OK - so your best friend is just about to start a family with her partner. She comes up to you and asks "if there was one book you'd recommend that we read before the baby arrives, what would it be?".

You don't think. Not even for a minute.

You just hand her a copy of The Continuum Concept.

As the late Educational Reformist John Holt (million plus selling author of 'How Children Fail' and 'How Children Learn') said of this book: "I don't know whether the world can be saved by one book, but if it could be, this might just be the book".

Jean Liedloff spent two and a half years in the South American Jungle living with Stone Age Indians. That experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and how we should raise our children. In the book she shows how we have lost much of our natural well-being through Western materialism, and suggest practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.

"Deserves to be read by Western parents and psychologists concerned with restoring self-reliance and well-being. There are remarkable insights here" - The New York Times Book Review.

There's a very good reason why Channel 4 chose this book as one of the three most influential parenting books of the 20th Century in their frecent series 'Bringing Up Baby'. Read it for yourself and find out why...