Dan Pearson's irresistible enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge overflow in a book teeming with tips to inspire your own space, be it a city window box or country field. Bringing you a new-found appreciation of nature, both wild and tamed, reading Natural Selection is a deeply restorative experience.
One of the great joys of the gardening year is the fact that the garden forces you to pay attention to the here and now. Every week is different from the next, but there is also reassurance in the repetition; the inevitability of spring blossom, and the flare of the berries at the other end of the growing season. A single year's experience is like the growth that accompanies it. It builds and layers and enriches.
"Dan's acute observation and sensitive use of words help us to look with care and see so much more for ourselves." - Beth Chatto
"When it sings, a garden will have the power to transport and to lead you to a place that is magical... It is an oasis for creation, available to anyone with a little space and the compunction to get their hands dirty."
In Natural Selection, Dan Pearson draws on ten years of his Observer columns to explore the rhythms and pleasures of a year in the garden. Travelling between his city-bound plot in Peckham and twenty acres of rolling hillside in Somerset, he celebrates the beautiful skeletons of the winter garden, the joyous passage into spring, the heady smell of summer's bud break and the flaring of colour in autumn.
Dan Pearson's irresistible enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge overflow in a book teeming with tips to inspire your own space, be it a city window box or country field. Bringing you a new-found appreciation of nature, both wild and tamed, reading Natural Selection is a deeply restorative experience.
Called "a deeply affecting tale of courage and devotion in the cauldron of war" by Publishers Weekly, Sergeant Mike Dowling's heart-pounding account of an unbreakable bond between man and dog takes us into the searing 130-degree heat, the choking dust, and the ever-present threat of violent attack in Iraq's infamous Triangle of Death...
Featuring 1,000 unpublished photographs, this is the first book about the 4,500 Norwegian volunteers in the Waffen SS. Written by Geir Brenden and Tommy Natedal - who have researched the Norwegian volunteers since the 1980s - the book is based on Geir and Tommy's large photo archive and covers the various fronts where most Norwegian volunteers fought.
Kniha v anglickém a čínském jazyce. Kniha obsahuje básně v čínštině s fonetickým přepisem do latinky a anglickým překladem. Součástí jsou také dobová vyobrazení s jejich popisem v angličtině a čínštině.
This book by a mastermind of integrating theology and ecology surveys the pressing global and local environmental issues and seeks to provide biblical and theological insights for Christians concerned with the ecological and environmental challenges being confronted today...
This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume...
THE UNCENSORED STORY OF THE MUSIC VIDEO REVOLUTION. ROB TANNENBAUM and CRAIG MARKS. REVISED WITH NEW INTERVIEWS.
These Norwegian church paintings on wood display a rich brilliance of colour and design and a tenderness of religious feeling that are quite unlike other styles of the Gothic period.
Blackface minstrelsy, the nineteenth-century performance practice in which ideas and images of blackness were constructed and theatricalized by and for whites, continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience. Harriet J. Manning argues that this legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson in whom minstrelsy's gestures and tropes are embedded.
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. Revised edition with new material. By Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap, with video content produced by Robert A. Compton.
Five years ago, my little boy went missing. Now my husband has vanished too. Ever since the tragedy of Jack's disappearance, Nate and I have barely kept it together. The distance between us grows by the day. So I don't ask questions when he sets off on another business trip, though I know he's lying about something...
PEOPLE LIE TO US ALL THE TIME. In fact, according to studies, most of us encounter nearly two hundred lies a day. Now there’s something we can do about it. Liespotting links three disciplines— facial-recognition training, interrogation training, and a comprehensive survey of research in the field—as well as techniques used in the intelligence community, police-training academies, and universities.
'He has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know.’ The Queen pays tribute to Prince Philip on their golden wedding anniversary
In this collection of 180 reflections, author Charles Ringma interacts with Henri Nouwen, one of the most influential contemporary writers on Christian spirituality. Designed to be used as a handbook for inner development, times of retreat, spiritual renewal, re-evaluation and prayer, this book is meant to be a conversation partner—to encourage each one of us in our own journey of faith.
Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing - if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him?
Build confidence in a range of key essay writing techniques and skills with this practical companion, full of advice and guidance from experienced Extended Essay experts.
How the States Got Their Shapes is the first book to tackle why our state lines are where they are. Here are the stories behind the stories, right down to the tiny northward jog at the eastern end of Tennessee and the teeny-tiny (and little known) parts of Delaware that are not attached to Delaware but to New Jersey.
Dan Pearson's irresistible enthusiasm and wealth of knowledge overflow in a book teeming with tips to inspire your own space, be it a city window box or country field. Bringing you a new-found appreciation of nature, both wild and tamed, reading Natural Selection is a deeply restorative experience.
