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Multicultural Horizons
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the 'New Britain' of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of 'multicultural intim...
Migrant Belongings
This book traces the formation of Italian migrant belongings in Britain, and scrutinizes the identity narratives through which they are stabilized. A key theme of this study is the constitution of identity through both movement and attachment. The...
Paper Houses
Emily Dickinson is as famous for being a recluse as she is for her poetry. In this stunning novel, we see her struggling to reconcile spirit and flesh, preferring letters and reflecting that the only way to have books and life is to live through o...
Literature and Law
The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction to the area, covering the history, key thinkers and ideas as well as detailed and fascinating studies into areas ...
Planets in Solar Returns
Here's everything you need to know about Solar Returns ● Information is based on the author's experience interpreting hundreds of Solar Return charts for clients. ● An explanation of the significance of interceptions, retrogrades, aspects, hemispheric or quadrant emphasis, and preponderance or lack of an element or mode in a Solar Return. ● An interpretation of each planet in every house of a Solar Return. ● NEW Expanded interpretations of planets in aspects. ● A guide to 'timing' in the Solar Return coordinated with transits, secondary progressions, and solar arcs. ● A chapter on combining natal charts and Solar Returns in a double wheel technique. Throughout this book, Mary Fortier Shea concentrates on a complete description of possibilities. Interpretations include spiritual transitions, new businesses, love affairs, marriage, issues involving children and parents, health, education, writing and publishing books, relocation, income changes, and career transitions. She covers
Living Soil
Build and sustain fertile, living soil—the essential foundation for thriving crops—with Jean-Martin Fortier's biointensive techniques. Living Soil: A Grower's Guide reveals the secrets to creating fertile, healthy soil—an essential foundation for abundant, nutrient-rich harvests. With Jean-Martin Fortier's biointensive methods, gardeners and farmers alike can improve soil health while supporting thriving ecosystems. This richly illustrated, full-color guide includes: * An overview of 'The Market Gardener Method'—a proven formula for small-scale, high-yield farming * A deep dive into soil composition, including humus, microbes, and mineral content * Simple DIY assessments and advanced tests for understanding soil biology and structure * Low and no-till techniques to enhance soil fertility, including composting, mulching, crop rotation, and green manures * Strategies for regenerating and sustaining soil over time. Living Soil is part of the Grower's Guides from the Market Gardener
Market Gardener
Les Jardins de la Grelinette is a micro-farm located in eastern Quebec, just north of the American border. Growing on just 1.5 acres, owners Jean-Martin and Maude-Helene feed more than two hundred families through their thriving CSA and seasonal m...
Root Vegetables
Master the art of growing nutritious, versatile, and flavorful root vegetables with Jean-Martin Fortier's biointensive farming methods. Root Vegetables: A Grower's Guide uncovers the secrets to cultivating a wide range of root crops, from familiar favorites like potatoes and carrots to lesser-known gems like oca and salsify. Jean-Martin Fortier's biointensive approach maximizes yield while nurturing soil health, making this guide invaluable to home gardeners and market farmers alike. This richly illustrated, full-color guide includes: * A step-by-step introduction to 'The Fortier Method' for sustainable, high-yield microfarming * Botanical insights into root vegetables, from ancient wild varieties to modern cultivars * Detailed profiles of 20 nutritious and versatile crops, with practical advice on growing each * Techniques for soil preparation, sowing, transplanting, fertilizing, and irrigation * Organic practices for managing pests, diseases, and crop rotations * Tips for optimizing
Uprootings/Regroundings
New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called 'postmodern' life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogati...
Fixing English
Over the past 300 years, attempts have been made to prescribe how we should and should not use the English language. The efforts have been institutionalized in places such as usage guides, dictionaries, and school curricula. Such authorities have ...
Investigating Media Discourse
Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, drawing on contemporary sources from the English speaking world including chat shows, radio phone-ins and political interviews with leaders such as Tony Blair and George W.Bu...
Director Prepares
A Director Prepares is a thought-provoking examination of the challenges of making theatre. In it, Anne Bogart speaks candidly and with wisdom of the courage required to create 'art with great presence'. Each chapter tackles one of the seven major...
Narratives of Hunger in International Law
This book explores the role that the language of international law plays in constructing understandings - or narratives - of hunger in the context of climate change. The story is told through a specific case study of genetically engineered seeds p...
Jane Austen's Style
Jane Austen is renowned for the economy of her art: for the close focus of her romantic plots and the precision of her writing style. Exploring that economy stylistically and structurally, this book traces Austen's keen interest in narrative form....
Ellipsis in English Literature
Anne Toner provides an original account of the history of ellipsis marks - dots, dashes and asterisks - in English literary writing. Highlighting ever-renewing interest in these forms of non-completion in literature, Toner demonstrates how writers...
And Then, You Act
From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process. Writing clearly and passionately, Bogart speaks to a ...
Mind Fixers
In this "masterpiece... the preeminent historian of neuroscience" (Science) explores psychiatry's frustrated efforts to understand mental disorders as medical disorders. Anne Harrington reveals how psychiatry's waxing and waning theories...
Nox
Nox is an epitaph in the form of a book, a facsimile of a handmade book Anne Carson wrote and created after the death of her brother. The poem describes coming to terms with his loss through the lens of her translation of Poem 101 by Catullus &quo...
Constraining Dictatorship
How do some dictatorships become institutionalized ruled-based systems, while others remain heavily personalist? Once implemented, do executive constraints actually play an effective role in promoting autocratic stability? To understand patterns o...
And Then, You Act
From well-known auteur of the American theatre scene, Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act is a fascinating and accessible book about directing theatre, acting and the collaborative creative process. Writing clearly and passionately, Bogart speaks to a ...