Download or read book It s Not Bloody Rocket Science written by Dulcie Swanston and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It s Not Bloody Rocket Science written by Dulcie Swanston and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many books on leadership and personal effectiveness do you have on your shelf? Quite a few? Do they contain lots of ideas you have been meaning to try but haven't got round to yet? In fact, now we mention it, perhaps you don't recall those brilliant ideas all that precisely either... If so, don't worry - that's perfectly normal. And as for translating the theory into your real-life practice? Well, you certainly meant to, maybe even tried to, but couldn't see how to make it work in your particular organisation, workplace or life? Or perhaps you just couldn't find the time? Dulcie Shepherd Swanston spent over twenty years in leadership roles in pubs, restaurants and corporate offices before setting up a training company and becoming an executive coach, public speaker and writer. She has heard all the excuses and used many of them herself. In this book, she recaps the top ten pieces of science and research that her clients keep returning to, making them simple to understand and remember. More importantly, she shares the secrets of how to make them work for you and make them stick. In this second edition, including a foreword by Dr Iain Price, neuroscientist and founder of Think It Out Ltd, Swanston shares another bonus chapter on the small things we can do to help ourselves feel better every day and previews her next book about #The52Project, an endeavour started at the beginning of 2021 to help us all do the best we can for ourselves.
Download or read book It s Not Bloody Rocket Science written by Dulcie Swanston and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times have you been on a training course or read a self-help book and not done anything as a result - even if you meant to? How many times have you tried to kick a bad habit and failed? Or made a New Year's resolution and broken it within days? How many times a week do you find yourself saying "I don't have time..." or "I wish I could..."? If so, don't worry - that's perfectly normal. This journal is a practical antidote to all of those tricks that our brains play on us, meaning that all too often we keep bad habits alive and kicking, leave training in the classroom and lessons unlearned. Dulcie Shepherd Swanston spent over twenty years in leadership roles in pubs, restaurants and corporate offices before setting up a training company and becoming an executive coach, public speaker and writer. She has heard all the excuses and used many of them herself. In her first book, It's Not Bloody Rocket Science, she shared the top ten pieces of science and research that her clients keep returning to, making them simple to understand and remember. In this companion journal she shares more secrets about how to make them work for you -and make them stick. Simple activities, taking minutes not hours, all proven to help you think better, feel more positive, improve your mood and achieve more. Your best life can start right here. Right now.
Download or read book It s Not Rocket Science written by Ben Miller and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Top Ten Bestseller Black holes. DNA. The Large Hadron Collider. Ever had that sneaking feeling that you are missing out on some truly spectacular science? You do? Well, fear not, for help is at hand. Ben Miller was working on his Physics PhD at Cambridge when he accidentally became a comedian. But first love runs deep, and he has returned to his roots to share with you all his favourite bits of science. This is the stuff you really need to know, not only because it matters but because it will quite simply amaze and delight you. 'Let me show you another, perhaps less familiar side of Science; her beauty, her seductiveness and her passion. And let's do it quickly, while Maths isn't looking' - Ben Miller 'This book makes climate change actually seem interesting. Not just important - it's obviously important - but interesting. As a result I bought lots of other books about climate change, something I now regret' - David Mitchell Ben Miller is, like you, a mutant ape living through an Ice Age on a ball of molten iron, orbiting a supermassive black hole. He is also an actor, comedian and approximately one half of Armstrong & Miller. He's presented a BBC Horizon documentary on temperature and a Radio 4 series about the history of particle physics, and has written a science column for The Times. He is slowly coming to terms with the idea that he may never be an astronaut.
Download or read book Why It s Not All Rocket Science written by Robert Cave and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Cave examines 100 extraordinary projects, theories and experiments that have been conducted in the name of science. Some, including various nuclear tests, have attracted controversy and hostility; others, such as Johann Wilhelm Ritter's erotic self-experiments with a voltaic pile, seem downright weird. But Cave demonstrates, thoroughly and informatively, that it is only by doggedly asking awkward questions, and paying close attention to the answers, that scientists have been able to make progress. From spider monkeys to human cyborgs, and from swimming in syrup to chaos theory, Cave places each experiment and discovery in its scientific context to present an entertaining guide to some of the most jaw-dropping entries in the history of science. Why It's Not All Rocket Science contains chapters on psychology, the body, society, planet Earth and the universe, and to read it is to gain startling insights into why scientists seem to behave so oddly, and how their brilliant if sometimes bizarre work benefits all of society.
Download or read book The Destiny Series Books One to Five written by Patricia Dixon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 1888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heartwarming, complete five-book series about love, family, romance, and friendship, from the bestselling author of The Other Woman. Book 1: Rosie and Ruby Working-class Ruby and middle-class Rosie are cousins with a bond forged in childhood—and mothers who aren’t quite the best. But can Rosie and Ruby’s bond survive through time and hardship? And in Ruby’s hour of need, will Rosie keep her promise and come to her rescue? Previously published as Three Mothers. Book 2: Anna The unremarkable rock of her family, Anna is content with her life until she discovers that Matthew, her husband of twenty-two years, is having an affair. But can Anna find peace and learn to love again? Previously published as À Bientôt. Book 3: Tilly Matilda “Tilly” Parker is flying to France for her dream wedding. Beneath a sweltering summer sun, two clans, a naughty dog, a gaggle of relatives, and friends gather in the Loire. But between an unexpected guest from hell and Tilly meeting another man, her wedding plans are about to go up in smoke . . . Previously published as A Perfect Summer Wedding. Book 4: Grace Singleton Grace loves Christmas and having all her family with her on the day. But this year things will be different. One by one, each of her three children announce that they have other plans for the holidays, leaving Grace home alone with a dilemma. Should she put on a brave face or admit she is hurt? Previously published as The Christmas Cottage. Book 5: Destiny In this collection of short stories, we make a return trip to the Loire, catching up with old friends and finding out what life has had in store for Anna and Daniel, Grace and Max, and Ruby and Rosie. Previously published as Return Journeys. Be prepared to laugh and cry as you devour the bestselling Destiny series. The perfect read for fans of authors like Amanda Prowse and Diane Chamberlain.
Download or read book The Happiness Project written by Pippa James and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Magical… I was enchanted from the start… certainly one to engage the emotions… humorous, touching, emotional, and clever… as cozy as a cup of hot tea on a winter's day.’ Goodreads Reviewer Prepare to be captivated by one of the most poignant and heart-warming books you will read this year, perfect for readers who loved One Day in December. Alison’s perfect world has fallen apart. Her beloved larger than life mother-in-law, Maggie, has just passed away. Every afternoon they’d talk and laugh over a pot of tea - and Maggie was secretly the glue that held Alison’s family together. Now she’s trying to figure out a future without her… With a little help from her two best friends, Alison resolves to try and find her happy place and be more Maggie. Vowing to step outside of their comfort zones and make the most of every day, the three women each have their own challenges to overcome in the year ahead - a baby on the way, a romance to save and a much-needed confidence boost. But as Alison finds herself drinking more wine than she ever has in her life and signing up for an extreme sports charity event, she starts to wonder if this is really the change she needed in her life? Or will she re-discover her happiness closer to home? What readers are saying about The Happiness Project: ‘I completely loved this book and devoured it in one day as it was too good to put down… perfect humour… endearing and heart-warming… an uplifting and feel good story that will leave you wanting more...’ Stacy is Reading, 5 stars ‘This story leaves you begging for more… Warm and uplifting… The story rockets along and will have you laughing and crying.’ Mrs W, 5 stars ‘A stellar novel of friendship, motherhood, and happiness.’ Plucked from the Stacks, 5 stars ‘Wonderful and so endearing… Having me laughing at one point and crying the next. It is a heart-warming story full of friendship, families, love and loss.’ Stardust Book Reviews ‘An uplifting tale about friendship, family, and kicking-ass at womanhood… The novel is hilarious… Warm and enticing… Making me chuckle.’ Jessica Ryn ‘Uplifting read about motherhood, friendship, and striving to live your best life…’ Goodreads Reviewer ‘Heart-warming… funny… moving and inspiring… I absolutely recommended this book.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars ‘A truly fabulous feel good read … It's a brilliant story of friendship.’ Mum Reinvented, 5 stars ‘A warm, real, wonderful read… truly funny… A delicious read.’ NetGalley Reviewer ‘Full of fun, laughter and a heart-warming storyline right to the end. I recommend this uplifting read.’ Goodreads Reviewer
Download or read book The Infidel written by Bob Shepherd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Islamic militants infiltrate an elite British counter-narcotics programme, disaster is averted thanks to SAS veterans John Patterson and Dusty Miller. But when fallout from the affair threatens to topple the West's fragile Afghan alliance and expose failings inside the UK's new crime fighting agency, John and Dusty suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law. Alone and on the run, one place on earth holds the key to their innocence: Nuristan, a remote Afghan province and notorious terrorist haven. But their journey to freedom will thrust them deeper into the Afghan conflict than they ever imagined. Battling hostile terrain and Islamic fighters, John and Dusty emerge the unlikely champions of an ancient community torn apart by al-Qaeda and western forces. From Bob Shepherd, ex-SAS soldier and bestselling author of The Circuit, comes an adventure inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King. An action-packed tale of honour, betrayal and tribalism, The Infidelis thrilling, poignant and deeply relevant to one of the bloodiest conflicts of our time.
Download or read book Private Nightmares written by Geoff Palmer and published by Podsnap Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning author Geoff Palmer comes a page-turning thriller about a missing scientist, vile secrets, and deadly weapons. MI5 have a problem. Chief weapons scientist Terence Araton is missing and they’d like him found, quickly, quietly, and without a fuss. The perfect job for private detectives Jane Child and Matt Healy of Bluebelle Investigations. But there’s more to this mysterious case than meets the eye. Shocking family secrets lurk beneath Araton’s slick English facade, and Jane and Matt aren’t the only ones desperate to find him. A pair of hapless crooks and some foreign intelligence agencies are using them as bait, tracking every move they make with murderous intent. The baffling case reopens old wounds, and soon Matt is battling demons of his past – as well as the ruthless villains chasing them. Then Jane makes a chilling discovery, forcing her to face her own worst nightmare: an impossible life or death, hair-trigger situation where she must make a snap decision and, just possibly, save the world. Prepare to be nailed to your seat by another heart-pounding, hair-raising, high-octane thriller in the best Bluebelle Investigations tradition.
Download or read book Shh written by Jocelyn Dexter and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deaf woman must stop a serial killer obsessed with targeting everyone she loves in this intense psychological thriller. Annie Black, who is profoundly deaf, has always looked out for her friend’s deaf son Toby. Now she’s looking for him as part of a search party. And when the fifteen-year-old turns up murdered, it’s only the beginning of Annie’s nightmare. Someone is targeting people close to her—someone merciless and very smart. Teaming up with the lead Detective, Annie attempts to understand the killer’s mind. With everyone she cares about in mortal danger, her work puts the entire deaf community at risk. And as the murders escalate, the killer’s obsession grows. Will the police untangle the killer’s motivation before it’s too late?
Download or read book The Danger Game written by Kevin Brooks and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Travis Delaney is trying to get his life back on track following the crash that killed his parents last summer. The police called it an accident, but Travis knows better. His parents were on to something, and whatever they were investigating . . . ended with their murder. Since Travis's Grandad took over Delaney and Co, things have finally started to look up. But when his private investigation partner, Courtney, is attacked following a routine inquiry into a local business, Travis can't help but get involved, even though he's supposed to be focusing on his own investigation into thefts at school. But what he discovers draws him into more danger than he ever could have imagined. Tangled up in a web of gang warfare, dirty police and secret organisations, Travis needs to find a way out. But at the heart of it all is a traitor. Someone close to Travis. Someone he's supposed to trust. But trust is a dangerous thing.
Download or read book Laid Bare written by Gail Porter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail Porter burst on to our TV screens in the late 90s presenting The Movie Chart Show, Alive and Kicking and Top of the Pops. Bright, sparky and beautiful she soon attracted an entirely different audience, posing for a number of men's magazines and rapidly becoming the pin-up of the lad-mag generation. FHM, in a now famous stunt, even projected her naked form on to the Houses of Parliament. But beneath her cheery public façade, Gail was struggling with anorexia and bi-polar disorder. After nine years of extreme dieting, she collapsed and through sheer determination forced herself to begin eating properly again. Having been told she would never be able to conceive, her new healthier lifestyle led to a much desired pregnancy by her then husband, Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave. But the intense pressures of juggling motherhood with her career, led to crippling post-natal depression and precipitated the breakdown of her marriage. Overwhelmed by single motherhood, one day after dropping her daughter Honey off at nursery, she took an overdose and her world very publicly began to unravel. But Gail's ability to stay afloat as her life crumbled in the public spotlight made her an icon all over again for a new audience of ordinary women who recognised her pain. She refused to hide-away as stress-induced alopecia caused her to loose her hair, famously appearing at a charity event sporting a startling pink Mohican. Her stunning features and her unwillingness to wear a wig to hide her bald head have made her a contemporary icon. But despite all her troubles, Gail remains upbeat and positive. She has become a role model for coming through it all as a good mother and a working woman unbowed. As iconic as Jordan, smart as Billie and as wild as Kerry, Gail Porter has written her autobiography herself - a raw, honest account of her own troubled life and the world of celebrity we now live in.
Download or read book Anna written by Patricia Dixon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartwarming novel, a wife and mother finds her life crumbling around her—until she rediscovers what it means to be a woman in love. For years, Anna has been content to be the rock of her family—stable and reliable, if somewhat unremarkable. Then she discovers that her husband Matthew is having an affair. Consumed by hurt and tainted memories, her life is turned upside down by betrayal and loss. Though Anna is tormented by the shadow of Matthew’s unknown lover, she keeps the secret of his affair from her family, With one son on the other side of the world, another about to enter a war zone, and her daughter off to university, Anna must find her way through the pain alone. Her life gradually begins to crumble until someone from her past appears . . . But can Anna find peace and learn to love again?
Download or read book The Haunting of Gaspard Feeblebunny written by John Kernow and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Constable Gaspard Feeblebunny is unfortunate that one evening on a lonely road he sees Death attempting to harvest the soul of Percy Pargeter which has done a runner. It is doubly unfortunate that the new whiz kid in the afterlife civil service decides that Death should have an assistant to handle such a mundane task as tracking down ghosts, because Feeblebunny is pressganged into service as a human subcontractor, though with some powers to assist with his task. This is the beginning of a series of civil service bungles which leave the unhappy constable with a houseful of ghosts and the enmity of a psychotic Sergeant Hardcastle who is out to do him harm. Over time the ghosts are able to join their powers and take control of the young man’s life. This turns out to be a mixed blessing because though they cause mayhem, they also make him a very wealthy man with a series of ventures, not all of which are a spectacular success, particularly their establishment of his flat as a ScareBnB with neither his knowledge nor consent.
Download or read book Bookish and the Beast written by Ashley Poston and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale as old as time is made new in Ashley Poston's fresh, geeky retelling of Beauty and the Beast—now with a bonus Starfield story! Rosie Thorne is feeling stuck—on her college application essays, in her small town, and on that mysterious General Sond cosplayer she met at ExcelsiCon. Most of all, she’s stuck in her grief over her mother’s death. Her only solace was her late mother’s library of rare Starfield novels, but even that disappeared when they sold it to pay off hospital bills. On the other hand, Vance Reigns has been Hollywood royalty for as long as he can remember—with all the privilege and scrutiny that entails. When a tabloid scandal catches up to him, he’s forced to hide out somewhere the paparazzi would never expect to find him: Small Town USA. At least there’s a library in the house. Too bad he doesn’t read. When Vance’s and Rosie’s paths collide, sparks do not fly. But as they begrudgingly get to know each other, their careful masks come off—and they may just find that there’s more risk in shutting each other out than in opening their hearts.
Download or read book Horror That Haunts Us written by Karrȧ Shimabukuro and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror’s pleasures fundamentally hinge on looking backward, either on destabilising trauma, or as a period of comfort and happiness which is undermined by threat. However, this stretches beyond the scares on our screens to the consumption and criticism of the monsters of our past. The horror films of our youth can be locations of psychological and social trauma, or the happy place we go back to for comfort when our lives become unsettled. Horror That Haunts Us: Nostalgia, Revisionism, and Trauma in Contemporary American Horror is a collection of essays that brings together multiple theoretical and critical approaches to consider the way popular horror films from the last fifty years communicate, embody, and rework our view of the past. Whether we look at our current relationship to the scary movies of decades ago as personal or cultural memory, the way historical and sociopolitical events and frameworks – especially traumas – reframe the way we look at our pasts, or even the way recent horror films and video games look back at our past (and the past of the genre itself) through a filter of experience and history, this collection will show the close relationship between nostalgia and popular horror. These essays also demonstrate a range of unique and diverse points of view from both established and emerging scholars on the subject of horror and the past. Edited by seasoned horror experts Karrá Shimabukuro and Wickham Clayton, Horror That Haunts Us is a book with the aim of examining why we return again and again to certain popular horror films, either as remakes or reboots or as the basis for pastiche and homage.
Download or read book The Destiny Series Books One to Three written by Patricia Dixon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 1477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three novels in the acclaimed series full of romance, betrayal, and family drama on the French countryside. Rosie and Ruby Ruby lives with her feckless mother in a rundown Manchester estate. Her cousin Rosie lives in charming, quiet Cheshire with her own domineering mother. Then there is Olivia, a member of Cheshire’s elite whose son Marcus lives in the fast lane. When Ruby meets Marcus, the secrets of her past come to light. In her hour of need, will her cousin come to her rescue? Anna Anna was content to be the stable, overlooked rock of her family. But when she discovers her husband’s affair, her life turns upside down. With one son far away, another about to enter a war zone, and her daughter off to university, Anna must face the pain alone. But when someone from her past appears, can Anna find peace and learn to love again? Tilly Matilda Parker is in France for what should be her dream wedding. But her mother Freda has spent a year planning the event, and nothing is going to get in her way. On the other side of the village, Anna has problems of her own. She vows that nothing will ruin her family’s summer holiday. But when a visitor from hell arrives and Tilly meets someone new, Anna and Freda’s plans start going up in smoke. Rosie and Ruby was previously published under the title Three Mothers. Anna was previously published as A Bientôt. Tilly was previously published under the title A Perfect Summer Wedding.
