Product Description

AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 10th Edition introduces students to research, information, and recommendations related to health and healthy lifestyles. Reviewed by over 80 instructors, this informative text focuses on change and prevention and supplies students with the lessons they'll need to make responsible healthy decisions in their daily lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #969260 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 736 pages

Review
"It is easy to read, the layout is excellent, it is up-to-date, and the content coverage is very balanced with what we can cover in the course."

About the Author
Dianne Hales is a successful health, fitness, and wellness author of several higher-education textbooks, including AN INVITATION TO HEALTH, 10th Edition; AN INVITATION TO HEALTH: BRIEF, Second Edition; and AN INVITATION TO FITNESS AND WELLNESS, First Edition, all with Thomson/Wadsworth. Dianne is also an accomplished journalist and trade author, having written JUST LIKE A WOMAN (Bantam, 2000), as well as CARING FOR THE MIND (Bantam, 1996), and THE MIND MOOD PILL BOOK (Bantam, 2001). She is also a contributing author to PARADE Magazine and LADIES HOME JOURNAL. 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.

Customer Reviews

OK Textbook
Considering this was a textbook for me, and probably will be for most buyers, I did not find it of the high standards most textbooks are. I have found some errors in it too. More than once there is "see page *** " in the book. Did the editors of the book not go over this book enough times to have these errors?
But on the good side, the book is also a good compilation of information. Too much information. But for college students that might be a plus. It makes 18 and 19 year olds aware of a lot of health issues, from drugs, alcohol, contraception, etc. etc. the list goes on. In each of the chapteres, dealing with these topics there is a special section geared for college kids. There are also statistics for college kids, and on campus serveys.
So overall, I will give this book 3 and half stars. The author is dealing with a lot of material, and she does a good job of presenting it. Its not her fault that this is a very vast subject, and in order to fit it in some book she has to pack a lot of facts in every sentence. (Translated as Dry).

An Invitation to Health
The book is like branch new. I received the book just in time. I would say I was very satisfied with my purchase through Amazon. I had purchase books from other places but since the image of the book was not displayed and ISBN was misleading I end up with a book that I don't need and since it was very cheap, it was useless for me to send it back since shipping cost will cost me more. Having the image and ISBN displayed will really make a big difference for online purchases.

Great BOOK!
This is a great book for anyone looking to do well in Health classes or someone who just wants to work on their nutrition. Its great because there are all kinds of statistics on body mass index, nutiritonal values and even includes the new food pyramid. It was amazing and I really learned more than I thought I would.