Offering a commonsense approach to child rearing that helps children ages 2-12 become cooperative, this guide explains a revolutionary new program that emphasizes the importance of avoiding power struggles between parent and child. This book presents tactics for putting an end to screaming battles and teaching children that good behavior is in ...
Two aging and out-of-shape British literary gents--London Times book reviewer Redmond O'Hanlon and poet and critic James Fenton--decide to go on a two-month trek into the Borneo rainforest hoping to catch sight of a rare albino rhinoceros. As the two cope with insects, pit vipers, parasitic worms, giant lizards, bizarre foods (the lizards turned ...
O'Hanlon travels to the Congo with an American scientist in search of a lost dinosaur named Mokele-mbembe. Along the way, they encounter threats that include poisonous snakes, illness, powerful magicians, and political brutality.
In the decade and a half since the publication of the Second Edition of A User's Guide to Vacuum Technology there have been many important advances in the field, including spinning rotor gauges, dry mechanical pumps, magnetically levitated turbo pumps, and ultraclean system designs. These, along with improved cleaning and assembly techniques have ...
Very few know how to pursue the dream of writing and publishing that book. That's where Bill comes in - expert author with great platform. After publishing more than 20 books, Bill O'Hanlon knows what it takes to publish a successful book - and he didn't have any connections or media savvy when he started. Today, he has speaking engagements that ...
Not since Holden Caulfield has literature seen a young man with as much contempt for hypocrisy and phoniness as Patrick Scully, the narrator of this brilliantly observed tale of a 19-year-old Irish youth's frustrations and dreams.
Using a solution-oriented plan, O'Hanlon and Hudson show how to break free of old patterns, resolve relationship problems easily, improve sexual relations, increase feelings of intimacy, and get past old emotional scars.
"Crosscurrents of Children's Literature" is the only anthology of classic and contemporary readings in children's literature to combine primary texts with critical selections. Employing a unique thematic organization, it explores how children's literature integrates instruction and entertainment, oral and written traditions, words and pictures, ...
Sven Hassel rejoins his comrades in the 27th penal battalion - now equipped with armoured vehicles - for the next battles on the Russian Front. Caught between the insane orders of the Nazi high command and the overwhelming numbers of Russian soldiers, Sven and his mates fight on regardless. They hate Hitler and Stalin in equal measure and will do ...
For the parents of defiant children, "Try and Make Me!" offers a seven-step programme that empowers parents to stop defiant behaviour and motivates children now only to behave but also to think and solve their own problems.
"This is an essential primer of Ericksonian hypnotherapy and strategic psychotherapy. [...] O'Hanlon provides threads that crystallize practical patterns useful to clinicians at all levels of expertise." - Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D., Director, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
Offering sensible and inspiring guidelines, O'Hanlon shows how a crisis is an opportunity to become reconnected to happiness and well-being. Here, he illuminates the five crucial pathways to transform breakdowns into breakthroughs, and also explains how to have a crisis, and how avoiding, denying, and minimizing sets one up for crises.
From the author of "Love Is a Verb"--who's also one of the developers of brief-solution therapy--comes a helpful and humorous approach to life's everyday troubles.
After giving a history of brief therapy and describing the basic philosophical assumptions, the authors concentrate on ways of intervening that are common to all brief therapists, including framing, pattern, paradoxical, metamorphical, hypnotic and family interventions.
Redmond O'Hanlon found few experienced adventurers willing to accompany him on his four-month trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon Basin. He wondered why...Was it perhaps the fear of contracting dysentery, rabies or river blindness? Or maybe it was a disinclination to meet peckish jaguars, vipers, anacondas and 640-volt electric eels? ...
In a departure from traditional marital therapy approaches, this wife and husband team uses the power of validation and solution-oriented strategies to break marital deadlocks. Rather than focusing on blame and analysis, they aim to help couples find problems that can be solved, move toward collaboration and accountability, and change destructive ...
Examines a simple yet often elusive aspect of successful therapy: change. Presenting the key concepts and most powerful methods for achieving personal transformation, this work provides readers with the perspective and inspiration necessary to embrace the risk and reward of change.
Possibility therapy, originated by William Hudson O'Hanlon, is about acknowledging and validating clients' felt experience and ideas about their lives while ensuring that possibilities for change are discovered and amplified.
Here are ten examples of the different kinds of mysteries scientists have yet to crack, some plausible theories and a few less likely ones. Find out why these questions, and others like them, remain, and when- or indeed whether- we might get some answers. Take a tour of how some of the big gaps in our knowledge are being probed and how much there ...
Based on interviews with many of the key participants in the Kosovo crisis of 1999, this book discusses the causes, conduct and consequences of the war. The authors conclude that the crisis holds important diplomatic and military lessons that must be learned.
Are you a co-dependent Cinderella who loves a man who hates women too much? A Peter Pan in denial about his inability to make a commitment? If so, it's time to stop analyzing your relationship. Here is a fresh, new approach which goes beyond analyzing relationships to changing them, even if one partner isn't interested. Using a solution-oriented ...
Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.
'This is a wonderful little book. It is practical, light-hearted, easy to read, and full of clinical example. Writing in the spirit of the emerging new co-constructivism in psychotherapy, the authors pull together and present a number of clear and simple methods by which therapists may help clients mobilize and develop their own resource to solve ...
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