Personal wellbeing - Relationships

This book contains ancient sexual wisdom for modern lovers. Best-selling sex therapist Anne Hooper reinterprets the teachings of "The Kama Sutra", "Ananga Ranga" and "The Perfumed Garden", to create a sizzling guide for today's lovers. From 'Preparing for Love' to 'Touching and Caressing', you can learn how important both the mind and body are to your sexual relationship and discover how secrets from 2,000 years of sexual wisdom can bring the ultimate in erotic pleasure to your love life. Featuring voluptuous colour photographs, th... read more

Marriages may be made in heaven, but they must be nurtured here on earth. Dr. Chapman explains how people communicate love in different ways, and shares the wonderful things that happen when men and women learn to speak each other's language.

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There are hundreds of books on divorce, yet few that address the most important relationship - the life-long journey to truly understanding yourself. Divorce does not need to be used as an excuse for the life you are not living.
Thriving After Divorce guides readers through the myth-busting idea that even though a relationship has ended, their own personal self-development has just begun. Author Tonja Evetts Weimer shows how to create an authentic relationship with a former spouse, allowing for a continuation of combined goa... read more

Ian and Mary Grant maintain that the two great human desires are to know that we can love and that we can be loved. In their latest book, they give skills and tips on how to maintain your relationship with your husband or wife. Whether your relationship is flaming with passion or just flaming awful, this entertaining book gives you insights and practical ideas to make your life stronger and happier. You will take away keys and tips to transform your relationship into one that others will envy, full of fun, communication, passion an... read more

Love is not about luck, and it’s certainly not always easy. This book offers insights into the arts and attitudes of love that can lead to whole new dimensions of love in your life. Whether you are happy or hurting in love, there is something in this book for you. You can win in love, and you can start now!

Mother and daughter –in-laws have one thing in common – the son and husband who unites them in the relationship of being a family. To one woman, the man will always be ‘her boy’, and to the other, he will always be ‘her man’. They just need to learn how best to fit into each other’s lives and, well, share him. This is a delightful and light-hearted look at what mak... read more

In Let Your Past Go and Live, therapist Avril Carruthers tackles the many characters we play to survive our families, workplace and relationship challenges, from the 'victim' who only feels good when they're rescuing people, the bullies who get off on monstering others, to the women who just can't resist bad boys. Conditioned into us when we were young, these characters can stay with us for years, sometimes a lifetime. While they're not the real us, their presence can drain and sabotage us, distracting us from leading the lives we... read more

Infidelity. It's happened to millions of people around the world. We all know about infidelity when it occurs in the lives of the rich and famous - Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, Bill and Hillary Clinton - but the truth is that with every relationship and every marriage comes the possibility of infidelity. It doesn't matter how rich, beautiful, powerful, successful or intelligent you are, infidelity doesn't care. It occurs no matter where you live, what career path you've chosen, what religion you p... read more

At last, a survival guide for grooms that offers sensible and realistic advice while providing belly laughs and wry insights into the terror and wonder of the last decision they'll ever make! Using hilarious quotes from films, books and songs, the book provides a serious groom's-eye view of everything from the proposal to bridezillas, from out of control mothers-in-law to feral best men, and is told in a funny, understanding - and definitely male - voice. This humorous but useful approach has so far been glaringly absent from weddi... read more

In The Sex Diaries, Australia's best-known sex therapist, Bettina Arndt, uncovers the night-time drama being played out in bedrooms everywhere - the creeping hand and feigning of sleep, the staying up late in the hope that he will doze off. It is one of the great inconvenient truths of relationships that after the first blissful years together, most men want more sex than their female partners. Bettina Arndt recruited 98 couples to keep diaries, revealing their intimate negotiations over sex. Who feels like having sex? Who doesn't... read more

This book is not a story. It is a how-to book. 'This Stylelife Challenge' is not meant to be read. It is meant to be performed. Whatever experience level you have, whatever strengths and weaknesses you may have, the stage has been set for you to perform at your highest capacity. 'The Stylelife Challenge' is a simple, easy-to-follow guide to the basics of approaching and attracting women. The Challenge is simply what works best and fastest. Neil Strauss spent four years gathering this knowledge, living it and sharing it. He's tested... read more

<b>Your dream of finding a partner is a natural and normal human instinct and your dream is perfectly achievable.</b><br><br>Whatever your history, whatever your heartbreak, as a single person you are in an ideal position to learn what you need to know what what you can do to greatly improve your chances for finding, and keeping, love. With <i>Keeping the Love You Find</i>, renowned relationship therapist and bestselling author Harville Hendrix wi... read more

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This funky, yet inspiring book on forgiveness handles the whole mixed bag of betrayal and hurts we all face. It's honest and irreverent, and will make readers laugh and cry.

A book which adoptees call their "bible," it is a must read for anyone connected with adoption: adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, therapists, educators, and attorneys. In its application of information about perinatal psychology, attachment, bonding, and loss, The Primal Wound clarifies the effects of separation from the birthmother on adopted children. In addition, it gives adoptees, whose pain has long been unacknowledged or misunderstood, validation for their feelings, as well as explanations for their behavior. ... read more

<b>Identifies 15 life habits, including being too bossy, being a fitness junkie, being over-involved with our parents, working too much and being chaotic, that put off potential partners.</b><p>Many of us say we want to find someone special, then act in ways that drive away potential partners. Psychologist John Aiken has spent years listening to his clients talk about the difficulties of finding that special person, and has come to the conclusion that most of our dating mistakes are ones we don't even know we are ... read more

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Psychotherapist Matthews Uhl offers the most effective strategies for dealing with difficult people by characterizing the four major types and revealing specific methods to cope with them in every aspect of life.