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A Practical Guide to Leadership
A Practical Guide to Leadership (eBook)
Be Inspired by Great Leaders
Alison Price David Price
Leadership: A Practical Guide is packed with examples of famous leaders who achieved brilliant things against all odds.
You’ll discover their ideas, strategies and tried and tested winning solutions, which can be applied to the opportunities and challenges that you face.
So whether you’re starting from scratch as a new leader, needing to raise your game, or aiming to do what great leaders do and aim even higher, this practical yet inspirational guide will help you to perform at your very best.
Alison Price is a freelance Chartered Occupational Psychologist and has worked with over 1,500 individuals, inspiring them to make more out of their lives and their careers. She is a Lecturer on the Occupational Psychology Masters programme for Kingston University and was previously a Senior Management Development Specialist at a FTSE50 financial company.
David Price has spent over 10 years studying personal effectiveness, models of personal achievement and success. David combines qualifications in Life Coaching, Sports Psychology, Positive Psychology, Peak Performance Coaching and as an NLP Practitioner for integrated effectiveness solutions.
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Losing It
Losing It (eBook)
How We Popped Our Cherry Over the Last 80 Years
Kate Monro
In an increasingly sexualised world, how we lose our virginity remains an untold story. Inspired by her Cosmopolitan award-nominated blog, The Virginity Project, Kate Monro sets out to ask men and women from every walk of life, how did it happen for you? Losing It brings together an astonishing collection of stories.
From the experiences of Edna, who lost her virginity in 1940 aged 25, to Charlie, a young, disabled punk rocker whose first-time experience many able-bodied people would envy, Kate reveals the poignant, funny and often surprising truth about other people’s most intimate sexual stories.
Described by the Evening Standard as ‘London’s foremost virgin inquisitor’, Kate Monro, 42, is a blogger, author and journalist.
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A witty and entertaining read
Incredibly rich in its insights and observations on human sexuality … masterful, lovely, and absolutely thrilling
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A Practical Guide to Family Psychology
A Practical Guide to Family Psychology (eBook)
You've had a baby - now what?
James Powell
Based on practical, clinically proven, and tried-and-tested approaches, Introducing Family Psychology – A Practical Guide looks at fifteen major problems that are typically encountered by families.
Introducing Family Psychology – A Practical Guide provides workable solutions based on experiences that cross cultural boundaries. This Practical Guide is a valuable resource to help child carers – from single parents to grandparents – deal with the difficulties that can arise when bringing up a child.
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Ronaldo – 2014 Updated Edition
Ronaldo – 2014 Updated Edition (eBook)
The Obsession for Perfection
Luca Caioli
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of football’s all-time greats: a FIFA Ballon d’Or winner with pace, trickery and extraordinary goalscoring ability. Driven by an insatiable desire to be the best he possibly can, he has inspired first Manchester United and then Real Madrid to some of the proudest achievements in each club’s recent history, and continues to push himself
on to greater things each season.
Luca Caioli, author of the bestselling Messi, tells the inside story of this global superstar both on and off the pitch, featuring insights from those who know him best: coaches, teammates, girlfriends and even the man himself.
Ronaldo is a unique behind-the-scenes look at a true great of the game, updated to include the turbulent yet brilliant 2012/13 campaign.
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Cracked
Cracked (eBook)
Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
James Davies
Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year – and why, without solid scientific justification, has the number of mental disorders risen from 106 in 1952 to 374 today?
The everyday sufferings and setbacks of life are now ‘medicalised’ into illnesses that require treatment – usually with highly profitable drugs. Psychological therapist James Davies uses his insider knowledge to illustrate for a general readership how psychiatry has put riches and medical status above patients’ well-being. The charge sheet is damning: negative drug trials routinely buried; antidepressants that work no better than placebos; research regularly manipulated to produce positive results; doctors, seduced by huge pharmaceutical rewards, creating more disorders and prescribing more pills; and ethical, scientific and treatment flaws unscrupulously concealed by mass-marketing.
Cracked reveals for the first time the true human cost of an industry that, in the name of helping others, has actually been helping itself.
James Davies obtained his PhD in medical and social anthropology from the University of Oxford. He is also a qualified psychotherapist (having worked in the NHS), and a senior lecturer in social anthropology and psychology at the University of Roehampton, London. He has delivered lectures at many universities, including Harvard, Brown, CUNY, Oxford and London, and has written articles about psychiatry for the New Scientist, Therapy Today and the Harvard Divinity Bulletin.
He is author of The Importance of Suffering: the value and meaning of emotional discontent (Routledge, 2011). He lives with his wife and daughter in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
[Cracked] should be read by every doctor … by everyone in politics and the media, not to mention any concerned citizen.
Chilling reading
Davies's book is a potent polemic
If, in the world of psychiatry, the DSM is Holy Scripture, Cracked is set to become a heretical text.
A profoundly disturbing look at the world of Big Pharma … This is an important book for anyone who has an interest in mental health.
Builds a disturbing picture of a profession that is in thrall to pharmaceutical companies
An eye-opening and persuasive work
[A] diligent study
A well-written book … a positive contribution to the debate about whether psychiatry can become a more open practice.
Disturbing and uncompromising
A very controversial, fascinating and powerful read … full of balanced and reasonable arguments. I would strongly urge all mental health professionals, those in the caring professions as well anybody interested in mental health to read this book.
An engrossing book, full of interviews with patients and professionals
I couldn't put the book down. It is totally engaging, as controversial as it is compelling, and as erudite as it is enjoyable … The book deserves to be a bestseller and should be read by every mental health professional
I, personally, applaud a work that can shine a light into the murky corners of dubious practice'
This is an excellent book….[it] careens, almost literally, from one psychiatric outrage to the next … I strongly recommend this book.
This thought-provoking book will make people think twice before sitting on a psychiatrist's couch or filling a prescription
This is a very well-written book – intellectually sound, but written in an accessible way … It should be read by all mental health professionals, by all politicians and policy makers charged with shaping future mental health provision'
You will be illuminated and often shocked and certainly made to think more about how you view the children in your care. Every teacher should read it
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Messi – 2014 Updated Edition
Messi – 2014 Updated Edition (eBook)
The Inside Story of the Boy Who Became a Legend
Luca Caioli
Lionel Messi is the greatest player of his generation – perhaps of all time. The talisman of a Barcelona team that has dominated Spanish and European football, and the winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or an unprecedented four times in a row, he is fast, elusive and mesmerising.
Luca Caioli draws on numerous exclusive testimonies to tell Messi’s story, including his parents and extended family, his coaches, those who have played alongside him and even Messi himself.
Messi is a revealing portrait of football’s most exciting star, updated to include the electrifying 2012/13 season in which the humble young sportsman rewrote the record books to the delight of fans across the globe.
Fully revised and absorbing … a portrait of a young man who overcame a childhood dogged by health problems to become a global superstar.
Very thorough, with author Luca Caioli racking up the air miles in pursuit of those who've seen Messi grow.
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A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurship
A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurship (eBook)
Be Your Own Boss
Alison Price David Price
Introducing Entrepreneurship: A Practical Guide reveals the stories of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, distilling the key points into down-to-earth, realistic advice to help you turn any business opportunity into a successful venture – while avoiding the pitfalls of pursuing a pipe dream.
Alison Price is a freelance Chartered Occupational Psychologist and has worked with over 1,500 individuals, inspiring them to make more out of their lives and their careers. She is a Lecturer on the Occupational Psychology Masters programme for Kingston University and was previously a Senior Management Development Specialist at a FTSE50 financial company.
David Price has spent over 10 years studying personal effectiveness, models of personal achievement and success. David combines qualifications in Life Coaching, Sports Psychology, Positive Psychology, Peak Performance Coaching and as an NLP Practitioner for integrated effectiveness solutions.
'One of the most helpful pocketbooks on its subject'.
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Jilted Generation
Jilted Generation (eBook)
How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth
Ed Howker Shiv Malik
‘Should be read as a strident call to arms for a partially disenfranchised generation that is burdened with debt.’The Times
‘No parent can dismiss this argument about our collective failure to invest in the future’ The Guardian
Why are so many adult children living still living with mum and dad? Why do young people seem so disinterested in politics? And what are the hidden threats to Britain’s long-term prosperity lurking in the next few decades?
First published in 2010, Ed Howker and Shiv Mailk’s Jilted Generation answers fundamental questions about the society you thought you knew. It identified, for the first time, the perilous position of Britain’s young adults and, with a title brandished by everyone from Ed Miliband to student protesters, the book’s thesis has formed a controversial but essential part of Britain’s political debate.
With significant additional material, this edition updates the argument and explains the real effects of austerity policies and the recession. And, crucially, it explains what must be done to protect a vital and underestimated national asset – Britain’s newest adults.
Brilliantly analyses the problems faced by today's generation of young adults.
A taut and analytically rigorous narrative
No parent can dismiss this argument about our collective failure to invest in the future
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Imagine That – Music
Imagine That – Music (eBook)
The History of Music Rewritten
Michael Sells
Popular music’s most intriguing stories are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest unforeseen effects.
Imagine That…
Elvis is drafted into the army before his first studio session … and quietly lives out his days as a support act
The curse of the ‘27 Club’ is broken … and rock music rehabilitates its fallen stars
MTV flops as music fans side with the radio star … and hip-hop never reaches the mainstream
Engaging, contentious and compulsively readable, each book in this new series takes the reader on a historical flight of fancy, imagining the consequences if history had gone just that little bit differently.
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Tales From the Turf
Tales From the Turf (eBook)
Reflections from a Life in Horseracing
Robin Oakley
Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time author Robin Oakley takes us on a canter through the colourful world of horseracing.
Join him as he shares evocative personal stories of being there at racing legends’ key moments, such as Frankie Dettori riding seven winners in a day at Ascot. He debates whether jockeys are sportsmen or masochists – jump jockeys can expect a fall on average every 13 rides – and reminisces about unusual achievements, including trainer Sirrell Griffith’s Cheltenham Gold Cup win after milking his 100 cows that morning.
Tales From the Turf is an extraordinary account from the Spectator’s long-running Turf columnist, and a man for whom horseracing is a lifetime’s passion.
A gallop through Oakley's racing life … Tales from the Turf is probably the book Oakley has most enjoyed writing, and it shows. The pace is unrelenting.
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A Practical Guide to Business Creativity
A Practical Guide to Business Creativity (eBook)
Build your business on ideas
Jodie Newman
Introducing Business Creativity: A Practical Guide provides innovative techniques and proven theories to help you improve your creative thinking and get more out of yourself and your business. Whether you are trying to develop entirely new initiatives or redesign the way you operate, this book will help you break out of your old patterns of thought, think outside the box and generate pioneering ideas that you can put into action.
Introducing Practical Guides bring you the world's greatest theories and research to improve your life, your skills and your well-being. Packed full of straightforward, realistic advice that has immediate results, Practical Guides are engineered by experts in their fields to help you achieve your goals.
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A Nobel Fellow on Every Floor
A Nobel Fellow on Every Floor (eBook)
A History of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology
John Finch
In Cambridge in the 1950s, several research groups funded by the Medical Research Council were producing exciting results. In the Biochemistry Department, Sanger determined the amino acid sequence of insulin, and was awarded a Nobel Prize for this in 1958. At the Cavendish Laboratory, in the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems, Watson and Crick solved the structure of DNA, and Perutz and Kendrew produced the first three-dimensional maps of protein structures – haemoglobin and myoglobin – for which all four were later awarded Nobel Prizes.
This made it timely to create, in 1962, a new Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge by amalgamating these groups with other MRC-funded groups from London. The Laboratory has become one of the most successful in its field, and the number of Nobel Prizes awarded over the years to scientists at LMB has risen to thirteen.
This book follows the development of LMB, through the people who moved into the new Laboratory and their research. It describes events and personalities that have given the Laboratory a friendly, family atmosphere, while continuing to be scientifically productive.
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A Practical Guide to Overcoming Phobias
A Practical Guide to Overcoming Phobias (eBook)
Stand Up to Your Fears
Patricia Furness-Smith
Whether you suffer from panic attacks or feelings of crippling dread, Introducing Overcoming Phobias offers proven techniques to help you break down your fears into manageable parts. Psychologist Patricia Furness-Smith teaches the reader to understand their phobias and remove the anxiety surrounding them.
STAND UP TO FEAR and increase your self-confidence.
UNDERSTAND PANIC ATTACKS so that the symptoms no longer frighten you.
CONTROL THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE and free yourself from avoidance behaviours.
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Neymar
Neymar (eBook)
The Making of the World’s Greatest New Number 10
Luca Caioli
Neymar da Silva Santos Junior is the new global football superstar, already acclaimed as ‘the next Pelé’. He is the player everyone wants to watch in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, his home country.
With Santos, the team where Pelé played, he has reached three national Championships and has twice been elected the best player in South America. With Barcelona, which signed him for 57 million euros, he will flourish alongside Leo Messi to become one of the most lethal partnerships in football’s history.
Luca Caioli, author of bestselling biographies of Messi and Ronaldo, reconstructs Neymar’s life and career through exclusive private access to his friends, his family, his coaches, his teammates, his advisors, his fans. This is the first book about a new world footballing icon.
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How to be a Productivity Ninja
How to be a Productivity Ninja (eBook)
Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do
Graham Allcott
In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don’t cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings. Thankfully there is a better way: The Way of the Productivity Ninja.
Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage you will get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, beat procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder.
Written by one of the UK’s foremost productivity experts, How to be a Productivity Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide to staying cool, calm and collected, getting more done, and learning to love your work again.
Graham Allcott is a productivity trainer, social entrepreneur and founder of Think Productive. Think Productive run public workshops throughout the UK and also run in-house workshops for staff at a diverse range of organizations, including the Cabinet Office (UK government), The National Trust, eBay, Heineken, BT, GlaxoSmithKline and the University of Bristol.
Prior to founding Think Productive, Graham’s career has been primarily focused on social action. He ran community volunteering projects for the University of Birmingham before becoming Chief Executive of the charity Student Volunteering England, and has since worked on a number of social enterprise and charity projects. Graham lives in Brighton, UK.
All the tips and techniques you need to stay calm, get through your tasks, make the most of your time and stop procrastinating. It's fun, easy to follow and practical – and may just be the kick up the bottom you need!
[Allcott] has distilled the wisdom of hundreds of business seminars into this handy little book to help us get organised, de-clutter our minds and desks and become altogether calmer, happier and more productive … this book makes for a well-rounded manual to sharpen up your work methods.
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Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo
Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo (eBook)
Head to Head with the World's Greatest Players
Luca Caioli
Lionel Messi, Neymar Júnior and Cristiano Ronaldo have risen from humble beginnings in Argentina, Brazil and Portugal to rank among the most exciting talents football has ever seen.
Now Luca Caioli, author of biographies Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar, asks: ‘Who is the greatest of them all?’ Comparing their contrasting styles, stories, records and awards, he gives you everything you need to decide who comes out on top.
With exclusive insights from their friends, families, teammates and managers – including interviews with managers Luiz Felipe Scolari and Vicente del Bosque – Caioli presents a unique insight into what makes a modern player not just successful, but truly great.
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Poster – London Country Diary
Poster – London Country Diary ()
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Poster – London Country Diary
Poster – London Country Diary ()
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A Practical Guide to EFT
A Practical Guide to EFT (eBook)
Tap here to transform your life
Judy Byrne
EFT Founding Master Judy Byrne gives you practical advice on how to use Emotional Freedom Technique to improve your emotional well-being and change your life. In Introducing EFT, through the proven method of ‘tapping’ you will learn how to remove negative feelings, let go of the past, improve willpower and aim for a positive future.
CLEAR AWAY NEGATIVE EMOTIONS and find inner peace
CURB CRAVINGS and take back control of your life
TAP INTO YOUR POTENTIAL and eradicate those nagging doubts
