Item category 1: Health & Well-being

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES, HEALING & HEALTH. Discover your dosha and follow an ayurvedic path to healing that's tailored to you! Ayurveda (Sanskrit for "science of life"), a consciousness-based system of healing, is stepping up to close the gaps between thinking, knowing, feeling, and doing. Idiot'...

Explains how Ayurveda has understood and successfully managed obesity for centuries and how you can apply its insights to lose weight and keep it off. Explores individual Ayurvedic body types, how wrong foods and wrong lifestyle affect each type, and how all these components coalesce with our uni...

The traditional healing system of India, Ayurveda is increasingly popular in the western world. The elements of earth, air, fire, water and ether are manifested in each individual through doshas, or body types. Maintaining the balance of your dosha is done through diet, exercise, massage, crystal...

After more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Tate was giddily in a new relationship. At a recovery meeting, a friend gave her a gentle suggestion: perhaps now would be the perfect time to examine why friendships gave her trouble. Tate embarked on a brutally hones ex...

Written by one of the world's leading baby loss support experts, The Baby Loss Guide is designed to help you navigate this complex issue. Whether you have personally encountered loss, or are supporting people through this harrowing time, this book provides practical and compassionate advice. Zoe ...

The spine is one of the most important parts of the human body. The Mayo Clinic book Back and Neck Health looks at common back and neck conditions and what can cause them. The book also discusses different ways to treat back and neck pain. This includes self-care steps you can take at home, sever...

Your back is one of the most sensitive yet highly used parts of your body and while millions of people experience lower back pain each year, it doesn't need to put your life on hold. In Back Pain, elite sports physiotherapist Kusal Goonewardena shares his expertise and insight to help you underst...

POPULAR MEDICINE & HEALTH. AUSTRALIAN. Back pain is no laughing matter, but perhaps it should be. Research shows that if you use a bit of humour to help you deal with your aches and pains, you will recover more quickly. The Back Pain Handbook contains exercises, strategies and some gentle humour ...

DIETS & DIETING. The remarkable, groundbreaking guide to safe, effective weight loss based on modern science and the fascinating story of human evolution. Fed up with being fat and worried about your health? Frustrated by conflicting advice on how to lose the flab? Think your excess weight is som...

Back pain is the one of the world's greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide. One in 10 people will develop chronic back pain. And rates are growing. A multi-billion dollar ...

Transform your hair step-by-step. You'll look just like your favorite heroes and heroines in no time. With an introduction to the styling techniques for different kinds of basic braids, interviews with behind-the-scenes stylists and actors, and original styles inspired by fan-favorites.The perfec...

Be Here Now will show you how to discover your 'now', building resilience and nurturing your own inner sanctuary by treasuring the world, just as it is now, in all its simplicity and authenticity. Beautifully written and illustrated by acclaimed artist Meredith Gaston with photographs by Roberto ...

Presents an exercise program of more than one hundred low-impact exercises, with detailed fitness plans and illustrations of movements designed to increase mobility, lower risk of injury, improve balance, and prevent bone loss.

Never-ending to-do lists, constant deadlines, intense workloads and the guilty feeling you're not doing enough - does this sound all too familiar? If so, it's time to take a step back and find a better balance for your work and life. Mindfulness and performance coach Melo Calarco shares the secre...

Geoff Platt's exercise program, tailored to help children with dyspraxia to overcome their symptoms, enjoy physical activities, and become as active as their friends and classmates, is now proven to be even more effective. This revised and expanded edition outlines the fun and easy-to-teach progr...

Insomnia is one of the major afflictions of the modern world, and is responsible for a great deal of lost productivity, accidents and suffering. About one in three of us report sleep problems. Insomnia has been linked to anxiety, major depression, cognitive disturbance, high blood pressure, heart...

Dispenza explores how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming Supernatural marries some of the most profound scientific information with ancient wisdom to show how people like you and me can experience a more mystical life. Readers will learn that we...

How do I know if I have dementia, and how will I live with it if I do? Can people with dementia consent to sex? Can they choose euthanasia for their future selves? And can we prevent or push back its onset? Chances are you know someone with dementia, but how well do you really understand the cond...

'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and convincing book.' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and David and Goliath The world's leading expert on the unconscious mind reveals the hidden mental processes t...

For many of us, the last time we learned a new skill was during childhood. We live in an age which reveres expertise but looks down on the beginner. Upon entering adulthood and middle age, we begin to shy away from trying new things, instead preferring to stay nestled firmly in our comfort zones....

"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful in...

A personal account of Julia, a 32 year old woman who has been living with a diagnosis of PDA since she was 12. This is the first book on pathological demand avoidance syndrome (PDA) in adults. PDA is still a relatively new diagnosis but the first generation of people diagnosed with PDA are now we...

A practical nutritional and lifestyle guide to improving your health and healing your body. The human body is an amazing and resilient system, and the food we eat, the way we move, and the way we chose to live our lives can all help to keep it in balance and improve our health. Leading nutrition ...

Ask yourself…are you truly who you want to be? Is this the life you really want? Are you living each day as your best self? What can you change, today? How would you answer those questions? Think about your daily life. Are you thriving, or going through the motions? Are your days full of work, re...

Best-selling beauty author and internationally known "Cosmetics Cop" Paula Begoun and her team of beauty experts from Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me are back to give readers the facts about skin and how it needs to be treated. From acne to wrinkles and everything in between, Paula a...

Emma Mahony explores ADHD as a mental health issue, revealing her own journey with late diagnosis whilst offering readers advice on how to understand and cope with this complex disorder. Everything and nothing changed once Emma Mahony was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 52. In Better Late Than ...

Most of us assume that the key to overcoming anxiety is to think our way out of it. And for a while, it works. Meditation and mental exercises offer us relief, but there is always something -- a work deadline, a family emergency, a particularly distressing newsbreak -- that disrupts our sense of ...

People from the "blue zones" are well known for their long-lived, healthy populations. Through his docuseries The Human Longevity Project, Jason Prall sought not only to reveal the secrets of the blue zone elders but also to understand the scientific grounding behind their wisdom. He interviewed ...

Annotation. Do you find yourself struggling with an allergy diagnosis and all that it brings with it?Do you feel continually stressed and worried with a desire to live a fulfilled life? Are you constantly treading water, putting out spot fires and finding it difficult to come up for air all while...

If we can improve the way we think about our bodies, that will in turn improve our lives. Why do we hate our bodies so much? Why do we constantly criticise and pressure ourselves about our bodies? Why do we strive to attain (and punish ourselves when we don't have) thin, ultra-toned bodies? We al...