Complete third series of the popular telefantasy about the trials and tribulations of the thinly clad busty warrior princess, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her equally comely sidekick, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor). Episodes are: 'The Furies', 'Been There, Done That', 'The Dirty Half Dozen', 'The Deliverer', 'Gabrielle's Hope', 'The Debt (Part 1)', 'The Debt (Part 2)', 'The King of Assassins', 'Warrior...Priestess...Tramp', 'The Quill is Mightier', 'Maternal Instincts', 'The Bitter Suite', 'One Against an Army', 'Forgiven', 'King Con', 'When in Rome...', 'Forget Me Not', 'Fins, Femmes and Gems', 'Tsunami', 'Vanishing Act', 'Sacrifice (Part 1)' and 'Sacrifice (Part 2)'.

Forest gardening is a way of working with Nature which is not only productive and requires minimal maintenance, but creates great environmental benefits. As Herbert Girardet says in his Foreword, "Robert Hart was a rare person . . . For decades he waged a battle for life, patiently writing books and articles and quietly planting trees on his small farm in Shropshire. Robert created a magnificent forest garden which had a profound influence on the way people cultivated their land. It was a garden dedicated to human needs for fruit, nuts, vegetables and plant medicines. But it was at the same time a celebration of the myriad interactions of life, based on profound observations, both intuitive and scientific, of how different life forms interact in order to stimulate and support one another."

Cage Liners are light-hearted stories based on personal experience during the author's fifty years as a veterinarian. Most illustrate the relationships and behavior of pet owners, pets, receptionists, veterinary nurses and veterinarians, when they meet, and sometimes clash, over clinical cases. Veterinarians often line their hospital pet-cages with newspaper, or place newspaper under a blanket, because it is easily discarded when soiled. This suggested an eco-title for these stories which, if necessary, can be recycled in pet cages after reading. In the early chapters, as a city-boy student dealing with farm animals, he was humiliated on his first farm visit, perplexed by his feelings during farm surgery, embarrassed trying to shear a ewe, astonished by his mentor when testing a bull, and scared out of his boots by a charging pig. So, he expected small animal practice to be a breeze-duh-he learned rapidly that although veterinarians treat patients, they must deal with owners and staff. The highlights of his internship included helping a prostitute by curing her dog's skin problem and her offer to barter services; having a client strip in the office (before fainting); puzzling over the logic of 'wanting a dog spayed if she's pregnant, but not to spay her otherwise as the owner wants her to have puppies, ' adopting an injured pug who bonded with his fiance (after a rocky start), and being humbled by his own pride of knowledge. He learned that the success of treatment is often because the client trusts his veterinarian, in the words of Houdini, 'It's not the trick. It's the magician.' You will meet Aunt Josephine, his help-mate in telling some stories-a conscience figure who haunted his years of practice. Always ready to dispense wisdom at a moment's notice, she needs no excuse to dispense caustic advice. An author's ploy, she is a composite of several people compressed into one character for dramatic effect (and to save space). As the stories illustrate, to be in the presence of someone unashamedly self-righteous shows how remarkably open minded we are. It is much like hiring the incompetent to make one's self appear brilliant, or looking for pictures of ugly people to make one's self feel fabulous In many stories, time and place have been deliberately mingled, using later situations to trigger memories of early experiences, occasionally confusing pet and owner names-once even a mute client with a mute cat. Delight in the company of the Reverend Irish gentleman whose dog is "Drinking the plurality of gallons, so she is," who later adopted an abandoned case and helped the author counsel a young man whose dog ate his stash of pot. And there are tragedies that reinforce humility. A week from "Manic Monday" to "Frantic Friday" illustrates a variety of situations. As Thomas Magnum, P.I. once said-"Sometimes it helps to look for the obvious. Every case, no matter how simple, can lead you down a blind alley or two." By learning from a young teenager that cats can indeed talk, the author met her mother, Helen. They have now shared thirty-four years together. Finally, animal names may have been changed to protect them from embarrassment."

As the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service, Robert Hart was the most influential Westerner in China for half a century. These journal entries continue the sequence begun in Entering China's Service and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch'ing bureaucracy, and inspecting the treaty ports. They culminate in Hart's return visit to Europe with the Pin-ch'un Mission and his marriage in Northern Ireland. Richard Smith, John King Fairbank, and Katherine Bruner interleave the segments of Hart's journals with lively narratives describing the contemporary Chinese scene and recounting Hart's responses to the many challenges of establishing a Western-style organization within a Chinese milieu.

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.