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    Multiple Sclerosis - The Facts

    Multiple Sclerosis - The Facts

    Authors: Bryan Matthews, Margaret Rice-Oxley
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Medicine
    A new edition of this concise book giving an overview of the nature of MS and its possible treatments. It contains fresh material on rehabilitation…… Read More »
    Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill

    Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill

    Author: Jonathan H Pincus
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Psychology / Neurology
    The author of this seminal work is professor of neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and has spent his career working with very violent…… Read More »
    The Antibiotic Alternative

    The Antibiotic Alternative

    Author: Cindy L A Jones
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Alternative Medicine
    A well written overview of ways to fight infection and maintain a healthy immune system. It begins with medical microbiology and moves on to immunology,…… Read More »
    The Healthy Living Space

    The Healthy Living Space

    Author: Richard Leviton
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Wellness / Environmental Health
    Subtitled '70 Practical Ways to Detoxify the Body and Home', this is a blockbuster of a volume. Astonishingly thorough and comprehensive, the book covers all…… Read More »
    Past Lives, Future Healing

    Past Lives, Future Healing

    Author: Sylvia Browne
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Past Lives / Spiritual Healing
    A popular but responsible book about the author's experience of past lives and their influence. She claims that these are mediated by 'cell memory' and…… Read More »
    The Quick-Fix Hanover Detox

    The Quick-Fix Hanover Detox

    Author: Jane Scrivner
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Wellbeing
    A book that would fit conveniently into the pocket for use on the job if required! Amusingly written and full of good advice on preventive…… Read More »
    Natural Medicine First Aid Remedies

    Natural Medicine First Aid Remedies

    Author: Stephanie Marohn
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Natural Health / Alternative Medicine
    An A-Z of self-care treatments for over a hundred common ailments. The condition is listed with a variety of possible approaches (for instance homoeopathy, flower…… Read More »
    Symbol Therapy

    Symbol Therapy

    Author: Ulli Springett
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mind, Body & Spirit / Self Help
    An original method springing from the author's own experience which she has subsequently successfully applied to her clients. The core of the practice is to…… Read More »
    going MAD?

    going MAD?

    Authors: Aine Tubridy, Michael Corry
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Mental Health / Psychiatry
    An unusual book about understanding (and demystifying) mental illness. The authors put consciousness in the central position and present psychiatric labels as understandable responses to…… Read More »
    Eating Disorders: The Facts

    Eating Disorders: The Facts

    Authors: Derek Llewellyn-Jones, Suzanne Abraham
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Health & Medicine
    Fifth edition of a standard work that gives a broad overview of eating disorders and their treatment at a number of levels. The principal conditions…… Read More »
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