I do know how to behave
- believe me because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic
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In THE GOOD BEHAVIOUR BOOK Dr. William & Martha Sears the paediatrics specialists whose books on birth babies & parenting have become widely praised best-sellers provide a definitive guide to raising happy well-adjusted well-behaved children. Disciplining children means equipping them with the tools to succeed in life. In this unique guide seasoned parents of eight Bill & Martha Sears draw on personal experience & their professional knowledge as childcare experts to provide an authoritative approach to a broad range of disciplinary issues & practices. With focus on preventing behaviour problems as well as managing them when they arise the Searses offer clear practical advice on everything parents need to know about disciplining young children. Believing that discipline starts at birth the Searses discuss baby discipline disciplining the toddler mother-father roles in modern parenting saying no self-esteem as the foundation of good behaviour helping a child to express feelings the constructive use of anger good nutrition for good behaviour & sleep discipline. On handling problem behaviour the Searses cover sibling rivalry spanking & alternatives to spanking breaking annoying habits & eliminating bothersome behaviours like whining & talking back. The Searses strongly advocate teaching children values like apologising & sharing & explain how to deal with such issues as lying stealing & cheating. In addition the Searses address building healthy sexuality & discipline in special situations such as after divorce & in the single-parent household. ...

All expecting mothers have an innate capacity to give birth safely & naturally but its easy to be distracted by stories of traumatic births & a deep anxiety that you wont be in control. Experienced doula & Active Birth Associate Nicole Croft takes the fear out of labour & birth in this empowering & practical guide. Full of wise advice & simple skills to prepare you mentally & physically Nicole tells you everything you need to know to ensure you have a very positive experience giving birth whether you labour naturally or require medical intervention. It teaches to: be calm relaxed & prepared for birth; feel less pain during labour & help your birth progress naturally; remain confident & in control throughout the birth; feel very positive about your birth with or without medical intervention; & flourish with your baby in the first weeks after birth. Warm wise & incredibly reassuring The Good Birth Companion" will give you all the information resources you need to give birth safely to your baby." ...

These wise & witty writings home in on Shakespeare tree stumps ecological disasters bodies (male & female) & theology amongst other matters. We hear Gertrudes version of what really happened in Hamlet; an ugly sister & a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves & a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. Good Bones is pure distilled Atwood
- deliciously strong & bittersweet. A marvellous miniature sample case of Atwoods sensuous & sardonic talents TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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Good Boss Bad Boss was inspired by the thousands of emails calls & conversations that Robert Sutton received after publishing his bestseller The No Asshole Rule
- he found that most of the stories & cries for help he received revolved around one central figure in every workplace: THE BOSS. Sutton's subsequent research showed that the success of every boss depended heavily on how well (or badly) they managed those they worked with & in Good Boss Bad Boss he demonstrates this by weaving together the best psychological & management secrets with true stories to reveal the mindset & moves of the best bosses & contrasts them with the behaviour of the worst. If you want to understand how the best bosses think & act so that you can get better at your job or find a better boss to work for Good Boss Bad Boss has all the answers.
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North Africa 1942. Dust heat thirst flies. A good clean fight for those who like that sort of thing & some do. From an advanced landing field striking hard & escaping fast our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette flying their clapped-out Tomahawks on ground-strafing forays. Meanwhile on the ground the men of Captain Lampards S.A.S. patrol drive hundreds of miles behind enemy lines to plant bombs on German aircraft. This is the story of a war of no glamour & few heroes in a setting often more lethal than the enemy. ...

Simon Hopkinson loves food & he knows how to cook it. The Good Cook is the result of over 40 years' experience & is based on Simon's belief that a good cook loves eating as much as cooking. How the ingredients you choose & the way you cook them will turn a good recipe into a great dish. That a cheap cut of meat cooked with care can taste as nice as a choice cut prepared by indifferent hands. Structured around Simon's passion for good ingredients (Anchovy & Aubergine Cheese & Wine Smoked & Salted Fish Ham Bacon & A Little Pig) & written with Simon's trademark perfectionism & precision this is a cookbook that you will cherish for life. ...

With this one word Lili had finally understood many things: that no matter what she promised or sacrificed or gave she would always be broken to her daughter. When Jasmin Darznik finds a photo among her fathers possessions shortly after his death she recognises the child in the veil & brides clothes as her mother but the groom is unfamiliar. Who had her mother married all those years before? A few months later packages begin to arrive
- her mother reluctant to talk face to face sends Jasmin ten cassette tapes that year & together those tapes reveal the secret history of Jasmins family. Gradually she learns the truth about the man her mother married when she was just a girl & about the other daughter the Good Daughter who she had had to leave behind in Iran when Jasmins family moved to the States. As well as giving a fascinating insight into life in Iran this is an unforgettable story of womens lives lived unknowingly in parallel of secrets lies betrayal & exile & of the insufferable mother-daughter bond.
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Ex-cop Dennis Milne is intent on revenge. His best friend has been brutally executed & Milne wants to know who did it
- & why.
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When O-lan a servant girl marries the peasant Wang Lung she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre but there is sustenance in the land
- until the famine comes. Half-starved the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs & the family's money breeds only mistrust deception
- & heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. THE GOOD EARTH is a riveting family saga & story of female sacrifice
- a classic of twentieth-century literature.


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