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|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=When I was a child''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, some sixty it will take between 6 months and more 2 years ago, there were not many books for children or, indeed, much money to buy what was availabledecompose. Forty A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years ago. As a just-post-WWII baby, when my daughter was I faced a child there were more dilemma: reducing, reusing and the libraries were relatively well stockedrecycling is part of my DNA. But in the last thirty years childrenNEVER throw away anything that might ''s books have flourished. Ipossibly'm no great fan of [[J K Rowling's Harry Potter Books come in handy now or in Chronological Order|Harry Potter]] but even the most hardened cynic future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would have to admit that serve the wizard has brought a lot of purpose. children to reading - Almost everything can be used one more time and to enjoying it too. In any purchase must pass the same period wetest of 've seen books tackling Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'difficult'' subjects become mainstream m looking at you) and dropping it in the rise of young adult fictionkerbside bin. From nearYes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice -famine we've moved to feast, but what we need now is guidanceI needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199695148</amazonuk>s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip W Errington1913750353|title=J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography 1997 - 2013Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|genre=ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Just occasionally it's necessary to begin by saying what a book 'Britannica'isn'ts Word of the Day''has a sub-title: ''J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography 1997 - 2013'' isn't the latest book ''by'' J K Rowling - she had no part in the writing of the book 366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and doesn't profit from it financially. It isn't, actually, Tickle Your Humerus''which probably tells you all that you need to know about'' J K Rowling other than indirectlythis brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''isRazzmatazz'' a book about her writings, bibliographic details of each edition of ALL her books, pamphlets, and contributions tells you how to published works. It is pronounce it (''notraz-muh-TAZ'' ), gives you a book for definition and then includes the reader who loved the [[J K Rowling's Harry Potter Books word in Chronological Order|Harry Potter books]] and wishes a sentence so that Rowling had written many more, but rather the definitive text about the books which will you know how it should be consulted by scholars, book dealers used. You also get an engaging and collectors, auction houses and researchersfrequently amusing illustration too. The most obvious comparison for me is [[Stamps of the World 2013 by Stanley Gibbons|Stamps of I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the World by Stanley Gibbons]]. It is of that class.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849669740</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kjartan Poskittsuppl_stafl|title=Everyday Maths for Grown-UpsSupply Chain 20/20: Getting to Grips with A Clear View on the BasicsLocal Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5

|summary=We all need maths - or so it says on the back of ''Everyday Maths for Grown Ups'So, you' ve finished writing your book and whilst you could ''exist'' without a basic knowledge, life is going to be so much easier if you can check receipts, do think the calculations for that spot of DIY or hard work out if the 'bargain' you've been offered really is one. all done? Kjartan Poskitt reckons You're convinced that very few people are really confident with figures, but hopes that he can offer some help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178243335X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Finlay|title=Everyday English for Grown-Ups: Getting all you need to Grips with do now is get it published and the Basics|rating=4money will start rolling in?|genre=Reference|summary=It can seem a long time since we learned the nuts Wrong and bolts of the English language when we were at schoolwrong again. At You presumably wrote the time the niceties of colons and intricacies of apostrophes weren't really that relevant book because you wanted to our lives - and it's only when we miss out on you had a good job because our English isn't up to scratch or someone makes a scathing remark about our abuse of talent for delivering the language that we realise that we could do with an urgent and discreet brushupwritten word. Step forward ''Everyday English for Grown-ups'' - and it's aimed at native and non-native English speakersYou knew your subject back to front.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433341</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=June Andrews|title=Dementia: The One-Stop Guide: Practical advice for families, professionals, and people living with dementia and Alzheimer Now you's Disease|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=Worldwide there are probably as many as 44.4 million people who suffer from dementia and many times that number of family, friends, carers and relatives who are affected by what is happening re going to have to get to grips with the sufferer. There's no curebook supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's not terminal too difficult to change and the symptoms (memory loss would seem no one wants to be the most commonfirst to try. Then, but when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in some cases there are hallucinationsyour hands, sexual or verbal disinhibition, not being able you're going to have to work things out, difficulty in learning something new, finding your way about, or coping with the normal symptoms of aging) affect everyone involved. If you talk how to people who are aging then sell it - because it's not uncommon for them to say that they'd rather have cancer than dementia as youis''re unlikely going to be an endless burden on other peopledown to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251711</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dee BlickFrederic Gros|title=The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Marketing a Bestselling Book - on a Shoestring BudgetA Philosophy of Walking

|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=I've always thought that [http://nanowrimo.org/ NANOWRIMO] is a brilliant idea. The nights are longer, the weather uninspiring: what better time to get the first draft of your novel written with support confess I picked this one up from a lot of other people who are all trying to do the same thing? There is a downside for reviewers though: far too many people think that this is the end library in my pre-lockdown forage of their labours and the fledgling manuscript is uploaded onto Kindle and there's disappointment when the book is either not well received or doesn't sell - or sometimes bothrandom stuff. Knowing which book it is Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that you I can turn down the pages I have in you is a great start - but after that you need a structured plan of action marked and sound advice as return to what you its varying wisdom when I need to do to turn your work into a bestseller.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910125040</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Cresswell (Editor)|title=Little Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=Derived from the ''Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins'', the Little Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins tells the stories behind a thousand words, divided into a hundred themes from ''Adventure'' through to ''Writing'' by way of the rest of the alphabet Some books draw you in slowly. For each word within a theme we're told This one had me in which language the it originated and its original meaning - thus for ''Infant'' we find that it comes from the Latin ''in'' meaning first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not'' and ''fari'' for ''speaking''. The two parts put together tell of someone who has not yet reached legal majority rather than a child who has not yet learned the value of the word 'Why?' In Italian ''infante'' means ''youth'' as well as ''foot soldiersport''. From this came ''infanteria'', which English adopted as ''infantry'' in the sixteenth century.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0199683638</amazonuk>1781688370

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Knowles (Editor)1788037812|title=Oxford Dictionary The Fraternity of Quotationsthe Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=I have known people to be just a little snooty about Originally passed in 1885, the fact law that I have had made homosexual relations a copy of the current edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations on my bookshelf crime remained in place for over forty 82 years, suggesting that it was a book for people who hadn't read the original books. I long ago accepted that I would never have the But during this time to read all the books I (might) want , restrictions on same- or feel I ought - to read sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and I've found 1908, three books on the dictionary an invaluable work nature of reference homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and source John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of inspiration for half a century. Where else would you find over 20society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent,000 quotationsbut barely talked about in the UK, covering centuriesso the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, every subject, with wit, wisdom and food beginning the struggle for thought? Yes - I know they're probably all there on recognition and equality, leading to the internet milestone legalisation of same- somewhere, but I've got them in one volume on the shelf sex relationships in front of me1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199668701</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Scrivenor1912242052|title=I Used to Know That: EnglishO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=53|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=I doubt that there can be anything more unnerving than reviewing a book written by someone who is an expert in written English. I've even worried about that ' Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first sentence. But at school I loved English Grammar and person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a good deal of it has stuck. I'm conscious of being pedantic about mistakes other people make miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack- horse driver, but increasingly aware that there are gaps in my own knowledge which should be pluggedbecause he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. This book seemed like the ideal opportunityHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, but I'll confess that changed our view of the subtitle world'Stuff You Forgot From School' made me nervous I was going to be back to reading a school textbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432566</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris Waring1072549271|title=I Used to Know ThatThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: MathsA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis

|genre=ReferenceBusiness and Finance|summary=Maths teacher Chris Waring starts this book with the basics and gradually works his (and our) way through I frequently meet authors who are struggling to about be published by the level of GCSE. It's only 192 pagestraditional houses, so you canbut when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't expect it have the big bucks required to be exhaustive but go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the great thing answer is , inevitably, that it isnthey wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''exhaustingand''a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. Waring explains concepts clearly and with humour but most importantly he shows why the subject is important and how it can be applied I like someone to life, covering such subjects hold my hand as winning - or failing to win - I go through it for the lottery and the chances of being dealt a royal flush at pokerfirst time. ItThat was why I was very interested when 's not just the examples which are new - it's a major improvement on the The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'you will learn this because I'm telling you that you have to' approach which blighted the subject for so many of uscame across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432558</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Orin HargravesHigashida_Fall|title=ItFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Been Said Before: A Guide to Voice From the Use Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and Abuse of ClichesDavid Mitchell|rating=45|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=I donNaoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller 't usually start a review by telling you what a book 'The Reason I Jump'isn't'', but in this case . The book was popular because it's important. This isn't gave a light-hearted look at rare glimpse into the workings of the subjectautistic mind, such as we found in [[Cliches: Avoid Them Like told from the Plague by Nigel Fountain]] and which - laughing and blushing in equal measure unique perspective of a teenager with non- we shelved under 'trivia'verbal autism. This book will be shelved under 'reference': it's Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a rigorous look at the problem with the clichés divided not by subject mattertranscriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, but grammatically he has published several books in his native Japan and with an introduction manages to give public presentations to each section which gives all the information you need raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to help Naoki as a young adult in making judgements about your own his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing. This isn't a his first book to ''amuse'' you, but to help you to improve your use of words.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199315736</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William PoundstoneJenkins_100|title=How to Predict the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost EveryoneBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating=45|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in In the business of predictingmid-twentieth century, whether it be the railway was something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay a bar bill though which harked back to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going to move. Now, I'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means ''that'' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it - so this book didn't appeal to me on the basis of doing better than someone elseVictorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but I steam was interested in how it might be possible to predict what is going to happen. Sobeing replaced by oil, care to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Economist|title=Pocket World even then and in Figures 2015|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=There are people who don't understand the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) twenty- just a collection of figures relevant first-century oil is giving way to a particular circumstanceelectricity. If youIt're one of those people then this book will mean little to yous cleaner, but if you want a pocket (wellmore environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, certainly handbag or briefcase) work of reference then this book will be a treasure. I once gave a copy keen to a diplomat escape their grime, were restored and he kept his wife awake until the early hours as he came across another gem which she had became places to know without delaybe admired, possibly even lingered in. The 2015 edition is the twenty fourth in the series - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtSimon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=The BeeOwls: A Natural History Guide to Every Species|author=Noah Wilson-RichMarianne Taylor

|summary=Bees have been making a bit I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of a media splash of latepiercing orange eyes are staring right at me, due to heightened concern about locking me into their declining numbers and general welfaregaze. Governments have been urged to do more to protect these important creatures, In contrast with a recent EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides hailed as a 'victory for bees'. There is no doubt that these prolific pollinators are a vital part the hardness of our ecosystemthe deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the human fascination with bees goes back reader to our ancient historyturn the pages and take a closer look inside... But just why do we find these hardworking insects so fascinating?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782401075</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alannah MooreJVDK_ELO|title=Create Your Own Online Store (using WordPress) in a WeekendElectric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste

|genre=Business and FinanceEntertainment|summary=I've run a website for over eight years now but I've always shied away from any inclusion My memories of e-commerce on pop music in the site. It seemed like too large a subjectearly sixties revolve around guitars and drums, too much complexity sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and choice brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the possibility of problems which could go disastrously wrongbasic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they led. I first encountered Alannah Moore when I read [[Amongst these groups was The Creative PersonMove and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the group's Website Builder sound by Alannah Moore|The Creative Person's Website Builder]] and adding more instruments but was impressed prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the way that she approached her subject, so when I had rest of the opportunity to see how to create an online store in a weekend, I jumped at the chancegroup didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571430</amazonuk>

Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan WaddellBrowne_Many|title=Who Do You Think You Are?: The Genealogy HandbookMany Faces of Coincidence|author=Laurence Browne|rating=43.5|genre=ReferencePopular Science|summary=The celebrity genealogy programme ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' celebrates its 10th anniversary Browne does not mislead with this year. The makers, Wall to Wall Media, were fortunate enough to ride choice of title; he does without a doubt explore the ripple many faces of family tree fascination, helping to turn it into the hobbyist tidal wave that remains today. For those not familiar with the format, each episode allows us to accompany a household name as they discover secrets, scandals and surprises about an ancestor or two. Thus we aren't only entertained; we're encouraged to delve into our own pasts, BBC TV publications acting as tutor and motivator via this handy little reference guidecoincidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908249</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L Williamson1903385679|title=Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every SpeciesThe 100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Boyd Tonkin|rating=43.5

|summary=I've always been fascinated by hummingbirds - delicateConsider, colourfulif you will, beautifully and brilliantly adapted to extract nectar from flowerstranslated fiction. Perhaps most of all for me Some say it's their acrobatic flight - the ability to hover impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and manoeuvre which has me hooked: I ''Breath'', but he could watch them for hourstranslate his own works, amazed and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a market that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given has actually doubled in ounces can do so muchsales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). I was drawn to this book Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as soon as I saw the introduction here so smartly puts it– ''a privileged means of passing border posts, for a number sort of reasons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Top 10 of Everything 2015|author=Paul Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Top 10 of Everything 2015 isuniversal passport issued by that Utopian state, as the title implies, a compilation Republic of Letters''top ten. We here at the ' lists covering a wide variety of topics including Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the natural worldtranslator, pop culturewithout whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, sport and technology. The style do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book will appeal the other year detailing 1001 places to go to its target audience of pre-teens with its use of bright coloursbefore I die, vibrant imagesand I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, fun factsand even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, puzzles and quizzesit's not a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600628868</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley GibbonsFry_Mythos|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2014Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece|author=Stephen Fry

|summary=When I began collecting GB stamps back in The Greek Myths are, arguably, the early seventies ''Collect British Stamps'' was my bible greatest stories ever told. So old and I eagerly awaited each new editioninfluential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. After a while I came to realise that I needed a little more depthHere comedian, actor, television presenter, but not actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to the level provided by the [[Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth these special stories and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970 by Hugh Jefferies|Specialised Catalogue Series]] not least because I was still at the stage of spending the money on stamps rather than books about recreates them. There is something to fill the gap though with a wit, warmth and humanity that's brings them into the Great Britain Concise catalogue. It's designed to meet the needs of the dedicated amateur rather than the specialist or modern age whilst still giving the casual collector honour and treads a very fine line between providing too much detail respect that such ancient and too little information with eleganceinfluential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852599145</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SutherlandMahnke_Lore|title=How to be Well ReadThe World of Lore, Volume 1: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiositiesMonstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke|rating=4.5

|summary=Being well read is rather like having good manners: it's something Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that we all aspire to but often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on, there's always a nagging doubt still a part of everyone that there's something lacking in what we've achievedis vulnerable to a good tale. That isFrom ghosts to werewolves, by way of coursewendigos and elves, why a book with author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the title world, whilst examining how they''How to be Well Read'' pulled me in so successfully with its promise ve become part of being a guide to five hundred great novels and a handful our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of literary curiosities. Was I going to find that ultimate list many of books which I would have to read to ensure that I could think of myself as well read? No - I was going to find something far more useful and interestingus today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946402</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Fowler_Forgotten|title=A Sting in the TaleThe Book of Forgotten Authors|author=Dave GoulsonChristopher Fowler

|summary=It seems that Dave Goulson, founder of ''Absence doesn't make the incredibly successful Bumblebee Conservation Trust, did not always have natural aptitude for helping wildlife if his early recollections are anything to go by. Despite boundless enthusiasm and a passion for the natural world, his childhood efforts to give nature a helping hand quite frequently ended in some sort of gory aftermath. For example, there was the incident with the drowned bumblebees, in which a young Goulson unwisely decided to dry the bedraggled victims out on the hotplate of the electric cooker. Then there was the time he accidentally dropped a live electrical heater into his aquarium, frying the poor fish instantly. I could go on to mention the beheading of the footless quail, the snake wrapped in sticky tape and the countless taxidermy experiments, but alas, time does not permit. Suffice to say that despite this unpromising start in life, things did eventually improve.heart grow fonder''.It makes people think you're dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575124</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Colorstrology|author=Michele Bernhardt|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=First impressions of this book left me slightly worried There's truth in that I would have little to go on to write any kind of helpful review; it was basically a little book of colour swatchesstatement, you know, resembling something of but there's a home décor paint guideconundrum when it's applied to authors. Flicking throughShakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, I saw but we haven't buried what they've written: that each page represented a daylives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, allowing as in the reader to refer to their birthday to gain information relating to their character, rather like a horoscope. So all I had to go case of some children's authors that they are on was, effectively, a painting guide to star signs. With this is mind life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (and with fairly low expectationsexhumed?) I began reading from the beginningninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, refraining from jumping straight in to analyse my birthday characteristicssometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746915</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Angell_Triang|title=The Autistic Brain Tri-ang Collectables|author=Temple Grandin and Richard PanekDave Angell|rating=43.5

|summary=Temple Grandin is a lady of many labels: professor of animal science, bestselling author, consultant, activist, engineer, public speaker and subject of an award-winning biopic. She also happens A guide to be autistic, a label she earned at a very early age back in the days before trains produced by the Tri-ang company from its inception until the majority of people knew what autism wascompany became Hornby. She describes A very personal guide to the timing collecting of her diagnosis as fortuitous; only a few years later and the accepted ‘treatment’ for autistic children was removal from their parents and life in an institutionmodel trains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044499</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil DaveyChase_Orchids|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate (Bluffer's Guides)|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=I've always been a little bit nervous about the ''Bluffer'' series, on the basis that I would be sure to come out with a cleverBook of Orchids: A life-sounding phrase, only size guide to be found out when someone asked six hundred species from around the follow-up question. Better, I thought to stay silent and appear ignorant than to open my mouth and prove myself a fool. But then ''The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate'' came my way and I couldn't resist - any more than I've ever been able to resist chocolate.world|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1909937045</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Fun Stuff Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Other Essays|author=James WoodTom Mirenda|rating=4.5

|summary=The ''Fun Stuff and Other Essays'' providesOne in seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid: there are 26, 000 species in 749 genera. They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and the title suggestsArctic circle, in fact, all areas but the most inhospitable. There's a panoramic sampling wide range of James Wood’s critical writingcolours, shapes and scents: they're dramatic, delicate and ingenious in the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. A popular Tom Mirenda describes them as ''masters of manipulation'' and oft-quoted writer''famous for lying and cheating their way to their many evolutionary successes'', yet his love of them is as obvious as his respect for the essays collected here offer stimulating insights insight they give us into Wood’s chosen subjectsthe processes which shaped our world. He hopes that understanding how that has come about will inspire us to conserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097113</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Edwards_Story|title=WinterThe Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Adam GopnikMartin Edwards|rating=45

|summary=In this collection It's easy to be confused by the various 'ages' of crime writing: if you have an interest in the genre you'll almost certainly have heard of five essays, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on the season Golden Age of winterCrime, Adam Gopnik takes generally acknowledged as being the period between the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art first and society, through ''Romantic Wintersecond world wars. 'Classic Crime'on the other hand extends the time frame at either end and covers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout my adult life, there''Radical Winter''s been just one genre of books which has fascinated me, and that''Recuperative Winter''s crime, so I could hardly resist the chance of reading ''Recreational WinterThe Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'' and ''Remembering Winter''. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themes, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas. For example, in Romantic Winter his central topics are art and poetry, however, issues such particularly as changing societythe author, technology, sex Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints, which add a charming, individual touch to this bookan acknowledged expert on the subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alannah MooreDK_Childrens|title=The Creative PersonChildren's Website BuilderIllustrated Thesaurus|author=DK|rating=4.5

|summary=Creating a website One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is not difficulthow to use reference books. Although some technical knowledge is As a help - as is familiarity child every question which I began with your computer - ''how do you spell...?'' would be surprised at the speed answered with which you can have your own website and the sense of achievement which this will give you. If you're running a big business then you might want to go to a web designer but 'EXACTLY as it is possible to have a site for very little says in the way of expendituredictionary''. I know - weThis was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn've done it t encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and we've grown our little baby into a businessdifficult to read. I was lucky to Fortunately, those times have the expertise of our first tech guy when we built Bookbag, but Alanah Moore has produced a now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book which could give you a reasonable start and comes with a great deal set of inspirationinstructions but it's worth studying the ''How to...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571066</amazonuk>