Current Books

Ladan Soltani, star of Fitness TV, believes that good health starts on the inside and real strength originates from the mind. Here is the fitness guru’s guide to transforming your life through mastering your mind and body. Through a mixture of positive thinking, yoga, meditation, exercise and nutrition this book will help you to develop mentally, evolve spiritually and get stronger physically so you too can look fabulous at 40!

Cocktails are making a come-back because drinking at home is pleasurable and cost effective. A cocktail for every day of the year and every one them illustrated in colour. The book is designed to introduce cocktails to make through the year from a sequence of new bottles purchased. This is a hobby book from which to build a professional cocktail bar, bottle by bottle. Its diary layout encourages notation birthdays, celebrations and favourites. 365 Happy Hours are here to enjoy!

Known from her numerous appearances on TV and radio, Alli Godbold is a nutritionist who loves her food! Here is a collection of her favourite recipes, tried and tested at her popular cookery workshops. Alli believes healthy eating should be delicious – all about exciting flavours as well as maximum nutrients, and not about denial. You will be inspired to cook dishes that will not only delight your friends and family, but also enrich their health. Easy to prepare, most of the dishes are ready in under 30 minutes and don’t require any fancy culinary skills. So get chopping, invite your friends over, and feed your health!

James 'The Amazing' Randi is a stage magician who says he has a million dollars for anyone who can convince him they have psychic powers. No one has even come close to winning, proof, say sceptical scientists, that there is no such thing as 'the paranormal'. But are they right? In this illuminating and often provocative analysis, Robert McLuhan examines the influence of Randi and other debunking sceptics in shaping scientific opinion about such things as telepathy, psychics, ghosts and near-death experiences. Randi's Prize is aimed at anyone interested in spirituality or those curious to know the truth about paranormal claims.

A resource book covering the finest walks and climbs in Scotland, with its variety of wild landscapes ranging from the Southern Uplands to the great granite plateaus of the Cairngorms to the jagged arêtes of the Cuillin hills on the Isle of Skye. Whatever activity you are planning this guide has the information the independent mountain lover needs. Author Chris Townsend is President of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland and lives in the Cairngorms.

There’s a new reality in the retail wines market - the supermarkets have won the high street. With a staggering 70% of UK wine being bought in supermarkets these days, that is where wine expert Ned Halley focuses his tasting. Ned’s bestselling guide is back for 2011. The top wine buyers are now in the supermarkets, so that’s where the most characterful wines are on offer. The purpose of this book is purpose here is to help readers find the best of these improving ranges.

The widespead and numerous Romanesque churches in the northern half of Spain rival those of France for their distinctiveness and originality and for their remarkable sculpture. Romanesque Churches of Spain is a perfect companion for travellers, with its ten maps and its regional arrangement, and will be a stimulus for the exploration of wild and remote areas that are unfamiliar to many people, especially across the Pyrenees and in the mountainous areas of Aragon, Cantabria and Asturias. It will also be invaluable as a reference book, with its 262 illustrations, for all those with a general interest in the history of Spanish architecture and sculpture. Peter Strafford's acclaimed Romanesque Churches of France has recently been reprinted.

Managing Conflict at Work provides guidance on preventing, containing and resolving conflict. It examines conflict in the context of workforce motivation, leadership and corporate responsibility and includes advice on mediation, stakeholder analysis and reflective questioning. The book provides practical guidance on how to prevent, contain and resolve conflict in the workplace, as well as demonstrating how effective conflict management can have a powerful impact on the way organisations channel their energies. Aimed not just at mediators and conflict practitioners, but at staff managers and anyone who needs to deal with people disputes, the book emphasises simple and practical ways for dealing with conflict situations - both when potential disputes are first emerging, and once a conflict has escalated into a formal complaint.

To an impartial observer, Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk? is the story of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of the scientists and poets, parsons and anarchists, villains and judges, ascetics and drunks that have shaped its development over the past two hundred years.

This is a unique, practical guide for women experiencing difficulties conceiving. Unlike other books that provide medical or nutritional advice alone, it aims to help women gain a sense of control over the process and feel whole and happy. Drawing on coaching tools and techniques as well as Anya's expertise in the field, it provides practical exercises, tips and advice that offer couples who may have given up hope a renewed sense of possibility and purpose. According to the Assisted Conception Taskforce (ACT), one in every six couples worldwide is currently experiencing difficulties conceiving, and IVF specialists predict this could increase to one in three. Thousands have testified to the positive effect Anya's sessions have had on their lives. Some of those stories are included as inspirational case studies within the book.