In Spark!, Dr John Ratey embarks upon a fascinating and entertaining journey through the mind-body connection, showing how exercise is truly our best defense against everything from depression to ADD and from addiction to Alzheimer’s. Spark! explores the connection between exercise and the brain. It will change forever the way you think about the gym – or, for that matter, simply the way you think.

Based on their workshops and counseling experience, psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen offer a probing, sensitive, and at times humorous look at a problem that affects everyone: students and scientists, secretaries and executives, homemakers and salespeople. Procrastination identifies the reasons we put off tasks-fears of failure, success, control, separation, and attachment-and their roots in our childhood and adult experiences. The authors offer a practical, tested program to overcome procrastination by achieving set goals, managing time, enlisting support, and handling stress. Burka and Yuen even provide tips on living and working with the procrastinators you may know. Wise, effective, and easy to use, this new edition shows why for 25 years Procrastination has been an immediate must-have for anyone who puts things off until tomorrow.

Most of us have bouts of unexplained sadness. Just because we feel sad doesn't mean something is wrong. It may be a time to reassess our goals, to have some down time. It may signal a time of transition, a shift in our identity. The Uses of Sadness helps us understand the nuances of sadness, and how it differs from depression. Sadness helps us access a deeper part of ourselves. As we then become a little bigger, wiser and more compassionate than we were, our lives are enriched and we in turn enrich the lives of others.

Breasts unite women in a way few other things can, and these entertaining stories from some of the world's most popular female authors celebrate bosoms great and small. Explore the dark, sexy underbelly of Paris with Kate Holden, enjoy a fractured fairytale from Meg Rossoff, let Jools Oliver share her warm tales of breastfeeding her babies with a very famous Naked Chef, and laugh at Kathy Lette's 'Ode to Barbie' and Maggie Alderson's imaginings of walking a mile in another woman's bra cup. All royalties from sales of this book will go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF). The NBCF is the leading community-funded national organisation in Australia raising money for research into the prevention, detection and treatment of breast cancer.

Reeling from the death of her mother from cancer‚ Sally Collings saw nothing positive whatsoever about the disease. But then she read that two out of three cancer survivors and their families consider that something good has come of their experience and she decided to find out more. She sought out people who had encountered cancer - either personally or through someone close - and delved into what they thought. POSITIVE brings together a collection of voices: cancer survivors‚ carers‚ partners‚ parents‚ siblings. Together‚ their stories map out the terrain of the upside of cancer: the opportunity to draw together (as friends‚ as a couple‚ as a family); the torrent of support‚ love and prayers that are unleashed; the impetus to go deeper and embrace the strength‚ fears and purpose that lie within each of us.

How do couples negotiate over sex? This is a tricky business – managing the sex supply is a major source of marital tension, the elephant in the bedroom for many couples. Bettina Arndt recruited ordinary Australian couples to keep diaries, revealing all their most personal sexual habits. The Sex Diaries brings together revealing, intimate tales from bedrooms of people just like us all. Couples of all ages, from newlyweds to long-married older folk, couples with young children, young defactos, pregnant women, midlife men and women dealing with health issues.

Parenting expert Carl E. Pickhardt brings his considerable experience to tackling the most pervasive and difficult problems parents face in childrearing. Whereas many books on family conflict focus on the prickly teenage years, Pickhardt takes the long view and treats a broad range of ages - starting from the early toddler years all the way through college. He empowers parents to turn conflict into an opportunity to engage with their children on a deeper level.