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A personal code for living a better, happier, more successful kind of life.

This Very Short Introduction draws on the best scientific research to offer a highly accessible explanation of what anxiety is, why it is such a normal and vital part of our emotional life, and the key factors that cause it. Insights are drawn from psychology, neuroscience, genetics, epidemiology, and clinical trials. Providing a fascinating illustration of the discussion are two interviews conducted specifically for the book, with the actor, writer, director, and television presenter Michael Palin and former England football manager Graham Taylor.

If you read the "business pages" of a newspaper or if you listen to the financial news on television or radio, you will often hear terms such as "liability", "balance sheet," or "earnings." These terms turn up in non-financial contexts as well: "he was more of a liability than an asset." If you...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson face complex crimes including attempted assassination, blackmail and the theft of a mysterious book. They encounter anarchists, artists, and ancient legends as they seek the truth at the turn of the last century in London and East Anglia. As well as Holmes, occult detective John Silence, a hotel boot boy, a young Miss Marple and Watson help unravel the mysteries, along with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in the debut collection by Tim Newton Anderson.

The Market in Global International Society tracks the idea and practice of the market through both modern and premodern times, and its evolution as a primary institution in international relations over the past two centuries. It develops a new approach to understanding the relationship between the market and other social and political institutions of global international society.

The stories in this third volume of Dr. Watson's chronicles have been fashioned by the author to reproduce in every aspect the form, style, and substance of A. C. Doyle's fifty-six original works.

It's murder on the moon—in an out-of-this-world mystery featuring "the best detective duo on the scene" (Daily Telegraph). Reginald Hill "raised the classical British mystery to new heights" when he introduced pugnacious Yorkshire Det. Inspector Andrew Dalziel and his partner, the callow Sgt...

The Fairies of old English folklore were greatly feared, and rightly so. They were known to spread plague and misfortune. They stole human children and left misshapen changelings in their place. Whilst our world has grown more sophisticated, they still follow their old ways. What happens when our two worlds collide? When a mother refuses to believe a child is hers or a man’s Fairy wife returns to her kin and he’s arrested over her disappearance?

For centuries, industrialization and factory-based production have been core ingredients in economic growth, development, and innovation. This symbiotic relationship between industrialization and economic prosperity is now changing.

Additional revelations from the despatch box of Doctor John Watson. These seven stories previously featured in various volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories and other anthologies. They come together in their own collection for the first time. The Adventure of the Disappearing Prisoner The Adventure of the Drewhampton Poisoner The Adventure of the Returning Spirit The Adventure of Miss Anna Truegrace The Adventure of Mr Fairdale Hobbs The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Forgery The Adventure of the Grand Vizier

The British constitution is regarded as unique among the constitutions of the world. What are the main characteristics of Britain's peculiar constitutional arrangements? How has the British constitution altered in response to the changing nature of its state—from England, to Britain, to the United Kingdom? What impact has the UK's developing relations with the European Union caused? These are some of the questions that Martin Loughlin addresses in this Very Short Introduction.

We live in an explosive world. Trump is blowing up political order. Xi Jinping is scrambling the economy. And Putin is redrawing the map of Europe. At a time when every crisis bleeds into the next—from pandemics and wars to climate shocks and AI revolutions—the old rules of global order are...

Death Lord Umbriel. The Oblivion Gate. The final showdown in the abyssal hells . . . Gray Lexly and the rest of his class are tasked with the impossible. They must train themselves to dive into the deepest levels of the abyssal hells and face off against the last two remaining Death Lords who...

Money issues dominate the news, but economic jargon and the complexity of it all can be bamboozling for regular folks. Paul Sheard, a leading economist and research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, is known for his ability to see the forest and the trees and demystify complex economic phenomena. With The Power of Money, Sheard empowers listeners to become better-informed economic citizens by providing context for some of the biggest questions surrounding money.

Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has exerted enormous influence but argues that it is best understood within the traditions of ancient literature.

A string of unsettling incidents draws Sherlock Holmes into a case that quickly proves far more dangerous than it first appears. In the shadowed tensions of the 1930s, Holmes and Dr Watson uncover a covert network operating with ruthless precision-its reach extending into the highest circles and its purpose chillingly unclear. As fragments of the truth begin to align, a pattern emerges that threatens far more than any single crime.

From Jon Fosse, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature, comes an aching exploration of life, death, time, memory, and the artistic temperament. Initially published separately and brought together here in a single volume, Melancholy I & II are essential entries in the oeuvre of one of the...

From a world-leading AI researcher, the history of artificial intelligence told through the six key ways it functions Since Alan Turing first posed the question "Can machines think?" artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI...

Ten more cases from the files of The Great Detective, comprising adventures previously published in the anthology 'The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories', as well as some recent additions from Doctor Watson's despatch box. • Mrs Maria Blackwell is concerned by the threatening and persistent observations of a stranger, each time she dines at Simpson's with her husband. • New artwork is appearing, in the style of the great Leonardo. It is not claimed that they are newly-discovered works of The Master, so why is someone prepared to kill to gain their possession?

The fire was almost down to its embers by the time I'd finished reading. The comfort of our rooms did nothing to efface the startling impression left upon me by Holmes's narrative. I passed my hand over my brow. "My head's in a whirl," I remarked, barely able to voice my feelings. My friend rubbed his hands together, an intense expression settling upon his hawk-like features.