There is an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. This book aims to uncover the answer to how to reconnect with what really matters and learn to value what you've already got. It shows how to be successful and stay sane.

Dementia is a little understood and incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. This book outlines the SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) for managing dementia that allows both sufferer and carer to maintain the quality of life, in various stages of the illness.

Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations? Does your life seem governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? This book shows that it is the way we were cared for in the first six years of life that has a crucial effect on who we are and how we behave.

Outlines the political, economic and social climate in which the affluenza has grown. This title points out that the rich have got much richer, yet the average person's wage has not increased. It tells us why our personal well-being must take precedence over the wealth of a tiny minority if we are to cure ourselves of this disease.

Why do so many more people want what they haven't got and want to be someone they're not, despite being richer and freer from traditional restraints? This book shows how to reconnect with what really matters and learn to value what you've already got.

Based on two years of access to the inner workings of Whitehall, this book reveals the reality of regulation inside government. It examines the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance-chasers and other bodies devoted to oversight of public organizations.

A consideration of the emotional disappointments common to British people of the 1990s which suggests that the way we live induces low levels of serotonin in our bodies, and leaves us unhappy. The author suggests correcting this with the use of drugs and a course of psychotherapy, and reorganising society along the lines of Scandinavia.

Dementia is a little understood and currently incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. This work outlines the SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) for managing dementia that can allow both sufferer and carer to maintain the highest possible quality of life.

This study provides an assessment of the executive agency revolution in UK central government, part of the New Public Management, with 65 per cent of civil servants now working in agencies.

States that modern life makes us feel like losers, even if we are winners. Showing that the way we live, rather than our genes, induces in our bodies low levels of the 'happiness brain chemical' serotonin, this title analyses the deep-seated emotional malaise that has afflicted Britons since the 1990s.