These days many of us enjoy unrivalled freedom & equality when it comes to choosing & building a relationship. Yet new myths about how to live & love compromise that happiness. Kate Figes argues that whether married or cohabiting gay or straight remarried or a couple living apart the quality of our intimate relationship is fundamental to our long-term health & happiness because our need for commitment & love hasnt changed. This is not a handbook. There are no easy Mars & Venus universal recipes for success because relationships are far too complicated individual & important for easy answers. But learning how others sustain lifelong love & what really goes on in other peoples lives can help us to understand our own partnerships & take responsibility for making them work. Couples is an incisive & important look at how we can learn to make love endure. ...

Here&8217;s a great gift idea for you & your partner or that special couple in your life; a year&8217;s subscription to Love Dining the two-for-one dining club. A Love Dining membership entitles you & your partner to unlimited two-for-one meals at over 1 000 fabulous restaurants for a whole year. Enjoy delicious discounts at a wide selection of restaurants from intimate bistros to charming country inns; award-winning fine-dining to hearty home-cooked fayre. Plus as a special bonus Love Dining members receive monthly recipes from leading chefs so you can create romantic meals & dinner party dishes in the comfort of your own home. ...

Profound loss & disappointment are emotions that each of us will experience at some point in our lives. Loss is one of the most difficult experiences to come to terms with. The Courage to Grieve explores how we can deal with every kind of grief revealing:
- How grief manifests itself in many ways ranging from anguish exhaustion emptiness resentment longing tension confusion sleeplessness & sometimes the temporary loss of the will to live.
- How we can help ourselves & others to cope with the immediate experience of death & the grief & mourning period that follows.- How children & adults cope with grief in different ways.
- What we should do mentally & physically to prepare ourselves for loss & bereavement.
- How grief can transform our lives in unexpected ways encouraging joys & growth. The Courage to Grieve offers spiritual optimistic creative & practical guidance & shows us how to live with courage not fearing death.



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Based on the experiences of hundreds of child abuse survivors The Courage to Heal profiles victims who share the challenges & triumphs of their personal healing processes. Inspiring & comprehensive it offers mental emotional & physical support to all people who are in the process of rebuilding their lives. The Courage to Heal offers hope encouragement & practical advice to every woman who was sexually abused as a child & answers some vital questions including: -How do I know if I was sexually abused? -Where does the decision to heal start? -How can I break the silence & who will listen? -How can I re-build my self-esteem intimacy & capacity to love? -What therapy support groups self-help programmes or organisations are available? ...

A Man of Action... The life of a paid mercenary makes sense to Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange. The jungles of South America are nothing that the former Green Beret can't handle. A woman's heart however
- that's dangerous territory. Back in Texas Grange's biggest problem was avoiding Peg Larson & all the complications of being attracted to a livein employee. Now Grange needs all his training to help regain control of a tiny South American nation & when Peg arrives unannounced she's a distraction he can't avoid. If she breaks through his armour traversing the wilds of the Amazon will be easier than defending himself against her feminine charms...
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This book provides an introduction to the major mathematical structures used in physics today. It covers the concepts & techniques needed for topics such as group theory Lie algebras topology Hilbert space & differential geometry. Important theories of physics such as classical & quantum mechanics thermodynamics & special & general relativity are also developed in detail & presented in the appropriate mathematical language. The book is suitable for advanced undergraduate & beginning graduate students in mathematical & theoretical physics as well as applied mathematics. It

Includes:: numerous exercises & worked examples to test the readers understanding of the various concepts as well as extending the themes covered in the main text. The only prerequisites are elementary calculus & linear algebra. No prior knowledge of group theory abstract vector spaces or topology is required.

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One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style yet succinct to the point of sharpness this is one of the great historian's finest if more controversial accomplishments. As Taylor himself noted 'the history of the Germans is a history of extremes. It contains everything except moderation.' He could of course simply be referring to his own book. ...

The Course of My Life is not only the autobiography of one of the most distinguished figures of modern times but a revealing panoply of twentieth-century political international & social history. Born in 1916 Edward Heath became a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1950 following a glittering Oxford & military career & was at the heart of political life for a long time
- as Chief Whip (notably during the Suez Crisis) Minister of Labour Lord Privy Seal at the Foreign Office Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965-75 & Prime Minister from 1970 to 1974. Since relinquishing the leadership in 1975 he has maintained a central role in world affairs as well as pursuing his wide musical & sailing interests. Edward Heath writes his autobiography with complete (and often very amusing) candour offering us valuable & entertaining insights into the events of the past sixty years. He describes the importance of a united Europe one of the driving influences in his life since he observed a Nuremberg Rally as an undergraduate & his continuing thoughts on the subject after he took us into the European Community in the 1970s. He discusses the changes in the Conservative Party in his period as an MP & his modernisation of it as its leader & the major issues of domestic policy not least the economy the trade unions & the Troubles in Northern Ireland; these are set against his range of activities on the international stage including his negotiations with China & Saddam Hussein shortly before the outbreak of the Gulf War in 1991. Both as a record of a momentous & unequalled career & as an important & frank document of personalities & events The Course of My Life is as entertaining as it is revealing.
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Tennis has never before been blessed with such an array of talented stars doing battle for the sport's most coveted titles. Games featuring Murray Nadal Federer Djokovic the Williams sisters & Maria Sharapova are among the most thrilling matches in the history of the game
- & Neil Harman has witnessed them all. He is so close to the beating heart of tennis that he has become a confidant to many of the game's stars & administrators even at one stage mentoring Victoria Azarenka to help her handle the media pressure at the top of the women's game. In short Neil enjoys a privileged access that is unmatched elsewhere in the sport. Here he shares tennis's most intimate secrets in a book replete with personality excitement drama & intrigue. Featuring frank in-depth interviews with all the leading players their coaching staff their agents & managers Harman presents the game from an insider's perspective & offers the fresh insights & strong personal views for which he is celebrated. Court Confidential recounts a defining time for modern-day tennis: from Wimbledon to the Olympic Games from Serena Williams's battle with illness to Andy Murray's historic grand slam victory this is a book for tennis fans everywhere.
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Bahrami also talks about his friendships with some of the great tennis players
- Bjorn Borg John Mc Enroe Jimmy Connors Ilie Nastase
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