You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
We all have people in our lives who frustrate, annoy or hurt us. Consider those who claim 'I'm always right!', workplace bullies, or obsessive personality types. And most of us hurt others occasionally, too. In Difficult Personalities Dr Helen McGrath and Hazel Edwards take common situations and offer strategies to help, including: anger and conflict management achieving empathy optimism and assertion making decisions about difficult relationships This is a reassuring guide to dealing with the challenging behaviour we encounter daily, as well as with our own. It's an essential resource for understanding, living with or working with people whose behaviour is frustrating, confusing or damaging.
Stickybeak is a duck. He is a school pet and visits students on weekends. This weekend, Stickybeak shows Mum that he is a duck with a mind of his own. Paperback
The correlation between 'disengagement' and illness in people with dementia living in long-term care settings is becoming more widely recognised, and developing and adapting front-line staff responses to the changing needs of individuals is a crucial factor in addressing this problem. This book presents a complete practical framework for whole person assessment, care planning and review of persons with dementia or signs of dementia (including those with learning disabilities) who are in need of, or already receiving, health and/or social support. The book provides photocopiable assessment forms, guidelines for carrying out the assessment, and suggestions for tailored interventions based on t...
Environmental activist Kyle has just arrived in Darwin for a tempoary job checking gardens for diseased vines. Seems easy enough, but Kyle's job also involves working undercover and befriending a chopper pilot who may be bringing illegal bugs into the country. They take infection and the threat of a pandemic very seriously in the Top End. As Kyle gets to know Darwin's eccentric locals and backpacker scene he realises that his task may not be as easy as he first thought. He finds himself face to face with a croc, some of the friendly locals turn out to be 'ferals', and working undercover is complicating life with his housemates...especially as his chief suspect looks like becoming a good friend. Is this pandemic threat real, or is it just media hype?
'There's something on the roof,' whispered Mummy in the middle of the night. Thump. Thump. Thump. The world-famous hippo returns for a seaside holiday with the family from There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake. And what does our imaginary hippo pack in his overnight bag? Cake, of course!
Forty fine-feathered friends to crochet using easy-to-master techniques with projects for all skill levels, from the bestselling author of Edward’s Menagerie. You’ll be as happy as a lark as you crochet your way through this colorful collection of birds, including a bashful Flamingo, a romance-writing Owl, and a politically incorrect Pheasant. Read all about these kooky characters, their adorations and aversions, daydreams and delusions, then crochet them for friends and family. Each bird can be crocheted in four different sizes, making over 160 different pattern possibilities—so pick your first project and get started! The patterns use basic stitches, are grouped by difficulty and inc...
I didn't want to go to hospital. My big sister said, 'My hippo knows all about hospitals. He can go with you.' There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake. And he's going to hospital too. Everybody's favourite hippopotamus is back in a wonderful new picture book sure to delight old and new fans of the cake-eating hippo. This much-loved and.
The memoir of the author of the best-selling There's a Hippopotamus on my Roof Eating Cake!
Bumble has no sense of direction. How is he going to learn to fly without bumping into branches? Take the journey with Bumble as he finds his wings. The Music Box series brings classical music to life through captivating stories. With a bonus, downloadable track read by Antonia Kidman.
Zoe discovers that her late grandmother used a number of fake identities during her life.