Following the sudden death of her father in the street, a blind toddler crawls through a shop front trapdoor and is lost in the labyrinth of tunnels and passages beneath London.Twelve years later, after reports of a wild 'cat girl' prowling the night-time alleyways, a feral teenager is captured in the churchyard of St Giles-in-the-Fields. Seemingly grown up in isolation without family or social contact, she is placed into care but the mysterious girl's past remains a puzzle, and he...

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

The Second World War - a mother must make a heart-breaking sacrifice in order to save her child...'Maureen Lee weaves intrigue, love and warmth into every page' MY WEEKLY'A fine writer' EVENING TELEGRAPHIt is spring, late morning, when Flora's life changes for ever. She is standing on a platform in the Swiss mountains, watching as a cattle train draws near. From within the wooden trucks she can hear human voices -...

Sex in animals has been known for at least ten thousand years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the late 17th century, long after the domestication of crop plants. Even after its discovery, the "sexual theory" continued to be hotly debated and lampooned for another 150 years, pitting the "sexualists" against the "asexualists". Why was the notion of sex in plants so contentiou...

Shattering Myths on Immigration and Emigration in Costa Rica provides the first comprehensive examination of transnational migration patterns into and out of Costa Rica. This impressive edited volume brings together the work of 18 top scholars from diverse social science backgrounds to analyze Costa Rican migration patterns in the era of globalization. The first section focuses on immigration in Costa Rican history, including chapters on Nicaraguan, North American and European imm...

Nana is one of the coolest people that Flora-Lee has ever known. She lived on a bus (just for a little while), writes books and tells the most wonderful stories. Best of all, she is fun to hang out with. But, Nana's lung disease has gotten the better of her. Now, Nana doesn't have anywhere near the energy that she used to have. Flora-Lee is not happy when Nana is hospitalized. To make matters worse, Flora-Lee's much older sister, Tracie, decides to visit. Flora-Lee is not impressed with Tr...

Cura y protege tu cerebroIncluyendo notas de dietaEl resumen obligatorio de “Alimenta tu cerebro: el poder de la flora intestinal para curar y proteger tu cerebro... de por vida” por el Dr. David Perlmutter.La tasa de prevalencia crece en enfermedades crónicas debilitantes como el autismo, la depresión, el Alzheimer y la demencia. Sin embargo, los avances en la prevención y el tratamiento de estas enfermedades son casi...

El Ecuador cuenta con 3118 especies de plantas medicinales, algunas de ellas han constituido la base para iniciar investigaciones formales con aplicabilidad en la etnofarmacología. Presentamos 30 especies distribuidas en todo el Ecuador y que han sido utilizadas ancestralmente por la medicina tradicional. Además incluye una guía de ilustraciones botánicas y una navegación a través de mapas interact...

Medicinal plants in Ecuador add up to 3118 species, 75% being native, of these, 80 were investigated by the PUCE-KRIBB project, finally 30 species were collected in this publication for being the most promising. We hope that this book contributes to new research on active ingredients that at some point will be used for the preparation of phytopharmaceuticals, for the benef...

Could the guy she loves to hate turn out to be her perfect pairing?If Shelby Armstrong wants to keep her late father’s beloved Flora Valley Wines in business, she’ll have to listen to Nathan Durant’s advice. But given the fact that Shelby is all heart and Nate is nothing but tough love, bringing the winery back to life quickly becomes a battle of wills.And yet, Shelby and Nate aren’t incompatible in every way – in fact, an unexpected (and unexpectedly hot)...

In Blood Bound: Unlacing Secret Ties, costume historian Geoffroy Le Hideux recognizes the coat of arms of Madame de Pompadour on a blood-stained dress found hidden in the walls of the Élysée Palace. In a genealogical investigation taking her from Montreal to Paris, Lou Ashby, a successful communications agent at a television station called La Chaîne, meets Geoffroy. Together they will expose a secret that alters what was considered historical fact: Madame de Pompadour did not have...

Whoever invented love at first sight should have left instructions for what to do when it only strikes one of you……is all Ava Durant can think as she watches the man of her dreams from across the room at her brother’s wedding.Handyman Cam Hollander takes the ‘strong, silent type’ label to new extremes and getting more than four words at a time out of him is Ava’s primary life goal. But when Ava’s health takes a hit it’s Cam who unexpectedly steps i...