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Pathways to success and happiness: Four Simple Steps To Creating The Winning Team
By Sharon Pearson. 2011
The intelligent clinician's guide to the DSM-5
By Joel Paris. 2013
The Intelligent Clinician's Guide to the DSM-5 explores all revisions to the latest version of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual,…
and shows clinicians how they can best apply the strong points and shortcomings of psychiatry's most contentious resource.Of labour and liberty: distributism in Victoria 1891-1966
By Race Mathews. 2017
Of Labour and Liberty ... responds to evidence of a precipitous decline in active citizenship, resulting from a loss of…
confidence in politics, politicians, parties and parliamentary democracy; the rise of ‘lying for hire’ lobbyism; increasing concentration of capital in the hands of a wealthy few; and corporate wrong-doing and criminality ... It highlights the potential of the social teachings of the Catholic Church and the now largely forgotten Distributist political philosophy and program that originated from them as a means of bringing about a more equal, just and genuinely democratic social order. It describes and evaluates Australian attempts to give effect to Distributism, with special reference to Victoria.Please don't hurt me
By Grant Martin. 1987
Each story of abuse has its own tragic cast and script, its own wardrobe of hurts and scars. Families across…
America, among them many Christians, shudder with the consequences. Psychologist Grant Martin's timely book rings sounds of hope for victims, abusers, and loved ones faced with the problem of violence in the home. Drawing on the vastness of God's redemptive love in the context of sound and practical counseling principles, the offers suggestions that may pave the way for emotional healing.Rewire your brain: think your way to a better life
By John Boghosian Arden. 2010
"Rewire Your Brain focuses on the self-help applications and the ongoing research on the aging brain. Rewire Your Brain is…
also filled with practical suggestions and exercises to help the reader improve his or her memory and relationships--and overcome mild depression, anxiety issues, procrastination, and various other negative thought patterns. Each of the chapters in this book offer key components of the new developments in neuroscience and describe how to apply them to specific areas of one's life."--Provided by publisher.The complete guide to Asperger's Syndrome
By Tony Attwood. 2008
The mindful way through depression: freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness
By Williams, J. Mark G. 2007
'In Mindful Way through Depression', four experts explain why our usual attempts to "think" our way out of a bad…
mood or just "snap out of it" lead us deeper into the downward spiral. With insightful lessons drawn from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy, they demonstrate how to sidestep the mental habits that lead to despair, including rumination and self-blame, so you can face life's challenges with greater resilienceTeaching mindfulness: a practical guide for clinicians and educators
By Diane Reibel, Donald McCown, Marc S Micozzi. 2010
The applications and use of mindfulness-based interventions in medicine, mental health care, and education have been expanding as rapidly as…
the empirical evidence base that is validating and recommending them. This growth has created a powerful demand for professionals who can effectively deliver these interventions, and for the training of new professionals who can enter the fold.Ironically, while the scientific literature on mindfulness has surged, little attention has been paid to the critical who and how of mindfulness pedagogy. Teaching Mindfulness is the first in-depth treatment of the person and skills of the mindfulness teacher. It is intended as a practical guide to the landscape of teaching, to help those with a new or growing interest in mindfulness-based interventions to develop both the personal authenticity and the practical know-how that can make teaching mindfulness a highly rewarding and effective way of working with others. The detail of theory and praxis it contains can also help seasoned mindfulness practitioners and teachers to articulate and understand more clearly their own pedagogical approaches.Living with voices: 50 stories of recovery
By Jacqui Dillon, Marius Romme, Sandra Escher, Dirk Corstens, Mervyn Morris. 2009
This book is a groundbreaking development in modern mental health because it recognises the importance of the first hand experience…
and argues that hearing voices is not a sign of madness but a reaction to serious problems in life.The woman's money book
By Vivienne James. 1996
A user friendly guide to sorting out your finances and putting your money where it will work best for you.…
It covers topics such as stress-free ways to budget and save, being "credit-card clever", identifying the right investment paths and planning for your future.Pocket guide to interpersonal neurobiology: an integrative handbook of the mind
By Daniel J Siegel. 2012
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression: a new approach to preventing relapse
By Zindel V Segal, Williams, J. Mark G, John D Teasdale. 2002
This book presents an innovative eight-session program that has been clinically proven to bolster recovery from depression and prevent relapse.…
Developed by leading scientist-practitioners, and solidly grounded in current psychological research, the approach integrates cognitive therapy principles and practice into a mindfulness framework. Clinicians from any background will find vital tools to help clients maintain gains made by prior treatment and to expand the envelope of care to remission and beyond.David Schwarz: all bets are off
By David Schwarz, Adam McNicol. 2011
When he was eight years old, David Schwarz saw his father killed in front of him in a domestic dispute…
gone wrong. Despite going on to become a star footballplayer, playing 11 seasons with the Melbourne Football Club, the effect of this early shocking experience would shadow him throughout his successful sportingcareer. This is David Schwarz's honest and courageous story, told in full for the first time. Starting with the trauma of losing his father and riding the highsand lows of his football career, David tells the tale of his eventual undoing - a gambling addiction that saw him lose every dollar he'd ever earned and tookhim to the brink of personal and professional destruction. But it is also a tale of redemption, as David recounts the moment he turned his life around, and thepath of recovery since.Music: physician for times to come
By Don G Campbell. 1991
The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet influence on American postwar policy
By John Dietrich. 2013
The Morgenthau Plan, the Allies' post-war policy that preceded the Marshall Plan, devastated what remained of Germany after the war…
was officially over. Was this 'economic idiocy' or intentional destruction of a surrendered country? The current work documents the drafting and implementation of the Morgenthau Plan, a plan that was designed to completely destroy the German economy, enslave millions of her citizens, and exterminate as many as 20 million people.Trapped in the mirror: adult children of narcissists in their struggle for self
By Elan Golomb. 1992
In this compelling book, Elan Golomb identifies the crux of the emotional and psychological problems of millions of adults. Simply…
put, the children of narcissist--offspring of parents whose interest always towered above the most basic needs of their sons and daughters--share a common belief: They believe they do not have the right to exist. With an empathic blend of scholarship and case studies, along with her own personal narrative of her fight for self, Dr. Golomb plumbs the depths of this problem, revealing its mysterious hold on the affairs of otherwise bright, aware, motivated, and worthy people.Core of my heart, my country: women's sense of place and the land in Australia and Canada, 1828-1950
By Maggie MacKellar. 2004
When Georgiana Molloy gave birth on the beach at Augusta in 1830 with boxes of her possessions lying where they'd…
landed, she was one of the many women who literally had to remake their homes out of the broken bones of their past. In this passionate book Maggie MacKellar tells the stories of women on the frontier in Canada and Australia who ventured out in bonnets and petticoats to collect seeds, who abandoned sidesaddles to ride in the mountains, who risked their reputations to climb mountains - and beyond this it tells of the risky business of women who put their lives on the page to claim the importance of their experience. Core of My Heart, My Country weaves together experience and insight from women who lived and wrote in different landscapes, in different climates and in different eras. It is a provocative and remarkable encounter with buried stories and persistent myths.On the fall of the hammer: a personal history of Newmarket saleyards
By Lee White, Keith Vincent. 1992
Keith Vincent recreates the ambience, deals, agreements and memories of the Newmarket saleyards. This book also tells of the changing…
auction system, the establishment of slaughtering facilities and the development of transport networks to service it.Beyond the ladies' lounge: Australia's female publicans
By Clare Alice Wright. 2003
Clare Wright's award-winning research challenges the myth that the Australian pub is a male domain, revealing the enduring and dynamic…
presence of female publicans behind the bar. Wright takes the reader on a pub crawl through this history: from Sarah Bird, the 27-year-old convict who was Australia's first female licensee, to Big Poll the Grog Seller, the miners' darling on the goldfields, to Cheryl Barassi and Dawn Fraser today. Weaving oral history interviews, archival sources, folk songs, bush ballads and other popular literature throughout the narrative, this book exposes the remarkable visibility and dominance of women in Australian hotelkeeping culture.Two centuries of panic: a history of corporate collapses in Australia
By Trevor Sykes. 1988
Rich in sensation and scandal, this is the first history ever published of corporate collapses in Australia, from the first…
bank closure in the 1820s, through the four great depressions, up to the collapse of the House of Gollin.