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Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are planning for a baby, just found out you are pregnant or well into your third trimester, this book will help you to feel confident, informed and inspired about your exciting journey ahead. Through years of work with families, Senior Midwife Marie Louise...

Brought to you by Penguin. The positive, evidence-based book you can trust to guide you through the highs and lows of parenting in your baby’s first year, from a Senior Midwife and bestselling author. Senior Midwife Marie Louise has spent years working with families, supporting new parents...

Surprising, illuminating, and at times shocking, What Men Don't Talk About reveals how real men and boys view their world. What do men and boys long for, agonize over, aspire to? Every day, we read articles about men: men at home, men at work, and men in bed, but still the confusion and frustration between the sexes remain. Can we put the differences between men and women down to the influence of Venus and Mars, or are there more intricate dynamics at play?

An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwright Born and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker...

Devant la chute drastique de la fécondité, la république de Gilead, récemment fondée par des fanatiques religieux, a réduit au rang d'esclaves sexuelles les quelques femmes encore fertiles. Vêtue de rouge, Defred, "servante écarlate" parmi d'autres, à qui l'on a ôté jusqu'à son nom, met donc son corps au service.

16-årige Moe blev taget i at stjæle. Så nu er hun tvunget til at gå til afvænningsmøder sammen med folk, der er dobbelt så gammel som hende. Men så end dag træder Tabitha og Elodie træder ind ad døren, og alt forandrer sig. De tre piger er vidt forskellige, men de har alle sammen en ting til fælles: de elsker at stjæle. Historien fortælles skiftevis fra de tre pigers perspektiv med humor og varme. Måske lærer de ikke, hvordan man skal holde op med at stjæle, men de lærer noget om venskab.

From the Hillsong Church to the Family First Party, Australia appears to be experiencing an evangelical revival. In the second Quarterly Essay for 2006, Amanda Lohrey investigates that revival - its shape and scope, and what it means for the mainstream churches and the nation's politics. She talks to young believers and analyses the machinations of the Christian Right. She discusses, with humour and insight, the appeal of the megachurch, the changing image of Jesus and the political theories of George Pell and Peter Jensen.

After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures - in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas - and she herself calls three countries home. In the last Quarterly Essay for 2006, she draws on her unique experience to delineate a vanishing way of life. In a time of environmental peril, Davidson argues that the nomadic way with nature offers valuable lessons.

In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left the security and comfort of her Melbourne home to travel to the depths of the Northern Territory, Australia, where her husband had been appointed manager of 'The Elsey', a large cattle station. One of the very few white women in the area, she was at first resented by people on and around the station, till her warmth and spirit won their affection and respect. This is her moving and simple account of her life amidst the beauty and cruelty of the land.

Are you madly in love or driven mad by it? Happily single or looking for a partner? Living together, married with kids, or dumped and desperate? Whatever the state of your love life, Hot Relationships has the answers to all your dating and relating dilemmas. It's packed with advice on everything from flirting and flings to monogamy and marriage. There's hot tips on getting over an ex, where to meet a partner, how to spot the losers, and how to breeze through that first date, as well as hints on fixing the fights, surviving jealousy and infidelity, and breaking bad love habits.

On an afternoon bike ride in the Blue Mountains Janine Shepherd's life was altered irrevocably. When the champion cross country skier in training for the Winter Olympics was hit by a truck, doctors warned her parents that she was not expected to survive. Even if she recovered, she would never walk again. Coming to terms with her shattered Olympic dreams, Janine focused every sinew of her being on healing. Her fighting spirit was rekindled watching small planes flying overhead. She said to herself, 'If I can't walk, I'll fly.' And fly she did.

Stadig chokeret efter fødslen flytter hun med sin svenske kæreste, Aksel, og deres lille søn til et sneomsust Stockholm. Snart må parret se sig selv falde ind i gamle kønsroller mod deres vilje, og en afgrund åbner sig imellem dem. Angst truer med at opsluge Anna, der læser alt for mange nyheder på nettet og shopper alt for meget tøj, hun ikke har råd til. For at stå imod en truende galskab må hun læse og skrive sig til rette i verden igen.

Based on extensive interviews with Turnbull as well as those who have worked with him, this is an essay full of revelations. Crabb delves into young Malcolm's university exploits - which included co-authoring a musical with Bob Ellis - and his remarkable relationship with Kerry Packer, the man for whom he was at first a prized attack dog, and then a mortal enemy. She asks whether Turnbull - colourful, aggressive, humorous and ruthless - has what it takes to re-invigorate the Australian Liberal Party in the wake of John Howard.

Slip er en kærlighedsfuld fortælling, som opløser afstanden mellem liv og død og grænsen mellem bevidstheder. En dreamy og jordnær roman om det verdenstab, der følger med at miste, og om at give slip og håbe på, at der ikke er noget at være bange for.

Jouer avec les esprits peut être dangereux. Tenez-vous-le pour dit ! Quatorze ans avant le début de ces événements, lors d’un passage à Montréal, une famille ontarienne voit son séjour se transformer en un véritable cauchemar lorsque Judy, leur fillette de sept ans, disparaît sur le site de la plage du parc Jean-Drapeau. Après une longue enquête policière infructueuse, la mère de l’enfant fait appel à Gabriel Longchamp, un célèbre illusionniste québécois qui possède également un don de médiumnité, pour le convaincre de retrouver sa fille.

Dans le but de permettre à Chef, qui s’est perdu, de retrouver son chemin, Charlie Fire, un danger public malgré lui, a l’idée de faire un feu, juste un petit, pour créer de la fumée.

For Karen Blixen var gastronomi en kunst på lige fod med litteratur, musik og maleri. Derfor gik hun til gastronomien med dannelse, selvbevidsthed, passion, ufravigelige kvalitetskrav og høje forventninger. Med en ukuelig vilje lykkedes det Blixen at stable et køkken op på farmen i Afrika. Hendes madlavning gik fra et absolut nulpunkt hvad angik håndelag, udstyr og råvarer og endte med at blive kaldt det afrikanske kontinents svar på Ritz. Da hun blev forfatter lagde hun kogekunsten på hylden - i hvert fald den udførende del.

Ethan ankommer til Snowdonia og konfronteres med sin families forventninger. Gamle minder begynder at vælde op i ham, og han tænker tilbage på, hvordan hans far krævede, at han skulle gøre karriere og en dag overtage familiens gods. At Ethan er blevet optaget i Cambridges bedste mandskor var ingenting værd for hans familie. For at undgå sin familie lejer Ethan en lille hytte og finder hurtigt på en historie om, at han er forfatter og har brug for at skrive i fred.

Alice lever et alt for almindeligt liv i Paris. Dagene går med gymnasiet og aftener bag kassen i hendes fars slikbutik, Sucretaire d’Alice. Hun drømmer om, at der en dag vil ske noget, der gør hendes liv mindre almindeligt og mere som det liv, de berømte, succesfulde, smukke mennesker lever på de sociale medier. Og så en aften går hendes drøm i opfyldelse. En lastvogn vælter og en ung mand dukker halvnøgen op i slikbutikken, angiveligt på flugt fra mænd klædt i hættetrøjer. Han ved ikke, hvem han er, hvor han kommer fra, og han har intet navn.

Hvorfor bedøver vi hunde og katte ved kastrering, men ikke grise? Hvorfor er det okay at spise køer, men ikke hunde? Hvorfor befrier vi elefanter fra et liv i cirkus, men hænger levende kyllinger op på slagterkroge. Det er nogle af de spørgsmål romanens hovedperson, Lava, stiller sig selv og sine omgivelser. Sammen med sin gode ven Valdemar forsøger hun at råbe det danske samfund op, men sandheden er som bekendt ilde hørt, og det er nemmere at lukke øjne og ører end at ændre vaner.