"A Touch of Love" is Jonathan Coe's delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting in. Robin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hou[...]
Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. Now it languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short storie[...]
In this brilliant book, Jonathan Lear argues that Freud posits love as a basic force in nature, one that makes individuation -- the condition for psychological health and development -- possible. Love is active not just in the development of the individual but also in individual analysis and indeed [...]
This book is designed to help the candidate in preparation for the newly revised oral examination or OSCE, the concluding element required to pass the MRCS examination. Success requires a solid working knowledge and a well-rehearsed examination technique. A precise, structured and systematic routine[...]
Dedicated to the MRCS Part A exam, this book provides the candidate with a comprehensive guide to sitting and passing the SBAs (single best answers) and EMQs (extended matching questions) encountered in the MRCS[...]
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It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address--an audiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice chanting: "Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love." For Alex Delaware the tape is the first int[...]
Perhaps all of Jonathan Amesâ problemsâand the genesis of this hilarious bookâcan be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it canât be easy to be sixteen with a hairless âundistinguishable from that of a five year oldâs.â
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*Provides conceptual framework, not isolated techniques *Offers a psychotherapeutically useful version of radical behaviorism *Contains ethical guidelines *Covers borderline, narcissistic and multiple personality disorders "In 1991 Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) was among the first new appr[...]
An adult LEGO fan's dual quest: to build with bricks and build a family There are 62 LEGO bricks for every person in the world, and at age 30, Jonathan Bender realized that he didn't have a single one of them. While reconsidering his childhood dream of becoming a master model builder for The LEGO G[...]
Jonathan Falla, a nurse and prizewinning playwright, spent an illegal year living with the Karen rebels. His richly illustrated account of life in the Burmese jungle creates an evocative portrait of a people fighting to preserve their way of life. The Karen, one of Burma's many minority peoples, hav[...]
"A fascinating history--. Literate and authoritative--.Marvelously exciting." --The New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientis[...]
The author of I Pass Like the Night and The Extra Man transforms his own adventures, neuroses, joys, heartaches, and insights into a series of profound and hilarious anecdotes in a new collection of essays. Reader's Guide available. Original.[...]
From the author of the bestselling "Communication Miracles for Couples," here are 50 simple yet powerful tools for finding and maintaining happiness."You need not read this book from start to finish. Instead, feel free to look at the Table of Contents for a heading that sounds like something you'd r[...]
This book distils into a single coherent handbook all the essentials of process automation at a depth sufficient for most practical purposes. The handbook focuses on the knowledge needed to cope with the vast majority of process control and automation situations. In doing so, a number of sensible ba[...]
The relationship between the Hebrew heroes David and Jonathan has caught the attention of popular and scholarly writers alike. Yet there is little agreement about the nature of this relationship that speaks of a love between two men that 'surpasses the love of a man for a woman' (2 Sam. 1.26). Weigh[...]