Books

Living with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder can be tough. Facing stigma from professionals and people in your life, as well as your own intense emotions and urges, it can be hard to feel good about yourself. Award-winning blogger and...

Society recognises a more diverse range of sexual identities than ever before, but people often still think we have to choose one and stick to it forever. If the idea of a single, unchanging sexual identity just doesn't fit right - this is the book for...

A Practical Guide to Pediatric Acupuncture prepares practitioners for the treatment room by explaining clearly how to approach children and families with confidence and sensitivity and focusing on the 'how' of treatment. Rebecca Avern draws on 25 years...

A gentle wellbeing guide for Muslims looking to nurture their personal growth.This accessible, Muslim-friendly guide gently takes you on a journey towards better emotional, mental, and spiritual health. You will be invited to reflect on the relationship...

Taking a detail-oriented, yet holistic approach to the body is the underpinning of craniosacral osteopathy. This richly illustrated guide is structured into two volumes. The first volume focuses on the jaw joint, TMJ and mouth disorders disorders, and...

This engaging, highly anticipated book compellingly describes healing techniques of Chinese shamanism while respecting the tradition. CT Holman, a medically trained and licensed clinician of over 20 years, clearly explains how Chinese shamanism can be...

Lessons from an Executive Coach is designed to help coaches, at any stage in their careers, to understand the realities of executive coaching. That is, to gain an insight into what it is like to sit down with a range of very different clients and work...

The Scale of the Spectrum is an accessible collection of 'story pairs' exploring the commonality of autistic experience. Each story pair tells an account of an autistic person with high support needs and/or their behaviour being misunderstood, alongside...

Most creative artists encounter ‘dry spells’; similarly, many of us feel there is a creative project inside us that never quite gets out. Either way, wherever there is a block, there is an opportunity for enquiry and exploration. If all creativity is...

Good communication is central to all relationships, yet the unpredictability of interpersonal exchanges can cause significant anxiety for autistic people and create a barrier to successful communication. Understanding Me, Understanding You is a guide for...

The Art of Caring for People with Intellectual Disabilities considers how the skills and attitudes of a carer can elevate the life of the person they care for. The book is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and asks carers to analyse their...

There is increased interest in trauma informed care in the UK and worldwide, however so far there are limited resources for professionals providing training to help health and social care staff (who may have had very little training in attachment theory)...

The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training. Once users...

In her influential and successful book The Anger Box, expert practitioner Phoebe Caldwell shifted attention away from the surface symptoms of autism and towards understanding sensory experiences and alleviating the distress associated with them. The...

With a focus on the use of systemic mind control in the context of cults and the associated trauma of this ritualistic abuse, this book addresses a gap in resources to provide training and therapeutic approaches to both those living with mind control and...

The Dementia Care Training Library is a unique modular suite of person-centred, dementia-specific content designed to provide everything required for professionals working in relevant care services to deliver authoritative in-house training. Once users...

Emerging language (EL) is any unplanned language item that arises naturally during lessons that the teacher then chooses to focus on for clarification or modification, and this pedagogy is gaining traction year on year. It originally stemmed from Dogme,...

Autism: Respecting Difference is a concise, straightforward introduction to the sensory and emotional experiences of autism, designed to help support staff, professionals, and families better understand and engage with autistic people in order to offer...

The Towards Outstanding series offers essential resources for health and social care services regulated by the Care Quality Commission, built around the five questions that CQC inspectors use (are services safe, effective, caring, responsive, and...

Coaching in ELT is often addressed as in how to coach teachers. Throughout this book, Gabriella Kovacs looks at how coaching skills and tools can be applied in the classroom directly with learners, both individually and in group work. In addition, at the...

In Other Words: Comprehensive grammar practice for B2-C1 English language learners is an easy to use communicative grammar practice book. Together with accompanying online listening materials, the book can be used both for self-study and as supplementary...

The Dementia Care Training Library: A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches is an encyclopedia on delivering dementia care. The Starter Pack is a ring binder, containing two core modules on the lived experience of dementia...

Coaching is an emerging discipline that is continually exploring new frontiers. An area of particularly fertile ground is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Developed from behavioural roots by integrating cognitive models of behaviour, and since...

Ambulance Care Clinical Skills Clinical procedures are vital to delivering safe and effective patient care within the prehospital setting, but it is not always easy remembering each step accurately during a time-critical situation. Ambulance Care...

Jon Markss popular strip cartoon, Langwich Scool, made its first appearance back in October 1999 in Issue 13 of English Teaching professional. Jon has entertained us since then with his wry commentary on the state of English language teaching. All good...

The Dementia Care Training Library: A Complete Resource for Developing Person-Centred Skills and Approaches is an encyclopedia on delivering dementia care. The Starter Pack is a ring binder, containing two core modules on the lived experience of dementia...

Trauma Informed aims to create increased therapeutic and empathetic understanding of adolescents and their traumas. Part One addresses four types of trauma - acute, chronic, complex, and historic or transgenerational - through a series of case studies...

If you work in health and social care, it is essential to be aware of the support and communication needs of people with a learning disability and autistic people. This is to ensure that the service you provide is inclusive and equitable for people with...

There are few resources and books for professionals within the patient safety sector that use case studies to model the practical application of theories of patient safety incident investigation. Exploring these theories, this text brings together...

"This book is too good for one profession. It needs to be read by those in all safety-critical industries." Martin Bromiley OBE FRCSEd (ad hom), Founder, Clinical Human Factors Group "I would highly recommend this book, not only to paramedics but also to...

Debris collects poems from Daniel Huws first two books, Noth (Secker, 1972) and The Quarry (Faber, 1999), alongside a substantial selection of new poems and translations.

An anthology celebrating the winner and shortlistees of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize, presented by the University of Leeds Poetry Centre. Winner Dillon Jaxx Shortlistees Will Fleming Lucy Holme Jam Kraprayoon Adam Panichi

Stav Polegs second collection follows Dante’s Vita Nuova, Purgatorio and Convivio to explore the links between love, language and longing.

While the place and year of Steve Malmudes birth (Manhattan, 1940) nominally stamp him as a second-generation poet of the New York School, his hieratic, almost ideogrammatic poems, made slowly and carefully - sometimes over many years - are utterly...

'If difference, then resistance.' Hal Coase has a gift for catching the rhythms of speech and exchange, and an eye for a telling image. His book's Italian title, Eccolo, meaning 'Here he is', or 'Here it is', captures his work's immediacy, and the poems'...

How the noise in my head grows and grows, splinters into phantoms and shapes, graceless muses for her cot-mobile. How I terror. Moving from colonial to post-colonial St Lucia, this debut collection brings to light the inheritances of four generations...

Halfway tree. The journey of our life found me / there at midnight in a ramshackle state. So begins Lorna Goodisons astonishing new translation of The Inferno by Dante, a poet she once described as uncompromising as an Old Testament prophet, stern as a...

A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation 2024. The days have no names. The day they count the dead, the day they closed the doors, turned off the lights. Were still here in the silence, hearing tree-talk, the winds secrets, the company of birds. (The...

In her first Carcanet collection, Lesley Harrison looks North to the sea, with the heat of the land at her back. In her striking inventive arrangements of sound and page, Harrison bring us meditations on whale hunts and lost children, on cities seen and...

Angela Leightons sixth book of poems turns on the curious arts of remembering and forgetting. A poem will be written, James Longenbach writes, if in the grip of memory we are able to forget. A poem may be read in the same spirit, of remembering, to...

Late Gifts is a joyful and anxious book. The eponymous late gift, this books occasion, is a son, born to a middle-aged father. How does this change his sense of present and future, of time itself? The poet focuses on this demanding and joyful...

Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the authors first collection (2018), praised as showing some of the best technical skills of any living poet, the work of one who is not afraid of big subjects, whose enthusiastic gaze...

Ned Dennys startling new collection recalls what Heidegger says – in his essay on Hölderlin – about the poet, of all mortals, reaching most deeply into the abyss. In what does this abyss, the "worlds night," consist? In the fact that the gods have...

The Coming Thing is a brilliant long narrative poem. It is not Evanss first: she has become celebrated for work on this scale, spoken, dramatic, abundant. She has been justly acclaimed by, among others, Colm Toibin. He says of her inimitable narrative...

During the latter phases of Covid, Isobel Williams completed her celebrated translations of the polyamorous ancient Roman poet Catullus. The poems that proved impossible when she prepared Shibari Carmina, published to acclaim in 2021, finally surrendered...

Last Poems brings together the poems of Thomas Kinsella from his five final Peppercanister pamphlets, originally collected as Late Poems (2013), along with a substantial selection of new poems, fragments and revised work which the poet completed before...

For the Unnamed was originally entitled For the Unnamed Black Jockey Who Rode the Winning Steed in the Race Between Picos Sarco and Sepulvedas Black Swan in Los Angeles, in 1852. That title provided the full narrative in a nutshell: we know the names of...

In poems and translations, The Grid tells a highly unusual set of stories about the end of the world, ancient and modern.