Author: David Applefield

Review by: M.L.

If you are planning a visit to romantic Paris, don’t forget to pack Fommers’ Unofficial Guide to Paris, by David Applefield, an author of many fiction books, an editor and media specialist, who has lived in Paris since the early 1980s.

The guidebook is available in paperback and is handy enough to be packed in your travel case. It will help you to prepare for your Paris trip and gives valuable information during your visit to Paris.

The guide includes:

* Insider tips – how to find the most charming hotels

* 60 restaurants, reviews and rankings

* Information on Paris’s cultural and historic sights

* How to enjoy Paris with your children

* Tips and advice on how to overcome the language barrier and how to feel safe

* More

The guidebook comes with lots of great tips from the author who himself has lived there for over 25 years.

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Author: Michel Odent

Review by: Emma

Michel Odent is not afraid to deeply question practices in obstetrics, medicine in general and even our cultures in order to attempt to ascertain what could lead human kind to optimum health. His approach is thoroughly scientific- all his ideas and conclusions he supports with research, yet he has a lovely winding story-telling manner.

Odents main argument in this book is that the primal period (as he calls it) – from conception through to a baby’s first birth is crucial in shaping human health. He covers various topics including humans as mammals and their need for privacy during labour, the foetus ejection reflex, the old and new brain, the history of colostrum and what role oxytocin plays in our world. He looks forward to the “post-electronic era” and discusses why changes in childbirth care are urgently needed.

I had previously read Primal Health by the same author and I shall now try to get my hands on his most recent book The Functions of the Orgasms.

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