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[[Category:New Reviews|Home and Family]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=1454955546|title=Home and familySugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''This isn't a diet book. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''__NOTOC__There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean M Twenge and W Keith Campbell1635866847|title=The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of EntitlementLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Twenge It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Campbell have been studying there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the rise in narcissism as a social trendhomepage. They are wellI don't eat cakes and desserts -qualified to commentbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, having worked since 1998 which I'm avoiding with social psychologist Roy Baumeister, who pioneered research some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in this fieldthe margins are sanctioned. At more than three hundred You get to fold down the corners of pages it. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved's rather weighty for the popular market at which it's aimed, but even if you only dip into this book, I think you'll take home their messagealready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416575987</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0760381267
|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life
|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago
|rating=3.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''The most important part of a garden is the one who enjoys it''.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1394159544
|title=Recycling for Dummies
|author=Sarah Winkler
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Smith0760378134|title=The Cambridge Shakespeare GuideFirst-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Does If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the world need another guide to Shakespearegarden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn's plays? There are plenty about and students these days have the added resource of the Internet t know where to get the basics. However, if it doesstart, then this is as good as any the book you will findneed. It's nicely written and beautifully clear and above allcomprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, succinct. In fact Iwhat you'm doing a disservice re going to Emma Smith already by terming grow, what you'll grow it a guide to his playsin (both containers and soil), because she also includes the poems and sonnets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>052114972X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roman Krznaric|title=The Wonderbox: Curious Histories of How to Live|rating=5|genre=History|summary=where you'How should we live?' asks author Roman Krznaric. To answer this ancient questionll put these containers, he looks to history. how you'I believe that ll water and fertilise them and you finish the future main part of the art of living can be found by gazing into the past', he says. Creating a book which is as full of curiosities as with a Renaissance handy section on troubleshooting. There'Wunderkammer', he has s also a stab at the big questions: good glossary. loveSo, belief, money, family, death. The result is a pot-pourri of delights which left this particular reader stimulated and invigorated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683939</amazonuk>it any good?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Maushart1529149800|title=The Winter of Our DisconnectThings You Can Do: How One Family Pulled the Plug to Fight Climate Change and Lived to Tell/text/Tweet the TaleReduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Back in early 2009 Susan Maushart - We begin with a single mother of three teenagers - came to telling story. All the conclusion that birds and animals fled when the family plugged into their workstations, TVs, DVD players, iPods forest fire took hold and gaming consoles at the expense most of normal relationshipsthem stood and watched, or what we’ll come unable to call Real Lifethink of anything they could do. She included herself in this - her relationship with her iPhone was about The tiny hummingbird flew to the strongest she had outside river and began taking tiny amounts of her children - water and she decided flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that something drastic had to be donedoing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbird. So began And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the winter problem of our disconnect - six months without screens climate change – by each of any descriptionus doing what we can, mobile phones or listening devices however small that might be.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849767009|title=It Isn't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Haine|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the homesupermarket who is coughing fit to bust. You think that’s But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not enough wearing clothes. It's a celebration of a shock to the system? bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Nor did Susan - she started off Bodies with two weeks without any power in the homedisabilities and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderful.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668465X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=1504321383|title=Mikael Krogerus Single, Again, and Again, and Roman TschappelerAgain|titleauthor=The Question BookLouisa Pateman
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''.Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums and parties we have been This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to in the previous twelve monthsbelieve. But can you, with some effort, locate It wasn't unkind: it was simply the one you made adults in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided her life advising her as to expand it what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by separating emotional, intellectual, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then rated them from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one of the books marries her so that list ''100 things they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to do before you diebe brought up '' or without''500 books to read in your life'' (the expectation that they will marry and ticked off the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend children. It was a whole evening belief and half of it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a night filling in dubious belief is a choice'personality' questionnaires on the Internet? Have you ever doodled something, decided that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence of your personality and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Cockburn and Henry CockburnGraff_Find|title=Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia. a Father and Son's StoryFind Another Place|author=Ben Graff|rating=43.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=In February 2002 Patrick Cockburn was in KabulWhen Ben Graff's grandfather Martin handed him a plastic folder of handwritten notes from his journal, reporting to The Independent on he didn't take much notice of it. At the fall age of the Taliban. While he was there he called his wife Jan at home in England, and was shocked to learn that their 20-year-old elder son Henry had been rescued by fishermen after coming close to death while swimming24, fully clothed, in Graff didn't realise the icy waters gravity of the Newhaven estuary. The police had decided that pages he was a danger to himself, and he was now in a mental hospitalholding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847377033</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Goodland_Worth
|title=It's Worth a Try
|author=Nicola Goodland
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This is how Nicola Goodland introduces her book, ''It's Worth a Try'':
''I wanted to write this kind of book because when I was a young woman, ladies and gents told me that they suffered from abuse of some kind as children and only found the courage to talk about it as adults. Maybe this book can deter children from becoming future abusers and stop abuse so it goes away for good.''}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate BrianHigashida_Fall|title=Precious BabiesFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Pregnancy, Birth A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and Parenting after InfertilityDavid Mitchell
|rating=5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=There are lots Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of avenues the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of support for those dealing a teenager with infertilitynon-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, but what happens if you do finally get pregnant? You're still dealing with or by tracing letters on the scarspalm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, both emotional he has published several books in his native Japan and physical that infertility can leave behind, but it might seem callous manages to give public presentations to ask for help from other friends from your support network who themselves aren't yet pregnantraise awareness of his condition. This book aims Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to be Naoki as a helpful guide that discusses everything from pregnancy to birth to parenting after birth young adult in the light of your history with infertilityhis 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749954019</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve RoudBialik_Girling|title=The Lore of the Playground: The Children's World - Then and NowGirling Up|author=Mayim Bialik
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Like many reviewers This book arrived on my desk to cries of the hardback edition, I thoroughy enjoyed reading this ''Amy Farrah Fowler's written a book?'' or ''No, a nostalgic excursion into my own childhood games and rhymes. Itthat's quite fun to identify the regional context Blossom'' depending on your generation. Mayim Bialik is or was both, of childhood lore. It cleared up for mecourse, as but in addition to being a Southwell-East Londonerknown sitcom actress, the exact nature of she is also a hitherto mysterious game called tag. If you have already delved into neuroscientist (and the classic ''only PhD on The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren'' by Iona and Peter Opie (1959Big Bang Theory, except for the characters). Aimed at teenagers, you might find this book adds little for focuses on growing up as a general readership. For the specialistgirl, Ior ''Girling up''m sure this book if you will take its rightful place in the scholarly literature on childhood culture, and what it means to transition from school girl to grown-up, via that hideous detour of teenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099505274</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakMattinson_Puppy|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young DriversChoosing the Perfect Puppy|author=Pippa Mattinson|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time If you have ever, for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving testeven a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Someone has told you that you're an OK driver, right? Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''Butmust'' you're out there, all on your own, have a particular breed and go ahead without anyone any thought about the consequences. They then have to explain those odd things live with the problems which you still haven't come across 'might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be the extra pair of eyesable to accommodate his needs. You've got a [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense of freedom, but somehow it's a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. ItShe doesn's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette and stopping distances – it's some ideas for t try to talk you out of getting into the right mindset to absorb a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the new experiences facts and learning some skills which might help allows you in other areas of to make your life tooown decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony T DeBenedet and Lawrence CohenRaskin_Grow|title=The Art of RoughhousingGrow: Good Old Fashioned Horseplay A Family Guide to Growing Fruit and Why Every Kid Needs It Veg|author=Ben Raskin|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Rather than running around outdoorsI worried when I looked at this book: ''Grow'', going for bike rides and building densit said, lots of children nowadays end up spending hours watching TV or playing computer games. Play times in school are often very regimented and in some schools certain games like 'British Bulldog' A family guide to growing fruit and veg'Leapfrog' and even 'Tag' have even been banned. Children are discouraged from physical play, for fear that they will hurt themselves and also through the fear that those responsible for them will find themselves facing a lawsuit if someone does get hurt. Why did it worry me? This book aims to support the thinking that very physical play is good for children; that unless they face risks in their lives and learn to assess those risksWell, or experience a few bumps and bruises and learn to get up and carry on, then they will lack vital life skills for their future adult lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744874</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Ackerman|title=One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Diane Ackermanit's husband, Paul West, had been in hospital for three weeks with a kidney infection mere 48 pages and was just rejoicing in the fact cover says that he was to go home the next day. As Diane watched it includes ''Games, Paul suffered a massive stroke. The effects were catastrophic, but worst of all, the man who had been a brilliant wordsmith was robbed of his power of speech stickers and lost his extensive vocabulary. ItMORE!''s eight years since this happened and the intervening years I have been a constant battle weighty tomes which don't completely cover what I need to improve Paulknow about growing fruit and veg, so wasn's speech and restore some joy t this going to his life. There have been ups – and many downs – but despite fall a brain scan indicating that Paul might well be a vegetable he has since his stroke written books. His vocabulary will never be back to what it waslittle short? Well, but it remains impressive and, strangely enough, many of the words which he finds easiest to use are those which he encountered a number of years agodoesn't - not at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039307241X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Oliver JamesMcgrath_Camping|title=How Not To F*** Them UpCamping With Kids|author=Simon McGrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=Child psychologist Oliver James can When my daughter was young it used to be relied joked that if a child asked on his fifth birthday to fight go camping and you told him that he could in five years' time, he'd be there on his cornertenth birthday, whether it's about affluent society or toxic parentsall kitted up and ready to go. Now he puts the first three years of life under These days the microscope discussions - and argues equally vehemently that parents need delaying tactics - are more likely to identify their own needs accurately be about technology - and build their children's care into a 'good enough' framework, mobiles in order for the whole family to flourishparticular. HeWhilst it's a controversial figure whose interest in parenting goes back to his own childhood (yeswonderful that children do embrace technology, youit shouldn've guessed itt be at the expense of getting out in the fresh air, his parents where psychoanalysts). He argues being free of screens and having an adventure - preferably with all the case for modifying childcare decisions to accord with parenting styles while avoiding working mumsfamily doing it '' guilt trips: “together'Why embracing your own parenting style is best for you and your child,' as the cover has it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009192393X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eleanor BirneWilliams_Son|title=When Will I Sleep Through the Night? An My Son's Not Rainman: One Man, One Autistic Boy, A - Z of BabyhoodMillion Adventures|author=John Williams|rating=43.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=When it comes In 2012, stand-up comedian John Williams was encouraged by his work colleagues to parenting, I have discovered that write a lot of people lie. They lie about sleep, about tantrums, about feeding and nappies and show charting his experiences as the effects parent of a screaming newborn on your marriagean autistic boy. There are books galore, and Mummy blogs, and tweeters all happily proclaiming how marvellous it all is, first of all being pregnant, then giving birth, and then raising After registering the baby. Itdomain name: ''My Son's all glowing skin Not Rainman,'' he also decided to write a blog to share his funny anecdotes and sunshine smiles and meeting friends for coffeeexperiences. I quickly stopped reading anything baby-related when I was pregnant because I was sick as After a dog for 5 months, shaky start (''I had an awful labour and that first year with my little girl was almost impossibly difficult and totally consumed with the horror a handful of a non-sleeping babyfollowers. NowThree of them were my brothers''), four and the blog eventually went viral as it increased in popularity with parents who felt a half years on from giving birth connection with John and (mostly) sleeping all night long I felt able to open up this latest baby 'The Boy'. This book, mainly because fills in some of the title roused such familiar feelings gaps in methe story, starting with 'The Boy's' early childhood and ending, appropriately, on his thirteenth birthday when he suddenly became 'The Teen'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684862</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy BartkowiakMbaya_Brain|title=NLP For TeensMy Brain Is Out Of Control|author=Patrick Mbaya
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series Dr Patrick Mbaya was enjoying life as a consultant psychiatrist, husband and father. His career was going well and is a follow-on from NLP for Childrenhe enjoyed making ill people better. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when His marriage was solid and fulfilling and his two children were exploring their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for potential, often through the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parentuplifting power of music. Life was good. But then... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy AndrewsAllingham_Beloved|title=The Ultimate Guide Beloved Old Age and What to Bicycle MaintenanceDo About it: Margery Allingham's the Relay|author=Margery Allingham and Julia Jones
|rating=4.5
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=This We remember [[:Category:Margery Allingham|Margery Allingham]] as a novelist from the golden age of crime, perhaps not as famous as Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers but certainly well regarded by those who appreciate good writing and excellent plotting. Her last completed book seemed like the answer to my husbandwas not a novel but ''The Relay's prayers. I've had , a beautiful Gary Fisher urban bike combined account of caring for about ten yearsthree elderly relatives, but shamefully(Em, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've even cleaned it. Well-used it certainly is, but I must confess Maud and Grace) between 1959 and 1961 and suggestions as to leaving all the maintenance to aforementioned husbandhow other people might achieve a good old age for their relatives. Having conceded that Margery died in this day 1966 and age I ought to be more independent that that, I dived into this book with great expectations for a fairer future …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232362</amazonuk>''The Relay'' was never published in the form in which it was written.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel LezanoRodgers_Peace|title=Getting Started in DSLR PhotographyPeace of Mind: A Book of Calm for Busy Mums|author=Georgina Rodgers|rating=4.53
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=The magazine-style layout promise of this 'magbook' (an uglya book bringing me calm was too much to resist! There it is, but aptin the title, term for the format) lends itself particularly my job description (busy mum...well to the subject in hand, not least as the glossy pages beautifully illustrate the effects on the photographs that the publishers are showing. It's published by just one of my jobs!) and that elusive state that many mums seem to be trying to find, peace of mind. I have to say, I was looking forward to some insightful revelations into changing my life. I think the team problem, however, was quickly apparent in that like a busy mum, who is trying to wear a hundred masks at 'Digital SLR Photography' magazine the same time, and it reads like carry out a collection multitude of the most useful articles published thereinroles, this book isn't entirely sure what it's trying to be, particularly for the novice with everything from poetry and colouring to SLR photographymindfulness and recipes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907232877</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judy Bartkowiak and Carolyn FitzpatrickEhrlin_Rabbit|title=Passing the 11+ with NLP: NLP Strategies for Supporting Your 11 Plus StudentThe Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep|author=Carl-Johan Forssen Ehrlin|rating=45
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=The 11+ process is nerve-wracking for parents and children alike and many parents find it difficult to know how best Roger the Rabbit wanted to help their child. Over-enthusiastic intervention can make a child more nervous and conscious that there's a lot at stakefall asleep, whilst leaving the child to get on with it can well make the child feel that their success or failure doesnbut somehow he couldn't , no matter to youhow hard he tried. Itwasn's also important t that any preparation is built up in a steady way and he didn't do much during the day, because he did but sometimes he was so tired that it leaves he could fall asleep on the child feeling confident of their successswings. 'Passing the 11+ with NLP' is One night Mummy Rabbit took Roger to see Uncle Yawn, who had a dual purpose book: notice outside his house saying I can make anyone fall asleep and once Roger went home (it was actually quite difficult for him to get there are the strategies for giving your child self-esteem, focus and concentration along with the other skills needed as his eyes kept closing) he went straight to pass bed and then there are details of the type of questions your child will face in the examfell asleep.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685731</amazonuk>
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