Scientists have discovered that the underlying cause of almost all the age related diseases – and the aging process itself - is long term inflammation in the cells around your key organs, heart, brain, colon, lungs.Yet a few simple steps - revealed in this book - can reduce this inflammation and thereby not just reduce your risk of developing the killer diseases, but help slow aging itself.Inflamm-aging is written by Dr Paul Clayton, Chair of the Forum on Health at the Roya...

We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job is forever--so being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly.Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan that delivers the one key skill that every working person, every parent and stud...

Based on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the core of the early modern states of North Italy. Following a series of crises in the early seventeenth century, interpersonal violence in the region grew to frightening levels, despite the efforts of courts and governments to reduce social conflict. In this detailed study of violence in early modern Europe, Colin Rose shows how major crises, such as the plague ...

COLINIk heb mijn leven aan mijn zoon gewijd, zijn behoeften altijd op de eerste plaats gezet en eerlijk gezegd zou ik het niet anders willen. Vader worden was de beste beslissing die ik ooit heb genomen, maar alleenstaand ouderschap is moeilijk. Ik ben het zo zat om alles bij elkaar te houden.Ik heb een partner nodig, iemand om mijn leven mee te delen. Ik mis intimiteit en passie. Ik wil iemand die de leiding neemt en me helpt om al die controle waar ik me ...

With love in your eyes you never see what's right in front of youHe was my first love, my biggest fan, and my husband. I was sought-after top-paid supermodel, and he was the law eagle fine-combing all my contracts to make sure I was paid my worth. I never thought anything could come between us, until I learned of his gambling debt. I was blind to his deceit and in the process signed away all my wealth.Penniless, nameless, and without my modelling c...

Eight episodes from the vintage radio comedy starring Peter Jones and Harry WorthFirst broadcast on the BBC Home Service, We’re in Business ran for two series between 1959 and 1960. It starred Peter Jones as dodgy small-time businessman Dudley Grosvenor, who’s always looking to make a fast buck with his crooked schemes – usually at the expense of his hapless sidekick, Harry (Harry Worth). Dudley spends his life lurching fr...

Bernard Cribbins stars in this classic BBC comedy set in a post-war seaside townFeaturing Norman Rossington as Big Jim, listen to these six funny and anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem – you know, before the world turned lax and sour”. Set on the building site of a seaside town in the1950s, and narrated by comedy legend Bernard Cribbins, this is classic BBC comedy at its best.W...

The continuing churn of political advisers in Donald Trump's White House serve as a reminder of the salience and relevance of political advice. Political Advice: Past, Present and Future brings several very different voices to bear on the problem of advice and influence; the distinction in so far as it is valid between political and policy advice; the two-way parasitism of adviser and advised; the nature and idioms of political advice literature; the changing (and sometimes unchan...

This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city’s singularly rich archival resources, the authors explore various facets of violence—ranging from the interpersonal to the less frequently studied typologies of blasphemy, rape, political rebellion, and student brawls—and set the institutions of th...

Drawing on classical and emerging research perspectives, this comprehensive book provides an up-to-date review of local government in Europe.Featuring an impressive range of contributors from both eastern and western Europe, the book addresses three main topics: territorial reforms, democratic empowerment of citizens and the role of local leadership, as well as new trends in local finances.Acknowledging their inherent diversity, the book examines the ways that local governm...

Pouvoirs en Asie-Pacifique : territoires et populations, contrôles et résistancesSous la direction de Coline Laroche, Emmanuel Lincot et Marianne Peron-DoisePrincipal foyer de population mondiale, l’Asie-Pacifique constitue moins un espace homogène qu’un laboratoire des mutations contemporaines et des tensions du siècle. Il est traversé par des inégalités politico-économiques, sociales, technologiques et environnementales profondes, qui en font le terrain d...

Comment se repérer dans le foisonnement des diverses psychothérapies ? Comment comprendre la relation thérapeute/ patient ? Qu'est-ce qui provoque des changements chez le patient et pourquoi ? Qu'est-ce qui permet de comprendre, qu'est-ce qui permet de soigner ? Conçu dans un esprit pragmatique, ce manuel met le lecteur à même d'opérer des comparaisons pertinentes et de cibler la réponse thérapeutique la plus adéquate, efficace et humaine. La 2e édition s'enrichit d'un chapitre consacré au...