The Greatest - What Sport Teaches Us About Achieving Su...
What can Roger Federer teach us about the secret of longevit...
Knowing the Score - How Sport teaches us about Philosop...
‘A tour de force that provides fresh insight not only into ...
The Art of Captaincy - What Sport Teaches Us About Lead...
Mike Brearley is one of the most successful cricket captains...
The Golem: What You Should Know about Science
The Golem: What You Should Know about Science - University t...
Beyond Death - The Gnostic Book of the Dead What You Sh...
Although most of us prefer to avoid the topic of death, it i...
The Carpenter - A Story About the Greatest Success Stra...
Bestselling author Jon Gordon returns with his most inspirin...
What Would Marx Do? - How the greatest political theori...
Have you ever wondered what Kant might have to say about you...
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
A compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds and gr...
Prosperity Bible - The Greatest Writings of All Time on...
For the first time in paperback, here is the all-in-one ‘bi...
House of Snow - An Anthology of the Greatest Writing Ab...
An anthology of the greatest literature about Nepal. All pro...
Victory Through Organization - Why the War for Talent i...
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Dave Ul...
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest M...
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Manage...
The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones - An anthology o...
A bumper collection of writing in celebration of the fiftiet...
The Greatest - What Sport Teaches Us About Achieving Success
The Story Of The Orchestra - Listen While You Learn About the Instruments, the Music and the Composers Who Wrote the Mus...
Eye-catching illustrations, an engaging text and delightful musical selections on an accompanying 70-minute CD lead children aged 8 to 12 (and parents too!) on an exciting and educational listen-while-you-learn tour through the instruments and music of the orchestra. – The Composers, name by name – Baroque – Classical – Romantic – Modern – - The Orchestra, instrument by instrument – String ...
Becoming Brilliant - What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children
In just a few years, today’s children and teens will forge careers that look nothing like those their parents and grandparents knew. Even the definition of ““career”“ and ““job”“ are changing as more people build their own teams to create new businesses, apps, and services. Although these changes are well underway, most systems lag behind. Most education systems still subscribe to the ide...
Cover Me - The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time
From the creator of the popular website covermesongs.com comes the perfect book for music fans: the inside stories behind 20 iconic cover songs and the artists who turned them into classics. A great cover only makes a song stronger – Jimi Hendrix’s version of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower”; the Beatles rocking out with “Twist and Shout.”; Aretha Franklin demanding “Respect.” Wit...
The Mammoth Book of the Rolling Stones - An anthology of the best writing about the greatest rock `n' roll band in the w...
A bumper collection of writing in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of ‘the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world’, from John Pidgeon’s first encounter with The Rolling Stones at the The Ricky Tick Club in 1963 and Norman Jopling’s seminal article in the New Record Mirror that same year, to ‘Please Allow Me to Correct a Few Things’, a 2010 interview with Bill Wyman....
Your Pace or Mine? - What Running Taught Me About Life, Laughter and Coming Last
From the co-author of the best-selling Running Made Easy, with a foreword by running legend Kathrine Switzer. Lisa Jackson is a surprising cheerleader for the joys of running. Formerly a committed fitness-phobe, she became a marathon runner at 31, and ran her first 56-mile ultramarathon aged 41. And unlike many runners, Lisa’s not afraid to finish last – in fact, she’s done so in 20 of the 9...
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful - A New Story About Anxiety
This journey is what I do now. I bump along, in fits and starts, on a perpetual path to finding better ways for me and my mate, Anxiety, to get around. It’s everything I do. ”… at once a nomadic journey, a cri de coeur and a compendium of hard-won wisdom …” Professor Patrick McGorry AO MD PhD FRCP FRANZCP FAA FASSA, 2010 Australian of the Year Sarah Wilson – bestselling author and entrepre...
The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k - The bestselling book everyone is talking about
‘Genius’ Cosmopolitan ‘The best book I have read recently …Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.’ Daily Mail The bestselling book everyone is talking about – our favourite anti-guru Sarah Knight reveals the surprising art of caring less and getting more. Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Then it’s time...
Body of Truth - How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, “fat” has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, “I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you fat.” How did we get to this place where the worst insult you can hurl at someone is “fatÂ...
What's So Amazing About Grace?
In 1987, an IRA bomb buried Gordon Wilson and his twenty-year-old daughter beneath five feet of rubble. Gordon alone survived. And forgave. He said of the bombers, ‘I have lost my daughter, but I bear no grudge. . . . I shall pray, tonight and every night, that God will forgive them.’ His words caught the media’s ear-and out of one man’s grief, the world got a glimpse of grace. Grace is the ch...
The Greatest Magician in the World
Elliot is mad about magic. Completely and utterly mad. ItÂ’s all he talks about, all he thinks about, and even all he dreams about! And itÂ’s not surprising, because magic is in ElliotÂ’s blood. His great grandfather had once been known as The Greatest Magician in the World and Elliot is desperate to follow in his footsteps. But itÂ’s tricky when the only magic book in the library is missing half ...
The Disaster Artist - My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, by Warner Bros. starring James Franco. From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a “sharply detailed…funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors” (The New York Times): the making of the cult film phenomenon The Room. In 2003, an independent film called The Room—starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy soci...
The Children's Bible - Share the Greatest Stories Ever Told
This book is packed with childrenÂ’s Bible stories, from the creation story, to the history of the Old Testament prophets, to the nativity story and JesusÂ’ resurrection. DKÂ’s The ChildrenÂ’s Bible is a childrenÂ’s book for ages 9-11. It features more than 150 of the best-loved stories from the Bible, covering both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Beautiful illustrations and colour phot...
Melt! - An Incomparable Collection of the Greatest Cheese Recipes Ever Devised
AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR/CONTENT ** ‘MELT!’ is an accessible, informative, always entertaining and entirely spectacular cookbook that delivers everything it promises — and more. It is the highly anticipated first co-creation from the fertile minds of two of Australia’s most respected food commentators — internationally acclaimed cheese guru, author, activist, marketer and television host Will Studd...
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man - What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
The #1 New York Times smash bestseller Revised and expanded with new material. With over two million copies sold, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man has become a bestseller around the world. In conjunction with its second movie sequel to be released this summer, Steve Harvey has updated his classic with new advice and insights. Whether it’s why women should enforce a “90-Day Probation Period” ...
Doctor Who: Dalek - The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe
Dalek is the never-before-told history of the Doctor’s most dangerous enemies, the famous ‘Outer Space Robot People’ of the planet Skaro – from their genesis in the thousand-year conflict between Thals and Kaleds, to their survival of the Time War and (as foreseen by the Time Lords) their conquest of the universe. Along the way, the authors also reveal all-new stories about these legendary cre...
Knowing the Score - How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport)
‘A tour de force that provides fresh insight not only into the nature of sport, but cooperation, the mind, altruism, teamwork, leadership, tribalism and ritualism. It’s a book that every sports fan should read, and every sports writer should absorb’ Matthew Syed ’David Papineau’s book is an important contribution to our thinking about sports, society, psychology, and moral philosophy. But it...
The Disaster Artist - My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, and Judd Apatow. In 2003, an independent film called The Room – starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau – made its disastrous debut in Los An...
The Gardener and the Carpenter - What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Paren...
Selected as a Book of the Year by the Financial Times’The Gardener and the Carpenter should be required reading for anyone who is, or is thinking of becoming a parent’ Financial Times Caring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call ‘parenting’ is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the huge industry surro...
The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far
’A great educator as well as a great physicist.’ Richard Dawkins In the beginning there was light but more than this, there was gravity. After that, all hell broke loose… This is how the story of the greatest intellectual adventure in history should be introduced – how humanity reached its current understanding of the universe, one that is far removed from the realm of everyday experie...
Post-Truth - Peak Bullshit - and What We Can Do About It
Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting – from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us ‘your call is important to us’. How did we get to a place where bullshit is not just rife but apparently so effective that it’s become the communications strategy of our times? This brilliantly insi...
The Disaster Artist - My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Soon to be a major motion picture, The Masterpiece, starring James Franco In 2003, an independent film called The Room – starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau – made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as ‘like getting stabbed in the head’, the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box...