Raven the Trickster

Nine stories of the Northwest coast Indians tell about the crafty Raven, who enjoys outwitting others, but does make mistakes and likes helping people.

ROBINSON, GAIL

Children's Books

Atheneum

STOP PEOPLE PLEASING to Get Thin and STAY THIN FOREVER ! - is a two-pronged weight management solution for women, that marches to the beat of a different drummer. First, Gail Robinson teaches her reader how to fix the cause of her overeating: people pleasing.  When her reader is no longer angry and resentful for being everyone's puppet-on-a-string, she is free to become the independent and self-loving woman she needs to be. Then, and only after her reader performs this emotional surgery, Gail helps her create a realistic eating and exercising life plan to become, and remain, the thin and fit woman she has always dreamed of being.

STOP PEOPLE PLEASING to Get Thin and STAY THIN FOREVER!

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diets & Weight Loss

THE FAILURE FIXER, INC.

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalktells the survival story of Sheena McDonald, who&nbsp;in 1999 was hit by a police van and suffered a very severe brain injury. Sheena's story is told from her own, personal standpoint and also from two further unique and invaluable perspectives. Allan Little, a BBC journalist and now Sheena's husband, describes both the physical and mental impact of the injury on himself and on Sheena. Gail Robinson, Sheena's neuropsychological rehabilitation specialist, provides professional commentaries on Sheena's condition, assessment and recovery process. The word Dreamtalk, created by Allan to describe Sheena's once "hallucinogenic state", sets the tone for this book. It humanises and contextualises the impact of brain injury, providing support and encouragement for patients, professionals and families. It presents exclusive insights into each stage of recovery, spanning coma, altered consciousness, post-traumatic amnesia and rehabilitation; all showing how she has defied conventional clinical expectations and made an exceptional recovery. This book&nbsp;is valuable reading to those who have suffered a brain injury and also to professionals such as neurologists, neuropsychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists working in the field. post-traumatic amnesia and rehabilitation; all showing how she has defied conventional clinical expectations and made an exceptional recovery. This book&nbsp;is valuable reading to those who have suffered a brain injury and also to professionals such as neurologists, neuropsychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech therapists working in the field.

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury (After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories)

Little, Allan

McDonald, Sheena

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalk (After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories)

A complex, mythic, novel about people who settle and make their lives on the Canadian prairies, and the totem which rules their days - the windmill. The God of the Plains arrives with European settlers in 1892, who immediately begin the construction of a windmill. It is a fitting god for people who insist on living there, representing the necessary effort to provide themselves life-giving water. At the same time it suggests their Quixotic attitude that the human spirit can prevail over the harsh facts of environment. 
Through subsequent generations, right to the late 1940s, their god is with them, both hectoring them and measuring their lives. Always it whispers, seduces, shrieks, moans or falls ominously silent, haunting the imaginations of everyone in its vicinity with a mythic presence that seems benevolent to some, profoundly malevolent to others. 
Gail Robinson's style is distinctive, her narrative voice is witty, offhand, in a godlike manner commenting on and encapsulating global events as easily as she recounts the more microcosmic doing of her quirky cast of characters. Sam builds wheeled sailboats one after the other, to try and sail his sister to a new life in Mexico. A neighbour tries to learn French from a Metis trapper, and to preserve his hands from farm work, to sustain his dream of being a surgeon. The main character, Emma, becomes obsessed with the idea that she must train herself to leap from the top of the windmill and land safely to appease this god and thereby end the bloodshed in Europe. 
This busy, rangy, well-populated novel could be tragic but isn't - because of the tone of the writing, and because of the wry get-on-with-it attitude of the characters.

God of the Plains

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Coteau Books

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