A Handbook for Relieving the Discomforts of Pregnancy
A Handbook for Relieving the Discomforts of Pregnancy
Massage is a sensuous, relaxing, and loving treatment that has the added bonus of being especially good for you. It’s the perfect way to reduce stress and promote general well-being. During pregnancy, your body is undergoing many changes, some of them stressful and discomforting. Mother Massage, by licensed massage therapist Elaine Stillerman, is a beautifully illustrated guide to help eliminate some of these adverse effects. Designed to be used either alone or with a partner, Mother Massage provides techniques for a variety of massages, including full body massage, preparation for labor and birthing massage, massage during the postpartum and nursing stages, and infant massage. These techniques are explained in step-by-step, illustrated detail. You’ll also learn special massages for treating such discomforts as:
• Backaches
• Breast Soreness
• Charley Horse and Leg Cramps
• Headaches
• Heartburn
• Fatigue
• Morning Sickness
• Sciatica
• Stretch Marks
• Varicose Veins
• And Many Others
Also included are sections on reflexology, herbal remedies, and nutritional requirements for pregnant and lactating women.
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Author: Elaine Stillerman Publisher: Random House Publishing Group ISBN: 9780307834393 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2013 192 pages
IT’S TIME TO GIVE THOSE SKINNY B!TCHES A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY
‘You’ll be up and running in no time at all’ Grazia
Is there a large arse-shaped dent in your sofa? An eye-wateringly expensive (and rarely used) gym membership burning a hole in your bank account? Does the sight of your wobbly thighs leave you cowering under the duvet?
Then it’s time you face the truth: the only option is to lace up your trainers and hit the ground running.
Funny and brutally honest, Ruth Field and her straight-talking alter-ego The Grit Doctor will give you – yes, you – the push you need to start pounding the pavements and shedding pounds in no time.
*Locate your inner grit and long-lost energy with a completely foolproof beginners’ programme
*Enjoy carbs without guilt with The Grit Doctor’s tasty and nutritious recipes
*Now includes marathon training plan to transform you from casual jogger to elite(ish) athlete
If you want to lose weight, get fit and become and ass-kicking, gets-things-done superwoman, there’s only one thing left to do . . . RUN!
‘Ruth is an inspiring running buddy’ Daily Express
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Author: Ruth Field Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780748131754 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2012 288 pages
Gardening is one of the most popular pastimes, and for many, it serves as one of the primary ways to focus meditation. This ebook contains 52 meditations centered around the garden and aspects of gardening. with a brief meditation, questions for thought and reflection, and a brief prayer.
The meditations include themes and topics including:
Gardens create friendships
Gardens as sacred space
Gardens hold hidden joys
Gardens as holy leisure
Gardens and Sabbath time
Gardens smooth out rough
Gardens recycle life
Author: Delia Halverson Publisher: Dimensions for ISBN: 9780687332137 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2005 113 pages
Chronic joint pain is often associated with rheumatic diseases, but rheumatic diseases can also cause damage to vital organs including the heart. This articles in this issue will cover cardiac involvement in a variety of rheumatic diseases with discussions abotu clinical presentations and mechanistic aspects.
Author: Richard D Brasington Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 9780323296991 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
In light of the experience of the global financial crisis, this book develops concrete recommendations for financial sector reform and regulation in Asian economies aimed at preventing the recurrence of systemic financial crises, improving the ability to manage and resolve crises, managing capital flows and promoting the development of Asian bond markets. The focus of the book is on longer-term structural measures. It explores areas such as the scope for regional monitoring and cooperation; deepening and integration of Asian bond and money markets; liberalization/regulation of capital flows; and issues related to macroprudential oversight, regulatory structure and cooperation as well as the role of state intervention in crisis resolution in the financial sector. The need for and impacts of regulations on innovative financial products and specific investor groups such as hedge funds, ways to reduce systemic risk of pro-cyclicality of regulation and ways to improve the infrastructure and regulatory environment for local currency bond markets are also examined in depth.The book will appeal to public and private finance experts, policymakers and decision makers in governments and banks, think-tanks and students in graduate courses related to financial and economic development.
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Author: Masahiro Kawai; David G. Mayes Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9780857934727 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2012 296 pages
When Heather Toulson returns to her parents’ cottage in the English countryside, she uncovers long-hidden secrets about her family history and stumbles onto the truth about a sixty-year-old murder.
Libby, a free spirit who can’t be tamed by her parents, finds solace with her neighbor Oliver, the son of Lord Croft of Ladenbrooke Manor. Libby finds herself pregnant and alone when her father kicks her out and Oliver mysteriously drowns in a nearby river. Though theories spread across the English countryside, no one is ever held responsible for Oliver’s death.
Sixty years later, Heather Toulson, returning to her family’s cottage in the shadows of Ladenbrooke Manor, is filled with mixed emotions. She’s mourning her father’s passing but can’t let go of the anger and resentment over their strained relationship. Adding to her confusion, Heather has an uneasy reunion with her first love, all while sorting through her family’s belongings left behind in the cottage. What she uncovers will change everything she thought she knew about her family’s history.
Award-winning author Melanie Dobson seamlessly weaves the past and present together, fluidly unraveling the decades-old mystery and reveals how the characters are connected in shocking ways.
Set in a charming world of thatched cottages, lush gardens, and lovely summer evenings, this romantic and historical mystery brings to light the secrets and heartaches that have divided a family for generations.
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Author: Melanie Dobson Publisher: Howard Books ISBN: 9781476746159 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2015 320 pages
In Cheerfulness as a Life Power you will learn just how valuable happiness is. Happy people live longer, they get promoted more often, and they make more money. This book will show you how to be happier in your life, and more importantly, how to use that happiness to be more successful. First comes the happiness and then the success, not the other way around as we so often think.
Through the study of a large variety of musical practices from the U.S.-Mexico border, Transnational Encounters seeks to provide a new perspective on the complex character of this geographic area. By focusing not only on norte?a, banda or conjunto musics (the most stereotypical musical traditions among Hispanics in the area) but also engaging a number of musical practices that have often been neglected in the study of this border’s history and culture (indigenous musics, African American musical traditions, pop musics), the authors provide a glance into the diversity of ethnic groups that have encountered each other throughout the area’s history. Against common misconceptions about the U.S.-Mexico border as a predominant Mexican area, this book argues that it is diversity and not homogeneity which characterizes it. From a wide variety of disciplinary and multidisciplinary enunciations, these essays explore the transnational connections that inform these musical cultures while keeping an eye on their powerful local significance, in an attempt to redefine notions like “border,” “nation,” “migration,” “diaspora,” etc. Looking at music and its performative power through the looking glass of cultural criticism allows this book to contribute to larger intellectual concerns and help redefine the field of U.S.-Mexico border studies beyond the North/South and American/Mexican dichotomies. Furthermore, the essays in this book problematize some of the widespread misconceptions about U.S.-Mexico border history and culture in the current debate about immigration.
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Author: Alejandro L. Madrid Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199876112 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2011 425 pages
Spring 1193
Just returned from the Crusades, brothers Gavin and Will find home changed more than they’d expected – in fact home is a very dangerous place indeed.
Ellie is reluctantly preparing for her wedding to Gavin. He’s not the problem – marriage is. To Ellie, it means a) servitude, b) no independence and c) certain death in childbirth before she’s 18. But marriage, it turns out, is the least of her worries. King Richard has been declared dead and his brother John is claiming the throne. Hartslove castle is attacked on the day of the wedding – and Ellie is kidnapped by one of Prince John’s supporters. Gavin knows he should try to rescue her – but can’t help thinking that a one-armed knight is no use to anyone, especially a beautiful girl like Ellie. It’s left to William and his horse Hosanna to rescue Ellie and prove that King Richard is still alive – but success in both is marred by a tragedy that none of them will ever forget.
The heartbreaking sequel to K. M. Grant’s brilliant debut novel, BLOOD RED HORSE
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Author: K M Grant Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141927671 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2005 256 pages
Christofferson’s gripping novels of medical suspense have drawn favorable comparisons to the work of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Now she returns with a page-turning thriller that explores the cutting edge of medicine–and murder.
It is a new crime for a new century. Biopiracy: the theft of the healing secrets of isolated, indigenous peoples. Rapacious pharmaceutical companies swoop down on remote Third World tribes, steal their folk medicine, native cures, and even human blood, then reap tremendous profits from the patents.
Dr. Jake Scully doesn’t want to think that his employer, Genchrom, is exploiting anyone, let alone killing natives for the unique properties of their DNA, but when he tries to blow the whistle on the company’s criminal activities, he places his own life–and his family–in danger.
At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Author: April Christofferson Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates ISBN: 9781429978828 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2005 336 pages
