Product Description: When her mother's MS takes a turn for the worse, aspiring Olympian Joannie Edson moves back to Idaho with her aging horse to be closer to home and family. She has given up everything (career, romance) to pursue her goal of riding for the US Equestrian Team, but now, with no horse to ride and no money to buy or support a young prospect, she finds herself faced with a choice: should she take a chance on a relationship with the attractive stranger pursuing her, or invest her time in training her coach's abused and violent mare? As she explores each option, Joannie finds that a fully lived life is much like the jumping courses she's always ridden, every path bearing obstacles that she will have to clear to find her way forward...read more

Product Description: Based on the popular courses run by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, and written by leading figures working in the field of evidence-based medicine, this workbook provides papers appropriate for the study of mental health.

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This text provides perspectives on all the key issues, with contributions from a variety of public health practitioners, underlining the multi-disciplinary nature of public health practice. Among the topics discussed are: domestic violence, housing, ageing, food transport, smoking and work.

Product Description: Descartes is to blame. For centuries his tag "I think therefore I am" has dominated our notion of ourselves and the world; that the mind is what counts seems to be the message of Cartesianism, the body could fend for itself. What people thought has been central to academic study, what they ate was considered marginal and insignificant...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Women in almost all walks of life have found at some point that their ideas are being stifled and a rise to the top of their profession has been blocked. However there are some who have broken through this glass ceiling, and whose thinking has altered not only their particular field but the way we see the world...read more