**American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Awards, 3rd Place in Adult Primary Care, 2024** **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Nutrition** Master the essentials of nutrition science and patient care with this concise text! Williams’ Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 13th Edition helps you understand and apply nutrition concepts in the treatment of disease, disease prevention, and life enhancement. The text is broken out into three parts: the basics of nutrients and the body, the life cycle and community nutrition, and clinical nutrition. Case studies help you determine nutritional interventions in treating both acute and chronic conditions. Written by nutrition specialists Joyce Gilbert and Eleanor D. Schlenker, this book includes the latest advances in research and evidence-based practice. Strong community focus includes robust coverage of health promotion, cultural competence, patient safety, lifespan, and public health issues. Person-centered approach helps you develop practical solutions to individual problems, based on the authors’ personal research and clinical experience. MyPlate for Older Adults is included, as developed by nutrition scientists at Tufts University and the AARP Foundation, along with the Nestlé Mini Nutritional Assessment Scale. Health Promotion sections help you with nutrition education, stressing healthy lifestyle choices and prevention as the best medicine. Case studies provide opportunities for problem solving, allowing you to apply concepts to practical situations in nutrition care. Evidence-Based Practice boxes emphasize critical thinking and summarize current research findings. Focus on Culture boxes highlight cultural competence and the nutritional deficiencies, health problems, and appropriate interventions relating to different cultural, ethnic, racial, and age groups. Focus on Food Safety boxes alert you to food safety issues related to a particular nutrient, population group, or medical condition. Complementary and Alternative Medicine boxes offer uses, contraindications, and advantages/disadvantages of common types of herbs and supplements, and potential interactions with prescription or over-the-counter medications. Chapter summaries and review questions reinforce your understanding of key concepts and their application. Key terms are identified in the text and defined on the page to help reinforce critical concepts. NEW! Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN)-style case studies apply concepts to realistic scenarios. NEW! Dietary Guidelines have been updated to the 2020-2025 edition with new illustrations. NEW! Coverage of the Healthy People initiative is updated to the 2030 national objectives. NEW! Revised guidelines for potassium and sodium fit the new recommendations for adequate intake of potassium and for sodium chronic disease risk reduction intake. NEW! Content on obesity is incorporated into the Energy Balance chapter. NEW! Updated content on nutrients is added. NEW! Updated references include many new and current works.
Michelle is seeking to reconnect with her family by traveling across wild territories. Her adventure is interrupted when she's captured by a foreign tribe lead by Tall Walker. Tall Walker is entranced by Michelle's beauty and mystery and hopes to keep her close to him. He'll soon find that her fiery temper may not make that an easy task.
In this invitingly written, deeply joyful book, Joyce Ann Zimmerman makes Scripture her foundation as she explores the meaning and purpose of authentic Christian worship today. Intended for Christian communities across the denominational spectrum, Worship with Gladness will appeal to a wide audience of pastors, worship leaders, college students, and lay readers. Zimmerman discusses such subjects as the common elements of worship that transcend denominational boundaries, what Scripture tells us about participating in worship, and how authentic worship expresses itself in daily living. Each section concludes with thoughtful prompts that will encourage readers to reflect on and apply what Zimmerman discusses. Throughout the book she encourages readers not only to better understand worship but to better understand -- and rejoice in -- the One we worship.
This study establishes a fresh approach to understanding liturgical texts in other than strictly historical terms, and paves the way for understanding the essential link between the celebration of liturgy and authentic Christian living. To search out a new methodology appropriate for the study of liturgical texts, the author draws upon Paul Ricoeur's textual hermeneutics and linguist Roman Jakobson's communication theory to set the parameters of the study. Contents: Language, Text and Methodology; The Recovery of Meaning; Ricoeur's Method of Textual Hermeneutics; Theoretical Analytic of Select Action and Communication Theories; Practical Analytic of Select Eucharistic Text; Understanding the Select Eucharistic Text; Bibliography of Cited Works; Appendix: Select Eucharistic Text; Index.
Welcoming Children develops a theology of childhood both from a theological perspective and from practical experience in children and youth ministry. The author draws insights from classic and modern feminist theologians, pastoral theologians, and contemporary cultural criticism to offer strategies for educational and liturgical practices in congregations that welcome children and contribute to their flourishing. Mercer outlines a feminist practical theology of childhood exploring five basic theological claims: 1) children as gifts and parenting as a religious practice of stewardship; 2) welcoming those who care for children; 3) children as fully human; 4) children as part of God's purposes; and 5) acknowledging and transforming the sufferings of children. Her compelling argument reframes ministries with children as processes through which the church can become the foundation for children forming identities that resist consumerist culture and instead walk in the ways of Jesus.
GirlTalk/GodTalk offers a refreshing exploration of the faith lives of adolescent girls and shows how they think about, experience, and express spiritual and religious meanings in their lives. The book also explores the important role mothers, fathers and other parenting adults play in shaping that faith. As Joyce Ann Mercer explains, religion and faith can hold things together for girls as they move between the childhood self, the person they are in the present, and the adult self that is beginning to develop.
Katrina Gowen seeks refuge from her unspeakable dirty deed at the peak of the desolate Appalachian Mountains. When baby number four (Richard) is born, his forecast is deadly. More despicable than "mommy dearest," Katrina derives her greatest pleasure from the systematic diminishment of his soul. His innocence is distorted and replaced by a grisly sort of love. Despite his striking outward appearance, he is an eerie mixture of both good and evil intertwined, who searches for what we all yearn for. Love and acceptance. His charms are subtle and toxic, and his power of persuasion almost godlike. Richard is a wolf in sheep's clothing and nobody in his path is safe. Don't miss this richly suspenseful thriller guaranteed to hold you spellbound to the very last page. If you love ''''King'''' and ''''Koontz'''', you're going to love ''''Hogue''''. Note: The Beast Within is a powerful and provocative work recommended for mature audiences only.
