In the mid-1990s, three men had three unique and revolutionary ideas for television shows entitled Cash Mountain, Survive, and Project X. Time and time again, they were each rejected by major the networks as theor projects were declared unfit for production. Rather than give up on their dreams, Paul Smith, Charlie Parsons, and John de Mol instead pushed ahead and went on to produce shows which quickly became the biggest and most successful programs on Earth: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, Survivor, and Big Brother. This is the compelling story of how three men defied overwhelming odds to take the television industry by storm, make personal fortunes, and transform the map of popular culture.

Billion Dollar Game: How Three Men Risked It All and Changed the Face of Television

Humor & Entertainment

Bazalgette, Peter

Radio

Little, Brown Book Group

Billion Dollar Game

Business & Money

Business Culture

Time Warner Books Uk

In 1989 a MORI poll asked 2000 people some basic questions about food and nutrition. On average 55% got the answers wrong and 16% couldn't answer at all. This book assesses current scientific evidence to offer a view of the narrowness of most people's diet. Heart attacks, cancer, obesity, diabetes and bowel disease are major health problems facing western countries, and often they are diet-related. The book suggests how a few minor changes in diet can revolutionize people's health. The topics include an explanation of how dietary needs vary according to age, methods of weight control, shopping, cooking methods, family nutrition, food research aimed at preventing cancer and an A-Z directory of nutrition and food safety. Dr Tom Sanders has published more than 100 academic articles and books on nutrition and is a frequent broadcaster. Peter Bazalgette devised and produced BBC2's "Food and Drink" programme.

The Food Revolution

Sanders, Tom

Transworld Publishers, Ltd

The Empathy Instinct: How to Create a More Civil Society

'If we hope to meet the moral test of our times, then I think we're going to have to talk more about the "empathy deficit". The ability to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes, to see the world through somebody else's eyes . . .' Barack Obama Empathy is the power of understanding others, imaginatively entering into their feelings. It is a fundamental human attribute, without which mutually co-operative societies cannot function. In a revolutionary development, we now know who has it, who lacks it and why. Via the MRI scanner we are mapping the human brain. This is a new frontier that reveals a host of beneficial ideas for childcare, teens challenged by the internet, the justice system, decent healthcare, tackling racism and resolving conflicts. In this wide-ranging and accessible book full of entertaining stories that are underlined by the latest scientific research, Peter Bazalgette also mounts a passionate defence of arts and popular culture as a means of bridging the empathy gap. As the world's population expands, consuming the planet's finite resources, as people haunted by poverty and war are on the move and as digital communications infinitely complicate our social interactions, we find our patience and our sympathy constantly challenged. Here is the antidote. Culminating in a passionate manifesto on empathy, The Empathy Instinct is what makes us human and what can make us better humans.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

John Murray

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