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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Join the superhero world of Lang Lang & come on a piano adventure with The Lang Lang Piano Method Level 1 Level 1 introduces complete beginners todifferent five-finger positionsnote readingmoving around the keyboarddeveloping both hands equally right from the start The five progressive books in The Lang Lang Piano Method provide a unique & imaginative way for complete beginners to learn the piano with the world's most successful concert pianist Lang Lang There's plenty to play all around the keyboard right from the start Fun imaginative pieces develop the left & right hands equally & supporting audio features exclusive performances by Lang Lang of the concert pieces Musicianship is developed through theory pages & listening to exclusive performances by Lang Lang of piano classics for children "I've written The Lang Lang Piano Method to inspire today's kids with my passion for the piano" Lang Lang ...

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 ...

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? ...

' As a child I just knew which plant to pick up & hold to my head for a headache to go away Once I heard about the concept of a 'doctrine of signatures' I would just stand silently in awe of nature talking to me talking & talking in her silent direct speech The book of nature seemed so obviously spelled out & in oddest contrast to what I learned in medical school My professors seemed never to have heard of nature being vibrant & alive & brimming with patterns of energy that are right there for us to understand & use This direct & primordial experience of being part of nature's omnipresent cyclic course taught me more in the realm of no-words than any university ever could have' -- Julia Graves During the Middle Ages communicating with nature was called the 'doctrine of signatures' & it was an important part of the work of traditional healers & herbalists The Language of Plants covers all aspects of the doctrine of signatures in an easily accessible format so that everyone whether nature lovers or healers can learn to read the language of plants in connection with healing ...

The communication of scientific principles is becoming increasingly important in a world that relies on technology Exploring the use of scientific language in the news & examining how important scientific ideas are reported & communicated this title in the Intertext series takes a look at the use & misuse of scientific language & how it shapes our lives The Language of Science explores the goals of & problems with scientific language & terminology demonstrates the power & misuse of scientific discourse in the media examines the special qualities of scientific communication explores how science & popular culture interact is illustrated with a wide range of examples from the MMR vaccine to AIDS & the biological weapons debate &

Includes:: a glossary as well as ideas for further reading This practical book is ideal for post-16 to undergraduate students in English Language Linguistics Journalism Communications Studies or Science Communication

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