One of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above & below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles & conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe; invading one another's provinces of authority to create an anarchic environment of self-seeking behaviour, pilfering, gossip & love. ...

Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille, ...

The Work began on a February morning in 1986, when Byron Katie woke up on the floor of a halfway house, at a complete dead end in her life, & began to laugh. She had woken up without any concept of who, where, or what she was. She awoke to the fundamental, luminous state of being that is without any separation, that experiences itself as pure love. Like great spiritual masters from many traditions, she knew she had reached the end of confusion & suffering. That was the moment she burst into laughter. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realized, Katie developed a simple method of self-enquiry that she called The Work, a life-transforming system for discarding the stories we tell ourselves, which are the source of suffering, & replacing them with the truth ('what is') & a life of total joy. She began teaching The Work wherever she was invited
- at first in small, informal gatherings & eventually to packed workshops around the world. The Work consists of only four simple questions that you can apply to any problem. It is so easy & practical
- but also profound in its application.

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The Work began on a February morning in 1986, when Byron Katie woke up on the floor of a halfway house, at a complete dead end in her life, & began to laugh. She had woken up without any concept of who, where, or what she was. She awoke to the fundamental, luminous state of being that is without any separation, that experiences itself as pure love. Like great spiritual masters from many traditions, she knew she had reached the end of confusion & suffering. That was the moment she burst into laughter. Determined to give people a way to discover for themselves what she had realized, Katie developed a simple method of self-enquiry that she called The Work, a life-transforming system for discarding the stories we tell ourselves, which are the source of suffering, & replacing them with the truth ('what is') & a life of total joy. She began teaching The Work wherever she was invited
- at first in small, informal gatherings & eventually to packed workshops around the world. The Work consists of only four simple questions that you can apply to any problem. It is so easy & practical
- but also profound in its application.

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This guide shows how self-esteem affects the quality of one's relationships. Relate counsellor Julia Cole suggests that low self-esteem -no matter whether due to one's character, upbringing or adult experiences
- is one of the main reasons that people fail to have satisfying relationships. This book shows what makes people choose a particular partner, &

Includes:: advice on how to: --manage a difficult relationship where one partner withdraws or suffers from depression or aggression --identify what is a healthy relationship --build strong 'couple esteem' for a healthy, long-lasting relationship --and improve sex through exercises & advice.


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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SEBASTIAN FAULKS

Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the

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Maria Haymeyer has an I. Q. of 250, once posed for a Playboy ' Girls of Mensa' feature, & has invented a radical new design for a warplane computer game she calls 'L. U. C. I.' -- short for Light Ultra Chip Intelligence. But someone has stolen her idea, & converted it to bid for a multi-million Joint Strike Fighter contract with the Pentagon. An unwilling but crucial ally in Maria's search to recover L. U. C. I. is a man called Terry Weston, who, up until now, has pursued an ultra-secret career as a corporate spy. But he is not aware of a critical fact
- that L. U. C. I. is a warplane with a built-in Doomsday mechanism.
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At the time of the publication of Lucian Freud, the definitive monograph, by Jonathan Cape in 1996, Freud was already regarded ...