Health and Fitness

This is not just another book on stress. It explores a daring and innovative path to accessing the power of consciousness as a more effective and lasting solution to tackle stress and emotional afflictions. Rewiring the Brain is a fascinating jour...

In view of growing complexities in today’s allopathic medical systems, the complementary alternative medicinal healing systems are gaining more acceptance, and prana healing is one of the important ones. It is a ‘no touch, no drugs’ therapy, which...

Ever since the evolution of human civilization, people have developed some or the other self-defense skills. Karate is one such skill that is growing in popularity with the passing of years. But unfortunately, only few are acquainted with the true...

Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don't get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep - it plays a crucial role in our health and wellbeing. References to sleep abound in literature and ar...

Compiled from select essays presented at the two-day conference on Health Policy in India by the Centre for Public Policy and Governance in July 2022, Swastha Bharat and India's National Health Policy: How far are we from Universal Access? is a st...

The new millennium has ushered in a lot of hope and enthusiasm for creation of a new life order where, besides a longer life span, human beings would be interested in quality and fullness in their lives. This would mean stress management, which is...

he book tries to find out the relation between yoga and mental health which in turn relates to psychotherapy in philosophical point of view. It tries to define the concept of mind in view of philosophy of yoga and psychotherapy. It strives to sear...

Eating a nutritious diet, taking healthy drinks, keeping hygienic environment, exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy weight, getting eight hours of sleep, taking necessary vitamins, balancing our hormones and visiting our doctor for regular ...

"The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot." Swami Vivekananda's interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras delves into ancient wisdom, encapsulating the s...

Yoga therapy holds the key to effectively addressing stress and lifestyle diseases. Conventional medicine is useful for alleviating symptoms, but yoga therapy that is grounded in traditional theory identifies and addresses causes deeper than the p...

About the Book Get a handle on your diabetes and get on with your life If you're a teenager who has Type 2 diabetes, you're not alone. More and more people your age are being diagnosed with Type 2-and most of them also struggle with their diabetes...

About the Book The perfect gift for every man over 40.-Michael Gurian ""Rich with solutions to becoming a whole man.""-Warren Farrell, Ph.D., author of Why Men Are the Way They Are ""In The Whole Man Program, Jed Diamond treads fearlessly into the...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones. Care instru...

A comprehensive textbook covering fundamentals of psychology and its application and usage in sports and related activities. Sports Psychology is based on the premise that one's participation and performance in sports is as much psychology orient...

About the Book Popularized by Michael Pollan in his best-selling In Defense of Food , Gyorgy Scrinis's concept of nutritionism refers to the reductive understanding of nutrients as the key indicators of healthy food--an approach that has dominated...

About the Book This title is a collection of tips, tricks, and tactics featuring top golfers Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Ernie Els and many more. It includes professional advice on swing and technique, covering the long and short game, putting, ge...

About the Book Steeped in archaic and narrow colonial attitudes towards people of 'unsound mind', the discourse on mental health in India, as also the public apparatus dealing with it, are rigid, exclusionary and deeply gender insensitive. Interro...

Despite India's rapid response to economic liberalization and impressive growth indicators since the 1990s, child malnutrition in the country has remained stubbornly high. Indeed, per capita calorie intake has declined, presenting a challenging sc...

This stimulating new book is the eagerly awaited second edition of an extremely popular and well-received textbook. Written by Martin Eastwood. well respected internationally in nutritional sciences. this important new edition provides students wi...

Yoga is a well-established ancient Indian system that not only keeps our body, mind and soul healthy but also provides relief in various diseases, particularly in women and enhances sex power of both men and women. People are becoming more and mor...

It’s not possible to do less than your best. If you’re smoking, or are addicted to prescription opioids, you’re addicted for very good reasons. Smoking allays anxiety, provides social contact, fills up voids in our lives and enables us to belong t...

Highway to Health is a journey of exploration. It maximizes our own healing abilities of identifying attitudes, beliefs and opinions that impact our health. It continues the journey begun by Love Your Disease – It’s Keeping You Healthy. We learn h...

Teenagers are young boys and girls in the age group of 13 to 19. It is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development occurring between puberty and adulthood. The period of adolescence is most closely associated with the teenage ye...

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the "final, crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution" by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advocates a Darwinian bottom-up approach that treats consciou...

Cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBTs) are foundational to sport psychology. The majority of the psychological techniques employed by sport psychologists in their work with athletes stem from CBTs. However, there is a knowledge gap concerning what...

Public health has always been central to the population's health and wellbeing, and people working in public health come from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. This practical and accessible book maps out comprehensively the range of exc...

Motor skill acquisition and athlete development practices are rapidly evolving. Positioned at the forefront of this evolution, the constraints-led approach encourages practitioners to consider the athlete as a whole person, with unique traits, abi...

This book will inspire the next generation of social work and human service practitioners to integrate research into their everyday social justice practice. Through highlighting the centrality of values to the task of research and the possibilitie...

In recent years, more students have chosen to study sport and exercise psychology with a view to building careers as applied practitioners. While sport and exercise psychology master's graduates leave university with the necessary theoretical know...

The Recovery Through Activity handbook offers an occupation-centred treatment programme and intervention, rooted in occupational therapy, and underpinned by the Model of Human Occupation. This valuable resource contains comprehensive evidence rega...

Many sport and performance psychologists worldwide practise cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) as a therapeutic and applied practice approach. But no textbook currently offers a blueprint to understand and use CBT in sport and performance settings....

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on issues that can compromise the welfare of athletes at all levels of sport and on the approaches taken b...

Contemporary sport business is international. From global sport competitions and events, sponsorship deals and broadcasting rights to labour markets and lucrative flows of tourists, anybody working in sport business today has to have an internatio...

This book offers a thorough and accessible look into the importance of recovery in both staying healthy and performing well, and highlights the detrimental effects of underrecovery on physical and mental health. Internationally renowned experts fr...

This fascinating book offers a pathway for the NHS to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support.In an era of increasing demand and dwindling resou...

A Constraints-Led Approach to Baseball Coaching presents a new approach to baseball coaching and practice. Applying a CLA to the player development process across the skill spectrum from the beginners to elite, this book uses practical examples to...

The best-selling, newly updated occupational therapy textbook Documentation Manual for Occupational Therapy, Fifth Edition, is made for students and early-career practitioners learning the critical skill of documentation.

This textbook provides practical guidance to enable health professionals to support survivors of sexual violence. It gives insight into the complex and wide-ranging nature and experience of sexual violence, barriers to disclosure, and explores the...

From the Back CoverThis book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of digital phenotyping and mobile sensing for studying human behavior and planning innovative e-healthcare interventions. The respective chapters, written by authoritative...

Nutrition for Dance and Performance is the first complete textbook written by an experienced dietitian specialising in the field of dance nutrition. It seeks to provide both dancers-in-training and instructors with practical advice on dance nutrit...

Designed for professionals and aspiring professionals in public policy, public health, and related programs, Public Health Leadership illustrates the complexity of contemporary issues at the intersection of public health and healthcare and the com...

Relevant for experienced and emerging social work and human service practitioners alike, this book explores the uniquely challenging, yet seemingly ubiquitous issue of youth violence. It provides an authentic and accessible discussion of the theor...

Das Bogenschie en ist in den letzten Jahren fast schon eine Trend-Sportart geworden. Gerade der Gewinn der Silbermedaille durch Lisa Unruh bei den Olympischen Spielen 2016 in Rio lenkte das Interesse vieler Menschen auf diese faszinierende Sportar...

SILDENAFIL belongs to the group of medicines called phosphodiesterase type-5 (PDE 5) inhibitors primarily used to treat erectile dysfunction (impotence) in adult men. Additionally, SILDENAFIL may also be used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertensi...

CANNABIS ist in unseren Breitengraden als Rauschmittel bekannt, dabei hat es medizinisch einen hohen Nutzen. Einige Substanzen in Haschisch und Marihuana haben erstaunliche medizinische Wirkungen. Aus diesen Gründen wird Hanf auch in der Medizin ...

Diese revolutionäre GPS-Schulung zeigt gerade GPS-Einsteigern praxis- und modellbezogen, was am GPS-Gerät und PC zu tun ist. Logisch aufgebaut, Schritt für Schritt klar und leicht verständlich erklärt, mit unzähligem Bildmaterial untermalt, ...

Der Edge + Du = Echte Freunde Glaubst Du nicht? Dann ist dieses Buch genau das Richtige für Dich. Locker und einfach beginnen wir die Bedienung und Einstellungen des Edge Explore in seiner Funktion als Fahrradtacho zu entdecken und lernen die Zus...

長穗劍是武術項目傳統器械中的一種，我們也可以把它認為是劍術運動中一種表現形式，特點在於劍穗要隨著劍來舞動。在古代，長穗劍在實戰中可以通過長穗的飛舞來迷惑對手，或用劍穗來攻擊對方。而現在的武術運動中長穗劍主要是通過舞動長穗來增加劍術運動的感染力以及體現它的藝術魅力。本書所介紹的"長穗劍"為張君的父親張學祿先生親自教導傳授，在動作的編排上以武術的精神、氣勢、身法為主體，融入了舞蹈翻轉的一些動作，全套動作行雲流水、舒展大方，真正體現了力與美的結合。為了保留與推廣"長穗劍"的套路，現將與北京電視台...