Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric condition that affects nearly 2% of the general population predominantly women. Symptoms of BPD include impulsivity mood swings unstable intense relationships & feelings of chronic emptiness. Research on BPD has lagged behind that on other mental health conditions such as depression & psychosis primarily due to the lack of evidence of effective treatment but also due to the stigma historically associated with the condition. Fortunately this situation is changing with enhanced treatments now available & enhanced clinician/organizational willingness to engage with those with a diagnosis of BPD. This candid book collaboratively co-authored by a person recovered from BPD & a BPD specialist therapist is written specifically for people with BPD (with support teams including family friends & clinicians also likely to benefit from reading the book). This authoritative & easily readable guide provides a compassionate understanding of the condition plenty of in-depth practical recovery strategies & credible & realistic hope for recovery. The authors draw from the latest research & share years of personal & professional experience that brings the book alive. Review comments from Vice-President National Education Alliance for BPD & Director Middle Path (BPD advocacy organizations) include most down-to-earth accessible book for people with BPD" & "tremendous & potentially life-changing gift"." ...

One of the more serious & hard-to-treat mental problems borderline personality disorder (BPD) is also one of the most dangerous. Seventy-five percent of people with BPD will attempt suicide at some point & ten percent ultimately take their own lives. Living with the symptoms of BPD is obviously a terrible burden for anyone but receiving a BPD diagnosis & negotiating the necessary treatment can itself be a bewildering & painful process. This compassionate book offers people with BPD a detailed guide to the disorder & a point-by-point plan to the treatment & condition-management process. The book is organized as a series of answers to questions common to BPD sufferers: What is BPD? How long does it last? What other problems co-occur with BPD? Overviews of what we currently know about BPD make up the first section of the book. Later chapters cover several common treatment approaches to BPD: dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) mentalization-based therapy (MBT) & medical treatment using psychoactive drugs. In the last sections of the book readers learn a range of day-to-day coping skills that can help moderate the symptoms of BPD. ...

This is the story of the border: a place of beginnings & endings of differences & similarities. It is the story of England & Scotland told not from the remoteness of London or Edinburgh or in the tired terms of national histories but up close & personal toe to toe & eyeball to eyeball across the tweed the Cheviots the Esk & the tidal races of the upper Solway. This is a tale told in blood fun & granite-hard memory. This is the story of an ancient place; where hunter-gatherers penetrated into the virgin interior where Celtic warlords ruled the Romans came but could not conquer where the glittering kingdom of Northumbria thrived the place where David Mac Malcolm raised great abbeys where the border rivers rode into history & where Walter Scott sat at Abbotsford & brooded on the area's rich & historic legacy. ...

This title is suitable for children of ages 6 to 12 years. Watch out world because here they come! Children turned on by life energised by the outdoors puzzled by magic tricks engaged by discovering their roots uplifted by the pure fun of it all. Avery Hart & Paul Mantell may be the only grown-ups who could write Boredom Busters!" because they are more child than grown-up when you come right down to it. & their energy is infectious & inspiring! There is a lot for everyone
- indoors & outdoors from nature & ecology to music & sports from a wild time in the garden to a quiet time at home."
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The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption nepotism & greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful voracious Rodrigo Borgia better known to history as Pope Alexander VI was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power & fame
- Lucrezia Borgia his daughter whose husband was famously murdered by her brother & that brother Cesare who served as the model for Niccolo Machiavellis The Prince. Notorious for seizing power wealth land & titles through bribery marriage & murder the dynastys dramatic rise from its Spanish roots to its occupation of the highest position in Renaissance society forms a gripping tale. Erudite witty & always insightful Hibbert removes the layers of myth around the Borgia family & creates a portrait alive with his superb sense of character & place.
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A fully updated edition of Gimsons 2006 biography with new material covering Boriss years as Mayor of London. His distinctive appearance (Like a haystack on a bicycle) befuddled manner & ready wit have assured a high media profile & a large fanbase with the general public. In 2008 he was elected Mayor of London with over 1 million votes the largest personal mandate of any UK politician. In this the first & most authoritative biography of Boris Andrew Gimson investigates Boris twin-faced dilemma
- politics or entertainment
- & asks how deep his political ambition runs. Boris has transcended his class education & his various occupations (Mayor of London Conservative MP for Henley-on-Thames Conservative spokesman for Higher Education columnist on the Daily Telegraph motoring correspondent for GQ novelist TV presenter) to become a paradoxical character
- the old Etonian who fascinates teenagers as well as grandparents the classical scholar who is also a TV quiz-show contestant. Despite being a comic actor of genius he is not just an act & Andrew Gimsons biography covers all facets of this complex individual. There is his exotic Turkish ancestry his place among five siblings his competitive relationship with his father Stanley the distinguished university career his five years as a journalist in Brussels his first failed venture into politics (I fought Clwyd South
- & Clwyd South fought back) overseeing the Spectator during the David Blunkett affair & the Liverpool editorial fiasco which led to Boris sacking from the shadow cabinet his exile & return under David Cameron his two marriages four children & love affairs. Interviewing Boris contemporaries his family & his detractors Andrew Gimson has created a fascinating & amusing portrait of this unique man of our times.



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When Miss Cluck tells her little pupils that there is going to be a new animal in their class they are all very excited. In fact there are squeals of delight. Nobody expects the new animal to be a grizzly bear! So when a rather bashful Boris enters the room Leticia the rabbit Fergus the fox cub Maxwell the mole & the little mice.. .scream! Boris is upset. He doesn't mean to be scary. He just wants to make friends. But he spends a lonely miserable first day at school he's just too big to fit in. When it's home time Boris trudges through the woods far behind the others. After all it seems to him that none of them wants to be his friend. Then he sees some rats up ahead as they jump out from behind the trees. Boris hurries along to introduce himself (ever hopeful of making new friends) but once again his big bear grin terrifies the rats. However to his astonishment in scaring off the bullies Boris has truly endeared himself to Maxwell Leticia Fergus & the mice. A beautifully-observed story with a positive message about friendship & acceptance. ...

Once upon a time there were two geese called Mr & Mrs Plumpster. Each Spring they returned to the marshes of their ancestors & Mrs Plumpster layed her eggs. Soon six fine young Plumpsters hatched: Archie Freda Jennifer Oswald Timothy & Borka. But Borka was different. Borka had no feathers & could not fly. When winter came the other geese flew off in search of warmer climates leaving Borka all alone. But her adventure was only just beginning... ...

Borley Rectory in Essex built in 1862 should have been an ordinary Victorian clergymans house. However just a year after its construction unexplained footsteps were heard within the house & from 1900 until it burned down in 1939 numerous paranormal phenomena including phantom coaches & shattering windows were observed. In 1929 the house was investigated by the Daily Mail" & paranormal researcher Harry Price & it was he who called it the most haunted house in England. Price also took out a lease of the rectory from 1937 to 1938 recruiting forty-eight official observers to monitor occurences. After his death in 1948 the water was muddied by claims that Prices findings were not genuine paranormal activity & ever since there has been a debate over what really went on at Borley Rectory. Paul Adams Eddie Brazil & Peter Underwood here present a comprehensive guide to the history of the house & the ghostly (or not) goings-on there." ...

Kylie Galen has had a lot of crap tossed in her lap. Her parents are getting a divorce. Her boyfriend broke up with her because she wouldn't put out. Her grandmother died & now Kylie's acquired a stalker. Unfortunately she's the only one who seems to be able to see the stalker. & that gets her sent to a psychologist's sofa. The kooky psychologist gets Kylie sent to Shadow Falls Camp. Kylie & her parents think it's a camp for troubled teens. They thought wrong. It's a camp of supernaturals: vampires werewolves fairies witches & shape shifters. & if she believes the camp leader Kylie is one of them too. ...