Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1998-02-01
Dewey code: 299.783
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.29
Review The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman / Berkley Publishing Group:
Edition: 35th Anniversary Ed. /
Publication date: 1998-03-20
Dewey code: 975.00496073
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.95
Review Black Like ME / E P Dutton & Co Inc:
Publication date: 2006-06-05
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.92
Review Just Another Kid: Each Was a Child No One Could Reach! Until One Amazing Teacher Embraced Them All / Harper Element:
Authors
- Irvin D. Yalom
- Ginny Elkin
Publication date: 1990-12-12
Dewey code: 616.898209
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.71
Review Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy / Basic Books:
Publication date: 1996-08
Dewey code: 796.42092
RRP: £12.31
Price: £30.54
Review Slaying the Dragon: How to Turn Your Small Steps to Great Feats / Harpercollins:Michael Johnson is known as the fastest man in the world. He is famous for accomplishing something that no other runner has ever done: in 1996 he won Olympic gold medals in both the 200m and 400m. This accomplishment is the climax of Johnson's career so far and closes this autobiography. Chronicalling his life as an athlete from his college days at Baylor University, it provides a veritable photo gallery of family and athletics memorabilia. However, Johnson's work bears little further resemblance to other works of this genre. Moreover, the subtitle "How to turn your small steps into great feats" is the real key to his book. In each chapter Johnson outlines the motivation and discipline behind his athletic career. By describing his physical and mental self-discipline towards training, preparation for races and the events themselves, he gives the reader an insight into how he has achieved his successes. He shares his winning techniques and advises that identification of our own fears and goals combined with his "Training tips" can be applied in every aspect of life, whether this be athletics, work or persevering with a diet. Johnson also relies on quotations from William Shakespeare, Dr. [+]Martin Luther King Jr. and Stevie Wonder to affirm his advice. Unlike him, we may not wear a pair of gold Nike running spikes every day, but Johnson is keen to apply his success to both our personal and professional lives. -Alison Taylor.
Publication date: 2008-03-27
Dewey code: 580.922
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.00
Review Flower Hunters / OUP Oxford:
Publication date: 2003-02-13
Dewey code: 184
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.34
Review Plato: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1991-08-02
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.51
Review Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values / Vintage:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-19
Dewey code: 100
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.35
Review Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) / Oxford Paperbacks:
Publication date: 2008-03-03
Dewey code: 362.1968520092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.49
Review The Butterfly Girl / John Blake Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-04-30
Dewey code: 973.931092
RRP: £11.24
Price: £5.98
Review The Revolution: A Manifesto / Grand Central Publishing:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2004-05-01
Dewey code: 512.73
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.38
Review Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics / Plume Books:Bernhard Riemann was an underdog of sorts, a malnourished son of a parson who grew up to discover one of the greatest problems in mathematics. In Prime Obsession, John Derbyshire deals brilliantly with both Riemann's life and that problem, which was to find proof of the conjecture "all non-trivial zeros of the zeta function have real part one-half". That statement may be nonsense to anyone but a mathematician but Derbyshire walks the reader through the decades of reasoning that led to the Riemann Hypothesis in a way that makes it perfectly clear. Riemann never proved the statement and it remains unsolved to this day. Prime Obsession offers alternating chapters of step-by-step maths and a history of 19th-century European intellectual life, letting readers take a breather between chunks of well-written information. Derbyshire's style is accessible but not dumbed-down, thorough but not heavy-handed. This is among the best popular treatments of an obscure mathematical idea and allows readers to explore the theory without insisting on page after page of formulae. In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute offered a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who could prove the Riemann Hypothesis, but luminaries like David Hilbert, GH Hardy, Alan Turing, André Weil and Freeman Dyson have all tried before. Will the Riemann Hypothesis ever be proved? "One day we shall know," writes Derbyshire and he makes the effort seem very worthwhile. -Therese Littleton, Amazon. [+]com.
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 973.922092
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.18
Review Counselor / HarperCollins:
Authors
- Amanda Bennett
- Lori Schiller
Publication date: 1996-07
Dewey code: 616.89820092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Quiet Room: Journey Out of the Torment of Madness / Little, Brown and Company:
Publication date: 2004-08-15
Dewey code: 616.858520092
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.51
Review Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder / Hazelden Information & Educational Services:
Publication date: 2007-10-25
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.00
Review Soul on the Street / Hay House:
Creator: R.J. Hollingdale
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1992-11-26
Dewey code: 193
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.61
Review Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-12
Dewey code: 500
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.33
Review Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea / Souvenir Press Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1997-12
Dewey code: 150.195
Price: £4.99
Review Man's Search for Meaning / Simon & Schuster Inc:Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl's imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity's life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Therefore, Frankl's logotherapy is much more compatible with western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated and very human book. At times, Frankl's personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. "Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is", Frankl writes. "After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips. [+]" -Christine Buttery.
Creator: Mark Ridley
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2007-03-22
Dewey code: 591.5092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.89
Review Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think / OUP Oxford:
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