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  Geoffrey Giuliano In...

  Geoffrey Giuliano

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  The archetypal, inveterate gypsy muso, Denny Laine — founder of the Moody Blues and wing commander of Paul McCartney’s post-Beatles pop incarnation band — is back with an all new, in-depth, soul searching interview with author and historian Geoffrey Giuliano. Laine rarely sits down for interviews, as his colorful past is often a touchy subject for the intensely private musician. 
  
  Giuliano, however, got the scoop, artfully encouraging Denny to go much further and deeper than he has ever gone in any interview. Denny Laine and Geoffrey Giuliano wrote a book together on Paul McCartney in the 1990s. Giuliano was Laine’s personal manager around this time. 
  A once in a lifetime audio adventure from Icon Audio Arts. Music by AudioNautix.

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  Nelson Mandela - A Life in...

  David Elliot Cohen

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  The New York Times bestselling author celebrates Mandela’s liberation and his fight for freedom with this collection of rare and historic photographs. 
   
  On February 11th, 1990, Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison after serving twenty-seven years for his struggle against apartheid in South Africa. This beautifully illustrated volume commemorates that event and Mandela’s inspiring life and work. 
   
  Created by renowned author David Elliot Cohen—who has worked with many of the top photojournalists who chronicled the “apartheid battles”—Nelson Mandela contains many images that have rarely, if ever, been seen, as well as the iconic photos that came to define this chapter in history.  
   
  This volume also includes the full text of Mandela’s six most important speeches, an essay on his historic significance, and a detailed overview of the struggle against apartheid.

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  British Short Story The - Volume...

  Anthony Trollope, George Eliot,...

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  These British Isles, moored across from mainland Europe, are more often seen as a world unto themselves.  Restless and creative, they often warred amongst themselves until they began a global push to forge a World Empire of territory, of trade and of language. 
   
  Here our ambitions are only of the literary kind.  These shores have mustered many masters of literature. So this anthology’s boundaries includes only those authors who were born in the British Isles - which as a geographical definition is the UK mainland and the island of Ireland - and wrote in a familiar form of English. 
   
  Whilst Daniel Defoe is the normal starting point we begin a little earlier with Aphra Behn, an equally colourful character as well as an astonishing playwright and poet.  And this is how we begin to differentiate our offering; both in scope, in breadth and in depth.  These islands have raised and nurtured female authors of the highest order and rank and more often than not they have been sidelined or ignored in favour of that other gender which usually gets the plaudits and the royalties. 
   
  Way back when it was almost immoral that a woman should write.  A few pages of verse might be tolerated but anything else brought ridicule and shame.  That seems unfathomable now but centuries ago women really were chattel, with marriage being, as the Victorian author Charlotte Smith boldly stated ‘legal prostitution’.  Some of course did find a way through - Jane Austen, the Brontes and Virginia Woolf but for many others only by changing their names to that of men was it possible to get their book to publication and into a readers hands.  Here we include George Eliot and other examples. 
   
  We add further depth with many stories by authors who were famed and fawned over in their day.  Some wrote only a hidden gem or two before succumbing to poverty and death. There was no second career as a game show guest, reality TV contestant or youtuber. They remain almost forgotten outposts of talent who never prospered despite devoted hours of pen and brain. 
   
  Keeping to a chronological order helps us to highlight how authors through the ages played around with characters and narrative to achieve distinctive results across many scenarios, many styles and many genres. The short story became a sort of literary laboratory, an early disruptor, of how to present and how to appeal to a growing audience as a reflection of social and societal changes.  Was this bound to happen or did a growing population that could read begin to influence rather than just accept? 
   
  Moving through the centuries we gather a groundswell of authors as we hit the Victorian Age - an age of physical mass communication albeit only on an actual printed page.  An audience was offered a multitude of forms: novels (both whole and in serialised form) essays, short stories, poems all in weekly, monthly and quarterly form.  Many of these periodicals were founded or edited by literary behemoths from Dickens and Thackeray through to Jerome K Jerome and, even some female editors including Ethel Colburn Mayne, Alice Meynell and Ella D’Arcy. 
   
  Now authors began to offer a wider, more diverse choice from social activism and justice – and injustice to cutting stories of manners and principles.  From many forms of comedy to mental meltdowns, from science fiction to unrequited heartache.  If you can imagine it an author probably wrote it.  
   
  At the end of the 19th Century bestseller lists and then prizes, such as the Nobel and Pulitzer, helped focus an audience’s attention to a books literary merit and sales worth. Previously coffeehouses, Imperial trade, unscrupulous overseas printers ignoring copyright restrictions, publishers with their book lists as an appendix and the gossip and interchange of polite society had been the main avenues to secure sales and profits.

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  Kiss Me Like A Stranger - My...

  Gene Wilder

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  Told in his own words, a very personal story from the star of many beloved and classic comedies, including Young Frankenstein, The Producers, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 
  Gene Wilder is one of the great comic actors who defined the 1970s and 1980s in movies. From his work with Woody Allen, to the rich group of movies he made with Mel Brooks, to his partnership on screen with Richard Pryor, Wilder's performances are still discussed and celebrated today. KISS ME LIKE A STRANGER is an intimate glimpse of the man behind the image on the screen.  In this book, Wilder talks about everything from his experiences in psychoanalysis to why he got into comedy-his first goal was to be a Shakespearean actor-to how a midwestern childhood with a sick mother changed him. He writes about the creative process on stage and on screen, and divulges moments from life on the sets of some of the most iconic movies of our time. He also opens up about his search for love and his marriages, including his marriage to comedienne Gilda Radner. But the core of KISS ME LIKE A STRANGER is an actor's search for truth and a thoughtful analysis of why the choices he made-some of them so serendipitous they were practically accidental-changed the course of his life.

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  Exploring the Psychology of...

  PBS NewsHour

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  It's been said that money is the root of all evil. Does money make people more likely to lie, cheat and steal? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on new research from the University of California, Berkeley about how wealth and inequality affects us psychologically.

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  NLP The Ultimate Guide to Learn...

  Michaela Morrison

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  In recent times, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, has steadily increased in popularity, and it is clear why! It has been demonstrated that NLP is extremely effective in achieving a range of goals in a range of areas. 
  NLP has numerous advocates of high status, including Tony Robbins. If it is recommended by successful people, it must be worth a shot! 
  NLP is the art of connecting thoughts, emotions, and feelings to actions. It allows you to change the emotions you connect with different actions and gives you more control over your success. 
  What you can do with NLP is really no limit. You can alter anything about yourself that you dislike. Even your most impossible dreams can be achieved. NLP is your happiness' secret. To feel pleased with yourself, you can become whatever you want to be. 
  Here is a preview of what you'll learn....What is NLPHow NLP worksKey principles of NLPWhy you need NLPWhere you can use NLPHow to use timeline techniques to create a compelling futureHow to harness the power of your unconscious mindPersuade people with calm and collected hypnosisBreak bad habits very very easily with the help of the "swish" technique?Much, much more! 
  NLP's universe is huge. In your lives, there are so many NLP apps. This book is a useful introduction that allows you to open many doors.  
  You have no more excuses now that you have this useful tool for self-transformation. You can begin to learn how to master yourself, attain your objectives, and grow larger than you ever thought. Today is the day you are learning the key to becoming yourself a better version.

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