A deeply personal account of Laura's journey to Graceland, through the American South, exploring the role music played in saving her life.

The debut novel from Irish playwright, actor, and poet, Emmet Kirwan.

From populations to pandemics, official statistics are indispensable to thinking about modern society. Alex Fenton sets out a sociological approach to analysing how these powerful numbers are produced by government agencies and their fight over them. He shows how statistics extend the capacities of the state and represent social problems. Using archives, interviews, and official publications, he presents a detailed case study of the development of poverty and income statistics in Britain and West Germany. With this, the book demonstrates the importance of historical analysis and underlines the ambivalent position of official statistics between politics, government, and science.

The Minimalist Entrepreneur is the manifesto for a new generation of founders who would rather build great companies than big ones. Why bother chasing unicorns when you can build a profitable, sustainable business that customers love?

A THRILLING NEW DOCTOR WHO GRAPHIC NOVEL WHICH STARS FAN-FAVORITE CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS AS HE GOES UP AGAINST THE TORCHWOOD INSTITUTE! In the midst of kicking alien butt - and looking good doing it – Captain Jack Harkness is suddenly transported through a time-window to 19th Century Cardiff… again! Realising there’s more than one thing afoot, he sets out to uncover what the Victorian-era Torchwood Institute team are up to behind closed doors, hoping to solve the mystery of why time-windows are cropping up everywhere. But what he finds is very unexpected, and will certainly leave him needing a hand from some old friends… Buy it, read it, then travel back in time to read it for the first time all over again…!

Why does beauty matter? Beauty helps the teenager who is too embarrassed to leave the house because of their bad skin day, it holds the hand of the woman going through menopause who doesn't understand why her hair is thinning and it empowers the working professional who is dealing with imposter syndrome in the boardroom. These are not areas to be brushed off as trivial. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, it affects your confidence, your mood and your state of mind. The beauty world is often viewed as frivolous, superficial and shallow, but in Beauty Matters, Sunday Times beauty director and industry influencer Sarah Jossel will left the lid on why we shouldn't be ashamed to spend time on liking our appearance.  Through personal anecdotes, tips, advice and product recommendations, this is the book that will change the way we all think about beauty and shine a light on the inextricable link between the power of beauty products and mental health. Embrace the power of beauty and get ready for your confidence levels to sky-rocket.

The powerful and inspirational autobiography of the Right Revd and Right Hon. Dr John Sentamu, the boy from a Ugandan village who became the first Black archbishop in the Church of England.

A unique look at the planets.

Leigh Hunt provides a series of vivid insights into London in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as chapters on Genoa, Pisa and Florence. This richly-annotated edition prepared by Timothy Webb reprints Hunt's original text of 1850, rather than the revised version which was published after his death.

The Invention of Nature is a complete visual journey through humankind's depiction of animal and plant life, from the very first cave paintings made over 30,000 years ago to the present.With over 300 images covering cabinets of curiosity, illustrated herbaria, bestiaries, classical paintings, natural history illustrations, taxidermized specimens and photography, the book weaves together a fascinating chronological story of nature.

Electric Dreams is the definitive history of the hugely influential bands The Human League and Heaven 17, from Sheffield beginnings to world-renowned synth-pop pioneers.

A must-have for anyone fascinated by space travel, rocketry, NASA, SpaceX, and more! A new era in spaceflight, led by SpaceX and other commercial rocket companies, is generating the kind of worldwide interest in space travel that we haven't seen since the space race of the 1960s. Kids are dreaming of becoming astronauts again. New feats, such as SpaceX's remarkable ability to land booster rockets, under powered descent, back on land or sea has galvanized a new generation of rocket enthusiasts. Yet none of this would be possible without the advances of rocketry over the past century. The Chinese were the first to develop black-powder fireworks and rockets centuries ago, but modern rocketry truly began with Robert Goddard's launch of a liquid-fueled rocket on a Massachusetts farm in 1926. That metal contraption-which flew just 41 feet high before arching over and streaking 184 feet into a cabbage patch-came just 43 years before Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. Armstrong's Apollo 11 mission was made possible by a giant 36-story-tall Saturn V rocket that used some of the same propulsion principles as Goddard's first tiny, crude rockets. The beginning of the "Space Age" is considered to be Russia's launch of the world's first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. But it was the pioneering human spaceflights of the 1960s that captured the imagination of the world and turned astronauts into heroes. Weapons of war-the Redstone, Atlas, and Titan II missiles-were converted into civilian launch boosters and led to the success of the Mercury and Gemini programs. All the while, Saturn rockets were being developed that would ultimately lead to the moon missions. Kids were so excited about these pioneering space flights that an entirely new hobby-model rocketry-was created to serve their interests. Small scale models of NASA's big rockets were ordered by the millions, generating a $100 million hobby at a time when there were no video games, no internet, and no cable, just three broadcast television networks. Now, the next generation of rockets from SpaceX and other commercial companies, along with NASA's new launch vehicles and Orion spacecraft, will lead the United States and the world into a new era of rocketry-beginning with crewed flights to the moon as early as 2024, and ultimately to Mars within the first half of this century.

Biologist and broadcaster Ben Garrod combs the natural world for causes, clues and cures to the dangerous threat of zoonoses - diseases passed from animals to humans.

Much of the workday, in mindshare and time, is dedicated to outer work: meetings with co-workers, interactions with customers, or working on a deck or other tangible deliverables. For most of us, this is the very definition of "work": external, externally-focused activity. Inner Work puts forth an assertion that is novel today, but that successful leaders have known for millennia: inner work--the practice of thoughtful attention to the inner experience of yourself and others--is "work" as well, and of crucial importance; not just as a question of wellness or employee satisfaction, but as the engine of a potential transformation in the efficacy (and, yes, happiness) of most organizational workplaces. Inner Work draws on a legacy of thought that spans both the Western and Eastern traditions to frame leadership, creativity, and work as an inner experience. For thousands of years across geographies and cultures, humans have understood that leadership and productivity depend on an individual's inner balance and understanding. The importance of these lessons in a knowledge economy is well understood today--from Netflix to Zappos to Google to Valve, leading companies are constantly seeking to create value by empowering employees to unlock their own potential. And for the individual--leader, employee, or both--the need is even more urgent and plain: how can you create more value in your work for your human life?Inner Work is a book about self-exploration; it's also a toolkit for how to improve. Its assertion is that, by looking into ourselves with rigor and integrity, we each have the power to achieve both these goals. This is a book that will help leaders and employees create value for themselves and their organizations by actively exploring their own inner processes, values, and mental models: the tools we use, constantly, to operate in the world.

Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note to Joan Didion.In The White Album, Joan Didion famously wrote that “a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively…loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.” Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray, taking it all in behind dark glasses, Joan Didion claimed California for all time. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a multi-faceted portrait of the literary icon who, in turn, belongs to us.This collection of original essays covers the turf that made Didion a sensation—Hollywood and Patty Hearst; Malibu, Manson and the Mojave; the Summer of Love and the Central Park Five—while bringing together some of the finest voices of today’s Los Angeles and beyond. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note; personal memoir and social commentary; cultural history and literary critique. Fans of Didion, lovers of California, and fellow writers alike will all find something to dig into, in this rich exploration of the inner and outer landscapes Joan Didion traveled, shaping our own journeys in the process.Featuring essays byAnn FriedmanJori FinkelMargaret WapplerJessica HundleyChristine LennonCatherine WagleySu WuJoshua Wolf ShenkLauren SandlerMichelle ChiharaSarah TomlinsonLinda ImmediatoTracy McMillanDan CraneSteph ChaCaroline RyderJoe DonnellyMonica Corcoran HarelAlysia AbbottStacie StukinHeather John FogartyMarc WeingartenScott BenzelEzrha Jean Black

Life isn't easy when you're single, pushing 50, and still haunted by the ghosts of your rock 'n' roll past--but if anyone can find the funny in it, Sunset Strip video vixen Brown can. Hilarious, sweet, and bitingly honest, Cherry On Top reveals how one gorgeous, potty-mouthed blonde took back Hollywood in middle age, and embarked on a fresh search for love--one fart joke at a time.at a time.

The 800-plus pages of this four-color book mark a milestone in European travel writing. It was Arthur Frommer who first set off an avalanche of travel to Europe, and whose subsequent writings and commentary have constantly expanded that market. And now Arthur Frommer has himself edited (and written personal introductions to) this definitive guidebook to every major nation of the continent. It contains his own insightful (and often controversial) advice and his views are supplemented by the current recommendations of the top experts and European specialists of Frommer's staff. Arthur Frommer, and his hand-picked experts, have created a classic guidebook that will be cherished and used by the many millions who regard him as the foremost expert on thoughtful and rewarding European travel.

Singer, songwriter, author, actor, husband, father, drug addict, and devout Christian who declared himself ''the biggest sinner of them all'', Johnny Cash was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He has been dubbed ''the philosopher-prince of American country music'', and this collection of interviews '' covering every major stage of his five-decade career '' provides a compelling insight into the life and times of the icon they nicknamed ''The Man in Black''.

The Intervention Mapping bible, updated with new theory, trends, and cases Planning Health Promotion Programs is the "bible" of the field, guiding students and practitioners through the planning process from a highly practical perspective.