Growing Pains - Making Sense of Childhood - A Psychiatr...
A remarkable, powerful, tender and insightful book that wi...
Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and S...
Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Societ...
Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The Use of Factor Anal...
Making Sense of Factor Analysis: The Use of Factor Analysis ...
Growing Pains - Making Sense Of Childhood - A Psychiatrist's Stor
Growing Pains - Making Sense of Childhood - A Psychiatrist's Story
A remarkable, powerful, tender and insightful book that will change lives. I cannot doubt that hundreds I would hope thousands of families can be helped by Mike Shooters profound, careful and utterly convincing insights. STEPHEN FRY A unique book . . . The stories [Shooter] tells are poignant and powerful testimonies to the resilience of the human spirit and will fascinate all of us...
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsends brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series. If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mothers fault. Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own familys attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. Bestselling ...
Sewing Patterns - Questions Answered on Everything from Understanding Patterns to Making Alterations
Brand-new in Barrons growing series of Q&A needlecraft books, this title answers the most frequently-asked questions pertaining to the basics of sewing. A helpful guide for both beginners and experienced sewing enthusiasts, Sewing: 200 Q&A describes Choosing patterns Needles, threads, and sewing equipment Taking measurements Laying out and cutting cloth Stitching seams Making yo...
My Mum's Growing Down
She says Ive worked so hard for years and I deserve a rest! As she scribbles with crayons and pours custard down her dress,Shes dangling from the banister with her head upside-down! Does your Mum do this? Help! My Mums growing DOWN! Mum is a gamer, a party animal and a free spirit making life hard work for her nine year old son. These poems are a glimpse into their parent child relation...
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through my Childhood
Bill Brysons first travel book opened with the immortal line, I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to. In this deeply funny and personal memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s Middle America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about one boys...
Shrinks - The Untold Story of Psychiatry
A world-renowned psychiatrist reveals the fascinating story of psychiatrys origins, demise and redemption. Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining lunatics in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman reveals in his extraordinary and eye-opening book, the path to legitimacy for the black sheep of medicine has b...
Making Sense of the Alt-Right
During the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: the alt-right, short for alternative right. Despite the innocuous name, the alt-right is a white-nationalist movement. Yet it differs from earlier racist groups: it is youthful and tech-savvy, obsessed with provocation and trolling, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous. And it was energized by Don...
A Girl Like Tilly - Growing up with Autism
Tilly is a bit of a puzzle. Shes struggling at school, she really doesnt like surprises, she isnt sure if shes a girl or a boy, and she just doesnt want to make new friends. Why is it such hard work to try and understand people, or for them to understand her? This poignant story maps the entire childhood of a bright young girl with autism. Growing up undiagnosed, she finds life increasi...
Anne Frank Remembered - The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Giess own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims. From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the...
Making Sense of Asperger's
Making Sense of Aspergers: A story for children grew out of just such an experience for one seven-year-old boy. This extremely bright child was frequently in serious trouble at school but couldnt understand why. His mother was struggling to explain that he had been diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome in a positive way so asked the author, her sons psychologist, for guidance. This book is the...
Our Story, for My Daughter
Our Story is a gift journal available in two beautiful designs for my daughter and for my son inspiring parents to capture the unique story of childhood, from early baby memories through to the eighteenth year together. A beautifully designed, colour illustrated journal, Our Story provides prompts to help parents to chronicle amazing family experiences and unrepeatable moments the ...
A Long Way from Wyandra - My Story - from the Bush to Black Caviar
The classic story of a boy from the bush who worked his way from outback Queensland all the way to Royal Ascot. As a kid growing up in tiny Wyandra, Peter Moody learned to ride almost before he could walk. Horses were part of life, and as a teenager working for local trainers he learned many lessons some of them painful as he built his understanding of them. A mates introduction got him a...
Cra-Z-Slimy Creations Silly Slimy Fun - Themed Slime Making Set
Cra-Z-Slimy Creations Silly Slimy Fun - Themed Slime Making Set let's kids make their own glitter and neon slimeSlime is all the rage with kids, and making your own gives kids a sense of achievement whilst teaching them basic chemistry. The Cra-Z-Slimy Creations Silly Slimy Fun - Themed Slime Making Set allows kids to make all sorts of different slime and there is no Borax in this kit, making ...
Cra-Z-Slimy Creations Silly Slimy Fun - Themed Slime Making Set
Cra-Z-Slimy Creations Silly Slimy Fun - Themed Slime Making Set let's kids make their own glitter and neon slimeSlime is all the rage with kids, and making your own gives kids a sense of achievement whilst teaching them basic chemistry. The Cra-Z-Slimy Creations Silly Slimy Fun - Themed Slime Making Set allows kids to make all sorts of different slime and there is no Borax in this kit, making ...
5000-1: The Leicester City Story - How We Beat the Odds to Become Premier League Champions
Leicester City a team facing relegation a year ago, priced at 5000-1 to finish top at the start of this season are currently Premier League leaders From the Leicester Mercurys chief football writer Rob Tanner, and with unrivalled access to players, staff and fans, 5000-1: The Leicester City Story is Tanners diary of this astonishing season as it happened, recounting the growing sense of...
Becoming Myself - A Psychiatrist's Memoir
The must-read new memoir from one of psychiatrys most important figures. Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives of others. In this profound memoir, he turns his writing and his therapeutic eye upon himself. He opens his story with a nightmare- He is twelve, and is riding his bike past the home of an acne-scarred girl. Like every morning, he calls out, hoping to befriend her...
Making Beautiful Bead & Wire Jewelry - 30 Step-by-Step Projects from Materials Old and New
Bead and wire jewellery is one of the fastest-growing crafts, with more and more people discovering the joys of making unique, hand-crafted pieces every year. In these recession-hit times, Linda Jones demonstrates how almost anything from old buttons and broken necklaces, to pebbles picked up on a stroll along the beach, and even household staples such as washers, bolts and plumbing chain ca...
Quiet Power - Growing Up as an Introvert in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The highly anticipated follow-up to the sensational bestseller Quiet empowering introverted children, teens and young adults Susan Cain sparked a worldwide conversation with Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Cant Stop Talking. She inspired millions of people, and permanently changed the way we see introverts and the way introverts see themselves. Now she takes the Quiet Revol...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
The Sunday Times Bestseller; and the biggest memoir of the year; from Britain's best loved food writer. âToast' is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. Whether relating his mother's ritual burning of the toast; his father's dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something...
Eleanor's Story - an American Girl in Hitler's Germany
ELEANORS STORY is the dramatic memoir of Eleanor Ramrath Garners youth, growing up as an American caught in World War II Berlin. It is a story of trying to maintain stability, hope, and identity in a world of terror and contrasts. During the Great Depression, Eleanors family moves to Germany, where her father has been offered a good job. But war breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlan...
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto, examines her deepest commitmentsto writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husbandcreating a resonant portrait of a life in This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage takes us into the very real world of Ann Patchetts life. Stretching from her childhood to th...