You know cool when you see it. Try to define it and the thing evaporates. David Tuffley's The Essence of Cool spends twenty chapters catching that elusive quality anyway, arguing convincingly that cool is not a genetic lottery or a pose borrowed from a magazine, but a learnable skill grounded in something far more useful than style: a particular relationship to pressure.The book opens with the central paradox that governs everything that follows. You cannot become cool by ...

Every traveller has stood in a queue that stretched around a city block, watching the clock, wondering whether the view from the top will be worth the wait, and suspecting, somewhere beneath the fatigue, that there might be a better way to see the world. The Artful Traveller: The Flâneur's Guidebook begins with that suspicion and turns it into a philosophy.David Tuffley takes as his starting point the nineteenth century Parisian Flâneur, Baudelaire's idle wanderer of the b...

Somewhere between the ninth and eleventh centuries, in halls warmed by firelight and shadowed by war, a Norse skald set down one hundred and sixty four verses spoken in the voice of Odin himself. He called it the Hávamál, the Sayings of the High One. It was not a hymn and it was not a myth. It was survival counsel, the kind a father might give a son before sending him out into a hostile world: how to enter a stranger's hall without getting killed, how to spot a false friend before he ruins...

Since childhood, David Tuffley has felt that Nature is something more than scenery, something more than the backdrop against which human life plays out. In Communing with Nature, he sets down four decades of contemplative practice and academic enquiry into a slim, potent guide for anyone who has ever stood beneath a canopy of trees, or watched a wave break, or felt inexplicably calmed by dirt underfoot, and sensed that something larger was speaking. The book opens with Mother Tere...

True happiness, lasting happiness can be achieved through a process known as Self-Actualisation, or Self-Realisation. This is a natural state and within the reach of all human beings. It comes from having satisfied all of one's human needs.This is the kind of happiness that cannot be obtained through the acquisition of things. The fleeting gratification in receiving goods or services is not true happiness. That is an illusion created by our global consumer society. I am not suggest...

Every day your mind makes thousands of judgements before you are even aware a decision has been made. It decides who to trust in the first three seconds of a conversation, whether a plan is safe enough to try, and whether a nagging doubt about a colleague's motives deserves a second thought or should be dismissed outright. Most of us go through this process on autopilot, trusting the verdicts our minds hand down without ever asking how they were reached. Cultivating Metacognition: A Primer...

Most people who write reports for a living were never actually taught how. They learned to write at school and university, where the only reader who mattered was a lecturer obliged to read every word, and then walked straight into a workplace where nobody is obliged to read anything at all. David Tuffley's Guide to Effective Report Writing exists to close that gap, in a short, dense, entirely practical handbook built for people who need to write well at work, not for people who wa...

Transform Your Life in 10 Weeks: The Ultimate Path to Self-Actualization. Feeling trapped in old patterns? Sensing there's more to life than your current experience? You're right – and there's a proven path forward."Self-Actualization: A 10-Week Program" breaks through standard self-help platitudes to deliver a structured, transformative journey. Based on decades of psychological research, this guide converts profound insights into practical weekly actions.What makes this p...

"2 Days to Healthy Self-Esteem" is a self-help book designed to guide readers toward improving their self-esteem in a short, focused timeframe. The book aims to provide quick, practical advice and actionable steps to help individuals overcome feelings of inadequacy and build a healthier sense of self-worth. Becky Due, an award-winning author known for her works on personal development and women's strength, draws from her own experiences and insights to create an accessible and encouraging ...

Have you been searching for that "Something" that's going to finally change your life. Book after book, cd program after cd program. The workshops, the webinars...The never-ending e-mails...The PROMISES!I've read all the books...I've listened to the CD's...I've been to the workshops and seminars...And you know what? I finally got this stuff to work for me. And it turned out to be pretty easy!I figured out why people struggle with these ideas and concepts, and decided...

Regardless of how positive you try to be, there are always people who want to make you miserable. Whether it is on purpose or unintentional, these individuals seem to have no other purpose in life but to ruin your self-esteem. This short guide contains quick and simple advice to help you overcome these people and situations and achieve the happiness you deserve.How to Be Happy When Other People are Making You Miserable: A Quick Guide is very helpful in overcoming the miser...

Are you tired of never achieving your dreams and goals and watching opportunities pass you by?Are you tired of living on the edge because of all the stress you have in your life from procrastinating?"Procrastination is the process by which people intentionally or habitually delay a task by finding excuses to avoid it, or ignoring it altogether."Everyone procrastinates from time to time. For some people, procrastination is a nuisance slowing down the inevitable. But ...