Brock Bastian Livres

Many of Britain's four million Victorian and Edwardian houses were shoddily built and often require 'essential repairs'. This book shows where to look for danger signs, what's normal and what isn't, and how to fix common defects.

Loft conversions are a great way to add valuable living space to your home and significantly boost your property's value.

This new edition will include all the up-do-date information on complying with the latest Building Regs and Planning requirements, CAD design, energy- efficiency, under floor heating, bi-folds, liquid screeds, woodburning stoves and renewable energy.

The first step for every home is insulation, and, for many, the DIY route can be the best option. But every home is different, and this manual can help you identify the best options for you, enabling you to spend money where it's most effective and prevent the wrong kind of improvements.

In the modern world, we have become addicted to positivity. We try to eradicate pain through medication and by insulating ourselves from risk and offence, even though we are the safest and most comfortable generation that ever lived. Yet social psychologist Brock Bastian shows that hardship and sadness are neither antithetical to pleasure nor incidental- they are necessaryfor happiness. In The Other Side of Happiness, he draws on psychology, neuroscience and internationally acclaimed research from his own laboratory to demonstrate how difficult experiences are ultimately proven to make us stronger, happier and more connected to those around us. As Bastian shows us, the most thrilling moments of our lives are usually balanced on a knife edge between pleasure and pain, and carry the potential of loss, whether it is finding your true love, holding your newborn for the first time, scaling a mountain or even taking a dip in an icy sea. Rather than attempting to protect ourselves from risk or viewing difficulty as failure, The Other Side of Happinessencourages us to take a more fearless approach to living that recognises the meaning of pain in our lives.

Most of us would love to design and build our own home. In fact, more people than ever are doing precisely this

Britain has a wonderfully rich stock of period houses - everything from medieval cottages to Georgian townhouses and Edwardian mansions. But many of these historic properties are now at risk

A step-by-step guide to running Great Britain Managing Britain is a complex operation - one that dramatically affects all of our lives as citizens.