Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Download or read book The Body in the Back Garden written by Mark Waddell and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this queer cozy series debut perfect for fans of Ellen Byron and Ellery Adams, Luke Tremblay is about to discover that Crescent Cove has more than its fair share of secrets…and some might be deadlier than others. Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay ever wanted to see again. He used to spend summers here, until his family learned that he was gay and rejected him. Now, following his aunt’s sudden death, he’s inherited her entire estate, including her seaside cottage and the antiques shop she ran for forty years in Crescent Cove. Luke plans to sell everything and head back to Toronto as soon as he can…but Crescent Cove isn’t done with him just yet. When a stranger starts making wild claims about Luke’s aunt, Luke sends him packing. The next morning, though, Luke discovers that the stranger has returned, and now he’s lying dead in the back garden. To make matters worse, the officer leading the investigation is a handsome Mountie with a chip on his shoulder who seems convinced that Luke is the culprit. If he wants to prove his innocence and leave this town once and for all, Luke will have to use all his skills as a journalist to investigate the colorful locals while coming to terms with his own painful past. There are secrets buried in Crescent Cove, and the more Luke digs, the more he fears they might change the town forever.

Download or read book Home Ownership written by Ray Forrest and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance. The book examines critically the evidence for and against the proposition that mass home ownership is contributing towards a more equal society. Wide-ranging in its coverage, the book discusses the changing nature and role of home ownership, wealth accumulation and housing, the relationship between social class and housing tenure, and policy development.

Download or read book Rear Garden written by James Barrie and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore is a detective with a difference. He's grey, overweight and has an insatiable appetite for tuna... With many references to classic Hitchcock films, Rear Garden is a comic romp through the leafy residential suburbs of York, leaving many a bloody footprint (and paw print) on the well-trimmed lawns.

Download or read book House Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Japanese Garden written by Sophie Walker and published by Phaidon Press Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden. The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie Walker brings fresh insight to this subject, exploring the Japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens, ranging from ancient Shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary Zen designs. Leading artists, architects, and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays.

Download or read book Garden Plots written by Shelley Saguaro and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a range of twentieth-century texts and including relevant twenty-first century writing, Garden Plots explores the ways in which gardens in fiction represent more than just a familiar theme. Bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues, gardens, like literary forms, are subject to transformations. The term 'plots' is a keyword in this approach. It refers to garden plots, literary plots, and more generally, the plotting that is political, polemical, and subversive. Each of the six chapters includes four texts that are familiar and representative. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, and Philip K. Dick.

Download or read book The Garden written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gardening in California written by Sydney Bancroft Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Garden s Story written by George Herman Ellwanger and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Painting Master s Shame written by Amy McNair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overturning the long-held assumption that the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was the work of the Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1126), Amy McNair argues that it was compiled instead under the direction of Liang Shicheng. Liang, a high-ranking eunuch official who sought to raise his social status from that of despised menial to educated elite, had privileged access to the emperor and palace. McNair’s study, based on her translation and extensive analysis of the text of the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings, offers a definitive argument for the authorship of this major landmark in Chinese painting criticism and clarifies why and how it was compiled. The Painting Master’s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the catalogue was written. The political struggles over the New Policies, the promotion of the “scholar amateur” ideal in painting criticism and practice, and the rise of eunuch court officials as a powerful class converged to allow those officials the unprecedented opportunity to enhance their prestige through scholarly activities and politics. McNair analyzes the catalogue’s central polemical narrative—the humiliation of the high-ranking minister mistakenly called by the lowly title “Painting Master”—as the key to understanding Liang Shicheng’s methods and motives.

Download or read book Happy Ever After written by Angel Devlin and published by Angel Devlin. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Angel Devlin brings you books 1-3 of her British small town romance about the Waite brothers as they navigate the choppy waters of love through instalove, slow burn, and second chance romance in one omnibus collection. Welcome to Willowfield. FIX MY HEART Milo Waite is determined to fix her home, and her heart… After Violet Blake buys her nan’s former home, she’s shocked to find it in a state of neglect. Builder Milo makes it his mission to ensure Violet has a safe home to live in. But he has another mission too… to capture her heart. A SECOND SPARK When the light of your life flickers out, can a compassionate electrician reignite the spark? One tragic day brings Becca Staveley to her knees, her beloved husband gone. But her nightmare is just beginning as secrets from his past threaten everything she’s ever known. Closed off from love, Callum Waite feels more comfortable rewiring houses than fixing hearts. But he can’t forget the girl he met years ago, and as Becca slowly begins to heal, the ice around Callum’s heart begins to thaw. ACTING ON LOVE Actor Ezra Waite returns home from New York literally bringing the past back with him. Now he has no choice but to face reality—everything he's been avoiding is right here in front of him. His ex, Lisa McKenzie will have to decide if she should act on love one last time. Or whether it's time to finally draw the curtain on their on again, off again romance. KEYWORDS: Smalltown trilogy, small town, small-town, contemporary, omnibus, collection, complete series, box set, boxset, slow-burn, slow burn, second chance, second-chance romance, alpha male, builders, construction, instalove.

Download or read book Forensic Approaches to Buried Remains written by John Hunter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of forensic archaeology has developed over recent years from being a branch of conventional archaeology into a well-established discipline in its own right. Forensic Approaches to Buried Remains takes an innovative approach to the subject by placing the role of the forensic archaeologist within the wider forensic environment; it identifies new areas of interdisciplinary research and practice, and evaluates practical difficulties. The authors see this book as a reflection of the subject’s development, and as a knowledge base for the next generation of forensic archaeologists. Areas covered include: Search logistics, integration and specialist search scenarios Levels of confidence in site search and elimination Urban and rural landscape reconstruction in both short and long term cases The integration of cadaver dogs and earth-moving machinery The recovery of multiple evidence types Sampling strategies, spatial relevance and dating Multiple burial scenarios As part of the Essential Forensic Science book series this book will provide students and practitioners alike with an invaluable resource outlining both the major developments in the discipline, as well as original approaches to the search for, and recovery of buried remains.

Download or read book Great Windows in Modern Architecture written by Kevin Adams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windows are moments in modern architecture where we look to ascertain elegance, technical expression and material language or to capture a certain atmosphere. A window opening is as much an interval and an opportunity as it is a device for admitting light, air or views; it is simultaneously a physical aperture but also a philosophical opening of collaboration and reflection. In order to understand the language of a building we might look to the detail of the window. But what does this mean and why does modern architecture invest so much expression in the window? This book explores how the act of detailing and situating windows in buildings is a key proponent in the language of architecture, which both informs and works with the contingencies of design and construction. It investigates 18 case studies in-depth using painstakingly drawn details and vivid photographs in full colour to define what makes these windows “great” and how each window is situated within both its technical and philosophical context and as an overall development of modern architecture. Case studies include the work of Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Pierre Chareau, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Carlo Scarpa, Le Corbusier, Stirling and Gowan, Raili and Reima Pietilä, Louis Kahn, Peter Womersley, Miralles/Pinós, Steven Holl, Glen Murcutt and O’Donnell + Tuomey.

Download or read book Blitzstrum The Nazis and the next Reich written by Robert Reaney and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty five years after the Second World War ends, SS Colonel Kurt Hauser suddenly finds himself in the eye of a storm of world interest as a secret he accidentally learned in the bunker starts to surface. A secret so powerful, it threatens to tip the world back into war again. He faces the Police, Nazi hunters, the Mafia, the Army, the CIA, assassins and even remnants of the Nazi party in a race against time on a break neck journey across the world to face a ruthlessly cold enemy who will stop at nothing to achieve his ends. Loosely based on fact and real events, there are mysterious agents, hidden Nazi treasures, real life villains and shocking truths that make you view the world today in a new light. Win lose or draw Colonel Hauser can't hope to contain the secret any longer. Operation "Light-Storm" has started.