An Invitation to Health (with Profile Plus 2005, Health, Fitness and Wellness Explorer, and InfoTrac)
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Book Description
AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, Eleventh Edition is a best-selling personal health text that introduces students to the latest research, information, and recommendations related to health and healthy lifestyles. Reviewed by more than 40 instructors and consistently praised for its instructional and engaging writing style, AN INVITATION TO HEALTH focuses on behavior change, the prevention of illness and the achievement of optimal health and wellness. AN INVITATION TO HEALTH addresses topics that affect college students of all ages. This text supplies students with the lessons they'll need to make responsible health decisions in their daily lives now and in the future. Now package automatically with the PROFILE PLUS 2005 CD-ROM, INFOTRAC COLLEGE EDITION, and and THE HEALTH, FITNESS AND WELLNESS EXPLORER, students are now more equipped than ever to explorer, experience, and better understand the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
About the Author
Dianne Hales is a successful health, fitness, and wellness author of several higher-education textbooks, including AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, Twelfth Edition; AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, Fourth Edition; AN INVITATION TO FITNESS AND WELLNESS, First Edition; and the new AN INVITATION TO WELLNESS, First Edition, all with Thomson Wadsworth.
Dianne is also an accomplished journalist and trade author. Her trade books include JUST LIKE A WOMAN (Bantam, 2000), CARING FOR THE MIND (Bantam, 1996), THE MIND MOOD PILL BOOK (Bantam, 2001), and THINK THIN, BE THIN (Broadway, 2005). She is also a contributing editor to PARADE Magazine and has written for many national magazines.
Her success is due in large part to her extensive research into the latest developments in health, fitness, and wellness. Her engaging writing style, vivid examples, and creative pedagogy are highly effective in capturing and keeping students' interest. In her role as a journalist, Dianne interviews leading health, fitness and wellness researchers/experts and incorporates their insights into her textbooks.
Dianne Hales is one of the few journalists to be honored with national awards for excellence in writing by both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. Her writing awards include an EMMA (Exceptional Media Merit Award) for health reporting from the National Women's Political Caucus and Radcliffe College.
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