Название: The Complete Language of Herbs: A Definitive and Illustrated History
Автор: Dietz S. Theresa
Издательство: Wellfleet Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 16 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Complete Language of Herbs is a comprehensive encyclopedia providing the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 500 herbs and spices. Along with a beautiful visual depiction, each entry provides the herb or spice’s scientific and common names, characteristics, and historic meanings and powers from mythology, medieval legends, folklore, and flower poetry. Did you know that allspice can be added to herbal mixtures to attract money or luck? Or that sprinkling arrowroot at the doors of your home will keep guests’ negative energy from entering? Reaching the height of popularity during the Victorian era, floriographies—dictionaries of symbolic flower meanings—were an amusing pastime and art to subtly communicate unspoken emotions. To complement the success of The Complete Language of Flowers, author S. Theresa Dietz has scoured historic sources and compiled an equally beautiful compendium in The Complete Language of Herbs, revealing the secrets and powers of hundreds of common and forgotten herbs and spices from around the world.

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Название: Rules: A Short History of What We Live By
Автор: Lorraine Daston
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 41 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development in the Western tradition and shows how rules have evolved from ancient to modern times. Drawing on a rich trove of examples, including legal treatises, cookbooks, military manuals, traffic regulations, and game handbooks, Daston demonstrates that while the content of rules is dazzlingly diverse, the forms that they take are surprisingly few and long-lived.

Название: The Scouting Guide to Basic Fishing: An Officially-Licensed Book of the Boy Scouts of America
Автор: Wade Bourne
Издательство: Skyhorse
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 107 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In The Scouting Guide to Basic Fishing, current Scouts, Scout alumni, and anyone interested in the outdoors are provided with a step-by-step guide that masterfully breaks down the art of fishing with diagrams, vivid photographs, and lessons on everything the beginner needs to know. Since 1910, the Boy Scouts of America has helped build the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. The BSA is committed to training youth in responsible citizenship, character development, and self-reliance through participation in a wide range of outdoor activities.

Название: Solutions and Other Problems
Автор: Allie Brosh
Издательство: Gallery Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 136 Мб
Язык: английский / English

For the first time in seven years, Allie Brosh--beloved author and artist of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller Hyperbole and a Half--returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. Solutions and Other Problems includes humorous stories from Allie Brosh's childhood; the adventures of her very bad animals; merciless dissection of her own character flaws; incisive essays on grief, loneliness, and powerlessness; as well as reflections on the absurdity of modern life.

Название: Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
Автор: Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

South Korea has the most remarkable of histories. Born from the ashes of colonialism, partition and a devastating war, back in the 1950s there were real doubts about its survival as an independent state. Yet South Korea did survive, and first became known globally for the export of cheap toys, shoes and clothing. Today, South Korea is a boisterous democracy, a vibrant market economy, a tech powerhouse, and home to the coolest of cultures. In just seventy years, this society has grown from a shrimp into a whale.

Название: Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Автор: Amy Klobuchar
Издательство: Knopf
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 71 Мб
Язык: английский / English

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today—and Amy Klobuchar, the widely respected senior senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This fascinating history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to the present moment and offers achievable solutions to prevent monopolies, promote business competition, and encourage innovation. In a world where Google reportedly controls 90 percent of the search engine market and Big Pharma’s drug price hikes impact healthcare accessibility, monopolies can hurt consumers and cause marketplace stagnation. Klobuchar—the much-admired former candidate for president of the United States—argues for swift, sweeping reform in economic, legislative, social welfare, and human rights policies, and describes plans, ideas, and legislative proposals designed to strengthen antitrust laws and antitrust enforcement.

Название: How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Автор: Randall Munroe
Издательство: Riverhead Books
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 106 Мб
Язык: английский / English

For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time.

Название: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Norway, 2019 Edition
Автор: DK Publishing
Издательство: DK Publishing
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 218 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this cultured and vibrant nation. Explore Oslo's excellent museums and enjoy the lively waterfront area, tour Norway's spectacular fjords, delight in a remarkable train journey on the steeply winding Fl?msbanen line, visit stave churches in Lom, Gudbrandsdalen, and L?rdal, and see the Northern Lights: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within color-coded chapters. Discover the best of Norway with this indispensable travel guide.

Название: The Thames: A Photographic Journey From Source to Sea
Автор: Derek Pratt
Издательство: Thomas Reed
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 26 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Thames is unique, emerging as a small stream in idyllic countryside and growing to the country's largest river, passing through some of the world's most iconic urban environments. Linking London to the countryside and the sea, the Thames is the heart of the capital and its waters the lifeblood of England. This beautiful book celebrates the entire river from source to sea, and with wonderful photography and quirky text follows it on a voyage through Britain's history, as its path joins landmarks of the past with the urban landscape of today.