This book was written for one simple reason—to help you feel happier, more grounded, and more at peace in your everyday life. Not just on vacation or during meditation retreats, but right in the middle of your daily routine, stress and all.While buddhism can be a lifelong path of deep study, this book focuses on helping you begin right where you are, with simple practices you can start using today. Instead of getting lost in the theories or history of buddhism, thi...

This book explores how our educational system can foster resilience in children, empowering them to face adversity with confidence and grow stronger through challenges. It presents practical and engaging strategies that help readers understand how resilience develops and how it can be taught effectively. By applying these approaches, educators and caregivers can support children in building the skills they need to handle real life situations and thrive in the face of difficulties.

**Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!“Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune**The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads—so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of ...

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose.Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard F...

**Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!“A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International**Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out ima...

**Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World**Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability.Among A...

Seven radio dramas from one of the defining playwrights of his generation, starring Martin Freeman, Ruth Wilson, Robert Glenister, Frances Barber and David SchofieldAcclaimed by The Observer as ‘a poet of the east end overspill’, David Eldridge ranks among Britain’s most exciting contemporary dramatists. His plays have been performed in the West End and on Broadway, and he has twice won the Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best New Play (for Festen ...

Whether flying across a screen or lighting up the stage, Madness's wild, energetic sax player has always been hard to miss. For Lee "Kix" Thompson, life is about having fun—even when times are tough. Growing Out Of It is the tale of one "nutty boy" not really growing out of it at all. From getting up to no good as a teenager to his many musical (mis)adventures in the 1970s, Lee's memoir of his formative years captures his enduring love for his north London stomping ground, where h...

Christopher Lee's highly-acclaimed and award-winning BBC Radio 4 history of the British Empire.Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. Over a third of the world was insured at Lloyds. At his coronation, more than 400 million people saluted George V. Truly, the sun never set on this historical phenomenon. Whatever the day, whatever the hour, somewhere on the globe, the empire worked and play...

Three BBC Radio performances of works by the great G. K. ChestertonBest known as the creator of clerical detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton was a prolific and talented writer in virtually every area of literature: from novels, poetry and short stories to plays, biographies and essays. A noted thinker, controversialist, raconteur and wit, he has influenced authors from Neil Gaiman to Jorge Luis Borges. This collection comprises his two most famous novels, ...

Former lovers Pam and Merv open a cyber section in their Vodka and Veggie Café in this BBC comedy seriesWhen Merv and Pam got divorced, that should have been the end of their relationship. But here they are, trying to turn a veggie-and-vodka bistro in a cyber cafe, while Merv is still living in Pam's front garden in a small caravan.Merv's dreams of being a rock star failed a long time ago, so the Cyber Pass is now his only hope - although his customers main...

Neil decides he has been pushed too far by the uncaring and often callous behaviour he sees around him. But when he begins to intervene in incidents by taking pictures on his mobile phone, it has disastrous consequences. Starring Martin Freeman as Neil, Heather Craney as Janine, Emil Marwa as Hussein and Peter Marinker as George. Also included in the cast are Jake Harders, Ania Sowinkski, Bailey Pepper, Joseph Tremain, Anna Bengo, Laura Molyneux, Alex Lanipekun and Ben Crowe. Directed by S...