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  • The Sure Thing

    The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History

    by Nick Townsend ...
    The fascinating true story of how legendary gambler Barney Curley pulled off the greatest betting scams in horse-racing history.‘Calls to mind The Italian Job.’ Independent on Sunday**The bookies always win.But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades.**In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • No Place for a Girl

    How One Female Jockey Broke into an Exclusive Men's Club

    by Nick Townsend, Karen Wiltshire ...
    No Place for a Girl is the little-known but hugely inspirational story of pioneering woman jockey Karen Wiltshire and her fight for acceptance in the male-dominated world of 1970s horseracing.There was a time when female professional jockeys were not welcome in British horseracing. But then one dauntless rider confronted the misogyny, prejudice and bullying she encountered both in the stables ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Health Mini-Guides: Obesity

    Edited by Nick Townsend, Angela Scriven ...
    Series series Public Health Mini-Guides
    Obesity and its linked morbidity and mortality is a significant public health challenge on a global scale and places a burden not only on the individual but also on society as a whole. This Mini-Guide presents key themes relating to this challenge, including the means of measuring obesity, the most recent prevalence and trends, the health consequences and causes of obesity along with approaches to ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.39 USD

  • Audiobook

    Radio Beckett

    Five Full Cast BBC Audio Plays by Nobel Prize winning writer Samuel Beckett

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Narrated by Stephen Rea, Ian Mckellen, Ron Cook, Monica Dolan, Louise Brealey, Brian Protheroe, Stephen Dillane, Stanley Townsend, Nick Underwood, Carl Prekopp ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 59 min

    Broadcaster Matthew Sweet presents a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett, with star casts including Stephen Rea and Ian McKellenSamuel Beckett captured the pathos and irony of modern life like no other dramatist. In the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot (1952), he wrote some of his most absorbing work for radio, among them this sequence of short pieces. Suffused with the same ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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  • Running Free

    A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature

    by Richard Askwith ...
    Shortlisted for the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright prize for nature writingRichard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying fancy kit and racking up extreme challenges, he looked for ways to liberate himself. His solution: running through muddy fields and up rocky fells, running with his dog at dawn, running because he's being (voluntarily) chased by a ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Gravitas

    Communicate with Confidence, Influence and Authority

    by Caroline Goyder ...
    Have you ever wondered why some people earn attention and respect when they speak and others don't? The secret to their success can be summed up in one word: gravitas.In this revolutionary new book, leading voice coach and speaker Caroline Goyder reveals how to speak so others will listen. Through simple techniques to build your natural gravitas, you will learn how to express yourself clearly with ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • Jason and the Gorgon's Blood

    by Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris ...
    Series Book 4 - Young Heroes
    Before he led the Argonauts on the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason saved an ancient city . . .Jason is an orphan training to be a warrior under the instruction of the centaur Chiron. But when wild centaurs steal Chiron's most precious possessions—two jars of Gorgon's blood, one with the power to heal any wound and the other a poison deadly enough to massacre multitudes—Jason must recover the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books). Illustrated

    My Man Jeeves, The Inimitable Jeeves, Carry On, Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves, and Others

    by P.G. Wodehouse ...
    This definitive collection brings together all thirty-three short stories and story cycles featuring one of literature’s most beloved comic duos: the impeccably brilliant valet Jeeves and his well-meaning but hopelessly imprudent employer, Bertie Wooster. Written with P. G. Wodehouse’s unmistakable wit, elegance, and rhythmic prose, these stories represent the height of English comic fiction. ... Read more

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  • Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis

    The evidence-based 7 step recovery program

    by George Jelinek ...
    A practical guide to the successful Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis recovery program for people with MS and their doctors. Thousands of people with MS around the world are now following this preventive medicine approach and living healthy, active lives.Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis is an established and successful program of treatment. Once a diagnosis of MS meant inevitable decline and disability. ... Read more

    $13.79 USD

  • Ketogenic

    The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health

    Edited by Tim Noakes, Tamzyn Murphy, Neville Wellington, Hassina Kajee, Jayne Bullen, Sarah Rice, Candice Egnos ...
    **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Nutrition**Ketogenic: The Science of Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in Human Health presents the most up-to-date and evidence-based science and research available in the field of TCR, with the purpose of training medical and allied healthcare professionals on the effective therapeutic use of low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition in clinical ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Nutritional and Herbal Therapies for Children and Adolescents

    A Handbook for Mental Health Clinicians

    by George M. Kapalka ...
    Series series Practical Resources for the Mental Health Professional
    This volume assists practicing mental health professionals in expanding their knowledge about nutritional and herbal interventions that can be attempted as alternatives to prescription medications. Designed to provide guidance for non-medical caregivers treating children and adolescents who present with emotional and/or behavioral difficulties such as such as depression, anxiety, ADHD, sleep ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • Lifestyle Medicine

    Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease

    Edited by Andrew Binns, Stephan Rossner, Michael Sagner, Garry Egger ...
    Lifestyle Medicine: Lifestyle, the Environment and Preventive Medicine in Health and Disease, Third Edition, is an adjunct approach to health practice that seeks to deal with the more complex modern determinants of chronic diseases—primarily lifestyle and the environments driving such lifestyles—in contrast to the microbial 'causes' of infectious disease. Our lifestyle choices have a profound ... Read more

    $80.99 USD