Strictly Bipolar is Darian Leader's treatise on the psychological disorder of our times. If the post-war period was called the ' Age of Anxiety' & the 1980s & '90s the ' Antidepressant Era' we now live in Bipolar times. Mood-stabilising medication is routinely prescribed to adults & children alike with child prescriptions this decade increasing by 400 per cent & overall diagnoses by 4000 per cent. What could explain this explosion of bipolarity? Is it a legitimate diagnosis or the result of Big Pharma marketing? Exploring these questions Darian Leader challenges the rise of 'bipolar' as a catch-all solution to complex problems & argues that we need to rethink the highs & lows of mania & depression. What he asks do these experiences have to do with love guilt & rage? Why the spending sprees & the intense feeling of connection with the world? Why the confidence the self-esteem & the sense of a bright future that can so swiftly turn into despair & dejection? Only by looking at these questions in a new way will we be able to understand & help the person caught between feelings that can be so terrifying & so exhilarating so life-affirming yet also so lethal. Strictly Bipolar is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary views of the self bipolarity & a deeper understanding of manic-depression. Praise for Strictly Bipolar: A beautifully thoughtful understanding not just of highs & lows mania & depression but of why & how these mechanisms work in our mindsand bodies & how the human subject is coerced todayto embrace a culture of 'bipolarity'". (Susie Orbach). "A timely book. Darian Leader's thoughts are more fixated strong-arm interesting more humane & more persuasive than the profit coercion of the madness industry. Instead of the shoddy reasoning that leads to wrong treatment & over-treatment he offers illumination & insight; his book is a contribution to a debate but it could also change lives". (Hilary Mantel). Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London & a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research & of the College of Psychoanalysts
- UK. He is the author of What is Madness? The New Black Why do women write more letters than they post? Promises lovers make when it gets late Freud's Footnotes & Stealing the Mona Lisa & co-author with David Corfield of Why Do People Get Ill? He is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Human & Life Sciences Roehampton University."
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Daizys finally found her star quality
- modelling! Will Dads latest crazy scheme ruin her big break? Can Daizy save her family
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Two soldiers: Britains most celebrated military hero & a broken veteran living in the gutters of London. Their paths last crossed nearly twenty years ago. Now amidst a hostage crisis in the Middle East their lives are about to collide again. & the Strike Back is about to begin. John Porter was involved in a hostage raid in Lebanon in 1989. The raid went disastrously wrong several Regiment men died John spared the life of a Lebanese fighter & blames himself for the deaths. Struggling to come to terms with the past John has hit the bottle & is sleeping rough. Colonel Peregrine Collinson was involved in the same raid. He was awarded a Military Cross & is heralded as a military hero. After the disastrous raid their lives couldnt have been further apart. Until now. A hostage crisis in the Middle East draws the enemies back together for the first time. Who will be the hero this time? ...

This title is now an explosive television series on Sky 1. Listen to the audiobook for the full story of how ex-SAS hard-man John Porter strikes back against ruthless terrorists on the streets of Iraq. Two Soldiers. Sir Peregrine Collinson Britains most decorated military hero. & John Porter
- once one of the SAS most promising young soldiers now a broken man living rough on the streets of London. In Beirut TV reporter Katie Dartmouth has been captured by a gang of terrorists. She is to be executed unless British troops are withdrawn from Iraq. A nation holds its breath & the Government is on the edge of collapse. Both men believe they can save her. But only one of them can reach her... This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed.
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In November 1942 the RAF formed special Strike Wings to attack the heavily defended & seemingly invulnerable convoys that brought Germanys vital supplies of iron ore from Scandinavia down the coast of Europe to feed its war machine. The outcome was a series sea/air battles at close quarters fought with increasing ferocity until the last days of the war. The Germans tried everything against the Beaufighters & Mosquitos of the Strike Wings
- fighters intense flak parachute mines & even flame-throwers
- & the casualties were appallingly heavy on both sides. rn In this classic account of one of the neglected yet crucial theatres of the air war Roy Nesbit himself a survivor of strike aircraft of Coastal Command describes these complex battles from British & German records assisted by first-hand accounts from some of the brave airmen who took part. He also analyzes the effects of the tactics employed on the German war economy with some startling conclusions. The result is a fascinating clearly written & vivid history of events that were little publicized during the war for reasons of security. rn His book

Includes:: detailed diagrams of some of the key attacks & features some astonishing photographs taken in action.



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Nat has grown up travelling around the world with his Dad. Hes played football everywhere theyve lived & honed his skills on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now they are settling back at home in Engl&. Then at a community day at his favourite football team Hatton Rangers currently struggling at the bottom of the Premiership Nats talent is spotted by the clubs scout. To his & his fathers amazement he finds himself talking to the manager about a place on the first team squad. There is just the little detail of his age
- hes big for 13 but surely they cant get away with him posing as a 16-year-old the minimum age for a professional player? But the clubs veteran striker takes an immediate dislike to Nat & warns him off trying to get a place on the team. Nats suspicions are aroused & soon he begins to think there is something more to Hatton Rangers poor performance & a local reporter begins to have suspicions about Nat. What seems like every boys dream is quickly confronted by the tough reality of the world of professional football in this superbly exciting thriller.
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Yunis can't believe that he's United leading scorer. It should be the happiest time of his life but his father wants him to give up football & work hard at school. Can Yunis convince his dad that he can do both or will he have to hang up his boots forever? Stay on the ball this season with all the action from Football Academy. ...

Novelist satirist poet photographer painter alchemist & hellraiser
- August Strindberg was all these & yet he is principally known
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Taklamakan desert 1895: a new Pompeii has come to light & with it two remarkable artefacts found in a hidden burial chamber. A metal ankh & star
- covered in strange inscriptions feather-light & cool to the touch. Svalbard 1897: on the skerried islands of Svalbard a hydrogen balloon is readied for a polar voyage. Publicly it is a patriotic attempt to put Sweden in the lead of the race to the North Pole. Privately the three men on board have another objective. But S. A Andree Knut Frankel & Nils Strindberg will never be seen alive again. Falun Sweden 2011: 260 meters under the earth in a long-flooded mineshaft a divers torchbeam plays over a mouldering corpse with a fist-sized hole in its forehead. Skeletal fingers clutch a metal amulet. It is the key to the annals of a secret history so deeply buried that the few who knew of it though it lost forever. Until now...
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An imaginative tight edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller which follows an historical mystery through to its nail-biting contemporary conclusion. Present Day: Cadair Idris Snowdonia. Hannah Wilde flees to Llyn Gwyr a remote mountain farmhouse her husband bleeding to death on the passenger seat beside her. In the back of the car sits their seven year old daughter. Hannah's father is missing. Her mother is already dead. Mysterious strangers are converging on the mountain. & Hannah must decide who to trust
- & who to sacrifice
- if she's to defeat the predator who has stalked five generations of her family. 1979: Balliol College Oxford. Charles Meredith a brilliant obsessive professor clashes with a beautiful French woman in Balliol's library. When the woman disappears & her identity is exposed as a sham Charles is dragged into a terrifying pursuit. 1873: Godollo Hungary. Lukas Balazs prepares for his vegzet night the celebration that symbolises his entry into adulthood. But the festivities are about to go horribly wrong & only Lukas knows why. A centuries-old secret is about to unravel.. . Jakab is coming.

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