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• Category:Richard Brook
  ...mind body-connection as Richard helps you understand the mechanics behind the fundamental areas of your life! ...ationship dynamics how they differ with each person you meet; and explains the importance of healing practices such as yoga, meditation & therapies.
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• My Magical Oasis: Art Therapy Colouring Book for Creative Minds by Eglantine de la Fontaine et al
  |summary=Yet another colouring book with an adult audience in mind, but one that offers more scope for DIY activity to make it more of a perso ...up, here I'm mentioning this volume because it allegedly would change your mind.
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• Theory of Mind by Sanjida O'Connell
  |title=Theory of Mind ...ary= Part love story, part thriller, and part psychology study, "Theory of Mind" takes in apes, romance, autism and robots, but binds them together with an
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• CBD Spray Benefits & The Best CBD Nasal Sprays On The Market
  ...there could be an even better way. One such method to consider outside of the CBD creams and drops is that of [https://senseicbdoil.com/cbd-spray CBD spr '''How does a CBD nasal spray differ to other CBD products?'''
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• Friends Like These by Sarah Alderson
  ...here once was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it. ...k into Lizzie’s life. She fell out of it about the same time she fell down the stairs at work. Smash, she went. Splat. It wasn’t pretty and it resulted
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• How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
  |title=How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like |sort=How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
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• Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen
  |title=Why We Think the Things we Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell ...how ideas are formed'' was the highest science, although that sounds like the psychology that I did indeed study. Still, study it many people do – and
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• Warduff and the Corncob Caper by Mat Head
  |title=Warduff and the Corncob Caper ...at she, and all the other farm animals, are on the menu! Can Warduff save the day?
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• Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing by Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth
  |title=Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing ...art and a whole lot of fun in a book that adults may well enjoy as much as the children.
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• Worlds Elsewhere by Andrew Dickson
  ...om – this is an exploration of Shakespeare around the world, and considers the global and cultural reach of a man who never once left England… ...are – a man who never once left England, which has made him an icon across the globe? Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, ''Wo
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• The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it by Philip Ball
  |title=The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it |sort=Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do without it
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• How to Win: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race by Dr Rob Yeung
  |title=How to Win: The Argument, the Pitch, the Job, the Race |summary=Business Psychologist Dr Rob Yeung discusses ways to get ahead in the workplace in this self-help manual packed with useful tips, real-life exper
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• That Was a Shiver, and Other Stories by James Kelman
  ...st is a deep, dark mixture of fiction whose literary riches may well elude the reader. ...orks to be the more interesting places to turn. Opening these pages, from the pen of such an esteemed pro, came with no small sense of anticipation.
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• Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
  ...my Heart Used to Beat'' is a journey through age, war, love, and the human mind. Haunting, moving and yet more proof of Faulks immense talent. ...anity and raises the question – is life comprised of events themselves, or the way in which an individual chooses to remember them?
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• Is it worth buying and investing in contemporary art
  ...uctions also pay attention to ''small'' investors who have decided to join the art. Especially for them, inexpensive lots are exhibited with starting pric Factors that affect the value of an art piece:
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• How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative Workbook by Lee Crutchley
  |title=How to Be Happy (or at least less sad): A Creative Workbook ...gentle, non-preachy way to look at the good things in life. And, yes - it works.
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• You Can Be Amazing: Transform Your Life with Hypnosis by Ursula James
  ...lacing old and familiar negative thoughts and messages with positive ones. The book is clear, well written and supportive, and is highly recommended. ...a CD of hypnotic suggestions which reinforce the messages and exercises in the book.
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• Thinking Allowed by Julian Wiles
  |summary=Not a prescriptive 'how to run your business' book, but an easy-to-read series of short articles an ...apter numbers (you pick from the menu) and it's not even necessary to read the book in any particular order.
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• Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G S Denning
  ...ements of the Sherlock Holmes stories and you may be surprised how well it works. ...mes? A genius eccentric whose mind works on a different plain, or perhaps the more obvious option is that he was a Warlock? Surely his ability to see wh
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• A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
  |summary=Brilliant state-of-the-nation novel from Sebastian Faulks. I loved it. ...ooks with the Queen. Looping all these people together is a Tube driver on the Circle Line.
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• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
  |title=The Book of Disquiet ...st masterpiece. A collection of random musings of a fiercely contemplative mind rather than a novel, it is best treated as you would a book of poetry to be
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• Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton
  ...hink. Beware though - you'll have a job getting the characters out of your mind! Highly recommended. ...ly problem though. His appointment wasn't universally welcomed and some of the feminist Fellows (if that doesn't sound like a contradiction in terms) woul
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• Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism by Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell
  |title=Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism ...is daily struggles and unique perspective on the world in this sequel to ''The Reason I Jump.''
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• Inventions in 30 Seconds by Dr Mike Goldsmith
  ...de takes us on a whistle-stop tour of 30 ingenious inventions that changed the world. ...things work or how things are made. It seems that the minute I have found the answer to one of his questions, another has formulated inside his head to r
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• Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett
  |title=Beneath the World, A Sea ...and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results...
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• Top Ten Books About Language
  ...ing that goes beyond language, and with our favourite variety of language: the one that makes books. Why not [mailto:sue@thebookbag.co.uk tell us] about y |title=How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
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• Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
  |title=Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious |summary=Hunches, gut feelings, intuition. From how a baseball player catches a ball to why incest is wrong to why people do or
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• Found by Harlan Coben
  ...a steroid test. Troy isn't exactly Mickey's favourite person, but he knows the team won't play so well without him, so when Troy asks Mickey for help to p ...the agenda of the mysterious 'Bat Lady', leader of the Abeona Shelter and the only person besides Mickey who believes his father could still be alive...
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• Words and Pictures: Writers, Artists and a Peculiarly British Tradition by Jenny Uglow
  ...ount of the relationship between words and pictures in books in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, and is recommended. From childhood, we start by looking at the pictures in books and these images often remain with us for a long time, pa
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• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
  |title=The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature ..."instant classic" was ever justifiably applied, it should be applied to ''The Stuff of Thought''.
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• Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe
  |title=Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much ...ed me up short: there was definitely something wrong here - and then I had the opportunity to listen to an audio download of ''Busy'' and I knew that it w
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• Over My Dead Body by Hazel McHaffie
  ...ntentious issues of medical ethics in works of fiction, does the same with the matter of organ donation in this book. ..., the situation of this mother quite successfully conveys just how complex the ethics of organ donation are.
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• Pom and Pim by Lena Landstrom and Olaf Landstrom
  |summary=You should always look on the bright side of life. Pom and Pim do. ...day things start off well, but bad luck comes their way. Can they look on the bright side of every situation, even when they feel tripped up time and tim
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• All Yours by Claudia Pineiro
  |summary=The mundane order of the life of a surburban wife is turned upside down by her determination to prot ...s. Inés takes charge of the ensuing trouble in her usual capable way, with the full confidence of someone who is always in control. But in trying to prote
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• Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses by Brian Moses
  |title=Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses ...t a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pages, even if the author himself cannot decide…
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• Please Mr Panda by Steve Antony
  ''Give me the pink one,'' replies Mr Penguin<br> ''No, you can not have a doughnut. I have changed my mind.''
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• Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut and Dan Wakefield
  ...ection of all kinds of letters by the Amarican writer Kurt Vonnegut, whose works of fiction are often categorised as science fiction. ...mely death, these letters enable readers to understand the workings of the mind behind classics such as ''Slaughterhouse-5'' and ''Cat's Cradle''.
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• Carry Me Home by Terri Wiltshire
  ...the point. It's a story of a family, well-crafted, deep-rooted, and worth the read. ...te girl is raped by a black man, a hobo from the last train through town. The townsfolk are up in arms.
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• Dead in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation) by Dana Stabenow
  |title=Dead in the Water (A Kate Shugak Investigation) ...er, but like the other two books which I've read two decades have not aged the story and they're darned good reads.
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• Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little by Christopher Johnson
  |title=Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little ...Christopher Johnson is here to take you by the hand and guide you through the basics of ''writing small''.
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• 3 Questions to Ask Yourself When Choosing a Writing App
  ...e actual task of writing. To help you achieve the first effect rather than the latter, here are three crucial questions to ask yourself when deciding whic '''1. What do I need the most help with?'''
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• The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley
  |title=The Genius and the Goddess |sort=Genius and the Goddess
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• Seven Second Delay by Tom Easton
  ...running for her life, but is seven seconds enough of a head start to keep the government off her tail? ...r is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.
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• The Last of the Greenwoods by Clare Morrall
  |title=The Last of the Greenwoods |sort=Last of the Greenwoods
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• The Currency of Paper by Alex Kovacs
  |title=The Currency of Paper ...lenging, but worth the effort. Alex Kovacs popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Kovacs|chat to us]].
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• A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson
  ...in the Inspector Banks series is fresh and intriguing. It has a twist at the end which I didn't see coming. Recommended. ...ondon for north Yorkshire? The sixteen-year-old decodes that she could be the local heroine and sets off to investigate for herself.
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• In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Laurie R King and Leslie Klinger (editors)
  |title= In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon |summary=The book that took the literary world into the courthouse – all the while intending to provide many more cases for us to read in return.
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• Can You Say It Too? Brrr! Brrr! by Sebastien Braun
  ...n't tell you is that they only have children for their own entertainment – the little tykes can be hilariously funny. One fun area is when a baby starts ...m at Nosy Crow have deliberately made a sturdy book that will survive even the most troublesome of tiny hands.
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• Hogs Hate Hugs by Tiziana Bendall-Brunello and John Bendall-Brunello
  ...s don't believe him. This is cute book but we had a few reservations about the methods. ...this case, Little Hog has a solution. He makes a bold sign and hangs it on the tree. ''HOGS HAT HUGS!'' it reads. And that’s that.
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• Kipper by Mick Inkpen
  ...er, and everyone would love a book, love a book, love a book about Kipper. The 10 episode DVD is a great bonus in this 21st anniversary edition. ...e a dog like Kipper. Now we're treated to a 21-year anniversary edition of the original book, complete with a 10 episode DVD.
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