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This masterfully created tome about dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) helps address all things concerning mental health issues - anxiety, suicidal and self-destructive behaviors, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and so on. It contains everything you need to know about dialectical behavioral therapy - what it is and how it can help you.  

As a satirist, Bierce was famously dubbed the “Mark Twain of the North.” Any figure of public note in San Francisco came to know him as “Bitter Bierce,” or by his initials, which in public life were often translated as “Almighty God Bierce.” Ambrose Bierce wrote the most interesting story of all by disappearing from the world in a final late-life Mexican adventure, amidst that country’s revolution. A new theory of his demise emerges with each passing year.

For over 40 years The News Quiz has graced the Radio 4 airwaves with an irreverent sideways look at the headlines. Having first appeared in 1977, it boasts a tantalising archive of episodes to remind us of the news from yesteryear, refracted through the satirical gaze of regular panellists including Alan Coren, Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel, Francis Wheen and Jeremy Hardy. Among the many guest panellists featured here are Boris Johnson, Nigella Lawson, Jo Brand, Eddie Mair, John Sergeant, Linda Smith and Roy Hattersley. 

What if you were told that you could find an amazing way of greatly enhancing your conversational intelligence? What if we told you that you could leverage your emotions to make great conversations? Do you think that there is nothing upon the face of this world that would help you enhance your apparent poor conversational skills? Then this book is what squarely addresses your concerns.

The famous conqueror from the European continent came ashore with thousands of men, ready to set up a new kingdom in England. The Britons had resisted the amphibious invasion from the moment his forces landed, but he was able to push forward. In a large winter battle, the Britons' large army attacked the invaders but was eventually routed, and the conqueror was able to set up a new kingdom. Over 1,100 years before William the Conqueror became the King of England after the Battle of Hastings, Julius Caesar came, saw, and conquered part of "Britannia", setting up a Roman province.

Tales of the Apt is a companion series to the best-selling decalogy Shadows of the Apt (Tor UK), gathering together short stories from disparate places and supplementing them with a wealth of new tales written especially for the series. Together, they combine to provide a different perspective, an alternative history that parallels and unfolds alongside the familiar one, filling in the gaps and revealing intriguing backstories for many established characters. A must listen for any fan of the Shadows of the Apt books, where epic fantasy meets steampunk and so much more.

Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark's transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era's new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land's indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching from the eastern Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and the present-day borders of Mexico and Canada.

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ British Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of Great Britain’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. In 19th century England, few families were as accomplished as the Huxley family, which included prominent figures in the arts, sciences, and literature, but the most famous of them all would come of age in the early 20th century. Aldous Huxley was one of the most unique intellectuals of his age, but he was also one of the greatest. While he was controversial for dabbling with mysticism, a belief in parapsychology and the supernatural, and for advocating the use of psychedelic drugs, nobody could deny his abilities. Having grown up among the Huxley family, Aldous was well-versed in everything from botany to zoology, which helped him write one of the seminal futuristic science fiction novels, Brave New World, which he claimed sprang forth from him because of his experience in "an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence".

Forgotten Things is a spiritual coming-of-age tale mixing haunting faery lore, pagan values, and a deep love for the natural world. With an otherworldly twist, it explores the importance of influences; of growing up while still looking backwards. We see through the eyes of one man recounting the bittersweet memories and adventures of his childhood.

This masterfully created tome contains everything that you need to know about developing an extraordinary conversational intelligence that you can use to initiate a conversation with whosoever you want. With the help of the time-tested mindfulness technique, the audiobook explains how you can overcome your conversational ineptitude, making you familiar with the paradigm and redefining the concept of mindfulness. You will learn how to connect with people on an emotional level, leveraging the power of your great conversational ability to achieve unprecedented success.

Don’t ever want to worry about memory loss or the advent of Alzheimer’s in old age again and want to become a memory champion instead? If yes, then read on. Are you one of those people who find it difficult to memorize important information? Do you feel that your life would change considerably for the better if your memory retention improved? Have you always been awed at the site of some people being able to demonstrate out of this world capability? Would you like to be one of those people?

The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary "Desert Fox", Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940, when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war, seeing an opportunity for Italy to enlarge its colonial holdings in Africa by seizing portions of the British Empire.

The Belgrade Offensive of 1944, while not considered one of the greatest and most important battles of the Second World War, was definitively an important moment of the war in the Balkans and marked the final defeat of the Axis in Southeastern Europe. 

In 1832, 17-year-old Otto von Bismarck had just entered university and was already rejecting the republican indoctrination of his grade school years. Unlike so many of his day who had championed representative government, Bismarck longed for the glory of a nation he believed would only be found under a single, strong leader. Though his early university days showed him he would be isolated by this thinking, he strongly believed not only in the ideal of a national German state, but in its possibility.  

It is hard to find an island on the map more central than Sicily. Located at the crossroads between Europe and Africa, and between the eastern and western Mediterranean, Sicily has rarely been governed as an independent, unified state. Nonetheless, the island has been the seat of some of the most important events in history, and nowhere is this more obvious than during antiquity.

If you don't ever want to lose out on achieving super success in life on account of poor communication and social skills, and inability to talk to people, then read on...This audiobook is a veritable tome on matters about conversational intelligence. Based entirely on research and evidence, it informs the listener about everything there is to learn about the science behind leveraging superior conversation ability. You will understand about emotional and behavioral issues, and their impact upon your conversational intelligence in an eminently practical way.

Don't ever want to lose out on achieving super success in sales on account of poor training for leveraging emotions for successful selling? Then read on.... Are you one of those people who find it difficult to cope with your surging emotions when it comes to crunch situations in sales? Do you feel that your sales career would change considerably for the better if you could improve your interpersonal skills?

Are you one of those people who find it difficult to get along with people? Do you feel that your life would change considerably for the better if you could improve your people management skills? Have you always been awed at the site of some people being able to feel comfortable in whatever situation life puts them? Would you like to be one of those people? Do you also worry about your poor emotional maturity becoming a stumbling block in your personal and professional growth? Then this is the book that squarely addresses your concerns.  

The Apocrypha of the Bible examines the history of the books excluded from the Bible, the characters and events told by the books, and the discoveries that have influenced Biblical studies in the last few centuries.

The study of the apocryphal gospels, documents about the life or sayings of Jesus that did not become part of the New Testament, is a popular discipline among scholars that now fills several shelves of any respectable library. However, few consider the question of whether the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, is "complete" and whether in antiquity there were other books besides "Genesis", the "Exodus" or "Judges", with different histories and unknown characters, that were excluded from the canon and got lost in the sands of time.