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Allergic
£10.99Allergic
Hay fever. Peanut allergies. Eczema. Billions of people worldwide have some form of allergy; millions have one severe enough to seriously endanger their health. And over the past decade, the number of people diagnosed with allergy has been steadily increasing, an ever-growing medical burden on individuals, families, and our health care system. Medical anthropologist Theresa MacPhail, herself an allergy sufferer whose father died of a bee sting, set out to understand why.
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Dark matter
£10.99Dark matter
The microbiome is the missing link in modern medicine: a vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live inside us, influencing every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel. In this mindblowing book, scientist and surgeon James Kinross explains how the organisms that live within us have helped us evolve, shaped our biology and defined the success of our species. But just as we have discovered this delicate and complex ecosystem within us, it is being irrevocably destroyed through the globalisation of our diets and lifestyles, our addiction to antibiotics, and the destruction of our environment.
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Every body should know this
£22.00Every body should know this
In theory, we all know what works and doesn’t work for our bodies; we know that we should eat more vegetables, consume less refined sugar and saturated fat, avoid ultra-processed foods. We know that what we choose to eat has a direct consequence on our health and our happiness. But we have lost touch with our food; it’s produced far away from our day to day lives and often arrives prepared and pre-packed to our homes, our desks and our supermarkets. We have built a food environment that is based on food marketing and arbitrary targets, instead of responding to our biology and nourishing ourselves as individuals. Dr Amati explains how to make the most beneficial decisions for maintaining good health at every stage of life. This book combines nutrition, medical science and public health advice to create a simple guide to what we should all know about our food and how it affects us.
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How not to age
£12.99How not to age
Uncover the science behind slowing the effects of ageing through diet, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the How Not to Die series.
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How to eat (and still lose weight)
£10.99How to eat (and still lose weight)
Most diets fail because they rely on willpower alone. In this book surgeon and expert on metabolism Dr Andrew Jenkinson shows you how to unlock the secret to lasting weight loss through a better understanding of your brain, body and environment, allowing you to eat well and lose weight, forever.
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Immaculate forms
£25.00Immaculate forms
Throughout history, religious scholars, medical men and – occasionally – women themselves, have moulded thought on what ‘makes’ a woman. She has been called the weaker sex, the fairer sex, the purer sex, among many other monikers. Often, she has been defined simply as ‘Not A Man’. Today, we are more aware than ever of the complex relationship between our bodies and our identities. But contrary to what some may believe, what makes a woman is a question that has always been open-ended. ‘Immaculate Forms’ examines all the ways in which medicine and religion have played a gatekeeping role over women’s organs. It explores how the womb was seen as both the most miraculous organ in the body and as a sewer; uncovers breasts’ legacies as maternal or sexual organs – or both; probes the mystery of the disappearing hymen, and asks, did the clitoris need to be discovered at all?
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Medicine
£14.99Medicine
Is there an epidemic of pandemics? Does climate change effect our health? Will AI ever replace doctors? Questions about medicine have always been central to society, but what can they tell us about our future well-being in a 21st-century world of antibiotic resistance and anti-vaxxers, organ transplants and gene therapies, miracle drugs and magic bullets? This book provides the map you need to explore the latest thinking in ethics, practice, treatment, and prevention.
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No filters
£14.99No filters
How can we communicate when things are so painful? How can we connect when generational differences are extreme? How do parents and teenagers – and all of us – have real conversations? When Rowan was 16, she only tolerated communication from her mother in the form of Snapchat. Desperate to be closer to her daughter, Christie sent daily selfies of her face superimposed onto a chicken nugget. It took serious illness for them to finally talk – and truly listen. Rowan’s mental health struggles revealed the chasm between their generations. They started being more honest with each other than they had ever been before: discussing identity, race and gender; opening up about disordered eating and self-harm; navigating the perils of social media. In an age of polarisation, this is how a mother and daughter find humour in the things that divide them and become more hopeful about the future of our world.
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No more normal
£18.99No more normal
In recent decades, as the conversation around mental health has evolved, the diagnosis of mental health conditions has risen sharply. Yet are we really less psychologically healthy than previous generations? Dr Santhouse draws on clinical experience to explain our current malaise and proposes an alternative way of understanding and approaching mental health problems and other human experiences.
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Strive
£22.00Strive
Throughout Venus Williams’ incredible career in tennis, she’s been asked almost every question imaginable. And most frequently, how does she manage to do it all? Venus harnessed a rich blend of hard-won wisdom and core discipline to achieve her goals while keeping a simple promise to herself: to keep things fun. But after being diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disorder that affected her emotional and physical wellness, Venus’s vow was put to the test. She came up with the STRIVE strategy – a winning combination of holistic and scientific approaches to wellness and performance that focuses on making self-improvements reachable and sustainable. In ‘Strive’, readers will learn how 8 tiny but essential tenets can help turn smart choices into habits. And once that happens, you’ll forge a lifestyle you return to because you want to, not because you have to – and that’s when you start winning.
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The mind manual
£1.00The mind manual
Mental health matters! Learn how to assess your mental health today – and understand what’s normal for you. Discover the seven universal truths that everyone should remember, and the mental fitness foundations that will boost you. And exercise your mind with the mental health toolkit that will help you thrive.
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The Positive Sleep Book
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The story of a heart
£22.00The story of a heart
The first of our organs to form, the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of all that makes us human: as long as it continues to beat, we hope. One summer day, nine-year-old Keira suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident. Though her brain and the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira’s parents and siblings agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max had been hospitalised for nearly a year with a virus that was causing his young heart to fail. When Max’s parents received the call they had been hoping for, they knew it came at a terrible cost to another family. This is the unforgettable story of how one family’s grief transformed into a lifesaving gift.
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Ultra-processed people
£10.99Ultra-processed people
We have entered a new ‘age of eating’ where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called ultra-processed food – food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it’s doing to our bodies? Join Dr. Chris van Tulleken in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what’s really going on.
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Walk yourself happy
£20.00Walk yourself happy
Join Julia Bradbury as she leads you through the walk of our lifetimes. There’s a lot of talk about how we all must connect more with nature. But what does that mean? How do you do it? And what does it do for you in return? Can something as simple as going for a walk really improve your life? The simple answer is: YES. ‘Walk Yourself Happy’ will explain the elemental link between our own health – both physical and mental – and the natural world.
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Walk yourself happy
£10.99Walk yourself happy
Join Julia Bradbury as she leads you through the walk of our lifetimes. There’s a lot of talk about how we all must connect more with nature. But what does that mean? How do you do it? And what does it do for you in return? Can something as simple as going for a walk really improve your life? The simple answer is: YES. ‘Walk Yourself Happy’ will explain the elemental link between our own health – both physical and mental – and the natural world.
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