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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.
For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth has ruled over an institution and a family. She has been constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her uncle's abdication, in the uncertainty of the Blitz, and in the tentative exposure of her family and private life to the public via the press, Elizabeth has become synonymous with the crown.
But times change. Recent years have brought grief and turmoil to the House of Windsor, and even as England prepares to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, there are calls for a changing of the guard.
In The New Royals, journalist Katie Nicholl provides a nuanced look at Elizabeth's remarkable and unrivalled reign, with new stories from Palace courtiers and aides, documentarians, and family members. She examines Charles and Camilla's decades in waiting and beyond-where "The Firm" is headed as William and Kate present the modern faces of an ancient institution. In the wake of Harry and Meghan leaving the Royal Family and Andrew's spectacular fall from grace, the royal family must reckon with its history, the light and the dark, in order to chart a course for Britain beyond its Queen and to show that it is an institution capable of leadership in an ever changing modern world.
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 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.
Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2 contains fourteen articles -
thirteen previously published and one new - that reflect the
fast-moving changes in the field over the last five years. The
field of experimental philosophy is one of the most innovative and
exciting parts of the current philosophical landscape; it has also
engendered controversy. Proponents argue that philosophers should
employ empirical research, including the methods of experimental
psychology, to buttress their philosophical claims. Rather than
armchair theorizing, experimental philosophers should go into the
field to research how people actually think and reason. In a sense
this is a return to a view of philosophy as the progenitor of
psychology: inherently concerned with the human condition, with no
limits to its scope or methods. In the course of the last decade,
many experimental philosophers have overturned assumptions about
how people think in the real world. This volume provides an
essential guide to the most influential recent work on this vital
and exciting area of philosophical research.
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