This is a book that brings fresh insights to the role of language in our lives and opens up new dimensions for creative writing. Nicki Jackowska moves effortlessly between the spiritual, political and emotional, yet never loses the sight of the essential connection between idea and practice. This radical exploration of words and their use has at its core a critique of society at large. It raises challenging questions and introduces multiple perspectives on the life of language, in both the personal and public spheres. "'Both a writer's notebook and a manual...A preparatory manual. Practical. Straightforward. Containing hope.' John Berger"
A global health problem, diabetes is expected to be one of the 21st century's biggest medical challenges. The disease currently effects one in fifty and the number of people who eventually develop diabetes worldwide is likely to keep rising. Now, more than ever, it is essential for doctors to keep up to date with developments in this field.
The Year in Diabetes 2004 provides expert comment on the most important papers published over the past 12 months, offering an up-to-the-minute summary of recent research findings. The editors have selected articles that have a direct bearing on clinical practice. The book contains a number of highlights:
" Discussion of the pitfalls of traditional long-acting insulins and the issues solved by the introduction of insulin glargine
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The latest in this popular series, The Year in Gynaecology 2003 examines the most important papers written recently on this ever expanding topic. The volume reviews important subjects in sexual and reproductive health including chapters on contraception, the menopause, and reproductive healthcare. The book helps clinicians to combine the best external evidence from systematic research with individual clinical expertise to make effective decisions about patient treatment and care. For each issue key articles are selected from the most up-to-date literature and reviewed in the form of an expert commentary. Concise and easy to read, this text will be a useful and informative guide to all those working or training in the area of family planning and reproductive health.
Keeping doctors informed of the latest developments in the field, The Year in Interventional Cardiology 2003 brings together an outstanding team of internationally recognized experts from many of the leading centers in the world. The volume provides authoritative comment on pharmacological management, the practice of interventional techniques and the latest advances in stent design, as well as current opinion on management of the most common complication, restenosis. It also incorporates discussion of other modalities of cardiac imaging and their utility in diagnosing coronary artery disease.
World-wide there are increasing numbers of patients suffering with coronary artery disease. The third volume in this series, The Year in Interventional Cardiology 2004 covers the latest developments in this field. A panel of experts, under the guidance of Drs. Banning and de Feijter, review the most significant papers published in the previous twelve months' peer-reviewed journals. Stents, percutaneous coronary intervention, and new developments in cardiac imaging are among the topics discussed, along with drug eluting stents and other pharmacological issues. Every physician concerned with heart disease will find this a very useful overview.
Compiled by experts in their field, this new title to the series examines the most important papers selected from the extensive literature written on post-menopausal health over the past twelve months.
The volume provides an essential overview of the most significant advances in the treatment of many conditions that can emerge post-menopause, including breast cancer, stroke, heart disease and arthritis. The book also examines the causes of post-menopausal health difficulties and looks at possible treatments, both traditional and complementary.
A practical and highly informative guide, The Year in Post Menopausal Health will prove an invaluable ongoing resource for physicians in their daily practice
If you've experienced profound loss-be it the death of a loved one or the end of an important relationship-you may feel intense emotional or physical pain. In fact, it's not uncommon for grieving people to experience depression, anxiety, fatigue, and a variety of chronic ailments. If you've tried medication or therapy but have yet to find relief, you may be surprised to discover the healing effects of yoga.
Yoga for Grief Relief combines over 100 illustrations of gentle yogic poses and the latest research in psychophysiology and neuroscience to help you get back on the path to wellness. Written by Antonio Sausys, TV host of YogiViews and the founder of Yoga for Health, an International Yoga Therapy Conference, the step-by-step exercises in this book can be tailored to
In the primetime Channel 4 television series "You Are What You Eat", the author works closely with eight ordinary people to give them a nutritional makeover. This book brings together his practical advice and the real-life stories, along with the 10 steps to follow which can literally transform the way you approach your diet and your health.
'The very definition of a page-turner' Clare Mackintosh
Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . .
I'M IN YOUR HOUSE
There's a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows.
I'M IN YOUR HEAD
Maybe it's all in Elle's mind? She's a writer - her imagination, after all, is her strength. And yet every threat seems personal. As if someone has discovered the secrets that keep her awake at night.
AND NOW I KNOW YOUR SECRET
As fear and paranoia close in, Elle's own home becomes a prison. Someone is unlocking her past - and she's given
This book arose out of a challenge. The challenge was made by Bob Geldof to the British academic and historian Michelle Brown. Pop singers raise huge sums of money for Band Aid and touch the hearts of people from all walks of life. But to give money can be an easy way out. How does the so called intellientsia respond with their minds(not just their hearts and pockets) to the appalling disparities in the conditions of members of the human race. This a challenge that a number of notable and gifted people have responded to enthusiastically. They range from John Simpson and Martin Bell to Former President Mary Robinson and the noted US feminist intellectual Charlotte Bunch. Other noted authors include Sir David Ramsbothom, Ricardo Navarro, Founder of the Friends of the
Explains everything required to select and acquire a boat for your needs. This book shows you how to: identify the best powerboat for you and determine the total cost of ownership; negotiate the best deal on a boat and avoid mistakes; and, understand boat financing, registration, insurance, and the legal obligations of boat owners.
War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army's CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider implications. As the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. As the web of deceit is revealed, it quickly becomes apparent that there's much more to this case than they had first thought. It is an investigation where nothing is as it seems, and nothing can be taken at face value.
When Puller and Cole discover a dangerous situation in the making, Puller finds he must turn to the one person who can help avert certain catastrophe. A person he has known all his life.
In a breathtaking
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties-and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR-it was called by reviewers there a "slanderous piece of fantasy" and part of a "hysterical chorus of malign attacks"-Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term "Zinky Boys"), while the
And once you've stitched your own sign, a zodiac feltie is the perfect gift for a birthday, too: offer a Scorpio their claw-clattering image; a Gemini, a pair of sweet 'n' mischievous twins, or an Aries, a fiery little ram. Also included are fun characters for the four ruling planets (Sun, Moon, Mars and Venus), and a Milky Way background which can be used as a card/holder to present a zodiac feltie in, or simply propped up on your desk or windowsill to give your own star sign a lovely and appropriate home.
