Empowering, universally applicable coaching on proactive personal growth and optimal health.
In this guide, a veteran physician offers tips and tools for better health.
Sterling, a longtime public health advocate, believes the pursuit of well-being “shouldn’t be an obsession with avoiding death but should be one of facilitating the enjoyment of life.” His road map to vitality addresses a wide variety of everyday scenarios, both positive and negative, which he cleverly turns into opportunities for self-improvement. Dispensing advice while accentuating the positive, Sterling shares the bounty of his years in clinical practice, which includes practical care for both the body and mind. Concerning relationships, he promotes the exchange of “honest moments” between loved ones and offers counsel for cultivating a more mindful state while recognizing the realities of prioritizing conditions like depression and chronic ailments. Sterling’s enlightening discussions on maximizing longevity are solidly written and can be easily digested by new and veteran readers of self-help books. Two of the manual’s best features are the author’s writing style and tone, which remain accessible and affable throughout. His prose never strays from its positive vibe even when addressing life’s negative aspects, like the everyday toxins that surround readers. While the topics he presents can be construed as rudimentary, like the importance of smoking cessation, hydration, stress management, a balanced diet, and regular exercise, there is also more timely information on avoiding Covid-19’s serious complications with vaccinations and practicing safe sex. Whether newer information or old standards, the book forms a friendly reminder that in order to live longer, readers need to do the work. Caffeine junkies will find Sterling’s intriguing graphic on the pros and cons of coffee and tea consumption illuminating and surprising. The author also includes strategies on risk reduction and the maintenance of what he calls “invisible health” (how good living habits contribute to overall well-being when people are not exercising or dieting). He blends science and physiology into his recommendations and structures the book’s chapters so they can be absorbed as a whole or individually perused. Sterling arms readers with the tools and relevant facts to make informed, enriching choices to improve their health, garner more control over their longevity, and become happier. He encourages everyone to “move with purpose and in pursuit of that level of contentment.”
Empowering, universally applicable coaching on proactive personal growth and optimal health.Pub Date: Jan. 27, 2022
ISBN: 979-8-4090-8450-9
Page Count: 219
Publisher: Independently Published
Review Posted Online: March 4, 2022
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15, 2022
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
BOOK REVIEW
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorker staff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer.
A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s.
Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters. “I was the only black girl making white girl money,” she boasts, telling a vibrant story about sex and struggle in a bygone era. Frank and unapologetic, Johnson vividly captures aspects of her former life as a stage seductress shimmying to blues tracks during 18-minute sets or sewing lingerie for plus-sized dancers. Though her work was far from the Broadway shows she dreamed about, it eventually became all about the nightly hustle to simply survive. Her anecdotes are humorous, heartfelt, and supremely captivating, recounted with the passion of a true survivor and the acerbic wit of a weathered, street-wise New Yorker. She shares stories of growing up in an abusive household in Albany in the 1940s, a teenage pregnancy, and prison time for robbery as nonchalantly as she recalls selling rhinestone G-strings to prostitutes to make them sparkle in the headlights of passing cars. Complemented by an array of revealing personal photographs, the narrative alternates between heartfelt nostalgia about the seedier side of Manhattan’s go-go scene and funny quips about her unconventional stage performances. Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor. With a narrative assist from Stanton, the result is a consistently titillating and often moving story of human struggle as well as an insider glimpse into the days when Times Square was considered the Big Apple’s gloriously unpolished underbelly. The book also includes Yee’s lush watercolor illustrations.
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer.Pub Date: July 12, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-250-27827-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: St. Martin's
Review Posted Online: July 27, 2022
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