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  • Sheffield in the Great War

    by Peter Warr ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    This fascinating new book is devoted to an almost unknown period in the history of Sheffield. It sets the city's people and events against a background of key national developments by looking also at the way government regulations were tightened, how the country's morale was maintained, and how industry was encouraged to deliver more output.Sheffield in the Great War is written for the general ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sheffield's Great War and Beyond, 1916–1918

    by Peter Warr ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    This book is out of the ordinary. As well as describing the many changes in Sheffield between 1914 and 1918, it tells about the troubling events in following years as poverty and riots took hold.It is also special in identifying hundreds of small as well as large Sheffield companies that worked to provide the necessities of war. With many previously-hidden facts, the book describes the city's ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Psychology of Happiness

    by Peter Warr ...
    Series series The Psychology of Everything
    Is happiness all down to luck? Do events in our life influence how happy we feel? Can too much of a good thing make us less happy?The Psychology of Happiness introduces readers to the variety of factors that can affect how happy we are. From our personality and feelings of self-worth, to our physical health and employment status, happiness is a subjective experience which will change throughout ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Thailand Beyond the Crisis

    by Peter Warr ...
    Series series Rethinking Southeast Asia
    Thailand Beyond the Crisis includes recent research to give an accurate and up to date picture of the status of Thailand's economic recovery. The Asian economic crisis began in Thailand and ended a decade of sustained economic boom. This book identifies the role of policy errors involving both the Thai government and the IMF that lead to the crash of the fastest growing economy in the world. Warr ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Work, Happiness, and Unhappiness

    by Peter Warr ...
    Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combines environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people's experience. A framework of key job characteristics is linked to an account of primary mental processes, and those are set ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • The Joy of Work?

    Jobs, Happiness, and You

    by Peter Warr, Guy Clapperton ...
    Are you happy at work? Or do you just grin and bear it? We spend an average of 25% of our lives at work, so it’s important to make the best of it.The Joy of Work? looks at happiness and unhappiness from a fresh perspective. It draws on up-to-date research from around the world to present the causes and consequences of low job satisfaction and gives helpful suggestions and strategies for how to get ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The Making of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Positive Psychology In A Nutshell: The Science Of Happiness

    by Ilona Boniwell ...
    Discover the latest research findings and thinking on the topics of happiness, flow, optimism, motivation, character strengths, love and more. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Zeppelin Nights

    London in the First World War

    by Jerry White ...
    ‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best… White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their way to the front and wounded men were brought back to be treated in London’s hospitals. At night, London plunged ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Your One Wild and Precious Life

    An Inspiring Guide to Becoming Your Best Self At Any Age

    by Maureen Gaffney ...
    WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE CHOICE IRISH BOOK AWARD 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 looking ahead, wondering: 'What do I do now?'This realization that neither time nor choices are limitless is both daunting and exciting. This is the ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Transgender Teen

    by Stephanie Brill, Lisa Kenney ...
    What do you do when your son announces he is transgender and asks that you call her by a new name? Or what if your child uses a term you’ve never heard of to describe themselves (neutrois, agender, non-binary, genderqueer, androgyne…) and when you didn’t know what they meant, they left the room and now won’t speak to you about it? Perhaps your daughter recently asked you not to use gendered ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Fire and Steam

    A New History of the Railways in Britain

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus