A truly beautiful book about the summer that changed one girls life as her mum leaves home travellers set up camp in the familys field her older brother goes off the rails & she falls in love for the very first time. Opening with a funeral Iris is mourning the boy in the casket
- but who is it? Sam her tearaway brother or Trick her tentative boyfriend? Over one long hot summer we find out just how their three lives were turned upside-down.
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This book is the outcome of lectures given by Brian Thorne in Salisbury Cathedral & St Julians church in Norwich. It gives powerful insights into the passionate commitment of a bridge-builder between the worlds of counselling & psychotherapy & mystical theology. Readers will have glimpses of the author in the roles of army officer schoolmaster counsellor writer university professor & life-long member of the Anglican church. They will also learn much about American psychologist & psychotherapist Carl Rogers the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich & the remarkable British therapist & educator George Lyward. Lovers of Cyprus will be transported to the Mediterranean island whose history symbolises the yearnings the hope & the despair of a struggling humanity. This is a book which feeds the mind nourishes the soul & provokes a response. ...

Teenager Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything. Streetwise tough & savvy his quick sarcasm is renowned. But his whole world is suddenly turned upside down on the night his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters
- immortal vampire-slayers who risk everything to save humanity
- & he quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger & more dangerous one that's filled with all kinds of evil. However before he can even learn the rules of this new world his fellow students start turning into flesh-eating members of the undead. Nick knows he's in real danger & he soon has a lot more to deal with than starting high school: he's under pressure to hide his new friends from his mother & his chainsaw from the principal while trying to impress the girl he has a crush on
- all without getting grounded suspended...or killed. *** Also available as a manga adaptation***


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In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints rosters of soldiers catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants & hordes of treasure. The poetics of lists can be found from Homer to Joyce from the treasures of Gothic cathedrals to the fantastic landscapes of Bosch & cabinets of curiosities until we get to Andy Warhol & Damien Hirst in the 20th century. This illustrated essay is accompanied by a literary anthology & a wide selection of works of art illustrating the texts presented. ...

We are living in a Golden Age of Physics. Forty or so years ago three brilliant yet little-known scientists
- an American a Dutchman
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This classic Big Bang text neatly describes what happened after the bang. Yet until recently particle physicists & cosmologists were stuck on many questions that the Big Bang Theory still couldnt answer primarily: If matter can neither be created nor destroyed how could so much matter arise from nothing at all? Alan Guths Inflationary Universe Theory answers these vexing questions. When NASAs Cosmic Background Explorer satellite measured the non-uniformities of the cosmic background radiation for the first time in 1992 the patterns agreed exquisitely with the theorys predictions. ...

The perfect companion to any flight
- a guide to the science on view from your window seat. There are few times when science is
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Influence" the classic book on persuasion explains the psychology of why people say "yes"
- & how to apply these
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An INFLUENCER motivates others to change. An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills. An INFLUENCER makes things happen. This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER. Whether youre a CEO a parent or merely a person who wants to make a difference you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult if not impossible. We develop complicated coping strategies when we should be learning the tools & techniques of the worlds most influential people. But this is about to change. From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes Influencer a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists & business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. Youll be taught each & every step of the influence process-including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life your business & your world. Youll learn how to: Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid & profound change. Apply strategies for changing both thoughts & actions. Marshall six sources of influence to make change inevitable. Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand where youll see how seemingly insignificant" people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. Youll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable & sustainable but inevitable. Youll discover why some managers have increased productivity repeatedly & significantly-while others have failed miserably. No matter who you are or what you do youll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles & skills. Once you tap into the power of influence you can reach out & help others work smarter grow faster live look & feel better even save lives. The sky is the limit!for an Influencer. Are you an Influencer ? Find out at www.influencerbook.com " You dont have to be a manager to realize that no one likes being told what to do. Yet lectures are still the main way we try to get people to change their behavior. Fortunately social learning academics have been studying alternatives for decades. Patterson & his fellow consultants have now collected their findings in this engaging example-rich book. The key message is hardly new but it has gotten more sophisticated: Managers need to get out of the way & facilitate not manage the process of change for employees. They can do this by offering vicarious experiences restructured environments peer pressure & frequent tests-all geared so that people embrace the change as authentic to them not imposed by an outsider. Missing are only success stories of organizations that persuaded managers to drop their controlling habits & choose to be mere facilitators."-John T. Landry Harvard Business Review" ...

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012 the world's leading prize for popular science writing. We live in the information age. But every era of history has had its own information revolution: the invention of writing the composition of dictionaries the creation of the charts that made navigation possible the discovery of the electronic signal the cracking of the genetic code. In ' The Information' James Gleick tells the story of how human beings use transmit & keep what they know. From African talking drums to Wikipedia from Morse code to the 'bit' it is a fascinating account of the modern age's defining idea & a brilliant exploration of how information has revolutionised our lives. ...