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Book Modern Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Jarman
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 1452915024
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Modern Nature written by Derek Jarman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1994.

Book Rambunctious Garden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Marris
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2013-08-20
  • ISBN : 160819454X
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Rambunctious Garden written by Emma Marris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of the material in this book appeared previously, in a different form, in the journal Nature"--T.p. verso.

Book On Nature and the Goddess in Romantic and Post Romantic Literature

Download or read book On Nature and the Goddess in Romantic and Post Romantic Literature written by John O?Meara and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Trilogy bringing together titles by John OMeara that are also individually available from iUniverse. The Modern Debacle Containing close readings of work by Beckett, Hemingway, and T.S.Eliot; Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Arthur Miller, and Brecht; Plath, Hughes, and Robert Graves, and W.B. Yeats. beautifully and fluently written and ingenious in its combination of catastrophes --Anthony Gash, Drama Head, The University of East Anglia Myth, Depravity, Impasse An in-depth study of Robert Graves, the modern theory of myth and Ted Hughes, with further reference to Shakespeare and to Keats. I am very sympathetic to the cause of myth and especially in relation to literature --Michael Bell, author of Literature, Modernism and Myth in a letter to John OMeara This Life, This Death An extensive study of Wordsworths great life-crisis, with additional reference to S.T. Coleridge, and to P.B. Shelley. Of this Wordsworth book, one recognizes its truth, its breadth of coverage and awareness, and above all its depth... --Richard Ramsbotham, editor of Vernon Watkins, New Selected Poems, Carcanet Press

Book Paradise Gardens

    Book Details:
  • Author : Monty Don
  • Publisher : Two Roads
  • Release : 2018-03-22
  • ISBN : 1473666503
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Paradise Gardens written by Monty Don and published by Two Roads. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lavish ... a celebration of the history and enduring romance of Islamic gardens' Washington Post As seen on the highly acclaimed BBC2 series Monty Don's Paradise Gardens, a glorious celebration of the richness of Islamic culture through some of the most beautiful gardens on earth. In the Islamic tradition, a garden with its central elements of water, the scent of fruit trees, and places for rest and reflection, celebrate heaven on earth. Paradise gardens play a central role in everyday life in the Islamic world, yet little is known about them. Monty Don and acclaimed photographer, Derry Moore, set off on a journey to find out more about the principles and immersive delights of paradise gardens and how a very different culture and climate has influenced garden design round the world. Their journey covers twenty-nine gardens from the Real Alcazar and the Alhambra in Spain, and Le Jardin Majorelle in Morocco, to Highgrove and a Mughal garden in Bradford in England. There are some spectacular and rarely seen examples such as Pasargadae and the Maidan in Isfahan, Iran, the birthplace of paradise gardens, as well as the more renowned examples such as Turkey's Topkapi Palace and the Amber Palace and Taj Mahal in India. 'A garden, green and filled with water is heaven on earth - it is paradise.' Monty Don ALSO BY MONTY DON & DERRY MOORE JAPANESE GARDENS: A JOURNEY An exploration of the exquisite beauty and fascinating history of the most beautiful and famous gardens across Japan, from Kenrok-en to the Zen gardens of Tokyo. 'A fabulous, bonsai-filled book' Daily Mail

Book You Grow Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gayla Trail
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2008-06-16
  • ISBN : 1439103518
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book You Grow Girl written by Gayla Trail and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

Book Doctor s Romantic Adventures

Download or read book Doctor s Romantic Adventures written by Yu BuZhou and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tang Chuan, the heir to the imperial family, was ordered by four beautiful mothers to find the precious treasure of the Apricot Forest, the "Nine Stars Needle". At the same time, he helped his fiancée, who he had never met, dissolve her yin and yang body, but because of the misunderstanding, Tang Chuan stayed at Zhou's house.

Book Love  Lust   Heartbreak  50 Romance Classics in One Collection

Download or read book Love Lust Heartbreak 50 Romance Classics in One Collection written by Stendhal and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 12070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat offers you this warm and meticulously edited collection for these stressful times: Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Play) Romeo & Juliet (Prose Version) Evelina (Fanny Burney) Camilla (Fanny Burney) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen) Mansfield Park (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Persuasion (Jane Austen) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Goethe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Villette (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Red and the Black (Stendhal) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Adam Bede (George Eliot) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) Wives and Daughters (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) The House of a Thousand Candles (Meredith Nicholson) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald) Jennie Gerhardt (Theodore Dreiser) Ann Veronica (H. G. Wells) The Enchanted Barn (Grace Livingston Hill) The Girl from Montana (Grace Livingston Hill) The Miranda Trilogy (Grace Livingston Hill) Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda The Agony Column (Earl DerrBiggers) The Bride of Lammermoor (Walter Scott) Night and Day (Virginia Woolf) Affairs of State (Burton Egbert Stevenson) Jill the Reckless (P.G. Wodehouse) The Black Moth (Georgette Heyer) The Transformation of Philip Jettan (Georgette Heyer) And Both Were Young (Madeleine L'Engle) Penny Plain (O. Douglas) The Awakening (Kate Chopin)

Book The Victory Garden

Download or read book The Victory Garden written by Rhys Bowen and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. Emily's lover an Australian pilot has left her with child. As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny

Book The Myths of Love

Download or read book The Myths of Love written by Katherine Heinrichs and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to define the medieval literary conventions governing allusions to certain Ovidian and Virgilian tales of love in the works of Boccaccio, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer. Using evidence from the Latin mythographers, it addresses several much-debated critical issues in medieval scholarship: questions of narrative voice, thematic unity, and purpose. Its principal contribution is to the discussion and evaluation of the French and Italian poems of love to which Chaucer was most heavily indebted. The author suggests that the love poems of Boccaccio, Machaut, and Froissart, rather than being ponderous didactic productions designed to instruct medieval audiences in the art of love, are true progeny of the Roman de la Rose,complex jeux d'esprit much closer in spirit and intention to the works of Chaucer than has been supposed.

Book The Disasters

Download or read book The Disasters written by M. K. England and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England. Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours. But Nax’s one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy. Nax and three other washouts escape—barely—but they’re also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats. On the run, Nax and his fellow failures plan to pull off a dangerous heist to spread the truth. Because they may not be “Academy material,” and they may not even get along, but they’re the only ones left to step up and fight. Full of high-stakes action, subversive humor, and underdogs becoming heroes, this YA sci-fi adventure is perfect for fans of Illuminae, Heart of Iron, or the cult classic TV show Firefly and is also a page-turning thrill ride that anyone—not just space nerds—can enjoy.

Book The Romantic

Download or read book The Romantic written by Kate Holden and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Holden's bestselling memoir In My Skin told the gripping story of her slide into heroin addiction and prostitution-and her gruelling recovery. The Romantic tells what happened next. When Kate decides to leave her past behind in Melbourne, it is the beginning of a new journey. In the ruins of Rome and the piazzas of Naples, through poetry and passion, in strange streets and strange beds, she hopes to find truth. But this pilgrimage requires courage: in Italy she may find true love, or lose her heart altogether. Or even find herself. Sexy, dark and intoxicating, The Romantic asks: when you've traded in sex, what does it cost to love others-and yourself? 'A sensual, sexy, brutally honest memoir.' Marie Claire Kate Holden is the author of In My Skin: A memoir and The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days, published by Text. For six years she wrote a column for The Age and has published essays, short stories, and reviews in Griffith Review, Meanjin, The Weekend Australian, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and others.

Book Romances of the Wheel

Download or read book Romances of the Wheel written by W. J. Coppen and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Through the Gates of Old Romance

Download or read book Through the Gates of Old Romance written by Weymer Jay Mills and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through the Gates of Old Romance" is a book by W. Jay Mills in the romance genre. The author covered a collection of interesting stories that revolve around love set in the old cities of Philadelphia, New York, etc. This book surrounds friendship, courtship, romance, relationships, and love.

Book Romantic Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Jacobus
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2015-03-18
  • ISBN : 022627134X
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Romantic Things written by Mary Jacobus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. Lyric poetry is especially concerned with things and their relationship to thought, sense, and understanding. In Romantic Things, Mary Jacobus explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in Romantic poetry alongside the theme of sentience and sensory deprivation in literature and art. Jacobus discusses objects and attributes that test our perceptions and preoccupy both Romantic poetry and modern philosophy. John Clare, John Constable, Rainer Maria Rilke, W. G. Sebald, and Gerhard Richter make appearances around the central figure of William Wordsworth as Jacobus explores trees, rocks, clouds, breath, sleep, deafness, and blindness in their work. While she thinks through these things, she is assisted by the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Helping us think more deeply about things that are at once visible and invisible, seen and unseen, felt and unfeeling, Romantic Things opens our eyes to what has been previously overlooked in lyric and Romantic poetry.

Book How to Do Nothing

Download or read book How to Do Nothing written by Jenny Odell and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times Bestseller ** NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Time • The New Yorker • NPR • GQ • Elle • Vulture • Fortune • Boing Boing • The Irish Times • The New York Public Library • The Brooklyn Public Library "A complex, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto."—Jonah Engel Bromwich, The New York Times Book Review One of President Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of 2019" Porchlight's Personal Development & Human Behavior Book of the Year In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity, it can seem impossible to escape. But in this inspiring field guide to dropping out of the attention economy, artist and critic Jenny Odell shows us how we can still win back our lives. Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. And we must actively and continuously choose how we use it. We might not spend it on things that capitalism has deemed important … but once we can start paying a new kind of attention, she writes, we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. Far from the simple anti-technology screed, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, this book will change how you see your place in our world.

Book Unhappy Far Off Things

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-06-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Unhappy Far Off Things written by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War in France is the central subject of this historical book. The author says the book was written to show the wrongs that were done to France and the French people in the Great War. He opens with a melancholy description of the destroyed church at Arras, where trees no more than 4 years old grow by the side of the steps to the vanished entrance.

Book Some Kind of Wonderful  Sweet  Heartwarming Romance

Download or read book Some Kind of Wonderful Sweet Heartwarming Romance written by Barbara Freethy and published by Fog City Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emotional and compelling novel of love and family by award-winning author Barbara Freethy