Explore 60 flowers, bloom by bloom, in stunning portraiture with lush macrophotography that showcases the details of each flower, and learn how to arrange flowers with different styles, tips, and techniques. Intimate portraits of each flower include quick-reference profiles with tips for choosing the best blooms, care for cut stems, arranging recommendations, colors, shapes, and even growing tips to transform the home, from yard to tabletop. Study a multitude of blooms, from the amaryllis in spring, snapdragon in summer, and dahlia in fall to tropical wonders such as orchids and African lilies. The Flower Book spotlights 30 sample floral arrangements that show how to design and build custom floral arrangements using featured blooms. Plus, a step-by-step techniques section walks beginners through the basics of foliage and fillers, bouquets, and arrangements to make this book as practical as it is beautiful. A perfect gift for anyone who loves flowers, The Flower Book celebrates all the wonderful qualities of flowers—their sheer beauty, infinite variety, and power to evoke admiration—bloom by exquisite bloom.
The Flower Book is a celebration of gorgeous flowers for your home and the ideal gift for those who love giving, receiving, and arranging flowers. Learn the art of floral design and how to arrange flowers with 30 inspiring arrangement ideas using beautiful blooms from allium to zinnia, and popular flowers including orchids, sunflowers, lavender, rose, and tulips. Make your own bouquet as you discover stunning profiles of 60 cut flowers and their wonderful qualities including colour, shape, texture, and fragrance to help you select the perfect blooms for your taste. Presented in a special slipcase, The Flower Book is a gift as beautiful as a flower bouquet that will last forever.
Middle-aged Simone LeBlanc has been tormented her entire adult life with the suspicion that she had been gang-raped in college. Fearful of learning the truth and lacking emotional support from her parents, Simone is haunted by nightmares of may have happened that fateful night. Simone’s life is transformed when she meets Roger Peterson, a contemporary who also attended the same university as Simone. With Roger’s love and support, Simone starts to recover from her trauma—until she discovers how Roger was involved that night, and how their destines are interwoven.
It has been only recently that the long drawn out international negotiations conducted in the U.S. on the subject of the finalization of reparations to be paid by Germany to the, mainly Jewish, forced laborers of the National Socialist regime were concluded. The American-Jewish aspect of the broader subject of involvement with the aftermath of the Holocaust has already evoked an echo of wide-ranging discussions in the recently published works of Wolf Calebow, Peter Novick and Norman Finkelstein. Siegfried Moses, a German Jewish lawyer who had made his home in what was then British Mandated Palestine, was already in the early 1940's tentatively seeking the legal bases for reparation to be demanded of Germany. He designed models for solutions to be applied, and by doing so became one of the most important early thinkers on this subject - a subject which was later codified in thousands of pages of German legislation. Moses, whose main essay on future reparation claims (originally published in German) has recently been reissued, has influenced legal thinking up to the very recent past. This essay, a document of contemporary history by any definition, is now being made available to English readers, with introductions covering the juridic as well as the bio-bibliographical aspects.
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When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.
THE STORY: On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, a twenty-three-year-old American, was crushed to death by an Israeli Army bulldozer in Gaza as she was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home. MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE is a one-woman play
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