The book also offers practical guidance on overcoming the hurdles that often hold people back from achieving charismatic presence, such as physical and mental discomfort, negative thoughts and emotions, and self-criticism. It provides a step-by-step guide to normalizing discomfort, challenging negative thoughts, and changing internal reality.The charisma code also explores different styles of charisma, such as focus, visionary, kindness, and authority, and ...

This fourth edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved.Organised into two parts and 11 chapters, the book focuses on recovery theory, the importance of relationships and an examination of the social context and consequences of illness. It explores the perspectives of consumers and family carers in shaping practice, together with a focus o...

This new edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health builds on the underpinning principles of the previous editions whilst reflecting how the context for practice has steadily evolved.Organised into two parts and 11 chapters, the book focuses on recovery theory, the importance of relationship and examining the social context and the consequences of illness. It explores the perspectives of consumers and family carers in shaping practice together with a focus on skills ...

Many English poets have translated Psalms, but surprisingly few have translated other parts of the Bible. This collection includes John Donne’s outstanding translation of the book of Lamentations, together with versions of all the other songs in the Hebrew Bible and some other Biblical prayers, translated in the same era by Michael Drayton and George Sandys: the Song of Songs, the songs of Moses, Deborah, and Habakkuk, the prayers of Hannah, Jonah, and Hezekiah, and passages of Isaiah. Sim...

For our Renaissance Poets we start with the coming to the throne of Henry 8th in 1519. From then until its end, with the crumbling of the English Republic under Cromwell, in 1659 these poets capture a time when the World as they knew it then underwent tumultuous change. Within their ranks were Spenser, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, Marvell, Drayton. It is a list rich and sumptuous, long and gloried. In these volumes we bring all these poets and others together to illustrate t...

A snowball fight between rival schools, divided by language, melts into a genuine offer of support for a family of newcomers...A homeless man recalls how he inherited his grandmother’s ability to smell lies, only to tell his biggest fib right in front of her...An embattled sweetshop owner plots revenge on a mischievous schoolboy – one who might be familiar to us all…As the stories in this anthology demonstrate, the small but mighty capital...

Over many centuries poets have drawn inspiration and solace from the land that surrounds us. From mountain high to valley floor from sea cliffs to sandy shore through wood and field, across rivers, brooks and streams through sunlight, raging storms and the cloak of night these shores have some of the most beautiful natural treasures to be found anywhere.1 - Fifty Shades of the British Countryside - An Introduction2 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare3 - It Was An Ap...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those whose craft is the drafting of words into stories and plays that others read or watch. Of course, in Centuries past poetry was often interwoven into plays and yet, in t...