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Front Page, Non-Fiction

Why the orthodox approach to smoking cessation is flawed
Dr Gabriel Symonds

gs front cover In spite of knowing the risks, why do smokers keep smoking? They feel compelled to do it because of mild anxiety and nervousness – produced by the smoking itself. The long lists of awful withdrawal symptoms trotted out by orthodox smoking-cessation counsellors are largely untrue; most smokers when they quit do not experience such symptoms – unless they think they will! Understanding this is the key to successful quitting. In this ground-breaking book Dr Symonds exposes how the current approach of governments to the smoking problem is wrong-headed. It’s based on the idea that the way to reduce smoking prevalence is by so-called ‘tobacco control’ – strong health warnings and horrible pictures on cigarette packs, plain packaging, restrictions on where you’re allowed to smoke, increased cigarette taxation, etc.
Published:July 2016
Paperback:148 pages
Price:£11.95
ISBN:9-781911-175209
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Though this has some effect, it doesn’t get to the heart of the problem. Tobacco doesn’t need to be ‘controlled’; it needs to be abolished. Further, for smoking-cessation the emphasis should shift away from nicotine products and drugs to being nicotine- and drug-free. More attention should be paid to evidence which shows the best way to stop smoking is – just stop. Many smokers achieve this on their own, and for those who need help, the Symonds Method is simple, quick and gimmick-free.
Gabriel Symonds is a British general practitioner working in Tokyo for more than thirty years. Now retired from full-time practice, he specialises in smoking cessation counselling using a unique simple method which has successfully helped hundreds of smokers to quit.
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Childrens

Jessicca’s Other World
David Waugh

Jessica's Other World Cover POD.indd When Jessica Chambers discovers a trapdoor under her bed in the small terraced house where she lives with her mum and sisters, she finds herself in a quite different and much larger house. She attends a different school, and now seems to be called Jessica Scott. Her mother has changed too and her sisters have gone. Jessica begins to live two different lives in two very different worlds.
Published:14th March 2016
Paperback:210 pages
Price:£7.50
ISBN:9-781911-175162

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The book will appeal to both boys and girls and includes a range of topics which may interest readers.

Dr David Waugh is Senior Teaching Fellow at Durham University and an expert in Primary English. He has written 27 books on the subject and was an adviser for the National Strategies form 2008-2010. Until 2008, he was Head of Education at University of Hull. He has taught in four schools and was a deputy headteacher before working in higher education.

Non-Fiction

The author looks at principled Gandhian nonviolence
George Paxton

9781911175186 War is an extremely costly means of responding to conflict and yet nonviolent defence of a country is normally considered unrealistic because it is considered ineffectual against a ruthless opponent. This book tries to demonstrate otherwise by looking at historical facts focusing on the Nazi tyranny as a specific case. In reality, nonviolent resistance to the Third Reich took place in the occupied countries as well as in Germany itself. While not on a scale to bring down the regime its potential to do so is clearly demonstrated in in this well-argued account. More speculatively, the author looks at principled Gandhian nonviolence and asks if this approach would have affected the nature of the resistance.
Published:5th April 2016
Paperback:252 pages
Price:£10.00
ISBN:9-781911-175186

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George Paxton is the editor of The Gandhi Way, the quarterly journal of the Gandhi Foundation which is based in the UK.
He is the author of Sonja Schlesin: Gandhi’s South African Secretary (Pax Books 2006).
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Non-Fiction

A realistic look at day-to-day Social Work
Shari King & Nicola Brown

9781909644786
This first book in the series, Brummie Girls do Social Work, takes a realistic down-to-earth look at day-to-day Social Work practice and the daily dilemmas faced by practitioners. It takes the form of a collection of short, colourful episodes based on the authors' personal experiences - a light hearted approach to a serious subject. It gives invaluable insights into the profession, showing how variable each day can be and the complex challenges that arise. Each episode finishes with a number of tips for Social Workers already in the profession and for newly qualified Social Workers and students, to help them be prepared for any situation.
Published:5th April 2016
Paperback:100 pages
Price:£10.00
ISBN:9-781909-644786

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This new approach allows the reader to get into mind-set of two practicing social workers and to share the humour, sorrow and joy in their experiences. It strips Social Work bare and exposes its ups and downs in the current climate.
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Non-Fiction

Funny Quotes about Marriage
Aubrey Malone

9781911175537
For brides-to-be, bridesmaids, brides
and ex-brides, this book is for you.
Marriage begins when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink.
It begins with a knight in shining armour kissing a princess and ends with a bald fat man sitting across the table from a dishwasher.
Put another way, marriage has three rings attached to it: engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering.
If you’re thinking of going up the aisle anytime soon, this rib-tickling collection of quotes will make you think again. From the dangers of pre-nups to the horrors of stag (and hen) parties to the dating scene to the perils of s-e-x to the Big Day itself, this is a must-have book for the marriage-shy among you to have by your side.
Just to remind you that it’s not all happyeveraftering when Mr Right – or Mr Always in the Right – slips the wedding band around the fourth finger of your left hand and swears undying troth.
Published:1st April 2017
Paperback:138 pages
Price:£6.99
ISBN:9-781911-175537

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Sample, these bite-sized chunks of wit and wisdom from the Walking Wounded, those turbulent souls who’ve ventured through the tunnel of love and lived to tell the tale. You may never want to meet a member of the opposite gender afterwards but at least you’ll have fun getting put off the hairy so-and-soes - or not.

Aubrey Malone has written a number of humour books - despite being married.
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fiction

Home, I Remember Forever
John Adams

9781912419104 Holy Island, 1963. In the aftermath of a powerful winter storm, a damaged chancel reveals a secret, hidden for over 600 years…a testament to a love between a condemned kitchen maid and the soldier that saved her. In turbulent times, Hugh and Agnes embark on a journey across cities, marshes and oceans, but will they ever be able to return to their Northumberland home?
Published: February 2018
Paperback: 276 pages
Price: £9.99
ISBN: 9-781912-419104
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A romantic adventure told over different eras. Hugh, a handsome and reluctant young soldier in the English army, travels north on military duties where he has a chance encounter with Agnes, a kitchen hand maiden at the newly constructed Dunstanburgh Castle. In turbulent times their destinies become entwined and as their journey unfolds before them events will test their very own survival.
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history

The Vietnam War in light of the Western strategy for containing communism
Clive Christie

9781909644960 The Vietnam War was the major hot war of the Cold War era. This book examines the war, both from the strategic and the ideological perspective, in the context of the Western attempt to contain communism globally. It provides a clear historical framework for the competing voices of the war, and an analysis of the consequences of the failure of America to achieve its strategic goals in Vietnam. Among these were the prolonged devastation inflicted on Indochina; the consequent crippling of the Western claim to moral superiority over communism; the consolidation of anti-American sentiment worldwide; and the collapse of Western liberal morale. America's defeat in Vietnam provided a major boost to the communist cause throughout the 'Third World'.
Published:1st Feb 2016
Paperback:344 pages
Price:£12.50
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However, this book also demonstrates that the Americans did succeed in their ultimate regional objective: the containment of communism in East and Southeast Asia. During the war, America was able to contain the communist advance within the Indochina region, thus allowing economically and politically resilient non-communist states to emerge across Asia by the time of the communist victory in Vietnam. The victorious communist states of Indochina, by contrast, descended rapidly into ideological conflict, economic collapse, and internecine war. By 1980, Asian communism had lost ideological credibility to such an extent that, effectively, the Cold War had ended in East Asia long before the collapse of the Berlin Wall.

Clive J. Christie gained a doctorate at Cambridge University before embarking on an academic career. He retired as a Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian History at the University of Hull in 2004, and he is now a Senior Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His main interest is in the period of nationalist awakening, decolonisation, regional conflict in the post-independence period, and the impact of the Cold War on twentieth-century Southeast Asia. His publications include the following books: A History of Modern Southeast Asia: Nationalism and Separatism