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Success Habits Proven Principles for Greater Wealth, Health and Happiness Napoleon Hill A never-before-published book by iconic self-help expert Napoleon Hill explaining his principles of success. In Success Habits, Napoleon Hill outlines his principles of success, a set of key tenets and beliefs that provide a basis for life-changing success. Hill, the legendary author of the classic bestseller Think and Grow Rich, has been immortalized for his contribution to the self-help genre. In this never-before-published work he continues to share his wisdom that has changed the lives of millions. With straightforward, engaging language, Hill explains the fundamental rules that lead to a prosperous life. From the importance of having Definitiveness of Purpose to the inexorable influence of the Cosmic Habit Force, Hill’s principles offer a new way of thinking about intention, self-discipline and the way we lead our lives.
‘During the past twenty-five years I have been blessed with more good fortune than any individual deserves but I shudder to think where I would be today, or what I would be doing, if I had not been exposed to Napoleon Hill’s philosophy. It changed my life.’ Og Mandino, author of The Greatest Salesman in the World
Originally delivered as a series of speeches, Success Habits is filled with personal anecdotes and stories to illustrate the Principles of Success. Hill’s insights apply to every facet of life, inspiring readers to leverage his principles to achieve their own aspirations and create the successful lives they have always dreamed of.
Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. He is the author of the motivational classic The Laws of Success and Think and Grow Rich. Hill died in 1970 after a long and successful career writing, teaching and lecturing about the principles of success. His lifework continues under the direction of the Napoleon Hill Foundation.
10/01/2019 • £12.99 • 9781529006476 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback Demy • 240pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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Growth IQ Master the 10 Paths to Grow Your Business Tiffani Bova The 10 strategies to successful growth, whether you’re a mom-and-pop shop or a multi-national corporation. Tiffani Bova, the Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce, draws on her expertise as a consultant and practitioner to devise a new framework for business leaders looking to pursue growth. We’re witnessing an age of endless customization, and growth strategy is no exception. There’s no one-size-fits-all strategy; a winning strategy for one business may spell doom for another. In Growth IQ, Bova determines that there are ten simple – but easily misunderstood – growth paths, and explains how companies can get a handle on their particular business context, and use it to determine the right combination and sequence of growth paths to take them into the future. Bova breaks down the strategies deployed by a wide range of companies to show you how:
‘Too many companies foster cultures of burnout in the pursuit of short-term growth as an end in itself. Smart growth is sustainable growth and Tiffani Bova shows us how to maintain it by building a purpose-led culture and leveraging, instead of sacrificing, the dedication of your people.’ Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post ‘Tiffani Bova has a knack for rendering complex insights in clear, elegant prose. Growth IQ tackles the biggest question in business.’ Martin Lindstrom, author of Buyology and Small Data
- GE and John Deere have lasted over a century and continue to thrive by combining their strategy of innovative product development with a renewed focus on R&D and customer experience. - Marvel transformed from a struggling comic book publisher to a global entertainment behemoth by realigning their market penetration strategy to focus on comic book characters, instead of just comic books. - Gateway’s attempt at market expansion into brick-andmortar retail led to its failure, while the same move by Apple has accelerated its growth. Whether your company is on a growth spurt, in a worrying stall or showing signs of decline, Growth IQ is your map to charting the course of your company’s future.
Tiffani Bova is Global Customer Growth and Innovation Evangelist at Salesforce. Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue-producing divisions at businesses ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. She spent ten years at Gartner, the world’s leading IT research and advisory firm. Bova’s cutting-edge insights have helped Microsoft, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, SAP, VMWare, AT&T, Salesforce, Dell, AmazonAWS and other prominent technology companies expand their market share and grow their revenues. This is her first book. 21/02/2019 • £14.99 • 9781529011852 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 352pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN
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Good to Go The surprising truth of how to eat, sleep and rest like a champion Christie Aschwanden The first definitive account of the new frontier of sports recovery science to debunk what we should and shouldn’t be doing between exercising. All athletes, from Olympians to weekend warriors, must toe the line between training and recovery to maximize the benefits of workouts and reach optimal performance. For the longest time, coaches and training manuals have emphasized training. But now sports science is homing in on an even more fundamental part: recovery. The aim of training is to force the body to adapt to stress, and this adaptation is what makes you fitter and better able to perform. But to adapt, you need to optimize recovery too. You only benefit from training that you can recover from, and the ability to recover determines how much training your body can handle. Recovery, the science shows, is a crucial component of exercise training and it’s starting to look like it may be the most important one.
‘Christie Aschwanden is simply one of the best science writers in the world. Whether you’re striving for a personal best or simply wondering about that post-workout beer, Good to Go is the definitive tour through a bewildering jungle of scientific (and pseudo-scientific) claims that comprise a multibillion-dollar recovery industry.’ David Epstein, bestselling author of The Sports Gene
Good to Go is the first definitive account of this new frontier in sports and exercise science. This developing science informs not only professional athletes and sports teams, but also people who are exercising for health or fitness and those who are aiming to take a little off their personal record. Good to Go will take readers on an intimate, light-hearted journey through the science of exercise recovery, from ice-baths and cryogenic freezing chambers to the science behind Usain Bolt’s love of chicken nuggets and Tom Brady’s recovery pyjamas. In the same vein as David Epstein’s The Sports Gene and Bill Gifford’s Spring Chicken, Good to Go assesses the science and claims of a wide variety of recovery methods and potions, and debunks the junk to give a clear picture of what we should actually be doing to look after our bodies better between exercising.
Christie Aschwanden is the lead writer for science at FiveThirtyEight and health columnist for the Washington Post. She’s also a frequent contributor to the New York Times, a contributing editor for Runner’s World and a contributing writer for Bicycling. Her work appears in dozens of publications, including Discover, Slate, Proto, Consumer Reports, New Scientist, More, Men’s Journal, NPR.org, Smithsonian and O, the Oprah Magazine. A lifetime athlete, Ashwanden has raced in Europe and North America on the team Rossignol Nordic ski-racing squad. 21/03/2019 • £14.99 • 9781509827657 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 304pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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Dream Horse The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance – the Allotment Horse who Became a Champion Janet Vokes The heart-warming, moving story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of training a racehorse and Dream Alliance, the horse who defied the odds to become a champion. Janet Vokes was working behind the bar in her local working men’s club in the small Welsh mining community of Cefn Fforest when she fixed upon the idea of breeding a racehorse. She’d always loved animals and her husband Brian used to have a horse of his own to help pull his cart. After all, why shouldn’t a working-class horse take on the wealthy high-flyers and compete in the ‘sport of kings’? Her mind set, she bought a mare for £350, paired her up with a pedigree stallion and helped to create a syndicate of twenty-three residents from her village – each paying £10 a week – to raise the resulting foal, Dream Alliance. He may have grown up on an allotment but Dream had immediate star quality, beating all the odds to compete at Ascot, Aintree and even the Cheltenham Festival. But when a terrible injury brings his racing days to a standstill, the syndicate is forced to make a vital decision not just about his career, but his life. Heart-warming, inspiring and incredibly moving, Dream Horse by Janet Vokes is the extraordinary story of a woman who defied the snobbery of the racing world to breed a champion, and a remarkable horse who brought a community together.
After success with Dream Alliance, Janet Vokes has continued to breed racehorses and hopes to find another champion. Her ambition now is to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
04/04/2019 • £16.99 • 9781509886036 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Demy • 320pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US
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Adventures with a Risk Economist How to Use Risk to Get What You Want Allison Schrager Financial risk helps bankers and insurers hedge their bets before offering us a deal but here’s the secret – we can all use risk to weigh up choices in our everyday lives. Award-winning journalist and economist Allison Schrager introduces a new framework that will transform how we think about risk and make decisions in life. When many people hear the word risk, they think of worst-case scenarios like losing your job, your wealth or your spouse. But actually, as Allison Schrager explains, risk includes the full range of whatever might happen, good or bad. If we want a great relationship, we risk heartbreak. If we want to get ahead at work, we take on projects that might fail. Avoiding risk is impossible; the challenge is how to be smart about risks in everyday life. Schrager, a distinguished economist and journalist, has studied risky situations around the world, from battlefields to brothels. Drawing on a wide range of fascinating examples, she teaches us the science of risktaking and helps us assess and maximize the upside while minimizing the downside. Her five key principles can transform how we approach decisions both big and small – everything from whether to change jobs, how much to offer on your dream house, how to invest in a pension and how much time to leave to get to the airport. This book will give you the perspective and tools to make the world less risky and more rewarding.
Allison Schrager has a PhD in economics from Columbia University, where she specialized in pensions and the future of the labour market. She has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists Robert C. Merton and Eugene Famal, and has consulted for the IMF, the Bank of England, the Kauffman Foundation and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. She has contributed regularly to Economist, Reuters and Bloomberg Businessweek, and also written for Wired, Playboy, National Review and Foreign Affairs. In 2016 she won the Society for American Business Editor and Writers Award for her feature writing in Quartz. Schrager was a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a speaker at the International Economic Forum of the Americas and has appeared on TV and radio including MSNBC, NPR, CBS, Bloomberg, CNBC, Vice, AlJazeera, Huffington Post Live and the BBC. She currently teaches at New York University. 04/04/2019 • £16.99 • 9781509878949 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Demy • 256pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA 04/04/2019 • £14.99 • 9781509878956 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 256pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN Non-Exclusive EU & EFTA
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The Formula The Science Behind Why People Succeed or Fail Albert-László Barabási The world’s leading expert in networks and complexity uses powerful storytelling and big data to reveal the universal laws that govern success. In this pioneering examination of the scientific principles behind success, a leading researcher reveals the surprising ways in which we can turn achievement into success.
‘This is not just an important but an imperative project: to approach the problem of randomness and success using the state-of-the-art scientific arsenal we have. Barabási is the person.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of Skin in the Game ‘Writing in a lively fashion, he illuminates broad principles that explain how people in all fields – from entrepreneurs to scientists to athletes to artists – achieve success.’ Nicholas Christakis
Too often, accomplishment does not equate to success. We did the work but didn’t get the promotion; we played hard but weren’t recognized; we had the idea but didn’t get the credit. We’ve always been told that talent and a strong work ethic are the key to getting ahead, but in today’s world these efforts rarely translate into tangible results. Recognizing this disconnect, László Barabási, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of networks, uncovers what success really is: a collective phenomenon based on the thoughts and praise of those around you. In The Formula, Barabási highlights the vital importance of community respect and appreciation when connecting performance to recognition – the elusive link between performance and success. By leveraging the power of big data and historic case studies, Barabási reveals the unspoken rules behind who truly gets ahead and why, and outlines the twelve laws that govern this phenomenon and how we can use them to our own advantage. Unveiling the scientific principles that drive success, this trailblazing book offers a new understanding of the very foundation of how people excel in today’s society.
Albert-László Barabási is the Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science and a Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research and holds appointments in the Department of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Central European University in Budapest. A native of Transylvania, Romania, he received his masters in Theoretical Physics at the Eötvös University in Budapest, Hungary and PhD at Boston University. Barabási’s latest book, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do (Dutton, 2010), is available in five languages. His previous book, Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002), is currently available in fifteen languages. He is the author of Network Science (Cambridge, 2016) and the co-editor of The Structure and Dynamics of Networks (Princeton, 2005).
16/05/2019 • £20.00 • 9781509843534 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Royal • 320pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN
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On the Farm with the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen The further adventures of bestselling author Amanda Owen and her family, as she takes us back to the Yorkshire Dales. ‘Amanda’s life is one of old-fashioned values, hard graft and plenty of love. She, like her life, is extraordinary’ Ben Fogle Amanda, husband Clive and their nine children live at Ravenseat, one of the most remote hill farms in the country. It’s a beautiful place, high in the Dales, and a rewarding existence close to nature. But Ravenseat is a tenant farm and may not stay in the family, so when Amanda saw a nearby farmhouse up for sale, she knew it was her chance to create roots for the next generation. The old house needed a lot of renovation and money was tight, so with her usual resourcefulness Amanda set about the work herself, with some help from an exmonk, a visiting plumber and Clive. It’s fair to say things did not go according to plan . . . In On the Farm with the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda brings the reader up to date with the adventures of her family, as well as revealing how she transformed a damp and dark old house into a dream home. Funny, charming and filled with unforgettable characters, this book will delight anyone who has hankered after a new life in the country.
Amanda Owen grew up in Huddersfield but was inspired by the James Herriot books to leave her town life behind and head to the countryside. After working as a freelance shepherdess, cow milker and alpaca shearer, she eventually settled down as a farmer’s wife with her own flock of sheep at Ravenseat. Happily married with nine children, she wouldn’t change a thing about her hectic but rewarding life. She and her family have appeared in ITV’s The Dales and in Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild. Voted Yorkshirewoman of the Year by the Dalesman magazine, she is also the author of the top-ten bestsellers The Yorkshire Shepherdess and A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess.
16/05/2019 • £16.99 • 9781509852673 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Royal • 320pp • Rights: World
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Brother in Arms Real war. True friends. Unlikely heroes. Geraint Jones The reality of war laid bare in this funny, furious and moving account of one man’s tour of Helmand. ‘If you could choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?’ Danny said. ‘Your arms or your legs?’ In July 2009 Gez Jones was sitting in Camp Bastion with the rest of The Firm – Danny, Jay, Toby and Pinkmist, his four closest friends, all junior NCOs and combathardened infantrymen. Thanks to the mangled remains of a Jackal vehicle left tactlessly outside their tent, IEDs were never far from their mind. Within days they’d be on the ground in Musa Qala with the rest of 3 Platoon – a mixed bunch, some odder than others, all men Gez would die for. As they fight furiously, are pushed to their limits, hemmed in by IEDs and hampered by stupidity from higher up the chain of command, Gez starts to wonder what is the point of it all. Every bomb they uncover on patrol, on their stomachs brushing the sand away, is replaced the next day. Every firefight is a momentary victory only. Gez is a warrior – he wants more than this. But then death and injury start to take their toll on Gez and The Firm . . . Darkly funny and shockingly honest, Brother in Arms is an unforgettable account of the brutal reality of war – every boring, scary, exciting moment – and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.
Geraint Jones deployed as an infantry soldier on three tours of duty to Iraq and Afghanistan. For his actions in Basra, Geraint was awarded the General Officer Commanding’s Commendation. Upon leaving the military, Geraint worked to protect commercial shipping against Somali and Nigerianbased piracy. He now writes full-time and is the author of historical fiction novels Blood Forest and Siege, and writes with James Patterson under the name Rees Jones.
16/05/2019 • £18.99 • 9781529000405 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Royal • 320pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US 16/05/2019 • £14.99 • 9781529000412 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 320pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US
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My Life in MI5 Tom Marcus The explosive true story of life in MI5 from the number one bestselling author of Soldier Spy, Tom Marcus. ‘One of the most successful MI5 undercover surveillance officers of his time’ Sun Tom Marcus spent years of his life working covertly against those who want to do us harm. Now, for the first time, he tells the full story of what it is like to live your life in the shadows and who you need to become to survive. First published in 2016, Soldier Spy was a series of stories from Tom’s years in MI5 and has now sold over 250,000 copies across all editions and was a Sunday Times bestseller for five months. I Spy takes us deeper into his life as a spy.
Tom Marcus, former MI5, grew up on the streets in the north of England. He joined the army at sixteen and went on to become the youngest member of the Armed Forces to pass the six-month selection process for Special Operations in Northern Ireland. He was hand-picked from the army into MI5 as a Surveillance Officer. He left the Security Service recently after a decade on the frontline protecting his country due to being diagnosed with PTSD. An extraordinary battle and recovery took place, which led Tom to write his first book, Soldier Spy, which has been vetted and cleared for publication by MI5; it was the first true ground-level account ever to be told, and the first time in the Security Services’ history that a Surveillance Officer has told the real story of the fight on our streets. Soldier Spy went straight to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Tom now consults on TV and film projects, including the TV dramatization of his book Soldier Spy. Due to the ongoing specific threat to Tom Marcus, MI5 insist he keep his identity hidden and he continues to work with the Security Services and other agencies to ensure he stays safe.
30/05/2019 • £20.00 • 9781509864096 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Royal • 336pp • Rights: World 30/05/2019 • £14.99 • 9781509864102 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 336pp • Rights: World
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A Daughter’s Choice A true story of hardship, heartache and hope Margaret Ford A heartwarming, moving story of a young girl escaping hardship and coming of age in the Second World War. Born in 1926, the year of the General Strike, Margaret grew up with her brother Bobby in the mill town of Blackburn where her father worked in his parents’ pub. She was too young to understand her mother’s unhappiness or that her father was gambling away any money he earned. Then, when she was ten, her father abandoned his family, leaving her mother struggling to survive. Margaret took the hard decision to leave school at thirteen and get a job in the dye works to help pay the rent. Later that year war broke out . . . Coming of age in the Second World War, Margaret learned to live for the moment. As the boys she grew up with were killed in action, and Blackburn was bombed, she snatched happiness where she could find it. By the time she was seventeen, she was a regular at the local dance halls where there were plenty of young men eager to court her. Her heart was torn between a dashing RAF bomber pilot and her childhood sweetheart, Raymond, who was many thousands of miles away serving on a submarine in the Far East. Would she see either man again? Poignant and compelling, A Daughter’s Choice brilliantly evokes a lost world, seen through the eyes of a courageous and spirited young woman who never gave up on her dreams.
Margaret Ford was born in Blackburn in 1926 and grew up there between the wars. She moved away after marrying in 1947 and today lives in Cumbria.
13/06/2019 • £7.99 • 9781509891924 • Non-Fiction • Paperback B Format • 320pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US
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Carrying the Fire An Astronaut’s Journeys Michael Collins The definitive classic account of the Apollo 11 trip to the moon. In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history. In this remarkable memoir, a defining classic, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty and humour of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force, through his days as a test pilot, to his involvement in Project Gemini and his first spaceflight on Gemini 10. He presents an evocative picture of the famous Apollo 11 spacewalk, detailing the joys of flight and a new perspective on time, light and movement from someone who has seen the fragile Earth from the other side of the moon. ‘Profoundly affecting.’ New Yorker ‘Michael Collins can write . . . No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly.’
Utterly absorbing and truly compelling, Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins is the definitive classic account of what it was like to be a member of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
New York Times Book Review ‘A splendid and affirmative book . . . A magnificent piece of exposition alive with humour, candid in its anxiety, very sensitive in its appreciation of the men involved.’
Michael Collins flew in both the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 space missions in the 1960s. He currently lives in South Florida.
Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly
13/06/2019 • £9.99 • 9781509896578 • Non-Fiction • Paperback B Format • 512pp • Rights: WEL Excluding US CAN
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How to Survive Lessons in life from the extreme world John Hudson How to think under extreme pressure. It is said that a wise person learns from their mistakes; a wiser one learns from the mistakes of others. John Hudson, Chief Survival Instructor to the UK military, knows what it takes to survive. He has trekked through the world’s driest deserts and camped at Arctic outposts colder than Mars. He has been pushed to the very limit of what it’s possible to survive and met others who’ve gone further. He has also spent the last twenty years collecting survival stories and attempting to essentialize what survival is and how we do it. The practical world of military survival is all about learning a single, simple template that can be transposed anytime, anywhere. Once we know those boundaries we can work out strategies to surpass them, by how we act and by what we ‘carry’ too. It’s about working out what’s important and what isn’t, what’s going to hurt you first and what you can do to give yourself the best chance of success. In How to Survive, you will learn how to apply military survival skills and understand how they can act as a set of guiding principles that can be applied to any situation. In everyday life we are forced to make choices constantly, to try to deal with setbacks, to react to shocking news, to prioritize tasks and face things that seem insurmountable. We will likely all face moments when our spirit is tested. The stories of the world’s greatest survivors and how they did it are a treasure trove of information on how we can approach these moments.
John Hudson FRGS is a survival instructor, broadcaster, writer, public speaker and training consultant based in Cornwall, whose specialist work takes him to some of the most remote and extreme environments around the globe. A former RAF helicopter pilot, John is the British Military’s Chief SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance & Extraction) Instructor, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He’s also been a resident survival expert on two series of Discovery’s prime-time TV show Survive That – a.k.a Dude You’re Screwed in the USA – successfully putting his own resilience to the test on camera in front of millions. From the darkest depths of a jungle cenote, to the top of a stormy Alaskan glacier, John’s sense of humour and everyday stoicism have won him many fans worldwide.
27/06/2019 • £16.99 • 9781509833566 • Non-Fiction • Hardback Royal • 304pp • Rights: World 27/06/2019 • £14.99 • 9781509833573 • Non-Fiction • Trade Paperback • 304pp • Rights: World
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