Lighten your mental load and end mom burnout for good with a new kind of parenting book that teaches your kids to notice what needs to be done at home—and do it—without waiting to be asked.You’re sick of the constant push-and-pull to get your kids to clean (which, let’s be real, often ends up with you doing it yourself). With Notice and Do, there’s a new way. Through accessible but revolutionary techniques, parenting coach Sam Kelly will ...

A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history’s most famous figures, including Shakespeare, George Washington, the Beatles, and moreDid you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk and William Shakespeare was a stoner? Or how about the fact that Steve Jobs believed taking LSD helped him create the Apple computer, or that Sigmund Freud loved cocaine so much he took it all the time and prescribed it to his patients?In ...

There is a battle that has been brewing for centuries. Between good and evil. Between Heaven and Hell. And Abigail Johns is about to find herself caught in the middle of it. Eighteen-year-old Abigail has been bouncing around foster cares her whole life. Never truly understanding who she is or where she came from. Things are finally looking up for her when she starts University. However, at night she has been having dreams of a blue-eyed stranger. Captivated and intrigued by him, she wonder...

A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history's most famous figures, including Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, and the Beatles, from debut author (and viral historical TikToker with over 100K followers) Sam Kelly.Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk, William Shakespeare was a stoner, and George Washington drank a spoonful of opium every night to staunch the pain from his fake teeth? Or how about the fact that China's first emperor, ...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek. This tale charts the exploits during the First World War of 'European Forrest Gump', Svejk, in his progress through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian army. Good-natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War - although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from...

BBC Full-Cast productions of some of Aristophanes finest comediesAristophanes was a renowned Greek playwright who wrote around 450 BC. He is considered the Father of Comedy or the Prince of Ancient Comedy. He wrote in total forty plays, of which eleven survive virtually complete today.Lysistrata -A comic account of a woman's mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying all the men of t...

The complete Series 1 and 2 of the BBC Radio sitcom about a cantankerous trombone player and his pianist best friendWhen sixty something musician pals Roy and George attend the funeral of an old bandmate, they realise that since they stopped performing, they've got stuck in a rut. Retirement's all well and good, but they seem to spend most of their time in front of the TV, or propping up the bar at the Hen & Pewter.Believing that jazz players should keep sw...

UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL AND CREATE A MINDSET THAT OPENS UP TO POSITIVE THINKINGImagine a world where making difficult decisions no longer daunts you and taking on each challenge becomes an opportunity for growth.As you deal with the pressures of daily life, juggling multiple responsibilities, you often question yourself as to the best courses of action to take. The good news is, with the right strategic tools at your disposal, you can turn your uncertainty in...

The Dead Shall Rise.Mikhail's wife is dead. He knows this, and he remembers it. Not only does he remember the event, he remembers all the little events that led up to it that conspired together to take her.From the sea of zombie-like Reps that exist between their outback home and the nearest hospital, to the totalitarian Reamer police that guard against the forces of Celena and her hound, Mikhail lives in a dark, dystopian future with threads that tie back ...

This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West. It explores the ways in which the act of marriage is represented/misrepresented in different literary genres, as well as in cultural adaptations. It looks at the gendered characteristics at play that affect conjugal relationships in Chinese societal practices more widely. It also distinguishes between the essential features that give rise to nuptial arrangements from the Chines...

This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East–West exchanges and cultural dialogues. It explores the topic in the dimensions of individual behaviors under specific social norms and cultural products such as literature, film and any other forms of arts/genres, etc.In his 1917 work Mourning and Melancholia (Trauer und Melancholie), Sigmund Freud connected the grief of loss...

'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays, originally broadcast in BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' slot, about people who work in and around its stalls. Each story is a self-contained quirky tale. 'Loco Parentis' is a bitter-sweet comedy about Jim, who can't sleep because his daughter's left for uni, his business is going belly-up, and his father is going gaga. Oh, and to top it all he suspects his wife is having an affair with her boss. He needs to escape - but where to? The play was ori...