Medicine And Health from Diversity Books, IOBA

Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Queensberry Hill Press, 1984. 232pp. B/white frontis plus unpaginated b/white plates. Book clean. Spine firm. Previous owner's name and a date to head of title page, else leaves clean and unmarked. Gilt illustration to front panel of cloth boards, bump/crease to lower foredge corner of same. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Contents include: Foreword. Acks. Illustrations.… Read more about this item

Lexington, KY, USA: Bronwyn Hewitt and CreateSpace for Amazon, 2017. 199pp. Colour and b/white illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn and surface indented. "Every page, every paragraph, every line will teach you how to cleanse away your cellulite. This is a change in the way you understand your body and how… Read more about this item

St Leonards, N.S.W., Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1994. xiii, + 313pp. Intext, b/white halftone plates throughout. Attached ribbon bookmark. Book clean, very slightly canted. Bright gilt title over firm spine. A couple of small faint spots to plain blue boards, otherwise undamaged. Textblock crisp and unmarked. Colour-art illustrated dustjacket mildly edge-creased and minimally edgeworn. 'Proper Care' is the story of… Read more about this item

New York: Viking xvi, 427pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright silver title there-on. Plain green boards undamaged. Leaves clean and unmarked, hint of tanning to textblock edges. Colour illustrated dustjacket minimally edge creased only. " . . . a riveting collection of case histories detailing the astonishing progress of people whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless .… Read more about this item

Adelaide, South Australia: Rigby Limited, 1979. xii, + 219pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, white title there-on, minor shelf rubbing to foot. Plain olive boards negligibly rubbed on foredge corners. Colour-art illustrated ('On The Wallaby Track', 1896 [detail], Frederick McCubbin) dustjacket mildly edge-creased, minor foxing to reverse (inner) surface. Jennifer Hagger provides a moving reminder of the pioneers' trials,… Read more about this item

London: Metro Publishing, 2005. xxv, + 244pp. B/white illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm, bright silver title there-on. Plain black boards undamaged. Leaves slightly edge-tanned, else clean and unmarked. Colour illustrated dustjacket mildly edge-creased. From the jacket flap: "The astonishing true story of the discovery of one of the most important substances in medical science. Curare, known as the… Read more about this item

Oxford, U.K., et al: Blackwell Science (Blackwell Publishing), 2004. xiv, + 338pp. Intext, line-drawn illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Card wrapper mildly edgeworn, with a minor crease. Textblock unmarked. "This book is the first labour and birth handbook written by experienced midwives and aimed specifically at practicing midwives based in hospitals, the community and birthing centres… Read more about this item

U.K. and U.S.A.: Churchill Livingstone, 2004. xiv, + 418pp. intext, b/white illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-illustrated card wrapper mildly bumped on foredge corners. Textblock unmarked. "This book brings to life and explores vividly the combination of personal sensitivity, communication, science and clinical skills that leads to successful midwifery practice today . . . "… Read more about this item

Perth, Western Australia: Author (M.H. Bremner), 2005. 118pp. Intext, b/white halftone plates, plus several line-drawings throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Colour-illustrated card wrapper nominally bumped only. An initialled (?B) brief inscription on title page, else textblock unmarked. This book tells the story of the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Western Australia. This wonderful facility was the… Read more about this item

Parkville, Victoria, Australia: Faculty of Music, the University Of Melbourne, 1999. (xxiv), + 326pp. Illustrated throughout: b/white halftone plates, line-drawings, tables and music. Book clean and square. Spine firm, nominally bumped on head. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped only. Textblock unmarked. A stand-alone, Volume 3 in a series of lectures by the International Society for Music in Medicine (7th… Read more about this item

Nabu Press (Nabu Public Domain Reprints) No publication date (2010). xviii, + 250pp. This copy contains a Nabu Press 'Public Domain Reprint' disclaimer. It is a facsimile reprint of a former library copy originally published in 1860. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper nominally bumped only. Textblock bumped on last few leaves, else unmarked. Amedee Pichot… Read more about this item

Edinburgh and London: Churchill Livingstone, 1971. xii, + 340pp. Intext, line-drawn figures throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over minimally bumped spine. Plain blue boards undamaged. Textblock lightly flecked, else name deleted with white-out on ffep. Text-printed dustjacket price-clipped, mildly edgeworn, else small hole on foredge fold. Somewhat dated, and more suited to student nurse historical research,… Read more about this item

Creswick, Victoria, Australia : Yoga Association of Victoria, Inc., 2004. 83pp. Saddle-stitched, staplebound format booklet. Staples clean and tight. Intext, demonstrative, b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Book clean. Colour-illustrated card wrapper nominally edgeworn only. Text-block unmarked. Lacking the two CDs (one of chants, the other a guided yoga class) which originally came with this title, never-the-less the reader will… Read more about this item

Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005. xiv, + 210pp. Book clean and square. Vivid silver title over tight spine. Plain boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket nominally edgeworn only. "'Hard Sell' exposes things about the American pharmaceutical industry you'd rather not know, and practices you wish weren't happening . . . " Contents include: Prelims., Acks. Prologue.… Read more about this item

New York: Public Affairs (Perseus Books Group) , 2009. xxvii, + 183pp. Intext, colour-plate illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm, lightly bumped head and heel. Plain, cream-coloured boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Printed dustjacket minimally bumped and edgworn only. "This companion book to the HBO Documentary Films series explores the cutting-edge research on Alzheimer's Disease that is creating… Read more about this item

London: John Lane The Bodley Head No publication date (c. 1935). (iv), + 40pp. B/white illustrations throughout: photographic halftone plates (Photographer: Georges Saad; Model: Madeleine Lallemand), and drawings by Raymond Bret-Koch. Wire "Spiro" binding. Illustrated front board and printed rear board both mildly bumped and scuffed, with both minimally soiled on plain inners, ditto soiling to edges of several… Read more about this item

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Australian Government Publishing Service , 1992. v., + 110pp. intext, b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. Spine firm, minimally bumped on head. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped and edgeworn. A former owner's name on title page, else textblock unmarked. With contributions from aged care leisure and recreation specialists in each state and territory… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960. 229pp., plus (i). B/white halftone plate frontispiece plus unpaginated like plates throughout (all called-for plates extant and attached). Book clean and square. Vivid silver title over minimally bumped spine, a small indentation on head of same. Plain blue boards undamaged. A noticeable tanned strip on ffep., a crudely obliterated (biro) name on same;… Read more about this item

Ferndale, WA, U.S.A.: AlyBlue Media , 2017. x + 292pp. Small b/white portrait illustrations. Book clean. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper very good+. From the rear panel: " . . . fifteen women open up and invite readers inside their very own soul-searching journey to give honest - and sometimes profound - answers to common questions. Confessing… Read more about this item

Crows Nest, N.S.W., Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2007. 265pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good. From the rear panel: "What are the odds of two people meeting, falling in love, marrying, divorcing, both falling into depression and both attempting suicide - only to reunite, remarry and build a happy life together? When… Read more about this item