Now more than ever we live in a society where we covet new & shiny things Not only has consumption risen dramatically over the last 60 years but we are damaging the environment at the same time That is why buying quality & why Tara Button's Buy Me Once brand has such popular appeal Tara Button has become a champion of a lifestyle called mindful curation'
- a way of living in which we carefully choose each object in our lives making sure we have the best most classic most pleasing & longest lasting
- kettles desks pots & pans scissors coats & dresses instead of surrounding ourselves with throwaway stuff & appliances with built-in obsolescence Tara advocates a life that celebrates what lasts what is classic & what really suits a person There are 10 steps to master mindful curation & each is explained in this book from understanding & using techniques to freeing yourself from external manipulations Finding your purpose & priorities & identifying your core tastes & style Learning how to let go of the superfluous & how to make wise choices going forwards Mindful curation is a lifestyle choice that will make you happier healthier & more fulfilled spiritual as well as helping save the planet

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If work is hell what is working from home? Part memoir part theory A Life Lived Remotely tells the story of the transition to the digital age through our relationship to work Following the author's journey as she left her 9-to-5 for the world of freelancing & working remotely it outlines & reflects on what it means to work from home how it affects our daily lives & our relationships & how it is tied in to the development of the internet & our increasingly digitsed world Tackling larger questions like What happens when we take our lives online?; How are we being changed by immersion in the internet?; & How do we know the difference between work & life when one seems to blend into the other? A Life Lived Remotely provides a moment's pause in a world of fast-paced communication offering critical reflection on what it means to come of age along with the internet ...

Arguably Brecht's greatest play A Life of Galileo charts the seventeenth century scientist's extraordinary fight with the church over his assertion that the earth orbits the sun The figure of Galileo whose heretical' discoveries about the solar system brought him to the attention of the Inquisition is one of Brecht's more human & complex creations Temporarily silenced by the Inquisition's threat of torture & forced to abjure his theories publicly Galileo continues to work in private eventually smuggling his work out of the country Brecht's beautiful depiction of the explosive struggle between scientific discovery & religious fundamentalism is captured masterfully in this new translation by RSC writer-in-residence Mark Ravenhill ...

During much of his early career from 1944 through to the early 1960s Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways & the men he knew & worked with on a daily basis using his trusty Brownie 620 box camera These unique behind the scenes images form a fascinating & hugely evocative portrayal of Britain at the height of the era of steam during the time of the ' Big Four' & after 1947 when the sprawling nationalised network known as British Railways came of age The second edition contains many new unseen photos which capture the railways in wartime providing a valuable social record of the nation at war In addition there is a sequence of rare photographs of French engines railways & railwaymen offering a superb contrast to the British rail network (it quickly becomes evident that the British rail system ran on tea whereas the French system ran on wine) Great characters are the unifying theme of the pictures & they include famous figures associated with the railways such as the poet John Betjeman This wonderfully illustrated book sets Richard's personal photographs & text alongside a carefully collated selection of ephemera artworks & photographs drawn from the National Railway Museum in York Collectively these images & artefacts tell the stories of the great brotherhood of railwaymen brilliantly evoking the speed heat & dust of the footplate ...

From the bestselling author of the Coroner Jenny Cooper series comes A Life to Kill Matthew Hall's most gripping moving & timely thriller to date If they're hiding something we've got a right to know We've got a right to know what Kenny died for The day they've all been waiting for is at hand The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home For their excited families in Highcliffe it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait But in the final hours disaster strikes Nineteen-year-old Private Pete ' Skippy' Lyons is abducted & the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed One killed two injured One still missing in action Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army won't provide How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post? & why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him? Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers But in a town filled with secrets & rumours it's not only the Army that has something to hide A Life to Kill is the seventh installment in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series ...

While other golfers have won more tournaments than Arnold Palmer has no one has won more fans around the world & no player has had a bigger impact on the sport In fact Palmer is considered by many to be the most important golfer in history As a follow-up to his 1999 autobiography Palmer takes stock of the many experiences of his life bringing new details & insights to some familiar stories & sharing new ones Palmer has had tremendous success but is most notable for going about it the right way Gracious fair & a true gentleman Arnold Palmer is the gold standard of how to conduct yourself He offers advice & guidance sharing stories of his career on the course success in business & the great relationships that give meaning to his life This book is Palmer's gift to the world a treasure trove of entertaining anecdotes & timeless wisdom that readers will celebrate & cherish ...

' This novel made me sob & it made me smile It's a gorgeous beautiful & evocative novel about love hope & forgiveness'
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There's a light on in the attic I can see it from outside And I know you're on the inside lookin' out Step inside the mind of Shel Silverstein & you'll discover a magic homework machine a Polar Bear in the fridge & a Meehoo With an Exactlywatt But beware stolen knees the babysitter who likes to squash children
- & the nighttime peril of the Whatifs! This is the second book of beloved poems & pictures from the marvellous master of nonsense Shel Silverstein
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Jessica Wong is the kind of girl nobody notices She's also the kind of girl who sees everything There's no one better at overlooking Jess than her best friend Angie Jess can live without Angie knowing her real feelings just so long as they're best friends But when Angie meets Margot Jess recognises that things will never be the same Worse still Margot is one of the rare people who sees exactly how Jess feels about Angie As Angie falls hard for Margot & gets caught up with Margot's wealthy friends Jess's life begins to fall apart If she isn't Angie's best friend what is she? Then at a party surrounded by Margot's friends Jess finally breaks down & starts revealing a few of the secrets she knows Not everyone in the party can handle what Jess reveals & before the sun rises someone's dead Dark disturbing & full of twists A Line in the Dark is a cleverly crafted YA mystery that will delight readers craving a queer teenage girl antihero just as morally complicated as her male counterparts ...

In 1916 in the middle of the First World War two men secretly agreed to divide the Middle East between them Sir Mark Sykes was a visionary politician; Francois Georges-Picot a diplomat with a grudge The deal they struck which was designed to relieve tensions that threatened to engulf the Entente Cordiale drew a line in the sand from the Mediterranean to the Persian frontier Territory north of that stark line would go to France; land south of it to Britain Against the odds their pact survived the war to form the basis for the post-war division of the region into five new countries Britain & France would rule The creation of Britain's 'mandates' of Palestine Transjordan & Iraq & France's in Lebanon & Syria made the two powers uneasy neighbours for the following thirty years Through a stellar cast of politicians diplomats spies & soldiers including T E Lawrence Winston Churchill & Charles de Gaulle A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain & France ruled the Middle East It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs & the Jews & ultimately led to war between the British & the French in 1941 & between the Arabs & the Jews in 1948 In 1946 after many years of intrigue & espionage Britain finally succeeded in ousting France from Lebanon & Syria & hoped that having done so it would be able to cling on to Palestine Using newly declassified papers from the British & French archives James Barr brings this overlooked clandestine struggle back to life & reveals for the first time the stunning way in which the French finally got their revenge ...