Donald Worsters A Passion for Nature is the most complete account of the great conservationist & founder of the Sierra Club ever written. It is the first to be based on Muirs full private correspondence & to meet modern scholarly standards yet it is also full of rich detail & personal anecdote uncovering the complex inner life behind the legend of the solitary mountain man. It traces Muir from his boyhood in Scotland & frontier Wisconsin to his adult life in California right after the Civil War up to his death on the eve of World War I. It explores his marriage & family life his relationship with his abusive father his many friendships with the humble & famous (including Theodore Roosevelt & Ralph Waldo Emerson) & his role in founding the modern American conservation movement. Inspired by Muirs passion for the wilderness Americans created a long & stunning list of national parks & wilderness areas Yosemite most prominent among them. Yet the book also describes a Muir who was a successful fruit-grower a talented scientist & world-traveler a doting father & husband & a self-made man of wealth & political influence. The winner of numerous book awards A Passion for Nature was also named a Best Book of 2008 by Washington Post Book World. It is the first comprehensive biography of Muir to appear in six decades. ...

A food for all occasions pastas huge variety of shapes textures & flavours makes it the perfect basis for all kinds of meals from sophisticated dinner parties to simple suppers at home. In this fully revised & updated edition Antonio Carluccio once again shares with you his Passion for Pasta providing innovative & exciting recipes for soups main courses salads & even desserts to promote this staple ingredient of traditional Italian cookery to the rank of haute cuisine. The 100 delicious dishes include Egg in Raviolo with White Truffles Oriecchiette with Lamb Ragout Pappardelle with Quail Sauce & the unusual Chocolate Pasta Sauce. Forget the blasphemy of bottled sauces ready-made pasta dishes & pre-packed Parmesan cheese. Instead seek inspiration from the palette of delicious Italian ingredients Parma ham mozzarella radicchio artichoke hearts wild mushrooms & truffles combined with originality & genius in Antonio Carluccios pasta masterpieces. ...

With bags quilts blankets pillows table runners & more A Passion for Quilting is filled with innovative quilting & patchwork projects to try. With 35 eye-catching designs to sew every stitcher will fall in love with the projects in A Passion for Quilting. With something for everyone Nicki Trench employs quilting applique embroidery & patchwork techniques to create items to make for the home or to give as personal gifts to family & friends. Divided into four chapters start by making Blankets & Quilts using colourful blocks & vintage fabrics. Take the picnic quilt out on a summer day or decorate your baby's crib with the cot quilt made with vintage fabrics. Carry Out is next packed with projects for people who love bags. The glamour purse is covered with pretty yoyos while the beach bag is great for storing all your vacation essentials. Accessories & Gifts has book covers needle cases cushions & more that are certain to put a smile on the face of the recipient. In the final chapter Kitchen & Dining Room there are trivets tea towels & chair seat covers to add colour to your culinary spaces. At the back you will find a handy techniques section explaining all the stitches you'll need to complete the projects. With creative ideas to inspire both beginners & more experienced stitchers you are sure to find the perfect project to feed your crafting addictions! ...

Passion For Speed" puts you behind the wheel of the greatest ever sports & racing cars. Nick Mason of Pink Floyd has been acquiring & racing cars for nearly 40 years. With test driver Mark Hales he has given the pick of his cars a no-holds-barred workout at Silverstone Donington & Anglesey to find out how they compare under pressure. Feel the force of a Le Mans Porsche. Relish the challenge of a 1920s Bugatti. Savour the elegant performance of the Ferrari 250GTO. With specially commissioned photographs of every car & even a CD unleashing the power & glory of their engine sounds " Passion For Speed" is the next best thing to being in the driving seat." ...

Sylvia Day's Passion for the Game is a tale of deception lust & deadly desire in Georgian Engl&. Maria Lady Winter is coerced into using her searing beauty & siren body to find out why dangerous pirate Christopher St. John has been let out of jail. But pirate St. John's only chance of avoiding the hangman is to use his renowned seduction skills to melt Lady Winter's icy heart
- & to discover her secrets. Entangled in a twisted game of deception & desire Maria & Christopher are each determined to be the one to win this lusty battle of wits... Praise for Sylvia Day bestselling author of the sensational Bared to You & Reflected in You first two books in the Crossfire trilogy: Move over Danielle Steel & Jackie Collins this is the dawn of a new Day". (Amuse). " Several shades darker & a hundred degrees hotter than anything you've read before". (Reveal). Sylvia Day is the number one New York Times & number one international bestselling author of more than a dozen award-winning novels which have been translated into thirty-nine languages. She has been nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Author & her work has been honoured as Amazon's Best of the Year in Romance. She has won the RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award & been nominated for the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award twice."
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As we move towards the 2016 zero carbon target in house building Passivhaus construction looks like becoming not just popular in the UK but commonplace. This is a no-nonsense & engaging introduction on how to do it. Kevin Mc Cloud The Passivhaus Handbook is an essential guide for anyone wanting to realise a supremely comfortable healthy & durable home with exceptionally low energy costs. Passivhaus design focuses on getting the building fabric right to achieve ultra-low energy consumption in the most cost-effective manner. The approach is relevant to a wide range of building types & climates. Passivhaus methodology can be combined with elements of other building standards such as the UKs Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) or with other sustainable building goals such as a commitment to using low-impact or natural building materials. Whether you are building an extension retrofitting your house or starting from scratch & whether you are new to low-energy design or already have some experience this book will help you navigate around the potential pitfalls & misconceptions. It brings together current thinking & best practice. The book
Includes:: * A clear explanation of the underlying building physics & terminology. * Detailed information on key elements of Passivhaus: avoiding air leakage designing out thermal (cold) bridges moisture management & ventilation strategy. * Practical advice on setting up a project including developing a motivated project team. * A discussion of economic considerations & the policy context in the UK. As pressure on global resources increases & energy prices continue to rise the Passivhaus approach proven over 20 years meets the challenge of ultra-low-energy building for the future.
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' Que es esto? Que es esto? Es cocaina!' I couldn't speak a word of Spanish but I understood the word 'cocaina' & knew that I was in a lot of trouble. I should have been paralysed with fear but it didn't seem real. I was only twenty-three. In 1997 English holidaymaker Terry Daniels was wrongfully accused of smuggling a million pounds worth of cocaine from Brazil to Spain. Although she didn't know it then her companion had been paid by a judge & two police officers to transport the class A drugs. Charged with drug trafficking she was eventually granted bail but suffered a near-fatal brain haemorrhage. Once she recovered the Spanish authorities granted her the right to return to the UK. She assumed that her ordeal was over but it had only just begun. Five years after her arrest Terry moved to Northern Ireland where after giving a friend a spare key to her house she awoke one morning to the anti-terrorist police breaking down her door. Firearms & a pipe bomb were discovered in a cupboard. Terry was arrested & although she was found not guilty the Spanish authorities requested that she return to Spain. In 2005 she was sentenced to ten years in a maximum-security Spanish prison. She repeatedly pleaded her innocence & was eventually granted a royal pardon & released in January 2009. This is the hard-hitting account of her fight for justice a page-turning memoir of an ordinary woman who survived & triumphed over remarkable misfortune ...

Meet the Love children: oh-so-perfect Linn airy-fairy Rowan animal-obsessed Tor
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1910: Distinguished MP Edwin Strafford resigns at the pinnacle of his career removing himself from the public eye. The woman he loves & for whom he was willing to sacrifice everything suddenly & coldly rejects him. All the reasons for his fall from grace are shrouded in darkness. Seventy years later historian Martin Radford is down on his luck when a mysterious benefactor offers him the opportunity of a lifetime: to uncover what exactly happened to Edwin Strafford. But this apparent good fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare. Radford's investigations trigger a violent series of events which throw him straight into the path of those who believed they had escaped punishment for crimes long past but never paid for... ...

We drift through life uncertain of who we really are & what we should be doing. & in this sense our instincts are right. Our lives are unfinished business. Our soul is eternal & has a job to do in this life. It has a master plan that has evolved through all our lifetimes. Everyone knows about the existence of Angels but this book reveals the discovery of a very special & previously unsuspected legion
- that of Past Life Angels. These beings are not only here & now; they have been with us through all our lives since our souls creation. They are still there to nudge us guide us jog our memories. The clues are there & by following them we can kick our higher self into operation & change our lives beyond recognition. For the first time Jenny Smedley shows why your past lives are important to your future & how they can change your current one. She discusses the contracts made before this birth both with others & yourself. She explains the illnesses & fears we suffer from & above all how we can stick to the right path with the help of our past life angels once we have found it.
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