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Alan Stewart

If you’re one of the many who watch programmes like Who do you Think you Are?, longing for the time and know-how to do your own family research, this is the book for you. Written by a renowned expert on family history, this accessible guide offers exactly what you need to trace your roots and uncover what lurks beneath the folklore of your family!

Budding genealogists can track migrating relatives, check out the very latest internet resources and even the most tentative of sleuths will be launched on an unforgettable journey of discovery. If you want to look forward to better times, so said Edmund Burke, you have to look back, and as a map and guide, this book cannot currently be beaten.

(Penguin, ISBN 9780140515886)

Ralph Quinlan Forde

Written by holistic medical consultant, herbalist and aromatherapist, Ralph Quinlan Forde, this book is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide to what we’d now refer to as a fully integrated healing system. It’s accessible, thought-provoking and about asfar from conventional NHS-style approaches to health and wellbeing as it’s possible to be!

(Gaia ISBN 9781856752763)

Laura Burgess

While the lifestyle pages in most of the mainstream media would have you believe that jetting off in pursuit of sun or adventures that the uninspired just cannot muster in the UK is perfectly normal and acceptable, Laura Burgess and her colleagues at Greenguide know better.

Sure, there’s nothing wrong with escaping for a while, but destroying the planet on the journey to your brief sojourn in utopia, or trashing local environments because you’re worth it, just isn’t acceptable! Thankfully it doesn’t have to be that way, and this guide is packed with ideas to prove it.

(Greenguide ISBN 9781905731404)

Stand-up comedienne Netty Wendt unveils her innovative food waste receptacle: Gerty the seagull

There’s been a great deal of talk about rubbish tax. As a self-employed person, all tax is rubbish. Seriously though, the draconian measure of taxing people for the amount of crap they create may well be the only way to stem the flow into landfill. Some wicked councils ship our waste across the world for burial. No one wants to dump on their own door step but ‘Keeping Britain Tidy’ this way is as green and pleasant as a cruise on the Exxon Valdez.

“I recycled my nasty old car which was so ugly we called it ‘The Hatchback of Notre Dame’ and I’m reliably informed it’s now part of a children’s playground”

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Photographs dealing with some of the most important issues of our time will be on display from 30 May 2008 at the Apothecary Gallery, West London. The 2007 Environmental Photographer of the Year exhibition includes images that are traditional, resonant, contemporary, creative, subversive and beautiful.

They examine issues such as poverty, climate change, human rights, leisure, culture, biodiversity, natural disasters and unsustainable population growth. Together they enhance our understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions to climate change.

To enter the 2008 competition, go to www.ciwem.org/awards/epoty