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Home

By: Alison Blunt,Robyn Dowling

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Home articulates a ‘critical geography of home’ in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on ‘Home and the City’ that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. The book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological currents in non-representational thinking and performance. The book’s chapters consider the making and unmaking of home across the domestic scale – house-as-home; the urban – city-as-home; national – nation-as-home; and homemaking in relation to transnational migration and diaspora. Each chapter includes illustrative examples from diverse geographical contexts and historical time periods. Chapters also address some of the key cross-cutting dimensions of home across these scales, including digital connectivity, art and performance, more-than-human constructions of home, and violence and dispossession. The book ends with a research agenda for home in a world of COVID-19. The book provides an understanding of home that has three intersecting dimensions: that material and imaginative geographies of home are closely intertwined; that home, power, and identity are intimately linked; and that geographies of home are multi-scalar. This framework, the examples used to illustrate it, and the intended audience of academics and students across the humanities and social sciences will together shape the field of home studies into the future.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000555526

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The Toxin-Free Home

A Guide to Maintaining a Clean, Eco-Friendly, and Healthy Home

By: Alison Haynes

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The Toxin-Free Home

A Guide to Maintaining a Clean, Eco-Friendly, and Healthy Home

By: Alison Haynes

With the amount of junk a family can amass, it seems impossible to keep a tidy home. Home Detox Handbook teaches you how to tackle every cleaning project in your home with ease, from washing stained laundry to scouring kitchen cupboards to creating your own shampoo from household ingredients. The methods presented are not just simple, they are also natural, eco-friendly replacements for store-bought, chemical-filled cleaners. And who wants to subject himself to all the chemical cleaners it takes to keep germs at bay? Alison Haynes has created a comprehensive guide to keeping your home not only sparkling, but also healthy, organized, and running efficiently. Organized by room, each chapter has easy-to-follow instructions for any household query. Here are just some of the amazing tricks Home Detox Handbook will teach you: Use lavender oil as a natural mosquito repellent. Clean and shine patent leather with petroleum jelly. Remove red wine stains from carpets with white wine and rubbing alcohol. Make an organic facial mask for oily skin using ingredients from your fridge. Recycle soap scraps into a whole new cleaner. And many more squeaky-clean tips! With 200 color photographs and step-by-step instructions, Home Detox Handbook is your one-stop resource for eco- and child-friendly solutions to your cleaning needs. From cleaning hardwood floors to getting gum out of hair to reviving limp flowers, this book will help you keep all corners of your home in its best shape. It’s a must-have for anyone managing a household or living on their own for the first time.

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Skyhorse

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151070311X

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9781510703117

Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings

By: Walter T. Grondzik,Alison G. Kwok

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Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings

By: Walter T. Grondzik,Alison G. Kwok

The definitive guide to environmental control systems, updated with emerging technology and trends The Interactive Resource Center is an online learning environment where instructors and students can access the tools they need to make efficient use of their time, while reinforcing and assessing their understanding of key concepts for successful understanding of the course. An access card with redemption code for the online Interactive Resource Center is included with all new, print copies or can be purchased separately. (***If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code ISBN: 978111899616-4). The online Interactive Resource Center contains resources tied to the book, such as: Interactive Animations Interactive Self-tests Interactive Flashcards Case Studies Respondus Testbank (instructors only) Instructor’s Manual (over 200 pages) including additional resources (Instructors only) Roadmap to the 12th Edition (Instructors only) Student Guide to the Textbook Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, Twelfth Edition is the industry standard reference that comprehensively covers all aspects of building systems. With over 2,200 drawings and photographs, the book discusses basic theory, preliminary building design guidelines, and detailed design procedure for buildings of all sizes. The updated twelfth edition includes over 300 new illustrations, plus information on the latest design trends, codes, and technologies, while the companion website offers new interactive features including animations, additional case studies, quizzes, and more. Environmental control systems are the components of a building that keep occupants comfortable and help make the building work. Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings covers both active controls, like air conditioners and heaters, as well as passive controls like daylighting and natural ventilation. Because these systems comprise the entire energy use and costs of a building's life, the book stresses the importance of sustainability considerations during the design process, by both architects and builders. Authored by two leading green design educators, MEEB provides the most current information on low-energy architecture, including topics like: Context, comfort, and environmental resources Indoor air quality and thermal control Illumination, acoustics, and electricity Fire protection, signal systems, and transportation Occupant comfort and building usability are the most critical factors in the success of a building design, and with environmental concerns mounting, it's becoming more and more important to approach projects from a sustainable perspective from the very beginning. As the definitive guide to environmental control systems for over 75 years, Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings is a complete resource for students and professionals alike.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118867181

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9781118867181

John Petts and the Caseg Press

By: Alison Smith

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John Petts and the Caseg Press

By: Alison Smith

This title was first published in 2000: John Petts (1914-1991) is one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century. His stunning prints featuring Welsh mountains and the people who live amongst them reflect his deep concern for the history of the land and are distinguished by his profound understanding of the physical and psychological properties of light. Extensively illustrated, John Petts and the Caseg Press spans the entire career of this reclusive artist and offers the first account of the private press he founded in Snowdonia in 1937. In 1935, John Petts and Brenda Chamberlain abandoned their studentships at the Royal Academy Schools, London for a rundown farmhouse in the rugged terrain of Snowdonia. They started the Caseg Press in 1937 in the hope that it might finance their freedom to work. At first dedicated to saleable ephemera such as Christmas cards and bookplates, the press later became involved in the broader Welsh cultural scene, providing illustrations for the Welsh Review, a monthly literary periodical. In 1941, with the writer Alun Lewis, the Caseg press produced a series of broadsheets designed to express continuity and identification with the life of rural Wales in the face of social change precipitated by the second world war. John Petts and the Caseg Press is the first monograph on this artist. It covers both his work for the Caseg Press and for other publishers such as the Golden Cockerel Press. The volume offers a unique insight into an important chapter in the history of private presses in Britain and the development of neo-romanticism in art and literature during the inter-war period.

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Routledge

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1351736787

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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms

Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres

By: Alison Pouliot

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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms

Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres

By: Alison Pouliot

A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility. What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of fungi—from Australia’s deserts to Iceland’s glaciers to America’s Cascade Mountains. In Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms, we journey alongside Pouliot, magnifiers in hand, as she travels the world. With Pouliot as our guide, we smell fire-loving truffles that transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them and, ultimately, spread their spores. We spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus, a deceptive entity that looks like an edible oyster mushroom but will soon heave back out—along with everything else in your stomach—if you take a bite. And we crawl alongside vegetable caterpillars, which are neither vegetable nor caterpillar but a fungus that devours insects from the inside out. Featuring stunning color photographs of these mycological miracles, Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms shows that understanding fungi is fundamental for harmonizing with the natural world.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226829642

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9780226829647

Trees and Timber Products

By: Alison Rae

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Trees and Timber Products

By: Alison Rae

Going green has turned from an individual trend to an international project. Countries around the world are developing new ways of managing timber and forests for the future. Case studies, maps, expert views, as well as Take Action and Facts in Focus statistics sidebars provide additional depth and relevance. Pictures and planning strategies will keep students focused and inspired.

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Evans Brothers

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0237536420

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9780237536428

Never Coming Back

By: Alison McGhee

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Never Coming Back

By: Alison McGhee

A young woman returns to her small-town Adirondacks home to care for her mother--just as secrets from her past begin to surface--in this tender novel by best-selling author Alison McGhee

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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1328767566

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9781328767561

Allure of Fungi

By: Alison Pouliot

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Allure of Fungi

By: Alison Pouliot

Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It explores how a history of entrenched fears and misconceptions about fungi has led to their near absence in Australian ecological consciousness and biodiversity conservation. Through a combination of text and visual essays, the author reflects on how aesthetic, sensate experience deepened by scientific knowledge offers the best chance for understanding fungi, the forest and human interactions with them.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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1486308589

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9781486308583

Russian Folk Art

By: Alison Hilton

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Russian Folk Art

By: Alison Hilton

Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects within the settings in which folk artists worked -- the peasant household, the village, and the local market -- Alison Hilton discusses the principal media artists employed and the items they produced, from dippers and goblets to clothing and window frames. Emphasizing the balance between time-honored forms and techniques and the creativity of individual artists, the book explores how images and designs helped to form a Russian esthetic identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Abundantly illustrated with examples from Russian museums, Russian Folk Art is a treasure for anyone interested in Russian culture.

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Indiana University Press

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0253327539

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9780253327536

Black in Time

The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today

By: Alison Hammond,E. L. Norry

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Black in Time

The Most Awesome Black Britons from Yesterday to Today

By: Alison Hammond,E. L. Norry

Hiya! Alison Hammond here! I love getting to know all about different people and I'll tell you a secret . . . sometimes people we don't know much about are the most interesting of all! Which is really what this book is all about. Let me ask you a question: How many Black people can you name from our history? Mary Seacole? Ira Aldridge? George Bridgetower? Pablo Fanque? Walter Tull? Have you heard of these people? Yes? That's great! But if you haven't, don't worry, you're not alone, which is why I'm so excited to tell you all about them. Because the people in this book should be totally famous given the AMAZING things they've done! And we're not going to stop in the past, I'll introduce you to people making waves right here and now! From sportspeople to scientists, activists to musicians, politicians to writers, we're going to meet a whole bunch of AWESOME people who have helped shape the world we live in. So, are ready for you a journey Black in time?? Course you are, let's go!

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Penguin UK

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0241532329

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9780241532324

Wild Mushrooming

A Guide for Foragers

By: Alison Pouliot,Tom May

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Wild Mushrooming

A Guide for Foragers

By: Alison Pouliot,Tom May

Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly. With interest in foraging for wild food on the rise, learning to accurately identify fungi reduces both poisoning risk to humans and harm to the environment. This extensively illustrated guide takes a 'slow mushrooming' approach – providing the information to correctly identify a few edible species thoroughly, rather than many superficially. Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers melds scientific and cultural knowledge with stunning photography to present a new way of looking at fungi. It models 'ecological foraging' – an approach based on care, conservation and a deep understanding of ecosystem dynamics. Sections on where, when and how to find fungi guide the forager in the identification of 10 edible species. Diagnostic information on toxic fungi and lookalike species helps to differentiate the desirable from the deadly. Wild Mushrooming then takes us into the kitchen with cooking techniques and 29 recipes from a variety of cuisines that can be adapted for both foraged and cultivated fungi. Developing the skills to find fungi requires slowness, not speed. This guide provides the necessary information for the safe collection of fungi, and is essential reading for fungus enthusiasts, ecologists, conservationists, medical professionals and anyone interested in the natural world.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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1486311741

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9781486311743

Clean Sweep

The Ultimate Guide to Decluttering, Detoxing, and Destressing Your Home

By: Alison Haynes

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Clean Sweep

The Ultimate Guide to Decluttering, Detoxing, and Destressing Your Home

By: Alison Haynes

This book will help you turn your home into a "clever house, " in which you can save water and energy, cut down your household bills, and minimize your use of chemicals.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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160239346X

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9781602393462

Sculpture Parks and Trails of Britain & Ireland

By: Alison Stace

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Sculpture Parks and Trails of Britain & Ireland

By: Alison Stace

The ultimate illustrated guide to the sculpture parks and trails of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This exciting guide to the sculpture parks, trails and gardens of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is the perfect book for those who like art and the outdoors. Divided up into countries and regions, the book is informative as well as beautifully illustrated with fabulous images of sculptures by a broad array of international artists. It provides information on all the major sculpture venues of interest, featuring the best and most established, while also providing a wide range of other interesting places to visit and explore. Each feature provides directions of how to get there, along with an overview of the park or trail, and lists sculptures of particular interest and quality, while maps of each area will help you find places close by to visit. This makes it easy to see which places are suited to you depending on your preferences, level of interest and time available. This fully revised 2nd edition provides updated information and new entries for England, as well as brand new sections providing thorough coverage of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The ideal guide for those with a passion for both nature and sculptures.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1789941431

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9781789941432

Live Natural

A Relaxed Approach to Creating Healthy Homes

By: Alison Davin

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Live Natural

A Relaxed Approach to Creating Healthy Homes

By: Alison Davin

A beautiful, inspiring guide to building, designing, and decorating a natural living space that is healthier for your family and for the planet. “In Live Natural, Ali Davin puts functionality before aesthetics, one actionable tip at a time. This book is for anyone who’s ready to make a change in how they inhabit the world.”—Colleen & Jason Wachob, Co-Founders, mindbodygreen ★ “Readers who want to construct a new home, remodel an existing one, or learn how to design healthier spaces in their home will find this book delightfully resourceful.”—Library Journal, starred review Known for comfortably chic interiors that blend natural materials, nontoxic building, and artisanal techniques, California designer Alison Davin creates warm, welcoming spaces with an emphasis on wellness. Always mindful of limiting waste, her homes are made to last a lifetime. While existing books approach this topic from either a highly technical or scrappy DIY perspective, Live Natural carves out a unique space in the coffee-table book marketplace, pairing beautifully photographed high-end homes with a clear point of view on wellness and environmental responsibility. Shot by the renowned photographer Lisa Romerein, the inspirational visuals of warm, aesthetically pleasing living spaces bathed in natural light will draw the reader in and pair with a clean, image-forward layout. This book creates a safe, welcoming space to receive ideas, challenging “the way things have always been done” in construction and design. Filled with accessible, actionable tips and delivered in an approachable tone, Live Natural empowers readers to advocate for themselves at home and in the world. Packed with insightful tips and illustrated with inspiring photographs from clients’ residences, Live Natural details how to craft a purposefully designed space with clean air quality and a lower environmental impact. This book will help readers harness light, space, and natural elements to design a clean, comfortable home they will love. More Accolades “California design pro Ali Davin offers useful, from-the-trenches advice on how to create a healthy, toxin-free home—and natural style inspiration to boot”—The editors of Remodelista “What I’ve always loved about Ali’s work is how layered it is. At first glance, it’s low-key and approachable, but when you look closer, it’s filled with rich character and detail. She has channeled that approach into this book—on the surface, it’s a bunch of beautiful photos, but the health-focused content goes so much deeper.”—Kelli Lamb, Editor, Rue

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Gibbs Smith

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142366583X

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9781423665830

Backyard Homesteader

How to Save Water, Keep Bees, Eat from Your Garden, and Live a More Sustainable Life

By: Alison Candlin

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Backyard Homesteader

How to Save Water, Keep Bees, Eat from Your Garden, and Live a More Sustainable Life

By: Alison Candlin

The essential beginner's manual on living a greener, healthier, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Absolutely all you need to know to provide you and your family with homegrown food throughout the year. Alison Candlin offers easy-to-follow advice on planning, establishing, and maintaining a small-acre farm, an allotment, or a backyard garden. She also includes essential tips for selecting, housing, and looking after chickens, goats, pigs, bees, and other animals. Learn how to collect and recycle water, compost your leftover scraps, and generate renewable energy for your own home in order to save money and minimize your impact on the environment. With step-by-step instructions and more than 350 photographs and charming illustrations, this book is a practical and comprehensive guide to living off the land.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423656792

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9781423656791

In Search of Hospitality

By: Conrad Lashley,Alison Morrison

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In Search of Hospitality

By: Conrad Lashley,Alison Morrison

In Search of Hospitality' is a unique contribution to the study of hospitality, exploring the practice of hospitality across disciplines, and adopting an international perspective where appropriate. This title brings together an extraordinary collection of leading researches and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social history, thereby providing a broad and comprehensive perspective on hospitality. It focuses the study of hospitality across the range of human, social and economic settings, and provides a reference point for the future development of hospitality as an academic discipline. Harnessing this wide range of viewpoints, 'In Search of Hospitality' offers an intellectually stimulating and innovative approach to the study of hospitality. It is ideal for students and academics within both the applied fields of hospitality and tourism studies and the general fields of business studies and behaviour sciences. It is also suitable for practitioners in hospitality, leisure and tourism businesses, for whom it provides a provocative and informative guide to understanding and providing hospitality within a commercial context.

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Routledge

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113639625X

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9781136396250

The Western Herbal Tradition

2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge

By: Graeme Tobyn,Alison Denham,Midge Whitelegg

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The Western Herbal Tradition

2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge

By: Graeme Tobyn,Alison Denham,Midge Whitelegg

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.

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Singing Dragon

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0857012592

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9780857012593

Reality

By: Alison Stein

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Reality

By: Alison Stein

We would all like the world to become a better place. Laws and programs are helpful and are designed with good intentions, but there’s only so much they can do. It really comes down to each person doing his part to live life as problem-free as possible for him. Since no one is an island unto himself, anyone’s lack of personal responsibility or good ethics affects others – whether just those close to him or the general population. We all hope to live a happy life. However, hoping is not the most effective way to ensure you reach that very important goal. Instead of relying on the remote possibility of consistent GOOD LUCK, learn how to consider, prepare for, and optimally handle nearly every situation you might encounter in life to ensure that you reap rewards for the efforts you have to expend to live either way. Discover how you can become a more knowledgeable, resilient and worthwhile contributor to society by improving your own life! Feel earned pride and deserved respect at any socioeconomic level. Learn how to create the optimal circumstances in areas of your life such as: RELATIONSHIPS, FINANCES, SELF-CARE, SEX, DRUGS, LAWS, RAISING CHILDREN, and more. Lead by example and make your life as problem-free as it can be. Then encourage others to do the same. One-by-one *AND* with detailed information on how to do it, WE CAN make the world a better place. Best wishes and thank you for doing your part. Even more gratitude if you encourage others to do the same. We can do this.

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1598586025

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9781598586022

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing

The Writing Process in Action

By: Alison Wilcox

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Descriptosaurus Personal Writing

The Writing Process in Action

By: Alison Wilcox

Descriptosaurus Personal Writing provides young writers with an opportunity to link their personal lives and school experiences, and gives writing a meaningful and personal context. It is a resource that will guide and scaffold students to produce vivid, powerful, descriptive and meaningful personal texts, and, acting as a springboard for other genres, will dramatically improve the quality of their writing in all areas. It provides a detailed step-by-step guide through the writing process by using personal narratives to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding of writing a text. It demonstrates different techniques, and provides useful tips and suggestions on how to revise a text and transform it into a powerful, descriptive personal narrative. With prompts, plans, methods and models for poetry and prose, this book helps tackle each stage of the writing process from planning and writing a first draft to revising and editing. Descriptosaurus Personal Writing is an ideal vehicle for welcoming and celebrating different cultures, experiences and stories into the writing curriculum: an invaluable resource to dramatically improve children’s writing for all KS2 primary and KS3 secondary English teachers, literacy coordinators and parents.

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Routledge

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1000518175

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9781000518177

Beginner's Guide to DIY & Home Repair

Essential DIY Techniques for the First Timer

By: Jo Behari,Alison Winfield-Chislett

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Beginner's Guide to DIY & Home Repair

Essential DIY Techniques for the First Timer

By: Jo Behari,Alison Winfield-Chislett

• Beginner’s reference guide to household repairs and simple renovations. • Teaches basic DIY skills and provides guidance to get the job done. • Simple presentation for the DIY novice, young renters, and first-time homeowners. • Authors are experienced DIY experts.

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1607656523

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9781607656524

Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories

By: Alison Wilcox

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Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories

By: Alison Wilcox

Descriptosaurus: Ghost Stories builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of ghost stories, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with their own ghost stories, armed with the skills, techniques and vocabulary necessary to describe their ghostly scenes in a way that allows the reader to feel the characters’ fear and visualise the source of their terror within the setting. This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.

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Routledge

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1317510933

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9781317510932

The Saga of the Jómsvikings

A Translation for Students

By: Alison Finlay,Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir

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The Saga of the Jómsvikings

A Translation for Students

By: Alison Finlay,Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in English, with a full literary and historical introduction to this remarkable work.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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1501514679

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9781501514678

The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt

Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-century France

By: Alison McQueen

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The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt

Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-century France

By: Alison McQueen

Rembrandt's life and art had an almost mythic resonance in nineteenth-century France with artists, critics, and collectors alike using his artistic persona both as a benchmark and as justification for their own goals. This first in-depth study of the traditional critical reception of Rembrandt reveals the preoccupation with his perceived "authenticity," "naturalism," and "naiveté," demonstrating how the artist became an ancestral figure, a talisman with whom others aligned themselves to increase the value of their own work. And in a concluding chapter, the author looks at the playRembrandt, staged in Paris in 1898, whose production and advertising are a testament to the enduring power of the artist's myth.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9053566244

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9789053566244

Bringing History Alive through Local People and Places

A guide for primary school teachers

By: Lynne Dixon,Alison Hales

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Bringing History Alive through Local People and Places

A guide for primary school teachers

By: Lynne Dixon,Alison Hales

A much-needed and delightful book. It shows how history can be taught with the meaningful experiences of each child at its centre, making connections between the child, the locality and community, the national and global past and concepts of time. Throughout the authors empower teachers to adopt their philosophy, by showing them how to plan, select resources and strategies and reflect on ideas and case studies. Hilary Cooper, Emeritus professor of history and pedagogy, The University of Cumbria, UK. Bringing History Alive through Local People and Places puts the local environment and community at the heart of history, showing how it can be used as the context for successful history teaching across the primary age range. It considers how to develop children’s concepts and skills through local history, how to link local, national and global aspects of history, and helps you develop your own historical knowledge, understanding and confidence in teaching the subject. Practical topics explored include: Investigating children’s cultural and geographical roots through fieldwork Finding and visiting local museums, archives and heritage sights Choosing and using resources Using significant people, events and buildings to link with national history Environmental education and sustainable development through local history Understanding the links between history and everyday life Planning and assessing history. Based on the latest research and practice in the field, Bringing History Alive through Local People and Places offers an exciting template of creative ideas and activities to show teachers how they can make history relevant to all children.

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Routledge

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1136280588

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The Climate Bonus

Co-benefits of Climate Policy

By: Alison Smith

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The Climate Bonus

Co-benefits of Climate Policy

By: Alison Smith

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that this will require sacrifice and high costs. But this need not be the case. Many carbon reduction policies provide a range of additional benefits, from reduced air pollution and increased energy security to financial savings and healthier lifestyles, that can offset the costs of climate action. This book maps out the links between low carbon policies and their co-benefits, and shows how low carbon policies can lead to cleaner air and water, conservation of forests, more sustainable agriculture, less waste, safer and more secure energy, cost savings for households and businesses and a stronger and more stable economy. The book discusses the ways in which joined-up policies can help to maximise the synergies and minimise the conflicts between climate policy and other aspects of sustainability. Through rigorous analysis of the facts, the author presents well-reasoned and evidenced recommendations for policy-makers and all those with an interest in making a healthier and happier society. This book shows us how, instead of being paralysed by the threat of climate change, we can use it as a stimulus to escape from our dependence on polluting fossil fuels, and make the transition to a cleaner, safer and more sustainable future.

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Routledge

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1136271163

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Shadow Baby

A Novel

By: Alison McGhee

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Shadow Baby

A Novel

By: Alison McGhee

A young girl forms an unforgettable friendship with an elderly neighbor while searching for answers about her family's past in this national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize nominee. Eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her twin sister, dead at birth, but her mother steadfastly refuses to talk about these people who are lost to her daughter. When Clara begins interviewing Georg Kominsky, a lone old man, for a school biography assignment, she finds that he is equally reticent about his own concealed history. Precocious and imaginative, the girl invents version upon version of Mr. Kominsky's past, just as she invents lives for the people missing from her own shadowy past. The journey of discovery that these two oddly matched people embark upon is at the heart of this beautiful story about friendship and communion, about discovering what matters most in life, and about the search to find the missing pieces of ourselves. McGhee's prose glistens with shrewd truth and wild imaginings, creating a novel that will reverberate in the hearts and minds of readers long after the book is finished.

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Crown

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0307462595

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Adam's Land

By: Alison Pockat

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Adam's Land

By: Alison Pockat

Adam, while taking a break from school work, tries out a new tube of “special” bubbles and finds that they can be connected. As they grow, he eventually he is able to enter them, and the bubbles shrink him to the size of an ant. By jumping up and down and with a puff of breeze, Adam ends up in a tree. He finds friends and excitement in his backyard as he tries to go back to his normal size. Along the way, he gets to know a number organisms like a fungi, a bee, a wood roach, a cric

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Page Publishing Inc

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1640270655

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How to Make Maple Syrup

From Gathering Sap to Marketing Your Own Syrup

By: Steve Anderson,Alison Anderson

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How to Make Maple Syrup

From Gathering Sap to Marketing Your Own Syrup

By: Steve Anderson,Alison Anderson

Presents a beginner's guide to the process of making maple syrup, from tapping the trees to cooking and bottling the syrup, including cooking with evaporators, grading the syrup, building a sugarhouse, pricing, and marketing.

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Storey Publishing

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1612121713

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The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex Fells

By: Douglas L. Heath,Alison C. Simcox

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The Lost Mill Village of Middlesex Fells

By: Douglas L. Heath,Alison C. Simcox

One of the earliest mill communities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony formed along Spot Pond Brook, a few miles north of Boston. Thomas Coytmore built the first mill in 1640 at the brook's downstream end in "Mistick Side" (present-day Malden). Other mills sprang up along the brook as well. Today, most of Spot Pond Brook is hidden in culverts beneath the busy streets of Malden and Melrose. However, remnants of the lost mill village of Haywardville--foundations, millruns and ponds and waterfalls--are preserved within Middlesex Fells Reservation, part of Boston's world-famous Metropolitan Park System. Authors Douglas L. Heath and Alison C. Simcox trace the history of this thriving early American community.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439661707

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The Country Child

By: Alison Uttley

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The Country Child

By: Alison Uttley

Originally published in 1931, this is a fictionalized account of author Alison Uttley’s childhood experiences at her family farm home in Castletop, near Cromford.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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178720152X

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An Armenian Futuh Narrative

Lewond's Eighth-Century History of the Caliphate

By: Sergio La Porta,Alison M. Vacca

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An Armenian Futuh Narrative

Lewond's Eighth-Century History of the Caliphate

By: Sergio La Porta,Alison M. Vacca

The History of the Armenian priest Łewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of second/eighth-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This volume presents a diplomatic edition and new English translation of Łewond's text, which describes events that took place during the century and a half following the Prophet Muḥammad's death in AH 11/632 CE. The authors address Łewond's account as a work of caliphal history, written in Armenian, from within the Caliphate. As such, this book provides a critical reading of the Caliphate from one of its most significant provinces. Reading notes clarify many aspects of the period covered to make the text understandable to students and specialists alike. Extensive commentary elucidates Łewond's narrative objectives and situates his History in a broader Near Eastern historiographical context by bringing the text into new conversations with a constellation of Arabic, Greek, and Syriac works that cover the same period. The book thus stresses the multiplicity of voices operating in the Caliphate in this pivotal period of Near Eastern history.

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Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

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1614910960

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The Naked Author - A Guide to Self-publishing

By: Alison Baverstock

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The Naked Author - A Guide to Self-publishing

By: Alison Baverstock

New digital technology, falling production costs and a new type of company offering publishing services have contributed to self-publishing becoming a viable option for writers, rather than a poor second to finding a commercial publishing deal. Written by a publishing consultant and author, with plenty of advice from other industry professionals, this book offers an objective analysis of the processes and companies involved in self-publishing. It helps you to analyse your objectives, define and meet the needs of your audience and looks at the right kind of content for self publishing. It also provides insight into the editorial processes you will need to put your content through, how to commission services from freelancers and companies and how to get a product worthy of your name. It helps you to understand format and design options, and key issues concerning distribution, sales and marketing. Self-publishing is a costly venture and this guide will help you to scrutinise your investment choices and produce a more professional-looking product. Contains a Foreword by Mark Coker, Founder of Smashwords.

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A&C Black

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1408157098

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9781408157091

The Lesbian History Sourcebook

Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780–1970

By: Alison Oram,Annmarie Turnbull

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The Lesbian History Sourcebook

Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780–1970

By: Alison Oram,Annmarie Turnbull

This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors, anthropologists, as well as personal letters and journals. The sources are arranged into thematic chapters, covering topics such as archetypes of lesbians - cross-dressing women and romantic friends, the making of lesbianism in culture, professional discourse on lesbians, public perceptions of lesbianism and women's own experiences. This book will be a milestone in the publishing of lesbian history, and is set to provoke the impetus for fresh research.

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Routledge

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1136157883

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9781136157882

The Language of Houses

How Buildings Speak to Us

By: Alison Lurie

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The Language of Houses

How Buildings Speak to Us

By: Alison Lurie

In 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie published The Language of Clothes, a meditation on costume and fashion as an expression of history, social status and individual psychology. Amusing, enlightening and full of literary allusion, the book was highly praised and widely anthologized. Now Lurie has returned with a companion book, The Language of Houses, a lucid, provocative and entertaining look at how the architecture of buildings and the spaces within them both reflect and affect the people who inhabit them. Schools, churches, government buildings, museums, prisons, hospitals, restaurants, and of course, houses and apartments, all of them speak to human experience in vital and varied ways. The Language of Houses discusses historical and regional styles and the use of materials such as stone and wood and concrete, as well as contemplating the roles of stairs and mirrors, windows and doors, tiny rooms and cathedral-like expanses, illustrating its conclusions with illuminating literary references as well as the comments of experts in the field. This book, which is accompanied by light-hearted original drawings by Karen Sung, is an essential and highly entertaining new contribution to the literature of modern architecture.

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Delphinium Books

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1497680301

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9781497680302

Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman

Catalogue to an Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2003

By: Leonardo (da Vinci),Rachel Stern,Alison Manges,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman

Catalogue to an Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2003

By: Leonardo (da Vinci),Rachel Stern,Alison Manges,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

This handsome book offers a unified and fascinating portrait of Leonardo as draftsman, integrating his roles as artist, scientist, inventor, theorist, and teacher. 250 illustrations.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588390330

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9781588390332

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