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Book Reviews: January 2008

  1. Heavy hands: The Ultimate Exercise System
  2. The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
  3. Children and Trauma
  4. Thin For Life
  5. Your Second Child
  6. The Penguin Guide to Adolescent Behavior


1) Heavy hands: The Ultimate Exercise System

Heavyhands is a new kind of exercise. It claims a higher level of fitness than that produced by any known aerobic exercise. It brings strength plus endurance to all of the muscles. The book is a perfect guide to beginners and also for the world - class athlete. Heavyhands has a great variety of combinations to suit the individual needs of any man or women capable of exercise, even those who are plagued by minor sports injuries.

Authors: Leonard Schwartz
Publishers: Little, Brown and Company
Date of Publication: 1982
No. of pages: 278


2) The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma

This book contains complete information regarding the clinician's use of EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It covers the evolution and structure of EMDR, each of the chapters describes a different type of problem and shows what caused it. The goal of this book is to give good understanding of treatment of EMDR.

Authors: Francine Shapiro and Margot Silk Forrest
Publishers: Basic Books
Date of Publication: 2004
No. of pages: 311


3) Children and Trauma

This book is an invaluable guide for parents of thousands of children traumatized each year by disasters, accidents, or violence. It offers a unique contribution to the literature on traumatized and provides parents with an understanding of the effects of trauma on children and offers concrete and practical ways in which children can be helped to cope and heal.

Authors: Cynthia Monahon
Publishers: Lexington Books
Date of Publication: 1993
No. of pages: 222


4) Thin For Life

Thin for Life is the only book to weave together secrets for permanent weight loss gleaned from the real expert's people who have succeeded in losing weight for good with the latest scientific findings on weight control.

Authors: Anne. M. Fletcher
Publishers: Chapters Publishing Ltd.
Date of Publication: 1994
No. of pages: 352


5) Your Second Child

This book focuses on the special challenges and joys of being parents of being a parent for the second time. It gives a detailed look at the impact of a second child on the family, and discusses the psychological and physical aspects of a second pregnancy and childbirth and offers solid, much-needed information on every aspect of the subject.

Authors: Joan Solomon Weiss
Publishers: A Fireside Book
Date of Publication: 1981
No. of pages: 286


6) The Penguin Guide to Adolescent Behavior

This book offers some invaluable tips to parents who wish to genuinely understand and help their children through the upheavals of adolescence. It is a troubleshooting guide for the parent, providing a checklist of the danger signals that indicates maladjustment in a teenager.

Authors: Sumati Ghosh
Publishers: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1999
No. of pages: 277

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