Chaucer's People - Everyday Lives in Medieval England
The Middle Ages were turbulent times. In the fourteenth cent...
Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England: The Earls an...
Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England: The Earls and Edw...
Liberties and Communities in Medieval England: Collecte...
Liberties and Communities in Medieval England: Collected Stu...
Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England: History, ...
Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England: History, Poetr...
Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Lives
Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Lives - Unive...
The Role of Work in People's Lives: Applied Career Coun...
The Role of Work in People's Lives: Applied Career Counselin...
The Middle Ages - Everyday Life in Medieval Europe
In this vivid history, the Middle Ages come to life in all i...
The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Pro...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I love Gretchen Rubin she...
The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Pro...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI love Gretchen Rubin she ...
Chaucer's People - Everyday Lives In Medieval England
The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People'...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI love Gretchen Rubin she helps me understand both myself and the people around me Cathy Rentzenbrink, Obliger and author of The Last Act of Love If you want to change anything in your life you need Gretchen Rubin. Viv Groskop Rebel OBLIGER? REBEL? QUESTIONER? UPHOLDER? Which one are you? Everyone falls into 1 of 4 personality types and knowing you...
How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving The Dilemmas Of Eth
âA thought-provoking guide to enlightened and progressive personal behavior.ââJimmy Carter An essential guide to ethical action updated for our challenging times;How Good People Make Tough Choices by Rushworth M. Kidder offers practical tools for dealing with the difficult moral dilemmas we face in our everyday lives. The founder and president of the Institute for Global Ethics...
The Four Tendencies - The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People'...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I love Gretchen Rubin she helps me understand both myself and the people around me Cathy Rentzenbrink, Obliger and author of The Last Act of Love. If you want to change anything in your life you need Gretchen Rubin. Viv Groskop Rebel OBLIGER? REBEL? QUESTIONER? UPHOLDER? Which one are you? Everyone falls into 1 of 4 personality types and knowing y...
Memories of the Afterlife - Life Between Lives Stories of Personal Transformation
Dr. Michael Newton, best-selling author of Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls, returns with amazing case studies that highlight the profound impact of spiritual regression on peoples everyday lives. These true accounts handpicked and presented by Life Between Lives hypnotherapists feature case studies of real people embarking on life-changing spiritual journeys: returning to pas...
Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell You
know this may come as a shock, and you know Im not fond of using stale one-liners, but: reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Im as alive now as I was on the day we met, except, maybe, more so. If the dead could speak, dont you wonder what they would say to those of us theyve left behind? What would they tell us to soothe our sorrow for their loss, calm our fears of wha...
Mona Lisa - The People and the Painting
Read this book and the worlds most famous image will never look the same again. For the worlds greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal not the silly secrets that the Leonardo loonies continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father, Lisa Gherardini, the subject of the portrait, and her husband Francesco del Giocondo. From this factual ...
The People Vs Tech - How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it)
This book could not have come at a better moment
The People Vs Tech makes clear that there is still time just for us to take back control. Camilla Cavendish, Sunday Times The internet was meant to set us free. Tech has radically changed the way we live our lives. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of ...
People's History of Quebec
Revealing a little-known part of North American history; this lively guide tells the fascinating tale of the settlement of the St. Lawrence Valley. It also tells of the Montreal and Quebec-based explorers and traders who traveled; mapped; and inhabited a very large part of North America; and ?embrothered the peoplesâ they met; as Jack Kerouac wrote.Connecting everyday life to the events that ...
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens
The story of Englandâs medieval queens is vivid and stirring; packed with tragedy; high drama and even comedy. It is a chronicle of love; murder; war and betrayal; filled with passion; intrigue and sorrow; peopled by a cast of heroines; villains; stateswomen and lovers. In the first volume of this epic new series; Alison Weir strips away centuries of romantic mythology and prejudice to reveal...
How To Be a Medieval Woman
And then he, completely astonished at her words, left off his lewdness, saying to her as many a man had done before, Either you are a truly good woman or else a truly wicked woman. Brave, outspoken and guaranteed to annoy people wherever she went including exasperated fellow pilgrims in Jerusalem and her long-suffering husband Margery Kempe was one of the most vivid and unforgettab...
Folks, This Ain't Normal - A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
From farmer Joel Salatins point of view, life in the 21st century just aint normal. In FOLKS, THIS AINT NORMAL, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares practical and philosophical ideas for changing our lives in small ways that have big impact. ...
Muddle Your Way Through Fatherhood - How to Fool People into Thinking You'Re a Competent Dad
This is the book dads across the world have been waiting for all their lives, whether theyre on the verge of parenthood, or already knee-deep in kids. They just didnt know they were waiting. Letting you in on the inside secrets that the `real parenting books dont dare tell you, this book will arm you with all the tips, cheats and excuses youre going to need to seem like a vaguely adeq...
Journey of Souls - Case Studies of Life Between Lives
This remarkable book uncoversfor the first timethe mystery of life in the spirit world after death on earth. Dr. Michael Newton, a hypnotherapist in private practice, has developed his own hypnosis technique to reach his subjects hidden memories of the hereafter. The resulting narrative acts as a progressive travel log of the accounts of twenty-nine people who were placed in a state of s...
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
A selection of well-loved tales from Chaucers literary masterpiece retold in humorous comic-strip style. Travel back to Medieval England and join Chaucer and his band of Canterbury pilgrims in this wonderful introduction to one of Britains greatest literary legacies. These nine well-loved tales, from a host of colourful characters the Knight, the Miller, the Reeve, the Wife of Bath, the Su...
The Asshole Survival Guide - How to Deal with People Who Treat You Like Dirt
From the international bestselling expert on dealing with assholes With cutting-edge research and real-life examples that are thought-provoking and often hilarious, thisis an indispensable resourceGretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project At last someone has provided clear steps for rejecting, deflecting, and deflating the jerks who blight our lives. Better still, that someone is the...
Coco - Great Lives in Graphic Form
The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the worlds greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject and uses infographics to convey all of them in vivid snapshots. Many people know that Gabrielle Coco Chanel (1883-1971) was a prolific French fashion designer and founder of the House...
What's Stopping You? - Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can
A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure A practical guide to attacking the most common of phobias: fear of failure Since its publication in 2011, Whats Stopping You? has offered readers a hard look at the quality of their careers and personal lives. For those whod give themselves a solid C+, this brutally honest guide to taking stock also offers the keys...
Honour & Other People's Children
In Honour & Other Peoples Children, Helen Garner examines the idiosyncratic and bothersome notions of honour by which her characters adults and children shape their untidy lives. Honour is about a couple whose marriage, though abandoned in practice, persists in spirit. But the arrival of a new lover obliges them to make a proper separation and draw their child into the conflict. Other ...
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise - Muslims, Christians, and Jews Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
Historians, journalists, and even politicians uphold the Muslim kingdom in medieval Spain al-Andalus as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this popular account: it is a myth In this groundbreaking new book, Northwestern University scholar Dario Fernandez-Morera tells the full story of Islamic rule in med...
The Mindfulness Solution - Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems
From a trusted therapist and mindfulness expert, this book blends psychological savvy with powerful tools for attaining a more balanced life. Many people still associate mindfulness with exotic images like a hermit on a mountaintop. Of course, the reality is more down-to-earth: You can cultivate mindfulness and reap its proven benefits while driving to work, showering, talking to a loved...
The Antidote - Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Is our search for happiness futile?Or are we just going about it the wrong way? In this fascinating new book, Oliver Burkeman argues that positive thinking and relentless optimism arent the solution to the happiness dilemma, but part of the problem. And that there is, in fact, an alternative path to contentment and success that involves embracing the things we spend our lives trying to avoi...