Post-traumatic stress disorder is a term were hearing a lot of these days as members of our military return home shell shocked by battle experiences. But you dont have to have been on the battlefield to suffer from PTSD in fact anyone whos been in a very stressful situation can develop it. Stressful conditions can range from a terrorist attack to a serious car accident to sexual abuse or even bullying at school or work. If you think that you or someone you care about may have been affected by PTSD then this book will help you understand what caused your problem what the symptoms are & where to get help. Most importantly of all it suggests ways for you to help yourself & a sense of empowerment is important in an illness that leaves a person feeling helpless. In this book weve put together the information that will help you make the decisions & find the help you or your loved one will need to reclaim your life & happiness. ...

In the decades around 1900 postcards were Twitter e-mail Flickr & Facebook all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the globe wreaking havoc on international postal systems & giving rise to anecdotes about overburdened postmen who had to leave bags of cards undelivered. Many of these cards were thrown away after they had served their purpose. But not all as the craze for buying & sending postcards was married to a craze for collecting them. Millions upon millions of postcards were never posted; instead they were tucked into boxes & albums unused & in mint condition. Drawing on one of the finest & most comprehensive collections of postcards anywhere The Postcard Age" traces how big historical & cultural themes of the modern era played out on the postcards tiny canvas. Taken together the almost 400 postcards represented in this book provide a vivid picture of the concerns trends & pastimes of another era as well as a sampler of the artistic & historical riches offered by these messengers of the modern age." ...

WATFORD has witnessed an unprecedented number of changes over the years. The nineteenth & early twentieth centuries saw a great industrial & residential expansion which was followed by the Blitz the reconstruction & the changes of the 1960s & 1970s to accommodate the growing traffic. Watford has been fortunate in having a number of dedicated photographers to record the developments as they happened. This informative & interesting volume places an emphasis on the people of Watford
- where they worked how they travelled & what they did to relax & enjoy themselves. This brand new selection of images from John Cooper is sure to surprise & delight anyone who knows & loves this area.
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From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted as well as their magnificent liners the routes they travelled their exotic destinations & life on board. These paintings rich in imagination & atmosphere appeared on posters & postcards to advertise the companies & their ships; & so was born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of images that form a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner. Here bought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards are the ships in which so many of our predecessors sailed as emigrants soldiers or administrators in distant lands or simply as tourists. These cards
- now highly collectible
- show how the ships developed over the years & are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. A glossary of some 170 illustrators forms an important reference section in the book; the author also gives useful advice on collecting. This new paperback edition will be sought after by postcard collectors as well as liner enthusiasts & by all those with an interest in the vanished world of elegant travel on the finest ships of their day. An evocative story of the vanished world of elegant ships & leisurely travel.. .sumptuous. Western Morning News This is a really fabulous book. Ocean Liner Society

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NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europes most gorgeous cities. But the sights arent what draw him
- he sees each museum
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Postcards From a Rock & Roll Tour" is drummer Gordon Marshalls witty & wry take on life on the road touring with legendary rock band The Moody Blues. Part memoir part travelogue its a candid unexpected & often hilarious account of just what its like to travel around the world playing to sell-out audiences living out of a suitcase & spending days & days on a tour bus. If you thought being in a rock band was all sex drugs & rock & roll then think again." ...

This is a collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway station looking for a good book for the journey to London. His disappointment at the poor range of paperbacks on offer led him to found Penguin Books. The quality paperback had arrived. Declaring that 'good design is no more expensive than bad' Lane was adamant that his Penguin paperbacks should cost no more than a packet of cigarettes but that they should always look distinctive. Ever since then from their original
- now world-famous
- look featuring three bold horizontal stripes through many different stylish inventive & iconic cover designs Penguin's paperback jackets have been a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture. & whether they're for classics crime reference or prize-winning novels they still follow Allen Lane's original design mantra. Sometimes you definitely should judge a book by its cover.

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This is a unique collection of 100 postcards each featuring a different & iconic Puffin book cover. From picture books to paperbacks teen fiction to Puffin Classics" this is a selection from seventy years of outstanding British design & illustration in one sturdy little box." ...

When we first meet the extraordinary young actress Suzanne Vale shes feeling like something on the bottom of someones shoe & not even someone interesting. Suzanne is in the harrowing & hilarious throes of drug rehabilitation trying to understand what happened to her life & how she managed to land in a drug hospital. Just as Fishers first film role-the precocious teenager in Shampoo-echoed her own Beverly Hills upbringing her first book is set within the world she knows better than anyone else: Hollywood. More of a fiction montage than a novel in the conventional sense this stunning literary debut chronicles Suzannes vivid excruciatingly funny experiences
- from the clinic to her coming to terms with life in the outside world. Conversations with her psychiatrist What worries me is what if this guy is really the one for me & I havent had enough therapy to be comfortable with having found him?; a high-concept eighties-style affair The only way to become intimate for me is repeated exposure. My route to intimacy is routine. I establish a pattern with somebody & then I notice when theyre not there? Sparked by Suzannes & Carrie Fishers deliciously wry sense of the absurd Postcards from the Edge is more than a book about stardom & drugs. It is a revealing look at the dangers
- & delights
- of all our addictions from money & success to sex & insecurity.


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The New Yorker" was launched in 1925 & offers reporting criticism essays fiction poetry humour & cartoons. From the very outset the founders Harold Ross & Jane Grant declared that their sophisticated magazine was not edited for the old lady in Dubuque. " The New Yorker" has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Cheever Roald Dahl Alice Munro Haruki Murakami Vladimir Nabokov J.D. Salinger & Shirley Jackson. From the very first issue the now iconic monocled dandy Eustace Tilley made " The New Yorkers" covers unique & pointed. These signature traits have continued right up to the present day in the striking & sometimes controversial covers from such artists as Peter Arno William Steig Saul Steinberg Jean-Jacques Sempe & Art Spiegelman. These covers were selected by Francoise Mouly." ...