For people with ASDs, depression is common, and has particular features and causes. This outstanding book provides a comprehensive review of these aspects, and an effective self-help guide for anyone with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affected by depression. Written by the leading experts in the field, the book explains and describes depression, the forms it can take, and how it looks and feels for a person on the autism spectrum. The authors draw on the latest thinking and research to suggest strategies for coping with the effects of depression and provide a complete step-by-step CBT self-help programme, designed specifically for individuals with ASDs. The programme helps increase self-awareness, including identifying personal triggers, and provides the tools to combat depression.

Colin Thompson's books are mystical and complex, they will appeal to children and adults alike and demand to be returned to as there is always a new image to see ... something more to catch the eye. Peter and his family live among the Quinces in the cookery section of a mystical library, and at night, when the library comes to life, Peter ventures out of his home to find a missing volume: How To Live Forever

"Everything in this book is true. You might think some things are just too unbelievable or funny or silly to be true, but every tiny detail really did happen." Take one small boy; add manic depression, three wives, three daughters, two divorces, amazing creative talent, and Asperger's syndrome. In this memoir, Colin Thompson invites you to explore his almost-unbelievable life from past to present, though not necessarily in that order. Filled with family photographs and mesmerising illustrations drawn by the author himself, prepare to step inside the life and mind of an extraordinary man. If you, or your friends or relations, have ever felt that you do not fit in this world, then this book will tell you how one person survived it all.

Collections of traditional Spanish ballads were made in the early seventeenth century; some recorded directly from singers, others reworked by educated poets. So popular were these that Court poets composed ballads of their own. Most Spanish poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries circulated in manuscript among a small coterie of wits and fellow poets, and it often contains references to contemporary events and people, sideswipes at institutions and individuals, and allusions to other writings of the time. The modern reader has to know about the people and events criticized and lampooned, and everything from municipal by-laws to contemporary painting can prove helpful. The traditional popular associations of the ballad also led to many poets combining in their poems the language of the street alongside that of polite society and the schoolroom. This volume discusses some of the problems encountered by anglophone students and teachers of literature when they turn to the Golden-Age ballad and offers informed guidance on how such poems might be read. The nine poems discussed have been chosen with such difficulties in mind and a strophe-by-strophe prose translation is provided for each, followed by a detailed critical analysis. Edited by NIGEL GRIFFIN, CLIVE GRIFFIN, ERIC SOUTHWORTH and COLIN THOMPSON, all of Oxford University. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Oliver Noble-Wood, John Rutherford, Ronald Truman.

Kevin Bannister is a quiet 11 year old boy living in a small village in the North of England. He is about to start a new school and his life is about to change. Spud (David Tate) is the school bully and he soon finds a new victim in Kevin. Spud is sly and clever by posing as Kevin's friend but secretly poking, kicking and submitting him to mental torment. In fear of retribution Kevin feels unable to tell anyone, not even his best friend Billy. His home life suffers and his school work deteriorates as a consequence. Life seems unbearable until he finds some comfort in a friendship with Becky James who becomes his first girlfriend. These precious moments are short lived as a turn of events leads Kevin into taking drastic action. From that moment Kevin's life would never be the same and he takes his first steps towards his leap of faith.

The story of an old man living in a railway carriage on a rubbish dump who knows that even rubbish can sometimes contain treasure; and that, if he stays long enough, gentle nature will heal the countryside and make it green again.

One of the greatest lyrical poets in Spanish of any age, St John of the Cross (1542-1591) enjoys an authoritative status as a theologian and teacher of the mystical road to union with God. St John of the Cross covers all his works, both poetry and prose, citing the original Spanish and providing English translations throughout. Its focus is firmly on the language through which he seeks to express the inexpressible and the theological insights he brings to the mystical way.

Since January 1999, the crazy adventures of Jay, Kay and Ethel the Chicken - set 250 years in the future - have been available on the Internet. Now their struggle to save the people and animals of the Earth from extinction appears in book form.

< ZZ-UNEDITED A charming picture book about an old horse who takes his family's travelling acrobat show from town to town, although he dreams of retiring and staying home forever. Ages 4+.

Nothing and nobody is safe in this third collection of hysterically funny poetry. WARNING: only read this book if you have a sense of humour
There's something really nasty on the bottom of my shoe
It's making me feel sick. Can't you smell it too?
I don't know what it is, but it smells much worse than poo.
COLIN THOMPSON'S hilarious poems are wonderfully matched by illustrator PETER VISKA's zany illustrations. They team up again on "My Brother Drinks Out of the Toilet and other poems" and "The Dog's Just Been Sick in the Honda and other poems."

A riotous collection of poetry about toilet-water drinkers, non-stop eaters, rock n? roll teachers and much, much more
My brother drinks out of the toilet;
He does it to make Mum go mad.
Each time she catches him at it
She says, 'I?m telling your dad.?
COLIN THOMPSON's hilarious poems are wonderfully matched by illustrator PETER VISKA's zany illustrations.They team up again on "There's Something Really Nasty on the Bottom of My Shoe and other poems" and "The Dog's Just Been Sick in the Honda and other poems."