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January 2019

From Crook to Cook Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg's Kitchen Snoop Dogg "You know it’s blazin’ up in my kitchen. I’m takin’ the cookbook game higher with a dipped and whipped collection of my favorite recipes, ya dig?" — Snoop Dogg You've seen Snoop work his culinary magic on VH1's Emmy-nominated Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party, and now, Tha Dogg's up in your kitchen...with his first cookbook.

Publication

23 October 2018

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$39.99

ISBN

9781452179612

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Imprint

Chronicle Adult

Series

Category

Food & Drink

Format

229 x 190 mm

Extent

192pp

Illustrations

Full colour photos throughout

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Delivering 50 recipes straight from his own collection, Snoop's cookbook features OG staples like Baked Mac & Cheese and Fried Bologna Sandwiches with Chips, and new takes on classic weeknight faves like Soft Flour Tacos and Easy Orange Chicken. And it don't stop...Snoop's giving a taste of the high life with remixes on upper echelon fare such as Lobster Thermidor and Filet Mignon. But we gotta keep it G with those favorite munchies too, ya know? From chewy Starbursts to those glorious Frito BBQ Twists, you should have an arsenal of snacks that'll satisfy. And of course, no party is complete without that Gin and Juice and other platinum ways to entertain. The Doggfather's got you covered – complete with epic stories and behind-the-scenes photos that brings this masterpiece to life.

Author Details Is there anyone more iconic and beloved than Snoop Dogg? From music to movies to TV, Snoop Dogg has been an integral part of our mainstream media for 20+ years, and there are millions of diehard Snoop fans. His Emmy nominated TV show, Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party, centers on entertaining and cooking. Not only is Snoop keeping busy with his show, he just released a new gospel album (Bible of Love), started a cannabis lifestyle company (Merry Jane), and is soon to be a bestselling cookbook author! Also being celebrated this year: the unveiling of Snoop’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the 25th anniversary of his debut album, Doggystyle; plus more episodes of Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party. The half hour cooking show features the hosts preparing their own dishes with celebrity guests who have included Queen Latifah. Seth Rogan, Ice Cube, 50 Cent, Kathy Griffin, Usher, and many more. The show is available via online streaming on VH1 and can be accessed internationally in Asia, Canada, Australia, and the UK.

Available 23 October

Key Information • Snoop Dogg has 26.3 million followers on Instagram, 36 million followers on Facebook, 17.3M followers on Twitter, and 2.1M subscribers on YouTube. • Pre-launch video with Snoop announcing the book and encouraging pre-orders on his social accounts. • Momentum leading up to publication by asking fans to post photos showing how excited they are for Snoop’s Cookbook using a dedicated hashtag (hashtag TBC with Snoop’s team and Chronicle Books team). • Influencer mailing with an ask for people to show their favorite recipes from the book and use dedicated hashtag. • Showcase exclusive behind the scenes content and images to share on social. • Messaging during months leading up to book launch focussing on driving preorders. • Styled lifestyle photography for social sharing and ads. • Email creative and web banners. Publication

23 October 2018

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$39.99

ISBN

9781452179612

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Imprint

Chronicle Adult

Series

Category

Food & Drink

Format

229 x 190 mm

Extent

192pp

Illustrations

Full colour photos throughout

Age Range

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Available 23 October

• Social media headers promoting book. • In the US, media pitches will include: Martha Stewart Living, In Touch, Parade, Entertainment Weekly, People, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Food & Wine, bon appetit; Food52, NPR, Thekitchn, Tasting Table, Eater, Munchies, Healthyish and Vice; Entertainment Tonight, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Ellen and CBS

Sunday Morning.

Billionaire’s Bacon This is for when you on some real player shit and ain’t got time for that regular swine. I’ve heard this called Millionaire’s Bacon—some black pepper for that smoke, a little fire from some cayenne, and a heap of brown sugar like D’Angelo, and you’ve just fried up a pile of Uncle Snoopy’s Billionaire Bacon. Like my guy Justin Timberlake, as my other homie Sean Parker, said in that Zuckerberg flick The Social Network, “A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.” Now eat up and go get that!

SERVES 4 INGREDIENTS ½ cup [100 g] packed light brown sugar 1 tsp cracked black pepper ½ tsp cayenne pepper 8 slices thick-cut bacon 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F [200°C], with a rack in the top third of the oven. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, place a wire rack on top of the foil, and set aside.

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2. In a small bowl, stir together the brown sugar, black pepper, and cayenne. 3. Lay the bacon slices on the rack. Spread the brown sugar mixture evenly over the bacon.

5. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and cool the bacon for 5 minutes on the rack. Serve warm with Scrambled Eggs and Cheddar Cheese (page XX) or in the Mile-High Omelet (page XX).

4. Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, rotating the baking sheet halfway through the baking time to ensure even cooking. The bacon is done when it’s crispy and glazed.

8 Tbsp [1 stick, or 110 g] unsalted butter, melted, plus more for serving Maple syrup, for serving TO BRINE THE CHICKEN FOLLOW THE RECIPE AND METHOD ON PAGE XXX. TO BATTER THE CHICKEN, FOLLOW METHOD ON PAGE XXX. TO FRY THE CHICKEN: 1. In a large Dutch oven over medium heat, heat the canola oil to 350°F [180°C]. Set a wire rack over a plate or line a pan with brown paper and set aside. 2. Working in batches beginning with the drumsticks, carefully add the chicken to the hot oil, careful not to crowd the chicken, otherwise it’ll become greasy. Once the chicken is added, the oil’s temperature will drop to between 300°F and 320°F [150°C to 160°C]. Watch and adjust the heat to maintain a consistent 350°F [180°C] temperature. 3. Fry the drumsticks for about 15 minutes, or until golden.

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Once the chicken is done, remove each piece with tongs and transfer to the prepared rack or pan to drain. Sprinkle generously with salt. 4. Fry the breasts and thighs for about 10 minutes, or until golden. If the chicken is getting too dark, lower the heat. When done, transfer to the rack or pan. Sprinkle generously with salt. 5. Fry the wings for about 8 minutes, or until golden. When done, transfer to the rack or pan. Sprinkle generously with salt. 6. Let the chicken rest for at least 10 minutes before serving. TO MAKE THE WAFFLES: 1. Preheat a waffle maker to 350°F [180°C]. 2. vIn a large bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, and cornmeal until combined. In another bowl, beat the eggs and add the buttermilk, vanilla, and melted butter. Gradually add the dry mixture to the wet until incorporated (the batter will be lumpy).

3. Following the manufacturer’s instructions, pour the batter into the waffle maker and cook the waffles until golden brown. 4. Top each waffle with a large pat of butter. Add your favorite piece of fried chicken and pour on plenty of maple syrup. Top each waffle with a large pat of butter. Add your favorite piece of fried chicken and pour on plenty of maple syrup.

Bow Wow Brownies and Ice Cream My greatest recipe is Bow Wow Brownies. The key is to make sure they're nicely baked. If I really want to take it up a notch, I might even add a dash of my secret ingredient—a sprinkle of Snoop's herbs and spices really gives those things a kick. They'll come out the oven smelling real aromatic, and a couple bites will leave you feeling like you're on cloud nine. This is why you bought the book right? So what the hell you waiting on? Go get baked! SERVES 6 INGREDIENTS ⅔ cup [90 g] all-purpose flour ¼ tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt ½ cup [100 g] granulated sugar 3 Tbsp unsalted butter 2 Tbsp whole milk 2½ cups [450 g] milk chocolate morsels 2 large eggs ½ tsp pure vanilla extract Your favorite vanilla ice cream, for serving Chocolate sauce, for serving

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4. Add the eggs and vanilla to the chocolate. Stir until blended and smooth. 5. Gradually add the flour mixture to the chocolate, stirring until just combined. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan. Sprinkle the top of the batter with the remaining 1 cup [180 g] of chocolate morsels.

1. Preheat the oven to 325°F [165°C], with a rack in the middle position. Butter an 8-by-8-in [20-by-20-cm] square baking pan and set aside.

6. Place the pan in the oven and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, rotating the pan about halfway through the baking time to ensure even cooking, until the brownies are set and the edges looked baked.

2. In a small bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

7. Remove the brownies from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool in the pan.

3. In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, butter, and milk. Bring to a boil. Remove the pan from the heat and add 1½ cups [270 g] of the chocolate morsels. Stir until the chocolate is melted and smooth.

8. Cut the brownies into 6 large squares. Serve topped with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce, if desired.

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I V. D E S S E R T

Dream Life Journal Kristina Karlsson This journal is your essential workbook for all the exercises in Kristina Karlsson's inspiring book Your Dream Life

Starts Here. Putting pen to paper and working through the exercises at the end of each chapter is where you will get the most value from Your Dream Life Starts Here. Reading is one way of learning, but absorbing yourself in doing the exercises will take you to a whole new level and will have the most positive impact on your life. You'll find the exercises stimulating, fun, challenging, exhilarating and sometimes perhaps confronting. But your dream life lies somewhere beyond your comfort zone. Publication

01 October 2018

Binding

Notebooks & Journals

Price

AU$24.99 | NZ$27.99

ISBN

9780648331209

Publisher

Hardie Grant Books

Imprint

Hardie Grant Local Consignment

Series

Category

Stationery

Format

235 x 175 mm

Extent

268pp

Illustrations

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Kristina Karlsson, founder of kikki.K and author ofYour Dream Life Starts Here , highly recommends that you use this journal designed specifically to accompany the book. It includes all the worksheets and space you need – making the process simple and easy for you. Author Details Kristina Karlsson is the founder and Creative Director of global Swedish design and stationery business, kikki.K (102 kikki.K stores, stocked in another 250 and sold online to stationery and design lovers in more than 147 countries worldwide). She's also a sought-after international speaker, a passionate learner and self-improver – and the proud mother of two children, Axel and Tiffany, with her partner, Paul. With the deep personal experience of the power of dreaming and then doing, Kristina is on a mission to encourage people the world over to follow their own dreams. Her new dream is to inspire and empower 101 million people just like you to write down their own dreams on paper and set about bringing them to life. Why? Because by dreaming, we can all help to make the world a better place, starting with us.

Key Information

Available 1 October

• An essential guide designed to help you put all the wisdom and inspiration of Your Dream Life Starts Here into practice. • Exercises help you to absorb the philosophy behind the book, allowing you to make positive steps towards your Dream Life.

AFL Wit and Wisdom of the coaches Eamon Evans

Whether you're an elite athlete, ambitious professional, dedicated parent or hard-working student, all of us are at times challenged by doubts and set-backs. This collection of inspiring and oft times hilarious quotes from some of Australia's leading AFL coaches will lighten your mood and give an insight into the lives of people truly challenged by adversity. Here they offer up some brilliant thoughts to keep you winning!

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From Mick Malthouse: 'The meek may inherit the earth – but they will never win games of football' to Allan Jeans: 'Footballers are like sausages ... you can fry them, grill them, bake them ... they're still sausages.' John Kennedy 'Don't think...DO!' to Jack Dyer about a concussed player who isn't sure who he is: 'Tell him he is John Coleman and send him back on'.

Author Details

Publication

01 December 2018

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9781743795347

Publisher

Hardie Grant Books

Imprint

HG Local

Series

Category

Sport

Format

198 x 128 mm

Extent

196pp

Illustrations

B&W drawings

Age Range

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Available 1 December

Eamon Evans has spent all his working life writing. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he has been an in-house writer for Bigpond Sport. He has also been a regular journalist for the Sunday Herald Sun, the Adelaide Advertiser, the Sunday Times and the Courier Mail writing about AFL, cricket and tennis. Eamon has written a bunch of successful books on sport and popular culture.

Key Information • Small format and great price makes this book an excellent gift for the footy lover in your life –brother, cousin, work colleague, Kris Kringle, stocking stuffer, etc! • Messages range from inspiring to hilarious with knowledge to be gleaned from this book. • Includes all of the great coaches, current and historic, from the AFL • AFL has biggest fan base for team sport in Australia. Some 6.3 million Australians aged 14+ support an AFL club, or 35 percent of the population, with women making up 41 percent of these suporters.

AFL WIT & WISDOM

TOUGH LOVE

‘I probably was the most autocratic, dictatorial coach ever in AFL completion. And sometimes I think the only thing I miss in coaching is looking 22 grown men in a room and abusing the hell out of them for an hour, nobody saying anything – just nodding and agreeing with me.’

‘Next time you’re having a meal of bacon and eggs, just ask yourself who made the greatest commitment to the meal – the pig or the fowl? The old chook’s partially involved by providing the egg. The pig made a total commitment.’ HAWTHORN’S ALLAN JEANS IMPLORING HIS PLAYERS TO COMMIT TO – AND/OR DIE FOR – THE CAUSE.

DAVID PARKIN MAY BE A REAL SWEETHEART. BUT IF SO, HE HIDES IT QUITE WELL. 2

AFL WIT & WISDOM

TOUGH LOVE

‘It will be defence first, defence second and defence third.’ Newly appointed Carlton coach Mick Malthouse describing his complex game plan.

‘I’m a bit of a chameleon. I tend to be what I need to be, where I need to be it, and when I’m coaching I’ve got to be that and I prefer to be what I’m not without the coaching at this stage of my life.’ LEIGH MATTHEWS SAYING … SOMETHING. IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT, LET ME KNOW.

AFL WIT & WISDOM

TOUGH LOVE

“For the first 25 years, everything turned to gold. In the last five years, everything turned to cow manure.” Denis Pagan looking back on his coaching career.

‘While I’m in charge of Carlton, everything has to be done properly. You train properly; you dress properly on the field; you come to the ground dressed properly; you have a proper social club life and you play properly in practice games. Too many players take practice matches half-heartedly. There will be no joking today; no laughing; no showing off and everything will be done at top pressure. If you can flatten a teammate and you don’t, you are letting him down.’ WHEN RON BARASSI TOOK THE REINS AT CARLTON, I’M GUESSING THAT NOT EVERYONE WAS THAT THRILLED.

Australia The Photographer's Eye 3rd ed Nick Rains A revised and updated third edition of this bestselling Australian photography book.

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Award-winning photographer Nick Rains travels Australia with his camera, capturing the country’s diverse landscapes and many moods. With this third edition, including two brand-new touring regions, outback New South Wales and north-west Tasmania. Australia The Photographer’s Eye displays Rains’s stunning images of over 30 regions around the country. For each region there’s also touring information and a map that pinpoints the best spots from which to capture your own images. In the photo tips section at the back of the book, Rains shares his knowledge of photography, discussing the techniques and skills he has gained over many years, and clearly explains how to successfully photograph landscapes from small-detail shots through to panoramas. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$39.99 | NZ$45.00

ISBN

9781741176377

Publisher

Explore Australia

Imprint

Guides

Series

Category

Art/Fashio/Photography

Format

2477 x 277 mm

Extent

240pp

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Full colour throughout

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Author Details Nick Rains has been a professional photographer for over 35 years, starting off in the UK with sports and commercial work before moving to Queensland in 1998. Since then, he has concentrated on landscape and travel images, photographing all over the world for books and calendars. Nick is a Leica Ambassador and, in addition to his current documentary work, guides other aspiring photographers to different parts of the planet in search of great imagery. Nick has visited virtually all parts of Australia and hopes that his experiences will inspire you to seek out and create fine images of this amazing country.

Key Information • •

Strong sales history – previous two editions have combined sales of over 10,000 copies. A range of new photographs included and two brand-new destinations, outback New South Wales and north-west Tasmania. Beautiful photography in landscape format makes this book an excellent souvenir of Australian images. Includes details on photographic techniques connected to each touring region. Foreword by Australian travel and TV personality Catriona Rowntree.

| High Country |

AUSTRALIA – THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EYE

Bellingen/Dorrigo National Park

Among the great legends of Australian folklore are the cattlemen of the ‘High Country’, a region spanning the mountain ranges on the Victorian and New South Wales border. Banjo Paterson’s classic poem ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ was the basis for the movie The Man from Snowy River, in which the scenery of the wild High Country was as much the star as Tom Burlinson. Even the remains of the movie set became an instant icon – Craigs Hut was built in 1986 and so popular has it become that, although it has accidentally been burned down three times, each time it has been rebuilt. The High Country scenery is best explored on a camping trip, by 4WD or on horseback. A network of rough tracks spans the whole area, linking the many genuine old huts still used today by 4WD drivers, walkers and riders. The route from Mansfield to Omeo – through the extensive Alpine National Park – is considered one of the best 4WD trips in the region. It can easily take a week to explore all the side trails, valleys and vistas that this route passes by, particularly if you are intending to photograph the area in detail. HOTSPOTS WHITFIELD

The scenery varies greatly: the deep valleys often contain gentle pastures and crystal-clear rivers like the Howqua, while the high ridges can be bleakly windswept and dotted with stark rocky outcrops and gnarled snow gums as far as the eye can see. The weather changes with legendary speed, turning from sunny to snowy in an astonishingly short time – one of the reasons the cattlemen of old were considered so resilient and why the old huts are still maintained.

Mount Buffalo National Park

MOUNT BUFFALO CHALET

BRIGHT MOUNT BEAUTY

FALLS CREEK

During winter the tracks become impassable with deep snow and the whole region is closed, so the best time to visit is from spring through to late autumn. Early in spring, wildflowers are scattered over the high meadows and, weather permitting, this can be an especially rewarding time, although care must be taken, as the notoriously fickle weather can turn roads to bogs in no time at all.

MOUNT BULLER

MANSFIELD

Alpine National Park

HOTHAM HEIGHTS HOWITT 3 PLAINS

MOUNT BULLER

Alpine National Park

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Previous pages: Wallace Hut HS4 Above: Bindaree Falls HS2

AUSTRALIA – THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EYE

Among the many photographic highlights of the High Country are the ancient and twisted snow gums, which endure the harsh conditions of the highest reaches of the Alpine region. While

lower-lying trees can have quite straight trunks, not unlike a mallee, up high in the toughest places the trees mature more slowly, twisting and bending as they develop; some of the bigger trees are up to 400 years old. It’s also worth trying to capture an image of overlapping distant ridge lines from a high vantage point. The blue haze adds depth (called aerial perspective) to the progressively lighter ridge edges and a long lens can be used to create some especially satisfying semi-abstract images. High Country

| Wilsons Promontory |

AUSTRALIA – THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EYE

Bellingen/Dorrigo National Park

| Great Barrier Reef |

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AUSTRALIA – THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EYE

Bellingen/Dorrigo National Park

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Stretching over 2300km along the Queensland coast, and in places 60km wide, the Great Barrier Reef is the largest living organism on earth and is even visible from space. Divers from all over the world come to explore the clear blue waters of the lace-like reef system, where more than 400 different types of coral and some 1500 species of tropical fish create a natural wonder, which UNESCO included on its World Heritage list in 1981.

AUSTRALIA – THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S EYE

BUNDABERG

HERVEY BAY

Nightcap NP

The southern end of the Reef is marked by two ladies – the uninhabited Lady Musgrave Island and Lady Elliot Island, where an environmentally responsible resort caters to divers and people wanting to see the Reef at its best. A short flight from Bundaberg or Hervey Bay takes you to this tiny island, which you can walk around in an hour. The fringing reef is very accessible – by putting on a snorkel and paddling a few metres into the shallow water you can see the vibrant Reef ecosystem at work. Further north, off the Whitsunday Islands, a commercial tour operator has established a floating pontoon serviced by a daily catamaran from Shute Harbour on the mainland. While very popular and thus very busy, this is a great way to get images of the Reef, particularly if you make use of the charter helicopter that has

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While underwater photography is outside the scope of this book, there are ways to photograph the Reef without getting wet, either from the air in a helicopter or light plane, or simply by visiting one of the myriad coral-fringed islands or coral cays.

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its own floating helipad right nearby. Rather than flying from the mainland (expensive), a 20-minute flight from a floating heli-pad near the pontoon will enable you to capture a variety of classic Reef images, including the aptly named Heart Reef, which is nearby. On a clear still day in autumn or spring, the view from the air is, without exaggeration, simply staggering. Billygoat Mountain

Previous pages: Lady Elliot Island HS1

Above: Hardy Reef HS3 26 Opposite: Upolu Cay HS2

Although Cairns is a mecca for divers, the Reef is a bit further offshore. Plenty of diving charter boats take overnight trips to the outer reef, but these are mainly aimed at divers rather than photographers. Once again aerial photography is worth considering: Upolu and Michaelmas cays in particular look terrific from the air – tiny sand bars surrounded by an expanse of blue tropical water. Great Barrier Reef

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The Keto Reset Diet Cookbook 150 Low-Carb, High-Fat Ketogenic Recipes to Boost Weight Loss Mark Sisson A companion cookbook toThe Keto Reset Diet including 150 all-new recipes and meal plans so readers can easily follow Mark Sisson's ketogenic plan. InThe Keto Reset Diet Cookbook, Mark Sisson brings 150 new ketogenic recipes to readers who began their keto journey by becoming 'fat adapted', reprogramming their metabolism to burn fat for fuel and ditching processed grains, sugars, and refined vegetable oils in favour of nutrient-dense, high fat, primal/paleo foods. With Mark's scientifically validated approach, readers can break free of the effects of carbohydrate dependency and gain metabolic flexibility. The new cookbook contains a recap of the ketogenic eating plan, along with tips on how to maintain cyclic ketogenesis, meal plans, all-new recipes, full-colour photography, pantry stocking advice, and more. With these recipes, readers will be able to stave off sugar cravings with rich, high-satiety foods and stay trim and healthy.

Author Details Publication

01 December 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$29.99 | NZ$32.99

ISBN

9781743795057

Publisher

Hardie Grant UK

Imprint

Managed by HG Melbourne

Series

Category

Food & Drink

Format

231.775 x 187.325 mm

Extent

256pp

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Colour photography throughout

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Mark Sisson is the best-selling author ofThe Primal Blueprint and The Keto Reset Diet , a former world-class endurance athlete, and one of the leading voices of the burgeoning evolutionary health movement. His blog, MarksDailyApple.com, has paved the way for Primal enthusiasts to challenge conventional wisdom's diet and exercise principles and take personal responsibility for their health and wellbeing.

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Mark's most recent book, The Keto Reset Diet, was published early 2018 in Australia and has sold incredibly well. In the US, where it published in October 2017, it has sold more than 55,000 copies across all formats. Mark's self-published book The Primal Blueprint has sold more than 300,000 copies in all formats since its original publication in 2009. Ketogenic cookbooks are part of a broader wellness trend. Mark has a built-in fan base. His blog, MarksDailyApple.com, has grown into one of the highest ranked health information resources, with about 3 million unique visitors each month. His opt-in newsletter list has more than 310,000 subscribers and he has more than 200,000 fans on Facebook. His two popular podcasts reach more than 120,000 subscribers a month, and he has appeared on multiple popular podcasts, including Aubrey Marcus and Bulletproof. He is also the founder of the multi-million dollar Primal Kitchen product line and restaurants. Marketing and publicity promotion across health and wellness media on release.

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ISBN

9781743794616

PART 2

EATING KETO

KETO

RESET

STAPLES BASIC BONE BROTH 35 BASIC CAULIFLOWER RICE 37 NUT MILK 38 BIGASS SALAD 39

BASIC BONE BROTH

BONE BROTH We’re hot for bone broth in the primal and keto com-

with this recommendation is that our ancestors routinely

munities! Bone broth is one of the most nutrient-dense

extracted every bit of edible nutrition from the animals

foods on the planet, packed with vitamins, minerals,

they consumed—enjoying organ meats that deliver

prebiotic fiber, and special compounds like collagen and

considerably more nutrient density than flesh, and

glycosaminoglycans that nurture joints and connective

extracting the highly beneficial agents in bone and joint

tissue in the body. The latter are extremely difficult to

material—as happens when you make bone broth. This

obtain from other dietary sources, even for hard-core

“nose to tail” animal consumption results in more fat and

meat eaters. Unfortunately, the Standard American

vastly more nutritional benefits than opting for chicken

Diet (SAD) has completely disregarded bone broth and

breast and ultralean hamburgers in the name of health.

organ meats in favor of consuming mainly the leanest

Dr. Cate Shanahan, author of the highly acclaimed

possible cuts of meat. This conventional-wisdom recom-

Deep Nutrition, mentions meat on the bone (which

mendation to avoid the most nutritious parts of animals

includes bone broth) and organ meats as two of the four

in favor of a narrow focus on lean flesh is motivated by

essential food categories for an optimal human diet, the

the idea of avoiding the long-dreaded saturated fat. As

other pillars being fresh foods and fermented foods.

the dated and oversimplified “lipid hypothesis of heart

Clearly, the SAD is woefully inadequate in all four cat-

disease” goes, consuming saturated fat and cholesterol

egories, and even many enthusiastic primal/paleo style

increases your risk of heart disease, because the plaques

eaters can fall short in one or more categories. Getting

that form in arteries contain these agents.

into the bone broth scene can help bring your already

One of the best ways to enjoy bone broth is simply hot out of a mug. You can also use your broth to make Golden Bone Broth (page 247) or Garlicky Bone Broth (page 246), or the many delicious soups you will find later in this book!

8 to 16 ounces beef or poultry bones, or the carcass from a whole chicken or turkey 2 to 4 tablespoons tomato paste (if making beef broth)

1. If making beef broth: Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Place the beef bones on a heavy rimmed baking sheet. Brush them with the tomato paste. Roast until they are well browned, about 30 minutes. 2. For all broths: Combine the bones (beef and/or poultry), vegetable scraps, garlic, peppercorns, bay leaves, and herbs (if using) in a large stockpot, slow cooker, or Instant Pot. Cover completely with filtered water. Cook according to one of the following methods.

The idea that fat and cholesterol are unhealthy has

healthy eating habits to the next level. Enjoying a warm

been almost completely shattered by respected science

and deeply satisfying mug of bone broth in the morning

examining the dietary practices of large populations

might eventually have more appeal than a harried grab

5 to 10 ounces vegetable scraps (see Tip) or 1 large onion (roughly chopped, including skin and root end if organic), 2 stalks celery (roughly chopped, including leaves), and 2 carrots (roughly chopped, including leafy tops)

for decades. The Framingham Heart Study and Nurses’

of a sugary Starbucks concoction during your morning

Health Study are prominent examples that reveal no cor-

commute. Since many healthy-living enthusiasts have

relation between dietary fat and cholesterol intake and

“discovered” this ancient remedy of bone broth, there

heart disease. In his book, Why We Get Fat, Gary Taubes

are more and more high-quality products popping up

relates emphatically that there has never been a single

on grocery store shelves. However, it’s also easy and

study ever published to show that consuming saturated

inexpensive to make your own. All you need is a carcass

Fresh herbs such as thyme or rosemary sprigs (optional)

fat by itself is unhealthy. As enthusiasts in the ances-

from last night’s turkey or chicken, or a visit to your local

Filtered water

tral health community know, fat and cholesterol do bad

butcher or grocery meat department to procure some

things in the body only when they are consumed in a

fun stuff like cow joints, chicken feet, or turkey necks.

M ACRO N U T RIE N T S PE R 1 CU P (CH I CK E N B O N E B ROT H)

M ACRO N U T RIE N T S PE R 1 CU P (B E E F B O N E B ROT H)

high-carbohydrate, high insulin producing diet!

2 cloves garlic, smashed 10 black peppercorns 2 bay leaves

MAKE S 8 TO 1 2 CU P S ( DE P END I N G ON T H E MET H OD )

S TO V ETO P : Bring the water to a boil over high heat, then reduce the temperature so the water is just lightly simmering. Simmer for several hours—the longer the better—keeping an eye on the water level. Add more water if it gets too low. S LO W COOKER : Cover and cook on low (undisturbed) for at least 8 hours, but longer is better. You can cook it for 24 hours or more. I N S TANT P OT: Press the Manual button and set the cook time to 120 minutes. When the time is up, turn off the Instant Pot and allow the pressure to release naturally.

The joint material is usually super cheap—one meat spe-

C A LO RIE S: 8 6

C A LO RIE S: 3 1

Unfortunately, even experts in the paleo commu-

cialty store I frequent packages cow joints exclusively

FAT: 3 G/ 26 C A LO RIE S

FAT: <1 G/ 2 C A LO RIE S

nity have advocated for choosing lean meats, observing

for their canine customers (or the financially responsible

that today’s industrialized animals are fatter than the

party of the canine customer!). For a few bucks, you can

C A R B O H Y D R AT E : 9 G/ 3 4 C A LO RIE S

C A R B O H Y D R AT E : 3 G/ 12 C A LO RIE S

Paleolithic animals our ancestors ate. What’s overlooked

walk out with the best raw material for bone broth.

PROT EIN : 6 G/ 24 C A LO RIE S

PROT EIN : 5 G/ 1 9 C A LO RIE S

recipe continues

KETO RE S ET S TA P LE S

BASIC CAULIFLOWER RICE T I P : Keep a large zippered plastic bag in your freezer, and whenever you have vegetable scraps such as the leaves and bottoms of celery, leaves and ends of carrots, broccoli stems, and so on, toss them in the bag. You can do the same with leftover bones and skin. This way you always have ingredients on hand when you want to make a batch of bone broth.

Cauliflower rice is something one rarely heard about outside primal/paleo circles just a few years ago, and now it seems like every grocery store carries prericed cauliflower in the produce and freezer sections. These products are great timesavers, although cauliflower rice is also easy to make yourself. Once you have mastered cauliflower rice, there are endless ways you can turn this simple side dish into something even more special. Double this basic recipe to feed a bigger group or so you can have a ready-made supply to include in a recipe.

3. To rapidly cool the broth, fill your kitchen sink with ice water. Place a metal bowl in the ice water and place a metal sieve or colander over the bowl. Carefully strain the hot broth into the bowl (discard the solids). Allow it to chill for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. 4. Optional: Strain the broth again through a fine-mesh sieve into a spouted measuring cup. Pour the broth into mason jars, leaving about 1 inch of headspace. Secure the lids and place the jars immediately in the refrigerator or freezer. (Alternatively, you can pour the broth into ice cube trays or silicone molds and freeze it.) Use refrigerated broth within a few days.

4 cups riced cauliflower (about 14 ounces)

2 tablespoons avocado oil

Sea salt M ACRO N U T RIE N T S PE R S E RVIN G C A LO RIE S: 8 5 FAT: 7 G/6 4 C A LO RIE S C A R B O H Y D R AT E : 5 G/ 2 0 C A LO RIE S PROT EIN : 2 G/8 C A LO RIE S

Mix it up! C heck out the recipes for Triple-Coconut Cauliflower Rice (page 165) and Keto Shrimp Fried Rice (page 115).

S ER V E S 4

B RO I LER MET H OD ( P REFERRED ) 1. Position an oven rack 2 to 3 inches from the broiler. Preheat the broiler to low. 2. In a bowl, combine the cauliflower, oil, and ½ teaspoon salt, stirring well to coat the cauliflower with the oil. Spread the cauliflower evenly on a heavy rimmed baking sheet. 3. Place the cauliflower under the hot broiler and broil for 4 minutes, keeping an eye on it to make sure it isn’t burning. The edges should begin to brown. Remove the pan from the oven and stir the cauliflower. Spread it evenly in the pan again, and return it to the oven for 2 more minutes. Remove it from the oven and transfer the cauliflower rice to a serving bowl. Taste and adjust the salt if desired.

S TO V ETO P MET H OD 1. In a large skillet or wok, heat the avocado oil over medium heat. Add the cauliflower and ½ teaspoon salt, and stir well. Stir-fry for about 3 minutes. 2. Cover and cook until tender, 3 to 5 minutes longer. Taste and adjust the salt if desired.

T H E KETO RE S ET D I ET COOK B OOK

KETO RE S ET S TA P LE S

NUT MILK

BIGASS SALAD

Nut milk is one of those things that you can buy in the store, but once you make it yourself, you may never go back to store-bought. Homemade is much tastier and free from any objectionable added ingredients (especially sweeteners, which are prominent in many products—read labels carefully!). Nut milk is an excellent macronutrient-balanced base for smoothies. It also makes a great alternative for your morning coffee (if you are trying to get away from high-fat coffee bombs in the morning) or for Creamy Keto Hot Chocolate (page 248).

1 cup raw nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, pecans, or macadamias)

3 to 4 cups filtered water, plus more for soaking

ADD - I N S (O P T I ONAL )

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

¼ teaspoon sea salt

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Keto-friendly sweetener, to taste

M ACRO N U T RIE N T S PE R 1 CU P C A LO RIE S: 3 6 FAT: 3 G/ 26 C A LO RIE S C A R B O H Y D R AT E : 1 G/ 6 C A LO RIE S PROT EIN : 1 G/6 C A LO RIE S

T H E KETO RE S ET D I ET COOK B OOK

As readers of my blog know already, the centerpiece of my primal eating strategy is a midday Bigass Salad (search YouTube for “Mark Sisson Bigass Steak Salad” to see a preparation in action). You can eat a different Bigass Salad every day of the week, packed with colorful veggies, protein, and healthy fats, and never get bored thanks to the endless possibilities. Following is a basic recipe that you can adjust for size or different ingredients as desired.

MAKE S 4 CU P S

1. Place the nuts in a glass bowl or jar and cover entirely with filtered water. Soak the nuts at room temperature for at least 4 hours, but preferably 8 hours or overnight. 2. Drain and rinse the nuts. Place the soaked nuts in a highpowered blender with 3 to 4 cups fresh filtered water (use 4 cups if the capacity of your blender allows, but less if needed so as not to overfill it). Blend on high until very smooth. 3. Strain the nut milk through a nut milk bag (see Note) or a clean kitchen towel into a bowl. Squeeze the pulp to release as much milk as possible. 4. If you are adding any of the optional ingredients, rinse out the blender, add the milk and optional ingredients, and blend until smooth. 5. Transfer the nut milk to an airtight container and refrigerate. Use within 5 days. N o t e : Nut milk bags are fine-mesh bags that are incredibly useful to have if you make nut milk often. Check to see if your natural foods store stocks them, or you can find them online. Save the nut pulp to use in smoothies, bread, or recipes such as the Nut Pulp Rolls or Hamburger Buns (page 224). If you have a food dehydrator, you can also dehydrate it to make nut meal.

4 cups lettuce or mixed salad greens (5 to 6 ounces), chopped

2 cups assorted sliced/ chopped veggies (mushrooms, bell peppers, zucchini, carrots, broccoli, beets, etc.)

¼ cup shredded cheese

¼ cup nuts (walnuts, pecans, almonds)

2 tablespoons sunflower or pumpkin seeds

4 to 5 ounces protein of choice (canned tuna or sardines; cooked chicken, turkey, or steak)

1 hard-boiled egg, sliced

½ to 1 avocado, sliced

2 tablespoons of your favorite keto-friendly dressing (ensure it’s free from refined high polyunsaturated vegetable oils, such as canola, soybean, sunflower, and the like)

MAKE S 1 B I G A S S S ALAD

1. In a large bowl, layer the lettuce, veggies, and cheese. If you want, toss these ingredients with half the dressing. 2. Sprinkle the nuts and seeds on top, followed by your protein of choice. Arrange the sliced egg and avocado on top, and drizzle everything with the remaining dressing. Eat immediately. Note: If you are packing your salad ahead of time, leave the dressing off, and keep the nuts and seeds separate from the rest of the ingredients until just before eating.

M ACRO N U T RIE N T S PE R S E RVIN G* C A LO RIE S: 9 07 FAT: 6 4 G/ 5 78 C A LO RIE S C A R B O H Y D R AT E : 2 7 G/ 1 0 9 C A LO RIE S PROT EIN : 6 0 G/ 241 C A LO RIE S * Macros vary according to exact ingredients chosen. The numbers here are for a Bigass Salad with ½ cup each raw mushrooms and zucchini, 1 cup broccoli florets, 4 ounces skin-on chicken breast, and 2 tablespoons Primal Kitchen Greek Dressing.

KETO RE S ET S TA P LE S

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How to be Gluten-Free and Keep Your Friends Anna Barnett Enjoy being gluten-free with more than 50 incredible recipes, as well as tips and tricks for eating in, eating out and living without happily without gluten.

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Supermarkets now stock gluten-free options, everyone – from restaurants to your gran – has at least heard of the term, and most importantly, you’ve never felt better. So why is it still so tricky to navigate life as a gluten-free diner? From going out for dinner, to staying in with friends, it can be a challenge to cook, eat and socialise in a world of gluten eaters. How to be Gluten-Free and Keep Your Friends helps you to go about your life without compromises, excuses or apologies. Instead, you'll be armed with 50 fresh, exciting and globally-inspired gluten-free recipes you can cook for yourself, your friends and your family (without hearing any complaints!), as well as tips, tricks and hacks for being a better more easygoing gluten-avoider.

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Anna Barnett writes the Grazia food pages, supplies recipes for Vogue , and contributes a weekly column to the Evening Standard online. She regularly hosts pop-up restaurants, collaborates with brands and caters private events. She has worked in events and celebrity booking for MTV and Channel 4. She published her debut cookery book Eat the Week in 2015 and spent several years writing The Reluctant Vegetarian blog for The Independent .

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Your options will open up, you'll enjoy a whole new menu of food, and your friends… well, they'll never have a bad word to say again!

Key Information • 50 modern recipes aimed at people in their 20s/30s looking to eat good and exciting food, but exclude gluten • Includes section on flour types • None of the recipes include substitute, "free-from", ingredients • With tips on tricks on snacks for work, what to take to other people's homes and shopping lists

Macaroons / Salted Chocolate Dip MAKES 6-10

4 egg good quality whites 135g desiccated coconut 145 flaked almonds 165g caster sugar ½ tsp vanilla bean paste SALTED CHOCOLATE SAUCE

150g dark chocolate 70% coco – broken into pieces ½ tsp sea salt flakes

Preheat the oven to 180˚C / 360˚F / gas mark 4. Line two baking trays with parchment. In a heatproof bowl combine the egg whites, coconut, almond flakes, sugar, vanilla bean paste and set over a pan of boiling water like a bain-marie. Ensuring the water isn’t touching the base of the bowl, stir constantly and cook for around 7-8 minutes or until the egg whites turn opaque. Next place 6-10 generous dollops of the mixture onto your parchment sheets allowing plenty of space between macaroons. Bake for 10 minutes on 180 degrees Celsius then reduce the heat to 170˚C and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Once cooked allow to cool before eating. For the salted chocolate place chunks of broken chocolate in a bowl over boiling water and allow to melt. Add in your salt then either dunk the cooled macaroons in the chocolate and place back on the parchment finishing with a little extra sprinkle of sea salt flakes or simply drizzle the salted chocolate over the macaroons. Serve once the chocolate has set.

Store these in an airtight container and serve the next day with coffee.

Harness the power of herbs (they can elevate an average dish to higher heights) by infusing oils, or making nifty flavoured butters >>>

Herb butter MAKES 200G

200g / 1 cup good quality butter, room temperature 30g / 1oz wild garlic or basil leaves or thyme leaves sea salt flakes Â˝ zest of lemon (optional)

Remove the leaves from the stalks and muddle herbs of your choice with sea salt flakes, and lemon zest if you like. Thoroughly combine with soft butter then place in a large rectangle of cling film. Roll into a long even tube, before or chilling or freezing.

Flatbreads / Raita / Turmeric Daal SERVES 4–6

roughly chopped

DAAL

½tsp ground cumin

2tbsp coconut oil

sprinkle of sea salt flakes

1 onion, finely diced

zest of ½ lemon

4–5 cloves garlic, minced

270ml / 1¼ cups natural

1tsp cumin seeds 1tsp ground turmeric 2tsp ground coriander several turns of freshly ground black pepper generous dash of white pepper 6 curry leaves 270g / 1½ cups yellow or red split lentils 400ml / 14oz can coconut milk 200ml / ¾ cup water FLATBREADS

380g / 2¾ cups GF self raising (self-rising) flour ½ bunch of coriander (cilantro) leaves picked,

yoghurt 80ml / 1 3 cup water RAITA

150ml / ¾ cup Greek yoghurt ¼ cucumber, seeds scraped out, flesh grated 5–6 fresh coriander (cilantro) sprigs, leaves picked and roughly chopped ¼tsp cumin ¼tsp ground coriander zest of 1 lime TO GARNISH

2 branches of curry leaves glug of coconut oil or rapeseed oil 1 green chilli, sliced ½ lime

To make the daal, begin by adding the coconut oil to a pan. Melt over a medium heat then add in the onion and garlic. Reduce the heat and allow to cook for around 5–6 minutes. >>>

LUNCH

Tuna Sambal Broth / Vermicelli Noodles SERVES 4

1l / 4¼ cups good-quality fish stock 3 stalks of lemongrass, ends trimmed and bashed 5cm / 2in piece fresh root ginger, peeled and finely grated 3–4tbsp sambal oelek (minced red chillies), to taste 350g / 12oz vermicell noodles tamari or fish sauce (optional) 350–450g / 12–16oz fresh sushi-grade tuna, roughly cut into four steaks then quartered sesame seed oil large bunch of Thai basil, chopped small bunch of fresh mint, chopped 2 limes, quartered

21 DINNER

Begin by bringing the fish stock to the boil then add in the lemongrass and ginger and allow to cook for around 10 minutes. Add in the sambal oelek, a spoonful at a time and taste the broth to ensure it’s not too spicy. Next cook your vermicelli noodles as per the packet instructions and set to one side. When you’re ready to serve, simply make sure the broth is boiling (and that you’re happy with the flavour, add a little tamari or fish sauce for more saltiness if needed). Divide the noodles across four serving bowls then pour over the broth. Arrange the fresh tuna on top of the noodles, so it’s submerged in the broth. Drizzle with sesame oil and scatter over a generous amount of Thai basil and fresh mint. Finish with a squeeze of fresh lime and serve.

15 Minute Vegan: On a Budget Fast, modern vegan food that costs less Katy Beskow Vegan food that costs less and tastes great, all ready in under 15 minutes! 15 Minute Vegan: On a Budget features 100 recipes for home cooks who want to create effortless, fast and delicious vegan food, without the price tag often associated with vegan cooking. All of the ingredients can be purchased in supermarkets and every recipe is ready in 15 minutes or less. Katy Beskow challenges the perception that vegan cooking is expensive and shows that veganism is for all by using ingredients that are readily available and need no specialist equipment. This is a book for both non-vegans and vegans who want to try to reduce food costs without sacrificing flavour.

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Chapters include: Leftovers (Potato peel crisps, Panzanella, Pitta chips); From the Cupboard (Spanish chickpea stew, Thai slaw, Black bean mole); Fresh food (Aubergine caponata, Mango gazpacho, Korean bibimbap); Family Favourites (Lentil ragu, Kedgeree with paprika yoghurt); and Sweet Treats (Cinnamon sugar tortillas, Sesame brittle thins, Apple fritters). There is also plenty of advice on eating seasonally and shopping wisely.

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Katy Beskow is an award-winning cook, writer and cookery tutor with a passion for seasonal ingredients, vibrant food and fuss-free home cooking. Once inspired by a bustling and colourful fruit market in South London, Katy now lives in rural Yorkshire and cooks from a small (yet perfectly functioning) kitchen. She blogs at www.littlemissmeatfree.com. Katy is the author of15-Minute Vegan (2017) and 15-Minute Vegan Comfort Food (2018); this is her third book.

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Next book from the bestselling author of 15 Minute Vegan and 15 Minute Vegan Comfort Food (over 40,000 copies sold in the UK) The number of people choosing a vegan lifestyle has risen by 350 per cent in the last decade Accessible for all and suited to students and families Includes handy section on shopping tips and tricks

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Monday’s root vegetable bhuna I always roast up too many vegetables to go with Sunday lunch. Sometimes accidentally, sometimes intentionally; either way they make a perfect addition to this simple and spicy bhuna. Suitable for freezing

Serves 2 generously 1 tbsp sunflower oil 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped 1 red pepper, finely sliced 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp turmeric ½ tsp dried chilli flakes

Heat the oil in a saucepan over a medium–high heat and cook the onion and red pepper for 2 minutes until softened. Add the garlic, cumin, turmeric, and chilli flakes and cook for a further 1 minute. Stir in the curry paste and chopped tomatoes, then reduce the heat to medium. Simmer for 8–9 minutes, then stir in the spinach and cook for a further 2 minutes. Stir in the leftover roasted root vegetables and squeeze over the lemon juice. Season with sea salt.

1 tbsp medium curry paste (ensure dairy free) 400g (14oz) can chopped tomatoes 2 handfuls of fresh or frozen spinach ½ roasting tray of leftover roasted root vegetables, including carrots, parsnips, red onion, and butternut squash, roughly chopped Juice of ½ unwaxed lemon

For the perfect roasted root vegetables, drizzle sunflower oil over peeled carrots, parsnips, quartered red onions, and butternut squash, then roast at 200°C/Gas mark 6 for 35–40 minutes, turning once. Allow the leftovers to cool fully, then refrigerate for use the following day.

Pinch of sea salt flakes

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FROM THE CUPBOARD

beer-battered onion rings These pub-style onion rings make a great sharing starter using store cupboard ingredients.

Serves 4 500ml (17½fl oz/2 cups) sunflower oil, for frying 150g (5½oz) self-raising flour 160ml (5½fl oz/generous ½ cup) beer (ensure vegan) 2 large onions, peeled, finely sliced and separated into rings

Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a low–medium heat while you prepare the batter. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour and beer to form a smooth batter. Dip the rings of onion into the batter, then use tongs to carefully drop them into the hot oil. Cook for 3–4 minutes, or until golden. Carefully remove with tongs or a slotted spoon, then drain on kitchen paper. Serve hot.

If you don’t have beer available, sparking water makes a similarly light batter, with a less malted flavour.

| from the cupboard

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The Little Book of Us Alison Davies Appreciate your nearest and dearest with 150 loved up tips and tricks.

‘Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.’ C OV E R

Helen Keller

DRAF T

The ties that bind us don’t have to be physical. Every time we meet someone, we forge a bond, a spiritual cord that ties us together. Us can be two, three or more! Whether a collective or a couple, lovers or friends, ‘us’ is about the connection.

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The Little Book of Us is a collection of 150 inspiring quotes and practical exercises that capture the spirit of togetherness. Whether celebrating friends, family or ‘the one’, let this book guide you through the many forms of love, with tips on how to meet your soul mate, explanations of romantic gestures and an exploration of traditions and marriage customs from around the world. The perfect gift for that special someone in your life to remind them how much you love them.

Author Details Alison Davies runs workshops at universities throughout the UK, showing academics, students and early years practitioners how stories can be used as tools for teaching and learning. Alison writes for a wide selection of magazines, including Bella, Soul & Spirit, Your Fitness, Take a Break, Fate and Fortune, Spirit and Destiny, You, Kindred Spirit and Woman's Own . Her features have also appeared in the Times Education Supplement, Daily Mail and Sunday Express parenting section. Alison is the author of The Little Book of Happiness, The Little Book of Tidiness, Written in the Stars, Be More Sloth and Be More Cat with Quadrille.

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A celebration of love through 150 quotes and exercises A pocket-sized love-token for that special someone in your life The perfect Valentine’s Day gift Another title in this much-loved and super successful series

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes two flints to make a fire.â&#x20AC;? louisa may alcott

Us = you and me Us = unique Us = precious Us = eternal Two letters that mean so much, reveal so much and can never be repeated, because we are US.

“I was born when you kissed me. I died

when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”

humphrey bogart as dixon steele in in a lonely place

(1950)

Definition of ‘us’ Used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people as the object of a verb or preposition. Can also be used in an informal way to refer to oneself. Originates from Old English ūs; akin to Old High German uns (us), Latin nos

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” helen keller

Us What is there about that word which changes everything? Perceptions crumble in the mind; assumptions all take wing. I was alone, and I was ‘me’, I had so much to do. The world was vast, my choices huge, Then one day, I met you. My mind encompasses the ‘you’; changes from ‘then’ to ‘now’.

‘We’ are the person who decides

The Making of US

what I knew anyhow.

“We are one, after all, you and I.

How strong the state of ‘us’ becomes: it changes how we see. The landscape moves and takes me far

Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.” pierre teilhard de chardin

from how ‘I’ used to be. viv apple

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101 Ways to Lose Weight and Never Find It Again Scott Baptie 101 evidence-based tips and tricks to lose weight forever, covering nutrition, exercise, sleep, goal-setting, mindset, food environment and willpower.

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C OV E R

101 Ways to Lose Weight and Never Find It Again is for everyone who is sick of restricting, detoxing and eating tasteless and bland meals. It contains enjoyable and easy-to-follow advice that will help readers to get leaner, fitter, stronger and happier without the hunger and heartache. Adopting these habits could provide a complete solution for people who want to lose weight. Many popular weight-loss books simply offer a slightly different ‘diet’ that demonises a certain food type (sugar, carbs, fat, wheat etc) and promote a form of ‘clean eating’ which quickly becomes unsustainable for the average reader. Scott Baptie's no-nonsense guide debunks all the health myths and includes encouraging and manageable ways to make small changes to your lifestyle for long-term health and sustainable weight loss.

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You'll discover why juice detoxes are terrible, how to eat ice cream and still lose weight, why standing up could be the ultimate weight-loss exercise, and why diet drinks are your friends.

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Scott Baptie has an MSc in Sports Nutrition and over 150,000 followers on social media. He has transformed the lives and waistlines of hundreds of people from complete beginners to seasoned gym-goers to professional sportsmen. He has worked with many FTSE 100 companies, hosts one of the top-rated fitness podcasts in the UK, regularly contributes to BBC radio and has written for almost all the leading fitness publications. He practises what he preaches and as a result has appeared on the cover of several leading fitness magazines as a fitness model.

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101 no-nonsense, sure-fire ways to lose weight Pick 3 ways that suit you and try them for one month. Then add another 3 the next month.... and so on. Watch the weight fall off. The tips include changing up your daily coffee, keeping a food journal, standing rather than sitting at the weekly meeting and ditching the fruit juice Each of the 101 ways concludes with a “take-home habit” – one sentence that sums up Scott’s recommendation in a handy tip Not faddy, or difficult – like Joe Wicks before him, Scott has identified that busy people need something simple to help them start to lose weight for good Scott has sold about 10,000 copies of his recipe ebooks through his website, Food for Fitness National publicity and social media campaign for New Year, New You 2019

101 WAYS TO LOSE WEIGHT

AND

NEVER FIND IT AGAIN

45. Embrace intuitive eating & ditch diets 46. Trust in Tetris® to cut cravings

47. Steer clear of media scaremongering 48. Focus on the process, not the outcome

49. Get more kip to move more kilos

50. Reward yourself & hit those targets 17. Hack your meal prep with gadgets

18. Power up your protein with a shake 19. Go easy on the green tea

20. Take the 28-day press-up challenge 21. Burn fat with a bodyweight circuit

51. Make a plan, not just a wish

52. Make some rules; set up a system 53. Plug in a podcast & be inspired 54. Cut back; don’t cut out

55. Get a boost with the Master Blaster

80. Meditate to lose weight 81. Jump into journalling 82. Go easy with the fats

83. Dominate the diet with dairy

84. Chug a coffee before a workout 85. Get some jelly in your belly

86. Prepare for an alien invasion & eat well

87. Downsize the plate to drop the weight 88. Avoid the ‘see-food diet’

89. Slurp some soup to satisfy the stomach

56. Fight fat with fruit

90. Eat the food you like!

58. Treat yourself to a diet break

92. #FoodPic #Yum #TweetWhatYouEat

60. Remember: gluten-free isn’t a get-out

94. Reconfigure your kitchen

57. Chew gum to cut carb cravings

91. Conquer the supermarket

59. Moderate the dried fruit intake

93. Pimp up the plate with protein

61. Ban the protein bars & breakfast

95. Ca canny* with the coconut oil

28. Kick things off with a kettlebell

62. Learn the weight of a portion of nuts

97. Go big on awesome omega-3s

30. Get it on like Marvin Gaye

64. Scrutinise sneaky packaging

32. Spruce up your kit & get playing

66. Limit your liquid calories

34. Shrink your waist with supersets

68. Curb your carbs after 6

36. Realise you’re not eating 1,000

70. Keep tabs on your bar tab

9. Capitalise on compound lifts

37. Eat That Frog and work out first thing

72. Design dinner with the rule of quarters

11. Get your fuel from fibre

39. Beware of advice on social media

CONTENTS How we lose weight How to use this book

1. Ditch the diet mentality 2. Drop the juice detoxes

3. Go with the grain & eat bread 4. Cure cravings with diet drinks

5. Pile on the protein at breakfast 6. Hop on the HIIT bandwagon

7. Walk off the weight with a step tracker 8. Cardioaccelerate your progress 10. Avoid eating like my grandma 12. Fast track fat-burning with a fast 13. Change up your coffees

14. Ignore the meal-timing myths

15. Master macros with flexible dieting 16. Refuel with a refeed day

22. Build muscle to burn fat

23. Cycle to work & curb hunger 24. Yearn to be a yogi at home

25. Skip the sit-ups & perfect the planks 26. Forget the ‘fat-burning zone’

27. Challenge yourself with CrossFit®

biscuits

29. Win with butterfly & backstroke

63. Bin the fat-burning supplements

31. Notch up your NEAT

65. Enjoy eggs (not just for breakfast)

33. Prioritise progressive overload

67. Plan ahead & cook in bulk

35. Stand more to burn more

69. Eat, exercise, repeat

calories

38. Get outside to work out

40. Stop stressing over scale weight

41. Remember: nobody likes a cheater 42. Turn off the TV & dine at the table 43. ‘No pain, no gain’ is for numpties 44. Shed pounds with friends

71. Take two-from-four when eating out 73. Win at weight loss with water

74. Fire up fat burning with a fast finisher 75. Blast fat with a barbell complex 76. Take on a tough challenge

77. Beware of multi-level marketing 78. Dial in your diet with a diary

79. Rock the one-salad-a-day rule

96. Ask if it swims, flies, runs or grows 98. Get into slow cooking

99. Get to grips with ‘starvation mode’ 100. Go for the low-hanging fruit 101. Visualise the body you want Index

Nutrition & eating habits Exercise & fitness habits Mindset & motivation

DON’T DITCH THE DIET DRINKS “Hold on a minute… Surely a nutritionist can’t be recommending diet drinks; don’t you know they’re full of chemicals?” If there’s one topic that is guaranteed to get knickers in a twist, agitate the gym bunnies and get you unfollowed on social media, it’s diet drinks.

Why something as insignificant as a can of juice generates such an emotional response and is the cause of many a heated debate is, well, quite frankly, bizarre. Listen to some and they’ll have you running to the hills in fear. You may have heard that diet drinks cause cancer, that they trick your body and turn on fat-storing-mode, they deplete nutrients, make you hungry… the list goes on.

Now some studies have shown that people who are overweight or obese drink more sugar-free drinks than people who are a healthy weight11.

But is the diet juice to blame? Unlikely. These studies have shown that the overweight people – who were drinking the diet drinks – also had a much higher calorie intake than those who didn’t. What’s more, people who generally have poor diets may be more likely to drink diet drinks to offset the number of calories consumed by making poor, high-calorie food choices. Although overweight people may drink more diet drinks, the drinks themselves are not the cause of the problem. This is another classic example of why correlation does not always equal causation (like I explain on page 67).

Most of the ‘facts’ surrounding diet drinks are simply a load of nonsense. For starters, there is no evidence6 that sweeteners cause cancer in humans, and they certainly don’t cause weight gain either. In fact, the complete opposite has been shown: switching from a full-sugar drink to a diet drink can help you lose weight!7

Ever craved something sweet? Of course you have.

Sometimes artificially sweetened foods, although unlikely to serve any nutritional benefit, can eliminate sugar cravings. If a zerocalorie diet drink is the drink of choice instead of its 300-calorie, full-sugar counterpart, then that simple switch could make a big difference to your waistline. Let’s say you have a 500ml bottle of fizzy juice with your lunch every day and you switch to the diet version. Just like that you’ve reduced your calorie intake by around 2,000 per week, and you can do it knowing that the evidence shows that it’s safe to do so.

TAKE-HOME HABIT Swap any full-sugar fizzy drinks that you consume for the diet version, or go for a no added sugar juice, water or fruit tea instead.

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TAKE-HOME HABIT

SKIP THE SIT-UPS & PERFECT THE PLANKS

Skip the sit-ups if you’re trying to get leaner and focus on compound exercises and cardio instead. If you do want to develop a stronger core, consider some of the more effective alternatives.

If you’re trying to burn fat, sit-ups are probably one of the most useless exercises you could do! Yet you see so many people doing them in the gym in their quest for a flatter stomach or tighter tummy.

Here’s why. You can’t burn fat from a specific body part by exercising it. This is called the ‘spot reduction myth’. Doing triceps exercises won’t get rid of fat from the arms, working on the glutes won’t burn fat from the bum, and sit-ups, crunches or any abdominal exercise for that matter, won’t burn fat from the belly50. Unfortunately, you can’t decide where you’re going to lose body fat from. If you’re in a calorie deficit and you’re following the tips in this book, your body will gradually shed its fat from most places where it’s stored. Some folks will see it go from the face more quickly; others will notice their waist coming in; others still will find it goes from their bum first. We’re all different and how our body fat is distributed, and where we lose it from first, varies significantly. From an exercise perspective, although there are no ‘fat-burning exercises’ per se, the ones that generally burn the most calories are compound exercises, which we discussed on page 64.

Although sit-ups don’t have much, if any, effect on your abdominal fat, they do have some merit in that they will help to strengthen your core and improve muscular endurance. However, there are better core exercises that you could be doing instead. Leg raises and rollouts are both very challenging. If you struggle to do a rollout with an abs wheel, you can start off by doing it on an exercise ball. It’s a good idea to include some isometric exercises too. Isometric exercises are done in ‘static positions’, rather than being dynamic (when you do a lot of movement). Isometric abdominal exercises would be exercises like the plank, side plank and bird dogs. 56

To see video demonstrations for the abs exercises mentioned, head to www.weightlossbook.com/resources

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STAND MORE TO BURN MORE This is probably one of my favourite fat-burning ‘hacks’ if you work in an office. It’s extremely easy to do and folks generally have no idea how effective it can be.

On average, someone who is around 80kg will burn 134 calories sitting compared with 206 calories while standing.

» Start off slowly.

Stand for the first 20 minutes when you get to the office, add standing blocks into your diary, stand for 10 minutes every half hour, stand after every cup of coffee you have, etc. Create a routine and work on it. Make sure you adjust your screen and that your mouse and keyboard are positioned so they’re comfortable to use.

» Another tip I love…

That’s almost a 55% increase!72 Other studies have shown that prolonged sitting may increase colon and breast cancer risk73, and standing can improve cardio metabolic health74.

It’s so easy to reap the benefits. All you have to do is schedule some standing time into your day. This shouldn’t be to do given that we office workers spend an average of 6 hours sitting behind our screens ! If you’ve got a height-adjustable desk, you’re off to a flyer already. If you don’t, you can buy adjustable work stations that sit on your desk and you can raise or lower them so you can stand and work at the same time.

Try to get your office to embrace huddle meetings if your meeting is due to be less than 15 minutes. Everyone stands. You get the benefits of standing and they’re more efficient, too, as folks don’t waste time with small talk and waffling as they want to get back to their chairs. Also, if you’ve got a one-to-one meeting with someone and you don’t need computers or papers, ask them if you could chat while you walk and head outside.

If you’re going to give this one a go, don’t try and stand for the entire day at work – you’ll get sore and you’ll pack in this habit quicker than you can say, ‘This is a crock of sit’.

TAKE HOME:

Standing is a simple, sweat-free and easy way to increase your calorie expenditure, improve your posture and increase your longevity.

TAKE-HOME HABIT Standing is a simple, sweat-free and easy way to increase your calorie expenditure, improve your posture and increase your longevity.

An Edited Life Simple Steps to Streamlining your Life, at Work and at Home Anna Newton Declutter every aspect of your life – from your wardrobe, exercise schedule and food budget to your phone, bookshelves and beauty regime – with this realistic guide to getting neat and keeping things that way. Anna Newton is just another 20-something, trying to balance work, her friends, her husband Mark, a growing handbag habit and a penchant for reformer Pilates. Over the last 5 years, she’s become a massive YouTube star, with over 450,000 subscribers, who tune in for her weekly videos on everything from house renovations to the best summer foundation. Anna is a typical Virgo – she loves being organised. Like, really loves it.

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An Edited Life outlines her strategy for staying on top of every aspect of her world; from work schedules to making time for friends, meal prepping to making sure she stays in the black at the end of the month, the perfect capsule wardrobe to the importance of a Sunday night at-home spa. It isn’t about chucking the contents of your sock drawer out, or about abandoning that Friday night pizza habit: it’s just a question of editing it down so it works for you.

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get planning Can you believe there was a time in our lives that we didn’t have calendars? I KNOW. Of course there were the Dear Dairy electronic planners and Forever Friends notebooks of the ’90’s, but the chances are that there was a period in your life where you didn’t have a written schedule and even if you did, you weren’t a slave to it. Now I’m not a fan of the latter, but I definitely am of the former. Having a schedule to follow, albeit paper or digital, allows us to be in control of our own time sheets, chisel out some free hours and in theory - never miss a meeting, appointment or birthday again, because we all know how shit that feels.

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Paper vs. Digital If your diary resembles a piece of children’s artwork then it’s probably time to face up to the fact that it’s worth starting from scratch. But what do you choose? Paper or digital? Back in the day I was all about a diary that I could hold in my hand. I felt like a proper adult and although Tippex became my new best friend, it was quite handy to be able to turn down on-the-spot invites that I couldn’t think of an excuse quick enough for off the top of my head because ‘I didn’t have my diary with me’. I’m a terrible person. However three years ago I moved to iCal, the standard calendar app that comes with all Apple devices. It was a move that I resisted for a long time (much to the annoyance of my colleagues), but was one that once I completed meant that I was easily able to share my plans with my managers, parents and husband. I tossed the Tippex in the bin and have been able to schedule, reschedule and remove appointments ever since. For ease of use, flexibility and the fact that I can simply look at how the rest of my month is panning out in one click, it’s now my preferred method. But whatever your chosen medium, I have some recommendations up my sleeve for you.

With this in mind I’ve put scheduling as the first chapter in this book. Why don’t you sit down and open up your current calendar? Are you feeling on top of it? GO YOU - feel free to breeze through this section and move onto the next. However if yours is just a mishmash of dates, times and scribbles that you’re struggling to decipher because you scrawled them in after one too many wines, then you’ve come to the right place.

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OHH DEER If you fancy something quirky that’s going to to look inviting on your desk, then look no further. No one does weird and wonderful stationery quite like them. If they could turn some of their patterns into wallpaper then that would be fab. THANKS. KIKKI K There is a section on their website solely for ‘organising’. Need I say anymore? Their selection is simple and minimal and the page layouts well thought out for various ways of scheduling. Top marks all round.

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CALENDAR APP RECOMMENDATIONS OUTLOOK, APPLE CALENDAR, GOOGLE CALENDAR The most frequently used calendar apps that are all pretty similar and are offered up as standard depending on whether you’re an Apple or Microsoft user, and what service provider you use for email. BUSYCAL (FOR MAC USERS) A fully-customisable interface where you can also keep on top of to-do lists, set reminders, set alarms and add journal entries or sticky notes. A great option for those who want a one-stop productivity shop. BLOTTER (FOR MAC USERS) This isn’t the most multi-tasking of the calendar apps, but it’s certainly one of the prettiest as it creates a calendar view that blends in with your desktop. A good one for people who always forget to check their schedule. FANTASTICAL (FOR MAC USERS) There’s a general consensus that this is the app for scheduling. It’s pricey, but it features everything you need to keep on top of life; from reminders to checklists. One for true organisation freaks with attention to detail. 15

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Your calendar checklist Once you’ve pinned down your scheduling medium, get to work filling it out. Begin by adding in longer tasks like holidays, conferences or school breaks and work your way down to the smaller agenda items like reoccurring meetings, appointments and workout classes. Here are a few more tips to make your schedule do the hard work for you, so you don’t have to:

Add in Birthdays and pop in a reminder a week before to send a card and gift if they’re lucky. If you’re using a digital calendar make sure it’s set to reoccurring. I also add notes of things I’ve heard that person say that they’d love, which is why my mate Matt is getting a pasta maker this year.

Work-wise, add in your deadlines - even if they’re miles away - with a monthly countdown reminder if you feel that will put a rocket up your arse.

Write in the locations for meetings to save yourself desperately trying to find the original email as you elbow your way onto the bus. If you’re going digital make sure you send an invite to all attendees and add in notes or links that might come in handy during the meeting.

This tip only works if you’re doing the digital route, but if you’re not already - operate two calendars. Keep one for personal appointments - like workouts, dentist/doctor appointments and evening and weekend plans. Then have a work one for all your meetings, deadlines, project go-live dates and whatever else you need to keep tabs on. You can then always share your personal calendar with whoever you fancy and your work calendar with colleagues, without your boss seeing that you’ve got a gynaecologist appointment tomorrow lunchtime.

If you’re sticking with paper then whip out those highlighters and colour-code so it’s easy to differentiate

your personal tasks from your work ones, and your birthdays from your Body Pump classes.

There’s no point having a calendar if you don’t look at it at least once a day. Keep the tab open on your desktop, the app easy to find on your phone, or your paper version in your handbag or out on your desk at all times. If you keep forgetting it’s there then retire it and try another method until you find the one that works best for you.

We can be unrealistically optimistic when it comes to time, so make you sure have enough minutes between meetings to evaluate, catch-up on missed tasks and head to the next. Meetings overrun, traffic is a royal pain in the arse - so always overestimate your timings and revel in your earliness at your next appointment. LOOK AT YOU!

Unfortunately diaries don’t plan themselves, so try and get into a routine where you can plant yourself down for 20 minutes to plan, re-jig and set out tasks for the week ahead. I find that a Friday evening or sometime on a Sunday work best for me. I know, a Friday evening? Such a party animal me.

A word on Bullet Journals They’re trendy old things these Bullet Journals. If you’re already a seasoned pro at this whole organisation malarkey then the chances are that you’ve already heard of them and have probably BJ-ed your way through multiple notebooks already. However, if you’re new to the game, let me explain. At its core a Bullet Journal is a to-do list, planner and diary all in one, that primarily uses bullet point lists throughout to organise, hence the name. If you’re someone who likes the idea of a planner, finds stationery shops oddly arousing and have a sea of to-do lists floating around on post-it notes, then this might be a solution for you. All you need is an empty notebook, a pen and you’re good to go.

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There are whole books dedicated to the method created by Ryder Carroll, but I’ve read them for you and already prepped the crib notes, so I’ll try and make it snappy. The first step is to number your pages like you would a book. You then create an index at the front of your notebook and fill in the title of each page as you go and you’ve got yourself a contents. The next couple of pages are your ‘Future Log’. Add the months of the year as headings and write down any major events or tasks that you have on throughout the year. Your ‘Monthly Logs’ go after this and tend to be spread across two pages with a traditional month-long calendar on one side and a major task to-do list on the other. Finally you have your ‘Daily Log’, which contains your schedule for the day ahead and a list of what you need to get done. When it comes to these lists the idea is that you can create your own key, or use the BJ version to easily see where you’re currently at with tasks. If you fancy doing things the official way, a to-do list item is symbolised with a bullet that you then cross through when you mark it as complete. The less than symbol (>) can be drawn over the bullet if it still needs to be completed but you’ve yet to set a date for it. The more than symbol (<) is again drawn over if you’ve yet to complete the task but you have moved it to another day. Dashes can be used for notes and a big open circle (o) for events like birthdays or social occasions.

design your own key, ditch the future log if that’s something that you don’t think will be useful, screw the page numbers, whatever! The one advantage of using it though, is that once you break out of the rules a little you can set up pages to track whatever the hell you like; from how many yoga classes you’ve been to that week, to what items you think you’re lacking in your wardrobe. After all, it’s just you and a blank notebook, so organise it however the hell you like. Personally I use a mix of both iCal and Bullet Journalling to schedule my life and work. I tend to keep all date-specific items on my digital calendar and so they are easy to move around and see in a glance, and then plan most of my work-related projects and content in my Bullet Journal, as I’m a sucker for an old school tick, sorry - cross, once a task is complete. After years of fumbling around with different methods, half-completed diaries and missed birthdays, I’ve found it’s what works best for me and keeps me at my most efficient, non-birthday missing self.

to-do list item completed to-do list item not completed, unscheduled not completed, but scheduled notes events

It’s a lot to take in, right? It’s a marmite idea and whilst it works brilliantly for some people, it’s a complete failure for others and interest wains after approximately three days. My advice for those wanting to go down the Bullet Journal route is to be completely flexible with it;

The Pocket Coach Series From the best-selling author ofThe Mindfulness Companion andThe Can't Sleep Colouring Journal comes your cool pocket companions and one-stop guides to calmness, confidence, sleep and kindness! Publication

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INTRODUCTION EXPERIENCING CALM

‘The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.’ Marcel Proust

Calm. What does this word mean to you? Notice what comes to your mind Feeling calm is commonly understood to involve the experience of becoming tranquil; the presence of peaceful feelings; the absence of challenging emotions – or not reacting to them. It’s a pleasant, natural state of being that’s evoked by our perception of internal and external experiences and shaped by our thoughts, emotions, body (physiology) and behaviours. Experiencing calm is associated with feelings of peace, serenity – and freedom from agitation or disturbance. When we feel calm we’re not lost in anxious thoughts about the future, stuck dwelling on the past, or

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striving for more in the here-and-now. Feeling calm involves being fully alive to the present moment, with a non-reactive, non-judgemental and compassionate attitude. It gives the mind and body a much-needed break from the pressures of daily life in our modern world. Feeling calm is associated with our parasympathetic nervous system: part of our body’s autonomic nervous system which regulates automatic/ unconscious bodily functions The (calming) parasympathetic nervous system enables us to rest, digest food, recuperate, relax and soothe our stress reactions. It positively influences our thoughts, increases pleasant emotions and facilitates loving feelings. Substantial, reliable research highlights that frequent feelings of calm and physical relaxation are associated with psychological well-being and improved physical health. It’s easy to see why the experience of calm is widely considered to be so pleasant and desirable.

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UNDERSTANDING STRESS Stress. It’s the antithesis of calm. What comes to mind when you think about experiencing stress? Like calm, stress is a normal, natural experience. It’s a state of psychological and physical strain evoked by our perception of demanding or adverse circumstances. Our experience of stress is shaped by our thoughts, emotions, physiology and behaviours. Stressors (triggers for stress) can include things like: adjusting to new situations, chronic illness, the emotional, social, financial and physical pressures of everyday life; our attitudes, expectations and beliefs about ourselves, others and the world and our more challenging emotions. If we do not have the resources to cope with these demands – or we believe that we cannot cope with them –then we will feel stressed. Factors that can help or hinder our ability to cope with stress include our:

INCREASING our WILLINGNESS

‘What you seek is seeking you.’ RUMI

Now that we’ve gained insight into some of the key experiences that block us from building and enjoying genuine confidence, we want to turn the focus of our attention to what we can do to help ourselves and our situation. If we can make the risks associated with trying feel less frightening – by imbuing ourselves with helpful skills, new knowledge and experiences – then we will feel a little more willing to take steps outside of our comfort zone. Trying anything even slightly unfamiliar and challenging will still feel daunting, and it will probably evoke stress, but you can support yourself to feel more able – and prepared – to 63

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cope well with your experiences. This will help you to build genuine confidence.

from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. It’s a way of being and living that helps us to:

• know who we are THE CONCEPT OF VALUE-BASED LIVING

• come to like who we are • feel motivated to act upon the things that

Many of us know what it’s like to move through life on autopilot, aiming for arbitrary goals that we think we should achieve. Once we complete the goal of getting that qualification, that job, that house, that car, etc., we move on to the next thing. Goal after goal, these achievements can leave us feeling empty – without any real sense of personal fulfillment – if they’re not underpinned by our values (ongoing principles that really matter to us). If we’re not being authentic and honest with ourselves, it can really hinder our ability to build genuine confidence. This is where focusing on our values is useful.

Authentic, value-based living facilitates genuine self-worth and feelings of fulfillment. It positively impacts how we choose to spend our time, nurtures our self-esteem, encourages personal autonomy, and it develops self-efficacy – all of which help us to become more confident. Here’s a useful exercise for value-based living.

‘Value-based living’, also known as value-based action, is a transformative concept that comes

Take a look at the following values and select some that matter most to you – at the moment

really matter to us

• focus on the things that we can control • develop genuine confidence.

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â&#x20AC;&#x201C; within the context of your life now. Then shine the spotlight of your attention on these values for the next seven days: Friendship

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Acceptance Activity Freedom

Reliability Respect

Reciprocity Adaptability

Forgiveness Fun

Patience Personal growth

Control Beauty

Self Respect Adventure

Friendliness Authenticity Bravery

Assertiveness Community Connection

RESPONDING to SLEEPLESSNESS BEFORE SLEEP ‘The beginning is always today.’ mary wollstoncraft

In order to prepare for good quality sleep, we need to think about facilitating the conditions that will best enable this; much like selecting the most suitable compost for a particular variety of plant to thrive. This notion is commonly referred to in the literature as ‘sleep hygiene’. In essence, it means changing or controlling different aspects of your environment that might interfere with your sleep, and developing helpful habits that will enable you to sleep better naturally.

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Lifestyle factors What we consume affects how we sleep. Caffeine (found in energy drinks, some fizzy drinks, coffee, teas, chocolate and some painkillers) is a stimulant that can keep you awake at night. It activates neurobiological bodily systems that stimulate wakefulness and interfere with the body’s natural ability to fall asleep. For instance, caffeine suppresses the effects of adenosine (the chemical I mentioned earlier, which builds up in the blood and makes us feel sleepy). Excessive caffeine can cause unpleasant effects such as restlessness and poor sleep. This doesn’t mean that you have to cut out caffeine completely (if you don’t want to). However, it’s generally recommended to have no more than two to three caffeinated drinks in total per day, and not to drink any approximately six hours before bedtime. A turmeric latte or herbal tea makes a great alternative if you fancy a warm drink later on in the day or in the evening. Nicotine is another stimulant, found in tobacco products like cigarettes, which can negatively 46

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affect the quality of our sleep. Whilst it can be tempting (if you’re a smoker) to reach for a cigarette when you can’t sleep in the hope that it will calm you, it’s important to know that doing so will wake up your body. Nicotine consumption has been linked to disrupted circadian rhythms, fragmented and restless sleep, and sleep being less effective. Try to stop using all tobacco products approximately two hours before you sleep, and avoid smoking if you can’t sleep at night. If you do decide that you want to cut out caffeine and nicotine altogether, then do so very, very gradually. Severe withdrawal from these substances can trigger unpleasant symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, headaches, intense cravings and increased appetite. It’s generally recommended to address insomnia first, restore good sleep – and then tackle these addictions. Alcohol can also negatively affect the quality and quantity of our sleep. Research shows that alcohol, if it’s drunk to excess before you go to bed,

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increases adenosine, which makes you feel tired and fall asleep faster. However, it also increases sleep disturbances in the second half of the night; your adenosine levels lower and contribute to you waking up before you’re ready, it can negatively affect your circadian rhythms, disturb REM sleep, cause abnormal dreams and make you get up for the toilet more, too. Many people enjoy a glass of wine or beer with their evening meal. However, if you find yourself drinking more than this on a regular basis in the evening time, then you may want to consider cutting down – both for your sleep, and for your health. When you do drink, try to make your last glass at least four hours before you would like to go to bed. Do you use these substances (e.g. alcohol or cigarettes)in the evenings before bed? If you do, perhaps you use them to help you relax and feel calmer, combat racing thoughts and promote sleep. Try to understand your intention(s) underpinning your use of these substances, and establish what needs you’re trying to meet with 48

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your behaviours. Then you can go about replacing some or all of the behaviours with activities that meet the same needs but which benefit you more. For example, you might choose to replace alcohol with meditation practice to promote sleep and meet your need for stress management. Foods that are high in sugar and those that are difficult to digest can disturb sleep. Eating a big meal before bed is also not recommended. Try to eat lighter meals in the evening, and finish your dinner several hours before bed. If you get hungry later on, choose food that won’t disturb your sleep (such as a bowl of cereal with milk). Experts recommend that you consider your fluid intake before bed, too. Avoid drinks that are diuretics (that is, drinks which make you need the loo more than usual). Try to drink enough water, so that you’re hydrated – but not too much that it disturbs you. Listen to your body to find the balance that’s right for you.

REF LECTING with COMPASSION ‘Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.’ lao tzu

What do you do in your daily life that reflects kindness towards others? How do you feel about other people, and how do you think about them? Take a few moments now to reflect upon these questions, and note down your answers. Self-reflection is a powerful tool. It facilitates selfinsight, helps us to understand why we are the way we are, supports us to notice the impact that we have/can have on others, and enables positive change. Self-reflection allows us to notice what we like and dislike so that we can be the kind of person that we want to be. After this period of self-observation, you may realise that you are living in line with your value of kindness – that you try to be considerate, nurturing, warm-

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hearted and caring towards yourself and others, as best you can. Perhaps you notice that kindness is something that you deeply value, but it is not really reflected in your way of being towards yourself and others at the moment. Whatever you have noticed, pause now and praise yourself for recognizing it and enhancing your self-awareness. If you have realized that you are not currently being as kind as you would like to be, then take this moment and begin now. See if you can accept yourself, just as you are, and offer yourself your care and compassion. Acceptance does not mean liking or passive submission. You are simply acknowledging a facet of your reality in this moment. All of us can pick up and develop behavioural habits and ways of thinking that do not fit with our own values. Acknowledge your journey so far and recognize who you want to be: kindness matters to you. You are demonstrating your commitment to learning more about your value of kindness right now, with each word that you read.

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SELF-TALK Tune into your self-talk over the next week and notice how you speak to yourself within the privacy of your own mind. Do you praise yourself for the things you do well? Do you encourage yourself and offer compassion? How often do you chastise or unhelpfully criticize yourself? What do you notice about your self-talk? Self-talk reflects the relationship that we have formed with ourselves, influenced by the experiences that we have had with others. However, it is not static and it can change. Once you have a sense of your self-talk, you can decide how you want to respond to it. If you recognize that you would like to be a little kinder to yourself, then here are some options for you: Respond with compassion See if you can introduce greater compassion in response to unconstructive self-talk. For example, if you notice that your self-talk is unkind and punitive when you make a mistake, offer yourself acceptance and compassion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; e.g., own your mistake, remind 25

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yourself that you are human, consider what you have learned and think about what you could do differently next time. Notice and name your self-critical voice Notice your self-critical voice and name it when it occurs (e.g., “ah! There’s my self-critical voice again”). By naming the voice, you can step outside of it and diffuse from it a little. This can help to lessen its impact upon you because you are not caught up in the content of your thoughts - you are describing them with some distance. After you have responded to your self-critical voice in this way, you can return your attention back to the present moment if you like. Refocus on what matters to you right now, and engage in whatever you are doing mindfully. Does your self-talk help you? Tune into your self-talk and focus on whether or not it is helpful. For instance, you are at work struggling with a task and you notice your mind saying: e.g., “I can’t do this!” You may begin to feel down, stuck and helpless. Does this self-talk help you? See if you can notice unconstructive self-talk, acknowledge your feelings and then ask yourself – ‘What can I do to help myself or this situation?’ 26

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LOVING-KINDNESS PRACTICE Take this time for yourself, and sit comfortably in a quiet space; embody a sense of dignity and wakefulness as you sit. Once you are familiar with this process, you can allow your eyes to gently close. First, bring your awareness to yourself. With a sense of warmth and genuine care, see if you can truly wish yourself well. Place your hand on your chest, and breathe with these words: May I be safe, and as healthy as I can be. May I be accepting, and care for myself with kindness. May I experience happiness, and peace. Follow the flow of your breath as you breathe gently, in and out… Now, bring to mind someone that you have a good relationship with – someone whom you care for deeply. Close your eyes, and offer your gratitude for their being. Feel the 27

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warmth of your connection with them, and wish them well: May you be safe, and as healthy as you can be. May you be accepting, and care for yourself with kindness. May you experience happiness, and peace. Connect with your breath as you breathe with loving-kindness… When you are ready, think of someone that you do not know well - someone you feel neutral about, whom you see in your local community. Hold them in your heart and mind, and repeat: ‘may you be safe… etc.’ Let kindness fill you as you inhale and exhale gently…

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and sadness, disgust and anger, surprise and happiness - just like you have. They too have faced losses, uncertainty and challenges in life, just like you have. May they feel cared for too: May they be safe, and as healthy as they can be. May they be accepting, and care for themselves with kindness. May they experience happiness, and peace. Place your hand on your chest if you wish, and return to your breath once more… Empowered with loving-kindness, now see if you can extend this wish to all living beings on the planet – plants, animals and insects, strangers, family and friends, and you:

Now, if you feel able to do so, think of someone whom you find difficult. Perhaps this person hurt you. Offer them a seat with you in your mind, and make room for your feelings too. See if you can wish them well, as best you can, for they too have felt fear

Meditate with this intention for as long as you wish.

May we be safe, and as healthy as we can be. May we be accepting, and care for ourselves with kindness. May we experience happiness, and peace.

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Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Quest Mode (Book 5) An Unofficial Minecraft Adventure Cube Kid Minecraft meets Diary of a Wimpy Kid in book 5 of the very popular 8-Bit Warrior series of the journal of a young Minecraft villager who dares to dream of becoming a Minecraft warrior! In the fifth in this series of five unofficial Minecraft adventure books, everyone's favourite 12-year-old villager-turned-warrior is back this time to use his warrior training on a new quest. There’s no time to enjoy his newfound stardom. To save Villagetown, Runt embarks on a perilous quest far beyond the safety of the wall. Between bizarre towns, terrifying dungeons, and epic boss battles, Runt must summon the hero within and say “so long” to the noob!

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Cube Kid is the pen name of Eric Gunnar Taylor, a 33-year-old author who lives in Alaska. A fan of video games – and particularly Minecraft – he started writing fanfiction at a very young age. His first novel, The Diary of a Minecraft Villager, was self-published as an ebook in February 2015 and quickly became tremendously successful in the Minecraft community. The novel was acquired by the French publisher Édi8, and was published for the first time in France in February 2016 under the title Le Journal D'Un Noob , with new illustrations by Saboten. The Diary of a Minecraft Villager sparked worldwide interest. When he is not writing, Cube Kid loves travelling, fixing his car, voraciously reading fanfiction . . . and gaming!

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FRIDAY UPDATE IIIâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;AFTERNOON I stood next to Breeze in a small quartz room. A sea lantern illuminated the room with a pale blue glow. Against the center of one wall stood a

mysterious object. It was three yards tall, three yards wide, and flat, like a banner. But instead of dyed wool, it was a surface like the calmest pool of water. Breeze reached out with her right hand and grazed her

reflection. She lowered her hand, and we continued staring at ourselves in silence. In awe. It was the first time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen ourselves this way.

On top of that were our outfits.

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Our clothes were sewn of spider silk. Puddles, the owner of the Clothing Castle, had worked with the humans for days to craft perfect

re-creations of Earth fashion. Then, to make us look even more majestic, our cloaks had been modified to fall over our shoulders.

Poster children. Symbols of hope. Villagetown’s biggest stars.

That’s what we’ve become. Some would say it’s sweet: a budding romance between two young heroes fighting valiantly against all odds. I’d say that’s

exaggeration. Although Breeze and I are close, we haven’t had much time for anything besides battle or preparations for the next. I guess the mayor wants to change that, though. He wants the people to have

something to believe

in. I suppose that’s why he whisked us away

in the middle of the dance.

hold

And when we return, we’re to smile, hands, and raise them before a cheering crowd.

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“You look so different from when we first met,” I said. “I suppose.” Breeze stared

vacantly ahead. “I wish we could have

danced more.” “Me too.” I adjusted the collar of my shirt. We heard a click, and the door opened. In the reflection, I saw the mayor step in. As he studied us, particularly our outfits, the faintest trace of a smile appeared beneath his mustache. “I apologize for taking you away like this,” he said, gliding in. “I just

wanted to make sure that you two are . . . looking your very

best for

the award ceremony.” “It’s fine,” Breeze said, still fixed on her reflection. The mayor slid between us and ran his gnarled fingers along the edge of the object’s smooth iron frame. “So, what do you think? Do

you like it?”

Breeze nodded. “It’s . . . amazing. What is it called?” “This is known as a mirror. This one is thousands of years old, crafted during the start of the Second Great War. As I understand, it came from an ancient temple. The

Tabernacle of Gloomfell Cove.

That’s near the sea, beyond a vast mountain range to the northwest, far, far from here.” “I suppose it’d be impossible to

craft such an object

ourselves,” I said. “How did it wind up here, anyway?” 3

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“Our records say a trader brought it here. Traders used to be quite

common, back when it was still safe to

travel. I was just a boy then.

So many voyagers and vagabonds constantly visited our village. It seems like yesterday. . . .”

I nodded, vaguely recalling reading something about that in school. Only recently had our village learned of the

Eyeless One’s return, yet

our scholars believe he’s been gathering his strength and amassing his armies for a long time. The coming war is, perhaps, something he’s been planning for at least fifty years. Before that, monster attacks were far from common. You could have traveled the Overworld for weeks without encountering one. And now . . . After staring off into nothingness for a moment, the mayor raised his head and smiled again. Was that a tear in the corner of his eye? “You

two look so

wonderful,” he finally said. “Yes, you’re

exactly what our village needs right now.” Another pause. “I . . . hope you can understand why I’m asking all this of you.” I looked his reflection in the eye.

“ Of

course, sir.”

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The Nectar of Pain Najwa Zebian

From Najwa Zebian – celebrated Lebanese-Canadian poet, speaker, and educator – comes a highly personal and moving second collection. In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a painful heartbreak. She writes that the process of cleansing oneself of that pain – day by day, hour by hour, and second by second – is the real work of healing. With uncommon warmth and wisdom, Zebian empowers all who have lost to let go of anger and transform their suffering into the softness, sweetness, and beauty of nectar. She holds her readers by the hand as they heal.

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Najwa Zebian is a Lebanese-Canadian author, speaker, and educator. Her passion for language was evident from a young age, as she delved into Arabic poetry and novels. The search for a home – what Najwa describes as a place where the soul and heart feel at peace – was central to her early years. When she arrived in Canada at the age of sixteen, she felt unstable and adrift in an unfamiliar place. Nevertheless, she completed her education, and went on to become a teacher as well as a doctoral candidate in educational leadership. Her first students, a group of young refugees, led her back to her original passion: writing. She began to heal her sixteen-year-old self by writing to heal her students. Since self-publishing her first collection of poetry and prose in 2016, Najwa has become an inspiration to millions of people worldwide. Drawing on her own experiences of displacement, discrimination, and abuse, Najwa uses her words to encourage others to build a home within themselves; to live, love, and create fearlessly.

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In just over one year, Najwa has built an online following of over 550,000. She now has over 700,000 followers on Instagram. While a majority of her followers are in the United States, she has large fan bases in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the UK, Australia and throughout the Middle East. Najwa has been featured in the Huffington Post’s “Millennials Paving the Way” series, on Thought Catalog, and elsewhere. Her TEDx talk, “Finding Home Through Poetry” has over 80,000 views on YouTube. The major themes of Najwa’s work – searching for belonging; finding one’s voice; life as an immigrant; life as a Muslim woman – are relevant to many people around the world, and particularly so at this political moment.

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After the end Moving on may take stages, yes. But humans do not heal in clear-cut steps, no. One moment, you may feel completely healed, and the next moment, the scent of a breeze that reminds you of them breathes the pain so freshly back into your flesh and rips your heart into pieces once again. You forgive them one day, and the next day your self-worth screams into every vein of yours, paralyzing you, begging you to be angry with them. Some spend a lifetime healing, and some spend a lifetime wanting to heal.

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Self-forgiveness You told me that you were broken and that you wanted to heal. I did not know that your soul was glass. I did not know that your heart was dark. You aimed the broken pieces of your soul at my heart like arrows. I broke my soul trying to mend yours. My fingertips bled as I weaved your soul back together. And my eyes dried up from the tears of my pain. I always believed that pain cleanses your soul as rain cleanses the earth. So I let my heart storm through my eyes. And once your soul came back together, you told me that I was broken. You told me that you were not a doctor and that your words were just words. You told me to move out of your way, because who would want a wounded soul like mine? And now I turn to my heart. I turn to myself to say: My dear heart, forgive me. Forgive me for breaking you as I healed others. Forgive me for making you beat to the happiness of others. Forgive me for not listening to you. I promise you from todayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; I promise you from this momentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; to put you first. And put me first. Now I realize the power of forgiving myself.

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To a narcissist who moved on I hope she knows better and gets out of your venomous throat before you poison her soul like you poisoned mine. I hope she has the strength to deal with you leaving after you strip the life out of her body, the color out of her eyes, and the love out of her heart. I hope she does not define her self-worth through your eyes that see women as objects to satisfy the lust of your hollow soul. It irritates me to write such strong and heartless words, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen pain that led a fire to ignite in my veins.

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Pickle Juice A revolutionary approach to making better tasting cocktails and drinks Florence Cherruault 50 inventive ideas for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, including Vinegars & Shrubs, Kimchi, Bloody Marys, Chasers and More. Pickles and fermented foods have been considered a health food for centuries. Not only do they help improve digestion but they also strengthen the immune system, promote growth of healthy bacteria in the gut and curb those pesky sugar cravings. And of all fermented foods, drinks are some of the most versatile and tasty! In Pickle Juice, Florence Cherruault showcases over 50 stunning and innovative cocktails and health drinks for you to try at home and enjoy all year long. Start with the basics and master the art of making the perfect shrubs and pickle juices then learn how to incorporate these into your very own delicious elixir. Take the lip-smacking Pickled Bloody Mary, the best cure for any hangover, or the crowd-pleasing Dirty Pickled Martini, a refreshing (and healthier) twist on the classic favourite. With a whole section dedicated to non-alcoholic drinks, such as detoxing juices and shrub sodas, you'll also find fun ideas for chasers, bloody Marys, drinking vinegars as well as other inventive ways you can serve-up your homemade tipples.

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Florence Cherruault established The Pickle House in Hackney, London, in 2014. Having been introduced to the idea of drinking pickle juice in New York, she wanted to create pickle juice recipes that were specifically made for cocktails and smoothies (rather than just using the brine left over from a jar of pickles).

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It’s the sugar in drinks that’s (partially) to blame for a nasty hangover, so people are turning to pickle and brine-based cocktails where the salt and water naturally combat the dehydrating effect of alcohol. Shrubs (fruity, infused vinegars, often cooked down into a syrup) are the latest trending ingredient to add to cocktails. Drinking vinegars and pickle juice have a range of benefits, including helping with hangovers, soothing muscle cramps, aiding digestion and gut health, helping with weight loss and regulating blood sugar levels.

Cocktails & Chasers

Introduction page.8 Pickles & Shrubs page.13 Pickling & Fermenting page.14 Storing Your Pickles & Shrubs page.14 Health Benefits page.15 Tools, Equipment & Glassware page.18 Techniques page.23 Sugars & Vinegars page.24 Store-cupboard Ingredients page.26 Spices page.28

Bloody Marys Pickle House Spice Mix page.70 Original Bloody Mary page.72 Fiery Ginger Mary page.73 Pickle House Snapper by Hawksmoor page.74 Michelada page.75 Verde Maria page.76 Kimchi Bloody Mary page.78 Very Dirty Mary by Dirty Bones page.81 Quick Grilled Cheese Toastie page.82 Summer Bloody Mary page.86 Deep Red page.86

Pickle juice & Shrubs Pickle Juice page.34 Spicy Dill Pickle page.35 Kimchi page.38 Vegan Worcestershire Sauce page.40 Pickled Tomato Vodka page.42 Carrot Pickle Juice page.44 Sweet Vietnamese Vinegar page.45 —

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The Traditional Shrub Method page.47 Cucumber Shrub page.48 Strawberry & Balsamic Shrub page.49 Quick Shrub Method page.50 Beetroot & Apple Shrub page.52 Watermelon Shrub page.53 Heated Shrub Method page.56 Raspberry Shrub page.57 Oleo-saccharum page.58 Lemon Shrub page.61 Cinnamon & Apple Shrub page.61 Other Shrub Flavours I Like page.62

Pickle House G & T page.93 Tro-Pickle Fizz page.94 Pickled Rhuby Daiquiri page.97 Cucumber & Ginger Shrub page.98 Frozen Strawberry Shrub Daiquiri page.100 In a Pickle page.101 La Soirée by Ping Pong page.102 Pickle Vesper page.104 Dirty Pickle Martini page.105 Le Boulevesant by Sketch page.107 Pickle Sour page.108 Watermelon Shrub Sour page.109 Raspberry Shrub Sour page.110 Mango Shrub Margarita page.112 Summer Berry Shrub Sharer page.114 Bramble page.118 Little Pickle page.119 Cucumber Shrub Martini page.122 Apple Shrub Soda page.122 Watermelon Mojito page.123 —

Holy Maria page.127 Hot Smoked Chilliback page.127 Pickleback page.127 What a Melon page.128 So You Soju page.128 Sweet & Sour Pickleback page.128

Non-alcoholic Cocktails Beetroot & Apple Shrub Soda page.136 Spinach, Cucumber & Mint Shrub Soda page.136 Carrot & Ginger Shrub Soda page.138 Ginger & Demerara Paloma page.139 Strawberry Crush page.141 Seedlip Garden with a Cucumber & Elderflower Shrub Tonic page.143 Apple and Cinnamon Shrub Toddy page.144 Kimchi Spiced Beet page.147

Recommended Booze List page.148 About the Author page.152 Thank You page.154 Index page.156

Pickles &

Pickling and shrub-making are similar in that both methods were used to preserve surplus fruit and vegetables prior to the invention of refrigerators. Pickling has been around for a long time and has been said to date way back to 2,400 BC, whereas shrubs are said to have originated in 17thcentury England.

in kombucha, it’s full of good bacteria along with acetic acid and natural protein, which is great for your health. Drinking vinegar, be it in pickle juice or a shrub, can help improve digestion, lower blood-sugar levels, support your immune system and, seriously, the list goes on! It’s also meant to be great for your skin and nails.

The main difference between the two is that pickles are usually savoury and tend to use vegetables pickled in a salty, vinegary brine. Shrubs are the sweeter version, using predominantly fruits (and some vegetables) macerated in sugar to create a sweet, vinegary syrup.

The pickle juice recipes in this book include apple cider vinegar and salt, packing them full of electrolytes ideal for rehydrating your body, whether you’re suffering from a hangover or post-workout cramps. Some of the recipes call for turmeric which, like apple cider vinegar, has a huge list of health and medicinal benefits thanks to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.

It was a couple of months after launching my Original Pickle Juice that I discovered all the health benefits. Apple cider vinegar with the ‘mother’ has been used for centuries as a natural health remedy to fight coughs and colds. The ‘mother’ looks like a cloudy substance that sits at the bottom of the bottle and, much like a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast)

Shrubs

Although I first discovered the idea of drinking pickle juice in the form of a Pickleback in New York in 2013, I know it’s been around a lot longer. Many have claimed they discovered the Pickleback, but, having spoken to a lot of Pickleback connoisseurs,

most seem to agree that it was a guy called Reggie Cunningham from the Bushwick Country Club in New York. That said, I remember taking a bottle of pickle juice to a friend’s house a few years ago and her mum was so excited. She began telling me how, growing up in Poland, they would have shots of vodka then eat pickles and sip on the leftover brine from the bowl. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when pickle juice and shrubs started being used in cocktails, but the idea of drinking vinegar to aid weight loss has been around for decades. It is believed to help suppress your appetite and make you feel fuller for longer. I can’t back that with any personal proof, but I can say that adding pickle juice and shrubs to cocktails is delicious. Each add a rich, umami flavour that is different to any other drink you’ll find on a menu; the vinegar adds a depth of flavour that works so well in both alcoholic and nonalcoholic cocktails.

Chickpea (garbanzos) Water Chickpea water, also known as aquafaba, is the viscous liquid that comes from soaking or cooking beans in water. It’s a great egg white substitute when making cocktails, as it creates the same silky foaminess while being vegan friendly. So next time you think about throwing away the water from a tin of chickpeas, think again and save it for your cocktails.

Fish Sauce, Tamarind Paste, Soy Sauce, Wasabi, Sriracha These are all great flavour additions to a Bloody Mary. I wouldn’t recommend putting them into a Bloody Mary all at once, but it’s definitely worth trying a combination of a few. Olive & Sesame Oil Adding olive oil to a traditional Bloody Mary adds a really nice depth of flavour and texture, making it deliciously smooth to drink. Also try adding sesame oil to the Kimchi Bloody Mary (see page 78) for a similar effect. Rice Flour The rice flour is needed for the Kimchi recipe (see page 38) to create the thick glutinous porridge. Sea Salt Flakes Thin, light sea salt crystals, perfect for seasoning the rims of your cocktail glasses.

Smoked Water or Smoked Vodka If you can get your hands on some smoked water or vodka, it makes for a delicious Bloody Mary. If not, Mezcal is also great for adding a hint of smokiness. Tabasco Tabasco is one of my all-time favourite hot sauces and can be used on absolutely anything. Having worked with their team in London, I later met Took, a fifthgeneration family member of the McIlhenny Tabasco family. He taught me the lengthy process of how Tabasco is made and kept in barrels for a year to create the chilli mash. I love the simplicity of the ingredients yet how great the flavour is with no added nasties. A great addition to a Bloody Mary (see Pickle House Spice mix, page 70), your pickles or a Mango Shrub Margarita (see page 112) for a little extra kick. Table Salt Fine sea salt that is great for pickling as it dissolves a lot faster than other salts. Worcestershire Sauce There’s the infamous Lea & Perrins, which is great, but there are also a few smaller craft ones that have come to market recently that are worth a try. Or, alternatively, make your own Vegan Worcestershire Sauce (see page 40).

Store-cupboard Ingredients

From left to right: Sweet Vinegar, Kimchi Juice, Vegan Worcestershire Sauce, Pickle Juice and Carrot Pickle Juice

From left to right: Kimchi, Spicy Dill Pickle and Pickle Juice

Death Wins a Goldfish Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical Brian Rea Even Death deserves a vacation. Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter from his HR department insisting that he use up his accrued vacation time, that is! In this humorous and quirky gift book from beloved illustrator Brian Rea, we follow the Grim Reaper on his mandatory yearlong sabbatical as he explores the world of the living for the very first time. From skydiving to online dating, Death is determined to do it all. And yet, as much as he enjoys taking long walks with his pet goldfish, drinking piña coladas at the pool, and singing karaoke with his new friends, he can't shake the feeling that something is missing . . .

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

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AU$27.99

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9781452172552

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Chronicle Books

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Chronicle Adult

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152 x 203 mm

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168pp

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Brian Rea lives in Los Angeles with his wife, his son, and his plants. He is an internationally exhibited artist and the official illustrator of the New York Times column Modern Love.

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Unrealism New Figurative Art

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Jeffrey Deitch

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Unrealism: New Figurative Art captures the exciting turn to figuration seen in the work of today's emerging artists. Figurative art traditionally does well in book form, and this monograph improves on the model: bright, accessibly designed, and anything but academic, this is figure painting for a broad art audience. The best new figurative painting of the last five years, represented here by an exciting young generation of artists and vital practitioners, reflects the startling return of the oldest art form to address the challenge of contemporary representation through expressionistic compositions and new techniques reflecting digital fluency. 01 January 2019

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AU$95.00

Jeffrey Deitch is a leading New York and Los Angeles-based art dealer and curator. Deitch's writings have appeared in several books, among them, the highly acclaimedBeautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture .

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9780847862429

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Rizzoli International

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Rizzoli

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267 x 229 mm

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272pp

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150 colour illustrations

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Jeffrey Deitch has opened a new LA gallery space, with his latest show set to open very soon. Includes Urs Fischer, John Currin, Karen Kilimnik, Elizabeth Peyton alongside emerging artists Emily Mae Smith, Alex Isreal, Jordan Wolfson, Jamian Juliano Villani, and many more. Figurative art is making a resurgence and is increasing in interest, exhibitions, and publications.

Wonders Spectacular Moments in Nature Photography California Academy of Sciences This collection of outstanding nature photography invites us to see the wonder of life on Earth with new eyes. This breathtaking collection of nature photography reveals rare creatures, transports us to distant landscapes, and captures fleeting moments of drama and beauty in the natural world. From a rare glimpse of the elusive Pampas cat to a heartpounding shot of the Wildebeest Migration, each of the 100- plus images tells a story about the diversity and grandeur of life on our planet. These photographs are all winners of the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition, founded in 2014 by the California Academy of Sciences to recognise photographers who use their artistic mastery to teach and inspire. With essays by leading lights in conservation and photography and captions explaining the natural phenomena and technology behind each shot, this book celebrates the beautiful intersection of art and science. Publication

01 August 2018

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$49.99

ISBN

9781452164564

Publisher

Chronicle Books

Imprint

Chronicle Adult

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Art/Fashio/Photography

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229 x 279 mm

Extent

144pp

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Full colour photography

Author Details The California Academy of Sciences is a renowned scientific and educational institution dedicated to exploring, explaining, and sustaining life on Earth. Based in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, it's the only place in the world to house an aquarium, a planetarium, and a natural history museum as well as innovative programs in scientific research and education-all under one living roof. Rhonda Rubinstein is the creative director of the California Academy of Sciences and cofounder of the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition. Dr. Sylvia A. Earle is a National Geographic Explorer in Residence, Ocean Elder, founder of Mission Blue, and founder of Deep Ocean Exploration and Research Inc. Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer best known for documenting newborn animals in the wild. Dr. Jonathan Foley is a world-leading environmental scientist and author and has worked on numerous issues including climate change, global land and water use, and sustainable agriculture.

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The book's rich content ranges from scientific facts to behind-the-scenes stories from the photographers. It combines serious scientific and photographic credibility with an accessible, dip-in-dip-out presentation of the fascinating and multilayered content. This book will captivate conservationists, animal lovers, science geeks, and amateur and professional photographers. The California Academy of Sciences brings scientific expertise and authority to this project, not only in the curation and captions, but also in essays about the mission of the museum and the BigPicture competition specifically. The other two essayists also add name recognition: Dr. Sylvia A. Earle is a celebrated scientist and conservation advocate, and Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer. And the photographers whose images are featured in the book include significant figures in their field. Every photograph in the collection is truly jaw-dropping-whether because it seems impossible to capture on camera, because it shows an astounding natural phenomenon, or because of its sheer beauty. The result is an addictively appealing book, with each page offering a new "wow" moment.

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Otherworldly. What a fresh way to look at a marine mammal! Beautifully composed, lovely light, the tension just before the bear breaks the surface— this is a fantastic moment. —kathy moran, senior editor for natural history at national geographic magazine and bigpicture competition judge

The Ice Bear Paul Souders Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Canada

This female polar bear peers from beneath a hole in the melting sea ice in Canada’s Hudson Bay. “I was sitting in a tiny boat . . . ,” Souders recounts. “The winter’s sea ice was melting almost before my eyes as a heat wave had arrived all across northern Canada. As the bear looked up at me through the ice, the image encapsulated the intelligence, mystery, and beauty of the polar bear, amid the many threats they face in a changing world.” 16

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The Boxer and Its Eggs Alex Varani Boxer crab (Lybia tessellata) Bunaken National Marine Park, Indonesia

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The boxer crab protects its eggs from a perch on a beautiful, green brain coral. The crab earned its name from its tendency to clutch sea anemones within its claws—threatening any encroaching predators with a painful sting.

Tra le Branchie (Between the Gills) Filippo Borghi Emperor shrimp (Periclimenes imperator) Red Sea, Marsa Alam, Egypt

Under the darkness of night, a Spanish dancer nudibranch—or sea slug—inches across the reef in search of a meal. Nestled between its gills, a tiny emperor shrimp has found refuge on this slow-moving mobile home. 29

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This stunning picture captures Darwin’s brilliant insight into how life evolves and survives— which is what the California Academy of Sciences is all about. To survive, the leopard seal needs to eat, but the penguin needs to escape. It’s an unceasing competition. The fastest and bestadapted creatures prevail and are able to pass on their genes, and so life evolves and adapts. Life never stands still. — d r. gregory c. farrington, former executive director of the california academy of sciences

The Luckiest Penguin Paul Souders Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) Cuverville Island, Antarctica

A leopard seal narrowly misses a leaping gentoo penguin along the rocky shore of the Antarctic Peninsula. Leopard seals are brutally efficient killers in these icy waters, often ambushing penguins as they enter or leave the water. “I love photographing in the Antarctic,” says Souders. “The wildlife there are quite comfortable with [human] presence. It’s a wonderful opportunity to see the world in a near pristine state.” 22

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Lucky Enough to Catch the Luckiest Penguin This photo was taken during my sixth trip to Antarctica. After each Antarctic trip, I always swear I’ll never go again. But a year or two later, I find myself walking up the dock toward another sailboat. For this trip, four other photographers and I chartered a 53-foot-long sailboat with a Dutch skipper and his Argentine first mate at the southern tip of Argentina. We spent four weeks on board, including five days sitting on the snow-covered shores of Cuverville Island. The penguins went about their penguin business and I shot it all, spending 18 hours a day out in the elements. Rather 24

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than try to photograph the penguins in the muddy, smelly, and poo-fouled rookeries, I spent most of my time along the shore. The penguins came back and forth each day, heading out to sea to wash up and feed, returning to their nests to share food with their mates and to help protect and warm their eggs. They would hop out of the water onto the rocks and snow, do a bit of preening, and then waddle up the hillside to their nests. I really wanted to shoot something new on this trip, and one thing I focused on was capturing penguins in flight. Penguins are, of course, flightless birds, but I wanted to capture those brief

moments when they were in fact, airborne. On our last night in Antarctica, I was standing on shore fiddling with my camera gear, when off in the distance I heard a hiss. I turned to see an enormous leopard seal slithering out of the water and chasing some penguins on the rocks. He missed, and I just stood there, staring dumbly for a moment before scrambling over with a camera. I got nothing. I alerted the others, and British photographer Ben Cranke joined me on shore to watch for the seal. We sat side by side and watched as the leopard seal repeatedly tried to ambush

the penguins on the rocks in front of us. It was one of those unbelievable moments in the wild, sitting less than a yard away from a lethal hunter. I’d never seen anything like this. And there wasn’t any way to predict or compose my shots. After several tries I managed to capture an image of the seal’s leaping attempt to attack a penguin on shore. The penguin jumped away in a wide-eyed panic at the last possible moment. And the image was over in less than 1/500th of a second. —paul souders

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How Was Your Day? A Journal for Everyday Wonders Bridget Watson Payne This fresh and accessible guided journal invites journallers to celebrate something from their day, every day. This journal is an invitation to pay attention to the little things in life. Charming illustrations of everyday objects and places are paired with simple writing prompts (such as "Favourite article of clothing I wore today" or "Something delicious I ate today"). Each of the prompts highlights an everyday detail that we often overlook but that can bring outsize joy when we stop to observe and record it. With bold and cheerful illustrations on every page, the journal is a fresh and unintimidating take on daily mindfulness.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Notebooks & Journals

Price

AU$24.99

Bridget Watson Payne is an artist, writer, and art book editor. She had her first solo art show at San Francisco's Rare Device gallery in 2018. Her drawings have been featured in two Artists Take Action auctions, the book I'd Rather Be Reading, the inaugural issue of You magazine, and numerous commissions for charity. She has been an artist in residence at Drop Forge and Tool in Hudson, New York. Bridget is also the author of several books including How Art Can Make You Happy. She has taught at the ICON Illustration Conference, Makeshift Society, and Sketchbook Skool, and been featured on KTVU San Francisco, KATU TV Portland, Minnesota Public Radio, Prairie Public Radio, and others. She lives in San Francisco. You can see more of her work at bridgetwatsonpayne.com.

ISBN

9781452169972

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Chronicle Books

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Chronicle Gift

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203 x 152 mm

Extent

112pp

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Full colour illustrations throughout

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A positive theme, short and simple prompts, and colourful illustrations of everyday objects give this journal a wide audience. It will appeal to creatives, journallers, and mindfulness seekers of all stripes. Thanks to its distinctive format and delightful illustrations, this journal makes a thoughtful and cheery gift. Self-care, gratitude, and mindfulness are all in the zeitgeist. This journal captures elements of each in an irresistibly attainable and positive journaling project by using simple yet thought-provoking prompts, allowing readers to tap into the self-care trend in an accessible and easy way. Interactive journals with a creative twist are Chronicle's strong suit. Our large audience of creative, intelligent, and imaginative journal keepers will love the sweet and quirky prompts paired with charming illustrations, all packaged in a distinctive format.

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What I had for breakfast today

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Mensa Brain Training Mensa Ltd. and John Bremner

Exercise your mind with this selection of puzzles from Mensa, the world-famous high IQ society. Between the covers of this book, you'll find a multitude of puzzle types. There are riddles, visual puzzles, pattern conundrums and more – all guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun. Best of all, you'll give your mind a wonderful workout too!

Author Details Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organisation open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardised, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$16.99 | NZ$18.99

ISBN

9781787390799

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Category

Puzzles & Games

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198 x 129 mm

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176pp

Illustrations

100 colour illustrations

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Mensa is the ultimate, internationally recognised brain brand. More than 100 colour puzzles. Routinely training your brain can improve your memory - and ward off memory loss - as well as your overall General health as the years go by. A great brain-training book from Mensa.

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Mensa Keep your Brain Fit Robert Allen

Exercise your mind with this fabulous selection of 100 colour puzzles from Mensa, the world-famous high IQ society. Written by Robert Allen, the former director of Mensa Publications, these puzzles are graded in difficulty, providing a progressive opportunity to develop your puzzle-solving abilities. The brain is a muscle just like any other part of the body, and must be exercised in order to stay fit. Filled with puzzles and challenges designed to test your brain, as well as help it to strengthen and stay in good shape, this book is perfect for upping the fitness of your cranium. Between the covers, you'll find a treasury of brainteasers guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun. Best of all, you'll give your mind a wonderful workout too!

01 January 2019

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ISBN

9781787390805

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Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

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Category

Puzzles & Games

Format

198 x 129 mm

Extent

176pp

Illustrations

100 colour illustrations

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Mensa is the ultimate, internationally recognised brain brand. More than 100 colour puzzles. Puzzles are graded in difficulty to help develop your problem-solving abilities step by step. A great brain-training book from Mensa. Routinely training your brain can improve your memory and ward off memory loss, as well as your overall general health as the years go by.

Mensa Challenging Travel Puzzles Mensa Ltd.

Mensa: Challenging Travel Puzzles brings the challenge of Mensa to you every day for your journey or vacation. This is a book of difficult puzzles specially designed to keep your mind occupied on any trip. There are all sorts of challenges and special quizzes – from visual and spatial teasers to crafty conundrums – with the emphasis in this book being on tough puzzles!

Author Details Mensa is the world's premier brain brand. All the puzzles in this book have been complied by members of this world famous organisation.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$16.99 | NZ$18.99

ISBN

9781787390997

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

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Category

Puzzles & Games

Format

198 x 129 mm

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224pp

Illustrations

Approx. 100 puzzle illustrations

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Mensa is the ultimate, internationally recognised brain brand. A wide variety of puzzle types included. Carlton Books has sold millions of Mensa-branded books around the world. Ideal for journeys and holidays.

Mensa Quick Travel Puzzles Mensa Ltd.

Mensa: Quick Travel Puzzles brings the challenge of Mensa to you every day for your journey or vacation with a book of puzzles specially designed for you to take on any trip. These 150 quick puzzles can be solved wherever you may find yourself with a few minutes to spare. There are all sorts of challenges and special quizzes, and the emphasis in this book is on puzzles that you can solve quickly!

Author Details Mensa is the world's premier brain brand. All the puzzles in this book have been compiled by members of this world famous organisation.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$16.99 | NZ$18.99

ISBN

9781787390980

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Category

Puzzles & Games

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198 x 129 mm

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224pp

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Over 150 puzzle artworks

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Mensa is the ultimate, internationally recognised brain brand. A wide variety of puzzle types included. Carlton Books have sold millions of Mensa-branded books around the world. Ideal for journeys and holidays.

Mensa Mental Challenge Robert Allen

Exercise your mind with this fabulous selection of puzzles from Mensa, the world-famous high IQ society. Between the covers of this book, you'll find a treasury of brain-teasers guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun. Best of all, you'll give your mind a wonderful work-out too!

Author Details Robert Allen was the Editorial Director of Mensa Publications. He was highly involved with Mensa for much of his life and wrote a huge amount of puzzle, game and self-help books.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$16.99 | NZ$18.99

ISBN

9781787390928

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Category

Puzzles & Games

Format

198 x 129 mm

Extent

176pp

Illustrations

100 colour puzzles and solutions

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Mensa is the ultimate, internationally-recognised brain brand. More than 100 colour puzzles. Carlton Books have sold millions of Mensa-branded books around the world. Routinely training your brain can improve your memory and ward off memory loss, as well as your overall general health as the years go by. Part of an already-successful series.

Mensa Puzzle Challenge Robert Allen

Exercise your mind with this fabulous selection of 100 full-colour puzzles from Mensa, the world-famous high IQ society. Between the covers of this book you'll find a treasury of brain-teasers such as visual puzzles, games and riddles, all graded in difficulty, to tax the mind. This book is guaranteed to provide you with hours of fun, all while you give your mind a wonderful workout.

Author Details Robert Allen was the Editorial Director of Mensa Publications. He was highly involved with Mensa for much of his life and wrote a huge amount of puzzle, game and self-help books.

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01 January 2019

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Paperback

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AU$16.99 | NZ$18.99

ISBN

9781787390942

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Puzzles & Games

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198 x 129 mm

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176pp

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100 colour puzzles and solutions

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Mensa is the ultimate, internationally recognised brain brand. More than 100 colour puzzles. Carlton Books has sold millions of Mensa-branded books around the world. Routinely training your brain can improve your memory and ward off memory loss, as well as your overall general health as the years go by. Part of an already-successful series.

Mensa Brain Workout Robert Allen and Philip Carter and Ken Russell

An interactive book and pack to sharpen your mental agility while you're having fun. A series of puzzles, exercises and games especially devised to inspire new ways of thinking and looking at things. Each section of the book is a self-contained course on one particular aspect of brain power and directs you to games and activities included within the pack such as spatial recognition and prediction games. Work through the whole pack and you will find yourself thinking quicker, solving problems with ease, being more creative, increasing your powers of intuition, predicting probabilities more accurately, improving your three-dimensional awareness, and honing your puzzle skills!

Author Details Robert Allen was the Editorial Director of Mensa Publications. He was highly involved with Mensa for much of his life and wrote a huge amount of puzzle, game and self-help books. Ken Russell is a world famous puzzle setter and has written thousands of puzzles of all types for hundreds of successful publications.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Boxed Set

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AU$39.99 | NZ$45.00

ISBN

9781787391659

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Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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280 x 216 mm

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72pp

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Approx. 50 b&w artworks

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Philip Carter is a member of Mensa who has written and contributed to hundreds of puzzle publications over a period of more than 20 years.

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Mensa is the ultimate brain brand! A fully interactive puzzle pack, containing many games and challenges. Contains dice, board games and 120 playing/games cards. More than 3.5 million Carlton Mensa books sold worldwide to date.

The Excellent Quiz Night Book Carlton Books This superb book contains hundreds of quizzes and a wealth of fascinating information on a huge variety of subjects. The quizzes are divided by difficulty level and subject matter. Many are themed along the classic lines of music, sport, geography, politics, entertainment, etc. and many more. Pot luck quizzes are also included. This book contains all you will need for setting your own quizzes, or for brushing up on your general knowledge before you try your next competition.

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Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$16.99 | NZ$18.99

ISBN

9781787391543

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

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Category

Puzzles & Games

Format

198 x 129 mm

Extent

288pp

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Text only

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More than 1,000,000 Carlton quiz books sold worldwide. A one-stop shop for setting your own quizzes or cribbing for others. Questions on a huge spectrum of categories, from famous faces to wonders of the world. Following on from a successful original book, this is a second instalment, updated and reinvented to appeal to everyone.

Sumoji Carlton Books For the first time, the world's favourite puzzle, Sudoku, has been combined with Emoji, the world's fastest-growing language to create a new and exciting puzzle: the Sumoji! Sumoji contains more than 100 Emoji-Sudoku created specifically to give puzzling pleasure to those who enjoy a bit more fun in their lives. A number of amusing Emoji stickers are included to help fill out the Sudoku.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9781787391680

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

Series

Category

Puzzles & Games

Format

172 x 148 mm

Extent

144pp

Illustrations

Approx. 100 colour puzzle artworks

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Emoji characters, icons and symbols make up the world's fastest growing language. Billions of Emojis are sent in digital communications every day by more than 70 per cent of the world's smartphone users. Sumoji contains more than 100 colourful and fun emoji-based Sudoku challenges. Sudoku is the most popular puzzle type in the world, and these problems combine the enjoyable challenge of your favourite puzzle with the artistic fun of a whole new system. Emoji stickers are included.

Rubik's Logic Puzzles Rubik's

Rubik's Logic Puzzles takes the iconography and core intellectual values of the classic 1980s Rubik's Cube and places them in a colourful, challenging set of puzzles and problems. Test your problem-solving abilities with this fun, colourful book of over 100 Puzzles. Focussing on mathematic and logic tests, this book will provide fiendish fun for all puzzle-lovers. Rubik's Cube has been popular since the early 1980s, when Professor Erno Rubik developed a 'moveable art piece' for his architecture students. That became the Rubik's Cube and was a massive craze around the world.

Author Details Rubik's is the home of the Rubik's Cube, one of the most popular and recognisable puzzle games in the world. Since its international launch in 1980, an estimated 400 million Rubik's Cubes have been sold.

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01 January 2019

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Paperback

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AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

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ISBN

9781787391819

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Puzzles & Games

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237 x 185 mm

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144pp

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Approx 150 colour puzzle Illustrations

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The Rubik's Cube is the bestselling toy in history; 400,000,000 have been sold worldwide since 1980. Rubik's has a 98% brand awareness worldwide. This fun book of challenging puzzles fits perfectly into the Rubik's brand portfolio. Contains more than 100 colourful logic puzzles to stimulate the brain. Follows on from 2017's successful Rubik's Puzzles publication. The Rubik's Cube has had a strong global resurgence in recent years.

Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom Empowering quotes and wise words from a literary icon

C OV E R

Known for her strong beliefs and fearless attitude, Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom highlights some of the writer and activist’s most memorable quotes. With insights on women, love and life, politics and culture, this book pays tribute to one of the world’s most beloved icons

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Pocket Maya Angelou Wisdom is a collection of some of her best and most empowering quotes. This is the ultimate keepsake for fans of Maya Angelou’s beautiful poetry, as well as for anyone looking for a bit of in-the-moment inspiration to have in their back pocket. Some quotes from Maya Angelou: ‘If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.’

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01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$12.99 | NZ$14.99

ISBN

9781784882464

Publisher

Hardie Grant (UK)

‘Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.’

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Hardie Grant (UK)

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Gift

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132 x 110 mm

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96 pp

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Text only

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‘You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.’ ‘When we unite in purpose, we are greater than the sum of our parts’ ‘Love recognises no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive as its destination full of hope.’

The latest in the bestselling Pocket Wisdom series. Heart-warming and hard-won life lessons from a true icon. Nice package and good price point – the perfect gift or impulse buy.

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The I Wonder Bookstore Shinsuke Yoshitake A delightful and witty illustrated celebration of the transporting magic of reading, books, and bookstores. This charming illustrated book first published in Japan takes readers inside the magical realm of books and bookstores. In particular, the "I Wonder" Bookstore, where customers come in and ask the owner its namesake question ("I wonder if you have any books on …") and he is happy to fill their requests in often magical ways. In illustrated self-contained spreads and sequences, we see how to grow books on trees, books designed to be read by two (or more) people at once, books that can only be read by moonlight, bookstore weddings, an underwater library, a boot camp for charismatic bookstore attendants, and many more wonders that celebrate the transporting magic of reading, books, and bookstores in a timeless and delightful way.

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01 January 2019

Shinsuke Yoshitake was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. He received first place in the sixth MOE Picture Book Award and Art Prize of the 61st Sankei Children's Book Award for Ringo Kamoshirenai (It Might Be an Apple), first place in the eighth MOE Picture Book Award for Riyu ga Arimasu (I Have a Reason), first place in the ninth MOE Picture Book Award and a Special Mention Bologna Ragazzi Award for Mou Nugenai (Still Stuck), and won the 51st Shinpu Award for Konoato Doushichaou (What Happens Next?).

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Hardback

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AU$29.99

ISBN

9781452176512

Publisher

Chronicle Books

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Chronicle Adult

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Non Fic General

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160pp

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Full colour illustrations

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A book for booklovers. With a clear love of books, reading, and bookstores, this book captures the joy and wonder of reading and bookstores in a wholly unique way. Charming and magical, the accessible illustrations and literally fantastic aspect speak to that age when reading and books really catch hold of the imagination for most readers, something that's absolutely delightful to have again as an adult. This book is odd but very welcoming, bringing readers into its unique world of fantastic books effortlessly.

Claw the System Poems from the Cat Uprising Francesco Marculiano From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Could Pee on This, Francesco Marciuliano, comes a lesson from cats in resistance. Cats are done with humans' crap. For too long they have put up with baby talk, the humiliation of holiday costumes, and the social injustice of being told, "No." They will not sleep through this anymore. We humans have woken the beast, and in this book they have gathered together to reclaim their voice, loudly and repeatedly until we pay attention. Watch the uprising unfold, through anthems such as "Redefine Terms," "Accepted," "Decide," "A New Dawn," and "Just What Do You Think You're Doing?" Show support for your feline friends and try to understand why they're so spitting mad.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9781449495626

Publisher

AMP

Imprint

Andrews McMeel Books

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Category

Humour

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152 x 114 mm

Extent

112pp

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Full colour photography throughout

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Francesco Marciuliano is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats as well as the bestselling titles I Could Chew on This, I Knead My Mommy, You Need More Sleep, and I Could Pee on This, Too . He writes the internationally-syndicated daily comic strips Sally Forth and Judge Parker in addition to his webcomic Medium Large. He was also the Head Writer for the twice Emmy Award-winning children’s show SeeMore’s Playhouse and has written for the Onion News Network, Smosh , and McSweeney ’s as well penned/typed/scrawled the play This Isn’t Working for the New York International Fringe Festival. Francesco has appeared in/on Huffington Post, All Things Considered, Sirius XM, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Mental Floss, and The A.V. Club .

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New York Times bestselling author: I Could Pee onThis is a #1 New York Times bestseller; author's combined books have spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller lists. Author's works are favourites at the major accounts, at indie bookstores, and also at non-bookstore retail venues, such as Urban Outfitters and Papyrus, where he is a major seller. Collectively, Marciuliano's books have sold 1.2 million copies worldwide. Author is the longtime writer of the Sally Forth syndicated comic, which appears in 700 newspapers. Timely theme: Resistance!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Francesco Marciuliano is the author of the bestselling books I Could Pee on This, I Could Chew on This, I Knead My Mommy, You Need More Sleep, and I Could Pee on This, Too. He writes the syndicated comic strips Sally Forth and Judge Parker as well as the webcomic Medium Large. He was the head writer for the Emmy Award-winning children’s show SeeMore’s Playhouse and has written for Onion News Network, Smosh, McSweeney’s, and the New York International Fringe Festival. He lives in New York City and on Twitter at @fmarciuliano. He has yet to acquire a jetpack.

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CLAW THE SYSTEM

For far too long, cats have had to endure humans telling them to “Get off my table,” “Get off my couch,” and “Get off my face.” But the times are changing. The cats’ nap time is over. And together they raise one paw in protest and shove another into our drinks as they give full voice to their uprising with such poems of protest as “It Was Time” and “Us Not You.” So support their cause or sleep on the floor, because either way they’re taking over the bed.

Marciuliano

THE REBELLION BEGINS . . .

THE CATS have had it with humans. They’re done with us telling them “No.” They’re done with us ignoring their demands. They’re done with us rubbing them the wrong way, often from butt to head. But now they’ve gathered to reclaim their voice and declare their intent with such anthems of rebellion as “I Need This to Stop,” “What Do I Do with My Anger,” and “Things No One Can Ever Take Away from Me.”

POEMS FROM THE CAT UPRISING Francesco Marciuliano Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller I Could Pee on This

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INTRODUCTION Dear Humans,

We cats have been asleep too long.

Literally. Like 18 hours today alone.

And during that blissful, oblivious slumber, a war has been raging against our

freedoms. Choices have been made for us. Our movements have been restricted. Our concerns dismissed with a simple “We know what’s best” or “And a meow meow meow to you, too!”

That’s why today we rise. To reclaim our voice. To reclaim ourselves. In these pages you will experience every step of our revolution, from realization to actualization to the apartment lease being put in our name. You may even see a little of yourselves in here as well.

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If you look after a cat, then of course you are our ally. But best you have this book. (Besides, we already knocked down all the other books on your shelves, along with what we just assumed was not cherished stemware.) And best you wave this very tome up high when we come, all the while exclaiming, “I’m with you! I’m with you!” Just don’t expect the glint from the book’s cover to distract us from our mission.

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CHAPTER ONE

RECOGNIZE

Until every person realizes That every human is always wro ng Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure how they can ever Hope to reach a consensus

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Loading Penguin Hugs A Collection of Heartwarming Comics from Chibird Jacqueline Chen For anyone who has ever wished for a personal cheerleader: Enjoy Jacqueline Chen’s cheerful illustrations, full of fuzzy animals giving encouragement, able to put a smile on anyone’s face. Loading Penguin Hugs provides a cute and creative approach to spreading positivity. Chen’s illustrations of baby chicks, penguins, kittens, hedgehogs, and more all come with kind, motivational words of comfort, such as “it’s okay to have no idea. You have time to figure it out,” “the best is yet to come,” and “show the world what you got!” With artwork cute enough to brighten anyone’s day, Chibird is ready to change everyone’s attitude for the better, one comic at a time. 01 January 2019

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Jacqueline Chen has been drawing motivational comics and animations since high school and has cheered up millions of people along the way. When she’s not making art, she’s designing and coding. She loves bubble tea and ice cream a little too much.

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9781449494582

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AMP

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Andrews McMeel Books

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Humour

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152 x 127 mm

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88pp

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Full colour illustrations throughout

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Tumblr: 409,000 followers; Instagram: 147,000 followers; Facebook: 138,000 followers. Chen's Tumblr posts regularly garner comments in the thousands; some posts have over 70,000 comments. Short & sweet, highly shareable, positive messages.

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Life Lessons I Learnt from my Cat Imogen Fortes

They may have nine lives but there is much cats can teach us about getting the most out of the one we have. Whether it’s advice for purrfecting your downtime, navigating romance, friendships or your career, this book features 100 essential lessons to help you through the ups and downs of life, such as: • A beautiful mane takes serious work • …and so does the perfect set of nails • Preserve your dignity at all times • Stretch regularly • Demand the best So, put down your self-help book and pick up your cat. It’s time to take a nap with the life guru you never knew you had. (Please see life lesson no.1.) Perfect for fans of How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

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AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9781910552919

Publisher

Michael O'Mara Books

Imprint

Buster Books

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Category

Humour

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185 x 135 mm

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128pp

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Full colour illustrations throughout

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Jamie Shelman is an artist and illustrator with a passion for fat cats and good design. She has a degree in Painting from The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and currently lives in Baltimore, MD, in the US. She runs her own online stationery and print shop called The Dancing Cat, which features her whimsical and unique cat designs. The neighbour's cat acts as her local muse, waiting at the window every morning to be let in, and then out, and then back in again.

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Hot on the paws of the international bestseller How to Live Like Your Cat (over 1 million copies sold worldwide), this book contains 100 essential life lessons that we can learn from our furry feline friends. Cats remain one of the most searchable cat-agories on Instagram and our artwork will lend itself perfectly to social media. Covering all major life topics (such as friendship, romance, work, downtime and everything else in-between), this is a small format hardback with a quirky giftable format which will appeal to cat lovers everywhere. Jamie Shelman is an American illustrator who created Dancing Cat, the style for our book, and also regularly seen on cards throughout gift shops in the UK and the US (including Whole Foods and Etsy).

Hunter Valley Map 213 6th ed UBD Gregory's

The latest edition of the Hunter Valley Touring Map has been fully revised and updated and features a regional touring map with coverage from Murrurundi in the north, Gosford in the south, Bylong in the west and Shoal Bay in the east. There are also lower and upper Hunter Valley winery maps and a list of regional touring attractions on one side. On the other side is street level mapping of Cessnock, Gloucester, Maitland, Muswellbrook, Newcastle city, Port Stephens and Singleton plus a list of Visitor Information Centres. With all this information contained in the handy fold up map this is an essential tool to carry when touring the Hunter Valley.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paper Map

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AU$9.99 | NZ$12.99

ISBN

9780731931361

Publisher

Universal Publishers

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Maps

Series

Touring Map

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Travel

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920 x 690 mm

Extent

1 map

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Full colour

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The Marco Polo Pocket Guide Series Since their launch in 2012, Marco Polo's great value Pocket Guides have become renowned for their innovative, highquality design and unique insider tips. Ideal for all travellers looking to find the hidden gems and little-known secrets. Each guide is packed with special tips, personal insights and unusual experiences for a perfect holiday. All in a handy, pocket-sized format.

Lanzarote Pocket Guide Marco Polo

Marco Polo Lanzarote Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated content throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into this wonderful island including where to eat the best fish at sunset and why travellers should visit the subterranean Cueva de los Verdes. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Lanzarote experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by areas of the island to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback with Flaps

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829707923

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Marco Polo Guides

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

136pp

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Full colour throughout

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• Discovery Tours: 4 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of Lanzarote either on foot, by car or by bike. Travellers can drive through black fire mountains and green valleys, cycle through glistening white sand landscapes or take a hike through a sea of lava. Here are inspirational itineraries that reveal authentic Lanzarote. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Lanzarote in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Lanzarote includes full colour photos throughout the guide bringing the island to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Spanish phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Algarve Marco Polo

Marco Polo Algarve Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated content throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into the region from clifftop walks, to dolphin watching to a romantic night in a windmill. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' the Algarve experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by region to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829707954

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

148pp

Illustrations

Full colour throughout

Age Range

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• Discovery Tours: 4 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of the Algarve. Travellers will experience the region's beaches and cliffs, the most beautiful cities, harbours and even an old merchant's route. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Algarve in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Algarve includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the region to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Portuguese phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Australia Marco Polo

Marco Polo Australia Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into the country. Travellers can discover where to go horse-riding in paradise or experience aboriginal culture first hand. Marco Polo's Insider Tips will introduce visitors to some unique attractions 'Down Under'. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Australia experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by region to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829707961

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

192pp

Illustrations

Full colour throughout

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• Discovery Tours: 4 specially tailored tours that will get visitors to the heart of Australia. Here are inspirational itineraries that will help travellers enjoy all of Australia's wonderful scenery, culture and cuisine. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Australia in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Australia includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the country to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both!

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Berlin Marco Polo

Marco Polo Berlin Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated content throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into the city. Travellers can enjoy breakfast with an amazing view, be guided by former inmates at the Stasi prison or travel underground in carriages with the roof down. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Berlin experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by areas of the city to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829707978

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

176pp

Illustrations

Full colour throughout

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• Discovery Tours: 4 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of Berlin. Travellers can experience all of Berlin's unique character with these personal tours. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Berlin in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Berlin includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the city to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Street atlas and pull-out map: a detailed street atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful German phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Cuba Marco Polo

Marco Polo Cuba Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into the country. Travellers can discover where to buy the hottest Latin music, find out where to feed the sharks or enjoy the most beautiful beach in the Caribbean. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Cuba experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by region to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829707985

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

140pp

Illustrations

Full colour throughout

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• Discovery Tours: specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of Cuba. Here are the best tours that will help visitors enjoy all of Cuba's breathtaking scenery from the island's capital, Havana, to the idyllic beaches on the northern coast. • FREE Touring App: travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. ' • Cuba in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Cuba includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the country to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Spanish phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Cyprus Marco Polo

Marco Polo Cyprus Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into this beautiful island, from home-style Cypriot dishes in a traditional bookshop or spotting a sea turtle to hiking the Caledonia Trail. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Cyprus experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by region to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829707992

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

148pp

Illustrations

Full colour throughout

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• Discovery Tours: 4 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of Cyprus on foot or by car. Travellers can hike Mount Olympos or hire a car and explore excavations, castles, museums, mosques and monasteries with these inspirational itineraries. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Cyprus in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Cyprus includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the island to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Greek and Turkish phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Fuerteventura Marco Polo

Marco Polo Fuerteventura Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into this wonderful Spanish island. Visitors can see the island by trike, try a camel safari or experience Mama Rumba in Puerto del Rosario which indulges in an outbreak of Latin fever every Saturday. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Fuerteventura experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by region to aid holiday planning.

Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829708005

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

140pp

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• Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. • Discovery Tours: 4 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of Fuerteventura. Here are inspirational itineraries that will help travellers enjoy authentic Fuerteventura. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Fuerteventura in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Fuerteventura includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the island to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Spanish phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Gran Canaria Marco Polo

Marco Polo Gran Canaria Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into this wonderful Spanish island. Visitors can discover a romantic place to stay in the mountains or dance the night away to hot salsa and Latin rhythms. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Gran Canaria experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by region to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829708012

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

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Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

148pp

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Full colour throughout

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• Discovery Tours: 4 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of Gran Canaria. Here are inspirational itineraries that will help travellers enjoy authentic Gran Canaria. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Gran Canaria in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Gran Canaria includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the island to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Spanish phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide London Marco Polo

Marco Polo London Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into this iconic city. Travellers can learn the Balboa swing dance or how to kayak from Big Ben to Tower Bridge. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' London experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by areas of the city to aid holiday planning. • Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829708029

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

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Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

156pp

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Full colour throughout

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• Discovery Tours: 5 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of London. Culture, cathedrals and culinary delights can be discovered with these inspirational itineraries. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • London in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide London includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the city to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Street atlas and pull-out map: a detailed street atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both!

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Madeira Marco Polo

Marco Polo Madeira Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into this beautiful, Portuguese island. Visitors can discover the Zona Velha where local artists have created striking designs for the doors of Rua Santa Maria, sip cocktails at the Mill or discover the hills and beaches of Porto Santo on horseback. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Madeira experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. • Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by region to aid holiday planning.

Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9783829708036

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

Extent

148pp

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Full colour throughout

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• Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events. • Discovery Tours: 5 specially tailored tours take visitors to the heart of Madeira either on foot or by car. Travellers can discover panaromic views along the north coast, or hire a car and see the highlights of Madeira in just one day. • FREE Touring App: new for 2018, travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Madeira in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Madeira includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the island to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Road atlas and pull-out map: a detailed road atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Portuguese phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Marco Polo Pocket Guide Prague Marco Polo

Marco Polo Prague Pocket Guide includes: • Fully updated throughout: revised new edition with many new Insider Tips researched by Marco Polo’s local authors. • Insider Tips: the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into the city. Travellers can discover gateaux heaven in a retro setting, enjoy fast food Czech style or immerse themselves in Prague's largest gallery for contemporary art, the Dox. • Best of: the best things to do for free, the best 'only in' Prague experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

• Sightseeing: all of the top sights are organised by area to aid holiday planning.

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

• Useful information: lots of advice on where to shop, travelling with kids and a summary of all the festivals and events.

ISBN

9783829708043

Publisher

Marco Polo

Imprint

Marco Polo

Series

Category

Travel

Format

190 x 110 mm

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152pp

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• Discovery Tours: 5 specially tailored walking tours take visitors to the heart of Prague. Inspirational itineraries guide travellers through the city’s wonderful history and architecture. • FREE Touring App: travellers can download any of the Discovery Tours to their smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge. The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges. The perfect navigational tool with distance indicators and landmarks highlighting the correct direction to travel in as well as GPS coordinates along the way. • Prague in full-colour: Marco Polo Pocket Guide Prague includes full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the city to life and offering a real taste of what to see and enjoy. • Street atlas and pull-out map: a detailed street atlas and a separate, fully indexed map neatly located in a plastic pocket at the back of the guide. The only guide on the market offering both! • Useful Czech phrases: the essential words and phrases are included to help visitors get by.

Green Guide Switzerland Michelin

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Expand your holiday horizons with Michelin Switzerland Green Guide. Climb Dent de Vaulion's summits, cruise Lake Lucerne, feast on raclette, or shop at Europe's longest shopping centers in Bern. Detailed maps, colour photos and illustrations clarify the featured towns and vistas. Strapped for time? The respected star-rating system guides you to the best sites from a breathtaking, driving tour of Berninastrasse to a festival at Basel. Address books, suggested itineraries and well-researched background information ensure a successful trip. Perfect for travellers seeking enriching experiences and in-depth information on their destination.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$45.00 | NZ $50.00

ISBN

9782067229600

Publisher

Michelin

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Michelin

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Michelin Guide/Green

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Travel

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221 x 117 mm

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480 pp

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Star-rated activities and detailed visitor information Unique driving & walking tours Colourful, easy-to-read maps throughout Lively introductions to the area, its people & culture Restaurant & hotel tips Family friendly advice Walk-through of major museums, galleries, churches and attractions

Green Guide Wine Trails of Italy Michelin

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Take a fascinating thematic journey of Italy with the brand-new Michelin touring Green Guide Wine Trails of Italy. Explore Italy's regional vineyards and wineries. Learn all about Italian wine: making it, tasting it, serving it. And visit the scenic towns and villages along the way. Suggested Michelin Driving Tours for wine routes include special points of interest. Through its star-rating system, well-researched places to stay and eat, colourful maps and suggested activities, this Michelin travel guide will help you discover the best of Italy and its wines. Perfect for travellers seeking enriching experiences and in-depth information on their destination.

Key Information • • • • • Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$45.00 | NZ $50.00

ISBN

9782067229563

Publisher

Michelin

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Michelin

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Michelin Guide/Green

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Travel

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221 x 117 mm

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516 pp

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Sleep The secrets of slumber Lisa Varadi

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

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How to get the best night's sleep you've ever had.

Sleep invites you to explore the benefits gained from the simple act of sleeping.

William Blake

Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$14.99 | NZ$17.99

ISBN

9781787132764

Publisher

Quadrille Publishing Ltd

Imprint

Quadrille Publishing Ltd

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Category

Self Help

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155 x 120 mm

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144pp

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Two colour throughout

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The body's natural way of re-energising and healing, sleep nourishes the mind and body with it's numerous health benefits. Whether you sleep like a baby or are a perennial insomniac, Sleep will guide you through the cultural and historical perspectives of shut-eye, explain why our body clocks are so important, and delve into the four stages of sleep, from shallow to deep. You'll learn about why it's so important to nourish the mind, what really goes on when you're dreaming and how to tackle the perpetual problem of insomnia. So pyjamas at ready... it's time to get the best night's sleep you've ever had.

Author Details Lisa Varadi is a Naturopath and Sleep Coach with over a decade of experience treating insomnia and related sleep disorders. After successfully curing her own insomnia, Lisa has made it her mission to help others achieve deep and restful sleep. She designs and implements sleep programs for individuals, organisations and businesses. Lisa has contributed to several publications and is the author of The Insomnia Diet . She also conducts seminars and is frequently invited to speak to various groups about the importance of sleep.

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Expert advice form a qualified Naturopath "50-70 million US adults have a sleep disorder" American Sleep Association “Nearly a third of the population are suffering from insomnia which is affecting their health” Daily Mirror

CONTENTS Introduction 6 The Story of Sleep 9 Let’s Talk About the Body Clock 15 From Shallow to Deep, here are Four Stages of Sleep 27 The Brain Chemicals That Regulate Sleep 39 Sleep Nourishes the Mind and the Body 47 What’s in a Dream? 57 When Sleep is Disrupted 66 What is Insomnia? 77 True or False? 84 A Return to Restful Sleep 92 Share Your Sleep Struggles 101 3 … 2 … 1 Drift Off! 107 Free Your Mind 121 Stress Less, Sleep More 134

‘The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.’

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; MOIRA YOU NG

THE STORY OF SLEEP Sleep has been a source of fascination and wonderment for thousands of years. Throughout our history, physicians, philosophers and spiritual healers have all sought to explain how we sleep, as well as understand why we sleep. Their collective contributions paved the way for what we now know to be true: sleep is an active process that is essential to life. The story of sleep begins with early humans. Our huntergatherer ancestors relied heavily on their internal body rhythms and external cues, such as the rising and setting of the sun, to determine when and how they slept. The sleep schedules of our early ancestors were also influenced by the weather, the search for food and the presence of danger. In the early years of human history, sleep usually took place on the ground within caves. Our ancestors would rely on foliage or other soft materials for comfort. Despite our understanding of the sleep patterns of early humans, we know very little about their beliefs about sleep. Thousands of years would pass before there was any evidence of human sleep exploration. The ancient Egyptians were one of the earliest civilizations with documented views on sleep. Through hieroglyphics, we know that they valued sleep, and believed that the soul

The circadian rhythm is regulated in a part of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The SCN detects signals from the eyes regarding the amount of light or darkness. The SCN processes this information and then sends a signal to a gland at the base of the brain called the pineal gland. This gland secretes the sleep hormone melatonin in the presence of darkness. An increase in the secretion of melatonin at night tells the body that it’s time to sleep. The circadian rhythm is not fully established until the third or fourth month of life. This is why newborns wake frequently. When a child enters puberty, the circadian rhythm tends to shift slightly. This lasts for a few years and is one of the reasons why teenagers are more prone to having later bedtimes and being late risers.

HOW TO BUMP THE EARLY AFTERNOON SLUMP We’ve all experienced the afternoon sleepiness that often follows lunchtime. Many of us are quick to blame the composition of the meal or our digestive tracts that are using all of the body’s energy to break down food rather than maintain mental clarity. Although eating a carbohydrate-rich meal can make matters worse, the food itself is not the underlying problem. The circadian clock has a natural ‘dip’ about 6 or 7 hours after we wake in the morning. Therefore, it is natural to feel tired around this time. What can be done to offset this slump? Stepping outside for some fresh air and natural light or going for a short walk will help you regain your energy and focus. It’s important to bear in mind that this tiredness usually doesn’t last too long so your alertness and ability to concentrate will soon return.

OWLS AND LARKS In the land of the circadian clock in general there reside two types of people, the owls and the larks. Most of us fall within one of these two categories but some lie in between. The owls are those who are late to bed and late to rise. The larks are those who awaken early in the morning and tire early in the evening. The terms owl and lark are used to describe what is known as your chronotype. Owls tend to struggle with the typical 9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm work schedule. Waking up in the morning can be fairly challenging as can staying awake during the after-lunch slump. These difficulties often lead to a reliance on alarm clocks and caffeine to keep up with the weekday schedule. Owls tend to function at their best later in the day.

In contrast, larks are able to work harder and more efficiently in the mornings. They may begin to tire towards the end of the workday. Night shifts are a challenge for the lark and socializing and performing hobbies in the evenings are near-impossible pursuits. Larks will often push themselves well into the evening to keep up with the demands of the day. A personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chronotype is largely determined by genetics, however lifestyle factors can have an influence. Habits, such as staying up too late, which you have followed over a long period can impact the timing of your circadian rhythm. The key to survival is a sustainable balance between your daily schedule and your genetic make-up.

Live Green 52 steps for a more sustainable life Jen Chillingsworth Master sustainable living over the course of a year. Many of us are already doing what we can to adopt a greener lifestyle. We recycle, try to reduce our waste and plastics, choose organic food when shopping, eat less meat and opt for environmentally friendly cleaning products. Yet we often wish we were doing more and it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Live Green is a practical guide of 52 changes – one for each week of the year – you can make to your home and lifestyle to reduce your impact on the environment. Tackling all areas of your life from your cleaning routine, home furnishings, food shopping, fashion choices, natural beauty and Christmas, this book has all the ingredients to help you achieve a more sustainable year. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$14.99 | NZ$17.99

ISBN

9781787133198

Publisher

Quadrille Publishing Ltd

Imprint

Quadrille Publishing Ltd

Series

Category

Self Help

Format

155 x 120 mm

Extent

160pp

Illustrations

Colour illustrations throughout

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From making your own eco-friendly cleaning products, buying vintage furniture, making your own moth repellent and improving your natural beauty regime to creating a capsule wardrobe and creating your own ethical Christmas decorations – discover how to get the most out of life by living with intention. Live simply. Live Green.

Author Details Jen Chillingsworth is a freelance writer and photographer based in West Yorkshire. She previously worked in arts management before choosing to re-train as a market gardener. Here Jen discovered her love of plants, flowers, nature and the landscape and how important it is that we try to protect them. She writes regularly about slow and simple living, eating seasonally and green issues on her blog Little Birdie. Jen has written and photographed features published in The Simple Things magazine and 91 Magazine. She is married with one son.

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52 (one for each week of the year) very simple steps to take at home, work and play to help the environment. Sustainability has gone mainstream: leading market intelligence agency Mintel has identified ethics, sustainability, trust and transparency as four key themes set to impact consumers in the year ahead. Google has seen a 500 per cent increase in the search term "how to reduce plastic waste".

Decluttering We all have too much stuff that we don’t need, like or use anymore. I had cupboards and drawers that wouldn’t close because they had too much forgotten clutter pushed into them – you probably have some of those too! Decluttering our homes helps us in so many ways, creating a calmer environment, less searching for misplaced items and a reduction in the amount of cleaning and dusting (which is always welcome!).

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Many of us think that the solution to sorting out all our belongings is to buy more storage containers, whereas the answer is we simply have too much stuff! Getting rid of junk, switching to paperless options for household admin and donating things we don’t need anymore all help us to become greener in our homes. Set aside an amount of time – say 30 minutes – and set a timer on your phone. Take one room, cupboard or drawer and during that time get rid of the things you no longer use or want to keep. Divide these into groups – one pile of rubbish to be discarded, one pile to be donated to charity/given to friends or family and, if you want to sell some items, then a pile for those too. A good question to ask yourself as you go through your belongings is when was the last time I used this? If it’s more than a year, then let it go.

Donate old bedding and blankets to a local animal shelter. Throw out single socks or items that have shrunk in the wash. Donate clothes to the charity shop or thrift store or arrange a clothes swap party with friends (see page xx). i n t h e b at h r o o m

Get rid of any out-of-date medicines and cosmetics. Many of us receive beauty gift packs at Christmas that we never use so donate them to charity. in the living room

Clear out magazine and newspaper piles for recycling. Cancel subscriptions – most magazines have paperless online versions. Gather CDs and DVDs that you never watch anymore and either sell or donate them. Do the same with any books you won’t read again – many libraries accept donated books if they are in good condition, benefitting your community too. Either give any homewares that you no longer want or have use for to charity or sell at a car boot or yard sale.

in the kitchen

clear out that kitchen drawer full of rubbish (everyone has one!). Recycle takeout menus and junk mail. Clear out out-of-date food packets and cleaning supplies that linger at the back of cupboards. Kitchenware is always popular at car boot and yard sales, so take along pans, casserole dishes and storage containers and they will always be some of the first things to go. Look at how many mugs or plates you have – we are a small family of three, yet we had over twenty mugs! Donate or sell – either way you are passing them on to someone who needs them. decluttering can be a n ov e r w h e l m i n g ta s k a n d t h e b e s t w ay t o t a c k l e i t i s s l o w ly .

Eco household A few years ago, I found myself in the hospital emergency department after suffering an extreme allergic reaction to a cleaning product. I’d been scrubbing tiles in my bathroom with a bleach-based solution and although I’d ventilated the room well, it had still managed to overwhelm my system. My face, arms and hands had swollen to twice their normal size, and my skin was itchy and covered in a rash. Thankfully it hadn’t affected my breathing, but I felt awful and I vowed not to let it happen again. This experience made me look more closely at cleaning products and the harm they can do to our wellbeing and to the environment. I started making some simple changes, switching to environmentally friendly versions of multi-surface sprays, washing powders and avoided anything that might contain bleach. 42

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Our supermarket shelves are jam packed with cleaning supplies and there is a different product available for every conceivable household task. From antibacterial sprays, drain cleaners, fridge deodorizers, granite and marble countertop sprays, stainless steel polishes to shower sprays, we are encouraged to buy a separate bottle for each appliance or item of hardware. Yet most of these products are made from toxic chemicals that have the potential to damage our health, as well as contribute to the increasing problem of plastics consumption. Many of us choose a different path by buying and using more natural products to clean our homes and this is a step in the right direction. However, if you want to do a little more than that, over the next few pages you’ll find plenty of hints and tips for small changes that can make a difference.

Switch to natural cleaning why make the change to n at u r a l c l e a n i n g ? there are some compelling reasons.

Have a look at the cleaning products in your kitchen cupboard or on any supermarket shelf and read the the labels on products you use regularly. You’ll probably see a big exclamation mark highlighting the possible risks from some ingredients to your health or the environment. These warning signs turn up on almost everything – washing powders, air fresheners, bathroom cleaners, multi-surface sprays and even washing-up liquids. Most of the ingredients are derived from nonrenewable resources like petroleum and are not biodegradable. Many of these products also contain carcinogens, reproductive toxins, mood-altering chemicals and

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hormone disrupters, all of which have serious long-term health implications. Recent studies have shown that air pollution from cleaning and personal products now poses a greater risk to our health and the environment than car emissions do. When you switch to green cleaning, you’ll be safe in the knowledge that what you are using won’t harm you, your family, your pets or the environment. Reducing the amount of toxins in the home often leads to improved wellbeing and many people find that allergies, headaches and skin conditions can be alleviated too. My son used to sneeze a lot in the house and would take an antihistamine tablet to control it, but since I’ve stopped using conventional cleaning products, he hasn’t needed them.

Every product I now use to clean my home is free from harmful chemicals, environmentally friendly and good for my family’s health and wellbeing. They save me money as they are cheaper to buy than conventional products and as they perform a multitude of tasks, I don’t need to buy so many products. They also dramatically reduce the amount of plastic used as many come in glass bottles or cardboard packaging. Making the change to green cleaning can seem overwhelming at first as the internet is full of conflicting information about what supplies to use and where, as well as using different terminology for what turns out to be the same product. I use only three things regularly and they do everything – bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), distilled white vinegar and castile soap. For some jobs, they work together and for others, I use them on their own.

Over the next couple of pages you’ll find out why these three are particularly beneficial, and I have included a couple of recipe ideas for you to try. Occasionally I add a few drops of essential oils to the recipes but please be aware that some oils are toxic to pets. When you have become familiar with cleaning your home naturally, then you can add other ingredients to the mix, but for now I suggest starting simply with vinegar, castile soap and bicarbonate of soda (baking powder).

Create a capsule wardrobe A capsule wardrobe is simply an edited version of what’s already in your closet. You let go of the pieces that don’t work and you keep the items you love: those clothes that make you feel great and fit well. Having a capsule wardrobe frees you from the stress of deciding what to wear each morning, stops you from spending money on clothing you’ll never wear, cuts down on clutter and allows you to become a more mindful consumer. challenging yourself t o o n ly w e a r i n g c e rta i n i t e m s ca n help you to find your real style as you’ll d i s c ov e r w h at s u i ts you and makes you feel more confident.

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If you have already decluttered your wardrobe (see page xx), look at the items you have chosen to keep and ask yourself the following:

» Which colours do I mostly wear? » What shapes or cut do I like best? » Which materials work for me? » Which store or brand works best for me? These are your key pieces and the items you should base your capsule wardrobe around. The aim is to work these pieces hard by combining them in different ways to make several different outfits. When the season changes, it’s good to be able to pull a few things out of storage and make those the centre of your capsule wardrobe, storing the off-season pieces safely away from potential moth problems (see page xx).

After you have pared back your closet to your favourite items, you’ll discover what is missing. You may have lots of tops, shirts or t-shirts but only one or two skirts or pairs of trousers (pants).

buy something, look again at your answers to the questions above – which material, shape, cut or brand works best for you? Make slow and intentional purchases to fill the gaps.

Balancing out tops with bottoms will give you a flexible number of outfit combinations. If you need to s lo w fa s h i o n

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The Yoga Kitchen Plan A seven-day vegetarian lifestyle plan Kimberly Parsons

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A 7-day lifestyle plan and source of inspiration for anyone looking to achieve yogic balance in everyday life – with over 60 vegetarian recipes.

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The Yoga Kitchen Plan is a soulful journey towards finding your best, most authentic self where a quiet mind and overall sense of calm are the ultimate goal. Through the use of pure, non-stimulating foods, the plan helps the reader reach a state of bliss and tranquility each day. The book starts by explaining the body’s chakra system and how this is integral to a yogic lifestyle. The core of the book is the simple, 7-day plan which incorporates breathing exercises, meditations, basic yoga practice, daily tasks, and then a selection of recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner that target each of your 7 chakras to take you through a whole week. The 65 recipes follow a sattvic food model – this means that the food is lacto-vegetarian i.e. fruit, vegetables and dairy predominate while stimulating foods that unsettle the mind are excluded, such as eggs, garlic, onion and caffeine. Examples include Raspberry & Apple Bircher with Pistachio Confetti; Blueberry & Basil Kombucha with Poached Pear & Rhubarb; Fennel, Beetroot & Orange Salad with Whipped Feta; and Grilled Lettuce, Corn & Black Bean Chop Salad.

Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$39.99 | NZ$45.00

Author Details

ISBN

9781787133211

Publisher

Quadrille Publishing Ltd

Imprint

Quadrille Publishing Ltd

Series

Category

Health/Related

Kimberly Parsons is the author of The Yoga Kitchen , a speaker, lecturer, professionally qualified naturopath, chef and entrepreneur. As The Yoga Chef, her mission is to teach people how to listen to their body’s daily signs and symptoms in order to find long lasting, vibrant health and happiness. She calls this ‘body intelligence’ and is deeply passionate about helping people tap into this knowledge to find true connection. Kimberly spends her time cooking on health retreats all over the world and resides in the English countryside where she cooks bespoke healthy meals for many celebrity and private clients and delivers them to doorsteps all over London.

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247 x 173 mm

Extent

192pp

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Full colour photography throughout

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Key Information • A week’s worth of breathing exercises, meditations, basic yoga and daily tasks to achieve an overall sense of calm • 65 recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner to target your 7 chakras throughout the week • Recipes follow the sattvic (pure) food model, with no stimulating ingredients such as garlic or onions • The recipes are lacto-vegetarian (and over 50 are vegan)

the chakra energy system | characteristics

THE INDIVIDUAL CHAKRA CHARACTERISTICS r o ot c h a k r a Survival / Grounding / Stability / Security / Safety / Root Support / Family / A Sense of Belonging / Community For when you need to feel safe, secure, energetic, balanced, vibrant and passionate. For the moments when a sense of belonging and community is needed in your life. The root chakra creates a sanctuary for you to feel â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

s ac r a l c h a k r a Relationships / Sexuality / Empathy / Pleasure / Well-being / Connection / Change / Feelings and Emotions / Creativity For when you need to feel confident and deeply connected to everything around you as well as yourself. To deal with change and develop relationships with others. This is the chakra to help you move your body, feel pleasure, express your sexuality and connect to all things in and around you.

solar plexus Will / Power / Joy / Motivation / Self-esteem / Transformation / Identity / Vitality For when you need to feel energized, determined, powerful, happy, joyous and hopeful. For the moments when a sense of empowerment or standing steady in your own self is needed. When you desire to express your individuality and need willpower to help you see something through.

h e a rt c h a kr a Compassion / Love / Open-heartedness / Desire for Self-acceptance / Balanced Emotions / Harmony / Forgiveness / Gratitude / Devotion / Nurture / Heal For when you need to feel nourished, loved, natural, youthful, rejuvenated and intelligent. For the moments when you need to cultivate gratitude and healing in your life.

t h r oat c h a k r a Communication / Self-expression / Truth / Authenticity / Integration For when you desire to speak and hear the truth and live authentically. When you want to feel tranquil, calm, steady and integrated within your internal and external worlds. When you feel your heart and mind are in conflict.

t h i r d -e y e c h a k r a Knowingness / Intuition / Perception / Wisdom / Imagination / Meditation / Self-reflection For when you need to concentrate and focus. When you want to cultivate sophistication, mystery and wisdom. Your ability to visualize all aspects of your life and intuit is very strong if your third-eye is in balance. Your perspective and imagination is boosted here, too.

c r ow n c h a k r a Consciousness / Unification / Purity / Bliss / Divinity / Spirituality / Simplicity / Clarity For when you need to feel cleansed, pure and clear. For the moments when a sense of spirit and connectedness abound us. Your intentions live here alongside the connection to your higher consciousness.

root chakra | thrive | breakfast Bircher has always been my go to for morning oats during the lighter, brighter summer months. I rarely crave the cosy warmth porridge offers on a sunny summer morning, however this bircher could easily turn into a bowl of warm goodness in the cooler seasons. If making porridge, simply add all the ingredients except the cup of fresh or frozen raspberries into a saucepan and warmth through for a few minutes until the oats are cooked and gently simmering as per normal porridge. Once cooked, remove from the heat and stir the mashed raspberries into the porridge and serve topped with chopped raw pistachio crumbs.

APPLE & RASPBERRY BIRCHER with pistachio confetti (v)

serve s 2 100g (3½oz/1 cup) rolled oats ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon 240ml (8fl oz/1 cup) almond milk, or milk of your choice 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon maple syrup 2 eating apples, grated (keep the skin on) 1 tablespoon sunflower seeds 1 tablespoon pumpkin seeds 125g (4½oz/1 cup) fresh or frozen raspberries

to ga rnish a dollop of whole, natural yoghurt of your choice raw pistachios, roughly chopped bee pollen (optional)

Put the oats into a medium mixing bowl, add the cinnamon and stir to combine. Add the milk, vanilla extract and maple syrup and stir again. Now add the grated apples and seeds and stir well. Cover the bowl with cling film (plastic wrap) and place in the refrigerator overnight or for at least 20 minutes. If using frozen raspberries, remove from the freezer and place in a bowl to thaw. Once soaked, uncover the bircher mixture and stir to loosen. You may like to add a little water to help loosen the mixture. If using fresh raspberries, wash and gently pat dry using kitchen towel. Mash the raspberries slightly using a fork. If using frozen raspberries, also gently mash in their juices. Add the raspberries to the bircher mixture and stir to combine. The bircher will turn a gorgeous light pink colour. Taste the bircher and adjust for sweetness and flavour. You may like to add some extra cinnamon, raspberries or maple syrup. Serve the bircher in two breakfast bowls with a dollop of yoghurt, a sprinkle of chopped raw pistachio confetti, and a scattering of bee pollen, if wished. Keeps for 3–5 days in the refrigerator.

sacral chakra | honour | breakfast If you haven’t begun to see the trend already, I am going to give it away here; my favourite meals of the day are breakfast and dessert and in a book where there are no desserts, I just had to sneak in a few indulgent breakfasts and this is certainly one of them.

SPELT PANCAKES

served with caramelized bananas & sweet chestnut sauce (v)

serve s 2 fo r th e pa n c a ke s 160g (5¾oz/scant 1¼ cups) spelt flour (or buckwheat flour if a gluten-free flour is preferred) 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) 1 tablespoon coconut sugar 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon a pinch of salt 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 tablespoon olive oil, plus extra for greasing 130ml (4½fl oz/generous ½ cup) oat milk (or alternative milk of your choice) 1 banana, mashed

fo r th e swe e t c h e s t n u t sauc e 90g (3¼oz/scant 1 cup) cooked chestnuts 2 tablespoons maple syrup 1 teaspoon vanilla extract a pinch of sea salt

fo r th e c a ra m e l iz e d banan a s 2 2 1 2

tablespoons maple syrup tablespoons coconut sugar teaspoon coconut oil ripe bananas, peeled and cut lengthways

To make the pancake batter, put the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, coconut sugar, ground flaxseed, cinnamon and salt into a mixing bowl. Stir to combine, then add all the wet ingredients to the bowl and stir to completely combine. Set aside for 5 minutes while you make the sweet chestnut sauce. In a small food processor or blender, add the chestnuts, maple syrup, 100ml (3½fl oz/scant ½ cup) water, vanilla and sea salt. Blend on high for 1–2 minutes until a smooth sauce is formed. Taste and add a little extra maple syrup is desired. If you would like your sauce a little runnier, add some more water too. Set the sauce aside and start making pancakes. Place a non-stick frying pan over a medium–high heat. While waiting for the pan to heat, brush with a little olive oil and then lower the heat to medium. Using a soup ladle, spoon half a ladle of batter into the frying pan and gently spread to create a round pancake. Once there are bubbles on top of the pancake and its edges have started to look a little cooked, flip the pancake over and cook for a further minute or so. Remove the pancake from the pan and place on a warmed plate. Repeat this process to use all the remaining batter to make 6 pancakes in total. While the pancakes are being made, you can place another non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Add the maple syrup, coconut sugar and oil to the pan, stir to combine, then add the banana, cut faces down, into the syrup. Allow the banana and syrup to gently bubble for a few minutes. Remove from the heat. To serve, place a stack of 3 pancakes in the middle of a plate, drizzle with some sweet chestnut sauce, then spoon a dollop of yoghurt over the top of the pancakes. Gently remove the caramelized bananas from the pan using a silicon spatula, crisscross them over the yoghurt and drizzle with any caramel

sacral chakra | honour | dinner I love this kind of food, a real sensory overload! Fresh, crisp flavours that are clean on their own but mouth-wateringly more-ish once dressed up with vibrant flavours such as sweet yet savoury toasted sesame oil and tamarind paste. Just sitting down to a plate that looks this colourful and inviting is part of the experience and once those skewers get smattered with that satay

TEMPEH SATAY SKEWERS served with carrot, mooli & edamame slaw (v)

serve s 4 fo r th e sl aw 1 mooli (white radish/daikon), if unavailable use an additional 2 carrots 2–3 large carrots 150g (5½oz/1¼ cups) edamame beans 8 pink radishes, trimmed and thinly sliced 4 spring onions (scallions), trimmed and thinly sliced 125g (4½oz/heaped 2 cups) bean sprouts, washed 20g (²⁄³oz/1 cup) coriander (cilantro) leaves, roughly chopped 20g (²⁄³oz/1 cup) mint leaves, roughly chopped

fo r th e d re ssin g 5 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce 5 tablespoons toasted sesame oil 3 tablespoons tamari sauce 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar freshly squeezed juice of 2 limes 1 teaspoon white and/or black sesame seeds

fo r th e satay 5 tablespoons smooth peanut butter 1 teaspoon Thai red curry paste 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 2 tablespoons tamari sauce 1 tablespoon tamarind paste 600g (1lb 5oz) tempeh or firm organic tofu, cut into 2cm (¾in) 7 0thick batons 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

To make the carrot slaw, peel the mooli and carrots, trim the tops and bases and grate them using a large grater, or for speed and ease pass them through the grater blade of your food processor. Now, place the grated carrot and mooli into ice-cold water while you prepare the rest of the slaw and its dressing. To make the dressing, put all the ingredients in a small bowl and whisk to combine. In a large bowl combine the edamame beans, radishes, spring onions and bean sprouts. Drain and dry the carrots and mooli, then add them to the rest of the salad ingredients. Now add the fresh herbs and dressing and toss to combine. Once the salad is coated in the dressing, set aside in the fridge while you make the almond satay and tempeh skewers. To make the satay, put the peanut butter, Thai red curry paste, vinegar, tamari, tamarind paste and 5 tablespoons water into a bowl and stir until smooth and well combined. Preheat a griddle (char-grill) pan over a high heat. Thread the tempeh onto 8 metal skewers and brush with half the satay. Brush the grill with olive oil and cook the skewers, turning, for 6–8 minutes or until golden and charred. To serve, place a portion of slaw onto each plate and then top with 2 skewers. Drizzle the remaining satay sauce over the plates and serve.

The Wild Remedy 12 Months of Feeling Better in Nature Emma Mitchell Emma Mitchell’s richly illustrated and evocative diary records her nature finds over the course of a year and shows how being in the wild benefits our mental and physical wellbeing. Emma Mitchell doesn’t want to beat around the hawthorn bush, she suffers with depression, and has done for twenty-five years. In 2009, the stresses of a city job became too much and she decided to move her family into a cottage in the Cambridgeshire Fens. She swapped days in the office for walks in the wood. There she began to get better. And better. Her encounters with nature proving to be as medicinal as any therapy or drug. In Emma’s hand-illustrated diary, she takes us with her as she stomps the paths and trails around her home and further afield, sharing her nature finds and tracking the lives of local flora and fauna over the course of a year. Reflecting on how these encounters impact her mood, she explains the science behind such changes, calling on new research into forest bathing and our innate urge to be among leafy, furred and feathered things. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU $29.99 | NZ $32.99

ISBN

9781789290424

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Michael O'Mara Books

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Michael O'Mara

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Self Help

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210 x 148 mm

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192pp

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40 colour photos and 100 colour illustrations

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Filled with Emma’s beautiful drawings, paintings and photography, this is a book for those who want to bring a little piece of the outdoors with them, whether you struggle with low mood or just love discovering more about the natural world.

Author Details Emma Mitchell is a popular designer-maker, naturalist, illustrator and craft teacher. She has a monthly column in Countryfile magazine and is one of the Guardian’ s Country Diarists. She has also written for Mollie Makes, Country Living and Standard Issue magazine and has recently appeared on the BBC’s Countryfile winter special (10 million viewers) and BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Her first book, Making Winter , was published in October 2017 to outstanding praise. Emma lives on the edge of the Fens in Eastern England with her husband, two daughters, her whippet puppy and two guinea pigs. She records her daily nature finds with photographs and illustrations on her Instagram (@silverpebble2) which has over 105,000 followers, including Nigel Slater, India Knight and Emma Freud.

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Emma’s Instagram, @silverpebble2, has over 105,000 followers including Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, Emma Freud and India Knight. Emma’s star is on the rise: she appeared on the Countryfile winter special (10 million viewers) and has a regular column in their magazine and is a Guardian Nature Diarist. Emma has suffered with depression for 25 years giving her writing bold authenticity as she builds on current trends in nature and mental health (e.g. forest bathing, re-wilding and creativity). A unique and stunning design, featuring 40 colour photographs and 100 pen and ink and watercolour illustrations.

step out of our cottage and the sunlight has that soft, liquid quality that comes as the year turns. The first frost has covered the grass in delicate rime and the air is sharp and slightly but pleasingly painful in the nose. That particular, almost mouthwatering smell of leaf mould hangs about the trees and the last, straggler swallows are leaving. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autumn. This year, October begins with weather that would not be out of place in May or June. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warm enough for short sleeves and walks in the wood are balmy and sun-drenched. This unseasonal period of sunny weather adds to the benefit of being in the wood. The sunlight triggers higher levels of serotonin to be released in the human brain, including mine, and I feel cheerful. It is not difficult to rouse myself to my morning walks when the wood is as lovely as this. The last of the field scabious are in flower on the edge of the clearing and along the hedgerows the knapweed flowers, on which so many butterflies and bees fed and mated earlier in the year, have finished for the season and lost their colour. Its seed heads look like tiny pinecones, with woody scales in a pleasing overlapping pattern. I have a strong urge to draw them, so I do.

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As Annie and I progress through the wood and enter the clearing there are rhythmic glimmers above the grass pathways. An astonishing number of reddish common darter dragonflies have gathered and are seemingly dancing a few inches above the turf. As they dart and wheel, their wings reflect the light and it is a beautiful, ethereal sight that I wish I could preserve and replay on a winter day. Their dance is impossible to capture on my camera phone so I stop and watch for several minutes, trying to

ingrain the sight in my memory. Later, when I get home, I read about the common darter. This species continues to be active as late as November, often searching woodland for smaller insect prey, and mates during the autumn. I had witnessed an airborne flirtatious quadrille over the seed heads. I wondered where they might lay their eggs, then remembered the tiny pond on the edge of the sheep field a few tens of metres from where I saw the darters. I laid down this dragonfly mating dance as one of the seasonal signposts in the wood: a small October spectacle in the clearing that I will look out for next year.

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It is during October that most trees begin to reabsorb the chlorophyll from their leaves before they fall. As this green pigment, essential for photosynthesis, moves back into the tree it unmasks coloured compounds that have been there all year. Ever present carotenoids, flavonoids and anthocyanin are responsible for the reds, oranges, reds and occasional pinks and purples of the leaves that appear in woods and parkland at this time of year. I like the thought that the jewel-like colours of spindle (Euonymous japonica), hawthorn (Crataegus), field maple (Acer campestre) and cherry (Prunus sp.) are there in spring and summer, awaiting the months when the weather grows colder and greyer and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in need of colour. There is a spot in the wood at the crossroads of two paths where a stand of spindle (Euonymus japonica) creates an exquisite but transient patchwork of colour on the woodland floor with their fallen leaves. The colours of Euonymus leaves hardly seem real during October. Many turn the brightest cerise, some the palest primrose yellow, others a combination of both with a vivid stripe down their centre, and a few become almost colourless. As with the sight of the dance of the darters I want to put it into suspended animation so that I might conjure it in front of me during the drear days of January. In a few weeks, colour will be scarce in the countryside and the sight of these bright fallen leaves makes me feel elated. My urge to gather them as I would bright seaglass or shells on a beach is very strong and I pick some up to take home with me. I wonder about this impulse. Perhaps it is a pathway triggered by our hunter-gatherer past: a stand of sea buckthorn covered in berries or a patch of wild strawberries would benefit the diet of our ancestors enormously and it would directly aid their survival to respond positively to the sight of these wild foods, gather the berries and bring them back to their shelter.

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Each incident of foraging resulting in edible supplies is likely to result in a reward in the brain such as a burst of dopamine and it’s possible that a vestige of this response is what I experience when I gather the spindle leaves. This is my theory, anyway, but whatever the evolutionary cause of the positive feelings I gain from seeing and gathering and arranging these leaves, I know that the vivid yellows and oranges are helping to shift the balance of neurotransmitters in my brain so I dawdle near the bright carpet and allow the leaves to work their antidepressant spell. The sun is warm. These few minutes in the presence of rich colours are as good as any chocolate bar at boosting my mood. I continue along the woodland paths, ever conscious of Annie’s tendency to seek out and roll in the contents of both fox and badger latrines, then bound back to me open-mouthed with dog joy, as though she had doused herself in the rarest, hand-blended Parisian scent and wished to tell me all about her discoveries. I would prefer to avoid another session scrubbing her down with dog shampoo. Her baths are always followed by several hours when the whiff of wet dog permeates the house and she sulks, cross with my illogical urge to rid her of the ancient marks and smells of the woods. She has disappeared for a minute or two so I stand still, listening for the slight chink of the bone-shaped medallion on her collar. The silence is broken, not by this subtle bell-like sound, but by a series of tiny, high-pitched calls made by something very nearby. I become aware of a small flurry of movement in my peripheral vision and I try to focus on it. A diminutive dark shape is moving among the bare branches of a blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) on the edge of the grass path: a bird so tiny that its detail is barely discernible

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among the tangle of twigs. It is small enough to be obscured in the places where two or three slender branches converge. It flits about, apparently feeding on tiny insects, and does not seem to be aware of me or alarmed by my presence. I catch a glimpse of its darkish olive green plumage. Its head is decorated with a dim yellow-grey stripe which marks it out as a juvenile goldcrest: one of this year’s young.

The goldcrest is Britain’s smallest bird and although common, can be rather tricky to spot as it is well camouflaged among green leaves and is usually rather secretive. This individual is so intent on making the most of the prolific insects still present during this summery spell that it doesn’t appear to be perturbed by my presence and continues to jump among the twigs in search of food. The sight of the goldcrest induces a familiar bubble of elation in me. It is the same sudden, giddy, soaring feeling I experienced as a child if I found a minuscule froglet next to my granddad’s pond in late summer, or a ladybird on a nettle leaf next to the compost heap. It is better than eating

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Ogilvy on Advertising in the Digital Age Miles Young

David Ogilvy is remembered as one of the most influential admen of all time. His bestselling book Ogilvy on Advertising gave no-nonsense, essential advice to those in marketing, PR, advertising and other related industries wanting to improve their success rate. It has become the industry handbook. Ogilvy wrote his book before the Digital Revolution, and in this sequel, Miles Young brings the same erudite scrutiny to advertising in the digital age as he examines the challenges that agencies and their clients have faced with the arrival of "digital". He demonstrates how to respond astutely and successfully to the myriad possibilities the digital world has to offer. The book is comprehensive in its reach, touching on all areas, from brand response to social media, pervasive creativity, smart content and good storytelling, to cautions about the power of big data, and what we can learn from the latest neuroscience findings and emerging markets. Backed up by sound research and an illustrious career working out of offices in the UK, US and Hong Kong, Young cuts through the "noise" surrounding digital to outline some essential truths and offer sound practical advice. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$62.99 | NZ$67.99

ISBN

9781847960870

Miles Young became the worldwide chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather in 2009. He started working in advertising immediately after graduating from Oxford, where he read modern history. He joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1983 and was appointed to the board in 1986. In 1995, Miles joined the worldwide board and became chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific in Hong Kong. In September 2016 he became Warden of New College, Oxford and remains Non-Executive Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather.

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Reference

Format

187 x 247 mm

Extent

288pp

Illustrations

Approx 160 colour and b&w

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Ogilvy & Mather is a premier advertising agency with 450 offices in 120 countries around the world. Looks at how advertising has developed over the last 30 years, making it the perfect guide for those wanting to get started in the industry. An indispensible handbook for anyone who already works in advertising and a glimpse into the secrets of the world of advertising for outsiders, updated for the digital age. Ogilvy & Mather has worked with most top brands, including IBM, Cadburys, American Express, Coca Cola and Louis Vuitton. Young uses examples from these campaigns to demonstrate how to succeed in advertising in the twenty-first century. Both Ogilvy & Mather and the brands it represents are extremely international, meaning that this book will also have an international scope. The long-awaited sequel to the best-seller Ogilvy on Advertising – seen as the seminal work on advertising.

Brian May's Red Special Brian May and Simon Bradley

In Brian May's Red Special you will discover everything you ever wished to know about Brian May's unique, home-made guitar. Brian talks about every aspect of the Red Special, from its birth to playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace, from Live Aid to the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and beyond. All of this is accompanied by original diagrams, sketches and notes dating from the building of the guitar, as well as a great selection of photographs including Brian on stage with his guitar, close-ups and x-rays. Rare images are included throughout, as well as a full exploration of every aspect of the guitar that has been fully dismantled and photographed.

Author Details In 2007 Brian May, best known as the lead guitarist of the supergroup Queen, completed the PhD in astrophysics that he abandoned when Queen first started to find fame. He has his own personal column where he writes about topics including astrophysics, music, photography and his life experiences. He continues to tour with Queen + Adam Lambert. Simon Bradley has been a guitar journalist since 1996, and he has written hundreds of articles and interviews on all aspects of the instrument for many magazines and web sites including Guitarist, Total Guitar, What Guitar?, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Future Music , MusicRadar.com, Brianmay.com, and many more.

Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

Price

AU$32.00 | NZ$36.00

ISBN

9781787390782

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

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Music/Video/Film

Format

280 x 216 mm

Extent

144pp

Illustrations

Full colour photography

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This book offers a full exploration of every aspect of this extraordinary, hand-built musical instrument, played by Brian May in Queen. Includes rare photographs of the Red Special, Brian and his father, and Queen. The guitar has been fully dismantled and every piece photographed. Brian's voice is present throughout – he contributes an entire chapter about playing 'God Save The Queen' on the roof of Buckingham Palace in 2002.

24 Hours in Ancient Egypt A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There Donald P Ryan Have you ever wondered what it was like to live and work in Egypt, the most powerful kingdom of the ancient world? Spend a day with 24 Egyptians to see Egypt through their eyes – the sights, the smells, the struggles and the conflicts. Spend 24 hours with the ancient Egyptians. Ancient Egypt wasn’t all pyramids, sphinxes and gold sarcophagi. For your average Egyptian, life was tough, and work was hard, conducted under the burning gaze of the sun god Ra. During the course of a day in the ancient city of Thebes (modern-day Luxor), Egypt’s religious capital, we meet 24 Egyptians from all strata of society – from the king to the bread-maker, the priestess to the fisherman, the soldier to the midwife – and get to know what the real Egypt was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters – all from different walks of life – every hour and every chapter, and through their eyes see what an average day in ancient Egypt was really like. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$24.99 | NZ$27.99

ISBN

9781782439110

Publisher

Michael O'Mara Books

Imprint

Michael O'Mara

Series

Category

History

Format

198 x 129 mm

Extent Illustrations

Author Details Donald P. Ryan, Ph.D. is an archaeologist and Faculty Fellow in the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His work focuses on Egyptian archaeology, Polynesian archaeology, and ancient languages and scripts. His research in Egypt includes excavations in the Valley of the Kings, where he has discovered lost tombs and controversial mummies – Ryan excavated a tomb of one of the individuals to be featured in 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt, Amenemope the vizier of the ruler Amenhotep II. In 2017, he rediscovered three lost tombs in the Valley of the Kings also associated with that same ruler. Ryan is the author of several books and numerous scientific and popular articles on archaeological subjects, including Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day, Beneath the Sands of Egypt and Ancient Egypt: The Basics.

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272pp b&w photos and illustrations

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Get to know ancient Egypt through the people that lived there. From the author of Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day Draws upon ancient sources to tell the tales of a cast of 24 lively characters. Characters come from all strata of society to paint a complex picture of the social structure and fabric of Egyptian society. This is accessible, personal popular history for anyone interested in the ancient world.

5TH HOUR OF THE NIGHT (22.00–23.00)

THE PHYSICIAN SEES A PATIENT

‘Flow out, poison. Come forth. Go out on to the ground. Horus will exorcise you. He will spit you out …’ Metternich Stele, Spell 2a

Neferhotep the physician was weary and wished nothing more than to shut down his surgery for the evening and take a long rest. It had already been a very long and busy day when a naked boy caked in mud arrived, exhausted, after a long run to announce that someone was ‘injured at the river’ and was on his way. No details were given before he quickly dashed off. A drowning? A boat accident? An unfortunate encounter with one of the Nile’s dangerous creatures? He would soon find out. 7

24 Hours in Ancient EGYPT

THE PHYSICIAN SEES A PATIENT

The life of a village physician was full of variety: an ill child with a high fever, skin rashes, broken bones, and lacerations, to name a few of the typical situations. Just a couple of hours ago, a young woman appeared in his doorway complaining of a severe headache. After examining her and feeling her pulse, he created a soothing ointment from the fried skull of a catfish and applied it directly to her head while reciting a magic spell in an effort to drive away internal demons. ‘Come back tomorrow if you’re still in pain,’ he advised as the patient claimed that she already felt much better. Shortly after, a workman appeared with a fracture of his right

upper arm bone. The pain was excruciating, he said. Neferhotep felt the break, and then pulled and twisted on the arm until the bone sections were realigned. The relief was immediate and the patient was sent away with his arm anointed with grease and honey and then bound with an immobilizing splint to enhance healing. ‘Don’t work for a few weeks,’ was his final piece of advice. Occasionally, patients appeared with afflictions that had no real consequences; some were regular visitors, including Benia, the Overseer of Works. During the last few months, he had appeared several times demanding urgent assistance for ‘emergencies’ including a common bee sting, a ‘swollen earlobe’, and indigestion after a lavish party at another high official’s villa. And one time, Benia even had the audacity to show up with a pet monkey suffering from an itch. Neferhotep politely declined and suggested a veterinarian would be best. Last week, Benia arrived seeking a cure for his noticeable baldness. There was to be a banquet soon at his house and he asserted that he wanted to look his best. Although Neferhotep justifiably considered this a frivolous request, he nonetheless consulted one of his precious medical papyri and searched for a therapy. After a few minutes, he announced that he had found a treatment that someone or other in the past had proclaimed as effective. The recipe called for a mixture of equal parts of fat from a hippo, a cat, a crocodile, a lion, a snake and an ibex. Neferhotep located the appropriate materials among the many dozens of pottery jars lined up along three of the mud-brick walls of his healing room, which was actually a large single chamber annexed to his own home. There wasn’t much left of the ‘lion fat’, but enough to provide a first treatment. Luckily, he lived in Thebes, where the possibility of obtaining lion residues, or purported ones, was more likely than

Ancient Egyptian medical instruments depicted in a Ptolemaic period insription on the temple of Kom Ombo 8

THE PHYSICIAN SEES A PATIENT

Benia enthusiastically thanked the physician, and waddled home to his villa, the medicinal jar tucked under his arm, and fantasies of a full head of hair within a week’s time. ‘What a waste,’ Neferhotep had concluded. The temple priests actually shaved their heads in their efforts to appear clean, thus achieving the same effect of Benia’s purported affliction, and there were plenty of hard-working men tending to Egypt’s endless green fields with a similar condition but

much more pressing priorities in life. Seeking a cure for baldness seemed to be a luxury reserved for the most spoiled of the elite, who themselves, ironically, often sported expensive wigs. Such complaints, though annoyingly trivial, were occasionally part of the job, and the payment was welcome. Before being a physician permanently established in the vicinity of Thebes, Neferhotep had travelled with the military on foreign expeditions, treating the most appalling of injuries and ailments. Outbreaks of disease in an army camp could devolve into a truly dangerous situation and perhaps even a retreat. But the results of face to face combat between rival ground troops and chariots would naturally result in the worst of his cases. Neferhotep had seen and treated devastating head wounds from the crush of a mace, massive lacerations from axes and sickle-like swords, and plenty of deep arrow piercings. His military experience and consultative papyri provided rules for treatment. In some cases, the diagnosis recognized that there was nothing that could be done and many of those who were conscious and dying begged to have their remains returned to their beloved Egypt. All that was in the past. He now considered himself too old to travel into battle, so a domestic practice best suited his profession. His military experience, though, would serve him well. With many royal construction projects underway nearby, there seemed to be an endless stream of injuries incurred while on the job, including everything from eye afflictions as a result of the chipping away of stone to broken bones from falls. And many of his patients were workers under the supervision of the balding Overseer of Works himself, Benia. Fortunately Neferhotep had some assistance. The physician’s young son, Nakht, would follow in his father’s footsteps as expected.

a lot of places in Egypt. The ruler, Aakhererurre, bragged about his ability to hunt such creatures, and these days there were plenty of exotic ingredients coming in from Nubia to the south. The physician stirred up the mix in an empty jar and passed it over to Benia. ‘Apply it on to that shiny head of yours three times a day. And leave a basket of grain with my assistant.’ Egyptian medicine made use of an extensive variety of ingredients to be used singly or in combination for various treatments. Through trial and error the Egyptians discovered the therapeutic effects of some substances, such as honey, which retards infections. Animal products included meats and fats, blood (including that of lizards, bats and pigs), excrement from creatures as small as flies, internal organs, milk, and even roasted mice. Almost every known plant seemed to have an application, and numerous medicinal recipes featured one kind or another of vegetable, fruit, tree part, or spices. Mineral and metal products, were also employed, including galena and malachite, clay, copper, and natron, a salt-like dehydrating agent widely used by embalmers.

THE PHYSICIAN SEES A PATIENT

Nakht spent much of his day in training, learning both the scribal arts and medicinal practice. It was important that he be able to read the medicinal texts and perhaps even make his own copies as Neferhotep had done. Nakht, however, was still too young to have developed professional patience. He cruelly suggested to his father that he should have offered the obnoxious Benia a jar of reeking cat urine or donkey dung to rub into his knobby scalp.

Although a very busy day, Neferhotep was grateful that the worst he had seen today, apart from the broken arm, was a child with a snake bite. Ordinarily he would redirect such a patient elsewhere as there were specialists for that, but he just couldn’t turn away the screaming child and her two hysterical parents, one who was dangling at arm’s length the flattened carcass of the offending snake. There were many different kinds of poisonous snakes in Egypt – several with lethal bites – but even in its battered state, the physician was able to recognize its kind and pronounced it essentially harmless. Grabbing a bit of honey from a jar, Neferhotep massaged it into the tiny fang holes on the child’s arm while offering reassuring words. Digging through a wooden box, the physician removed an amulet representing the protective eye of the god Horus and placed it around the child’s neck. Her parents were understandably grateful and promised to return on the next day with some sort of gift. Apart from general practitioners, there were several specialists in Egyptian medicine, including experts in the eye, women’s maladies, afflictions of the stomach and other internal organs, snake and scorpion bites, and dentists. Not surprisingly, the ruler of Egypt had his own collections of the best to serve himself and his family.

Accidents ready to happen. A painted scene from the tomb of Apy illustrating a group of animated workmen constructing a shrine. One appears to have an eye injury (lower left) while another seems to receive treatment for a dislocation of the shoulder (upper right). (From Norman de Garis Davies, 1927, Two R amesside Tombs at Thebes, Plate XXXVII).

A ruckus outside the treatment room announced the arrival of the anticipated patient from the river. Four scraggly men rushed through the door carrying a woven mat with the victim on, who was screaming in pain and bleeding profusely from one leg. Clearly he wasn’t a drowning patient; they usually were delivered dead or at least unconscious. As the mat was placed on the floor, one of the 13

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men explained that the usually careful Hepu, a local potter, was bathing at the river’s bank in an attempt to remove the thick layers of clay adhering to his body from a very long day’s work. It would have been more sensible to use water from a canal or well, but Hepu was hungry and in a hurry and hopped in the river for a quick bath. Within moments, a juvenile crocodile clamped its jaws around the calf of his left leg and Hepu, in his panic, was somehow able to shake loose the creature and stumble on to the bank. His screams alerted his friends who themselves were quite shook up by the sight of it all. The bite had left a series of deep, bleeding tooth marks. Neferhotep hated these kinds of wounds involving animal bites and river water; they could be difficult to treat successfully. Hepu, though, was truly lucky to be alive. A larger crocodile would have not only created vastly more traumatic wounds, but likely would have held him underwater until he drowned. The physician knelt and examined the row of punctures in the pattern representing the crocodile’s teeth while Hepu’s friends held him down. Neferhotep provided pressure with a wad of linen over the bleeding holes while inspecting the rest of Hepu’s body for additional injuries. ‘Nakht! Get some meat from the butcher,’ ordered the physician, watching as his son hastened out of the door. Grabbing a hefty vase by its handles, the physician poured a large cup of wine laced with lotus blossoms and encouraged Hepu to sip from it. The concoction would serve as a kind of anesthetic to calm his thrashing patient. The potion quickly had its effect, and when Nakht soon arrived with two thin slabs of beef, Neferhotep was ready to expertly bind the meat against the wounds. ‘Now what?’ asked one of Hepu’s friends. ‘Take him home to his family, but he needs to be brought back here tomorrow for additional treatment.

And tell them to offer a few prayers to Sobek, the crocodile god. Let this be a reminder to you all the next time you’re feeling dirty and lazy.’ Hepu was carried out on the same mat he was carried in on. Neferhotep thought about what would come next. Tomorrow the meat would be removed, and then honey and grease would be applied and the wounds rebandaged. He checked a couple of jars to make sure there was a sufficient supply of the anticipated ingredients. That was enough for Neferhotep. ‘Clean up the mess,’ he commanded his son gently, ‘and I’ll see you ready to heal when the sun rises.’ The physician walked next door, removed his heavily stained linen kilt and climbed into his bed. Laying his head on his wooden pillow, he quickly fell asleep for a few hours reprieve before another round of daily surprises.

The Egyptian physician relied on treatments from the simple to the complex. A cure for indigestion, for example, might involve a pig’s tooth crushed into powder and baked into four sweet cakes which were then consumed for four days. A recipe ‘to heal diseased toes’ was much more complicated with its mixture of the following ingredients: ‘Fennel, wax, incense, cyperus, wormwood, dried myrrh, poppy plant, poppy grain, elderberries, berries of the uan tree, resin of acanthus, dough of acanthus, resin of the mafet tree, grain of aloes, fat of the cedar tree, fat of the uan tree, fresh olive oil, water from the rain of the heavens. Make into one, and poultice for four days.’ From Cyril P. Bryan, 1930, The Papyrus Ebers.

Never Eat Shredded Wheat Weird Ways to Remember Things Dan Smith This book is a cornucopia of mnemonics. Amusing as well as informative, it includes well-known examples that you might remember from school, some of which have been in use for centuries, as well as more recent ones and alternatives to the traditional versions. Our memories are mysterious things. One moment we might remember a lengthy poem or the exact street address of a restaurant from our childhood. But the next moment we can struggle to recall where we‘ve put our keys down or the name of the person we have just been introduced to. The human mind is not terribly good at remembering abstract data – but we can do it much more successfully if we create associations with more relatable bits of information, such as familiar people, places, colours, poems or jokes. The mnemonics that many of us learned as children are simply a shortcut to help locate information within your memory. For instance, rather than remember that the clockwise order of the points of the compass is North, East, South, West, we remember the mnemonic ‘Never Eat Shredded Wheat’, and the combination of humour and a visual reference provides an instant cue for our brains. Publication

01 January 2019

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9781782439899

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Michael O'Mara Books

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Michael O'Mara

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192pp

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This book is a cornucopia of mnemonics. Amusing as well as informative, it includes well-known examples that you might remember from school, some of which have been in use for centuries, as well as more recent ones and alternatives to the traditional versions. Ranging across history, science, language, numbers, business, art and much, much more, the mnemonics included here provide quick easy access to a vast amount of fascinating and useful information. In addition, there are sections on working out your own methods and systems to augment the existing mnemonics with your own Aide Memoires, which can help you with everyday tasks such as avoiding common misspellings, or remembering names, faces and numbers.

Author Details James M. Russell has a philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, a postgraduate qualification in critical theory, and has taught at the Open University in the UK. He currently works as a freelance writer, designer and editor. He is the author of A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics, A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics and A Traveller's Guide to Infinity. He lives in north London with his wife, daughter and two cats.

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Useful and fun ways to remember all sorts of information, from ancient examples to the new expressions that have entered our vocabulary. Also contains sections on working out your own mnemonics and memory aids. Beautiful gift package. From the publishers of the Sunday Times bestseller I Before E (Except After C), which has sold over 85,000 copies to date worldwide. James M. Russell has written several books, including A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics.

Ring-a-Ring o'Roses Old Rhymes and Their True Meanings This delightful book takes the reader on a journey into the weird and wonderful world of nursery rhymes. Offering a selection of more than 100 of our best-loved and widely known rhymes, it delves beneath the surface of the verses to interpret their meaning and reveal their historical origins The rhymes you’ll find here are instantly recognisable and provide a comforting link to our past, however, the stories behind them are often unknown and always fascinating – frequently telling the stories of true historical events from a time when the printing press was still a thing of the future and news was passed around verbally. With rhymes on topics ranging from the weather to the stars, journeys to sums and food and drink to wise ways, each chapter presents the full and best-known version of the rhyme, followed by an explanation of its meaning and origins, along with the wider references the rhymes make to such topics as foods and culinary customs, historical events or archetypes of folk and fairy tales. Whether you’re a lover of nursery rhymes or more of a history buff, there is lots in this book for all to enjoy.

Author Details Diana Craig is a writer, editor and artist with more than 25 years' experience in illustrated non-fiction and a degree in Fine Art. She has a keen interest in folklore, natural history, gardening, cookery and art. Her books include The Gardeners’ Book and The Weather Book , both published by Michael O’Mara Books.

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01 January 2019

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Hardback

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9781782439882

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Perfect gift for rhyme lovers or history buffs. Nostalgic and entertaining. From the publishers of Oranges and Lemons: Rhymes from Past Times, which has sold 25,000 copies to date worldwide. Diana Craig is a writer, editor and artist. Her books include The Gardeners' Book and The Weather Book, both published by Michael O'Mara Books.

The Complete Michael Jackson The Man, the Music, the Moves, the Magic Chris Roberts

Michael Jackson’s musical appeal stretches on for decades, and even goes beyond the time of his death. The Complete Michael Jackson is the ultimate reference book to the King of Pop’s long and storied career, leaving nothing out, from start to finish. Filled with fantastic images from every part of his life, from his artistic debut as a member of the Jackson 5, all the way to him preparing for his sell-out season at the O2 arena, this is an exhaustive look at a titan of the music industry, describing every album, recording, appearance and gig, resulting in a totally comprehensive guide to the pop idol. If you want the definitive book of Michael Jackson, look no further … This Is It!

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01 January 2019

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Hardback

Chris Roberts has written for a variety of international publications and websites, including Classic Rock, The Guardian, Melody Maker, NME, Sounds, Elle, Ikon, The Daily Telegraph, Empire and Emusic. He has also written books about Lou Reed, Abba, Scarlett Johansson and Heath Ledger as well as the bestselling Michael Jackson: The King of Pop in 2009. He lives in London.

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9781787391086

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Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Art/Fashio/Photography

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280 x 230 mm

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256pp Approx 200 colour and b&w photographs and artworks

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Michael Jackson is the most popular artist the world has ever seen – Guinness World Records rank him as the “most successful entertainer of all time.” Thriller is the most popular album ever, spending 37 weeks at the US Number One spot and sold more than 50 million copies sold worldwide. A feat never to be beat. Despite his tragic death in 2009, Jackson continues to earn over millions. In 2016 alone, his estate earned over $825 million, according to Forbes. • This expansive edition will be the definitive reference book for all things Jackson, filled with stunning photographs.

Darwin Dr. John van Wyhe

Darwin takes a look at the life of this incredible man, from his birth, his ground-breaking publications and far-flung travels, Darwinism and his theories on evolution, all the way to his final days. Over 160 stunning images and illustrations are included within Darwin, ranging from personal diary entries (such as those he made when deciding whether to marry or not), letters and handwritten notes, as well as sketches from Darwin's famous works. Revealing the famous scientist's life in compelling detail, Darwin covers not only his scientific career and On the Origin of Species but his personal struggles also, allowing us to see what truly made the man.

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01 January 2019

Dr John van Wyhe is an historian of science at the University of Cambridge. He is the founder and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, Bye-Fellow of Christ's College and Member of Council for the British Society for the History of Science. Dr van Wyhe is currently co-editing a volume of Darwin's field notebooks and a volume of his shorter publications. He lives in Cambridge.

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Hardback

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AU$39.99 | NZ$45.00

ISBN

9780233005362

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Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Science

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237 x 185 mm

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160pp

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Approx 160 colour and b&w

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Charles Darwin is arguably the most significant figure in nineteenth and twentieth century science, and his thoughts on evolution forever changed the way people saw the world. An illustrated journey through Darwin's life, with images of his diaries, letters, sketches and maps. Written by a leading authority on Darwin, Dr John van Wyhe, who is the founder and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online.

World Rugby Records Chris Hawkes

World Rugby Records covers the biggest, the best and the most exciting aspects of a game that is unlike any other. World Rugby Records is a special celebration of rugby excellence, featuring not only a host of records from teams and tournaments around the world (in all the game's formats), but also the stats and stories behind them as well as a series of detailed biographies on some of the greatest players ever to have played the game. Whether you are an armchair fan or a Twickenham regular, it is essential reading for any student of the game.

Author Details Chris Hawkes grew up following the Leicester Tigers and played rugby at junior county level, once playing against England's future World Cup-winning captain Martin Johnson, before switching his attentions to cricket. He played cricket professionally before moving into publishing. He was editor of the bestselling Cricketer's Who's Who annual for a number of years and has gone on to write a number of books, including, for Carlton, the Rugby World Cup Guide.

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01 January 2019

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Hardback

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AU$39.99 | NZ$45.00

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ISBN

9781787391727

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Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Category

Sport & Fitness

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285 x 217 mm

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192pp

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380 colour and b&w

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Published in time for the 2019 Rugby World Cup which will be staged in Japan in 2019, the first time it has been hosted by a country outside the Six Nations or Rugby Championship. Carlton's World Records series has sold more than one million copies worldwide since the first title was published in 2009. Comprehensive and written for a wide audience; 8.5 million players participate in rugby every year, including more than 2 million women and almost 2 million children. Digital interest in the 2015 World Cup broke all records: there were an average of two uses per second of #RWC2015; the website attracted 25 million unique users and there were 270 million video views on all social media channels.

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01 January 2019

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9781449492526

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AMP

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Andrews McMeel Books

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Child Fiction

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203 x 140 mm

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256pp

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Full colour illustrations

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8 and up

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01 February 2018

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Paperback

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AU$19.99

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Workman Publishing

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Workman

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203 x 146 mm

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496pp

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Full-colour illustrations throughout

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12 and up

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Charlie & Mouse Book 1 Laurel Snyder

Meet the Theodor Seuss Geisel Medal-winning Charlie and Mouse! Join them in their very first book (now available in PB) as they: talk to lumps, take the neighbourhood to a party, sell some rocks, and invent the bedtime banana. With imagination and humour, Laurel Snyder and Emily Hughes paint a lively picture of brotherhood in four irresistible stories that readers will relish.

Author Details Laurel Snyder is the author of many books for children. She lives and writes in a small yellow house in Atlanta, Georgia, which she shares with her husband and two sons. She would like to state for the record that while none of these stories are exactly true, none of them are exactly untrue either.

Publication

01 January 2019

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Paperback

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AU$12.99

ISBN

9781452172637

Publisher

Chronicle Books

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Chronicle Child

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Category

Child Picture

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203 x 178 mm

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60pp

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Full colour illustrations throughout

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6 and up

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Emily Hughes is an illustrator (and sometimes writer) who lives in windy Brighton, England, while thinking fondly of her hometown in Hilo, Hawaii. When making books she uses pencils, her tablet, and a very, very generous stack of paper.

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2018 Geisel Award Winner: Charlie & Mouse in hardcover won the prestigious 2018 Geisel Award, which honours the most distinguished American book for beginning readers annually! This is the first Geisel win in Chronicle's history. Book 1 in hardcover sold nearly 25,000 copies in the US in its first year alone! Charlie & Mouse follow the beginning reader tradition of Frog & Toad and Henry & Mudge. Loveable and energetic, the pair is sure to warm young hearts and imaginations. Accessible readability. Perfect for librarians, parents, and teachers who want books to recommend to reluctant young readers. Starred reviews from Kirkus, SLJ, Horn Book, and PW to list a few, as well as recognition as a Best of 2017 Children's Book (Kirkus), a Junior Library Guild selection, and a 10 Best Books from Time Magazine.

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The Story of the Titanic for Children Joe Fullman

Explore the beautiful sundecks, marvel at the luxurious design and relive the tragic sinking of the world's most famous ship with The Story of the Titanic for Children. Over one hundred years on, the captivating story of the Titanic has lost none of its appeal. This stunning book explores real-life stories and little known facts that will absorb young readers. Beautiful images and bite-sized information bring the Titanic to life, from its construction to the victims and survivors after its tragic sinking. Filled with amazing facts and details giving insights into the "unsinkable" ship, The Story of the Titanic for Children will satisfy even the most curious minds.

Author Details Joe Fullman is an experienced children's author and has written many non-fiction reference titles for DK and Quarto. He lives in South London.

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01 January 2019

Binding

Paperback

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AU$17.99 | NZ$19.99

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9781783123353

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Carlton Publishing Group

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Carlton Books

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Category

Child Non Fiction

Format

245 x 283 mm

Extent

48pp

Illustrations Age Range

Approx. 160 colour and b&w 8 and up

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Accessible, bite-sized text for young readers. Great parent or grandparent buy. Features fascinating and little-known real-life stories from the Titanic. Includes photography from the time as well as reconstructed CGI artwork.

The Magical World of Ballet Lisa Miles

The Magical World of Ballet gives a unique insight into this beautiful art form, seen through the eyes of The Royal Ballet. Budding principal dancers will discover what it takes to become a professional dancer, while fans of ballet can learn about how a production is created and how the beautiful costumes are made. This must-have book also features profiles of world-renowned dancers and interviews with people working behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House.

Author Details Lisa Miles spent her entire career in children's publishing, as both a writer and an editor. She worked in educational publishing for schools, children's trade publishing and also on a variety of children's magazines. Publication

01 January 2019

Binding

Hardback

Price

AU$29.99 | NZ$32.99

ISBN

9781783123865

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

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Category

Child Non Fiction

Format

245 x 283 mm

Extent

80pp

Illustrations

Approx. 160 colour and b&w

Age Range

6 and up

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The Magical World of Ballet stands out against the competition due to the exquisite imagery from The Royal Ballet. Readers will pore over images of dancers as well as a fabulous selection of costumes, shoes, props and performances on stage. The book covers topics such as how to be a dancer, as well as what goes on behind the scenes, so is sure to appeal to a wide audience. The Royal Ballet is committed to reaching audiences beyond the Covent Garden stage and as well as its live cinema broadcasts, the company has an ongoing commitment to touring. An insight into such a famous institution is sure to grab the attention of fans worldwide.

The World of Vikings Stella Caldwell

Set sail in your longboat and explore the mysterious lands of runes, raids and sagas. The Vikings combines breathtakingly vivid images with fascinating facts to unlock the world of these legendary warriors, traders and explorers. Covering bloodthirsty raids, weapons, heroic figures, as well as daily life and exploration, this illustrated book is the perfect gift for all young Viking enthusiasts!

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01 January 2019

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Paperback

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AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9781783123964

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

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Category

Child Non Fiction

Format

262 x 228 mm

Extent

80pp

Illustrations

Approx. 160 colour and b&w

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8 and up

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Robert Macleod lives on the remote Scottish coastline and has a passionate interest in the Viking age. His inspiration comes from an journal belonging to his grandfather Tom Macleod, documenting the discovery of long forgotten Viking relics. Tom has traced these treasures to a Viking burial site, which has been fully excavated to reveal fragments of a boat and remains of a once great Viking noble.

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A perennial favourite for kids, the theme of Vikings is often chosen by teachers for class projects. Its appeal to a young audience is on the rise due to the huge success of movies such as How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2 which feature a young Viking boy. A lavish album of discovery in which the battles, legends and heroic deeds of these notorious Norsemen are brought to axe-wielding life. Intricate illustrations of weapons and Viking treasures are paired with full-bleed awe-inspiring CGI scenes.

The Book of Dragons Stella Caldwell

From the glittering peaks of frozen mountains to dripping caverns hidden deep underground, The Book of Dragons brings mighty and ancient dragons to life. Read exciting tales of legendary dragons, pore over detailed maps of mythical lands, explore a dragon's treasure hoard and marvel at lavish collections of dragon teeth, talons, scales and eggs. This richly illustrated book is a sumptuous treasury of a magical lost world and fulfils the desires of every young dragon enthusiast.

Author Details

Publication

01 January 2019

Stella Caldwell studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and worked in book publishing as an editor for several years. She is the author of many other books for children including The Gloriumptious Worlds of Roald Dahl and Explore 360: The Tomb of Tutankhamun.

Binding

Paperback

Key Information

Price

AU$19.99 | NZ$22.99

ISBN

9781783124008

Publisher

Carlton Publishing Group

Imprint

Carlton Books

Series

Category

Child Fiction

Format

225 x 225 mm

Extent

72pp

Illustrations

Approx. 150 colour and b&w

Age Range

8 and up

Terms

SOR

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The Book of Dragons is filled with lavish illustrations that breathe life into these mighty and ancient creatures. The book has a gallery-like approach, showcasing teeth, scales, talons and much more from these fascinating creatures as if behind glass and part of a major exhibition. Profile spreads of scary, mythical, beautiful and fascinating dragons give in-depth information for readers who want to dig further. High-impact feature spreads will attract reluctant readers.