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ESSEX - It's a big place, Learn your way around it!

Advantages: 1 inch to the mile, activity centres displayed
Disadvantages: Book wears easily.

ESSEX - It's a big place, You'll need this map! THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN REPUBLISHED! All ratings/comments not here anymore. =( >> About <<: Having lived in south Essex for many years (since I was born) I have learned my way around the county ...

FORCE6 09.11.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Essex County Atlas (A-Z County Atlas) -Geographers' A-Z Map Company

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10 of the best... and another 10... and another...

Advantages: Full of weird and wonderful facts, less showy than the Guinness book, not too expensive
Disadvantages: Not much

The Top 10 of Everything has long since established itself as an interesting and useful work of reference, retaining some of the virtues that The Guinness Book of Records lost when it brought its title into line with the US edition (as "Guinness World ...

davidbuttery 06.11.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Top 10 of Britain: 250 Quintessentially British Lists - Russell Ash

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Has anyone seen Great-great-grandma on Dad's side . . . ?

Advantages: good suggestions for tracing female ancestors, relevant statistics
Disadvantages: aimed at a fairly specific audience, it can't do your research for you

...An interesting side-effect of combining a mild obsession about researching my family tree and joining a family history society is that a quick rummage through the cupboards in the research library has led me to borrow books that I’d never otherwise know a ...

KateHurst 17.12.2011 · Read full review
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Review of The Female Line: Researching Your Female Ancestors - Margaret Ward

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Lets Get Scrappy

Advantages: Great book that provides a mindful of information into scrapbooking and card techniques
Disadvantages: none

...I love scrapbooking and I just wish I had more time for it...maybe when I retire!! For now though I love to spend hours getting a lovely set of photographs together along with suitable design and layout ideas to capture my favourite shots. The best th ...

shandygirl34 25.08.2011 · Read full review
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Review of The Complete Book Of Creative Scrapbooking

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straightforward information

Advantages: really easy to understand
Disadvantages: magazines need pictures

I read Teach yourself writing for magazines after I read their book about writing plays because I needed to write something for a newsletter. It's a really straightforward book that shows you how to put an article together and then how to submit it to ma ...

funnywoman999 14.12.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Teach Yourself Writing For Magazines - Lesley Bown

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