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Break away from bad habits and build healthy ones with this step-by-step workbook, which will help you make positive changes in your life

Habits are the building blocks of our days, and they have a huge impact on how we live – they affect what we do, how we feel and the paths in life that we choose to take.

The Good Habit Workbook contains practical advice, effective tips and guided exercises based on trusted cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques. It will help you to break free from negative cycles that aren’t serving you and replace them with positive, productive habits for long-term health and happiness.

Use the workbook either on its own or alongside therapy to help you develop positive habits.

Inside the book, you will find:

– Clear, actionable advice on making positive lifestyle changes to support and improve your mental well-being
– A calm, supportive approach which invites you to work through the book at your own pace
– A hands-on attitude to breaking away from negative habits Exercises grounded in research-supported CBT techniques

Find inner confidence with this step-by-step workbook to help you build your self-esteem

Healthy self-esteem is key to having a good sense of well-being – it allows us to move through life with confidence, joy and resilience, to seek out new opportunities and to be kind to ourselves.

It can often be challenging to feel good about who we are. However, The Self-Esteem Workbook contains practical advice, effective tips and guided exercises based on trusted cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to help you build your self-esteem.

Use the workbook either on its own or alongside therapy to help you grow your confidence and achieve long-term self-belief.

Inside the book, you will find:
– A relaxed and supportive approach, allowing you to calmly complete the exercises at your own pace
– A hands-on attitude to boosting self-esteem, offering a wealth of tips and advice for working through your worries
– Clear and actionable advice on making lifestyle changes to support and improve your mental well-being
– Exercises grounded in research-supported CBT techniques

A pocket-sized guide to all things vegan grub, this little book is the perfect gift for students who hunger for easy, affordable and feel-good food

The student lifestyle doesn’t always lend itself to extravagant cooking – most of the time you might get by with toast – but this book is for those that crave a little creativity, sustainability and flavour in the kitchen.

Vegan student food always packs a plant-based punch, promising tasty ingredients, high nutritional value and ethical peace of mind. Featuring an array of budget-friendly, flavourful and easy-to-make meals, this guide gives you the vegan recipes you need to spice up your student suppers.

From comfort food to gourmet dishes, study snacks to batch bakes and delicious drinks, the recipes, tips and trivia inside this book will put the variety in your vegan diet.

Whether you’re already a meat-free chef, a vegan cooking newcomer or an omnivore looking to explore plant-based food in your student kitchen, this book will provide you with the tools to ensure great taste every mealtime.

The real use for the photocopier, pulling a stylish sickie, and avoiding Norman the techie: we’ve all been there. This book is a damning indictment of the world of work and a lifesaver in the office jungle!

Welcome to the definitive guide to flirting in the 21st century. Learn essential tips such as how to make your first impression count, when physical contact works (and when it doesn’t), what to say and, more importantly, when to leave them guessing. Actions speak louder than words and in the universal language of flirting this book is the essential phrasebook. The author has been appearing regularly on TV and radio for the past 8 years as an expert on flirting and chat-up techniques. His TV credits include interviews on GMTV, Richard & Judy, BBC TV News, The Good Sex Guide, and more than 45 other shows. He is formerly one of Britain’s Most Eligible Bachelors and one of Tatler magazine’s Top Dates. He is the author of the bestselling books How To Chat-up Babes and The Little Book of Chat-up Lines.

Full of tips to boost your confidence with the opposite sex, no single bloke should enter a bar without this package tucked in his trousers.

A charming guide to the most popular room in the house. From toilets in the Bible to bathroom habits, from Roman baths to modern Japanese bathroom technology, The Essential Bathroom Book reveals the history behind the bathroom door. With bathroom superstition, soaps and showers, this little book is packed with historical details and fascinating facts and is an essential addition to the smallest room. No visit to the little room would be complete without it.

A collection of all the most hilarious chat-up lines and devastating put-downs ever uttered written by the author who was nominated one of “Tatler” magazine’s “best dates in town”.

This volume contains a selection of recipes for barbecue and campfire food. The recipes range from old favourites to the more adventurous, and are accompanied by practical hints on cooking outdoors.

A full introduction to cooking techniques for men who have no experience in the kitchen.

Ever been lost for words abroad?

When you want to get your point across abroad there’s only one way to do it: by swearing your ar*e off! Impress the world with a stream of multi-lingual profanity from this nifty pocket book.

Would you like to hear my song about tortillas? Actually, it’s more of a rap.

Prepare to have your sides split and your ribs tickled in this ultimate collection of the world’s most memorable jokes! This seriously silly compendium of unforgettable one-liners, catchy quips and everything in-between is sure to have the whole family aching with laughter. Giggle fits guaranteed!

Hula your way into the kitchen and create a feast that’s hotter than the tropics

Don your flowery apron and straw skirt and get ready to cook up a tropical storm with this exotic recipe book filled with colourful surprises. Whether you want to find your wings with Flamingo Cupcakes, make Tropical Island Jelly Bites, bake Pineapple Pancakes or rustle up a Monkey Milkshake, The Tropical Cookbook is packed with recipes perfect for parties and times when you want to show your guests a slice of food paradise.

Did you know…?
– Russia sold Alaska to the US for just $7.2 million in 1867
– Alexander the Great failed to name an heir to his vast empire before he died, which subsequently led to its fall
– J. K. Rowling received several rejections from publishers before her first Harry Potter book hit the shelves

We all do stupid things in our lives, but the events in this book are next-level ridiculous! Packed with trivia and information on the world’s biggest fails in history, this book will leave you shocked and a little smug as you discover the true meaning of the word ‘cock-up’.

If you’ve stopped finding the ‘hide the pencils’ routine funny, or just need some wicked inspiration for staving off office boredom, these dares are guaranteed to have you gasping with delight and cackling in anticipation as you:

• Arrive at work in your dressing gown, holding a bowl of cornflakes
• Book a male stripper for the office on Friday afternoon
• Create a mini aquarium in the water cooler
• Communicate with everyone through the medium of dance for the day

With 400 outrageous dares to help release your inner delinquent and challenge your nerve to the limit, the question is: Do you dare to play?

If you have a household to run, you know what anendless uphill struggle it can be to keep things undercontrol. If you seem to spend your whole life cleaning the house or attempting to keep your house in order, this is the book you have been waiting for.

Don’t let preparing for your driving test drive you up the wall! With tips from instructors and new drivers alike for both before and during the exam, this little book is jam-packed with helpful advice to make sure that you feel in fine form for the open road . and that you lose your L-plates and not your cool.

This volume is designed to introduce people of all ages to the kitchen, show them around that somewhat unfamiliar room and transform them, with minimal pain, into competent cooks. Alastair Williams offers over 150 simple recipes interspersed with witty anecdotes.

If you have trouble getting up in the morning, if you find that you lack motivation in your work, if you find that you really can’t be bothered with your family and friends anymore, this book provides you with some of the world’s finest cynical and defeatist thoughts.

It’s time to break up with booze

There’s life beyond alcohol. Drinking less or stopping completely can revitalize your world, from health and mood to money and relationships. It may seem tricky if drinking is currently your go-to for stress relief or recreation, but there are dozens of ways to stay on the wagon and feel the benefits. This practical book has all the facts, advice and ideas you need to start your journey and refresh your life.

Paul William Roberts’s journeys through India span 20 years, and in this volume he creates a mosaic, by turns tragic and comic, of the subcontinent and its people. From the crumbling palaces of maharajas to the slums of Calcutta; from the ashrams of holy men to a millionaire drug dealer’s heavily guarded fortress on India’s border with China; Roberts seeks to capture the lure of this enigmatic land – this empire of the soul.

There is nothing better than basking in the summer sun or relaxing on a long summer’s evening with delicious food and drink, whilst being serenaded by the Bard. Food, drink and Shakespeare go happily hand in hand, and there is no shortage of references to mankind’s favourite pastimes in his plays. A Midsummer Night’s Dream conjures up images of secluded lover’s picnics in forested glades, of dancing and merriment throughout balmy nights, and feasts of sweet and savoury delicacies fit for a (fairy) King. So, in summertime, and with Shakespeare’s blessing, “How shall we beguile/The lazy time if not with some delight?”