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Billy No-Mates
‘Where have all my friends gone?’ When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. He quickly learned that he wasn’t the only man struggling with friendships. For decades, countless studies from across the world have confirmed that men have fewer close friends than women – and the problem gets worse the older men get. But what goes wrong? And what can men do about it? Dickins is going to find out. Join Max on his funny and charmingly candid search as he takes a defibrillator to his social life. As he ultimately discovers that if he wants a Best Man, then he needs to be a better man.
Improvise!
A Financial Times Top Business Book 2020 Improv performers look like creative geniuses, coming up with brilliant comedy on the spur of the moment. But they rely on some simple rules and techniques - ones which anyone can learn, and which can help us offstage to think creatively, collaborate with others and communicate with impact. Improvise! will show you how to handle whatever comes your way at work - from giving confident presentations and handling difficult conversations to coming up with great ideas and persuading others to make them happen. Comedian and improvisation for business coach Max Dickins combines examples from the world of work with exercises from the stage to teach you how to achieve extraordinary results with what you've already got.
My Groupon Adventure
A book about opening yourself (and sometimes your colon) up to new experiences. When comedian Max Dickins was dumped by his girlfriend, he was faced not just with excruciating heartbreak but also with the cold realisation that he was bored, bored, bored. Desperate to shake things up, he took a friend’s advice and reluctantly bought a deal on Groupon. He then bought another. And another... until what started as a gateway to some new experiences snowballed into a limitless Narnia of discounted possibilities. Over the course of 18 months, Max did a new Groupon deal every week. He changed his name, became a Lord, wrestled alligators, moonlighted as a beekeeper, and even convinced Groupon to make him into a Groupon deal. (They sold 1,000.) Resuscitated by the oxygen of new experience, he emerged a better man. My Groupon Adventure is an uproarious and uplifting chronicle showing that it’s possible to escape even the deepest of ruts if you just inject a bit of spontaneity into your life.
Position Papers – February 2023
Editorial Gavan Jennings In Passing: Doctor Zhivago - a masterpiece revisited Michael Kirke Rediscovering Waugh (Part One) James Bradshaw The forgotten killing fields of Europe Tim O’Sullivan Humankind: A Hopeful History Gavan Jennings Why men have few friends David Gibney Prince Harry’s autobiography is a Niagara of self-pity Kurt Mahlburg
Find Your Purpose
Do you ever feel your life and career is out of balance, or that there must be more to it all than this? If you want to take control, this book will help you systematically design the next stage of your life and career to maximise your own happiness and fulfilment. FIND YOUR PURPOSE will: · help you clarify your values, strengths and purpose and understand what brings meaning for you personally · introduce principles and techniques for actively designing happiness and fulfilment · show you how to apply these principles in your work, relationships, leisure and learning · introduce systematic planning tools into all areas of your life - even those areas you might not expect By the end of t...
How to Fix Meetings
'An accessible thought provoking book that offers something of interest to anyone responsible for organising (or participating in) meetings.' Jackie Weaver, Chief Officer of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils Zoom fatigue? Calendar full of meetings that could just be an email? Online and offline, too much valuable time is wasted in meetings. Often little advance planning takes place, resulting in productivity drains rather than productivity gains. Providing realistic and practical advice, productivity professionals Graham Allcott and Hayley Watts show how to reduce the amount of time you spend in meetings, and ensure that the ones that you do attend are genuine opportunities to collaborate and get things done. Learn how to hold and attend meetings where the focus is on the outcome; get to grips with the 40–20–40 Continuum, so that only 20 per cent of your attention for each meeting is spent in the meeting itself – the rest is in the preparation and the follow-through; and understand when it's necessary to say that you won't be attending – and how best to do so.
Rebels with a Cause
From NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way, an in-depth exploration about what boys and young men teach us about themselves, us, and the toxic culture we have created, one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and academic achievement over kindness. Based on her longitudinal and mixed-method research over thirty-five years, Rebels with a Cause is a true call to action to change the culture so that we stop the vicious cycle of violence and blame. Dr. Niobe Way has spent her career researching social and emotional development and finds that boys and young men desperately want and need the same thing as everyone else: close friendships. Yet they and we g...
Writers' Handbook 2024
The 2024 edition of firstwriter.com’s annual directory for writers is the perfect book for anyone searching for literary agents, book publishers, or magazines. It contains over 1,500 listings, including revised and updated listings from the 2023 edition, and 400 brand new entries. Finding the information you need is now quicker and easier than ever before, with multiple tables and a detailed index, and unique paragraph numbers to help you get to the listings you’re looking for. The variety of tables helps you navigate the listings in different ways, and includes a Table of Authors, which lists over 5,000 authors and tells you who represents them, or who publishes them, or both. The numbe...
Friendship First: From New Sparks to Chosen Family, How Our Friends Pave the Way for Lifelong Happiness
Our friends enrich every part of our lives. Now you can make them matter the most. Despite modern technology and the ample ways we have to keep in touch, we risk neglecting our relationships with the people who have the most profound effect on our well-being: our friends. Weaving together personal stories, interviews with experts, and social research, Friendship First empowers you to nurture relationships with friends both new and old. Journalist Gyan Yankovich reveals how friendships play a vital role in our happiness with insights on how to: Deepen workplace friendships outside the office Invite friends into activities typically reserved for families Use social media to strengthen connections Maintain friendships through major life transitions. An ode to group chats and chosen family, Friendship First invites you to care for and count on those who matter most.
Position Papers – March 2023
Editorial Gavan Jennings In Passing: One hundred years in the shadow of Babel Michael Kirke Why men are struggling David Gibney Rediscovering Waugh (Part Two) James Bradshaw The gloom dispelling Light Pat Hanratty Inclusion and Exclusion Bishop Robert Barron A deep dive into wokism Margaret Hickey Preserving local freedoms Tim O’Sullivan
