One of BBC2's conspicuous successes of the last four years has been the ten minute slot called Trade Secrets created and produced by Maverick Television. Each week seasoned professionals from key occupations give hints and tips developed through a lifetime of doing the job. Each tip uses material everyone has around the house and either saves money or costs nothing. The book will contain over 5000 hints and tips (an additional 2000 from the first edition). Each series of tips will come from an individual who will be mentioned and the book will be divided into subjects. There will be sixty line drawings in a second colour to illustrate entries as appropriate and a comprehensive cross-referenced index.
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'Lover of useful trivia? This is the book for you. You name it, it's here, ad it makes for an engrossing read.'GOOD BOOK GUIDE
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From this popular and always repeated BBC2 series, the indispensable home help you'll never want to be without. Over 5000 hints and tips from professionals on every subject under the sun.
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Don't get caught out by the tax man - self assessment means you have to keep a note of all your expenses (especially if you are self employed). Read the first page
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
In a time when people have become increasingly specialised in what they do, with certificate education rife and compartmental careers the norm, this book is a must-have. In the past, parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents would have given you a big chunk of this sort of everyday information, which they themselves would have gleaned from a rich and diverse experience of life. But those ties have gradually eroded away. Luckily this book fills the gap.
Maybe that's all nostalgic nonsense. Either way, this book is an indispensable guide to mastering the finer elements of those everyday activities.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Book: "Trade Secrets: everything you will ever need to know about everything"
23 Sep 2011
By Marilyn
Format:Paperback
I originally thought this book would be a 'small' helpful book with some handy hints and tips in it. It's actually A4 size with excellent quality paper and printing and, I think, absolutely wonderful. There are hundreds and hundreds of really interesting 'facts' and very 'handy hints and tips' on quite a wide variety of subjects. To me, it's a kind of information and reference book that I will be using again and again and again for information on a whole load of subjects.
I'm really glad that I bought it and I know that I'll use it often. I would recommend it to anyone who is thinking about buying it.
I'm really glad that I bought it and I know that I'll use it often. I would recommend it to anyone who is thinking about buying it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Trade Secrets: Everything You Will Ever Need to Know About Everything
27 Aug 2010
A Kid's Review
Format:Paperback
Trade Secrets: Everything You Will Ever Need to Know About Everything
I have had a copy of this book from some time and love it
but i was sick of people asking to loan it
so i got another two so give as gifts
I have had a copy of this book from some time and love it
but i was sick of people asking to loan it
so i got another two so give as gifts
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Such a useful book.
One of the previous reviewers thought it should have been broken up into several smaller books, I could not disagree more. True, this is a large book, but it's well set out, clearly written and is a font of good old fashioned advice.
My copy always sits on a shelf in my living room, and is my first port of call for a simple answer to most household queries. When I moved to America, it was one of the first things I packed.
I suppose that some of the information I may never actually use, but like the television series this book came from, it is all fascinating stuff.
One of the previous reviewers thought it should have been broken up into several smaller books, I could not disagree more. True, this is a large book, but it's well set out, clearly written and is a font of good old fashioned advice.
My copy always sits on a shelf in my living room, and is my first port of call for a simple answer to most household queries. When I moved to America, it was one of the first things I packed.
I suppose that some of the information I may never actually use, but like the television series this book came from, it is all fascinating stuff.
By richsisna
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Does what it says on the cover "Everthing you will ever need to know about everything!" Really good and we have referred to it quite frequently.
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Useful and entertaining. I left it on my coffee table an absolutely everyone picks it up! A quirky idea which really works
3 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By C. Hurley
Format:Hardcover
Someone kindly gave me this book just recently and I groaned somewhat, having already invested in the weighty "Dr Sears Baby Book" (very good, btw!) and various other bits and pieces but - and this is the thing - it doesn't do any of the preachy "tis is the way you must make your baby sleep" type stuff - the kind of thing you seem to be forced in to making huge momentous decisions about, or else you're a bad mother.
No, in fact it's just list after list of distilled handy tips from those in the know who've been doing this stuff for years. I picked up one lovely hint which I'm now doing - taking a soft toy to bed with you for a few weeks before the birth and sleeping with it close to your skin - that way it smells of you when baby is born, and acts as even more of a comforter.
Anyway - lots of good stuff like that. It's a bit big and heavy, I think they could probably have done with breaking it up in to sections and selling it as a smaller set of books to be honest - but still worth a look. Not, as I say, as your main reference book though.
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