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Berrett-Koehler Choosing the Right Thing to Do
£13.49
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Soft Tissue Release Handbook: Reducing Pain and
Book SynopsisFor practitioners of massage therapy, sports massage, remedial massage, and physical therapy, soft tissue release is a powerful tool in treating chronic pain conditions such as shoulder impingement, tennis elbow, and iliotibial band friction syndrome. Soft tissue release also aids post-surgical recovery and is used in the treatment of highly trained athletes, dancers, and musicians who wish to tackle those small but key tissue areas needed to maintain and improve their performance. The soft tissues consist of muscle fibers, myofascia, tendons, and ligaments. The all-encompassing nature of this connective tissue is becoming increasingly fascinating to bodywork practitioners of all kinds, including massage therapists, physical therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, orthopedic nurses and doctors, and sports therapists. Treatment of the soft tissues continues to gain momentum, and there are many exciting research developments that demonstrate how manipulation of these tissues can have profound effects on the structure and function of the musculoskeletal system. Skilled release of the soft tissues reduces the need for adjustments or joint mobilizations, because appropriate release improves joint movement. Freeing the joints and enhancing the health of the soft tissues also facilitates a superior and lasting response to rehabilitation programs. The Soft Tissue Release Handbook is aimed at practicing therapists who wish to address the soft tissues precisely and effectively, whether as an adjunct to existing bodywork techniques or as a treatment modality in itself. The skills presented in this book can be immediately applied in the clinic with existing and new clients. Graphic illustrations of the key muscles involved in movement, as well as over 200 full-color photographs of the technique in action, make this an easy-to-use and practical guide.
£25.50
Shanghai Press Zen Medicine for Mind and Body: Using Zen Wisdom,
Book SynopsisA truly remarkable story of Zen medicine and how you can bring its practices into your own life.Author Shi Zxinggui began studying Zen medicine—a combination of meditation, gentle physical activity and medicine—as a child under the tutelage of the Shaolin Temple's Master Dechan. She carried it with her, eventually going on to lecture on the subject in both China and abroad for several decades. When she was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, Zxinggui returned to the Shaolin Temple, hoping the Zen medicine she'd spent so long teaching others about would help her. After careful nursing and appropriate mind and body exercises, her cancer went into remission.Since her own cancer battle, Zxinggui has helped many other cancer patients, devoting her life to this work. This book, which draws on the author's 20 years as a cancer fighter, 50 years as a doctor and life-long wisdom as a Zen practitioner, provides insight into how readers can implement these strategies, which emphasize daily health care and cultivation of the body and soul, into their own lives—not only to help with physical diseases, but also to ease mental anxieties and inspire others to live a clean, healthy life.Ailments addressed in the book are varied, and include: IBS Lumbar disc herniation Back and leg soreness High blood pressure Asthma And many others
£15.26
North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Concise Book of Dry Needling: A
Book SynopsisA major development in the safe and effective treatment of myofascial trigger points and myofascial pain, this book is a concise, comprehensive, and well-illustrated reference on dry needling. John Sharkey—an international authority on myofascial trigger points, myofascial pain, myofascial trigger point dry needling, and neuromuscular therapy as well as an accredited clinical anatomist—draws on his thirty years of experience in bodywork and movement therapy to provide accurate and essential criteria for the identification and subsequent treatment of myofascial trigger points through the exclusive use of a fine, filiform needle. The ideal accompaniment to course notes and the perfect tableside reference guide, this book describes the origin, etiology, and pathophysiology of the myofascial trigger point as well as indications and contraindications for myofascial trigger point dry needling. Instructive illustrations support the text, along with standards and guidelines that ensure safe, effective, and appropriate application. Physical therapists including osteopaths, chiropractors, neuromuscular therapists, soft tissue therapists, physiotherapists, and sports massage therapists will find this guide indispensible. Because Sharkey explains why so many people have unresolved chronic pain and provides clear explanations of how pain is propagated, the book is also an invaluable source of information for patients with chronic pain and their care providers.
£25.65
North Atlantic Books,U.S. Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction and Piriformis
Book SynopsisThis complete guide to treating patients with sacroiliac joint dysfunction, or piriformis syndrome, combines multiple techniques—rather than the usual single approach—to get quicker and more resilient results. Focusing on the practical application of skills acquired in twenty years of treating elite athletes, Paula Clayton provides a comprehensive guide to the latest discussions of the therapeutic handling of fascial tissue, dry needling, instrument-assisted soft-tissue manipulation, and dynamic taping. Presenting material formerly unavailable in one volume, this book provides evidence-based information on fundamental principles that enable practitioners to map approaches to dysfunction and injury before attempting hands-on treatments. Superbly designed for ease of use and supported with full-color illustrations that clarify and complement the text, this book puts decades of experience and research at readers'' fingertips, expanding their ability to both improve their practice and educate their patients.
£22.95
North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Vital Nerves: A Practical Guide for Physical
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£21.21
Berrett-Koehler You Are What You Believe: Simple Steps to
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£12.59
Sasquatch Books Better With Books: 500 Diverse Books to Open
Book SynopsisNeeded now more than ever: a guide that includes 500 diverse contemporary fiction and memoir recommendations for preteens and teens with the goal of inspiring greater empathy for themselves, their peers, and the world around them. As young people are diagnosed with anxiety and depression in increasing numbers, or dealing with other issues that can isolate them from family and friends-such as bullying, learning disabilities, racism, or homophobia-characters in books can help them feel less alone. And just as important, reading books that feature a diverse range of real-life topics helps generate openness, empathy, and compassion in all kids. Better with Books is a valuable resource for parents, teachers, librarians, therapists, and all caregivers who recognize the power of literature to improve young readers' lives. Each chapter explores a particular issue affecting preteens and teens today and includes a list of recommended related books-all published within the last decade. Recommendations are grouped by age: those appropriate for middle-grade readers and those for teens. Reading lists are organized around: Adoption and foster care Body image Immigration Learning challenges LGBTQIA+ youth Mental health Nature and environmentalism Physical disability Poverty and homelessness Race and ethnicity Religion and spiritualityTrade Review"An essential resource for parents, librarians, teachers, and all who help guide our teens and preteens: the reading list topics speak precisely to the kinds of issues they face every day. Reading fiction and memoir offers them another way to expand their understanding of themselves and develop empathy for others--both of which are vitally important in an increasingly complex world." --Nancy Pearl, bestselling author of Book Lust, librarian, and literary critic "The right book read at the right time can change a life, and that's why Better with Books belongs in every library. Timely, compassionate, and wise, this is a remarkable reference guide." --Katherine Applegate, Newberry Medal award-winning author of The One and Only Ivan "If you're a parent of tweens or teens, or you work with them, Better with Books is an absolute must-have reference book. Essays about important topics, such as body image, mental health, and race, are brimming with personal stories, author interviews, and other helpful information. You'll also find five hundred recommended books for preteens and teens organized by topic, with summaries of each title. This gem needs to be on your bookshelf!" --Donna Gephart, award-winning author of Lily and Dunkin and In Your Shoes "Stories heal, bind, illuminate, and guide us. As an educator always searching for stories to help support and aid my students, I need a guide as thorough and essential as Better with Books. This will definitely sit on my shelf adorned with many Post-it notes!" --An Na, award-winning author of A Step from Heaven and The Place Between Breaths "This book is incredibly insightful, organized, and detailed. Hart delivers a wonderful, diverse series of lists and summaries that would be an excellent addition to any home, library, or classroom." --Peter Brown Hoffmeister, author of the National Book Award-nominated Too Shattered for Mending "Authors write for many reasons, but one of the most important is to let readers know that whatever difficulty they face, they're not alone. Few tweens and teens are willing to expose their vulnerabilities, and that is as it should be. But when they see their struggles in story--when they come upon a character with whom they feel true kinship--their sense of isolation recedes. We live in a culture where differences that should be celebrated are often not. Kids find truth in story, and often they find answers. Better with Books is a comprehensive guide for educators, parents, and anyone looking to find just the right book for a preteen or teen." --Chris Crutcher, award-winning author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes and Whale Talk
£16.19
Rockridge Press Anger Management Workbook for Moms: Practical
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£16.14
Hampton Roads Publishing Company The Art of Breathing: How to Become at Peace with
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£15.26
Beaver's Pond Press Imprint
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£18.45
Rockridge Press Back Pain Relief Plan: A 20-Minute Exercise-Based
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£11.99
Rockridge Press Mind-Body Connection for Pain Management: Vital
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£14.24
WW Norton & Co Chronic Pain Reset: 30 Days of Activities,
Book SynopsisThis indispensable guide explores the key role that your brain plays in processing pain and how small, simple actions can make profound changes in how you experience chronic pain. Chronic Pain Reset will help you evaluate your pain and its triggers, offering straightforward and often fun strategies to improve it. Using the principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy, you’ll try one new evidence-based strategy each day for 30 days, from paced breathing and healthy sleep hacks to mindful walking and acts of kindness. The accessible strategies require as little as 15 minutes a day and apply to all fitness levels. Step-by-step instructions guide you with humor and compassion to make learning and practicing the strategies more engaging. The ones that work best and that you like most will go into your Thriving Plan, a personalized pain-management tool kit that you design to help you lead a life with less pain, greater purpose, and more joy.Trade Review"This book is a rare gem! Unlike most pain management books, you will find yourself laughing, crying and feeling powerful because?the heart of this book is hope." -- Lynne Matallana, Founder, National Fibromyalgia Association"Unequivocally inspired, this unique package of highly accessible and leading-edge science, lived experiences, and cognitive-behavioral approaches is timely. This amazing resource will become your companion, ultimately helping you find relief and a more rewarding life." -- —Neil Basu, MBChB, FRCP, PhD, professor of musculoskeletal medicine and vasculitis, Institute of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow"I don’t have a patient who wouldn’t benefit from this book. Dr. Hassett shares critical insights from the renowned Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center and other leading experts and thoughtfully provides empowering pain-management strategies. You no doubt will learn to thrive by tapping into your unique strengths and values, using these techniques and this approach." -- —Andrea L. Chadwick, MD, MSc, FASA, associate professor of anesthesiology, pain, and perioperative mmedicine; and director of the Fibromyalgia and Centralized Pain Exploration Lab at the Univers"I can’t think of anyone better to help guide people with chronic pain toward wellness than Afton Hassett. Kind and compassionate, she writes with great warmth and humor. Take a daily journey with her for a month, and one or moresomeof these simple strategies—some most that you never imagined could help impact your pain—will help you so much that they’ll become part of your daily routine." -- Daniel J. Clauw, MD, professor of anesthesiology, rheumatology, and psychiatry; and director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, University of Michigan Medical School" These effective, life-changing strategies have the potential to change your chronic pain experiences into something more hopeful, helping you create a useful, personalized plan to thrive. The essential information in this book can help you retrain your brain and reset the pain-brain connection." -- Marian T. Hannan, DSc, MPH, professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, and professor of epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health"A genuine gift to chronic pain sufferers and clinicians that should bring readers hope and encouragement. The practical, evidence-based text is full of the zest that it exhorts patients to rediscover. The activities and skills are essential tools for those hoping to create a holistic ‘Thriving Plan’ to repair the imbalanced neural processes that plague so many people with pain." -- —Frank Tu, MD, MPH, gynecologist, pelvic surgeon, and clinical professor at the University of Chicago / NorthShore University HealthSystem"This book is great! After I read it, I created a phrase for our electronic health record, encouraging my patients with chronic pain to get it and create a plan to help address their symptoms." -- David Karp, MD, PhD, chief of Rheumatology and Harold C. Simmons chair in arthritis research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
£20.69
Sounds True Inc How We Grow Through What We Go Through:
Book SynopsisEven in the best of circumstances, life can sometimes seem like a parade of traumatic events. The good news is we come equipped with the ability to grow from our adverse experiences. Researchers call this response “post-traumatic growth,” or PTG. Psychologist and mindfulness educator Dr. Christopher Willard has gathered essential mind–body tools for PTG into one concise volume. After a brief crash course in the latest research on trauma and the mind–body connection, we learn to access our innate resilience through body-based practices, mindful awareness, and generating compassion for ourselves and others. This is the first easy-access guide to handling the traumas of everyday life, with a retro-modern design that follows on the author’s popular mindfulness titles for children. With just enough of the latest research to inspire confidence in our ability to regulate our trauma responses, and in the friendly voice of a fellow human under stress, Dr. Willard kindly guides us through a variety of strategies to help us more easily “grow through what we go through.”
£13.49
Nimbus Publishing Limited Wounded Hearts: Memories of the Halifax
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£18.95
Mosaic Press A Perfect Offering: Personal Stories of Trauma and Transformation
Book SynopsisA Perfect Offering illuminates the dark recesses of trauma—the sudden loss of a child, surviving sexual assault, the legacy of residential schools, enduring war and imprisonment, living with chronic illness—and shines with the imperfect grace and resilience of the human heart. Some of the 31 stories will shock and disorient. Others will inspire and comfort. All are illustrative and compelling. The contributors include Jennifer Finney Boylan, trans activist and a regular contributor to The New York Times; Captain Trevor Greene, who was attacked by an axe-wielding teenager near Kandahar; author of Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat; Jules Arita Koostachin, band member of Attawapiskat First Nation; and Paul Watson, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. For others, this will be their first publication. "This emotionally honest book is simultaneously brutal, beautiful and deeply inspiring." —Jennifer Meeropol, granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg "This book will break your heart right open." —Mike Downie, Co-Founder of The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund "These shared stories resonate with deep feeling, wisdom and courage." —Award-wining novelist Camilla Gibb
£19.76
Christian Focus Publications Ltd It's Ok to Cry: Finding hope when struggling with
Book SynopsisMany couples live with the ache of not being able to have children. Malcolm and Nick Cameron are writing from such a background themselves. This book tells of their struggles as they coped with years of infertility and will take you through the story of their miscarriage and the task of piecing their lives back to together afterwards. Throughout their ups and downs, and amidst the heartache, Malcolm and Nick have been carried through by God, and emerged on the other side stronger than before. This book will help you whether you are going through a similar situation or if you have a friend or family member that is facing the heartache of longing for, or losing, a baby.As Christians too often we are unwilling to share our experiences with others, not realising that there are countless couples in the same position, longing for a child, confused by 'why them'. Here Malcolm and Nick Cameron have produced an honest and real account of their experience. They do not claim to have the answers as to how you should deal with infertility or miscarriage, but they can point you to the one who does, our Heavenly Father who never leaves us, and draws alongside us in our times of sorrow and pain and is there to pick us up when ever we fall.Trade Review'This book is an honest, down-to-earth story of a journey through the pain of childlessness - frustration in the efforts of overcoming this ache and an eventual coming to terms with life as it is, rather than the way we want or expect it to be.' -- Fiona Castle (Well known author and speaker)'This book is not for the faint-hearted. It's written for those who are suffering the intense pain of bereavement in childlessness. It's raw, real and compulsory reading for those who want to enter in and understand something of the pain some childless couples are called to endure. Sometimes God miraculously answers prayers for a child, but the complete answer hasn't come yet for Malcolm and Nick. It's OK to Cry is about a couple who experience the untold heartache of not seeing their desires realized and who live to tell the tale, and rejoice in the Lord.' -- Lyndon Bowring, CARE (Executive Chairman, Christian Action Research and Education (CARE))'This book is summed up for me in the words, 'I am classed by the medical profession as infertile, I am classed by society as childless, I am classed by God as a daughter - a son, an heir, precious, treasured, dearly loved.' Here is a moving and startlingly real account of one couple's struggle with deep pain and disappointment, and of the faith on which they draw to see them through. It is written for the sake of other couples like them and deserves to be widely recommended.' -- Dr N.G. Wright, Principal, Spurgeon's College, London"Obviously a book like this will contain a great deal of talk about feelings and emotions, but Malcolm and Nick always come back to God's Word and his faithfulnessas their anchor point..I found the book a compelling read...Thank you Malcolm and Nick, for not pretending to that you've got it it all figured out. or that it never hurts anyone. It's OK to Cry is a reminder that God's goodness and faithfulness does not depend on us getting what we want." -- Janet Gaukroger
£999.99
Parenting Press Incorporated What Am I Feeling?
Book SynopsisAdapted from Dr. John Gottman’s Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, this book helps adults identify their parenting and care giving style. It explains the five important steps in “emotion coaching” children to ensure that children are guided to healthy emotional growth. Gottman argues that kids who can accept and share their emotions form stronger friendships, achieve more in school, recover from emotional crises more quickly, and are physically healthier. Beautiful illustrations of parents and children help convey the vital message of this guide.
£16.16
Robert D. Reed Publishers Conscious Divorce: Finding freedom through
Book SynopsisIf the end of your marriage or relationship is inevitable, you may experience anger, pain and chaos. You will need great courage to move through this stressful transition. Conscious Divorce offers support, compassion, and insight to guide you through your range of emotions. It is not about blaming your partner or yourself. It is about learning to move through the anger and pain towards forgiveness, and discovering that healing is possible.
£8.95
Puddle Dancer Press The No-Fault Classroom: Tools to Resolve Conflict
Book SynopsisPositing a radically new understanding of the root of conflict—unmet needs—this analysis boldly directs students and teachers to recognize feelings as important messengers of those needs. Refocusing attention from feelings to the needs behind the feelings addresses the underlying problem rather than the symptom; with this objective, the concept of the “No–Fault Zone" is introduced. It is a place in the classroom free from criticism or blame where students learn trust and respect for one another, develop successful conflict-resolution skills, and the responsibility for resolution shifts from teacher to students. The complete conflict resolution curriculum is included, providing step-by-step guidance and making this classroom kit a time-saver for busy teachers.
£15.15
VISION Paperbacks For a House Made of Stone: Gina's Story
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£20.91
Woodhall Press Mother, Can You Hear Me Now?: A Memoir
Book SynopsisDivorced with four children by the age of twenty-two, Emory imagined a new life for herself, a life that went beyond the traumatic mental and physical abuse she endured as a child under the neglectful watch of an addict mother. Emory was born after only six months in the womb, a survivor of a failed abortion. Raised by her three-year-old brother and nestled in the dresser drawer in which she slept, her earliest moments were those of pain and rejection. Yet despite all the odds stacked against her, she found true love with her partner Marsha. From psychiatric wards to poverty to sexual abuse, Emory survived. Mother, Can You Hear Me Now? is her story.
£15.15
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Este anhelo no es mio This Yearning Doesnt Belong to Me
£14.45
Prh Grupo Editorial Permiso Incondicional Unconditional Permission
£14.55
Herder & Herder CERRAR SESION
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£20.47
Urano World Niños Complejos
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£19.75
Herder & Herder Cómo Las Pantallas Devoran a Nuestros Hijos
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£16.47
