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Earl A. Grollman

Earl A. Grollman is an internationally acclaimed Rabbi and bereavement counsellor. Among his numerous awards he has received the Distinguished Human Service Award from Yeshiva University.

Books by Earl A. Grollman

Living When A Loved One Has Died

Earl A. Grollman

A book to help you through the pain of loss and a guide to starting your new life.

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America’s racism is everybody’s problem.

In The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee sets out across America to learn why white voters so often act against their own interests. Why do they block changes that would help them, and even destroy their own advantages, whenever people of colour also stand to benefit? Their tragedy is that they believe they can’t win unless somebody else loses.

But this is a lie, and McGhee marshals overwhelming economic evidence, and a profound well of empathy, to reveal the surprising truth: even racists lose out under white supremacy. As McGhee shows, it was racist lending policies that triggered the 2008 financial crisis, and there can be little prospect of tackling global climate change until its zero-sum delusions are defeated.

‘I hope that the book will explain what happened to the once-thriving American middle class and serve as a cautionary tale for other nations. While the political hymns in the US and the UK are in different keys, they sure do rhyme.’ Heather McGhee

This essential, instant NYT bestseller is out in the UK this Thursday!

#TheSumofUs #HeatherMcGhee #antiracistreading #antiracism #economics #nonfiction #igreads #bookstagram

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What is language – and how does it work?

Every language in the world shares a few common features: we can ask a question, say something belongs to us, and tell someone what to do. But beyond that, our languages are richly and almost infinitely varied: a French speaker can't conceive of a world that isn't split into un and une, male and female, while Estonians have only one word for both men and women: tema. In Dyirbal, an Australian language, things might be masculine, feminine, neuter - or edible vegetable.

Every language tells us something about the people who use it. In I Saw the Dog, linguist Alexandra Aikhenvald takes us from the remote swamplands of Papua New Guinea to the university campuses of North America to illuminate the vital importance of names, the value of being able to say exactly what you mean, what language can tell us about what it means to be human - and what we lose when they disappear forever.

In I Saw the Dog, a leading expert draws on a lifetime of fieldwork to reveal the mysteries and magic of language.

Out today!

#ISawtheDog # Alexandra Aikhenvald #language #linguistics #anthropology #nonfiction #igreads #bookstagram

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We are thrilled to have beautiful finished copies of this honest, funny, reassuring book by bestselling author @emjaneunsworth.

In #AftertheStorm, Emma Jane Unsworth tells her story of postnatal depression. She tackles the biggest taboos around motherhood and mental health, from botched stitches and bleeding nipples to anger and shame. How does pregnancy adapt our brains? Is postnatal depression a natural reaction to the trauma of modern motherhood? And are people's attitudes finally changing?

Out on 6th May. Published in partnership with @wellcomecollection.

#emmajaneunsworth #afterthestorm #postnataldepression #motherhood #parenting #nonfiction #memoir #bookstagram

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In 1910, Lydia Harvey was meant to disappear.

She was young and working class; she'd walked the streets, worked in brothels, and had no money of her own. In 1910, politicians, pimps, policemen and moral reformers saw her as just one of many 'girls who disappeared'. But when she took the stand to give testimony at the trial of her traffickers, she ensured she'd never be forgotten.

Historian Julia Laite traces Lydia's extraordinary life from her home in New Zealand to the streets of Buenos Aires and safe houses of London. She also reveals the lives of international traffickers Antonio Carvelli and his mysterious wife Marie, the policemen who tracked them down, the journalists who stoked the scandal, and Eilidh MacDougall, who made it her life's mission to help women who'd been abused and disbelieved.

Together, they tell an immersive story of crime, travel and sexual exploitation, of lives long overlooked and forgotten by history, and of a world transforming into the 20th century.

This immersive historical account of a fascinating and important untold story is out today!

#TheDisappearanceofLydiaHarvey #LydiaHarvey #JuliaLaite #history #untoldstories #truecrime

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✨📚 Giveaway! 📚✨

We have TEN proof copies of the brilliant @emjaneunsworth’s AFTER THE STORM to give away. To enter, comment below with #AftertheStorm before midnight tomorrow. Please note we can only send prizes to UK addresses.

A powerful call-to-arms account of postnatal depression, from the bestselling author of Animals and Adults

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Animals and Adults

'Brave and important ... beautiful, hilarious, clever ... I loved this book' Clover Stroud
'Funny, gruelling, wonderful' Claudia Hammond
'Brilliant' Nikesh Shukla
'Breath-takingly brave and honest ... by turns hilarious, heart-breaking and wise' Leah Hazard

"How did it come to this? I am tough, I am smart, I have lived alone. Now I am cracking, right down the middle..."

Six months after the birth of her son, Emma Jane Unsworth finds herself in the eye of a storm. Nothing - from pregnancy to birth and beyond - has gone as she expected. A birth plan? It might as well have been a rough draft! Furious and exhausted, her life is the complete opposite of what it used to be. She's swapped all night benders for grazed labia and Whac-a-Moling haemorrhoids. How did she end up here?

In this brave and hilarious account of postnatal depression, Emma tells her story of despair and recovery. She tackles the biggest taboos around motherhood and mental health, from botched stitches and bleeding nipples to anger and shame. How does pregnancy adapt our brains? Is postnatal depression a natural reaction to the trauma of modern motherhood? And are people's attitudes finally changing?

Dazzling and vital, After the Storm is a celebration of survival, holding out a hand to women everywhere.

Coming 6th May.

#emmajaneunsworth #afterthestorm #postnataldepression #pnd #postnatal #motherhood #parenthood #wellcome #wellcomecollection #bookstagram #nonfiction #memoir

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There's so much about the simple handshake we're discovering in Ella Al-Shamahi’s The Handshake that's out today.

From how our ancient ancestors may have been shaking hands millions of years ago to how much bacteria we ourselves harbour on our hand!

For the first time, this quirky and engaging history reveals the secrets of one of our most ancient social gestures

Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.

So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery - from the handshake's origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she'll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations - and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact.

Because the story of the handshake ... is far from over.

Out today!

#TheHandshake #EllaAlShamahi #TheHandshake #socialhistory #anthropology #prehistory

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