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Arrived in pristine condition days earlier than expected
This 1931 magazine arrived in better condition than last month's Vanity Fair. What a wonderful surprise! ... Read more

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Mildred Davis, Leatrice Joy, Betty Blythe, Mary MacLaren, Noram Talmadge, Sessue Hayakawa, Charlie Chaplin, Constance Talmadge, Erich von Stroheim, Helen Ferguson, Valentino, George Hackathorn, Bessie Love and more.. ... Read more

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Not an historical document but photographs and text chronicle rig developments from 1880s to 1960s. ... Read more

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Based on years of research at the University of Iowa, this one-of-a-kind reference provides linkages between three standardized languages recognized by the American Nurses Organization: NANDA, Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC). A perfect companion to Dochterman: NIC, 4th Edition and Moorhead: NOC, 3rd Edition, this book is a useful tool for nurses in developing care plans for patients, and for institutions in tracking and quantifying nursing care.

• Links all of the NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses to outcome labels and three levels of suggested interventions
• Major
• Suggested
• Optional
• Uses easy-access, user-friendly tables to show terminology and criteria.
• Presents case studies along with nursing care plans to demonstrate the application of linkages.
• Defines all NANDA, NOC, and NIC labels.
• Makes an excellent companion to the new editions of NIC and NOC.

Customer Reviews (4)

Helpful index
This is a very basic compilation of linkages.I think it would be helpful especially for students just entering the nursing profession.

great concept but lacking explanation
The book does exactly what it says- it links NIC, NOC and NANDA diagnosis together.However, it doesn't give interventions or explanations like Carpenito or other careplan books. This book would be a great outline to follow if I knew a bit more of what I was doing, I think.

Great for care plans!
I love this book!It should be titled "Care Plans Made Easy".It lists all of the NANDA approved nursing diagnoses and what defines them.Right along with the diagnoses, multiple desired outcomes (NOC) are listed along with definitions.Next to each outcome are the interventions (NIC) that you should/could implement to achieve the desired outcome.These range from major, suggested, and optional.This book really helped cut back on the time I spent writing out care plans for my patients because the information was so centralized into one location.Worth every penny!

Good book if you're using NIC and NOC
Links Nanda diagnoses with outcomes and interventions.
I found it pretty helpful as a beginning nurse...problem is, you do have to be familiar with Nanda, NIC, and NOC to use it, which I'm not very (yet). ... Read more

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This money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Johnson's NANDA, NOC, and NIC Linkages 2nd edition text and an electronic version of the textbook that allows students to search, highlight information, take notes, share notes and more. This package makes it simple for students to make the most of their study time and get more use out of their textbooks! ... Read more

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In 1926 Silent Film Idol Rudolph Valentino, known as The Great Lover, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 31. In the years that have since passed, his death has come to overshadow his life and his work.

But what would have been had he not died so young? This is the inspiration behind the whimsical novel, "Conversations with Rodolfo" written by Hala Pickford, The Founding Sheba of The Rudolph Valentino Society.

A lover of silent film, Pickford uses her knowledge of film history to paint a picture of what might have occurred had Valentino not died in 1926, but in 2005. Would he have made it in the new medium of 'talkies' (sound film)? Would he be remembered like Charlie Chaplin? Or forgotten like Mae Murray? Would he have reconciled with the love of his life, Natacha Rambova? Or would he have been able to find a new love?

"Conversations with Rodolfo" opens in 2004, following down on his luck wannabe music journalist, Michael Johnston. Johnston is madly in love with a new girl he has met named Gloria. Trying to impress her he agrees to a Saturday spent with her beloved grandparents. There he finds her grandfather is a man who calls himself Rodolfo, though many others have known him by the name 'Rudolph Valentino'.

Despite his age, Rodolfo is as lively as a 20 year old, and on Michael's request he agrees to a series of interviews about his long life, with the stipulation that they not be published until his death.

Through these interviews we get to hear the story of Rudolph Valentino, from his boyhood in Italy to the birth of his granddaughter. From his role in The Sheik, to his work with Charlie Chaplin in the 1950s. ... Read more

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montly fan magazine from the 1960s and 1970s featuring articles on classic actors and actresses ... Read more

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Cecil B. DeMille was one of Hollywood's greatest directors, his name synonymous with epic movies, where casts ofthousands, spectacular sets and some of Hollywood's most famous stars dazzled the public. He was the quintessential director complete with riding boots, breeches, riding crop and megaphones, the latter to make sure no one missed his directions. His filmography of 70 films spans the Hollywood timeline from the inception of the movie industry with silents to the mid 1950s where his epics included sound, technicolor and wide screens. He was not always pleasant or easy to work with, and he was not necessarily the greatest director of actors, but his films were so highly regarded by the public few lost money. The DeMille story is essentially the history of the American movie industry from its earliest days in Los Angeles where films were made in barns and shown on flimsy screens--sometimes plain white sheets--to the harsh realities of the McCarthy hearings on Hollywood in the 1950s. The New York Times summed up Cecil B. DeMille as "the Phineas T. Barnum of the movies—a showman extraordinary.” [1,535-word Titans of Fortune biographical profile] ... Read more

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The classic, bestselling expose+a7 on the dangers of sugar reveals how this commonly ingested ingredient in countless foods is highly addictive and causes a host of medical problems from depression to coronary thrombosis. Reissue. PW. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (96)

Eye-opening info
I had heard about this book for a long time.I knew it would contain shocking info and it did, mostly about the history of refined products such as sugar and white flour, entering different cultures...and the devastating effects brought about by them. Kicking sugar is a must.If you need some inspiration to do it, read this book.

Conclusion is right but for all the wrong reasons
I love this book and I've read it many times in the last twenty-seven years.I actually am committed to not consuming sugar for the rest of my life.That being said, the majority of William Dufty's arguments against sugar are more than fallacious, they are completely unscientific.I've just purchased yet another copy of Sugar Blues to replace one that got lost in moving and I'm laughing out loud at how ridiculous his arguments are. Some of them include: Smoking tobacco doesn't cause cancer, it's the sugar in the cigarettes that does it.Smoking is actually better for you than eating candy.Eating protein or complex carbs with sugar causes "fermentation" in the GI tract, causing the formation of poisons, because digestion is solely reliant on enzymes.Ulcers are caused by eating sugar.Diabetes (he makes no distinction between Type I and Type II, which are completely different diseases and only share similar symptoms) can be treated (or even cured) completely by eating a macrobiotic diet of brown rice, sea vegetables, fish and umeboshi plum.His specific anecdote of George, the boy who contracts diabetes at 15 in the 1950s (presumably a juvenile diabetic) and is cured by eating a macrobiotic diet is absurd.

Mr. Dufty's arguments make two things clear: that he had very little in the way of a scientific education and that this book is extremely dated in what science it refers to.Dufty has next to no understanding of how digestion takes place, no understanding that there are billions of bacteria and other organisms in the digestive system, that fermentation is a normal part of human digestion, that gastric motility has little do with sucrose.This book was written a decade before the discovery that ulcers are caused by a bacteria called Heliobacter pylori. A more significant problem for the polemic he proposes is his lack of understanding about carbohydrates in general.He believes that refined sugars alone are the sum evil of modernity and bizarrely believes that honey lacks all of the evils of refined sugar because it's "natural" when honey has only trace minerals and vitamins to recommend it over table sugar and contains high levels of fructose, which the body converts immediately to triglycerides.He claims over and over that none of the problems presented by eating refined sugars are present in whole grains despite the fact that a bite of whole grain bread that is chewed up and spat on glucose detecting paper registers as having as much glucose present as eating sucrose itself and similar effects on blood sugar levels.

Dufty's claim is that all people and diabetics especially can do well on a high carbohydrate diet consisting of whole grains, principally brown rice. The glycemic index and the last 30 years have shown that is just not the case.Whole grains have vitamins and minerals but eventually, they all boil down nutritionally to starches and sugars and ironically, it's the USDA which Dufty labeled part of the "diseasestablishment" which is now pushing 11 servings of whole grains a day as the US population gets fatter and more diabetic every year. Dufty's obvious infatuation with Japanese culture and the macrobiotic diet explains his dietary advice.He must not have developed much insulin resistance in his lifetime to have been able to eat that way without it affecting him badly.The majority of us in the 21st century don't have that luxury any more.One wonders how theories of paleolithic diet would have registered with Mr. Dufty.

Sugar is bad for us.All of us would be better off never eating sucrose again, without exception.That part William Dufty got right.

Highly Recommended for anyone who wants better health!
First read this 30 years ago and it's had a profound, positive effect on our (my husband and myself) health and lives.It is the answer, in a big way, to the bulk of American's health problems today with diabetes and obesity, to mention only a few problems that are deeply aggravated by sugar addiction.

It is based on personal experience, not theory, and the self portraits on the back page (William Dufty, sugar addict compared with William Dufty, recovered sugar addict, tell it all.

Great political and historical expose of "big sugar" and what it does to the little guy
This book was written in the 70's, and I wish I had read it back then. I am an avowed sugar addict who is trying to amass so much information about sugar's detriments that I'm forced to give it up. To an extent, I'm slowly getting there, but it is a constant battle. Dufty's book, although it is not a scientific work, is an astute observation of advertising and political strategies that have allowed the infiltration of this dangerous substance into our lives, until it is in absolutely EVERYTHING. The section about how much sugar is in tobacco products was suggestive and eye-opening; he makes a suggestion that lung cancer is potentiated more by the sugar than the tobacco (using rough figures of lung cancer overseas and in the US). While this is not a scientifically-supported statement, it is worth looking into. Most of the book is a historical and political analysis of sugar's place in the growth of the world's consumer culture, stretching back into the days of the Crusades, when the Europeans wanted some of that Saracen sugar and would fight to get it. He points the finger at Fannie Farmer for suggesting that a little sugar added to just about every recipe would improve it. Now, 30-some years after he writes this, sugar (or HFCS, which wasn't invented til the 70's) is in nearly everything we buy at the store. It is more ubiquitous than spices like onion and garlic, which are added to just about every savory item in can or box or packet. His work is prescient in many ways, but also shows how constant the attitude of big commercial concerns are in their fight against inconvenient truths. A good book to start with; there is much more scientific data available now on what sugar does to the body (a lecture by Dr. Lustig on how closely the effects of fructose on the body jibe with the now-medically recognized "metabolic syndrome" is instructive). A good book to start becoming informed about the killer white crystals in your cupboard.

Truth is in book
Educated on sugar for SURE. Sometimes, truth hurts but at least its the truth.Sugar is bad esp. in quanities we americans are taking in.I will cut back, but can't go without it completely. ... Read more