review of cookbook: The Whole Coconut Cookbook by Nathalie Fraise

The Whole Coconut Cookbook
by Nathalie Fraise

This small cookbook is delightful! You really can't go wrong with coconut, nature's superfood!
Every recipe in this book is excellent and easy to prepare yet full of flavour and sure to impress. We highly recommend this book for cooks of all levels and interests. Those who are looking into gluten-free diet will be stoked by the recipes and potential in this cookbook.
This book would also make a great gift for a variety of occasions.
As always with this publisher, the photographs in this cookbook rival the quality of the recipes themselves! Everything is top-notch and excellent. A great coffee table book as well as practical cookbook! Do try this book out and enjoy.

We received this book from the publisher in exchange for a review.

This beautiful and inspiring recipe collection helps you incorporate nature’s perfect superfood—the coconut—into your everyday cooking. From tangy coconut yogurt for breakfast to creamy coconut curry for dinner, The Whole Coconut Cookbook showcases infinite ways to enjoy this nutrition-packed fruit.    

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

by Timothy Snyder

This is a large hardcover book which goes in depth into the history of the Holocaust. All historians will be amazed and delighted by the information contained within this book. The author goes to great depths to unlock the mysteries and questions behind this tragic time in history. Most importantly, Timothy Snyder brings to light the warnings which we may have missed due to our short-sightedness. What warnings can we take from the Holocaust for our own generation? This book is an amazing revelation. 
My only concern is that the book is so large and in depth that the majority of readers will not be able to finish it or understand it to the maximum. A smaller, overview-style version would be great for easier reading and wider impact. 
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in return for my review. 
A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. 

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earthrecounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.

The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so. 

By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was -- and ourselves as we are.  Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.