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Hazel Sheffield

The inspiring new book about Britain’s abandoned and neglected places, the opportunities they present for business and communities, and how they can help us face the challenges of climate change. 
 
'This is not just a grassroots manual for 21st century survival – groundswelling and prophetic, it could be a startling blueprint for life in the 22nd.' - Tom Nancollas, author of Seashaken Houses 
 
'Remarkable, exquisitely researched and acutely observed, it won’t leave me.' - Lucy Easthope, author of When the Dust Settles 
 
'This is a book for now, when so many feel jaded, worn thin and in desperate need of hope.' - Kassia St Clair, author of The Secret Lives of Colour 
 
'Read one page, and you will want to keep reading.' - Paul Hawken, author of Regeneration 
 
'Frontierlands' are Britain's forgotten places. Silt-filled harbours, overgrown forests, sunken railway tracks and empty buildings. All once economic engines, now abandoned by investors and the state. 
 
But they are home to local communities, and amongst them, some remarkable pioneers working together to repair, rebuild and prepare for the future. 
 
Hazel Sheffield takes her readers on a journey that begins at the coastline and travels inward via hoardings and railway arches, factories, streets and neighbourhoods to our homes. Moving from Watchet harbour in the South West to Gateshead in the North East, from Lancashire to London and the South East, she introduces us to the people who are acting to shape their own destinies - people with first-hand knowledge of the problems Britain faces and with clear ideas how to make things better. 
 
This is a book about regeneration, reclaiming power, and the hope that comes from community action. About people questioning how the world works and determined to do things differently in the face of economic upheaval and climate crisis. People learning to build a new world, challenging us all to think about how we should live in the face of certain change. 
 
Immersive and inspiring, Frontierlands challenges us to reconnect with and reclaim our environment, showing that it is possible to regenerate, reskill and create opportunities for industry, and to address the challenges of climate change.

Frontierlands

Britain’s Survival in the Making

Simon Rogers

Ever wondered what goes through other people’s minds – their silly questions, their inner anxieties, hopes and dreams? In What We Ask Google, Simon Rogers explores insights from the world's biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. What it reveals about us might surprise you. 
 
Every June, for instance, the UK sees a spike in searches for ‘how to help a bee’. Reassuringly, people consistently want to know, ‘How often can you donate plasma?’ And despite superficial differences (such as the deeply divided world map of cat people vs dog people), humanity has a lot more in common than we often acknowledge: after all, everywhere around the world, it’s 2am when parents want to know how to get their baby to sleep. 
 
Brimming with insights that vary from the playful to the profound, What We Ask Google delves into the momentous and the mundane secrets of what we ask when we get the chance to ask anything, offering a surprisingly hopeful picture of humankind.

What We Ask Google

A surprisingly hopeful picture of humankind

Bonnie Wan

"The ultimate tool to set us on our true path towards success and joy" 
Deepak Chopra 
 
"Bonnie is Oprah - meets Brene Brown - meets Simon Sinek." 
Elle Harrison, author of Wild Courage 
 
We all have moments when we doubt the path we're on. So ask yourself: what do you really, really want? And how can you make that happen? 
 
Making meaning out of messiness, The Life Brief distils the practice of brand strategy into its simplest, clearest, and most effective form to help you realign your path with your dreams - personally, professionally, culturally and spiritually. 
 
World-leading strategist Bonnie Wan first encourages you to Get Messy, with ways to cut through limiting beliefs and false assumptions about what's possible. Then her guidance to Get Clear offers prompts for finding clarity around what you truly, deeply want. And finally, Get Active catapults you into the steps to making those desires a reality. 
 
This blueprint has already been transformative for thousands of other people, and now we can all learn how to break through the clutter, identifying the fears and beliefs holding us back, and create a life that is wholly our own. 
 
You cannot have it all, but you can have all that matters 
 
"This book is a wonderful invitation. Take it." 
Dave Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Designing Your Life 
 
'An inspiring and important way of thinking." 
Esther Wojcicki, author of How to Raise Successful Children

The Life Brief

A Playbook for No-Regrets Living

Jack Maden

When faced with life’s most difficult, existential questions we often feel alone. Who am I? What should I value? How to make life more meaningful? Why should I go on? And yet, while they feel unique, many of the anxieties, disappointments, and uncertainties in our lives are universal. 
 
Jack Maden sifts the wisdom of the ages to inform and enrich each stage of life: from being someone’s child and experiencing first love, to working a job, worrying about money, hitting a midlife crisis, and facing impermanence. THE PHILOSOPHY PRESCRIPTION will serve not just as a gateway to self-understanding but will also help cultivate empathy for loved ones, wherever you are on your journey. 
 
Philosophers have explored these shared existential questions for thousands of years, but not everyone has time to read and dissect hundreds of dense philosophical texts to discern how their wisdom might inform how we live our lives today. That’s why we need THE PHILOSOPHY PRESCRIPTION.

The Philosophy Prescription

Lessons from Big Thinkers for Every Stage of Life

Gary Slutkin

Drawing on decades spent fighting infectious disease before founding Cure Violence Global, Dr Gary Slutkin shows that violence behaves like any other epidemic – it spreads through exposure, but it can also be interrupted, contained and ultimately eliminated. By treating violence as a contagious illness rather than a moral failing, he reveals how communities around the world have begun to heal themselves, by following the basic epidemic playbook. These methods have dramatically reduced or eliminated violence in communities in the US, Latin America, and around the world. 
 
With clear-sighted pragmatism, The End of Violence uncovers the invisible logic of violence – and how it works on our brains and bodies – offering an inspiring and time-tested roadmap for our recovery. Incisive, far-reaching and profoundly hopeful, it challenges the idea that violence is inevitable and shows us a concrete way to a more peaceful world.

The End of Violence

Eliminating the World’s Most Dangerous Epidemic

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