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From first look and first
date to first fight,
breaking up and making
up, the world of dating
can be a minefield for
the unprepared.
International
relationship guru, John
Gray turns his expertise
to the language and
behaviour of dating
couples. Asking questions
such as:--How should you
act on your first
date?--How can you tell
if your partner means
what he says?--Is this
love or just lust at
first sight? John Gray
helps new couples figure
out whether they are
partners for life or just
enjoying a brief
encounter. His approach
will help both men and
women play the dating
game with its complex
rules of etiquette and
behaviour, and explains
how to separate fact from
fantasy in conversation,
body language and future
expectations. His
humorous insight and
practical advice will
help young and old alike
to reach closer
understanding, love and
commitment, and have fun
on the way!
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Shadows of the Mind is a
profound exploration of
what modern physics has
to tell us about the
mind, and a visionary
description of what a new
physics - one that is
adequate to account for
our extraordinary brain -
might look like. It is
also a bold speculation
on the biological process
that makes consciousness
what it is. In this
illuminating book Penrose
provides powerful
arguments to support his
conclusion that there is
something in the
conscious activity of the
brain that transcends
computation - and will
find no explanation in
terms of present-day
science.
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Staying Together offers
guidelines to help
couples survive and grow
th rough their
relationship problems so
that they need not
separate and m ay
maintain their commitment
to each other. Case
histories, quizzes an d
questionnaires show how
this is possible and even
how to make a part
nership stronger. The
book covers how to:
--confront difficulties
--understand your partner
--re-negotiate an
improved relationship
--develop skills to make
improvements last
--assess when problems
first appeared and how
they developed --face
changes --communicate and
meet a partner's needs
--create good times
--build on commitment and
happiness.
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Though angels have been
part of our culture and
our history for
centuries, they have
been forgotten in recent
times: diminished to the
level of christmas
trinkets and the
playthings of children.
Until recently few would
admit encountering
angelic beings.
Yet this
extraordinary book shows
angels are returning -
and being acknowledged -
once again. Here are true
stories of countless
ordinary people being
rescued by angels, being
comforted and healed by
them, feeling their
presence in the face of
death - and often
appearing to little
children. These tales are
drawn from such countries
as Britain, Australia,
Ireland and the United
States - showing angels
can be found all around
the globe: helping
people, often changing
their lives completely.
Full of warm and
uplifting stories, An
Angel At My Shoulder
suggests it is more than
time to reconsider our
view of angels, to let
them back into our hectic
mechanized world and to
realise we are never
alone...
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A unique reference book
for all fans of Anthony
Powell's 12-volume novel,
A Dance to the Music
Time, which has become a
literary landmark of
twentieth-century
writing. More than a
simple glossary,
Invitation to the Dance
contains extensive
Character, Book,
Painting and Place
indices, creating a
magnificent database of
Powell's imagination and
England's cultural
landscape. This is a
masterpiece of 'extreme
ingenuity' detailing over
four hundred characters
and one million words of
Powell's lively
fifty-year dance of
fiction and fact.'Hilary
Spurling's exhaustive
analysis of the novel's
characters supplies a
master-key for the
reader' Anthony Powell
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THE POWER OF ETHICAL
MANAGEMENT proves that
you don't have to cheat
to win. It shows how to
bring integrity back into
business. It offers
hard-hitting, practical
and ethical strategies
that build profits,
productivity and
long-term success.
Written as a parable this
simple book gives you an
immensely useful set of
tools; from a three-step
'Ethics Check' that helps
you evalutate any action
or decision, to the Five
Ps' of ethical behaviour
which will clarify your
purpose and your goals.
This is no theoretical
treatise: peale and
Blanchard speak from
their enormous and unique
experience, and show how
integrity pays.
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The phenomenal and
inspiring bestseller by
the father of positive
thinking. THE POWER OF
POSITIVE THINKING is a
practical, direct-action
application of spiritual
techniques to overcome
defeat and win
confidence, success and
joy. Norman Vincent
Peale, the father of
positive thinking and one
of the most widely read
inspirational writers of
all time, shares his
famous formula of faith
and optimism which
millions of people have
taken as their own simple
and effective philosophy
of living. His gentle
guidance helps to
eliminate defeatist
attitudes, to know the
power you possess and to
make the best of your
life.
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After writing two highly
praised travel books,
Sara Wheeler was accepted
by the American
government to be the
first foreigner on their
National Science
Foundation's Antarctic
Artists' and Writers
Program. She spent six
weeks at the pole and on
the edge of the infamous
Ross Ice Shelf, as well
as another month with the
British Antarctic Survey.
Terra Incognita is
a meditation on the
landscape, myths and
history of one of the
remotest parts of the
globe, as well as an
encounter with the people
who inhabit this region -
living in close
confinement despite the
surrounding acres of
white space - and the
mechanics of day-to-day
life in extraordinary
conditions. Through Sara
Wheeler, the Antarctic
is revealed, in all its
seductive mystery.
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Fingerprints of the
Gods is the
revolutionary rewrite of
history that has
persuaded
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This repackaged,
retitled version of WHAT
YOUR MOTHER COULDN'T TELL
YOU AND YOUR FATHER
DIDN'T KNOW brings the
book firmly into line
with John Gary's existing
Mars and Venus classics,
and has proved immensley
successful in the states.
This enticing book by
America's phenomenally
successful relationships
guru explains how we can
all have exciting, happy
and everlasting
relationships. In it he
reveals *what women need
most and men really
want*masculine skills for
listening without getting
upset*feminine skills for
talking so a man will
listen*seven secrets of
lasting passion*dance
steps for lasting
intimacy. Brimming with
humour, exercises and
profound common sense,
this book will help to
get men and women
talking, loving and
communicating and will
keep loving couples
'together forever'.
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'Of all the gifters, the
confidence man is the
aristocrat, ' wrote
David Maurer, a
proposition he
definitively proved in
The Big Con. A professor
of linguistics who
specialised in underworld
argot, Maurer won the
trust of hundreds of
swindlers. They let him
in on not simply their
language, but their
folkwrys and the
astonishingly complex and
elaborate schemes whereby
unsuspecting marks,
hooked by their own greed
and dishonesty were
'taken off' - i. e.,
cheated - of thousands
upon thousands of
dollars. The products of
amazing ingenuity, crack
timing and attention to
every last detail, these
'big cons', as
thoroughly scripted and
rehearsed as any
Hollywood production,
richly deserve Maurer's
description as 'the most
effective swindling
device which man has ever
invented. ' The Big Con
is a treasure trove of
American lingo (the
write, the rag, the
pay-off, ropers,
shills, the cold poke
and the convincer) and
indeliable characters
(Yellow Kid Weil, Barney
the Patch, the
Seldom-Seen Kid,
Limehouse Chappie and
Larry the Lug). First
published in 1940, The
Big Con makes compelling
reading whilst being the
most authentic and
utterly authoritative
study on the con artist
and his game.
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Today, an increasing
number of people want to
organise at least part of
a funeral for themselves,
without depending on
funeral
directors.
The
New Natural Death
Handbook shows you
how to do everything from
ordering a coffin to
hiring a horse-drawn
hearse to finding a
woodland burial ground
(where a tree is planted
for each grave instead of
having a headstone). It
also explains how to
arrange a burial on
private land and how to
set up a woodland burial
ground as a business or
charity.
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Why confine yourself to
boring monosyllabic
Anglo-Saxon taunts and
insults when you can
defame, demean,
degrade, demolish and
damn in the deft language
of Cicerco, Martial,
Ovid, Cattullus, Horace
and others? Now you can
impress your friends and
devestate your enemies
with the filth and wit of
your newly-excavated
repetoire of classical
invective. Usefully
arranged in sections for
the sexless, gormless,
worthless and
unscrupulous (etc etc),
with special sections on
regional taunts and
useful threats, the book
contains illustrations
from classical sources
and is immaculately
researched by a young
Cambridge classics
scholar and an expert in
the ancient languages of
desire and desperation.
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Though angels have been
part of our culture and
our history for
centuries, they have
been forgotten in recent
times, diminished to the
level of christmas
trinkets and the
playthings of children.
Until recently few would
admit encountering
angelic beings. Yet this
extraordinary book shows
angels are returning -
and being acknowledged -
once again. Here are true
stories of countless
ordinary people being
rescued by angels, being
comforted and healed by
them, feeling their
presence in the face of
death and often appearing
to little children. These
tales are drawn from such
countries as Britain,
Australia, Ireland and
the United States showing
angels can be found all
around the globe,
helping people and often
changing their lives
completely.
Full
of warm and uplifting
stories, An Angel At
My Shoulder suggests
it is more than time to
reconsider our view of
angels, to let them back
into our hectic
mechanized world and to
realise we are never
alone...
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The Bumper Book Of
Nature is a treasure
trove of nature
activities, ideas and
information,
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The Prophet, a
bestseller around the
world and translated into
over twenty languages,
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What makes a family
happy? Why do some
marriages 'succeed' and
others 'fail'. How can we
free ourselves from the
legacy of past mistakes
and bring about positive
change? Love, sex and
marriage and parenthood,
depression and sadness,
independence and
experience are just a few
of the many issues
explored in coversation
by family therapist Robin
Skynner and his former
patient and comedian,
John Cleese. Guiding us
through the daily issues
that confront us all,
FAMILIES AND HOW TO
SURVIVE THEM offers vital
advice in helping each of
us to maintain a happy,
healthy family life.
Looking candidly at
everything from our
relationships with our
parents to why and how we
choose our partners, no
emotional stone is left
unturned: jealousy,
rage, fear, envy,
love, obsession, hope
and despair - all are
featured-with practical
advice on how to turn
round a negative
situation and bring about
change for the better.
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The great theoretical
physicist and Nobel Prize
winnder, Richard
Feynman, left an
indelible imprint on
scientific thought. On 14
March 1964 he delivered a
remarkable lecture which,
until now, was believed
to be lost. His lecture
was about a single fact,
though by no means a
small one. When a planet
or a comet or any other
body arcs through space
under the influence of
gravity, it traces out
one of a very special set
of mathematical curves,
known as the conic
sections. But why does
nature choose to describe
those, and only those,
elegant geometrical
constructions ? In this
book Feynman's lost
lecture has been
reconstructed and
explained in meticulous,
accessible detail,
together with a history
of ideas of the planets'
motions. It can be
enjoyed by the specialist
and non-specialist alike
and provides us all with
an invaluable insight
into the mind of one of
this century's greatest
scientists.
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Mars and Venus in the
Bedroon offers practical,
heartfelt and wise
advice to help you to
transform your love life
and enjoy a sexually and
emotionally fulfilling
relationship. This new
edition of John Gray's
bestselling book explains
how to keep passion alive
in a long-term
relationship and reveals
what men and women really
want from each other. He
understands that there
may be differences
between you, but
explains why instead of
causing friction, these
differences can make life
much more fun and
fulfilling.
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Most of us have at some
point built and furnished
the house of our dreams -
at least in our minds.
This truly seductive book
features the homes of
those who have realized
those dreams and created
very special hideaways
and retreats in some of
the most beautiful parts
of the world. Some of the
places featured are
vacation homes; some have
become the permanent base
for families seduced by
the beauty of their
architecture or location;
all are truly special
places that inspire the
sense and refresh the
spirit. Structured around
chapters which range from
Houses by the Sea and
Mountain Retreats to
Country Cottages and
Island Paradises, the
homes featured take the
reader from white
clapboard simplicity in
Nantucket and a winter
chalet in Verbier, to a
sumptuous Tuscan villa
and a flamboyant cabin on
Mustique. Vacation homes
are often more relaxed in
their decoration - there
is less need to cater for
workaday activities and
formal occasions, more
emphasis on uncluttered
spaces where enjoyment
and family life are to
the fore. Informative
text pinpoints the key
elements of the design
and decoration, and
there are certainly ideas
which can be translated
into any home; yet there
is also plenty of
opportunity simply to
indulge and enjoy the
unique atmosphere of
these very special homes.
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Which football trophy has
three handles?
When
was a match stopped
because there was a
solar
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Which football trophy has
three handles?
When
was a match stopped
because there was a
solar
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Though angels have been
part of our culture and
our history for
centuries, they have
been forgotten in recent
times, diminished to the
level of christmas
trinkets and the
playthings of children.
Until recently few would
admit encountering
angelic beings. Yet this
extraordinary book shows
angels are returning -
and being acknowledged -
once again. Here are true
stories of countless
ordinary people being
rescued by angels, being
comforted and healed by
them, feeling their
presence in the face of
death and often appearing
to little children. These
tales are drawn from such
countries as Britain,
Australia, Ireland and
the United States showing
angels can be found all
around the globe,
helping people and often
changing their lives
completely.
Full
of warm and uplifting
stories, An Angel At
My Shoulder suggests
it is more than time to
reconsider our view of
angels, to let them back
into our hectic
mechanized world and to
realise we are never
alone...
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All the facts and
informed opinion that you
need on the artists who
made the history of this
decade are contained in
this single volume,
distilled from The Virgin
Encyclopedia of Popular
Music, universally
acclaimed as the world's
leading source of
reference on rock and pop
history.
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In what is certain to be
his biggest book ever,
John Gray blasts off into
exciting new territory of
the singles universe,
using his relationship
expertise to help
unattached men and women
find romance and embark
on the road to lasting
intimacy. John Gray
offers his insight,
humour and practical
advice to all single
people looking for love,
including the newly
separated or divorced
daunted by the singles
scene. The book takes
readers through the five
stages of dating:
Attraction, Ambivalence,
Commitment (to
monogamy), True Intimacy
and Proposal/ Marriage.
Readers will find
creative ideas on how to
find their soulmates,
thought on how to create
a committed relationship,
and advice on such
difficult issues as
deciding when the time is
right for sexual
intimacy, and whether
live-in relationships
make sense. From first
look and first date to
first fight and making
up, John Gray helps
couples to seperate fact
from fantasy in
conversation, body
language and future
expectations. His insight
and advice will help
couples to reach closer
understanding, love and
commitment. The perfect
publication for a summer
romance and the latest
international bestseller
from relationships
mega-guru. The ultimate
singles guide.
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Why are adolescent girls
prone to depression,
eating disorders,
addictions and suicide
attempts than ever
before? Mary Pipher
believes adolescence is
an especially precarious
time for girls, a time
when the fearless,
outgoing child is
replaced by an unhappy
and insecure
teenager.
Her view
is that for the most part
it is our look-obsessed,
media-saturated,
'girl-poisoning' culture
- and not parents - which
is to blame. Despite the
advances of feminism,
escalating levels of
sexism and violence cause
girls to stifle their
creative spirit and
natural impulses, which,
ultimately, destroys
their self-esteem. Yet it
is often their families
that are
blamed.
Here, for
the first time, are thr
girls unmuted voices. By
laying bare their harsh
day-to-day reality,
Reviving Ophelia
offers parents
compassion, strength and
strategies with which to
revive these Ophelias'
lost sense of
self.
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The most advanced,
user-friendly book ever
written on the subject,
The Stainbuster's
Bible
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Here are the great minds
of Western civilization
and their pivotal ideas,
from Plato to Hegel,
from Augustine to
Nietzsche, from
Copernicus to Freud.
Richard Tarnas performs
the near-miracle of
describing profound
philosophical concepts
simply but without
simplifying them. Ten
years in the making and
already hailed as a
classic, The Passion
of the Western Mind
is truly a complete
liberal education in a
single volume.
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Brilliantly entertaining,
enlightening and
inspiring, Robin Skynner
and John Cleese take on
the big issue: life, and
the challenge of living,
in all its myriad forms.
This book is an essential
guide to surviving life's
ups and downs - at home
or in the workplace, as
a member of a family or
society.
Presented in the
same lively style as the
best-selling Families
and How to Survive
Them, Life
extends Skynner's and
Cleese's study beyond the
family to relationships
and group interaction in
life outside it. The book
deals with such pithy
issues as:
-Why
life gives you all the
lessons you need
-How
grief can be good for
you
-Why work is
essential to our
psychological
health
-What mid-life
crisis means for
you
We are all
searching for healthier,
happier, more satisfying
lives, but it's the
journey that matters,
not the destination.
Skynner and Cleese are
the perfect travelling
companions.
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Why are adolescent girls
prone to depression,
eating disorders,
addictions and suicide
attempts than ever
before? Mary Pipher
believes adolescence is
an especially precarious
time for girls, a time
when the fearless,
outgoing child is
replaced by an unhappy
and insecure
teenager.
Her view
is that for the most part
it is our look-obsessed,
media-saturated,
'girl-poisoning' culture
- and not parents - which
is to blame. Despite the
advances of feminism,
escalating levels of
sexism and violence cause
girls to stifle their
creative spirit and
natural impulses, which,
ultimately, destroys
their self-esteem. Yet it
is often their families
that are
blamed.
Here, for
the first time, are thr
girls unmuted voices. By
laying bare their harsh
day-to-day reality,
Reviving Ophelia
offers parents
compassion, strength and
strategies with which to
revive these Ophelias'
lost sense of
self.
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This is a story of some
of the brave, brilliant
and often barmy men that
invented diving. It is a
story of explosive
tempers and exploding
teeth, of how to juggle
live hand grenades and
steer a giant rubber
octopus. A series of
vivid portraits reveal
the eccentric exploits of
these pioneers. They
include Guy who held a
world altitude record
when only sixteen, wrote
a film for Humphrey
Bogart, invented
snorkelling and loved his
wife enough to shoot her.
Roy wore a backet over
his head and stole a
coral reef. Bill wearied
of fishing with dynamite
and wrestling deadly
snakes, so he sealed
himself in a metal coffin
to dangle half a mile
beneath the ocean.
Cameron, testing the
bouncing bomb for dam
busters, made a plastic
ear for a dog, a false
testicle for a stallion
and invented a mantrap
disguised as a lavatory.
He ascended from a depth
of 200 feet without
breathing equipment to
see if his lungs would
burst, then studied the
effects of underwater
explosions by standing
closer and closer until
shattered by the blast.
The book also traces the
evolution from spear
fishermen to
conversationalists, from
treasure hunters to
archaeologists, from
photographers to
philosophers. The sea is
a secretive and seductive
place and the author
describes the magic and
mystery of being beneath
the waves.
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A unique reference book
for all fans of Anthony
Powell's 12-volume novel,
A Dance to the Music
Time, which has become a
literary landmark of
twentieth-century
writing. More than a
simple glossary,
Invitation to the Dance
contains extensive
Character, Book,
Painting and Place
indices, creating a
magnificent database of
Powell's imagination and
England's cultural
landscape. This is a
masterpiece of 'extreme
ingenuity' detailing over
four hundred characters
and one million words of
Powell's lively
fifty-year dance of
fiction and fact.'Hilary
Spurling's exhaustive
analysis of the novel's
characters supplies a
master-key for the
reader' Anthony Powell
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Begun in 1984 the oak
collection of Chevithorne
Barton is the largest and
most comprehensive in
Britain and almost
certainly in the world,
with 380 named oaks and
over 220 species. This
beautifully illustrated
book describes and shows
oaks from Europe, North
Africa, Persia, Tibet,
China, Japan, Mexico
and the US flourishing
deep in the Devon
countryside. This book is
a must for all tree
lovers.
With a
preface by Michael
Heseltine.
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'When I fall in love it
will be forever...' or so
goes the song. The
reality can be different
and the truth is that the
nature of relationships
will change over time.
Few things can be80 more
distressing that finding
that you and your partner
are no longer
communicating the way you
used to, that problems
have developed, or that
your relationship seems
to have broken down. With
60 years cumulative
experience of marriage
guidance, the experts at
Relate know better than
most how to overcome
difficulties and in so
doing create a strong,
long-lasting partnership.
This highly practical
guide is packed full of
exercises and guidelines
to help you better
understand yourself and
your partner: -- discover
what makes your partner
tick -- test your
compatibility -- learn
how to talk, listen and
hear what each other is
saying -- improve your
sex life -- deepen your
love through tackling
problems together.
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Following on from the
widely acclaimed The
Actor and the Text -
which was addressed
directly to the actor -
Text in Action is drawn
from Cicely's group work
experiences,
encompassing the
viewpoint of the director
as well. To begin with,
the author explores
language from a cultural
and personal perspective.
In these days of
management jargon and
internet technology are
we losing touch with the
ability to communicate
fully?' Is the deeper
imaginative world being
left unexpressed? The
main body of the book
contains detailed,
practical exercises for
actors and directors
during the rehearsal
process. All exercises
will be tied to specific
scenes, leading to a
fuller exploration of the
rext. Text In Action
analyses the imagery of
plays, speech
structures, the
physicality of language
and emphasises the
importance of finding a
collective voice.
Cicely's guidance on the
matter of voice will help
actors find relationships
and situations through
the text in a unique way,
in order to make it more
dynamic and creative.
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Here are the great minds
of Western civilization
and their pivotal ideas,
from Plato to Hegel,
from Augustine to
Nietzsche, from
Copernicus to Freud.
Richard Tarnas performs
the near-miracle of
describing profound
philosophical concepts
simply but without
simplifying them. Ten
years in the making and
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