Change is inevitable
- the plans we've made for our lives our careers our relationships our family & our finances can suddenly
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Born into the poorest & least-promising background & with only a loving mothers support to help her Martine has dared to follow her dreams of stardom & has packed more in her twenty-four years than most. Her story starts with a life on the run from a violent father drinks drugs abduction & even an attempted murder moving on to her early bid for pop stardom early loves her big break in East Enders" the behind-the-scenes friendships & enmities & the shocking story of how she really came to leave the series. The British public have taken Martine Mc Cutcheon to their hearts
- she is one of us
- & her life story is an inspiration to anyone who dares to dream."

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Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing & enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze & look for cheese to nourish them & make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life
- whether it is a good job a loving relationship money or a possession health or spirital peace of mind. & the maze is where you look for what you want
- the organisation you work in or the family or community you live in. This profound book from bestselling author Spencer Johnson will show you how to anticipate change adapt to change quickly enjoy change & be ready to change quickly again & again. Discover the secret for yourself & learn how to deal with change so that you suffer from less stress & enjoy more success in your work & in life. Written for all ages this story takes less than an hour to read but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.

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Who Moved My Cheese? is an amusing & enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze & look for cheese to nourish them & make them happy. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life
- whether it is a good job a loving relationship money or a possession health or spirital peace of mind. & the maze is where you look for what you want
- the organisation you work in or the family or community you live in. This profound book from bestselling author Spencer Johnson will show you how to anticipate change adapt to change quickly enjoy change & be ready to change quickly again & again. Discover the secret for yourself & learn how to deal with change so that you suffer from less stress & enjoy more success in your work & in life. Written for all ages this story takes less than an hour to read but its unique insights can last for a lifetime.

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This book presents an A-Mazing way to change & win! Who moved my cheese? is a simple parable that has helped millions of people around the world deal with the changes in their lives. It is an amusing & enlightening story of four characters who live in a Maze & look for Cheese to nourish them & make them happy. Two are mice named sniff & Scurry. & two are Little people
- beings the size of mice who look & act a lot like people. Their names are Hem & Haw. Cheese is a metaphor for what you want to have in life
- whether it is doing well in school making the team getting a good job finding a loving relationship or just feeling good about yourself. & the Maze is where you look for what you want
- your school where you work & play or the family or community you live in. In the story the characters are faced with unexpected change. Eventually one of them deals with it successfully & writes what he learns from his experience on the Maze walls. When you come to see The Handwriting on the Wall you can discover for yourself how to deal with change so that you can overcome your fears & see change as a way of gaining something better."


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In this work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat & brother-in-law to John of Gaunt
- one of the most powerful men in the kingdom
- Chaucer was celebrated as his countrys finest living poet rhetorician & scholar: the pre-eminent intellectual of his time. & yet nothing is known of his death. In 1400 his name simply disappears from the record. We dont know how he died where or when; there is no official confirmtion of his death & no chronicle mentions it; no notice of his funeral or burial. He left no will & theres nothing to tell us what happened to his estate. He didnt even leave any manuscripts. How could this be? What if he was murdered? What if he & his writings had become politically inconvenient in the seismic social shift that occurred with the overthrow of the liberal Richard II by the reactionary oppressive regime of Henry IV. Would the dogs of suppression unleased by Archbishop Arundel have been snapping at the heels of a dangerous poet? Terry Jones hypothesis is the introduction to a reading of Chaucers writings as evidence that might be held against him interwoven with a portrait of one of the most turbulent periods in English history its politics & its personalities.

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Mr Wickham turned out to be a disappointing husband in many ways the most notable being his early demise on the battlefields of Waterloo. & so Lydia Wickham nee Bennet still not twenty & ever-full of an enterprising spirit must make her fortune independently. A lesser woman without Lydias natural ability to flirt uproariously on the dancefloor & cheat seamlessly at the card table would swoon in the wake of a dashing highwayman a corrupt banker & even an amorous Royal or two. But on the hunt for a marriage that will make her rich theres nothing that Lydia wont turn her hand to.. . Taking in London Paris & Brighton Who Needs Mr Darcy? details the charming lively & somewhat dastardly further exploits of the youngest Bennet sister. Pride & Prejudice this isnt & Mr Darcy certainly wont be rescuing her this time. ...

The Coalition Government in the United Kingdom like other governments is embarking on an unprecedented round of spending cuts. Talk of deficits the National Debt Quantitative Easing & other economic terminology is presented to the public as evidence that there is a vital need for some of the most drastic cuts the West has faced. But according to Barry Kushner there is an alternative story that is not being told. There is a view of the economic events of the past five years that does not see the UK in debt crisis. It offers choice differences of opinion uncertainty & hope. It takes us on a different voyage beyond economics into politics & visions of society our expectations & ambitions. It is an alternative story that prompted an American Nobel prize-winning economist to write Jobs now deficits later" was & is the right strategy. Unfortunately its a strategy that has been abandoned in the face of phantom risks & delusional hopes." ...

Who Owns The Future? is the new masterwork from the prophet of the digital age Jaron Lanier author of You Are Not A Gadget. In the past a revolution in production such as the industrial revolution generally increased the wealth & freedom of people. The digital revolution we are living through is different. Instead of leaving a greater number of us in excellent financial health the effect of digital technologies
- & the companies behind them
- is to concentrate wealth reduce growth & challenge the livelihoods of an ever-increasing number of people. As the protections of the middle class disappear washed away by crises in capitalism what is being left in their place? & what else could replace them? Why is this happening & what might we do about it? In Who Owns the Future? Jaron Lanier shows how the new power paradigm operates how it is conceived & controlled & why it is leading to a collapse in living standards. Arguing that the 'information economy' ruins markets he reminds us that markets should reward more people not fewer. He shows us why the digital revolution means more corporations making money & avoiding risk by hiding value off their books which means more financial risk for the rest of us. From the inner workings of the 'sirenic servers' at the heart of the new power system to an exploration of the meaning of mass unemployment events the misuse of big data & the deep & increasing erasure of human endeavour Lanier explores the effects of this situation on democracy & individuals & proposes a more human humane reality where risk & reward is shared equally & the digital revolution creates opportunity for all. Lanier has a poet's sensibility & his book reads like a hallucinogenic reverie full of entertaining haiku
- like observations & digressions". (James Harkin Financial Times). " One of the triumphs of Lanier's intelligent & subtle book is its inspiring portrait of the kind of people that a democratic information economy would produce. His vision implies that if we are allowed to lead absorbing properly remunerated lives we will likewise outgrow our addiction to consumerism & technology". (Laurence Scott Guardian). " Jaron Lanier is a digital visionary with a difference". (John Kampfner Observer). Jaron Lanier is a philosopher & computer scientist who has spent his career pushing the transformative power of modern technology to its limits. From coining the term ' Virtual Reality' to developing cutting-edge medical imaging & surgical techniques Lanier is one of the premier designers & engineers at work today & is linked with UC Berkeley & Microsoft. A musician with a collection of over 700 instruments he has been recognised by Encyclopedia Britannica (but certainly not Wikipedia) as one of history's 300 or so greatest inventors & named one of the top one hundred public intellectuals in the world by Prospect & Foreign Policy. His first book You Are Not A Gadget was hailed as a 'poetic & prophetic' defence of the human in an age of machines."


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Its 1999. The SAS have been sent to the jungle of Sierra Leone to rescue a group of British soldiers taken hostage by the notorious West Side Boys. Captain Christian Mc Kie leads an advanced four-man patrol into position ready to call in the main strike force at a moments notice. But all is not as it seems; betrayal & greed are deadly enemies. Christian is captured & held hostage his will to survive only eclipsed by his desire for revenge. ...