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Sharp Practice Sharp Practice
Scientists have concluded that 90 percent of men shave at least once a day. That works out at a colossal twenty thousand shaves, or five months in front of the mirror, in a lifetime. Yet, how many men have ever been given any advice or shown how best to shave? Here to fill that gaping hole is an indispensable guide to the ultimate shave. Shaving shouldn't be a chore, but a pleasure, and Sharp Practice will tell you how. Rich in the (sometimes strange) history of shaving, full of anecdotes and packed with tips and advice, Sharp Practice will revolutionize your morning ritual. Here you will find advice on avoiding common mistakes, preventing rashes and cuts, what aftershave to use and how to handle a cut-throat razor, as well as everyday tips and the ultimate luxury shave. You will also learn about Che Guevara's beard, Ivan the Terrible's idea of fun, Alexander the Great and the severed head, and how cavemen invented the razor. Super-stylish, funny and practical, this is a must-have for all well-groomed men everywhere, and the perfect present for any young man beginning to shave for the first time.

Author: Anders Larsen
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
ISBN: 9780552155076
Format: Paperback Book
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The Body Shape Bible The Body Shape Bible
WHICH BODY SHAPE ARE YOU? Skittle, Goblet, Hourglass, Cornet, Cello, Apple, Column, Bell, Vase, Brick, Lollipop or Pear ...Forget your size. Discover your shape. Transform yourself. The key to looking fabulous lies in your shape, not your size. Join style gurus Trinny & Susannah as they reveal their revolutionary new concept in dressing for your body shape. Discover the 12 definitive female forms and the principles of dressing for each one. So whether you're a pear, cello, vase or lollipop, Trinny & Susannah will help you understand your proportions and show you the key garments and best looks to fit and flatter your figure, leaving you feeling confident and looking amazing. Discover the most common dressing mistakes and your three best looks. Trinny & Susannah select key garments to make up a capsule wardrobe, and show how these basics can be built upon to vary the look. And they show how to make the most of what you already have: what you can do with an ill-fitting or expensive mistake to bring it back to life. Includes a fabulous 22 city directory of shops, outlets and services and other must-have addresses across the UK.

Author: Susannah Constantine & Trinny Woodall
Publisher: Orion Publishing
ISBN: 9780753823330
Format: Paperback Book
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Fat Pig Diet Fat Pig Diet
'If a fat slob like me, who for decades has resisted everything except temptation, who has no known willpower, who has failed every diet I've ever tried, can lose three and a half stone and keep it off - then there's hope for everyone!'Michael Winner, archetypal eater and restaurant critic, is an inspiration to us all. 'I've had jackets taken in four or five times each as I became the incredible shrinking man. What's more I've not only lost three and a half stone, I've kept it off!'In the Fat Pig Diet, Michael shares the secret of his success with the all the good humour of a bon viveur and lover of life.'On my diet, I eat ice cream, cakes, sugar, potatoes and everything else that is supposedly fattening. I give you a daily note of my food intake in great detail and my weight each morning and evening. Not for a few weeks, as most diet books do, but for months and months! This is the easiest diet ever. And the most pleasant. If a fat pig like me can do it, a man who miserably failed every other diet I tried for twentyfive years, then believe me, you can do it!' Film Director, author, critic and gourmet, Michael Winner is famous for the many films he has directed featuring major Hollywood stars, but also for his acerbic and outspoken Winner's Dinners column in The Sunday Times - and for his witty esure TV commercials. His books include his highly-acclaimed autobiography Winner Takes All.

Author: Michael Winner
Publisher: JR Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781906217310
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price:  $39.95
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Fresh Milk Fresh Milk
The widely acclaimed author of DICK FOR A DAY showcases her razor-sharp knack for tart and provocative commentary in this unique compendium of stories, memories and reportage on the age-old practise of breast-feeding. While countless breastfeeding guides crowd bookshelves, not one of them speaks to women with anything approaching bestselling author Fiona Giles' level of intimacy and vitality. In FRESH MILK, through a provocative collection of stories, memories and personal accounts Giles uncovers the myths and truths of the lactating breast. From young mothers grappling with the bewildering trappings of maternity wear to the woman who finds herself surprisingly aroused by new sensations, and the modern dad who learns the ins and outs of breastfeeding, the portraits in Giles' eye-opening book offer a funny, wise and comforting resource for women - and even their friends and partners who have had, or expect, intimate experiences with the pleasures and pain of lactation. By turns poignant and informative, sexy and witty, empathic and empowering, FRESH MILK delivers everything we wanted to know about breastfeeding that our mothers never told us.

Author: Fiona Giles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743211475
Format: Paperback Book
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Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine Desk Reference to Nature's Medicine
Clearly laid out and highly illustrated, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the abundant healing properties found within nature. Accompanying each plant is a colour photograph, and detailed information ranging from its modern uses to its folklore roots. This book is designed to meet the needs of both the botanist, and those with an interest in alternative health or the self-sufficiency characterised by Ray Mears. Bringing together the work of renowned botanical experts, this beautifully illustrated reference work, comprises of over 300 entries, alphabetically ordered in a clear and accesible layout. The Desk Reference offers a natural history of medicines that are now common to us such as aspirin, originally derived from the bark of a willow tree, and digitalis, a potent heart medicine derived from the foxglove flower. Each entry contains a beautiful photograph/illustration and range map. Descriptions of individual plants include information on its origins and geographic range, its medicinal properties, its harvesting, its folklore, its uses in conventional and alternative medicine, and much more. Collectively the main entries and informative sidebars, take readers on a fascinating journey from the remote rain forests of the Amazon, to the high-tech labs of modern pharmaceutical companies, where chemists continue to raid nature's abundunt resources to find cures for ailments ranging from the common cold to cancer.

Author: Steven Foster & Rebecca L Johnson
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9780792236665
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price:  $100.00
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The Flower Healer The Flower Healer
Flower essences work quite simply because their energetic patterns are naturally perfect. Unlike conventional medicine, if you take the wrong essence, it does nothing for you and causes no harm. When you take the correct essence, it will resonate with you, and effect healing or bring about change. Made by bathing flowers in spring water in the light of the sun or moon, essences work by raising our vibrational energy to the perfect pitch of a flower. The Flower Healer, the first book by healer and flower-essence pioneer Barbara Olive, profiles more than 150 readily available flower and tree essences and explains how using them is so simple - a few drops under the tongue or in the bath, or misting your personal space, is all you need do to begin your journey to better health. The A to Z Symptom Finder, based on Barbara's extensive practical experience, features a host of flower essences for both physical and emotional healing. The flower essences and ailments profiles are compiled on the basis of demand - Barbara advises hundreds of clients every year, so her profiles reflect up-to-the minute need.

Author: Barbara Olive
Publisher: CICO Books
ISBN: 9781904991601
Format: Paperback Book
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I Do It the S.A.F.E. Way I Do It the S.A.F.E. Way
Tom Gatses was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1999. Instead of allowing the disease to take over his body, he chose to fight the disease like he has learned to do all his life through martial arts. He has also been diagnosed with renal failure, and is currently undergoing dialysis treatment. This guide and examples tell an easy to understand story through a personal reflection on staying ahead of Parkinson's Disease, as well as any other ailment or debilitating disease. This book examples how the author stays focused on the positive strategies to improve daily activities and daily life from the onset of the diagnosis through years of struggling with the disorder and dealing with the family. This book describes how Tom has developed the S.A.F.E. Way of living. Through Support from families and doctors, through positive Attitude about living with the disease, to having Faith carry him through it all, and in Exercising not only his mind but his body when it actually improves his symptoms.

Author: Tom S Gatses
Publisher: iUniverse.com
ISBN: 9780595452811
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price:  $22.95
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Lean on Me Lean on Me
At the young age of thirty-three, Nancy Davis was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The finality of the neurologist's prognosis was devastating: within a year she would be confined to her bed and, at best, able to push the buttons on her television's remote control. Rather than accept a hopeless prognosis, Nancy learned about her illness and, in turn, created a new life for herself with a new health regimen and an expanded range of therapeutic options. In Lean on Me, Nancy shares her deeply personal story and provides a step-by-step guide for taking charge of your own health care in the face of life-threatening disease. Each step offers readers the strategies and strength to carry on when they are feeling overwhelmed and the concrete tools for actively seeking and receiving the best treatment. In the face of a medical crisis, Lean on Me shows how to navigate the health care waters, find hope, take positive action, and celebrate progress -- and supplies authoritative information that can save your life or the life of a loved one.

Author: Nancy Davis
Publisher: Fireside Books
ISBN: 9780743276535
Format: Paperback Book
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Makeup Your Mind Makeup Your Mind
The Ultimate Avant-Garde How-To Beauty Manual for Fashion-Conscious Women From the world-famous cosmetics designer, makeup artist, photographer and best-selling author of X-Ray, comes this revolutionary makeover manual designed to show women how to take advantage of their true beauty. Featuring 65 before and after photos of today's top models including a broad mix of ethnicities and facial structures, this fantastic guide to makeup will show reader how to use makeup like a pro, from natural and elegant to fun and outrageous to timeless-yet-modern looks. Unforgettable models such as Naomi Campbell, Devon Aoki, Trish Goff, Eva Hergova, Sophie Dahl and many more were shot sans makeup -imperfections and all - for the before pictures. The after pictures, shot in the same lighting to ensure truth and to emphasise the effects of the makeup, have a clear acetate overlay directing placement of the makeup used, offering readers a foolproof, easy-to-copy template for following Nars's exact methods.

Author: Francois Nars
Publisher: Powerhouse Books,U.S.
ISBN: 9781576870990
Format: Hardback Book
In Store Price:  $79.95
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Meditation as Medicine Meditation as Medicine
From the bestselling authors of BRAIN LONGEVITY (Century) and THE PAIN CURE (Pocket) comes a premier guide to a cutting-edge advance in integrative medicine- medical meditations to help remedy a range of physical and emotional ailments. Imagine being able to rid yourself of a host of medical or psychological maladies without medication or psychotherapy. You can- with the noninvasive, cost-free and scientifically proven method outlined here by the internationally renowned Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth. MEDITATION AS MEDICINE highlights an array of revolutionary techniques doctors and patients can use in conjunction with conventional medicine, to target and alleviate afflictions ranging from arthritis to ulcers to cancers. Simple and easily adaptable to suit your lifestyle, Khalsa's medical meditations are presented with detailed instructions on everything from posture and movement to particular mantras and specific breathing patterns. Far more powerful than standard meditation, medical meditation has been proved to balance and regenerate the body's ethereal and physical energies, forging an extraordinary healing alliance.

Author: Dharma Singh Khalsa
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743400657
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price:  $27.95
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Thai Yoga Therapy for Your Body Type Thai Yoga Therapy for Your Body Type
The traditional healings arts of Ayurveda and Thai Yoga Massage have a deep and integrated relationship that provides an unparalleled modality for restoring body, mind, and spirit. Although it originated in India, over the centuries Ayurveda has been assimilated into the predominant Thai culture and has evolved into a distinctive folk medicine. With the growing popularity of Ayurveda and Thai Yoga Massage, there is a renewed interest in reuniting these practices into a powerful therapeutic alliance. Thai Yoga Therapy For Your Body Types bridges the practice of Thai Yoga Massage with its ancient Ayurvedic roots to offer a complete and holistic healing modality. The authors first explain in detail the fundamental principles of Ayurveda and then recommend daily practices for each of the three main body types vatta, pitta, and kapha. Practitioners learn how to customize their work with the appropriate massage approach, recommended yoga asanas, breathing techniques, and diet and lifestyle tips. More than 50 illustrated, full-body Thai Yoga Massage postures are presented as well as massage flow for each body type. The authors indicate the Ayurvedic benefits of each posture and detail any precautions that should be followed in this dynamic practice of transformative healing.

Author: Kam Thye Chow & Emily Moody
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear
ISBN: 9780892811847
Format: Paperback Book
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The Healing Power of Neurofeedback The Healing Power of Neurofeedback
An introduction to the innovative therapy that restores optimal function of the brain after physical or emotion trauma. According to the Centres for Disease Control, each year 260,000 people are hospitalised with traumatic brain injuries. The Brain Injury Association reports 1.5 million injuries, many of which go undiagnosed but which lead to all kinds of cognitive and emotional impairments. While neuroscience has learned an enormous amount about the connection between brain trauma and personality changes, the methods proposed for resolving these alterations are generally limited to drug therapy or surgeries. This book explores a much less invasive but highly effective technique of restoring brain function. The Low Energy Neurofeedback System (LENS). Developed by Dr. Len Ochs in 1992, it has had extraordinary results using weak electromagnetic fields to stimulate brain-wave activity and restore brain flexibility and function. The treatment works across a broad spectrum of human activity, increasing the brain's abilities to adapt to the imbalances caused by physical trauma or emotional disorders - both on the basic level and in the more subtle areas of cognitive, affective and spiritual processes that make us truly human. While treatment has had remarkable results with individuals who have experienced severe physical trauma to the head and brain, Stephen Larsen sees it, also, as an important alternative to chemical approaches for such chronic behavioural disorders as ADHD and monopolar and bipolar depression.

Author: Stephen Larsen
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear
ISBN: 9781594770845
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price:  $31.95
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Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes
Until Dr. Barnard's scientific breakthrough, most health professionals believed that once you developed diabetes, you were stuck with it--and could anticipate one complication after another, from worsening eyesight and nerve symptoms to heart and kidney problems. But as this groundbreaking work reveals, this simply is not true. In a series of studies--the most recent funded by the National Institutes of Health--Dr. Barnard has shown that it is possible to repair insulin function and reverse type 2 diabetes. By following his scientifically proven, life-changing program, diabetics can control blood sugar three times more effectively than with the standard diet and cut back on and in some cases eliminate medications while reducing the risk of diabetes complications.

The long overdue epic scientific breakthrough in diabetes is here...an obvious must-read for health professionals and for diabetic and potential diabetic patients. --Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, preventive cardiology consultant, Cleveland Clinic

This is the approach to follow...the clinically proven way to get your blood sugar under control... and start living again.--John McDougall, MD, founder and medical director of the McDougall program

Dr. Barnard's book is no exaggeration...The signs and symptoms of diabetes can be reversed, and he's got the evidence to prove it.--Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD, author of The New Glucose Revolution


Author: Neal D Barnard,
Bryanna Clark Grogan

Publisher: Rodale Press
ISBN: 9781594868108
Format: Paperback Book
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Makeup Makeup
Rae Morris has been described as one of the world's most creative artists, but her work is not hanging in museums, it's seen on the faces and bodies of some of the best-known international models and actors.In Makeup: The ultimate guide, Rae brings the world of fashion makeup to you. With her simple step-by-steps she makes even the most sophisticated and creative makeup easy to achieve. She also reveals all the tricks, techniques and trade secrets that have seen her awarded Australian Makeup Artist of the Year four times over.Discover: * All the essential makeup tools you'll need* How to find the right product at the right price* Which eye shadow colours work best for you, and which ones will make your eye * colour 'pop'* How to achieve the perfect eyebrows* All about false eyelashes* Contouring and highlighting your face* Ten-minute makeovers for days, evenings and the morning after and much more.This gorgeous, glamorous guide will inspire you to create looks you have admired but never dreamed possible!

Author: Rae Morris,
Steven Chee

Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781741752267
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price:  $39.95
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Traditional Chinese Medicine for Women Traditional Chinese Medicine for Women
From a renowned doctor - of both western and Chinese practice - comes a wonderfully accessible book for women on Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Xiaolan Zhao
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 9781844083831
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price:  $35.00
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Healthy Skin Diet Healthy Skin Diet
The skin you have today will be totally renewed within two months. In fact, the body you have today, all your cells and tissues, will be totally new within a year. This is because your body turns over 6 billion cells each day and new ones are made to replace them. The pimple you have right now is not the one you had a month ago and it's certainly not the same blemish you had last year. So, whatever your skin condition may be, whether it is quite okay or out of control, you can improve your skin quality and have fantastic looking skin within only eight weeks..and The Healthy Skin Diet will show you how. The Healthy Skin Diet is designed to supply your body with the specific building materials to make gorgeous skin. Beautiful skin is created by a body that's functioning properly by a body that is eliminating wastes efficiently, digesting food and transporting nutrients at lightning speeds around the body it's not something exclusively reserved for the genetically blessed. You can have it too. With its eight basic guidelines, The Healthy Skin Diet will take the guesswork out of creating clear skin. You don't even have to have bad skin to follow The Healthy Skin Diet as this program is fantastic for overall health and wellbeing. You can be in your nineties or starting school, and there is even information for parents with babies suffering from eczema. So, if you have acne, eczema, psoriasis, dandruff, rosacea, the odd pimple or simply want to prevent premature ageing and reduce the appearance of wrinkles, this is the book for you. You'll also find the program works wonders for sinusitis, hay fever, asthma, arthritis and allergies! In fact, this book is the key not only to wonderful skin but to feeling wonderful too!

Author: Karen Fischer
Publisher: Exisle Publishing (Australia)
ISBN: 9781877437175
Format: Paperback Book
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The Frozen Shoulder Workbook The Frozen Shoulder Workbook
Author Clair Davies' own case of frozen shoulder led him to undertake an extensive study of trigger points and referred pain that eventually resulted in his runaway best-seller, The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook. Now, this renowned bodywork expert and educator revisits the subject of frozen shoulder, offering the most detailed and comprehensive manual yet available about this painful and debilitating condition, a useful resource for self-care and for bodywork practitioners looking to expand their treatment repertoire. Frozen shoulder, the syndrome name for several joint and tendon-related symptoms, is experienced as a loss of motion and pain in the shoulder and upper arm. It is most often observed in women between the ages of forty and sixty and individuals with type-two diabetes. Traditional medical treatments for the condition, which rely on painkillers, steroid injections and physical therapy, often do little to moderate symptoms or speed recovery. Trigger point therapy, a gentle massage technique that targets localised areas of tenderness in soft tissue, has been used very successfully to relieve pain, restore range of motion and shorten recovery times.

Author: Clair Davies
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S.
ISBN: 9781572244474
Format: Paperback Book
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The Yoga Bible The Yoga Bible
Yoga practice helps individuals to find mental and physical balance. It is suitable for all ages and abilities and should bring about a sense of spiritual and physical well-being, as well as suppleness. This text encourages beginners and experts alike to design a yoga sequence to suit their own personal needs and abilities. Featuring over 150 yogic postures from the main schools of yoga, including Iyengar and Astanga Vinyasa, The Yoga Bible provides a comprehensive, illustrated, step-by-step guide to achieving the postures and advice on altering them where necessary - easier postures are highlighted for beginners or the less supple. The book also includes more advanced positions for advanced yogis. The text includes notes on various types of yoga practices as well as a summary of well-known traditional schools of yoga and how they vary. In addition to the wide range of postures, the author includes advice on breathing techniques and the benefits of yoga in healing, pregnancy, de-stressing and meditation.

Author: Christina Brown
Publisher: Hamlyn
ISBN: 9781841811925
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price:  $29.99
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The Patient The Patient
At 47, Jonathan Brewster finally feels like he's king of the world - he has a lucrative job, a happy marriage, two children in private schools, an impressive house and a flashy car. He's also hugely in debt, but that's never really bothered him - until he wakes up at dawn bursting for the toilet, urinates blood and ends up waiting eight hours in Emergency before he sees a doctor. In the midst of his successful life, Jonathan has neglected to take care of his health, or even to conceive of the possibility of losing it. Urologist Mohamed Khadra comes into contact with this patient as he enters a maze of diagnosis and treatment for what turns out to be bladder cancer. For Dr Khadra, Jonathan goes from being just another patient - albeit a young one to be suffering from this particular disease - to something much more, as the parallels between them become apparent. Dr Khadra's life, too, seems to be following its planned trajectory until his own first-hand experience of disease teaches him that life is fleeting and unpredictable. In being confronted with their own mortality, both Jonathan and Dr Khadra develop a heightened awareness of, and gratitude for, the lives they have lived. From the author of the bestselling Making the Cut comes this gripping non-fiction story of a stranger in the strangest of lands: the Australian health-care system. It is at once a reassurance of the ties that bind all human beings to each other, a manual for patients, families and health-care workers and a moving examination of the human spirit.

Author: Mohamed Khadra
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9781741666540
Format: Paperback Book
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Dangerous Grains Dangerous Grains
Wheat and other grains are the foundation of the typical western diet yet gluten grains (wheat, rye, barley, spelt, kamut, and tritcale) may be the cause of a host of undiagnosed chronic illnesses. The authors, both leading experts in food allergies and gluten disorders, argue that millions of people suffer from gluten sensitivity (where the immune system reacts abnormally to these grains), or Celiac disease, a life-threatening, genetically-influenced condition where gluten damages the intestinal lining, leading to malnutrition and many of other ailments. In Dangerous Grains the authors broaden the scope with which gluten grains and these conditions have previously been studied. Tracking human genetic history and evolution, they explain how the consumption of grain not only causes these gluten-specific conditions, but also how it progresses the development of chronic illnesses such as cancer, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis, neurological disorders, bowl disease, arthritis, and many more. The book specifically addresses wheat's impact on these diseases as well as outlines how to determine the risk of developing gluten sensitivity, testing methods, and treatment options.

Author: James Braly & Ron Hoggan
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.
ISBN: 9781583331293
Format: Paperback Book
In Store Price:  $29.95
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