"Yoga and Scoliosis: A Journey to Health and Healing is intended to be a source of encouragement, knowledge, and healing for those who have scoliosis and need to treat it, but want to avoid braces and/or surgery. The book looks at scoliosis not as a pathological syndrome but as a spiritual, and metaphysical pattern that embraces the multiple dimensions of the spine (vertical, horizontal, and sagittal). It briefly covers the history and treatment modalities...

Enjoy Living with Idiopathic Scoliosis during Adolescence aims at being a practical tool to improve and enrich the daily work of Physical Therapists, Medical Doctors, Orthopedic Technicians and Psychologists in the area of Idiopathic Scoliosis. In fact, Idiopathic Scoliosis and its treatments can bring to light important challenges, not only for the adolescents and their families, but also for the professionals who take care of these patients. How...

A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.

This book will bring you to the point of not wanting or looking into another person's life to envy their life. It speaks of how a young woman suffers, but through her suffering she turns to God for strength to hold on to life and entrust her life in his hands, so he could fight her battles for her. This book is covered in prayer, which is one of the author's silhouettes for life. Most of her prayers were written during her lowest ebb in life. It will...

"This unusual memoir immerses the reader in the fascinating story of a spirited girl in a remote, undeveloped region of Nepal near the border of Tibet, a place made known to the world in Peter Matthieson's The Snow Leopard. Life above 13,000 feet in northern Dolpo -- often called the last paradise because of its breathtaking snow-capped peaks, untouched beauty, and hand-irrigated green pastures -- was one of constant risk and harsh survival. In the...

A Dartmouth anthropologist whose team discovered two ancient human species explores how our evolution toward bipedalism rendered us dominant, innovative, more compassionate, and more susceptible to health problems. Human are the only mammals to walk on two rather than four legs, a locomotion known as bipedalism. This has its drawbacks: giving birth is more difficult; our running speed is much slower than that of other animals; and we suffer ailments...

"A cleverly voiced psychological thriller about an unforgettable--and unsettling--friendship, with blood-chilling twists, crackling wit, and a thrumming pulse in its veins--from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song. What if the coolest girl you've ever met decided to be your friend? Art Barbara was so not cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal,...