Medicine

  • Stroke Recovery Activity Book – 100+ Puzzles for Traumatic Brain Injury & Aphasia Rehabilitation: Fun stroke recovery workbook with tracing, memory games and more. Great gift…

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    ????Unlock the Power of Stroke Recovery with Daily Activities!????

    Daily exercises for stroke survivors are recommended by the American Stroke Association & the Stroke Association UK. This workbook provides activities to help you regain control and get your life back.

    Why Choose Our Activity Book:

    ???? Regain Independence: Strengthen your hand-eye coordination, so you can button your shirt or use a pen.

    ????Boost Communication: Work on your speech so you can chat easier with friends and loved ones.

    ????Sharpen Problem-Solving: Prepare for life’s challenges by sharpening your mind.

    Inside, you’ll find a treasure trove of engaging exercises that get progressively harder, including:

    • Fine Motor Skills: Tracing and drawing sheets to help with hand and finger movements.
    • Speech Recovery: Facial movement activities to reclaim control over your speech.
    • Cognitive Rehabilitation: Word scrambles, mazes, and riddles to recover problem-solving skills.
    • Memory Enhancement: Games that help improve focus and memory.
    • Visual Perception: Pattern recognition and shape matching exercises to boost understanding.
    • Language Skills: Word puzzles and crosswords to refine word retrieval, vocabulary, and spelling.

    Completing this workbook will bring you a huge confidence boost. Enjoy these activities by yourself, even better, with your loved ones by your side.

    Ready to embark on the road to recovery? Click ‘Buy Now’ and start your transformation today!

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    £9.50
  • Stroke Recovery Activity Book: Cognitive Exercises, Memory Games and Puzzles for Adults Patients with Aphasia and Brain Injuries

    Stroke survivors often embark on a challenging journey to regain their cognitive abilities and motor skills, a process that can be overwhelming. The “Stroke Recovery Activity Book” offers a targeted and comprehensive approach to address these difficulties, aiding individuals on their path to recovery.

    The book breaks down the rehabilitation process into manageable steps, categorizing exercises into three key areas of stimulation: language, memory, and concentration. The total recuperation process is sped up by this deliberate division, which enables each cognitive domain to get specialized attention and practice. Additionally, each area’s three levels of difficulty (easy, medium, hard) allow for a customized experience, allowing users to begin at a comfortable pace and gradually raise the challenge as their skills advance.

    Advantages and benefits that this book provides:

    • Specialized Focus: Each cognitive area receives dedicated attention and practice, facilitating overall enhancement.
    • Adaptive Difficulty Levels: Users can start at a manageable level and gradually increase the challenge, promoting engagement and preventing discouragement.
    • Encourages Independence: The book empowers users to monitor their own progress with included solutions, fostering a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence.
    • User-Friendly Layout: The large print text and clear images make the book user-friendly and accessible, facilitating consistent participation.
    • Motivational Elements: The inclusion of motivational quotes throughout the book nurtures a positive mindset, a crucial element in the journey towards cognitive restoration.

    The “Stroke Recovery Activity Book” is thus an essential tool, transforming a potentially daunting path into a structured, manageable, and motivating journey towards improved cognitive function and a better quality of life post-stroke.

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    £10.40
  • Stroke Recovery Workbook- Large Print: Activity Book for Traumatic Brain Injury and Aphasia Rehabilitation: Memory-Recovery Exercises for After-Stroke Patients

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    This Stroke Recovery Workbook is a comprehensive resource designed to aid individuals in their cognitive recovery after a stroke.

    With 200 pages of various activities, this workbook is jam-packed with exercises to keep the brain active, motivated, and free of frustration.

    Each activity is simple and varies in difficulty, allowing participants to switch activities if one becomes too challenging.

    This workbook includes activities that are practical and useful for daily life, such as:

    • Learning about calendars and clocks
    • Matching clothes to the weather
    • Mazes
    • Tracing shapes and scissors skills
    • Matching homophones
    • Easy crossword puzzles
    • Activities involving reading expressions on people’s faces
    • Tracing and repeating patterns
    • Money words
    • Word sort ‘ing
    • Telling time
    • Word Search Puzzles
    • Undated monthly planner.

    Additionally, throughout the book, you will find inspiring and motivational quotes meant to provide encouragement and support during this journey. With a combination of fun, functional tasks and inspiration, this workbook is a valuable tool for anyone on their journey to recovery.

    Whether you are a stroke survivor or a loved one looking to provide support, this workbook is the perfect resource to aid in cognitive recovery. Its easy-to-use format and clear instructions make it accessible for anyone to use.

    This 8.5″ x 11″ book also comes with a bonus of large print and coloring pages.

    Made in USA

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    £11.60
  • Super Food Family Classics

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    Freshen up your meals with Jamie’s essential collection of healthy and delicious recipes for the whole family

    Let Jamie teach you how to make healthy eating a part of everyday family life with Super Food Family Classics.

    With easy-to-follow, tried and tested recipes, Jamie has created a cookbook that will allow you to add more fruit and veg to your family’s plates, without sacrificing any flavour – or your time.

    With these tasty recipes, you can . . .
    · Sneak in extra veg onto their plate with Squash Mac ‘N’ Cheese
    · Enjoy a no-arguments family dinner with Chicken Fajitas, Smoky Dressed Aubergines & Peppers
    · When you need a no-fuss meal on the table fast try Chicken Goujons or Pasta Pesto
    · Get ahead with freezer-friendly Jumbo Fish Fingers or Proper Chicken Nuggets
    · Use ingredients your family already love with Sweet Potato Fish Cakes or Chocolate Porridge

    With valuable advice on everything from cooking with kids and tackling fussy eaters, to good gut health and how to budget, Jamie’s Super Food Family Classics is the kitchen companion every family needs.

    In Jamie’s extensive collection of internationally loved and trusted cookbooks, this is the one about healthy food for all the family

    ‘Brilliant recipes’ Mail on Sunday

    ‘Our failsafe foodie of choice’ Sunday Times

    ‘Jamie Oliver is great – I’d put him in charge of the country’ Guardian

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    £20.40£24.70
  • Suture like a Surgeon: A Doctor’s Guide to Surgical Knots and Suturing Techniques used in the Departments of Surgery, Emergency Medicine, and Family Medicine

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    This is the Official Suturing Techniques Textbook created by Medical Creations.
    The perfect complement to your Medical Creations Suture Practice kit!

    Are you looking for the best suturing book on Amazon? Look no further!

    This medical book has been created by compiling the most important suturing techniques you need to know along with detailed, step-by-step illustrations that will teach how to suture like a surgeon. You will even find questions after each chapter so that you can test your knowledge!

    This surgical suturing manual gives you an insight into the basics of the suturing process. The first part of the manual will cover the armamentarium required, indications, and basic principles of suturing techniques. In the second part we will discuss knot tying, different kinds of sutures, and their applications. The last section will cover wound care before and after the suturing process.

    If you bought our Medical Creations Suture Practice Kit, this textbook will serve as a perfect complement. It is much more in-depth, and covers more techniques than the free ebook that comes with the suture kit.

    This book focuses on the readability apsect, which allows for an easy training guide and review. It is divided into chapters, and since the addition of multiple choice questions, the reader now has the possibility to practice and test what they have learned from previous chapters. The answers to these questions can be found at the very end of the book.

    Thanks to this book you will:

    • ..Learn the different surgical techniques and knots used in the departments of surgery, emergency medicine, family medicine

    • ..Learn and understand the basic fundamentals

    • ..Be able to test your knowledge with multiple choice questions

    Invest in your future today! Go to the top-right of the page and click “Add to Cart”

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    £12.30
  • Systemic Approaches to Brain Injury Treatment: Navigating Contemporary Practice

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    This book is an exploration of key systemic and socio-political considerations when working with people whose lives have been impacted by neurological injury and those who care for them.

    Expert contributors consider the impact of intersectionality across domains that include gender, sexuality, class, education, religion and spirituality, race, culture, and ability/disability. It offers relevant literature in the field of neuropsychology as well as clinical case studies that provide inspiration and key reflections for clinicians, neurological specialist therapists, and medical staff alike. Chapters discuss navigating intersectionality in couple therapy, hidden social inequalities in paediatric neurorehabilitation, racial microaggression in inpatient settings, and more.

    This book is essential for all health and social-care practitioners working in the field of brain injury and chronic illness who want to challenge the status quo and advocate for diversity and inclusion.

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    £28.70£33.20
  • The Autistic Brain: understanding the autistic brain by one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism in the world

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    Want to read just one book about autism? Read this. Written by Temple Grandin, one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism, this thought-provoking, insightful and inspirational book – with illustrative diagrams and key points pulled out for emphasis – will assist not only fellow autistics and families with affected members, but also researchers and physicians seeking to better understand the condition.

    ‘An extraordinary source of inspiration for autistic children, their parents – and all people’ — Time
    ‘The Autistic Brain can both enlighten readers with little exposure to autism and offer hope and compassion to those who live with the condition’ — Scientific American
    ‘Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different but coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us…’ — New York Times
    ‘Enjoyable, insightful read’ — ***** Reader review
    ‘This book is a delight from start to finish’ — ***** Reader review
    ‘Superb, readable book’ — ***** Reader review
    ‘Great book. Very insightful and easy to follow’ — ***** Reader review

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    It’s estimated that one in almost a hundred people are diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum but there is far more hope for them today than ever before thanks to ground-breaking new research.

    In this fascinating and highly readable book, Temple Grandin offers her own experience as an autistic person alongside remarkable new discoveries about the autistic brain, as well as genetic research.
    She highlights long-ignored sensory problems as well as the need to treat autism symptom by symptom, rather than with an umbrella diagnosis. Most exciting of all, she argues that raising and educating children on the autistic spectrum needs to be less about focusing on their weaknesses, and more about fostering their unique contributions.

    Written in a clear, concise and accessible way, with illustrative diagrams and key points pulled out for emphasis, this is an all-encompassing guide that will change the perception of autism.

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    £11.50£14.20
  • The Batch Lady: Cooking on a Budget: Unlock the power of batch-cooking with simple, freezable, store-cupboard recipes that won’t break the bank from Sunday Times best-selling…

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    ‘Saves time, money and food waste’ The Times

    The Sunday Times best-selling author The Batch Lady is back with a budget-busting book to create fresh and satisfying meals without breaking the purse strings.

    Shop once.
    Get organised, plan ahead and create fresh and satisfying meals without breaking the bank.

    Cook once.
    Over 100 delicious, simple and energy-efficient batch-cooking recipes that will satisfy the whole family and fill your freezer.

    Save money all week.
    Learn to hack your monthly bill, save your hard-earned money and eat well on a budget.

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    Suzanne Mulholland’s book ‘The Batch Lady’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 16-01-2023.

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    £9.50£20.90
  • The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramon y Cajal

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    Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), the father of modern neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, was an exceptional artist. He devoted his life to the anatomy of the brain, the body’s most complex and mysterious organ. His superhuman feats of visualisation, based on fanatically precise techniques and countless hours at the microscope, resulted in some of the most remarkable illustrations in the history of science. Beautiful Brain presents a selection of his exquisite drawings of brain cells, brain regions and neural circuits with accessible descriptive commentary. An art book at the crossroads of art and science, Beautiful Brain describes Cajal’s contributions to neuroscience, explores his artistic roots and achievement and looks at his work in relation to contemporary neuroscience imaging techniques.

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    £23.10£33.30
  • The City & Guilds Textbook Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care: Second Edition

    Develop best practice and improve your leadership skills with our second edition textbook (for the 3096-51 specification).

    – Develop a comprehensive understanding of the knowledge and skills required with detailed coverage of all mandatory units
    – Apply theoretical aspects of the Diploma in the workplace, and use our ‘Evidence Opportunity’ feature to test your understanding of the assessment criteria
    – Build confidence reviewing and evaluating practice in Adult Care settings with ‘Reflect On It’ activities, and examples of reflective accounts
    – Prepare a strong portfolio, with advice and activities on how to use evidence most effectively

    This textbook has been fully updated to meet the requirements of the updated Skills for Care qualification criteria.

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    £33.30
  • The Commercial Determinants of Health

    An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health

    Our health is largely shaped by the world around us―by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions, and even our discourse and understanding around key health and social issues.

    Until recently, commercial determinants have remained largely absent from our conceptual understanding of the drivers of health. The scale of their potential impact necessitates a multidisciplinary and intersectional approach, but no book has yet explored the commercial impacts on health in their totality.

    This pioneering volume sheds light on how commercial determinants shape health directly and indirectly through influencing policy, evidence, and discourse. Featuring original cross-sector research, The Commercial Determinants of Health draws on insights from a wide-ranging group of experts who introduce the commercial determinants of health and describe the proximal and distal pathways through which they affect population health. Each chapter further illustrates the health impact of commercial actors, including through multidisciplinary case studies ranging from tobacco to fossil fuels. Together, these essays seek to integrate new and emerging research across public health, economics, and policy to enrich our understanding and responses to the commercial determinants of health.

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    £38.90
  • The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition (9th Edition) (Complete Guides)

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    The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition is the definitive practical handbook for anyone wanting a performance advantage.

    What you eat and drink are important considerations when it comes to maximising your sports performance. Whether you are a professional or amateur athlete, or just enjoy regular workouts, well-chosen nutrition strategies can enhance your performance and recovery after exercise.

    This fully updated and revised edition incorporates the latest cutting-edge research and provides all the tools to help you reach your performance goals.

    This ninth edition includes accessible guidance on the following topics:

    · Maximising endurance, strength, performance and recovery
    · How to calculate your optimal energy, carbohydrate and protein requirements
    · Advice on improving body composition
    · The most popular sports supplements
    · Relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) and eating disorders
    · Hydration strategies to prevent hypohydration and overhydration
    · Specific advice for masters athletes, young athletes and plant-based athletes
    · Nutrition strategies to prepare for competition
    · Immune health and recovery from injury
    · Gut health and how to avoid gut problems during exercise.

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    £20.70£23.80
  • The Conscious Mind In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind)

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    What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning?

    David J. Chalmers unveils a major new theory of consciousness, one that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend of science, while offering provocative insights into the relationship between mind and brain. Writing in a thought-provoking style, Chalmers proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time, mass, and space that exists at a fundamental level and cannot be understood as the sum of its parts. Engaging and penetrating, this book adds a fresh new perspective to the subject that is sure to spark debate about our understanding of the mind for years to come.

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    £13.20£16.10
  • The Dinner Lady: Change The Way Your Children Eat Forever

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    As a highly experienced dinner lady, Jeanette has long been at the heart of Jamie Oliver’s revolution to change the bad eating habits of our children both in and outside school. As part of her campaign to improve children’s diets, she has written a unique family cookbook full of tasty, healthy, inexpensive and appealing recipes that are easy to make and can be enjoyed whatever age you are! She believes in simple, traditional dishes with a modern twist, made with the freshest local and – where possible – organic ingredients. All the recipes are big hits from Jeanette’s kitchen and are accompanied by personal anecdotes and comments from the children at St Peter’s, the school in which she worked for years as a dinner lady. They include Pasta with Peas and Bacon, Meatballs in Tomato Sauce, Real Chicken Nuggets, Cowboy Stew, Toffee Cream Tart, Apple Cobbler and Muffins.

    This beautifully illustrated book also tells the inspirational story of how Jeanette became Britain’s most vocal campaigner for good food for our kids. It includes her advice (after years of experience)on cooking for children at home, ideas for getting (even the fussiest!) children interested in and excited by food. Also practical tips for busy parents to make life in the kitchen easier with notes on nutrition and advice for making meal times an enjoyable occasion. Plus a list of resources and suppliers.

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    £3.20
  • The End of Heart Disease: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Eat for Life)

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    The New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Live, Super Immunity, The End of Diabetes, and The End of Dieting presents a scientifically proven, practical program to prevent and reverse heart disease, the leading cause of death in America–coinciding with the author’s new medical study revealing headline-making findings.

    Dr. Joel Fuhrman, one of the country’s leading experts on preventative medicine, offers his science-backed nutritional plan that addresses the leading cause of death in America: heart disease. An expert in the science of food, Dr. Fuhrman speaks directly to readers who want to take control of their health and avoid taking medication or undergoing complicated, expensive surgery, the two standard treatments prescribed today.

    Following the model of his previous programs that have successfully tackled conditions from diabetes to dieting, Dr. Fuhrman’s plan begins with the food we eat. He focuses on a high nutrient per calorie ratio, with a range of options for different needs and conditions. He shows us what to remove and what to add to our diets for optimum heart health, provides menu plans and recipes for heart-healthy meals and snacks, and includes helpful questions for doctors and patients.

    By understanding heart disease and its triggers, Dr. Fuhrman gives us the knowledge to counter-attack this widespread epidemic and lead longer, healthier lives.

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    £17.50
  • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

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    A bold new book reveals how we can tap the intelligence that exists beyond our brains–in our bodies, our surroundings, and our relationships.

    Use your head.

    That’s what we tell ourselves when facing a tricky problem or a difficult project. But a growing body of research indicates that we’ve got it exactly backwards. What we need to do, says acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, is think outside the brain. A host of “extra-neural” resources–the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of those around us–can help us focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively.

    The Extended Mind outlines the research behind this exciting new vision of human ability, exploring the findings of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and examining the practices of educators, managers, and leaders who are already reaping the benefits of thinking outside the brain. She excavates the untold history of how artists, scientists, and authors–from Jackson Pollock to Jonas Salk to Robert Caro–have used mental extensions to solve problems, make discoveries, and create new works. In the tradition of Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind or Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence, The Extended Mind offers a dramatic new view of how our minds work, with practical advice on how we can all think better.

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    £15.30£17.10
  • The Fast 800 Easy: Quick and simple recipes to make your 800-calorie days even easier (The Fast 800 Series)

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    **AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4**

    130 brand-new recipes to cook up at home, any day of the week…

    Following their bestselling Fast 800 Recipe Book, Dr Clare Bailey and Justine Pattison return with a fabulous new cookbook, featuring super-simple recipes to enable you to eat well with minimum prep time on your fasting days.

    All of the dishes in this book are based on the Mediterranean style of eating now proven to revolutionise your health, and many can be thrown together from freezer or store-cupboard staples. There are numerous vegetarian options, plus simple ways to expand meals for non-fast days or when you are eating with friends or family.

    With everything from salads and wraps to winter stews and curries, The Fast 800 Easy will help you rustle up delicious, nutritious meals in minutes – food that tastes so good you won’t feel the low calorie count.

    ‘One word – brilliant! I lost 28lb in 9-10 weeks and 7 inches off my waist. Also dropped 2 clothes sizes. Love this programme!’ – Anne

    INCLUDES 8 WEEKS OF CALORIE-COUNTED MEAL PLANS

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    £9.00£18.00
  • The Glucose Goddess Method: Your four-week guide to cutting cravings, getting your energy back, and feeling amazing. With 100+ super easy recipes

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    The instant No.1 UK bestseller

    ‘A must for anyone who wants to understand their body and improve their health’ – Professor Tim Spector

    ‘Jessie has revolutionised how I measure my health and wellbeing – it’s turned the lights on to my health – I genuinely believe that The Glucose Goddess Method and its step-by-step plans has the power to change lives’ – Steven Bartlett, Diary of a CEO’

    Jessie Inchauspé is a biochemist, author and founder of the Glucose Goddess movement (2 million followers on Instagram).

    With her first book Glucose Revolution a no. 1 international bestseller, she started teaching everyone about the importance of blood sugar and easy hacks to manage it.

    In The Glucose Goddess Method, she offers a four-week step-by-step plan to integrate simple, science-proven strategies for steadying your blood sugar into your everyday life. It comes complete with 100+ delicious recipes, an interactive workbook and lots of tips and advice from the Glucose Goddess community on how to stay on track.

    This Method has been used by thousands to regulate their glucose, and the results are astonishing. You will gain boundless energy, curb your cravings, clear your skin, slow your ageing process, reduce inflammation, rebalance your hormones, improve your mood and sleep better than you have ever done before. You will create positive new habits for life.

    The best part? You won’t be counting calories, and you’ll eat everything you love.

    ‘Jessie’s tips have been a lovely addition to my daily routine.’ Davina McCall

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    £11.40£20.90
  • The Good Bite’s High Protein Meal Prep Manual: Delicious, easy low-calorie recipes with full nutritional breakdowns & food-tracking barcodes

    Pre-order your copy of The Good Bite’s High Protein, Meal Prep Manual now, for food as tasty as it is good for you.

    Niall Kirkland, founder of The Good Bite, is on a mission to bridge the gap between healthy and delicious. In this book, he shares 80 calorie-counted, meal-prep, air fryer and slow cooker recipes – with a photo for every one – that will help you fill your fridge with mouth-watering, high-protein dishes that take the stress out of mealtimes.

    • PB&J Protein French Toast
    • Peri-peri Rice Bake with Grilled Corn
    • Sticky Korean Popcorn Chicken
    • Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie
    • Creamy Peanut Noodles with Prawns
    • Hot Honey Halloumi Pittas with Harissa-Lime Mayo
    • Creamy Tuscan Butter Beans
    • Cookie Dough Bites

    With chapters covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts and snacks – as well as essential advice on calculating your ideal protein intake, full nutritional breakdowns and barcodes that feed directly into your food-tracking app for each recipe – this is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to harness the power of protein. Inside you’ll find delicious, nourishing meals packed with flavour, to keep you eating strong all week long.

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    £18.20£19.90
  • The Handbook for Nursing Associates and Assistant Practitioners

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    The essential handbook for nursing associate students and anyone undertaking a foundation degree or higher-level apprenticeship in healthcare practice.

    Now mapped to the latest NMC standards, this book provides you with the core knowledge and skills needed for your nursing associate studies, including study skills, professional development, leadership and teamwork, infection control and health promotion, bioscience, health sciences, mental health, learning disabilities, children and families.

    Key features for the new edition:

    • All content is in-line with the NMC’s ‘Standards of proficiency for Nursing Associates’ – with each chapter featuring an outline of the platforms covered, ensuring that nursing associates upon registration, will be able to effectively demonstrate these proficiencies and meet all outcome statements.
    • New chapters on Public Health and Advanced Health Science: Genomics and Pathophysiology..
    • Case studies and activities have been updated to aid discussion-based learning in the classroom and show students how the theory relates to real-life practice.

    Written by a collection of experienced authors in nursing and health, the book is essential reading for anyone studying to be a nursing associate, assistant practitioner or healthcare support worker.

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    £27.50
  • The Importance of Being Interested: Adventures in Scientific Curiosity

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    ***A Waterstones Best Paperback of 2022 pick***

    Perfect for fans of Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage and Professor Brian Cox.

    ‘A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.’ Professor Carlo Rovelli

    Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now presents one of the world’s most popular science podcasts. Every year he meets hundreds of the world’s greatest thinkers.

    In this erudite and witty book, Robin reveals why scientific wonder isn’t just for the professionals. Filled with interviews featuring astronauts, comedians, teachers, quantum physicists, neuroscientists and more – as well as charting Robin’s own journey with science – The Importance of Being Interested explores why many wrongly think of the discipline as distant and difficult. From the glorious appeal of the stars above to why scientific curiosity can encourage much needed intellectual humility, this optimistic and profound book will leave you filled with a thirst for intellectual adventure.

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    £6.80£10.40
  • The Invisible Brain Injury: Cognitive Impairments in Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke and other Acquired Brain Pathologies (After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories)

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    The Invisible Brain Injury recounts, in her own words, the experience of Aurora Lassaletta, a clinical psychologist who suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) after a traffic accident. Presenting her unique dual perspective as both a patient and a clinician, Aurora highlights the less visible cognitive, emotional and behavioural symptoms common to acquired brain injury (ABI).

    This moving account showcases Aurora’s growing awareness of her impairments, their manifestation in daily life, how they are perceived, or not, by others and the tools that helped her survive. Each chapter combines Aurora’s perspective with the scientific view of a professional neuropsychologist or physiatrist who provide commentaries on her various symptoms.

    This book is valuable reading for professionals involved in neurorehabilitation and clinical neuropsychology and for clinical psychology students. It is a must read for ABI survivors, those around them and clinicians, who are all an essential part of the rehabilitation, adjustment and acceptance process involved with ABI.

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    £21.10£23.70
  • The Knee Injury Bible: Everything You Need to Know about Knee Injuries, How to Treat Them, and How They Affect Your Life

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    From prominent experts in orthopedics and sports medicine, a comprehensive guide for anyone with knee injury or chronic knee pain: how injuries occur, how to treat problems, and how to return to the life and sports you love

    Knee pain and knee injury happen to people at any age and across all walks of life. And they are very common: more than 1 million people underwent arthroscopic knee surgery last year. It can be confusing to navigate the many different treatment options, and surgery and physical therapy are taxing processes on many levels. In The Knee Injury Bible, some of the country’s foremost experts on orthopedics and sports medicine combine their expertise to share a definitive resource for patients. In clear, readily understandable language, the authors cover:

    • types of injuries and pain, and how they happen
    • which tests are necessary and which are not
    • what to ask at doctor visits
    • what to expect when undergoing surgery
    • basic physical therapy exercises
    • healthy eating during the recovery period
    • how to set expectations and return to the activities and sports you love

    Chapters also include inspiring stories from other patients and prominent athletes to show readers that they are not alone — and they can recover and live normally again.

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    £3.80
  • The Medical Examiner Service: A Practical Guide for England and Wales

    This book provides a practical guide for all those working in or with Medical Examiner Services in England and Wales. It is an adjunct to the e-learning and face-to-face training required to fulfil the Medical Examiner and Medical Examiner Officer roles.

    Medical Examiner Services also work closely with a wide range of stakeholders including bereavement and mortuary teams, Coroners and their Officers, Registrars, Funeral Directors and those working in clinical governance and patient safety. This book provides an essential overview of all aspects of the Medical Examiner system for anyone working in these areas, or in any aspect of the support and management of the deceased and bereaved.

    • A concise guide including the knowledge base required to develop and run a Medical Examiner Service
    • Content is completely aligned with required training
    • Written by those with direct experience of establishing and working with Medical Examiner Services
    • Relevant to a wide range of stakeholders who work with patients and the bereaved

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    £27.60£28.50
  • The MIND Diet: A Scientific Approach to Enhancing Brain Function and Helping Prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia (MIND Diet Books)

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    Improve brain health with this easy-to-follow guide to the new breakthrough diet that’s shown to keep your mind sharp as you age.

    Enjoying a high quality of life as you get older means taking care of your brain as much as your body. And research suggests that what you eat today will help (or hurt) your cognitive abilities later.

    The MIND Diet explains the science behind mental fitness in an approachable and understandable way. More importantly, this helpful guide presents an easy-to-follow program for keeping your mind sharp by eating the right foods and avoiding brain-harming ones.

    Packed with dishes that are not only delicious but also help improve memory, concentration and mental acuity, The MIND Diet’s healthy recipes include:

    • Brussels Sprouts Frittata
    • Sweet Potato Lentil Soup
    • Pistachio Mint Couscous
    • Guacamole-Stuffed Tomatoes
    • Apricot-Glazed Salmon
    • Tango Fish Tacos
    • Banana Chocolate Cookies
    • Roasted Chicken with Fennel

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    £9.50
  • The Mind-Gut-Immune Connection: Understanding How Food Impacts Our Mind, Our Microbiome, and Our Immunity

    Cutting-edge neuroscience combines with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome to inform this practical guide that proves once and for all the inextricable, biological link between mind and body.

    We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut—the decision we made because it “felt right;” the butterflies in our stomach before a big meeting; the anxious stomach rumbling when we’re stressed out. While the dialogue between the gut and the brain has been recognized by ancient healing traditions, including Aryuvedic and Chinese medicine, Western medicine has failed to appreciate the complexity of how the brain, gut, and more recently, the microbiome—the microorganisms that live inside us—communicate with one another. In The Mind-Gut Connection, Dr. Emeran Mayer, Executive Director of the UCLA Center for Neurobiology of Stress, offers a revolutionary look at this developing science, teaching us how to harness the power of the mind-gut connection to take charge of our health.

    The Mind-Gut Connection, shows how to keep the communication brain-gut communication clear and balanced to:

    • Heal the gut by focusing on a plant-based diet

    • Balance the microbiome by consuming fermented foods and probiotics, fasting, and cutting out sugar and processed foods

    • Promote weight loss by detoxifying and creating a healthy digestion and maximum nutrient absorption

    • Boost immunity and prevent the onset of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s

    • Generate a happier mindset and reduce fatigue, moodiness, anxiety, and depression

    • Prevent and heal GI disorders such as leaky gut syndrome; food sensitivities and allergies; and IBS; as well as digestive discomfort such as heartburn and bloating

    • And much more.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

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    £8.50
  • The MindBody Workbook: a thirty day program of insight and understanding for people with back pain and other disorders

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    This Workbook offers the reader a thirty-day structured journal to identify and express psychological issues that may be causing back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension headaches, TMJ, and other disorders. The author, Dr. David Schechter, a former student of Dr. John Sarno, has developed a Workbook that guides the reader through a process of insight and awareness to harness the mindbody connection.

    From the Author: I’ve been fascinated by the mindbody connection since before medical school. The seminal event of my medical education in this regard was my own cure from chronic, unexplained knee pain with the guidance of John Sarno, MD from NYU’s Rusk Institute. After this personal success, I performed a follow-up study of his patients, under his auspices and determined that this approach proved successful in a remarkably high 77% of chronic back sufferers.

    As my career has progressed, I’ve developed my own program of treatment that includes an office consultation and educational materials on this subject for my patients. This Workbook is a resource for people suffering from mindbody disorders that I may not personally be able to treat. With the help of a local physician to exclude more serious disease, they should be able to benefit greatly from the thirty-day structured journal approach, on their own, as my own patients do in my office. This Workbook has been used successfully by over 30,000 individuals as of 2022 and in published research studies. Author note:

    If you order the ebook, be prepared to answer the questions in a notebook, computer or tablet, or by voice recording. Research has shown the effectiveness of journaling is based upon your doing something with the answers (writing, recording), not just thinking about the answers.

    While the process of journaling can be challenging, the rewards are great and it is a still you can come back to, in the future, when needed to process other emotional challenges.

    You can utilize this Workbook before or after the newer MindBody Workbook Volume Two published in 2023.

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    £12.10
  • The Narrative Gym for Medicine: Introducing the ABT Framework for Medical Communication with Peers, Professionals, and the Public

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    Communication is central to medicine, yet the COVID-19 pandemic revealed major shortcomings in the communication skills of medical professionals. As the world continues to drown in excess amounts of information (communicated ever more rapidly by social media), the ability to maintain focus becomes increasingly difficult.

    Enter the ABT.

    For more than a decade we have been developing the ABT Framework as both a model for narrative structure and a tool for strengthening what we have termed “narrative intuition.” In this, the 6th version of the Narrative Gym series (following the introductory version, then business, law, politics, and science) we offer up two things: 1) the model, 2) its applications.

    Perhaps the most powerful part of the book is chapter 7 where ABT founder Randy Olson teams up with Navid Ghaffari, MD to explain specifically how to apply the ABT within the medical profession. The book is brief, to the point, and most importantly, practical.

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    £3.90
  • The Nurse’s Guide to Mental Health Medicines

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    A book written by nurses for nurses providing a simple guide to the most common medicines.

    Spanning 8 concise and highly readable chapters, the book explains the pharmacology of different drug types in simple terms while also considering the practical aspects of working with people requiring mental health medicines. 

    Key features:

    • A detailed ′Medicines List′ contained in each chapter providing the key information on dosages, brand names and possible adverse reactions
    • Takes a life course approach highlighting specific considerations for children, pregnancy and older people
    • Cuts through the complex terminology with clear and simple language supported by real world case studies

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    £19.90£24.70
  • The Phone Fix: The Brain-Focused Guide to Building Healthy Digital Habits and Breaking Bad Ones

    What is really happening in your brain when you use your phone, and how to harness it.

    Humans are often fearful of the day the world will be ruled by machines, but have they not already taken over? The average person spends 4-5 hours a day on their phone, about a third of the time they are awake. We self-interrupt our work and social lives, forgo sleep, procrastinate important tasks and opt for digital distraction when we’re bored or feel uncomfortable.

    NHS neurology doctor and neuroscientist Faye Begeti describes what is happening in our brain when we use our phones and why we have formed so many fixed and negative habits around them. She reflects on both deliberate choices and automatic behaviours, whilst also challenging myths around digital ‘addiction’, how dopamine actually works and the harmfulness of blue light.

    Rather than recommending a quick fix digital diet, or total abstinence – unviable for most people – The Phone Fix offers a practical guide, based on neuroscientific techniques, on building supportive digital habits. Technology is not inherently bad or frightening and by better understanding what is happening in our brains, we can replenish our willpower and improve our focus, forming a healthier relationship with our phones ­- and therefore the real people around us.

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    £19.99£22.00
  • The Policing Mind: Developing Trauma Resilience for a New Era

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    How does it feel to be a police officer in the UK? What happens in the brains of officers, particularly in high-risk roles such as counter-terrorism and child sexual exploitation? Jessica Miller uses the most recent neuroscience and real-life examples to explore risks to individual resilience, be it trauma exposure, burnout or simply the daily pressure of adapting to life on the front line. A compulsory read for anyone with an interest in policing, the book offers practical, easy-to-follow resilience techniques applicable to anyone in the wider emergency responder community. The book also offers policy and operational recommendations to equip police officers with skills to face crime in a post-COVID world.

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    £4.50
  • THE PRISON DOCTOR: My time inside Britain’s most notorious jails. THE HONEST, UNBELIEVABLE TRUE STORY AND A SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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    SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

    As seen on BBC Breakfast

    Horrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that have characterised a career spent being a doctor behind bars.

    Violence. Drugs. Suicide. Welcome to the world of a Prison Doctor.

    Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe’s largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield.

    From miraculous pregnancies to dirty protests, and from violent attacks on prisoners to heartbreaking acts of self-harm, she has witnessed it all.

    In this eye-opening, inspirational memoir, Amanda reveals the stories, the patients and the cases that have shaped a career helping those most of us would rather forget.

    Despite their crimes, she is still their doctor.

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    £4.70£8.50
  • The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation

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    Athletes routinely use psychological skills and interventions for performance enhancement but, perhaps surprisingly, not always to assist in recovery from injury. This book demonstrates the ways in which athletes and practitioners can transfer psychological skills to an injury and rehabilitation setting, to enhance recovery and the well-being of the athlete.

    Drawing on the very latest research in sport and exercise psychology, this book explores key psychological concepts relating to injury, explaining typical psychological responses to injury and psychological aspects of rehabilitation. Using case studies in every chapter to highlight the day-to-day reality of working with injured athletes, it introduces a series of practical interventions, skills and techniques, underpinned by an evidence-base, with a full explanation of how each might affect an athlete’s recovery from injury.

    The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation emphasises the importance of an holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to sports injury and rehabilitation. No other book examines the psychological aspects of both sports injury and the rehabilitation process, and therefore this is an essential resource for students, scholars and practitioners working in sport psychology, sports therapy, sports medicine or coaching.

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    £37.00£38.00
  • The Recipe for Living Without Disease

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    The Recipe For Living Without Disease contains all of the basic dietary information that has helped thousands improve their health and reverse disease. Indeed it has proved to be a recipe to achieve living without disease.

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    £36.60
  • The Rhodesian Secret War: An Insightful Memoir And History Account For History Lovers

    This book is a worthy attempt to contribute an important little piece of the puzzle to the history of the Rhodesian Airforce and the war against communist-supported terrorism.
    A little-known fact of the Rhodesian War was the use of a Rhodesian Air Force DC3 as a flying command and communications post. This book offers a rare insight into the personnel and workings of this remarkable aircraft.
    Get your copy today!

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    £7.20
  • The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

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    Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2021

    ‘To compare any book to a Sacks is unfair, but this one lives up to it . . . I finished it feeling thrillingly unsettled, and wishing there was more.’ – James McConnachie, Sunday Times

    In Sweden, refugee children fall asleep for months and years at a time. In upstate New York, high school students develop contagious seizures. In the US Embassy in Cuba, employees complain of headaches and memory loss after hearing strange noises in the night.

    These disparate cases are some of the most remarkable diagnostic mysteries of the twenty-first century, as both doctors and scientists have struggled to explain them within the boundaries of medical science and – more crucially – to treat them. What unites them is that they are all examples of a particular type of psychosomatic illness: medical disorders that are influenced as much by the idiosyncratic aspects of individual cultures as they are by human biology.

    Inspired by a poignant encounter with the sleeping refugee children of Sweden, Wellcome Prize-winning neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan travels the world to visit other communities who have also been subject to outbreaks of so-called ‘mystery’ illnesses.

    From a derelict post-Soviet mining town in Kazakhstan, to the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua via an oil town in Texas, to the heart of the Maria Mountains in Colombia, O’Sullivan hears remarkable stories from a fascinating array of people, and attempts to unravel their complex meaning while asking the question: who gets to define what is and what isn’t an illness?

    Reminiscent of the work of Oliver Sacks, Stephen Grosz and Henry Marsh, The Sleeping Beauties is a moving and unforgettable scientific investigation with a very human face.

    ‘A study of diseases that we sometimes say are ‘all in the mind’, and an explanation of how unfair that characterisation is.’ – Tom Whipple, The Times Books of the Year

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    £5.70
  • The Ultimate Medical Consultant Interview Guide: Fifth Edition. Over 180 Real Interview Questions Answered with Full Model Responses and Analysis, by … Teaching, Management,…

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    The UK’s best-selling Medical Consultant application guide is back – with a major new edition, updated for a post-pandemic interview process.

    • Over 180 practice questions
    • Worked solutions provided by more than a dozen consultants
    • Hints and tips for making the most of your interview, and getting the results you want.

    “What would you do if you were in charge of the NHS?”
    “What is a clinical trial?”
    “Why wouldn’t we choose more qualified candidates than you?”

    These are examples of Real Questions that were asked in previous medical consultant interviews. Stumped? You don’t need to be! Published by the Oxbridge Medical Society, the Ultimate Medical Consultant Interview Guide contains over 180 commonly asked Interview Questions that have been asked at real consultant interviews. It provides Fully Worked Model Answers for every single question and guides you through the topics and problems that each one raises.

    With contributions and advice from over 12 Senior NHS Consultants , this is your Ultimate companion to the Consultant Interview Process and a MUST-BUY for those who have an upcoming medical consultant interview.

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    £28.50£38.00
  • The UltraMind Solution: The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Mind

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    From the ten-time New York Times bestselling author of Ultrametabolism, The Blood Sugar Solution, and Eat Fat, Get Thin comes The UltraMind Solution.

    —Do you find it next to impossible to focus or concentrate?
    —Have you ever experienced instant clarity after exercise? Alertness after drinking coffee?
    —Does your brain inexplicably slow down during stress, while multitasking, or when meeting a deadline?
    —Do you get anxious, worried, or stressed-out frequently?

    In The UltraMind Solution, Dr. Mark Hyman explains that to fix your broken brain, you must heal your body first. Through his simple six-week plan, Dr. Hyman shows us how to correct imbalances caused by nutritional deficiencies, allergens, infections, toxins, and stress, restoring our health and gaining an UltraMind—one that’s highly focused, able to pay attention at will, has a strong memory, and leaves us feeling calm, confident, in control, and in good spirits.

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    £11.20£15.20
  • Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health: 01 (Published in association with The Open University)

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    What, exactly, is promoting public health activity? How should we promote public health? Whose values are most important? Which theories can help inform health promoting practice?

    Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health is an important text that addresses these questions, exploring the key concepts, debates and issues involved in multi-disciplinary public health. The book considers the complex and diverse nature of public health and helps readers critically appraise the theories, research and policies that inform multidisciplinary public health practice.

    This timely and comprehensive book:

    ” considers the wide range of settings, people and methods that are involved in public health activities

    ” introduces key theoretical perspectives

    ” shows how research and knowledge directly inform public health interventions

    ” provides an analysis of how research can be used in the planning and evaluation of public health initiatives.

    ” encourages critical awareness and reflection.

    Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health will be a core text for those studying public health and health promotion across a wide range of health and social care disciplines. It will also be an invaluable resource for professionals and training organisations involved in promoting public health.

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    £42.70

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