foods that have sustained indigenous cultures for centuries. Putting his research into practice, he tells how to maintain healthy weight, prevent even the most serious of diseases, and feel great—all without restrictive or gimmicky diet plans that never work in the long term.All too often we take note of our health only when something goes wrong. Daily aches and pains are deemed normal—a headache here and there, a sore back, occasional heartburn. But when a diagnosis comes, we are taken by surprise. However, these little complaints, Olien argues, shouldn't be taken lightly—they are signals of underlying problems, and when we ignore them, we invite disease.With a comprehensive, holistic, and unique approach to wellness, Olien teaches us how to harness the superpowers of food, water, oxygen, and pH balance. In doing so, he smashes common myths about nutrition. Included in the book are an indispensable "How to Eat" user's guide with a shopping list, a balanced diet plan, and advice on what to throw away and on supplementing effectively, to get us started on the way to the best health of our lives.

We've all been there, sittinguncomfortably in a paper gownas a doctor impassively describesour prognosis. Sometimes it's simple andtreatable. Other times we get news wecan't fathom and then are faced withdecisions that are literally life and death.In this revolutionary book, physician,behavioral scientist, and bioethicist PeterUbel, M.D., reveals how hidden dynamicsin the doctor/patient relationship keepus and our loved ones from making thebest medical choices. From doctors whostruggle to explain, to patients who failto properly listen, countless factors alterthe course of our care, causing things togo seriously awry.With riveting stories of Ubel's own experiencein the field, his groundbreakingresearch, and his personal journey walkingloved ones through difficult treatmentchoices, Critical Decisions will foreverchange the way we communicate insidehospitals and medical offices, wherethoughtful decision making matters themost. Dr. Ubel has been on both endsof the stethoscope, and in this book,he shows how patients and doctorscan learn to become partners and worktogether to make the right choices. Fromchoosing to get surgery, to discussingthe side effects of a blood pressure medication,we can finally discover the toolsto improve communication, understandthe issues, and make confident decisionsfor our future health and happiness.

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Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time and the visionary mastermind behind it.Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease study to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. While it is one of the largest scientific projects ever attempted—as breathtaking as the first moon landing or the Human Genome Project—the questions it answers are meaningful for every one of us: What are the world's health problemsWho do they hurtHow muchWhereWhy?Murray argues that the ideal existence isn't simply the longest, but the one lived well and with the least illness. Until we can accurately measure global health issues, we cannot understand what makes us sick or do much to improve it. Challenging the accepted wisdom of the WHO and the UN, the charismatic and controversial health maverick has made enemies—as well as some influential friends, including Bill Gates who gave Murray a $100 million grant.Told with novelistic verve by acclaimed journalist Jeremy N. Smith, the story of Murray's lifelong determination to understand how we live and die encompasses wars and famines, presidents and activists, billionaires and billions of people worldwide living in poverty. It shows the human side of scientific revolutions and of revolutionary scientists—their breakthroughs and setbacks, their genius and their flaws, their champions and their critics—as they strive to bring the news of their findings to the world. This transformational effort is far from over, but the story of its genesis and impact is already an epic tale.