Featuring children's own words & heart-warming pictures this book can be given by boys or girls to their mummy on mothers' day. Or at any time! 'I love my mummy because...' Everyone's mummy is the best. & who better to tell the world than children themselves? This charming book combines endearing things said by children about their mothers with gentle illustrations of familiar animals. With beautiful pictures & charming words from children all about mummies this is the perfect book to share with Mum! ...

Throughout history some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other. They have
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Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim this updated edition Why It's STILL Kicking Off Everywhere

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Scientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain impacts the heart & immune system & may even be an antidote to depression. Were actually genetically wired to be kind. In this book inspirational ex-scientist David Hamilton shows that kindness has evolved in us & thus its effects are felt daily throughout our nervous systems. When were kind our bodies are healthiest. This groundbreaking book is filled with fascinating new discoveries including: how kindness developed in our genes; that love & kindness can make a damaged heart regenerate faster; how kindness & compassion alter the neural structures of our brains; & that gratitude can make you at least 25 per cent happier. This unique book fuses scientific research around being kind with inspirational real life examples of kindness from ordinary people. Reading these stories will nourish your soul & leave you with renewed optimism for the future & this book will help you see the many levels on which taking the time to make a difference could transform your health
- & your whole world.
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On August 7 1974 Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Centre's twin towers where he danced for nearly an hour. Since then he has walked (legally) over the Louisiana Superdome; over Amsterdam Avenue to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; & between the Palais de Chaillot & the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In all of his high wire walks knots have been the essential components of each the guardian angels protecting his life in the sky. Why Knot? explains how to tie more than sixty useful knots. All the knots included have been put to task during one wire walk or another & each passed the ultimate test: to contribute in holding a man's life. The drawings are by Petit himself & are beautifully wrought works of art some of which have been exhibited in Clic Gallery in New York. After years of research Philippe presents a how to guide to what he considers to be the essential knots--which include the safest the easiest & fastest to tie & untie the most ingenious the most simple & much more. The book will also include photographs of the knots being used by Petit while performing high wire walks & a red rope that will allow readers to practice their new knot skills. If you're not already nuts for knots with the help of this book you will be transformed into a knot aficionado. ...

Why Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life particularly to the development of our social & emotional brain systems & presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work. Sue Gerhardt considers how the earliest relationship shapes the baby's nervous system with lasting consequences & how our adult life is influenced by infancy despite our inability to remember babyhood. She shows how the development of the brain can affect future emotional well being & goes on to look at specific early 'pathways' that can affect the way we respond to stress & lead to conditions such as anorexia addiction & anti-social behaviour. Why Love Matters is a lively & very accessible interpretation of the latest findings in neuroscience psychology psychoanalysis & biochemistry. It will be invaluable to psychotherapists & psychoanalysts mental health professionals parents & all those concerned with the central importance of brain development in relation to many later adult difficulties. ...

A century after his death Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw heard in Hollywood films & on state occasions his music inspires particular devotion. Some believe it helps heal emotional wounds others find intellectual fascination in its contradictory meanings & many feel that the music captures the yearnings & anxieties of our post-industrial society. In this highly original account of the composers life & work Norman Lebrecht explores the Mahler Effect asking why Mahlers music has become the soundtrack to our twenty-first-century lives. ...

Psychologist & top marriage guru John Gottman has spent twenty years studying what makes a marriage last
- now you can use his
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Robin Norwoods international bestseller Women Who Love Too Much" changed forever the way we think about love. Now in " Why Me Why This Why Now?" she takes her readers
- women & men
- on a deeper journey into the realm of the Spirit & offers a revolutionary perspective on adversity that addresses our deepest & most disturbing questions like why is this happening to me? or what is the point of pain? or what is my body trying to tell me? By teaching us to recognize the souls purpose behind our encounters with adversity Robin Norwood empowers us to co-operate with our own destiny live a far more effective life & heal even the deepest wounds of the heart."

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The audio of the book thats taking Britain by storm! Bestselling authors Allan & Barbara Pease spotlight the differences between the way men & women think. They travelled the world collating the dramatic findings of new research on the brain investigating evolutionary biology analysing psychologists research studying social change & annoying the locals. The result is a sometimes shocking always illuminating frequently hilarious look at where the battle line is drawn between the sexes why it was drawn & how to cross it. Revealed: Why men really cant do more than one thing at a time. Why women make such a mess of parallel parking. Why men should never lie to women.. Why women despair about mens silences. Why men want sex & women need love. ...