Item category 1: Health & Well-being

Frederic Saldmann describes how to activate the body's natural healing powers and address common ailments like allergies, sleep disorders, cardiovascular problems, sexual dysfunction, and excess weight. You will learn: how washing your hands helps your mood, why hitting snooze on your alarm makes...

"People faced with cancer take life seriously -- very seriously. They want answers; they need to know what works. I know the feeling. For over twenty years now I have sat in groups with thousands of others going through cancer. Between us we have tried many things. We have worked out what works. ...

In You Can Heal Your Heart, self help luminary Louise Hay and renowned grief and loss expert David Kessler, the protege of Elisabeth Kubler Ross, have come together to start a conversation on healing grief. This remarkable book discusses the emotions that occur when a relationship leaves you brok...

'You Can Sleep Well' is the indispensable 'open sesame' to the secrets of sleep. By showing us how to combat tiredness, insomnia, nightmares, snoring and children's sleeping difficulties by using a wealth of practical exercises and techniques, the renowned sleep expert Chris Idzikowski sets us on...

A look at why we like the things we like, why we hate the things we hate, and what our preferences reveal about us Why is showing up to work wearing the same outfit as a coworker so embarrassing? Why do we venerate so many artists who were controversial or ignored during their lifetimes? What mak...

Communication is at the core of all relationships and it is inevitable that it fails at times. These occurrences offer crucial golden opportunities to find our way back to harmony. If we are available and willing to make successful repairs, the relationship strengthens and builds in trust and res...

If you feel like success is for others, that only certain people get to have their dreams fulfilled, Eric Thomas's You Owe You is your wake-up call. His urgent message to stop waiting for inspiration to strike and take control of your life is one he wishes someone had given him when he was a teen...

When you hit your twenties and thirties, there's no blueprint for taking care of yourself while balancing all the things life throws at you. How do we become body confident in a world that focuses on our flaws? What's the secret to forging connections at work and at home while maintaining healthy...

Whether you are young or old, nimble or wobbly, tucked into bed on the doctor's orders or struggling to get to sleep, you can use your time in bed to explore and heal your soul while finding delightful ways to get to sleep.

Whether we like it or not, we are all obsessed with our bowels. And for good reason, nature and evolution have conspired against us by hard wiring our gut microbes and gut nerves to our brain. They form part of our psyche and our vernacular 'Go with your gut feeling on this!' Right? "Your Best Gu...

COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE. This book is about the art and application of Clinical Kinesiology, and serves as an introduction to the energetic system that links mind and body. It shows how the body can talk, and therefore be used as a diagnostic tool to measure a wide variety of its own functions, an...

Hidden in everyday foods are the causes of a surprising range of health problems: infertility, menstrual cramps, weight gain, hair loss, breast and prostate cancer, hot flashes, and much more. All of these conditions have one thing in common: they are fuelled by hormones that are hiding in foods ...

Too often, conventional medicine fails to detect disorders and sickness. Oriental diagnosis, an ancient holistic system of knowledge, can detect physical problems before they arise. Beginning with an explanation of the principles of Oriental diagnosis - touching, "seeing," and pressure - author M...

This comprehensive book will give you a whole new view of how your brain works and ways you can use that understanding to help yourself become wiser, happier; even healthier. You will never think of the world inside your head the same way again. How the astounding machine inside your head makes y...

A leading neuroscientist presents a groundbreaking exploration of how time works inside the mind, arguing that the human brain's complex system constructs our sense of chronological flow in ways that are essential to evolution and everyday survival.

This boook equips you with powerful weapons to battle the inner dragons that are breathing fire on your brain, driving unhealthy behaviors, and robbing you of joy and contentment. Your brain is always listening and responding to these hidden influences and unless you recognize and deal with them,...

This book is filled with powerful ideas and simple proven tools that will help you transform your wishes into dreams, and then into an achievable one-page roadmap for creating your Dream Life - a life designed by you for you, and for your loved ones. Kristina Karlsson, the woman behind the ins...

HEALTH & WHOLEFOOD COOKERY. While many American's have found temporary success with low-carbohydrate dieting, few maintain their weight loss. Drawing on proven medical research and years of successful clinical use, "Your Fat Can Make You Thin" clearly explains how to regulate the body's serotonin...

Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present, with all of our senses, in a forest or other wild area, can produce mental, emotional, and physical health benefits. It is a simple, accessible antidote to our nature-starved lives and can inspire us ...

"Diabetes mellitus is a disorder where the body doesn't produce enough insulin, or doesn't react properly to the insulin it produces, causing a build-up of glucose in the blood. Type 2 diabetes often smoulders on for a long time before it is recognised and diagnosed. ... This book gives the basic...

Your Head is a Houseboat is a uniquely hilarious guide to what goes on in your brain. The only truth we really know is that we're going to spend the rest of our lives in our own houseboat (our head) so it makes sense to make that houseboat as good as possible. The houseboat needs cleaning and mai...

ADVICE ON CAREERS & ACHIEVING SUCCESS. At one point, the Dalai Lama was asked what surprised him the most about humanity. He answered: "Mankind...because they lose their health to make money, then they lose money to recover their health. And since they are so anxious about the future, they do not...

Every workout is intended to do one thing: maximize results. Whether that result is fitness, function and performance, fat loss, or physique improvements, you want your efforts to pay off. What if you had the opportunity to have the NSCA Personal Trainer of the Year observe your workout and show ...

Here, Kate Murphy draws on countless personal conversations she has had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders, her great aunt to her friend's toddler, to show how only by listening well can we truly connect with others. Active listening is about cur...