Poverty Safari - Understanding the Anger of Britain's U...
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel mis...
Healing the Angry Brain - How Understanding the Way You...
How Understanding the Way Your Brain Works Can Help You Cont...
Starving the Anger Gremlin for Children Aged 5-9 - A Co...
Help children to understand and manage their anger with this...
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern...
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City...
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern...
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City...
The History of the Roman Wall, Which Crosses the Island...
The History of the Roman Wall, Which Crosses the Island of B...
Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion: Britain, Jordan and th...
Glubb Pasha and the Arab Legion: Britain, Jordan and the End...
The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from Earlie...
The Archaeology of Britain: An Introduction from Earliest Ti...
The Birds of Britain: Their Distribution and Habits
The Birds of Britain: Their Distribution and Habits - Univer...
Understanding the Australian Health Care System
In this third edition of Understanding the Australian Health...
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East
The fourth edition of Understanding the Contemporary Middle ...
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Idea...
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas Tha...
Poverty Safari - Understanding The Anger Of Britain's Underclass
The Private Lives of the Tudors - Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye for entertaining
this is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind. Dan Jones, The Sunday Times Tracy Bormans eye for detail is impressive; the book is packed with fascinating courtly minutiae
this is a wonderful book. The Times Borman is an authoritative and engaging write...
The Second Brain
Dr. Michael Gershon has devoted his career to understanding the human bowel (the stomach, esophagus, small intestine, and colon). His thirty years of research have led to an extraordinary rediscovery: nerve cells in the gut that act as a brain. This second brain can control our gut all by itself. Our two brains the one in our head and the one in our bowel must cooperate. If they do not, ...
Primal Health - Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday
Michel Odent, the leading pioneer for natural childbirth, indicates that the period between conception and a childs first birthday is critical to life-long health. In this prophetic book first published in 1986 and reproduced here in its original form he argues that different parts of the primal adaptive system develop, regulate and adjust themselves during foetal life and the time aro...
Pocket Art: Portrait Drawing - The Quick Guide to Mastering Technique and Style
The instructions are quick visual exercises in Pocket Art: Portraits, the first book in the new Pocket Art series. This lively, graphic approach to explaining concepts will have you looking and learning with step by step illustrations and expert tips straight from London-based artist Miss Led (aka Joanna Henly). This compact 112-page book is just right for carrying in a backpack or pocket for...
Stepmonster - A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
An honest and groundbreaking guide to understanding the complicated emotions that develop between stepmothers and children. When faced with often overwhelming challenges, what woman with stepchildren is unfamiliar with that stepmonster feeling? Half of all women in the United States will live with or marry a man with children. To guide women new to this roleand empower those who are struggli...
Scarcity - The True Cost of Not Having Enough
Sendhil Mullainathan, the most interesting young economist in the world, and Eldar Shafir, the most brilliant psychologist of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with Scarcity Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rus...
The Commonwealth Of Thieves
A brilliant recreation of the first four years of white settlement in Australia by Booker Prize-winning author Tom Keneally. In 1787, Britain banished its unwanted citizens uneducated petty thieves, streetwalkers, orphan chimneysweeps and dashing highwaymen to the fringes of the known world. So remote was Botany Bay the destination to which the overcrowded, disease-ridden convict ships we...
The Yoga of Jesus - Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels
In The Yoga of Jesus a selection of material from his highly praised two volume work, The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, this concise book confirms that Jesus, like the ancient sages and masters of the East, not only knew the principles of yoga but taught this universal science of God-realisation to his disciples. Yogananda, who is widely recognised as ...
The Cynic Philosophers - from Diogenes to Julian
Poverty does not consist in the want of money, I answered, nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessaryFrom their founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the Cynic philosophers sought to cure humanity of greed and vice with their proposal of living simply. They guaranteed happiness to their adheren...
Biocentrism - How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world-a US News & World Report cover story called him a genius and a renegade thinker, even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe. Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very founda...
The Obesity Code - Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
Fung zeroes in on why insulin resistance has become so prevalent and offers specific outside-the-box solutions that have emerged as the key to maximizing health. Jimmy Moore, author, Keto Clarity and Cholesterol Clarity Everything you believe about how to lose weight is wrong. Weight gain and obesity are driven by hormonesin everyoneand only by understanding the effects of insulin and ins...
The Justice Game
Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London in 1970. He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on to engage in some of the most newsworthy cases in recent history. He has defended John Stonehouse, Cynthia Payne, Salman Rushdie, Kate Adie, Arthur Scargill, Daniel Sullivan, Gay News, The Romans of Britain, Niggaz with Attitude, and...
A Brief History of the Roman Empire
In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenals Satires to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula and Nero and seismic events such as the conquest of Britain and the establishment of a New Rom...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
The Sunday Times Bestseller; and the biggest memoir of the year; from Britain's best loved food writer. âToast' is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. Whether relating his mother's ritual burning of the toast; his father's dreaded Boxing Day stew or such culinary highlights of the day as Arctic Roll and Grilled Grapefruit (then considered something...
Just Cool It - The Climate Crisis and what we can do, a post-Paris agreement
Aresounding post-Paris Agreement wake-up call about the urgency of the climatecrisis that offers a range of practical solutions and above all, hope. Climate change is the most important crisis humanityhas faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do wedo, and is there hope for humanity? The problem itself is complex, and theresno single solution. But by understan...
Teach Yourself Cycling - The classic guide to life on two wheels
At one end of the scale, cycling is a real he-mans sport; at the other it is the ideal recreation for the elderly philosopher who loves to potter around the country lanes. First published in 1953, Teach Yourself Cycling is a beautiful, lovingly reproduced window into a distant age, where understanding the good manners of the road and enjoying the innocence of the family picnic dominated lif...
The Bachelor Contract
Brant Wellington has spent the past four years living in a hell of his own making, but now hes willing to do anything to get away from the anger and pain of his past. So when his grandfather offers him a job as the new VP of hotel acquisitions for Titus Enterprises he accepts. Not because he needs money. Or even a job. But because the job offers him the one thing he cant say no to: a challenge...
Our World in Charts - Understanding the Economy & Money
An old proverb says: a picture paints a thousand words and in this book, the pictures are the charts. Our World in Charts has over 150 charts that depict a range of economic, market and social issues. There is a lot of information in each chart and each tells a story which authors Alan Kohler and Stephen Koukoulas explain. Charts give context. An annual budget deficit of $30 billion sounds a ...
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi - Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian
The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778 1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face make-up and wear outrageous coloured clothes, he transformed the role of the Clown in the pantomime with a look as iconic as Chaplins tramp or Tommy Coopers magician. One of the first celebrity comedians, his friends included Lord Byron and the actor Ed...
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth - Fourth Edition
Understanding the Bible isnt for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. Its meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your twenty-first-century life. More than three quarters of a mi...
Understanding the Purpose and Power of Woman
To live successfully in the world, women need to know who they are and what role they play today. They need a new awareness of who they are, and new skills to meet todays challenges. Best-selling author Myles Munroe examines societies attitudes toward women and helps women to discover who they are. He addresses vital issues such as: Are women and men equal? What are the purpose and design of t...