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| "Shrinking Violets : A Field Guide to Shyness" |
| "Our success as a species is built on sociability so shyness in humans should be an anomaly But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with humiliation if we suddenly become the unwelcome centre of attention In Shrinking Violets Joe Moran explores the hidden world of shyness providing insights on everything from timidity in lemon sharks to the role of texting in Finnish love affairs As he seeks answers to the questions that shyness poses - Why are we shy? Can we overcome it? Does it define us? - he uncovers the fascinating stories of the men and women who were 'of the violet persuasion' from Charles Darwin to Agatha Christie and from Tove Jansson to Nick Drake In their stories - often both heart-breaking and inspiring - and through the myriad ways scientists and thinkers have tried to explain and cure shyness Moran finds a hopeful conclusion To be shy he decides is not simply a burden - it is also a gift a different way of seeing the world that can be both enriching and inspiring"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Triggers : Sparking positive change and making it last" |
| "In business - as in life - the right behaviours matter But getting it right is tricky Even when we acknowledge the need to change what we do and how we do it life has a habit of getting in the way upsetting even the best-laid plans And just how do we manage those situations that can provoke even the most rational among us into behaving in ways we would rather forget?Triggers confronts head-on the challenges of behaviour and change looking at the external factors (or 'triggers') - both negative and positive - that affect our behaviours our awareness of when we need to change our willingness (or otherwise) to do so and our ability to see the change through Drawing on his unparalleled experience as an international executive educator and coach Marshall Goldsmith invites us to understand how our own beliefs and the environments in which we operate can trigger negative behaviours or a resistance to the need to change But he also offers up some simple practical advice to help us navigate the negative and make the most of the triggers that will help us to sustain positive change"
Price: 7.49 |
| "We Do Things Differently : The Outsiders Rebooting Our World" |
| "Our systems are failing Old models - for education healthcare and government food production energy supply - are creaking under the weight of modern challenges As the world's population heads towards 10 billion it's clear we need new approaches Futurologist Mark Stevenson sets out to find them across four continents From Brazilian favelas to high tech Boston from rural India to a shed inventor in England's home counties We Do Things Differently travels the world to find the advance guard re-imagining our future At each stop he meets innovators who have already succeeded in challenging the status quo pioneering new ways to make our world more sustainable equitable and humane Populated by extraordinary characters We Do Things Differently paints an enthralling picture of what can be done to address the world's most pressing dilemmas offering a much needed dose of down-to-earth optimism It is a window on (and a roadmap to) a different and better future"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Evening Chorus" |
| "Shot down on his first RAF mission James Hunter spends his war in a German prison camp The other captive soldiers busy themselves planning their escapes but James dedicates himself to a detailed study of the redstarts nesting just beyond the camp boundaries -- a project that gives him something to live for and earns him an unusual ally in the Kommandant in charge of the camp Rose James's young wife is spending her war in a cottage on the lip of Ashdown Forest in Sussex with her dog Harris for company She'd hardly known James before he went away and can barely engage with his letters which talk of nothing but birds Now she has fallen in love with someone else -- Toby a young pilot home on sick leave They meet secretly at night Then James's brusque sister Enid is bombed out of her flat in London and comes to live in Rose's tiny cottage Little more than strangers both women are guarded and Rose tries to conceal her affair from Enid But later both look back on this strange interlude as one of their happiest Beautifully written and full of moments of hope The Evening Chorus is a stirring story about love and the natural world set against the backdrop of the Second World War"
Price: 5.99 |
| "I Don't Like Where This Is Going : Book #2 of the Wylie 'Coyote' Melville series" |
| "Wylie 'Coyote' Melville - burnt-out professional therapist and hobbyist forensic consultant - needs a break South Florida might be home but it's also home to bad memories and local gangsters bearing grudges So Wylie and his ace poker-playing best friend Bay Lettique head to the tawdry glitz of Las Vegas to lie low for a while But when Wylie and Bay see a woman fall from the balcony of her hotel on the Strip their low-profile Vegas vacation soon turns into a murder investigation With the powers-that-be keen to cover up all trace of the woman's death Wylie starts to follow a trail that leads him across the vast and lawless deserts of redneck Nevada and deep into the heart of a human trafficking conspiracy A crime caper filled with Dufresne's trademark black humour I Don't Like Where This is Going continues the story of Wylie's haphazard investigations into America's bankrupt political system where power and influence are on sale and the corrupt prey on the innocent"
Price: 4.49 |
| "Get Out of My Life : The bestselling guide to living with teenagers" |
| "Teenagers are tough and anyone who has their own needs help Witty enjoyable and genuinely insightful Get Out of My Life is now updated with how to deal with everything from social media to online threats and porn as well as looking at all the difficult issues of bringing up teenagers school sex drugs and more But it's the title of the second chapter 'What They Do and Why' that best captures the book's spirit and technique explaining how to translate teenage behaviour into its true often less complicated meaning One key mistake for instance is getting in no-win conflicts instead of having the wisdom to shut up when shutting up would be the most effective albeit least satisfying thing to do Another is taking offence when the teenager views you the adult as idiotic And there's advice on what to do when this happens The message is clear parenting adolescents is inherently difficult Don't judge yourself too harshly!"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Tao of Coaching : Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You" |
| "The essence and success of The Tao of Coaching has always been its focus on the practical tips and techniques for making work more rewarding through the habit of coaching - and this philosophy continues to underpin this brand new reissue The book's premise is simple that to become an effective coach managers and leaders need master only a few techniques even though mastery obviously requires practice Each chapter focuses on a specific technique - or Golden Rule - of coaching to help practice make perfect Tried and tested by generations within and beyond the workplace this succinct and engaging book gives readers the tools to- create more time for themselves by delegating well- build and enjoy working with effective teams- achieve better results - enhance their interpersonal skills It demonstrates that coaching is not simply a matter of helping others and improving performance but is also a powerful force for self-development and personal fulfilment"
Price: 6.49 |
| "What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School" |
| "Mark McCormack dubbed 'the most powerful man in sport' founded IMG (International Management Group) on a handshake It was the first and is the most successful sports management company in the world becoming a multi-million dollar worldwide corporation whose activities in the business and marketing spheres are so diverse as to defy classification Here Mark McCormack reveals the secret of his success to key business issues such as analysing yourself and others sales negotiation time management decision-making and communication What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School fills the gaps between a business school education and the street knowledge that comes from the day-to-day experience of running a business and managing people It shares the business skills techniques and wisdom gleaned from twenty-five years of experience"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Adventures in Human Being" |
| "Sunday Times bestsellerWe have a lifetime's association with our bodies but for many of us they remain uncharted territory In Adventures in Human Being Gavin Francis leads the reader on a journey through health and illness offering insights on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the secret workings of the heart and the womb; from the pulse of life at the wrist to the unique engineering of the foot Drawing on his own experiences as a doctor and GP he blends first-hand case studies with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and portrayed over the millennia If the body is a foreign country then to practise medicine is to explore new territory Francis leads the reader on an adventure through what it means to be human Both a user's guide to the body and a celebration of its elegance this book will transform the way you think about being alive whether in sickness or in health Published in association with the Wellcome Collection WELLCOME COLLECTIONWellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome it connects science medicine life and art Wellcome Collection exhibitions events and books explore a diverse range of subjects including consciousness forensic medicine emotions sexology identity and death Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive funding over 14000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries wellcomecollectionorg"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Metamorphosis : How and Why We Change" |
| "What makes a violinist become a policeman or a monk fall in love? How does someone lose eighteen stone in as many months? Or a follower of radical Islam turn his back on holy war? When can simply taking a new name usher in a new life? And how does a family adapt to the brain injury that changes their son or brother beyond recognition? These and other stories combine with a wealth of smart thinking from psychology philosophy literature and science as Polly Morland unravels the mysteries and the mechanisms of human change Most of us would like to change something about ourselves although all too often we feel that we can't Yet as this book shows change is not an event-it is a process at which we are more skilled than we realise a story we are already good at telling Exploring how some people harness the change that governs all our lives and then succeed in shaping it like master storytellers toward the happy ending of their choosing Polly Morland shows that change is possible for us all Appealing to that part of anyone that is stuck in a rut Metamorphosis is about how and why real people change and how the imagination can become the engine of our transformation too"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Growth Hacker Marketing : A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing and Advertising" |
| "Your new business went online yesterday and you've got a marketing budget of zero How are you supposed to create a movement around your product? How can you get to your first thousand - or million - customers? Starting from zero it feels impossible Enter the growth hacker You may not have heard of growth hacking yet but you've certainly used the billion dollar brands built by it Hotmail AirBnB Facebook Dropbox amongst many others Growth hackers thrive on doing what traditional businessmen would consider impossible creating something from nothing They 'hack' their company's growth to create a narrative of sensational success turning excited media users and social media into a viral marketing force that will help their business grow exponentially Silicon Valley has realized that growth hacking - not television commercials and billboards - is the successful start-up's secret weapon Now growth hacker extraordinaire Ryan Holiday is ready to share his experience teaching you how to harness the power of growth to propel you to success Featuring insights from leading growth hackers Growth Hacker Marketing is the essential guide to the revolutionary new approach to growing your business"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Other People's Money : Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?" |
| "Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016We all depend on the finance sector We need it to store our money manage our payments finance housing stock restore infrastructure fund retirement and support new business But these roles comprise only a tiny sliver of the sector's activity the vast majority of lending is within the finance sector So what is it all for? What is the purpose of this activity? And why is it so profitable?John Kay a distinguished economist with wide experience of the financial sector argues that the industry's perceived profitability is partly illusory and partly an appropriation of wealth created elsewhere - of other people's money The financial sector he shows has grown too large detached itself from ordinary business and everyday life and has become an industry that mostly trades with itself talks to itself and judges itself by reference to standards which it has itself generated And the outside world has itself adopted those standards bailing out financial institutions that have failed all of us through greed and mismanagement We need finance but today we have far too much of a good thing In Other People's Money John Kay shows in his inimitable style what has gone wrong in the dark heart of finance"
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| "She Died Young" |
| "London 1956 A young woman has been found dead in a hotel in King's Cross Broke her neck falling down stairs the death certificate says But Fleet Street journalist Gerry Blackstone thinks there's more to it than meets the eye Scotland Yard's not interested in accidental deaths - if that's what this is But maybe he can convince Special Branch's DCI Jack McGovern to investigate Fortunately for Blackstone McGovern needs his help The new Superintendent wants to sweep out corrupt officers and McGovern's his broom If Blackstone can keep news of the investigation out of the press McGovern stands a chance of finding the bent cop Meanwhile Oxford is filling with Hungarian emigres fleeing the failed revolution With the memories of Burgess and Maclean's defection still raw Special Branch is concerned that there could be Soviet spies among the genuine refugees and wants McGovern on-hand to keep an eye out As McGovern carries out his casework in Oxford and Blackstone investigates behind the scenes in London clues start to emerge that somehow this might all be linked The deeper they look the more unrelated characters with shady pasts start to complicate the picture the well-to-do madam the Classics Professor the East London crime boss the Oxford doctoral student the fiery Hungarian immigrant the government minister does it all lead back to the dead girl in King's Cross? Or is there something even more sinister going on?"
Price: 7.99 |
| "In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room : Travels Through Indian Medicine" |
| "WINNER OF BEST POPULAR MEDICINE BOOK AT THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 JHALAK PRIZEThe story of medicine in India is rich and complex uniting cutting-edge technological developments with ancient cultural traditions Aarathi Prasad investigates how Indian medicine came to be the way it is Her travels will take her to bonesetter clinics in Jaipur and Hyderabad and the waiting-rooms of Bollywood's best plastic surgeons and introduce her to traditional healers as well as the world-beating heart surgeon who is revolutionising treatment of the poor around the globe From the asthma treatment 'cure' that involves swallowing a live fish to ground-breaking neuroscience happening inside the Mughal walls of old Delhi In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room tells the story of the Indian people in sickness and in health In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room is published in partnership with the Wellcome Collection and will accompany a major exhibition at the Collection in Autumn 2017 exploring India's rich plurality of cultures of medicine healing and well-being in Indian cities Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome it connects science medicine life and art Wellcome Collection exhibitions events and books explore a diverse range of subjects including consciousness forensic medicine emotions sexology identity and death Wellcome Collection is part of Wellcome a global charitable foundation that exists to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive funding over 14000 researchers and projects in more than 70 countries wellcomecollectionorg"
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| "Devil in a Blue Dress" |
| "I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking The summer of '48 in the city of Angels and there's heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk Heat when she disappears with a trunkload of somebody else's cash Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job Drinking in a friend's bar he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in offering good money if Easy will locate Miss Monet a blonde with a reputation It's a simple decision but for one thing Nobody warned him - better the devil you know"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Being a Beast" |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2016Charles Foster wanted to know what it was like to be a beast a badger an otter a deer a fox a swift What it was really like And through knowing what it was like he wanted to get down and grapple with the beast in us all So he tried it out; he lived life as a badger for six weeks sleeping in a dirt hole and eating earthworms he came face to face with shrimps as he lived like an otter and he spent hours curled up in a back garden in East London and rooting in bins like an urban fox A passionate naturalist Foster realises that every creature creates a different world in its brain and lives in that world As humans we share sensory outputs lights smells and sound but trying to explore what it is actually like to live in another of these worlds belonging to another species is a fascinating and unique neuro-scientific challenge For Foster it is also a literary challenge Looking at what science can tell us about what happens in a fox's or badger's brain when it picks up a scent he then uses this to imagine their world for us to write it through their eyes or rather through the eyes of Charles the beast An intimate look at the life of animals neuroscience psychology nature writing memoir and more it is a journey of extraordinary thrills and surprises containing wonderful moments of humour and joy but also providing important lessons for all of us who share life on this precious planet"
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| Constellation |
| "On 27 October 1949 a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York Hours later it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone There were no survivors Among those lost in the accident were heavyweight boxer Marcel Cerdan flying to New York for a world title fight; 30-year-old virtuoso violinist Ginette Neveu; Kay Kamen Walt Disney's merchandising tsar; five Basque shepherds emigrating to America; a pilot who ran missions for the Free French during the war Constellation tells the untold true stories of the forty-eight men and women who died on board and paints a moving portrait of their place in the changing post-war world and of their hopes and dreams for the life awaiting them across the Atlantic Adrien Bosc's magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy"
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| "The Stupidity Paradox : The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work" |
| "Functional stupidity can be catastrophic It can cause organisational collapse financial meltdown and technical disaster And there are countless more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious the absurd and the downright idiotic from unsustainable management fads to the cult of leadership or an over-reliance on brand and image And yet a dose of stupidity can be useful and produce good short-term results it can nurture harmony encourage people to get on with the job and drive success This is the stupidity paradox The Stupidity Paradox tackles head-on the pros and cons of functional stupidity You'll discover what makes a workplace mindless why being stupid might be a good thing in the short term but a disaster in the longer term and how to make your workplace a little less stupid by challenging thoughtless conformity It shows how harmony and action in the workplace can be balanced with a culture of questioning and challenge The book is a wake-up call for smart organisations and smarter people It encourages us to use our intelligence fully for the sake of personal satisfaction organisational success and the flourishing of society as a whole"
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| "Hotels of North America : A novel Hardcover" |
| "Reginald Edward Morse is a man in need of an outlet And he finds it in a very twenty-first century place the internet Specifically RateYourLodgingcom where Americans go to find out the truth about hotels motels and horrors bed and breakfasts But the real joy of those sites is not so much the advice they offer but the people who offer it Reginald Edward Morse is one of those people At first Morse seems exactly what you&39;d suspect a reviewer to be though under the authoritative even puffed-up tone there lurks self-awareness wit and a flair for anecdote His reviews scatter clues to his identity and the fragments explain the mystery of Reginald Edward Morse his career as a motivational speaker his lover &39;K&39; and his estrangement from his daughter Always funny unexpectedly tragic this is a book of lonely rooms long lists of strong opinion and quiet confession by one of America&39;s greatest novelists"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Making Sense : The Glamorous Story of English Grammar" |
| "The world's greatest authority on language explains the secrets and subtleties of the grammar of English David Crystal explores its history and varieties explains its rules and irregularities and shows how to navigate its snares and pitfalls He gives practical guidance on how grammar is used in different ways for different purposes and in different social settings In a series of revealing illustrations he also considers what learned and prominent people have said about English grammar over the centuries Like its three companion volumes Making Sense will appeal to everyone interested in the English language and how to use it"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Comparing Notes : How We Make Sense of Music" |
| "A tap of the foot a rush of emotion the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music Comparing Notes explores what music is why we are all musical and how abstract patterns of sound that don't actually mean anything can in fact be so meaningful Taking the reader on a clear and compelling tour of major twentieth century musical theories Professor Adam Ockelford arrives at his own important psychologically grounded theory of how music works From pitch and rhythm to dynamics and timbre he shows how all the elements of music cohere through the principle of imitation to create an abstract narrative in sound that we instinctively grasp whether listening to Bach or the Beatles Based on three decades of innovative work with blind children and those on the autism spectrum the book draws lessons from neurodiversity to show how we all develop musically and to explore the experience of music from composer and performer to listener Authoritative engaging and full of wonderful examples from across the musical spectrum Comparing Notes is essential reading for anyone who's ever loved a song sonata or symphony and wondered why"
Price: 14.49 |
| "I Love Dick : The cult feminist novel, now an Amazon Prime Video series starring Kevin Bacon" |
| "When Chris Kraus an unsuccessful artist pushing 40 spends an evening with a rogue academic named Dick she falls madly and inexplicably in love enlisting her husband in her haunted pursuit Dick proposes a kind of game between them but when he fails to answer their letters Chris continues alone transforming an adolescent infatuation into a new form of philosophy Blurring the lines of fiction essay and memoir Chris Kraus's novel was a literary sensation when it was first published in 1997 Widely considered to be the most important feminist novel of the past two decades I Love Dick is still essential reading; as relevant fierce and funny as ever"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly : A Sean Duffy Thriller" |
| "'McKinty is one of Britain's great contemporary crime writers and the Sean Duffy books are his masterpiece' Ian RankinThis time help isn't coming This time Duffy has to save himself Belfast 1988 a man has been shot in the back with an arrow It ain't Injuns and it isn't Robin Hood But uncovering exactly who has done it will take Detective Inspector Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet a road that leads to three masked gunmen forcing Duffy to dig his own grave Hunted by forces unknown threatened by Internal Affairs and with his relationship on the rocks Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece SPINETINGLER AWARD WINNERNED KELLY AWARD WINNERBARRY AWARD WINNERSTEEL DAGGER AWARD SHORTLISTEDEDGAR AWARD SHORTLISTEDTHEAKSTON'S AWARD SHORTLISTEDANTHONY AWARD NOMINEERAIN DOGS WAS WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD 2017"
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| "Beyond Harvard : All-new street smarts from the world of Mark H. McCormack" |
| "The publication of What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School in 1984 introduced the world to the Mark H McCormack street smart nuggets of wisdom offering accessible insights into how to get ahead in the real world of business McCormack died in 2003 but his legacy and business philosophy live on Beyond Harvard celebrates his genius with a collection of new street smarts based on interviews with the people who knew worked with and were influenced by him - colleagues clients and competitors alike From advice on managing people and building relationships through to the best negotiating tips and how to grow a business a stellar line-up of contributors from the business media and sporting worlds show us how a brush with McCormack could change forever the way you do business - and live your life Learn from the outside-the-box thinking that encouraged a nervous Wimbledon committee to sign up to IMG-style merchandising; why it pays to hold your nerve when you reach a negotiating impasse; how the rituals and routines of the sporting world can work in business too and even how re-using incoming paperclips or keeping 3x5 notecards to hand can contribute to success Beyond Harvard is both an affectionate testament to the man who invented the sports marketing industry and a worthy successor to the original Harvard book offering a new generation of street smarts to anyone looking to improve their business understanding and practice"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Ego is the Enemy : The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent" |
| "It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame Every great philosopher has warned against it in our most lasting stories and countless works of art in all culture and all ages Its name? Ego and it is the enemy - of ambition of success and of resilience In Ego is the Enemy Ryan Holiday shows us how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives and that we can only create our best work when we identify acknowledge and disarm its dangers Drawing on an array of inspiring characters and narratives from literature philosophy and history the book explores the nature and dangers of ego to illustrate how you can be humble in your aspirations gracious in your success and resilient in your failures The result is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture that tends to fan the flames of ego a book full of themes and life lessons that will resonate uplift and inspire"
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| "All Grown Up Paperback" |
| "&39;Hilarious courageous and mesmerising&39; Maria Semple&39;Think BBC&39;s Fleabag set in Brooklyn&39; Stylist&39;I&39;m alone I&39;m a drinker I&39;m a former artist I&39;m a shrieker in bed I&39;m the captain of the sinking ship that is my flesh&39;Andrea is a single childless 39-year-old woman who tries to navigate family sexuality friendships and a career she never wanted but battles with thoughts and desires that few people would want to face up to Gut-wrenchingly honest and shimmering with rage and intimacy All Grown Up questions what it means to be a 21st century woman- What if I don&39;t want to hold your baby?- Can I date you without ever hearing about your divorce?- What can I demand of my mother now that I am an adult?- Is therapy pointless?- At what point does drinking a lot become a drinking problem?- Why does everyone keep asking me why I am not married?Powerfully intelligent and wickedly funny All Grown Up delves into the psyche of a flawed but mesmerising character Readers will recognise themselves in Jami Attenberg&39;s truthful account of womanhood though they might not always want to admit it"
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| "Freud : The Making of An Illusion" |
| "From the master of Freud debunkers the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creator Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential figures of western society His ideas transformed the way that we think about our minds our selves and even our thoughts But while he was undeniably a visionary thinker Freud's legend was also the work of years of careful mythologizing and a fierce refusal to accept criticism or scrutiny of his often unprincipled methods In Freud The Making of an Illusion Frederick Crews dismantles Freud's totemic reputation brick by brick Looking at recently revealed correspondence he examines Freud's own personality his selfishness competitiveness and willingness to cut corners and exploit weaknesses to get his own way He explores Freud's whole-hearted embracing of cocaine as a therapeutic tool and the role it played in his own career And he interrogates Freud's intellectual legacy exposing how many of his ideas and conclusions were purely speculative or taken wholesale from others As acidic as it is authoritative this critique of the man behind the legend is compulsory reading for anyone interested in Freudianism"
Price: 19.99 |
| "The Haunting of Henry Twist : Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2017" |
| "London 1926 Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend On the way she is hit by a bus and killed though miraculously the baby survives Henry is left with nothing but his new daughter - a single father in a world without single fathers He hurries the baby home terrified that she'll be taken from him Racked with guilt and fear he stays away from prying eyes walking her through the streets at night under cover of darkness But one evening a strange man steps out of the shadows and addresses Henry by name The man says that he has lost his memory but that his name is Jack Henry is both afraid of and drawn to Jack and the more time they spend together the more Henry sees that this man has echoes of his dead wife His mannerisms some things he says And so Henry wonders has his wife returned to him? Has he conjured Jack himself from thin air? Or is he in the grip of a sophisticated con man? Who really sent him?Set in a postwar London where the Bright Young Things dance into dawn at garden parties hosted by generous old Monty The Haunting of Henry Twist is a novel about the limits and potential of love and of grief It is about the lengths we will go to hold on to what is precious to us what we will forgive of those we love and what we will sacrifice for the sake of our own happiness"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Armageddon and Paranoia : The Nuclear Confrontation" |
| "In 1945 the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and warfare was never the same again Armageddon and Paranoia relates how the power of the atom was harnessed to produce weapons capable of destroying human civilisation and considers what this has done to the world There are few villains in this story on both sides of the Iron Curtain dedicated scientists cracked the secrets of nature dutiful military men planned out possible manoeuvres and politicians wrestled with potentially intolerable decisions Patriotic citizens acquiesced to the idea that their country needed the ultimate means of defence Some tried to grapple with the unanswerable question what end could possibly be served by such fearsome means? Those who protested went unheard None of them wanted to start a nuclear war but all of them were paranoid about what the other side might do The danger of annihilation by accident or misjudgement has not been entirely absent since Rodric Braithwaite author of bestsellers Moscow 1941 and Afgantsy paints a vivid and detailed portrait of this intense period in history Its implications are terrifyingly relevant today as ignorant and thoughtless talk about nuclear war begins to spread once more"
Price: 17.49 |
| "Scorn : The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History" |
| "'He's 100 political herpes Back in six months whatever you do Or three days like last time' Camilla Long on Nigel Farage'You're as ugly as a salad' Bulgarian insult'I'm going to beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on' Muhammed AliThere's no pleasure like a perfectly turned put-down (when it's directed at somebody else of course) but Matthew Parris's Scorn is sharply different from the standard collections Here are the funniest sharpest rudest and most devastating insults in history from ancient Roman graffiti to the battlefields of Twitter Drawing on bile from such masters as Dorothy Parker Elizabeth I Donald Trump Groucho Marx Princess Anne Winston Churchill Nigel Farage Mae West and Alastair Campbell - which form an exchange between voices down the ages - Scorn shows that abuse can be an art form This collection includes extended literary invective as well as short verbal shin-kicks Encompassing literature art politics showbiz marriage gender nationality and religion Matthew Parris's sublime collection is the perfect companion for the festive season whether you're searching for the perfect elegant riposte the rudest polite letter ever written or a brutal verbal sledgehammer"
Price: 8.49 |
