Download or read book Unearthed written by Claire Ratinon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She lived in cities, reluctant to be outdoors and stuck with the belief that success and status could fill the space where belonging was absent. But a chance encounter with a rooftop farm was the start of a journey that caused her to rethink the life she'd been creating and her beliefs about who she ought to be. Enlivened, she turned her hand to growing food in London before finding herself yearning for a small parcel of land to call her own. Unearthed tells the story of her leaving the city for the English countryside - and her first garden - in the hope of forging a pathway towards the embrace of the natural world and a sense of belonging cultivated on her own terms. 'Ratinon's story will change hearts and minds' Alice Vincent 'A beautiful book about nature...I recommend it' Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)
Download or read book The Ropewalker written by Jaan Kross and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a thoroughly modern man in an Early Modern world, rising from humble origins to greatness through wit and learning alone. As Livonia is used as a political football by the warring powers of Russia, Sweden, Poland and Lithuania, he continues to climb the greasy pole of power and influence. Even as a boy, Russow has the happy knack of being in the right place and saying the right thing at the right time. He is equally at home acting as friend and confidante to his ambitious patron and as champion for his humble rural relatives. Can anything halt his vertiginous rise? Like most young men he is prey to temptations of the flesh . . .
Download or read book Dear Popples written by Anouradha Bakshi and published by undercover utopia. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Popples is a simple book. It has no clever sentences. No literary tricks. Not even a trailblazing plot. What is has - is Truth. In good measure. Written in the form of letters to her beloved Popples, whom she helped save from one of the most heartbreaking traumas, Anouradha Bakshi has written a book that will defy the way we look at stories just the way she defies all odds every day to bring smiles to the most unfortunate of children. Here is the story of four lives intersected by time and others - a true story of love, compassion, bitterness, anger, poverty and redemption. told in almost childlike simplicity. "The power of this book to me is in the honesty. An honest confession of love, goodness and humanity. Told with the hope that it will resonate with some forgotten abyss of our heart where we could discover love in its truest wonder."
Download or read book Plant Roots written by Tom Beeckman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following its predecessors, Plant Roots: The Hidden Half, Fifth Edition is thoroughly updated and reports the major changes that have taken place in root research since the last edition published over 10 years ago. Considered a widely acclaimed book in the field of plant sciences, this edition includes a broad array of topics reflecting progress being made in the subdomains of root biology, featuring chapters on modern topics, while retained chapters are fully updated to demonstrate significant developments made in our understanding of root biology and in fast-evolving research methodologies and techniques. It reviews all root-related processes, from the evolution of roots in past eras to single-cell genomics, allowing readers to grasp an overall view of the state-of-the-art research in this field. Among the 104 contributors to this book are seasoned experts in the field, as well as uprising specialists who have already made a distinguished mark in scientific literature. All of the chapters are extensively referenced featuring specific information on any topic related to the biology of the hidden half of plants. Featuring full color illustrations throughout, this handbook is an essential source of information for both expert and novice root scientists.
Download or read book National Geographic Concise History of the World written by Neil Kagan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronology of world history ranges from the dawn of humankind to the present day, examining important events, milestones, ideas, and personalities that occurred simultaneously in different regions of the world.
Download or read book National Geographic History at a Glance written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic. This book was released on 2019 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Foreword by Amy Briggs, executive editor of National Geographic History"--Jacket.
Download or read book Self Sufficient Herbalism written by Lucy Jones and published by Aeon Books. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self Sufficient Herbalism is the first ever practical guide to the growing, gathering, and preserving of medicinal herbs for a working dispensary. Written by a practising herbalist with a high street clinic, it covers everything you need to know to become truly self sufficient in creating and dispensing your own herbal medicine. Relying on only a small allotment and access to the fields and woodlands of rural England, Lucy Jones provides a masterclass in the wild crafting, growing, harvesting, drying, storage, and processing of medicinal herbs. Her passion for the plants and traditional ways of preserving them for medicine shines through as she explores the deeper implications of self-sufficiency and the transformative impact it has had on her practice. The guide includes a glossary of detailed notes on the cultivation, harvesting, and processing of 108 individual herbs arranged by the seasons. It is a must read for practising herbalists, herbal students, herb gardeners, and all those who love herbs.
Download or read book New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book What is to be done written by V.I. Lenin and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on 1935 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The pamphlet… outlined a broad plan of organisation in which everyone would find a place for himself, become a cog in the revolutionary machine, a cog, which, no matter how small, was vital to the working of the machine. The pamphlet urged the necessity of intensive and tireless efforts to build the foundation that had to be built if the Party was to exist in deeds and not in words…” (Nadezhda Krupskaya, Reminiscences of Lenin.) First published in early 1902, What Is to Be Done? remains a classic of Marxism on the building of the revolutionary party, which sets out the party’s role as the organiser and director of the revolution. The pamphlet was written as part of a conflict with the opportunism of the Economists, who emphasised ‘bread and butter issues’ rather than theory. Lenin uses the book to explain the necessity of creating a centralised group of professional and dedicated revolutionary cadres before the “times of explosion and outbursts.” The history of the past 100 years has proven Lenin right: time and again, the masses have been ready to struggle, but let down by their leadership. Today, many working-class people are beginning to reject the status quo and are looking to socialist ideas as an alternative. It is the duty of Marxists to build an organisation capable of offering a way forward, and What is to Be Done? represents an excellent guide as to how to do this. With a new introduction by Rob Sewell.
Download or read book Flat Fax And The Book Of Doors written by Pamela Wright and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fundamental Stories are shifting. The Door of Books is open. And Granny Which Witch is not at all happy that someone has made her polky dot flamingos disappear. Flat Fax is a character of science and fiction. Uncle Whatchamacallit is sure he is the key to the erasures...or is he the cause?Can the fairy Petty Minor, an ogre named Klutz,and a golem boy escape the Authority's demense below and defeat Lady Who the Enchantress? Will the Lord Terrier of the Terrible Trees find them guilty of crimes against the natural order? And will Granny Where ever get home to her buttermilk biscuits?Black and white illustrations.
Download or read book Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement written by Tara Ratnam and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement develops a body of professional knowledge by providing a deeper understanding of what manifests itself as 'excessive entitlement', by presenting a theoretical framework within which one can investigate issues and helps those concerned with education and teacher education.
Download or read book Lost in Transmission written by M. Gerard Fromm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how traumatic psychological injury is passed down to the children and grandchildren of those who originally experienced it and about finding the shared humanity in families, in psychotherapy, in society, and in memories of the past that repairs the damage people do to one another.
Download or read book Unearthed written by Kenneth M. Sayre and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sayre argues that the only way to resolve our current environmental crisis is to reduce our energy consumption to a level where the entropy produced no longer exceeds the biosphere's ability to dispose of it.
Download or read book Margaret written by Sylvester Judd and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Wild Posies written by John Troland and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The African Roots of Marijuana written by Chris S. Duvall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.
