Family and health Books

It's part of the new year ritual - an annual attempt to start afresh and turn over a new leaf. Weight Loss resolutions are a pointless exercise, we break them, become dispirited in the process and finally more despondent than we were before. Less than a...

The Successful Failure was originally written as a statement for Lambeth Council when it set up the Shirley Oaks redress scheme for payments to children who had been abused in care. Michael Tarraga was one such resident, although Lambeth refused full...

What is the Meat Rack?It was a place for boys to be sold for sex in Central London. The boys would line up, waiting to be picked. Customers would then approach the pimps and tell them which boy they wanted.Michael Tarraga was a Meat Rack Boy in the 1950s...

Overlord is the tenth book of Cap Parlier's epic To So Few series of historical novels.The year 1943 proved to be a pivotal point in the Allied prosecution of the war against the Axis powers in Europe. The Western Allies cleared and secured North Africa,...

Little Gears of Time is a collection of poems following the lives of six generations of mothers and daughters. A stunning evocation of their experiences, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day and from Europe to America,...

Dear Kids of Alcoholics...This is an honest, hopeful book about alcoholism and recovery. Readers (age 8-17) will identify with Jason's feelings as he explains facts about alcoholism with touching stories about his dad's sensitivity to alcohol,...

Nearly 1.4 million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel disease and this number climbs every year. Christie Korth, a nutrition expert, helps those with Crohn's and ulcerative colitis understand their food intolerances and lays out a holistic approach...

Anxiety in children decreases their intellectual, emotional, and social development, as well as physical health. Author Paul Foxman believes there are three interacting ingredients that contribute to anxiety in children — biological sensitivity,...

Drawing on both scientific and anecdotal sources, the authors of The Joy of Laziness argue that the much-admired Type A lifestyle of intense exercise, frantic activity, and overwork is detrimental to health and long life. Every human being has a limited...

This book begins with a promise: people with severe vision loss can be trained and equipped to function as sighted. The author, himself legally blind for 30 years, fulfills that promise with precise information and guidance on improving life through...

So fast were changes coming into Courtnee's life the question was whether she had the faith to handle them all. Change is not new; even Teena and Sandy were finding that out -- they were as yet happy changes. Is Courtnee ready to spend the rest of her...

Do you want to unleash God's mighty power and life-changing anointing upon your husband? A Wife's Prayer by Pamela Hines is a beautiful collection of scriptural prayers and true stories of hope and restoration. When a wife seeks the Lord's wisd

You want to lose weight. Sometimes you even manage to shed those pounds. But you always gain them back--and maybe a few extra. Diets treat the symptom and not the problem. Diane Hampton will revolutionize the way you look at food. You can find relief from

How can churches become centres for empowering parents to raise God-connected children? How can we transform the lives of parents, carers, grandparents and church communities, and the way generations of children are raised?While it is parents who are on...

Peleas en la escuela, abuso sexual, trastornos alimenticios, crisis escolares...la lista sigue. No pasa un solo día sin que ocurra una crisis entre estudiantes de media o estudiantes de secundaria. Este recurso práctico abarca todo el continuo de las...

This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. Bringing together personal narratives, key theory and literature, and original qualitative and quantitative...

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on nonprocreative and nonbiological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships...

This text offers a balance of clinical and social psychological theory and research, as well as prevention and intervention techniques with the purpose of understanding and ultimately ending gender-based violence.

In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the...

We follow celebrities on Twitter and Facebook, watch them on television, and read about them in supermarket checkout lines. Our relationship with celebrities has never been so immediate. Their personal trials are news headlines and water cooler talk. ...

Informed by more than thirty years of experience, this guide provides a wealth of insight into the clinical observation, diagnosis and treatment of elderly patients. Organized geographically from (literally) head to toes, it concentrates on the basic...

Backs Against the Wall: Battered Women's Resistance Strategies tackles several controversial aspects involved with intimate partner violence (IPV)-namely the approaches many victims use when resisting their oppressors. This sensitive and sensible...

What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is...

Professional pianists and string musicians are known to suffer from overuse injuries. However, today we see more and more office workers sustaining injuries due to the constant use of computers. This book offers everyone important information about the...

PFAPA: Sierra's Story is the first published book containing information and resources for children suspected of having or being diagnosed with PFAPA (Periodic Fevers with Aphthous stomatitis, Pharyngitis, and Adenitis).

For decades women have sat quiet in corners, crying in bed, and have walked trembling and confused from being marred and bound in the chains of RAPE. For many years we have cowered down, covered up and let go in order to deny the shame as well as to...

Book I have written and dedicated to my four children. It is teaching them of the things I have learnt in life as well as telling them to do everything in life out of love

Half Eaten Chicken Nuggets and Cold Mac-n-Cheese

After a year-long absence, lovers Leland Bale and Simone St. John meet again, unexpectedly, at the Sundance Film Festival. As Leland tries to reignite their relationship, Simone is standoffish, until the dark memories of her past surface, but his...

Primordial Strength's training specifically for firefighters and rescue personnel who want elite conditioning, strength and survival skills.

Teachable Moments and Essential Discussions...Twenty-Five Things a Father Should Do With His Son is not a guide or parenting "how to," but a selection of unrestricting suggestions that are designed to involve a father in his son's life. Author Nicholas...

This book, Tiessen claims, is probably the most powerful and most unique book ever written for women. In it he shows all women, especially those who are "not so young anymore", how they can still attract large numbers of men, even if that presently is...

With over 33 years of successful family living, experiences and wisdom can be gleaned from a fun and candid account.

Could it be there's a real, historical reason why women think, talk and act differently from men? Did a million years of slavery have an effect on women that remains today? Can you test these theories for yourself in real life? These questions, and many...

With this plan U will not only lose weight, U will lose Fat, lower your BMI (Body Mass Index), lower your chances of contracting type two Diabetes, Cancer, Heart Disease, and Alzheimer's, and most importantly reducing your hunger. All the while...

Coming Back from Heartbreak  How do you get over heartbreak? Like really get over it?Through the pages of this book, you'll discover how one woman moved from devastating heartbreak to finding joy in life again and the steps she took to get...

Jenni knows there is more to life than what you weigh.She has come to accept and care for her body without the expectation of weight loss. She eats, moves and lives to feel her most energetic and alive. Yet when she fails to conceive, Jenni begins to...

Ralph Wood was diagnosed with dementia, and over the ensuing years his daughter, a medical doctor, along with other close family members, walked that journey beside him.Through poems, drawings and brief comments, I'm Ralph, I'm Dad lovingly tells the...

A chapter in your life is drawing to a close. Decades of identifying with professional and familial roles no longer reflect or describe who you are. You have begun to experience losses ranging from physical changes to the deaths of loved ones. The Golden...

They say time and distance can heal a broken heart               - But what if time is running out?~ A Contemporary Romance, Family Mystery, with a dual timeline narrative ~Locked in...

What does the Bible really say about childbearing?What are we to think when the blessing feels more like a curse? Is there any hope in Christ for those who struggle with the many sorrows pregnancy and childbirth can bring?Through one woman's deeply...

The main objective of this book is to provide a detailed understanding of the relationship between bullying, suicide, and homicide and to offer an assessment and response strategy that is useful for mental health professionals who work with children. It...

Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual...

This book introduces the spiritual and theological issues raised by suffering and dying. It relates theology to practical issues of caregiving and provides a 'toolbox' for thinking about suffering and death in a creative and supportive way.

The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic...

The Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre, was one of the most talked-about social experiments of the 20th century. Families from the South London neighbourhood of Peckham were invited to use the...