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About the Author
Curtis Pesmen,
Author of How a Man Ages, What She Wants, When a Man Turns 40, Your First Year of Marriage, and The Survivor's Guide to Colon Cancer, and who has written for Esquire, GQ, SELF, Glamour, Redbook and Outside magazines, was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer in 2001.
As health/features editor of SELF magazine, he helped develop the internationally recognized, pink-ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign. An award-winning, seven-part series of Pesmen's successful
fight against colon cancer was featured in Esquire magazine in 2001 and 2003.
He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and two sons.
The Colon Cancer Survivors' Guide: Living Stronger, Longer
2009 | Tatra Press
Not long ago, Curtis Pesmen, author, editor and husband, was diagnosed at 43 with advanced colorectal cancer, starting a journey that sent him from shock through treatment, experimental surgey, then recovery. Now as a survivor, he shares his insights-plus advice from other survivors and leading doctors in this revised edition-on how to manage the challenges of a cancer people don't like to talk about.
THE COLON CANCER SURVIVORS' GUIDE will help the fast-growing group of survivors-as well as families and friends-put colon cancer in its place while moving forward with the power of new knowledge.
Your Prostate Cancer Survivors' Guide: Living Stronger, Longer
2006 | Tatra Press
For men, it's been called the time bomb-ticking between their legs. If a man lives long enough, leading oncologists say, he will eventually develop some sort of prostate disease or prostate cancer. This is harrowing and bracing health news for any man over the age of 40. And yet, when discovered early, prostate cancer is over 90% CURABLE. The band of SURVIVORS grows even larger.
YOUR PROSTATE CANCER SURVIVORS GUIDE helps manage the new challenges of survivorship. With a chorus of survivors' voices and insights from the doctors, nurses and others on their support team-health journalists Bob Condor and Curtis Pesmen pinpoint exactly what it takes to be a prostate cancer survivor today...and for decades to come.
When a Man Turns Forty: The Ultimate Midlife Manual
1999 | Rodale Books
Each year; more than two million men in the United States turn 40. And they do it two million different ways. That's become men approach this milestone birthday the way they do most things in life: on their own. It's little wonder; then, that the years that should be the most pleasurable and productive of a man's life are often filled with questions, confusion and nagging doubts.
Now, author Curtis Pesmen has turned to the real experts-more than 100 men who have come through 40th birthdays on the top of their game-to discover how to make midlife the new prime time. He also interviewed leading doctors and researchers to uncover the latest trends in health and fitness. The result is When a Man Turns Forty, an honest, straightforward, and highly entertaining look at how these can be the best years of a man's life.
Your First Year of Marriage
1995 | Fireside
Newly engaged or just married? If you are wondering what suprises await you over the coming months, Your First Year of Marriage will prepare you for all of your discoveries.
Based on interviews with dozens of recently married couples and numerous experts,Your First Year of Marriage will soothe your jitters with the inside scoop on issues ranging from the most life-shattering to the most mundane, including:
- How much sex you should expect on the honeymoon
- Learning your spouse's cleverly hidden secrets
- Negotiating the bumpy terrain of family planning
- Keeping and losing old friends
- Dealing with newlywed finances
With usefule sidebars, charts, and anecdotes,Your First Year of Marriage will enlighten even the most savvy bride or groom about the lessons and joys of marriage.
What She Wants: A Man's Guide To Women
1992 | Ballantine Books
Seasoned journalist Curt Pesmen asks the questions you want answered. In What She Wants, more than 130 single and marrried women in their 20's, 30's, and 40's, talk about their innnermost thoughts, needs, desires, and expectations. You'll learn their true feelings about love and intimacy, great sex and good relationships. And a wide range of experts unravel the mysteries of the female body and psyche. This groundbreaking book reveals not only what women want-but what they want you to know
How a Man Ages Growing Older: What To Expect and What To Do About It
1984 | Ballantine Books
As the years march on, what changes lie ahead for you? What will happen to your body? What will you experience mentally, emotionally, sexually?
As a member of the first generation to make exercise, nutrition, and fitness real priorities, how can you ensure your health through your thirties, forties, fifties, sixties and beyond?
How A Man Ages is an upbeat, informative, and thoroughly helpful book from the editors of Esquire, one of the nation's leading men's magazines. It combines the most up-to-date medical findings with advice from leading experts. It provides practical advice on everything from your skin and air to your heart, lungs, and muscles. It is a guide you will use for the rest of you long and productive life.