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Meet Sebastian Vettel

Published on January 10, 2012 in Featured, Out Now and Sport. 0 Comments Tags: .
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Meet Sebastian Vettel
Andrea Cremonesi and Marco Degl’Innocenti

9780285640856
Format PB
£15.00

Fully illustrated in colour throughout, Meet Sebastian Vettel is an intimate insight into the life and personality (including exclusive contributions in their own words from Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, as well as a host of previously unpublished photographs from his early life) of Formula 1’s youngest ever double world Champion.

Meet Sebastian Vettel relives the astonishing story of how Vettel joined Formula 1 as a teenager (after many years as a karting champion), his early struggle to establish himself as a driver and his stratospheric rise – becoming the youngest ever F1 driver, the youngest to score championship points, qualify in pole position and to win a race; including contributions from the members of the Red Bull team who have helped to make him a champion

Includes a full account of Sebastian’s record-breaking 2011 season: the most championship points won in a season, most pole positions in a season, most laps led in a season as well as becoming the youngest ever double world champion.

Andrea Cremonesi and Marco Degl’Innocenti have followed Sebastian Vettel over his entire career in Formula 1. Andrea Cremonesi covers Formula 1 for ‘Gazzetta dello Sport’ while Marco Degl’Innocenti is a freelance journalist for ‘La Stampa’ and ‘Auto & Design’ among others.

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A Meditator’s Diary

Published on January 10, 2012 in Featured, Out Now and Religion. 0 Comments Tags: .
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A Meditator's Diary
Jane Hamilton-Merritt

9780285640795
Format PB
£10.00

For the first time in paperback…

It is rare for a foreign woman to be accepted for instruction in intensive meditation in a Buddhist temple in Thailand. Jane Hamilton-Merritt writes about this experience from the inside, describing the extraordinary journey into the self and the expansion of her consciousness. In an intimate account of her struggles, her fears and her experiences – some euphoric, some terrifying, some beautiful in the form of psychedelic visions and some that were genuinely threatening.

A Meditator’s Diary is a book about meditation like no other. Jane Hamilton-Merritt describes her journey to achieve ‘compassion without attachment’ and to find a sense of the living flow with the universe that changed her life. This is a book that may change many people’s lives.

A Meditator’s Diary is an intellectually disciplined attempt to understand what Buddhist meditation techniques have to offer us, those in the Western world caught up in a cycle of destruction that we cannot control, and how to access its secrets.

Jane Hamilton-Merritt worked as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand (and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for her work in covering the Vietnam War). She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 and 2000 for her work on behalf of the Hmong tribal people of Laos.

“A fine and sensitive piece of writing.” Buddhist Quarterly

“Warmly written, full of emotions and experiences and very compelling reading.”
Yoga Today

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Wheat-Free Cooking

Published on January 10, 2012 in Food & Drink, Health & Self-Help and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: .
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Wheat-Free Cooking
Rita Greer

9780285640405
Format PB
£9.99

A wheat allergy is thought to be the most common form of food allergy, how can you eliminate it from your diet and discover a new feeling of health and well-being?

Wheat is not only the basis for bread, biscuits, cakes, breakfast cereals and pastries but it is also a hidden ingredient in everything from gravies to burgers and sausages. Wheat allergies can produce symptoms such as rashes, itchy eyes, sneezing and hayfever to nausea and digestive problems (while illnesses such as asthma and migraines have been found to be linked to the allergy). You may need to eliminate wheat from your diet but how to do that easily, cheaply and enjoyably without limiting a healthy diet?

Rita Greer, one of Britain’s leading health writers, cooked for her husband who was on a wheat-free diet for over thirty years, developing recipes and menus for every occasion. Now revised and updated to include developments such as the ‘free-from’ ranges available from many supermarkets and the increased availability of wheat-free foods Wheat-Free Cooking is an essential guide that could change your life.

Based on decades of practical experience, this reassuring and imaginative book uses common sense and exciting ideas to produce recipes for every meal of the day, all guaranteed to be free of wheat including bread, cakes and pastries. As well as identifying what foods may contain hidden wheat and ensuring that your diet is nutritionally balanced Wheat-Free Cooking provides menus for everything from everyday food to dinner parties – even a recipe for a traditional Christmas cake. It makes a wheat-free diet easy, accessible and, above all, healthy. These are recipes that can be enjoyed by members of the family and envied by everyone.

Rita Greer has been a full-time writer since 1970 (specialising in writing for people on special diets), and has written over thirty books. In 2010 she was awarded an honorary MA by the Open University for ‘her notable contribution to education and culture’. She is also the author of Rita Greer’s Vegetarian Cookbook and Soft Options.

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The Digital Diet

Published on November 2, 2011 in Featured, Health & Self-Help and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: .
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The Digital Diet
Daniel Sieberg

978-0285640535
Format PB
£10

YOUR 2013 RESOLUTION

Does your heart flutter when you see the flashing red light on your BlackBerry?

Do you feel guilty if you haven’t recently updated your blog?

Is the first thing you do when you get home from a holiday to upload your photos to Facebook?

Technology is increasingly taking over our lives and with so much available to us, it’s easy to surrender control to it. Our digital lifestyles are more of a weight on our shoulders than we know – many of us can no longer focus on a single task or face-to-face conversation without wanting to reach out–or retreat–to the virtual world every few minutes, or even every few seconds.

It’s time for a digital detox.

Daniel Sieberg’s 4-step, 28-day plan will get you started straight away. It isn’t about cutting out technology all together, but about taking a step back and reincorporating it in a healthier way.

Step 1//Re: Think:

Consider how technology has overwhelmed our society and the effect it’s had on your physical, mental, and emotional health.

Step 2//Re: Boot:

Take stock of your digital intake using Sieberg’s Virtual Weight Index and step back from the device.

Step 3//Re: Connect:

Focus on restoring the relationships that have been harmed by the technology in your life.

Step 4//Re: Vitalize:

Learn how to live with technology—the healthy way, by optimizing your time spent e-mailing, texting, on Facebook, and web surfing.

The Digital Diet will help you to take control back of our life, find time for real friends and most importantly, make technology work for you… not the other way around.

Daniel Sieberg is the former technology correspondent for CBS and CNN. He regularly anchors at the online network ABC News Now, and has been nominated for multiple business and financial news Emmy Awards.

“Managing your technology in a healthy way… It’s a great book and it’s got some fantastic things in it, and I think we should all maybe go on a digital diet.”
Lorraine Kelly, ‘Lorraine’ (ITV1)

“Setting up this year’s trend for switching off.”
The Sunday Times

“Do you constantly check your phone for messages and feel separation anxiety if you’re away from it for any length of time? If so, you could need to redress the balance. Helps you manage the time spent on gadgets. Written in a fun and accessible four-step plan.”
The Sun

“An engaging and thoughtful book about how to ensure that the gizmos in our lives improve our lives rather than take them over.”
The Bookseller

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The Tools of Screenwriting

Published on September 22, 2011 in Creativity, Education and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: .
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The Tools of Screenwriting
David Howard & Edward Mabley

9780285639027
Format PB
£12.00

The Tools of Screenwriting has been the definitive text for screenwriters since the 1970’s. Edward Mabley’s classic guide to dramatic theory has been revised and updated by David Howard, making it the essential book for anyone who studies film or wants to write a screenplay, creating a book that utilises the universal principles of drama and reveals how they are specifically used in screenwriting (using examples from Aristotle to Orson Welles).

Addressing questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, characterisation, setting, imagery and other topics as they apply to filmmaking. This is a practical and comprehensive guide based on experience and what works in classic screenplays. In making individual decisions about each element of the screenplay a writer builds a good story from the ground up. David Howard offers in-depth consideration of the many elements that make up a screenplay, clarifying his lessons through examples from classic films: Annie Hall, Citizen Kane, Some Like It Hot, Rashomon and sex, lies, videotape among many others.

Accessible, clear and practical The Tools of Screenwriting is a working bible for the budding screenwriter. Recognising that story structure is the framework for a successful screenplay David Howard teaches how to incorporate the other elements so that the screenplay takes on a life of its own, creating the emotional connection, spectacle and intellectual stimulation that will impact on an audience.

David Howard’s advice comes from years of experience, and from having taught hundreds of successful writers. He makes film writing accessible to the budding screenwriter, and this informative outline of the screenwriting process provides what can be learned from dramatic theorists and playwrights over the centuries.

Edward Mabley was a writer and director, he taught at New York’s New School for Social Research.

David Howard founded the prestigious graduate screenwriting programme at the University of Southern California. Among the hundreds of students he has taught are the writers of Natural Born Killers, Carla’s Song and My Name is Joe; as well as the writers of TV series such as ER, NYPD Blue and The X-Files.

Souvenir Press also publish David Howard’s How to Build A Great Screenplay.

“The Tools of Screenwriting is the best primer on the craft.” Frank Pierson, Oscar winning screenwriter of ‘Cool Hand Luke’

“A wonderful and indispensable producer’s guide to story, storytelling and screenwriting.”
Lawrence Turman, producer of ‘The Graduate’

“A clear run down of the tools you’ll need to generate a good screenplay… A worker’s guide… if I ever start teaching on a screenwriting course, I would definitely use this as my core text.”
Screenwriting on the Blog

“Advice to spare within the… pages of this excellent, well-established guide… Once the basics and the ‘tools’ are discussed, the second half of the book then turns to useful analyses of some 16 famous films including foreign language classics like The 400 Blows and Rashomon.”
BAFTA Online

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Manage Your Pain

Published on September 6, 2011 in Featured, Health & Self-Help and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .
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Manage Your Pain
Dr Michael Nicholas, Dr Allan Molloy, Lois Tonkin, Lee Beeston

978 0 285 640481
Format PB
£14.99

If you have been told to ‘live with the pain’ this book will show you how to do that.

The causes of chronic pain can range from a physical injury, arthritis or cancer, a neurological problem or environmental and psychological factors. Whatever the cause the sufferer endures complete disruption to their life and excruciating pain that no drug can alleviate. Manage Your Pain can guide anyone towards taking the first steps on the path towards recovery from pain.

Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience and the latest research Manage Your Pain explains the positive and practical ways in which you can adapt to chronic pain and minimise the impact it has on your life. The way forward is to understand that there is a pattern to the pain you suffer and that practical steps can be taken to return to normal life.

Manage Your Pain is now fully revised and updated to include a special chapter on pain management for older people, as well as clearly explaining the causes of pain and providing steps that anyone can take to minimise the impact of persistent pain on a sufferer’s life, work and leisure.

The authors are highly qualified and experienced medical professionals who specialise in pain management. They bring several differing specialities to this book, ensuring that the widest range of treatments are covered. Professor Michael Nicolas and Dr Allan Molloy teach at the University of Sydney, Lois Tonkin is a senior physiotherapist while Lee Beeston is a senior nurse specialising in pain management programmes. They have all worked on the internationally acclaimed ADAPT programme at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia.

“The book would be a useful starting point for anyone wishing to explore some alternative strategies to pain management.” The Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing

“Essential reading for anyone who suffers chronic pain.”
Woman

“This book does what it says on the cover – it helps you to manage pain… The book has a lot of ideas.”
Arthritis News

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The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes 7th Edition

Published on September 6, 2011 in Featured, Health & Self-Help and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: .
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The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes 7th Edition
Theodora Lau and Laura Lau

9780285640467
Format PB
£15.99

Now in its seventh edition, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the Chinese lunar zodiac, skilfully combining the Eastern lunar calendar with Western astrology.

Discover how “the animal that hides in your heart” influences your outlook on life, your relationships and your future.

Discover which of the twelve animal signs you are and the effects of the other influences you were born under, from the five elements, the four seasons, to the ascendant signs of the hour of your birth. Introducing the origins and personalities of each sign each chapter explains in detail how your sign will interact with other signs to guide you through relationships and life. How can you and your partner’s personalities be explained, and discover what the future holds for you.

With extensive new material, including how your horoscope can reveal the right wedding date for you, the compatibility between the 144 possible marriage combinations and new lunar forecasts for the years up to 2014, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes is the definitive book on Chinese astrology.

Theodora Lau was born in Shanghai and has also published Chinese Horoscopes for Your Child!. Laura Lau is the co-author of Wedding Feng Shui.

“Everything is set out so clearly, is written so well and is so easy to follow that one finds getting into Chinese horoscopes as easy as getting into jeans.” Sunday Times

“This book has stood the test of time”
Prediction Magazine

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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

Published on September 1, 2011 in Featured, Humour and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: .
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
James Finn Garner

978 0 285 640412
Format HB
£7.99

James Finn Garner has taken the opportunity to rewrite classic stories for more enlightened times: from Snow White’s relationship with seven vertically challenged men, Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf who set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation to the Emperor who was not naked but was endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle.

In this new edition, for the first time read the true story of what happened when the Ugly Duckling was judged on its personal merits and not on its physical appearance.

At last, here is bedtime reading free from prejudice and discrimination to witches, giants, dwarves, goblins and fairies everywhere. You can remedy this cultural defect by reading Politically Correct Bedtime Stories and discovering what really happened when Jack climbed the beanstalk, when Cinderella went to the ball and when the wolf tried to blow down the house of the Three Little Pigs.

For anyone brought up on sexist, racist, sizeist and ethnocentrist reading matter these stories have been purged of the influence of an insensitive cultural past to become fables for our times.

James Finn Garner is the descendant of dead white Europeans and is a writer and performer based in Chicago. His official website can be found HERE

“One of those works which cleave an author instantly to your heart… It is beautiful. It demolishes, in few but elegant words, a dozen kinds of silliness.”Libby Purves, ‘The Times’

“Not only essential reading for adults of all ages, but also the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC.”
Observer

“The definitive, non-exploitative, non-patriarchalist (dontcha hate doing that to the kids?) … collection of bedtime stories.”
Daily Telegraph

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And the Band Played On

Published on August 23, 2011 in Featured, History & Politics, Independent Voices and Out Now. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
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And the Band Played On
Randy Shilts

978-0285640191
Format PB
£18

In 1981, the year when AIDS came to international attention, Randy Shilts was employed by ‘The San Francisco Chronicle’ as the first openly gay journalist dealing with gay issues. He quickly devoted himself to reporting on the developing epidemic, trying to understand the cultural, medical and political impact of the disease on the gay community and United States society as a whole.

Extensively researched (Shilts interviewed over 1,000 people), weaving together personal stories with political and social reporting And the Band Played On is a masterpiece of investigative reporting (comparable to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood) and it led to Shilts being described as “the pre-eminent chronicler of gay life” (‘The New York Times’).

And the Band Played On was awarded the Stonewall Book Award, it became an international bestseller (translated into 7 languages) and was made into a major movie in 1993 starring Richard Gere and Ian McKellen. Randy Shilts exposed why AIDS was allowed to spread while the medical and political authorities ignored (and even denied) the threat. And the Band Played On is one of the great works of contemporary journalism, and provides the foundation for the continuing debate about the greatest medical epidemic faced in our time.

Randy Shilts saw himself as a literary journalist in the tradition of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote and was a pioneering voice in raising awareness of gay civil rights issues, as well as the AIDS crisis, and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists’ Association in 1993. He found that he was HIV positive in 1987 and died in 1994. He also wrote The Mayor of Castro Street, a biography of Harvey Milk.

“A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history.” New York Times

“Stunning… An impressively researched and richly detailed narrative.”
TIME

“Rivals in power and intensity, and in the brilliance of its reporting and writing, Truman Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD.”
The Boston Globe

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The Book

Published on August 13, 2011 in Featured, Independent Voices, Out Now and Reader's Choice. 0 Comments Tags: , , .
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The Book
Alan Watts

978 0 285 63853 2
Format HB/PB
£8.99

“The best book I’ve ever read on the nature of what actually is, what the world is about, and how you should behave.” — John Lloyd, BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs.

This book explores an unrecognised but mighty taboo – our tacit conspiracy to ignore who, or what, we really are… We are therefore in urgent need of a sense of our own existence which is in accord with the physical facts and which over comes our feeling of alienation from the universe.

Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person’s identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment and other people. The separation of the self and the physical world leads to the misuse of technology and the attempt to violently subjugate man’s natural environment, leading to its destruction.

Explaining man’s role in the universe as a unique expression of the total universe, and interdependent on it, Alan Watts offers a new understanding of personal identity. It reveals the mystery of existence, presenting an alternative to the feelings of alienation that is prevalent in Western society, and a vision of how we can come to understand the cosmic self that is within every living thing.

Alan Watts was central in introducing Eastern philosophical and religious thought to Western readers. He became a Buddhist as a teenager and moved to California in 1951 where he became a counterculture icon and one of the best-known writers of the 1960’s and 1970’s.

“For a new generation of readers… look at this ancient philosophy from a modern counter-cultural standpoint. Alan Watts explores the subject in concrete terms, using current idioms and expressions which will also appeal to the younger reader.”
‘Vedanta’

“Offering spiritual answers to the problems of a materialistic lifestyle, alienated from the natural world, Watts is the voice of all who seek a deeper understanding of their own identity and role in the world.”
‘Watkins Review’

“Reminds us how Watts presented complex theories and views in a subtle yet straightforward fashion… Still an iconic figure… he made great breakthroughs in stretching our philosophical horizons.”
‘Beat Scene’

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