Richard Branson the international powerhouse entrepreneur is an opportunist with an uncanny knack of sniffing out great deals where others hesitate or fear to tread. Branson is the ultimate brand builder & never before has a single brand been so successfully deployed across such a diverse range of goods & services. So how does he do it? The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Richard Branson Way draws out the universal lessons from Richard Bransons remarkable success & identifies 10 strategies that can be applied to any business or career: 1. Pick on someone bigger than you 2. Do the hippy hippy shake 3. Haggle: everythings negotiable 4. Make work fun 5. Do right by your brand 6. Smile for the cameras 7. Dont lead sheep herd cats 8. Move faster than a speeding bullet 9. Size does matter 10. Never lose the common touch Want to be the best? The secrets of phenomenal success are in your hands. Check out the other Unauthorized Guides in this series: Jamie Oliver; Duncan Bannatyne; Alan Sugar; Bill Gates; & Philip Green. ...

I didnt decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics I didnt want to be one. I just wanted to excel in dieting. & weighing in at 80 pounds on 300 calories a day I was the best little dieter there ever was." In scalding prose Portia de Rossi reveals the pain & illness that haunted her for decades. She alternately starved herself & binged putting her life in danger & lying to herself & everyone around her about the depth of her illness. From her lowest point Portia began the painful climb back to health & happiness ultimately falling head over heels in love with Ellen De Generes. In this remarkable & landmark book she tells a story that inspires hope & nourishes the spirit." ...

I didnt decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet a professional attitude. Although there was a certain glamour to anorexics I didnt want to be one. I just wanted to excel in dieting. & weighing in at 80 pounds on 300 calories a day I was the best little dieter there ever was." In scalding prose Portia de Rossi reveals the pain & illness that haunted her for decades. She alternately starved herself & binged putting her life in danger & lying to herself & everyone around her about the depth of her illness. From her lowest point Portia began the painful climb back to health & happiness ultimately falling head over heels in love with Ellen De Generes. In this remarkable & landmark book she tells a story that inspires hope & nourishes the spirit." ...

A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her & his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses & her humbly faithful lover-these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Kundera's first since The Book of Laughter & Forgetting." In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices & by fortuitous events a world in which everything occurs but once existence seems to lose its substance its weight. Hence we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our private actions but also in the public sphere & the two inevitably intertwine." ...

There is nothing unusual about the barrel-organ man who walks into private detective Louie Knight's office. Apart from the fact that he has lost his memory. & his monkey is a former astronaut. & he is carrying a suitcase that he is too terrified to open. & he wants a murder investigated. The only thing unusual about the murder is that it took place a hundred years ago. & needs solving by the following week. Louie is too smart to take on such a case but also too broke to turn it down. Soon he is lost in a labyrinth of intrigue & terror tormented at every turn by a gallery of mad nuns gangsters & waifs & haunted by the loss of his girlfriend Myfanwy who has disappeared after being fed drugged raspberry ripple ...

For Kim Woodburn finding fame in her 60s in the smash hit television series How Clean is Your House? with fellow dust-buster Aggie Mackenzie is like living a fairytale. Often she has simply wished that she had never been born for Kim has overcome horrific emotional & physical abuse both at the hands of her alcoholic mother & her philandering sexually abusive father. In her brave & revealing story Kims memories of growing up are not of love & cuddles but of beatings & random cruelty. Shuttled between the brutal houses of her warring parents a succession of miserable childrens homes & a grim convent
- Kims past has cast a long shadow over her life. But just before her sixteenth birthday she finally made her escape. It has taken decades of hard work & a wonderfully happy marriage to conquer depression but now she has emerged unbowed & unbeaten as Britains Queen of Clean.
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Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger. She wakes from a coma in hospital with no memory of how she got there or of the bizarre accident that caused the deaths of her best friends & her boyfriend yet left her mysteriously unharmed. The doctors suggest that starting over in a new city a new school would be good for her & just to let the memories gradually come back on their own. But Mara's new start is anything but comforting. She sees the faces of her dead friends everywhere & when she suddenly begins to see other people's deaths right before they happen Mara wonders whether she's going crazy! & if dealing with all this wasn't enough Noah Shaw the most beautiful boy she has ever seen can't seem to leave her alone...but as her life unravels around her Mara can't help but wonder if Noah has another agenda altogether... ...

In Rosewood where the air smells like apples & Chanel No. 5 nothing is as it seems. Five best friends once shared everything
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Gordon Smith the internationally respected Medium explores the world of the afterlife. Gordon is a highly articulate speaker & experienced teacher. In his new book he travels deep into the world that exists beyond death. He talks about the journey of the soul & the development of human consciousness. This fascinating book deals with insider topics such as reincarnation heaven & hell & relationships after death. ...

In Unbinding the Heart" author speaker & " Huffington Post" regular Agapi Stassinopoulos invites readers on an inspiring journey of inner exploration to reconnect with their true selves. Born in Greece a country that celebrates life Agapi learned the essential truths of happiness through the examples of wisdom caring playfulness & generosity she saw all around her starting with her own mother. She came to realise that everyone is born with an open heart but that we quickly learn to put conditions on our happiness
- comparing ourselves to others casting judgment doubting ourselves allowing fear or entitlement or self-righteousness to take hold
- & slowly our hearts begin to close. We isolate ourselves feeling alone disconnected & unheard; & in doing so we immobilise our spirit stifle our authentic expression & cut off our joy. As she went on Agapi like so many of us came under the soul-constricting influences of the larger world. In her struggle to find her place & her voice trying to balance the acting career she dreamed of with the spiritual life she longed for she discovered a path that was uniquely hers. Unbinding the Heart shows how she found her way home to herself. In 32 personal heartfelt stories full of insight & humour Agapi takes us from her mothers bountiful kitchen where the seeds of fearless living were planted to the London classical stage to an epiphany on a New York City bus
- & inspires readers with the confidence to let go of the beliefs that bind them & come to a deeper understanding of life & love."


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