Have you ever wondered how different your life would be if you were more socially confident or charismatic?From early on in our lives, a lot of emphases has been put into academic ability and its relation to our success or lack of it.While academic ability can be important, it is now believed that in reality it is our ability to adapt to our social environment the better predictor of our future success in several areas of our lives, even more so than anything we learn in sc...

Have you ever wondered how different your life would be if you were more socially confident or charismatic?From early on in our lives, a lot of emphases has been put into academic ability and its relation to our success or lack of it.While academic ability can be important, it is now believed that in reality, it is our ability to adapt to our social environment the better predictor of our future success in several areas of our lives, even more so than anything we learn in s...

Have you ever wondered how different your life if you were in total control of your emotions and feelings?Throughout your life, think about all the situations where your emotions have made you act or react in a certain way that you truly didn't want to.While academic ability can be important, it is now believed that in reality it is our ability to adapt to our social environment the better predictor of our future success in several areas of our lives, even more so than anyt...

Have you ever wondered how different your life would be if you stopped drinking for good?Do you have an urge to grab a drink sometimes?Addiction to alcohol is a very serious disease. It can tear families apart, lead to financial struggles, or even cause premature death.Here's some of what you can expect to learn inside the pages of this book:Discover the real psychology behind why people drink.A step-by-step recovery method with options for e...

Have you ever wondered how different your life if you were in total control of your emotions and feelings?Throughout your life, think about all the situations where your emotions have made you act or react in a certain way that you truly didn't want to.While academic ability can be important, it is now believed that in reality it is our ability to adapt to our social environment the better predictor of our future success in several areas of our lives, even more so than anyt...

Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster.

From silly chuckles to rueful ironic glee to deep cosmic laughter, this new volume of humorous tales samples the best of recent seasons of the popular public radio series Selected Shorts.

We’ve all met a nosey parker – but have you met the Parker Sisters – the private detectives who’ve turned being curious into a way of life…A jilted wife, a jealous mistress and a dead banker – the Parker sisters are up to their necks in trouble.Martha Parker runs a small private detective agency in Glasgow with her two sisters, Helen and Geri. They specialise in catching cheating partners so when the Parkers are hired by the reclusive wife of a wea...

Selected by Jeffrey Deaver and Raymond Benson, this is a collection of mystery/thriller short stories from some of today's top writers.Nuclear brinksmanship, psychological warfare, spies, double agents, femmes fatales, and dead drops…The Cold War—a terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpowers was an ever-present threat, an all-too-real possibility that could be set off at the touch of a button—provides a chilling backdrop to this collection ...

Having very little brain can be a blessing. Or a curse!The Hundred Acre Wood has been part of the consciousness of the world for a very long time. For most of the history of the world, it existed on the fringes of awareness, just there, in the corner of your eye. In the early days of the Twentieth Century, a well-meaning fellow by the name of Alan Milne recorded some of the adventures of the denizens of that fell place, though he did brighten the real stories a bit...

Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster.

From planet to planet, the enemies of mankind will stop at nothing to expand their dominion. Worlds are shattered, and their citizens face a desperate fight for survival. There is a hope - superhuman warriors serving the glory of the Emperor, standing proudly in defiance of inhuman foes. These metal-clad giants lay waste to the relentless hordes of xenos invaders and defend humanity against the insidious forces of Chaos. In the remains of their enemies, they stand triumphant.They ar...