You're about to discover the key to instant confidence. Offering quick-fix confidence boosts based on the principles of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) this easy-to-use down-to-earth guide will enable you to overcome the key barriers to confidence that can affect all areas of your work & personal life from big presentations to awkward social situations. You'll discover how to: -visualise success (rather than failure) -master body language -prepare effectively (rather than exhaustively) -harness your nerves & much much more. With Tony Wrighton's help you'll feel more confident in minutes not weeks or months. ...

When a child believes he is bad he behaves badly-and parents react badly which will only reinforce the childs belief that he is bad. But confident parents can break this cycle & improve their childs misbehavior says child development specialist Bonnie Harris. Using Harriss eight parenting principles designed to help children succeed parents will learn the following truths: my child wants to be successful behavior is the signal to my childs emotional state inappropriate behavior means my child is having a problem not being a problem my needs are no more or no less important than my childs I accept my child as a competent & unique individual the behavior I focus on grows I need to say what my child can hear good discipline requires connection punishment breaks connection Putting these principles to work allows parents to abandon the typical reward & punishment system of discipline (which alienates child & parent) & replace it with a more compassionate successful approach that brings parent & child together. With Harriss plan parents will gain the confidence & skills to raise remarkable kids they will love to live with-and vice versa. ...

' There is a wonderful plan for your life. You can hold your head up high & be filled with complete confidence about yourself & your future. You can be bold & step out to do new things
- even things no man or woman has done before. You have what it takes!' THE CONFIDENT WOMAN will enable you to live with purpose & fulfil your true potential. Joyce Meyer's Number One New York Times bestselling book: ? Gives you the keys to living a life of confidence & independence ? Shows why you can live without fear ? Helps you overcome the barriers of the world's false expectations & the emotional damage of abuse ? Identifies the ' Seven Secrets of a Confident Woman' Joyce writes with the benefit of over three decades ministering to women. The message in this book is based on her personal journey from insecurity & self-hatred
- caused by childhood abuse
- to a life characterised by inspiring confidence & realising her full potential


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THE CONFIDENT WOMAN has sold over 400 000 copies since its publication in 2006 & remains Joyce Meyers only number one New York Times bestselling book. It continues to sell an average of over 100 000 copies a year; clearly she tapped into the concerns & issues that trouble women most. In this devotional based on THE CONFIDENT WOMAN The Root of Rejection & APPROVAL ADDICTION Meyer provides encouragement & tools to help address & resolve problems in an area of life that women struggle with. It is easy to get caught up in what the coming weeks months or years might hold & forget to slow down & live in the present. This powerful daily devotional will help women on their journey towards a confident life filled with love laughter & Gods acceptance one day at time. ...

1849: Bess Hardemon arrives at the grimly Dickensian Priors Heath school little knowing that she will one day end up as an inspiring & legendary headmistress
- but at considerable personal cost. 1970: Sarah Beckett is delighted to gain a place at Priors Heath
- as much for the pride of her parents as for herself
- but will she fit in? The plight of a nineteenth century schoolteacher trapped by her duty to her job is mirrored by a modern day woman's fight to escape the shackles of a broken marriage. Bess Hardemon a tough & canny young teacher is determined to make a difference at her new school. At the cost of her own chance of finding love Bess remains trapped by her duty a confinement echoed a century later by Sarah who must make her own choice between duty & her efforts to save a broken marriage.


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Bernardo Bertoluccis Il conformista (The Conformist) (1970) a political drama set in Mussolinis Fascist Italy is widely recognised as a masterpiece of post-war cinema a classic of Italian & European cinema & an inspiration for many other film-makers particularly those of the American New Wave. Christopher Wagstaffs illuminating study of the film traces its pre-production & production history considering how Bertolucci adapted Alberto Moravias source novel for the screen. He provides a careful analysis of Il conformistas formal stylistic & aesthetic strategies paying close attention to editing lighting & mise en scene & their contribution to the films impact. Wagstaff also addresses debates about the sexual politics of the film & its place in a wider political & cultural debate about the legacy of fascism. This special edition of Il conformista is published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series. ...

Drawing on thirty years of writing about Greek & Roman history Mary Beard takes us on an exhilarating journey through the extraordinary riches of the classical heritage & why it still matters. Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists
- a brilliant academic with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting & her books. In a series of sparkling essays she explores our rich classical heritage
- from Greek drama to Roman jokes introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history such as Alexander the Great Nero & Boudicca. She also invites you into the places where Greeks & Romans lived & died from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria
- & reveals the often hidden world of slaves. She brings back to life some of the greatest writers of antiquity
- including Thucydides Cicero & Tacitus
- & takes a fresh look at both scholarly controversies & popular interpretations of the ancient world from The Golden Bough" to " Asterix". The fruit of over thirty years in the world of classical scholarship " Classical Traditions" captures the world of antiquity & its modern significance with wit verve & scholarly expertise."




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London & Sussex 1942. The English family in turmoil.. . The long dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicle. As the war enters its fourth year chaos has become a way of life. Both in the still peaceful Sussex countryside & in air-raid-threatened London the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives.. . Confusion is the third volume in The Cazalet Chronicle. The next & final novel in the series is Casting Off. ...

A major standalone space opera this is Garth Nixs first novel for older readers since the conclusion of the Old Kingdom trilogy...and its worth the wait. A grand adventure that spans galaxies & lifetimes A Confusion of Princes is also a page-turning action adventure. These are the three deaths of Prince Khemri. Told in his own words we follow him as he trains to become a Prince of the Empire an enhanced human being equipped with biological & technological improvements that make him faster stronger & smarter than any ordinary person. Not to mention the ultimate bene
Fit: should he die & be deemed worthy he will be reborn... Which is just as well because no sooner has Prince Khemri graduated to full Princehood than he learns the terrible truth behind the Empire: there are a million princes & all of them want each other dead because there can only be one Emperor...
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From the Foreword by Professor Tom Devine: Arnold Kemp one of the greatest of Scottish journalists & editors of the 20th century died prematurely at the age of 63 in 2002. He edited The Herald with memorable elan & panache between 1981 & 1994 & his prolific writings also regularly graced the pages of the Scotsman the Guardian & the Observer in a career which spanned more than four decades from the year he began his first job in journalism in 1959 as a sub-editor on the Scotsman fresh out of Edinburgh University. Kemp left behind him a rich personal but un-catalogued archive of newspaper articles chapters in books & opinion pieces. These have now been expertly harvested & selected by his daughter Jackie. Reading them it is clear that her father was a master of his trade & that his published work provides a perceptive & illuminating guide to the key historical events of his lifetime in Scotl&. This book encompasses the arly rise of nationalism the traumatic de-industrialisation & then transformation of the economy in the 1980s the impact of the Thatcher governments on Scotland the halting progress toward devolution & then the successful establishment of the Scottish Parliament in the last decade of the century. These events & others are all recorded here not in the arid descriptive prose of the chronicler but with the eloquence punch & insight for which Kemp was noted. As a result the recent Scottish past is brought alive in an engaging & highly readable fashion. The immediacy of the reportage the sense of a writer who because of his journalistic & editorial eminence knew all the principal actors involved & was close to the unfolding of great events are all plainly evident to the reader. But Kemp also scorns mediocrity incompetence humbug & hypocrisy in the political & cultural life of the nation & several of the excerpts are also fair & balanced judgements perhaps most notably in the evaluation of the impact of Margaret Thatcher on Scotl&. There is a liveliness & breadth in the writing redolent of Kemps own personal wide international horizons his travels in America & Europe love of conviviality & the craic. The passion for life shines through. This is an important text for anyone wishing to come to a fuller understanding of how Scotland developed from the dark days of the Second World War to the current debates over independence. It is also a hugely enjoyable read which many will savour with interest & delight for its own sake. ...