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The official training manual for all three first aid providers, offering emergency procedures for everyone at home, at work, or at leisure. This edition is fully restructured with colour-coded chapters for easy access to the information.

In the late 1980s, a national outcry followed the publication of Sandra Coney and Phillida Bunkle's 'Unfortunate Experiment' article in Metro magazine about the treatment of carcinoma in situ at National Women's Hospital. The article prompted a commission of inquiry led by Judge Silvia Cartwright (now Dame Silvia Cartwright), which indicted the practices of doctors at the hospital and led to lawsuits, censure, a national screening programme and a revolution in doctor-patient relations in New Zealand. In this carefully researched bo... read more

Qualified nurse, personal trainer, fitness instructor, massage therapist and mother of two, Rachel Tomkinson, has spent the past four years researching ways to prevent her youngest daughter from suffering the severe eczema and 24 food allergies she was diagnosed with. Her investigation has brought to the fore that real food provided by mother nature is the answer, without the chemicals, additives and industrial food processing, which are responsible for triggering our "modern" diseases. Learn from the steps Rachel took to heal her... read more

A behind-the-scenes look at what goes in to many of our everyday pharmaceuticals, Victorian Pharmacy Remedies and Recipes tells the story of how traditional folklore and family remedies came to the high street in the form of the chemist's shop.

A full colour guide to applying makeup with over 70 before and after pictures of regular women throughout. It is highly practical and doesn't show perfect model women - every woman can be beautiful with Robert's makeup techniques.

Whether you call it power walking, fitness walking or just plain walking, indoors or out, walking is one of the most popular and rewarding forms of exercise. The appeal is that absolutely anyone can do it - young or old, fit or unfit. Take a look in a local park - from London to New York - and you will see walkers, early in the morning, at lunchtime, on the way home, making the most of their surroundings and getting some exercise at the same time. There are so many health benefits to walking - including reducing the risk of coronar... read more

This well-organized, authoritative book helps women find products that make them look great without spending a fortune. From drugstores and home shopping to department stores and catalogs, Begoun reviews all the major cosmetic and skin-care lines, product by product.

The New Zealand Pregnancy Book has been used by thousands of parents since it was first published in 1991. This new edition offers modern parents and their families a wonderful insight into what pregnancy and childbirth in New Zealand looks like in the 21st century.

From the most famous children's hospital in the UK, Great Ormond Street, this essential guide will help you keep your child happy and healthy from birth to the age of eleven. From breast and bottle-feeding to developing skills such as language and play, find out about your baby's physical and emotional health in the crucial first year. Follow down-to-earth, authoritative advice on the many challenges of raising children and read objective advice on a range of topics, including sex education, alcohol, smoking, drugs, and trends in c... read more

A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse.In this book for young people who are struggling with substance abuse, Kyle Keegan recounts his own remarkable story of drug abuse and ruthless addiction. Keegan, now an adult who is in recovery from his addiction, discusses his experience as a well adjusted adolescent who fell victim to heroin and whose life was almost destroyed by the devastating drug. Against the backdrop of these experiences, he also provides useful information that young people strugglin... read more

Osteoporosis is a worldwide epidemic. You might not even know you've got it until you fracture a bone. But it doesn't need to happen to you - osteoporosis is treatable and preventable, and this book will show you how. Find out why there aren't any symptoms, how to tell if you've got it, how to avoid it and how to boost bone health. Dr Marilyn Glenville looks at why some women are more at risk than others and discusses how to test for osteoporosis. Using the latest research and clinical practice, she then looks at the optimum treatm... read more

Heart attacks and strokes kill 40% of people in Western countries, making cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death. In the first-ever book on the polypill, Miracle Pill: Will you take the polypill?, New Zealand doctor and researcher Shaun Holt explains the exciting concept of an inexpensive table containing six medications that could reduce this figure by at least half, and enable a third of the population to live a minimum of 10 years longer. The implications of this momentous idea were summarised by Professor Richard Smi... read more

'This fourth edition is an essential reference for all natural health care practitioners. As well as the comprehensive information from earlier editions, it contains important updates regarding the new National Health Practitioner legislation and recent consumer law cases.' - Adjunct Associate Professor Kerry Bone, Australian College of Phytotherapy and University of New England. Established as the most widely used reference in the field, Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine is a comprehensive handbook for professionals... read more

This marvellous little book is a distillation of the essence of Turin and Sanchez' acclaimed masterwork "Perfumes: The A - Z Guide". In "Perfumes", Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez reviewed nearly 1,500 fragrances in their witty, irreverent and innovative handbook - separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Here in "The Little Book of Perfumes", the authors choose their 100 greatest fragrances of all time. Some are very famous, some hardly known, for women and men. There is Jicky (1889), unisex coeval of the Eiff... read more

Consider your typical day: If you're like most people, it probably starts in front of your coffee maker and toaster, ends as you set the alarm on your cell phone, and involves no end of computers and gadgets, televisions and microwaves in between. We're being zapped: Today 84 percent of Americans own a cell phone, 89 million of us watch TV beamed in by satellite, and we can't sip a cup of coffee at our local cafe without being exposed to Wi-Fi. The very electronic innovations that have changed our lives are also exposing us, in way... read more

Stopping smoking doesn't need to be a difficult and stressful battle. There is a way to stop smoking cigarettes that is simple, stress-free and permanent. Combining the latest research with simple and practical techniques, this groundbreaking book provides a new approach that will allow you to stop smoking once and for all. You Can Quit Smoking will: help you gain new insight into why so many people struggle to quit learn a simple yet highly effective technique for dealing with any cravings or other sensations that arise once you s... read more

Who wouldn't like to look younger than they are? In this book Denyse shares her top 30 tips for looking younger at any age. What are the top ten anti-aging foods? How do you erase those lines and wrinkles? What are the correct make-up techniques for looking younger? What style jacket, skirt and trousers suit you? How do I look instantly slimmer and taller? How can I apply my make-up correctly? How can I put together a workable wardrobe without spending a fortune? The answers to all these questions and more are contai... read more