• FROM THE PUBLISHER: Packaged in a large, accessible format, this friendly computer handbook will help answer all your health-related questions, whether you are a high-powered executive, a college student, or the parent of computer-smitten kids. Author Joanna Bawa's holistic guide to safe home and office computer use draws on the expertise of ergonomists, physiotherapists, osteopaths, and optometrists and pinpoints a variety of computer-related hazards and ways to deal with them. Everything is covered her-including stress, posture, and repetitive strain injury (RSI) to lesser-known issues such as electromagnetism, children's health, and health legislation for computer users. With an emphasis on prevention, the author advises us to read this book-before we buy or use our computers.

An occupational psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction, Joanna Bawa is the usability editor for the British edition of PC Magazine. Ms. Bawa oversees the world's first Comparative Usability Evaluation Lab in London, which she established in 1992. When Ms. Bawa is not studying the intelligent application of computers and software to people's lives, she tours the wine-producing regions of France at a leisurely pace.