Back to school books for grown-ups
Books to help you lead a happier and healthier life, whether you could use some advice on love, money, family or work.
We all know that you don't stop learning when you leave school. Adult life is full of challenges that nobody ever prepared us for.
With this in mind, we're treating this September as a new start. These books are full of good ideas to help you lead a better, happier, and healthier life, whether you could use some advice on love, money, family or work. It might help to buy a new pencil case too.
Books to help you to stop worrying about money
John Armstrong
Full of surprising and helpful insights, this book will encourage you to redefine your feelings about money and help you to discover what is really important to you in life.
Books to help you to manage stress
Rohan Gunatillake
Filled with over sixty practical exercises, Rohan Gunatillake, creator of the bestselling buddhify app, gives you the ideas, principles, and techniques to bring awareness, composure, and kindness to wherever you are and whatever you are doing.
Books to help you to find a job you love
Roman Krznaric
Roman Krznaric sets out a practical and innovative guide to negotiating the labyrinth of choices, overcoming the fear of change, and finding a career that's perfect for you.
Books to help you to feel more confident
how to: speak with confidence in public
Edie Lush and Charlotte McDougall
A practical guide for beating nerves and building the foundation for real self-awareness and confidence - wherever you are and whoever you are talking to.
How To Speak With Confidence in Public
by Edie Lush
People buy people, which means that managing our presence and profile is critical. We are constantly meeting and speaking to people who are short of both time and attention. By exploring the concepts of energy (to increase presence) and story structure (to bring content alive and make it concise, accessible and memorable), Edie Lush and Charlotte McDougall offer a practical guide for beating nerves and building the foundation for real self-awareness and confidence.
How To Speak With Confidence in Public will help you build your presence and profile and explore techniques to help you present yourself, your personality and your messages in a confident, personable and compelling way - wherever you are and whoever you are talking to.
What you'll learn
- A heightened awareness of what effective and engaging communication looks and sounds like.
- Practical techniques to immediately help you come across with more confidence and authority.
- A practical methodology to help you prepare and structure your content and bring it to life.
- Nerves: how they can affect us, and what to do about it!
Books to help you to stay positive
Think Bigger, Feel Better and Transform Your Working Life
Caroline Webb
We all face things we can't change – a heavy workload, cranky colleagues, the steady stream of emails. But what if we could make every day feel more like our best days, where everything seems to go our way? That's where How To Have a Good Day comes in.
Books to inspire you to get active
Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
Anna Kessel
Why is sport consistently defined as a male territory? Why are there still so many obstacles for girls and women when it comes to sport? In this part manifesto, part how-to, Anna Kessel issues an inspiring call to arms for women to take back sport for themselves.
Books to help you to find true love
Susan Quilliam
Choosing a romantic partner is one of life's biggest adventures but finding your soul mate has never felt so challenging. Drawing upon rich cultural material, psychology and her background in relationship therapy, Susan Quilliam guides us through the process of finding the right partner for you
How to Choose a Partner
by Susan Quilliam
Choosing a romantic partner is one of contemporary life's biggest adventures. But other aspects of modern living – being globally more mobile, a fall in religious belief, social liberalization and more job opportunities (but longer working hours) – mean meeting a mate has rarely been so challenging, and rarely so important.
In How to Choose a Partner, Susan Quilliam guides us through the process of finding the right partner for us as individuals. The real challenge is that we grow. Drawing upon rich cultural material, psychology and her background in relationship therapy, Susan presents partner choice as a self-development journey, driving us to learn more about ourselves, about other people, about life and the way we want to live.
Books to help you to think like a winner
The Five STEPS to a Winning Mindset
Damian Hughes
Professor Damian Hughes draws on both his experience and academic background within sport, organization, and change psychology to reveal the best ways to create a winning mindset in both personal and professional life.
To help you to make the world a better place . . .
John-Paul Flintoff
Combining insights from history, politics, and modern culture, this book will give you a sense of what might just be possible, as well as the inspiration and the courage you need to go about improving and changing the world we live in.