All posts tagged "non fiction"
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Comparing Notes: How We Make Sense of Music, by Adam Ockelford
A study on how we perceive music, containing world-changing ideas that are essential reading for classical composers, music theorists, special needs teachers, neuroscientists, and evolutionary biologists.
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988Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Frighteners, by Peter Laws
An exploration of our fascination with the macabre. Is morbid culture really an assault on decency? Can we blame an increase in gory movies and violent video games for a rise in depravity across the world?
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785Books & LiteratureBook Review: Natural Causes, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Award-winning author, social commentator, and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich, investigates how ‘wellness’ has replaced ‘health’ (ie not being sick), persuading us that we need to have regular check-ups and tests in spite of little or no scientific evidence to show there are any real benefits.
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3.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: I Can Get Paid for That? by Jo Stewart
A look at 99 unusual career possibilities from being a taxidermist or airplane repossession agent through to a court sketch artist, greeting card writer, snake milker, truffle hunter and wig maker.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureCookbook Review: Food Hacker, by Rosie Mansfield
Described as “clever cooking for busy people”, a food hack is an inexpensive recipe that takes under an hour, using familiar equipment in original ways.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureCookbook Review: Cauliflower is King, by Leanne Kitchen
70 recipes using cauliflower as one of the primary ingredients, from a beef tagine and curry through to biryani, pastas and even cheesecakes and muffins.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Longevity Diet by Professor Valter Longo PhD
The Longevity Diet is a distillation of Professor Valter Longo's life's work, resolving what he believes to have caused the gap in life expectancy and levels of chronic illness rates between Italy and his adopted homeland, America.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Andy Warhol A to Z: The Life of an Icon from Adman to Zeitgeist, by Steve Wide
The third encyclopedia in Steve Wide's A to Z series of celebrity biographies focuses on iconic pop artist Andy Warhol, featuring the locations, images and people of his life.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Sounds Appealing, by David Crystal
Debate over correct pronunciation has existed for centuries but, as English becomes more and more of a global language of communication, the need to be intelligible to others is ever-more important.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Plantopedia, by Adrienne Barman
A hardcover children’s book that groups plants according to their peculiar characteristics and capabilities, from ‘the air fresheners’ and ‘the big eaters’ to ‘the biggest, stinkiest, most magical and most poisonous of all’.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Thrive Through Yoga, by Nicola Jane Hobbs
A easy-to-follow structured, 21-day plan to ease anxiety, love your body and feel more alive through yoga.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Break-up Boss, by Zoe Foster Blake
A light-hearted walk through each likely stage of a bad breakup for the craziest of crazy girls who are most likely to commit illegal acts in their fits of rage and grief!
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Alt America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, by D Neiwart
David Neiwart presents an eminently readable exploration of the rise of the Alternative Right in America, which culminated in the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
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644Books & LiteratureBook Review: Dear Fahrenheit 451, Annie Spence
Librarian Annie Spence uses letters to share her lifelong love affair with books and reading, and what particular books have meant to her.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Crӕft, by Alexander Langlands
UK historian, archaeologist and television presenter, Alexander Langlands, goes back in time to look at the art of traditional crafts and what we have lost through factory-style production, including the ability to think in a considered way about what we are making.
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679Books & LiteratureBook Review: 1,342 QI Facts to Leave You Flabbergasted, by John Lloyd, et al
Fast facts and silly trivia. More than 300 pages of fun, bite-sized minutia, compiled by the team behind television’s QI, a comical British panel game show.
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816Books & LiteratureBook Review: There It Is Again, by Don Watson
An enjoyable collection of previously published pieces from award-winning author and historian Don Watson, who is also a humourist and was Paul Keating’s speechwriter and biographer.
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842Books & LiteratureBook Review: A World Without “Whom”, by Emmy J Favilla
The former global copy editor of Buzzfeed looks at language, how it changes, and how it is used in the art of communication, including the use of emojis in text messaging and social media.
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1.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery, by Carol Lefevre
A poignant and respectful collection of titbits of South Australian history pieced together as the author wanders the paths of the West Terrace Cemetery in Adelaide.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Bumper Book of Things That Nobody Knows, by William Hartston
An omnibus edition of all the useful and absurd trivia you could ever image, from history to animal sexuality, Shakespeare to centipedes. There's almost 800 pages of fascinating information at your fingertips.
