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Rhetoric once sat at the centre of elite education. Alexander the Great, Shakespeare and Martin Luther King, Jr. used it to build empires, write deathless literature and inspire democracies. Here, Heinrichs shows us how these persuasive tools, invented by the likes of Aristotle and Cicero, and honed over more than three thousand years, can sway your most difficult audience: yourself.Illustrated with examples from history and pop culture – Winston Churchill, Iron Man, Dolly Pa...

What if we could stop cancer in its tracks, prevent cardiovascular disease, lose weight at will and reverse the effects of ageing? With new developments in artificial intelligence, gene editing and robotics, it might all be possible sooner than you think.In Hacking Humanity, technology journalist Lara Lewington takes us to the cutting edge of scientific research to demystify how new innovations are transforming medicine for the better. Drawing us into the science behind the w...

What we experience during adolescence shapes us for life, but psychologist Lucy Foulkes shows that too often we fear, dismiss or even try to prevent aspects of it that are crucial to our development. Drawing on decades of psychological research, and including profoundly moving interviews, Coming of Age gets beneath the recent myths and age-old stereotypes of adolescence to reveal the reasons why teens behave the way they do.Above all, Foulkes shows that adolescents have an ex...

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor’s surgery. ‘I want an abortion,’ she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that day will change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. A mysterious curse causes all the men to die by the age of forty-one, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu...

This is the periodic table as you’ve never seen it before. By presenting the elements in the order in which they were discovered, The Periodic Table also tells the story of chemistry.Now iconic, the table was invented in the 1800s, long before anyone knew what was inside an atom. As more elements were found, the table got bigger. Some were discovered at risk to life and limb – for example, the hunt for the explosive element fluorine injured or even killed several scientists, ...

The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time ...

'The Vintage Way is a lesson in quiet curation...this is thoughtful, atmospheric interiors inspo with longevity at its heart.' Fabric'Sarah has a sharp eye for curating vintage Scandinavian design, and this book - filled with inspiring home tours - will encourage you to look beyond the beaten path to create a more personal home.' Frida Ramstedt, author of The Interior Design Handbook'A must-read for anyone who loves vintage and second-hand treasures... Whether you're a season...

Take a tasty trip from the Med to the Middle East with Sabrina Ghayour's effortless creations - Mail on Sunday YOU MagazineA brand new collection of inspiring recipes from Sunday Times bestselling author Sabrina Ghayour - each designed to be as easy as possible. Every recipe in Persiana Easy make irresistible Middle Eastern flavours simple. From midweek meals and traybakes to pastries and sweet treats, every recipe is accompanied by a photograph to make beautiful cookery easi...

Bestselling author Emma Porter has teamed up with world-renowned diabetes expert Professor Roy Taylor to create meals that balance health needs with varied, enjoyable recipes to enable you to lose weight, reverse your type 2 diabetes and stay diabetes-free for life. Recipes include a broad range of satisfying dishes from high-protein shakes and soups to 800-calorie plates that follow Professor Roy Taylor's world renowned 3-step plan.  This is the perfect go-to cookbook for an...

Are you ready to open the book of your life? Spiritual expert Theresa Cheung leads you on the path to enlightenment by introducing you a new realm of self-discovery: the Akashic records.The term 'Akashic' is rooted in the Sanskrit word 'akasha', meaning 'ether'. In the traditional Hindu Ayurvedic medicine practice, 'akasha' is one of the building blocks of the cosmos - empty space where everything connects. Your Akashic record is part of this unseen dimension, an endless ener...

This ingenious collection of 75 cocktails made directly inside the bottle to store in the freezer means your drink is ready when you are.There is a time and a place for meticulous home mixology. But more often than not, what we really want is a shortcut to our favourite cocktail that's at the ready whenever we want it. Pour. Sip. Simple!Build your drinks in batches right in the spirit bottle, then keep them on call in the freezer for whenever the mood strikes. That means a pe...

The Empire Strikes Back, the sequel film to 1977's Star Wars, is regularly voted the Greatest Film of All Time. It was also the first time Yoda, a Grand Master of the Jedi Order and the most powerful Jedi in its history, made his awesome first appearance. Since then, the two-foot-two, green alien humanoid of unknown origins has become one of the franchises most enduring and popular characters appearing in six of the nine sequel trilogies, as well as the acclaimed Clone Wars a...

The new gothic fantasy sensation from SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Lindsey Kelk.‘Your new obsession’ CosmopolitanYOU’LL WANT TO BE ONE. UNTIL YOU KNOW THEIR SECRETS.After sixteen-year-old Emily’s father tragically dies, she is forced to live with the only family she has left, an aunt and grandmother in the heart of Savannah, Georgia in a house as beautiful as it is mysterious.But all is not what it seems with the Bell family; they’re hiding a magical secret.When Emily meets the al...

Moscow, 1934.Moscow's glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia's leaders want to build a glorious Soviet capital, what holds them in a fatal grip is history: old mud and bones.Anton Belkin is an Investigator at the Procuracy, a sensitive job at a dangerous moment on the road to the Show Trials. He is als...

The war is over, the dark forces have won, and the hero who was supposed to save them is dead.Captured as her castle is overrun by the enemy, Princess Briony Rosewood is stripped of her magic and auctioned off to the highest bidder.She’s sold to Toven Hearst: scion of a family known for their cruel control of magic – and her long-time, and unresolved, infatuation. Yet despite the horrors of her new world and the role she must learn to play within it, all is not lost.Help – an...

A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world.Slavic cultures are far-ranging, comprising of East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria), yet they are connected by tales of adventure and magic with deep roots in a common lore. In this first collection of Slavic m...

Dress up your favourite pop diva with this press and play paper doll book. Featuring 12 H-O-T-T-O-G-O looks – from the all-green Lady Liberty moment at the 2024 Gov Ball, to the jawdropping vintage Jean-Paul Gautier Degas-inspired gown on the Grammy’s red carpet – Dress Up Chappell takes you through the very best of the beloved Mid-West Princess’ fashion moments. With beautifully illustrated, press-out outfits and a sturdy Chappell mannequin, this paper doll book is the ultim...

Jak wspierać relacje w rodzinie, dogadywać się z dzieckiem i pomóc rodzeństwu się zrozumieć – bez krzyków, kar i poczucia winy? Ta książka to zbiór 101 krótkich, konkretnych porad na codzienne sytuacje, które dobrze znasz z własnego domu. Pomaga budować bliskie relacje między rodzicami a dziećmi i pomiędzy rodzeństwem. Ta książka pomoże Ci ogarnąć więcej. Możesz go czytać po kolei albo zaglądać wtedy, gdy coś się dzieje. Każda porada to osobny temat - zamknięty w kilku strona...

Robert Langdon returns in Dan Brown's brilliant new thriller, THE SECRET OF SECRETS, available for pre-order now.Discover the bestselling thriller of all time from global phenomenon Dan Brown.Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes.As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologi...

When the National Security Agency's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage - not by guns or bombs, but by a code so complex that if released would cripple U.S. intelligence.Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles...

When Georgia Stanton discovers that her late grandmother, Scarlett, the infamous romance author, didn't get the chance to finish her last book, she is determined to share her story. But first, it needs to be written.Enter Noah Harrison, the bestselling and most charismatic romance author of his generation. When Georgia meets him, she is distraught - athough he's charming and handsome, there's nothing beneath the surface. But as they start working together, Georgia begins to s...

Lake Como, New Jersey: Jess Capodimonte Baratta is divorced, residing in her parents' basement and helping her Uncle Louie with his marble business. When she learns that her family made choices over the years that stifled her dreams, she's furious. Determined to start living, she heads off to her family's ancestral home.In Italy, Jess finally begins to stand on her own two feet. But just as she's finding happiness with dreamy Angelo, she learns there is even more to her famil...

Hailed by STEPHEN KING as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror'.And made into an acclaimed, chilling 10-part Ridley Scott-produced BBC TV seriesHailed as the most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph.But for almost two years his ships HMSTerrorandErebushave beentrapped in the Arctic ice. Supplies of fuel and food are running l...

'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has "translated" Shakespeare’s sonnets and he has done so with an insolent, loveable charm … A dazzling success’ – Stephen FryRediscover the greatest love poetry ever writtenShall I compare you to a summer’s day?You’re more delightful, always shining strong;High winds blow hard on flowering buds in May,And summer never seems to last that long…Shakespeare’s sonnets are some of the nation’s f...