The foundational and wildly popular go-to resource for influence and persuasion-a renowned international bestseller, with over 5 million copies sold-now revised adding: new research, new insights, new examples, and online applications. In the new edition of this highly acclaimed bestseller, Robert Cialdini-New York Times bestselling author of Pre-Suasion and the seminal expert in the fields of influence and persuasion-explains the psychology of why people say yes and how to apply these insigh...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria.

Self-assured Ifemelu heads for America. But quiet, thoughtful Obinze finds post-9/11 America closed to...

A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that t...

Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller ‘Full of warmth as well as grief, conveying vividly how precious it is to be alive’ Sunday Times As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside. But the clock is ticking, and every moment Tommo spends remembering how things used to be, means another moment closer to something that will cha...

The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – read ‘Landscape and Memory’ to have these explained… ‘Landscape and Memory’ is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us – rivers, mountains, forests – the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs. This is not a conventional history b...

The fundamental philosophy of the existentialist movement is revealed in Heidegger's discussion of human existence, nonhuman presence, personal consciousness, and angst

In the twenty-first century, religion remains the single greatest influencein the world. But, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, persistentattempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlookthe distinct human problem that each seeks to solve. For example:Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submissionChristianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvationBuddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakeningJudaism: the problem is exile /...

Na Omringd door idioten de nieuwe bestseller van het Zweedse fenomeen Thomas Erikson.

Iedereen kent ze wel: energievreters. Twintig minuten in dezelfde ruimte met deze mensen en je bent uitgeput. Ze eisen alles op – je tijd, aandacht, emoties: je wordt leeggezogen. Zie je ertegenop om met dit soort mensen om te gaan, maar weet je niet hoe je de dynamiek moet veranderen? Dit boek gaat je helpen!

Thomas Erikson biedt simpele en praktische tools om energievreters te identificeren en uit te s...

Volledig herziene en uitgebreide editie van de bestseller Omringd door idioten: meer tekst, meer illustraties, meer voorbeelden en meer idioterie.Heb je ooit ruzie gekregen omdat iemand je verkeerd begreep? Verbaas je je soms over het totale onvermogen van anderen om jouw punt te zien? Of heb je er genoeg van dat er niet naar je geluisterd wordt?  Je bent niet de enige. Na een rampzalige ontmoeting met een succesvolle ondernemer die ervan overtuigd was dat hij werd ‘omringd door idioten’...

De wereldwijde bestseller over wat je ademhaling kan doen voor je gezondheid en welzijn.

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Wat je eet, hoeveel je traint en hoe jong je bent is lang niet zo belangrijk als dat wat we allemaal, elke dag, onbewust doen: ademen. Er is niets essentiëler voor onze gezondheid en ons welzijn dan in- en uitademen, zo’n 25.000 keer per dag.

Onderzoek toont aan dat zelfs kleine aanpassingen aan de manier waarop we ademhalen onze atletische prestaties kunnen...