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Smart Thinking focuses on common thinking challenges – both rational and emotional – and gives you an array of practical solutions, helping you deal with unexpected problems and difficult decisions simply and effectively.

Featuring a foreword by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, this fascinating handbook inspires potential founders and provides essential guidance and advice for people who want to create their own start-up and build a successful company. This book answers the question “how do I get started?” It takes the reader from making the decision to plunge into entrepreneurship, through the process of choosing and developing an idea and team, all the way to raising capital and working with VCs and angel investors.

If you're feeling broke, stressed and fed up of living pay cheque to pay cheque then you're in the right place. Anna Brading was in your position once too, but now she's changed her life, and her finances. She is here to help you do the same.

Deep in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, where the full moon rests on the horizon, lies a secret kingdom called Darksea. Ruled by the Pirate King, Captain O’Malley, Darksea’s tranquil waters have, of late, been haunted by an invisible and deadly monster – a monster that is eating the once-beautiful islands in gigantic bites. On the other side of the horizon, at his home in Galway, Max Reid and his family are battling a different monster. His big brother Christopher is in hospital and getting sicker – and his parents have begun to talk of miracles. Then one night a loud, bright red parrot taps on Max’s bedroom window, carrying an invitation from the pirate king. Captain O’Malley needs a new crew member for a dangerous quest; and the reward is everything Max has been hoping for. But in Darksea, not everyone is as they seem. When Captain O’Malley’s secret threatens to upend their mission and destroy Max’s chance to help his family, Max realises he''s going to have to navigate much more than he bargained for…

Galatea has taken over the throne, Prince Mather has run off with Cinderella, and now Bari must find a new royal to marry. After discovering that there is an illegitimate prince in another Queendom, Bari sets off to make him fall in love with her - and acquire his land as well. But Bari''s mission is soon complicated when South joins her and sparks begin to fly . . . Meanwhile, Farrow is on her own journey to reunite with Cinderella and Prince Mather in the first Queendom. Amid brewing conflict, Farrow continues to grapple with her love for Mather and her loyalty to Cinderella. Once as close as sisters, Bari and Farrow now find themselves on opposing sides. Will malice win out, or will Farrow find a way to bring them all back to their less vengeful selves?

There’s a place where all the wildest stories began … From Katherine Rundell, the British Book Awards Author of the Year, comes the paperback release of the first novel in the critically acclaimed, award winning, best-selling Impossible Creatures series. This edition includes The Centaur’s Spectacles bonus short story.

Jo used to be the perfect high-school girl – class president, popular, bright and successful. But when nude photos of her were leaked to the entire school, her grades plummeted, her friends fell away and now she's a reckless, difficult social outcast. The girl who 'deserved' it. Then her former best friend Maddie disappears. Everyone else assumes Maddie has just run away but that doesn't add up to Jo. To discover the truth, Jo needs to get back in with the group of classmates who have shut her out: the boys who betrayed her and the clique of girls who whisper behind her back. And she has to make it look as if she wants to be there. The only way back in is through Hudson. An old fling with his own reasons for finding Maddie, he persuades Jo to fake date him. And it works. But as the truth about Maddie's disappearance comes to light, so do long-hidden secrets from Jo's past. Who is Jo really trying to find-Maddie, or the girl she herself used to be? A gripping read, perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying, We Were Liars and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

دخل من الباب الشرقي للواحة، يبحث عن حُلمٍ قديم.. عن مخطوطٍ غير مكتمل.. عن عروس غلبها العشق. لاح له في الأفق البعيد تل صغير..سأل عنها علها تختبئ خلف هذا التل..أجابوه: «احترس منها.. إنها (صخرة العاشق)، صخرة مسحورة تجذب إليها الرجال، إذا لمسْتَها ستدخل في غفوة طويلة لن تستيقظ منها إلا بالموت». لم يبالِ وانطلق نحوها باحثًا عن محبوبته "المسحورة"، وعن قَدَر عسى أن ينقذه من غفوة العاشق.

أهلا دليلة وُلِدَتْ دَلِيلَة لِتَعِيشَ أَيَّامَهَا فِي جَوِّ العَائِلَةِ فَتَزِيدُهُ حُبًّا، تُؤنِسُ أَحْبَابَهَا وتَأنَسُ بِهِمْ وتَتَّعَلَّمُ كُلَّ يَومٍ لِتُصبِحَ مُمَيَّزَةً فَأَهلاً بِهَا

أعتقد اليوم أن الحقيقة كانت مزيجًا من كل هذا. كنت قد وُهِبت عند ولادتي منحة نادرة: حضورًا طاغيًا أو ما يُعرف بالكاريزما. كنت ذا طبع مرح، أوحي بالود، وكانت لديَّ سهولة بالغة في اجتذاب الآخرين والتأثير عليهم مهما كان شأنهم؛ بفضل قوة أحاديثي، وصوتي الذي كانت محظياتي يصفنه بالرخيم. كانت لقامتي الطويلة هيبة لا تقل عن تلك التي توحي بها أحاديثي، وكنت قد تعلمت أن أبذل قصارى جهدي لأبدو وكأنني وُهِبت قوًى خارقة للطبيعة لا يمكن للبشر العاديين الوصول إليها”. اختار د. زاهي حواس تقنية تعدد الأصوات أداة لكتابة أولى رواياته، وقد برع حقًّا في استخدامها؛ فكل شخصية تتحدث بلسانها ولا تتجاوز حدود معرفتها ولا طبيعة لغتها ولا حتى القيام بنشاط يفوق قدراتها الجسدية. وقد أثبت براعة في تتبع الشخصيات، والإمساك بالزمن، حتى أن القارئ ليرى غبرة الحجر الجيري الأبيض فوق الأجساد القمحية وهي تبني ذلك الهرم العظيم، ويسمع صليل معارك الفرعون ضد الأعداء، ونسائم الربيع بين رواقات القصر الفرعوني.