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Greene and based on a dream she had in 1937. It tells the story of ‘The Oldest Cat in Bristol’ who was born in the summer of 1862 and lived through four major wars, the Peace of Berlin and the Treaty of Versailles. 40pp. £5.99 NOW £1.50


72095 RESCUE ME! by Alison Smith


Colour photos, tips and step-by-step sequences for teaching the basics like sit, heel, down and stay and dealing with separation anxiety and a shy or fearful dog. How to successfully re-home a rescue dog covering choosing, bonding, training, good behaviour, keeping your dog happy and healthy, first aid, vets


visits and with lovely case studies. Photos and stories behind several successful rescue pets. 128pp in softback.


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71298 DOMESTIC DUCKS AND GEESE by Fred Hams


The keeping of geese and ducks by people as a source of food dates back to 365BC when white geese were kept by the Romans. Traditional methods of goose production are being revived. Our book describes and illustrates most of the domestic breeds that can be seen today including the Aylesbury, Pekin, Rouen, Indian Runner, Khaki Campbell, Call Ducks, Embden, Toulouse, Brecon Buff, Pilgrim and Chinese Geese. 40 page softback, colour photos. £4.99 NOW £1.50


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71482 DEWEY’S NINE LIVES by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter


A tiny kitten falls from an owl’s talons onto the bonnet of a car and the driver, a war veteran, saves his life and finds a new life for himself in the process. In Florida, a couple create a paradise for the feral felines on a tropical island. These stories and more, including two featuring Dewey the Small-Town Library Cat himself, will touch your heart. Meet Tabitha, Boogie, Gail, BJ, Kit, Miss Gray, Chazzi, Taffy and more. Small b/w photos, 312pp in paperback. $15 NOW £4


72088 HOW TO SPEAK DOG by Sarah Whitehead


Why does my dog... lick me, growl when we play, walk past other dogs in a curved line? Can my dog see colour? Try learning new skills and joining clubs associated with the fun dog sports like fly ball and working trials, puzzles and games like treasure hunt, scatter search, mug shots and message in a bottle, safety, tricks like walking backwards and fetch. Test your own training skills, fill in your dog’s reward checklist, and along the way learn top tips. Colour photos, 14 to adult. 96pp. £9.99 NOW £2.75


72157 ANIMAL GRAVES AND MEMORIALS by Jan Toms


Guy the Gorilla from Regent’s Park Zoo, Jacob the Dray horse near Tower Bridge, the Boy and the Tiger at Tobacco Docks in Wapping, the Cat Monument at Shugborough, and a weathered gravestone for Freda, a Dalmatian, 1964 at Cannock Chase are among the stories to be told behind the inscriptions and short histories of faithful friends whom we have loved and lost. 88 page paperback, colour photos. £6.99 NOW £3


PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY


73528 MEMORY POWER-UP by Michael Tipper 101 ways to instant recall, all quizzers and those wanting to limber up their grey matter will love these techniques for remembering long lists of specialised items, remembering a deck of cards, remembering what you have read, mind maps, remembering speeches and jokes, learning foreign vocabulary, learning


a new skill, remembering names and faces with the Mnemonic method, retrieving the past, remembering errands and simple lists, always remembering your PIN, spellings to choosing a better diet for a better memory and exercises to help you improve your memory, plus relaxation. Learn techniques from the champion and have fun practicing. 144pp in illustrated softback. £5.99 NOW £3.50


73501 LATTE OR CAPUCCINO? 125 Decisions


That Will Change Your Life by Hilly Janes


Have you ever endured the kind of day when you are facing hundreds of lifestyle choices that impact on your health? Such as… Would it be better to walk or cycle? Should I drink red wine or gin-and-tonic? Is it healthier to chew on a baguette or a wrap? And after all that, do I clean with super whitening toothpaste or


regular? These dilemmas may seem small, but choosing the healthier option can make a big, big difference to your overall well-being. Here, an award-winning health writer examines these daily decisions and provides wonderful advice on which of them to select to maximize the benefits. So, no longer will you dither over your dinner menu. This volume backs up its assertion with scientific facts and studies. From moisturising to flossing, wearing heels or flats, washing at 30 or 60 degrees, watching TV or playing a computer game, and even having sex or going to sleep, all your decisions are already made for you. Enjoy your new care-free life! 192 paperback pages with line drawings. £9.99 NOW £4


73533 STAY OR LEAVE? by Beverley Stone


This practical and strategic book, recommended by Deepak Chopra, is sub-titled ‘Six Steps to Resolving Your Relationship Indecision’. Written by a no-nonsense councillor who combines sympathy with realism, Beverley Stone helps you face the facts that doing nothing is a self-defeating option as she uncovers the roots of your confusion and helps you make a big a decision


- to stay and make a go of it in a radically improved relationship, or leave confident and happy. Step-by-step she helps you make your decision and put your choice into action for example by changing your language to help you feel powerful, facing hurdles, choosing your feelings, getting the truth on the table and looking at the real you after understanding how it feels right now to be standing still. 178pp in paperback with self reflection questionnaire. £8.99 NOW £4


71075 WHAT IF? THE CHALLENGE OF SELF-


REALISATION by Eldon Taylor What if you awoke tomorrow with amnesia - no memory of who you are, what you like and dislike and who the people are around you? What if everything you believed in was false? Eldon Taylor has repeatedly demonstrated the overt attempts that have been made to control your thinking and this book lets you examine this phenomenon and move beyond it. Helps you peel back layers and reveal the dissonance in much of your thinking, beliefs, desires and choices - contradictory beliefs with no apparent awareness. 250pp in paperback.


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71943 PERSONAL SUCCESS HANDBOOK Everything You Need to be Successful by Curly Martin


In 1992, the author was diagnosed with breast cancer, which had mutated into an aggressive form of lymphatic cancer, and she was given nine months to live. Since then, she has become the best-selling author of The Handbook Series. In this, the third book of the series, she combines her personal experiences with accepted methodologies and cutting-edge innovations to create exciting, entertaining and effective approaches to personal success and development. You too, she insists, can become successful by employing the RAWPOWER strategy. 262 paperback pages, diagrams, line drawings.


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71970 AMAZING LIFE OF ORMOND MCGILL: Dean of American Hypnotists by Ormond McGill


McGill has amazed audiences all over the world with his exciting stage shows. Now he takes the reader backstage and reveals the personal secrets of his success. Using original sketches, photos and press material, he covers topics such as: Mental Magic, Mind Control, Remarkable Hypnotic Inductions and Past-Life Insights. He initiates readers into performing hypnosis on stage, into conjuring presentation and into hypnotherapy. 407 paperback pages, illus. £29.50 NOW £3


72094 RAGE by Helen Robinson Can we prevent anger escalating, or do we need to express rage in order to move on with our lives? Case studies, support and welfare organisations. 288pp in paperback.


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72345 WOULD YOU EAT YOUR CAT? by Jeremy Stangroom


A fun book packed with moral conundrums that have perplexed some of the greatest philosophical minds. If your cat is your best friend would you eat him after his death? Is it always OK to look at your own photos even if they are of your 18 year old girlfriend taken 20 years ago? Are we really sorry that Hitler existed? The book features 25 ethical conundrums designed to illuminate various issues in moral philosophy and at the same time shed some light on our own moral commitments. The second half of the book features an analysis of each. 144pp in well illus paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


72554 TRUST: How We Lost It and How To Get It Back by Antony Seldon


The updated edition which contains ten core arguments: trusting and being trustworthy are the sovereign human virtues we need today. The book examines the factors that lead to the loss and to the building of trust, and making the best happen as in positive health, policing, education and employment policy.


The 20 core propositions include National Community Service for one year for all school leavers, every county to have an elected governor, children to have ten hours sport and exercise a week, and the arts to receive a massive boost regionally and locally among them. 264 page paperback. Illus and diagrams. £8.99 NOW £3


72981 ESSENTIAL JUNG: Selected Writings by Anthony Storr


In an indispensable book for anyone seeking to understand the extraordinary range of Jung’s thought. The editor offers a compact collection of key extracts from the formidable mass of Jung’s published writings - the essentials of his thought in his own words. He was the first great thinker to apply psychoanalytical ideas to the study of insanity, and introduced into psychology the terms ‘complex’, ‘collective unconscious’, ‘extravert’, ‘introvert’, ‘archetype’ and ‘individuation’. He also anticipated the Existentialists in affirming that people are compelled to search for meaning in life. 447 paperback pages.


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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY


73795 NEW RELIGIONS:


Religions of the World by Carol S. Matthews New religious movements are, increasingly, a very important part of our global community. As our world becomes smaller through globalisation, and different cultures meet, ideas about the ultimate concerns of life will continue to be exchanged. The nature of religion itself is growing and changing, as


human beings create new spiritual groups to meet their needs and to answer the continued longing for community. This volume introduces eight new religions, some that are well established such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints, and the Baha’i faith, and some that are relatively new, such as the New Kadampa Tradition which, in 1991, was officially organised as an umbrella Tibetan Buddhist institution, and the Raelians, who founded Clonaid, the human cloning research and service facility. There is also a convincing section on why it is important for everyone to study new religions. 214 pages with colour plates, chronology and timeline, list of websites and glossary. £31.50 NOW £4


73771 COMPACT GUIDE TO


CHRISTIAN HISTORY by Stephen Backhouse Boasting genuinely worldwide coverage and history, we are introduced with clarity and concision to a rich variety of Christianities that modern Catholic, Protestant


and Orthodox often ignore in this vigorous guide through these three great traditions. It is no mean feat to condense 2000 years of universal Christian history into 200 pages, since Christianity is the most diffused religion on earth. The book guides us through the whirlwind of extraordinary people, ideas, events of war and pursuits of peace that have shaped the main contours of Christian thought and practice throughout the world. Interspersed in the text are boxes which invite you to take a closer look at the notable people, places and events and the words in bold are explained in the glossary at the back. Full of illustrations, colour photos, timelines and fact boxes, we learn about famous popes to the Salvation Army, Protestantism to Pietism, the fall of Constantinople and the Ethiopian church in the 13th century, disastrous popes, Chinese Christianity and more in this century by century graphic tour. 208pp in softback.


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GOD by Selina O’Grady At the time of Jesus’ birth, across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia, societies were rife with gods and messiahs, priests and warriors. Religion was becoming the source of order and stability. In Rome, Augustus was deified by his brilliant spin doctors. In what is now Sudan, the warrior queen Amanirenas exploited her god-like


status to inspire her armies to face and defeat Rome, while in China, the usurper Wang Mang won and lost the throne over his obsession with Confucianism. In this superb account of the interplay of faith and power, Selina O’Grady asks how did the tiny Jesus cult triumph over more popular religions, the god Isis, the miracle worker Apollonius and even the cult of Augustus, to become the world’s dominant faith? Sub-titled ‘Kings, Cults and Conquests at the Time of Jesus’, this is an important book written from outside the perspective of belief on an immense subject. 394pp in large softback. £14.99 NOW £8


73327 SWORD AND THE


GRAIL by Andrew Sinclair The discovery of a tombstone built by his ancestors set the author to discover major reassessments of the discovery of America and the origins of the Freemasons. Based on new archaeological evidence in the UK and the US, his book details the part played by the Order of the Knight of the Temple, here proved to be the true antecedents of the


Freemasons, in the discovery of America. As they fled the authorities who wished to destroy them, some of the outlawed Templars carried their treasure to a St. Clair Castle where the Knights’ relics are still buried. The tomb of their Grand Master, with the Grail carved on his stone, lies in Rosslyn, the core chapel of the Masonic Movement. With the help of the sea, skills and wealth of the Templars, a St. Clair prince tried to found a new Jerusalem in the New World landing with 300 colonists in what is now Nova Scotia and then in New England, 100 years before Columbus. 280pp in paperback with 32 pages of photos and illus. £6.99 NOW £3.50


73266 OUR CHURCH: A Personal History of the


Church of England by Roger Scruton


Roger Scruton is a commentator who does not hesitate to express a forthright opinion, and this readable book argues that the Christian Church is historically central to the culture of Great Britain. Scruton’s own religion is inspired by the Christian apologists of the 20th


century, writers such as T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Each of them had a vision of a religion


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73769 THE BIBLE A HISTORY: The Making and Impact of the Bible by Stephen M. Miller


and Robert V. Huber This is not the story in the Bible. You can read that in scripture itself. This is the remarkable story of the Bible - of how it came to be, how it survived,


how it changed the world throughout the centuries and how it emerged as one of the biggest-selling and most influential books in history. This authoritative and beautifully illustrated volume explains how the Old and New Testaments were written and put together. It describes the key figures in the Bible’s development from papyrus to illuminated manuscript to printed tome, and how the text was disseminated across the world. Written in a lively and lucid style with many contemporary quotations, full of information and insight, the text brings the story and the most important people involved in it to life. It shows how, over the centuries, the Bible has inspired the whole range of human emotion and experience, including the finest painting, sculpture, literature and music. There are sections on the oral tradition, the use of papyrus, the Jewish Bible, first-century letter writing and Jerome’s Latin Bible. If you want to learn about illuminating a manuscript, printing, or the lyrical King James Version or even about modern biblical criticism, the Bible societies and the Bible in moving pictures - it, and much more, is all here. 256 pages 29cm x 22cm, lovely illustrations in colour and b/w, with timeline, maps, charts and special features. A monumental volume.


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that liberates people and underpins the freedoms on which British society is based. Scruton also has great respect for “spirited agnostics” such as Jacob Bronowski, people who are unable to subscribe to articles of faith but share the moral vision initiated by the creators of the Prayer Book, the King James Bible and classic spiritual writers such as John Bunyan. The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who created or arranged hundreds of hymn tunes and revolutionised church music, had a characteristically English mix of “belief and doubt, pomp and satire”. Scruton describes his parents’ religion and his own childhood experience of church worship, shuttling between different Nonconformist chapels until Anglicanism claimed him. For Scruton, the transcendental is indefinable and faith means trust. 199pp.


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TRANSFORMATION: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah


by Karen Armstrong


The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious and philosophical concepts. Their emergence is second only to man’s harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our


understanding of what it is to be human. But why, exactly, did the likes of Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah and Lao Tzu - among others - all come to the forefront during this 500-hundred-year span? After all, they were raised in totally different cultures and backgrounds that ranged from China under the early Zhou, through Mycenaean Greece, the Babylonian Empire, and the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to the Vedic Sacrificial Arena. And how is it, then, that they all had such similar ideas about humanity? In this highly readable history, the author demonstrates a formidable grasp of sacred history and biblical scholarship as she examines the connections between such a disparate group of philosophers, mystics and theologians and gives a global account of a time when religious belief, as we understand it, was born. A thick 469 paperback pages for an incredibly low price, with maps and plans, notes and glossary. £9.99 NOW £6


73385 TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA: The Wisdom of the Dharma from the Pali Canon to the Sutras


by Desmond Biddulph and Darcy Flynn


Both the authors have been students of Buddhism for many years and Biddulph is Vice- President of the Buddhist society in London. Their book contains selections from the Pali canon and


the later Mahayana sutras, as well as traditional Buddhist tales and fascinating extracts from Zen masters, accompanied by passages of commentary that illuminate key meanings. The teachings of the Buddha, although rooted in knowledge acquired thousands of years ago in the foothills of the Himalayas, still remain just as relevant for human beings today. This essential collection brings together inspiring insights from his teachings which, he said, is about suffering and how to end it - surely an aim that resonates with us all. Often described as ‘the great physician’, the Buddha aimed to diagnose and offer a remedy for the turmoil that characterises all human experience. Since he and his followers first transmitted his timeless wisdom, millions of people all over the globe have followed his precepts. 176 pages with atmospheric b/w photos by the internationally renowned photographer, John Cleare. $14.95 NOW £6


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