Item category 1: Health & Well-being

In this book, Dr. Robynne Chutkan offers a prescriptive plan for anyone trying to avoid or recover from a viral illness by rehabilitating their gut microbes and restoring their health. It includes: A step-by-step nutrition plan with recipes and an explanation of which foods and preparation method...

In this book, weaving memoir with science, Elisa uses the stages of her own life to relate to stages in everyone's lives and the types of anxiety that may be experienced during each phase. She includes the latest in research and other scientific information about anxiety, its causes and treatment...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. Eleanor Morgan's first-person account of her own struggles with anxiety was published as part of 'The Vice Guide to Mental Health' and was read by five million people across fifteen countries within four days. Anxiety for Beginners will serve as a guide for those who live ...

One night three years ago Josh Roberts went to a party. The next morning he awoke to discover his mind had collapsed. In a matter of days he went from being a fun loving, seemingly successful twenty-something to a hot mess of tears and nerves. Eventually he was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety ...

As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a l...

The first book dedicated to the carers' perspective; Are You OK in There? offers down-to-earth suggestions for families who are supporting someone with a mental health issue. It covers how to react in stressful situations, how to seek further help and how to get the best out of mental health serv...

This accessible guide shows how women can benefit from aromatherapy at every age. A chapter-by-chapter analysis of the key stages in a woman's life shows how aromatherapy can be used to ease everyday demands. The book covers using aromatherapy to treat emotional issues such as low confidence, str...

"This comprehensive book offers everything you need to know about skin, the ingredients you'll need to make your own natural beauty and skin care products using essential and carrier oils, and easy-to-follow instructions on creating natural botanical creams and lotions for the face, body, bath an...

An inspiring, informative, and practical guide to navigating end of life issues, by a groundbreaking expert in the field and the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door. In the mid-1400s, an unnamed Catholic monk composed a popular self-help book called Ars Moriendi, or The...

'When I hear parents say 'I want my children to enjoy their childhood; there'll be time when they're older to learn about those things', I hear the voices of those who are scared of the vastness of the universe. These adults have a view of childhood as some kind of discrete interval, rather than ...

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's book Searching for Bobby Fischer was made into a major motion pict...

Ross Edgley famously ran a marathon pulling a 1.4-tonne car and climbed a rope the height of Everest (8,848m), after living with Yamabushi warrior monks in Japan and partaking in Shamanic pain rituals with fire ants in the Amazon jungle. On his epic 1,780-mile journey around Great Britain, which ...

Today busyness has become a badge of honour. We want to say we're busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond colla...

Master the Art of Running is based on the proven principles of the Alexander Technique that encourage good body use and greater awareness of the way your body functions and moves. The technique teaches you how to release tension from your back and neck and how to run without suffering from injuries.

In this easy-to-follow book, Wendy explains how genetics, age, infections, diet, excess weight, previous injuries and stress contribute to arthritis and offers practical advice and a holistic approach to help you deal with the symptoms, including simple dietary and lifestyle changes and DIY compl...

POPULAR MEDICINE. What is the most powerful arthritis treatment ever developed to help restore you to a healthy, pain-free, and vigorous life-for the rest of your life? It's the very same breakthrough that has: -Helped more arthritis sufferers than drugs, surgery, or any other treatment-without d...

Over 50 million adults in the US have been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, or fibromyalgia, with and additional 300,000 sufferers who are under 18. While doctors routinely dispense drugs for pain relief, the side effects of these drugs are potentially serious. Arthritis-Proof Yo...

Honest, first-hand advice from the beloved TV personality, entrepreneur, wife and mother. Since finding love on Married at First Sight, Jules Robinson has had a whirlwind five years - she got married (for real), had a baby, and became a purpose-driven entrepreneur. Though there have been setbacks...

In Aspertools you will discover everything you need to understand your loved one, student, co-worker, or friend, whose brain might be "a little different." This is the first book to offer simple tools, action plans, and resources to deal with neurodiverse conditions such as Asperger's or any of ...

The Atlas of Disease gives a unique perspective on how epidemics have spread throughout history, from the fourteenth-century plague that devastated Europe and the lethal outbreaks of cholera in the nineteenth century, right up to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the catastrophic spread of zika ...

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new ch...

People say when you want to change your life, you need to think big: swap job, move house, change partner. But they're wrong. World-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered a completely different way to transform your behaviour. He knows that lasting change comes from the compound effect...

Review: "The volume reviews the foundations of attachment theory and traces how the study of adolescents and adults has enriched Bowlby and Ainsworth's original ideas. Measures of attachment style and related constructs (several of which are reprinted in the appendices) are described in depth, an...

AROMATHERAPY. Essential oils are becoming increasingly popular, but how do you identify quality oils from the myriad of inferior ones to choose from? And what can you actually do with these little vials of oils? In fact, there are countless things you can use them for--things that will improve yo...

Review: "Parents have been reporting a connection between autism and diet for decades but, until now, the science behind the connection has been evasive. Today, we see a growing body of research to back up parents' reports."

This book helps students with autism, parents and teachers and understanding of autism and of specific learning strategies such as alternative approaches to teaching that will accomplish more than merely increasing students' standardized achievement test score and attitudes toward learning.

Learn key communication skills for succeeding in a neurologically mixed relationship, gain a better understanding of your autistic partner's mental processes, troubleshoot your sex life, and level up your appreciation for their relationship strengths. Autistic-allistic relationships can flourish,...

Autism Respecting Difference is a concise, straightforward introduction to the sensory and emotional experiences of autism, designed to help support staff, professionals and families better understand and engage with autistic people in order to offer meaningful and effective support.

A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a "Time" Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the number of people diagnosed with it has sky ...

Crappy apartments, lame relationships, getting passed over for a great job (again) -- not what we expected for our adult lives. Americans tell their children you can become anything! But let's face it -- most of us can't. Sure, some of our peers go on to become astronauts or billionaires. But mos...