The Angry Chef - Bad Science and the Truth About Health...
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Debating Early Child Care: The Relationship between Dev...
Debating Early Child Care: The Relationship between Developm...
They Don't Tell the Truth about the Wind: K-3 Science P...
They Don't Tell the Truth about the Wind: K-3 Science Progra...
Criminal - The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things
‘As enlightening about crime in modern society as any book ...
The Food Parade - Healthy Eating with the Nutritious Fo...
ItÂ’s time to celebrate with the five basic food groups. The...
Requiem for a Species - Why We Resist the Truth About C...
Sometimes facing up to the truth is just too hard. There hav...
Things I Wish I'd Known - Women tell the truth about mo...
Look at the front cover of any parenting book and what do yo...
Science and the City - The Mechanics Behind the Metropo...
Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don...
A Mind of Your Own - The Truth about Depression and How...
New York Times bestsellerInternational bestsellerNamed one o...
Love Sucks - The truth about romance from the world's g...
Tired of hearing about how ‘love is all you need’ and that...
The Angry Chef - Bad Science And The Truth About Healthy Eating
The Canterbury Tales - Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue
Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested “Merchant’s Tale” and the “Tale of Sir Thopas.” “Sources and Backgrounds” are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand The Canterbury Tales in light of relevan...
The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King
In their third zombie-tastic adventure, Jack Sullivan and his friends June, Quint and Dirk discover that they might not be the last kids on Earth after all… And everyone is thrilled – except Jack. Living in a tree house with his best friends, battling monsters and escaping certain death – he’s been having the most awesome time of his life. Some how he’s got to persuade his friends that life i...
Criminal - The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things
‘As enlightening about crime in modern society as any book I have read’ The Times ’A richly researched, supremely sane discussion of the causes of and ways of preventing crime. From bobbies on the beat (they don’t reduce crime), to the idea that “prison works” (it doesn’t), Gash’s important book may well change your attitude to criminality and the justice system’ Guardian There are ...
The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
“An immersive play-by-play of the company’s ascent…. It’s hard to imagine a better retelling of the Amazon origin story.” — Laura Bennett, New Republic Amazon.com’s visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed...
Love Sucks - The truth about romance from the world's greatest cynics
Tired of hearing about how ‘love is all you needÂ’ and that ‘love will conquer allÂ’? Does the idea of balloons, love hearts, boxes of chocolates and birds suddenly appearing make your teeth ache with the sickly saccharine cliched insanity? How about some real talk? ItÂ’s all a farce. Love sucks. As Charles Bukowski said, ‘If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.Â...
The Truth About Forever
The Truth About Forever is a captivating young adult novel about moving on from New York Times Number One bestseller Sarah Dessen, author of What Happened to Goodbye and Lock and Key, Sarah Dessen. On the outside, Macy Queen is cool and calm. On the inside, sheÂ’s breaking. Silently struggling with her dadÂ’s death, and spending the summer apart from her oh-so-perfect boyfriend, Macy is smiling ...
Wealth Secrets of the 1% - The Truth About Money, Markets and Multi-Millionaires
‘Infuriating… Wilkin’s main claim is that the super-rich have discovered ‘secret’ ways of both making and preserving their fortunes… like [Capital author Thomas] Piketty, Wilkin has a love-hate relationship with capitalism. He takes the view that most billionaires are rich because, one way or another, they have found ways to rig the market.’ The Times What does it take to make a fortune? ...
The Hidden Reality - Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos explores our most current scientific understanding of the universe, the ‘string theory’ that might hold the key to unifying nature’s laws, and our continuing quest to know more. There was a time when ‘universe’ meant all there is. Everything. Yet, as physicist Brian Greene’s extraordinary book shows, ou...
The Fairy Bell Sisters - Lily and the Fancy-dress Party
Do you believe in fairies? Join Tinker Bell’s sisters on a magical adventure. Inspired by Tinker Bell, from the book Peter Pan, by J. M. BarrieBefore Tinker Bell flew to Never Land and met Peter Pan she lived on Sheepskerry Island with her fairy sisters – Clara, Lily, Rosie, Silver and Squeak the baby. The young fairies go to fairy school and love tea parties, dressing up and exciting adventure...
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 child’s 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...
The Selwood Boys - Battle Royale and The Miracle Goal
Four future AFL stars under one roof!? Go back to where it all began with The Selwood Boys … In the Selwood house, there’s madness and mayhem every day – and footy, of course! Meet the Selwood boys … There’s the twins, Troy and Adam, pulling pranks and making mischief, then Joel with his sneaky, cheeky antics, and finally little Scott, who just does his best (or make that his worst!) to kee...
The Undiscovered Self - With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
These two essays, written late in Jung’s life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, “The Undiscovered Self” is a plea for his generation – and those to come – to continue the individual work of self-discovery and not abandon needed psychological reflection for the easy ephemera of mass culture. Only ...
Bad Science
Shorlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books Guardian columnist Dr Ben Goldacre takes us on a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the bad science we’re fed by the worst of the hacks and the quacks… When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in an ‘Aqua Detox’ footbath, releasin...
The Dalai Lama's Cat And The Power Of Meow
In the latest installment of the Dalai Lama’s Cat series, His Holiness’s Cat (“HHC”) is on a mission: to think less, to experience more, to live in the moment. She soon learns the proper phrase for this, being mindful, or, a concept better known to her as the power of meow. What ensues is a journey to discover her own true nature, to gain a deeper understanding of her mind, and to experience l...
The End of Money - The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution
Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering… These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories from the short history of cryptocurrencies – digital currencies conceived by computer hackers and cryptographers that represent a completely new sort of financial transaction that could soon become mainstream. The most famous – or infamous – cryptocurr...
Braving the Wilderness - The quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone
A timely and important new book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Â’True belonging doesnÂ’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.Â’ Social scientist BrenU Brown, PhD, LMSW has sparked ...
A Mind of Your Own - The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives
Depression is one of the UK’s leading causes of disability. One in four women in their 40s are prescribed antidepressant drugs BUT depression is a sign of malfunction of the body – not in the brain and it can be treated with simple lifestyle interventions. The UK’s mental well-being is in a state of crisis – psychiatric drugs are overprescribed and the causes of depression and anxiety overs...
In the Woods - Dublin Murder Squad: 1. Winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity and the IVCA Clarion awards
When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan – the child who came back – is a detective in the Dublin police force. HeÂ...
The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become ‘the everything store’, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To achieve that end, he develo...
I Thought it Was Just Me (but it Isn'T) - Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy and Power
Shame manifests itself in many ways. Addiction, perfectionism, fear and blame are just a few of the outward signs that Dr. Brene Brown discovered in her 6-year study of shame’s effects on women. While shame is generally thought of as an emotion sequestered in the shadows of our psyches, “I Thought it Was Just Me” demonstrates the ways in which it is actually present in the most mundane and visi...
The Fairy Bell Sisters - Silver and the Fairy Ball
Do you believe in fairies? Join Tinker Bell’s sisters on a magical adventure, first in a brand-new series. Inspired by Tinker Bell, from the book Peter Pan, by J. M. BarrieBefore Tinker Bell flew to Never Land and met Peter Pan she lived on Sheepskerry Island with her fairy sisters – Clara, Lily, Rosie, Silver and Squeak the baby. The young fairies go to fairy school and love tea parties, dress...