Includes: the Ultimate Tick List A-Z Survival Guide 50 Top Tips & Useful Contacts. This book provides comprehensive &
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When planning a new office designers & their clients are faced with many challenges & questions. They have to think about practical issues such as spatial needs proximity relations IT infrastructure & furniture but also more strategic issues such as occupancy costs effectiveness of the working environment & environmental impact. One of the most fundamental questions during the briefing stage concerns the office concept: what kind of office design best suits the working processes & culture of the organisation? Should all employees have their own workstation or are they going to share desks? Would enclosed offices or a more open working environment be better? Perhaps a solution that holds the middle is best? How many & what kind of meeting spaces do we need? Planning Office Spaces is a clear accessible book written to help solve these problems looking at each of these issues in turn & showing the alternatives on offer & what the advantages & disadvantages are. It is ideally suited for both office designers & their clients to help them reach the best most suitable office design while ensuring that they have considered all of the issues that need to be addressed. ...

You see a wonderful garden on TV at the Chelsea flower show or at your neighbours' house but how do you go about recreating it in your own back yard? In Ann-Marie Powell's Plans for Small Gardens the Chelsea gold medal winner lists out all the gardening ingredients as well explaining how to actually create & maintain your garden. This is a book that starts from scratch to allow even gardening novices to build their perfect patch. Choose your recipe
- shady courtyard family or edible; collect your ingredients
- turf slabs containers & plants; & follow the simple method to put the garden together. Detailed planting & construction plans colour photographs & a handy practical section at the back of the book ensure you have all the resources you need while year-by-year maintenance guides guarantee that your garden will continue to flourish for years to come.

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Plant engineers are responsible for a wide range of industrial activities & may work in any industry. This means that breadth of knowledge required by such professionals is so wide that previous books addressing plant engineering have either been limited to only certain subjects or cursory in their treatment of topics. The Plant Engineering Handbook" offers comprehensive coverage of an enormous range of subjects which are of vital interest to the plant engineer & anyone connected with industrial operations or maintenance. This handbook is packed with indispensable information from defining just what a Plant Engineer actually does through selection of a suitable site for a factory & provision of basic facilities (including boilers electrical systems water HVAC systems pumping systems & floors & finishes) to issues such as lubrication corrosion energy conservation maintenance & materials handling as well as environmental considerations insurance matters & financial concerns. One of the major features of this volume is its comprehensive treatment of the maintenance management function; in addition to chapters which outline the operation of the various plant equipment there is specialist advice on how to get the most out of that equipment & its operators. This will enable the reader to reap the rewards of more efficient operations more effective employee contributions & in turn more profitable performance from the plant & the business to which it contributes. The Editor Keith Mobley & the team of expert contributors have practiced at the highest levels in leading corporations across the USA Europe & the rest of the world. Produced in association with " Plant Engineering" magazine this book will be a source of information for plant engineers in any industry worldwide." ...

The Plant Hunters" tells the story of our fascination with plants & the discovery of new species. From ancient times when Alexander the Great included naturalists in his entourage this intriguing story moves across the world as plants such as coconut trees roses & numerous fruits & vegetables were introduced from one country to another. It traces the establishment of botanical gardens & the discovery through exploration of plants that made or broke economies for instance tulips tea & rubber. Travelling right around the world & throughout history this is the tale of the botanical pioneers who changed the face of landscapes." ...

This is a trailblazing book in MP3 audiobook format that explores an old way of healing through the spirit of plants! Eliot Cowan learned that it wasnt the plant that healed a person but the spirit in the plant. Learning to contact the spirit of the plant was to ask it directly to heal the person. ...

In this thorough & illuminating work Michael Prestwich provides a comprehensive study of Plantagenet England a dramatic & turbulent period which saw many changes. In politics it saw Simon de Montforts challenge to the crown in Henry IIs reign & it witnessed the deposition of Edward I. In contrast it also saw the highly successful rules of Edward I & his grandson Edward III. Political institutions were transformed with the development of parliament & war was a dominant theme: Wales was conquered & the Scottish Wars of Independence started in Edward Is reign & under Edward III there were triumphs at Crecy & Poitiers. Outside of politics English society was developing a structure from the great magnates at the top to the peasantry at the bottom. Economic changes were also significant from the expansionary period of the thirteenth century to years of difficulty in the fourteenth century culminating in the greatest demographic disaster of historical times the Black Death. In this volume in the New Oxford History of England series Michael Prestwich brings this fascinating century to life. ...

Plantagenet is the name given to the English royal house descended from the union of Queen Matilda of England & her second husband Geoffrey of Anjou. The name derived from Geoffreys nickname which came from the sprig of broom (planta genet) which he wore in his hat. The Plantagenets ruled England for more than three hundred years from the accession of reign of the dynastys founder Matilda & Geoffreys son Henry II in 1154 to the death of the last Plantagenet Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain is a compelling year-by-year chronology of a tumultuous & critical period in the development of the English nation. Each year is covered by a concise informative & accessible narrative amplified by extensive"ation from contemporary sources & accompanied by generously captioned & stunning images of the period
- including illuminations portraits maps royal seals tapestries & other artefacts. Authoritative informative & sumptuous & compiled by a scholar who is steeped in knowledge of the period The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain brings a critical era of English history dramatically & vividly to life. It is the perfect gift book for anyone with a love of or fascination for medieval English history. Henry II (1154-89); Richard I & John (1189-1216); Henry III (1216-72); Edward I (1272-1307); Edward II (1307-27); Edward III (1327-77); Richard II (1377-99); Henry IV (1399-1413); Henry V (1413-1422); Wars of the Roses (1422-71); Edward IV Edward V & Richard III (1471-85); Genealogical tables; Maps.
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Eight generations of the greatest & worst kings & queens that this country has ever seen
- from the White Ship to the Lionheart
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This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings & queens that this country has ever seen & the worst. The Plantagenets
- their story is the story of Britain. Englands greatest royal dynasty the Plantagenets ruled over England through eight generations of kings. Their remarkable reign saw England emerge from the Dark Ages to become a highly organised kingdom that spanned a vast expanse of Europe. Plantagenet rule saw the establishment of laws & creation of artworks monuments & tombs which survive to this day & continue to speak of their sophistication brutality & secrets. Dan Jones brings you a new vision of this battle-scarred history. From the Crusades to King Johns humbling over Magna Carta & the tragic reign of the last Plantagenet Richard II
- this is a blow-by-blow account of Englands most thrilling age.

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