Much has been written about what to expect of your child in the first year of its life how to tame toddlers & raise children. In an age prone to overparenting the time is right for the UKs largest online parenting organisation to put the emphasis back on a mothers needs. Often the pressure to be the perfect mother can add to a mothers worries
- especially first time around. Forget the Yummy Mummy phenomenon that says its possible to look after a newborn baby keep your house spic & span cook gourmet family dinners & still manage to put your lipstick & heels on. Life isnt really like that. This practical handbook looks at the elements of parenting that can make a mother unhappy & offers information & advice on how to cope. Most importantly this is real advice for real women from real women
- the 250 000 members of netmums.com together with advice from the experts.

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THE STORY CONTINUES in the second volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.. . Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter a dragon-whisperer & the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy & finding it very hard to be a Hero. Can Hiccup find Grimbeard the Ghastly's treasure before Alvin the Treacherous gets his sneaky hands on it? & if Hiccup opens a box that says DO NOT OPEN will he live to tell the tale? How to Train Your Dragon is a Dream Works film starring Gerrard Butler America Ferrera & Jonah Hill out on DVD in October 2010 adapted from the best selling How to Train Your Dragonseries by Cressida Cowell. Read the rest of Hiccup's exploits in the How to Train Your Dragon series in How to Train Your Dragon How to Speak Dragonese How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse How to Twist a Dragon's Tale A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons How to Ride a Dragon's Storm & How to Break a Dragon's Heart. Check out the all-new Hiccup website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It's the place to go for games downloads activities & sneak peeks! Read all about Hiccup & all of your favourite characters learn to speak Dragonese & train your own Dragon to do tricks! ...

In the first Surviving High School novel freshman Emily Kessler overcame her first-day fears broke national records on her swim team secured her place in the high school hierarchy & even started dating the cutest boy in school. Tired of playing Emily's sidekick it's time for best-friend Kimi Chen to step into the spotlight & snag her own place at the coveted centre table of the cafeteria. But when a low-budget music video she made hits the web & goes viral forget just being popular
- Kimi is famous! Boys want to date her girls want to be her & she's even been asked to perform on her favourite television show. Things are finally looking up; what could possibly go wrong? But when fame starts to get in the way of her friendships Kimi chokes on national television. It turns out that being a star may be more than she bargained for.
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How To Be a Victorian
- travel back in time with the BBC's Ruth Goodman Step into the skin of your ancestors... We know what life
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It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote & the Pill & we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? & why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir part rant Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking. ...

Passionate independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of The Corrections. Jonathan Franzens Freedom was the literary sensation of 2010 whilst The Corrections was the best-loved & most written-about novel the previous decade. How to be Alone is a collection of the personal essays & painstaking often humorous reportage that have earned Franzen a wide & loyal readership including what has come to be known as The Harpers Essay Franzens controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. From the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works from his fathers struggle with Alzheimers disease to a rueful account of Franzens brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author each piece wrestles with Franzens familiar themes: the erosion of civic life & private dignity & the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern imperial America. These collected essays record what Franzen calls a movement away from an angry & frightened isolation toward an acceptance -- even a celebration -- of being a reader & a writer. They voice a wry distrust of the claims of technology & psychology the love-hate relationship with consumerism & the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest toughest-minded & most entertaining social critics at work today. ...

This eighth edition of the best selling How to be an Even Better Manager" covers 50 essential topics across the three key areas in which any manager needs to be competent: managing people; managing activities & processes; & managing & developing yourself. Thoroughly revised & updated with nine new chapters providing timely advice on topics such as benchmarking cost cutting improving organizational capability & recovering from setbacks this is an invaluable handbook for current & aspiring managers. " How to be an Even Better Manager" provides sound guidelines that will help you to develop a broad base of managerial skills & knowledge. Even the most experienced manager needs to keep abreast of new developments & brush up on essential competencies so this new edition will continue to be an invaluable aid." ...

Dont bin it! With How to be an Everyday Kitchen Magician you will be astounded by what you can make from the most uninspiring food at the back of your fridge or cupboard. This book is so much more than a recipe book
- in fact its about learning to cook without using recipes at all. Its about making the most of what you have reducing your waste dramatically & discovering how to create spontaneous delicious dishes in minutes. Its filled with ingredients that most of us would throw away without so much as a second thought. For example.. .* A cold leftover sausage a crusty bit of cheddar a bendy courgette & a few wrinkly mushrooms can become a sublime risotto in 20 minutes. * Take a dried-out flour tortilla half an onion a squirt of tomato puree a squidgy tomato & a scattering of dried herbs combine with random bits of cooked veg & youve got a delicious pizza in less time than it takes for delivery. Whether youre a non-cook or an aspiring professional the recipes techniques & way of thinking about cooking in these pages will change your culinary life forever. Your everyday bits leftovers & rejects will become a treasure trove of delicious dishes rather than wasted cash. GBP12 billion worth of food & drink is thrown away every year in the UK adding up to hundreds of pounds per household.
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From the author of Wreck this Journal" Keri Smith's " How to be an Explorer of the World" is an invitation to rediscover the world around you. Artists & scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways by observing collecting documenting analyzing & comparing. In this captivating guided journal readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists & scientists. The mission Smith proposes? " To document & observe the world around you. As if you've never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to." With a series of interactive prompts & a beautifully h&-illustrated two-colour package readers will enjoy exploring & discovering the world through this gorgeous book. Bestselling author Keri Smith is a freelance illustrator by trade & has illustrated for the " Washington Post" " The New York Times" Ford Motor Company " People" The Body Shop & Hallmark. She is the author of " Wreck This Journal" " How To Be An Explorer of the World" & " Mess". She lives in Canada." ...

Not for everyone the title of Prime Minister Foreign Secretary or other such hallowed callings; the vast majority of the House of Commons is made up of backbenchers
- the power behind the constitutionally elected throne. Here is a guide for anyone & everyone fascinated by the quirks & foibles of Westminster Palace covering all species of backbencher & providing every hardworking MP & political enthusiast with the know-how to survive life in Parliament. From how to address the crowd weather marital troubles & socialise at party conference to the all-important Backbenchers' Commandments How to be an MP is indispensable reading for anyone wishing to make a mark from the back bench & influence proceedings in the House. & in the process it provides the outsider with a riveting insight into life as a Member.
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