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How To Be An Adult: A Book of Real Help
by Michael O'Mara BooksA gem of a book with all kinds of advice on 'adulting' taken from old household manuals that were a staple in every home before the days of the Google search. This retro handbook will make you laugh out loud AND teach you all manner of household cleaning tips, how to get to grips with your revolutionary new blender and top tips on curing baldness. You'll never need to call home again.Selecting modern furnishings? Look no further. Heard about the latest in ‘refrigeration’? All those labour-saving devices are here. Plagued by wretched freckles? We have the solution! Planning a bridge party? Let this book be your guide.Accompanied by reproductions of real-life advertisements, which now seem very tongue-in-cheek, this hilarious guide to the adult world is the perfect gift for those just leaving home.
How to Be More Tree: Essential Life Lessons for Perennial Happiness
by Annie DavidsonThis beautifully illustrated book brings together sixty essential life lessons inspired by the infinite wisdom of trees.Trees do not have brains to think with, or nervous systems that cause them to feel things, and yet they are undeniably clever. From their ability to adapt, to their understanding of the strength of networks and mutually beneficial relationships, they put us to shame with their natural ability to thrive, even when they find themselves in less than ideal environments. How to Be More Tree brings together sixty universal life lessons taken from the infinite wisdom of trees. We learn about the importance of asking for help when you need it from elms, who call in an army of parasitic wasps when they're being attacked by caterpillars; from acacias, who look out for each other by producing a gas when they're being nibbled on by herbivores to warn their nearby friends; and the Chinese pistache shows us the power in pacing yourself.From the importance of patience, to drawing strength from others, to weathering the storm, to dealing with life’s most persistent irritants – this is a celebration of the heroes of the forest, and an essential companion for dipping into when we need a little inspiration.
How to Kiss Goodbye to Ana: Using Eft In Recovery From Anorexia
by Kim MarshallDo you struggle with Ana (anorexia) or have a difficult relationship with food and body image? Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) have the potential to transform your life and put you on the path to recovery. Here, honest diary extracts relay Kim Marshall's own struggles with anorexia and bulimia, including time spent in a residential treatment centre, and how she discovered EFT and learned to quiet the negative voices that were blocking her recovery. Now fully-recovered and a certified EFT practitioner, Kim explains how to use the approach as a self-help tool. Including easy-to-follow EFT scripts and positive mantras to help you stay on the path to recovery, Kim explains how to use EFT to help overcome denial and fears about recovery from anorexia. This candid account of recovery from eating disorders shows how it is possible to deal with underlying emotional issues and achieve a more positive mindset.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day with the Human Machine (Dover Empower Your Life Series)
by Arnold BennettLeave your everyday concerns behind and start focusing on your true desires! Achieve your full potential with proven techniques on: • Time-saving • Reflection • Concentration • Study and more One of the first self-help books ever published, this classic of personal time management has inspired millions to make the most of "the daily miracle": the fresh allowance of time that comes with each new day. This edition features a bonus offering of Bennett's The Human Machine, a guide to improving social relationships.
How to Manifest: Bring Your Goals into Alignment with the Alchemy of the Universe
by Gill ThackrayDo you have dreams that inspire you? And goals that you haven’t achieved but don’t know why? Are you feeling blocked, lacking self-belief but ready to make a change to your mindset? Then manifesting is for you. Manifesting has been practised by ancient wisdom traditions around the world for thousands of years. When you manifest you begin to invite the law of attraction into your life. Gill Thackray, mindfulness teacher, coach and psychologist, brings together the essential tools you will need to make meaningful change in your life. Gill will guide you through the simple steps to help you discover your true self and to reach your potential. From setting your intention and creating your vision to developing your manifesting mindset and connecting with the universe, as well as learning the 369 method, finding your power animal, the importance of full moon rituals, balancing your chakras, cultivating gratitude and much more, this little book will show how to manifest your dreams and help you to live your life to the full. Whether you are looking for a career change, to find love, peace or happiness, How to Manifest is the secret to your success.
How to Repair Everything: A Green Guide to Fixing Stuff
by Nick HarperWith advice on tools, materials and methods and written in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, this is a book that makes it easier to say ‘NO’ to our disposable society and make a real difference.___________‘Covers a vast range of jobs and gives simple, clear instructions’ – Sunday Post‘Reminds us that there’s a solution for every problem’ – Glamour___________Not everything has built-in obsolescence – as this fantastically handy guide to fixing everyday objects proves! Whether you need to repair the strap of a favourite handbag or mend a leak in a washing machine, How to Repair Everything is packed full of tips and tricks of the trade for the person who likes to do-it-yourself. From quick fixes that will get you out of a jam to permanent solutions that make the item good as new, this is perfect for anyone who hates the throwaway society and would much rather refurb and recycle.Whether it’s a sweater that’s shrunk in the wash, a broken umbrella spoke or fixing a microwave oven, you’ll be amazed just how many things can be mended with a few tools and a bit of patience.
The Korean Lifestyle Book: How to Bring K-Culture into your Everyday Life, Home and Style
by Michael O'Mara BooksKorean culture is taking over our beauty routines, our homes, our playlists and our TVs. Here, for the first time, this beautiful book brings together everything you ever wanted to know about the Korean way of life.The Korean Lifestyle Book will show you how to transform your daily routine with the beauty bloggers’ skin-first philosophy and how to create your very own minimalist sanctuary at home by focusing on the Korean interior design, full of light and greenery. Find your new favourite K-drama and put together a K-pop playlist that will get everyone dancing. Learn why Korean food is so delicious and so good for you.Illustrated throughout and packed full of practical tips and advice, this handy manual is infused with the very best of Korea’s cult trends. Korean culture is rich, varied, interesting - and cool. This beautiful book brings together everything you ever wanted to know about the Korean way of life.
Life Lessons from the Ocean: Soothing Wisdom from the Sea
by Richard HarringtonThis beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of the majesty of the ocean – a soothing and calming tome for when life on dry land is overwhelming. In an increasingly complicated world we are turning to nature more and more to gain a better understanding of ourselves and the complexities and anxieties in our life. The ocean is a calming constant in our world and we can learn a huge amount from its vast depths. The ocean makes up seventy-one per cent of the earth's surface and is filled with marine life and mystery. In this beautifully illustrated gift book, marine biologist Richard Harrington reveals over 60 secrets of the ocean, and how we can learn from them. From learning to go with the flow of the tide to taking inspiration from starfish about how to handle setbacks there is a lesson for everyone in this beautiful book. Combined with gorgeous illustrations by Annie Davidson this book is perfect for those who are seeking some inspiration from life between the waves.
Live More Sloth: Slow Down, Chill Out and Live in the Sloth Lane
by Tim Collins Luka VaThe no-sweat approach to self-care from nature’s expert: the sloth. Get ready to channel nature’s most relaxed animals and turn your perspective upside-down. There’s a lot to be said for taking it easy and our sloth friends are experts at finding their superchill. Learn how to slow down, be present and forget the small stuff as you follow the slothenly path to enlightenment. Celebrating the art of slow and bringing together their philoslothopy for living a happy life, Live More Sloth is a collection of wisdom that reminds us all to hang in there and smile, no matter what life throws at you. Start living your best life today, by the way of the sloth.
Managing Through Incentives: How To Develop A More Collaborative, Productive, And Profitable Organization
by Richard B. McKenzie Dwight R. LeeThe Nightly Act of Dreaming: Cognitive Narratology and the Shared Identity of Myth
by Ryan FriesenThe search for a shared practice of storytelling around which a popular study of cognitive narratology might form need look no further than our nightly experience of dreams. Dreams and memories are inseparable, complicating and building upon one another, reminding us that knowledge of ourselves based on our memories relies upon fictionalized narratives we create for ourselves. Psychologists refer to confabulation, the creation of false or distorted memories about oneself and the world we inhabit, albeit without any conscious intention to deceive. This process and narrative, inherent in the dreamlife of all people, is at odds with the daily menu of cultural myths and politicized fictions fed to the Western world through print and social media, and for which there is constant divisiveness and disagreement. Cognitive Narratology and the Shared Identity of Myth uses insights gained from the scientific study of dreaming to explain how the shared experience of dreamlife can work in service to the common good. Primary texts and literary works, chosen for their influence on contemporary thinking, provide a rationale and historical background: From Artemidorus (a professional diviner) and Aristotle; to the Church fathers Tertullian, St. Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Sinesius of Cyrene; to The Wanderer (Old English poem) and Chaucers Book of the Duchess; to Coleridges writings and R. L. Stevensons A Chapter on Dreams; and to twentieth-century dream theory, and dream use in film. The purpose is to enable readers through subjective self-analysis to recognize what they share with their fellow dreamers; shared identity in formation of a shared act of dreaming creation is a universal across centuries and throughout Western culture, albeit currently misrepresented and rarely acted upon.
The OCD Recovery Journal: Creative Activities to Keep Yourself Well
by Cara Lisette Phoebe WebbThe OCD Recovery Journal is designed to help you better understand and manage your OCD. Drawing on evidence-based techniques, such as CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention, and on the authors' professional and lived experience, it provides helpful journaling prompts, creative activities, colouring pages and motivational quote pages to help you take control of your OCD.This journal will support you in understanding and challenging your OCD and motivate you in your recovery journey. Created by CBT therapist Cara Lisette and peer support worker Phoebe Webb, it will help you to build your own toolkit of recovery resources and to take positive steps towards living a full and happy life.
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations #4)
by Trevor H. J. MarchandAgainst the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.
The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations #4)
by Trevor H. J. MarchandAgainst the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.
Representation And The Mind-body Problem In Spinoza
by Michael Della RoccaThis first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza's positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of his metaphysical system: his denial of causal or explanatory relations between the mental and the physical. In this way, Della Rocca's exploration of these two problems provides a new and illuminating perspective on Spinoza's philosophy as a system .
Seasons of Grief: Creative Interventions to Support Bereaved People
by Louise Allen Sharon Strouse Oceana Sawyer Dorit Netzer Evie Lindemann Ilana Rowe Yon Walls Robert Neimeyer Sarah Vollmann Deborah Mesibov Elizabeth Coplan Topaz Weis Heather Stang Catharine DeLong Deborah Koff-Chapin Becky Sternal Steven 'Mud' RouesThe quiet letting go of Autumn, the reflective stillness of Winter, the bright rebirth of Spring, and the flourishing warmth of Summer trace the natural path of grief as it grows and changes to fit the spaces left behind by those we love. Easy-to-use exercise guides and activities invite readers to explore the changeable nature of grief through the ebb and flow of the seasons.As well as contributions from diverse creative practitioners, poems from Dr. Robert Neimeyer and reflections from Claudia Coenen create a starting point to delve into the emotional context of each chapter, encouraging the reader to view each personal account and case study through the lens of a different phase of grief. This heart-centred, compassionate approach infuses bereavement therapy with much-needed warmth, supporting clinically-proven techniques to guide users towards practical, healthy ways of processing their loss. Bringing together voices and art from across the spectrum of creative grief therapy, Coenen provides an accessible, compassionate guide to supporting those coping with bereavement throughout their journey.
Sounds Like Misophonia: How to Stop Small Noises from Causing Extreme Reactions
by Dr Jane Gregory'Empathetic, thoroughly informative and succinct ... Dr Gregory will be your friendly and helpful companion in the maelstrom of living with this complex disorder' - Cris Edwards, founder of misophonia charity SoQuiet---Are you often infuriated by ticking clocks, noisy eating, loud breathing, or any other small sounds? Do you wish you could sometimes put the world on mute?You might not have heard of misophonia, but if sounds can send you spiralling, you may have experienced it. In fact, it's thought that one in five of us have it. Sounds Like Misophonia is the first dedicated guide to help you make sense of the condition and design a treatment plan that works for you. Using techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), clinical psychologist Dr Jane Gregory takes you through step-by-step exercises to change your relationship with sounds and streamline your coping strategies. Alongside you on your journey is podcaster and misophone Adeel Ahmad, who carries out experiments and shares case studies from volunteers around the world. With humour and understanding, Sounds Like Misophonia offers practical ways to navigate this noisy world and live a fulfilling life, instead of fighting against it.
This Book Could Help: The Men's Head Space Manual – Techniques and Exercises for Living
by MIND Rotimi Akinsete'Incredibly helpful - every man should have a copy' —Colin Jackson, former olympic athlete'This book will save lives.' —Elis & John, Radio X'An essential read' —Levison Wood, author and explorer___________________Your body needs maintaining to keep it healthy. So does your mind.Sounds simple, but tired and outdated ideas that tell men how they ought to be, mean the message gets lost. And the results speak for themselves: suicide is the biggest killer of men under fifty. There’s no more room for debate – taking care of your head space should be as normal as eating your five-a-day or going to the gym. Many books make impossible promises about how they will fix all your problems and stresses with some miraculous ten-step programme. This one doesn’t. What it does do is provide practical help, when times are tough and also when they’re not. And just like with your physical health, it doesn’t always have to take much to make a difference.Developed in partnership with Mind, the mental health charity, This Book Could Help is filled with straightforward expert advice and simple techniques to help you shake off what other people say you ought to be, prioritize yourself, meet challenges and develop new strengths, in areas such as dealing with stress, motivation, work and life goals. We all deserve to live fully and respect our struggles, so start here and back yourself every day.Because head space is not a luxury, it’s essential.
The Transplanted Executive: Why You Need To Understand How Workers In Other Countries See The World Differently
by P. Christopher Earley Miriam Erez
Unforgivable?: Exploring the Limits of Forgiveness
by Stephen CherryForgiveness is a lovely idea, wrote C. S. Lewis, and in recent decades it has been seen and admired in situations ranging from therapy to politics, and proposed as a constructive pathway in the aftermath of abuse and atrocity. Not everyone is impressed, however, and in parallel with praise and promotion of forgiveness, cries of 'unforgivable' are uttered with increased shrillness and frequency. In this hugely compelling, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking book, Stephen Cherry argues that while forgiveness can be transformative in the aftermath of harm, it can also, if not handled with care, become an additional pressure and anxiety for those who have been harmed. He teases out the way in which Christian understandings often lie behind pressure to forgive, identifying a number of typical mistakes with the Christian approach to forgiveness. Reflecting on many examples from real life as well as literature, and on the insights of psychologists and philosophers, Cherry uses the tension between the desire to forgive and the protest that a person is unforgivable to push towards understandings of forgiveness that avoid the harshness of binary models. Forgiveness is not, he insists, the only good way forward after harm. A positive understanding of non-vengeful unforgiveness is vital if the harmed are to be given the care and support they need and deserve, and if forgiveness itself is to be authentic and liberating. Cherry's challenging book brims with energy and blends human insight with intellectual vision. It argues that if forgiveness is to play a part in the aftermath of harm without inflicting further harm it must be presented in a non-idealized way and only following acknowledgement of the depth of the human impact of the harm done.
The Way of Power: A Practical Guide to the Tantric Mysticism of Tibet (Routledge Revivals)
by John BlofeldFirst published in 1970, The Way of Power is an exploration of the school of Mahayana Buddhism prevalent in Tibet and Mongolia, known as the Vajrayana. Divided into two parts, the book provides an introduction to the background and theory behind the Vajrayana before progressing to a study of Vajrayana in practice. In doing so, it provides an overview of the history, development, and contemporary status of the Vajrayana, and takes a look at the different schools and sects. The book’s primary focus is the use of Tantric mystical techniques. The Way of Power will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism, religious psychology, and religious history.