Love and beauty reign supreme in empowering, high-interest narrative text telling the story of Greek mythology's Aphrodite. Core legends show Aphrodite's matchmaking as well as her own lovers among gods and mortals. Fascinating myths also uncover Aphrod
Walter Lubeck's Aura Handbook is a step-by-step instruction manual. By increasing your sensitivity for subtle vibrations, it will ultimately lead you into the fascinating world of seeing auras. The author explains how to develop your psychic powers. He describes the different ways in which you can use these powers and the areas to which you can apply them. As a result, you can see subtle energies and they will reveal their secrets to you.
Comprehensive and timely, Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms: Technology and Applications provides the most up to date information on the various edible mushrooms on the market. Compiling knowledge on their production, application and nutritional effects, chapters are dedicated to the cultivation of major species such as Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Agaricus subrufescens, Lentinula edodes, Ganoderma lucidum and others. With contributions from top researchers from around the world, topics covered include:* Biodiversity and biotechnological applications* Cultivation technologies* Control of pests and diseases* Current market overview* Bioactive mechanisms of mushrooms* Medicinal and nutritional propertiesExtensively illustrated with over 200 images, this is the perfect resource for researchers and professionals in the mushroom industry, food scientists and nutritionists, as well as academics and students of biology, agronomy, nutrition and medicine.
A Child's Seasonal Treasury was conceived as a Waldorf-inspired resource book for parents and teachers of young children. Throughout the seasons, songs, verses, poems, riddles, fingerplays, games, creative drama and movement, watercolor painting, handcraft
In common folklore, angels or malaikah are thought of as good forces of nature, hologram images, or illusions. Western iconography sometimes depicts angels as fat cherubic babies or handsome young men or women with a halo surrounding their head. In Islamic
Japan and China are thrown close to the brink of war when a Japanese warship is attacked. Meanwhile top Covert-One operative Jon Smith is sent to recover mysterious material from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactor. Smith vanishes, and CIA agent Randi Russell goes on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by Chief of Staff Masao Takahashi, has been developing next-generation weapons systems in preparation for a conflict with China. The Covert-One team must prevent Takahashi from sparking a war, or the world will be dragged into a battle certain to kill tens of millions of people and leave much of the planet uninhabitable. Autorid: Robert Ludlum
'Maeve's Times is funny and clever and kind, which are excellent qualities in both books and people' Irish Times 'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I suppose I am obsessively interested in what some might consider the trivia of other people's lives.' Maeve Binchy is well known for her bestselling novels, but for many years Maeve was a journalist. From 'The Student Train' to 'Plane Bores' and 'Bathroom Joggers' to 'When Beckett met Binchy', these articles have all the warmth, wit and humanity of her fiction. Arranged in decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s, and including Maeve's first and last ever piece of writing for the Irish Times, the columns also give a fascinating insight into the author herself. With an introduction written by her husband, the writer Gordon Snell, this collection of timeless writing reminds us of why the leading Irish writer was so universally loved. Autorid: Maeve Binchy
A real-time, fully illustrated, step-by-step personal account of an amateur enthusiast creating a cottage garden at the same time showing you how you too can create the garden of your dreams.After many years of photographing gardens Mark Bolton decided he wanted to make a garden of his own, from scratch. And what kind of garden? Well, of course, a cottage garden, everybody's favourite. This is a personal account of how an amateur enthusiast, who has never made a garden before but who, as a garden photographer, is very conscious of what a good garden should look like sets out to make a lovely garden of his own. As an inexperienced gardener himself, he always bears in mind the complete gardening novice and includes useful practical information. A real-time, fully illustrated, step-by-step personal account of an amateur enthusiast creating a cottage garden at the same time showing you how you too can create the garden of your dreams. Autorid: Mark Bolton, Tom Coward
Everybody's equal I'm sure you will agree. I'm as good as you and you're as good as me. When Stoat builds a fence to keep Mouse away, the woodland animals have to work together to prove that nobody deserves to feel left out. Will Stoat ever learn that everyone is equal? See what happens when the animals bicker and separate, in this picture book with a message of acceptance. With beautiful illustrations by Greg Abbott and powerful rhyming text by Patricia Hegarty, this board book cleverly explores the importance of kindness and equality. Animal characters and a woodland setting take readers on a journey of inclusivity, showing that life is a lot more fun when we let everyone join in! Also available: Everybody's Welcome Autorid: Patricia Hegarty, Greg Abbott
The surprising, spicy story of this globe-trotting vegetable protein staple. To the untrained eye, theres nothing as unexciting as tofu, normally regarded as a tasteless, beige, congealed mass of crushed, boiled soybeans. However, tofu more than stands up on its own. Reviled for decades as a vegetarian oddity, the brave, wobbly block has made a comeback. This global history of bean curd stretches from ancient creation myths and tomb paintings, via Chinese poetry and Japanese Buddhist cuisine, to deportations in Soviet Russia and struggles for power on the African continent. It describes the potentially non-Chinese roots of tofu, its myriad types, why eating tofu is an insult in Cantonese, and its environmental impact today. Warning: this book actually makes tofu exciting. Its anything but bland. Autorid: Russell Thomas
A tune-filled, light-footed peoples history of ballroom dancing, from Vernon and Irene Castle and Arthur Murray to Dancing with the Stars. In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian Tango fueled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballroomswhich had never been seen beforewere built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for all classes to dance. The new styles of dance being defined and taught in the 1920s, as well as the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1930s, ensured that ballroom dancing continued to be the most popular pastime until the 1960s, rivaled only by the cinema. This book explores the vibrant history of Ballroom and Latin: the dances, the lavish venues, the competitions, and the influential instructors. It also traces the decline of competitive dancing and its resurgence in recent years with the hugely popular TV shows Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars. Autorid: Hilary French
Hard on the Brain, Easy on the Eyes! Challenging, baffling, and absorbing, these word search puzzles are easy-to-read in large-size print. Theres a little bit of pop culture, sports and games, and more to keep things interesting, and a wealth of travel-related themes to take you on a mental vacation collecting cleverly hidden words. When youve circled all the words in each grid, read the leftover letters to get a bonus message related to the puzzle. But even if theres a word you cant find in these conundrums, it wont be because its too small to read! Autorid: Amy Goldstein
The result of a 2013 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session, this book aims to merge the perspectives of artists and archaeologists on making art. It explores the relationship between archaeology and art practice, the interactions between materials and practitioners, and the processes that result in the objects and images we call a Archaeology with Art is the result of a 2013 Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference session that aimed to merge the perspectives of artists and archaeologists on making art. It explores the relationship between archaeology and art practice, the interactions between materials and practitioners, and the processes that result in the objects and images we call art'. The book offers new approaches to the study of creative practices in archaeology, ranging from experimental investigations to philosophical explorations and contains a diverse set of papers that use insights from contemporary art practice to examine the making of past artworks. Autorid: Helen Chittock, Joana Valdez-Tullett
This book is full of bilingual crosswords! This remarkable and highly original book is an excellent aid to improving your foreign language vocabulary in a fast, easy, and fun way. The answers are day-to-day words used by locals in their country, thus expanding your colloquial knowledge of the language in question. Start from the front of the book for questions in English and answers in Spanish, French and German. Turn the book upside down and start from the back for questions in Spanish, French and German and answers in English. Autorid: A.N. Other
'Home Truths with Lady Grey' is an evocative, moving story about the power of friendship to unlock new ways of seeing life and self. 'My world is narrowing, constricting down to the thin end of a funnel.' When normally capable, career-minded Jennifer crumbles under a debilitating disease, she struggles with no longer being in control of her life. In the meantime, Mona, a family-oriented mother of Iranian heritage, finds out that her husband is gambling and hiding the truth from her. Can she move beyond betrayal to action? When Mona goes to work for Jennifer as a carer, Jennifer is initially defensive, but the two soon discover that despite their differences they have so much to learn from one another. Will Mona discover how to balance the conflicting loyalties of family and self? Will Jennifer learn to let others in? And most importantly, will they both survive? Autorid: Katherine Blessan
After 1979, Labour lost eight of the next eleven general elections. Working-class voters deserted, starting in 1970 when widespread abstention began, and the Conservatives won a majority of the working-class vote in 2019. Brexit was a consequence, and not the cause, of these massive changes. The number of manual workers, Labours heartland vote, has collapsed and Britain is now a nation where the biggest occupational groups are shopworkers, education and NHS staff. Demographics have challenged Labours ability to win. But thats not all. Labours Parliamentary Party is now overwhelmingly middle class, and Labour has left the working class as the working class has left Labour. It is now a Party of Councillors and Special Advisers, with a membership dominated by the public sector middle class. Labour has been the author of its own troubles too. It failed to adapt to change in the 1970s and 80s, attacked the low paid and appeased the powerful, and at a local level is disorganised and sometimes sleazy. Its failures are structural. There is no strategic plan, sectarianism is rife, it has regular financial crises, fragile or unelectable leaders are appointed, and disastrous rule changes are made in an age when social media and the internet can disrupt politics on a daily basis. Power has been turned upside down as a consequence. Political parties matter. Badly organised, ineffective leaderships create policy failures in government, and Labour has failed to ensure a supply of its own working-class or capable candidates too. Goodbye to the Working Class explains why and how this happened. It is a human story of significant consequence for our politics. Autorid: Reg Race
'Needing Napoleon' is a remarkably original feat of imagination: an irresistible adventure that spirits the reader from present-day Paris to the battle of Waterloo and beyond. Can you change what has already happened? As a history teacher, Richard Davey knows the answer. At least, he thinks he does. On holiday in Paris, he stumbles across a curious antiques shop. The eccentric owner reveals a secret Richard dares not believe. Richard's conviction that Napoleon Bonaparte should have won the Battle of Waterloo could be put to the test. Accurate historical detail collides with the paradox of time travel as an ordinary twenty-first-century man is plunged into the death throes of the French empire. Autorid: Gareth Williams
Serving Shaka is a dramatic evocation of Zulu nation-building, immersing the reader in vivid battle scenes, poignant relationships and tense political machinations. Having masterminded Napoleon Bonapartes escape from St Helena with his friend Emile Béraud in Needing Napoleon, history teacher Richard Davey now finds himself stranded on the African coast. Richard and Emile encounter Shaka Zulu, a leader even more ruthless and ambitious than the former French emperor. Richards secret, that he is from the future, is revealed; Bonaparte seeks to outmanoeuvre Shaka; and Emile joins the nascent Zulu army. Buffeted by the birth pangs of nation-building, Richard tries to exert his influence and retain his sense of self, relying on half-remembered lectures from two hundred years in the future. Autorid: Gareth Williams
The Magnificent Moustache and other stories is a collection of six delightful tales full of wit, quirky characters and an abundance of welcome nonsense. These innovative short stories will take you from a national moustache-growing competition to the Queens vexation when her usual cuppa fails to appear; and to the challenges of having a name so lengthy that it takes forever to simply introduce yourself. A 200-year-old business faces imminent collapse unless a solution can be found; a kingdom has been cut off from civilisation for 100 years; and what happened in that bitterly cold winter of 1740 in north west Wales? Autorid: Jenny Sanders
Tytus Sas Komarnicki was born in 1896 in Warsaw. He had been living in Grenoble since 1942 where he was responsible for the Polish Red Cross. At the same time he was involved in Polish underground movements which meant that the Gestapo agents were constantly on his heels. Before World War Two he had been the Polish Delegate to the League of Nations from 1936 and also Polish Ambassador in Bern. In 1940, after the invasion of his homeland, he and his family moved to France and eventually to Grenoble. After the war he lived with his family in London where he wrote several books on Polish history and was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Law courts in The Hague. He died in London in 1967. Autorid: Tytus Sas Komarnicki
'Secrets Never to be Told is an extraordinary story, compellingly told, which unravels a century and a half of family secrets. It reveals how being born illegitimate shaped the lives of two women one of them, the author. Starting with a letter revealing a mystery inheritance, the author goes on a five-year quest taking her from Victorian Cambridge to modern Vancouver. She uncovers how her cousin Jessie emigrated to Canada, one of thousands of female domestic servants exported as surplus women before the First World War. Woven alongside the contemporary detective investigation on the trail of one immigrants untold story, is that of the authors strange 1960s childhood of social isolation in a Midlands city, obsessed with a world seen through TV - and with the Beatles. Autorid: Fiona Chesterton
