Fighting biting screaming & other behaviours that challenge the people dealing with them are often triggered by unsuitable surroundings or unrealistic demands. In this fresh & effective approach Bo Hejlskov Elven shows how identifying & adapting these problem areas can dramatically improve behaviour in people with autism & other developmental disabilities. This practical book explains how to reassess difficult situations & offers easy & effective strategies for eliciting positive responses without resorting to restraint & punishment. Based on the successful low-arousal approach it is a proven method of stepping away from distress & towards calm improving the quality of life of everyone involved. Helpful examples covering a wide range of developmental disabilities from autism to Downs Syndrome illustrate the positive changes that can be achieved. This empowering book will be invaluable to anyone attempting to deal with unproductive behaviour in individuals with developmental disabilities whether at home or in a professional environment. ...

No Future Without Forgiveness is a quintessentially humane account of an extraordinary life. Desmond Tutu describes his childhood & coming of age in the apartheid era in South Africa. He examines his reactions on being able to vote for the first time at the age of 62
- & on Nelson Mandelas election also his feelings on being Archbishop of Cape Town & his award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. No Future Without Forgiveness is also his fascinating experience as head of South Africas Truth & Reconciliation Commission. The latter was a pioneering international experiment to expose many of the worst atrocities committed under apartheid & to rehabilitate the dignity of its victims. Tutu draws important parallels between the Commissioners approach to the situation in South Africa with other areas of conflict such as Northern Ireland the Middle East Rwanda & the Balkans.
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Between 1964 & 1992 Leeds United won 11 fabulous trophies but the team were runners-up just as often. They missed out on many more titles & cups not least club footballs greatest prize the European Cup in 1975. In No Glossing Over It" lifelong Leeds United fan Gary Edwards reveals why the club has dramatically lost out on victory in many of these competitions & how it has been the victim of a pattern of serial abuse by the footballing authorities
- most recently seen in the unprecedented 15-point sanction meted out at the start of the 2007-08 season. Featuring the views of former Leeds players & managers as well as top-flight referees & die-hard fans " No Glossing Over It" examines the injustices that have befallen Leeds United & sheds new light on the shocking events that have long rankled with the clubs supporters."
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Jameson Walker approaches Joe Hunter when his daughter Jay & her friend Nicole go missing at a gas station in the Arizona desert while on a cross-country trek across the North American interior. He mentions that a robbery/homicide at the gas station as worrying as the girls were due to be in the vicinity at that time. Joe accepts the job of locating the girls though not at first convinced theres much to worry about. As Joe picks up the girls trail he discovers that other young women have also disappeared in the area & comes across the brutish Logan family. ...

Jameson Walker approaches Joe Hunter when his daughter Jay & her friend Nicole go missing at a gas station in the Arizona desert while on a cross-country trek across the North American interior. He mentions that a robbery/homicide at the gas station as worrying as the girls were due to be in the vicinity at that time. Joe accepts the job of locating the girls though not at first convinced theres much to worry about. As Joe picks up the girls trail he discovers that other young women have also disappeared in the area & comes across the brutish Logan family. ...

Raised in the slums of Edwardian Tyneside spirited & out-spoken Maggie Beaton joins the ranks of the suffragettes determined to prove herself to her more wealthy comrades in particular Alice Pearson haughty daughter of the powerful local shipbuilder. But the consequences are devastating & Maggie is soon a fugitive spurned by family & friends. Only militant trade unionist & passionate man George Gordon stands by her & for a blissful time his love is enough. But war is looming & Maggies courage & endurance will be tested to the limit in this heartbreakingly moving novel of one womans fight for personal freedom. It is a new version of The Suffragette novel to mark the centenary of suffragette martyr Emily Wilding Davisons death. ...

From one of the world's most admired women this is former National Security Advisor & Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government. A native of Birmingham Alabama who overcame the racism of the Civil Rights era to become a brilliant academic & expert on foreign affairs Rice distinguished herself as an advisor to George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Once Bush was elected she served as his chief adviser on national-security issues
- a job whose duties included harmonizing the relationship between the Secretaries of State & Defence. It was a role that deepened her bond with the President & ultimately made her one of his closest confidantes. With the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks Rice found herself at the centre of the Administration's efforts to keep America safe. Here Rice describes the events of that harrowing day
- & the tumultuous days after. Surprisingly candid in her appraisals of various Administration colleagues & the hundreds of foreign leaders with whom she dealt Rice also offers her keen insight into how history actually proceeds. In No Higher Honour she delivers a master class in statecraft
- but always in a way that reveals her essential warmth & humility & her deep reverence for the ideals on which America was founded.


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Theodore Honey is a shy inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics & spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances Honey must convince his superiors that his unorthodox theories are correct before more lives are lost. ...

As one of the fastest bowlers the world has seen Michael Holding went by the haunting nickname Whispering Death claiming 249 Test wickets. Despite having not laced his bowling boots since 1989 it remains a fitting sobriquet. As a commentator & administrator Holding has delivered his views on cricket in the same manner that he played the game: he speaks softly with a rich Jamaican rhythm & is calculated in either criticism or compliment. NO HOLDING BACK charts his effortless transition from one of the great players to one of the great pundits. Holding graphically describes his days as a player looking back at how he tried to deliberately hurt batsmen on the wastelands of Kingston & his first match for Jamaica when he almost collapsed from exhaustion
- after only four overs! There is time too to divulge what it was like to tour with the West Indies & unmissable insights about sharing a dressing room with other legends of the game like Clive Lloyd Sir Viv Richards & Malcolm Marshall. Holding does not shirk the big issues as he discusses how the West Indies have slipped following their halcyon days openly assesses Brian Lara & laments the hypocrisy over the state of the game in the region. The controversy surrounding the Allen Stanford $20m spectacle the ICCs handling of the abandoned England v Pakistan match player power illegal bowling actions & the threat of Twenty 20 to the Test game are all subjects which Holding tackles with characteristic knowledge & class.
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On August 8 1944 the Canadian Army launched Operation Totalize a massive armoured & mechanised infantry attack that aimed to break through enemy defences south of Caen & trap the German Army in Normandy by linking up with Pattons Third Army. ...