Sixteen million Americans have diabetes and there are more than 600,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, kidney disease, and amputations in America. In fact, 15% of all health care costs -- 100 billion per year -- is associated with diabetes. This indispensable guide features all the latest developments associated with this condition, so that diabetics are able to stay in control of their lives. Sufferers get the inside scoop on: * The major types of diabetes and how they are diagnosed * The various treatment options available today, including blood sugar monitoring, diet therapy, insulin use and oral medication * Alternative approaches and new drugs on the market: Is there really a substitute for insulin? * Groundbreaking news in diabetes research, including new forms of insulin, advanced glucose monitoring, refined insulin pumps, and genetic medicine * The Pancreas Transplant: Is it a cure? * Lifestyle choices that promote good health, including eating wisely and exercising * Living with diabetes and coping with special issues such as fertility and pregnancy, work-related issues, and psychological challenges.

The Unofficial Guide to Living with Diabetes

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Thomas, Maria

Grene, Dr. Loren W.

Diets & Weight Loss

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Antonia Saw the Oryx First

A young woman doctor in Africa, facing exile, seeks to touch the culture she was raised in through a young African woman whom she has saved with Western surgery.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Soho Press

By the author of Antonia Saw the Oryx First comes a book of characters who, for their own personal reasons, come to Africa and find not the exotic retreat they imagined but a country where reality shines even more harshly.

Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage, and Other Stories

Soho Pr Inc

Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage and Other Stories: Stories

African Visas: A Novella and Stories

A novella and stories feature Sarah, a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, as she handles bush pilots, local villagers, Ethiopian aristocrats, and prissy Westerners

“The sort of book friends press in your hands and say, ‘You must read this.’”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch   “Isak Dinesen . . . Rebecca West . . . Gertrude Stein and Edith Wharton. To this company, in the tradition of Hemingway and others, and in many ways as brilliant as the best of them, we must now add Maria Thomas.”—Marianne Wiggins, The New York Times Book Review   Chosen as a New York Times Notable Book when it was first published in 1991, this book collects a novella and six stories about Africa, particularly Ethiopia, and the lives of different women there.  

African Visas

“A complex, deeply written and finely wrought double portrait of two women, one black, one white, picking their way through the debris of a shattered colonialism, discovering unexpected treasures buried in the rubble.”—Margaret Atwood “Impressive.”—Vogue “Sharp, surprising images of Africa.”—ELLE “Exquisite. The year’s best novel.”—USA Today Though American, Dr. Antonia Redmond is African-born and has lived in East Africa for almost her entire life. With the end of colonialism, like all whites, she faces exile. Only the intercession of an influential lover preserves her visa, but should she leave, she will not be allowed to return. As the inevitable reckoning comes and the white population dwindles, she clings to the land to which she feels a deep connection. Antonia Saw the Oryx First is a profound exploration of personal and cultural identity, love and leave-taking.

Letting Love Happen helps women understand that they have to stop carrying the full load in their relationships with men and instead expect men to invest just as much; and that until they do, they can never have a happy, healthy, reciprocal, satisfying relationship with a man.

Letting Love Happen

Still Pond Pubns

“Some fine writer . . . Waugh rewired for the 80s.”—Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal “She has a gift.”—Los Angeles Times “Impressive.”—Chicago Tribune “Her stories will do more than a score of Newsweek magazine cover stories to explain Africa and its relationship with the 20th century.”—Houston Post “Very often funny, very often wise.”—The Plain Dealer “Compassionate and haunting.”—The Baltimore Sun In this collection of fourteen short stories, originally published in 1987, acclaimed writer Maria Thomas vividly portrays the experiences of American expatriates in Africa, as well as the lives of ordinary Africans, from many points of view.

Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage: And Other Stories

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Books by Thomas, Maria

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The Unofficial Guide to Living with Diabetes

Antonia Saw the Oryx First

Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage, and Other Stories

Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage and Other Stories: Stories

African Visas: A Novella and Stories

African Visas

Antonia Saw the Oryx First

Letting Love Happen

Come to Africa and Save Your Marriage: And Other Stories

Antonia Saw the Oryx First