My Life in Red and White
There is only one Arsene Wenger – and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story.
In this definitive autobiography, the world-renowned revolutionary football manager discusses his life and career, sharing his leadership principles for success on and off the field and recalling vivid tales of guiding Arsenal to unprecedented success.
One of the most influential figures in world football, Wenger won multiple Premier League titles, a record number of FA Cups, and masterminded Arsenal’s historic ‘Invincibles’ season of 2003-2004 and 49-match unbeaten run. He changed the game in England forever, popularising an attacking approach and changing attitudes towards nutrition, fitness and coaching methods – and towards foreign managers.
In My Life in Red and White, Wenger charts his extraordinary career, including his rise in France and Japan where he managed Nancy, Monaco and Nagoya Grampus Eight – clubs that also play in red-and-white – to his twenty-two years in north London at the helm of one of the world’s biggest clubs. He reflects on Arsenal’s astonishing domestic triumphs and bittersweet European campaigns; signing – and selling – some of the world’s most talented players; moving the Gunners to their new home, the Emirates Stadium; and the unrest that led to his departure in 2018 and subsequent role as Chief of Global Football Development for FIFA.
This book is a must-read for not only Arsenal supporters but football fans everywhere, as well as business leaders and anyone seeking the tools for success in work and life. It will illuminate the mystique surrounding one of the most revered and respected managers, revealing the wisdom and vision that made him an icon in the world’s most popular sport.
The Ickabog is coming… A mythical monster, a kingdom in peril, an adventure that will test two children’s bravery to the limit. Discover a brilliantly original fairy tale about the power of hope and friendship to triumph against all odds, from one of the world’s best storytellers.
The kingdom of Cornucopia was once the happiest in the world. It had plenty of gold, a king with the finest moustaches you could possibly imagine, and butchers, bakers and cheesemongers whose exquisite foods made a person dance with delight when they ate them.
Everything was perfect – except for the misty Marshlands to the north which, according to legend, were home to the monstrous Ickabog. Anyone sensible knew that the Ickabog was just a myth, to scare children into behaving. But the funny thing about myths is that sometimes they take on a life of their own.
Could a myth unseat a beloved king? Could a myth bring a once happy country to its knees? Could a myth thrust two children into an adventure they didn’t ask for and never expected?
If you’re feeling brave, step into the pages of this book to find out…
A beautiful hardback edition, perfect for sharing and gift-giving. Brought to life with full-colour illustrations by the young winners of The Ickabog Illustration Competition.
Success Is for You draws upon many concepts that fans of Dr. Hawkins will recognize and applies them to the world of business and the psychology of success. Expanding upon the illuminating discussion of the attractor patterns of success from Power vs. Force, this remarkable never-before-published book pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the successful mind. Success, according to Dr. Hawkins, is an attitude we inhabit rather than a goal we strive for.
New listeners will find this to be a perfect introduction to an incredible teacher and foremost expert on mental processes, providing profound insights and real-world examples to help anyone focus on – and consequently achieve – what they desire. This fascinating book reveals:
Yet its scope ranges far beyond a mere how-to manual. As Dr. Hawkins says, “Having facts and know-how…does not guarantee success. There are other factors involved. It is these other secret factors that we are going to explore.” The secret factors – the energetic power principles underlying success – are decoded here…delivering an eternal message of possibility for us all.
SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?
A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral.
Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer?
Daniel Hawthorne, a recalcitrant detective with secrets of his own, is on the case, and he’s found himself a sidekick – popular crime novelist Anthony Horowitz, who’s struck a deal with Hawthorne to turn his latest case into a true crime bestseller.
But the case is twistier and bloodier than Hawthorne had bargained for, and the unlikely duo of detective and writer find themselves neck deep in danger. When the written word is your only defence, you know you’re in trouble when the word is murder…
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Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz’s page-turning new detective series. If you enjoyed BBC’s Sherlock, you’ll LOVE The Word is Murder.
Chosen as one of Crime Time‘s books of the year
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‘Raises the game-playing to Olympic level’ – Guardian Books of the Year
‘A real page-turner. I loved it!’ – ALED JONES (ITV, Weekend)
‘The beguiling whodunit plot is dispatched with characteristic elan as Horowitz blurs the line between fact and fiction’ – Financial Times
‘Splendidly entertaining, absorbing and difficult to put down. Hawthorne is an intriguing character’ – Daily Express
‘Sharp-witted readers who think they’ve solved the puzzle early on can rest assured that they’ve opened only one of many dazzling Christmas packages Horowitz has left beautifully wrapped under the tree’ – Kirkus Reviews
‘Deduction and wit are well-balanced, and fans of Peter Lovesey and other modern channelers of the spirit of the golden age of detection will clamor for more’ – Publishers Weekly
In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown and thinks he’s put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead.
That’s when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.
The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor
We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness.
What’s going on? If anyone can put a name to our current malaise and help fix it, it’s Mark Manson. In 2016, Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, a book that brilliantly gave shape to the ever-present, low-level hum of anxiety that permeates modern living. He showed us that technology had made it too easy to care about the wrong things, that our culture had convinced us that the world owed us something when it didn’t—and worst of all, that our modern and maddening urge to always find happiness only served to make us unhappier. Instead, the “subtle art” of that title turned out to be a bold challenge: to choose your struggle; to narrow and focus and find the pain you want to sustain. The result was a book that became an international phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide while becoming the #1 bestseller in 13 different countries.
Now, in Everthing Is F*cked, Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at our relationships with money, entertainment and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat us alive. He openly defies our definitions of faith, happiness, freedom—and even of hope itself.
With his usual mix of erudition and where-the-f*ck-did-that-come-from humor, Manson takes us by the collar and challenges us to be more honest with ourselves and connected with the world in ways we probably haven’t considered before. It’s another counterintuitive romp through the pain in our hearts and the stress of our soul. One of the great modern writers has produced another book that will set the agenda for years to come.
قلم غزال كحلي
في مجلدين، يضم كتاب “بدر شاكر السياب : الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة” كافة القصائد التي كتبها الشاعر العراقي الكبير بدر شاكر السياب، والذي ولد في محافظة البصرة في جنوب العراق (25 ديسمبر 1926 – 24 ديسمبر 1964).
وبدر شاكر السياب هو شاعر عراقي يعد واحدًا من الشعراء المشهورين في الوطن العربيفي القرن العشرين، كما يعتبر أحد مؤسسي الشعر الحر في الأدب العربي.
ويقف السياب من الشعر الحديث موقف الثائر الذي يعمل على قلب الأوضاع الشعريّة، ونقل الشعر من ذهنية التقليد وتقديس الأنظمة القديمة إلى ذهنية الحياة الجديدة التي تنطق بلغة جيدة، وطريقة جديدة، وتعبّر عن حقائق جديدة. وساعدَ السيّاب في عمله جرأة في طبيعته، وتحرُّك اجتماعيّ وسياسيّ ثوري هز العالم الشرقيّ هزاً عنيفاً، ثم انفتاح على أدب الغرب وأساليب الغرب في التفكير والتعبير.
وقد أدخل السياب على الشعر العربي ثورته التي قام بها في مجتمعه، فحوّله من نظام العروض الخليلي إلى نظام الحرية، وأخرج الأوزان القديمة من قواعدها المألوفة إلى أوزان أملَتْها عليه معانيه ونبضات وجدانه، وتصرف بالتفاعيل والقوافي وفاقاً للمزاجيّة الشعريّة التي يوحي بها مقتضى الحال، هذا فضلاً عن التيارات الفكرية والتحليلات العميقة التي زخر بها شعره وانساق في مجاريها انسياقاً فُراتيّاً يمتدّ امتداداً حافلاً بالغنى ومتأججاً بتأجّج العاطفة والحياة والخيال التي ينطلق منها.
تروعك في شعر السيّاب تلك الثروة الفكرية، وتلك الغزارة المعنوية، وذلك التلاحق الهائج المائج في تدفّقه الذي يجمع الصّخب إلى التغلغل في طوايا النفس؛ وذلك العصف الفكري والعاطفي المرةَق، ثم تلك الواقعية اللفظية الضارية، والإلحاح على المشهد المثير واللفظة المعبّرة عن الثورة الحياتية المتفجرة، ثم أخيراً تلك الرمزية التصويرية تستعين بالميثولوجيا والإشارات التاريخيّة التي تزيد الكلام حدّةً وبُعد آفاق.
وهكذا فالسيّاب شاعر التحرُّر وشاعر الحياة والعنفوان.
ويمثل شعر بدر أهم الاتجاهات الشعرية التي عرفها عصره، وكانت له حصيلة واسعة من الموروث الشعري الكلاسيكي، بالإضافة إلى ترجماته لمختارات من الشعر العالمي إلى العربية.
بدأ بدر كلاسيكياً، ثم تأثّر برومانسية أبي شبكة من لبنان وبودلير من فرنسا، لكن إضافاته الشعرية وإنجازاته بدأت بشعره الواقعي، ولاسيما قصائد حفّار القبور؛ المومس العمياء؛ الأسلحة والأطفال. وشعر بدر التّموزي أبدع ما ترك من آثار، لاسيما ديوان أنشودةّ المطّر، ففيه نماذج كثيرة للقصيدة العربية الحديثة، التي توفر فيها شكل فني حديث متميّز، ومضمون اجتماعي هادف في آن واحد، ومن أشهرها أنشودة المطر، ومدينة السندباد؛ والنهر والموت؛ وبروس في بابل؛ وقصيدة المسيح. وتعد قصيدتاه: أنشودة المطر؛ وغريب على الخليج صوتاً مميزاً في الشعر العربي الحديث، وفيهما يظهر صوته الشعري المصفى وقدرته الإبداعية العميقة. يقول مطلع أنشودة المطر:
عيناك غابتا نخيل ساعة السحر
أو شُرْفَتَان راح ينأى عنهما القمر
عيناك حين تبسمان تورق الكروم
وترقص الأضواء كالأقمار في نهر
يَرُجّه المجذّاف وَهْناً ساعةَ السحر
وتبلغ القصيدة ذورتها في قوله:
أتعلمين أي حزن يبعث المطر
وكيف تنشج المزاريب إذا انهمر
وكيف يشعر الوحيد فيه بالضياع
بلا انتهاء ـ كالدم المراق، كالجياع
كالحب، كالأطفال كالموتى ـ هو المطر!
Louise L. Hay, bestselling author, is an internationally known leader in the self-help field. Her key message is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” The author has a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with cancer.
An excerpt from You Can Heal Your Life: “Life Is Really Very Simple. What We Give Out, We Get Back What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences.”