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by Peter Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Headline Britons paints a unique picture of British life in the 20th and 21st centuries by re-examining some of the country’s most notable characters. Each book covers a five-year span, telling the stories of a number of people who, in that time, stood out among their contemporaries. As the General...
Messi – 2015 Updated Edition
More Than a Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Lionel Messi is a mesmerising talent who has continued to astound the world of football ever since assuming his role at the heart of a star-studded Barcelona side in 2004. Overcoming a career-threatening growth hormone deficiency, he has won almost everything there is to win, including an unprecedented...
The Foodie
Curiosities, Stories and Expert Tips from the Culinary World
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Join award-winning writer James Steen for a feast of facts, stories, recipes and tips about food and drink. Delving into forgotten corners of gastronomic history, Steen reveals what Parmesan has to do with broken bones, why John Wayne kept a cow in a hotel and how our attitudes to food have changed...
A Practical Guide to Treating Eating Disorders
Overcome Problem Eating
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
From comfort eating and skipping meals to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, our relationship with food is at breaking point. With expert advice from an experienced psychologist, this book will help you get back on track and get the help you need. BREAK BAD HABITS and replace them with better ones...
by Gilly Pickup
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
**Castles and palaces around the world are structures of grandeur, might and beauty. **
From the flamboyance of Germany’s fairy tale-Neuschwanstein Castle to the gothic, Dracula-inspiring Bran Castle, perched high in the craggy peaks of Romania’s Carpathian Mountains; Tokyo’s Imperial...
More Than Happiness
Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
‘This groundbreaking study provides a much-needed philosophical framework for those practising mindfulness as well as a call to recover the pragmatic and therapeutic dimensions of philosophy.’ - Stephen Batchelor, author of After Buddhism and Secular Buddhism
Modern readers tend to...
by Sue Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Cathedrals and great churches are among the most iconic sights of the world’s towns and cities. Visible from miles around, the cathedrals of Canterbury, St Paul’s, Chartres and St Stephen’s in Vienna dominate their skylines. Others surprise by their statistics: Salisbury has Britain’s tallest...
Geoff Hurst's Greats
England's 1966 Hero Selects His Finest Ever Footballers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Half a century on from his Wembley hat-trick, England World Cup winner Sir Geoff Hurst risks controversy as he narrows down football’s finest to a select 50.
Which of his 1966 teammates have earned their place among the all-time greats? Would he have had Franz Beckenbauer in his XI ahead...
Under Orders
The Diary of a Racehorse Owner’s Husband
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
When John Timpson, chairman of the eponymous high street chain, bought his wife Alex a racehorse in 2002, a friend commented that it would be ‘a marvellous way to lose money’.
Soon they were immersed in a world of trainers’ yards, Novice Hurdles and handicaps, and well on the way to proving...
A Practical Guide to NLP for Work
Influence, Impact, Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Neurolinguistic Programming is about helping you to identify and develop the patterns of thought and behaviour which are most beneficial to you. Introducing NLP for Work teaches you how to build a successful rapport with your colleagues, enabling you to deal effectively with any problems and master any situation.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The Hidden 95% of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2019
All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial 5 per cent of everything. The rest is hidden. This could be the biggest puzzle that science has ever faced.
Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the...
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)
Your Map to Happiness, Confidence and Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) involves a range of psychological techniques that help you to ‘reprogram’ your brain – replacing the negative attitudes that hold you back with positive thought patterns that will enable you to be more effective, confident and successful. In just under 20 simple...
by Peter Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Headline Britons paints a unique picture of British life in the 20th and 21st centuries by re-examining some of the country’s most notable characters. Each book covers a five-year span, telling the stories of a number of people who, in that time, stood out among their contemporaries. As the 1920s...
Places I Stopped on the Way Home
A Memoir of Chaos and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
'Fee writes with stunning honesty ... utterly breathtaking' - Bustle
**A beautiful memoir from an exciting young writer, Meg Fee, on finding her way in New York City. Full of the dramas and quiet moments that make up a life, told with humour, heart, and hope. **
In Places I Stopped...