A heartwarming collection of stories from a woman who brings together disadvantaged children & abandoned racehorses with remarkable results. Thirteen-year-old Sophie hadnt uttered a word to anyone for over two years when she got out of her parents car at a remote farm in Devon. Her parents were beside themselves with worry & at the end of their tether but try as they might nothing seemed to make a difference. Theyd heard about a place called Greatwood through friends
- where owners Helen & Michael Yeadon looked after retired racehorses
- & decided to take Sophie along for a visit. Helen asked Sophie to help her change the dressings on the infected cuts on the legs of Darcy Day one of their more troubled horses & it was instantly clear that these two had some kind of special connection. Darcy Day would normally back away from people but this time she lowered her head & stepped forward to let Sophie stroke her nose. It was the start of an incredible relationship that would transform both horse & child & it gave Michael & Helen an idea. They registered as a charity moved to bigger premises & began inviting children with a wide range of learning disabilities to volunteer to help with the animals. The results were amazing
- traumatised horses & anxious or disturbed children bonded with each other & every week little miracles were happening before their eyes. Boys with diagnoses such as Aspergers Syndrome or Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or those whod been excluded from school for unruly behaviour flourished through the discipline of working on the farm. Girls made timid & anxious by abusive backgrounds or school bullies came out of the shells. In this book are twenty of the most incredible tales of children who were given back their futures by the unique & extraordinary institution of Greatwood.


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The successful managers for the next century will be the culturally sensitive ones. You can gain competitive advantage from having strategies to deal with the cultural differences you will encounter in any international business setting. Richard Lewis provides a guide to working & communicating across cultures & explains how your culture & language affect the ways in which you think & respond. This book provides an ever more global & practical guide not just to understanding but also managing across different business cultures. It is a a toolkit for leading & participating in international teams
- from India to Ireland Belgium to Brazil Mexico to Malaysia the Czech Republic to Chile.
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How then do the mind & the body communicate? Could the mind cause diseases? The aim in this book is to answer these questions & to propose a comprehensive approach for doctors & psychotherapists those who are treating somatic patients whether in hospitals or private practice. It also sets out to raise awareness among readers with an interest in new developments & fresh approaches to diseases & patients. The work seeks to demonstrate the interrelations between mind & body with reference to various scientific disciplines. ...

When the Body Speaks applies Jungian concepts & and theories to infant development to demonstrate how archetypal imagery formed in early life can permanently affect a persons psychology. Drawing from Mara Sidolis rich clinical observations the book shows how psychosomatic disturbances originate in the early stages of life through unregulated affects. It links Jungs concepts of the self & the archetypes to the concepts of the primary self as conceptualized by Fordham as well as incorporating the work of other psychoanalysts such as Bion & Klein. Lucidly written When the Body Speaks is an important book for professionals & students in the fields of child & adult psychoanalysis & psychotherapy. ...

Seven-year-old Melody Quinn is the only witness of a horrific double murder but she cant or wont talk about what she saw. Child psychologist Alex Delaware is brought in to try & get through to her & to the truth of what happened that night. But it soon becomes clear that Melody isnt just traumatised by the murders. Alex is only too aware that LA is a city which spawns ugliness. But is he prepared for the seemingly bottomless pit of perversion & violence that hes about to uncover? ...

When Clara O' Toole & her grandmother Bernie attend a meeting held by a medium they hope to be able to get in touch with Clara's father who was killed at the Front. Whilst they remain doubtful about the existence of a spirit world the experience does inspire Bernie to trace her one surviving child
- Gertie. Clara's search for her missing aunt brings her into contact with a whole new extended family. She is over the moon to find she has a cousin but is she ready to be drawn into the tragedies & secrets of family's past?
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When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the Singer sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911 Bloody Friday in George Square in 1919 the General Strike of 1926 & on to the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s the men & women of Glasgow Clydebank & beyond fought for the right to work the dignity of labour & a fairer society for everyone. They did so in a Glasgow where overcrowded tenements stood no distance from elegant tearooms art galleries & glittering picture palaces. Red Clydeside was also home to Charles Rennie Mackintosh the Glasgow Style & magnificent exhibitions showcasing the wonders of the age. Political idealism & artistic creativity were matched by industrial endeavour. The Clyde built many of the greatest ships that ever sailed the seas as locomotives from Glasgow pulled trains on every continent on earth. When the Clyde Ran Red celebrates the determination achievements & sheer lust for life of the people of Glasgow Clydebank & Clydeside. ...

Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tessa Garrion a young woman who has vanished without trace it becomes increasingly clear that there are those who want her to stay that way. What begins as a simple search awakens a malevolence that has lain dormant for three decades putting Jasmine in the crosshairs of those who would stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried. Uncovering a hidden history of sex drugs ritualism & murder Jasmine realises she may need a little help from dark places herself if she's going to get to the truth. But then needs must... ...

When a family-load of boisterous bumbling dragons burst into peaceful Poppledown Town theres sure to be trouble! Before long the whole town is thrown into chaos. The local market is turned upside down the library is louder than ever & the local playgroup has never experienced such disruptive pupils! Will Poppledown Town EVER be the same again? ...

For the Duke of Cosway it was a marriage of convenience. For his bride it was anything but... Isidore has waited for many long frustrating years for her mysterious husband to return from exploring the world. They were married by proxy when she was just a child but now shes fully grown & yearns for nothing more than for her Duke to return. Until he does come back. & he is not what she expected. At all. Not only does he refuse to conform to any of societys norms: he wont powder his hair has little regard for cravats & seems frighteningly keen on running around the countryside in nothing but short trousers. But
- more shocking than any other revelation
- he reveals that he is a virgin. There is an undeniable attraction though & while Isidore tries to establish whether this Duke was actually worth waiting for Cosway himself begins to discover that there may be more adventures in marriage than in all of the rest of the world...

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