Recycling has never been more important – but it has also never been more complicated.

In The Rubbish Book author James Piper provides practical guidance and explains the common mistakes we are all making!

If you’ve been religiously removing the caps and lids from your bottles and jars and recycling them separately you are doing it wrong! The trick is to put them back on the empty bottle or jar as unbelievably anything smaller than a tennis ball cannot be sorted and recycled effectively.

Do you crush your cans and plastic bottles? Please don’t! Many recycling plants use shape sorters to separate out products and won’t recognise the interesting shapes you’ve just made.

• Are sandwich boxes actually recyclable?
• Why can’t black plastic be recycled?

The Rubbish Book has the answer to these and all your recycling questions. With sections covering:

• a handy A–Z of household items and whether they can be recycled
• an in-depth look at the collection and sorting processes

• a break-down of what the recycling symbols on our packaging actually mean, and
• an insight into the future of recycling and the new materials that will change the way we look at rubbish for ever.

For some, there is a high price to pay for ambition and success. The toll on our mental health can be significant, particularly if we are born with the ‘worry’ gene.

As a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health and specifically stress in the workplace will be at the top of society’s agenda for years to come. In Beat Stress at Work,

management trainer Mark Simmonds helps you to understand the effects stress and anxiety can have on your mental health and provides no-nonsense tools and advice to find your way through

work-induced struggles.

Through sharing his own experience, Mark sheds light on the difficulty of discussing mental health with colleagues and employers and identifies the best ways for navigating your way through a mental health crisis.

Beat Stress at Work shows how it can be possible to be ambitious and successful at work because of, not in spite of, the mental health challenges you may face.

In a complex and fast-moving world, AQ is our ability to provide elevated answers, to emotionally connect, explain, predict, and achieve results. If we shape our answers in the right way we can command attention, capture the imagination and withstand critical examination.

Answer Intelligence: Raise your AQ is a book about six types of answers: story, metaphor, theory, concept, procedure, and action. Dr Glibkowski shows how we can elevate our answers to influence and communicate more effectively using five High AQ practices to provide the right type and combination of answers in any given context.

Helps leaders recognise the negative aspects which might affect their organisation and prevent it achieving its goals. It sets out how organisations can overcome challenges, turn negatives into positives and transform their company’s culture for the better.

Softening the Edge is an insightful new book from millennial leader Mimi Nicklin that takes a long hard look at the impact on our lives of the worsening “empathy deficit”. Empathy levels have fallen by a staggering 40% in ten years – according to a longitudinal study by the University of Michigan, so this book is part business tool, part corporate culture guide and part social eye opener.

Written by London Business School Professor, Dr. John Mullins, Break the Rules! The 6 Counter Conventional Mindsets of Entrepreneurs reveals how being more entrepreneurial in your daily life can make the impossible, possible. Told through nineteen iconic case studies of entrepreneurs and their remarkable companies, including charting the origins of LinkedIn Learning, Nespresso, and Amazon’s Kindle, this book brings to life the six mindsets that enable entrepreneurs to change the world. Even better, it lays out the lessons we can all learn about breaking the rules to achieve our entrepreneurial dreams, whether in a start-up or deep inside an established company.

With the success stories and cautionary tales of world-class entrepreneurs, Break the Rules! shows how anyone – in organisations of all sizes based across the world – can put these mindsets into practice to get ahead in your career development. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, an entrepreneur aiming to scale up, or someone wanting to become more entrepreneurial to climb the corporate ladder, Break the Rules! offers pragmatic advice that will equip you with the counter-conventional mindsets that challenge assumptions, overcome obstacles, and inspire you to change the world.