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20th Century Roadshow: A Quick and Easy Guide to Buying and Selling at Markets, Car Boot Sales, Collectables Fairs and Online Foreword by Alan Titchmarsh. Make sure you bag the bargains with this handy and portable, collectors guide from acclaimed expert Judith Miller. Whether you are buying or selling at flea markets, car boot sales, collectors' fairs or on e-bay, check what it's worth here first. Includes valuable information on costume jewellery, rock and pop memorabilia, modern first editions, cameras, modern glass, toys, posters, ceramics and watches. "...the clearest, most user-friendly way of getting real value for money whatever your collecting interest" Antiques Magazine on Collectables Price Guide 2004

Negotiation is an essential part of life. In work, at home and throughout our lives, negotiation solves problems, creates opportunities, and enhances jobs and relationships. In Agree To Win, Hugh Willbourn shows you, in easy steps, what to do, when to do it and, most important of all, how to create in yourself the instincts and confidence to achieve success. Learn Essential Attitudes: Increase your emotional intelligence and inner resources. Negotiation in Action: Put your skills into practice, understand the person you are negotiating with, build rapport, and reach agreement. Troubleshooting: Create solutions even in the most difficult situations. Establish Your Style of Success: integrate the new skills to develop your unique style. Filled with practical exercises, case studies and examples drawn from business, families, parenting and friendship, Agree To Win shows what you need to do to become an effective negotiator and transform all areas of your work and life.

In 2005 the children from the BBCs groundbreaking Child of Our Time television series reach an important milestone as they turn five years old. Now familiar to millions of viewers who have watched their progress from birth, they have become an invaluable source of inspiration to thousands of parents who are themselves bringing up young children. This book is about those critical first five years of a childs life it covers all the principal issues raised in the series and a great deal more besides. Society is changing so fast that childhood is not the same now as it was a generation ago, and parents face choices and problems very different from those of their parents or grandparents. Tessa Livingstone, who has worked on the series since its inception and is a mother of two, has brought together a wealth of expert knowledge. The result is an indispensable source of solid information and reassuring guidance to help everyone achieve what is every parents wish: the best for their child. Why are children happy? How can we encourage good relationships? How confident is your child? Such fundamental questions are discussed at every stage of development, together with issues such as personality, siblings, love, learning, anger, friendship, gender, self-awareness, success, ambition and empathy. Interspersed with the text are games, fun tests and questionnaires to help parents see themselves and their children as individuals with unique needs and gifts. It will help them cope with the many issues over which they have little control, and guide them through those where they can influence and affect their young childs life for the better.

What makes children intelligent, resourceful, creative and flexible? Their minds are the powerhouse for everything they think and do and are shaped crucially by the knowledge they gain when they are very young. At the very beginning, newborn babies are ready and eager to learn, but by the time children start school, five years later, many will have lost their all-embracing excitement for learning. So what can you do to hone your children's skills? How can you improve their motivation, concentration and intelligence?"Child of Our Time: Brain Child" is an essential guide for parents and will help you achieve what everyone wants - the very best for your child. This book will help you discover: how to keep your child motivated to learn from babyhood onwards; how your learning style influences your child; how to improve your child's memory and concentration; how to help your child learn to read; how to prepare your child for school; how to help your child learn, whether maths or art, through the early school years; and what to do so your child gains a love of learning that will last a lifetime. Using cutting-edge research in neurology, psychology, genetics and sociology, together with the personal experiences of the families featured on BBC1's "Child Of Our Times" series, Dr Tessa Livingstone, herself a mother of two, guides parents through the crucial period in a young child's life that will shape their intelligence and their future.

Is the way you think like the colour of your eyes - something you are born with and cannot alter? Or is thinking a skill that can be improved with practice, like swimming, tennis or cooking? In this provocative book, which has already sold over 90,000 copies, Edward de Bono demonstrates how the techniques of thinking can be enhanced and improved through attention, practice and the use of simple tools, such as lateral thinking, CAF (Consider All Factors) and AGO (Aims, Goals and Objectives). He shows that the operating skill of thinking is, in fact, quite different from intelligence and reveals how many intelligent people are actually bad thinkers because they are caught in the 'intelligence trap'. Each part of this fully revised and updated fourth edition covers an important aspect of thinking, such as Perception, Making decisions, dealing with Emotions and values, Negotiation, Focus and The future. The book is illustrated throughout with de Bono's own diagrams. Edward de Bono is considered by many to be the world's leading authority on the direct teaching of thinking as a skill. His methods are widely used n many countries - with education, with business and with ecology groups. He is perhaps best-known as the inventor of the term 'lateral thinking'.

With insider advice and tips from the Dragons themselves, this handbook guides you through the hazardous process of finding your product, identifying your market, developing and maximising your business acumen, honing your presentation skills, and finding the right partner. And most importantly, how to close the deal when you do find it.

'All 160,000 of those people knew clearly what the vision was for the business, and how the company was going forward.' Lord MacLaurin, Former Chairman, Tesco People are an organization's most valuable asset, and managing, motivating and retaining them sets a broad range of challenges for any manager to master. 'Managing Your People' gives you access to the real-life business experience of thirteen of today's outstanding business leaders in a pocket-sized format. Their personal stories provide you with winning strategies and a fast track to understanding the best approaches to managing your people. Unique features: Personal - anecdotal, first-hand accounts Authoritative - draws on proven leadership success Practical - solutions-driven and grounded in reality Effective - concise, engaging and focused Wherever you sit within your organization, these candid stories will offer you inspiration, practical help and guidance to drive forward with your personal ambitions.

Join the country in the fight to get fit with Fat Nation, a major BBC1 primetime TV series airing Autumn 2004 with follow up programme March 2005. Get fit with Fat Nation and enjoy the benefits of looking good and feeling great. Meet the F-team who will help you, and the residents of the street featured in the BBC show, shed the pounds through exercise, diet and a positive mental attitude. Whether you are a busy working mum with children who refuse to eat vegetables or a twenty-something bachelor living the high-life, there is a personalised health plan profiled to suit you and your family's lifestyle.

The key to achieving well-being and happiness was once thought to stem from building our careers and achieving wealth and comfort. However, research shows that many suffer negatively from trying to balance their work with their personal commitments. Long working hours result not in increased productivity but in decreased performance and stress-related illness. We need to rethink our approach to our social, professional and personal lives: to create a future that offers the opportunity to relax, pursue personal interests and spend time with our families and friends, whilst performing effectively and productively at work to ensure that businesses thrive. Find the Balance combines analysis with exercises and case studies to introduce simple but effective strategies into our lives - so that we can achieve fulfilment.

Good leadership is essential for a business to thrive: it enhances staff morale, enabling businesses to achieve greater productivity and profits, and is the driving force for businesses to develop. Throughout the TV series Gerry Robinson brought his insight to issues faced by four families running their own businesses. Here, in a clear and concise guide, he highlights key leadership and managing skills. Focusing on crucial management issues - leadership, ensuring the right people are in the right job, implementing redundancies, delegating, focusing on the big picture, choosing a successor and how to stop family hierarchies and loyalties from having a negative impact on a business - Gerry cuts away theories and jargon to give leaders and those aspiring to manage straightforward and easy-to-follow advice and techniques. Backed up by case studies drawn from the first and second series of I'll Show Them Who's Boss Gerry's easy-to-use management guide enables readers to understand, practise and implement the skills within their own careers. 'When the history of the Square Mile in the late 20th century comes to be written, he will surely be seen as one of its leading players.' Jeff Randall, BBC Business Editor

We all have goals but sometimes they seem like unobtainable fantasies, and we feel we have to settle for second best. In 'Get up and Do It!' readers learn how to make their goals realities in steps, using easy-to-use techniques and the most up-to-date strategies. As they learn the essentials, readers develop their understanding, practise vital skills and make motivational techniques a feature of their lives. The motivational plan enables readers to plan, practise and adopt techniques - including positive thinking, motivation and problem-solving skills - to suit their own needs. It also becomes an essential tool: at a glance readers can measure their progress, find reassurance in moments of self doubt, recognise their achievements and use it to help them resolve problems in the event of setbacks. In a society of limited time and pressing demands 'Get Up and Do It!' is the essential read for success.

A life changing guide for every family. Does your family ever drive you mad? Would you like you to get on better, be happier? Families are becoming more complicated and, for many, living is increasingly stressful as parents juggle working responsibilities with family care. Here in this practical and thought-provoking book, Bill Lucas, with Dr Stephen Briers, draws on proven research to introduce approaches that can transform your life and enable your family to thrive: Discover the nature of happiness and how to develop positive feelings in your daily life and your interactions with others. Learn how to create a positive environment for your children and family, and adopt effective strategies to overcome challenges. Understand how you react to situations in your family life and that by choosing different approaches you can see fantastic results. Bill is Chairman of the UK's Talent Foundation. He is an internationally renowned expert on learning, children and parenting. He is in demand as a motivational speaker, contributes regularly to the national press and is the author of many best-selling books on personal development. Dr Stephen Briers is a clinical psychologist, working with children and families. He is a presenter on the BBC parenting series Little Angels and Teen Angels.

Do you have young children? Take a look at them. Now, can you imagine being introduced to them when they're grown up? What if the future you'd imagined for them hasn't quite gone to plan? How would you react if you discovered that, as adults, your children have under-achieved, have serious health problems and have a much lower than average life expectancy? And, as their parents, it's all your fault! That's exactly what happened to the families in this groundbreaking BBC TV series. Kristina Murrin believes that we can all enable our children to grow into healthy and happy adults if we follow simple principles that help our children develop positive social, eating and exercise habits. In this unique book Kristina Murrin offers a practical 10-step plan to enable all parents to ensure their children have health and happiness for life. Drawing on key research, case studies from the TV series and the personalised family manuals, Kristina offers easy to follow advice across: Diet, Exercise, Sleep, Discipline and Safety. Kristina Murrin has a masters degree in child psychology from Cambridge University. She is experienced in motivating adults and children alike and works as an adviser on children's issues for the British government. She is also the co-author of two books: Sticky Wisdom and What Worries Parents. She is married with three children.

In 'The House of Tiny Tearaways' Dr Tanya Byron helps parents at the end of their tethers achieve remarkable transformations. The parents' grievances range from their little darlings not sleeping or eating properly to terrible tantrums and, with Dr Tanya's help and advice, they are able to solve problems they'd never been able to crack before.

One of the boldest social experiments ever undertaken, this unique television event brings happiness experts from all over the globe and gives them just four months to make the town of Slough happy. A fact: Although genes and upbringing influence about 50% of our happiness, circumstances (income, living environment) only affects 10%. The remaining 40% is accounted for by our outlook on life, something we all have the power to change for the better. A simple happiness exercise: keep a diary and once a week write in it things for which you are thankful over the past week. That's it. This is a simple but effective technique - people who did it over 6 weeks reported a significant increase in their sense of happiness and satisfaction. How to be Happy combines the very latest research with advice and exercises from the experts to give you the truth about happiness and practical ways to increase your own happiness quota.

How to Help Children Find the Champion Within Themselves is an innovative, accessible and groundbreaking guide that will change the way adults communicate with children forever. David Hemery believes that within every young person there is 'a spark of greatness' and a unique individual keen to fulfil his or her potential. Every adult is a guardian of that flame of talent. Using everyday scenarios and cartoons he introduce effective question and attentive listening - powerful and positive communication tools that deliver extraordinary results. Every parent, teacher and coach will recognise common pitfalls that are described with astute comment and humour. Hemery shows how easy it is to transform conflict into communication, to encourage young people to take responsibility for their actions, develop their self-esteem and reach their true potential. David Hemery won an Olympic gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles in 1968. He works as a coach, teacher and performance consultant. He is also on the Executive of the British Olympic Association.

Good leadership is essential for a business to thrive: it enhances staff morale, enabling businesses to achieve greater productivity and profits, and is the driving force for businesses to develop. Throughout the TV series Gerry Robinson brought his insight to issues faced by four families running their own businesses. Here, in a clear and concise guide, he highlights key leadership and managing skills. Focusing on crucial management issues - leadership, ensuring the right people are in the right job, implementing redundancies, delegating, focusing on the big picture, choosing a successor and how to stop family hierarchies and loyalties from having a negative impact on a business - Gerry cuts away theories and jargon to give leaders and those aspiring to manage straightforward and easy-to-follow advice and techniques. Backed up by case studies drawn from the first and second series of I'll Show Them Who's Boss Gerry's easy-to-use management guide enables readers to understand, practise and implement the skills within their own careers.

Are you aware of your 'eco-footprint'? Dick Strawbridge and his family decided that they needed to reduce theirs - this meant reducing the amount of land, water and other natural resources required to support their lifestyle.To accompany the BBC2 TV series, this book chronicles the Strawbridge familys journey from a perfectly normal life and house in the Midlands to a self-sufficient environmentally friendly dream home in the West Country.Written by the flamboyant, moustachioed, eccentric presenter, Dick the Colonel Strawbridge, this book is an inspiration to people thinking of becoming eco-friendly or even just a bit greener.While attractively designed, with specially commissioned colour photos and screen grabs, it will also be full of practical advice, with essential addresses and contact details at the end.

Are you dreaming about a new job, or considering a career change? Are you uncertain of your next step? If so, this book is for you. Finding a new way to earn a living can be an exciting prospect but it can also seem like a daunting and difficult thing to do. But, given the right tools, we can all find better jobs and build stimulating careers. Refreshingly straightforward and packed with practical advice, Jumpstart Your Career is the ideal book for anyone who wants to take control of their working life.

Drawing on the success of the TV series, Dr Tanya Byron and Sacha Baveystock offer a concise and effective guide to developing co-operative behaviour in your family, to enable you to make the most of your family and have more fun with your children. Each of us - adults and children - are individual in the ways in which we interact with each other and react to situations. As parents, we need to understand that the way we behave affects the way our children act and react to us. Through "Little Angels," the authors demonstrate there are a simple series of steps that you can take to encourage your children to behave as you would like and make life more pleasant for them and more pleasant for you.

A quick reference and authoritative guide to wellbeing for men and women. Today we run our lives at a frenetic pace, juggling our work commitments with those in our social and personal lives. Our lifestyle choices affect us physically and psychologically but we may be unaware of the impact of these or at a loss of how to improve our wellbeing effectively. Here, Dr John Marsden and Alison Dillon will expertly guide us through the maze of modern lifestyles. Drawing on up-to-date medical and scientific research, "Live Well Be Healthy" offers us clear facts and information so that we can make informed choices about how we wish to live our lives at work, rest and play. They also tackle the thorny issues of dieting and detoxing and highlights common ailments that we may encounter. Supplemented with questionnaires and quick tips, Dr John and Alison show us how to achieve ultimate wellbeing.

The only guide you'll ever need to everything you'll ever want to know about conception, pregnancy and birth. In this groundbreaking new book, Dr Simon Atkins unravels the science and presents the latest and most reliable evidence for making babies, having babies and taking them home. Published to tie in with the TV series 'Make Me a Baby', Dr Atkins will enable you to sort the facts from the fiction on the best routes to successful conception. With a step-by-step guide through pregnancy and birth you'll know exactly what to expect at every stage and Dr Atkin's honest and down-to-earth advice will ensure you are perfectly placed to make informed choices in your own and your baby's best interest. Discover the best time for sex for conception. Understand how stress, smoking, drinking and other lifestyle factors may impact on your ability to conceive. Learn how to maintain a healthy pregnancy through the first, second and third trimesters. Find out how to prepare for birth, what to expect during the birth and what will happen during the first few weeks after you return home. Specially commissioned, unique photography will illustrate every stage of foetal development so you will know how baby is developing and what is happening inside your body. An authoritative, comprehensive and fascinating guide to conception, pregnancy and birth. Unravelling the science and busting the myths to offer you the most up-to-date and scientifically accurate facts on conception, pregnancy and birth. What to expect in all three trimesters of pregnancy. Learn how lifestyle factors such as alcohol, sex, stress and body image may affect conception and pregnancy. Includes advice on preparing for birth, the actual birth and the first few weeks at home. This fantastic new book will open your eyes to some common misconceptions, demystify the processes, reassure you through the worries and lead you through every step on your road to parenthood. Contents 1. CONCEPTION What happens? When does is it happen? Male and female fertility Fertility treatments Vasectomy reversal Why might conception not happen 2. PREGNANCY Includes detailed case studies and comprehensive information on symptoms (tiredness, anaemia, sickness etc); tests (what tests are available, their implications and their risks); detail on scans; blood; HIV; possible complications; downs syndrome; foetal development The first trimester The second trimester The third trimester 3. BIRTH Preparation Where to give birth and the pros and cons of each Premature births Pain relief and the pros and cons of each Reality of birth Emergencies Author: Dr Simon Atkins is a General Practitioner based in Bristol. He writes a column in the Guardian and is the presenter of the BBC TV series Make Me a Baby.

What Mary Portas doesn't know about shops isn't worth knowing. How To Shop looks at shopping through the other end of the telescope: from the consumer's point of view. Mary lets us in on the tricks and tips she's learned from her years at the leading edge of fashion retailing with the ultimate insiders guide to how to get the most out of shops. From how to make a 50 dress look like a 5,000 fashion statement, to advice on when to hit the sales and how to transform arrogant shop assistants into willing slaves, How To Shop tells you everything you wanted to know about shopping but were too afraid to ask.Combining must-have tips and tricks with a fascinating insight into the inner workings of the world's top fashion retailers, How To Shop is the ultimate 21st century guide to shopping. Don't leave home without it!

Make debts disappear! Earn Money without Working Money is one of our greatest worries. Whether we are trying to match our expenditure with our desires, keep spending down to fit our income, reduce debt or deal with life's changes and challenges we often struggle to make our money work for us. Here, Paul Lewis shows us how to be smart with our finances and take control. Starting with the basics, he offers straightforward skills to manage money, deal with debt, simplify saving, and be in balance. To help us achieve our goals and plan for future events in our lives, he unravels confusion around pensions, investments and savings so that we can be proactive in optimising how we use our money throughout our lives. Paul Lewis is the presenter of Money Box Live on Radio 4. He is also an author and journalist, specialising in finance, and is well-known for his ability to give financial advice clearly.

Flushing your money down the loo? Throwing your future in the bin? Pouring your happiness down the drain? Every year we spend 400 million on food and generate 29 million tons of household waste. What's more worrying is that our homes are so full of toxins they're making us sick. TVs, computers, cleaning and beauty products are emitting waste that we don't know about, waste that's potentially killing us. No Waste Like Home is the revelatory book that will change your outlook. No nonsense, no unrealistic green speak - just simple lifestyle plans that could save you up to 4000 a year. Quiz yourself to find your environmental make-up, add up your health and wealth miles and learn the ins and outs of how to reduce, reuse and recycle. Packed with mind-blowing facts and practical targets, No Waste Like Home is about a lot more than taking your bottles to the bank. Inside there are hundreds of quick and easy ways to improve your home, car, shopping bills and health. The ultimate 'make a difference' subject is about to hit you and your home.

Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years is a unique television event with 16 hours of prime-time programming on BBC2, broadcast over 2 years. Guided by financial expert Graham Hooper, 8 households attempt to clear their mortgages through a range of money-saving and money-making strategies. The Pay Off Your Mortgage book, published against the 1st series in 2006, shows you how to identify the strategy that will best suit you and your mortgage. It includes jargon-free advice, no nonsense information, case studies and inspiration for everyone burdened by a mortgage. Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years is aimed at home-owners everywhere and anyone interested in finance, property or who has followed the TV series.

Apply positive thinking in your life and discover a world of opportunity! It is recognized that an optimistic turn of mind is both the basis of happiness and provides the momentum we need to fulfill our potential in our personal and professional lives. The positive thinker sees opportunity all around and has the curiosity, the energy and the self-belief to be able to chart their future. If you believe you can make a difference, you will. Positive Thinking is a skill we can learn at any time. Here, Douglas Miller shows readers how to harness positive thinking by developing their understanding of themselves and adopting techniques to develop a positive attitude of mind and a proactive approach. It is often thought that Positive Thinking is an aid to achieving goals. However it is also about generating greater fulfilment and happiness for ourselves others. Douglas demonstrates that it is not just a question of how we think about ourself but also how we see the world and relate to people in it: the more we give the more we get in return. For many of us mini-crises, stalled goals, our own cynicism, and lack of self-confidence are part of the fabric of modern-day living. Its not helpful to dismiss these perfectly normal elements of the human condition, instead this Douglas helps us to see how perfectly normal human reactions are a healthy part of us and that the key is to recognise that these are often waves to be ridden rather than un-navigable rivers. For example, cynicism, in its most positive sense can allow us to take the best of the past and utilise it in our future endeavours. Positive Thinking does not dismiss the past, as some would believe because the past can provide us with powerful lessons for the future.

The search for a career can seem daunting - the choice may seem difficult, or opportunities available may fall short of ideal. Starting Out provides up-to-date information and insight on everything from salaries to sex discrimination: Starting out: Information gathering and choice. Know yourself: Being clear about aspirations, priorities and interests. Who would I like to be? Different careers and what they involve. Scanning the environment: Market trends, The value of networking, mentoring and life-long learning. Your chosen career and you: Personal skills and qualities. Completing the jigsaw: Pulling information together.

When Sir Steve Redgrave won his fifth consecutive gold medal at Sydney in 2000, he became the greatest Olympian Britain has ever produced. Together with Matthew Pinsent, Steve is also the holder of both the Coxless Pairs World Record and Olympic Record. In You Can Win!, Steve will outline his strategies for reaching the top, and show you how to apply them both in sport and in business. There are chapters on how to motivate yourself, how to overcome low self-esteem and how to be prepared for any eventuality. Other sections give advice on strategic thinking and mental discipline, leadership and team play. Throughout the book Steve uses the experiences of his contacts in sport, business and entertainment to help us understand what it takes to be a winner.

Sudo-Q is a BBC game-show that has captured the addiction of the nation, Sudoku. In each episode, three teams of three contestants vie to survive each round which contains a testing mix of quick fire Q&A and Sudoku. In order to get a chance to enter a number on the Sudoku grid, a team member must correctly answer a general knowledge question. The pressure is high as contestants battle to get through to the final relay round for a prize of 1500, with a 'champion of champions' play-off at the end of the series. This accompanying book to the series allows readers to pit their wits against 300 general knowledge questions and 100 Sudoku grids. Contains 100 9x9 Sudoku grids of progressing difficulty, and the reader can gain bonus numbers on the grid by correctly answering three multiple-choice quiz questions.

Adjusting to life with teenagers can be the greatest challenge many parents face. This positive and practical new book, accompanying the popular BBC TV Series, will help parents transform their relationships with their teenage children. Adolescence is a stage of huge turmoil for everyone involved. Parents see their precious angels turn into defiant monsters. Teenagers see their parents turn into old fashioned busy bodies who don't understand. The real issues of adolescence - falling in with the 'bad crowd';dating and sex; drugs; underage drinking; truanting; eating disorders; detachment; unreasonable mood swings - bring about the tears, tension, frustration and guilt which characterize this stage of the parenting process. Drawing on the life-changing techniques of the BBC TV series,Dr Stephen Briers and Sacha Baveystock outline how parents can find positive routes to overcome issues and transform their relationship with their children.

Have you ever wondered how typewriters can rival commercial radio? Why, according to John, it's best to shave only once a week, and with old fashioned soap and water? And what the various repercussions of spring and its extra hour of daylight bring? The BBC created a fantastically cult television series when they filmed the daily operations of John and Ann's double glazing firm U-Fit, the third largest in Coventry. It was here we were first introduced to John's misanthropic musings and no-nonsense attitude to management and his wife Ann's doting loyalty. Now their individual and highly entertaining personalities have been brought to the page, as they ruminate on various aspects of life from asbos to Buddhism, and Chekov to Maltesers.

Confidence is a much sought after, but often elusive, quality. Most of us are confident in some aspects of our lives and in these areas we generally take it for granted but when we feel self doubt we start to question ourselves. In concise steps this book offers the complete guide to enjoying a confident life through easy to-use techniques and the most up-to-date strategies. Through quizzes and case studies readers begin by developing their understanding both of what confidence really means and how they perceive themselves within their professional and personal lives. The plan gives readers a clear framework in which to work through exercises as they develop techniques to build their confidence and plan strategies to suit their own needs. Since setbacks are inevitable, readers also learn how to respond to them so they maintain a positive frame of mind as they build their confidence to make the most of opportunities in all areas of their lives.

Do your bills and paperwork stack up? Is your living room littered with newspapers? Can you never find a clean shirt in your wardrobe? Everyone has clutter in their home - whether it's old magazines, clothes that don't fit any more or kitchen utensils bought but never used. What people don't realize is the huge emotional impact this junk has on their life and what an energizing experience it can be to clear it away. In How to De-Junk Your Life, storage expert Dawna Walter shows you how to take control of your possessions, with practical exercises to tackle clutter hotspots around your home. Packed with invaluable advice, questionnaires, quick tips and checklists, Dawna will guide you every step of the way, motivating you to let go of the things you've collected but never used and start afresh. Once you've started to organise your possessions, you can follow the advice of antiques dealer, Mark Franks, on how to turn your junk into cash, whether it's at a car boot sale, a second-hand shop or at an auction house. And, if your clutter is just rubbish, he'll tell you how to recycle it. Letting go can be hugely rewarding, freeing up your time for the things which really matter. Practical, inspirational and liberating, De-Junk Your Life will both improve the quality of your life and help you achieve a clutter-free environment

Do you want to be rich? To become a millionaire, you have to learn to think like one. In this title, the secrets are revealed to show you how to do it. Some of us want to be rich, but for many of us we'd be happy just to improve our money-making ability. But this isn't down to luck: it's about developing skills, values and - most importantly - adopting the mindset of the wealthy. It's not about how well you did at school or whether you had a happy childhood. It's about attitude. Based on the most comprehensive information ever assembled on UK millionaires for the television series "Mind of a Millionaire", this book exposes the (sometimes peculiar!) traits of the wealthy, includes insights into how they made their riches, and provides practical advice to help you reach your goals. Through easy and enjoyable exercises, quizzes and fascinating tips from the rich, you too can learn how to develop the mind of a millionaire, and join the ranks of the wealthy.

Would you like to: Double your current memory capacity? Be able to remember perfectly a list of 100 objects in under two hours? Expand your memory and knowledge of the world's greatest artists, composers and writers? Raise your IQ and achieve greater success in all aspects of life? Remember telephone and other vital numbers? Remember anything you wanted to? 'Master Your Memory', part of Tony Buzan's revolutionary 'Mind Set' series, is designed to help you do just that. This edition of 'Master Your Memory' introduces you to the last great memory invention of the last millennium - the Self-Enhancing Master memory matrix (SEM). This technique will allow you to memorise anything from ten to fifty thousand items with comparative ease, while at the same time exercising and improving your Memory Muscle.

The potential of the human memory is phenomenal. But do you know how to make to most of yours? In this edition of the BBC classic 'Use Your Memory', published as part of the 'Mind Set', the secrets of how to improve your memory are fascinatingly revealed by Tony Buzan. He teaches you how to improve your memory for names, numbers, dates and lists and also for speeches, articles, poetry and whole books. There are sections for card players, for people learning new languages and for those studying for exams, as well as an intriguing chapter on how to recall your dreams. 'Use Your Memory' will: be particularly useful for school and university students throughout their studies, and especially during review and examination times be useful for business people and for those wishing to improve their brainpower as they advance in years allow anyone to join the rapidly growing number of mental athletes who are preparing themselves for memory competitions and championships. All the classic memory systems are explained, plus, of course, Tony Buzan's own famous Mind Mapping technique.

Unforgettable Islands to Escape to Before You Die features the worlds most beautiful and captivating islands, captured in over 300 mouth-watering photographs. This is the fourth title in the best-selling Unforgettable series, which has been published in over 14 countries worldwide and has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK.Written by international travel writers and photographers, Steve Davey and Marc Schlossman, who draw on years of experience to select 40 personal favourite islands. To help you find paradise, Unforgettable Islands features highly individual destinations, ranging from the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong Island and Isle de la Cite in Paris, to the arctic beauty of the Wrangell Islands in Russia and the tropical heaven of Taal Caldera in the Philippines. Aimed at style-conscious travellers looking for new sights and unforgettable experiences, Unforgettable Islands is an inspirational guide to the most unique and spectacular islands in the world.

Following the success of Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die and Unforgettable Things to Do Before You Die this is the third title in an exciting new series of books that will help you search out essential sights and experiences around the world. In Unforgettable Journeys to Take Before You Die international travel writers and photographers Steve Watkins and Clare Jones draw on their years of experience in selecting thirty of their favourite trips of a lifetime. Steve and Clare's diverse adventures range from cruising through Patagonian fjords to taking a slow barge down the Canal du Midi; from following in the footsteps of Shackleton in Antarctica to tracking gorillas through the Rwandan rainforest. This book isn't a travel guide, nor is it definitive, but it will introduce you to a host of unusual and amazing journeys from around the world. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned photographs, Unforgettable Journeys to Take Before You Die is aimed at anyone looking for ideas for an inspirational experience of a lifetime.

We only get one life so we owe it to ourselves to see as much of this beautiful world as possible. As we work longer hours our leisure time becomes more and more valuable and increasingly it's how we spend it that gives meaning and value to our lives. That's not to say that we are unhappy with our lot but, in the absence of religion, personal fulfilment is the new god and for growing numbers of people this comes from new experiences and sights. Holidays are what we live for - whether it's to see endangered wildlife, ancient monuments, modern architecture, art, foreign cultures, extraordinary scenery or whatever, holidays offer us the chance to grow and expand our horizons. For many of us today lying on a beach for two weeks is just not enough any more. Unforgettable Places to See Before You Die is the first in a new series of books that will help you search out some of these essential places and experiences. These books are not travel guides and they're certainly not definitive, but they will introduce you to a host of spectacular places that can all be visited in a regular two-week holiday or less. Compiled by the people who really know, each book will be written by an expert writer and photographer who will visit each location in person. In the first title, international travel writer and photographer, Steve Davey, draws on his years of experience and selects 40 of his personal favourite destinations that will inspire you to think beyond your office walls. Some of the locations are relatively well-known such as the Taj Mahal (but we felt that it just couldn't be left out) and the Alhambra in Spain (although by staying in the Parador in the grounds of the palace you can explore in the cool of the morning before the crowds arrive), but most are off the beaten track, such as Angkor Wat in Cambodia - a valley strewn with breath-taking Buddhist temples. Some involve relatively comfortable journeys, whilst others involve trekking across the wilderness to see the rock-hewn churches at Lalibela in Ethiopia or watching the sunrise over the Himalayas in Nepal. Aimed at style-conscious travellers looking for new sights and experiences, proposed future titles in the series include Unforgettable Things To Do Before You Die and Wild Places to See Before You Die.

Unforgettable Things to Do Before You Die helps you discover a host of amazing and rewarding trips and experiences to be had in some of the world's most fabulous places during a regular two-week holiday or less. International travel writers and photographers Steve Watkins and Clare Jones draw on years of experience and select 40 of their favourite experiences of a lifetime. Recommendations range from tracking spirit bears through rainforest on Princess Royal Island, Canada and hiking the famous Milford Track in New Zealand to watching stirring opera in Verona, Italy and sailing down the history-laced Nile on a felucca in Egypt. Lavishly illustrated with specially commissioned photographs and featuring inspirational short essays on each experience, it shows just how beautiful the world still is and uncovers compelling ways of connecting with and traveling through these magical places.

Trinny & Susannah have advised and dressed more than 3,000 women. They know instinctively the finer points and secrets of looking good. All their advice is presented in this book, whether it is something simple like knowing when to add a touch of blusher to a winter face or something more dramatic like changing the colour of your hair. They show how to choose the colours that suit you best, what underwear to buy, how to store clothes and how to revamp your wardrobe at no cost. They recommend beauty and makeup products and cover dressing for pregnancy. They give valuable hints on choosing accessories (handbags, shoes, belts, hats, jewellery) and travelling, including how to pose to best advantage in those holiday photographs

Susannah and Trinny can tell how you feel about yourself by how you dress. You may not necessarily be dressing badly, just stuck in a 'look' - and knowing how to change that can help you move forward and be who you would like to be. This book shows how to project yourself in a positive way through your clothes. It shows how to re-tune your appearance so that you can tell the world you are who you want to be. When you look different you will act different, when you act different you will feel different.

Each of us are a part of history. And each of us has a story that in microcosm creates the epic ebbs and flows of British history. Like the TV series, the book will enthuse and inspire the reader to join in the process that enables us to say as individuals who we think we are, and as a nation, what makes our country what it is. This basic essential information is brought to life by pull-out boxes on our favourite celebrities as they trace their family trees back over the last couple of hundred years - such as Meera Syal's story: 'From Dudley to Delhi'. Within the text are pull-out 'Did you know?' facts on everything from the pasts of well-known celebrities to our make-up as a nation (Are men more likely to have a beard if their surname is 'Beard'?) The book ends with a short section on good books and websites to go to if you want to get stuck in. Click here to view pages of the bookPLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SHORT SUPPLY THIS TITLE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE - ORDERS WILL BE PLACED ON BACK ORDER AND DESPTACHED AS SOON AS STOCK ARRIVES. WE APOLOGISE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CAUSE.

To accompany the third series of the award-winning BBC television series, this book gives the amateur genealogist all the tools to trace their ancestors back over six centuries, taking them on a fascinating historical journey into the past. For the first time in a popular genealogy book, author Anton Gill and "Who Do You Think You Are?" family history expert Nick Barratt have created a wonderfully readable book which takes the reader back through time past the usual family tree landmark of 1837, when birth, marriage and death registration were made mandatory, to allow the reader to trace their ancestors back to Tudor times. This book will explore the history which led to the dispersion of the population, it will look at local genealogy and connect the history of Britain with the people who lived during the times and the records they left. Whether your 17th-century ancestor was a merchant seamen listed on the muster rolls, or of a trade registered through the Livery guilds of Newcastle, Yorkshire or London; a midwife licensed by the church from medieval times (in case they had to baptise a sick baby at birth); an alehouse owner (victualler) who was licensed from the 1500s onwards; or an afro-Caribbean immigrant from the 1700s, this book fills the gaps in your family tree and gives you the resources to search out your medieval ancestors. This book is a guide to tracing your family tree back for six centuries, into the time of Tudor kings and peasant uprisings, through a fascinating array of historical resources. It is also a fascinating social history of the peoples of the United Kingdom and how they were shaped by the events of their times.

The question Alvin Hall is most frequently asked is "Where does my money go?" Following his successful TV series, Alvin Hall helps more people get their finances in order and offers easy-to-follow advice. Helping you to understand your money psychology, Alvin beats a clear pathway through the financial maze of mortgages, insurance and pensions, provides a practical understanding of credit card debt and interest rates, and advises how to set up balance sheets for budgeting personal finances.