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List Price: £29.99
Our Price: £23.80
Author:
John Guillebaud
By Churchill Livingstone
 The bible of contraception. Too expensive., 2001-12-11
This is a must have if you are a GP. It answers all those niggling questions that your patients ask you, and that you ask yourself - what else do you need?...
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £1.73
Author:
Max Pemberton
By Hodder & Stoughton General
Thought-provoking, emotional and funny, 2009-01-02
In short, this is the best book I've read in a long time.
The author has an ability to switch flawlessly between great humour and very serious, thought-provoking concepts.
It's bascially a years worth of intense emotions compacted into 300 pages, and it hits you hard.
I'd reccomend it to anyone who has applied to do medicine, or is at medical school already.
List Price: £9.99
Our Price: £4.79
Author:
Caroline Myss PhD
By Bantam Books
What sets Anatomy of the Spirit apart is Carolyn Myss's ability to blend diverse religious and spiritual beliefs into a succinct discussion of health and human anatomy. For example, when describing the seven energy fields of the human body, she fuses Christian sacraments with Hindu chakras and the Cabbala's Tree of Life. Fortunately, Myss is a skilled writer as well as researcher, able to ground her extensive spiritual and religious discussions by using real-life stories and a tight writing style. Those who are squeamish about the notion of biography affecting biology will find this book a struggle (in one chapter, Myss links pancreatic cancer with a man's refusal to unburden his life and start fulfilling his dreams). Many, however, hail Myss for creating a valuable contribution to the ongoing exploration of spirituality and health. --Gail Hudson
Superb, 2008-12-14
A superb book......a concise explanation of the mind body spirit connection, how we create dis-ease within ourselves. Stages of life and rites of passage are linked in with their respective energy centres which Myss compares to 'hard-drives'. Myss also provides a load of real life examples.....A must Read!
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Author:
Thomas Bartram
By Robinson Publishing
A very useful reference book, 2008-04-06
I'm a home herbalist and find this book very useful as a reference book when making up recipes. No matter what else I'm reading up on I tend to refer back to this book as a source of good, sound information.
List Price: £15.00
Our Price: £9.96
Author:
Felicity Taylor, Rosalie Hutton, Glenn Hutton
By Learning Matters Ltd
 OK-ish, 2008-08-17
I found the first section helpful, applying for Graduate Entry by myself means I haven't been told some of the things that I'm sure those applying straight from college will have about personal statements etc.
The questions were however too few and disproportionately difficult; though I guess being overprepared is better than under. There were also 3 errors (that I picked up on; there may in fact be more) but they were quie obvious ones so don't really impede on your learning.
Worth the £10 I paid just to feel a bit more prepared but not great.
List Price: £7.99
Our Price: £2.61
Author:
Anthony Stevens
By Oxford Paperbacks
An exellent starting point., 2004-11-10
With so many "introduction" books flooding the market these days it can be difficult to know where the best place is to even start when interested in difficult subject. In my experience it has been the Very Short Introduction series that offers the most effective presentation of key ideas to particular thinkers. The modesty of these books (unwilling to claim that they are going to introduce you to anything more than an absolute basic) is not to be misunderstood, this series is far more effective than Icons more popular Introducing... series, there are no cartoons here and it's written in a traditional chapter, sub-section style of an academic text book. The books though are so readable and clear, there is a totally unpretentious quality to them and clear examples and elaborations of key ideas. I read the Introducing Jung sometime ago and it sparked an interest, I even bought some of his books but still I found them difficult to grasp, this book however left a much clearer imprint of Jungian ideas and I can now tackle some of his original works. The series only drawback is it lacks some topics available in icons range, I would dearly love to see a Very Short Introduciton to Lacan, or Levi-Strauss, hopefully in yhe near future. I whole heartedly recommend these books, you learn more as the 150 so pages are pretty much text instead of drawings and text bubbles and yet the readability means while they take more time to just read through (most say they read an Introducing book in an hour, it might take you two or three to read these) you actually grasp the ideas more quickly.
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