Non Fiction Books
Bonnier Books UK We Dont Use Words Like Crazy
Book SynopsisWe Dont Use Words Like Crazy is a professional confessional from Elliot Sweeney, a mental health nurse who works on the frontline of mental health services. His touching and often humorous memoir lifts the lid on the realities of the profession, in an attempt to highlight the need for compassion for some of the most vulnerable people in the world, and the very committed people that work with them on a professional basis.This book is for anyone who wants to know what its really like to work in contemporary mental health services in the UK, and why people like Elliot stick at it. Funny, frank and beautifully observed, Elliots memoir explores all aspects of mental health care, including hospital, youth care, post-partum, dementia, community care, and the more extreme experience of working with Broadmoor inmates, highlighting a service that underpins our society and that reflects the full spectrum of humanity.
£17.00
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
Book SynopsisFrom royalty to peasantry, every age has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the wrong way. But their niggling, anti-social and irritating ways not only tell us about what upset people, but also what mattered to them, how their society functioned and what kind of world they lived in. In this brilliantly nitty-gritty exploration of real life in the Tudor and Stuart age, you will discover:– how to choose the perfect insult, whether it be draggletail, varlet, flap, saucy fellow strumpet, ninny-hammer or stinkard– why quoting Shakespeare was very poor form – why flashing the inside of your hat could repulse someone– the best way to mock accents, preachers, soldiers and pretty much everything else besides Ruth Goodman draws upon advice books and manuals, court cases and sermons, drama and imagery to outline bad behaviour from the gauche to the galling, the subtle to the outrageous. It is a celebration of drunkards, scolds, harridans and cross dressers in a time when calling a man a fool could get someone killed, and cursing wasn’t just rude, it worked!‘Ruth is the queen of living history – long may she reign!’ Lucy Worsley
£8.99
Merrion Press Catastrophe
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£16.14
Bonnier Books UK Thread
Book SynopsisThe words Caesarean Section, are powerful. They conjure up strong emotions. For some, feelings of doubt, shame and judgement. For others a sense of safety, relief, validation and reassurance. But they are rarely spoken of in the ecstatic tones with which we celebrate so-called natural, or vaginal birth. They are rarely called beautiful, or associated with an innate sense of feminine power. Can Caesarean birth also be magical? Mystical? Awe-inspiring? Knotting its way through history, culture, folklore and human experience throughout the world, Thread seeks to reframe the Caesarean Section on its journey through myth, magic and medicine.Journalist Hannah Marsh blends the medical with the mystical, charting the development of a now common procedure, once a dance between life and death: a last-ditch attempt to save a child whose mother lay dead or dying. Weaving in the arc of her own experience, a journalists insatiable curiosity, and the stories of women, contemporary, historical and mythical, who endured, sacrificed and drove developments, Thread is an unflinching but compassionate examination of a procedure that nowadays remains both pedestrian and miraculous.
£17.00
Crecy Publishing The Engine Drivers Manual
Book SynopsisThe need to learn the skills necessary to drive a steam locomotive safely and efficiently did not disappear with the end of the Steam Age on Britain''s railways. Indeed, such knowledge is vital to the future survival of the many successful heritage lines in operation today, many of which offer footplate courses to would-be drivers, a testimony of the enduring appeal of working with steam. First published in 1998, this is a reprint of an indispensable guide for footplatemen and aspiring heritage railway volunteers. Packed with diagrams and detailed text, every aspect of working with steam locomotives and their equipment is covered. In this comprehensive practical manual, former BR steam engineman Brian Topping conducts us along the traditional learning path from cleaner to fireman to driver, reminding us that for all the glamour of the footplate, there is also a great deal of dirty and strenuous work involved. With nearly 300 illustrations, including more than 70 diagrams, this is very much a ''hands-on'' guide to all aspects of the various types of steam locomotive likely to be encountered on today''s heritage railways. It covers not only the mechanical anatomy of the locomotive, but also such matters as maintenance, lubrication, braking systems, valve gear, firing techniques, footplate controls, basic railway signalling, and much more. It concludes with descriptions of typical journeys from both the fireman and driver''s points of view. Whether you are an established driver wishing to brush up on your locomotive knowledge, an armchair enthusiast, or a would-be volunteer keen to get your hands dirty, this is the indispensable aid to safe and successful steam locomotive driving and management.
£25.31
Sage Publications Ltd Research Methods and Methodologies in Education
Book SynopsisThe #1 resource for carrying out educational research as part of postgraduate study.
£31.34
Headline Publishing Group The Little Book of Affirmations: Uplifting Quotes
Book SynopsisDispel negative self-talk, soothe anxiety and promote positivity with these thoughtful and inspiring quotes, sayings and affirmations.Harness the power of positive thinking with affirmations that you can use every day to attract health, healing, abundance and peace into your life. These affirmations – based on the law of attraction, that positive thoughts will bring positive results – will help balance your mind and body and help you face challenges in your life by encouraging balance, resilience and greater self-esteem. The book is organized thematically to cover such categories as love and relationships, growth and abundance, gratitude, confidence and self-esteem. Both everyday affirmations and celebrity and literary quotes are given throughout.SAMPLE QUOTES 'I am better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.' Marianne Williamson.'Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm Possible'.' Audrey HepburnSAMPLE FACT The word 'affirmation' comes from the Latin affirmare, originally meaning 'to make steady, strengthen'; by saying, hearing or writing a powerful affirmation, you manifest it into your brain over and over again until you believe the affirmation.Table of ContentsSelf-belief: This section offers practices and affirmations to build self-esteem, confidence, resilience and inner strength • Inspiration: Creativity, inspiration and motivation are the themes of this chapter - whether you are lacking energy or are feeling weighed down, uninventive or blocked • Choices & Change: Deciding to change helps us feel powerful, in ownership of our life and motivates us into action • Love & Relationships: For manifesting love, romance and friendships and for improving relationships of all kinds • Gratitude & Peace: Promotes gratitude for all aspects of your life, as well as calm, balance and serenity • Growth & Abundance: For manifesting energy and abundance in your career, health and wealth sectors.
£7.44
Hardie Grant Books Behind the Home Bar
Book SynopsisA follow-up to Cara Devine''s successful Strong, Sweet and Bitter, Behind the Home Bar is THE cocktail book you need to live your best drinking life at home. It covers everything you need to know to build up your home bar in a way that is exciting, innovative, won''t break the bank, and ? crucially ? will be guaranteed to get the party started. Containing over 25 ''prep'' recipes spanning syrups and cordials, oleos and sherbets, bitters and tinctures, and pickles and ferments, these essential additions to your home bar will elevate your basic cocktails (and make them even more delicious). Try them out in the 20 cocktails such as a Blended bebida with Pear and chamomile puree or a Sherbet gimlet with Chilli lime sherbet and Mango and black tea bitters. With cocktails to suit every mood and occasion, set-up notes and prep recipes to add layer upon layer of flavour to your favourites with minimal fuss, drinking at home has never tasted better ? nor sounded more appealing.
£17.09
Hardie Grant Books The Family Home
£23.80
Swift Press Morning After the Revolution
Book Synopsis''Not since Joan Didion in her prime has a writer reported from inside inside a system gone mad with this much style, intelligence and wit ... A perfect book'' Caitlin FlanaganFrom former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent romp through the sacred spaces of the new left.?As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and a frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends - until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people.When her colleagues suggested that asking these questions meant she was ''on the wrong side of history,'' Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger - and funnier - than she'd expected.In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multi-day course on ''The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,'' following the social justice activists who run ''Abolitionist Entertainment, LLC,'' and trying to please the New York Times''s ''disinformation czar,'' she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very centre of Western life.Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber.
£10.44
Bonnier Books Ltd The Littler Book of Darts
Book SynopsisThe Little(r) Book of Darts is a celebration of the world of darts, packed full of trivia, quizzes and games that embodies the drama, humour, fun and downright chaos that is at the very heart of the arrows experience. Covering everything from Bullseye, the link between Dexy's Midnight Runners and Jocky Wilson, how Michael van Gerwin lost his hair, the real reason Gerwyn Price wears industrial-sized ear defenders and what to wear to impress your boss when they catch you chugging a jug of beer in the crowd, this is the embodiment of the magic that these highly trained athletes bring to the oche day after day.
£11.69
Bristol University Press UberTherapy The New Business of Mental Health
£18.99
Profile No Such Thing as Normal
Book SynopsisPsychiatry rests on the belief that mental distress can ultimately be explained by biology: brain structures, chemical imbalances and genetics. Treatments from lobotomies to electroconvulsive therapy to prescription drugs have been touted as cures for 'disorder'. And somewhere along the way, the pharmaceutical industry has leapfrogged its patients, making millions designing drugs to treat disorders, then billions dreaming up disorders that require drugs. We are now diagnosed and treated for mental disorders more than ever, despite increasing evidence that environmental factors play a far greater role than biological ones. Laying out the steps for a mental health system that helps rather than harms, Marieke Bigg asks: how can we heal when faced with an industry that banks on keeping us sick?
£17.00
PublicAffairs Personal Branding for Introverts
£22.50
Search Press Ltd Nordic Christmas Crochet
Book SynopsisCapture the spirit of a cosy Nordic Christmas with eleven crocheted decorations to create. Nordic Christmas Crochet is a mix of classic and modern-style Christmas decorations, based on the simple, natural, Nordic aesthetic that characterises Krea Deluxe, the company owned by Heidi and Pia, the authors. The book is full of beautiful, styled photographs of the crocheted decorations in situ on a Christmas tree, in the window and around the home, all the time giving a very personal touch to the festive season. Each project is accompanied by clear instructions, and templates and diagrams are also included to aid the reader in the creation of these exquisite embellishments, which include: stars, drums, pennants, birds, mistletoe and Christmas trees.Trade ReviewNo one does Christmas quite like the Scandinavians, and this book epitomises stylish Scandi-inspired festivities. Filled with typically Nordic designs inspired by nature and neutral colours -- with a sprinkling of seasonal sparkle from glitter yarns -- this book of 11 festive patterns is a must-have for anyone who loves coordinated Yuletide decorations. Authors Heidi and Pia Johannesen are the dynamic duo behind the ethical, sustainable Danish yarn brand Krea Deluxe, and are already well-known for their seasonal Christmas designs. Inspired by memories of the sisters' childhood Christmas traditions centred around foraged and handmade decorations and gifts, this collection includes designs inspired by classic decorations. For the Christmas tree, make simple stars and sparkly baubles, miniature strings of bunting, tiny trumpets and drums, and a sweet little bird with a feathery tail. For decorating your room, arrange groups of simple Christmas trees on the mantlepiece, hang a bunch of crocheted mistletoe over the doorway, and pop LED tea lights inside tiny houses. Templates are included along with tips accompanying each pattern, but there isn't a how-to section covering the stitches and techniques you'll need to make the designs, so some prior crochet knowledge is assumed. However, most of the patterns are suitable for beginners and intermediate crocheters, making this an accessible and timeless Christmas collection you'll return year after year. -- Inside Crochet * Issue 163 *If you like your Christmas décor simple, clean and perhaps a bit Scandinavian-inspired, you’ll love these 11 timeless crochet decorations by sisters Heidi and Pia Johannesen. Make drums, pennants, birds, stars, mistletoe and Christmas trees using the book’s clear instructions, diagrams and customisation suggestions. -- Simply Crochet * Issue 141 *Table of ContentsForeword 10 How the book is organized 15 Video guides and help 15 Yarns and tension (gauge) 16 Difficulty 17 Patterns 18 Drum 20, Stars 26, Ornaments 32, Mini bunting 44, Trumpet 50, Mini baubles 56, Bird 62, Mini stars 68, Mistletoe 72, Trees 82, Light-up houses 90 Templates 118 Collaborators 126 Thanks 128
£11.69
Pushkin Press What Do I Know
£11.69
Granta Books Every Last Fish
£17.00
Bonnier Books Ltd Colour the Tarot
Book SynopsisWhat inspiration will you discover when you open your mind to the future with Colour the Tarot?
£7.59
Bonnier Books Ltd Job Moves
£11.69
BenBella Books Best Scar Wins
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£21.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Whats Going On Inside Your Head
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of How Are You Feeling Today?, this sensitive and important picture book helps children explore positive mental health.
£7.59
Benbella Books Capacity
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£23.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Terrible True Tales Vikings
Book SynopsisHorrible Histories author Terry Deary presents a laugh-out-loud collection of Viking tales based on thrilling true stories four books in one!
£8.54
Pegasus Books The Lions Finally Roar
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£13.49
David Zwirner Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky Dreams of the Future
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£28.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Escape From Amritsar
Book SynopsisIn a city on the brink of violence just after the First World War, can one boy make his way through the night and save his father?
£6.64
Trafalgar Square Books Fergus and the Man Named Jim
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£14.39
Ulysses Press Same Page Parenting
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£15.30
Gemini Books Group Ltd The Pocket Chappell Roan
Book SynopsisA deep dive into the career, creativity, and influence of Chappell Roan, exploring her groundbreaking music and cultural impact.
£7.59
Gallery Books Everybody Loses
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£21.98
Headline Publishing Group The Guardian Cryptic Crosswords 3: A collection
Book SynopsisThe UK's most devious cryptic crossword setters present 120 fiercely challenging puzzles.The Guardian's cryptic crosswords are enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people every day. Now you too can test your powers of linguistic deduction and lateral thinking against more than 100 classic puzzles specially selected from the Guardian's archives.Table of Contents120 tricky cryptic crosswords compiled by the Guardian's crossword creators, complete with an introduction and full solutions.
£7.99
Collective Book Studio Spiritual Spin
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£15.82
Heloise Press IMPERFECT BODIES
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£11.66
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Book of the Frog
Book SynopsisFrogs are remarkable creatures. They have mastered both land and water, and can breathe through their skins and their lungs. Some of them are so poisonous that just one tiny frog harbours enough toxins to kill ten people, while others hold the key to lifesaving medicines. Frogs have colonised some of the most challenging terrains on the planet, from the Arctic to the South African desert, adopting miraculous breeding strategies in the process.Sally Coulthard explores both familiar native British species of frogs and toads and exotic rarities many of which are under threat and offers plenty of helpful advice on how to make your garden more frog-friendly.Brimful of extraordinary facts from frogspawn and froglets to eating habits and hibernation The Book of the Frog is the ideal jumping-off point for anyone with a fascination for amphibians.
£10.44
Benbella Books Glass Half Full
£23.20
Benbella Books Brand Power Built in
£22.40
Not Stated Planet Walking a Handbook for the Living A 6Week Healing Program for Liberation and Specific Guidance on Suicidal Ideation
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£16.14
Microcosm Publishing How to Survive in the Woods
£11.16
Granta Books Second Skin
Book SynopsisAn expansive, taboo-busting tour through different sexual fetishes - from latex and leather to medical gear and the gimp mask - that brings these subversive desires out of the dungeon and into the light.
£15.29
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd Supporting the Wellbeing of Autistic Children and Young People
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£22.95
Bonnier Books Ltd Getting Away with Murder
Book Synopsis'A rollercoaster ride' THE TIMES'Fascinating and funny' SUNDAY EXPRESSLynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it.From her early days in Liverpool to her unexpected acceptance into RADA, joining peers Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Ian McShane; from beginning her scriptwriting career with Widows and Prime Suspect and becoming a BAFTA award-winning writer and producer, Lynda's tales of stage and screen will have you gasping in shock as well as laughing in the aisles.Lynda has an important story to tell, one of breaking down stereotypes and blazing a trail for others along the way. Starting her writing career in the eighties, an era of entrenched gender inequality both in front of and behind the camera, Lynda faced innumerable obstacles to her vision.Getting Away with Murder shows how she overcame them to create generation-defining television and become a multi-million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author. Still at the very top of her game, Lynda shares her story on her own terms, in a way that's guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and be inspired to live a life without limits.'Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller' ERIN KELLY
£9.49
Octopus Publishing Group Growing Mushrooms at Home
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and beginner-friendly guide to growing mushrooms in the home and garden, from the UK's leading seller of mushroom growing kits. Mushrooms are easy and fast to grow, highly productive, utilize waste products, have numerous health benefits and take up little space. Plus by growing your own you can have many more varieties than supermarkets can offer. This book is packed with everything you need to know in an easily digestible format. The book begins with an introduction - what is a mushroom, what is their history, how can they help us - before detailing how to grow them at home, including guides for all varieties and growing methods, plus troubleshooting problems and how to harvest. The book then covers what to do with your harvest - storage, turning them into health supplements, and which variety works best for each use. A final section looks at the future of fungi, and the ground-breaking research into using mushrooms for health
£17.09
Octopus Publishing Group Life Lessons From Historical Women
Book SynopsisA funny and fascinating introduction to some of history's most forward thinking women, their stories and what we can learn from them.
£11.69
Helion & Company Churchills Forgotten Generals
£23.96
Helion & Company No Battle Without Him
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£21.25
Gill An Irish Word a Day
£18.69
Bradt Travel Guides Georgia
Book SynopsisThis new seventh edition of Bradt''s Georgia remains the only dedicated guide to this fascinating, budget-friendly Caucasian country, where tourism continues to grow and domestic travel is increasingly straightforward. Thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments, this guidebook includes revised and new listings for hotels, homestays, restaurants, what to see and do, and how to get around by public transport.At the intersection of Europe and Asia, nestled between Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, Georgia is the hub of the Caucasus - a country known for its mountains and Black Sea coast, and its wonderful food, wine and all-round hospitality. With Bradt''s Georgia, you can experience the new alongside the old in a country where most cultural and historical sights are free of charge or very cheap. The capital, Tbilisi, boasts a charming, cobbled old town, the centuries-old tiled baths of Orbeliani and numerous cultural highlights, but has also seen major developments recently,
£17.09
Cornerstone 10 to 25
Book SynopsisDavid Yeager, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the cofounder of the Texas Behavioral Science and Policy Institute. He is best known for his research conducted with Carol Dweck, Angela Duckworth, and Greg Walton on short but powerful interventions that influence adolescent behaviours such as motivation, engagement, healthy eating, bullying, stress, mental health, and more. His research has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, CNN, Fox News, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and more. Clarivate Web of Science ranks Yeager as one of the top 0.1% most-influential psychologists in the world over the past decade.
£11.69
