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Patrick Geddes Social Evolutionist and City Planner

Patrick Geddes Social Evolutionist and City Planner

One of the great social thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Sir Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. This new analysis of his life and work reviews his ideas and philosophy of planning providing a scholarly yet accessible account for those interested in the history of planning urban design social theory and nineteenth century British history. | Patrick Geddes Social Evolutionist and City Planner

GBP 130.00
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The Kaizen Event Planner Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments

The Kaizen Event Planner Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments

Kaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while at the same time achieve breakthrough performance-level results. Through Kaizen Events cross-functional teams learn how to make improvements in a methodological way. They learn how to quickly study a process identify and prioritize improvement opportunities implement change and sustain their gains. Most importantly they learn how to work with one another to solve problems rapidly and in a highly effective way. In The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments authors Karen Martin and Mike Osterling provide a practical how-to guide for planning and executing Kaizen Events in non-manufacturing settings and conducting post-Event follow-ups to sustain the improvements made. Geared to continuous improvement professionals and leaders within the office areas of manufacturing the service sector and knowledge-worker environments this book provides the methodology and practical tools for generating measurable results while building a motivated workforce and laying the foundation for continuous improvement. The Kaizen Event Planner provides those responsible for improving office service and technical processes with the skills to effectively scope the activity engage the right people and facilitate successful Events! An accompanying CD provides immediate access to a number of Excel-based tools. | The Kaizen Event Planner Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments

GBP 175.00
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Finding My Way Reflections on South African Literature

Finding My Way Reflections on South African Literature

This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020. It emerges from Duncan Brown’s experiences of three decades of working in this field of writing and scholarship. It is a personal intellectual exploration and an engagement with the institutional history of literary studies in South Africa and elsewhere. Finding My Way also attempts to find more creative engaging and intriguing modes of writing about literature and the humanities universally. It seeks to recover a sense of the imaginative the literary and the affective not only as things to value in the literary texts we read but also as ways of understanding and reading texts as ways of writing criticism—of registering how books make us feel as well as how they make us think. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa. | Finding My Way Reflections on South African Literature

GBP 130.00
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Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians researchers and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre London in November 1996 but with additional original contributions. It presents a dia | Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

GBP 130.00
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Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

In an invasive paternalistic federal public policy environment for Indigenous communities this book provides an in-depth account of one person's experiences as a 'Stolen Generation' Aboriginal Australian. Told from the heart the book speaks in the raw voice of a grandmother reflecting on her life focusing on her childhood experiences subsequent perceptions and life stories. The book presents a rare autobiographical journaling of the psychological impact of institutionalisation on an Indigenous woman her search for family community and identity her psychological breakdown and her personal reconstruction through telling her story in a supportive educational environment. As an Appendix the author provides us with a critical analysis and autoethnography - using her story as a case study - that provides deep insights into the personal experience of dealing with forced institutionalisation and social engineering to assimilate Aboriginal people. | Orphaned by the Colour of My Skin A Stolen Generation Story

GBP 175.00
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Is There A Desk With My Name On It? The Politics Of Integration

Is There A Desk With My Name On It? The Politics Of Integration

The satisfactory inclusion of children with disabilities in regular schools and classrooms provides a basis for debate from all corners of the world. This internationl collection looks at and analyzes the implications of policy for teachers parents and students. ; The views and experiences of exclusion and frustration are voiced by parents and students; this detail giving immediacy with theory developed in earlier chapters. Additionally the experience of the integration of teachers is highlighted to provide examples of programmes pedagogy and school organization conducive to the inclusion of all students in the regular classroom. ; This book is intended for use by post graduate and undergraduate students of education teachers researchers in special and regular education counselling courses at student and teacher level. | Is There A Desk With My Name On It? The Politics Of Integration

GBP 130.00
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The Ethical Planning Practitioner

The Ethical Planning Practitioner

If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game is it wrong to take them — even if the planner pays? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing planners potential ethics violations abound and the eye of public scrutiny never blinks. Planners need a guide and now they have it: the first guidebook based on the current revision of the AICP (American Institute of Certified Planners) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The Ethical Planning Practitioner presents 76 scenarios all real-life dilemmas based on the code’s rules of conduct. Each scenario comes with tools to help planners explore the answers on their own in a training session or in a classroom. When you buy the guide through APA you get something more: a recording author Jerry Weitz FAICP made with former AICP President Dwight Merriam FAICP. Together they review three short videos talk about the ethical situations they represent and suggest the actions planners could take. The recording comes with a PowerPoint presentation that makes it a powerful teaching aid. This vital handbook looks at everyday ethics the way planners need to see them in black white and shades of gray — but most of all clearly. The Ethical Practicing Planner will not only instruct but inspire planners to strengthen the public’s trust.

GBP 145.00
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The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self

The Privacy of the Self was the first collection of papers showing the development of the author's thinking over twenty five years of clinical work. He was nurtured in the tradition of Anna Freud John Rickman and D. W. Winnicott but his contribution to psychoanalytic literature was a distinctive and personal one. What emerges from this book is the natural and private crystallization of his experiences with his patients and teachers. As he says in his preface: Psychoanalysis is an extremely private discipline of sensibility and skill. The practice of psychoanalysis multiplies this privacy into a specialized relationship between two persons who through the very nature of their exclusivity with each other change each other. The first thing I wish to say about my work reported in these papers is that my patients have helped me become and personalize my potential of thought affectivity and effort into a way of life that I find deeply satisfying.

GBP 130.00
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Computer Aided Policy Making

Computer Aided Policy Making

This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy whether urban planner business strategist or manager in the field of education health or welfare Ingeniously Wyatt has created two books in one: the main text covers the types of software package available: mainstream software peripheral software innovative software frontier software; the lessons generated from the software are outlined in lesson boxes. Readers can use the text alone to familiarize themselves with the computer packages or read the boxes only or they can do both. | Computer Aided Policy Making

GBP 145.00
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Butoh as Heard by a Dancer

Butoh as Heard by a Dancer

This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission in conjunction with an embodied research approach. The book is a gathering of seminal artistic voices – Yoshito Ohno Natsu Nakajima Yukio Waguri Moe Yamamoto Masaki Iwana Ko Murobushi Yukio Suzuki Takao Kawaguchi Yuko Kaseki and the philosopher Kuniichi Uno. These conversations happened during an extended research trip I made to Japan to understand the context and circumstances that engendered Butoh. Alongside these exchanges are my reflections on Butoh’s complex history. These are primarily informed by my pedagogical and performance encounters with the artists I met during this time rather than a theoretical analysis. Through the words of these dancers I investigate Butoh’s tendency to evade categorization. Butoh’s artistic legacy of bodily rebellion plurality of authorship and fluidity of form seems prescient and feels more relevant in contemporary times than ever before. This book is intended as a practitioner's guide for dancers artists students and scholars with an interest in non-Western dance and dance history postmodern performance and Japanese arts and culture. | Butoh as Heard by a Dancer

GBP 130.00
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A Dangerous Legacy Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement

A Dangerous Legacy Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement

On 23rd July 1908 Sigmund Freud wrote to his colleague Karl Abraham: Rest assured that if my name were Oberhuber an obviously non-Jewish name in spite of everything my innovations would have met with far less resistance. From its beginning psychoanalysis has been seen as a Jewish affair and psychoanalysts have always been afraid of ending up in the position of the Jew - that of the outsider. In A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and Psychoanalysis Hans Reijzer examines how psychoanalysts have managed that fear in the recent past and in the present. During his research which led him to Vienna Paris Amsterdam London Jerusalem Hamburg and Durban Reijzer encountered malicious as well as enlightening statements situations and incidents. A Dangerous Legacy is a striking study of an interesting area of research. Reijzer's conclusion is surprising: stereotypes about Jews are a factor not only in the everyday world but also in the psychoanalytic world as soon as Jews take part in it. | A Dangerous Legacy Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement

GBP 130.00
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Neighborhood Planning A Guide for Citizens and Planners

Neighborhood Planning A Guide for Citizens and Planners

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis an informa company. This guide explains neighborhood planning for both citizens and professionals. It explains what information to collect where to get it and how to assess it; how to pinpoint key issues set clear goals and devise strategies to achieve them; and how to package implement and update the final plan. Although this book could be used by citizens working alone Jones advocates a team approach”citizens and professionals planning together. He highlights which tasks are best suited to the professional and how the planner should manage his role as intermediary between the city administration and residents. Jones also takes a detailed look at the neighborhood plan itself. Numerous maps illustrate how to inventory environmental features land uses circulation systems and design features. | Neighborhood Planning A Guide for Citizens and Planners

GBP 130.00
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The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations

The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations

�Hell I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on. � - Kent V. Flannery. In her quest to make archaeology available to the public Kris Hirst has put together a collection of over 400 pithy quotes from archaeologists and others about the science of archaeology or the mysteries of history and the past. The quotations are categorized into subject areas with full citations and context and include sections on fieldwork the uses of archaeology ethics ownership of the past lessons of archaeology and many other topics. Hirst�s book is a great resource for students academics and others browsing for suitable quotes for use in classroom presentations student papers and research articles. | The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations

GBP 115.00
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Maternal-Fetal Evidence Based Guidelines

Maternal-Fetal Evidence Based Guidelines

This new edition of an acclaimed text reviews the evidence for best practice in Maternal-Fetal Medicine to present the reader with the right information with appropriate use of proven interventions and avoidance of ineffectual or harmful ones. The information is presented in the right format by summarizing evidence succinctly and clearly in tables and algorithms. The aim is to inform the clinician to reduce errors and to make it easy to do it right. The volume can be purchased separately or together with the companion volume on Obstetric Evidence Based Guidelines (set ISBN 9780367567033). The Series in Maternal-Fetal Medicine is published in conjunction with the Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. From reviews of previous editions: An excellent resource with quick and easy protocols… this book has a permanent spot on my shelf. —Doody’s Review Service | Maternal-Fetal Evidence Based Guidelines

GBP 145.00
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The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

This book uses attention as a prism through which to interrogate the literary text. It starts from analyses of the changes that the mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject submitting him/her to the tyranny of a new attention economy. My point is that the contemporary novel and memoir resist such influences and evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an “ecology of attention” (Citton) based on poetic options whose pragmatic effect is to develop an ethics of the particularist type. To do this I draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: psychology but also more prominently phenomenology political philosophy and analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy) alongside the ethics of care and vulnerability. By using a selection of fictional and non-fictional narratives I address such issues as social invisibilities climate change AI and cognitive disability and end up drafting a poetics of attention. | The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative

GBP 120.00
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Family Events Practices Displays and Intimacies

Family Events Practices Displays and Intimacies

An unprecedented exploration of the intersection of events and family studies Family Events uses events as a lens through which to explore the concepts of families family practices family displays and family intimacies. Family Events explores the idea that how families come to be and moreover come to be defined as ‘families’ relies on events: whether that be via ‘family events’ – those which serve to celebrate being part of ‘my’ family – (e. g. birthdays weddings funerals) ‘events experienced as a family’ (e. g. a holiday or day trip) or ‘events which impact families’ (e. g. recession war global health emergency). Family Events brings together contributions from the social sciences leisure and event studies which focus on a variety of different event contexts including the life cycle death and illness sport holidays and community and religious festivals. Family Events offers a multitude of insightful perspectives on the intersection of events and family studies and is a valuable resource for academics and students with a research interest in events leisure and the family. | Family Events Practices Displays and Intimacies

GBP 130.00
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Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

Cognitive Narratives Thematics proposes a new way in which narrative works organise their thematic material. It rehabilitates the study of what books are about by providing a cognitive narrative thematic model (CNT). Part I presents CNT by combining different approaches to narrative such as evolutionary theory semiotics possible worlds theory or rhetorical criticism. Part II applies CNT to a variety of well-known narratives in different modalities such as Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are Frank Miller’s 300 or Mike Mignola’s Hellboy. It also considers literary histories and digital humanities. Daniel Candel shows that CNT deserves greater attention and that thematics generates its own forms and adds to the aesthetic pleasure of the text. Candel illustrates that CNT improves the established interpretations of the narrative works it studies. This innovative study reveals how CNT offers readers a deeper understanding and how readers and critics are often using CNT intuitively without being aware of it. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of narrative theory. | Cognitive Narrative Thematics A Book About What Books Are About

GBP 130.00
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Lectures On Quantum Mechanics

Lectures On Quantum Mechanics

These lecture notes comprise a three-semester graduate course in quantum mechanics at the University of Illinois. There are a number of texts which present the basic topics very well; but since a fair quantity of the material discussed in my course was not available to the students in elementary quantum mechanics books I was asked to prepare written notes. In retrospect these lecture notes seemed sufficiently interesting to warrant their publication in this format. The notes presented here in slightly revised form consitutute a self-contained course in quantum mechanics from first principles to elementary and relativistic one-particle mechanics. Prerequisite to reading these notes is some familiarity with elementary quantum mechanics at least at the undergraduate level. Preferably the reader should already have met the uncertainty principle and the concept of a wave function. Prerequisites also include sufficient acquaintance with complex cariables to be able to do simple contour integrals and to understand words such as poles and branch cuts. An elementary knowledge of Fourier transforms and series is necessary. I also assume an awareness of classical electrodynamics. | Lectures On Quantum Mechanics

GBP 130.00
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The Dynamical Projectors Method Hydro and Electrodynamics

The Dynamical Projectors Method Hydro and Electrodynamics

The dynamical projectors method proves to reduce a multicomponent problem to the simplest one-component problem with its solution determined by specific initial or boundary conditions. Its universality and application in many different physical problems make it particularly useful in hydrodynamics electrodynamics plasma physics and boundary layer problems. A great variety of underlying mechanisms are included making this book useful for those working in wave theory hydrodynamics electromagnetism and applications. The authors developed a universal and elegant tool – dynamical projector method. Using this method for very complicated hydro-thermodynamic and electrodynamics problem settings they were able to get a lot of interesting analytical results in areas where before often just numerical methods were applicable. —L. A. Bordag University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz Zittau Germany The book is intended for professionals working in various fields of linear and nonlinear mathematical physics partial differential equations and theoretical physics. The book is written clearly and in my opinion its material will be useful and easy to understand for professionals and for students familiar with ordinary and partial differential equations. —Sergey Dobrokhotov Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia | The Dynamical Projectors Method Hydro and Electrodynamics

GBP 170.00
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A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Volume 2 From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Volume 2 From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

Given the powerful and forthright title of Andrew Dickson White's classic study it is best to make clear his own sense of the whole as given in the original 1896 edition: My conviction is that science though it has evidently conquered dogmatic theology based on biblical texts and ancient modes of thought will go hand in hand with religion and that although theological control will continue to diminish religion as seen in the recognition of a 'power in the universe not ourselves which makes for righteousness' and in the love of God and of our neighbor will steadily grow stronger and stronger not only in the American institutions of learning but in the world at large. White began to assemble his magnum opus a two volume work first published in 1896 as A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. In correspondence he wrote that he intended the work to stake out a position between such religious orthodoxy as John Henry Newman's on one side and such secular scoffing as Robert Ingersoll's on the other. Historian Paul Carter declared that this book did as much as any other published work toward routing orthodoxy in the name of science. Insofar as science and religion came to be widely viewed as enemies with science holding the moral high ground White inadvertently became one of the most effective and influential advocates for unbelief. | A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Volume 2 From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods

GBP 130.00
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Child Protection A guide for teachers and child care professionals

Child Protection A guide for teachers and child care professionals

'. a valuable resource book for teachers child care workers and school administrators on preventing identifying and handling cases of child abuse and neglect. [It includes] a unique international perspective on child protection. ' Associate Professor Sandy K Wurtele University of Colorado'Many books stop at the what should be done but this book goes beyond that to tell us the how. It is sound practical and most welcomed. 'Wilma Bartlett The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children UKTeachers and early childhood workers are the only professionals in contact with abused children for long periods of time. Although they are seldom aware of their importance they can provide the child's best defence against abuse. Abused children exhibit identifiable behaviours and perform less well in school than their peers. Educators and caregivers can learn to observe children's development and respond to their special needs. Schools have always taken responsibility for teaching children to stay safe from traffic fire water and electricity. They are also in the best position for teaching children to stay safe with people. Child Protection is a comprehensive guide to the common forms of child abuse and neglect. It offers practical help for the identification of child abuse and neglect and the support of the child victims and in particular the provision of curriculum for child protection. Freda Briggs formerly a teacher and social worker is Professor Child Development at the University of South Australia. She is also the author of From Victim To Offender Why My Child? Developing Personal Safety Skills In Children With Disabilities Keep Children Safe and Child Sexual Abuse: Confronting The Problem. Russell Hawkins is a psychologist in private practice and a senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of South Australia. | Child Protection A guide for teachers and child care professionals

GBP 130.00
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Mobile Microspies Particles for Sensing and Communication

Mobile Microspies Particles for Sensing and Communication

On the one hand particle-based sensing techniques are driven by new technologies for preparing and measuring micro- and nanoparticles and by a fascination of the possibilities for design and functionalization of all specificities in structure shapes and behavior of these tiny objects. On the other hand there evolves a fast-growing need for new sensing and communication paths for medicine biotechnology and analytical science as well as for new and efficient information transfer and storage systems. No longer are particles regarded only as special types of materials. However we have a better understanding of how they are bridging the gap between material and system between structure and function. Although there are numerous books on micro- and nanoparticles and on sensors there is to the best of my knowledge no book focusing on the general concept of particles as mobile microtransducers. This book clarifies that signal-transducing particles should be regarded as functional elements as part of a system not simply as special materials. It introduces concepts of bead-base sensing and mobile spies at the micro- and nanoscale and gives a representative overview of the variety of particle-based sensing. The state of the art in the development of particles as mobile spies for communication and information management allows us to speculate about future particle-based components and systems in a completely sustainable world economy. In addition the book reports on a fast-evolving technical field which is a typical example of the required convergence of technical strategies and mechanisms in living nature and would make a great reference for professionals and students of chemistry biochemistry biology pharmacy medicine agriculture mechatronics informatics materials science and systems engineering. | Mobile Microspies Particles for Sensing and Communication

GBP 100.00
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The Other Victorians A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England

The Other Victorians A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England

Taking as his point of departure the authors the audience and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian culture. The subjects dealt with in The Other Victorians are not only those to have been shocking in the Victorian period. The way these subjects were regarded-and the way our notions of the Victorians continue to change as the efforts of contemporary scholarship restore them to their full historical dimensions-are matters today of some surprise and wonder. Making use for the first time of the extensive collection of Victoriana at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research Marcus first examines the writings of Dr. William Acton who may be said to represent the official views of sexuality held by Victorian society and of Henry Spencer Ashbee the first and most important bibliographer-scholar of pornography. He then turns to the most significant work of its kind from the period the eleven-volume anonymous autobiography My Secret Life. There follows an analysis of four pornographic Victorian novels-an analysis that throws an oblique but fascinating light on the classics of Victorian literature-and a review of the odd flood of Victorian publications devoted to flagellation. The book concludes with a chapter propounding a general theory of pornography as a sociological phenomenon. With the publication of The Other Victorians understanding of this period took a giant stride forward. Most of the writers and writings discussed by Marcus belong to Victorian sub-literature rather than to literature proper; in this way the work remains connected to a consideration of the exotic sub-literature. A brilliantly written book in its own right this work transformed the study of the Victorian period as did no other. | The Other Victorians A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England

GBP 145.00
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Counselling for Toads A Psychological Adventure

Counselling for Toads A Psychological Adventure

'Toad' the famous character in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is in a very depressed state and his good friends Rat Mole and Badger are 'worried that he might do something silly'. First they nursed him. Then they encouraged him. Then they told him to pull himself together. Finally Badger could stand it no longer. That admirable animal though long on exhortation was short on patience. 'Now look here Toad this can go on no longer' he said sternly. 'There is only one thing left. You must have counselling!'Robert de Board's engaging account of Toad's experience of counselling will capture the imagination of the growing readership of people who are interested in counselling and the counselling process. Written as a real continuation of life on the River Bank Toad and his friends come to life all over again. Heron the counsellor uses the language and ideas of transactional analysis as his counselling method. Through the dialogues which make up the ten sessions or chapters of the book Toad learns how to analyse his own feelings and develop his emotional intelligence. He meets his 'rebellious child' and his 'adult' along the way and by the end of the book as debonair as ever he was is setting out on a completely new adventure. As readers learn about Toad so they can learn about themselves and be encouraged to take the path of psychological growth and development. Best-selling author Robert de Board says: 'Toad's experiences are based on my own experiences of counselling people over a period of twenty years. Counselling for Toads is really an amalgamation of the many counselling sessions I have held and contains a distillation of the truths I have learnt from practice. 'Appropriate for anyone approaching counselling for the first time whether as a student or as a client or for the professional counsellor looking for something to recommend to the hesitant Counselling for Toads will appeal to bo | Counselling for Toads A Psychological Adventure

GBP 170.00
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