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This beautifully illustrated large-format book showcases some 2,400
South African indigenous plants, making it a comprehensive guide to the
range of local plants available to gardeners to transform their outdoor
spaces.
An Introduction lays the groundwork, covering climate, various garden
styles, spatial planning and garden maintenance, as well as giving
suggestions for attracting wildlife to the garden.
The encyclopaedic Plant Catalogue forms the bulk of the book. Plants
are grouped by growthform into 13 chapters, from bulbs, orchids and
aloes through to shrubs, grasses, trees and fynbos.The introduction to
each group provides essential information on the selection, planting
and feeding of the species, and gives tips on growing and maintaining
them in the garden or in containers. Following each introduction is an
extensive catalogue of species, pairing full-colour photographs with
brief descriptions that cover size, shape, flowering times and best
growing conditions. The book concludes with a handy Plant Selector,
which helps gardeners to choose the most appropriate plants for
specific areas or functions in their garden or home.
Compiled and edited over several years by an expert team, this
easy-to-use reference introduces a host of new and exciting
possibilities for gardens and gardeners, both locally and across the
globe.
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way
Marnie is stuck.
Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long
afternoons and a life that often feels like it's passing her by.
Michael is coming undone.
Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking
himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells.
When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire
to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves
alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new
friendship.
But can they survive the journey?
A new love story by beloved bestseller David Nicholls, You Are Here is
a novel of first encounters, second chances and finding the way home.
A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in the terrifying new chapter of Saw.
Working in the shadow of his father, an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past.
Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the
making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What
does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal
strategic thought-what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In
answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy
and warfare, so much so that "grand strategy" has become almost an
equivalent of "military history." The traditional attention paid to
military affairs is understandable, but in today's world it leaves
out much else that could be considered political, and therefore
strategic. It is in fact possible to consider, and even reach, a
more capacious understanding of grand strategy, one that still
includes the battlefield and the negotiating table while expanding
beyond them. Just as contemporary world politics is driven by a
wide range of non-military issues, the most thorough considerations
of grand strategy must consider the bases of peace and
security-including gender, race, the environment, and a wide range
of cultural, social, political, and economic issues. Rethinking
American Grand Strategy assembles a roster of leading historians to
examine America's place in the world. Its innovative chapters
re-examine familiar figures, such as John Quincy Adams, George
Kennan, and Henry Kissinger, while also revealing the forgotten
episodes and hidden voices of American grand strategy. They expand
the scope of diplomatic and military history by placing the grand
strategies of public health, race, gender, humanitarianism, and the
law alongside military and diplomatic affairs to reveal hidden
strategists as well as strategies.
Prophesies of Godlessness explores the surprisingly similar
expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American
thinkers from the time of the Puritans to today. These predictions
of "godlessness" in American society -- sometimes by those favoring
the foreseen future, sometimes by those fearing it -- have a
history as old as America, and indeed seem crucially intertwined
with it.
This book shows that there have been and continue to be patterns
to these prophesies. They determine how some people perceive and
analyze America's prospective moral and religious future, how they
express themselves, and powerfully affect how others hear them.
While these patterns have taken a sinuous and at times subterranean
route to the present, when we think about the future of America we
are thinking about that future largely with terms and expectations
first laid out by past generations, some stemming back before the
very foundations of the United States. Even contemporary atheists
and those who predict optimistic techno-utopias rely on scripts
that are deeply rooted in the American past.
This book excavates the history of these prophesies. Each chapter
attends to a particular era, and each is organized around a focal
individual, a community of thought, and changing conceptions of
secularization. Each chapter also discusses how such predictions
are part of all thought about "the good society," and how such
thinking structures our apprehension of the present, forming a
feedback loop of sorts. Extending from the role of prophesies in
Thomas Jefferson's thought, to the Civil War, through
progressivism, the Scopes Trial, the Cold War and beyond,
Prophesies of Godlessness demonstratesthat expectations about
America's future character and piety are not an accidental feature
of American thought, but have been, and continue to be, absolutely
essential to the meaning of the nation itself.
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