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| "When Panic Attacks: A new drug-free therapy to beat chronic shyness, anxiety and phobias by David D. Burns (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "'I just know this plane is going to run into turbulence and crash!''My mind will go blank when I give my presentation at work and everyone will think I'm an idiot''Why am I so shy and insecure? I'm such a loser!'We all know what it's like to feel anxious worried or panicky If any of these thoughts sound familiar you can change the way you feel When Panic Attacks will give you the ammunition to quickly defeat any kind of anxiety including chronic worrying shyness public speaking anxiety test anxiety and phobias without lengthy therapy or prescription drugs Bestselling author and behavioural psychiatrist Dr David Burns will teach you 40 powerful new anti-anxiety techniques and show you how to select methods that will work for you The goal is not just feeling a bit better but complete recovery All you need is a little courage and the techniques in this book"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Quick and Easy Toddler Recipes by Annabel Karmel (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "Toddler mealtimes can be a battleground And for busy parents time for preparing food is in short supply The UK's number-one expert on feeding children Annabel Karmel is on hand to help In this new Quick and Easy book she offers 130 recipes that can be rustled up in minutes With an eye on nutritional content and appeal for children as well as speediness for hassled mums and dads she solves mealtimes in an instant With plenty of tips and tricks to encourage your child to eat from savoury to sweet for breakfast snacks lunch and dinner Annabel's Quick and Easy Toddler Recipes will make for mellow mealtimes"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Teenagers Translated : How to Raise Happy Teens" |
| "The teenage years are acknowledged to be the most testing stage of parenting - when well-mannered and obedient children can transform into rude and rebellious teens However parenting a teen doesn't have to be a battle and counsellors Janey Downshire and Naella Grew have developed a programme to help parents get the best out of the teenage years Their approach is positive and straightforward providing simple strategies for nurturing better behaviour and providing a happy supportive home environment The book will tackle - How to help teens feel supported and secure - Strategies for improving communication - Dealing with digital technology and media influences - Ways to encourage self-confidence and independence - Coping with challenging behaviour attitudes and pastimes - Plus drinking drugs smoking sex porn video games bullying peer pressure loneliness and eating disorders This book provides a positive enthusiastic and inspiring approach to the teenage years showing how parents can help their teens develop the skills they will need for a happy adult lives"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Meet Maggie Moran Nearing fifty and married with two children she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day During the course of the journey with its several unexpected detours into the lives of old friends and grown children Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLDShe's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor One of my favourite authors ' Liane MoriartyShe spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita ShreveMy favourite writer and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks Tyler is not merely good she is wickedly good' John UpdikeI love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner Her fiction has strength of vision originality freshness unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Thyme Out by Katie Fforde (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Love can grow on you or can it? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match When Perdita Dylan delivers her baby vegetables to a local hotel and finds that her unpredictable ex-husband Lucas has taken over the kitchen she is horrified - particularly when she discovers he's being groomed as the latest celebrity chef and needs her picturesque if primitive cottage and her in supporting roles Her life is further complicated when Kitty her 87-year-old friend has a stroke Perdita needs someone to lean on - and Lucas seems so keen to help that she starts to wonder if he's really such a villain Can she cope with all this alone? Or should she face up to the fact that 'You can't cuddle lettuces'?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House - setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut's acrid wit and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity From riffs on country music George Bush and his mother's midnight mania to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend Palm Sunday demonstrates why Kurt Vonnegut is equally well known as an essayist and commentator as he is a novelist This caustic funny and poignant collection resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath' Whether contemplating a fine cheese a hungry gecko a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Men In Love" |
| "This is a book about men who love women But it is not a collection of love stories It is a study of the secret erotic fantasies that men have always kept hidden a taboo-shattering investigation that reveals the deepest most conflicting feelings that men have about women men and their own sexuality Men in Love goes beyond the socio-sexual cliche of woman seen as either madonna or whore to reveal the conflict of love and rage at the centre of men's emotions and erotic desires Based on thousands of candid responses from men ranging from their teens to their sixties Men in Love - startling and shocking - will change men's deepest feelings about their sexuality and make the women who care about them understand them as never before"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Social Intelligence : The New Science of Human Relationships" |
| "Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide Now once again Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science revealing that we are 'wired to connect' and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect our lives Far more than we are consciously aware our daily encounters with parents spouses bosses and even strangers shape our brains and affect cells throughout our bodies down to the level of our genes - for good or ill In Social Intelligence Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world Its most fundamental discovery we are designed for sociability constantly engaged in a 'neural ballet' that connects us brain-to-brain with those around us Goleman explains the surprising accuracy of first impressions the basis of charisma and emotional power the complexity of sexual attraction and how we detect lies He describes the 'dark side' of social intelligence from narcissism to Machiavellianism and psychopathy He also reveals our astonishing capacity for 'mindsight' as well as the tragedy of those like autistic children whose mindsight is impaired In this book Daniel Goleman delivers his most heartening news with powerful conviction we humans have a built-in bias toward empathy cooperation and altruism - provided we develop the social intelligence to nurture these capacities in ourselves and others"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDSAs his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court By the close he will have transformed into a modern thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart The Vintage Classics Virginia Woolf series has been curated by Jeanette Winterson and Margaret Reynolds and the texts used are based on the original Hogarth Press editions published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor The White Guard takes place in Kiev 1918 a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city It tells the story of the Turbins a once-wealthy Russian family as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Beauvallet by Georgette Heyer (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "'Mad Nicholas' to his friends 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challengeWhen a captured galleon yields the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seas which have made him Drake's equal and a favourite of the Queen He will take Dominica as his bride even if he must enter the lion's den"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Live Working or Die Fighting: How The Working Class Went Global by Paul Mason (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Globalisation has created a whole new working class - and they are reliving stories that were first played out a century ago In Live Working or Die Fighting Paul Mason tells the story of this new working class alongside the epic history of the global labour movement from its formation in the factories of the 1800s through its near destruction by fascism in the 1930s and up to today's anti-globalisation movement Blending exhilarating historical narrative with reportage from today's front line he links the lives of 19th-century factory girls with the lives of teenagers in a giant Chinese mobile phone factory; he tells the story of how mass trade unions were born in London's Docklands - and how they're being reinvented by the migrant cleaners in skyscrapers that stand on the very same spot It is a story of urban slums self-help co-operatives choirs and brass bands free love and self-education by candlelight And as the author shows in the developing industrial economies of the world it is still with us Live Working or Die Fighting celebrates a common history of defiance idealism and self-sacrifice one as alive and active today as it was two hundred years ago It is a unique and inspirational book"
Price: 7.49 |
| "A Blunt Instrument by Georgette Heyer (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study everyone is shocked and mystified Ernest was well-liked and respected so who would have a motive for killing him?Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who with consummate skill begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be There is in fact no shortage of people who wanted him dead Then a second murder is committed with striking similarities to the first giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The perfect gift for Valentine's DayWuthering Heights is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children Emily Bronte's novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Complete Novels Of Kafka" |
| "In America Karl Rossmann is 'packed off to America by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation Here ordinary immigrants are also strange and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be Kafka a Czech writing in German never acutally visited America; so as Max Brod commented 'the innocence of his fantasy gives this book if advanture its peculiar colour'Both Joseph K in The Trial and K in The Castle are victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control Both are atomised estranged and rootless citizens decieved by authoritarian power Whereas Joseph K is relentlessly hunted down for a crime that remains nameless K ceaselessly attempts to enter the castle and so belong somewhere Together these novels may be read as powerful allegories of totalitarian government in whatever guise it appears today"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Norman Conquest" |
| "An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history Assessing the original evidence at every turn Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack Why the Normans in some respects less sophisticated possessed the military cutting edge How William's hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm unravelled dashed by English rebellions Viking invasions and the insatiable demands of his fellow conquerors This is a tale of powerful drama repression and seismic social change the Battle of Hastings itself and the violent 'Harrying of the North'; the sudden introduction of castles and the wholesale rebuilding of every major church; the total destruction of an ancient ruling class Language law architecture even attitudes towards life itself were altered forever by the coming of the Normans Marc Morris author of the bestselling biography of Edward I A Great and Terrible King approaches the Conquest with the same passion verve and scrupulous concern for historical accuracy This is the definitive account for our times of an extraordinary story a pivotal moment in the shaping of the English nation"
Price: 8.49 |
| "American Tabloid" |
| "The first novel in Ellroy's extraordinary Underworld USA Trilogy as featured on BBC Radio 4's A Good Read 1958 America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power men allied to the makers and shakers of the era Pete Bondurant - Howard Hughes's right-hand man Jimmy Hoffa's hitman Kemper Boyd - employed by J Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan Ward Littell - a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy's drive against organised crime The festering discount of the age that burns brightly in these men's hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity the Mob clamours for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication A Single Man is the story of George an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim With devastating clarity and humour Christopher Isherwood shows George&39;s determination to carry on evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul&39;s ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Traitors of the Tower by Alison Weir (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "A short sharp shot of royal revenge More than four hundred years ago seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of London Three had been queens of England The others were found guilty of treason Why were such important people put to death?Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne Alison Weir is a wonderful storyteller Through her vivid writing Alison Weir brings history alive"
Price: 3.49 |
| Damned |
| "'Are you there Satan? It's me Madison'Meet Madison whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off adopting more orphans Madison dies of a marijuana overdose and awakes to find herself in Hell sharing her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that's almost too good to be true Welcome to the afterlife as only Palahniuk could imagine it - he makes eternal torment well simply divine"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Cross Fire : (Alex Cross 17)" |
| "Detective Alex Cross is planning his wedding to the woman he loves Brianna Stone But this blissful existence begins to unravel when Cross is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington DC's most corrupt and publically hated political figures As more crooked politicians are picked off with similar long-range shots public opinion is divided - is the marksman a vigilante or a hero?Media coverage of the case explodes and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation As Cross and Siegel battle over jurisdiction Alex receives a call from his deadliest adversary Kyle Craig The Mastermind is in DC and will not stop until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Myth of the Strong Leader : Political Leadership in the Modern Age" |
| "CHOSEN BY BILL GATES AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Archie Brown challenges the widespread belief that 'strong leaders' dominant individual wielders of power are the most successful and admirable Within authoritarian regimes a collective leadership is a lesser evil compared with a personal dictatorship Within democracies although strong leaders' are seldom as strong or independent as they purport to be the idea that just one person is entitled to take the big decisions is harmful and should be resisted Examining Franklin D Roosevelt and Mikhail Gorbachev Deng Xiaoping and Nelson Mandela Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair amongst many others this landmark study pinpoints different types and qualities of leadership Overturning the popular notion of the strong leader it makes us rethink preconceptions about what it means to lead"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Miss Pym Disposes" |
| "Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate Then there was a nasty accident - and suddenly Miss Pym was forced to apply her agile intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all those impressively healthy bodies someone had a very sick mind"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The perfect gift for Valentine's DaySelected Poems contains Neruda's resonant exploratory intensely individualistic verse rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile Here we find sensuous songs of love tender odes to the sea melancholy lyrics of heartache fiery political statements and a frank celebration of sex This is an enticing distinctive and celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet"
Price: 8.99 |
| "A General Theory of Oblivion" |
| "WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017A finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize On the eve of Angolan independence Ludo bricks herself into her apartment where she will remain for the next thirty years She lives off vegetables and pigeons burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home The outside world slowly seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio voices from next door glimpses of a man fleeing his pursuers and a note attached to a bird's foot Until one day she meets Sabalu a young boy from the street who climbs up to her terrace"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Progress Of Love by Alice Munro (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThese dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial platonic sexual parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk In fact Munro's characters pulse with idiosyncratic life Under the polished surface of these unsentimental dispatches from the small-town and rural front lies a strong undertow of violence and sexuality repressed until something snaps with extraordinary force in some of the stories sadly and strangely in others"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "In the struggle for women's equality there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty The myth of female beauty challenges every woman every day of her life Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today in the home and at work in literature and the media in relationships between men and women between women and women With pertinent and intelligent examples she confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Introduction to Food Engineering by Singh (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "Long recognized as the bestselling textbook for teaching food engineering to food science students this 5e transitions with today's students from traditional textbook learning to integrated presentation of the key concepts of food engineering Using carefully selected examples Singh and Heldman demonstrate the relationship of engineering to the chemistry microbiology nutrition and processing of foods in a uniquely practical blend This approach facilitates comprehensive learning that has proven valuable beyond the classroom as a lifetime professional reference"
Price: 64.49 |
| "Meg, Mog and Og by Helen Nicoll (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Crom the caveman has caught Og the woolly mammoth for his tea but Meg is a vegetarian! She persuades him to eat her delicious bubble & squeak Og is rather partial to it too and follows Meg home for another trunkful"
Price: 5.49 |
