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Helen Baston

    Midwifery
    The Migration
    Gifts for the One Who Comes After
    Midwifery Essentials: Basics
    Trans
    Midwifery Essentials: Infant feeding
    • 2021
    • 2021

      ' An intelligent, thorough rejoinder to an idea that has swept across much of the liberal world seemingly overnight...Open conversation about such fraught issues is the only realistic path forward. ' New York TimesTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and a Times , Spectator and Observer Book of the Year 2021‘In the first decade of this century, it was unthinkable that a gender-critical book could even be published by a prominent publishing house, let alone become a bestseller.’ Louise Perry, New Statesman‘Thank goodness for Helen Joyce.’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Times‘Reasonable, methodical, sane, and utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy, Trans is a riveting read.’ Lionel Shriver‘A tour de force.’ Evening StandardBiological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In an analysis that is at once expert, sympathetic and urgent, Helen Joyce offers an antidote to the chaos and cancelling.

      Trans
    • 2020

      Midwifery

      The Basics

      • 258 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The book offers an engaging exploration of the midwife's role, highlighting their clinical and professional responsibilities. It emphasizes how midwives support women in achieving healthy pregnancies and navigating the transition to motherhood, providing valuable insights into their essential contributions to maternal care.

      Midwifery
    • 2020

      Midwifery

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      "Midwifery: The Basics provides an engaging and authentic insight into the midwife's world. It explores the role of the midwife as a clinician and professional, showing how midwives can support women both to achieve a healthy full-term pregnancy and a smooth transition to motherhood. This book begins with a discussion of the context of birth and parenthood, placing midwifery in its broader social context. Topics covered include: The midwife as an autonomous professional; Becoming a midwife; Pre-conceptual and antenatal care; Intrapartum care; Postnatal care; and The specialist midwife. Midwifery: The Basics uses the voices of mothers, fathers and midwives to illustrate the complex world of becoming, being and supporting parents. This is an essential introduction for students at undergraduate and A-Level who are approaching midwifery for the first time"--

      Midwifery
    • 2020

      Japan beyond the Kimono

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern life. The book explores these shifts, highlighting developments in the Kyoto fashion industry. Through case studies of designers, artisans, and retailers, it provides a comprehensive picture of the reasons behind the production and consumption of these rejuvenated fashion goods

      Japan beyond the Kimono
    • 2019

      The Migration

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.5(151)Add rating

      Creepy and atmospheric, evocative of Stephen King's classic Pet Sematary, The Migration is a story of sisterhood, transformation, and the limitations of love, from a thrilling new voice in Canadian fiction.

      The Migration
    • 2019

      Midwifery Essentials: Medical Conditions

      • 232 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      New title in the popular Midwifery Essentials series originally published in conjunction with The Practising Midwife journal. The series covers core topics in midwifery education in an engaging and friendly format using a helpful 'jigsaw' approach which encourages readers to explore topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. effective communication, team working and health promotion. Helpful 'scenarios' throughout each volume encourage debate and reflection, core elements of midwifery education. [Elsevier]

      Midwifery Essentials: Medical Conditions
    • 2018

      Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Models of antenatal care: the options available Chapter 3 The booking history Chapter 4 Health in pregnancy Chapter 5 Monitoring maternal physical wellbeing Chapter 6 Monitoring women's emotional wellbeing in the antenatal period Chapter 7 Blood tests in pregnancy Chapter 8 Antenatal screening for fetal abnormality Chapter 9 Monitoring fetal wellbeing during routine antenatal care Chapter 10 Antenatal care - preparing for the birth

      Midwifery Essentials. Vol.2
    • 2018

      New addition to the popular Midwifery Essentials series designed to help readers understand and master a range of core issues safely and with confidence! Written by leading midwifery academics, each book in the series provides a user-friendly source of information which has been fully updated throughout to reflect the latest evidence-base for current practice. Now with an improved design to make learning as easy as possible, each paperback in the series focuses on the importance of communication and contemporary women- centred care and presents helpful 'scenarios' to encourage debate and reflection. The Midwifery Essentials series is ideal for all midwives - whether qualified or in training - and is also helpful to nurses and HCAs working in the maternity environment.

      Midwifery Essentials: Emergency Maternity Care
    • 2018

      The Mole and The Flower

      • 32 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      A generation-defying story, The Mole and The Flower asks children to not merely respect their elders, but understand and admire them too. After all, just because someone has gotten older doesn't mean they have nothing left to give.

      The Mole and The Flower