The hilarious true story of an amateur boating adventure. Yacht racing. A world of privilege and money. Beautiful women, bronzed men, and Simon le Bon explaining that he used to be in a band. It's not like that for everyone. Somewhere much, much further down the ladder it all looks very different. As a teenager, Michael Hutchinson raced tiny plywood dinghies on Belfast Lough, amid shoals of sewage-eating jellyfish. For him, sailing became the kind of obsession that often as not ends with a psychiatric intervention. Turning pro was his only dream. Then, at the age of eighteen, driven to despair by his own unremitting mediocrity, he gave up. But he never stopped dreaming about it - what was he missing out on? How good or bad had he really been? Had it really been a wasted youth? At last, fifteen years later, he went back. Missing the Boat is the story of his comeback season, on the South Coast of England, in Ireland, and in the glamorous resorts of the Mediterranean. It's about the yachts, the people, the regattas, and just what it was like to dive back into a world that had become entirely alien. Michael Hutchinson won the Best First Book at the British Sports Book Awards.

Missing the Boat: Chasing a Childhood Sailing Dream

Sports & Outdoors

Hutchinson, Michael

Water Sports

Vintage Books

Gripping, very funny and packed with fascinating stories, The Hour is the story of one man and his bike against the clock in the quest for pure speed and an attempt to add his name to the list of illustrious record holders in the only cycling record that matters.

The Hour: Sporting Immortality the Hard Way

Yellow Jersey Press

Full of fascinating tales, The Hour is the story of one man and his bike against the clock in the quest for pure speed and an attempt to add his name to the list of record holders in the only cycling contest that matters.

The Hour

Individual Sports

What began as a voyage of discovery soon turned into a full-blown addiction for Michael Hutchinson when he was caught by the same sailing bug that persuades thousands of others to spend all their money on getting cold and wet. Hello Sailor is laugh-out-loud funny.

Hello Sailor

"A lucid review of the field of brain science . . ." The Psychiatric Times A lucid and lively account of where the pioneers in brain research are headed -- and where they are taking us.

Megabrain: New Tools and Techniques for Brain Growth and Mind Expansion

Medical Books

Medicine

Ballantine Books

A groundbreaking book on building long-term wealth for stakeholders As creator of the Wealth Added Index (WAI), Stern Stewart's Erik Stern has become a beacon for creating shareholder value within the current storm of corporate malfeasance and poor performance. The Value Mindset shows readers how to develop this way of thinking by blending individual manager incentives with the proper corporate structure and the willingness to pursue value discipline over the long term. Filled with practical concepts that have proved themselves in the real world, this book shows readers how they can transform a company into an organization that can deliver value and returns to its shareholders. The Value Mindset helps readers develop this mindset-as well as implement it-by detailing the metrics that are necessary for any manager to measure and monitor value creation within the firm. Erik Stern (London, UK) is a Senior Vice President at Stern Stewart & Co., based in London. He has designed and implemented programs for companies in several industries in the United States and Europe. Mike Hutchinson (London, UK) is a Vice President at Stern Stewart & Co., based in London. He worked previously for the BBC and the Consumers' Association.

The Value Mindset: Returning to the First Principles of Capitalist Enterprise

Business & Money

Stern, Erik

Finance

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right - it's the doing everything right that's hard. And that's what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery and an awareness that it's all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster - training, nutrition, the right psychology - and explains how they work, and how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, and why, and how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches and the boffins get up to behind the scenes, and about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.

Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World's Fastest Cyclists

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Bloomsbury Sport

For professional cyclists, going faster and winning are, of course, closely related. Yet surprisingly, for many, a desire to go faster is much more important than a desire to win. Someone who wants to go faster will work at the details and take small steps rather than focusing on winning. Winning just happens when you do everything right – it’s the doing everything right that’s hard. And that’s what fascinates and obsesses Michael Hutchinson. With his usual deadpan delivery and an awareness that it’s all mildly preposterous, Hutchinson looks at the things that make you faster – training, nutrition, the right psychology – and explains how they work, and how what we know about them changes all the time. He looks at the things that make you slower, and why, and how attempts to avoid them can result in serious athletes gradually painting themselves into the most peculiar life-style corners. Faster is a book about why cyclists do what they do, about what the riders, their coaches and the boffins get up to behind the scenes, and about why the whole idea of going faster is such an appealing, universal instinct for all of us.

Bloomsbury Academic

Today I Am: 10 Stories of Belonging

Literature & Fiction

Fung, Rosena

Chan, Marty

Ramadan, Danny

Wint, Brandon

Narsimhan, Mahtab

Lucas, Chad

Misri, Angela

Sambury, Liselle

Richardson, Jael

Short Stories & Anthologies

Scholastic, Canada

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