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  Practise the Great Habit of...

  Andrew Richardson

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  This breakthrough programme is for all who wish to acquire practice tools that will minimise stress and enhance their ability to think and act clearly.Are you stressed too much of the time and on edge? Relaxation can be practiced so you find it easier to achieve, like playing the piano or learning tennis. This Relax kit gives you tools to help you do this. And so you must try them all out and see which works for you when. You can keep using them whenever you wish and as part of a regular wellbeing self help programme.There are seven audios in this Conscious Relaxation programme:R1 Introduction (7 mins)R1 sets the scene and explains why relaxation practice is so beneficial.R2 Three Techniques (10 mins)R2 teaches three simple relaxation techniques for you to practice so they are there for you, when you need to be calmer in real life situations.R3 Priming (8 mins)R3 is short but will extend your capacity to achieve a more relaxed state in your day to day lives.R4 Anchoring (9 mins)R4 teaches a method that connects calm feelings to the physical.R5 Progressive Muscle Relaxation (12 mins)R5 is slightly longer body scan practice – a classic of its type (12 mins)R6 Breathing Meditation (16 mins)R6 is designed to enhance your capacity to breathe in a relaxing way whenever you need to.R7 Anxiety Control (21 mins)R7 focuses on anxious feelings and how to use them and control them in the right kind of way.Email access to Andrew RichardsonI want to hear how you have got on with Conscious Relaxation and be available for you with advice, mentoring and if needed personalised one on one help – so you can truly recover and find the optimism and energy that is your birthright.

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  Tears of the Dragon

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  Already in midlife, he all but abandoned his 12 acre estate in New York and retired from his long, lucrative career as an internationally best-selling author to live, love, and be brokenhearted at the hands of the tempestuous Thai women who would bring him to his knees. This is the story of the dramatic, almost unbelievable, and often near fatal romantic adventures of a man searching for love in the throbbing heart of Asia's red-hot Golden Triangle.

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  Landscapes of the Metropolis of...

  Otto Dov Kulka

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  A Jewish history professor offers his personal account of the Holocaust, while depicting what he’s gone through to understand this moment in his past. 
   
  Historian Otto Dov Kulka has dedicated his life to studying and writing about Nazism and the Holocaust. Until now he has always set to one side his personal experiences as a child inmate at Auschwitz. Breaking years of silence, Kulka brings together the personal and historical, in a devastating, at times poetic, account of the concentration camps and the private mythology one man constructed around his experiences. 
   
  Auschwitz is for the author a vast repository of images, memories, and reveries: “the Metropolis of Death” over which rules the immutable Law of Death. Between 1991 and 2001, Kulka made audio recordings of these memories as they welled up, and in Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death he sifts through these fragments, attempting to make sense of them. He describes the Family Camp’s children’s choir in which he and others performed “Ode to Joy” within yards of the crematoria, his final, indelible parting from his mother when the camp was liquidated, and the “black stains” along the roadside during the winter death march. Amidst so much death Kulka finds moments of haunting, almost unbearable beauty (for beauty, too, Kulka says, is an inescapable law). 
   
  As the author maps his interior world, readers gain a new sense of what it was to experience the Shoah from inside the camps—both at the time, and long afterward. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death is a unique and powerful experiment in how one man has tried to understand his past, and our shared history. 
   
  Praise for Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death 
   
  “[A] profound and melancholy book of remembrance . . . Death is in these pages a constant and close companion to the living . . . This is a grave, poetic and horrifying account of the Holocaust which does not so much revisit the Auschwitz of the past, but the Auschwitz of Kulka’s inner world. It is his own internalized city, with its own enduring horror.” —Arifa Akbar, The Independent (UK) 
   
  “In this moving and poignant testimony, distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka draws the reader into the horror of the death-camp through a montage of historical research, essays and poetical images of memory.” —Shereen Low, Northern Echo (UK)

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  How I Planned Your Wedding - The...

  Susan Wiggs, Elizabeth Wiggs Maas

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  How I Planned Your Wedding: The All-True Story of a Mother and Daughter Surviving the Happiest Day of Their Lives    
  Bestselling author Susan Wiggs literally wrote the book on happily-ever-after love. But orchestrating her daughter Elizabeth's real-world wedding turned into a different story altogether, and one that takes two to tell—the mother and the bride.    
  Here is the all-too-true tale of a mother and daughter collaborating on life's ultimate celebration—a dream wedding. Often poignant, sometimes irreverent and always hilarious, this charming book is also packed with useful advice from both ends of the cupcake-tasting table. Join mother and daughter as they wade through the trenches of flowers and favors, grueling gown decisions…and the cold, cruel realities of a budget. With luck, love and loads of patience, they come out on the other side, bloodied but unbowed, replete with life lessons—and closer than ever before.

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  Soul Journey: A Path of...

  Ionut Alin Hoisan

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  Explore an uplifting tale of resilience and relentless passion in “Soul Journey”. Dive into the life of someone who rose from the challenging streets of Romania to embrace new beginnings. 
  Navigating a Turbulent Childhood: Delve into the struggles of growing up amid the chaos of an unstable Romania, battling poverty and family addiction. 
  Rising Above Adversity: Discover how the challenges of a transient adolescence, financial hardships, and unstable living conditions were overcome. 
  Building a New Life: Follow the inspiring transition to a new country, breaking through language barriers and climbing the ladder of success. 
  Love and Family: Celebrate the creation of a loving family and personal fulfilment against all odds. 
  Lessons of Hope and Resilience: Draw strength from powerful stories of perseverance, the importance of support networks and the relentless pursuit of passions. 
  Why Should You Read This Book?Inspiration: Be motivated by a real-life saga of triumph over adversity.Emotional Connection: Connect deeply with a story of struggle, love, and victory.Practical Wisdom: Learn crucial life lessons about resilience and the power of never giving up. 
  Join me on this captivating journey that promises to inspire and resonate with anyone who believes in the power of hope and hard work.

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  Confessions Of A Non-Violent...

  Chris Savory

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  Britain in the 1980s – strikes, the dole, IRA bombings, CND demos, poll tax riots, vegetarian food, radical feminism and an international build-up of weapons guaranteeing 'mutually-assured destruction'.
  Rejecting the privileges that life offers him, Chris Savory seeks to redress wider injustices in society by rejecting future wealth, power and status to follow his ideals. He throws himself into political struggle – living in poverty, sleeping in tents and on floors, braving the mud and cold, surviving on bean stews and wholemeal bread – to the general disapproval of respectable society. His aim? To bring about a non-violent revolution, disarmament and an eco-feminist-socialist utopia!
  Oxford University in 1980 opens up a world of opportunity, but the threat of imminent nuclear war pushes Chris to make life-changing decisions. Alienated by the casual superiority of his peers, he abandons essay-writing and sherry with the Dean to embark on a constant round of organising and protesting – peace-camps, marches, illegal direct actions, communes and anarchist street theatre. The triumph of Thatcherism and the defeat of progressive politics leaves him feeling despair, anger and isolation. But having given everything to fight the system, how can he re-enter mainstream society?
  At the heart of this memoir is a deeply honest and heartfelt human story, spiced with humour and colourful details of the 1980s' counterculture. In an age of climate crisis and Extinction Rebellion, Confessions Of A Non-Violent Revolutionary is a thought-provoking and engaging record of a previous wave of mass civil disobedience and an opportunity to learn lessons from the recent history of grassroots political struggle.
  '… Insights into how individual action can play a role in avoiding Armageddon.' – Billy Bragg
  'Terrific – thoroughly engaging and a real page-turner … wonderfully evocative, thought-provoking and a fascinating window into a world which until recently seemed almost old-fashioned, but now has a particular resonance in our re-politicized age.' – Jason Webster, author of Violencia
  'Intriguing – a fascinating and racy record of a life which will find many resonances in its readers. Particularly striking is its sense of journey through idealism, disillusion, and the yet remaining conviction that the struggle is not lost.' – Harvey Gillman, author of A Light that is Shining

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