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The Number 1 Guide to Preventing Skin Cancer: Proven Advice from an Expert

By: Karen M. Ong

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Global Publishing Group: 2015

Seller ID: 003086

ISBN: 1922118605

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

IT'S A SHOCKING FACT 2 in 3 Australians will develop skin cancer! However, it doesn't have to be that way. In this easy-to-read guide International Author, screening specialist and prevention advocate Karen M. Ong shows us how skin cancer affects people of all ages, in all locations and all cultural backgrounds. This book ensures that you and your loved ones have all the tools and information you need to stay safe from the effects of skin cancer without fearing our beautiful Australian outdoor lifestyle. INSIDE, YOU'LL LEARN : ? Are you at risk? Important facts you must know about skin cancer!...
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Understanding and Managing Dyslexia For Dummies

By: Katrina Cochrane and Tracey Wood

Price: $35.95

Publisher: UK, John Wiley & Sons Ltd: 2009

Seller ID: 003631

ISBN: 0470741325

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Dyslexia is a sensitive issue that can be difficult to identify and understand, and even trickier to cope with - but it needn't be something you or your child have to go through alone. Suitable for anxious parents, curious youngsters and adult sufferers alike, this book offers friendly, down-to-earth advice on recognising the signs and symptoms of dyslexia and understanding the best management methods and avenues of support. Understanding & Managing Dyslexia For Dummies covers:* Figuring Out What Dyslexia Is All About* Determining When to Get a Diagnosis* Exploring Your Options for Schools and...
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Girl Stuff: Your full-on guide to the teen years REVISED LATEST EDITION

By: Kaz Cooke

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Australia, Viking: 2013

Seller ID: A1173

ISBN: 067007666X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

With more than 600 pages and heaps of cartoons, Girl Stuff has everything girls need to know about- friends, body changes, shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to eat, moods, smoking, why diets suck, handling love and heartbreak, exercise, school stress, sex, beating bullies and mean girls, drugs, drinking, how to find new friends, cheering up, how to get on with your family, and confidence. Each chapter includes facts, hints, inspiring lists, hundreds of quotes from real girls, and details for over 350 websites, books and other in...
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Girl Stuff for Girls Aged 8-12: Your Real Guide to the Pre-Teen Years

By: Kaz Cooke

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Australia, Viking: 2016

Seller ID: A1174

ISBN: 0143573993

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

"Here's everything you need to know about being a pre-teen, from Kaz Cooke, author of Girl Stuff for teens. * body changes * dealing with friends & bullies * getting confident * first periods * pimples * hair (wherever it is) * phones & being online * what to eat * being fit & healthy * the best books & movies * how to be happy with your own true self * & lots more! Girl Stuff 8-12 fits under your pillow and is written with the help of medical and other experts. PS- This book is for girls aged 8 to 12. Girls 12+ need Girl Stuff- Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years." About the Author: "Kaz Co...
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4 Ingredients Allergies: Wellness Trilogy Part 3

By: Kim McCosker

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, 4 Ingredients: 2013

Seller ID: 001057

ISBN: 0980629446

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

4 Ingredients Allergies was written to satisfy an ever-increasing demand for allergy free recipes. Australia and New Zealand have among the highest prevalence of allergic disorders in the developed world. Allergies are present in almost every school classroom and in 2013, 1 in 10 babies born in Australia will develop a food allergy! 4 Ingredients Allergies was written under the guidance and endorsement of Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia (A&AA) a not for profit organization that works tirelessly to develop guidelines on recognising, managing and the emergency treatment of anaphylaxis in presch...
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4 Ingredients Diabetes: Wellness Trilogy Part 2

By: Kim McCosker

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, 4 Ingredients: 2013

Seller ID: 001056

ISBN: 0980629454

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

4 Ingredients Diabetes is the second release in best-selling author, Kim McCosker's Wellness Trilogy. Always striving to assist people save time and money in the kitchen, McCosker has answered the calls of Diabetes sufferers - now affecting an estimated 246 million people worldwide. This colour book featuring over 60 recipes will offer inspiration and prove that there is an easier way to cook, which is both fresh and delicious! 4 Ingredients Diabetes is an amazing compilation that will motivate all people needing or wishing to follow a no sugar, low GI healthy eating plan, endorsed by Diabetes...
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Type 2 Diabetes for Dummies # Australian Edition

By: Lesley Campbell

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, John Wiley & Sons: 2012

Seller ID: 003625

ISBN: 1118303628

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Learn to live a full and active life with type 2 diabetes Type 2 diabetes is Australia's fast-growing chronic disease, yet it can be prevented with the right diet and regular exercise. Whether you have already been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes or are pre-diabetic and hoping to avoid full-blown diabetes, this easy-to-understand book teaches you how to maintain a healthy lifestyle and good blood glucose control so that you can prevent long-term complications and live a full and active life. An author team of medical professionals, led by Professor Lesley Campbell and Dr. Alan Rubin, offers ess...
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Speak, Move, Play and Learn with Children on the Autism Spectrum: Activities to Boost Communication Skills, Sensory Integration and Coordination Using Simple Ideas from Speech and Language Pathology and Occupational Therapy

By: Lois Jean Brady and America X Gonzalez and Maciej Zawadzki and Corinda Presley

Price: $43.95

Publisher: UK, Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 2012

Seller ID: 000647

ISBN: 1849058725

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

This practical resource is brimming with ideas and guidance for using simple ideas from speech and language pathology and occupational therapy to boost communication, sensory integration, and coordination skills in children on the autism spectrum. Suitable for use in the classroom, at home, and in community settings, it is packed with easy-to-follow, goal-oriented activities and lesson plans centering around arts and crafts, music-making, cookery, sensory activities, and skills for daily living. The activities all use materials and objects which are readily available in the home or classroom, ...
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Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist [used book]

By: Michael J. Fox

Price: $8.00

Publisher: UK, Ebury: 2009

Seller ID: 001599

ISBN: 0091928265

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

'At the turn from my bedroom into the hallway leading to the kitchen there is an old full-length mirror in a wooden frame. I can't help but catch a glimpse of myself as I pass, and turning myself towards the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, slightly stooped, and pinched, would be alarming if it were not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across the face, I would ask the obvious question, 'What are you smiling about?' - but I already know the answer ...it just gets better from here.' Struck with Parkinson's - a debilitating, degenerati...
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Teenage Depression Warning Signs: Practical Guidance and Insights

By: Michelle Ferry

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Three LLLs Success: 2011

Seller ID: 000871

ISBN: 0987191209

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A new book about teenage depression and suicide for parents and families - Produced in collaboration with Youth Focus - Prevention of Youth Suicide and Depression - Explores self-harm, alcohol and drug dependence, isolation, anxiety, depression Recently launched by Mental Health Minister Helen Morton (October 2011), Teenage Depression Warning Signs will help adults, particularly parents and grandparents, as they support children through adolescence. This book is an ideal resource for those who are concerned about whether the teen in their care or close to them is in fact being a 'typical teena...
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My Happy Sad Mummy

By: Michelle Vasiliu

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Australia, Jojo Publishing: 2014

Seller ID: 000536

ISBN: 0987358596

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

My Happy Sad Mummy is an engaging and sensitive picture book. It fills a major gap: explaining to a young child the impact on a parent of a major mental illness such as bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder affects between 1- 2% of the population and can affect young parents in particular as it usually begins in late adolescence. Vasiliu draws from her own experience of bipolar disorder, cleverly and humorously portraying the emotional rollercoaster of this illness, as a young child might perceive it. Using easily understandable images and words, we see 'mummy' through the eyes of the child, an...
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The Death Talker: What We Need To Talk About When Confronting Death

By: Molly Carlile

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, New Holland Publishers: 2016

Seller ID: 004578

ISBN: 174257873X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Since the dawn of time, human beings have been curious about death. Most of us have no real down time to contemplate 'what if this was to happen, or that?' We are all too busy in our day-to-day lives. Often, it's only when death confronts us personally that we give any serious thought to the meaning of our own life and our mortality. The Death Talker offers a common sense approach to having the conversations we will all need to have one day . how to plan a good death and to die well. This book is a practical guide on how to start the difficult conversation of death and identifies a range of op...
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Sometimes Life Sucks: When someone you love dies

By: Molly Carlile

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Australia, Inspired Living: 2010

Seller ID: 9781742371887

ISBN: 1742371884

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A great book for parents and teachers to use with teens struggling with grief and loss. A valuable resource for teenagers who are struggling to cope with some kind of loss or grief, and for the people who love them and want to help. As adults, we are happy to talk about our sex lives in a crowded pub; we're happy to divulge details of our money problems on a mobile phone while on crowded public transport; we easily discuss the intricacies of childbirth to whoever will listen. Yet, we all avoid conversations about the one certainty of human existence: death. Our avoidance of death and grief m...
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The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief: a Step-by-Step Guide to Reducing and Eliminating Chronic Pain

By: Nick Ortner

Price: $19.95

Publisher: USA, Hay House: 2015

Seller ID: 002288

ISBN: 1401945252

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Chronic pain is, sadly, a common phenomenon: the rate at which Australians are suffering from chronic pain has increased annually from 1995 and, in 2007, the total cost of chronic pain in Australia was estimated at $34.3 billion. The normal 'solutions' we've been taught involve seeking out more doctors, surgeries and medications, all of which have a place in healing. But when it comes to chronic pain, conventional medicine isn't getting the job done. In The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief, which builds on the information contained in The Tapping Solution, Nick Ortner presents a startling ...
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Quit Smoking Today Without Gaining Weight: Includes Guided Hypnosis CD

By: Paul McKenna

Price: $29.95

Publisher: USA, Sterling: 2011

Seller ID: 9781402765728

ISBN: 140276572X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Paul McKenna, PhD, has developed a breakthrough system to help people quit smoking. 97% of people who use it do NOT gain any weight when they quit smoking. Already an international bestseller, this book and hypnosis CD has helped people all over the world to change their lives. Through the simple conditioning system revealed in the book and on the accompanying hypnosis CD, Paul McKenna retrains your mind and body so that you no longer crave cigarettes. Stress-busting exercises, visualizations, helpful questions and answers, and a handful of easy-to-follow rules get to the root of cigarette a...
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The Little Book of Calm: Miniature Sized Book

By: Paul Wilson

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Australia, Penguin Books Australia: 2005

Seller ID: 000318

ISBN: 014026065X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Feeling Stressed? Need some help to regain balance in your life? The Little Book of Calm is full of advice to follow and thoughts to inspire. Open it at any page and you will find a path to inner peace. Paul Wilson is known the world over as the 'guru of calm'. His first book, The Calm Technique, is considered one of the most influential in the genre. His second, Instant Calm, was a giant bestseller, translated into twenty languages. The most well-known is the Little Book of Calm, with sales over 3,000,000, it has spent more than two years at the top of the bestseller lists.
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What's Happening to ME? A Guide to Puberty

By: Peter Mayle

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Australia, Pan: 1988

Seller ID: 003002

ISBN: 0330273434

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

A GUIDE TO PUBERTY FROM THE AUTHORS OF WHERE DID I COME FROM? What's an erection? Why is my chest getting bumpy? What's a period? Why is my voice acting so funny? Why do I get pimples? What's masturbation? Why am I getting hairy? Why is mine not like his? What's a wet dream? Enough strange and wonderful things happen to all of us during puberty to fill a book. So here it is - the book that answers some of the big questions, and explains some of the big changes. One look at the illustrations will tell you that this is not a dull medical textbook. But it does present the facts of life ...
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Where Did I Come From? The Facts of Life without any nonsense and with Illustrations

By: Peter Mayle

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Australia, Pan: 1988

Seller ID: 003003

ISBN: 0330273442

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

How do you explain orgasm to a seven year old? How do you explain the process of conception? How much should you tell and what should you skip? And how do you tell it so that it interest your child and doesn't embarrass you? Where Did I Come From? covers all the basic facts from love-making, orgasm, conception and growth inside the womb, through to the actual birth day. It names all the names and shows all the important parts of the body. Where Did I Come From? tells the facts of life as they are - without any nonsense, and in a way that children can understand and parents enjoy. About th...
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Reversing Dyslexia: Improving Learning & Behavior without Drugs

By: Phyllis Books

Price: $31.95

Publisher: USA, Square One Publishers: 2013

Seller ID: 001031

ISBN: 0757003788

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: New

Most people do not realize that dyslexia is more than just a reading problem. It is often accompanied by social, psychological, and even physical issues that can make many everyday tasks seem unmanageable. Whether you suffer from dyslexia yourself or are the parent of a dyslexic child, dealing with the overall challenges of this learning disorder can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, mainstream treatment focuses mainly on compensatory techniques and workarounds, not a cure, leaving dyslexics feeling hopeless and stuck. In her new book, Dr. Phyllis Books offers a new approach to dyslexia and a co...
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Meals That Heal High Blood Pressure: 200 Heart-Healthy Recipes

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Australia, Reader's Digest: 2014

Seller ID: 003529

ISBN: 192208526X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Research confirms that the very best remedy for high blood pressure, better than any pill, is to eat a diet full of fresh produce rich in nutrients and low in sodium. And that's where this cookbook comes in. It is based on DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), the proven, gold-standard eating plan for reducing high blood pressure, which, if left unchecked, can lead to heart attack, stroke and kidney disease. The heroes of this regimen are fruits, vegetables, fat-free or low-fat dairy products, whole grains, seeds and nuts, fish, poultry and legumes. Plus, using ingredients such as he...
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