Books with author Matthew Tobin Anderson

If you have relationship problems then keep reading.If relationships were easy everyone would be happy. We embark upon a ‘ship’ with someone we love; the sunset is golden over the horizon and everything seems perfect, until one day there’s a leak in the ship and we don’t know how to fix it. This book was written as a ‘how to’ manual for such ships, covering every aspect of a relationship in crisis from the moment you met your partner until now, when you’re searching for answers on how to fix what you feel is breaking. Each chapter has been written clearly and with feeling, to help you to connect with what you are feeling, as it is only in our ability to feel that we can identify what is wrong. You will also read five detailed case-studies on relationships that were in crisis, which may well serve as references for your own relationship. Of course, no two relationships are the same, but by observing the individuals and their choices, their examples may urge you to take a certain path to heal your own relationship.It’s all about going back to the start, and then discovering the very first moment that disharmony reared its head in your partnership. This book tells you, step by step, how to do this easy and then how to move forward, so that you and your loved one can end the unnecessary suffering between you.A must-read for all those who are facing turmoil in their relationships, and certainly an insightful read for those who feel they should know more about partnerships before they enter into one themselves.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Russian composer Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony. In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history--almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture, and floorboards to keep warm; they ate family pets and--eventually--one another to stay alive. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens--the Leningrad Symphony, which came to occupy a surprising place of prominence in the eventual Allied vict