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Professor Richard Wiseman has a first-class honours degree in Psychology from University College London, a doctorate from Edinburgh University, and was awarded the prestigious Perrott-Warrick Scholarship from Trinity College Cambridge. He now heads a research unit based within the Psychology Department at the University of Herefordshire. Professor Wiseman's work is frequently featured in the national press, and he has appeared many times on Ho...

Historical detail is cleverly interwoven with ancient Chniese ritual in this rich and entertaining adventure. "Chinese Cinderella" has sold over 300, 000 copies. Readership level: 9-12yrs.

In an accessible, and entertaining style, this concise, no-nonsense guidebook gives prospective and current students advice for achieving success in academic life. Includes subjects such as making the transition from high school to college, making use of lectures and seminars, using libraries and the internet, note-taking, essays, seminars, and presentations, common mistakes to avoid, writing with clarity and style, and how to take exams.

More than a mere gathering of unrelated poems, "Danger on Peaks" features the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's most personal work, where every part contributes to the whole.

Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government policy and a great deal has been made of the impact of treatment on drug users. Drug Treatment: What Works? is a cutting edge survey of the latest developments in these treatments, and it sets out to ask some of the crucial questions in the treatment of drug abusers, including: * Which treatments work...

What family has not had a holiday that has turned out quite different than the one they planned? The family in Different Night Before Christmas, certainly has an exciting one. Throughout the story, a web of valuable truth is woven. Love and concern for each other is more valuable than any special holiday present one could ever receive. It is that thread of love that brings us through even the darkest hour to prevail against any setback or adve...

A fellow hairdresser once told me, "When the cape goes around the neck of the nicest person in the world, she grows horns." This autobiography spans nearly thirty years in the hairstyling profession and satirically exposes the infinite facets of human nature from both sides of the styling chair. The story of my fledgling years as a hairdresser, personal growth and the poignant events which led me to own my own business, will surely entertain b...

This highly practical manual provides evidence-based tools and techniques for assessing and treating clients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Proven cognitive-behavioral interventions are described in rich, step-by-step detail, together with illustrative case examples. With an emphasis on both accountability and flexibility, the clinician is guided to select from available options, weave them into individualized treatment plans, and tr...

Now Talia Fleur was a pedigree Persian Cat, and she had the little bits of paper to prove it, If your children like cats they will love this story. Read about Marmalade and her two very mischievous kittens, Buttons and his sister Cotton, Puddles the Dog and Tallulah the Tortoise, and all the other animals that come into the garden where they live. Bernie and her Mum went inside, because Bernie was tired, she was either always tired, or crying,...

The use of corpora in translation studies, both as a tool for translators and as a way of analyzing the process of translation, is growing. This book provides a much-needed assessment of how the analysis of corpus data can make a contribution to the study of translation.Introducing Corpora in Translation Studies: traces the development of corpus methods within translation studiesdefines the types of corpora used for translation research, discu...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Harmonisierung des internen und externen Rechnungswesens für eine verbesserte Unternehmenssteuerung. Traditionell besteht in den meisten deutschen Unternehmen eine strikte Trennung von internem und externem Rechnungswesen. Die Notwendigkeit dieser bislang als selbstverständlich angesehenen Zweiteilung wird aber zunehmend in Frage gestellt und in Wissenschaft und Praxis über eine Ha...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Der Ausgangspunkt dieser Arbeit war die Feststellung, dass ein entsprechend ausgestaltetes Management-Anreizsystem ein wesentlicher Bestandteil wertorientierter Unternehmensführung ist. Dabei ergab sich insbesondere die Frage, wie die BMG eines solchen Systems ausgestaltet sein muss, um die Manager zu veranlassen, i.S.d. Eigentümer zu handeln. Für die Beurteilung der Managementleistung wurden im Rahmen der Unter...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Von Seiten der Sozialpädagogik sind Stadtteile von besonderen Interesse, in denen vielfältige sozialen Problemlagen kumulativ zusammenfallen. Entsprechende durch die Medien vermittelte Bilder hat jeder im Kopf: Hochhausbauten, abgelegene Lage, hoher Anteil an Migranten, Kriminalität und Arbeitslosigkeit, 'gefährlichen' Jugendbanden auf den Straßen, usw. Vermehrt wird von 'Ghettobildung' gesprochen, und so finde...

Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage wo Unterschiede zwischen Beratung und Psychotherapie zu finden sind und inwiefern eine Unterscheidung überhaupt möglich und notwendig ist. Beschreibung: Was unterscheidet Beratung von psychotherapeutischen Interventionen? Wo sind die Grenzen? Gibt es denn eine definierbare Grenze zwischen Beratung und Therapie? Und muss man überhaupt eine genaue Unterscheidung treffen?...

In the aftermath of her life's greatest storm, Laura Michaels must learn to rebuild. All her life she has been sheltered, first by her parents and then by a loving husband. Shelter from the Storm is the story of Laura's search for sure footing when everything around her seems to be crumbling. With the unexpected death of her husband, the marriage upon which Laura had built her plans for the future is now gone. Laura must now cope with losing h...

In Triple Engagement--A Nomadic Storytelling Odyssey, Dr. Rincón-Mora weaves magnificent photographs from around the world, breathtaking prose, and moving poetry into lyrical harmony, creating riveting moods with magnetic storytelling quality. He not only conveys the stories through prose, but also through pictures and poems, artfully crafting an entire emotional journey. The stories start "with a photograph, establishing...an emotional settin...

Leave the luxuries of the twenty-first century behind and head for the transcendent beauty of Greenland, letting the author be your guide. With a wealth of mountaineering experience, a perceptive eye and bundles of enthusiasm, Woolley leads his readers through this most extreme of landscapes, charting close on twenty years of expeditions through his personal trials and moments of triumph. Combining technical and geological knowledge with an ...

Occasionally, militaries during times of peace achieve major warfighting innovations described here as disruptive innovations. Integrating new technologies to help perform existing missions better is called sustaining innovations. The theme of this book is that successful leaders disguise the former as the latter.

This is the only book that addresses the relations between religion, Protestant missions, and empire building, linking together all three fields of study by taking as its starting point the early eighteenth century Anglican initiatives in colonial North America and the Caribbean. It considers how the early societies of the 1790s built on this inheritance, and extended their own interests to the Pacific, India, the Far East and Africa. Fluctuat...

Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Uncoupling (¿tingles with playfulness and wicked observation¿ Independent), The Wife (¿has you howling with recognition¿ Allison Pearson), The Position (¿one of the best and most human books I¿ve read all year¿ Erica Wagner) and The Ten-Year Nap (¿as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike' Chicago Tribune). Most...