New Releases by Stephen Palmer

A plague is spreading through the city of Cray. Nobody knows its origin and nobody has discovered a cure. Cray is dying. Of glass.As the city''s ruling council resorts to increasingly desperate measures to maintain order, two people''s lives are about to change. When the Keeper of the Cowhorn Tower witnesses a vast lens in the night sky, his work collating the city''s scattered historical records takes on a significance he could not have imagined. And when Subadwan the Archivist is chosen to explore a land she never knew existed, she finds herself at the centre of a plot which threatens to shatter the very nature of reality.And the glass plague advances.Glass is the brilliantly imaginative and instantly compelling second novel by Stephen Palmer, whose Memory Seed was acclaimed as one of the most outstanding debuts in recent years.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is not just useful in therapeutic and mental health settings, but is now widely recognised as a valuable tool in the workplace. Understanding CBT introduces the basics of cognitive behavioural therapy and provides insights into how you can change the way you think, stand up to anxiety, face fear, develop assertiveness defuse anger and develop new beliefs and attitudes. It offers practical workplace change techniques that can help you to transform stressful situations by changing the way you think and behave. Packed with real life examples and helpful tips, this jargon-free guide is for anyone who wants to know more about CBT and what it can do for them.

Is your stress threatening to take over your life? ''Beat Stress with CBT'' is a clear, hands-on, practical guide to dealing with stress in every situation. It uses an effective, drug-free approach - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - that will give you lasting support and solutions to your stress. Using CBT, you can identify your reaction to stressful situations, and pick out the aspects of your life or personality which feel uncontrollable. This book will give you a straightforward method of measuring and reducing your stress levels, and help you to tackle the related problems such as poor sleep, anxiety, depression or disordered eating or drinking. Using a mixture of immediate solutions and long-term strategies, CBT will help you rework your mindset and find a healthier, less stressful way of life.

Catalogue accompanying an exhibition by Clare Rae at Beam Contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia

Do you want to be have more self-esteem but don''t know where to start? Get a kickstart with this little book which will give you just enough to get you going...

Renowned Southern canner Stephen Dowdney''s second book on home canning shares his personal recipe successes that can turn the simplest of fares into exciting restaurant-grade presentations. Each recipe is annotated with its best uses. Also included: a step-by-step narrative for jams, jellies, and preserves; for relishes, chutneys and pickles; for salsas, soups, marinades, and dressings. Plus, recipes for a variety of jams, vinegars, sauces, and seasonings will appeal to every palate that craves spicy hot!

This book is a complete toolkit for anyone with self-esteem issues, giving proven techniques for leading a more confident, less anxious and secure life.

In Putting Up, author Steve Dowdney colorfully and descriptively guides readers safely through the home canning process. In his plainspoken narrative, Dowdney explains how to put up crops harvested during each month of the year and includes 65 of the most popular and delicious recipes he produces for his successful canning business. Also included is a resource section that contains information on where all essential canning supplies can be purchased. More than just a how-to manual, Putting Up is a wonderful guide for canners and non-canners alike. It is chock full of anecdotes, stories and vignettes of a long gone agrarian south that filled the author''s youth and still fills his heart and memory. For twelve years, Steve Dowdney was the owner and chief operator of South Carolina''s premiere small batch processing and canning company. As founder of Rockland Plantation Products, he takes great pride in the knowledge that the company''s products taste exactly like the best of a grandmother''s home put up stores. An avid writer with a novel in the works, Dowdney is a former Ranger, Airborne and Special Forces qualified combat veteran, and a graduate of The Citadel where he and fellow classmate Pat Conroy co-wrote the yearbook. He resides in Charleston, SC. In Putting Up, author Steve Dowdney colorfully and descriptively guides readers safely through the home canning process. In his plainspoken narrative, Dowdney explains how to put up crops harvested during each month of the year and includes 65 of the most popular and delicious recipes he produces for his successful canning business. Also included is a resource section that contains information on where all essential canning supplies can be purchased. More than just a how-to manual, Putting Up is a wonderful guide for canners and non-canners alike. It is chock full of anecdotes, stories and vignettes of a long gone agrarian south that filled the author''s youth and still fills his heart and memory.

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Straightforward, easy to read and highly practical, How to Deal with Stress puts the reader back in charge of their life and shows how to manage stress calmly and efficiently.Written by two internationally-recognized experts in the field of stress management, the book shows how to identify the underlying causes of stress before setting out a clear plan to manage both the causes of stress and their effects.How to Deal with Stress is crammed with invaluable tips on topics such as time management, exercise, nutrition and relaxation techniques. It offers not just a structured plan to manage stress but is also a practical handbook for both home and office, to dip into for quick advice, should the need arise.

Coping with Stress at University comprehensively covers the main problems and stresses that a student may experience during their university career. Looking at university life from a variety of angles, this book equips the student to be able to deal with stressful situations ranging from exam pressure to relationship problems, from homesickness to managing finances. Although the problems do not change, the way a student faces them can and the more effective the approach, the less stress the student will feel when tackling their concerns. Quotes and case studies from previous students illustrate how problems have been dealt with in the past, and a number of coping techniques and exercises are provided to help prepare students for the transition into and through university life. Coping with Stress at University is an invaluable introduction to university life for any potential or current student, and it also acts as a helpful resource for parents and friends wishing to gain a greater understanding of the issues faced at university. SAGE Study Skills are essential study guides for students of all levels. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, SAGE Study Skills help you get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills hub for tips, resources and videos on study success!

Assuming no prior knowledge or experience of running a business, this book provides an invaluable guide to the major financial, legal and practical issues involved in setting up a coaching practice.

Europe, 2049. Nulight, a Tibetan refugee and notorious underground record company owner, emerges from an obscure Berlin night club realising that an alien invasion is imminent. Or is he hallucinating? Contacting his ex-lover Kappa and the invisible man Master Sengel, he begins an investigation. Then he is abducted. Released. And soon the aliens invade. To save humanity, Nulight and his motley group of friends must decide if the aliens are real or not - and if they are, what to do about them. For Britain has become a land of pagan communities and wilderness, where the strength and resolve for the forthcoming struggle may not exist. Can music save Britain? Can it save the world?

This is the first comprehensive reader in a new area of counselling. It brings together well-known authors on traumatic stress responses and good counselling practice, as well as new material specifically written in order to fill gaps in current published sources. The authors cover an extensive range of methods for helping people, including videotaping, brief group counselling, expressive art, and information on helping the helpers.

`The authors are highly experienced and clearly competent in this area of work, and convey an easy confidence in their methods. Pat Milner and Stephen Palmer''s book is a good buy... a valuable and carefully-crafted book, a wealth of ingenious stress-reduction strategies that made me feel better without having to see an actual therapist'' - British Journal of Guidance & Counselling This integrative problem-focused counsellor''s approach to dilemmas helps the client increase their ability to cope with, or develop ways of reducing, the demands of a situation.

Joint award winner of the Annual Counselling Psychology Award for outstanding professional and scientific contribution to Counselling Psychology in Britain for 2000.

Stress can wreck people''s lives and health and those of their families at home. It is equally harmful at work, will seriously affect people''s productivity and can also have disastrous effects on their colleagues and their work. The book fulfils a vital need. It is easy to read with short punchy chapters and helpful diagrams, which clearly explain what stress is and show how to remain relaxed when, for example, receiving a visit from the tax inspector or when speaking in public. Contents include: introduction; what is stress; mapping your stress; behavioural interventions e.g. time management; emotional interventions e.g. letting off steam; sensory interventions e.g. relaxation; imagery interventions e.g. coping imagery; cognitive interventions e.g. constructive thinking; interpersonal strategies e.g. assertion techniques and communication skills; biological interventions e.g. diet and exercise; social and family stress; occupational stress: what it is and how to deal with it; dealing with a rangeof problems; public speaking; developing a personal action plan; a list of useful organisations and websites; further reading; references and an index.

This book is aimed at health professionals who need to be informed about the sources and effects of E.coli 0157. It also provides non specialist professionals with an introduction to the methods,

The authors of this text assert that conquering work stress is actually no different from acquiring any other management skill: it just needs understanding and practice.

A thought-provoking volume, and one that brings an expanded perspective... Some aspects are unsettling, some frightening, some so distasteful that my reaction is to find another gig should the future be thus. But I did find myself rethinking at idle moments and rereading most of the volume. The works therein contributed to my own perspective. Well worth buying'' -"American Journal of Pastoral Counseling "I was admiring of those chapters which took a wide view... This book can be seen as a read-out of a number of attitudes within the profession and within society. Some are partisan or competitive, occupied with the self-justification and proselytizing that is likely to lead to in-fighting. Others see the larger task, the aware repositioning that needs to happen when the world is moving on... this is a book worth reading for the depth and the width of much that is written in it, and not just as a hologram of the present state of the profession. Many contributors give evidence of the self-examination, the awareness of the environment, the largeness of vision and the strictness with self that are prerequisites for humility and learning. They look cautiously forward, both to what might be reached through the profession''s best work, and to the reductionist, production-line future that might be a worst outcome of regulation, of confluence and complacent self-interest'' - "Self & Society "Many authors discuss some common themes for the future... that include increased use of short-term, problem-specific, cost-efficient forms of therapy... all [chapters] were compelling... interesting and readable'' - "Contemporary Psychology "From the plethora of counselling books to be found in any reputable bookstore these days, this is one I recommend you to buy. The ten chapters give us a flavour of differing philosophical approaches to counselling and psychotherapy. At the same time they provide a medium where leading exponents in the field can share their experience of practice and give their hunches as to where we may be heading as a profession. It makes for a fascinating read: it describes exciting developments already underway and gives a critique of where some developments have been less than helpful... For anyone training, practising, tutoring or designing training courses I would recommend this as a thought-provoking, timely book'' - "Dialogue " A book with many benefits... on reading this book, the reader is made very aware that the psychotherapeutic professions are embedded in a social and political world. Illustrations are plenty and exceptionally well chosen. For example, Holmes highlights how historical events such as the World Wars or the study of communication systems affected the development of psychotherapeutic systems... examples are clear and thoughtfully put'' - "British Psychological Society Counselling Psychology Review "The book is enriched by a number of American contributions... I would certainly recommend Palmer and Varma''s book as one containing a good cross-section of views about what the millennium holds for counselling'' - "Counselling, The Journal of The British Association for Counselling "The contributors are... an eminent and eclectic line-up. Each chapter focuses in one way or another on professional, clinical and philosophical issues and on predictions for the field... this is a stimulating collection of views by experienced therapists. It is thoughtful, often contentious and avoids rose-tinted self-satisfaction... This book contains well-written and important polemical and prophetic material, and all trainees and reflective practitioners would benefit from engaging with the diversity of themes presented by the editors. Arguably, none of us involved in the field can practise with integrity unless we are prepared to question the basis, purpose and future of our work'' -"British Journal of Guidance & Counselling "[An] interesting book... Admirably, the authors have completed a difficult task, for predicting the future is not easy, particularly within counselling and psychotherapy where changes are frequent. The ten chapters are well written with insight... Nurses with limited knowledge of the field will find this an easily accessible book, competitively priced and worth the outlay for insights into the possible directions counselling and psychotherapy make take'' -"Journal of Community Nursing "Provides vivid and challenging foresight into the different hypothetical paths counselling and psychotherapy may follow'' -"Indian Journal of Social Work " In this challenging volume, leading British and American practitioners discuss different aspects of the future for counselling and psychotherapy as they approach the new millennium and establish themselves as professions in their own right. The volume provides a vivid foresight into the different hypothetical paths counselling and psychotherapy may follow. Covering a range of professional, practical and philosophical issues, the predictions are realistic, although not always optimistic. The future of the different and varied counselling approaches is also assessed in terms of which are developing further, and how, and which are likely to become less popular, and why.

A look at how to best to tackle people problems at work - appropriate for any situation where people work together. The book is aimed at anyone who routinely deals with people problems, and is flexible and honest enough to use these applications on themselves as well as colleagues. This book is about positive action, setting the scene by providing a definitive selection of problem-solving skills, such as tools for dealing with problems you might create for others, and aiming to help staff deal with their own problems. It provides clarification on what is termed as a people problem and what is meant by dealing with an issue. Divided into three parts, Part One examines basic skills and ideas for problem solving, reviews current problem strategies and discusses people''s experiences and reactions to work-related situations. Part Two reflects the framework for a problem-solving interview and the range of skills required, and Part Three features wider issues that may arise in the organizational context and also refinements to problem-solving.

Stephen Palmer Blake was born in 1822 in West Cambridge, MA. At the age of 15, he went to sea as a cabin boy, and by diligent performance of duty, keen intelligence and sterling honesty, he rose through all grades of sailors and officers to the responsible position of captain of a sailing vessel. He followed the sea for 35 years. He was engaged in commerce, and his business took him to almost every land. Distant cities and countries were familiar to him. He trod their soil, saw their occupations, talked with their people -- and recorded his observations in his journals. - Jacket flap.