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"Cel grows her beautiful flowers with art and soul." -- Shane
Connolly, floral designer and author Prepare the ground, sow seed,
nurture, harvest and fill your home with beautiful flowers. Growing
flowers can bring colour and life to the garden, and also give you
an abundance of sustainable floral material to use at home. This
handbook shows you how to plan a cutting garden, grow the perfect
plants for the vase and nurture them so they thrive from season to
season. Whether you have a few pots or a dedicated patch, you can
grow beautiful blooms and learn how to cut, condition and arrange
them for garden-gathered floral designs all year round, all without
the carbon footprint of most shop-bought flowers! Cut Flowers
includes a directory of flowers, bulbs and foliage to grow, plus
pro advice on creating dreamy designs. This title is from the Bloom
Gardener's Guide series, complete and comprehensive gardening
handbooks. Bloom is an award-winning independent print magazine for
gardeners, plant admirers, nature lovers and outdoor adventurers,
and winner of the Garden Publication of the Year at the Garden
Media Awards 2021. Other titles in this series include Shade and
Pots.
This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural
identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to
Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of
interest in British vernacular (or "folk") cultures, which has
often been elided with the emergence of British Romanticism and its
Continental precursors. Here the Romantics' discovery of and
admiration for vernacular traditions is placed in a longer
historical timeline reaching back to the controversies sparked by
the Protestant Reformation. The book charts the emergence of a
nuanced discourse about vernacular cultures, developing in response
to the Reformers' devastating attack on customary practices and
beliefs relating to the natural world, seasonal festivities, and
rites of passage. It became a discourse grounded in humanist
Biblical and antiquarian scholarship; informed by the theological
and pastoral problems of the long period of religious instability
after the Reformation; and, over the course of the eighteenth
century, colored by new ideas about culture drawn from
Enlightenment historicism and empiricism. This study shows that
Romantic literary primitivism and Romantic social thought, both
radical and conservative, grew out of this rich context. It will be
welcomed by historians of early modern and eighteenth-century
Britain and those interested in the study of religious and
vernacular cultures.
This edited collection explores the politics of crime and violence
in Latin America through both theoretical reflections as well as
several detailed case studies based on empirical, primary research.
Its overall aim is to explore common misperceptions and
simplifications which are often found in political discourses,
policy documentation, as well as some academic work. These
simplifications include a focus on gangs, narrow understandings of
organized criminal groups and the knock-on effect that such a focus
has on policy making. Instead, the chapters in this book shift the
reader's gaze to more structural explanations and analytical
approaches, moving them towards an understanding of how wider
historical, economic, cultural and even psychological issues impact
the complex relationships between crime, violence, and politics in
the region. The detailed case studies also allow for a unique
comparative analysis of problems faced throughout the region. While
significant differences exist, analysis of the case studies reveals
common issues, problems, and debates between countries (including
structural violence, militarization, and neo-liberalism). These
"golden threads" reveal not only the complexity of crime and
violence in the region but also expose the failure of the overly
simple "gangsterism" discourse found elsewhere. Finally, and
importantly, several of the chapters explore the politics of policy
making in relation to these problems, shedding light on the complex
reasons for policy failures and highlighting innovative
opportunities for change. Whilst shedding light on current problems
in the region the book also offers a range of analytical approaches
for exploring other cases where crime, violence, and politics
collide.
This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural
identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to
Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of
interest in British vernacular (or "folk") cultures, which has
often been elided with the emergence of British Romanticism and its
Continental precursors. Here the Romantics' discovery of and
admiration for vernacular traditions is placed in a longer
historical timeline reaching back to the controversies sparked by
the Protestant Reformation. The book charts the emergence of a
nuanced discourse about vernacular cultures, developing in response
to the Reformers' devastating attack on customary practices and
beliefs relating to the natural world, seasonal festivities, and
rites of passage. It became a discourse grounded in humanist
Biblical and antiquarian scholarship; informed by the theological
and pastoral problems of the long period of religious instability
after the Reformation; and, over the course of the eighteenth
century, colored by new ideas about culture drawn from
Enlightenment historicism and empiricism. This study shows that
Romantic literary primitivism and Romantic social thought, both
radical and conservative, grew out of this rich context. It will be
welcomed by historians of early modern and eighteenth-century
Britain and those interested in the study of religious and
vernacular cultures.
Urban fictional love story based in the inner communities of Los
Angeles, California beginning in the early 1990's and ends in 2017
They Died In Vain is about the experiences of a teenage girl during
the Nigerian Civil War. Her suffering and the suffering of others
around her.
February 1993.Two boys with evil intent.One innocent
toddler.Wrong place, wrong time.... Murder the result. How can
light come from such darkness?
The day Helen called the BBC to contact a group of mothers
outraged over the murder of James Bulger, she was catapulted into
an alien world of media, politics, and royalty. From her dining
table, she created a charity to rescue the little ones, but in the
process lost herself. Marriage falling apart, health collapsing,
suicidal, she clung onto the teachings of Louise Hay like a
lifeline.
A true, fast-paced, and inspiring memoir taking you from the
back streets of Bootle to the golden temples of Bangkok,
Loss*Love*Light is a gritty illustration of how you can transform
your own inner darkness into joy but also play your part in
illuminating the world.
A Letter to My Countrymen is a book that discusses the Nigerian
situation and the institutional flaws that cripple the whole
society by accepting negativity. These Nigerian factors become an
acceptable way to look at issues that are fundamentally wrong and
unethical, by giving it a local acceptability that is too
embarrassing to a normal, honest person. These issues are traced to
its basic foundations: poverty. The book also looks at the good
part and still maintains that change is the only thing that is
permanent in mankind. Nigerians all over the world can change.
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