What disease makes your eyes bleed? Why can't astronauts eat beans before a space flight? Which part of your brain makes you throw up? This title provides the answers to these science related questions and more.

'A major event in the cultural history of the modern era ... beautifully written, rich in insights, and a pleasure to read. A most absorbing and illuminating work of scholarship.' - Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute

Exploring the tensions between women's lived bodily experiences and the cultural meanings inscribed on the female body, this volume----complete with editors' introduction----includes classic and contemporary essays on rape, pornography, eroticism, anorexia, body building, menstruation, and maternity, and challenges racial, class, and sexual categories.

A celebrity physiologist shares his stepbystep methods for the natural relief of chronic pain throughout the body, with advice on relieving such ailments as sore knees, weak ankles, shin splints, back pain, and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Reprint.

Carol is dissatisfied with her married life. Realisation that her husband Dan is not the man for her has come too late and insult follows injury as Dan's drinking problem gives way to a fervour for Alcoholics Anonymous. One evening while Dan is out, Carol discovers something entirely unexpected about herself that leads her into uncharted waters.

Following the response to Belly Button (Round) -a song from her Grammy-nominated book/CD, Sandra Boynton further contemplates this subject. Featuring a beachful of bare-bellied hippos - including one tiny baby who can only say Bee Bo - this book, a part of the Boynton on Board series, provides giggly, read-aloud fun.

Presents an account of obesity that is suitable for girls and women who have a love/hate relationship with food and their bodies, and those who has knowingly (or unconsciously) used food to try to fill the hole in their heart and soothe the craggy edges of their psyche.

The trials of Paulo Coelho and his mysterious mentor, Petrus, are here recounted, as they journey across Spain in search of a miraculous sword - on a legendary road travelled by pilgrims of San Tiago since the Middle Ages. This is part adventure story, part guide to self-mastery.

Donna Haraway analyses accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs (cybernetic components); showing how deeply cultural assumptions penetrate into allegedly value-neutral medical research.

Lakoff and Johnson propose to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, starting from clearly known facts about the mind. They take on two major issues in 20th-century philosophy: how we conceive rationality and how we conceive language.

'Funny, sharp, witty, clever' - The Times

The famous, unconditionally guaranteed, durable paperback edition with high-quality paper and binding.

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

Long considered Merleau-Ponty's defining work, this is so important because it returned the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato. Its is a crucial work in understanding how we perceive the world.

Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

New edition of the Meditations with introductions by John Cottingham and Bernard Williams.

The bestselling exercise book - now including stretches for over 60 sports and activities.

An examination of recent treatments designed to relieve back pain without resort to exercise, medication or physical therapy