Obliquity - Why our goals are best achieved indirectly (Kay John)(Paperback / softback)

Obliquity - Why our goals are best achieved indirectly (Kay John)(Paperback / softback)

Whether overcoming geographical obstacles, winning decisive battles or meeting sales targets, history shows that oblique approaches are the most successful, especially in difficult terrain. This title applies the author's universal theory to topics ranging from international business to town

Families And How To Survive Them (Cleese John)(Paperback / softback)

Looking candidly at everything from our relationships with our parents to why and how we choose our partners, no emotional stone is left unturned: jealousy, rage, fear, envy, love, obsession, hope and despair - all are featured-with practical advice on how to turn round a negative situation and

Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Shy (Barnham Kay)(Paperback / softback)

This picture book story shows why people feel shy and the best way to deal with this

Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Frightened (Barnham Kay)(Paperback / softback)

This picture book story shows why people get frightened and the best way to deal with this

Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Worried (Barnham Kay)(Paperback / softback)

This picture book story shows why people get feel worried and the best way to deal with this

Silence of Animals - On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Gray John)(Paperback / softback)

Why do humans seek meaning to life? How do our imaginations leap into worlds so far beyond our actual reality? This book explores how we decorate our existence with countless fictions, twisting and turning to avoid acknowledging that we too are

Public library and other stories (Smith Ali)(Paperback / softback)

Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? This is about what we do with books and what they do with us: how

Hare & the Tortoise - An Informal Guide to Business Strategy (Kay John)(Paperback / softback)

Dividing up the World - the true story of our international borders and why they are where they are (Doe Paul)(Paperback / softback)

non-fiction book about international

We Are Not Okay (Gomes Natalia)(Paperback / softback)

13 Reasons Why meets John Green and Jennifer Niven in We Are Not Ok - a powerful novel about what happens when girls are silenced. If only they could have spoken

John Dies at the End (Wong David)(Paperback / softback)

My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrock, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game

On Beauty (Smith Zadie)(Paperback / softback)

Why do we fall in love with the people we do? Why do we visit our mistakes on our children? What makes life truly beautiful? This is a story about a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching

Why Can't Humans Fly? (Fleming Sarah)(Paperback)

Why can't humans fly? Why are ants so strong? Why can't elephants jump? Our shape and size controls what we can and can't do. Find out how humans and animals are perfectly designed to live in their particular habitats, and discover the role that evolution has played in this.- White/Band 10 books

Trust: America's Best Chance - Pete Buttigieg

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust has been central to our nation's current predicament-and how our future depends on finding ways to restore confidence in the American project, and in each other. Trust will be our essential tool as we face unique challenges of the decades

Very Best of Monty Python (Cleese John)(Paperback / softback)

Includes the favourite bits from the vast Python oeuvre, which include: Why accountancy is not boring, Spamalot, The Piranha Brothers, The Lumberjack Song, The Larch, Every sperm is sacred, The Ministry of Silly Walks, Always look on the Bright Side of Life, Rat Recipes, Albatross, Constitutional

Grand Design (Mlodinow Leonard)(Paperback / softback)

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Is the apparent 'grand design' of our universe evidence for a benevolent creator who set things in motion? Or does science offer another explanation? In The Grand Design, the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe is

Why We Fight (Martin Mike)(Paperback)

Why are we willing to die for our countries? Does religion precipitate violence? Do pride, anger and vengeance lead to war? Can ideology persuade someone to blow themselves up? This ground-breaking book explores how tens of thousands of years of evolution have shaped our brains to fight, and not to

Empathy - Why It Matters, And How To Get It (Krznaric Roman)(Paperback / softback)

Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. Krznaric contends that, as we move on from an age of introspection, empathy will be key to fundamental social change - making this book a manifesto for

Why Don't You Stop Talking (Kay Jackie)(Paperback / softback)

An exhilarating collection of stories from the legendary Jackie

Drunkard's Walk - How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Mlodinow Leonard)(Paperback / softback)

Randomness and uncertainty surround everything we do. So why are we so bad at understanding them? This title reveals the psychological illusions that prevent us understanding everything from stock-picking to

Demon of Our Own Design P (Bookstaber Richard)(Paperback)

Inside markets, innovation, and risk Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street-from Morgan Stanley to Salomon and Citigroup-and a member of some of the world's largest hedge funds, from Moore

The Second World War (Keegan John)(Paperback)

Praised as 'the best military historian of our generation' by Tom Clancy, John Keegan reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive

Give and Take - Why Helping Others Drives Our Success (Grant Adam)(Paperback / softback)

A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the bestselling author of

Why the Rich Are Getting Richer (Kiyosaki Robert T.)(Paperback / softback)