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Reflexology is the unique therapy which uses pressure points to treat illnesses. Concentrating on points in the foot, but also using points on the ear, face and hands, the art is becoming increasingly popular as more and more people turn away from traditional medicine and look increasingly towards alternative therapies. <P> <I>Reflexology: An Illustrated Guide</I> is a great starting point for anyone new to the therapy. Illustrated extensively throughout with drawings and photographs, the book takes you through basic and more advanced techniques, details the organs, systems and parts of the body which can be helped and how, as well as giving full introductory chapters on good nutrition, the holistic (full-body) approach to health, and the history and development of reflexology. A great introduction to the art of reflexology, this book is ideal for a beginner and would make a wonderful present. -- <I>Lucie Naylor</I> <P> This book is part of an Illustrated Guide series which includes <I>Flower Essences</I>, <I>Aromatheraphy</I&g t;, <I>Homeopathy</I>, <I>Vitamins & Minerals</I>, and <I>Herbalism.</I>
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Abacus Master Georgie
Beryl Bainbridge seems drawn to disaster. First she tackled the Unfortunate Scott expedition to the South Pole in <I>The Birthday Boys</I>; later (but emphatically pre-DiCaprio) came the sinking of the Titanic, in <I>Every Man for Himself</I>. Now, in her third historical novel (and her 16th overall), she takes on the Crimean War, and the result is a slim, gripping volume with all of the doomed intensity of the Light Brigade's charge--but, thankfully, without the Tennysonian bombast. Some pictures, a character confides, would only cause alarm to ordinary folk. There's a warning concealed here, and one that easily disturbed readers would do well to heed: Master Georgie is intense, disturbing, revelatory--and not always pretty to look at. <P> Bainbridge's narrative circles around the enigmatic figure of George Hardy, a surgeon, amateur photographer, alcoholic and repressed homosexual who counters the dissipation of his prosperous Liverpool life by heading for the Crimean Peninsula in 1854. His journey and subsequent tour of duty are told in three very different voices: Myrtle, an orphan whose lifelong loyalty to her Master Georgie becomes an overriding obsession; Pompey Jones, street urchin, fire-eater, photographer and George's sometime lover; and Dr. Potter, George's scholarly brother-in-law, whose retreat from the war's carnage and into books takes on a tinge of madness. <P> United by a sudden death in a Liverpool brothel in 1846, these characters plumb the curious workings of love, war, class and fate. In between, Bainbridge frames an unforgettable series of tableaux morts: a dying soldier, one lens of his glasses fractured into a spider's web; a decapitated leg, toes poking through the shreds of a cavalry boot; two dead men on their knees, facing one another, propped up by the pat-a-cake thrust of their hands. Glimpsed as if sideways and then passed over in language that is as understated as it is lovely, these are images that sear into the brain. Master Georgie is full of such moments, horrors painted with an exquisite brush. --<I>Mary Park</I>
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Abacus According to Queeney
In <I>According to Queeney</I>, a bold, often ribald and moving invention, Beryl Bainbridge takes the extravagant figure of Samuel Johnson, 18th-century scholar and wit, and brings his last 20 years to rumbustious life through the blunt and mocking observations of his mistress's firstborn daughter Queeney.<p> Hurtling her readers into small and great events in the company of Garrick and Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney and Boswell, the years spin by. Johnson's wearisomely quarrelling household in Johnson's Court draws him increasingly to the sublime excesses of Streatham Court, presided over by his adored Mrs Thrale (whose wifely duties include poultices to testicles). This odd ménage is gossiped about and gawked at as child births and deaths, comeuppances and flirtations, swallowed buttons and skirmishes on staircases reveal as well as obscure unpalatable shifts of affection to the ageing Johnson and the composed but outraged Queeney.<p> Bainbridge's handling of the troubled, demanding and contrite Johnson and of Queeney, first as child observer and then as reluctant adult correspondent, are especially vivid, quirky and captivating. And this creation of sheer delight is underlayed by a delicate attention to the vulnerabilities of the human heart. --<I>Ruth Petrie</I>
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Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated Cruising
There's probably only one contemporary artist whose style can be instantly identified by a sizeable slice of the British population, and her name is Beryl Cook. For 40 years, her brashly coloured and generously fleshy guys and gals--and especially the ladies--have become part of national folklore. Eternally on the razzle and endearingly vulgar in their hedonism, they're a last-gasp throwback to the classic seaside postcard tradition, with all its affectionate tackiness--although that's to deny the mastery of Beryl Cook, a bold player with blocks of warm colour and the creator of an entirely novel--and convincing--British physique. <p> <I>Cruising</I> is the product of the five years since her last bestseller <I>Happy Days</I>. For Cook herself, it has been an eventful half-decade, which has seen her on a cruise (hence the title) and, more importantly, witnessed her leaving her beloved Plymouth in 1998 for the bright lights of Bristol, lovingly represented here with winter jazz at the Duke, summer jazz in the parks, the beautiful Elephant pub and the Quadrant in Clifton Village. Bristol's tourist office--and the local breweries--certainly owe one to Beryl Cook. But there are some unexpected images that give us Cook's more serene side--some studies of dogs, a touching St Francis and the birds, a joyful Jonah and the Whale, and a terrifying Tally Ho! female rider on a royal horse. The book ends with a surreally sexual sunflower, which should come as no surprise: as fan Dawn French points out in her foreword, Beryl Cook is a sort of visual Prozac. Repeat prescriptions all round please. --<I>Alan Stewart</I>
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Saint Martin's Press Straight on Till Morning: The Biography of Beryl Markham
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Abacus Every Man for Himself
After taking on the ill-fated Scott expedition to the South Pole in her previous book, <I>The Birthday Boys</I>, the novelist tackles a much larger 1912 disaster: the sinking of the Titanic. The narrator, a 22-year-old named Morgan, brushes up against real-life victims such as John James Astor early in the voyage, while falling in love with the beautiful and unobtainable Wallis Ellery. The deadly maiden voyage of the world's largest ocean liner becomes a journey of self-discovery in this portentous, postmodern work, short-listed for the 1996 Booker Prize.
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Abacus Winter Garden
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Abacus An Awfully Big Adventure
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W W Norton & Co Ltd The Lives of Beryl Markham
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BBC Audiobooks Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Engineer's ThumbThe Adventure of the Noble BachelorThe Adventure of the Beryl CoronetThe Adventure of the Copper Beeches. Four Classic Stories with Clive Merrison & Michael Williams Vol 3
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Blackwell Publishers The Russian Revolution, 1917-21 (Historical Association Studies)
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Chivers Audio Books Master Georgie: Complete & Unabridged
Beryl Bainbridge seems drawn to disaster. First she tackled the Unfortunate Scott expedition to the South Pole in <I>The Birthday Boys</I>; later (but emphatically pre-DiCaprio) came the sinking of the Titanic, in <I>Every Man for Himself</I>. Now, in her third historical novel (and her 16th overall), she takes on the Crimean War, and the result is a slim, gripping volume with all of the doomed intensity of the Light Brigade's charge--but, thankfully, without the Tennysonian bombast. Some pictures, a character confides, would only cause alarm to ordinary folk. There's a warning concealed here, and one that easily disturbed readers would do well to heed: Master Georgie is intense, disturbing, revelatory--and not always pretty to look at. <P> Bainbridge's narrative circles around the enigmatic figure of George Hardy, a surgeon, amateur photographer, alcoholic and repressed homosexual who counters the dissipation of his prosperous Liverpool life by heading for the Crimean Peninsula in 1854. His journey and subsequent tour of duty are told in three very different voices: Myrtle, an orphan whose lifelong loyalty to her Master Georgie becomes an overriding obsession; Pompey Jones, street urchin, fire-eater, photographer and George's sometime lover; and Dr. Potter, George's scholarly brother-in-law, whose retreat from the war's carnage and into books takes on a tinge of madness. <P> United by a sudden death in a Liverpool brothel in 1846, these characters plumb the curious workings of love, war, class and fate. In between, Bainbridge frames an unforgettable series of tableaux morts: a dying soldier, one lens of his glasses fractured into a spider's web; a decapitated leg, toes poking through the shreds of a cavalry boot; two dead men on their knees, facing one another, propped up by the pat-a-cake thrust of their hands. Glimpsed as if sideways and then passed over in language that is as understated as it is lovely, these are images that sear into the brain. Master Georgie is full of such moments, horrors painted with an exquisite brush. --<I>Mary Park</I>
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