The Element - How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson; Lou Aronica

$10.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: good-very good

A New York Times-bestselling breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from the one of the world's leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking. The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When peo ple arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility. Drawing on the stories of a wide range of people, including Paul McCartney, Matt Groening, Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, and Bart Conner, he shows that age and occupation are no barrier and that this is the essential strategy for transform­ing education, business, and communities in the twenty-first century. Also available from Ken Robinson is Finding Your Element, the practical guide to achieving your highest potential. ...Show more

Listen to Me! - Taking the Conflict Out of Child Discipline by Anna Martin

$12.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

Are you confused by all the different parenting advice on how to discipline your child? Have you been trying a variety of different methods for years that don't really work or feel uncomfortable to use - or are you just starting out on the parenting journey and want sound information?Regardless of your situation, you might find it helpful to change the way you think about discipline altogether.Using research and knowledge, Dr Anna Martin has turned traditional methods on their head to come up with effective strategies that put listening and the well-being of children before lecturing. Whether your child is 2 or 22, the clear step-by-step methods in Listen to Me!are all you need to minimise conflict in the family and encourage a secure relationship between you and your child. ...Show more

Uncoupling - An insider's guide to separation in New Zealand by Barbara Relph

$14.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

Whether you are uncoupling from a relationship, or find yourself suddenly uncoupled, this book answers many questions to help you navigate the challenges of separation, helping you move through each step and into the next phase of your life. Using personal experience and knowledge from experts, Uncoupli ng offers guidance on managing yourself and your family through this calamity, and outlines resolution options, the law and lawyers, moving through to life out the other side including dating and protecting your assets in future. Dip in for guidance on each stage of uncoupling. ...Show more

Creative Confidence: Unleashing The Creative Potential Within Us All by David Kelley

$12.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

A powerful and inspiring book from the founders of IDEO, the award-winning design firm, on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us. Too often, companies and individuals assume that creativity and innovation are the domain of the 'creative types'. But two of the foremost exper ts in innovation, design and creativity on the planet show us that each and every one of us is creative. In an entertaining and inspiring narrative that draws on countless stories from their work at IDEO, and with many of the world's top companies and design firms, David and Tom Kelley identify the principles and strategies that will allow us to tap into our creative potential in our work lives, and in our personal lives, allow us to think outside the box in terms of how we approach and solve problems. 'Creative Confidence' is a book that will help each of us be more productive and successful in our lives and in our careers. ...Show more

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

$20.00 NZD

Category: Self-help

SRA's DISTAR is the most succesful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and chi ld to use at home. "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" is a complete, step-by-step program that shows parents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. ...Show more

Radical Self Love - A Guide to Loving Yourself and Living your Dreams by Gala Darling

$24.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

Have you ever dreamed of a life full of laughter, love, and sequins ... but felt totally clueless about how to make it happen? You're not alone. Best-selling author and speaker Gala Darling spent years in soul-sucking jobs, battling depression, an eating disorder, and a preference for chaos and disaster --simply because she didn't know how to create the life she dreamed about. InRadical Self-Love, you'll discover exactly what makesyou so magnificent, and you'll gain a litany of tools and techniques to help you manifest a life bursting with magic, miracles, bliss, and adventure! Featuring fun homework exercises and cool illustrations, this book will take you from learning to fall madly in love with yourself, to loving others, to making your world a more magical place through style, self-expression, and manifestation. When you love yourself, life islimitless. You can do anything you want. It's time to throw off the shackles of expectation and judgment, and start living from your heart. It's time to astound yourself with how beautiful your life can be. It's time to treat every single day like a celebration! "I believe that radical self-love can go hand in hand with a ruby-red lip. . . . that learning how to love yourself can be a party: streamers, disco balls, helium balloons, and all!" xo, Gala "Radical Self-Love should be on every woman's bookshelf." --Gabrielle Bernstein ...Show more

Positivity -Confidence, Resilience, Motivation by Paul McKenna

$10.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine

With easy-to-use exercises and visualisation techniques, this is a practical psychological system in how to discover your own natural most powerful resources for self-care, self-belief and for taking control of your life. Do you want more optimism, confidence, resilience and motivation? Then this book i s for you! We currently live in a time of unprecedented challenges, uncertainty, overwhelming stress, loss of hope at times and a need for mental strength and adaptability to a new way of life. Traditional 'positive thinking', trying to constantly tell yourself that everything is OK, no matter the circumstances, just isn't enough to make any lasting difference. After 30 years working as a therapist, Paul McKenna has developed a unique approach - one that can guide you towards an all-round feeling of positivity - putting you into optimal states of mind, building up your resilience and enabling good decisions and actions that lead to successful results in life. There is now irrefutable scientific evidence that shows that particular ways of thinking and acting produce tangible positive results in people's ability to deal with challenges and their overall quality of life. The research also shows that this mindset can be learned quickly just like any habit. And that is why this book is a practical psychological system in how to survive and thrive - how to discover your own natural most powerful resources for self-care, self-belief and for taking control of your life. ...Show more

Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow; Ann Friedman

$15.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

A funny, frank and genuinely helpful book about female friendship by the two women behind the hugely successful podcast CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND - and the term 'shine theory'. From the hosts of hit podcast CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND comes the bible on how to keep each other close. You meet - and there's a spar k. You want to know everything about each other. You spill your secrets, you spend all weekend together, you go on holiday. You fight, and it's gut-wrenching. You see each other through the worst times and the best. You know each other better than parents, siblings, lovers. You stay in touch when miles apart. You will always be there. This is the most important relationship of your life. This is your Big Friendship. A close, fulfilling friendship is the key to happiness - everyone from Greek philosophers to Instagram influencers will agree. But for all that, we don't talk enough about what it takes to nurture friendships for the long haul. Telling the story of their own ten-year, complex, loving friendship, Aminatou and Ann share their hard-won wisdom with honesty, hilarity and compassion. They've weathered life-threatening health scares, long-distance living, racial tension, emergency counselling and one unfortunate Thanksgiving dinner eaten in a parking lot. And they know: the most important part of a Big Friendship is making the investment in each other. This is a bible to treasure and a gift to bestow - an inspiring and entertaining testament to the power of society's most underappreciated relationship, showing how it can survive anything and become a life-affirming bond. ...Show more

NLP Made Easy by Carol Harris

$12.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life by Jill Bolte-Taylor

$18.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

For half a century we have been trained to believe that our right brain hemisphere is our emotional brain, while our left brain houses our rational thinking. Now neuroscience shows that it's not that simple- in fact, our emotional limbic tissue is evenly divided between our two hemispheres. Consequently , each hemisphere has both an emotional brain and a thinking brain. In this ground-breaking new book, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor presents these four distinct modules of cells as four characters that make up who we are- Character 1, Left Thinking; Character 2, Left Emotion; Character 3, Right Emotion; and Character 4, Right Thinking. Everything we think, feel, or do is dependent upon brain cells to perform that function. Since each of the Four Characters stems from specific groups of cells that feel unique inside of our body, they each display particular skills, feel specific emotions, or think distinctive thoughts. In Whole Brain Living, Dr. Taylor shows us how to get acquainted with our own Four Characters, observe how they show up in our daily life, and learn to identify and relate to them in others as well. And she introduces a practice called the Brain Huddle-a tool for bringing our Four Characters into conversation with one another so we can tap their respective strengths and choose which one to embody in any situation. The more we become familiar with each of the characters in ourselves and others, the more power we gain over our thoughts, our feelings, our relationships, and our lives. Indeed, we discover that we have the power to choose who and how we want to be in every moment. And when our Four Characters work together and balance one another as a whole brain, we gain a radical new road map to deep inner peace. ...Show more

The Reading Bug ... and How You Can Help Your Child Catch It by Paul Jennings

$12.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good

'No matter where they go, children lost in books will always find their way home.'Your child deserves the best reading teacher in the world. Paul Jennings tells you how to find this person - go look in the mirror. In a clear and humorous style he explains how you can open the world through a love of boo ks. He has cut through the jargon and the controversies to reveal the simple truths which will enable every parent to infect their child with the reading bug. Now you can benefit from the advice of Australia's bestselling children's author tested over years of teaching, lecturing, writing and parenting. Included in this book brilliant booklists for your child the whole reading experience explained great cartoons and anecdotes ...Show more

Under Pressure - Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting by Carl Honore

$16.00 NZD

Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good

"Why do grown-ups have to take over everything?" This innocent question from acclaimed journalist and international bestselling author Carl Honor#65533;'s son sparked a two-year investigation into how our culture of speed, efficiency, and success at all costs is damaging both parents and children. When the impulse to give children the best of everything runs rampant, parents, schools, communities, and corporations unwittingly combine forces to create over-scheduled, over-stimulated, and overindulged kids. The mere mention of potty-training, ballet classes, preschool, ADD, or overeating is enough to spark a heated debate about the right way to raise our children. The problem is that despite the best intentions of all involved, the pressure to manage every detail of our children's lives from in utero through college is overwhelming. Delivering much more than a wake-up call, international bestselling author Carl Honor#65533; interviews experts in Europe, North America, and the Far East, talks to families around the world and sifts through the latest scientific research. Not only do we see the real dangers of micromanaging children, but Honor#65533; also shows us an emerging new movement inspiring many to slow down and find the natural balance between too little and too much. Blending the finest reportage, intellectual inquiry, and extraordinary true stories, Under Pressure is the first book to challenge the status quo by mapping out an alternative to the culture of hyperparenting that is presently pushing children and their parents to the brink. ...Show more