You Simply Can't Spoil A Newborn by Dorothy Waide
$39.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
The first three months of a newborn baby's life offer new parents a unique opportunity to lay a solid and loving foundation that will last a lifetime. You Simply Can't Spoil a Newborn reveals Dorothy Waide's nurturing approach in calming the most unsettled baby and teaching them to self-settle and rese ...Show more
Bite Back: A Compassionate Guide to Navigating Eating Disorders by Genevieve Mora
$38.00 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
A compassionate guide to navigating eating disorders, for those experiencing them and their loved ones, from someone who has been there. ‘If you’d asked me at 10 what my plans were for the next few years, fighting an eating disorder would not have made the list.’ Gen’s early teenage years were the har ...Show more
This Mortal Coil by Andrew Doig
$24.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR'. 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore'. An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist' Full of curious facts' The Times. Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where di ...Show more
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
$24.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
* THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'If you read just one book about how the modern world is driving us crazy, read this one'TELEGRAPH'This book is exactly what the world needs right now . . . Worth your time and certainly worth your focus'OPRAH WINFREY'A beautifully researched and argued ...Show more
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
An illuminating book on loss by the bestselling author of QUIET Loss and impermanence are inescapable, part of the warp and weft of our lives. They are essential to love, to growth, and to art. And yet, too often, we do not acknowledge loss, let alone honour the experience of it. Illuminating, thoughtf ...Show more
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
$27.99 NZD
Category: Personal Development
Maria Konnikova had never played poker before in her life when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars. But armed with a PhD in psychology and a view of poker as the ultimate master class in dealing with uncertainty, she convinced him to become h ...Show more
Up and Down Mum
$19.99 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
Living with Mum is a bit like a roller coaster ride. At times, she is excited and full of energy, but at others, she is tired and withdrawn. But she's always my mum, and we're sharing the ride. For children who grow up in the care of a parent who has bipolar disorder, life can be filled with anxiety and ...Show more
Every Deep-Drawn Breath: an intensive-care doctor's notes on healing by Wes Ely
$37.00 NZD
Category: Health, Wellbeing, Medicine
A world-renowned critical-care doctor offers hope for patients, their families, and the future of medicine in this timely, urgent, and compassionate work about the devastating and little-known physical and emotional effects of ICU stays. As COVID-19 survivors are discharged from hospitals, grateful to ...Show more
Mental Fitness - Build Your Mind for Strength and Resilience Every Day by Paul Wood
$36.99 NZD
Category: Personal Development
The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental fitness to take on life's challenge. Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a high level of physical fitness, involves hard work, effort, and consistency. Our ...Show more
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
$30.00 NZD
Category: Medicine
The effects of trauma can be devastating for sufferers, their families and future generations. Here one of the world's experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for treatment, moving away from standard talking and drug therapies and towards an alternative approach that heals mind, brain and ...Show more
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
$27.99 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Wellcome Collection Ser.
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mort ...Show more
Expert - Understanding the Path to Mastery by Roger Kneebone
$26.00 NZD
Category: Personal Development
THE EXPERT ON EXPERTS SHOW US WHAT IT TAKES TO MASTER ANY SKILL What could a lacemaker have in common with vascular surgeons? A Savile Row tailor with molecular scientists? A fighter pilot with jazz musicians? In Expert, Professor Roger Kneebone combines his own experiences as a doctor with insights fro ...Show more