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The author of this book had been for several months in India studying the Indian constitutional problem when the Cripps Mission arrived. At Sir Stafford Cripps’ request, Professor Coupland joined his staff, and this book is the result of close personal observation of the Mission at work, reinforced...

“Louis Fischer, famous international reporter, was permitted a week in the guest house near Gandhi’s headquarters, and daily interviews with the great Indian leader. He kept virtually a stenographic report of his conversations, livened with personal comments, swift pen pictures of Gandhi and his...

I am a fat girl who went from avoiding exercise to enjoying it. I'm not a doctor or a health care professional. I'm just someone who struggles with weight and who made a few revelations about exercise. I'd like to share them with you.

A new approach to using walking to heal emotional trauma and bring forth optimal mental functioning • Explores why and how we carry emotional wounds, and how they can be healed and resolved • Shows how walking stimulates both sides of the brain to promote and restore mental health •...

If you’ve experienced loss, you may feel intense emotional or even physical pain. In fact, it’s not uncommon for grieving people to experience depression, anxiety, fatigue, and a variety of other physical, mental, and spiritual symptoms. If you’ve tried other ways to move beyond your loss but...

This ingenious book uses the postures and movements of zoo animals to teach yoga movements to children. The first part of the book covers theoretical and practical information for parents and teachers working with yoga. Part two takes readers to every part of the zoo, from the insect and reptile houses...

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated author chronicles navigating the traditional western medical system during his wife’s battle with a brain aneurysm.   Brainstorm is the candid and powerful memoir of a couple’s harrowing experience of an aneurysm and their road to recovery. It is a journey of love,...

During a routine physical in 2004, Danielle Grabol was given an ultimatum: get your act together and lose weight or prepare yourself for a bleak future. Losing her breath while walking up a flight of stairs, Danielle realized that her health was on a downward spiral…and it was time to make a serious...

Using words and pictures, this book demonstrates how to do easy yoga poses that anyone can accomplish without the necessity of special yoga apparel. Enjoy the benefit of soft stretches and relaxing movements right at your seat. It's easy! Anyone can do it!

Train like an animal…to move like a human… Animal Moves is a groundbreaking new workout program that utilises the functional and primal movements of the animal kingdom as inspiration for an exercise regimen that will have you the king or queen of the jungle in no time.  With the...

I am a professional strength coach and not a doctor or physical therapist. The things I say here are my own opinion and should not substitute (and is not meant as a substitute) for what your health care person is telling you. This is a no nonsense book of exercise suggestions the author used...

Simply breathing oxygen while exercising is an inexpensive and effective way to deliver more oxygen to the body and thereby improve mental and physical health. Developed in the late 1960s by Professor von Ardenne, EWOT is simple and profound in its effects for optimizing the health benefits from even mild or moderate exercise. You're going to want to 'EWOT'.

A word buffet is what you will receive when you buy this book. The entire book series are fast paced short stories which combines fiction characters and real life Wellness journeys. This combination is sure to excite, entertain and inform you.

A powerful yet simple guide to techniques that harness the power of spinal decompression therapy to heal your spine and end your lower back pain. The techniques are simple, gentle, effective, and free. Do them anywhere, any time, using common apparatus found at home, at work, or in public. The guide...