In this latest in their bestselling Beauty Bible series health & beauty experts Josephine Fairley & Sarah Stacey bring together everything a woman needs to know about feeling great looking gorgeous & being fabulous whatever your age. Chapters include guidance on skin hair make-up hands feet & nails sleep exercise & much more. There are top tips for taking off ten years in minutes as well as the secrets of inspirational older women. & of course Jo & Sarah's trademark 'tried & tested' reports on scores of health & beauty products
- reliably tested by over 2 000 women. Packed with insider info from the world's leading experts this is the bible for the older woman showing you how to look feel & be fabulous
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The Antianxiety Food Solution" presents effective natural treatments & dietary changes that can significantly reduce anxiety the most common mental health disorder & improve mood. Author Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist who successfully treated her own anxiety. Many of us don't notice how much the food we eat affects how we feel. As a result changing our diet can actually change our moods dramatically for better or for worse. Readers learn how to discern whether or not they have a deficiency & then discover what to add to their diets & what to remove for reduced anxiety & increased emotional balance. Ideal for children with anxiety & for adults seeking to reduce their dependence on medication or supplement anxiety medication with proper nutrition " The Antianxiety Food Solution" is a must-read for everyone who understands the importance of taking an active role in their mental health." ...

Contemporary society is characterised by its ever-increasing diversity. Having sold over 70 000 copies across its four editions Neil Thompsons classic text remains a trusted introduction to the challenges of promoting social justice & equality. Addressing the ways in which social workers can effectively challenge inequality within society the book explores the many forms of discrimination that can lead to disadvantage disempowerment & oppression. Written with Thompsons inimitable clarity this edition

Features: * Three all-new chapters including a contextual introduction & chapters on sexuality & religious discrimination; * An explicit theory base through extended discussion of the widely used PCS model; * A range of questions for reflection & comprehensive guidance on further reading incorporating books articles & websites. Today good social work practice must be anti-discriminatory. This fully updated edition is therefore an essential read for the next generation of social work students practitioners managers & educators.

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Trusted information & healthy delicious recipes to fight inflammation Low-grade inflammation is a condition inside the body directly related to diet that slowly wears on the body facilitating chronic diseases like arthritis diabetes obesity & heart disease. Also the latest research has detected a correlation between inflammation & conditions like severe allergies asthma & even cancer. Anti-Inflammation Diet For Dummies takes a preventative dietary approach to fighting inflammation by stimulating natural healing with anti-inflammatory foods & supplements. It reveals the causes of inflammation & provides a how-to prescription for eliminating it through diet changes stress reduction & healthy weight loss. * Defines what inflammation is how it develops & its associated risks * Outlines foods & supplements rich in natural inflammation-fighting agents *100 healthy & delicious recipes loaded with anti-inflammatory agents Anti-Inflammation For Dummies is an invaluable resource to help you make smart diet choices by avoiding problematic foods that instigate the inflammatory process & arms you with knowledge & delicious recipes to get on the road to a healthier you. ...

They've spent years at the same high school without speaking a word to one another but that's all about to change. Popular Bliss has the perfect boyfriend the perfect prom dress
- & now the perfect case for revenge after finding her best friend & boyfriend making out in the back of a limo. Bad girl Jolene wouldn't be caught dead at the prom yet (due to her mother's ultimatum) here she is trussed up in pink ruffles wondering whether boot camp might have been the better choice. & shy studious uber-planner Meg ready to stop being a wallflower & start experiencing life firsthand never counted on her date's standing her up & leaving her idling in the car park outside the prom. Get ready for The Anti-Prom Abby Mc Donald's hilarous heart-tugging tale about three girls on one crazy night.
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Is our search for happiness futile? Or are we just going about it the wrong way? In this fascinating new book Oliver Burkeman argues that positive thinking & relentless optimism arent the solution to the happiness dilemma but part of the problem. & that there is in fact an alternative path to contentment & success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoid
- uncertainty insecurity pessimism & failure. Thought-provoking counter-intuitive & ultimately uplifting The Antidote" is a celebration of the power of negative thinking."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb the bestselling author of The Black Swan" & one of the foremost thinkers of our time reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress & tension many things in life benefit from stress disorder volatility & turmoil. What Taleb has identified & calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive & flourish. In " The Black Swan" Taleb showed us that highly improbable & unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer-tainty on its head making it desirable even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resil-ient resists shocks & stays the same; the antifragile gets better & better. What's more the antifragile is immune to prediction errors & protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state why is debt bad for you & why is what we call "efficient" not efficient at all? Why do government responses & social policies protect the strong & hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial & error life decisions politics urban planning war personal finance economic systems & medicine drawing on modern street wisdom & ancient sources. " Antifragile" is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite witty & iconoclastic Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile & only the antifragile will make it. Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty probability & knowledge & has led three careers around this focus as a businessman-trader a philosophical essayist & an academic researcher. Although he now spends most of his time working in intense seclusion in his study in the manner of independent scholars he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is "decision making under opacity " that is a map & a protocol on how we should live in a world we don't underst&. His books " Fooled by Randomness" & " The Black Swan" have been published in thirty-three languages. Taleb believes that prizes honorary degrees awards & ceremonialism debase knowledge by turning it into a spectator sport." ...

Love & loyalty hatred & revenge fear deprivation & political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians Sophocles reputation has remained undimmed for two & a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure faced with a test of will & character risking obloquy & death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone & Electra both have a woman as their intransigent hero. Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family Oedipus determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest & parricide & Electras unremitting anger at her mother & her lover keeps her in servitude & despair. These vivid translations combine elegance & modernity & are remarkable for their lucidity & accuracy. Their sonorous diction economy & sensitivity to the varied metres & modes of the original musical delivery make them equally suitable for reading or theatrical peformance. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

When Antigone the daughter of Oedipus chooses to obey the law of the gods rather than an unconscionable command from Creon ruler of Thebes she is condemned to death. How the gods take their revenge on Creon provides the gripping denouement to this compelling tragedy still one of the most frequently performed of classical Greek dramas. Footnotes. ...

Antigonick is a comic-book presentation of Sophokles Antigone in a new translation by Anne Carson with text blocks h&-inked on the page by Carson & her collaborator Robert Currie. On separate translucent vellum pages the artist Bianca Stone has created stunning drawings to overlay the text. Anne Carson has published translations of the ancient Greek poets Sappho Simonides Aiskhylos Sophokles & Euripides. Antigonick is her first attempt at making translation into a combined visual & textual experience. Sophokles luminous & disturbing tragedy is here given an entirely fresh language & presentation: it will provoke poetry readers classical scholars theatre people & comic-book aficionados. ...