' Really interesting a very very good book' Steve Wright BBC Radio 2 In Do Less Get More entrepreneur & bestselling author Shaa Wasmund reveals that the key to fulfilment isn't doing more it's doing what matters Is your life how you imagined it would be or is the reality more stressful than you planned? Do you put yourself under too much pressure to succeed? Are you struggling to find time for the things & people you love? It doesn't have to be this way Anything is possible when you stop trying to do everything at the same time This life changing book gives you the tools to ditch your to-do list & follow your dreams It will be your essential guide to doing what you love
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This inspirational motivating at times playful book uses twelve short thought provoking exercises that effectively force the reader to look at what his or her work really is & find ways to change the mix The exercises called maps because of the quick visual way they lead the reader from A to B to Z begin with defining great work
- assess your personal bad-good ratio; tap into the power of role models; analyze those moments when work turned into a flow There are maps that explore personal creativity & inspire brainstorming & maps to help put ideas into motion including how to structure time how to elicit help from members of your team even how to navigate an idea through the organisation & along the way there are tips for clearing time to move away from bad work
- including how to use the drama triangle of transactional analysis & stop being a 'rescuer' who takes on other people's problems & how not to say 'no' but how to say 'yes' more slowly making sure you're doing what's most important

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'A superb ACHIEVEMENT' IAN MCEWAN What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands ...

Abandoned tunnels derelict stations old trackbeds & much more; all are included in Do Not Alight Here an entertaining & informative book that guides the reader through London's many remaining disused Underground & main line railway structures They can be viewed in a series of 12 guided walks & short tube & train journeys devised & investigated by the author each of which takes in a sample of these forgotten & fascinating remains with most of the entries illustrated with recently taken colour photographs ...

When Liv & Nora decide to take their husbands & children on a holiday cruise everyone is thrilled The ship's comforts & possibilities seem infinite But when they all go ashore in beautiful Central America a series of minor mishaps lead the families further from the ship's safety One minute the children are there & the next they're gone What follows is a heart-racing story told from the perspectives of the adults & the children as the distraught parents
- now turning on one another & blaming themselves
- try to recover their children & their shattered lives

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What would you do if you received an invitation to run a zoo full of huge scary monsters? The brave little boy in this story leaps at the chance & although the monsters seem scary at first he soon has them eating out of the palm of his hand This is an exciting imaginative hilarious adventure that encourages little readers to have confidence & stand up for themselves from the illustrator of Dogs Don't Do Ballet & Rhinos Don't Eat Pancakes SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROALD DAHL FUNNY PRIZE 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKTRUST BEST BOOK AWARD 2014 Amy Sparkes is donating a percentage of her royalties to Tommy's (registered charity number 1060508) Tommy's exists to save babies' lives through funding research & providing information To find out more visit wwwtommysorg ...

Do Not Feed The Monkeys is a narrative game that can be defined as a "digital voyeur simulator" The Primate Observation Club is not a nature conservation society but the visible face of a dark group dedicated to spying on others through surveillance cameras & hacked webcams Tired of your precarious apartment of a monotonous existence & boring jobs you are accepted in the exclusive organization & finally you can pry into the privacy of the "caged monkeys" The club encourages you not to interfere with the privacy of the "monkeys" but… will you resist? Will you help those you spy on? Will you blackmail them expose their innermost secrets? Or will you simply follow instructions & just observe? Be careful because everything you do will have consequences Collector&s Edition contains Game T-shirt Badge & Art book ...

Do Not Feed The Monkeys is a narrative game that can be defined as a "digital voyeur simulator" The Primate Observation Club is not a nature conservation society but the visible face of a dark group dedicated to spying on others through surveillance cameras & hacked webcams Tired of your precarious apartment of a monotonous existence & boring jobs you are accepted in the exclusive organisation & finally you can pry into the privacy of the "caged monkeys" The club encourages you not to interfere with the privacy of the "monkeys" but… will you resist? Will you help those you spy on? Will you blackmail them expose their innermost secrets? Or will you simply follow instructions & just observe? Be careful because everything you do will have consequences Collector&s Edition contains Game T-shirt Badge & Art book ...

This brand new deluxe box set contains one copy each of Wreck This Journal This Is Not a Book Mess & now The Pocket Scavenger It has been specially designed by Keri herself Smith invites you to reimagine what a book can be (a secret message a recording device an instrument) Poke holes in the pages Paint them with coffee Bring the book in the shower Let loose & make a mess ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARAGRAPHE HUGH MACLENNAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 In Canada in 1991 ten-year-old Marie & her mother invite a guest into their home a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests Her name is Ai-Ming As her relationship with Marie deepens Ai-Ming tells the story of her family in revolutionary China from the crowded teahouses in the first days of Chairman Mao's ascent to the Shanghai Conservatory in the 1960s & the events leading to the Beijing demonstrations of 1989 It is a history of revolutionary idealism music & silence in which three musicians the shy & brilliant composer Sparrow the violin prodigy Zhuli & the enigmatic pianist Kai struggle during China's relentless Cultural Revolution to remain loyal to one another & to the music they have devoted their lives to Forced to re-imagine their artistic & private selves their fates reverberate through the years with deep & lasting consequences for Ai-Ming
- & for Marie Written with exquisite intimacy wit & moral complexity Do Not Say We Have Nothing magnificently brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century & its traumatic legacy which still resonates for a new generation It is a gripping evocation of the persuasive power of revolution & its effects on personal & national identity & an unforgettable meditation on China today
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