Great Health

Losing weight has often become a losing battle for most people. It’s easy to come up with the decision to live healthier, but the difficult part is to stick to that decision. Does this sound like you? do you feel as if you lack the drive to stick to your meal plan and exercise regimen? Then this book is for you!

Drawing upon evidence from archives across the world, Veiled Warriors offers a compelling account of nurses' wartime experiences and a clear appraisal of their work and its contribution to the allied cause between 1914 and 1918, on both the Western and the Eastern Fronts. Nurses believed they were involved in a multi-layered battle. Primarily, they were fighting for the lives of their patients on the "second battlefield" of casualty clearing stations, transports, and military hospitals.

This audiobook contains proven steps and strategies on how to achieve total body conditioning, strong muscles and a lean body.

A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.

In 1860s London, two loosely overlapping groups of bohemians - the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes - challenged the buttoned-up Victorian propriety to promote erotic freedom and expression. Sensually attuned and politically radical, they were among the most influential thinkers and artists of the day, from Richard Burton to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.

Proven, teen-tested, and verified must-have social skill strategies to ramp up confidence, overcome anxiety, fear, stress, make real long-lasting friendships, create healthy boundaries, and much more!

This is the one! Happiness is a simpler achievement than we ever thought possible. Not the crazy running around giggling type of happiness, but the kind that makes every day a great one. It makes them Super Great in fact. The Power of Super Great is set up in a format that emphasizes how to achieve happiness and why the method works over the longer storytelling format. It makes it a quick listen with a bit of story to keep the ideas fresh. The how-to sections in each chapter are well-written and easy to follow.

From the best-selling author of The Spectrum, comes Dr. Dean Ornish's Greet a Great Day. Dr. Ornish is the founder and president of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, where he holds the Safeway Chair. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

We all know how important it is to feel look good. What and when we eat can give us the key to improve our health and boost our energy. This book contains a guide to weight loss, improving your health, fight disease, and make your appearance glow. Your goals to become a happier, heathier you can really come true just by following this book.

From best-selling author and illustrator Kate Pankhurst, descendant of Emmeline Pankhurst, comes another 'smart, informative, inclusive and accessible' book about trail-blazing women. This time, it's women who have helped protect our natural world from way before it was on a political agenda. Discover their untold stories.

The Atkins diet has been criticized and applauded at the same time. But the fact that it has survived for over 30 years shows that it does work, and it has helped many people lose weight as well as maintain their ideal weight. This guide will introduce to you the concept of how the Atkins diet works, the different phases of the diet, how you can incorporate it in your daily schedule while eating in or eating out, and how it can provide benefits for your health.

You're pregnant. Congratulations! A special, wonderful and exciting phase of life awaits you. A new life is entering the world, and you are "living" with it. But did you know that a baby shares its mother's life before birth? It senses your breathing and with it, tension and relaxation. And as we know from prenatal research, a balanced and relaxed pregnancy has a positive influence on the development of the unborn child. So, please take time for yourself once a day; it's good for you, and most importantly, for your child!

Learn how to transform your body and improve your overall health using the best of time-honored knowledge combined with cutting-edge scientific nutritional information.

Laugh Your Way to a Great Day is a book that explains why meditations and affirmations don’t work for some people and offers a new lighthearted way to move you closer to feeling good.

Are you overwhelmed and frustrated with all the different information on diets and don't know where to begin? It's completely okay to be confused! The truth is that one diet plan does not fit all because we are not all designed the same way. This book is not about the latest diet or any quick fixes.

In the mid-15th century, a new “febrile” disease of an entirely unknown cause struck again in Britain in a series of erratically paced and lethal outbreaks between 1485 and 1551. Confined almost entirely to England, the new and unfamiliar wave of illness paled before the statistical destruction caused by the Black Death. However, what came to be known as the “English sweating sickness” reappeared through the decades in a stunning display of unpredictable timing and terrifying symptoms.

In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives. An estimated one million pages eventually found their way to the archive - and it soon became clear this was more than anyone could digest. Today, the diaries are stored at the University of Sussex, where, remarkably, most remain unread.

The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the World Wars is one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remains largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training regimes unimaginably tough by today's standards, and sent forth to share the harsh conditions of the fighting services.

This is an insider’s guide to looking your best, written by experts in male aesthetics. Given the competitive job market, aesthetic medicine has become more important as men enter midlife and beyond. This book includes chapters on the science behind personal care, an appraisal of essential dental care methods, how to protect your skin, removing unwanted body hair, hair restoration treatments, plastic surgery for men, nd medical fat reduction, as well as a bonus chapter on high-tech muscle building.

The Cancer Problem offers the first medical, cultural, and social history of cancer in 19th-century Britain. It argues that it was in the 19th century that cancer acquired the unique emotional, symbolic, and politicized status it maintains today. Through an interrogation of the construction, deployment, and emotional consequences of the disease's incurability, this book reframes our conceptualization of the relationship between medicine and modern life and reshapes our understanding of chronic and incurable maladies, both past and present.

The author continues his dual quest of better understanding the alcoholic and alcoholism. Again with his standout chapter titles, you'll hear: "Spiritual Insight or Despair?", "Comes The Dawn", and "Dry For 15 Years, Happy For Three Months." Listen to what he has learned, how precious recovery and sobriety is, and how that motivates the recovering person to spread the word about the price they paid to get to where they are with their recovery.