Other Non Fiction

1.6.09

Why buy How To Pay Less For Just About Anything? In the current financial climate, we are all looking for ways to save money. This invaluable book is packed with hundreds of practical ideas and tips for getting the best deal and for making your money stretch further. It covers all aspects of modern living and purchasing, from food and clothing, to holidays and leisure activities; furnishing, electronic equipment and home improvements to insurance; investments, pensions and mortgages.

How to Write and Publish Local and Family History Successfully guides even complete novices through all the stages needed to produce and promote books, booklets, magazines, CD-ROMs and Web sites on local and family history. For those who are not novices the information will also act as a checklist for producing professional-looking publications.

Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past.

1/11/07

What is like to be another person? Why is stupidity not painful? Is it possible for a human ever to do a selfless act?