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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1h

"People have always been interested in seeing things – seeing things in the clouds, in tea leaves, in blots of ink. It stimulates their imagination, and in some cases they feel they’ve learned something."
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Inkblots

The author of a modern, inkblot-based character test, Will Hobson, discusses the history and cultural resonances of the inkblot, from Hugo to Warhol

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 3h

Mary Berry’s favourite cookbooks
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Favourite Cookbooks

Mary Berry has written over 70 books, but what are her own favourite cookbooks? Here she shares her top five with us.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 5h

“Reading history is like experiencing another life.”
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The Best History Books for 8-10 year olds

Are you trying to get your son or daughter into reading more history? Here Alex, a 10-year old boy living in Oxfordshire in the UK, shares some of his favourite history books.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 8h

"He used to be holding the thing that he was describing in his hands. It could be a flower, leaf or fruit, and he would be describing it just as he saw it, rather than looking it up anywhere else."
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Gardening

Gardening expert Helen Dillon recommends five books that have influenced her, from 300-year old gardening tips to the difficulty of describing flowers

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 11h

“All diet books are fatally flawed because they suggest there’s only one way to do things”
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Diet Books

Five key diet books, as recommended by Tim Spector – genetic epidemiologist and the author of Spoon Fed and The Diet Myth.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 15h

“How On War has been received has varied from generation to generation”
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The Best Military History Books

The best military history books, as recommended by military historian SIr Hew Strachan.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 18h

The acclaimed novelist Lily King—whose new book Heart the Lover unravels the long tail of a campus love triangle—recommends five novels from literary writers that examine romance and desire in the depth they deserve.

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The Best Literary Love Stories

Five of the best literary love stories, as selected by the novelist Lily King—author of Heart the Lover and Euphoria.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 18h

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The Best Literary Love Stories

Five of the best literary love stories, as selected by the novelist Lily King—author of Heart the Lover and Euphoria.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 19h

"Impression management is the science of how people try to make a favorable impression on others; I study how people fail to make a good impression."
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Making A Good Impression

From the classroom to the boardroom, everybody tries (and sometimes fails) to be liked and admired by others. In this interview, Övül Sezer—Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at…

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 22h

"No serious thinkers today talk about a single ‘Islam’, speaking instead in terms of multiple ‘Islams’."
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Islam and Modernity

CEO and founder of Demotix, the multiple-awardwinning open newswire, discusses five books on Islam and Modernity and the politicisation of Islam in the last decade.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"There’s a confusion between the locked room mystery and what other people call the ‘closed circle mystery,’ which is where you just have a limited group of suspects—maybe on an island or in some other restricted community."
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The Best Golden Age Mysteries

The best golden age mysteries, recommended by Martin Edwards, author of a number of books on the golden age of crime writing.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"For Berger, rather than be an isolated novelist, he wanted to be a story-teller, to be a conduit through which other people’s stories travel."
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John Berger

The biographer and editor of John Berger reveals how Berger's self-characterisation as a storyteller is visible across the numerous genres he writes in.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"I think, in fact, that for an intellectual like Foucault, the most important story of his life is the story of the books he wrote."
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Foucault

Foucault mined past ways of thinking so as to see present-day assumptions afresh, Professor Gary Gutting explains as he selects the best books on the topic.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"Most Western writers on Africa are hamstrung by political correctness and a fundamental lack of understanding of African culture."
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Africa through African Eyes

The Ghanaian economist George Ayittey denounces the failure of leadership and Western policy in Africa and explains what “African solutions to African problems” would mean in practice.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"It’s definitely not a form of fitness. We could define it as a series of postures to enhance well-being and mind-body balance—that’s what yoga has (mostly) come to mean in the West."
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Yoga

The best books on yoga and for practising yogis, as recommended by Liz Derow, a longtime practitioner and teacher of yoga in India and around the world.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"What is really interesting about historical fiction is that these books can ask us as readers to question what we’ve been told."
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The Best Teen and Young Adult Historical Fiction

The very best historical fiction for teens, as recommended by historical novelist KJ Whittaker.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"One of the reasons comics have become such a big cultural force is that they are enormously intricate and sophisticated."
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The Best Comics of 2018

The best comics of 2018, recommended by Northeastern Professor and comics and graphic novels expert Hillary Chute.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 1d

"Virtually every major innovation in any industry—regardless of what it is, when it was created, or who created it—has one common denominator: at one point or another, it required financing."
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The Best Finance Books

The best finance books, as recommended by MIT professor and author of 'Adaptive Markets', Andrew W Lo.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 2d

"The tradition of English church music has constantly had things thrown at it, and it has always managed to find a way through them"
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English Church Music

Think you're not interested in church music? Think again. Read this interview and you'll soon find yourself ordering some books about it too. And a Happy Christmas from your editors at Five Books.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 2d

“Ideas of witches exist, really, from the very earliest human societies.”
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Witches and Witchcraft

The best books on witches and witchcraft, recommended by Diane Purkiss, Oxford Professor and expert on the history of witches and witch trials.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 2d

"Life has been designed around us in a way that is not necessarily the best way to maximise our health, our well-being or our prosperity."
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Behavioural Economics

The best behavioral economics books, as discussed by the brilliant Professor of psychology and behavioral economics, Dan Ariely.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 2d

“Hone has a lot more suspense than le Carré, quite a lot more melodrama, a lot more twists and turns in the action. But it’s beautifully described.”
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The Best Forgotten Cold War Thrillers

Author Jeremy Duns shares a list of the five best forgotten Cold War thrillers – from British spies to Soviet-era mole hunts

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 2d

"There are questions about dark matter, dark energy and there is this whole mystery around how quantum mechanics should be interpreted as a theoretical structure."
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Quantum Physics and Reality

The best books for thinking through the complicated relationship between quantum physics and reality, as recommended by science writer Jim Baggott.

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 2d

"All we can hope to do is stimulate something interesting for nature with the tools we have left to us, in the environment in which we now find ourselves."
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Wilding

Is there room for both humans and wild nature to flourish on an increasingly crowded planet? The author Isabella Tree argues that 'wilding' can be benefit both, and chooses five books to support her…

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Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com · 2d

"It’s a country of extremes and as a storyteller, Chile is absolutely irresistible because the history, especially recent history, is very dramatic."
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Chile

Chile is a country of extremes says travel writer and translator Natascha Scott-Stokes, who has lived there for nearly two decades. She chooses five books that give a good sense of the country, from…

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