Best Selling Paperback Books by Dianne Hales

Explore AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, The Power of Now, Brief, 10th Edition, where renowned author Dianne Hales helps you commit to a healthier lifestyle. From physical and mental health to social and sexual issues, this personal health text candidly explores the mind, body, and spirit, and shows you how to start making better health choices today. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

From physical and mental to social and sexual, Dianne Hales' AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH helps students achieve a healthier lifestyle now and in the future. The 19th Edition covers new research on such topics as happiness and health, current statistics on life expectancy and death rates, mental health and anxiety, screen time and online presence, Dietary Guidelines, immunization, sleep habits, stress levels, safe sex practices, substance abuse including new information on the opioid epidemic, dubious diets and trendy foods, fitness monitors, vaping and cannabinoids. It also addresses healthy living on a budget, preventive measures and practical strategies that turn small changes into big benefits. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

From physical and mental to social and sexual, Dianne Hales' AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: YOUR LIFE, YOUR FUTURE helps students achieve a healthier lifestyle now and in the future. The 18th Edition covers new research on such topics as happiness and health, current statistics on life expectancy and death rates, mindfulness for college students, 2015-2020 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, immunization, sleep habits, stress levels, safe sex practices, healthier fast-food choices, substance abuse, dubious diets, fitness monitors and e-cigarettes. It also addresses healthy living on a budget, preventive measures and practical strategies that turn small changes into big benefits. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Conquer the pressures of college life with PERSONAL STRESS MANAGEMENT: FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING. This book provides you with helpful insights and personal strategies for managing the demands ahead and throughout your college career. Written by health and psychology experts, this book offers self-assessments, helpful tips, and even a customizable toolkit for dealing with academics, time management, relationships, and more. You’ll also learn how to change your perspective and respond to stress in creative ways, with confidence and resilience, empowering you to be smarter, stronger, and more successful for the rest of your life. Engaging you with skills you can use right away, PERSONAL STRESS MANAGEMENT: FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING incorporates the latest insights from neuroscience, exercise physiology, nutrition, and medicine, while encouraging healthy habits like regular exercise and good nutrition to prevent burnout. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

What makes Italian passion so undeniably unique? Dianne Hales unspools the answer to this question with gusto in La Passione- How Italy Seduced the World, her ambitious follow-up to La Bella Lingua- My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language. Whether they built aqueducts, chiseled arches, conducted choirs, directed movies, raced cars, or designed fashion and furniture, Italians have done so with a full-hearted zest that transforms everything they touched. What didn't exist, they invented- the first universities, public libraries, and law and medical schools; the first modern histories, satires, and sonnets; the battery, barometer, radio, and thermometer-even the gift of music. Dante and Petrarch, titans of the Italian language, translated their fervid love for idealized muses into literary landmarks. Michelangelo carved a Bacchus so sinuously delectable that a Florentine sniped, "Buonarotti could not have sinned more with a chisel." Puccini swept listeners, in a biographer's words, "into that place where erotic passion, sensuality, tenderness, pathos, and despair meet and fuse." La Passionetraces this earthly, earthy drive back to its roots, follows its course through the centuries, and chronicles its impact on the realms of literature, art, music, cuisine, and style, as its people came to embrace, fully and deeply, a passion for life itself. Combining her adroit journalist's eye with extensive research, Hales delves into passions of the heart, senses, and soul across the ages in this perfect read for the casual Italophile, inquisitive tourist, or history buff in your life.

“Italians say that someone who acquires a new language 'possesses' it. In my case, Italian possesses me. With Italian racing like blood through my veins, I do indeed see with different eyes, hear with different ears, and drink in the world with all my senses…” A celebration of the language and culture of Italy, La Bella Lingua is the story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman's personal quest to speak fluent Italian. For anyone who has been to Italy, the fantasy of living the Italian life is powerfully seductive. But to truly become Italian, one must learn the language. This is how Dianne Hales began her journey. In La Bella Lingua, she brings the story of her decades-long experience with the “the world's most loved and lovable language” together with explorations of Italy's history, literature, art, music, movies, lifestyle, and food in a true opera amorosa—a labor of her love of Italy. Throughout her first excursion in Italy—with “non parlo Italiano” as her only Italian phrase—Dianne delighted in the beauty of what she saw but craved comprehension of what she heard. And so she chose to inhabit the language. Over more than twenty-five years she has studied Italian in every way possible: through Berlitz, books, CDs, podcasts, private tutorials and conversation groups, and, most importantly, large blocks of time in Italy. In the process she found that Italian became not just a passion and a pleasure, but a passport into Italy's storia and its very soul. She offers charming insights into what makes Italian the most emotionally expressive of languages, from how the “pronto” (“Ready!”) Italians say when they answer the telephone conveys a sense of something coming alive, to how even ordinary things such as a towel (asciugamano) or handkerchief (fazzoletto) sound better in Italian. She invites readers to join her as she traces the evolution of Italian in the zesty graffiti on the walls of Pompeii, in Dante's incandescent cantos, and in Boccaccio's bawdy Decameron. She portrays how social graces remain woven into the fabric of Italian: even the chipper “ciao,” which does double duty as “hi” and “bye,” reflects centuries of bella figura. And she exalts the glories of Italy's food and its rich and often uproarious gastronomic language: Italians deftly describe someone uptight as a baccala (dried cod), a busybody who noses into everything as a prezzemolo (parsley), a worthless or banal movie as a polpettone (large meatball). Like Dianne, readers of La Bella Lingua will find themselves innamorata, enchanted, by Italian, fascinated by its saga, tantalized by its adventures, addicted to its sound, and ever eager to spend more time in its company.

EVERY DAY STARTS WITH A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP Did you just suppress a yawn? Are you one of the walking weary—the 100 million Americans who suffer from occasional or chronic sleep problems? If so, you know how serious the problem can be: troubled sleepers can lead troubled lives. On an average, we spend one third of our lives sleeping—and how we sleep can make the difference between feeling tired all of the time and facing each day with a fresh, energetic attitude. This practical guide to healthy sleep by sleep expert Dianne Hales can help you get the rest you need to get the most out of life. It covers the latest discoveries of “sleep scientists”—whose probing of the mysteries of sleep has led to breakthroughs in treating sleep problems—and includes: • 101 mental maneuvers for putting yourself to sleep • New treatments for age-old complaints like snoring and sleepwalking • Effective methods for overcoming sleep rhythm disorders caused by jet lag or shift changes • New insights into how dreams can help you solve daytime problems • Simple self-tests to determine if you need professional help—and where to turn if you do Your sleep problem is not insurmountable. You, too, can sleep like a baby and wake up ready for a healthy, active life.

Blends biography, history and memoir to compile the story of da Vinci's famous masterpiece subject, detailing the political upheavals, family dramas and public scandals of Renaissance Florence that shaped her life and her relationships with kings and artists.

Do you want to better understand how your personal health affects your daily life? Do you want to make healthier choices and change certain behaviors? Learn It and Live It with AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BUILD YOUR FUTURE, Brief Edition. This student-oriented text helps you assess your health behaviors, encourages behavior change, and gives you practical ways to achieve it. Through its clear and engaging writing style, this text addresses current issues related to health and wellness that can affect you now and throughout your life. Delivering the most current coverage available, this book equips you with practical ideas and tools that you can immediately apply to your own life, helping you make informed decisions about your mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Available with InfoTrac Student Collections http://gocengage.com/infotrac. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Current, comprehensive, and personal, Dianne Hales’s AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 2009-2010 International Edition, integrates a comprehensive presentation of health concepts with a wealth of practical ways to apply them to your life--body, mind, and spirit. With the text and its accompanying resources, you have an outstanding set of tools to help you understand the positive benefits of good health behaviors and master the steps that empower you to accomplish that change in your own life. Each chapter includes content and applications such as "Learn It/Live It," "Goal Setting," "Your Strategies for Change," "Your Strategies for Prevention," and "Your Life Change Coach" sections, all of which help you on your way to setting and attaining your goals for a healthier lifestyle. Because personal choice is an important component of changing for lifelong healthy living, the text also includes "Reality Check" and "Point/CounterPoint," two new features designed to sharpen your critical thinking and analytical skills--the keys to making informed choices for positive change. Along the way, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 2009-2010 International Edition, provides relevant examples, colorful photos, figures, and new research and statistics, as well as "Student Snapshots," art, tables, and references that reflect the most current thinking on every topic. Through CengageNOW™, the text also includes a wealth of powerful learning tools to help you maximize your study efforts.

This powerful workbook includes a brief discussion of the current theories behind making positive lifestyle changes, along with exercises to help students make those changes in their everyday lives.

Explores the role of the family in society, different types of families, and what constitutes a family in modern and traditional society.

In this new edition of the market-leading personal health text, Dianne Hales invites your students to choose to change through her emphasis on behavior change and practical ways to turn concepts into action. Delivering the most current and thorough coverage available, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: CHOOSING TO CHANGE integrates a comprehensive presentation of health concepts--body, mind, and spirit--with a wealth of applications for the students’ lives, including Your Strategies for Change, Your Strategies for Prevention and Your Health Action Plan. New to this edition is a feature called Making Change Happen, which provides a four-step plan for implementing change in a particular area. To encourage students to think about change in a more community-oriented context, Dianne Hales includes Community Focus boxes in many of the chapters, and recognizing the impact of the current economic environment, she has created a feature called Health on a Budget. The most student-oriented text on the market, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: CHOOSING TO CHANGE is packed with relevant examples, colorful photos, figures, and new research and statistics presented in an engaging way. This complete textbook program provides an outstanding set of resources for both students and instructors to accomplish key goals of the course and reinforce learning. Choose AN INVITATION TO HEALTH for your course and motivate your students to change. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

An eCompanion is now available to accompany the eBook for AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 15E. Students can carry this light-weight manual to class and use it to help synthesize their understanding of key concepts from the text. Features include chapter objectives and summaries, key terms, an interactive "Concept Check" section, review questions, and space for note-taking. A comprehensive study tool, the eCompanion assists in exam preparation, allows students to follow-along in class without the printed book or computer, and reinforces the concepts presented in the text.

Offering the most current coverage available, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: LIVE IT NOW! BRIEF EDITION, 9e equips students with the information and tools they need to build a foundation for a future of healthy living. Extremely student friendly, this market-leading personal health text integrates health concepts-body, mind, and spirit-with hands-on applications students can immediately begin putting into action. Your Strategies for Change, Your Strategies for Prevention, and Health Now features enable students to start living what they're learning about health. Health on a Budget demonstrates practical ways students can achieve their goals in low- and no-cost ways, while Consumer Alert helps them apply critical thinking skills in evaluating health care. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Current, comprehensive, and personal, Dianne Hales's AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BUILD YOUR FUTURE integrates a comprehensive presentation of health concepts with a wealth of practical ways to apply them to your life--body, mind, and spirit. With the complete textbook program, you have an outstanding set of tools to help you understand the positive benefits of good health behaviors and master the steps that empower you to accomplish that change in your own life. Each chapter includes content and applications such as "Health in Action," "Your Strategies for Change," "Your Strategies for Prevention," and "Making Change Happen" sections, all of which help you on your way to setting and attaining your goals for a healthier lifestyle. Because personal choice is an important component of changing for lifelong healthy living, the text also includes "How Do You Compare" a new feature designed to let you compare your behavior patterns to those of other college students. Along the way, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BUILD YOUR FUTURE provides relevant examples, colorful photos, figures, and new research and statistics, as well as art, tables, and references that reflect the most current thinking on every topic. Through CengageNOW, CourseMate, and WebTutor, the text also includes a wealth of powerful learning tools to help you maximize your study efforts.

Focusing on behavior change while providing practical ways to achieve it, Dianne Hales’ AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: CHOOSING TO CHANGE, Brief Edition, encourages students to Learn It and Live It in your personal health course. Written by a proven author immersed in current health issues, this student-oriented text offers a clear and engaging writing style with helpful visuals as it provides opportunities for students to assess and change your own health behaviors and get results. The Seventh Edition includes increased emphasis on ways to motivate to make healthy changes, as well as emerging information on both men’s and women’s health. More than a text, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: CHOOSING TO CHANGE, Brief Edition, and its accompanying package is a resource for lifelong learning and skills. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Learn it and live it with AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, BRIEF 2010-2011 EDITION, International Edition! Emphasizing behavior changeùand providing practical ways to achieve itùthis powerful book addresses issues related to health and wellness that can affect you now and throughout your life. With a clear and engaging writing style and helpful visuals, the book provides opportunities for you to honestly assess your own health behaviorsùand achieve real, lasting change. Written by a proven author immersed in current health issues, it includes increased emphasis on obesity as a major issue, as well as emerging information on both men's and women's health issues. Delivering the latest health guidelines, research, and trends available, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, International Edition equips you with practical ideas and tools that you can immediately apply, helping you make informed decisions about your mental, emotional, and physical wellbeingùnow and in the future.

JOURNAL FOR AN INVITATION TO PERSONAL CHANGE is part of a unique three-part resource that can be used in a wide range of courses, including health and wellness, fitness, nutrition, health psychology, and college success. Unlike any other textbook, supplement, or manual, it not only talks about personal change, but based on decades of psychological research and clinical practice, it also serves as a curriculum for change, inviting students to take appropriate action in simple, compelling straightforward ways. Meant to be used in conjunction with An Invitation to Personal Change and Labs for Invitation to Personal Change, the Journal guides the students through the process of making behavioral changes and helps them reflect on their goals and motivations. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

To accompany the "Journey to Health" telecourse produced by DALLAS TeleLearning of the LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications. The JOURNEY TO HEALTH course explores health in its broadest sense. Students are encouraged to use critical thinking and problem solving skills to develop their own healthy lifestyle using the most current information in the health and wellness field. The telecourse components consist of 26 half-hour video programs, the Hales AN INVIATION TO HEALTH text, the student telecourse guide, a faculty manual, and text-specific teaching and learning tools, including testing.

Profiles of prescription medication for mind and mood disorders include information on brand and generic names, how it works, dosage, common side effects and risk factors, and interactions with other drugs.

Exercises for improving strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular fitness are combined with a nutritional program and guidelines for managing stress and staying young

Discusses a range of mental disorders that affect individuals of all ages, describing what they are, signs and symptoms, causes, prognoses, and therapeutic options