Libraries for Health and Wellbeing

Restore strength and balance to your everyday movement with 62 functional exercises, targeted routines, and three four-week fitness programmes from exercise guru Joshua Kozak. Make 50 the new 40! 'Stay Fit for Life' empowers you to continue to move with the ease and efficiency of youth when perfo...

When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the women I've ever met,' Dan told a friend, 'she's the first one who felt like family.' But while preparing for the birth of their first child at Christmastime, tragedy struck. ...

Claire Eastham, a twenty-something living in London and working in her dream job, has a seemingly perfect life - except for her social anxiety. Combining honest personal insights, humour and practical advice, this book explains what anxiety is, why it happens, and how to survive it.

In 'Eat to Beat Disease', pioneering research doctor William Li explains the science of healing and disease prevention - from cancer to diabetes - with specific advice on the surprising foods that trigger the body's newly-discovered defence systems.

For friends and family members of people with dementia, understanding the condition and coping with the impact it has on their lives can be extremely challenging. This book explores each stage of the journey with dementia and explains not only how it will affect the person with the condition, but...

Pregnancy loss can leave us with many unanswered questions, and knowing where to find answers is not always clear. This book is for you if, like me, you've been affected by pregnancy loss - currently or in the past. You might have had an early or late miscarriage, molar pregnancy, ectopic pregnan...

Covering everything from the menstrual cycle to sexting and even cyber-bullying, this visual guide to puberty and adolescence is a must-read for all parents and tweens embarking on those scary teenage years. It covers contemporary issues such as internet safety, whilst also tackling key topics su...

This book gives the basic information needed to understand coronary heart disease and, most essentially, how to deal with it.

Verbal dyspraxia is a widespread, specific, severe speech disorder found in children, which prevents the brain from getting the correct messages to the muscles in and around the mouth, which in turn affects the ability to make intelligible speech. The outcome can be traumatic for all and involves...