Gift Focus - Mar/Apr 2019 (Issue 112)

giftfocus 105 bookshelf HOW MUSIC CAN MAKE YOU BETTER BY INDRE VISKONTAS RRP: £8.99 Format: Hardback ISBN: 139781452171920 How can certain songs carry us through a tough workout, comfort us after a breakup or unite 50,000 diverse fans? In this fascinating field guide, neuroscientist and opera singer Indre Viskontas investigates what music is and how it can change us for the better – from deep in our neurons to across society. Whether they’re hip-hop fans, classical pianists or vinyl collectors, readers will think about their favourite songs in a whole new way by the end of this book. This vibrant book is a smart gift for any audiophile. For further information, visit abramsandchronicle.co.uk TONY T-REX’S FAMILY ALBUM BY ROB HODGSON AND PROFESSOR MIKE BENTON RRP: £12.95 Format: Hardback ISBN: 9780500651681 Tony T-Rex is the last dinosaur on Earth, and he’s here to give the inside scoop on what dinosaurs were actually like, recounting the life and times of the 20 most memorable dinosaurs ever to exist. Casting his memory back to the beginning of the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous period, Tony’s album includes his family’s proudest moments and most precious memories, as well as previously unpublished family secrets straight from the dino’s mouth. Rob Hodgson is a British designer and illustrator. He is the author and illustrator of The Woods and The Cave and the illustrator of An A to Z of Monsters and Magical Beings, Tattoo Time! Monster Activity and A Good Day for a Hat. Mike Benton is a professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences. For further information, visit thamesandhudson.com THE TRUE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE BY SOPHIE D. COE AND MICHAEL D. COE RRP: £9.99 Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780500294741 The True History of Chocolate is a stylish paperback providing a richly detailed history of chocolate featuring beautiful illustrations and historical images. The book draws on botany, archaeology and culinary history to discover the story of the world’s favourite food. It’s written by Sophie D. Coe, an anthropologist and food historian and author of American’s First Cuisines , and Michael D. Coe, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University and author of Breaking the Maya Code, The Maya, Mexico (with Rex Koontz), Reading the Maya Glyphs and Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya. For further information, visit thamesandhudson.com HISTORY DAY BY DAY BY PETER FURTADO RRP: £14.95 Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780500294963 From the founding of Rome to the war on terror, History Day by Day presents an original perspective on more than two millennia of human history through the medium of 366 quotations, capturing its essence with the immediacy of an eye-witness or the narrative flair of the chronicler. History Day by Day embraces a wide range of voices, moods and registers, from the powerful to the impoverished, the revolutionary to the reactionary, the propagandist to the idealist and the joyful to the grief-stricken. Both an engrossing anthology and an informative overview of world history, History Day by Day offers the reader entertainment and instruction in equal measure and makes an ideal gift book for the quizzer or the history buff. Peter Furtado is the former editor of History Today. His publications include 1001 Days That Shaped the World and Sunday Times bestseller Histories of Nations. For further information, visit thamesandhudson.com bookshelf The latest releases in gift books