![]() ![]() She was an avid gardener and a conservationist. But what I didn’t realize was she was much more than an artist/writer. We all know Beatrix Potter from her creation, Peter Rabbit and Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. The audiobook culminates in a traveler's guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter's gardens today. Next, the listener follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. ![]() The audiobook begins with a gardener's biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England's Lake District. Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is the first work to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter's love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. And her characters - Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest - exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. ![]() More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide, and interest in her work and life remains high. There aren't many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Including hundreds of stunning photographs and dozens of informative and entertaining graphics, every page is a breathtaking demonstration of color and its role in the world around us. Between these chapters, authors Joann Eckstut and Ariele Eckstut turn their attention to the individual hues of the visible spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violent - presenting each in fascinating, in-depth detail. Organized into chapters that begin with a fascinating explanation of the physics and chemistry of color, The Secret Language of Color imparts a beautiful and thorough investigation into the nature of color, such as how and why we see color, rainbows, animals with color vision far superior and inferior to our own, how our language influences the colors we see, and much more. Why is the sky blue, the grass green, a rose red? Most of us have no idea how to answer these questions, nor are we aware that color pervades nearly all aspects of life, from the subatomic realm and the natural world to human culture and psychology. ![]() The Secret Language of Color celebrates and illuminates the countless ways in which color colors our world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This lucid and well-informed study reveals how much there is to learn from this rich and vibrant record. It is startling how insulated the West has remained from the thinking, achievements, and struggles of the great majority of the world’s people. ![]() In his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad “has helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today’s global situation and standoff.” The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issue-based movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival-in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Since the ’70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off. In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. ![]() ![]() Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvelous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. A short story collection by Nisi Shawl, its description and critical blurbs promised rich literary fantasy from a talented and distinctive voice that was new to. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated. Approximately nine years ago, while browsing a local library’s new release section, I came across Filter House. What if the African natives developed steam power ahead of their colonial oppressors? What might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier?įabian Socialists from Great Britain join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. From noted short story writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate-history novel set in the Belgian Congo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Deirdre has won many awards for her work including the Rooney Prize, a Hennessy Lifetime Achievement Award, and she has twice been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She edited the short story anthology All Over Ireland and she has also written for children. ![]() Her novels include One by One in the Darkness, Authenticity, Molly Fox’s Birthday and, most recently, Time Present and Time Past. ĭeirdre Madden grew up in Toomebridge, County Antrim. Join us for a memorable conversation with Wendy Erskine, author of two celebrated collections of short stories, Dance Move, and Sweet Home. The Belfast Book Festival is honoured to welcome Deirdre Madden to a special event at The Crescent.ĭeirdre’s first novel, Hidden Symptoms, was published by Faber in 1986, and since then she has established a reputation as one of Ireland’s most significant and emotionally resonant writers.ĭeirdre’s novels, including Molly Fox’s Birthday, Authenticity, One by One in the Darkness, and The Birds of the Innocent Wood have opened windows onto the troubled heart of Northern Ireland, women’s lives and experiences in contemporary Ireland, and the relationship between art and life. ![]() ![]() When Coll learns that Persephone is actually a lady-in-hiding and someone is willing to kill her for what she stands to inherit. The challenge isn't that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows.The problem is that she isn't interested in marrying any man-especially not a hot-headed Scot-even if he is the only man who seems to understand who she really is even when she's not sure herself. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match. ![]() ![]() ![]() The MacTaggert brothers have one task: Find English brides or lose their land! Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do-not even by his exasperated English mother who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sexy, adventurous, funny David makes Jack wonder if it might even be time to think about romance again, but David has some secrets of his own, not least that he’s already dating a newly out bisexual named Alex. ![]() It’s been a hard road, but a year later things are looking up – widowed Jack is just starting to think about moving on, and even Alex’s midlife crisis appears to be simmering down when he triumphantly announces that he’s finally dating a grown-up. When writer Jack loses his husband he knows he can always rely on his best friend Alex, even if Alex is on his third twentysomething girlfriend in as many months because he can’t cope with the gruesome prospect of turning forty. ![]() ![]() ![]() I started wondering about the possibilities, what was going to come next.Ĭentred around William and his family in a small community, it showed how people essentially orphaned from their time period were trying to cope. I again struggled with the first dozen or so pages, but then began to find the book interesting. Then recently I was browsing at the books lining the shelves and thought it was time I showed more patience with this book. I found the first few pages rather dull so back on the bookshelf it went. It wasn’t how I imagined the book would be. Anyhow I remember a while back taking Forever Free off my bookshelf it and reading a few pages. Okay so I’ve not read ‘Forever War’, I probably should have, probably would have added more depth. So when one day at a second-hand book shop I found one of the follow ups for a ridiculously low price, I snapped it up. ![]() ‘Forever War’ apparently is regarded as one of the great scifi novels. A book I have never read, but had meant to. Joe Haldeman’s Forever Free is the direct sequel to the ‘Forever War’. How about eking out a life on a cold harsh planet?! This could be pretty awesome I thought. Ex-military from a war spanning hundreds of years! Sounds interesting to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() He taught from 1941 through 1945 in American universities, followed by occasional visiting professorships in the 1950s. In 1939 he moved to the United States and became an American citizen in 1946. After a few months in Berlin in 1928–29 he spent five years (1930–35) teaching in English public schools, then travelled to Iceland and China in order to write books about his journeys. ![]() He attended English independent (or public) schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Wystan Hugh Auden was an Anglo-American poet, best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues," poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles," poems on cultural and psychological themes such as The Age of Anxiety, and poems on religious themes such as For the Time Being and "Horae Canonicae." He grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A fine copy in fine printed wrappers (as new), together with the original cast list and three other promotional cards, signed by both Nicholas Wright and Philip Pullman on the title page. ![]() Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials (stage adaptation by Nicholas Wright). Fine in fine original printed wrappers (as new), signed by both Nicholas Tucker and Philip Pullman on the title page. Darkness Visible - Inside the World of Philip Pullman. Fine in fine printed boards (as new), signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dustwrapper (as new) with all the first issue points, together with the Alethiometer and the Scholastic Promotional Card ("The Story is Complete"), signed by the author on the title page ("Philip Pullman - Oxford"). ![]() London: David Fickling Books (an imprint of Scholastic), 2000. Fine in a fine dustwrapper (as new) with all the first issue points (the complete number line (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1) on the copyright page), signed by the author on the title page. London: Scholastic Publications Ltd., 1997. Fine in a fine dustwrapper (as new) with all the first issue points (POINT on the spine, price of £12.99 on the front flap, 7-9 Prat Street on the rear flap, but without the ugly (and obviously later) Carnegie Medal sticker on front of the dustwrapper), signed by the author on the title page. London: Scholastic Publications Ltd., 1995. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, signed by the author on the title page. ![]() |