For the first time, Alain de Botton gives a name to this universal condition and sets out to investigate both its origins and possible solutions. He looks at history, philosophy, economics, art and politics and reveals the many ingenious ways that great minds have overcome their worries.
Keep fit, tone-up and lose weight - walking is the perfect way to achieve optimum health, hassle free. Power-walking expert Nina Barough reveals there is a world of difference between a casual stroll and an energising, body-sculpting power walk. Founder of the annual Moonwalk, Nina explains how this low-impact form of exercise can be done by anyone, anywhere at anytime and her total walking programme will help you achieve health, vitality and weight-loss.
Offers essential day-by-day advice for your baby's exciting first year. Covering every single day of the first twelve months and various aspects of baby care and development, this book details everything from breast feeding to bonding all provided by a team of experts including paediatricians, midwives, psychologists and nutritionists.
Learn how to manage your diet with the Diabetes Cookbook Managing your diet is the key to good diabetes control. With recipes for lunch, dinner and healthy snacks, The Diabetes Cookbook is guaranteed to tempt your taste buds and contribute to the health and well-being of everyone with diabetes. Featuring over 250 delicious recipes, from tempting curries to delicious puddings, each one suitable to help manage type 2 diabetes. Each recipe has a simple points system that allows users to track their glucose, saturated fat and cholesterol intake to balance their diet - the key to staying healthy.
Published in association with Neal's Yard, Cook, Brew & Blend Your Own Herbs taps into the healing power of plants, showing how easy it is to grow and use a wide range of safe, effective medicinal herbs at home. Discover how to treat everyday ailments with home-made tinctures and syrups and how to use food as medicine with delicious, seasonal herb-based soups, juices and salads that will calm and heal.
Includes an A-Z directory of over 100 herbs with tips on how to source them - whether by growing your own, foraging in the wild or buying from a herbalist. Step-by-steps techniques and illustrations demonstrate how to grow, care for and use herbs, whether you want to make a smoothie to boost immunity or a herbal balm to soothe aching muscles.
Showing you how to treat someone suffering from over 100 medical conditions and injuries, whether a minor burn or a heart attack, this latest edition of the best-selling American College of Emergency Physicians First Aid Manual gives you the knowledge you need instantly if someone becomes ill or gets hurt.
Get under your skin with this access-all-areas guide to the human body Discover a breathtaking portrait of the human body as it's never been seen before, using the latest medical and microscopic imaging. The Complete Human Body covers the development, form, function and disorders of the human body, all brought to life by incredible state-of-the-art 3D computer-generated artworks. Take a detailed look at how your respiratory system works, discover the anatomy up-close and learn about over 200 diseases and how they afflict the human body. Perfect for students, families and health professionals.
A guide to pregnancy that features photographs, 3D scans and illustrations which reveal exactly what is happening to you and your baby every single day. It offers advise on a baby's development, medical matters, diet, fitness and more.
A guide to pregnancy and babycare during the first year. It offers coverage ranging from what happens during pregnancy and birth, through to day-to-day babycare including feeding, washing and dressing. It provides guidance on adapting to parenthood and features on common issues such as maintaining your relationship and going back to work.
A guide to various magical stages of pregnancy, from pre-conception planning to the first days of life. It offers advice on fertility treatment, antenatal care, nutrition, exercise and your choices in childbirth. It also contains sections on working mothers and expectant fathers.
From a month-by-month development guide, to the latest on fertility, antenatal testing, diagnostic procedure, labor choices and caring for your newborn, this book offers reassuring, practical advice on various aspects of your antenatal care.
Guides parents through the essentials of baby and childcare, including bathing a newborn and choosing a preschool. This book includes case studies, which give insights on topics including single parenting and dealing with sibling rivalry. It also provides first aid guidelines and healthcare advice.
Packed with an advice on looking after your baby from feeding, first aid and childhood immunisations to tips on sleeping, crying, bathing, hygiene, playing and more, this stage-by-stage guide to your baby's physical, emotional and intellectual development means makes you to help your children reach their potential during the first three years.
Explains how the author overcame his one-hundred-a-day habit and quit smoking for good. After many failed attempts and a lot of perseverance, he discovered the Easyway and it changed his life. He had a vision of the future in which smoking was something we used to do, and he was sure that Easyway would play a large part in this achievement.
Why do we have such active imaginations? Do men and women fantasize differently? And should we share our fantasies with our partners? Answering such questions, this book explores the sexual fantasies, with categories ranging from exhibitionism to celebrities and infidelity to violent scenarios.
A visual yoga guide providing step-by-step colour sequences with 360 degree views of key postures. There is also a section showing therapeutic yoga sequences to alleviate over 80 common ailments and ways to combat stress. Suitable for students of all levels of ability and fitness.
Pilates is an unique exercise system that gives rapid, yet lasting results; a sculpted body with increased back strength and improved posture. This guide shows you how to achieve these results at home.
From the leading pregnancy and babycare expert Dr Miriam Stoppard, this practical handbook is an indispensable guide to every aspect of pregnancy and birth.
An illustrated guide to the structure, functions and disorders of the human brain. It helps readers gain insight into such esoteric aspects as behaviour, language and communication and discover the nature of genius. It is suitable for students and healthcare professionals.
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