Profile: 418 books
by Anne McBride
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Rabbits are now the third most popular pet in Britain but few owners understand their behavioural problems. Many of the problems that rabbits demonstrate can be avoided if their living conditions are adapted to follow their natural instincts and Anne McBride explains how to do this. She describes...
The Fear of Maths
How to Overcome it: Sum Hope 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Maths is an essential skill but many people fear that they will never pick up the maths that they failed to understand in school. Don't worry. Most people know more maths than they realise, Steve Chinn is your guide to understanding the 'basic facts' of maths as you will use it in daily lifeThere...
Dyspraxia
Developmental Co-Ordination Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Dyspraxia is truly a hidden handicap that may go undiagnosed until adulthood. A child with dyspraxia has problems co-ordinating his or her movements, and will appear clumsy. This informative, practical book is intended to help parents and teachers, with innovative ideas that they can use to encourage...
Gentle Dog Training
Understand your dog and be understood by him
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Some training methods work with some dogs, Michel Hasbrouck's work with all dogs.Training dogs through punishment and discipline fails to understand that dogs want to appreciated and loved. Adopt the right attitude of praise and you will find that they respond better. However, this also entails training...
The Lost World of Agharti
The Mystery of Vril Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of the world's oldest legends tells of a vast network of underground tunnels and passageways linking the continents to a subterranean kingdom. This utopia is said to be inhabited by an ancient race of people who have lived in seclusion for centuries, hidden from the sight of mankind but aware...
Change the Story of Your Health
Using Shamanic and Jungian Techniques for Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Change the Story of Your Health is a guide to thinking differently. The story of our health is more in our control than we might think. We can not only reframe our experiences but actually achieve less stress, a sense of well-being and better physical health if we are willing to identify our health...
by Gavin Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
What does a turnip have in common with a pair of £500 sunglasses? They've both played a pivotal role in football history. Following on from Neil MacGregor's groundbreaking The History of the World in 100 Objects, Gavin Mortimer provides a quirky and unique take on the beautiful game told through...
Will You Manage?
The Necessary Skills to be a Great Gaffer
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
"Bloody obvious isn't it: tell the defenders to route one out to Drogba"
"That's what they've been doing all night and look where it's got them"
"The final ball has just not been weighted enough; in any case, his touch is too heavy"
"£120,000 a week and look how...
The Third Sex
Kathoey: Thailand's Ladyboys
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The kathoey, the Thai term for ladyboys, have long been part of the cultural landscape of Thailand. Though they're a leading tourist attraction, the glamorous and attractive men who are now women are also a modern expression of an archaic tradition.
Who are the ladyboys? Richard Totman introduces...
by Heinz Helle
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Alone in New York, separated from his girlfriend by the Atlantic Ocean, the name-less narrator of Heinz Helle's electric debut novel is sinking slowly into crisis.
He loves his girlfriend but finds himself attracted to every woman he sees. He is cursed with total self-awareness yet can't seem...
by Melissa P.
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
One very hot Italian summer, a young woman sits alone in her bedroom and writes in her diary: 'I want love. I want to feel my heart melt. I want to sink into a river of passion.' As the summer unfolds, she follows her desires wherever they lead her, often into the arms of men who set her world on...
by Raphael Selbourne
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2009. Beauty-in name and appearance- is a young Bangladeshi woman, on the run from an abusive arranged marriage. In the threatening city streets, she is saved from harm by Mark, the type of white 'hooligan' she's always been taught to fear. Their unconventional...
Where the Ghosts Walk
The Gazetteer of Haunted Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Britain is the most haunted country in the world with a wealth of places that feed the imagination, from Cape Head in the north of Scotland to Beachy Head in the south of England it is a land of ghosts and phantoms. Whether it is Napoleon searching for somewhere to land his invasion at Lulworth Cove,...
The World Through Blunted Sight
An Inquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
How did faulty or failing eyesight affect the style and technique of writers and artists. How did it affect the way they convey their visual impressions. In a classic study, first published in 1970 and thoroughly revised in 1988, Patrick Trevor-Roper combines his professional knowledge of ophthalmology...