Author: Samantha Downing
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405945648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY LOVELY WIFE 'Irresistibly dark' T.M. LOGAN 'Gripping and twisted' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Dark, sly and delicious' J.P. DELANEY 'Intoxicating' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Totally the real deal' SARAH PINBOROUGH _______ At Belmont Academy, excellence comes at a cost . . . The teachers demand too much from their students. The students are devious and unpredictable. The parents will do anything to get their children ahead. And when a parent dies in suspicious circumstances, it's clear that someone at Belmont is a murderer. But how do you uncover a killer when anyone could be a suspect? _______ 'Brilliant' Daily Mail 'Absolutely terrific' Sarah Pekkanen 'Wonderfully dark and twisty. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end' B.A. Paris 'Dark as night, sinister as hell, clever, twisting and downright fun' Chris Whitaker READERS ARE GRIPPED BY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD 'A gripping, twisted and dark thriller that kept me hooked to the last page. The plot was superb, the writing was sharp, the events were unpredictable' 5***** Reader Review 'This book is exceptional. Full and twists and tension, I raced through it. Absolutely brilliant' 5***** Reader Review 'WOW! Brilliant. Couldn't put it down. So many twists and turns. Kept me in suspense until the very end' 5***** Reader Review 'Gripping and darkly comic with brilliant characterisation' 5***** Reader Review 'I was hooked from the first paragraph' 5***** Reader Review 'Samantha Downing does it again! Gripping, dark, incisive and sharply observed from start to finish' 5***** Reader Review 'A thriller with dark humour at its heart' 5***** Reader Review
For Your Own Good
Author: Samantha Downing
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405945648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY LOVELY WIFE 'Irresistibly dark' T.M. LOGAN 'Gripping and twisted' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Dark, sly and delicious' J.P. DELANEY 'Intoxicating' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Totally the real deal' SARAH PINBOROUGH _______ At Belmont Academy, excellence comes at a cost . . . The teachers demand too much from their students. The students are devious and unpredictable. The parents will do anything to get their children ahead. And when a parent dies in suspicious circumstances, it's clear that someone at Belmont is a murderer. But how do you uncover a killer when anyone could be a suspect? _______ 'Brilliant' Daily Mail 'Absolutely terrific' Sarah Pekkanen 'Wonderfully dark and twisty. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end' B.A. Paris 'Dark as night, sinister as hell, clever, twisting and downright fun' Chris Whitaker READERS ARE GRIPPED BY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD 'A gripping, twisted and dark thriller that kept me hooked to the last page. The plot was superb, the writing was sharp, the events were unpredictable' 5***** Reader Review 'This book is exceptional. Full and twists and tension, I raced through it. Absolutely brilliant' 5***** Reader Review 'WOW! Brilliant. Couldn't put it down. So many twists and turns. Kept me in suspense until the very end' 5***** Reader Review 'Gripping and darkly comic with brilliant characterisation' 5***** Reader Review 'I was hooked from the first paragraph' 5***** Reader Review 'Samantha Downing does it again! Gripping, dark, incisive and sharply observed from start to finish' 5***** Reader Review 'A thriller with dark humour at its heart' 5***** Reader Review
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405945648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
THE GRIPPING NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY LOVELY WIFE 'Irresistibly dark' T.M. LOGAN 'Gripping and twisted' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Dark, sly and delicious' J.P. DELANEY 'Intoxicating' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Totally the real deal' SARAH PINBOROUGH _______ At Belmont Academy, excellence comes at a cost . . . The teachers demand too much from their students. The students are devious and unpredictable. The parents will do anything to get their children ahead. And when a parent dies in suspicious circumstances, it's clear that someone at Belmont is a murderer. But how do you uncover a killer when anyone could be a suspect? _______ 'Brilliant' Daily Mail 'Absolutely terrific' Sarah Pekkanen 'Wonderfully dark and twisty. I raced through it, desperate to know how it would end' B.A. Paris 'Dark as night, sinister as hell, clever, twisting and downright fun' Chris Whitaker READERS ARE GRIPPED BY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD 'A gripping, twisted and dark thriller that kept me hooked to the last page. The plot was superb, the writing was sharp, the events were unpredictable' 5***** Reader Review 'This book is exceptional. Full and twists and tension, I raced through it. Absolutely brilliant' 5***** Reader Review 'WOW! Brilliant. Couldn't put it down. So many twists and turns. Kept me in suspense until the very end' 5***** Reader Review 'Gripping and darkly comic with brilliant characterisation' 5***** Reader Review 'I was hooked from the first paragraph' 5***** Reader Review 'Samantha Downing does it again! Gripping, dark, incisive and sharply observed from start to finish' 5***** Reader Review 'A thriller with dark humour at its heart' 5***** Reader Review
Too Nice for Your Own Good
Author: Duke Robinson
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759522057
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Are you, like many of us, too nice for your own good? This remarkable book will empower you to get what you need and deserve,out of life...and still be a nice person! If you're like most folks, you were raised to be "nice". Yet now you find yourself asking: "If I'm so nice, why isn't my life better?" Renowned minister and lecturer Duke Robinson has the answer. Robinson says that well-intended behavior is essential to a humane society, but carries a down side. Being nice often means we take on too much, tell little lies, strive endlessly for perfection, and fall prey to other self-defeating behaviors. Now Robinson outlines the nine unconscious mistakes nice people make daily, and he shows how to correct them and avoid unnecessary stress with life-affirming actions. Learn how to: Say "no" and save yourself from burnout Tell others what you want, and actually receive it Express anger in healing ways that maintain valued relationships Respond effectively when irrationally criticized or attacked Liberate your true self.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0759522057
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Are you, like many of us, too nice for your own good? This remarkable book will empower you to get what you need and deserve,out of life...and still be a nice person! If you're like most folks, you were raised to be "nice". Yet now you find yourself asking: "If I'm so nice, why isn't my life better?" Renowned minister and lecturer Duke Robinson has the answer. Robinson says that well-intended behavior is essential to a humane society, but carries a down side. Being nice often means we take on too much, tell little lies, strive endlessly for perfection, and fall prey to other self-defeating behaviors. Now Robinson outlines the nine unconscious mistakes nice people make daily, and he shows how to correct them and avoid unnecessary stress with life-affirming actions. Learn how to: Say "no" and save yourself from burnout Tell others what you want, and actually receive it Express anger in healing ways that maintain valued relationships Respond effectively when irrationally criticized or attacked Liberate your true self.
For Your Own Good
Author: Alice Miller
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466806761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions—on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler—offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects. This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world—indeed, of the ever-more-violent world—that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard—namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466806761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
For Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice Miller, the celebrated Swiss psychoanalyst. With her typically lucid, strong, and poetic language, Miller investigates the personal stories and case histories of various self-destructive and/or violent individuals to expand on her theories about the long-term affects of abusive child-rearing. Her conclusions—on what sort of parenting can create a drug addict, or a murderer, or a Hitler—offer much insight, and make a good deal of sense, while also straying far from psychoanalytic dogma about human nature, which Miller vehemently rejects. This important study paints a shocking picture of the violent world—indeed, of the ever-more-violent world—that each generation helps to create when traditional upbringing, with its hidden cruelty, is perpetuated. The book also presents readers with useful solutions in this regard—namely, to resensitize the victimized child who has been trapped within the adult, and to unlock the emotional life that has been frozen in repression.
Too Good For Her Own Good
Author: Claudia Bepko
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061754366
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
In the bestselling tradition of The Dance of Anger, a compassionate and insightful guide that shows women how they can learn to feel good about who they are and what they do.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061754366
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
In the bestselling tradition of The Dance of Anger, a compassionate and insightful guide that shows women how they can learn to feel good about who they are and what they do.
For Her Own Good
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307764168
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for woman, spawned legions of “scientific” experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307764168
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for woman, spawned legions of “scientific” experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.
Too Busy for Your Own Good: Get More Done in Less Time—With Even More Energy
Author: Connie Merritt
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071612874
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Taps into the “simplicity movement” featured in magazines and TV reports A high-profile expert on women’s issues, Merritt has appeared on 100 radio and television shows, and is regularly quoted in Cosmopolitan and Men’s Health. A member of 200 professional speaker’s bureaus, Merritt gives keynote addresses all over the country Includes “Five Minute First Aid” for instant stress relief!
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071612874
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Taps into the “simplicity movement” featured in magazines and TV reports A high-profile expert on women’s issues, Merritt has appeared on 100 radio and television shows, and is regularly quoted in Cosmopolitan and Men’s Health. A member of 200 professional speaker’s bureaus, Merritt gives keynote addresses all over the country Includes “Five Minute First Aid” for instant stress relief!
For Your Own Good
Author: Jacob Sullum
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684871157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this rousing rebuttal to the almost universal public attack against tobacco and its users, Sullum provides a rational and commensense defense of the rights of smokers, arguing that government bureaucrats must respect the rights of adults who make the informed decision to smoke. photo insert.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684871157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this rousing rebuttal to the almost universal public attack against tobacco and its users, Sullum provides a rational and commensense defense of the rights of smokers, arguing that government bureaucrats must respect the rights of adults who make the informed decision to smoke. photo insert.
For Your Own Good
Author: Doris Sanford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foster children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foster children
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Too Smart for Our Own Good
Author: Craig Dilworth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176436X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
A groundbreaking work explaining our ecological predicament in the context of the first scientific theory of humankind's development.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176436X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
A groundbreaking work explaining our ecological predicament in the context of the first scientific theory of humankind's development.
My Lovely Wife
Author: Samantha Downing
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451491742
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER USA Today bestseller Edgar + ITW Thriller Award nominee for Best First Novel “Think: Dexter but sexier.”—theSkimm “A dark and irresistible debut.”—People “Will shock even the savviest suspense readers.”—Real Simple Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451491742
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER USA Today bestseller Edgar + ITW Thriller Award nominee for Best First Novel “Think: Dexter but sexier.”—theSkimm “A dark and irresistible debut.”—People “Will shock even the savviest suspense readers.”—Real Simple Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut thriller about a couple whose fifteen-year marriage has finally gotten too interesting... Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.