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Why do some people lead happy, successful lives whilst others face repeated failure and sadness? Why do some find their perfect partners whilst others stagger from one broken relationship to the next? What enables some people to have successful careers whilst others find themselves trapped in jobs they detest? And can unlucky people do anything to improve their luck - and lives?

A psychologist and best-selling author gives us a myth-busting response to the self-help movement, with tips and tricks to improve your life that come straight from the scientific community. Richard Wiseman has been troubled by the realization that the self-help industry often promotes exercises...

Modern humans live like fish in a tank; hand fed, artificial environment and reliant on electricity and going around in circles. This book is advice on how to reclaim some of our humanity with practical tips on living a more natural life in the modern world.

Victorian philosopher William James had a theory about emotion and behavior: It isn’t that our feelings guide our actions (feel happy and you will laugh). On the contrary, it is our actions that guide our emotions (laugh and you will feel happy). This led James to a remarkable conclusion: "If you want a quality, act as if you already have it." Roused by James’s astonishing discovery, renowned psychologist and best-selling author Richard Wiseman confirms James’s principle and shows how the self-help genre has for too long put the cart before the horse in trying to help us take control of our lives.

On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, renowned psychologist Richard Wiseman reveals the powerful life lessons behind humanity's greatest achievement. The historic moon landings were achieved against remarkable odds and within the space of just a few years. How can we apply the...

Jonah Parish, recently retired from the Royal Marine Commandos and working in the security industry wakes up on the lawn of a house in Exeter having been drugged. The lawyer he was hired to guard is missing. In tracking down the missing lawyer Jonah is embroiled in a game of cat and mouse with a ruthless gang looking for a rare flawed 1964 West German postage stamp bearing the image of John F Kennedy and worth a million dollars. As Jonah delves deeper into the mystery of the 'Assassin Flaw' stamp and the life of the last man to own it, a dead American diplomat Rory Shapter, he uncovers the ...

37 numbers including the zero and all you have to do is pick the right numbers and the money will rack up. Sounds simple enough, but online roulette gambling can have disastrous consequences and for one man it's the road to hell...

The world is under the control of a global government, most humans on the planet have an implanted microchip in their palm in the shape of a dollar sign and religion has been made illegal. Yet in areas outside the controlled cities groups of Christians hide from persecution and the security forces. Those captured are martyred if they don't accept the mark of beast dollar microchip. In one shelter a priest struggling with his intense hunger watches over his flock of fugitive Christians and as a blood moon and a red sun bathe world in red light day and night the priest goes hunting and ...

A collection of political blog entries, satirical and serious, reflecting UK politics and news from March to August 2012.

“One of the best investing books ever written.” —Charlie Munger From an award-winning financial journalist, a fresh and insightful book that draws on interviews with more than forty of the world’s super-investors to demonstrate that the keys to building wealth also apply to everyday life...

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr. ""The most powerful American novel to...

Le saviez-vous ? Vous avez plus de chances d'être embauché si vous commencez par parler de vos faiblesses. Et la meilleure façon de se faire apprécier n'est pas de rendre mais de demander un service. Déclarations qui peuvent paraître paradoxales mais que le psychologue Richard Wiseman tire, avec bien d'autres, des études les plus actuelles en sciences du comportement.

DIC and McKie are back watching the watchers. A seemingly random explosion in a chemistry lab, weapons being smuggled into the UK, a large gathering of camper vans near Salisbury, a kidnapped prince and large amounts of strange encrypted radio traffic are the pieces of a puzzle that lead the DIC to a very serious and dangerous internal concern.

A non supernatural science based Jesus focused Gnostic theory/ theology. What if all known religions and new scientific atheism hold one or some pieces of the puzzle of the origin of the universe and the eternal God question, the reason why we are here? This book puts forward a theosophy linking old Gnostic theology and new scientific ideas to propose a new gnostic faith, based on evolution and string theory, among other prevalent modern ideas. Moving away from the supernatural it suggests an evolved God and lesser gods as links in an evolutionary chain. The first section is a rebuttal of ...

A young girl discovers that her kidnapped father is a god, when her mother is kidnapped by demons and her cat turns out to be an angel. She sets off through tunnels in the universe to find her mother and father, guided by Echo the angel and her amazing aunt Layla.

Using academic, comprehensive, logical, and, at times, mathematical approaches, The Science of Weird Shit convincingly debunks ESP, communicating with the dead, and alien abduction claims, among other phenomena. All the while, however, French maintains that our belief in such phenomena is neither ridiculous nor trivial; if anything, such claims can tell us a great deal about the human mind if we pay them the attention they are due.

The final instalment of the three part science fiction series, The Book Of King, where General King tries to prevent the planet being overrun by the A2 Clones; the battle to save the human race from being replaced by a new and original species comes to a conclusion...

A lively childrens' book and a quirky fairy tale about a town full of happy, singing and dancing people and an unhappy chance that brings misery, rain and sardine fishing to their once carefree lives. Seablue is a born dancer with an itch in her feet, which means one day soon she'll be a statue in the Wizard Stiffplank's castle. With the help of a white witch who has been turned into a seagull, a sardine called Rodney, two badgers, who were once men and a mouse called droppings Seablue must defeat the miserly wizard and bring peace and happiness back to the town of Lythe.

A book of poetry, largely political, some of it social and all of it observational.

Hired by the parents of a missing computer genius to track him down and bring him home Jonah Parish succeeds only to see the young man assassinated right in front of him. Jonah sets out on a personal quest to track down the people that killed the boy and to find out why? Assisted by Jack, Lori and an Interpol assassin hunter Jonah tracks the killers from England to France from France to the USA and back to England. In the middle of this hunt for the boy's killers Jonah finds a mysterious computer algorithm with amazing powers and seemingly bankers, gangsters and government agencies want the...