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Author
Publisher
Constable & Robinson
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
New, rev. ed.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on personal experience, Liz McNeill Taylor has created a survival handbook for the widowed, showing how, over time, the healing process can be assisted, and how friends, organisations and resources can make life enjoyable again.
Author
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government's Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio plays, two novels and an autobiography. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting. Though it may look as though she is now part of the establishment - a Dame, President of Birkbeck College, a Member...
Author
Publisher
Teach Yourself
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The most student-focused introduction to sports psychology on the market Written by a leading expert and practising university teacher, Sports Psychology gives you all the key knowledge and information you need to succeed quickly and easily.
Author
Series
Publisher
Leaping Hare Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This carefully crafted manual explores how writing mindfully can create deeper connections with your words, your characters, and yourself. Author Joy Kenward invites the reader to embrace the writing process as much as the completed work; plotting out sparkling stories with a Zen-like awareness. Through meditative exercises, engaging anecdotes, and astute notes on perception, imagination, and focus, she is a generous guide and joyful muse, helping...
Author
Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
Aimed at music teachers and musicians at every level this book explains the basic principles of 'natural learning', that make up a methodology for performance improvement. Special features include ensemble playing, improvisation & listening skills.
Author
Publisher
Granta
Language
English
Description
Since they were once avoided at all costs, how have mountains, in the space of three centuries, come to exert such a strange and sometimes fatal hold on the imagination, moving millions every year to risk their lives? The author of this engaging book seeks to answer these questions.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Today busyness has become a badge of honour. Instead we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how. 'The Art of Rest' draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on - 'The Rest Test' - the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken, which was completed by 18,000 people across 135 different countries. Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is different;...
13) Fire and hemlock
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The photograph above Polly's bed sparks memories that don't seem to exist any more. Nine years ago she met Thomas Lynn for the first time. But what has happened in the years between, and why has Tom been erased from Polly's mind?
Author
Publisher
Quadrille Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Marr explores the subject of drawing and painting through his own experience. He considers the mechanics of the drawing process - the act of making and its importance for a happy life - along with the ways in which good drawing or painting can make us think harder and see the world differently.
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