Ear infections need to be treated with antibiotics. Newborns & infants should be bathed daily. New parents are deluged with advice on how to care for their babies. This book explores common baby health myths--in areas such as feeding, sleeping, toilet training, & illness--to help them separate baby facts from baby fiction. ...

The first two years are brimful of opportunities for movement & play to ensure the optimal development of baby's brain & limbs, senses & reflexes, social & language skills, & feelings & thought processes. This guide enables you to make the most of those vital early-life experiences through brain & body gym. ...

Pink used to be Anna's favourite colour. Just yesterday, she was a single, happening thirty-seven year old event planner. Now, she's scheduled to marry the handsome, successful, & very appropriate Ross Davis in six months. But, instead of a fabulous rooftop apartment & fabulous clothes, all she has is a nasty case of morning sickness. ...

In the sixth millennium BC, settlers on the banks of the Tigris & Euphrates rivers created the world's first cities. In doing so, they wrote the opening chapter of the history of human civilization as we know it. Paul Kriwaczek tells their extraordinary story. ...

Powerful portrayal of life for West Indian youths in London in the early 1980s. DJ for Brixton reggae sound system ' Ital Lion Sound', Blue (Brinsley Forde) is getting ready for the local sound system showdown with rival crew, Jah Shaka. But as the day of the competition approaches, Blue suddenly sees his life falling apart. After losing his job, he's beaten up by the police on a trumped-up charge, & then discovers that all of his sound equipment has been destroyed by local white residents, hostile to his music. Tired of having to deal with the constant daily pressures of racial-hatred & intolerance, Blue finally decides to take matters into his own hands, & strikes out at his oppressors. ...

Translated from the Russian, this razor-sharp satire on consumer culture, Russian style, follows the irresistible rise of a Moscow advertising copywriter, who specialises in adjusting Western adverts to the Eastern mentality & selling Pepsi, Seven-up, Gucci, Mercedes & Reebok to the rising middle class. ...

This collection of weird & wonderful postcards shows babies as never seen before. Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in the cabbage patch, sit atop clouds, & ride in zepplins. They play instruments, drive automobiles, fly in balloons, harvest the fields; an anarchistic world of baby heaven. ...