All of us experience complicated thoughts & feelings as we negotiate the day & these feelings can be difficult to manage. Sometimes we are aware that the way we think contributes to our difficulties, but don't know what to do about it.

Change Your Thinking is soundly based on the principles of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), the standard psychological tool used by therapists. The aim of CBT is to develop realistic thought patterns to help us respond better to upsetting emotions.

In this book Dr Edelman demonstrates how to dispute that nagging voice in your head & deal more rationally with feelings of anger, depression, frustration & anxiety. The book also offers sensible suggestions for more effective communication & for finding happiness
- something that is within everyone's grasp.

CBT can help you change your thinking & make a difference to your life
- beginning today.







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Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment & possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of nineteen. His first album Tubular Bells went on to sell fifteen million copies worldwide & catapulted him into a stardom he was ill-equipped to cope with.

From growing up with an alcoholic mother, to his feelings of alienation & struggles with depression, this book takes Mike from his early years, through his staggering fame, his broken marriages, years as a recluse, his rebirth experience at a controversial Exegesis seminar & beyond. Mike Oldfield has been on a journey few of us could ever imagine, & offers a message of hope to anybody who feels they live on the edge of society.

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Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment & possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of nineteen. His first album Tubular Bells went on to sell fifteen million copies worldwide & catapulted him into a stardom he was ill-equipped to cope with.

From growing up with an alcoholic mother, to his feelings of alienation & struggles with depression, this book takes Mike from his early years, through his staggering fame, his broken marriages, years as a recluse, his rebirth experience at a controversial Exegesis seminar & beyond. Mike Oldfield has been on a journey few of us could ever imagine, & offers a message of hope to anybody who feels they live on the edge of society.

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Dennis Potter was born & brought up in the Forest of Dean- a 'strange & beautiful place', as he described it in the last interview before his death, 'rather ugly villages in beautiful landscape, a heart- shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from the rest of Engl&... with a people as warm as anywhere else, but they seemed warmer to me.' It was a childhood which informed all his television work, from his first documentary to such classic dramas as The Singing Detective.

The Changing Forest, first published in 1962, is Potter's deeply personal study of that small area- its people, traditions, ceremonies & institutions- at a time of profound cultural & social change in the late 1950s & early '60s. With extraordinary precision & feeling he describes the fabric of a world whose old ways are yielding to the new: habits altering; expectations growing; work, leisure, language itself changing under the impact of the new television, of commercial jingles & the early Elvis. &, with powerful sympathy & wit, he asks whether the gains of modernity have, for the individuals & society he so marvellously evokes, been worth the loss.

Part autobiography of one of this century's greatest writers, part elegy for a vanishing way of life, part testament to the abiding humanity that underlies all Potter's work, this exquisite, passionate & brillinat book is a classic of its kind.



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This remarkable book provides an irresistibly idiosyncratic portrait of London in miniature. From its marvellously illustrated pages leaps a collection of tender, comic, shocking, sometimes alarming vignettes, a rogues' gallery of characters past & present
- the famous, infamous & unfamous
- who have, over the last 400 years, made this bohemian corner of the city what it is. Between Oxford Street & Euston Road, bordered by Portland Place, Gower Street & Tottenham Court Road, lies a mysteriously evocative area, close to London's heart, known as Fitzrovia. It has a strange & varied history, one that also holds up a mirror to the rest of the capital. For the avant-garde, from painters to actors & artisans, Fitzrovia has been a creative hub, full of studios, craftshops & trysting places. Revolutionaries & radicals gathered in Fitzrovia, which has seen more than its share of murder & mayhem. Spivs & spies, princes & prostitutes jostled in its streets. Alongside grandeur & elegance, exiles & emigrés occupied shabby tenements & introduced new styles of café & restaurant. Medical professionals mingled, in institutions set up by freethinkers, with intellectuals & inventors. Radio & television programmes broadcast from Fitzrovia shaped the culture of a nation & an empire. Independent publishing clusters near the legendary pubs of Fitzrovia.

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