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For Paul West, a meaningful life is one built around food and
community. In The Edible Garden Cookbook & Growing Guide, Paul
shows you how easy it is to grow and cook some of your own food, no
matter how much space you have.Paul shares practical gardening
advice, with guides on building a no-dig garden, composting and
keeping chooks, and an A-Z guide of the veggies that are easiest to
grow. There are also more than 50 of Paul's favourite family
recipes - simple, produce-driven dishes that are bursting with
freshness and flavour. And then there are ideas for fun food
activities to do with your community, whether it's hosting a pickle
party or passata day, brewing beer with some mates or whipping up a
batch of homemade sausages. The Edible Garden Cookbook &
Growing Guide is a celebration of real food and vibrant community.
It will inspire you to grow, cook and eat with those you love - and
find real meaning along the way.
Slums of the American city of New Babylon provide an all-too-real
setting for this prescient novel of homelessness, noble intentions,
moral corruption, and social castoffs. Tenement of Clay tells of
Papa Nick, a dwarf wrestler named Lazarus, and a derelict called
Lacland.
Eight years ago acclaimed novelist Paul West presented a warmly
received memoir of his mother, My Mother's Music. Revisiting the
scene now, Paul West delivers in his 40th book an equally
remarkable memoir of his father, a half-blinded, shell-shocked
veteran of three years of trench warfare during "The War to End All
Wars." But the time recounted mostly occupies 1939 to 1945, while
ten-year-old Paul grows to fifteen. Together, father and son play
war games, guarding the English coast from foxholes under the
kitchen table, or watching as real Nazi bombers on moonlit nights
pass overhead. The father, meanwhile, is forever instructing the
son in the details of his own experience. In this engaging memoir,
Paul West recreates his own youth, and gives us in twenty-five
chiseled chapters a view of two lives evoking the deep effects of
war, and conveying the distance between those who survive its
devastation, and those who must bear its consequence.
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What was the Peruvian brand manager thinking of when he named his
delicious tuna 'Grated Fanny'? Do Italians cleaning their bathrooms
with 'Smac' or 'Toke' scrub with wilder arm movements and wider
eyes? And how do you fancy tucking in to a packet of 'Chubi' or a
bar of 'Plopp' chocolate with your afternoon tea? Shelf Life is a
stunning full-colour collection of over 100 of the more, shall we
say, colourful products gracing the shelves of the global
marketplace. More characterful than any global mega-brand, the
local goods gathered here don't kowtow to foreign marketing
concerns. From 'Puke' playing cards to 'Climax' disinfectant,
'Colon' washing powder to 'Cocagne' mackerel fillets and 'Kack
liquorice, this is a bitingly funny and stylish celebration of
glorious misadventures in translation.
Learn the secret society behind the Federal Shutdown of the United
States. The mighty United States of America brought to a halt by a
zealous group with a narrow agenda of absolute control. Is this a
plot for a new conspiracy movie? Is this the act of foreign
terrorists? No. Sigh... it is the act of Michele Bachmann and 49
others to extort the nation into obeying the edict of the Tea Party
Caucus. Good political satire is satisfying and exposing of naked
truths. And, nothing is more naked than the 'truths' that Grover
Norquist wants to teach the nation. He is simply using his favorite
puppet - Michele Bachmann and the Tea Party as a smoke screen to
punish us all. If you want to know the REAL reason for the Federal
shutdown, this books has the crop-circles of reality. The single
little circle of vindictive control is in the shape of a lobbyist's
head. Grover Norquist is that tiny crop-circle. No aliens,
terrorists or conspiracy required to shut down the Federal
Government. Just ego and dimwitted oppression. Can't we all agree
to just throw away this twisted, ugly, uptight little pirate called
Norquist? Lady Liberty should never be blackmailed into a narrow,
non-functional solution as dictated by a lobbyist.
"Top Ten Cures for Sciatica and Back Pain" is the book you must
read to recovery from back pain...FAST THE FULL COLOR EDITION The
definitive guide to fixing back injury This book is full of the
best tricks to get you off the bed and back on your feet There is
no rocket science in this short work. It is designed to get right
to the point and help you get over your back pain. Back injury
impacts over 90% of people in their life -- and few injuries have a
more negative impact on human quality of life than back pain.
Nothing demoralizes and hurts like back pain. I should know. After
a criminal ran me over and left me for dead, I developed repeated
incidents of back pain that left me bed-ridden for days, weeks and
occasionally months. I found the tricks and tips that work So, I
truly know you can and WILL have a vibrant recovery. Get back on
your Feet Read this fun book
The world is constantly evolving and you must be ready to jump into
the driver's seat to brand yourself and steer your own life. This
book provides simple, yet effective practices anyone can implement
to become take-charge, self branding, empowered professional or
just a plain everyday hardworking citizen; Learning how to shake
hands to influence others, when is the best time to ask for
donations or help for a project or how to identify a great mentor
are some of the hidden gems you will discover. After reading The
Hidden Keys to Life and Business Success you will feel excited
about branding yourself and improving your career satisfaction and
personal brand goals. Here's what book reviews are saying: By
Stephen Paul West: This book has all the things that count in a
competitive world , October 24, 2013 This review is from: The
Hidden Keys to Life and Business Success (Kindle Edition) The
author, Los Ellis, is an amazing public speaker. "The Hidden Keys
to Life and Business Success" is an extension of all the knowledge
he's gathered working with thousands and thousand of people. If I
read between the line, I can hear the wisdom of grandma, and the
business acumen of Warren Buffet. Its a well organized, short read.
It will give you new ideas about being successful. Two thumbs up
and a 5 Star. Ronisha Buckingham: A great find, at a great price ,
December 16, 2013 This review is from: The Hidden Keys to Life and
Business Success (Moment of Truth Series) I really enjoyed, "The
Hidden Keys to Life and Business Success." The book was an easy
read with a wealth of knowledge, including tools that can be
applied to everyday situations. I would highly recommend this book
as a gift for a recent college graduate about the enter the
workforce for the first time, or for those that may be looking for
a career change and need a quick "refresher" of how to put your
best self forward.
A woman exists always, but a mother is made only the moment her
baby is born. What would you do to save your baby in the horrors of
modern war? Prepare for a book that will move you to the core.
Kwenda is a woman like no other. Carried away by endless civil
wars, and bought and sold by the most powerful warlords in the
world. She fights with her heart against men as hard and cold as
stones. The events are real, only identities and locations have
been changed to protect the innocent. Kwenda, a captured woman of
war, represents all the women torn apart in endless wars.
Disobedience for them is met with horrible death. These women are
not wives, but innocent victims stolen by warlords and kept as
slaves. This biographical fiction tells the harrowing tale of such
a woman named "Kwenda." Kwenda is a word that means Journey in
several dialects. She is the voice of many women crying out as a
single, powerful soul. Kwenda's life transcends all the women lost
in wars to walk a single heart-breaking journey. Lastly, in the
need to protect many people, I changed names, places and created a
fictional home country of Niruganya; which is an anagram of many of
the countries where genocide have occurred. The reader must
understand that many of these injuries are still not fully healed.
If I used too accurate a brush to paint this sad story, then I
might insight unnecessary violence. The warlords were left with
their names intact, so their shame might be evident. Only the
innocent were protected.
Peace in Gaza. Shocking. Stunning and Beautiful This is the most
powerful story of our time. Prepare to be touched to your core.
Three souls wander the very place where twenty years earlier the
world was ending. A nineteen year old girl searches Gaza City for
the very location where her father was killed twenty years earlier.
An old American soldier wanders the plaza in guard detail. His mind
is filled with the war he fought at this very place twenty years
earlier. A lone Jihadist returns from exile to seek martyrdom on
the very spot where the sword of Allah promised him his wildest
dreams. Three souls are fated to collide upon a single point of
time. An alternate history twenty-years from today. Peace dwells in
Gaza City. In this history, three participants of the Gaza Strip
discover that peace comes only with sacrifice. Sometimes the world
must do something new and powerful to change constant and
protracted war. A history that is free of war in the Middle East. A
history with Peace in the City of Gaza
Motherhood on the point of extinction. Modern warfare has no rules,
no honor, and everywhere women pay the highest costs; their
children sacrificed to the dogs of war.
Kwenda paints the portrait of motherhood with the powerful strokes
of biographical fiction. Her love is higher than the killing all
around her. War, insanity and constant fear attack Kwenda on all
sides. For years she is lost to all the torments of battle,
powerless to change the stone-cold hearts of brutal warlords.
Kwenda sweeps you away in sadness and triumph.
A woman exists always, but a mother is made only the moment her
baby is born.
This biographical fiction will move you to the core. Kwenda is a
mother like no other. Carried away by endless civil wars, and
bought and sold by the most powerful warlords in the world.
Kwenda fights with her heart against men as hard and cold as
stones. The events are real, only identities and locations have
been changed to protect the innocent.
Kwenda, a captured woman of war, represents all the women torn
apart in endless wars. Disobedience for them is met with horrible
death.
These women are not wives, but innocent victims stolen by warlords
and kept as slaves. This biographical fiction tells the harrowing
tale of such a woman named "Kwenda," and has elements of every
major genocide in the last 20 years.
Kwenda is a word that means Journey in several dialects. She is
the voice of many women crying out as a single, powerful soul.
Kwenda's life transcends all the women lost in wars to walk a
single, heart-breaking journey.
Lastly, in the need to protect many people, I changed names,
places and created a fictional home country of Niruganya; which is
an anagram of many of the countries where genocide have occurred.
The reader must understand that many of these injuries are still
not fully healed. If I used too accurate a brush to paint this sad
story, then I might insight unnecessary violence.
The warlords were left with their names intact, so their shame
might be evident. Only the innocent were protected.
"Understanding Mortification" outlines Sermon Index moderator Paul
West's in-depth teachings on mortification and spiritual warfare.
The author explains and graphically illustrates the different
aspects of self-denial relating to Christian growth and
sanctification. In these pages, Satan's tactics are unmasked and
the path to spiritual victory clearly delineated. Numerous
believers have been deeply edified by the contents of the articles
which make up this book.
The funniest political satire in the universe - or at least for
election 2012. Mitt Romney really is too weird to be President.
This quick read takes a hilarious, satirical and informative romp
through the mind of this Presidential wanna-be. There is something
afoul with Mitt when Hitler ends up in heaven, Afro-American's are
thought to be cursed by Cain (and really how many minority members
does Mitt Romney have? I can count them on one hand even if four
fingers are cut off); Women give men power with God by having
kids;and a half dozen kooky ideas that form the vows of this HIGH
PRIEST of MORMONISM Mitt "High Priest" Romney...sigh Sacred Magic
Underwear? Yeah, I'm not making that one up. Its real if your
Mormon, and Mitt wears it night and day if he's a good Mormon. This
is just the beginning of the weird. This outlandish book is merely
a faint reflection that is the weirdness of this candidate. Enjoy a
laugh. Consider your voting options carefully. And know that Mitt
Romney really is a weirdo. If your are weighing your options as an
independent voter, this really is the book for you. Its short, fast
and entertaining look under the skull-cap of Mitt Romney.
Craving something new and sophisticated in the paranormal genre?
Rise of the Maiden - Blood and Venom series will give you a glimpse
into paranormal culture not yet explored. In the first years of the
reign of Victoria, an infant girl is stolen from the dirty streets
of London. For fifteen years she is held an unknowing prisoner by
the captor she calls 'father'. Emily Black is haunted by her
mother's spirit and forced into drug addiction by her impostor
father. The man she believes her father is a twisted soul
practicing dark, occult vampire rites. Emily is his greatest
treasure, and darkest magic - that is, until the day she escapes.
Based roughly on the complex secret societies that practice vampyre
rites across Victorian England in the 1800's. This is a terror more
real than childhood stories. It is the Gothic paranormal story
reborn Emily is driven into flight by her mother's haunting just
before her 16th birthday. A birthday that was to be her last. Every
step for Emily Black is on the broken shards of death. Her survival
is based only upon her strength, intelligence and passion of her
heart. Brett Cardon is the teenaged murderer she must embraced to
make her escape. This boy makes her body alive, but she knows to
always fear her traveling companion. The blood of the Picts still
boils angry in his youthful veins. Behind Emily and Brett a
spiteful killer hunts there every step on the street of London.
Marquess Alyn Black is a vampire like you've never experienced.
Earthy, mortal and human - but with all the ritual and devotion of
any vampire folklore. Discover a brand new vampire genre - a dark
history that reaches back to the Strigoi of ancient Rome. Embrace
genuine paranormal horror in book one of a four-part saga. "Rise of
the Maiden - Blood and Venom" is book one. Carnal men make
themselves into cold, real and terrifying vampires. And one girl
was stolen as an infant and raised to serve as sacrifice in the
highest ritual. Her kidnapper tormented her to the brink of
insanity. Drugs, blood and murder were the reckoning of her
childhood. Fall into a tangled web of paranormal that will snatch
away your breath.
The cure for depression is found in the symptoms that are
displayed. Symptoms are a body's immune response to emotional
damage.
The body has a method to heal injury and this includes Weeping,
Sex Issues, Recurrent Dreams, Rage, Isolation, Fatigue, Confusion,
Addictions, Appetite Changes and Dark Thoughts/Suicide.
This book was written for the most difficult of depression
sufferers - for the injured. Soldiers blasted to pieces in combat.
Children crushed in bicycle accidents. People taking bone
shattering falls. Victims mugged and shot. Diabetes taking a limb.
Lupus taking everything.
None of these things will ever "be okay." They won't just "work
themselves out." And the injured are not just magically, "going to
be all right."
This work is a giant leap forward using the foundation of Carl
Jung's theories. This self-help book greatly expands to cover ALL
the symptoms of depression: Weeping, Sex Issues, Recurrent Dreams,
Rage, Isolation, Fatigue, Confusion, Addictions, Appetite Changes
and Dark Thoughts/Suicide.
Depression will not rule you. You will rule depression.
The reality is that the symptoms of depression are a normal and
NECESSARY part of human behavior. We all need to weep, we all need
to be isolated from time to time, we all have rage and other
symptoms of depression. Fearing sorrow is not a healthy mindset, as
it puts the emotion of depression over the identity of the person.
A correct and healthy approach is to be in harmony with your
depression.
Depression is VERY useful and not to be feared. Many good things
come out of depression - the most obvious being a serious
consideration of the realities of living. We are more thoughtful,
analytical and cautious during depression. This is depression's job
However, by running away from the symptoms, we are failing to ever
settle the voice of depression. Those symptoms become like ghosts
forever whispering in our hearts. When a person learns the tricks
found in this book to listen to the symptoms they can lay those
ghosts to rest.
This work, Decoding Depression Symptoms is a pioneering solution
of the overlooked obvious. You can totally harmonize your
depression and rule it by using the information in this self-help
book.
I truly am very sorry you are depressed. I wish it had never
happened to you.
Much love.
Much peace.
Much joy and healing to you.
Stephen Paul West
Healing at the speed of read Top Ten Cures for Sciatica and Back
Injury BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO EDITION The definitive guide to fixing
back injury "Top Ten Cures for Sciatica and Back Pain" is a skill
builder to speed the recovery from back pain. Back injury impacts
over 90% of people in their life -- and few injuries have a more
negative impact on human quality of life than back pain. Nothing
demoralizes and hurts like back pain. I should know. After a
criminal ran me over and left me for dead, I developed repeated
incidents of back pain that left me bed-ridden for days, weeks and
occasionally months. I found the tricks and tips that work So, I
truly believe you can and WILL have a vibrant recovery. This book
is full of the best tricks to get you off the bed and back on your
feet There is no rocket science in this short work. It is designed
to get right to the point and help you get over your back pain. The
definitive guide to fixing back injury
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