Bøger af Lawrence James

Are you losing various important relationship due to your hot temper?So, you may be wondering, how do I come less angry? While change may not be overnight, there is plenitude of strategies you can use to manage with your anger. This book written by a student with great experience using his books to teach people the easier ways to overcome and manage their anger.

The beginning of our interracial romance, drama, series concerning a black woman's desire and pursuit of peace, self-growth, and security - and a little happiness wouldn't hurt. She decides that relocating to Wisconsin would be the best ticket to bring all of this about, so leaves the crowded city of Chicago and makes her home in a small town, mostly white population of 453 citizens - however as it turns out, not everything that she plans turns out the way she was expecting, due to one, Shawn Everett McPherson - her neighbor across the road.

James and Mary are almost ending their marriage due to the fact that they don't know how to manage their family. Are you also having difficulties in your marriage and you want to save it? This book contains helps, tips that can teach you on how to save your marriage and setting you and partner free from divorce.

The British aristocracy has long considered itself qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the nation. Aristocrats traces the history of this supremacy. Aristocrats is a story that spans a thousand years of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. Author Lawrence James shows how the aristocracy's infatuation with classical art has forged our heritage, how its love of sport has shaped our pastimes and values and how its scandals have entertained the public. Impeccably researched, balanced, and brilliantly told, Aristocrats is an enthralling story of survival, a stunning history of wealth, power, and influence. Readers with an interest in British social history and/or politics are bound to enjoy it. Praise for Aristocrats: 'Lawrence James is a lively, interesting writer. His book was a wonderful history' - Amazon review 'A thousand years of privilege is not easily maintained ... Lawrence James shows exactly how the process has worked in Britain' - The Times 'An accessible history of the last 900 years through the perspective of the aristocracy ... Well-written ... Admire the range, drive and verve of James's study' - BBC History Magazine Lawrence James is a British historian and author, whose work includes biographies of TE Lawrence and the Duke of Wellington, and a history of the British middle class.

Can you get to the winning position without having a winning spirit?This book has in it the basic ten points that can help to achieve winning in life.

Hospice Nurses'The Spiritual Experiences of Hospice Nurses' highlights hospice staff's comprehensive care for patients, families, and friends. Patients receive medical, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual support, providing peaceful growth. While some may view death as the end, others believe it marks the beginning of a spiritual journey, such as the Christian concept of ascending to heaven. Hospice acknowledges and respects diverse religious beliefs, continually learning to accommodate and support various cultural perspectives on the afterlife. The stories consist of patients with terminal diseases. How hospice focuses on patients who opt for hospice care to provide them with pain control and comfort care in their final days. The book emphasizes pain control, psychosocial and spiritual support for the patients, family and friends as the patient passes to a peaceful comfortable death.One story follows a female patient with metastatic bone cancer who seeks hospice palliative care for pain relief and dignity in her final days. The narrative emphasizes the role of the hospice team, particularly the nurse, social worker and pastor in providing physical and emotional support to the patient and her daughter's spiritual awakening highlights the finding of solace and faith in the face of death.The book appears to explore the experiences of hospice nurses and the spiritual encounters of patients nearing the end of their lives. It emphasizes pain management, comfort, family support, and individuals' spiritual journey as they face mortality. Through these narratives, the book aims to highlight the holistic care provided by hospice professionals and explore the profound spiritual experiences often accompanying the end-of-life journey.Lawrence James ' The Spiritual Experiences of Hospice Nurses' sheds light on the holistic care hospice professionals provide and explores the profound spiritual experiences often accompanying the end-of-life journey. Through these narratives, readers may gain insight into the complexities of death and dying and the resilience and grace exhibited by individuals and their families amid profound loss.

In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of India and Pakistan when they finally withdrew in 1947. Both nations would owe much to the British Raj: under its rule, Indians learned to see themselves as Indians; its benefits included railways, roads, canals, schools, universities, hospitals, universal language and common law.None of this, however, was planned. After a series of emergencies in the eighteenth century transformed a business partnership-the East India Company-into the most formidable war machine in Asia, conquest gathered its own momentum. Fortunes grew, but, alongside them, Britons grew troubled by the despotism that had been created in their name. The result was the formation of a government that balanced firmness with benevolence, and had as its goal the advancement of India.But the Raj, outwardly so monolithic and magnificent, always rested precariously on the goodwill of Indians. In this remarkable exploration of British rule in India, Lawrence James chronicles the astonishing heroism that created it, the mixture of compromise and firmness that characterized it, and the twists and turns of the independence struggle that ended it." ... James presents a consistently intriguing take on a deeply complicated history." - Publishers Weekly

Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong Kong in 1997. THE LION AND THE DRAGON reveals the part that Britain played in the awakening of China, then covers relations between the two countries during the period when an aroused China did indeed shake the world. Lawrence James also follows the parallel trajectories of four competitive empires - the British, the Chinese, the Russian and the Japanese - during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and then the fortunes of a fifth imperial power, the United States. Successive British governments saw China as a source of wealth which needed to be protected. Local objections were seen off by force (the 'Opium' wars of 1839-42, 1856-7 and 1859-60) whose results proved that the Qing emperors could not protect their country. Indian troops were deployed in each campaign and manned Britain's small garrisons in Hong Kong, Shanghai and other Treaty ports. Yet Britain never sought to make China into another India. Rather it allowed the emperors and their officials to govern, so long as they were docile and amenable to British needs. Paramount were the internal stability and fiscal responsibility that were the lubricants of trade. A unified nation with economic and military muscle, and aware of its distant past as one of the great nations of the world, has been intent on reversing her recent history. Lawrence James vividly chronicles a time when this huge nation's divisions encouraged foreigners to treat her as a treasure-house to be plundered at will. This warning from history explains why China's present rulers brook neither dissent nor popular unrest.

This is the enthralling story of the great powerhouse of British history - the middle class. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the spread of literacy, the industrial and sexual revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up petitions, pushing for change in attitude and legislation, engaging in philanthropy. In this scholarly and hugely entertaining account, Lawrence James brings to life the stories of churchmen and charity-workers, lawyers and lobbyists to create an engaging and colourful social and political panorama. Richly textured and highly relevant, this is narrative history at its best.

How in a hundred years Europeans coerced Africa into their various empires - and how Africa decolonised itself.

For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. James also illuminates how the aristocracy's infatuation with classical art has forged our heritage, how its love of sport has shaped our pastimes and values - and how its scandals have entertained the public. Impeccably researched, balanced and brilliantly entertaining, ARISTOCRATS is an enthralling history of power, influence and an extraordinary knack for survival.

This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan. British rule taught Indians to see themselves as Indians and its benefits included railways, hospitals, law and a universal language. But the Raj, outwardly so monolithic and magnificent, was always precarious. Its masters knew that it rested ultimately on the goodwill of Indians. This is a new look at a subject rich in incident and character; the India of the Raj was that of Clive, Kipling, Curzon and Gandhi and a host of lesser known others. RAJ will provoke debate, for it sheds new light on Mountbatten and the events of 1946-47 which ended an exercise in benign autocracy and an experiment in altruism.

* Uniquely complete account of the British Empire - Jan Morris' great Penguin trilogy PAX BRITANNICA only starts from 1837, rather than the 16th Century. * A modern classic of narrative history, updated to include the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.