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John Graham

Enchanting illustrations perfectly complement a tender story about a young boy who has plenty of love to give—and is loved in return—in this gentle, rhythmic picture book illustrated by Tomie dePaola!A young boy tells his animal friends just how much he loves them, starting with a little mouse who deserves a warm nest and a nibble of cheese and ending when his own father tucks him lovingly into bed. Sweet and comforting, this is the perfect story to share with litt...

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John D. Graham

Military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq consumed so much attention during his presidency that few people appreciated that George W. Bush was also an activist on the home front. Despite limited public support, and while confronting a deeply divided Congress, Bush engineered and implemented reforms of public policy on a wide range of issues: taxes, education, health care, energy, environment, and regulatory reform. In Bush on the Home Front, former Bush White House official and academic ...

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John D. Graham

Military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq consumed so much attention during his presidency that few people appreciated that George W. Bush was also an activist on the home front. Despite limited public support, and while confronting a deeply divided Congress, Bush engineered and implemented reforms of public policy on a wide range of issues: taxes, education, health care, energy, environment, and regulatory reform. In Bush on the Home Front, former Bush White House official and academic ...

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John Graham

Why We Escape explores addiction not simply as a problem of substances or behaviour, but as an attempt to find relief from emotional pain, shame, trauma and inner distress.Drawing on psychology, recovery and lived experience, John Graham looks beneath alcohol, drugs and compulsive behaviours to the deeper needs and patterns that can sit underneath them. The book considers why people return again and again to things that may ultimately harm them, especially when tho...

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John Graham

The Parts Within Us offers a gentle, accessible introduction to the idea that we all carry different parts within us - parts that protect, criticise, avoid, achieve, numb, fear, hope and long to be understood.Drawing on an IFS-informed approach, John Graham explores how these parts can develop through life experience and how they may continue trying to protect us long after the original danger has passed. Rather than seeing difficult thoughts, feelings or behaviour...

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John Graham

Learning to Sit Beside is a reflective exploration of recovery, counselling, psychotherapy and the gradual process of learning how to be with another person's pain without trying to fix, rescue or control it.Drawing on lived experience, professional training and years of therapeutic work, John Graham reflects on what it means to become a therapist while remaining fully human. The book explores the lessons that emerge through recovery, counselling practice, supervis...

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John Graham

The Relationships We Repeat explores why we can find ourselves drawn into familiar relationship patterns, even when those patterns repeatedly leave us hurt, disappointed or alone.Drawing on attachment theory, addiction psychology, lived experience and therapeutic reflection, John Graham looks at the ways early relationships can shape what we come to expect from love, closeness, rejection and emotional safety. The book considers why some people fear abandonment, why others ...

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John Graham

From Escape to Meaning is a personal story of addiction, recovery, emotional struggle and the search for a life that feels worth living.Growing up on a Scottish farm, John Graham was sensitive, shy and often felt different. As life unfolded, escape took many forms: alcohol, travel, activity, relationships, fantasy, avoidance and the wish not to feel what was happening inside.This book follows that journey through addiction, emotional difficulty, recovery, p...

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John Graham

Working with The Light Within is a practical companion for therapists, counsellors, recovery workers, keyworkers and Twelve-Step sponsors who are supporting someone through Big Book study and Step work.Grounded in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous while remaining inclusive of other Twelve-Step fellowships, this guide helps supporters walk alongside Steps One to Nine and prepare for the daily maintenance Steps of Ten, Eleven and Twelve.It explores how to...

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Graham St John

An intellectual biography of one of the most celebrated and yet least understood figures of the late twentieth century, Terence McKenna.A stand-up philosopher who made a unique contribution to science, humanism, and the hidden arts, Terence McKenna (1946–2000) was the twentieth century’s psychedelic Renaissance man. Perfecting his rugged philosophy on the role of psychedelics in evolution, consciousness, and time, McKenna was a riotous charmer who stalked the shado...

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John Graham

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Voidstalker

What glitters is gold, but beneath it is rot.Humanity has a sprawling interstellar empire. Advances in science and the resources of countless frontier worlds have brought untold prosperity to its citizens. But how much of this wealth comes from dangerous experiments with alien technology?As an elite intelligence operative, that question plagues Gabriel Thorn constantly. When contact is lost with a mysterious research facility, he is sent to investigate. But he finds a web o...

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John Graham

Ian McKnight thought he had left the horrors of war behind when he returned from the trenches of World War I. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Madeline Shaw, a brilliant cryptologist from Bletchley Park, arrives at his doorstep with a set of ancient parchments too compelling to dismiss. As a medieval scholar and linguistics expert, McKnight soon discovers that he alone holds the key to unlocking the secrets hidden within the 700-year-old texts. What begins as an intriguing acad...