Do you drive yourself crazy to distraction trying to remember names, passwords, or where you left your keys? Do you want to brush up on your vocabulary, arithmetic, or revision skills? Give yourself a complete mental workout and keep your brain in tip-top shape using fun and memorable teasers, puzzles, and exercises. Score your progress as you work through the chapters, or dip in and out of areas that you find tricky. Don't remain muddled by maths or vexed by vocabulary - maximize your mental agility with this one-stop guide.
LIGHTEN UP! Collected from one of the most popular features of Reader's Digest magazine, this compilation of more than 1,000 all-new jokes, quotes, anecdotes, and cartoons is guaranteed to add laughter to your day. More than 1,000 all-new laughs to share. Reader's Digest's Funniest Jokes, Quotes and cartoons.
Love comes in many different forms, and no one understands this more than the poet. This universal and complex emotion is expressed so eloquently here in the verses of master poets such as Keats, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mansfield, Blake, Wilde, and Whitman. From romantic words on love and longing, poems on home and family right through to light-hearted, humorous verses, the writings of these famous and best-loved poets are sure to inspire and warm the heart.
What better way to celebrate the positive side of life than with these treasured inspirational verses? Poetry has a way of distilling emotion into a few well-chosen words which can both move and delight us. From Shelley's lyrical 'Ode to the West Wind' to Hardy's 'The Darkling Thrush', these poems draw inspiration from nature, creativity, spirituality, and, at times, from the simple pleasure of irreverence. Here you are sure to find something to seize your imagination and lift your mood, whatever life chooses to throw at you.
Take a journey around the world and discover the secrets to a calmer way of life from cultures far and wide. From embracing ayliak, the Bulgarian 'culture of slowness' and ho'oponopono, the Hawaiian custom of forgiveness, to indulging in fika, the Swedish habit of catching up with friends over a coffee break or flaneur, the French practice of taking a calming stroll around the city - the wonderfully untranslatable words in this book will inspire you with new ways to find a sense of inner calm. Positive psychology scholar Megan C Hayes reveals the true meaning of each term and shares practical exercises to help bring a little more serenity to every area of your life.