![]() ![]() Not only a lovely book to showcase on your coffee table, but full of beautiful images to admire. Clearly, her concoction works, as the photography shows. Tasha shares some of her secrets to keeping such beautiful gardens, including her concoction of manure tea, which she uses to feed her plants. Besides, a woman of her advanced years doesn't need to be snow shoveling anyways. One of my favorites was that Tasha doesn't shovel her walkways during the winter, and instead prefers to put on her snowshoes and trudge on through with her corgi dogs! She finds it to be a waste of time and energy. Brown, and Tasha's personal anecdotes, written and told by Tovah Martin. This book was nothing but inspiring, full of beautiful photography of her lush gardens, photographed by Richard W. I love Tasha's way of thinking, and her way of life in general. Not a moment, not an action, not a leaf is ever wasted." And that, in a nutshell is Tasha's philosophy of life. "Tasha never wastes a leaf: The spoils are fed to the hens. ![]()
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![]() He has also presented a sports magazine programme for Setanta TV and was an analyst for Al Jazeera TV during 2012 London Olympics. He has written for the Sunday Tribune, the Sunday Independent, the Sunday Times, the Observer and the Daily Mail. In 1989, he raced the Giro D’Italia and Tour de France with Roche on the Fagor team and then retired from the sport to begin a new career as a journalist with The Sunday Tribune.Ī former ‘Sportswriter of the Year’ in Ireland, he was short-listed five times for ‘Sportswriter of the Year’ in Britain and is a five- time winner of ‘Sports Interviewer of the Year’ at the British Sports Journalists’ Association awards. In 1987, he finished 8 th in the Nissan Classic and joined the Irish team of Martin Earley and Sean Kelly at the World Road Race Championships in Austria won by Stephen Roche. In 1986, he turned professional with the French team, RMO and completed his first Tour de France. A year later, he won a stage of the Tour of Normandy and the Tour of Poland and finished sixth in the World Amateur Road Race Championships in Italy. ![]() In 1984, he won his second Road Race Championship and represented Ireland at the Los at the Los Angeles Olympics. In 1981, he became the youngest Irishman ever to win the Road Race Championship and should have won the 1983 Tour of Britain but for a crash on the penultimate stage. He was born in 1962, the year his father, Christy, won the National Road Race Championship and spent his boyhood dreaming of emulating his dad. Paul Kimmage’s life has been shaped by a love for cycling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In parallel to the political conflict between King Henry and a rebellious faction of nobles, the play depicts the escapades of King Henry's son, Prince Hal (the future King Henry V), and his eventual return to court and favour. The play dramatises part of the reign of King Henry IV of England, beginning with the battle at Homildon Hill late in 1402, and ending with King Henry's victory in the Battle of Shrewsbury in mid-1403. ![]() Henry IV, Part 1 (often written as 1 Henry IV) is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. King Henry IV, Part I: The King to the Prince of Wales: "Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.", (Act III, Scene ii), by Edwin Austin Abbey (1905) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. ![]() Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Sapiens is a book that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human. ![]() ![]() ![]() Authentic in voice, sweeping in scope, startling in clarity, urgent, never compromised and often visionary, these discourses advance a new theory of sex inequality and imagine new possibilities for social change. MacKinnon offers a unique retrospective on the law of sexual harassment, which she designed and has worked for a decade to establish, and a prospectus on the law of pornography, which she proposes to change in the next ten years. ![]() These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. ![]() ![]() ![]() All the while, thoughout the train ride, we glimpse specific moments and physical details: a sweaty brow, a memory of Ikea, a dream, the conductor brandishing a photo of his child, a bottle of wine, a newspaper. A moment later, in the same conversation, we learn of the narrator’s friend’s philosophy of “the big alone” which allows us a short cut into the friend’s world view: in the end, we have no one, nothing. That, and, “Our marriage is on borrowed time,” the narrator tells her friend. ![]() Nothing extraordinary, except at one point we learn of the narrator’s recent pregnancy resulting in a still born birth. Afterward, they drink, they converse, they ride the train together. The one friend, a professor, invites the narrator to give a lecture at the college where he teaches. The story starts in a rather mundane way: two friends reunite after a three year absence. Check it out here: “ Hill of Hell” by Laura van den Berg published in 2019. A haunting and delicately written story about family, secrets, and how quickly life passes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Captain Jack’s Woman (October 1997) (prequel).The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae (2012).In Pursuit of Miss Eliza Cynster (October 2011).Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue (September 2011).Lost and Found (June 2005) in Hero, Come Back (features Reggie Carmarthen - introduced in On a Wild Night).On a Wild Night (April 2002) **2002 AAR Most Annoying Lead Character**.The Promise in a Kiss (December 2001) (prequel).All About Passion (September 2001) **A TRR 5 Heart Keeper **.A Secret Love (July 2000) **2000 AAR Most Luscious Love Story**.Devil’s Bride (March 1998) **1998 AAR Favorite European Historical Romance, 1998 RT Reviewers’ Choice - Historical Romance in a Series, 2000 AAR Top 100 Romances #5, 2004 AAR Top 100 Romances #24, 2007 AAR Top 100 Romances #31, TRR 5 Heart Keeper **.The Fall of Rogue Gerard (October 2008) in It Happened One Night.Scandalous Lord Dere (December 2000) in Secrets of a Perfect Night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eager to be accepted, Becca allows her friends to turn her into a werewolf, and finally, for the first time in her life, she feels like she truly belongs.īut things get complicated when Arianna’s predatory boyfriend is killed, and the cops begin searching for a serial killer. Their prey? Slimy boys who take advantage of unsuspecting girls. But at a party under a full moon, Becca learns that they also have a big secret.īecca’s new friends are werewolves. At first glance, Marley, Arianna, and Mandy are perfect. To her surprise, she’s immediately adopted by the most popular girls in school. When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she’s worried she’s not going to fit in. Arnold will devour the snappy dialogue, vivid artwork, and timely social commentary. ![]() When the new girl is invited to join her high school’s most popular clique, she can’t believe her luck-and she can’t believe their secret, either: they’re werewolves. Pretty Little Liars meets Teen Wolf in this fast-paced, sharply funny, and patriarchy-smashing graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and artist Lisa Sterle. ![]() ![]() When President Kennedy appointed him director of Food for Peace in 1961, McGovern engineered a vast expansion of the program's school lunch initiative that soon was feeding tens of millions of hungry children around the world. ![]() He vividly describes McGovern's harrowing missions over Nazi Germany as a B-24 bomber pilot, and reveals how McGovern's combat experiences motivated him to earn a PhD in history and stoked his ambition to run for Congress. In this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's life from his rustic boyhood in a South Dakota prairie town during the Depression to his rise to the pinnacle of politics at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago as police and antiwar demonstrators clashed in the city's streets.ĭrawing extensively on McGovern's private papers and scores of in-depth interviews, Knock shows how McGovern's importance to the Democratic Party and American liberalism extended far beyond his 1972 presidential campaign, and how the story of postwar American politics is about more than just the rise of the New Right. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet it works: as the novel establishes its figures (the pompous president, tremulous ministers and pantomime detectives), it acquires the momentum of a bedroom (here, cabinet) farce, baldly sending up EU politicos and major media editorialists. Seeing COVID-19 through José Saramagos Blindness Some 6 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the emotional devastation, socioeconomic impacts, and pressures on front-line health-care workers continue to shape our world. The allegorical blindness/sight framework is weak and obvious, and Saramago's capital city sometimes reminds one of Dr. ![]() The president receives an anonymous letter revealing the case of the eye doctor's wife (she and the group she helped had kept her support secret), and the minister in charge of internal security sends undercover policemen to investigate her connection to the "blank" revolution. The president declares a state of siege, but even though soldiers cordon off the city, nothing affects the city's maddening cheerfulness. His new novel, set in the same capital city four years later, depicts a legal "revolution," when 83% of its citizens cast blank ballots in a national election. , an unnamed capital city experiences a devastating (although transient) epidemic of blindness that mysteriously spares one woman, an eye doctor's wife, who helps a blinded group survive until their sight returns. ![]() In Nobel Prize–winner Saramogo's best known novel, Blindness ![]() |