New York City Ballet Workout Book or Breast Cancer

New York City Ballet Workout Book

Author: Peter Martins

New York City Ballet Workout is a revolutionary fitness program that will help you begin to develop lean abs, firm buttocks, a contoured waist, sculpted legs, slim thighs, strong arms, perfect posture, flexbility you never thought possible--and grace and poice of a dancer. More than three hundred stunning step-by-step and other photographs throughout make this the most beautiful and easy-to-use exercise book ever created.This elegant book is unlike any exercise book ever published. Graced with more than 300 instructional exercise photographs and extraordinary duotone portraits of New York City Ballet dancers, The New York City Ballet Workout explores the company's philosophy of balancing art, life, and fitness.

By combining elements of New York City Ballet's balletic regimen with practical strength-building exercises, The New York City Ballet Workout can help people achieve a strong, graceful, and flexible body--one that displays the impeccable poise that is the trademark of New York City Ballet dancers.

Many exercises of The New York City Ballet Workout were once confined to the world's elite rehearsal studios. Now, as refined by Peter Martins and his company, these exercises have been designed as a comprehensive, holistic approach to the body that can be used by anyone from the out-of-shape to the serious athlete, to attain a lean, hard, beautiful body. From flexibility to endurance, this is a complete exercise program for men and women.

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Breast Cancer: The Complete Guide

Author: Yashar Hirshaut

Written by two renowned authorities who specialize in the treatment of breast cancer, a surgeon and an oncologist, this lucid step-by-step guide has established itself as the indispensable book women need to make informed decisions about the care that is right for them.

Breast cancer will strike one out of every eight women in the United States. Because there have been many important changes in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in the last few years, this fully revised Third Edition contains information on the latest developments in the field, including:

• new diagnostic procedures
• changes in the treatment of in situ cancer
• improved surgical techniques
• gene testing
• sequencing radiation and chemotherapy
• HER-2Neu (Herceptin)
• tamoxifen for prevention
• bone marrow and stem cell transplants
• and more

Bette-Lee Fox - Library Journal

Called "the best of a recent flurry of books on breast cancer" in our starred review (LJ8/92), this title, by a medical oncologist and a surgical oncologist, respectively, gets its fifth revision to update treatments, statistics, and resources in order to help patients manage their disease better. With a foreword by Jane Brody, this is still highly recommended.

Library Journal

Recent breast cancer statistics are frightening: It is the most common cancer in women, striking one out of every nine in the United States today. This new guide, written by an oncologist and a surgeon, gives comprehensive, up-to-date, and highly detailed information on everything from the first suspicion, through diagnosis and treatments, to follow-up care and recurrence. This step-by-step method serves to demystify the process of treating breast cancer, while the advice from women who have ``been there'' helps bring the message home. From selecting the best doctor to describing procedures and treatments, the authors answer all possible questions in a calm, rational manner. Of particular value is the recommendation that patients have a ``personal advocate'' during appointments and procedures. This book is the best of a recent flurry of books on breast cancer (e.g., Paul Keuhn's Breast Care Options for the 1990's , LJ 8/91; Renee Royak-Schaler and Beryl Lieff Benderly's Challenging the Breast Cancer Legacy , LJ 4/1/92). Highly recommended. Librarians should note that this October will be National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.--Ed.-- Janet M. Coggan, Univ. of Florida Libs., Gainesville

Booknews

A popular book on prevention, detection, treatment, recovery and cure, detailing the therapy options and combinations. Gives resources available to women in the US and Canada. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

New York Times - John Langone

In this updated edition of a highly regarded resource, the authors — a medical oncologist and a surgical oncologist — provide both the support and every scrap of the information that a woman needs to get the right treatment from the right doctor.The format is carefully organized and readable, covering all the details of diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up, recurrence and the social and emotional aspects of the disease. One especially valuable section demystifies the complicated system of cancer classification, standards that unfortunately vary from country to country, region to region and even from medical center to medical center. The explanations offered are easily understandable, covering essentials like the size of tumors, where they are attached, how doctors arrive at cancer's stages and how one can be assured that a lump is not cancer but a benign tumor or cyst, as 90 percent of such growths turn out to be.