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2) Make yourself better: a practical guide to restoring your body's wellbeing through ancient medicine
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Bringing ancient Eastern and Western medical traditions into a modern world, this guide, devoted to the importance of good nutrition, detoxification, activity and physical exercise, empowers readers to make more informed choices to lead healthier lives.
Author
Publisher
Muddy Pearl
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Ours is a worried world. Children are growing up with anxiety, uncertainty, and low self-esteem, and the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing lockdowns and yet more life online, has only intensified this. Many parents feel helpless as their happy, easygoing children are overwhelmed by a tsunami of pressure and worry. How can we help them flourish in these infamously "unprecedented" times? Katharine Hill, UK director of Care for the Family, throws us a lifeline....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, former Head Master of Eton and bestselling author Tony Little and child and adolescent psychiatrist Herb Etkin tackle the problems faced by adolescents and set out how to combat them. [This book] covers a range of subjects from what adolescence actually is, to topics such as drug use and discipline, food, sexuality, emotional turbulence, 'screenagers', character and wellbeing. The book sets adolescence in context before Little and Etkin...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
By the time of his retirement in June 2010, the author had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book articulating not only the need for changes, but also what those improvements should be. This is a call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"With her usual warmth and wisdom, bestselling psychotherapist Julia Samuel explores the family: what we inherit and how we can change. Relationships fundamentally influence our health and happiness--and family is the only relationship we cannot leave, however much we might like to. And yet we often think too narrowly about the impact of our families on our lives. Every Family Has A Story sees bestselling psychotherapist Julia Samuel turn from her...
8) Mental fitness: maximizing mood, motivation, & mental wellness by optimizing the brain-body-biome
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Depression, anxiety, and burnout are the "Black Plague" of our modern times. These mental wellness problems afflict hundreds of millions of people around the world and account for hundreds of billions of dollars in expenditures on antidepressant drugs and related "feel better" products. Unfortunately, most of these solutions make us feel "different" but not really "better" - and certainly not the way that we want to feel with good mood, clear thinking,...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"WHEN WORRY WORKS responds to one of the primary sources of the nation's worsening adolescent mental health crisis - achievement pressure. Burdened by the mounting pressures on today's youth, parents seek ways to strike the balance between supporting their teens' current well-being while also setting them up for future success. Eager to take action and to manage their escalating fears, parents inadvertently and unknowingly exacerbate the problem by...
Author
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Every parent has pondered "nature vs. nurture" questions. How much of my child's personality and behavior is inborn? How much is learned? This important new book written by behavioral scientists who are also mothers has answers. This book offers the best parenting practices to foster resilience by encouraging children's social-emotional development and adaptive stress-regulation strategies. The authors translate scientific research into concrete,...
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Much of society's thinking operates in a highly rigid and binary manner; something is good or bad, right or wrong, a success or a failure, and so on. Challenging this limited way of thinking, this ground-breaking book looks at how non-binary methods of thought can be applied to all aspects of life, and offer new and greater ways of understanding ourselves and how we relate to others. Using bisexual and non-binary gender experiences as a starting point,...
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Compassionate, groundbreaking, and urgently needed, Stand By Me provides caregivers with new ways to juggle the responsibilities and emotional ups and downs of caregiving. As the founder of the only devoted Caregivers Clinic in the country, clinical psychologist Dr. Allison Applebaum is no stranger to the intensity of being an unpaid, untrained family caregiver. She also understands that it is often the strength and well-being of these very caregivers--the...
Author
Publisher
Kogan Page
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Do you feel trapped in a toxic work culture? Or stuck in a job you're great at... but that you don't actually like? Why do good people stay in bad jobs for so long? The Success Trap answers all these questions - and shows you what to do about it. An estimated 80% of individuals in the western workforce want to change job - if you're one of them, then this book will enable you to understand why, help you reconnect with what's really important to you,...
Author
Publisher
Origen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Experience has taught me that an "intoxicating love" that fills us with life and energy and gives us butterflies in our stomach from all the excitement, can become "toxic love" that makes us sick. Little by little, without us realizing it, the silence, pride, rudeness, selfishness, and small details of a routine poison our relationship. But there's hope if can we renew our thinking and accept that being happy in a marriage depends on us being willing...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which a priesthood of economists, wielding impenetrable mathematical formulas, set the framework for public debate. Ultimately, it is the perceived health of the economy which determines how much we can spend on our schools, highways, and defense; economists decide how much unemployment is acceptable and whether it is right to print money...
Author
Publisher
Robert Rose
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The essential guide for understanding and managing of rheumatoid arthritis with companion recipes. Recent reports indicate that as many as 91 million Americans may have arthritis and 350 million people may have arthritis worldwide. For those who experience this often-painful condition, The Complete Arthritis Health, Diet Guide and Cookbook will be an essential guide and a great help. With details on the symptoms and causes of arthritis and information...
Author
Publisher
Origen
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Ser una mujer victoriosa y feliz puede ser un gran desafío. No subestimes el poder de los pequeños cambios. ¿Te has sentido tan abrumada que parece que el mundo se te cae encima? ¿O tan decaída que casi no puedes levantarte de la cama? El estrés, la ansiedad y la depresión son algunas de las enfermedades más comunes de este siglo. Enfermedades silenciosas que, poco a poco, van minando lo que somos. Jessica Domínguez lo sabe de primera mano,...
18) North Korea confidential: private markets, fashion trends, prison camps, dissenters and defectors
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even...
20) The darkness manifesto: on light pollution, night ecology, and the ancient rhythms that sustain life
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth. How much light is too much light? Satellite pictures show our planet as a brightly glowing orb, and in our era of constant illumination, light pollution has become a major issue. The world's flora...
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