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[[Category:Reference|*]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Mabey1394159544|title=The Ash and the BeechRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler

|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=''The Ash and The BeechRecycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' is an updated version of Mabey’s popular  ''BeechcombingsRecycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, which has been given it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a new foreword just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and afterword by recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the author in light of future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the recent issues concerning ash die-back, which currently threatens Britain’s ash populationpurpose. Mabey expands on Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this topic by examining absolutely essential?' On the history other hand, I suspected I was guilty of British trees, particularly the Beech wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and how dropping it has managed to survive and adapt over in the centuries despite threats from warkerbside bin. Yes, felling, disease I could go searching on the internet - and storms. He raises some important and thoughtget conflicting advice -provoking ideas and questions whether our constant intervention in such cases serves to do more harm than goodbut what I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587238</amazonuk>s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Mortimer1913750353|title=A History Britannica's Word of Cricket in 100 Objectsthe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45|genre=SportChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=[[A History ''Britannica's Word of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History of Football in 100 Objects]] was the Day'' has a brave attempt, but was slightly let down by being a little too clinicalsub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. Being a game imbued It starts on January 1st with passion''Razzmatazz'', the book lacked this which took some of the edge off tells you how to pronounce it. Cricket(''raz-muh-TAZ''), whilst inspiring passion amongst devotees, has gives you a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better definition and then includes the word in this format. That said, being a game sentence so that has been played for five centuries, narrowing you know how it down to just 100 objects is no less should be used. You also get an undertaking than for footballengaging and frequently amusing illustration too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk> I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Polly Morlandsuppl_stafl|title=The Society of Timid SoulsSupply Chain 20/20: Or, How to be BraveA Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=34.5

|summary=So, you'I see no reason why ve finished writing your book and you think the shy hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and timid the money will start rolling in any community couldn’t get together and help each other.'?

The above words were uttered in 1943 by Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a gentleman called Bernard Gabrieltalent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Mr Gabriel was a piano player who founded a unique club Then, when you ''The Society of Timid Soulsfinally'' that encouraged timid performers and fear-wracked musicians to come in out have a copy of the cold book in your hands, you're going to play, have to criticise and be criticised in order work out how to conquer that old bogey of stage fright.sell it - because it ''is'' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed going to be cured by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years that followeddown to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary BeardFrederic Gros|title=Confronting A Philosophy of Walking|rating=5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''.|isbn=1781688370}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the ClassicsEstranged: TraditionsThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, Adventures and Innovations1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=45|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=For Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a lot crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of ussociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the idea publications of learning Classics conjures up images – or memories these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of rows homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of (usually public) schoolboys endlessly repeating different conjugations of Latin verbssame-sex relationships in 1967. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary='' Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''Amothe first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, amasas a miner, amatquarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don' and so ont have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. It I then ask if they's an idea imprinted on ve considered Kindle and the popular imagination by countless booksanswer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, films running most of my life ''and TV shows'' a website online, and indeed by anecdotal memory. I'm pretty sure still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my dad would have been one hand as I go through it for the first time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of those schoolboys in the 1960sSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250480</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley GibbonsHigashida_Fall|title=Stamps Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of the World 2013Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell

|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=Philatelists have long come to rely on Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the annual publication workings of Stanley Gibbons’ Stamps the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of the World simplified cataloguea teenager with non-verbal autism. For years it has had Naoki communicates by using an unrivalled reputation for accuracy and usability for both dealers and collectorsalphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. Commemoratives, definitives, airmail stamps, postage dues, official stamps Despite this slow and miniature sheets are all listed (both mint and used)laborious method of writing, using the internationally recognised Stanley Gibbons catalogue number he has published several books in his native Japan and set out according manages to date give public presentations to raise awareness of issue and by countryhis condition. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine that any serious dealer or collector could be without the six volume set but many must wonder if it’s entirely necessary Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to make what is Naoki as a substantial investment young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on an annual basislife have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598610</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A L KennedyJenkins_100|title=On WritingBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins

|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=How do you even begin In the mid-twentieth century, the railway was something which harked back to write a review of a book which expresses trenchantthe Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, noeven then and in the twenty-holdsfirst-barred opinions on reviewers and the process of being reviewed? But the task century oil is there, so theregiving way to electricity. It's nothing for it but to roll up your sleevescleaner, gather your courage more environmentally friendly and mutter the word with stations which A L Kennedy regularly signs off from her blog: Onwardswe'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096974</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh JefferiesTaylor_Owls|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013Owls: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You might think that as all I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the stamps in this catalogue have been in existence for surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at least forty years there can be little more to be said about them but this 115th edition the same time, the owl is acknowledged to be beckoning the most significant in many years. Most exciting (but probably more so reader to sellers than buyers) is turn the fact that in pages and take a time closer look inside...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=JVDK_ELO|title=Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=My memories of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases pop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and evidence of a very lively marketbrass. Demand for good stamps is greater than Pop music rarely stands still and it has been at any time in wasn't long before the last thirty years according basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to editor Hugh Jefferiesexperiment, although he does add that prices are rising faster in some areas than otherswith other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. ItWood wanted to develop the group's difficult to see how a serious collector - or seller - can be without an up-to-date copy sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the catalogue for this reason alonegroup didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598513</amazonuk>

{{newreviewRead the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>|author=Kindle Direct Publishing|title=Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing|rating=2See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>|genre=Reference|summary=If you're thinking of going down And learn the road of selftrue-publishing your book but are unwilling or unable to fund the services offered by some life tales of the leaders in the field then publishing on Kindle is the obvious place to look first. It's a big step though and you want to get it right - not least because what you publish could be out there to haunt you for a very long time. This book comes, as it were, from the horse's mouth and I was expecting explanationswriters, guidanceartists, advice and, well, something which would leave me with the feeling that I ''could'' do this successfullypublishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring. How did it square up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B004LX069M</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theodore DalrympleBrowne_Many|title=The Pleasure Many Faces of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of IdeasCoincidence|author=Laurence Browne|rating=43.5|genre=ReferencePopular Science|summary=Having recently read [[Pieces Browne does not mislead with this choice of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough]], I expected something similar, judging only from the title of Theodore Dalrymple's ''The Pleasure of Thinking: ; he does without a Journey Through doubt explore the Sideways Leaps many faces of Ideas''coincidence. Instead of being a book about how people think laterally, as I thought it might be, it turned out to be something rather different, but ultimately equally interesting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190809608X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=IBPA Contributors1903385679|title=The Book Publishers Toolkit: 10 Practical Pointers for Independent and Self Publishers Vol. 1100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Boyd Tonkin

|summary=Ten articles originally published Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good in the Independent Book Publishers Association magazine one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have been gathered together to provide useful advice to the small independent publisher or anyone looking to self-publishlaboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. The authors of the articles - Kate BandosIt's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, Kimberley Edwards''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, Joel Friedlanderin particular, Steve Gillenin translation, Abigail Gobenare – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, Tanya Halla sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, Brian Judthe Republic of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translator, Stacey Millerwithout whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, Kathleen Weltondo we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and David Wogahn are all acknowledged experts in their own fields I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, and whilst much of it even though this is more relevant in the USA not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's all thought-provoking and worth consideration. Each piece is not a short, snappy and to the point and reading the entire book took me less than an hourthing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AAY8M7O</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J BarrettFry_Mythos|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece|author=Stephen Fry

|summary=I don't usually open reviews by explaining how I came to read a particular bookThe Greek Myths are, arguably, but on this occasion it will help you to judge whether or not this book is suitable for you if you know where I'm coming fromthe greatest stories ever told. Back in 2006 three people got together So old and between them influential they built cast a site - let's call it [http://www.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]. In the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everest. We did it because it ''could'' be there shadow over western tales and we wanted to see if what we (loosely) had in mind could be done. It was a simple HTML site traditions, yet remain relatable and I had no problems in mastering the technicalitiesreadable millennia later. I'd built the site under instruction Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and I knew it inside out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and Roman Tschappeler|title=The Change Book: Fifty models to explain how things happen|rating=3.5|genre=Reference|summary=''The Change Book' is a pocket-sized publication recreates them with lofty ambitions. Small enough to slip into a handbagwit, warmth and a mere 167 pages long, it makes humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the following claim:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125009X</amazonuk>honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserve.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marina WarnerMahnke_Lore|title=Stranger MagicThe World of Lore, Volume 1: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsMonstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke

|summary='Arabesque' isEvery country, these daysevery town, every village has a folktale – a term little used outside ballet. However, in its original meaning it conveyed story passed down through generations that often focuses on the idea of an intricate pattern, constantly dark and exuberantly multiplying in countless new twists and turns, like unexplained. No matter how the interlinked curves modern world moves on , there's a Middle Eastern carpetstill a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. That notion From ghosts to werewolves, by way of arabesque – things spreading wendigos and connecting gorgeously – is pretty much crucial to both elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the theory and reader legends from all over the design of Marina Warnerworld, whilst examining how they's fantastical and fantastic new exploration ve become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the rich intercultural history hearts of many of the ''Arabian Nights'', ''Stranger Magic''us today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437694</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher JohnsonFowler_Forgotten|title=Microstyle: The Art Book of Writing LittleForgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler

|summary=Language changes and evolves all ''Absence doesn't make the timeheart grow fonder''. It makes people think you're dead. There's truth in that statement, you know, but since the dawn of the internet that change seems there's a conundrum when it's applied to have acceleratedauthors. Not only Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven't buried what they've written: that, the pervasion of the web into nearly every aspect of our daily lives means the written word has more power and relevance than perhaps at any other time in human historyon until... Given its influence over us, when? Is it seems only prudent until fashion decrees that we they should try to understand something of how this new vernacular of be no more? Or is it, as in the internet works. In ''Microstyle: The Art case of Writing Littlesome children'' naming s authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and verbal branding expert astute marketing? Christopher Johnson seeks to do just thatFowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, presenting us with 'a field guide to everyday verbal ingenuity'sometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334181X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scarlett ThomasAngell_Triang|title=Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of StoriesTri-ang Collectables|author=Dave Angell|rating=43.5

|summary=I really wasn't expecting a book about how A guide to write fiction the trains produced by the Tri-ang company from its inception until the company became Hornby. A very personal guide to change my TV viewing habits. Alter my reading? Possibly. Improve my writing? Hopefullythe collecting of model trains. But watching Grand Designs in a completely different light?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863789</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Daoust (editor)Chase_Orchids|title=Write.The Book of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world|author=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom Mirenda|rating=4.5

|summary=The Guardian newspaper has for some years now been publishing articles and interviews One in seven flowering plants on how to writeearth is an orchid: there are 26,000 species in 749 genera. Successful authors They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and the Arctic circle, agents and publishers have offered pearls of wisdom in fact, all areas but the Guardian Masterclasses for genres as most inhospitable. There's a wide-ranging as travel writingrange of colours, shapes and scents: they're dramatic, picture books delicate and screenplaysingenious in the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. Now Tom Mirenda describes them as ''masters of manipulation'' and ''famous for lying and cheating their wisdom and way to their insights have been collected together in this slim volume many evolutionary successes'', yet his love of them is as obvious as his respect for the insight they give us into the processes which shaped our world. He hopes that understanding how that has come about will intrigue both the readers and the writers among inspire usto conserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265328X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Keith SouterEdwards_Story|title=The Story of Classic Guide to King Arthur Crime in 100 Books (Classic GuidesBritish Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards|rating=3.5

|summary=This is a comprehensive guide It's easy to be confused by the Arthurian legend, with various 'ages' of crime writing: if you have an interest in the first half taking readers through the tale from Merlin helping Uther Pendragon to sleep with Gorlois - thus giving birth to King Arthur - right up to genre you'll almost certainly have heard of the deaths of all Golden Age of Crime, generally acknowledged as being the principal players in period between the storyfirst and second world wars. The final section gives details of literary sources used for the legend, Arthurian poetry, folklore, 'Classic Crime' on the real people who may have inspired other hand extends the legend, time frame at either end and depictions covers books published in the first half of King Arthur in popular culturethe twentieth century. In betweenThroughout my adult life, there's a fairly short but useful guide to 'Who, Whatbeen just one genre of books which has fascinated me, Where and When In Arthurthat's Realmcrime, so I could hardly resist the chance of reading ''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the author, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre and an acknowledged expert on the subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780950063</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The EconomistDK_Childrens|title=Pocket World in Figures 2013Children's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK|rating=4.5

|summary=Pocket World in Figures 2013 is the twenty-second edition One of the annual bestseller and once again most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it follows says in the tried and tested formatdictionary''. It opens with world rankings and is straight into natural facts - This was fine, but the largest thisfamily's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the longest that font was small and the highest of the otherdifficult to read. The facts are largely incontrovertibleFortunately, mostly unsurprising those times have now changed and they're going to be the same year after yearreference book for children are now much more inviting. Populations do change though as do their rate Not every book comes with a set of growth. India looks set to overtake China as the largest population by 2025 instructions but even India doesnit't have s worth studying the fastest growing population - that's Niger, with an average annual growth of 3.52%'How to. By contrast, Russia which currently has the ninth largest population, is declining at 0.1% annually. If you're looking for the place with the densest population (as ' section, not least because similar systems are used in people per square kilometre rather than in terms of intelligence!) then that's Macauother reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685990</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Various|title=Hello Kitty Dictionary|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes a concept that many young students might not find too interesting (me, on the other hand, I love books full of words) and puts a colourful and fun spin Move on it. Because if you’re having to look up how to spell a word, or what something means, it helps to have pages with lemon and violet and aquamarine borders, dotted with presents and hearts and stars. That’s not to say the dictionary isn’t clear and easy to read because it certainly is: the decorations don’t extend into the centre of the pages, and the entries themselves are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanations, all neatly formatted on crisp white pages.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007457197</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Heffer|title=Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=As a child I was taught English grammar. I began by resenting it but gradually I appreciated the subtlety and nuances of expression that could be achieved by the correct use of language. I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant in a few words. And then I was stunned to find that there was no longer the same emphasis on grammar in schools, that freedom of expression was encouraged without worrying about the form it took – and now I regularly encounter official letters, even books where the English language is subjected to grievous bodily harm. It isn't difficult to get right – it just requires a little knowledge, a logical mind and practice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537931</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Science Fiction Reviews]]