Well hello to you dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast. So here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that adulthood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors peculiar lack of physical coordination & sometimes unexplained nudity that accompanied childhood & adolescence? Does everybody struggle with the hazards that accompany say sitting elegantly on a bar stool; using chopsticks; pretending to understand the bank crisis; pedicures
- surely it's plain wrong for a stranger to fondle your feet? Or is it just me? I am proud to say I have a wealth of awkward experiences
- from school days to life as an office temp
- & here I offer my 18-year-old self (and I hope you too dear reader) some much needed caution & guidance on how to navigate life's rocky path. Because frankly where is the manual? The much needed manual to life. Well fret not for this is my attempt at one & let's call it because it's fun a Miran-ual. I thank you.


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In Is it me or it hot in here? one of Britains most popular journalists & broadcasters addresses the menopause. She looks at what the menopause is
- its symptoms & how it affects overall health. She also looks at the psychological & social implications. There is an overview of the latest research on HRT
- its benefits & drawbacks
- & the new work which is being done on various alternative therapies. She

Includes:: discussions on sex life social life face-lifts (or otherwise) exercise (or otherwise) keeping your figure & discovering ones place in life as a middle aged woman in a feminist era. The section on rethinking the menopause looks at changing attitudes & how to cope with post-menopausal life offering a new agenda for post-menopausal women. Throughout the tone is inquiring but accessible making it one of the most appealing books on the menopause written to date.




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Many women will be familiar with the common dismissals they hear from other health-care professionals in regard to their concerns. It's 'just a normal part of being a woman' or 'not that important'. Marcelle Pick validates women's experience of hormonal issues & reassures them that with simple natural changes they can eliminate their cravings depression mood swings & weight gain going on to feel energized sexual & in command of their lives. In Is It Me or My Hormones? Marcelle Pick MSN OB/GYN NP & author of The Core Balance Diet & Is It Me or My Adrenals? delves into the often misunderstood world of female hormonal imbalance. Marcelle not only shares her expertise as a health-care professional but also her personal struggles as a woman with hormonal imbalance. She explains that the right diet exercise supplements herbs & psychological support occasionally complemented with bioidentical hormones can free women from hormone disruption. Marcelle talks women through the basic science of how their hormones affect their body mind & emotions in chapters such as: My Awful PMS.. .and How it Almost Killed me; Your Hormonal Symphony; Get Rid of the Hormonal Disrupters! ; & Sexy Sensual & Talking to Your Partner. Is it Me or My Hormones? also provides women with a combination of engaging patient anecdotes & a concrete & accessible integrated 30-day program that can balance their hormones & make them feel like themselves again. ...

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?" by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny wise & life-affirming language book shows how from puns to poetry news bulletins to the Bible Asterix to Swedish films translation is at the heart of everything we do
- & makes us who we are. Selected by " The New York Times" as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2011. "A wonderful witty book.. .richly original endlessly fascinating.. .for anyone interested in words". (" Economist" Books of the Year). "A scintillating bouillabaisse.. .spiced with good & provocative things". (" Literary Review"). " Dazzlingly inventive". (" The New York Times"). " Clear & lively... There is nothing quite like it". (" Spectator")."
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At forty years old a successful writer husband & father no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? Was he f**k! With his manic life left far behind & the perfect opportunity to take it easy stretched before him what else would a middle-aged bike obsessed man want? Yes thats right hed want to be the first guy to ride around Australia on an underpowered experimental motorcycle that runs on used chip fat wouldnt he? (Preferably without getting hit by an articulated lorry full of bridge parts along the way
- ) Is he out of his mind? Quite possibly
- Embark on a rollickingly funny downright dangerous & often unhinged quest that starts on an environmentally friendly motorcycle built on a shoestring budget by students & ends with a plan to land speed record for biofuel-powered motorcycle. Carter is at his balls-to-the-wall best: prepare to laugh out loud.

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You know the trouble with the French? They dont even have a word for entrepreneur!" George W. Bush " Im making absolutely no comment...and no I did not!" Boris Johnson If you want to hear something stupid just listen to the nearest politician. Following on from the extraordinary success of Mission Accomplished this is a further collection of the often unbelievable verbal blunders indiscretions regrettable promises about-turns deceptions & lies that politicians speak. Ranging across the centuries & across the globe this salutary & hugely funny book comes bang up-to-date with all those immortal lines our leaders have accidentally made into classics. Here are some of the magnificent gaffes fantastic faux pas & extraordinarily idiotic utterings from the great political names of our age including George Bush Gordon Brown Barack Obama David Cameron Mitt Romney & Nicolas Sarkozy." ...

At least one child in five experiences some form of learning difficulty but: * Learning difficulties as we understand them DO NOT exist * They are not diseases just symptoms * These symptoms never appear alone * They are treatable & avoidable. Dr Robin Pauc an expert in child neurology approaches learning difficulties including Dyslexia ADD OCD ADHD Dyspraxia & Tourettes syndrome of childhood from a truly ground-breaking perspective. All human babies are born prematurely & develop special new brain cells four months after birth. Every humans developement in the womb & particularly in these early stages of life can therefore be affected by devlepement delay which can blight childhood & marginalize a child at school. Since our brains continue to grow however the symptoms can also be treated. Is That My Child? Explains the backround to human developmental delay & contains: * Advice on how to get the best assessment for your child & an explanation of what the examination must include; * The effects
- good & bad
- of certain foods on the brain * Excercises & computer programs that you can use to expand your childs neural function * Case histories of children on whom this plan has worked. In the single biggest breakthorough in the history of learning difficulties Is That My Child? explains the cause of Development Delay Syndromes uses simple easy-to-follow tips to show you how to greatly reduce the risk of your child suffering & gives advice on what can be done to treat those children that do.

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Following the success of Is that My Child? Dr Pauc demonstrates how nutrition & exercise can help children overcome many conditions from dyslexia & dyspraxia to ADHD & Tourette's Syndrome. The book

Includes:: easy-to-follow advice & information from the effects nutrition can have on children's behaviour to how different types of exercise can benefit children in different ways. There are also lots of recipe ideas as well as practical exercise & diet workbooks for parents to chart their child's progress.

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The question whether or not we survive physical death has occupied the minds of men & women since the dawn of recorded history. The spiritual traditions of both West & East have taught that death is not the end but modern science generally dismisses such teachings. The fruit of a lifetimes research & experience by a world expert in the field Is There An Afterlife? presents the most complete survey to date of the evidence both historical & contemporary for survival of physical death. It

Includes:: mediumship & channelling spontaneous cases hauntings apparitions near death experiences out of the body experiences Electronic Voice Phenomenon Instrumental Transcommunication & recent laboratory work. It accepts that evidence is often disputed but makes the claim that much of the phenomena is inexplicable without some form of survival. It looks at the question of what survives-personality memory emotions & body image-in particular exploring the question of consciousness as primary to & not dependent on matter in the light of recent brain research & quantum physics. It discusses the possible nature of the afterlife the common threads in Western & Eastern traditions the common features of many levels " group souls & reincarnation. As well a providing the broadest overview of the question giving due weight to the claims both of science & religion Is There An Afterlife? brings it into personal perspective. It asks how we should live in this life as if death is not the end & suggests how we should change our behaviour accordingly."

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Hes a high school student a zombie a bodyguard a roommate & now a magikewl girl! But underneath it all Ayumu Aikawa is after only one thing: the identity of the serial killer who took his life! When an otherwordly figure explains to the undead high schooler that someones been sacrificing people to steal their souls Ayumu & his bevy of babes
- the necromancer Eu magikewl girl Haruna vampire ninja Sera & yet another vampire ninja Tomonori
- find themselves in the middle of something major! But its Ayumu whos readdy in the thick of it as the identity of his killer & the soul stealer turn out to be one & the same!!

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