Scientific evidence accumulated over decades validates the idea that a plant-based dietary pattern promotes health and plays an important role in risk reduction and prevention of several chronic diseases. John J.B. Anderson, PhD, and Marilyn C. Sparling, LDN share how to move towards a healthier diet in your life in The Mediterranean Way of Eating: Evidence for Chronic Disease Prevention and Weight Management.

Actor and NY Times Bestseller Nick Offerman offers some advice regarding Esquire Senior Editor Ross McCammon’s new book, Works Well With Others: An Outsiders Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You… “Do not read this book at work. That’s because it will make you snort with laughter, perhaps even giggle, and generally look unprofessional…This is my favorite business book in years.”

Homefront 911: How Families of Veterans Are Wounded by Our Wars takes a look at the battles that families face in getting care for returning veterans. Author Stacy Bannerman is not only a military family advocate and public speaker on the issue who has testified before congressional committees, she writes from personal experience as her husband served in Iraq.

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John J.B. Anderson, PhD, and Marilyn C. Sparling, LDN have discovered a way to eat that will decrease the risk of chronic disease, aid in weight management and make you healthier overall. In The Mediterranean Way of Eating: Evidence for Chronic Disease Prevention and Weight Management they break down the facts and show how eating a Mediterranean inspired diet can help prevent and even treat diseases such as certain cancers, type 2 diabtetes, cardiovascular diseases and even obesity. They also provide recipes and strategies to integrate the diet into your life. John J. B. Anderson, PhD, has been on the faculty of the Department of Nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1972. He has published several books and written over 150 scientific articles. Mariyln C. Sparling, LDN, recently retired from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, where she was a clinical dietitian in the outpatient endocrinology division. She has coauthored several journal articles on nutrition and health

Ten years ago, before he got a job at Esquire magazine and way before he became the etiquette columnist at Entrepreneur magazine, Esquire Senior Editor Ross McCammon, editor at an in-flight magazine, was staring out a second-floor window at a parking lot in suburban Dallas wondering if it was five o’clock yet. Everything changed with one phone call from Esquire. Three weeks later, he was working in New York and wondering what the hell had just happened. Works Well With Others: An Outsiders Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You is McCammon’s honest, funny, and entertaining journey from impostor to authority, a story that begins with periods of debilitating workplace anxiety but leads to rich insights and practical advice from a guy who “made it” but who still remembers what it’s like to feel entirely ill-equipped for professional success.

It’s no secret that returning combat veterans have an enormous amount of obstacles to face to re-integrate into civilian society, and while things have improved, it’s not nearly enough. In Homefront 911: How Families of Veterans Are Wounded by Our Wars, author Stacy Bannerman examines some of the key components in paving the way for our combat veterans to make the transition easier, including proposed national solutions to provide better care for returning vets and their families, the need to establish House and Senate Veterans affairs subcommittees, and one often overlooked aspect in the added stress that overwhelms caregivers coupled with combat trauma and how it inversely affects the children and grandchildren of both the combat vets and caregivers. Stacy is a military family advocate who has addressed congressional committees. Her husband served in Iraq.

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