The groundbreaking bestseller that redefines intelligence & success Does IQ define our destiny? Daniel Goleman argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow & that our emotions play major role in thought decision making & individual success. Self-awareness impulse control persistence motivation empathy & social deftness are all qualities that mark people who excel: whose relationships flourish who are stars in the workplace. With new insights into the brain architecture underlying emotion & rationality Goleman shows precisely how emotional intelligence can be nurtured & strengthened in all of us. ...

Protect yourself from people who take undue advantage & suck the energy out of your life Emotional Vampires will help you cope effectively with the people in your life that confound you confuse you & seem to sap every ounce of your energy. Bestselling author Dr. Al Bernstein shows you how to recognize each vampire type--antisocial histrionic narcissists obsessive-compulsives paranoids--and deal with them effectively. He uses many examples from the latest news headlines which will help you distinguish between the types & deepen your understanding of each one. In response to the daily calls & emails he got about the previous edition of this book Dr. Al Bernstein has added his advice for dealing with those emotional vampires who come in the shape of spouses & lovers relatives & children. Dr. Bernstein shows you how to deal with each vampire type & what you need to do to keep from getting drained. ...

Engel doesnt just describe-she shows us the way out." -Susan Forward author of Emotional Blackmail Praise for the emotionally abusive relationship " In this book Beverly Engel clearly & with caring offers step-by-step strategies to stop emotional abuse...helping both victims & abusers to identify the patterns of this painful & traumatic type of abuse. This book is a guide both for individuals & for couples stuck in the tragic patterns of emotional abuse." -Marti Loring Ph.D. author of Emotional Abuse & coeditor of The Journal of Emotional Abuse " This groundbreaking book succeeds in helping people stop emotional abuse by focusing on both the abuser & the abused & showing each party what emotional abuse is how it affects the relationship & how to stop it. Its unique focus on the dynamic relationship makes it more likely that each person will grasp the tools for change & really use them." -Randi Kreger author of The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook & owner of BPDCentral.com The number of people who become involved with partners who abuse them emotionally and/or who are emotionally abusive themselves is phenomenal & yet emotional abuse is the least understood form of abuse. In this breakthrough book Beverly Engel one of the worlds leading experts on the subject shows us what it is & what to do about it. Whether you suspect you are being emotionally abused fear that you might be emotionally abusing your partner or think that both you & your partner are emotionally abusing each other this book is for you. The Emotionally Abusive Relationship will tell you how to identify emotional abuse & how to find the roots of your behavior. Combining dramatic personal stories with action steps to heal Engel provides prescriptive strategies that will allow you & your partner to work together to stop bringing out the worst in each other & stop the abuse. By teaching those who are being emotionally abused how to help themselves & those who are being emotionally abusive how to stop abusing The Emotionally Abusive Relationship offers the expert guidance & support you need." ...

Emotions are the driving force when an artist puts brush to canvas. This is the fifth fine-art book by the Guild of Railway Artists since being formed just over 30 years ago but one with a difference. Earlier titles adhered to a specific theme but this time the artists have been given the freedom to choose their own railway scene. They were simply asked to paint pictures of subjects that have inspired them personally. This is unusual for many of the artists concerned as more often than not they work to strict commissions. This is a unique selection of paintings by Britains top railway artists. ...

Using 40 years of groundbreaking research Paul Ekman explores why & when we become emotional & what happens when we do
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Welcome to Absurdia: a strange & wonderful land where nothing is quite what it seems. Trees are birds umbrellas are trees & the sky is thick with snoring fish. Join one small boy as he tumbles out of bed into a crazy dreamland of wardrobe monsters dragons & amazing adventure. This gloriously rich & beautiful picture book comes from a uniquely talented artist at the height of his powers. With a story to enchant the youngest reader & pictures to gasp & pore over whatever your age it is an extraordinary achievement & one to savour. ...

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize In The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee doctor researcher & award-winning science writer examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision a historian's perspective & a biographer's passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid & eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with
- & perished from
- for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity resilience & perseverance but also of hubris arrogance & misperception all leveraged against a disease that just three decades ago was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out 'war against cancer'. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries setbacks victories & deaths told through the eyes of predecessors & peers training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. From the Persian Queen Atossa whose Greek slave cut off her malignant breast to the nineteeth-century recipient of primitive radiation & chemotherapy & Mukherjee's own leukemia patient Carla The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic bruising & draining regimes to survive & to increase the store of human knowledge. Riveting & magesterial The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments & a brilliant new perspective on the way doctors scientists philosophers & lay people have observed & understood the human body for millennia.

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In February 1940 the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz. Its chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski a sixty-three-year-old Jewish businessman & orphanage director & the elusive authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very existence. From one of Scandinavia's most critically acclaimed & bestselling authors The Emperor of Lies" chronicles the tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter of a million Jews. Drawing on the chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto Steve Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience & questions the nature of good & evil." ...

Like his father before him Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery & knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But also like his father Octavio has never mastered the art of reading & his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a few streets away Isabeau works out of sight in the basement of the Louvre trying to forget her disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores & the stories she reads. The two might never have met but for a curious chain of coincidences involving an impoverished painter a jaded bookseller & a book of fairytales lost & found... Evocative romantic & wise this is a magical novel about the power of stories
- to help us find enchantment freedom & sometimes even love.
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The Grey Knights are all that stands between mankind & the ravages of Chaos. Since their secretive beginnings during the Horus Heresy these legendary Space Marine daemon hunters have journeyed into the dark realms of the warp
- & beyond
- in pursuit of their supernatural enemies. Through an intensive regime of psychic training new recruits are brought to the clandestine fortress of Titan to join the hallowed & vaunted ranks of the 666th Chapter. More than ever these legendary battle-brothers must be vigilant & ever ready to defend the Imperium for the forces of Chaos are never truly defeated & Armageddon beckons -

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