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Complete Idiot's Guide to Child Safety
Parents receive so much information about possible dangers to their children and what they can do to protect them that they find it difficult to know where to draw the line. What safety measures should they insist their child and other caregivers observe? Which ones are less important? This book helps them focus on what is most important. As manager of Texas Children's Center for Childhood Injury Prevention and the local Safe Kids coordinator, I hear many stories from parents about what problems might have been prevented if they had only known . . . Since we can expect each year for one child in four to be injured badly enough to need medical care, this is a most needed reference for parents.

Keep Your Kids Safe!
Keeping kids safe sounds scary, but this book offers some simple solutions. The authors not only educate readers about safety at home and school, in the car and on the bike, they also tackle safety and sports,pools, and even farms.Read more

Subjects:  1. Accidents    2. Child Care/Parenting    3. Children    4. Children's accidents    5. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    6. Health    7. Health & Daily Living - Safety    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Parenting    10. Prevention    11. Safety    12. Wounds and injuries    13. Reference / General   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Health aspects    3. Self-Help    4. Video Display Terminals (Health Aspects)    5. Video display terminals    6. Work-Related Health    7. Popular medicine   

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A superb book
I reviewed this in 1993.I thought it was great then and I haven't changed my mind. The author was a concert pianist and noticed a lot of musicians having the same trouble we associate with computer use.Her common sense approach and excellent writing style make this a superb guide for anyone who repeats the same tasks, from butchers and bakers to candlestick makers. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - General Information    2. Computer Books: General    3. Hand    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Prevention    6. Reference - General    7. Video display terminals    8. Wounds and injuries   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Diet / Health / Fitness    3. Diseases    4. Encyclopedias    5. Health & Fitness    6. Health and hygiene    7. Health/Fitness    8. Women    9. Women's Health    10. Women's Health - General    11. Work-Related Health   

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Highly recommended
I bought this book for the valuable information on how to care for my back.The fact that it also outlines a healthy lifestyle in easy to achieve steps is a plus.

Inspired advice for taking care of the mind and body
This great little book is Dr. Turchin's approach to taking great care of yourself. It's simple, well-researched, intelligent, and natural. His advice is easy to understand and implement. It's a book I will revisitoften as I try to remember that mind and body truly go together.

Insightfull and Practical
As a public health educator for over 20 years and CEO of a Health Promotion and Safety Management Consulting Firm, I believe Dr. Turchins" book is and easy-to-follow guide for both individuals andorganizations to increase essential knowledge and skillsets for improvingthe quality and productivity of their lives at work and during play. Infact, the book has myriad techniques for accoplishing this goal, which Ibegan practicing with suprisingly sucessfull outcomes in terms of energyand ability to focus on short and long range planning. Furthermore, Irecommend this wonderfull work as an educational tool to help facilitatethe understanding of just how your body works and to better interact withan increasingly time compressed society or world for that matter. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Holism    5. Mind and body    6. Peace of mind    7. Physical fitness    8. Reference    9. Work-Related Health    10. Health & Fitness / Healing    11. Health   

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Excellent coverage of the quiet epidemic of the computer age
An excellent sourcebook covering all aspects of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) the new epidemic of the technological age. You may have RSI and not even know it, and if you are reading this review you are definitely at risk for it (computer users are particularly at risk). Almost two-thirds of all workplace injuries in the U.S. are caused by it.The author, a newspaper reporter, describes the injury, what causes it, how to recognize if you have it, how to avoid it if you don't yet have it, the various treatments available, and how it is likely to affect your life outside the workplace. To illustrate each chapter, the author has included interviews with RSI victims from across the country. She concludes with a description of her own affliction with RSI, a story that is searing, yet ultimately uplifting.The most important value of this book is not just that it is a comprehensive review of this disease, but even more importantly, that it calls attention to a disease that can be truly thought of as the new plague of the twentieth century, a disease that has so far claimed its victims in silence. What is particularly insidious about RSI is that unlike the other epidemics that afflicted humankind, the contagion is not spread from person to person, but from machine to person, meaning the epidemic will increase just about as fast as our use of computer keyboards increases. Because this epidemic is not transmitted in the way previous epidemics have been, it has remained a silent yet increaing crippler of otherwise healthy and productive adults.The public awareness that will be required to halt the spread of this disease can be found in the pages of this book.I highly recommend it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Diet / Health / Fitness    2. Medical    3. Orthopedics    4. Work-Related Health   

Subjects:  1. Athletic Injuries    2. Consumer Health    3. Diet / Health / Fitness    4. General    5. Medical    6. Sports Medicine    7. Sports injuries    8. Training    9. Wounds and injuries   

Subjects:  1. Athletic Injuries    2. Eye Injuries    3. Health/Fitness    4. Ophthalmology    5. Sports Medicine    6. Sports ophthalmology    7. prevention & control   

Subjects:  1. Consumer Health    2. General    3. Health/Fitness   

Subjects:  1. Health/Fitness   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Home Improvement / Construction    3. Marriage    4. Work-Related Health    5. Family & Relationships / Marriage   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Health & Fitness / Safety    4. Human Resources & Personnel Management    5. Occupational & Industrial Medicine    6. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety    7. Ergonomics/Human Engineering    8. Industrial Health & Safety    9. Occupational Safety and Health    10. Overuse injuries    11. Prevention    12. Safety    13. Technology    14. Workers' compensation   

Subjects:  1. Health & Fitness    2. Health Care Issues    3. Health/Fitness    4. Knee    5. Orthopedics    6. Sports medicine    7. Wounds and injuries    8. Popular medicine   

Subjects:  1. Accidents    2. Child Care/Parenting    3. Child Development And Rearing    4. Children    5. Children's accidents    6. Family / Parenting / Childbirth    7. Health    8. Prevention    9. Wounds and injuries   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Human Resources & Personnel Management    4. Occupational & Industrial Medicine    5. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety    6. Hospitals    7. Industrial Health & Safety    8. Medical    9. Occupational Safety and Health    10. Prevention    11. Radiation Injuries    12. Technology   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Consumer Health    4. Diet / Health / Fitness    5. Labor    6. Pregnancy & Childbirth    7. Work-Related Health   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Drugs    3. Health    4. Law    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Malpractice    8. Medical Law & Legislation    9. Products liability    10. Trial practice    11. United States   

Subjects:  1. Health/Fitness    2. Medical / Nursing    3. Sports Medicine    4. Popular medicine    5. Sports injuries & medicine   

Subjects:  1. Congresses    2. Ergonomics/Human Engineering    3. Human engineering    4. Industrial Health & Safety    5. Industrial Medicine    6. Musculoskeletal system    7. Prevention    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Wounds and injuries    10. Surgery    11. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Reference - General    3. Social Science    4. Sociology    5. Statistics    6. Work-Related Health