Bøger af Rhonda Brown

Dieses Buch stellt eine neue Theorie über die erhebliche Komorbidität vor, die zwischen vielen Krankheiten und Störungen und gleichzeitigen Symptomen wie Schmerzen, Schlafstörungen und Müdigkeit besteht. Zu den besprochenen Krankheiten und Störungen gehören Adipositas, Diabetes mellitus Typ II, medizinische Erkrankungen wie Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen und Schlafstörungen, Essstörungen sowie affektive Störungen (Angst und Depression). Das Buch geht davon aus, dass die Komorbiditäten das Ergebnis eines komplexen bio-psycho-behavioralen Mechanismus sind, der eine Störung des zirkadianen Rhythmus einschließt. Es untersucht methodische (z. B. Mess-) Probleme, die das Verständnis der Komorbidität erschweren können, und erforscht ein breites Spektrum neuer, bestehender und neu entwickelter Therapieansätze, die bei der Behandlung komorbider Störungen von Nutzen sein könnten.

Twenty-eight year old psychic Samantha Lopez had fallen hard for Michael Maxwell as much for the fact that she hadn't been able to read him as that he was good-looking, charming and made her feel beautiful and special. However, weeks after their marriage Sam realized that her husband's stark and lifeless house suited him perfectly. How could she have thought a man who could be happy in such surroundings would be a warm and loving husband? Was she so blinded by love that she couldn't see beyond the obvious? One of her grandfather's sayings came to mind. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." If she had seen his house, and if she had met Michael's mother, Winifred, before she and Michael married, would she still have gone through with it? Winifred was a cold person, living in a cold house. Michael also lived in a cold house, one he had not taken her to see before they married. Had she seen him in these surroundings first, would she have rushed into the marriage or would she have backed off? She didn't really know the answer to that question. Especially now that she'd had a glimpse of the temper he had kept hidden from her until last night. How well did she really know this man? Where was the funny, considerate person she had met just a few short weeks ago? He had wooed her and won her heart, but it was obvious she still had a lot to learn about him. Their honeymoon had been perfect, all she could have wished for. Since they'd come home, however, he was often distant and unreachable. She had tried to tell herself that it was an adjustment period and that things would get back to normal soon. She was no longer sure what normal was. With a chill she recalled her grandmother's words of long ago: "Sam, don't ever let yourself be fooled by the outside." Those words were forgotten until now, and she was afraid the outside might have fooled her after all. Had she been looking at Michael with her eyes and not with her heart? And then there had been the dream where her best friend's dead grandmother warned Sam, "You will journey to the San Francisco Peaks to the north and the west, one of the Four Sacred Mountains. There you will find many answers to the questions in your heart. However, you must be aware that, because you are out of balance with your true nature, you will also find great darkness. This darkness will blind you from the truth until you find your inner peace and harmony once again."

Detectives CeeCee Markovic and Larry Goodman are working to solve a puzzling missing persons case; one that turns out to be so much more than that when it becomes clear there isn't just one brother missing, but two. It also involves one of CeeCee's two best friends, and she is torn between following the legal system and loyalty to a friend who is more like a sister. Once the case is solved and put to bed, CeeCee and Larry can relax. Or so they thought.

After almost twenty-five years, cousins Rummy and Izzy reconnect via e-mail. Lots of stuff has happened in both of their lives during their absences in each other's. Rummy has been arrested for attempted murder, been on the run, and married three or four times-she can't seem to remember which. Izzy, on the other hand, while not being as adventurous as her cousin, has been busy working, raising kids, and trying to survive the day-to-day stuff that life has thrown at her. Old secrets are revealed; childhood memories are revived and relived; and new memories are created when the cousins finally arrange to meet again, after the many years apart. (Most of the stuff in Stuff Happens is the product of the authors' imaginations, but some of it is based on bits and pieces of actual events in their lives-have fun trying to figure out which is which.)