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Published also in French under title: L'eau a la bouche: les 4 saisons selon Anne Desjardins.

"Your spirit is your most important personal weapon in the battle with cancer!" Writing from the unique perspective of an oncology social worker, a holistic psychotherapist, and the wife of a patient with high-risk prostate cancer Judith Desjardins shares the intimate details of their journey and the empowering strategies she devised to turn a pessimistic prognosis into improbable, positive, and hopeful results. This book is a firsthand picture of the emotional and psychological toll that prostate cancer takes on patients and their loved ones, and shows how it affects them on the inside-the mind, emotions, and spirit. It is her firm belief that understanding and treating these dimensions of the disease as well as the body, in a holistic approach,can lead to a better prognosis for the prostate cancer patient-and that it can also prevent family caretakers from developing their own medical problems due to stress. AWARDS FOR OUR JOURNEY WITH PROSTATE CANCER The 2015 Beverly Hills International Book Awards Winner Category: Men's Health The 2015 Beverly Hills International Book Awards Award-Winning Finalist Category: Cancer Readers' Favorite 2015 International Book Awards Silver Medal Winner Category: Non Fiction - Health-Fitness The 2015 International Book Awards Winner Category: Health: Cancer The 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards Winner Category: Cancer The 2015 National Indie Excellence Book Awards Winner Category: Men's Health Reader Views 2014/2015 Book Awards Winner Category: Body, Mind, Spirit Reader Views 2014/2015 Book Awards Winner The Best Body/Health Book The 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist The 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention Winner Category: Health The 2015 Pacific Book Awards Award- Winning Finalist Category: Self-Help The 2014 USA Best Books Awards First Runner -Up Category: Health/Cancer

"Your spirit is your most important personal weapon in the battle with cancer!" Writing from the unique perspective of an oncology social worker, a holistic psychotherapist, and the wife of a patient with high-risk prostate cancer, Judith shares the intimate details of their journey and the empowering strategies she devised to turn a pessimistic prognosis into improbable, positive, and hopeful results. "We have walked through the valley of the shadow of death and come out the other side." "What I want to present in this book is a full firsthand picture of the emotional and psychological toll that prostate cancer has on patients and their loved ones. I want to show how it affects them on the inside; the parts that may be invisible to others but are very real: the mind, emotions, and spirit. It is my firm belief that understanding and treating these dimensions of the disease as well as the body, in a holistic approach, can lead to a better prognosis for the prostate cancer patient and that it can also prevent family caretakers from developing their own medical problems due to stress. Over the two-year period I've been writing this book, I have gained painful yet valuable insight into the whole dynamics of cancer, treatment, and healing. This insight is so much more real and organic than the theories I employed as an oncology social worker in the 1970's. In those days my knowledge was only theoretical, or limited to what I gleaned or intuited from my work with patients, family members, and the medical staff. I had only a vague idea what the patients and their family members were going through. In this book, I want to earnestly and honestly share the experiences my husband and I have had with prostate cancer so far, in hopes that you will find comfort and power from the shared experiences whether you're the patient or the patient's loved one. You will find here practical suggestions for navigating the medical system, insight into your own emotional-psychological-spiritual processes, strategies for battling prostate cancer in particular, and the courage to fight prostate cancer with all your might while maintaining a loving relationship. I pray that by reading our story, you will be blessed in some way and that you will find your Inner Warrior (a person who is strong in body, mind, emotions, and spirit; a person with fierce determination to live, who is disciplined and well armed for the battle with cancer) again, whether you're the patient or the patient's loved one. One final note: Although I'm writing specifically about prostate cancer, I'm confident that the principals I present here apply to men and women with any form of cancer as well as their family members."

In the new edition of a successful book, Anne Campbell redresses the balance of evolutionary theory in favour of women. She examines how selection pressures have shaped the female mind over thousands of generations: Their emotions, friendship, competition, aggression and mate choice.

In this remarkable book — thoughtful, intimate and stunningly illustrated with archival and original photos — three of the best writers in their fields join with Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul to tell the story of Canada’s house in the 21st century. Opening wide the doors, Canada’s House reveals how Rideau Hall has reinvented itself into a place that mirrors the varied identity, gardens and foods of the country — immensely inspiring, alive with a vitality and distinctiveness that is Canada today. Over the last five years, Rideau Hall has been transformed into a place that vitally reflects Canada’s unique contemporary identity: its kitchens are now a hive of activity using indigenous foods and wine from across the country; and its garden has been redesigned into a true Northern Garden — a showcase for Canadian flowers, plants and trees, and organic vegetables. It has become a unique home that represents Canada and Canadians from coast-to-coast. Three of our leading writers have come together to tell the story of how Rideau Hall has come to reflect so much that is both distinctive and excellent from across Canada: Margaret MacMillan, Governor-General’s Literary Award winner, contemplates the history of “home” in Canada, and the story of the great house — the hub of the country’s public life since before Confederation — through the people who have given it life. Marjorie Harris, award-winning garden writer, writes vividly on the Canadian woodland garden, the flowers and plants, as well as the organic vegetable garden that provides the fresh herbs and an impressive proportion of the fruits and vegetables for both daily life and state dinners — essential reading for all who love gardens, as well as those who aspire to creating a Canadian garden. Anne Desjardins, award-winning Quebec food writer, shows how Rideau Hall has become synonymous with contemporary Canadian cuisine, its cross-country diversity and its riches — from the shellfish and cloudberries of the Maritimes to the cheeses of Quebec; from the oolichan of the West coast to the teas and caribou of the Far North; from the wines of the Okanagan to Niagara, recognized world-wide for their excellence. With an introduction to the country’s leading food and wine producers, as well as thirty original recipes tested for home cooks by Rideau Hall’s famous Chef Oliver Bartsch. Throughout the book, Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul share their experiences in helping to bring our national house — a place that reflects Canada as diverse, bountiful, self-confident and rich in achievement — into the 21st century.

Have you ever been at a dinner party, and a guest is sharing a story so compelling that you wanted to write it down and make it into a comic? Well that's exactly what the creator of the "My Friends Best Stories" series did. What started out as Christmas gifts, then later an Instagram account, now becomes this book. In this first anthology, you'll receive over 30 delightful anecdotes about birth, death and all the sticky stuff in-between. Stories range from accidentally dosing your dad who works at a nuclear power plant to waking up and finding out that the last 6 months of your life were within a two week coma. If you like short little stories with a twist, then this book is for you!

Dive into the wild world of vector spaces and inner products in this mind-blowing book that explores their importance in math, computer graphics, quantum mechanics, machine learning, and more. With an irreverent tone and a focus on real-life applications, this book breaks down complex concepts, from orthogonality to spectral theorem, and reveals the power and coolness of vector spaces. Whether youre a math enthusiast or just curious about the practical uses of vectors, this book will leave you inspired and ready to embrace the awesomeness of fucking math.