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Author
Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Each of us has thoughts that are painful at times; sometimes the pain is sadness, sometimes worry or anger or shame or grief or some feeling that you don't even have words for. If you are a young person struggling with your emotions, you do not want to be told that 'everyone feels like that' or that 'you will grow out of it'. You want to feel that your emotions are valid and that the person offering help truly understands how painful life can feel...
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The editors of this book asked 100 remarkable women to choose poems that have moved them to tears. The poems range from Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, W.H. Aude to Carol Ann Duffy, from love and loss, through mortality and mystery, war and peace, to the beauty and variety of nature. From Yoko Ono to Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave to Michelle Williams, Carol Ann Duffy to Joyce Carol Oates, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Chelsea Manning, this collection delivers...
9) Kiss
Author
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They've always played together, eaten with each other's families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they'd end up married to each other. But as they become teenagers, things are starting to change.
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Lemony Snicket's simply told story offers a refreshing, thoughtful and hilarious look at the ways in which a bad mood wreaks havoc as it moves from person to person, leaving an unexpected trail of surprise in its wake: opportunities for laughter, forgiveness and even love. Meet the most endearing and unpredictable bad mood yet - an emoji-like cloud character - who allows young readers to look their bad mood in the eye.
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This resource comprises a collection of fun, flexible, tried-and-tested activities and make-it-yourself workbooks for parents and professionals to help a child in need of extra emotional support find the coping skills that fit them best.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Grown men aren't supposed to cry - in public, anyway. In this unique anthology, however, a host of men eminent in their fields - be it literature or film, science or architecture, theatre or human rights - confess to breaking down at poems which haunt them for many reasons.
18) The inner life of animals: love, grief, and compassion : surprising observations of a hidden world
Author
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Roosters that deceive their hens? Mother deer that grieve? Horses that feel shame? We humans tend to assume that we are the only living things able to experience feelings intensely and consciously. But have you ever wondered what's going on in an animal's head? More and more researchers are realising that animals in fact experience a rich emotional life. Acting as our interpreter of the animal world and of the fascinating science, Peter Wohlleben...
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Most of us accept the way our heart flutters when we set eyes on the one we secretly admire, or the sweat on our brow as we start the presentation we do not want to give. But few of us are fully aware of how much more dramatic and extreme our body's reactions to emotions can sometimes be. Up to a third of people who go to see their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained; in the vast majority of these cases an emotional cause is suspected....
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