After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition

Language: English
ISBN: 0801884381
Paperback: 288 pages
Data: August 24, 2006
Format: PDF

Description: At age 36, Julie Silver was enjoying an exciting career as a physician at the Harvard Medical School and a rewarding personal life as a mother, wife, and award-winning writer. But she had the sense that something was wrong. Two years and multiple doctors later, she was diagnosed with the breast cancer she had suspected all along and was catapulted into the role of cancer patient.

Like many cancer patients who experience serious side effects from treatment, Dr. Silver emerged from therapy feeling not better, but exhausted and physically devastated. As she worked to heal herself, she became determined to write a book to help others recover after cancer treatment.

Here Dr. Silver shares her own cancer journey and offers a step-by-step plan for physical healing, including exercise and diet recommendations and instructions for fighting fatigue, monitoring mood, and overcoming setbacks. Dr. Silver"s advice comes from the heart -- and from her experience as both a cancer survivor and a doctor who has spent her career helping people heal from serious illnesses and injuries. No matter where they are in their own journey with cancer, readers will find After Cancer Treatment a personal, practical, and powerful guide to recovery.

Refactoring Workbook

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (August 22, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321109295
ISBN-13: 978-0321109293

As a programmer, you need to be able to recognize and improve problematic code, so the program remains in a working state throughout the software lifecycle. Refactoring-the art of improving the design of existing code safely-provides an efficient, reliable system for bringing order to the chaos, and one that keeps the surprises to a minimum! Refactoring can be difficult to learn, but Refactoring Workbook, by consultant William C. Wake, presents the material in a easy-learning format that makes learning enjoyable and effective.

For many, the obstacle to learning refactoring is in identifying the “smells“—the potential problem areas-found in code. Instead of having you read about the smells, Refactoring Workbook makes sure you understand them. You’ll solve a carefully assembled series of problems, and you’ll find yourself learning at a deeper level and arriving at a few insights of your own. Wake uses the workbook method—a learning-focused approach that forces you to apply the techniques presented in the book-in the rest of the book. This approach helps you learn and apply the most important refactoring techniques to your code and, as a side benefit, helps you to think more about creating great code even when you’re not refactoring.

Refactoring Workbook provides user-friendly references such as:

• A handy, quick-reference “smell finder”
• A standard format for describing smells
• Appendices showing key refactorings
• A listing of Java™ tools that support refactoring
• This book is intended for programmers with a knowledge of Java, though a C# or C++ programmer with a basic understanding of Java would also be able to follow and learn from the examples. It can be used as a companion to Martin Fowler’s Refactoring (also from Addison-Wesley Professional), which provides step-by-step instructions for many refactorings.

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