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The Robert Langdon Collection: 5 Books Boxset (Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, Origin)

From the multi-million bestselling phenomenon Dan Brown, a 5 book-boxset starring the one and only Harvard professor Robert Langdon.

Titles in this boxset:

ANGELS AND DEMONS (BOOK 1)
A world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered with a mysterious symbol seared onto his chest. In a breathtaking race against time, Robert Langdon must decipher a labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols if he is to defeat those responsible – the Illuminati.

THE DA VINCI CODE (BOOK 2)
Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci.

THE LOST SYMBOL (BOOK 3)
Robert Langdon believes he is in Washington to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom. When Langdon’s mentor, Peter Solomon is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend’s life is to accept this mysterious summons.

INFERNO (BOOK 4)
Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed in Florence with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the origin of the macabre object that is found hidden in his belongings. A threat to his life will propel him and a young doctor, Sienna Brooks, into a breakneck chase across the city.

ORIGIN (BOOK 5)
Robert Langdon arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum’s director, Ambra Vidal.

AI Snake Oil

From two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and products
Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn’t, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil—products that don’t work, and probably never will.
While acknowledging the potential of some AI, such as ChatGPT, AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it’s being built, marketed, and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance, and criminal justice. The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organizations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can’t fix social media, why AI isn’t an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies.
By revealing AI’s limits and real risks, AI Snake Oil will help you make better decisions about whether and how to use AI at work and home.

Wonder: Special Hardback Edition with Sprayed Edges

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

For the first time ever, read the award-winning, multi-million copy bestselling phenomenon that is WONDER in this brand new-special hardback edition, with beautiful sprayed edges.

Millions of people have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face–who shows us that kindness brings us together no matter how far apart we are. Now a major motion picture.

‘My name is August. I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.’

Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things – eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside. But ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren’t stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he’s being sent to a real school – and he’s dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted – but can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, underneath it all?

A funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut – and a true global phenomenon – to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.

R.J. Palacio has called her debut novel “a meditation on kindness” –indeed, every reader will come away with a greater appreciation for the simple courage of friendship. Auggie is a hero to root for, a diamond in the rough who proves that you can’t blend in when you were born to stand out.

How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you’re going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks observes, “The older I get, the more I come to the certainty that there is one skill at the center of any healthy family, company, classroom, community or nation: the ability to see each other, to know other people, to make them feel valued, heard and understood.”

And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us to do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?

Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate towards others; it helps readers find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.

The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is a profoundly creative act: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, seeking to understand and yearning to be understood.

Billy and the Epic Escape

Share the adventure of a lifetime in this incredible sequel to Jamie Oliver’s bestselling children’s debut, Billy and the Giant Adventure!

Billy and his best friends Anna, Jimmy and Andy are looking forward to a summer exploring Waterfall Woods, discovering more about the magical creatures who live there and the Rhythm of nature that keeps their world, and ours, in balance.

Then the woods come under attack from a mysterious red lady, forcing the sprites and brothers Wilfred and BiIfred into hiding, and the gang rush to the rescue!

But what does the red lady really want? Could she be connected to Bilfred’s disappearance all those years ago? And, if so, how is it possible she looks exactly the same decades later. . .

Can Billy and his friends uncover the truth and stop the red lady’s plans, before the Rhythm is put in danger once again?

Fantastical fun – full of magical creatures, epic feasts and brilliant inventions
Page-turning adventure – short chapters bursting with action to keep readers hooked
Amazing illustrations – bursting with illustrations from Mónica Armiño to bring the story to life
Accessible and engaging – designed with dyslexia-friendly font and clear spacing

Cauldron, Sword and Victory

In Cauldron, Sword and Victory, author Sarbpreet Singh takes the reader on a journey through the fiery crucible in which the character of the Sikhs was forged. Seers and mystics, conquerors and kings rub shoulders in this heady tale of history and politics, embarking on never-ending quests for land, power and glory. Singh’s first volume on Sikh history told the story of the venerated Sikh Gurus. Starting with the rebellion of Banda Singh Bahadur, he now turns his attention to Nawab Kapur Singh and his cohort of doughty Sikh chiefs who became the masters of Punjab as the weakened Mughals of Delhi clashed with the powerful Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan. Bringing these swashbuckling characters to life in a manner most vivid and compelling, Singh transports us to the eighteenth-century Indian subcontinent as the Sikh chiefs engage with the British, the Marathas, the Jats and the Rohillas, sometimes as allies and sometimes as adversaries.

Based on a unique mix of eyewitness accounts, secondary sources as well as translations from Braj and Punjabi poetry, Singh’s narrative is both erudite and engaging—a true saga of resilience, faith and power.

You Can Heal Your Life

AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THAT HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION COPIES

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE ON SELF-HEALING, AFFIRMATIONS, AND THE POWER OF THE MIND TO HEAL THE BODY

You Can Heal Your Life has transformed the lives of millions of people. This is a book that people credit with profoundly altering their awareness of the impact that the mind has on health and wellbeing.

In this inspirational book by the late world-renowned bestselling author and self-help pioneer Louise Hay, you’ll find profound insight into the relationship between the mind and the body.

Louise 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.” Louise Hay had a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with cancer.

“My message is simple and not confined by borders: You Can Heal Your Life has been translated into over 40 languages throughout the world and continues to heal, transform and empower the lives of so many people.

To this day, I am moved by the stories of profound changes that positive affirmations have made in so many lives. I am also pleased that my work has been embraced not only by my generation, but those who have followed.

To those of you who may be new to using affirmations, I’d like to share with you the following: Every thought we think and every word we speak creates our future. 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.

Affirmations are like seeds that you plant and expect to grow. I urge you to discover the power of affirmations as there are no limits to what they can bring.

All is well, you are safe. Life loves you, and so do I.
—Louise Hay

You Can Heal Your Life (Limited Edition Hardcover with Sprayed Edges)

AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THAT HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION COPIES

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE ON SELF-HEALING, AFFIRMATIONS, AND THE POWER OF THE MIND TO HEAL THE BODY

You Can Heal Your Life has transformed the lives of millions of people. This is a book that people credit with profoundly altering their awareness of the impact that the mind has on health and wellbeing.

In this inspirational book by the late world-renowned bestselling author and self-help pioneer Louise Hay, you’ll find profound insight into the relationship between the mind and the body.

Louise 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.” Louise Hay had a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with cancer.

“My message is simple and not confined by borders: You Can Heal Your Life has been translated into over 40 languages throughout the world and continues to heal, transform and empower the lives of so many people.

To this day, I am moved by the stories of profound changes that positive affirmations have made in so many lives. I am also pleased that my work has been embraced not only by my generation, but those who have followed.

To those of you who may be new to using affirmations, I’d like to share with you the following: Every thought we think and every word we speak creates our future. 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.

Affirmations are like seeds that you plant and expect to grow. I urge you to discover the power of affirmations as there are no limits to what they can bring.

All is well, you are safe. Life loves you, and so do I.
—Louise Hay

Healing Is the New High: A Guide to Overcoming Emotional Turmoil and Finding Freedom (Limited Edition Hardcover)

Achieve genuine inner healing, let go of trauma and find clarity, resilience and freedom with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Vex King.

Vex developed powerful inner healing techniques to help him break free from his troubled past, heal his emotional pain and trauma, and create a new and empowering belief system. Since then, he’s helped thousands of people worldwide unlock their own healing journey. And now he’s here to help you become your own healer too.

Vex shares how to experience healing through the layers of the self, combining yogic principles and simple, accessible techniques for exceptional, long-lasting results. These transformative practices include:

• Working with your body’s energy
• Exploring and raising your inner vibration
• Creating positive relationships
• Exploring your personal history and rewriting limiting beliefs
• Uncovering your true self and reigniting your fire

Taking charge of your inner healing is one of the greatest acts of self-love. By committing to this process and raising your vibration – the energy that courses through you and you radiate out into the world – you’ll create space to welcome more joyful experiences into your life.

The Essential Vex King Collection (Deluxe Hardbound Edition Box Set): Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing Is New High

About Good Vibes, Good Life:

Be the best version of you that YOU can be.

How can you learn to truly love yourself? How can you transform negative emotions into positive ones? Is it possible to find lasting happiness?

In this book, Instagram guru Vex King answers all of these questions and more. Vex overcame adversity to become a source of hope for thousands of young people, and now draws from his personal experience and his intuitive wisdom to inspire you to:

• practise self-care, overcome toxic energy and prioritize your wellbeing
• cultivate positive lifestyle habits, including mindfulness and meditation
• change your beliefs to invite great opportunities into your life
• manifest your goals using tried-and-tested techniques
• overcome fear and flow with the Universe
• find your higher purpose and become a shining light for others

About Healing Is the New High:

Achieve genuine inner healing, let go of trauma and find clarity, resilience and freedom with #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Vex King.

Vex developed powerful inner healing techniques to help him break free from his troubled past, heal his emotional pain and trauma, and create a new and empowering belief system. Since then, he’s helped thousands of people worldwide unlock their own healing journey. And now he’s here to help you become your own healer too.

Vex shares how to experience healing through the layers of the self, combining yogic principles and simple, accessible techniques for exceptional, long-lasting results. These transformative practices include:

• Working with your body’s energy
• Exploring and raising your inner vibration
• Creating positive relationships
• Exploring your personal history and rewriting limiting beliefs
• Uncovering your true self and reigniting your fire

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