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[[Category:Reference|*]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1394159544|title=Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and InnovationsRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=45|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=For a lot ''Recycling one ton of us, the idea of learning Classics conjures plastic can save up images – or memories – to 16.3 barrels of rows oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of (usually public) schoolboys endlessly repeating different conjugations of Latin verbspaper can save 17 trees from being cut down. 'Amo' If you send an apple core to landfill, amasit will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, amatreusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of ' and so on. ItIs this absolutely essential?'s an idea imprinted on On the popular imagination by countless booksother hand, films and TV shows, and indeed by anecdotal memory. I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm pretty sure my dad would have been one of those schoolboys looking at you) and dropping it in the 1960skerbside bin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250480</amazonuk> Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons1913750353|title=Stamps Britannica's Word of the World 2013Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy

|summary=Philatelists have long come to rely on So, you've finished writing your book and you think the annual publication of Stanley Gibbons’ Stamps of the World simplified catalogue. hard work is all done? For years You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it has had an unrivalled reputation for accuracy published and usability for both dealers the money will start rolling in? Wrong and collectorswrong again. Commemoratives, definitives, airmail stamps, postage dues, official stamps You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and miniature sheets are all listed (both mint and used), using you had a talent for delivering the internationally recognised Stanley Gibbons catalogue number and set out according written word. You knew your subject back to date of issue and by countryfront. Indeed Now you're going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, it’s which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to imagine that any serious dealer or collector could change and no one wants to be without the six volume set but many must wonder if it’s entirely necessary first to make try. what Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is a substantial investment on an annual basis'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598610</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A L KennedyFrederic Gros|title=On WritingA Philosophy of Walking

|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=How do you even begin I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to write a review of a book which expresses trenchant, no-holds-barred opinions on reviewers 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 process of being reviewed? But the task first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is there, so therenot a sport''s nothing for it but to roll up your sleeves, gather your courage and mutter the word with which A L Kennedy regularly signs off from her blog: Onwards.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224096974</amazonuk>1781688370

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies1788037812|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013The Fraternity of the Estranged: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891- 19701908|author=Brian Anderson

|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=You might think Originally passed in 1885, the law that as all the stamps in this catalogue have been had made homosexual relations a crime remained in existence place for at least forty 82 years there can be little more to be said about them but . But during this 115th edition is acknowledged to be 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 most significant in many yearsheterosexual Havelock Ellis. Most exciting (Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but probably more barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to sellers than buyers) is the fact that in a time scientific understanding of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and evidence equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of a very lively marketsame-sex relationships in 1967. Demand }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary='' Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for good stamps is greater than it has been at any time in being ''the last thirty years according first person to editor Hugh Jefferieswalk the mountains alone, although not because he does add that prices are rising faster in some areas than others. It's difficult had to see how for work, as a serious collector - miner, quarryman, shepherd or seller - can be without an uppack-horse driver, but because he wanted to-date copy for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the catalogue for this reason aloneworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598513</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kindle Direct Publishing1072549271|title=Publish on The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=24.5|genre=ReferenceBusiness and Finance|summary=If you're thinking of going down I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the road of traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing your book but are unwilling they explain that they don't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or unable to fund the services offered by some of the leaders in the field their like. I then publishing on ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer is the obvious place , inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to look firststart. I can empathise with that. ItDespite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and''s a big step though and you want to get website online, I'm still nervous when it right - not least because what you publish could be out there comes to haunt you for a very long timestarting something new. This book comes, I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it were, from for the horse's mouth and first time. That was why I was expecting explanations, guidance, advice and, well, something which would leave me with the feeling that I very interested when ''couldThe Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' do this successfullycame across my desk... How did it square up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B004LX069M</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theodore DalrympleHigashida_Fall|title=The Pleasure of ThinkingFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Journey Through Young Man's Voice From the Sideways Leaps Silence of IdeasAutism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=45|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=Having recently read [[Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough]], I expected something similar, judging Naoki Higashida was only from 13 years old when he wrote the title of Theodore Dalrympleinternational best-seller ''s The Reason I Jump''. The Pleasure book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of Thinking: a Journey Through teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the Sideways Leaps palm of Ideas''a transcriber. Instead Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of being his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first 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 ContributorsJenkins_100|title=The Book Publishers Toolkit: 10 Practical Pointers for Independent and Self Publishers Vol. 1Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating=3.5|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=Ten articles originally published in In the Independent Book Publishers Association magazine have been gathered together to provide useful advice to mid-twentieth century, the small independent publisher or anyone looking railway was something which harked back to self-publish. The authors of the articles - Kate Bandos, Kimberley Edwards, Joel Friedlander, Steve Gillen, Abigail Goben, Tanya HallVictorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, Brian Jud, Stacey Miller, Kathleen Weltonbut steam was being replaced by oil, even then and David Wogahn are all acknowledged experts in their own fields and whilst much of it the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to electricity. It's cleaner, more relevant in environmentally friendly and the USA itstations which we's d all thought-provoking and worth consideration. Each piece is shortrushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, snappy were restored and became places to the point and reading the entire book took me less than an hourbe admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AAY8M7O</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J BarrettTaylor_Owls|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I don't usually open reviews by explaining how feel like I came to read a particular bookam 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 surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, but on this occasion it will help you the owl is beckoning the reader to judge whether or not this book is suitable for you if you know where I'm coming from. Back in 2006 three people got together turn the pages and between them they built take a site - let's call it [http://wwwcloser look inside.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]}}{{Frontpage|isbn=JVDK_ELO|title=Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4. In 5|genre=Entertainment|summary=My memories of pop music in the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everestsixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. We did it because Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn''could'' be there t long before the basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and we wanted The Beach Boys began to see if what we (loosely) had in mind could be doneexperiment, with other groups following where they led. It Amongst these groups was a simple HTML site The Move and their lead guitarist and I had no problems in mastering songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the technicalities. Igroup'd built s sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the site under instruction and I knew it inside outgroup didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</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=Mikael Krogerus and Roman TschappelerBrowne_Many|title=The Change Book: Fifty models to explain how things happenMany Faces of Coincidence|author=Laurence Browne

|genre=ReferencePopular Science|summary=''The Change Book' is a pocket-sized publication Browne does not mislead with lofty ambitions. Small enough to slip into a handbag, and this choice of title; he does without a mere 167 pages long, it makes doubt explore the following claim:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125009X</amazonuk>many faces of coincidence.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marina Warner1903385679|title=Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsThe 100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Boyd Tonkin|rating=43.5

|summary=Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's 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 ''Breath'Arabesque' is, these daysbut he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a term little used outside balletmarket that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). HoweverNovels, in its original meaning particular, in translation, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it conveyed the idea – ''a privileged means of an intricate patternpassing border posts, constantly and exuberantly multiplying in countless new twists and turnsa sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, like the interlinked curves on a Middle Eastern carpetRepublic of Letters''. That notion of arabesque – things spreading We here at the 'Bag regularly try and connecting gorgeously – is pretty much crucial give equal credit to both the theory and the design of Marina Warnertranslator, without whom we wouldn's fantastical and fantastic new exploration t be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the rich intercultural history of subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight''Arabian Nights''s holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it''Stranger Magic''s not a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099437694</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher JohnsonFry_Mythos|title=MicrostyleMythos: The Art A Retelling of the Myths of Writing LittleAncient Greece|author=Stephen Fry

|summary=Language changes and evolves all the timeThe Greek Myths are, arguably, but since the dawn of the internet that change seems to have acceleratedgreatest stories ever told. Not only thatSo old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions, the pervasion of the web into nearly every aspect of our daily lives means the written word has more power yet remain relatable and relevance than perhaps at any other time in human historyreadable millennia later. Given its influence over usHere comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, it seems only prudent warmth and humanity that we should try to understand something of how this new vernacular of brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the internet works. In ''Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little'' naming honour and verbal branding expert Christopher Johnson seeks to do just respect that, presenting us with 'a field guide to everyday verbal ingenuity'such ancient and influential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334181X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scarlett ThomasMahnke_Lore|title=Monkeys with TypewritersThe World of Lore, Volume 1: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of StoriesMonstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke|rating=4.5

|summary=I really wasnEvery country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on, there't expecting s a book about how still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to write fiction a good tale. From ghosts to change my TV viewing habits. Alter my reading? Possiblywerewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today. Improve my writing? Hopefully. But watching Grand Designs in a completely different light?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863789</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Phil Daoust (editor)|title=WriteThere's truth in that statement, you know, but there's a conundrum when it's applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until.|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=The Guardian newspaper has for some years now been publishing articles and interviews on how to write. Successful authorswhen? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, agents and publishers have offered pearls of wisdom as in the Guardian Masterclasses for genres as widecase of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-ranging as travel writingnine authors who were once hugely popular, picture books and screenplays. Now their wisdom and their insights but whose works have been collected together in this slim volume which will intrigue both the readers and the writers among usdisappeared, sometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265328X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Keith SouterAngell_Triang|title=The Classic Guide to King Arthur (Classic Guides)Tri-ang Collectables|author=Dave Angell

|summary=This is a comprehensive A guide to the Arthurian legend, with trains produced by the first half taking readers through the tale Tri-ang company from Merlin helping Uther Pendragon to sleep with Gorlois - thus giving birth to King Arthur - right up to its inception until the deaths of all of the principal players in the storycompany became Hornby. The final section gives details of literary sources used for A very personal guide to the legend, Arthurian poetry, folklore, the real people who may have inspired the legend, and depictions collecting of King Arthur in popular culture. In between, there's a fairly short but useful guide to 'Who, What, Where and When In Arthur's Realm'model trains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780950063</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Chase_Orchids|authortitle=The EconomistBook of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world|titleauthor=Pocket World in Figures 2013Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom Mirenda|rating=45

|summary=Pocket World One in Figures 2013 seven flowering plants on earth is the twenty-second edition of the annual bestseller and once again it follows the tried and tested formatan orchid: there are 26,000 species in 749 genera. It opens with world rankings They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and is straight into natural facts - the largest thisArctic circle, in fact, all areas but the longest that and the highest of the othermost inhospitable. The facts are largely incontrovertibleThere's a wide range of colours, mostly unsurprising shapes and scents: they're going dramatic, delicate and ingenious in the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to be the same year after yearthrive. Populations do change though Tom Mirenda describes them as do ''masters of manipulation'' and ''famous for lying and cheating their rate of growth. India looks set way to overtake China as the largest population by 2025 but even India doesntheir many evolutionary successes't have the fastest growing population - that's Niger, with an average annual growth yet his love of 3.52%. By contrast, Russia which currently has the ninth largest population, them is declining at 0.1% annually. If you're looking as obvious as his respect for the place with insight they give us into the densest population (as in people per square kilometre rather than in terms of intelligence!) then processes which shaped our world. He hopes that understanding how that's Macauhas come about will inspire us to conserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685990</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VariousEdwards_Story|title=Hello Kitty DictionaryThe Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards

|genre=Children's Non-FictionReference|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes a concept that many young students might not find too interesting (meIt'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 the Golden Age of Crime, generally acknowledged as being the period between the first and second world wars. 'Classic Crime' on the other handextends the time frame at either end and covers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout my adult life, there's been just one genre of books which has fascinated me, and that's crime, so I love books full could hardly resist the chance of reading ''The Story of words) Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the author, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre and puts a colourful and fun spin an acknowledged expert on itthe subject.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=DK_Childrens|title=Children's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK|rating=4. Because if you’re having to look up 5|genre=Reference|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to spell use reference books. As a word, or what something means, it helps to have pages child every question which I began with lemon and violet and aquamarine borders, dotted ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with presents and hearts and stars''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''. That’s This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not to say least because the dictionary isn’t clear font was small and easy difficult to read because . Fortunately, those times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it certainly is: 's worth studying the decorations don’t extend into the centre of the pages''How to...'' section, and the entries themselves not least because similar systems are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanations, all neatly formatted on crisp white pagesused in other reference books.|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 Move 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]]