Penguin Sleep Tales are 10 specially designed descriptive audio tales to help you wind down and relax before you drift off. Developed with The Sleep Council, each track will transport you to a different location, encouraging you to visualise calming settings and landscapes to ease away the day's anxiety or worry and get you in the right frame of mind for sleep.  

Drawing on years of experience as a clinical psychologist, online sensation Dr Julie Smith shares all the skills you need to get through life's ups and downs. Filled with secrets from a therapist's toolkit, this is a must-have handbook for optimising your mental health. Dr Julie's simple but expert advice and powerful coping techniques will help you stay resilient no matter what life throws your way.

From atomic structures to theories about magnetic forces, scientific progress has given us a good grasp on the properties of many different materials. However, science cannot tell us how to measure the temperature of steel just by looking at it, or how to sculpt stone into all kinds of shapes, or what it feels like to blow up a balloon of glass. Handmade is the story of materials through making and doing. Author and material scientist Anna Ploszajski journeys into the domain of makers and craftspeople to comprehend how the most popular materials really work.

Let Sandi Toksvig guide you on an eclectic meander through the calendar, illuminating neglected corners of history to tell tales of the fascinating figures you didn't learn about at school. From popes who gave birth during papal processions, to the inventor of Scrabble, to pioneering civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, who refused to give up her seat on a train decades before Rosa Parks was born. As witty and entertaining as it is instructive, this is an essential companion to each day of the year.

Combining two magnificent bedtime stories, this book will help you take your mind off any thoughts that could be occupying your mind and relieve anxiety, the number one cause of insomnia. It will help to reduce your stress levels, leaving you no other option but to relax and fall asleep within minutes.

In Nothing Much Happens Kathryn Nicolai offers a healthy way to ease the mind before bed: through the timeless appeal of classic bedtime stories. These calming tales take place in and around a fictional city, each one revealing those small, sweet moments of joy that may be found in the commonplace. 

Feeling stressed, anxious, or just looking for something to relax with? Thunderstorm and rain sounds are perfect for winding down or simply relaxing. How? Your brain accepts white noise sounds as non-threatening noises, which will help you to reduce your fight-or-flight response. This lowers your stress level, anxiety, and depression, and helps you to absolutely relax and get ready for sleep - or just relax. Don't believe us? Download the audio version and see it for yourself. You'll love it.

This bundle includes high-quality, lengthy stereo chapters of different sounds to have on in the background as a daily hypnotic and relaxing tool. Unlike some audiobooks, this project was made in stereo to allow you to enter a better-optimized sound environment.

In industrialised nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and diseases like diabetes. A key remedy, we are told, is exercise - voluntary physical activity for the sake of health. However, most of us struggle to stay fit, and our attitudes to exercise are plagued by misconceptions, finger-pointing and anxiety. But, as Daniel Lieberman shows in Exercised, the first book of its kind by a leading scientific expert, we never evolved to exercise.

This book is a collection of short stories, each centered around some miraculous transcendence of physical being into a realm of pure imagination as the realm of dreams, to expand our soul and relax our mind and our bodies so that we can peacefully transition into a trance state and from that trance state into a serene and peaceful and rejuvenating sleep.

Everyone struggles to get to sleep from time to time. Sometimes when you know you have a big day ahead of you the pressure to fall asleep is amplified as you calculate just how few hours you have available to rest. Whatever the reason for your insomnia this powerful track will help. This powerful guided meditation and hypnosis track slows your brain activity down and guides you gently into a deep and peaceful sleep. Use as often as necessary to beat insomnia and fall asleep in a very natural and healthy way.

The beauty of fractal patterns and their relation to chaos, as well as the history of chaos, and its uses in the real world and implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction audiobook. 

Many of the activities we take for granted are in fact contrary to a healthy lifestyle. In this groundbreaking audiobook, long-held beliefs are exploded by new science: drinking eight glasses a day is too much, breakfast isn't the most important meal of the day, smartphones are not making us all depressed. Bringing to bear the latest research in psychology, nutrition, biology and physics, Dr Stuart Farrimond unearths the facts behind the fads and provides take-away advice on every area of our lives.

What is that magic quality that makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?"

This ground-breaking new book combines the best of Compassion-Focused Therapy with the most effective mindfulness techniques. The result is an extremely effective approach to overcoming everyday emotional and psychological problems and improving one's sense of well being. Based on the latest work from Professor Paul Gilbert OBE, best-selling author of The Compassionate Mind, and Buddhist expert Choden.