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Author : Tim Lott
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141191485
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Author : Tim Lott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038175561
A history of a family and depression, and of the changing attitudes to depression and mental illness in Britain. The author, Tim Lott, had a nervous breakdown and was nursed back to health by his mother, who then committed suicide. Lott began to uncover a family history of depression.
Author : Gayla Trail
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781439103517
This is not your grandmother's gardening book. You Grow Girl is a hip, humorous how-to for crafty gals everywhere who are discovering a passion for gardening but lack the know-how to turn their dreams of homegrown tomatoes and fresh-cut flowers into a reality. Gayla Trail, creator of YouGrowGirl.com, provides guidance for both beginning and intermediate gardeners with engaging tips, projects, and recipes -- whether you have access to a small backyard or merely to a fire escape. You Grow Girl eliminates the intimidation factor and reveals how easy and enjoyable it can be to cultivate plants and flowers even when resources and space are limited. Divided into accessible sections like Plan, Plant, and Grow, You Grow Girl takes readers through the entire gardening experience: Preparing soil Nurturing seedlings Fending off critters Reaping the bounty Readying plants for winter Preparing for the seasons ahead Gayla also includes a wealth of ingenious and creative projects, such as: Transforming your garden's harvest into lush bath and beauty products Converting household junk into canny containers Growing and bagging herbal tea Concocting homemade pest repellents ...and much, much more. Witty, wise, and as practical as it is stylish, You Grow Girl is guaranteed to show you how to get your garden on. All you need is a windowsill and a dream!
Author : Graeme Tobyn,Alison Denham,Midge Whitelegg
Publisher : Singing Dragon
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780857012593
The Western Herbal Tradition is a comprehensive exploration of 27 plants that are central to the herbalist's repertoire. This fully illustrated colour guide offers analysis of these herbs through the examination of historical texts and discussion of current applications and research. Your practice of phythotherapy will be transformed as the herbal knowledge from these sources is illuminated and assessed. Each chapter offers clear information on identification, uses and recipes, as well as recommendations on safety, prescribing, dosage and full academic references. The Western Herbal Tradition reveals a deep understanding of the true essence of what each plant can offer, as well as a fascinating insight into the unique history of contemporary herbal practice. This book is a valuable resource for everyone interested in herbal medicine and its history.
Author : C. F. Leyel
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781473357945
This wonderful volume is an encyclopaedia of herbs and spices that can be used to make various conserves and confections. First published in 1937, Herbal Delights details various forms of herbs and spices that can be used to make tisanes, syrups confections, electuaries, juleps, vinegar, and conserves. Accompanying information such as the herb’s habitat is also included in this volume. This volume’s contents include: - Aromatic Tisanes - Cordial Herbs - Cooling Herbs - Refreshing Herbs - Pot Herbs - Spices - Natural Perfumes - Cosmetic Herbs - Witch Hazel - Strawberry - Quince - Lupins
Author : Rosie Sanders
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781849946308
Award-winning and hugely popular artist Rosie Sanders showcases the beauty of the rose in her follow up to Rosie Sanders Flowers. Over 80 stunning paintings and sketches are shown for the first time. The artist writes a personal letter on each of her rose paintings (to be given unopened to the final recipient or buyer of the painting). Many of these personal letters sit alongside the paintings, as they explain the creative and emotional process she went through to create it. The book is a revealing insight into the artist's muse and the author's sketches and drawings are also included to show the full artistic process. The book is introduced by an extended essay on the resonance of the rose – all across the world – in our art, literature, poetry, folklore and gardens. The rose emblem is timeless and this book not only celebrates its beauty in art but tells the story of the rose as one of nature's most powerful motifs.
Author : Tim Lott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471187896
Winner of the 1999 Whitbread First Novel Award ‘Beautiful and brilliant’ Tony Parsons Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf – White City, Shepherd’s Bush – as ‘Frank the Fib’. He’s a liar – but one who always tries to tell the truth. Frankie has been friends with Diamond Tony, a hairdresser, Colin, a computer nerd, and Nodge, a cabbie, since schooldays. Now they are thirty and trying to live the same life as they did then – drinking, girls, banter, football. Then comes Frankie’s Great Betrayal – Veronica, and marriage, his ticket to a bigger, better grown-up world. From the moment he tells his mates, the whole patchwork of their friendships begins to collapse – revealing the sad, shocking but often hilarious truths that lie underneath. ‘Caustically funny and sometimes very affecting … with sardonic wit and a kind of tough tenderness, Lott portrays people growing up, growing apart or growing together’ Sunday Times ‘Mordantly funny … Observations are vivid, the dialogue crisp and, crucially, the characters are sympathetic’ Tatler
Author : Tim Lott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849835831
When two brothers take a road trip to visit their ill father, their journey reveals, not only an unexpected friendship, but also some surprising truth It is late summer 2008 and forty-year-old Salinger Nash, who has been plagued since adolescence by a mercurial depression, leaves the north-west London house he shares with girlfriend for his older brother, Carson's home in New Orleans. It is Carson who has persuaded Salinger that they should visit their estranged father on his deathbed in Las Cruces, and use it as an opportunity to heal old wounds. However it is with a sense of foreboding that Salinger sets off with his brother on a road trip from New Orleans in Carson's prized brand new Lexus, as their relationship is far from amicable. Tender, funny, unflinching, this is a road trip story in the great American literary tradition and an exploration of sibling rivalry that harks back to Cain and Abel. It is a vivid glimpse of a country through the eyes of an outsider, a profound exploration of brotherhood and a gripping journey of the soul. 'With its tender, funny, unflinchingly exploration of sibling rivalry, this is a vivid glimpse of a country through the eyes of an outsider, a profound exploration of brotherhood and a gripping journey of the soul' - GQ 'There is a tragic rejection at the heart of the story. Lott is attempting to solve what he sees as a deep-rooted crime against humanity, excavating the blank spaces beneath the rawness of everyday life' - Independent 'Under the Same Stars, a tender-hearted novel of sibling rivalries, is no less memorable than his family memoir The Scent of Dried Roses' - Spectator
Author : Charlotte Grant,Alistair Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350242043
From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters. It is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many human migrations from across the globe and within the British Isles that have taken place over the last two-thousand years, as well as with the movements of plants, animals, and ideologies from other countries and continents, and the movement of natural resources and manmade toxins into and through the city. Composed of a vivid collection of snapshots, the volume offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the city and provides new insights into the successive migrant communities that have come to London and made it their own.
Author : Bennett Oliver Bennett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474464345
Cultural pessimism arises with the conviction that the culture of a nation, a civilisation or of humanity itself is in a process of irreversible decline. In an incisive and wide-ranging analysis, Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World charts the growth of pessimism in the West during the last decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on studies from within a very broad range of fields, which include ecology, human rights, military history, international relations, criminology, history of science, cultural criticism and political economy, the author shows how cultural pessimism in the postmodern world can be related to the cumulative effect of four key narratives of decline:*Environmental decline*Moral decline*Intellectual decline*Political declineAfter a review of pessimism in other historical periods, each of these narratives is explored in depth. The book attempts to answer a number of questions: how are the narratives constituted and what are the conditions to which they refer? To what extent are those conditions historically unprecedented? To which cultures do the narratives relate? What values do they reflect? To what extent are the identified processes of decline seen as irreversible? Concluding that cultural pessimism is as much a matter of psychological and biological disposition as of intellectual judgement, Oliver Bennett's challenging book offers valuable new insights into how we view the prospects of the twenty-first century.Features:*Provides an authoritative account of how the postmodern world has been represented as one of decline. *Brings together different perspectives kept apart by professional and academic specialisation*Views culture in its broadest sense as 'a whole way of life'*Provides an historical overview of cultural pessimism, tracing its various manifestations from the modern period back to its existence in early religions*Examines the biological, psychological and sociolog
Author : Hywel Dix
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350030077
The first scholarly study of the phenomenon of the 'late-career novel', this book explores the ways in which bestselling contemporary novelists look back and respond to their earlier successes in their subsequent writings. Exploring the work of major novelists such as Angela Carter, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Graham Swift, The Late-Career Novelist draws for the first time on social psychology and career construction theory to examine how the dynamics of a literary career play out in the fictional worlds of our best-known novelists. From here, Hywel Dix develops and argues for a new mode of reading contemporary writing on the contexts of current literary culture.
Author : Mary Preus
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1570611726
The Northwest Herb Lover's Handbook teaches readers how to grow, decorate, heal, and cook with herbs that are native to, or thrive in, the Northwest climate. Mary Preus provides a delightful entry into the world of herbs with detailed instructions for growing 50 herbs and ideas for how to enrich your life through their use. Easy and delicious recipes, herbal crafts and gifts, landscaping with herbs, traditional and modern medicinal use, aromatherapy-it's all here in The Northwest Herb Lover's Handbook.
Author : Fiona Barnett,Terence Moore
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0754800849
With projects ranging from simple posies to brighten up a bedroom to ornate themed designs for special occasions, the only flower-arranging book you will ever need.
Author : Roger Lancelyn Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136209130
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
Author : Stephen Orr
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780449819937
A masterful, gorgeously photographed A-to-Z introduction to the full spectrum of herbal plants, including recipes, growing tips and tricks, DIY crafts, and more For centuries, herbs have been prized for their beauty and utility in the garden, kitchen, and medicine cabinet. Modern garden master Stephen Orr’s lushly illustrated guide is the definitive resource for identifying, cultivating, and using these fascinating and varied plants. With information on almost one thousand herbs, including detailed profiles of more than 125, each photographed in full color and accompanied by helpful growing advice, The New American Herbal takes the study of herbs and herbalism to an exciting new level. Orr covers the entire spectrum of useful plants, from culinary and ornamental to aromatic and medicinal, presenting them in an easily digestible format, giving you the tools to • Learn how to plant and maintain a bountiful kitchen garden • Propagate, harvest, and cook with the herbs you grow • Use fresh, dried, and distilled herbs in seasoning blends, teas, vinegars, and more • Create an easy DIY hanging herb garden, form an herb topiary, and mix herbal remedies and essential oils • Whip up any of the 45 included recipes, such as Ragu Bolognese with Fennel and Lemon Semolina Cake with Lavender Meticulously researched and exhaustive in its scope, The New American Herbal is an irresistible invitation to explore the versatility of herbs in all their beauty and variety.