John Lee

We've all experienced moments when we lose control of a situation and ourselves. Now, in Growing Yourself Back Up, the first book to explain the idea of emotional regression to the general reader, bestselling author John Lee identifies the circumstances that cause these seemingly uncontrollable feelings and shows how they are directly tied to our experience as children. No adult, explains Lee, need ever experience the helpless feelings of childhood...

POETRY ONCE WRITTEN IN QUIET SOLITUDE and then shared between three generations is now offered together in this first collection of poems. In A Nod to My Father, a father, son, and grandsonwith obvious differences in style and depthshow uncanny similarities in subject and vision. What ties these writers together, besides relation, are their reflections on our modern times.Influenced by his early research of Longfellow and Whitman, grandfather John...

The mist of poisonous gas that drifted across no man's land from the German trenches opposite the Ypres salient on 22 April 1915 caused ghastly casualties and suffering among the unprepared defenders, and it opened up a huge seven-mile gap in the defensive line. It also signaled the beginning of a new and frightful era of industrialized warfare. John Lee's graphic and perceptive reassessment of this milestone in the history of the Great War - and...

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In Spring, 2020, John delivered a brilliant program webinar series. The videos are now available as audio only for the first time. Talk 1 May 14 Being Compassionately Assertive: Reducing Conflict by Understanding Boundaries and Limits-More arguments and discord in relationships at home or at work can be significantly reduced by a fuller and deeper understanding of being compassionately assertive instead of aggressive or passive or passive aggressive....

What do you call an actuary with a sense of humour? An outlier. From the author of Confessions of an Actuarial Tutor comes this collection of more than 670 jokes that only actuaries will find funny (though probably only because they have such low standards for humour). Containing the very best classic actuarial jokes, such as: How can you spot an extroverted actuary at a party? He's the one staring at someone else's shoes. As well as stacks of new...

The only and therefore funniest actuarial fairy tale book in the world! Actuarial Fairy Tales is the result of fitting a statistical humor distribution to a dataset of well-known fairy tales after making some assumptions and unfounded extrapolations. Featuring a diversified portfolio of statistically scintillating stories, including: R-punzel The Princess and the p-value Beauty and the Beastly Actuary RumpelSTATSkin Goldilocks and the Three-Bear...

Written in rhyme, this book will allow the listener to follow the adventures of the whimsical Burra Blad Bird as he looks for something to drink in the refrigerator, tries to vacation at the beach, creates problems at the zoo, and discovers that capturing a Larf is not very easy to do.

Business Hack is your essential roadmap to business growth and online marketing success. Author and successful entrepreneur John Lee shares his proven methods to harness the power of online tools, including using social media-offering practical steps to create and implement highly effective cyber-marketing campaigns. Thanks to the digital revolution, you no longer need teams of marketing experts and other expensive overheads to build and promote your...

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....