Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice and gives you practical techniques for slower, smarter thinking.
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Eating well doesn’t have to be boring, as these delicious and nutritious recipes from some of our favourite local cookbook authors prove. Try Carmen Niehaus’s Grondboontjiebotter-Sjokoladekoekies, Iné Reynierse’s Protein-packed Berry Ice Cream or Chantal Lascaris’s Herbed Cranberry and Chicken Salad for food that is as tasty as it is good for you.
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Discover how to stay motivated in accomplishing your goals this year with an extract from clinical psychologist Dr Julie Smith’s book, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Practical advice and techniques for how to get out of a mental rut and make life more rewarding. Carnegie’s advice will teach you how to make friends quickly and easily; increase your popularity; persuade people to follow your way of thinking; enable you to win new clients and customers; become a better speaker; and boost enthusiasm among your colleagues.
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Lou Clark knows too many things ... She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to meet someone who’s going to turn her whole life upside down. Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it’ll hurt.
England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright – restless, stifled – makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife, is not the adventure – or the escape – that she hoped for. That is, until she meets Margery O’Hare, a troublesome woman – and daughter of a notorious felon – the town wishes to forget.
Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her family can ever forgive her. And will she ever get over the love of her life. What she knows for certain is that something has to change. Then it does. But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for? Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe. Open it and she risks everything. But Lou once made a promise to live.
What is the key to a good life? Directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, bring together over 80 years of research to reveal the true components of a happy, fulfilled life. In their ground-breaking book, The Good Life.
A century-old trunk has been dug up near the railway village of Sterfontein. Inside is the lost journal of Victorian author Elizabeth Tenant – and what appear to be the remains of a child.
Hannah is trapped inside a coach with a handful of survivors, a brewing virus, and no way to call for help. Former detective, Meg is in a cable car suspended far above a snowstorm and surrounded by strangers. Carter and his ragtag compatriots manage a precarious survival, manufacturing vaccines against a deadly virus. But as their generator begins to waver, the threat of something lurking in their chalet’s depths looms larger. A gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world.