In this highly-accessible self-help book Big Issue founder John Bird explains his seven simple rules that could help you change your life. Whether you want to get a new job, quit smoking, stop drinking or go back to college, How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps explains how you can take what you've been given and turn it into something you'll be proud of, rather than spend your life wishing for everything you haven't got.  For 99% of us life doesn't come knocking on the door; you have to go out and get it. But the trouble with aiming for the stars is that you're likely to end up in the gutter. John Bird has learnt through his work with the homeless that if you start by putting just 3% of your energy towards your final goal rather than a gutter-hitting 99% you will eventually make the changes you are looking for.   John's six other rules are as straightforward as this first one, 'Start With 3%'. He writes with passion about the dangers of thinking like a victim and of not telling the truth; he shares with us the importance of thinking for yourself and never putting others down, and he encourages us not to define our successes by the failures of others and to recognise our own achievements.  Written in his unique no-nonsense style this is a book about 'cutting through the bullshit and making the most of what you have.'

How to Change Your Life in 7 Steps

Self-Help

John, Bird

Motivational

Vermilion

In this book John Bird and Carl Ross introduce mechanical principles and technology through examples and applications - enabling students to develop a sound understanding of the principles needed by professional engineers and technicians. No previous background in engineering is assumed and theoretical concepts are supported by over 600 problems and worked examples. This completely new text is designed to match a wide range of pre-degree courses, and provide an accessible introduction for undergraduates with no previous background in engineering studies. The authors have ensured syllabus-match for the leading UK courses at this level: AVCE optional units Mechanical Engineering Principles and Further Mechanical Engineering Principles, and the new BTEC National unit: Mechanical Principles. A student-friendly introduction to core engineering topics which does not assume any background in engineering studies A brand new text matched to the latest syllabus requirements Includes over 600 problems and 400 worked examples

Mechanical Engineering Principles

Engineering & Transportation

Ross, Carl

Engineering

Routledge

In this book John Bird introduces engineering science through examples rather than theory - enabling students to develop a sound understanding of engineering systems in terms of the basic scientific laws and principles. The book includes 575 worked examples, 1200 problems, 440 multiple choice questions (answers provided), and the maths that students will require is also provided in a separate section within the book. Throughout the book assessment papers are provided that are ideal for use as tests or homework. These are the only problems where answers are not provided in the book. Full worked solutions are available to lecturers only as a free download from our textbook website. * A student-friendly text that does not require any background in engineering * Learn by example: over 1,200 problems, 575 worked examples, 440 multiple-choice questions (answers provided) * Includes assessment papers - worked solutions in a free lecturer's manual

Science for Engineering

Science & Math

Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada

Stoddart Pub.

The Annals of Natal. 1495 to 1845

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

History

BiblioLife

Newnes Engineering Science Pocket Book

Taylor&Francis

One Day, One Night offers a riveting account of the challenges, the adventure, the wonder of life at the South Pole Station. This work of narrative non-fiction reveals mind-boggling science, from secrets of climate change locked under the ice, to the edge of the universe and the beginning of time. Immerse yourself in land and skyscapes. Gawk at Polies running to the Geographic South Pole naked when the temperature reaches –101°F. Find yourself bathed in perpetual darkness, frozen into the eight months of winter in the most isolated place on Earth.

One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole (Color Version)

McCallum, Jennifer

Nature & Ecology

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

One Day, One Night offers a riveting account of the challenges, the adventure, the wonder of life at the South Pole Station. This work of narrative non-fiction reveals mind-boggling science, from secrets of climate change locked under the ice, to the edge of the universe and the beginning of time. Immerse yourself in land and skyscapes. Gawk at Polies running to the Geographic South Pole naked when the temperature reaches –101°F. Find yourself bathed in perpetual darkness, frozen into the eight months of winter in the most isolated place on Earth.

One Day, One Night: Portraits of the South Pole

Jennifer McCallum

These recordings were originally issued in the 60's & 70's & feature the classic songs & sketches that such an incredible array of talent could create

Private Eye

Humor & Entertainment

Peter Cook

Richard Ingrams

Dudley Moore

John Wells

Barry, Humphries

Willie Rushton

Humor

Music Collection International

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