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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.

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?

In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield profiles some of the world’s most groundbreaking magicians. From the 16th-century magistrate who wrote an early book on conjuring, to the Roaring Twenties and the man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her bare hands, David Copperfield’s History of Magic takes you on a wild journey through the remarkable feats of some of the greatest magicians in history.

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.

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.

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 ...

Five Assassins dropped off by submarine in the Scottish Highlands all competing for a million pound killing contract, the head of a secret service 'dirty tricks' department and a top politician plotting political intrigue and the very secret civil service 'Department For Internal Concerns' all brought into a deadly conflict on United Kingdom soil. For new recruit to the 'DIC' David McKie and his co-workers it's a deadly two week watch as part of the DIC's roving duty team. Choices are made, the race to the death has begun and it's Kill or Be Killed. A spy thriller that breaks the genre ...

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 ...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill Subs Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If ...

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...

Psychologist Richard Wiseman brings together history, psychology, and self-help in this unique and powerful guide to achieving the impossible in work and in life. The result of intensive research, including interviews with surviving members of the Apollo mission-control team, Moonshot delivers eight key lessons on teamwork, leadership, persistence, creativity, and more, each one a vital part of the mind-set for success.

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 compilation of poems I have sent to my son in e-mails and one or two other poems I recently wrote.

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.

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...

The Gnostic Reasonist analysis of the 21st Century Human Condition and the Gnostic Reasonist prediction about the future of humanity in relation to the teachings of the Master Jesus.

Gnostic Reasonist essays. Further exploration of a non supernatural science based Jesus focused Gnostic theory/ theology.

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.