Includes: a wide range of pain-alleviating exercises to practise at home Covers every aspect of back & neck pain Relieve
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One of the most significant works of Western philosophy Humes Treatise was published in 1739-40 before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of human nature & a vigorous attack upon the principles of traditional metaphysical thought. With masterly eloquence Hume denies the immortality of the soul & the reality of space; considers the manner in which we form concepts of identity cause & effect; & speculates upon the nature of freedom virtue & emotion. Opposed both to metaphysics & to rationalism Humes philosophy of informed scepticism sees man not as a religious creation nor as a machine but as a creature dominated by sentiment passion & appetite. ...

A quiet residential street in south London. A husband & wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated they've been bound & beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing. When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called in to investigate the similarities with events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime dispassionately. & as he digs deeper
- as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both his past & his present
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This widely used book is packed with indispensable tools for treating the most common clinical problems encountered in outpatient mental health practice. Chapters provide basic information on depression & the six major anxiety disorders; step-by-step instructions for evidence-based assessment & intervention; illustrative case examples; & practical guidance for writing reports & dealing with third-party payers. In a convenient large-size format the book features 125 reproducible client handouts homework sheets & therapist forms for assessment & record keeping. The included CDROM enables clinicians to rapidly generate individualized treatment plans print extra copies of the forms & find information on frequently prescribed medications. New to this edition: the latest research on each disorder & its treatment innovative techniques that draw on cognitive behavioral mindfulness & acceptance-based approaches two chapters offering expanded descriptions of basic behavioral & cognitive techniques & more than 45 of the 125 reproducibles are entirely new. ...

Chil Rajchman a Polish Jew was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 & sent to Treblinka a death camp where more than 750 000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers but Rajchman escaped execution working for ten months under incessant threats & beatings as a barber a clothes-sorter a corpse-carrier a puller of teeth from those same bodies. In August 1943 there was an uprising at the camp & Rajchman was among the handful of men who managed to escape. In 1945 he set down this account a plain unembellished & exact record of the raw horror he endured every day. This unique testimony which has remained in the sole possession of his family ever since has never before been published in English. For its description of unspeakably cruelty Treblinka is a memoir that will not be superseded. In addition to Rajchman's account this volume

Includes:: the complete text of Vasily Grossman's ' The Hell of Treblinka' one of the first descriptions of a Nazi extermination camp; a powerful & harrowing piece of journalism written only weeks after the camp was dissolved. Introduction by Samuel Moyn Professor of History at Columbia University & author of A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France.

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Whatever the size of your garden there is a tree shrub or climber just right for it. The Tree & Shrub Expert contains an A-Z guide to over 800 varieties & offers advice on: Choosing buying & planting the right tree or shrub for your garden. How to prune. Feeding mulching & training your plants. Picking plants for ground cover borders & hedges. Using trees & shrubs in the garden. Coping with pests & diseases. ...

The Nolans lived in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn from 1902 until 1919. Their daughter Francie & their son Neely knew more than their fair share of the privations & suffering that were the lot of New York's poor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is the story of Francie an imaginative alert resourceful child & of her family. ...

William & his brother are desperate to have a tree house in the grand old tree at the bottom of the garden. Their father has to go away but is determined that the tree house should be built. So every month he sends a parcel home to the boys
- a parcel containing things theyll need for the tree house. But will their father be home in time for Christmas
- in time to join them in the tree house to eat the chestnuts that are growing there.. . Gillian Cross has won many major awards including the Carnegie Medal the Smarties Prize & the Whitbread Award.

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Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer Jonathan Safran Foer. With a different die-cut on every page Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make the book is a first
- as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favourite book The Street of Crocodiles by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz & used it as a canvas cutting into & out of the pages to arrive at an original new story told in Safran Foers own acclaimed voice. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life. As one characters life is chased to extinction Safran Foer multi-layers the story with immense anxious at times disorientating imagery crossing both a sense of time & place making the story of one persons last day everyones story. The book has a broad appeal: to both literary audiences intrigued by Safran Foers new way of writing & to design & art audiences who will revel in the books remarkable & unique visual experience.
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In the temple of Abydos an acacia tree is dying. Its death threatens all of Egypt. For this tree sprang forth from the tomb of the god Osiris the first ruler of Egypt as proof of his triumph over death. The great pharaoh Senusret III immediately joins battle against the invisible enemy who would lead Egypt to her doom. But within his closest circle hides a traitor a man who would sell himself to the powers of darkness in order to achieve his dreams of glory. A young apprentice scribe Iker becomes an unwilling player in this mystery. Kidnapped by sailors who refer darkly to a 'state secret' Iker does not know who is trying to kill him nor indeed who is trying to protect him. He senses only that someone is manipulating him that he has set out on a road whose end he does not know. Will the two of them Iker & Senusret the weak young boy & the great man of power succeed in preventing Osiris from dying for the last time thereby saving Egypt? ...