Doctors & consultants may be very surprised when they see patients suffering intractable arthritis suddenly beginning to get better. The medical profession knows all too well that anti-arthritic medication does not have this effect. As the days go by the improvement often continues so that drugs can be dispensed with & people lead a normal life. Best-selling author of several books about arthritis Margaret Hills here tells the amazing stories of people who have benefited from her honey & cider vinegar cure. Advice about diet & stress is also included so that readers have very real & practical tools to help them treat their arthritis. Crippled herself with arthritis Margaret Hills used her nurses training & determination to win back her health. Since then her acid-free approach has brought relief to thousands. Her daughter Christine Horner who now runs the Margaret Hills Clinic continues her work. Topics include: arthritis in children; arthritis in adults; a selection of case histories; & the stress factor
- how it affects the body & contributes to arthritis & how it can be alleviated.
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The Treating Arthritis books draw on more than 25 years of experience at the renowned Margaret Hills clinic & have helped hundreds of thousands of people with arthritis. The new edition of this book looks at research which suggests that the Margaret Hills programme is effective in treating arthritis with some patients having impressive improvements after just a few weeks. The link between exceptional stress & arthritis is also explored. Other topics include: pain relief & better mobility medication & side-effects enhanced quality of life new section on troubleshooting which considers situations such as joint pain from other health conditions digestive health arthritis in later life arthritis in children & young people & co-existing conditions such as high blood pressure depression & weight problems. ...

Includes: a wide range of pain-alleviating exercises to practise at home Covers every aspect of back & neck pain Relieve
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One of the most significant works of Western philosophy Humes Treatise was published in 1739-40 before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature & a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence Hume denies the immortality of the soul & the reality of space; considers the manner in which we form concepts of identity cause & effect; & speculates upon the nature of freedom virtue & emotion. Opposed both to metaphysics & to rationalism Humes philosophy of informed scepticism sees man not as a religious creation nor as a machine but as a creature dominated by sentiment passion & appetite. ...

A quiet residential street in south London. A husband & wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated they've been bound & beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called in to investigate the similarities with events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime dispassionately. & as he digs deeper
- as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both his past & his present
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Chil Rajchman a Polish Jew was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 & sent to Treblinka a death camp where more than 750 000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers but Rajchman escaped execution working for ten months under incessant threats & beatings as a barber a clothes-sorter a corpse-carrier a puller of teeth from those same bodies. In August 1943 there was an uprising at the camp & Rajchman was among the handful of men who managed to escape. In 1945 he set down this account a plain unembellished & exact record of the raw horror he endured every day. This unique testimony which has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since has never before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty Treblinka is a memoir that will not be superseded. In addition to Rajchman's account this volume

Includes:: the complete text of Vasily Grossman's ' The Hell of Treblinka' one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful & harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved. Introduction by Samuel Moyn Professor of History at Columbia University & author of A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.

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More than 800 000 people entered Treblinka & fewer than seventy came out. Some have argued fewer were murdered but the evidence for such an unbelievable figure is strong. Hershl Sperling was one who escaped. Why then fifty years later did he jump to his death from a bridge in Scotland? The answer lies in a long-forgotten published account of the Treblinka death camp written by Hershl Sperling himself in the months after liberation & discovered in his briefcase after his suicide. It is reproduced here for the first time. In Treblinka Survivor Journalist & author Mark S. Smith traces the life of a man who survived seven camps & what he had to do to achieve this. Hershls story
- which takes the reader through his childhood in a small Polish town to that bridge is testament to the lasting torment of those very few who survived the Nazis most efficient death factory. The author personally follows in his subjects footsteps from Klobuck to Treblinka to Glasgow.
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Whatever the size of your garden there is a tree shrub or climber just right for it. The Tree & Shrub Expert contains an A-Z guide to over 800 varieties & offers advice on: Choosing buying & planting the right tree or shrub for your garden. How to prune. Feeding mulching & training your plants. Picking plants for ground cover borders & hedges. Using trees & shrubs in the garden. Coping with pests & diseases. ...

The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. Their daughter Francie & their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations & suffering that were the lot of New York's poor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of Francie an imaginative alert resourceful child & of her family. ...

William & his brother are desperate to have a tree house in the grand old tree at the bottom of the garden. Their father has to go away but is determined that the tree house should be built. So every month he sends a parcel home to the boys
- a parcel containing things theyll need for the tree house. But will their father be home in time for Christmas
- in time to join them in the tree house to eat the chestnuts that are growing there.. . Gillian Cross has won many major awards including the Carnegie Medal the Smarties Prize & the Whitbread Award.

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