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[[Category:Reference|*]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=The Fun Stuff and Other EssaysRecycling for Dummies|author=James WoodSarah Winkler|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=The ''Fun Stuff and Other Essays'' provides, as the title suggests, a panoramic sampling Recycling one ton of James Wood’s critical writingplastic can save up to 16. A popular and oft-quoted writer, the essays collected here offer stimulating insights into Wood’s chosen subjects3 barrels of oil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097113</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|title=Winter|author=Adam Gopnik|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=In this collection of five essays, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on the season of winter, Adam Gopnik takes the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art and society, through ''Romantic Winter'', ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter''. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on Recycling 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 as changing society, technology, sex and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections ton of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints, which add a charming, individual touch to this bookpaper can save 17 trees from being cut down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Alannah Moore|title=The Creative Person's Website Builder|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=Creating a website is not difficult. Although some technical knowledge is a help - as is familiarity with your computer - you would be surprised at the speed 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 send an apple core to go to a web designer but landfill, it is possible will take between 6 months and 2 years to have a site for very little in the way of expendituredecompose. I know - we've done it and we've grown our little baby into a business. I was lucky A glass bottle will take up to have the expertise of our first tech guy when we built Bookbag, but Alanah Moore has produced a book which could give you a reasonable start and a great deal of inspiration1 million years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571066</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers|author=Lawrence Block|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=If I was going to write As a list of authors I admire just-post- wellWWII baby, I wouldn't begin it nowfaced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. There are so many NEVER throw away anything that Imight ''possibly''d still be doing it at come in handy now or in the end of Novemberfuture. But NEVER buy anything if I did take it upon myself to write a list, Lawrence Block you can cobble together something that would probably serve the purpose. Almost everything can be on top of it. Hugely prolific and vastly varied when it comes to thrillers and crime stories, he's someone who seems able to turn his hand to so many different types of novel or short story with excellent results every used one more time. He's created my two favourite crime-solvers, alcoholic ex-cop Matt Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and any purchase must pass the contrast between the grittiness of the former series and the cosiness test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the latter would place him high on my list of favourites even without his other work. Throw in the comic capers hand, I suspected I was guilty of Evan Tanner, whose sleepwishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes -centre was destroyed by shrapnel I'm looking at you) and now works for a mysterious department going across dropping it in the world and stirring up troublekerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and stampget conflicting advice -collecting assassin Keller, and you've got four excellent series of novelsbut what I needed was a recycling bible. Then there's the short stories, which feature all of these characters and many others, often rivalling Roald Dahl for darkness and clever plot twists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0688132286</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons1913750353|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2013Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy
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|genre=ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=When I began collecting GB stamps ''Collect British StampsBritannica's Word of the Day'' was my bible and I eagerly awaited each new edition. After has a while I came sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to realise Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that I needed a little more depthyou need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', but not tells you how to the level provided by the [[Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970 by Hugh Jefferies|Specialised Catalogue Series]] not least because I was still at then includes the stage of spending the money on stamps rather than books about themword in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. There is something to fill the gap though You also get an engaging and that's the Great Britain Concise cataloguefrequently amusing illustration too. ItI don't think I's designed to meet ve ever encountered a word which uses the needs of the dedicated amateur rather than the specialist or the casual collector.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598998</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=suppl_stafl|title=Sea MonstersSupply Chain 20/20: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine MapA Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Joseph NiggKim Staflund
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|genre=Popular ScienceReference|summary=A confession. When reading hardbacks I take the paper cover, if there is oneSo, off, to keep it pristine. Sometimes thereyou's a second benefit, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example of having an embossed illustration underneath, or suchlike. But with this ve finished writing your book I won't be alone, for and you think the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copies. hard work is all done? ItYou's a coloured replica of a large map of the northern seas and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, and re convinced that all you need to do now is in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole 'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes from. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed get it up years later with a commentary of all published and the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate on both together, money will start rolling in such a lovely fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>}}?
{{newreview|author=Peter Roberts Wrong and Shelley Evans|title=The Book of Fungi: A Lifewrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to -Size Guide and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to Six Hundred Species From Around The World|rating=4|genre=Popular Science|summary=Fungi are front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the fifth order book supply chain, which even parts of the natural kingdom publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and it’s estimated that there are approximately no one and a half million species, found throughout wants to be the worldfirst to try. ‘’The Book of Fungi’’ looks at six hundred Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the known fungi and each is pictured at its actual size book in full colour and there’s a scientific explanation of its distribution, habitat, formyour hands, spore colour and edibility. The tone of the book is academic but don’t let this put you off - before I began reading my knowledge was broadly restricted 're going to knowing that it was better have to discover fungus growing outside your house than attached work out how to the structure inside sell it - and I found because it interesting, entertaining (which I didn’t expect) and accessible''is'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005858</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naoki Higashida and David MitchellFrederic Gros|title=The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence A Philosophy of AutismWalking
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|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=Imagine if you will, a world where I confess I picked this one up from the normal laws library in my pre-lockdown forage of physics random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have been slightly changedmarked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. You swirl around almost weightlessly, with no control over your limbs Some books draw you in slowly. Sounds seem either deafeningly loud or hopelessly muffled. Sensory input floods your system, overwhelming you with bright colours, patterns and odours that attack you from every side This one had me in the first two pages, without warning. Communication wherein Gros explains why ''walking is almost impossible. You open your mouth and the wrong words come out. People talk down to you as if you were not a child. Welcome to Naoki’s worldsport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444776754</amazonuk>1781688370
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Mabey1788037812|title=The Ash and Fraternity of the BeechEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson
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|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=''The Ash and The Beech'' is an updated version of Mabey’s popular ''Beechcombings''Originally passed in 1885, which has been given the law that had made homosexual relations a new foreword crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and afterword 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 author in light heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the recent issues concerning ash die-backEuropean Continent, which currently threatens Britain’s ash population. Mabey expands on this topic by examining but barely talked about in the history of British treesUK, particularly so the Beech and how it has managed publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to survive and adapt over the centuries despite threats from warscientific understanding of homosexuality, felling, disease and storms. He raises some important beginning the struggle for recognition and thoughtequality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-provoking ideas and questions whether our constant intervention sex relationships in such cases serves to do more harm than good1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587238</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gavin Mortimer1912242052|title=A History of Cricket in 100 ObjectsO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=SportArt|summary=[[A History of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History of Football in 100 Objects]] was a brave attempt, but was slightly let down by '' Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being a little too clinical. Being a game imbued with passion, ''the book lacked this which took some of first person to walk the edge off it. Cricketmountains alone, whilst inspiring passion amongst devoteesnot because he had to for work, has as a slightly more laid back following; one that may work better in this format. That saidminer, quarryman, being a game that has been played for five centuriesshepherd or pack-horse driver, narrowing it down but because he wanted to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballpleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Polly Morland1072549271|title=The Society Simple Act of Timid SoulsSelf-Publishing With Amazon: Or, How to be BraveA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=34.5|genre=ReferenceBusiness 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't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I see no reason why then ask if they've considered Kindle and the shy and timid in any community couldn’t get together and help each otheranswer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start.' The above words were uttered in 1943 by a gentleman called Bernard Gabriel I can empathise with that. Mr Gabriel was Despite having used a piano player who founded a unique clubcomputer for about thirty years, ''The Society running most of Timid Soulsmy life '' that encouraged timid performers and fear-wracked musicians to come in out of the cold 'to play' a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to criticise and be criticised in order starting something new. I like someone to conquer that old bogey of stage frighthold my hand as I go through it for the first time. That was why I was very interested when '' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed to be cured by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years that followedSimple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary BeardHigashida_Fall|title=Confronting Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Classics: Traditions, Adventures Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and InnovationsDavid Mitchell|rating=45|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=For 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 lot rare glimpse into the workings of usthe autistic mind, as told from the idea unique perspective of learning Classics conjures up images – a teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or memories – by tracing letters on the palm of rows a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of (usually writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public) schoolboys endlessly repeating different conjugations presentations to raise awareness of Latin verbshis condition. 'Amo, amas, amat...' Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and so explains how his perspectives on. It's an idea imprinted on the popular imagination by countless books, films and TV shows, and indeed by anecdotal memory. I'm pretty sure my dad would life have been one of those schoolboys in the 1960schanged since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250480</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley GibbonsJenkins_100|title=Stamps of the World 2013Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins
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|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=Philatelists have long come In the mid-twentieth century, the railway was something which harked back to rely on the annual publication of Stanley Gibbons’ Stamps of the World simplified catalogue. For years it has had an unrivalled reputation for accuracy Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and usability for both dealers planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and collectorsin the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to electricity. CommemorativesIt's cleaner, definitives, airmail stamps, postage dues, official stamps more environmentally friendly and miniature sheets are the stations which we'd all listed (both mint and used)rushed through as quickly as possible, using the internationally recognised Stanley Gibbons catalogue number and set out according keen to date of issue escape their grime, were restored and by country. Indeed, it’s difficult became places to imagine that any serious dealer or collector could be without the six volume set but many must wonder if it’s entirely necessary to make what is a substantial investment on an annual basisadmired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598610</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|authortitle=Owls: A L KennedyGuide to Every Species|titleauthor=On WritingMarianne Taylor
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|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=How do you even begin to write a review I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of a book which expresses trenchantpiercing orange eyes are staring right at me, nolocking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-holds-barred opinions on reviewers amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the process of being reviewed? But same time, the task owl is there, so there's nothing for it but beckoning the reader to roll up your sleeves, gather your courage turn the pages and mutter the word with which A L Kennedy regularly signs off from her blog: Onwardstake a closer look inside...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096974</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh JefferiesJVDK_ELO|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013Electric Light Orchestra: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceEntertainment|summary=You might think that as all the stamps My memories of pop music in this catalogue have been in existence for at least forty years there can be little more to be said about them but this 115th edition is acknowledged to be the most significant in many years. Most exciting (but probably more so to sellers than buyers) is early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the fact that in a time of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases 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>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Hendrix_PBHell
|title=Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
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|summary=Demonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's!) to relate the true, untold story of a fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing.
{{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>
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 {{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>
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 {{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
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|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?
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J BarrettFry_Mythos|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia and Beyond)Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece|author=Stephen Fry
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|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.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marina WarnerMahnke_Lore|title=Stranger MagicThe World of Lore, Volume 1: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsMonstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke
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|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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher JohnsonFowler_Forgotten|title=Microstyle: The Art Book of Writing LittleForgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler
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|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>
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 {{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
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|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>
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 {{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
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|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>
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 {{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
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|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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The EconomistDK_Childrens|title=Pocket World in Figures 2013Children's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{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>}}[[Newest Science Fiction Reviews]]
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