A fresh interactive introduction to the basic body parts and movements.

A health book like no other

Wet foot. Dry foot. Low foot. High foot. Early readers should enjoy marching in time to the beat of many, many feet with Dr Seuss's exploration of opposites. This text is a Blue Back Book , which means that is it suitable for adults to share with young children aged three and over.

Analyzes issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more.

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique , this explores the nature of physical suffering.

A phenomenon: a play that has changed thousands of lives and inspired a dynamic new women's movement With a foreword by Gloria Steinem

Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.

Aimed at toddlers, this illustrated, rhyming book covers all parts of the body and what they can do - from eyes and nose to fingers and toes.

Let's talk about POO! Some animals poo on land, some poo in water. Some stop to poo, others do it on the move. I poo and you poo too. Every living thing has to eat, so everybody poos!

Develops the theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. This work offers a reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. It argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start.

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The author citing examples confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

A leading expert of the neurophysiology of emotions, Damasio shows how our consciousness arose out of the development of emotion. At its core human consciousness is consciousness of the feeling and experiencing self.

No matter who you are or where you live ... when you realise The Secret you can have anything your heart desires

We've got ears, and so do you. We can pull them. Can you? We've got hands for clapping, like monkeys, feet for kicking, like zebras, and lots more too.

Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. .

Focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and life-long virginity - in Christian circles from the first to the fifth centuries AD. This book questions how theological views on sexuality and the human body both mirrored and shaped the uneven relationships between men and women.

A story which mixes tenderness, terror, suspense and dark comedy. It is told by Olympia Binewski, a bald albino hunchback dwarf and members of the American carnival family. Al and Lil, proprietors of Binewski's Fabulon, hit upon the idea of breeding their own freak show.

A novel of loss and love, and a philosophical meditation on the body. The novel explores the body as a physical entity and as an image of our innermost selves in order to reveal more about the phenomenon of love.

Isn't it amazing what a body can do? From learning to crawl to clapping their hands, babies are fast learners! This work explores early actions, sensations and emotions in a simple, and accessible way. It includes poetic text and illustrations that capture babies' delight at exploring their own abilities and the world around them.

Bynum examines several periods between the third and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual.