Reference Books

Guinness World Records 2009 is packed with 1000's of new records, amazing 3D photography, fold-out features including Harry Potter, the Moon Landings and 3D Dinosaurs, celebrity interviews and 100% new photography.

Feeling poor because of recession? Feeling like you'd quite like to tighten your belt, but aren't quite ready to embrace DIY macrame handbags? This book shows you how even a dedicated consumer and child of the more-is-more 1980s can mend her ways, embrace the New Thrift, and find her life improved in the process.

Covers the period from the late '50s, when albums began to be considered as an oeuvre, to the early twenty-first century. This book contains insights into why each album is significant, the key tracks, the circumstances of its creation, the critical reception in its day, and why it stands the test of time.

One of Britain's most successful self-made multi-millionaires reveals how you can change your life and make a fortune.

Essential, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining, Schott's Almanac is the ultimate book of the year - to savour, collect, and present this Christmas

Teaches you: how to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for per hour and do whatever you want; and how blue chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs. Thsi book also shows how to eliminate 50 per cent of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist.

The only book for all self-respecting girls from the team behind THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS

From the makers of the award-winning BBC series and Dr Nick Barratt, the UK's leading authority on family history, comes the definitive, must-have guide to researching your family's roots and bringing your family history to life. Containing all you need to know whether you're a new beginner or more experienced researcher.

Presents a method that removes psychological dependence on cigarettes and sets smokers free.

Confidence is having faith in one's own abilities. Someone who is confident can achieve more, stand up for what they believe in and have the courage to risk embarrassment. However, for some, confidence does not come easily. Almost every day we are subjected to situations where our confidence is tested and there are even instances where lack of confidence can hinder our progress in life. ...

Fully updated and revised for 2009, this family reference book comes from the publishers of the renowned Whitaker's Almanack.It combines the most up-to-date, 'must have' information on everyimportant subject on earth. Hugelyentertaining and informative, this book is a superbreference title for all the family.

This is a pocket bible for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable thinkable and the impossible possible. Top advertising guru Paul Arden offers his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, and making mistakes.

A guide to how you can live on less, spend less, and yet be far richer and happier for it. It includes 365 tips that can help save you the odd GBP20, GBP50 or GBP200 a year.

It's a fact that men love lists: with lists, men can find the interesting information with the least amount of effort. This book contains over 250 lists covering the important subjects in life - cars, sports, barbecues, gadgets - and answers the vital questions: Are Ferraris faster than Lamborghinis? What's the common murder weapon?

Spend a year with the UK's most popular home and lifestyle magazine, Yours. Packed full of real life stories, quizzes, photos and recipes, this is the ultimate home-maker's guide. With endless tips and hints for the home, an exclusive 2009 calendar and much more, every household should have a copy!

For the first time - personal success demystified. A complete rulebook for those wanting to achieve more, be more, do more.

Offers information from Bow Bells to Byzantine art, from Komodo dragons to kamikaze pilots, and from literary pseudonyms to a chronicle of global history.

A hardback bestseller, Dragon's Den star Peter Jones shows how to turn your business dreams into reality and learn how to make millions from your ideas