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.
Dianne Hales is a widely published, award-winning freelance journalist. She has served as a contributing editor for Parade, Ladies Home Journal, Working Mother and American Health and has written for many national publications, including Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, New York Times, Readers' Digest, Washington Post, Woman's Day, and World Book. In addition to more than a dozen trade books, she is the author of the best-selling college health textbook, An Invitation to Health, and coauthor of An Invitation to Personal Change.
Dianne never expected to fall madly, gladly, giddily in love with Italian, the world's most enchanting language. But fall she did, and her latest book, LA BELLA LINGUA, tells both the dramatic story of Italian and her adventures over more than twenty years of studying and speaking the language.
Dianne ilives in northern California with her husband Robert E. Hales, M.D., and daughter Julia--who were surprised and delighted to discover that their wife and mother was becoming Italian.
