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While other scientists beaver away on obvious problems, Professor Richard Wiseman has dedicated his time to examining the more unconventional questions plaguing our everyday lives: the secret ingredients of charisma, how our personalities are shaped by when we are born and why people usually miss the obvious signs of their partner's infidelity. Using scientific methods to investigate offbeat topics, Quirkology brings a new understanding to the backwaters of the human mind and takes us to places where mainstream scientists fear to tread.

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 that destroy motivation, damage relationships, and reduce creativity: The opposite of everything it promises. Now, in 59 Seconds, he fights back, bringing together the diverse scientific advice that can help you change your life in under a minute.

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?

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 ...

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.

This is a story of prejudices; the intellectual, class, gender and race prejudices of 1981 are presented through the lives of young and old people in one town over one summer. It's the story of three week-ends in a fictional north of London commuter town during the summer of 1981. Against the back drop of unemployment and riots in Britain an unwilling young working class hero comes of age politically. Rob Clenton is part of the skinhead scene and halfheartedly assists a local National front thug, soon finding, though, that National Front politics don't suit him. Involved in local crime and ...

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...

A socio-political novel set in the UK in 1987. John Stone, cast adrift from his comfortable middle class life in the squats of London so as to attend university, is sick of himself, sick of life and struggling to cope with his existence. A life line is thrown him by a letter and he sets off on a journey from South to North, England to Scotland to discover his past and the power it holds to set him free. Set against the backdrop of Thatcher's 'YUPPIE' Britain John's journey is a socialist allegory; an Odyssey in which the hero not only travels into his own past in order to seek a better ...

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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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

A selection of blog entries; essays and stories from blogs published August 2011 to March 2012 in two blogs; 'MIcawber's Last Word' and 'Diary Of A Ragged Trousered Philanthropist'. MIcawber's Last Word was a series of political and social blogs covering topics from the death sentence, through e-publishing to unemployment. 'Diary Of A Ragged Trousered Philanthropist' was a series of comic stories about temporary jobs.

A book of poetry with poems in a variety of styles with the themes of Politics, Love and things that gave the author something to think about.

A collection of poems first published on Richard L Wiseman's Wordpress blog 'Processed Words'. A variety of poems inspired by subjects such as nature, poverty, hunger, friendship, terrorism, death and moths.

Social and political essays from blog entries in 2014.

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.

The misadventures & philandering of a small town, small minded white van man with bad opinions and big mouth.