Sadly, millions of children today are affected by mental health problems, almost a doubling of the number of sufferers in just one generation.

Now, in this timely new book, mental health experts provide invaluable information & guidance for concerned parents, teachers & young adults. With chapters covering subjects such as child & adolescent development, parenting skills, problems at school, emotional health & wellbeing, The Young Mind also looks specifically at some of the most distressing problems facing young people today, including anxiety & stress disorders, drugs, alcohol, self-harm & psycho-sexual development.

Illustrated & written in a completely accessible style by some of the most distinguished & respected professionals in the field of child & adolescent psychiatry, The Young Mind offers a guiding hand & insight into this most vital area of mental health.



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Once they had been called Orrice & Effel, two bedraggled, scruffy waifs who lived rough off the streets of Walworth. Now they were Horrace & Ethel Cooper, grown up
- quite respectable really
- & living with their adopted parents, Jim & Rebecca Cooper.

When Horrace saw the pretty girl who worked as a shop assistant in Adams (Ladies Fashion Modes) he was quite bowled over & knew he had to meet her. From then on he was in & out of the shop, buying hats & stockings & ribbons, trying desperately to persuade Miss Sally Brown to come out with him. & while he was laying siege to Sally, his sister Ethel was listening to her poet boyfriend spouting forth his romantic verse. But Ethel's involvement with the poet was to end more dangerously & dramatically than either she or Horrace had imagined & several quite startling events were to happen before Horrace & Ethel's affairs were resolved.



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Trapped in a loveless marriage to a brutal & peverse man, there is only one way out for the young & virginal Jessica. She must draw deep on the depraved longings of her imagination in order to protect herself. Nothing is forbidden. No methods are too extreme. She must use every opportunity the charms of her young body can win for her. But when she's finished, everyone will know that pretty faces hide the most sinful thoughts. ...

Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zürau between September 1917 & April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write, in a series of philosophical fragments, his settling of accounts with life, marriage, his family, guilt & man ...

Collected here for the first time are the best of Davis Miller's essays & memoirs. The volume contains his celebrated trilogy of award-winning Muhammad Ali pieces, including the classic ' My Dinner with Ali', together with a provocative new essay called ' The Yin & the Yang of Muhammad Ali'. There are also two pieces about Miller's unusual relationship with another boxer, ' Sugar' Ray Leonard, & he continues to explore the Bruce Lee phenomenon
- as he did in his acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Bruce Lee. The Zen of Muhammad Ali tells us about fighting, living, friendship & love. The pieces are arranged
- each with an illuminating new note
- to form a unique & haunting book.


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Since his move to Celtic in the summer of 2005, Shunsuke Nakamura has become a cult hero in both Scotland & the Far East. From the wonderful goal in his Champions League debut against Manchester United in 2006 to the strike against Kilmarnock that secured Celtic ...

Eric is a youngish man, self-conscious, awkward, a buttoned-down North American, a would-be writer, & a traveller in spite of himself. Susceptible to bossy women, he finds himself in the wake of one in Mexico, where he is overwhelmed at first with sensory overload, but is gradually seduced
- by the strangeness, the colour, the contrasts, the old world- He finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a 'ghost' mining town, now barely inhabited, where almost a hundred years earlier young Cornish miners, like his own grandfather, worked the mines. Until Pancho Villa & revolution came to Mexico-Desai paints a subtle, miniaturist history of 20th century Mexico, seen from unexpected perspectives, that evokes the exploitation of the Mexican Indians while yet looking askance at some of their 'saviours' like the formidable Queen of the Sierra, Dona Vera, widow of a mining baron & with a colourful, dubious, European past of her own. With vivid sympathy & brilliantly telling detail, Desai conjures up Eric's grandmother, & her poignant story, that of a young Cornish girl whose grave is in a cemetery on a Mexican hillside. On the feast Day of the Dead, when the locals celebrate their dead, the various strands of the novel come together hauntingly, bringing Eric face to face with his past & the reality of his present in a moment of quiet, powerful epiphany. Restrained, controlled, with splashes of exuberant colour & darker violence, this is a magical novel of strange elegiac beauty.
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It seems that renowned zombie expert Dr Stanley Blum kept a detailed record of the vital work that he & his crack medical team conducted in their desperate bid to find a cure for the epidemic that is devastating the world. This is his notebook & it doesn't make comfortable reading.

Here he documents the unique biology of zombie organisms for the first time, Notes taken during his dissection of immobilized but still functioning zombies include graphic depictions of the internal workings of these once-humans, & reveal in grim detail the zombie anatomy & offer shocking insights into how these creatures function. This is not a book for the fainthearted. & what soon becomes tragically clear is that Blum & his staff were caught up in a race against time...for they too start to succumb to the zombie plague.

We can only guess at the fate of Dr. Blum. But now that his notebook has been made available to the UN, the WHO & the wider world, we can only pray that Blum's scientific discoveries offer some hope for humankind on earth against the plague of the living dead...



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Julia Lambert is in her prime, the greatest actress in Engl&. Off stage, however, she is bored with her handsome husb&, coquettish & undisciplined. She is at first flattered & amused by the attentions of a shy & eager young fan, but before long Julia is amazed to find herself falling wildly, dangerously, in love. ...