Practical advice: Life hacks / handy tips Books

Book SynopsisAre you looking for simple ways to improve your mental and physical health and well-being, and bring back the hurray to your day? The Book of Health Hacks is a compendium of easy strategies and practices for you to add to your daily routine. They don't take too muchtime to do, and most won't cost a penny! Plus, each health hack has been tried and tested, some of them for thousands of years, andmany are backed by science. Kerry Sanson is a movement and massage therapist, a personal trainer, and a student of Eastern philosophies including Yoga and Oigong.She has helped many clients to make simple improvements to their fitness, nutrition and lifestyle, producing successful and long-lasting benefits. You can choose to add one or several health hacks to your day - perhaps you'll practice Face Yoga every morning, or drink YinYang water with lunch, or add Torso Bouncing to your breaktime. These hacks can help you be more mindful and give you more energy to win your day, one hack at a time! There are 40 health hacks tochoose from, you can mix them up or create a daily routine. Each hack is described in step-by-step guide or linked by QR code to aYouTube demonstration video. The Book of Health Hacks can help you change your lifestyle in simple ways that suit you. "I have worked with Kerry over a number of disciplines for 5 years now, and her impact on me has been huge. She really has collected some effective and beautiful practices from her deep delves into all things health and wellbeing. Her thirst for learning is boundless and we get to reap the rewards of her diligent curiosity This book is practical and powerful, a perfect gift for those looking for gentle self-work in a brash and busy world." Charlotte Church

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Book SynopsisHow to Feel Fabulous the Alkaline Way is a 3 Week Nutrition, exercise and relaxation plan and introduction into a healthier lifestyle. Studies have shown that eating a more Alkaline diet can help improve health, weight regulation and well-being. "The Alkaline Way" helps promote health by limiting processed foods, promoting more whole foods and managing your body's natural PH levels. The book is divided into 3 sections starting with a pantry of what you will need to buy for the forthcoming weeks on your quest of changing your eating habits to more Alkaline foods. Each day is set out and structured to follow, so you can prepare and cook each dish. The Exercise section is a simple build up, gentle "at home" exercise plan based on a beginners program. The third section is a beginners guide into meditation and relaxation. With the combined 3 elements "Feeling Fabulous" are the results we hope to achieve at the end of 3 weeks.

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Book SynopsisEver accidentally used your thumb as a hammer cushion while putting up a picture hook?Do you become enraged at the uncontrollable bobbing of the straw in your drinks can?Are you yearning to find a way to make your toilet roll tube enhance your music listening experience?These and dozens of other everyday dilemmas are solved with Life Hacks, your handy guide to solving little annoyances before they turn into big problems. This fully illustrated manual covers everything from nifty electric cable management to ingenious cooking methods and much, much more.Remember: if life throws you a curveball - HACK IT!Trade Reviewthe holy grail of 'life hack' knowledge * The Huffington Post Website *A mine of little-known but useful facts * The Gloss magazine *Possibly the handiest book I've ever come across... great illustrations... brilliant... the book you need to make sure you're winning at life * Stylist magazine *

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Book SynopsisLessons in life from the fabulous, fearless, and phenomenal world of drag Drag is a world of larger-than-life personalities, glamorous looks, and attitude to die for. When you feel lacking in confidence, unsure of yourself, or just plain unhappy, who better to give you a boost of self-esteem than the queens and kings of the drag world? With their firm belief that anyone can be who they want to be, they are living proof that you can change what you don't like about your life and even yourself. With the help of real-life drag stories, Brandi Amara Skyy shows you how to follow the rules of drag, to be the most fabulous you that you can be.

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Book SynopsisCollected wisdom from the internet’s best-loved advice columnist. I recently learned from one of my co-workers that my boss gathered everyone together after I was hired and told them that I was nonbinary and used they/them pronouns, which isn’t true — I’d been very clear that I’m a trans man who uses male pronouns. How should I handle this? My husband keeps leaving his toenail clippings around the house. I’ve started slipping them into his coffee cup. Is there a better solution? I think I’m in love with my brother’s wife. What should I do? A collection of the weirdest and wildest questions sent to Slate’s longtime agony aunt, internet darling Daniel M. Lavery, whose sympathetic, thoughtful, good-humoured advice is read by millions. Featuring new material as well as fan favourites, this is a must-have for Dear Prudence fans and a dose of good sense, compassion, and understanding in an increasingly fractured world.Trade Review‘For five years Daniel Lavery wrote the popular advice column Dear Prudence for the online American magazine Slate [which] attracted an enthusiastic audience… Lavery’s compassionate and idiosyncratic reflections thrust him into the public limelight. Dear Prudence is a collection of the weirdest and wildest questions, including privacy violations by a spy-cam wearing cat, sent to the column, and a reflection by Lavery on how his public gender transition and split from his religious family impacted on the advice he gave. Often funny and insightful, Dear Prudence is also quite poignant and moving at times.’ -- Jeff Popple * Canberra Weekly *‘Slate's advice-giving Prudence fields questions about relationships, work dilemmas, social faux pas, and just about everything else. Lavery was the fourth Prudence … Under his tenure, Prudie’s advice was modern and informed but presented with enough of the gentility and clever turns of phrase of the classic advice-givers to endear the column to a wide readership. Collected here are some of his favourite letters with notes on those that kept him up at night, those he wished he'd answered differently, and those he still hopes had happy endings. The collection is organised thematically, and Lavery winds his own life experience through the commentary, including his estrangement from his family and his gender transition … Across the board, this retrospective is entertaining and comforting. Answers for those hurting are affirming, gentle, and knowledgeable, but for those on the other side, his wit is on full display and his biting responses satisfyingly pull no punches.’ * Booklist *‘I loved the letters, Lavery’s responses, and Lavery’s approach to Dear Prudence.’ * Keeping Up With the Penguins *‘Reliably entertaining … Lavery replied with wit and empathy and as you read more letters, you learn more about Lavery himself.’ -- Prudence Wade * The i *Praise for Something That May Shock and Discredit You: ‘At last, we have the work of transgender bathos we didn’t know we needed, but very much do … [Lavery’s] narrative is anything but linear: It skips back in time to mythic Greece, traipses across the landscape of contemporary pop culture and, in one wonderfully fabulist entry that would make Carmen Maria Machado proud, slips outside of time altogether … One of our smartest, most inventive humour writers, [Lavery] combines bathos and the devotional into a revelation.’ -- Jordy Rosenberg * The New York Times *Praise for Something That May Shock and Discredit You: ‘[Lavery’s] playful takes on pop culture as he explores everything from House Hunters to Golden Girls to Lord Byron, Lacan, and Rilke … [Lavery’s] writing is vulnerable but confident, specific but never narrow, literal and lyrical. The author is refreshingly unafraid of his own uncertainty, but he’s always definitive where it counts … You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, often both at once. Everyone should read this extraordinary book.’ * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *Praise for Something That May Shock and Discredit You: ‘[A] memoir comprised of the humorous essays that have become his trademark … Some are essays and some are scripts or imagined conversations; at first the chapters and interludes are distinct, but at a certain point they start to blend together. All are hilarious, infused with the type of magical thinking Lavery excels at. They weave Lavery’s life experiences together with his historical and pop-cultural obsession.’ -- Claire Landsbaum * Vanity Fair *

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