Positive and reassuring, The Best of Boys gives parents an insight into the minds of teenage boys and the enormous changes they face, plus practical advice on how to communicate with your son, to help him through what can be a challenging time. Drawing on advice and interviews from experts, other parents and teenage boys themselves, The Best of Boys offers down-to-earth advice that will help every member of the family and is essential reading for parents of sons.

The Best of Boys: Helping your Sons through their teenage years

Parenting & Relationships

Gillman, Claire

Parenting

Albert Bridge Books

Born in 1860 Annie Horniman was the daughter of a wealthy tea merchant. She was allowed an unusual freedom for a young Victorian girl and studied at the Slade School of Art, learned to ride a bicycle, joined in the quest to learn occult mysteries and met W.B. Yeats who became a close friend. This friendship led her into the London Irish scene and the world of theatre. She used her personal wealth to fund new, experimental plays which led to the first performance of a Bernard Shaw play. Her next move was to Dublin and she generously helped the Irish Literary Theatre with free costumes, sharing their dreams of a theatre which she would fund. The Abbey Theatre opened its doors on 27 December 1904. She soon decided that Manchester would be the city where she would form a repertory theatre, producing new plays and old masterpieces. Ibsen and Shaw were central to her plans. In 1908 she bought the Gaiety Theatre which became the home of the first permanent repertory theatre in the country. Her theatre introduced the plays of Stanley Houghton and Alan Brighouse and she became an artistic and a business success, a successful woman in a man's world. She had London seasons and in 1912 she took her actors to Canada and America and wherever she went she gave talks on repertory theatre. In 1933 she was made a member of the Order of Companions of Honour and was delighted to receive her honour from King George V at Buckingham Palace. She died in 1937.

Annie Horniman: A Pioneer in the Theatre

Gooddie, Sheila

Humor & Entertainment

Can you tell if someone is trying to pull the wool over your eyes? Deception is all around us. Whether it's our friends assuring us that our radical new hairstyle is great, lovers insisting they have been faithful or marketeers misleading us with extravagant claims, we are barraged with varying forms of deception in our everyday lives. While many of us believe we are naturals at detecting lies, most of us look in all the wrong places for signals of deception. So how can you tell if someone is misleading you - via a well-intentioned white lie or a full-blown scam? With the right tools, inside knowledge from the latest psychological research and a bit of practice, anyone can improve their ability to sniff out lies. In Would I Lie to You? psychologists Dr Paul Seager and Dr Sandi Mann debunk the popular myths and show the true methods of lie detection. Learn: -How good you are at spotting lies. -The real clues in body language. -How to use an 'honest baseline'. -The verbal and vocal cues to lying. -How to detect the lies of children, friends, lovers, colleagues, customers, clients, con artists, salespeople and politicians. Would I Lie to You? is an indispensable guide for anyone who wants both to understand the art of lying and indeed to enhance their lie- detection skills.

Would I Lie to You?

Self-Help

Seager, Dr Paul

Mann, Dr. Sandi

Relationships

Three years after his secret mission to Aquitaine, poet and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer finds himself once more embarked on royal business. After an arduous journey in the spring of 1373, he reaches Florence, a city twice the size of London and the banking centre of Europe. Chaucer has come for money for Edward III, who needs a loan to prop up the ongoing English campaign against France. Arrangements with the banking house run by Antonio Lipari should be straightforward, but Chaucer soon discovers that various people are opposed to the deal, including Lipari's blind brother and his ambitious secretary. Within days Antonio Lipari has died, suspiciously. Violence is bubbling under the surface of this city of stone towers and golden vistas. Outside the walls is camped a band of English mercenaries while, inside, Chaucer himself is aware of shadowy pursuers. Following a fishy trail and the clues provided by a fallen statue, Chaucer must establish the truth about the death of the banker and others before he can return home to England.

Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women (The Chaucer Tales)

GOODEN, PHILIP

Literature & Fiction

Originally published in hardback as Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr, the definitive biography of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna is now released in revised e-book and paperback format as The Life and Death of ELLA Grand Duchess of Russia to commemorate the 150th anniversary of her birth. Described as the ‘Most beautiful princess in Europe’, and a woman ‘capable of arousing profane passion’, this is the story of a woman whose life combined privilege and tragedy, love and riches, conviction and courage, humanity and inhumanity. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Ella was born Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine. At 20, her marriage to the hardline Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich, who became the victim of terrorist assassination, like the marriage of her younger sister Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II, was partly responsible for the fall of the Imperial House of Romanov. In her widowhood and against great opposition, Ella established the first convent community of its kind in Moscow. As the ordained abbess of the Order of Saints Martha and Mary, Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna worked tirelessly with the sick, needy, outcast and untouchable inhabitants of the city’s slum districts. Brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks at the height of the Russian Revolution, Ella was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as the Holy Imperial Martyr Saint Elisabeth Romanova. This study is based on a wealth of original material, much of it previously unpublished, from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Hesse State Archives in Darmstadt, the State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow, and the Russian State Historical Archives in St Petersburg.

The Life and Death of Ella Grand Duchess of Russia: A Romanov Tragedy

Biographies & Memoirs

WARWICK, CHRISTOPHER

Leaders & Notable People

Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 AD) was the only woman to be the sovereign ruler of imperial China. A teenage concubine of the Tang Emperor Taizong, she seduced his son while the emperor lay dying. Recalled from a nunnery as part of an intricate court power-game, she caused the deaths of two lady rivals, before securing her enthronement as the Emperor Gaozong’s consort. She ruled in the name of her husband and two eldest sons, presiding over the pinnacle of the Silk Road, before proclaiming herself the founder of a new dynasty. Worshipped as the Sage Mother of Mankind and reviled as the Treacherous Fox, she was deposed aged 79, after angry courtiers murdered her two young lovers.The subject of countless books, plays and films, Empress Wu remains a feminist icon and a bugbear of Chinese conservatism. Jonathan Clements weighs the evidence of her life and legacy: so charismatic that she could rise from nothing to the height of medieval power, so hated that her own children left her tombstone blank.

Wu: The Chinese Empress who schemed, seduced and murdered her way to become a living God

CLEMENTS, JONATHAN

Community & Culture

The First Emperor of China

The First Emperor In 1974, Chinese peasants made the discovery of the century… Thousands of terracotta soldiers guarding the tomb of a tyrant. Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First Emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under 24-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics alive. He buried dissenting scholars. He declared war on death itself. Jonathan Clements uses modern archaeology and ancient texts to outline the First Emperor’s career and the grand schemes that followed unification: the Great Wall that guarded his frontiers and the famous Terracotta Army that watches over his tomb. Published in 2015, this revised edition includes updates from a further decade of publications, archaeology and fictional adaptations, plus the author’s encounter with Yang Zhifa, the man who discovered the Terracotta Army.

Historical

Positive and reassuring, You and Your Ageing Parents offers strategies for dealing sensitively with your loved ones. Writing from personal as well as professional experience, she offers advice on how to make their lives more pleasurable and fulfilling, ways to avoid feeling guilty, how to share the obligation evenly and tips for making sure you keep your own faculties fresh for as long as possible. The book also touches on planning for the future in terms of thinking about assistance from local social services, the NHS and where to find information on these matters. It is valuable and down-to-earth advice for the sandwich generation who are responsible not only for their children but also for their ageing parents.

You and Your Ageing Parents: How to Balance Your Needs and Theirs

Health, Fitness & Dieting

For eight brief years, before he was tragically killed in a mysterious air crash during the Second World War, Prince George, Duke of Kent, son of King George V and Queen Mary, and his beautiful wife, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, were the British monarchy’s, indeed, high society’s, most glamorous royal couple; and as golden royal icons they are still remembered. As a young man, voraciously addicted to drugs and sex, with men as much as women, marriage and parenthood for the impetuously wayward playboy prince, with his night-clubbing lifestyle and intimate liaisons, was seen as the only stabilizing influence. Enter the stylish and sophisticated Princess Marina, the cultured, artistic and multilingual youngest daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and his Russian-born wife, Grand Duchess Yelena Vladimirovna. As Duke and Duchess of Kent, George and Marina were the Crown’s most glittering representatives, not least in the aftermath of the Abdication of George’s adored elder brother, the briefly-reigned King Edward VIII; the man with whom he had not only shared both home and high-flying lifestyles, but who had helped cure him of his addiction to morphine and cocaine.On and off duty, the Duke and Duchess lived life to the full, and after George’s untimely death, Marina continued to do so during the twenty-six years of her widowhood. Revisiting his 1988 best-selling biography, George and Marina: Duke and Duchess of Kent, Christopher Warwick, in this largely re-written study, tells their story anew.

George and Marina: Duke and Duchess of Kent

Are you a fire person or is water the dominant element in your make-up? Like astrology, in Feng Shui there are a number of different personality types, each relating to one of the five Chinese elements - fire, water, earth, metal, wood. But unlike astrology, which determines your fate and fortune based solely on the time and date of your birth, with Feng Shui your fortunes are based on an intricate harmony between who you are (and what element best defines your nature) and the environment you create around you so when it comes to relationships, all kinds of combinations-both passionately combustible and serenely harmonious - are possible. Feng Shui for Lovers can help you get the most out of your particular relationship by showing you how you can transform your living space into a love nest and your relationship into a deep and powerful connection. Whether your aim is to attract a new lover or rekindle an existing one and whether you live in a mansion or a small apartment, by applying the basic principles of Feng Shui you can simply and quickly bring magic into your home - and your relationships - forever.

Feng Shui for Lovers: How to Create Harmony in the Heart and Home

Religion & Spirituality

BARTLETT, SARAH

Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts

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