John Preston

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ... And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivaly flourished in equal measure

The Dig

The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC drama Corruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic thriller with one difference. It's all true. In the late 1960s Jeremy Thorp, the charismatic leader of the Liberal Party, was at the height of his political career. But homosexuality had only just been legalized, and a former relationship with a younger man named Norman Scott threatened to destroy Thorp's carefully curated facade. Helped by fellow politicians, Thorpe schemed, deceived and embezzled until he saw only one way to silence his ex-lover for good. Meticulously researched and endlessly extraordinary, Thorp's trial captured the moment that British society discovered the truth about its political class - and learned just how far the Establishment will go to protect its own. 'Gripping. A story of cack-handed assassins, buffoonish policemen, dodgy Home Secretaries' Daily Telegraph 'I loved it; eccentric, dark, humane and English in the very best sense' Alain de Botton 'Retold with masterful skill . . . It grips like a detective story' Daily Mail, Book of the Week JOHN PRESTON'S NEXT BOOK, FALL: THE MYSTERY OF ROBERT MAXWELL, IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW

Now a Major BBC Series Starring Hugh Grant

A Very English Scandal

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A LITERARY HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 IN THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER 'The best biography yet of the media magnate Robert Maxwell - by turns engrossing, amusing and appalling' Robert Harris, Sunday Times 'Electrifying... the supreme chronicler of modern British scandals' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling author of A Very English Scandal, the jaw-dropping life story of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell. In February 1991, the media mogul and former MP Robert Maxwell made a triumphant entrance into Manhattan harbour aboard his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to complete his purchase of the ailing New York Daily News. Crowds lined the quayside to watch his arrival, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand and children asked for his autograph. But just ten months later, Maxwell disappeared from the same yacht off the Canary Islands, only to be found dead in the water soon afterward. Maxwell was the embodiment of Britain's post-war boom. Born an Orthodox Jew, he had escaped the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, fought in World War 2, and was decorated for his heroism with the Military Cross. He went on to become a Labour MP and an astonishingly successful businessman, owning a number of newspapers and publishing companies. But on his death, his empire fell apart, as long-hidden debts and unscrupulous dealings came to light. Within a few days, Maxwell was being reviled as the embodiment of greed and corruption. No one had ever fallen so far and so quickly. What went so wrong? How did a war hero and model of society become reduced to a bloated, amoral wreck? In this gripping book, John Preston delivers the definitive account of Maxwell's extraordinary rise and scandalous fall. 'Preston is a natural storyteller' The Times

The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

Fall

Julie A. Fast

The authors offer those with Bipolar Disorder a four-step plan towards managing the illness and creating lasting stability.

A 4-Step Plan for You and Your Loved Ones to Manage the Illness and Create Lasting Stability

Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder

Joan Nestle

Here are heartfelt writings from some renowned names in lesbian and gay literature, as well as some debut appearances. These essays explore a kind of love uncomplicated by romance, but surprisingly sensual. As the writers pursue their relationships with the oposite sex, they ultimately lay bare the nature of friendship itself.

Lesbians and Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together

Sister and Brother

In his previous books, such as the S&M classic Mr Benson, Preston explored power exchange in all its battered beauty. The sex stories in I Once Had a Master combine a hard-core sensibility with rare psychological insight. In 'Authenticity', a top turns down two fawning bottoms in full leather regalia in favour of the sweet-faced novice who offers genuine surrender. In 'Pedro' a college boy has a summer affair with a truck driver, while in 'Interludes', a lonely bottom develops his body to perfection, then seeks out the daddy who will cherish this gift.

I Once Had a Master

La nave sepolta. The Dig

From the most celebrated anthologizers of gay and lesbian writing, here are 30 profiles in camaraderie that reveal the loving, sometimes troubled, but always remarkable relationships between lesbians and gay men. Includes brilliant writings from Paul Monette, Katherine Forrest, Jewelle Gomez, Bernard Cooper, and others.

Lesbians & Gay Men Write about Their Lives Together

Sister & Brother

Uno scandalo molto inglese

Julie Fast

Don't let depression get in the way of the life you want to live! Many people suffer from depression on a daily basis. The hard part is learning to live with it. Getting up and getting moving can seem like an insurmountable chore. You know you need to be productive but your brain just won't cooperate. Get It Done When You're Depressed, 2E offers 50 strategies to break the cycle of inactivity that so often accompanies depression. These strategies are practical and easily applicable for anyone trying to lead a lifetime of productivity, regardless of your mood. In this revised edition, you'll find these strategies and more: * Feel the depression--and do it anyway. * Generate creativity. * Allow time for positive results. * Know when your brain is lying to you. * Tips on differenciating depression from bipolar disorder. It's time to come out from under your depression brain fog, create a daily structure, and feel great about yourself and your abilities again!

50 Strategies for Keeping Your Life on Track

Getting It Done When You're Depressed, Second Edition

The relationship between thought and language has been of central importance to philosophy ever since Plato characterised thinking as 'a dialogue the soul has with itself'. In this volume, several major twentieth-century philosophers of mind and language make further contributions to the debate. Among the questions addressed are: is language conceptually prior to thought, or vice versa? Must thought take place 'in' a medium? To what extent can creatures without language be credited with thoughts? Do we have to suppose that thinking involves the use of concepts? What does it mean to have and deploy a concept? How do recent psychological experiments bear on these issues? Are beliefs, desires, hopes and fears rightly construed as 'attitudes towards propositions'? Should twentieth-century philosophy be conceived of in terms of Michael Dummett's distinction between 'analytical philosophy' and the 'philosophy of thought'?

Thought and Language

Michael Lowenthal

Gay men have always created their own families. While some replace the "blood" kin who have rejected or denied their sexual orientation, others intentionally choose to build new kinds of families, often ingeniously rewriting the rules society has prescribed. In this collection of powerful stories, Christopher Bram, Larry Duplechan, Michael Bronski, Andrew Hollran, and many others offer heartfelt assessments of the effort to create a place where one can belong.

Gay Men Write about the Families They Create

Friends and Lovers

Rhiannon Firth

This book is open access.The idea that automation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics might lead to a utopian future for humanity is a powerful one both in mainstream and radical discourse. The paradigm of ‘Industry 4.0’ where digital manufacturing enables the seamless production of goods (and services) and ‘lights out’ factories where machines and robots effortlessly produce for our future needs and wants are powerful drivers of a capitalist, free market cybertopia. For some radicals, technology and automation produce the conditions for a Fully Automated Luxury Communism, drawing on an interpretation of Marx, where human work would be replaced by a life of leisure and abundance for all. For others, an earlier discourse – cybernetics - and the use of AI and social media in communication and co-ordination enable forms of radical organization through ‘anarchist cybernetics’. ​This book questions that technological optimism – particularly cybernetics, automation and AI – through a critique of these technologies and organizational forms. Cybernetics and corresponding technologies and forms (particularly Industry 4.0) can never capture human forms of creativity and working practices. Furthermore, there are similar problems with the ‘cybernetic paradigm’ as a radical form of organization or social movement in terms of human autonomy, creativity, desire and social prefiguration. As counterpoint the book shows, through empirical evidence and drawing on interviews with workers or activists in a variety of organizational forms, that tacit knowledge and autonomous and spontaneous human projects (what the authors define as ‘hobbying’) are critical in the physical act of making and co-operating.

Prefigurative Knowledge Against Cybernetics

Utopia in the Factory

Revised and updated, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder is a groundbreaking, comprehensive program to help those with bipolar disorder—and those who care about them—gain permanent control over their lives. Most people diagnosed with bipolar disorder are sent home with the name of a doctor and multiple prescriptions. However, few people with bipolar disorder are able to find long-term stability with medications alone. Bipolar disorder researcher and expert Julie A. Fast, who was diagnosed with the illness at age thirty-one, and specialist John Preston, PsyD, offer the pioneering Take Charge program used around the world to help readers promote stability, reduce mood swings, increase work ability, decrease health care costs, and improve relationships. The book guides those with bipolar disorder and their loved ones toward a comprehensive personal treatment plan by incorporating: Medications and bipolar-safe supplements Lifestyle changes that help manage bipolar symptoms naturally Behavior modifications that reduce and prevent symptoms Guidelines on assembling an effective support team By helping readers gather powerful strategies, Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder delivers a dynamic program to treat this difficult but ultimately manageable illness.

Cómo Vencer la Depresión

Individuals with borderline personality disorder are notoriously difficult to treat. John Preston advises professionals on ways to realize short-term goals, such as stabilizing emotions and adapting to daily routines.

Shorter Term Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorders

Philip K. Dick

Ian McEwan

Stephen King

Dave Eggers

Nathaniel Philbrick

Elif Shafak

David Mitchell

Mario Vargas Llosa

Jack London

Kristin Hannah

Kader Abdolah

Umberto Eco

Jules Verne

Jessie Burton

Paula Hawkins

Robert Walser

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Donna Leon

Jonathan Franzen

Mary Shelley

Paul Beatty

Siegfried Lenz

Daniel Kehlmann

Sven Regener

Alice Munro

Maja Lunde

Imogen Hermes Gowar

Charles Lewinsky

Kamila Shamsie

John Vaillant

Martin Walker

Daryl Gregory

Jeffrey Archer

Philip Roth

Ayn Rand

Luca Di Fulvio

Markus Zusak

J.R.R. Tolkien

Darundhati Roy

Almudena Grandes

Martin Suter

Pete McCarthy

Fabio Volo

Aaron James

Léon de Winter

Dana Grigorcea

Claire Hajaj

Robert Menasse

Per J. Andersson

Ralf Rothmann

Simone Meier

Tim Krohn

Melinda Nadj Abonji

Alfred Bodenheimer

Petra Ivanov

Angelika Waldis

Anne Cuneo

Verena Boos

 Guillaume Musso

Gabrielle Alioth

David Bielmann

Grigorij Kanovič

Ursula Priess

Bettina Spoerri

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Maintaining a relationship is hard enough without the added challenges of your partner’s bipolar disorder symptoms. Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder offers information and step-by-step advice for helping your partner manage mood swings and impulsive actions, allowing you to finally focus on enjoying your relationship while also taking time for yourself. This book explains the symptoms of your partner’s disorder and offers strategies for preventing them and responding to these symptoms when they do occur. This updated edition includes a new section about the medications your partner may be taking so that you can understand the side effects and help monitor his or her bipolar treatment. As a supportive partner, you deserve support yourself. This book will help you create a more balanced, fulfilling relationship. Improve your relationship by learning how to: Identify your partner’s symptom triggers so you can prevent episodes Improve communication by stopping irrational “bipolar conversations” Handle your partner’s emotional ups and downs Foster closeness and connection with your partner

Understanding and Helping Your Partner

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

It is 1989 and Fleet Street is in crisis. So too is Hugh Byrne, a journalist on one of its few remaining papers. Suffering acute writer's block, he is sent to cover the story of an unidentified drowned man before being ignominiously banished to the bowels of the building to update the Queen Mother's obituary. As the newspaper prepares for its move to another glass palace along the river, Hugh is drawn into uncovering the identity of the drowned man and begins to wonder, is it possible for someone to die twice?

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