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Director of the Groupwork Institute of Australia, Glen Ochre, brings together more than 40 years’ experience to unravel the intricate dynamics of groups. Her practical guide focuses on situations where problems most often arise and provides the ‘nuts and bolts’ of how to overcome them.
A powerful guide to healing our relationship with our planetary home
Marian's sister Lucy was murdered by Fred West and all she and her family knew was that Lucy had disappeared, never came home one evening. The remains were not found for years. Marian's book describes her own journey with grief, loss, guilt, forgiveness and resolution.
In the first volume of his epic memoir cycle, My Struggle, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard recounts the emotional vicissitudes of his adolescence and young adulthood with a sense of guilelessness and detail unprecedented in literature.
Volume II of Knausgaard's six-volume My Struggle project finds the author newly divorced and caught in the throes of new love. Remarriage and, eventually, fatherhood ensue, and with them come moments of ecstasy.
How the largest movement in the world came into being and how no one saw it coming.
Free step by step guide to plan, fund and implement youth projects involving migrant and multicultural youth groups, created using participative methods.
An extraordinary ethnographic study about an Italian woman who after living for years in New York City, and teaching at a University in Milan, decides to explore the South Bronx.
This book has just come out. It is by the eminent neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh. If you have wondered what it feels like to have responsibility for life and death in your hands, this is a brilliant testament. Wonderfully honest and intensely readable, it is also very moving.