"A beautifully written and deeply compassionate guide for people healing from childhood trauma." – Dr Susan Simpson, Clinical Psychologist & Founder of Schema Therapy Training Scotland.Heal Your Trauma is a compassionate and practical guide to recognizing the lasting effects of trauma and learning how to heal and recover.Trauma leaves traces—in our minds, bodies, and relationships—long after the original wounds occurred. E...

This crash course in presidential history offers essential facts and fascinating trivia about every US chief executive from Washington to Trump.How many US presidents were Founding Brothers? Who decided on America's gold standard? What was Lincoln's nickname?Acclaimed historian Dan Roberts—host of radio's A Moment in Time—takes readers on a fun and informative romp through more than two hundred years of our presidential past. With just one...

Become a US trivia whiz with this crash course through four centuries of change, rebellion, conflict, and triumph in the United States.Where was America's lost colony? What tipped the balance in the Civil War? Were there second thoughts about dropping the atomic bomb?Acclaimed historian Dan Roberts—host of radio's A Moment in Time—takes readers on a bite-sized romp through five-hundred years of American history. With just one minute a day, y...

It is a murder/mystery novel.Nicholas Blick, a highly skilled twenty-year-old volleyball player, was "just snooping around" when he came across the corpse of a person who had been brutally murdered. The police have arrested another young volleyball player but Nick, thinking the wrong person has been locked up, begins his own investigation into the matter. In working on the case, the young athlete meets FBI Special Agent Tom Davis and eventually joins with the agent in not only inve...

Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, is a common condition affecting around one in 100 adults. So if you have just been diagnosed, or think you may have bipolar disorder, you are not alone.The good news is that our understanding of this illness, and ability to treat it, has come on leaps and bounds in recent years. With a combination of the right treatment, taking good care of yourself and receiving help and support from friends and family members, you can live a p...

Famous Robots and Cyborgs is a high-octane voyage through the history of our metallic friends and foes. Dan Roberts narrates the history, strengths, weaknesses, quirks, and foibles of a plethora of fictional robots, cyborgs, and mechanical races-taking in the pronouncements of sci-fi visionaries and eminent robotics scientists along the way. Roberts guides us through the evolution of the deadly Cylons of Battlestar Gallactica in its various forms to movie classics like th...

Drawing on a range of approaches developed by paediatric chaplaincy teams worldwide, this edited collection provides best principles, practices and skills of chaplaincy work with neonates, infants, children, young people and their families.By engaging with paediatric chaplaincy from an international, multifaith perspective, contributors from around the world and different faith traditions show what good spiritual, religious and pastoral care for children and their families looks li...

Timely guidance for transforming IT into a strategic business partnerToday's leaders are expected to reduce costs, increase productivity, drive innovation and help the business identify and pursue new business opportunities. Successful IT leaders will be the ones that become strategic business partners and decision influencers in their organizations. Unleashing the Power of IT describes in actionable detail, the new mindset, core skill set, and interpersonal tool set that ...

Go from the "IT guy" to trusted business partnerIf you're in IT, quite a lot is expected of you and your team: be technologically advanced, business-minded, customer-focused, and financially astute, all at once. In the face of unforgiving competition, rampant globalization, and demanding customers, business leaders are discovering that it's absolutely essential to have a strong, active partner keeping a firm hand on the decisions and strategies surrounding informat...

Be the most effective CIO you can be—by learning from the best in the businessToday's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breed of technology leader. With ever-changing demands from the business, and in an increasingly technology-centric business environment, CIOs must find game-changing innovations and process improvements that make a real impact on the bottom line. Business executives need their CIOs to be real partners—speaking the language of the...

The Leveson Inquiry has, throughout 2012, attracted countless column inches as it has examined press regulation in the UK. Inside a London courtroom, the Inquiry has progressed and debates have been ignited. Journalists, politicians, policemen - along with the odd film star - have been summonsed to the Royal Courts of Justice.Throughout it all, the Guardian's sketch writers caught the view from the courtroom - the characters and comments, the atmosphere and attitude of events. The resultant p...

Unleashing the Power of IT Bringing People, Business, and Technology Together describes in actionable detail, the new mindset, skill set, and tool set that are necessary for today's IT leaders to thrive in today's challenging environment. While other IT leadership books preach the latest theories, models, and fads (often at the safety of 30,000 feet), this book provides tangible, hard-hitting, real-world strategies, techniques and approaches that will immediately transform your IT workforc...