Public health & preventive medicine

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Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digestive Health
Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592579846
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Back to Life After a Heart Crisis: A Doctor and His Wife Share Their 8 Step Cardiac Comeback Plan
By MD Marc Wallack & Jamie Colby

'Fascinating and inspiring . . . a 'must' for doctors and patients alike'.
- Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, author of Power to the Patient

'Fascinating and inspiring . . . a 'must' for doctors and patients alike'.
- Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D., Rossi Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, author of Power...

Published: 18/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781583334195
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Spark: The Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, and Transforming Your Life
By Chris Downie

Millions of people are discovering a new way of thinking about their weight, their health, and their lives. They are taking part in a visionary approach to weight loss that combines goal setting, nutrition, exercise, motivation, and community that has a proven track record of ten million pounds lost.

Millions of people are discovering a new way of thinking about their weight, their health, and their lives. They are taking part in a visionary approach to weight loss that combines goal setting, nutrition...

Published: 13/09/2010
Format: Audio Visual
ISBN: 9781401926472
RRP: $34.95
Book Cover:  Coping With Lymphedema
By Joan Swirsky
In Coping With Lymphedema, Joan Swirsky and Diane Sackett Nannery provide comprehensive and up-to-date information about this little-known condition. Using clear, nontechnical language, they explain how lymphedema develops, its physical and psychological aspects, its impact on daily living, and the different treatments available. Also included are advice on how to find a qualified lymphedema therapist...
In Coping With Lymphedema, Joan Swirsky and Diane Sackett Nannery provide comprehensive and up-to-date information about this little-known condition. Using clear, nontechnical language, they explain how...
Published: 08/06/2000
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780895298560
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Outsmart Your Genes: How Understanding Your DNA Will Empower You to Protect Yourself Against Cancer, Alzheimer's Heart Disease, Obesity, and Many Other Conditions
By MD Brandon Colby

Learn what you and your doctor can do today to alter your genetic destiny.

Genetic testing is the most exciting-and groundbreaking-medical development in decades. Outsmart Your Genes is the definitive guide for anyone considering genetic testing or curious about its benefits.

Separating myth from fact, answering the tough questions, and arming you with the information you need to harness the amazing...

Learn what you and your doctor can do today to alter your genetic destiny.

Genetic testing is the most exciting-and groundbreaking-medical development in decades. Outsmart Your Genes is the definitive...

Published: 06/06/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399536380
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic
By Alan Sipress

A RIVERTING ACCOUNT OF WHY SCIENCE ALONE CAN'T STOP THE NEXT PANDEMIC

A RIVERTING ACCOUNT OF WHY SCIENCE ALONE CAN'T STOP THE NEXT PANDEMIC

Published: 19/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143118305
RRP: $22.95
Book Cover:  Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria
By Anne Maczulak

How bacteria keep you alive, how they can kill you, and how we can all live together more successfully .

How bacteria keep you alive, how they can kill you, and how we can all live together more successfully .

Published: 06/09/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780137015467
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  City of Dust: Illness, Arrogance, and 9/11
By Anthony DePalma

The true story of the ongoing human health crisis that followed 9/11 - now fully told for the first time.

The true story of the ongoing human health crisis that followed 9/11 - now fully told for the first time.

Published: 19/10/2010
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780131385665
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis
By Karl S Drlica & David Perlin

A clear, authoritative overview of the threat of growing antibiotic resistance in infectious microbes, as well as potential countermeasures.

A clear, authoritative overview of the threat of growing antibiotic resistance in infectious microbes, as well as potential countermeasures.

Published: 12/04/2011
Format: Cloth Books
ISBN: 9780131387737
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover:  Your Medical Choices: How to decide what is right for you
By Jerome Groopman & Pamela Hartzband

The essential tools for making our own best medical decisions, cutting through the confusion caused by the health-care system, the media, and gaps in our own reasoning.

Making the right medical choices is harder than ever.  Whether we're deciding to take a cholesterol drug or choosing a cancer treatment, we are overwhelmed by information from all sides: our doctors' recommendations, dissenting...

The essential tools for making our own best medical decisions, cutting through the confusion caused by the health-care system, the media, and gaps in our own reasoning.

Making the right medical choices...

Published: 03/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844577
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Good Health in the 21st Century: A Family Doctor's Unconventional
By Carole Hungerford

' Good Health in the 21st Century shows how you and your family can stay healthy with good dietary practice, exercise, and sensible supplementation.'
WELLNESS

Western nations are worried about the problems of an ageing population. But if we take into account the health trends in younger generations we arrive at a frightening prediction: for the first time in history, we have produced a generation which...

' Good Health in the 21st Century shows how you and your family can stay healthy with good dietary practice, exercise, and sensible supplementation.'
WELLNESS

Western nations are worried about the problems...

Published: 03/01/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921844584
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Disconnect: The Truth about Mobile-phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family
By Devra Davis

EVERYONE KNOWS MOBILE PHONES ARE SAFE.
IF THEY WEREN'T, WE'D ALREADY KNOW
ABOUT IT, RIGHT?

That is perhaps the greatest disconnect of our age.  As research scientists ate now demonstrating, mobile-phone radiation can damage the human body's cells – leading to memory loss, and increased risk of cancer, reduced sperm counts, and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and possibly even...



EVERYONE KNOWS MOBILE PHONES ARE SAFE.
IF THEY WEREN'T, WE'D ALREADY KNOW
ABOUT IT, RIGHT?

That is perhaps the greatest disconnect of our age.  As research scientists ate now demonstrating, mobile-phone...



Published: 28/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640988
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover: The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Manmade Epidemic
By Dan Olmsted & Mark Blaxill

The debate on autism is approaching fever pitch.  From 'refrigerator parents' to vaccines, the cause of what has been dubbed 'the autism epidemic' have been hotly contested.

The debate on autism is approaching fever pitch.  From 'refrigerator parents' to vaccines, the cause of what has been dubbed 'the autism epidemic' have been hotly contested.

Published: 25/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640728
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Boy in the Moon
By Ian Brown

Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can't speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can't continually hit himself. 'Sometimes watching him,' Brown writes, 'is like looking at the man in the...

Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54...

Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640339
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Force: Living Safely in a World of Electromagnetic Pollution
By Lyn McLean

Technology infiltrates our lives so rapidly that few of us stop to consider the potential health implications.  Yet could the technology designed to improve our lives actually be making us sick?

Scientists have long believed that there is a link between health problems and radiation from mobile phones, wireless connections, powerlines, and electronic devices.  Radiation has been linked to...

Technology infiltrates our lives so rapidly that few of us stop to consider the potential health implications.  Yet could the technology designed to improve our lives actually be making us sick?

Scientists...

Published: 31/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921640292
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover: The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting
By Hennezel Marie de

'It's up to us, the baby-boomer generation, to invent a new way of growing old – and paradoxically, this means accepting the ageing process but without becoming 'old'. How do we become the life and soul of the party and not the party poopers? This impetus behind this book is the certainty that there is something in us that never grows old. I like to call it the heart. Not the organ, which clearly...

'It's up to us, the baby-boomer generation, to invent a new way of growing old – and paradoxically, this means accepting the ageing process but without becoming 'old'. How do we become the life and...

Published: 01/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921372896
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Making Babies: Personal IVF Stories
By Theresa Miller
Around 15 per cent of couples in various Western countries suffer from infertility. Every year thousands try IVF and other assisted-reproduction techniques, but only about a third go home with a baby in their arms. IVF now accounts for 3 per cent of all births in Australia, and the numbers are similar in other developed countries.

Making Babies tells the stories behind the statistics, inside the world...

Around 15 per cent of couples in various Western countries suffer from infertility. Every year thousands try IVF and other assisted-reproduction techniques, but only about a third go home with a baby in...
Published: 03/09/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781921215469
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Billings Method: Using the Body's Natural Signal of Fertility to Achieve or Avoid Pregnancy
By Dr Evelyn Billings & Dr Ann Westmore

Wanting a baby?
Not wanting a baby just now?

Nature has provided every woman with a precise signal of her state of fertility, which she can quickly learn to recognise.  This simple fact is the basis of the Billings Method, which has helped millions of woman around the world to tune into their own bodies and achieve healthy, natural fertility control.




Wanting a baby?
Not wanting a baby just now?

Nature has provided every woman with a precise signal of her state of fertility, which she can quickly learn to recognise.  This simple fact is the basis...


Published: 02/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781876026455
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
By Seth Mnookin

In 1998 Andrew Wakefield published a paper containing a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism.  Wakefield based his findings on a study of just a dozen children, and his methods and conclusions immediately came under fire.  The media, however, seized on the story – and so helped launch one of the most devastating health scares of modern times. ...

In 1998 Andrew Wakefield published a paper containing a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism.  Wakefield based his findings on a study of just a dozen children...

Published: 25/01/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863955188
RRP: $32.95
Book Cover:  Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System
By Raj Patel
The hunger of 800 million happens at the same time as another historical first: that they are out-numbered by the one billion people on this planet who are overweight. – Raj Patel

Here's a book that takes Jamie's Dinners, Supersize Me , mangoes in the Arctic Circle and McFatties, and puts them in a blender to make an intoxicating cocktail. Stuffed and Starved takes us into the supermarket aisles...

The hunger of 800 million happens at the same time as another historical first: that they are out-numbered by the one billion people on this planet who are overweight. – Raj Patel

Here's a book that...

Published: 03/09/2007
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781863953986
RRP: $34.95

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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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