4th Estate Failosophy. A Handbook for When Things Go Wrong Day Elizabeth

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong • This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's a book for everyone • If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis • Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger

Because there's never enough time to say goodbye • Sylvia knows that she's running out of time. Very soon, she will exist only in the memories of those who loved her most and the pieces of her life she's left behind • So she begins to write her husband a handbook for when she's gone, somewhere to capture the small moments of ordinary, precious happiness in their married lives. From raising their wild, loving son, to what to give their gentle daughter on her eighteenth birthday - it's everything she should have told him before it was too late • But Sylvia also has a secret, one that she's saved until the very last pages. And it's a moment in her past that could change everything

‘By the people, for the people’ • ‘I have the heart and stomach of a king’ • ‘We shall never surrender’ • The right words at the right time can shape history • By analysing twenty-five of the greatest speeches ever given – delivered by iconic figures from Elizabeth I to John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama – Philip Collins tells the story of democracy. For it is through the finest words spoken in public that progress unfolds • When They Go Low, We Go High is a passionate defence of the power of public speaking, and an urgent – and timely – reminder of how words can change the world

In Do Less, Get More, entrepreneur and bestselling author Shaa Wasmund reveals that the key to fulfilment isn't doing more, it's doing what matters • Is your life how you imagined it would be, or is the reality more stressful than you planned? • Do you put yourself under too much pressure to succeed? • Are you struggling to find time for the things, and people, you love? • It doesn't have to be this way. Anything is possible when you stop trying to do everything at the same time • This life changing book gives you the tools to ditch your to do list and follow your dreams. It will be your essential guide to doing what you love - and letting go of the rest

"Когда все пошло наперекосяк" - веселое приключение для читателей старше 9 лет от Тома Митчелла. "Когда все пошло наперекосяк" - это также своевременный призыв защитить нашу окружающую среду • Когда семья Кита переезжает в разрушающийся дом в Шотландском нагорье, ему приходится со многим сталкиваться – ужасный Wi-Fi, новая школа у черта на куличках и, как всегда, его надоедливый младший брат Джек. Но по-настоящему проблемы Кита начинаются только после того, как братья находят странный предмет на вересковых пустошах • Книга на английском языке • A hilarious adventure for readers aged 9+ from the author of Escape from Camp Boring. When Things Went Wild is also a timely call to protect our environment • When Kit’s family move to a crumbling house in the Scottish Highlands, he’s got a lot to deal with – terrible Wi-Fi, a new school in the middle of nowhere, and, as always, his annoying little brother, Jack

Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets The Dangerous Book for Boys, Danger Is Everywhere is a brilliantly funny handbook for avoiding danger of all kinds that will have everyone from reluctant readers to bookworms laughing out loud (very safely) from start to finish • Does it warn you about what to do if a shark comes up out of the loo while you are sitting on it? • Yes it does • And how to find out if your granny is a robot? • That too • And what to do if a volcano erupts underneath your house? • After you've made sure it's not a neighbour's barbecue, this book will let you know exactly how to deal with it

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A stunning, delicate portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class and the long road to redemption • Max Weston, twenty-one, leaves for his first army posting in central Africa. What happens to him changes the lives of his family forever. At home, his parents struggle to cope. The overwhelming love Caroline has always felt for her only child is now matched by the intensity of Max's absence. The silence is broken by the arrival of Caroline's mother-in-law, Elsa, who at the age of ninety-eight can no longer look after herself. After years of living in fear of putting a foot wrong in front of this elegant, cuttingly courteous lady, finally, Caroline has the upper hand

Sometimes Marisa gets the fanciful notion that Kate has visited the house before. She makes herself at home without any self-consciousness. She puts her toothbrush right there in the master bathroom, on the shelf next to theirs • In Jake, Marisa has found everything she’s ever wanted. Then their new lodger Kate arrives • Something about Kate isn’t right. Is it the way she looks at Marisa’s boyfriend? Sits too close on the sofa? Constantly asks about the baby they are trying for? Or is it all just in Marisa’s head? • After all, that’s what her Jake keeps telling her. And she trusts him – doesn’t she? • But Marisa knows something is wrong. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants • Marisa just doesn’t know why

A family scattered • Lovers torn apart • A painting that unites them all • When Jozef is commissioned to paint a portrait of the younger daughter of Krakow’s grand Oderfeldt family, it is only his desperate need for money that drives him to accept. He has no wish to indulge a pampered child-princess or her haughty, condescending parents – and almost doesn’t notice Alicia’s bookish older sister, Karolina • But when he is ushered by a servant into their house on Krakow’s fashionable Bernadynska street in the winter of 1937, he has no inkling of the way his life will become entangled with the Oderfeldts'. Or of the impact that the German invasion will have upon them all • As Poland is engulfed by war, and Jozef’s painting is caught up in the tides of history, Alicia, Karolina and their parents are forced to flee – their Jewish identity transformed into something dangerous, and their comfortable lives overturned … • Spanning countries and decades The Light at the End of the Day is a heart-breaking novel of exile, survival and how we remember what is lost

In the sequel to the best-selling 50 States, 5,000 ideas, National Geographic turns to the United States' and Canada's most pristine--and adventure-filled--national, state, and city parks with 5,000 ideas for the ultimate vacation. Showcasing the best experiences, both obvious and unexpected, each entry in this robust guide provides an overview of the park, detailed travel advice, fascinating facts, insider knowledge about wildlife, and expert tips for hiking, biking, camping, and exploring. From the geysers of Yellowstone National Park to the Everglades' Nine Mile Pond Canoe Trail and the stunning peaks of Banff and Jasper in Alberta, each page will fuel your wanderlust. Plus, explore the natural beauty tucked away in cities like New York's Central Park and Boston Commons, and find bonus parks with day-trip suggestions to nearby neighbors