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Book Cover:  Understanding Depression
Published: 06/03/2006
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742283241
Book Cover: The Complete Guide to Sports Injuries
Published: 20/09/2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399529542
RRP: $35.00
Book Cover:  How Children Experience Trauma And How Parents Can Help Them Cope
By Meg Fargher & Helen Dooley

For a parent, there are few things more frightening than the thought of one's child or a close family member becoming the victim of trauma. How do I help them cope? Can I help them cope? What if I'm not even able to cope myself? These are some of the automatic responses that could flash through a parent's mind at the prospect of having to deal with an unexpected, painful or traumatic experience, or...

For a parent, there are few things more frightening than the thought of one's child or a close family member becoming the victim of trauma. How do I help them cope? Can I help them cope? What if I'm not...

Published: 23/05/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143528111
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Relief from Snoring and Sleep Apnoea: A step-by-step guide to quiet
By Tess Graham

Sleepless nights are a common curse yet many people think snoring and sleep apnoea are things you just put up with, whether you're the partner or the sufferer. But if left untreated, these sleep disorders can lead to poor concentration and drowsiness, memory problems, impaired work performance, relationship breakdowns, irritability, and even high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes.

Sleepless nights are a common curse yet many people think snoring and sleep apnoea are things you just put up with, whether you're the partner or the sufferer. But if left untreated, these sleep disorders...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742535647
Book Cover:  Concise Guide to Medicines and Drugs
By RACGP

Your essential quick-reference to more than 2,500 prescription and over-the-counter drugs from Australia's leading association of medical practitioners, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. Revised and updated, with over 20 new articles, including botulinum toxin (botox), this jargon free pocket guide provides all the vital information you need to use medication safely and effectively...

Your essential quick-reference to more than 2,500 prescription and over-the-counter drugs from Australia's leading association of medical practitioners, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners...

Published: 05/03/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781740336963
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Back Pain
By Jason Highsmith & Jovanka Jo Milivojevic

Leave back pain behind.

For the millions of back pain sufferers, the causes can be numerous, making the search for relief frustrating and complex. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Back Pain and its expert authors explain the many causes of back pain and provide the best methods and techniques for relief and prevention of back pain and maintaining a healthy back.


Leave back pain behind.

For the millions of back pain sufferers, the causes can be numerous, making the search for relief frustrating and complex. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Back Pain and its expert...

Published: 08/03/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781615640683
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fibromyalgia Second Edition
By Lynne Matallana & Laurence A Bradley

Cutting through the history and medical jargon found in more exhaustive and incomprehensible reference books, this guide focuses on the most important things readers need to know in order to effectively understand and manage fibromyalgia, especially important now, with 22 new fibromyalgia-fighting drugs on the market. This new edition teaches readers how to:

Communicate better with doctors and healthcare...

Cutting through the history and medical jargon found in more exhaustive and incomprehensible reference books, this guide focuses on the most important things readers need to know in order to effectively...

Published: 27/02/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592578337
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running Injury-Free
By Coach Damon Martin
More than half of all runners in the U.S. are sidelined at least once a year because of injury. Many others run through the pain that starts to surface as they age-pain that results from years of bad posture, joint and muscle stiffness, poor running mechanics, and wearing the wrong shoes.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running Injury-Free provides readers with a holistic approach to preventing injuries...

More than half of all runners in the U.S. are sidelined at least once a year because of injury. Many others run through the pain that starts to surface as they age-pain that results from years of bad posture...
Published: 17/04/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781592577330
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover:  Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide
By Pamela Miles
An illuminating guide to one of the fastest-growing spiritual healing practices in the world and an essential tool for anyone ready to bring healing into his or her life.

Perhaps the gentlest healing therapy in the world, Reiki originated in early twentieth-century Japan. In this indispensable guide to Reiki, one of the foremost experts traces the origin and development of the practice, detailing how...

An illuminating guide to one of the fastest-growing spiritual healing practices in the world and an essential tool for anyone ready to bring healing into his or her life.

Perhaps the gentlest healing therapy...

Published: 04/08/2008
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781585426492
RRP: $24.95
Book Cover: A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever
By Marianne Williamson

For so many people, whether your addiction is to a substance or merely to a certain way of thinking or acting, a profound humbling occurs when you realise that your problem is bigger than you are. The terror of realising, even dimly, that you have no control over a self-destructive pattern of behaviour–that as much as you would want to, you simply cannot stop – can mark a crucial turning...

For so many people, whether your addiction is to a substance or merely to a certain way of thinking or acting, a profound humbling occurs when you realise that your problem is bigger than you are. The...

Published: 15/10/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781401921538
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Relief from Snoring and Sleep Apnoea: A step-by-step guide to quiet restful sleep and better health through changing the way you breathe.

Sleepless nights are a common curse yet many people think snoring and sleep apnoea are things you just put up with, whether you're the partner or the sufferer. But if left untreated, these sleep disorders can lead to poor concentration and drowsiness, memory problems, impaired work performance, relationship breakdowns, irritability, and even high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes.

Sleepless nights are a common curse yet many people think snoring and sleep apnoea are things you just put up with, whether you're the partner or the sufferer. But if left untreated, these sleep disorders...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format:
ISBN: 9780670076499
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries
By Molly Caldwell Crosby

'Riveting storytelling . . . The remarkable human connection Crosby brings to this scientific oddity helps enlighten readers about a pandemic forgotten in the shadow of the contemporaneous Spanish flu and till now memorializes only in Oliver Sacks's Awakenings.' – Publishers Weekly

'Riveting storytelling . . . The remarkable human connection Crosby brings to this scientific oddity helps enlighten readers about a pandemic forgotten in the shadow of the contemporaneous Spanish flu...

Published: 18/05/2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425238738
RRP: $19.95
Book Cover:  Cancer: Fight it with the Blood Type Diet
By Dr Peter J. D'adamo
America's most feared health problem just got dealt a major blow. Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of the Blood Type Diet which has forever changed the way people approach health, now brings readers a targeted plan for fighting cancer. This volume of Dr. D'Adamo's Health Library has specific tools, not available in any other book, for preventing, treating, and reversing some of the many complications...
America's most feared health problem just got dealt a major blow. Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of the Blood Type Diet which has forever changed the way people approach health, now brings readers a...
Published: 24/10/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425200070
RRP: $17.95
Book Cover:  Diabetes: Fight it with the Blood Type Diet
By Peter J D'Adamo
America's fastest-growing health problem just got dealt a major blow. Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of the Blood Type Diet, which has forever changed the way people approach health and weight loss, now brings readers a targeted plan for fighting diabetes. This volume of Dr. D'Adamo's Health Library has specific tools, not available in any other book, for preventing, treating, and reversing some...
America's fastest-growing health problem just got dealt a major blow. Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, the creator of the Blood Type Diet, which has forever changed the way people approach health and weight loss...
Published: 26/09/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780425201053
RRP: $12.95
Book Cover:  Remembering Ritalin: A Doctor and Generation Rx Reflect on Life and P   sychiatric Drugs
By Larence H Diller

In 1998, Dr. Lawrence Diller's controversial bestseller Running on Ritalin sparked a national debate about the ADHD diagnosis and the prescribing of drugs to our nation's kids. Today, Dr. Diller provides a revealing and equally controversial look at the long-term outcomes.

Revisiting former patients, who are now in their twenties, Dr. Diller takes a fresh look at the questions that led him to write...

In 1998, Dr. Lawrence Diller's controversial bestseller Running on Ritalin sparked a national debate about the ADHD diagnosis and the prescribing of drugs to our nation's kids. Today, Dr. Diller provides...

Published: 25/07/2012
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399537486
RRP: $29.99
Book Cover:  Reading by the Colours
Published: 29/07/2005
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399531569
RRP: $29.95
Book Cover:  Nonverbal Learning Disorder: Understanding and Coping with NLD and
By Rondalyn V Whitney

A special-needs guide that 'comes to the rescue' (Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-Sync Child ) of those who struggle with an increasingly common condition.

Millions of children suffer from Nonverbal Learning Disorder, a neurological deficit that prevents them from understanding nonverbal cues like tone of voice and facial expressions. Though they can be exceptionally bright and articulate...

A special-needs guide that 'comes to the rescue' (Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-Sync Child ) of those who struggle with an increasingly common condition.

Millions of children suffer from...

Published: 16/01/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780399534676
RRP: $16.95
Book Cover: The Divided Self
By R D Laing

'Laing challenged the psychiatric orthodoxy of his time … an icon of the 1960s counter-culture'   The Times

'Laing challenged the psychiatric orthodoxy of his time … an icon of the 1960s counter-culture'   The Times

Published: 05/03/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141189376
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Doctoring the Mind: Why Psychiatric Treatments Fail
By Richard P Bentall

Why is the Western world's treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK?

In Doctoring the Mind, leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall reveals the shocking truths behind the system of mental health care in the West. With a heavy dependence on pills and the profit they bring...

Why is the Western world's treatment of mental illness so flawed? Who really benefits from psychiatry? And why would a patient in Nigeria have a much greater chance of recovery than one in the UK?

In Doctoring...

Published: 09/07/2010
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141023694
RRP: $26.95
Book Cover:  Understanding Depression
One in five Australians will experience clinical depression at least once in their life, and each year ten million prescriptions are written for antidepressants.

Depression is devastating not only for patients but also for their families and friends. This book provides a unique insight into this pervasive illness, and includes frank and moving stories from both sufferers and their carers.

One in five Australians will experience clinical depression at least once in their life, and each year ten million prescriptions are written for antidepressants.

Depression is devastating not only for...

Published: 06/03/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141004938
RRP: $29.95

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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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