What separates the world's elite performers from everyone else?Thriving reveals the mental-mastery techniques that transform good into extraordinary. Drawing on his unique journey - from forensic behavioural science to coaching world-class athletes, coaches, artists and business leaders - David Reid unveils his clarity-based framework used by top performers around the globe.In a world where attention is the ultimate currency, this book is n...

What separates the world's elite performers from everyone else?Thriving reveals the mental-mastery techniques that transform good into extraordinary. Drawing on his unique journey - from forensic behavioural science to coaching world-class athletes, coaches, artists and business leaders - David Reid unveils his clarity-based framework used by top performers around the globe.In a world where attention is the ultimate currency, this book is n...

A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an unprecedented and unique synthesis of genius, ambition, and the avant-garde. While co...

Los Angeles is the labyrinth at the end of the American Dream, a city often celebrated, often condemned—rarely understood. In this fascinating and unusual collection David Reid has gathered together the novelists, journalists, and cultural critics who could best debunk the myths, define the truths, and decipher the strange iconography of this “bronzed paradise” of fourteen million inhabitants. Here are reports and reflections on: the new Latin-American and Asian populations of South Centra...

A gripping novel of men training to become Navy SEALs who are pushed to their physical and mental limits---and what happens when those thresholds are crossed... in David Reid's Suffer in SilenceIt's the pivotal test faced by every Navy SEAL: one hundred twenty sleepless hours of relentless physical punishment, interrupted only by hypothermia-inducing surf torture. Ensign Grey thought he knew what to expect, but when Seaman Murray attempts to blackmail an instructor who is d...

In this moving and compelling memoir, David Reid tells a difficult and yet inspiring story of perseverance and dedication to public service.Growing up poor in the Virginia mountains, the first in his family to graduate from college, Reid remembers thinking: I owe something to the nation that has given me so much. The author has now served 23 years in the Navy Reserves, including two deployments to South Korea. He was awarded the Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal on three occas...

'Sustainable development' is the catchphrase of the 1990s. Governments around the world, international institutions, local organizations and NGOs have committed themselves to its principles and have adopted policies to promote it.But 'sustainable development' is difficult to define - let alone implement - and its proponents and advocates may all interpret it in very different ways.This introductory guide provides a clear and accurate account of what sustainable development ...

The Metaphysical Poets provides an introduction to the work of six strikingly various and original poets- Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, Vaughan, Marvell and Traherne. By closely examining how the poems work, the book aims to help readers at all stages of proficiency and knowledge to enjoy and critically appreciate the ways in which fantastic and elaborate styles may express private intensities.The emphasis is on the differences covered by the term 'Metaphysical' and on the rich and stra...

Emergent Teaching inspires teachers to teach with more spontaneity and creativity within an educational environment that is highly constrained. It demonstrates, through descriptive stories, creative strategies and provides an intellectual foundation for emergent teaching. The authors show how teachers can relate subject matter to students’ lives and experience. They illustrate rituals and processes that help establish a caring learning community. Finally, the book applies the theories of c...

It is 2174 and Earth is a barren desert. All of humanity lives under a bubble that protects mankind from the sun’s deadly rays. A communist government controls everything. Strict laws forbid sports, television, and gatherings of more than five people. Life is one of mere existence. Yenej, who has been born into this dismal world. Is a young man who has been given an extraordinary opportunity. After being trained to understand the world in a way few people have ever considered, Yenej is sen...

Stories in verse and rhyme targeted for tweens, but designed to keep adults amused as well. Eight stories of Polly that will appeal to fans of The Addams Family or The Munsters. Four tales of the Land of Fae that should appeal to anyone with a sense of whimsy - or red hair. Most 'Polly' and 'Fae' tales are 5 or more pages long, so they have time for real plot lines to develop. These stories are ideal for reading aloud to groups of kids.Many shorter verses that document the 'living ...

Folk-verse stories for older children* up through to elders who are still young at heart. From light to dark, from humour to horror, from flatulent dragons to the battlefields of Ragnarok, it's an eclectic gamut of meter and rhyme that should appeal to fans of Casey at the Bat or The Cremation of Sam McGee. (18 000+ words)*Occasional mild profanity such as excrement, derrier, Hades, etc. Philosophical questionings may be present.