Patrick Lima's books and his articles in "Harrowsmith" magazine are considered required reading by garden enthusiasts across Canada. G. Brender ? Brandis is a renowned wood engraver who has taught botanical art at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton. This book is their collaboration, a celebration of the beauty of flowers through Patrick Lima's fascinating commentaries and G. Brender ? Brandis's elegant engravings. Perfect for both gardeners and those who delight in the delicate craft of the engraver, "Portraits of Flowers" is a unique collection of inspired portraits.
Lima and Scanlan take readers step-by-step through the engaging process of growing the best possible food from spring's first spinach, asparagus, and salad greens, through the summer abundance of tomatoes, cucumbers, and melons, right into fall's harvest of squash, leeks, carrots, and potatoes. Often, a small timely tip makes all the difference, and this dynamic team leaves nothing out.
Perfectly natural, perfectly delicious and perfectly healthy! The Organic Home Garden leads newcomers and seasoned growers step-by-step from springs first salads and asparagus to Junes prized strawberries; from summers vine-ripened tomatoes and melons, sweet corn, new potatoes and red peppers to falls crisp carrots, vitamin-rich broccoli and colourful radicchio. Patrick Lima discusses each vegetable and fruit in detail from start to harvest. Topics include: - soil preparation - transplanting techniques - insect control - seed selection - using cold frames - growing organic food in small spaces - renewing the garden in midsummer for a fresh harvest into fall - how to make neat, odourless in-ground compost - mulches, manures, and natural fertilizers and insecticides - recipes Abundant colour photographs open a window on Larkwhistle, Patrick Lima and John Scanlans lovingly tended organic garden. Whether you tend a small city yard or a large country garden, youll find The Organic Home Garden full of valuable advice on an all facets of organic gardening at home. (February 2004)
Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing offers guidelines on how mobile software services can be used in order to simplify the mobile users' life. The main contribution of this book is enhancing mobile software application development stages as analysis, design, development and test. Also, recent mobile network technologies such as algorithms, decreasing energy consumption in mobile network, and fault tolerance in distributed mobile computing are the main concern of the first section. In the mobile software life cycle section, the chapter on human computer interaction discusses mobile device handset design strategies, following the chapters on mobile application testing strategies. The last section, mobile applications as service, covers different mobile solutions and different application sectors.
The two case studies presented in this book represent two distinct types of imagining by two diametrically different groups: literate, and in some cases erudite Europeans, and a vanquished native nobility. The former endeavoured to make sense of Spain's (and Portugal's) 'marvellous possessions' in the New World with the limited conceptual tools at their disposal, the latter to construct a colonial identity based on their shared ancestral memory while incorporating elements from the even more wondrous Hispanic culture that had overwhelmed them. There were, of course, multiple misunderstandings and misinterpretations. Yet for the Spanish such distortions were a matter of government and religion, rectifiable in the fullness of time, whether by evangelisation or the relentless application of civil and canon law.
A young Frenchman's romance with a woman who lives off men. After stealing some money from a dentist, they go to London where she sleeps with various characters while he writes his first novel. One day she disappears for fifteen years. A study in character.
Children's Poets Laureate J. Patrick Lewis and Kenn Nesbitt team up to offer a smart, stealthy tour of the creatures of shadowy myth and fearsome legend—the enticing, the humorous, and the strange. Bigfoot, the Mongolian Death Worm, and the Loch Ness Monster number among the many creatures lurking within these pages. Readers may have to look twice—the poems in this book are disguised as street signs, newspaper headlines, graffiti, milk cartons, and more!
In the first full length English language account of the Clean Hands Crisis of the Italian government, Patrick McCarthy finds the roots of Berlusconis rise and fall in the practices of clientalism, the machinations of the Mafia, the corporate direction of Fiat, the edicts of the Vatican, and even the organization of the Italian soccer game.
Discussing educational networks, this book presents analyses of the problems with the theories of teacher learning, and explores what network theories can be brought to the problem of how teachers and schools create and share knowledge about practice
More than just a collection of blog posts, "Slip, Slip, Knit" is a series of meditations and essays by a homeless man attempting to survive by knitting. Beginning in 2011 and ending in 2014 these blog entries explore a sense of spirit and survival through knitting. From living in the woods twenty miles from the nearest town, to success as a crafter, "Slip, Slip, Knit" delves into the hope and ambition of any artist who attempts with whole heart to survive on their talents, hope....and a sense of purpose.
Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic
A riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there--a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody streets, they came face-to-face with the enemy-radical insurgents high on adrenaline, fighting to a martyr's death, and suicide bombers approaching from every corner. Award-winning author and historian Patrick O'Donnell stood shoulder to shoulder with this modern band of brothers as they marched and fought through the streets of Fallujah, and he stayed with them as the casualties mounted.
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