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THE SUNDAY TIMES No 1 BESTSELLER'Deborah James captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal'Brave, bright, beautiful' - Lorraine Kelly'Deborah's ability to find positivity in the darkest of places is an inspiration to us all' - Davina McCall'This book has shaken me awake. I gulped it down in one sitting, then sat and cried... [But] hope is a character on every single page' - Christie Watson------------...

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Four years later, my only option is to live in the now and to value one day at a time."So how do you flip your mind from a negative spiral into realistic hope? We have the ability in our mind to dictate the outcome - bad or good - and with the right skills and approach, we can be the master of it.

Allison Bentley is a top-flight technology consultant working with a large, very old-fashioned accounting firm in Chicago. The fact that she's gay as well as non-American (she's Australian) is already a cause of friction with some of the partners and when she reports to the partners that they are technologically out of date and facing future difficulties staying in business, the anger she causes results in her being dismissed. But Allison join...

Allison Bentley is a successful IT Consultant with an old-fashioned accounting firm in Chicago. She is also gay. She causes anger in some partners by her criticisms of the firm's obsolete technology and business practices and she is fired. She joins another firm and begins to take business from her old employers. They become increasingly frightened of her actions and the damage she is doing to the firm's business and the partners start to take...

A GUIDING LIGHT TO THRIVING, PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY, IN TODAY'S WORLD OF INCREASING DYSFUNCTION AND ANXIETY.

Superstitious, type-A executive, Catherine "Kitty" Taylor, is about to celebrate the greatest achievement of her career with her brilliant lover-lawyer, Nick Dylan, at her side. But when bad news hits the office, Nick races to New York to salvage the deal of a lifetime, forcing their personal lives to take a back seat, yet again. With life in limbo, an omen compels Kitty to follow a chain of events, luring her to the wine country to celebrate ...

Trade paperback. A guide to living defiantly well after diagnosis. Top tips, heart-warming case studies, gutsy humour and cathartic exuberance.

Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa has been produced and contested.Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008

Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa has been produced and contested.Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008

This book gives an account of how migrant women, whose lives and experiences have heretofore been neglected in the pages of academic scholarship, dance and sing the vibrant and expressive musical style of kiba. In so doing, they build an identity as autonomous breadwinners whose aspirations and values are nonetheless rooted in "tradition.

The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theor...

The island of Believable is a place where wondrous characters develop the skills needed to imagine their greatest dreams, seems like magic, it's not! Tangerine guides children to integrate all the senses. The vibrant art work is a excellent sidekick to the fun filled story. This book shows a world of possibilities, choices and opportunities for children. Parents, grandparents, teachers and therapists will find this a useful tool. This touching...

Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of financial inclusion - dubbed "banking the unbanked" - which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement. Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans' access to credit is intimately bound up with identity, status-...

Deborah James is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. Her previous books include Gaining Ground? "Rights" and "Property" in South African Land Reform (2007) and Songs of the Women Migrants (1999). She has written for the Mail and Guardian and has appeared in Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed, on the BBC.