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An illustrated, illuminating insight into the world of illusion from the world’s greatest and most successful magician, capturing its audacious and inventive practitioners, and showcasing the art form’s most famous artifacts housed at David Copperfield’s secret museum. In this personal...

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?

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...

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.

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...

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

In the very near future the sun is burning red, the world is ruled by a global government, religion is illegal and the people of the world have a palm implanted microchip in the shape of the $ sign, but a few Christians are living on the fringes of cities, surviving on charity food and helped by the few priests who have escaped the law. One Christian man goes in search of food for his hungry children and encounters more than he can cope with...

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 ...

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.

A quick and easy guide to Gnostic Reasonism, 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.

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.

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 ...

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...

Original Species... the story continues... Over a year since Isaac Turner encountered Adam 2 at the burnt out research centre in Wales, UK, General Martin King of NATO's Tactical Team has been handed a new military emergency to deal with; A2 Clones. His first task is to read Isaac Turner's account of the search for Adam 2 and to look at the related files... for King it's a horrifying and disturbing series of events, the aftermath of which King is tasked with trying to sort out...