Self Help & Personal Development

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021Once you've got a few decades on the clock, life can seem sort of cross-roadsy. Once you're no longer thinking of yourself as 'young', you may be looking back, thinking 'How did I get here?' And also...

An engaging, accessible introduction into how numbers work and why we shouldn’t be afraid of them, from maths expert Rachel Riley. Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long...

Bringing together short stories by award-winning contemporary science fiction authors and philosophers, this book covers a wide range of philosophical ideas from ethics, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and metaphysics.Alongside the...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' -- Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much...

Don't let this slim volume fool you. The co-founder of Monty Python knows a thing or two about creativity, and he boils it down in this short guide. Believe it or not, John Cleese has been studying and lecturing about creativity for decades. It can be...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHow can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stageDesigners create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • At last, a book that shows you how to build—design—a life you can thrive in, at any age or stageDesigners create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone...

What does it take to create the career you want?   It's no secret that the world of work has changed, and we're shifting toward an ever more entrepreneurial, self-reliant, work-from-wherever-you-are economy. That can be a liberating force, and many...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail and Magpie 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' -- Stylist 'A beautiful timely and humane book' -- Alain de Botton 'Most failures can teach us something meaningful about...

(Available after January 30th, 2022)A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.You're told that if you "do...

Can we maintain or even improve our brain function as we age? This vexing question is what Dr. Sanjay Gupta seeks to uncover while searching the globe for experts to answer. Through diet and exercise — and maybe a supplement or two — we may...

(Available after February 1st, 2022)NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how to harness it to combat anxiety, improve physical and mental health, and deepen our relationships with...

A groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, offering a new vision of what it is to be a manIn this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it means to be a man.Bly's vision is...

The urge to forge one’s character by fighting, in daily life as well as on the mat, appeals to something deep within us. More than a collection of fighting techniques, martial arts constitute a path to developing body, spirit, and awareness. On the...

(Available after 3-20 days) Remembered primarily as an eccentric and deluded billionaire, Howard Hughes was once America's golden boy, a celebrated aviator and Hollywood legend who romanced hundreds of beautiful women. The scope of his life made him one...

Protect yourself by learning how to trust — and act on — your instincts with the "empowering" #1 bestseller from personal safety expert Gavin de Becker (Boston Globe). A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the...

For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of...

(Available after 3-20 days)  Over one million copies sold and nine months on the New York Times bestseller list! For readers of the bestsellers Atomic Habits and Never Split the Difference—this bestselling classic will teach you to hone your intuition to...

(Available after 3-20 days) In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the...