This sensitive & compassionate book provides older people who are nearing the end of life & their loved ones as well as the professionals who work with them with a greater depth of understanding of spiritual issues surrounding death & dying. Illustrated with the experiences of many older people it explores important themes such as grief & loss; fear; pain distress & suffering; acceptance; transcendence; prayer; the healing of relationships; & intimacy & shows that the final journey towards death can be one of the most spiritually meaningful times in the life of an older person
- a time in which there is still hope & in which the person who is dying & their loved ones can grow spiritually strengthened by the difficult times they face together. Spiritual issues for older people with dementia who are nearing the end of life are also explored as are ethical & moral issues in death & dying & the ways in which bereaved partners & relatives may come to terms with the loss of a loved one. This concise & accessible book will be a valuable resource for those in the caring professions & a rich source of guidance & support for older people who are nearing the end of life & their families.
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Palm oil is the quintessence of West Africa
- it is complex an acquired taste & reckoned to be rather unhealthy. Small chop is
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Reveal the secrets of your personality through the ancient art of palm reading with this practical easy-to-follow guide. Lavishly illustrated throughout this comprehensive guide to palmistry explains all of the principles & practices necessary to read the palm of the h&. With sections covering fingerprint patterns & handprints interpreting the meaning of the life line love line & fate line & predicting key events from the details of your hands this fascinating book gives an insight into the world of palmistry. Step-by-step photography throughout explains how to read personality & health indicators from fingerprints discover your perfect career & assess relationships & compatibility. ...

Palmistry has traditionally been blighted by superstition & hocus-pocus. Its been impossible to learn the art from a long list of signs markings & squiggles to remember. Until now that is. Heres a simple common-sense guide that works. You can start palm reading after a few hours of study with this book. Using the modern language of psychology rational observation & common sense youll be amazed at how much you can see in your own or anyones palm. Try it
- it works!
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Palo Alto" is the debut of a powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediacy & sense of place " Palo Alto" traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds struggle with their families & one another & succumb to self-destructive often heartless nihilism. Franco presents his characters in all their raw humanity while at the same time providing insight into the teenage mind. In the classic American tradition of story-cycles such as Sherwood Andersons Winesburg Ohio " Palo Alto" presents a stark vivid disturbing but above all compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth." ...

Palpation & Assessment Skills" has been designed & developed to help the student & practitioner to understand & acquire the palpatory skills that are the foundation of all effective manual therapy assessments & treatments. Subtlety & sensitivity of touch & the accurate interpretation of palpation findings & tests are essential aspects of all manual therapy professions. While it is difficult to learn these from written descriptions or static illustrations alone by combining a workbook approach with the use of video demonstrations & audio explanations on a DVD " Palpation & Assessment Skills" provides the student & developing practitioner with a portable workshop that they can access at any time." ...

The Works contains 120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems including ' The Battery Hen' ' Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?' ' Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire Mother' & of course ' Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth'. This edition

Includes:: a general introduction by Pam as well as individual introductions to these classic poems of the seventies & eighties many of which are now illustrated with specially commissioned line drawings by Susan Hellard. The Works is certain to delight Pam's fans of all ages.

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This work features the complete first series of the hilarious gardening comedy starring Pam Ayres & Geoffrey Whitehead. Pam & Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a rural garden centre. While Pam still feels young & is determined to avoid the slippery slope into middle-age Gordon seems keen to dive in
- slippers first. Pams ally at the garden centre is teenager Carol a girl more than happy to speak her mind. If only Gordon complains there was something in her peroxide head apart from boob jobs alco-pops Johnny Depp & bronzed chests smothered in baby oil. Naive deputy manager Dave though older than Carol is smitten. Luckily he has Pam to advise him on the route to Carols heart: like pointing out that metal detecting is not a good idea for a hot date! & how could the garden centre survive without the ancient & quite frankly bizarre Roy the highly inaccurate singer of pop songs & runner-up in the Gloucester beauty pageant? Will Pams last fling at life adventure & fun overcome Gordons passion for comfortable trousers caravanning & penny-pinching? Let battle among the begonias commence!
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O the deceitfulness of the heart of man! This John whom I took to be the honestest of men.. .this very fellow was all the while a vile hypocrite & a perfidious wretch & helping to carry on my ruin. Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews alone in the world is pursued by her dead mistress son. Although she is attracted to Mr B she holds out against his demands determined to protect her virginity & abide by her moral standards. Psychlologically acute in its explorations of sex freedom & power Richardsons first novel caused a sensation when it was published. Richly comic & lively Pamela" contains a diverse cast of characters ranging from the vulgar & malevolent Mrs Jewkes to the agressive but awkward country squire. This is the " Penguin English Library"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."
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Samuel Richardsons Pamela" is a captivating story of one young womans rebellion against the social order edited by Peter Sabor with an introduction by Margaret Ann Doody in " Penguin Classics". Fifteen-year-old Pamela Andrews alone in the world is pursued by her dead mistress son. Although she is attracted to Mr B she holds out against his demands & threats of abduction & rape determined to protect her virginity & abide by her moral standards. Psychologically acute in its explorations of sex freedom & power Richardsons first novel caused a sensation when it was published with its depiction of a servant heroine who dares to assert herself. Richly comic & full of lively scenes & descriptions " Pamela" contains a diverse cast of characters ranging from the vulgar & malevolent Mrs Jewkes to the aggressive but awkward country squire who serves this unusual love story as both its villain & hero. In her introduction Margaret Ann Doody discusses the epistolary genre of novels & examines the role of women & class differences. This edition based on the 1801 text & incorporating corrections made in 1810 makes Richardsons final version of the two-volume generally available for the first time. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) was born in Derbyshire the son of a joiner. He received little formal education but in 1706 was apprenticed to a London printer going on to become a leading figure of the trade in the capital. " Pamela" originated as a volume of model letters for unskilled letter-writers but as Richardson became more fascinated by the characters in his letters than the letters themselves the germ of a novel began to emerge. Upon its publication in 1740 " Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded" became a national sensation. If you enjoyed " Pamela" you might like Daniel Defoes " Moll Flanders" also available in " Penguin Classics"." ...