The imagery of his home county ravaged by storms inevitably projects the associations of a battlefield or at least the views of one intimate with scenes of war He is not alone in his preference for darkened clouds over clear skies 184 pages Mc Cullin Don ...

Alister Mc Grath is one of the world's leading Christian theologians In this new book he tells of his discovery of Christianity while a student at Oxford University & takes readers on a panoramic tour of the landscape of the Christian faith Using the great themes of the Creeds as a map Mc Grath shares his delight in exploring their meaning significance & continuing importance This engrossing book will prove invaluable to clergy church leaders & theological students ...

What is history & why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today John Lewis Gaddis answers these & other questions in this short witty & humane book The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain Like cartographers mapping landscapes historians represent what they can never replicate In doing so they combine the techniques of artists geologists paleontologists & evolutionary biologists Their approaches parallel in intriguing ways the new sciences of chaos complexity & criticality They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it So who's really being scientific & who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch & EH Carr The Landscape of History is at once an engaging introduction to the historical method for beginners a powerful reaffirmation of it for practitioners a startling challenge to social scientists & an effective skewering of post-modernist claims that we can't know anything at all about the past It will be essential reading for anyone who reads writes teaches or cares about history ...

This is a 'workshop in a book' to follow at your own pace from UK authors Ben Hall & Ross Hoddinott two of the UK's leading natural-history photographers It is suitable for any level of expertise plus reader assignments to promote practical learning It

Includes:: answers to frequently asked questions Wow your friends & relatives with awe-inspiring landscape shots with this workshop within a book Two of the UK's leading landscape photographers come together to share their wealth of experience & teaching skills in this new title The Landscape Photography Workshop aims to take the reader from the very basics of equipment & exposure through to advanced techniques Landscape essentials such as composition & filtration are covered in depth & explained in a precise yet easy-to-understand manner This book also has chapters dedicated to post-processing & printing enabling the reader to go successfully from camera to print plus a number of practical assignments to encourage development

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In 1899 Spurs had a problem The football club formed as ' Hotspur FC' just 17 years previously was now so popular that their 14000 capacity ground at Northumberland Park was unable to cope with the growing crowds So in the summer of that year a former nursery for growing fruit & veg located on land behind the nearby White Hart pub was purchased the stands from the old ground dismantled & reassembled on the new site turf was laid & a pitch marked out The rest as they say is history & what a history! From its new home
- known as White Hart Lane despite never being officially named as such
- the ' Flower of the South' blossomed into one of the world's most famous & illustrious football clubs & with a ground to match Monumental new stands were erected so that by the 1930s ' The Lane' could accommodate crowds of more than 70000 The Lane is a unique portrait of one of one of football's great cathedrals & the most comprehensive study of the ground ever published Packed with exhaustive detail & insight & drawing on a treasure trove of classic photographs & illustrations this lavish coffee table book tells the full history of the stadium its iconic features the greatest games it has hosted &

Includes:: exclusive interviews with Spurs legends who have played on the famous turf



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This book is for anyone who has ever wondered how a child develops language thought & knowledge Before this classic appeared little was known of the way children think In 1923 however Jean Piaget the most important developmental psychologist of the twentieth century took the psychological world by storm with The Language & Thought of the Child Applying for the first time the insights of social psychology & psychoanalysis to the observation of children he uncovered the ways in which a child actively constructs his or her understanding of the world through language The book has since been a source of inspiration & guidance to generations of parents & teachers While its conclusions remain contentious to this very day few can deny the huge debt we owe to this pioneering work in our continuing attempts to understand the minds of the child ...

For Mary Russell & her husband Sherlock Holmes returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad is a delicious anticipation But the longed for sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by a bitter memory from her husband's past Mary had met Damian Adler only once before but the talented & troubled young man is enlisting her help again this time in a desperate search for his missing wife & child From suicides among the Standing Stones to a bizarre religious cult from the heart of Bohemian London to dark secrets on the streets of Shanghai Russell will find herself on the trail of a killer more dangerous than any she's ever faced
- a killer Sherlock Holmes himself may be protecting for reasons near & dear to his heart
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The language of flowers is as old as language itself In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple emotions ideas or states of mind love hope despair fidelity solitude beauty mortality Over time these associations entwined with myth & legend with religious symbolism folk & herbal lore By the early 19th century the ' Language of Flora' had become increasingly refined especially in England & America where sentimental flower books listing flower meanings & illustrating them with verse were perennial bestsellers The Everyman Language of Flowers without sacrificing the charm of its Victorian predecessors aims to provide extended updated & rather more robust floral anthology for the 21st century presenting poetry from ancient Greece to contemporary Britain & America & spanning the world from Cuba to Korea Russia to Zimbabwe Here are Rumi & Rilke on the rose; Herrick & Louise Gluck on the lily; Chaucer Emily Dickinson & Jon Silkin on the daisy; Mary Robinson & Ted Hughes on the snowdrop; Lorenzo de Medici John Clare & Alice Oswald on the violet; Hugo & Roethke on carnations; Ovid & Goethe on poppies; Blake & Eugenio Montale on the sunflower; Christina Rossetti on heartsease & forget-me-nots; Emily Bronte on harebells & heather Seamus Heaney on lupins Pasternak on night-scented stock Eastern cultures rich in flower associations are well represented there are Tang poems celebrating chrysanthemums & peonies Zen poems about orchids & lotus flowers poems about jasmine & marigolds from India roses tulips & narcissi from Persia the Ottoman empire & the Arabic world Flowers are arranged by season with roses & lilies in a section of their own In a final section poets comment directly or indirectly on the language of flowers itself The book concludes with a selected glossary drawn from several celebrated Victorian collections ...

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh is a moving story of hope & forgiveness & an international bestseller The Victorians used flowers to express emotions honeysuckle for devotion azaleas for passion & red roses for love For Victoria Jones flowers & their meanings are her only connection to the world
- although for her they are most useful in expressing feelings such as grief mistrust & solitude After a childhood in the foster care system Victoria
- now eighteen
- has nowhere to go & sleeps in a public park where she plants a small garden of her own When her talent is discovered by a local florist she discovers her gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them But it takes a meeting with a mysterious vendor at the flower market for her to realize what's been missing in her own life As she starts to fall for him though she must confront a painful secret from her past
- & decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness



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Dr Francis S Collins head of the Human Genome Project is one of the world's leading scientists working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA the code of life Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith & then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics chemistry & biology -- indeed reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all why are we here? How did we get here? & what does life mean? ...