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Stop the Germs! (Health and My Body)
by Mari SchuhYuck, germs! Germs can make us sick. How do we stay healthy? With engaging text and colorful photos, readers find out how to keep the germs away. Stop the Germs! includes a glossary, read more section, kid-friendly internet sites, and an index.
Stop the Pain: Your Hands-On Manual for Neck and Back Relief
by Vienna Dunham SchmidtStop the Pain presents tried-and-true pain-relieving techniques in an easy-to-follow guide. Veteran massage therapist, Vienna Schmidt has worked with hundreds of people with chronic pain, empowering her clients to take their healing into their own hands. In Stop the Pain, Vienna shares her tried-and-true pain-relieving techniques in an easy-to-follow guide where those suffering can discover:What causes tension, stabbing or burning pain, and knots in their neck and backStrategies that work to relieve pain (and save the money they’ve been spending on therapies that didn’t work or didn’t last) A way to get back to feeling great and sleeping without pain How their brain comes back when the constant pain messages stop How great it is to have the power to get themselves out of pain
Stop the Rot: Stop Telling Children "Brush Your Teeth"
by Dr. Garth PettitFor 5 Centuries children have been told to Brush Your Teeth, generation after generation, Century after Century by; parents, grandparents, dentists, dental hygienists, dental therapists, teachers, schools, Education Departments, Dental Associations, health related government agencies and even The World Health Organization. The list is endless. Children are brainwashed to Brush Your Teeth from a very early age up to their teens. Brush Your Teeth has been causing oral diseases since before 1498, the year the first tooth brush to be made with bristles was patented.Brush Your Teeth is a 15th Century tooth cleaning instruction.Brush Your Teeth is a cleaning-only instruction.Brush Your Teeth does not leave the whole mouth clean.Brush Your Teeth does not leave vulnerable-to-disease mouth surfaces protected from disease.Brush Your Teeth does not predictably prevent oral diseases.
Stop vermoeidheid: Hoe je je leven terugkrijgt
by Lisa GibsonHet chronisch vermoeidheidssyndroom (CVS) is een van de vaakst gediagnosticeerde "mysterieuze" aandoeningen. Meer dan een miljoen Amerikanen lijden aan het chronisch vermoeidheidssyndroom, en dat worden er alleen maar meer. Deze ziekte treft meer mensen dan multiple sclerose, lupus, en vele soorten kanker. CVS komt vier keer vaker voor bij vrouwen dan bij mannen. Waarom neemt CVS toe? Is het een soort epidemie of is CVS een vangnetdiagnose geworden voor alle aandoeningen waarbij je last hebt van vermoeidheid en pijn, maar de dokter niks kan vinden? Een syndroom is per definitie een rijtje symptomen die systematisch gelijktijdig optreden. In werkelijkheid is chronische vermoeidheid dus geen ziekte, maar een stel symptomen. Deze symptomen kunnen ernstig, levensbedreigend en invaliderend zijn. Dus de hamvraag is: wat veroorzaakt al deze symptomen? Dieet, ziektes, omgevingsfactoren, of alle bovenstaande? Helaas heeft de gezondheidszorg meer vragen dan antwoorden. Door deze onbeantwoorde vragen blijven mensen met CVS uitzichtloos achter, en moeten zij zich neerleggen bij het feit dat ze misschien hun hele leven last zullen blijven hebben van deze invaliderende symptomen. Maar je hoeft je leven hierdoor niet te laten bepalen. Er zijn zowel traditionele als niet-traditionele behandelingen die je kunnen helpen om erachter te komen wat de onderliggende oorzaken van je symptomen zijn en hoe je deze symptomen kunt verminderen. Wat is de oplossing De beste manier om CVS te overwinnen is om erachter te komen waardoor je symptomen écht veroorzaakt worden. Dus in dit boek laat ik je het volgende zien: - Dat virussen en infecties symptomen van CVS kunnen veroorzaken - Waarop je je kunt laten onderzoeken bij de dokter - Welke veranderingen in levensstijl je kunt toepassen om je symptomen te verminderen en je leven te verbeteren - Technologische vorderingen op het gebied van de behandeling van de onderliggende oorzaken van CVS - Medicijnen, supplementen en voedings
Stop! No Smoking Programme
by Nicola WillisDespite the evidence that smoking kills, there are estimated to be 15 million smokers in Britain, of which 70 per cent want to give up. Unlike any other key stop-smoking books, STOP! No Smoking Programme looks at all the available quit-techniques and helps the reader find the most suitable for them. It sets out a clear programme based on the latest research in a lively and accessible format, backed up with quizzies and celebrity success stories. The four-week STOP! Programme provides a step-by-step guide to the week before Quit day and the 3 weeks that follow it, with motivation-packed 2 hour sections for the first 3 days after stopping. The Guide wil debunk many of the popular myths and misconceptions about tobacco addiction and will arm quitters with the information and techniques necessary to quit smoking for good.
Stopping the Next Pandemic: How Covid-19 Can Help Us Save Humanity
by Debora MacKenzie'Excellent . . . analyses clearly and authoritatively how the coronavirus pandemic played out, what governments should have done, and what we need to do when it happens again - as it undoubtedly will' Financial Times'You could not hope for a better guide to the pandemic world order than Debora MacKenzie, who's been on this story from the start. This is an authoritative yet readable explanation of how this catastrophe happened - and more important, how it will happen again if we don't change'Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist, Adapt and Messy'This definitely deserves a read - the first of the post mortems by a writer who knows what she's talking about'Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the WorldIn a gripping, accessible narrative, a veteran science journalist lays out the shocking story of how the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic happened and how to make sure this never happens againOver the last 30 years of epidemics and pandemics, we learned every lesson needed to stop this coronavirus outbreak in its tracks. We heeded almost none of them. The result is a pandemic on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. In this captivating, authoritative, and eye-opening book, science journalist Debora MacKenzie lays out the full story of how and why it happened: the previous viruses that should have prepared us, the shocking public health failures that paved the way, the failure to contain the outbreak, and most importantly, what we must do to prevent future pandemics.Debora MacKenzie has been reporting on emerging diseases for more than three decades, and she draws on that experience to explain how COVID-19 went from a potentially manageable outbreak to a global pandemic. Offering a compelling history of the most significant recent outbreaks, including SARS, MERS, H1N1, Zika, and Ebola, she gives a crash course in Epidemiology 101--how viruses spread and how pandemics end--and outlines the lessons we failed to learn from each past crisis. In vivid detail, she takes us through the arrival and spread of COVID-19, making clear the steps that governments knew they could have taken to prevent or at least prepare for this. Looking forward, MacKenzie makes a bold, optimistic argument: this pandemic might finally galvanize the world to take viruses seriously. Fighting this pandemic and preventing the next one will take political action of all kinds, globally, from governments, the scientific community, and individuals--but it is possible.No one has yet brought together our knowledge of COVID-19 in a comprehensive, informative, and accessible way. But that story can already be told, and Debora MacKenzie's urgent telling is required reading for these times and beyond. It is too early to say where the COVID-19 pandemic will go, but it is past time to talk about what went wrong and how we can do better.
Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going
by David KundtzLearn how to step back when life’s pace gets overwhelming in this insightful guide to mental balance and wellbeing.We are always on the go. Balancing work, family, friends, and everything in between is a never-ending cycle that can easily lead to burnout. It becomes easy to forget the beauty of the smaller moments. Sometimes we even forget ourselves. In Stopping, Dr. David Kundtz offers a simple yet powerful corrective to the manic pace of modern life.Stopping is a gift to yourself: a chance to breathe and regain a clearer vision of who and where you are. Stopping helps you find your inner balance and get a fresh perspective on your day, the challenges ahead, or your life overall. Kundtz tells you how and when to stop—whether it’s a momentary pause or a longer period of quiet and stillness—and gives you insights into the key questions you should be asking.With this valuable guide, you will learn to:Connect with the spiritual aspects of your lifeAcknowledge when you need to take a step backUse proper coping tactics to create healthier habits
Storied Companions
by Karen DerrisA professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner helps readers discover new ways of facing and experiencing life, death, and impermanence.&“With my diagnosis of grade IV brain cancer, I no longer observe the truth of impermanence from a critical, analytical distance. I am crashing into it, or it into me.&” Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, Karen Derris—professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner—turned to books. By reading ancient Buddhist stories with new questions and a new purpose—finding a way to live with her dying body—she discovers new ways to make them immediate and real. For instance, reading with her terminal prognosis, she becomes one of the four omens (the four signs of impermanence and suffering) the young Siddhartha sees in his excursions from the palace. What would it mean for her to be in the crowd, straining to see the prince with her own sick and impermanent body—to be pushed aside and out of sight by the palace minders, just as our society so often tries to brush aside anything uncomfortable, but to nonetheless be seen by the young bodhisattva? Or reading as a mother, maybe she shares something akin to what Queen Maya may have felt, knowing she was dying, giving her newborn son over to her sister&’s care? What will it mean for her own children to be motherless? She follows the knotted threads connecting Milarepa&’s angry, vengeful mother to Karen&’s own mother, who physically abused her throughout a traumatic childhood. By placing herself into these stories, she turns them from distant and static narratives into companions, and from companions into guides. Storied Companions interweaves Karen&’s memoir of her life of trauma and illness with stories from Buddhist literary traditions, sharing with the reader how she found ways to live with the reality that she won&’t live as long as she wants and needs to. Honest, powerful, and insightful, Storied Companions itself becomes an invaluable companion, guiding the reader to discover new ways of facing and experiencing life, death, and impermanence.
Stories From Life
by Orison Swett MardenTo make a life, as well as to make a living, is one of the supreme objects for which we must all struggle. The sooner we realize what this means, the greater and more worthy will be the life which we shall make...
Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative
by Paul B. ArmstrongThis book explains how the brain interacts with the social world--and why stories matter. How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In this book, the author analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning. Taking up the age-old question of what our ability to tell stories reveals about language and the mind, this truly interdisciplinary project should be of interest to humanists and cognitive scientists alike.
Stories from the Other Side: Remarkable Stories From The Other Side
by Gordon SmithStories From The Other Side is a revealing, honest and often humorous account of Gordon’s experiences as a medium. From realising his abilities as a child (much to the confusion of his family) to silencing voices at night it provides a fascinating insight into his world. Ideal for both believers and sceptics alike, it includes shockingly accurate readings, moving tales of bereavement and surprising celebrity anecdotes. Stories from the Other Side breaches the gap between science and spirituality and offers Gordon’s unique insight on life and death. From his early years in a rough estate in Glasgow, to his international acclaim as one of the world’s best mediums, it charts the confusion, happiness, love and heartbreak he has encountered along the way.
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare
by Charles L. Briggs Clara Mantini-BriggsCholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.
Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South (American Heritage)
by Tony KailSeparate fact from fiction in this history of African healers, spiritualists, and conjurers in the mid-southern United States.Men and women who carried the mantle of African healing and spirituality in the Mid-South were frequently accused and attacked for their misunderstood culture. The same healers and spiritual workers feared by outsiders were embraced and revered by families who survived because of their presence. From Tennessee to Mississippi, ancient formulas and potions were integral parts of the African American community. Follow author Tony Kail as he takes us down the back roads of rural counties, where healers formulated miracles in mojo bags, and into the cities, where conjurers spoke to the spirits of the dead.“If true mystery and fascinating cultures move you, you'll be thunderstruck by this book . . . . Vast numbers of Africans were brought to this region in chains from their native lands, moved cross country from the Atlantic coast, and inland from Jamaica, Haiti, and the Caribbean. They brought with them their religious and faith healing practices. Tony Kail, cultural anthropologist and ethnographer, writer and lecturer, brings his nearly three decades of study of ancient faith healing (hoodoo) and herbal beliefs to bear in this remarkable work.” —Decatur Daily
Stories of the Occult: Supernatural Happenings and Strange Tales from Around the World
by Jamie KingPrepare to step over to the dark side with this sinister selection of occult stories Have you heard the tale of the black-eyed children? What about the monster that eats your dreams? Do you know about the witches that summon the dead? This spine-chilling compendium of strange and supernatural happenings from across the globe is essential reading, whether you're an occult enthusiast or simply curious.Filled with mind-bending stories of dark magic, terrifying hauntings and unexplained phenomena, the world of the occult has left us fascinated and fearful since ancient times. Spellbinding, mysterious and hidden from view, occult practices offer a way to uncover the secret knowledge of the universe, but beware: some say this knowledge comes at a price... Explore this rich history of magic and intrigue, as well as occult rituals and esoteric philosophies that continue today. Stories of the Occult looks at:- Hauntings- Unexplained deaths- Witchcraft- Mythical creatures and much more. Delve into this book and see what you can discover. By the end, you may not know what to believe!
Stories of the Occult: Supernatural Happenings and Strange Tales from Around the World
by Jamie KingPrepare to step over to the dark side with this sinister selection of occult stories Have you heard the tale of the black-eyed children? What about the monster that eats your dreams? Do you know about the witches that summon the dead? This spine-chilling compendium of strange and supernatural happenings from across the globe is essential reading, whether you're an occult enthusiast or simply curious.Filled with mind-bending stories of dark magic, terrifying hauntings and unexplained phenomena, the world of the occult has left us fascinated and fearful since ancient times. Spellbinding, mysterious and hidden from view, occult practices offer a way to uncover the secret knowledge of the universe, but beware: some say this knowledge comes at a price... Explore this rich history of magic and intrigue, as well as occult rituals and esoteric philosophies that continue today. Stories of the Occult looks at:- Hauntings- Unexplained deaths- Witchcraft- Mythical creatures and much more. Delve into this book and see what you can discover. By the end, you may not know what to believe!
Storm Seal: A seaside story of family and hope
by Sarah Ann JuckesFind your voice in the waves in a heartfelt and hopeful story of family, friendship, and learning to accept change from the critically-acclaimed partnership, Sarah Ann Juckes and Sharon King-Chai, selected for Waterstones Children's Book of the Month with The Night Animals. Martha was raised on her nana&’s stories. Even if no one else believes them, Martha knows that they&’re magic. Now those stories are helping Martha hold things together when everything around her is falling apart – out-of-towners moving into her family&’s old house, her nana&’s mysterious illness, and the tourists flooding the town who don&’t seem to care about the sea or the animals it&’s home to. But Martha has found one creature who understands – a black seal pup that seems to appear whenever Martha needs it most. Could she be the key to fixing everything that's wrong, or will Martha need to fight her way through the storm herself? Illustrated by the award-winning Sharon King-Chai, Sarah Ann Juckes&’ emotional novel follows a young girl trying to protect her family and her community, who must learn that not all changes are bad. For fans of The Last Bear and Julia and the Shark.Praise for Sarah Ann Juckes &‘Will break your heart and mend it together again&’ ― Piers Torday on The Hunt for the Nightingale &‘Full of hope, beauty & ultimately a healing song to nature&’ ― Hannah Gold on The Hunt for the Nightingale &‘An incredibly moving story of feeling lost and finding your way again&’ ― Lisa Thompson on The Hunt for the Nightingale 'An iridescent story that shines with hope and love' ― Katya Balen on The Night Animals 'A beautiful story about ghosts, friendship, and the courage it takes to ask for help' ― Emma Carroll on The Night Animals
Straight Talk About Breast Cancer: From Diagnosis to Recovery (Addicus Nonfiction Bks.)
by Suzanne W. Braddock Jane M. Kercher John J. Edney Margaret Block Melanie Morrissey ClarkThis volume serves as an accessible and practical guide for answering the questions of women with breast cancer as well as a resource for easing the concerns of the spouse and family members of breast cancer patients. Drawing on the personal experiences of a breast cancer survivor and the professional expertise of medical professionals, this guide details the various treatment options for cancer patients, including lumpectomy and mastectomy surgeries, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy. Updated information and photographs on breast reconstruction, a complete list of resources, and an open discussion of hereditary and reccurrence risks are included.
Straight Talk about Breast Cancer: From Diagnosis to Recovery (Addicus Nonfiction Bks.)
by Suzanne W. Braddock Jane M. Kercher John J. Edney Margaret Block Melanie Morrissey ClarkThis medical handbook serves as an accessible resource for answering the questions of women with breast cancer as well as easing the concerns of their spouses and family members. Drawing on the personal experiences of a breast-cancer survivor and the professional expertise of breast-cancer specialists, this guide outlines the various treatment options for cancer patients—including lumpectomy and mastectomy surgeries, radiation treatment, and chemotherapy—both in terms of how they work and the toll they take on a patient's life. Updated information and photographs on breast reconstruction are included along with a complete list of resources and an open discussion of hereditary and reoccurrence risks.
Straight Up Food: Delicious And Easy Plant-based Cooking Without Salt, Oil Or Sugar
by Cathy FisherVeteran cooking instructor Cathy Fisher guides you in preparing delicious meals made from the most health-promoting ingredients on the planet! Her recipes call for 100% plant foods: vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and contain no animal-derived ingredients: meat (beef, pork, fowl, fish, seafood), eggs, honey, or dairy products (cow's milk, cream, butter, cheese, yogurt). They are also gluten-free and "SOS-free" (made with no added salt, oil, or sugar). These are dishes that most of us have been eating all of our lives--they've just been given a makeover! Although Cathy emphasizes whole foods instead of overly processed foods, flavor is not sacrificed: her recipes simply call for more healthful sources of sodium (salt), richness (fat), and sweetness (sugar). This is not a complicated gourmet cookbook to be admired on the bookshelf, but rather a "let's make really good food so we can feel and look really good" cookbook filled with recipes you will make on a regular basis.
Straighter, Stronger, Leaner, Longer: A Head-to-Toe Strengthening, Stretching, and Pain-Relieving Program
by Renee Daniels Janice BillingsleyStop aches and pains with this effective new therapeutic exercise plan. <P> Who doesn't suffer from chronic aches and pains in the neck, back, shoulders, knees, or elsewhere? In Straighter, Stronger, Leaner, Longer, medical exercise specialist and personal trainer Renie Daniels presents her fullbody strengthening and alignment program for rehabilitating injuries and strengthening and toning bodies. She explains why proper alignment is the key to a strong, healthy body, and how our daily habits, from sitting at a desk at work to carrying a baby on one hip all day to spending long hours sitting behind the wheel of a car, can contribute to muscle weaknesses and misalignments, leading to aches and pains. <P> Straighter, Stronger, Leaner, Longer will help readers find relief by showing them how to assess their own posture and movements, which may be causing pain, and by providing them with a personalized exercise program to treat problem areas.
Strala Yoga: Be Strong, Focused And Ridiculously Happy From The Inside Out
by Tara Stilesfreedom · space · ease · flowJoin Tara Stiles as she takes you through the revolutionary style of yoga, Strala, a powerful form of feeling-based movement that helps people drop stress from their bodies and minds, unlocking each person’s limitless potential to be radiantly healthy, fit, and happy.In this book, Tara shows you how to incorporate Strala into your own life, starting today! She guides you through several yoga sequences that are based on the same classes you’ll find at her Strala studios worldwide: ENERGIZE, RELAX, BASICS, CORE, and GENTLE. Whether you want an invigorating burst to wake you up, or a flow that relieves tension and helps you unwind, there’s something for everyone.Featuring more than ten yoga routines, full-color photos, and two programs to help you jump-start your practice and transform your life."My goal is to help you feel connected and gain strength, calm, clarity, and ease from the inside out. Get ready to feel amazing, and enjoy the ride!"xo, Tara
Stranded (Orca Soundings)
by Jocelyn ShipleyAfter his girlfriend’s accidental death by overdose, Kipp has been living on the streets, overwhelmed by his grief. He wants to honor her memory and finds help to get clean, but just when he feels like he’s getting his life together, everything comes crashing down. He gets fired from his job and kicked out of his rented room on the same day. So when Reba, a friendly woman he met at the shelter, offers him a job and a place to live, he leaps at the chance. This is his lucky break. But when a girl comes to Reba's house looking for her missing brother, Kipp starts to wonder what Reba's real story is and if his lucky break might actually be a nightmare.
Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
by George PendleNow a CBS All Access series: &“A riveting tale of rocketry, the occult, and boom-and-bust 1920s and 1930s Los Angeles&” (Booklist). The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: ROCKET SCIENTIST KILLED IN PASADENA EXPLOSION. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city&’s occult scene. Fueled by childhood dreams of space flight, Parsons was a leader of the motley band of enthusiastic young men who founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a cornerstone of the American space program. But Parsons&’s wild imagination also led him into a world of incantations and orgiastic rituals—if he could make rocketry a reality, why not black magic? George Pendle re-creates the world of John Parsons in this dazzling portrait of prewar superstition, cold war paranoia, and futuristic possibility. Peopled with such formidable real-life figures as Howard Hughes, Aleister Crowley, L. Ron Hubbard, and Robert Heinlein, Strange Angel explores the unruly consequences of genius. The basis for a new miniseries created by Mark Heyman and produced by Ridley Scott, this biography &“vividly tells the story of a mysterious and forgotten man who embodied the contradictions of his time . . . when science fiction crashed into science fact. . . . [It] would make a compelling work of fiction if it weren&’t so astonishingly true&” (Publishers Weekly).
Strange Attractor Journal Five
by Mark Pilkington Jamie SutcliffeThe return of the Strange Attractor Journal, offering a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture.After seven years of silence, the acclaimed Strange Attractor Journal returns with a characteristically eclectic collection of high weirdness from the margins of culture. Covering previously uncharted regions of history, anthropology, art, literature, architecture, science, and magic since 2004, each Journal has presented new and unprecedented research into areas that scholarship has all too often ignored.Featuring essays from academics, artists, enthusiasts, and sorcerers, Journal Five explores matters including the folklore of foghorns; the occult origins of the dissident surrealist secret society the Acéphale; the pleasures of heathen falconry; the dark cosmological mysteries of Bremen's Haus Atlantis; a provisional taxonomy of animals with human faces; a twentieth-century crucifixion on Hampstead Heath, and an unpublished horror script by David MacGillivray and Ken Hollings.Journal Five sees Strange Attractor continuing in its mission to celebrate unpopular culture.Join us.ContributorsNadia Choucha, William Fowler, Jeremy Harte, Ken Hollings, Christopher Josiffe, Phil Legard, David MacGillivray, Karen Russo, Robert J. Wallis, Dan Wilson, E. H. Wormwood
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
by Ina Park"Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her own shame-free living to take the stigma out of these infections." —The New York TimesWith curiosity and wit, Strange Bedfellows rips back the bedsheets to expose what really happens when STDs enter the sack.Sexually transmitted diseases have been hidden players in our lives for the whole of human history, with roles in everything from World War II to the growth of the Internet to The Bachelor. But despite their prominence, STDs have been shrouded in mystery and taboo for centuries, which begs the question: why do we know so little about them?Enter Ina Park, MD, who has been pushing boundaries to empower and inform others about sexual health for decades. With Strange Bedfellows, she ventures far beyond the bedroom to examine the hidden role and influence of these widely misunderstood infections and share their untold stories.Covering everything from AIDS to Zika, Park explores STDs on the cellular, individual, and population-level. She blends science and storytelling with historical tales, real life sexual escapades, and interviews with leading scientists—weaving in a healthy dose of hilarity along the way.The truth is, most of us are sexually active, yet we’re often unaware of the universe of microscopic bedfellows inside our pants. Park aims to change this by bringing knowledge to the masses in an accessible, no-nonsense, humorous way—helping readers understand the broad impact STDs have on our lives, while at the same time erasing the unfair stigmas attached to them.A departure from the cone of awkward silence and shame that so often surrounds sexual health, Strange Bedfellows is the straight-shooting book about the consequences of sex that all curious readers have been looking for.