‘The wisest book I’ve read for many years … Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health … Hugely recommended’ Stephen FryTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural world?In a powerful combination of contemporar...

No one has recorded when well digging started, but surely humans imitated elephants in digging holes in the sand to access cooler water that didn’t make the children sick. Eventually, humankind began to redesign, maintain, and repair the wells they constructed, but when wells became commodities in the twentieth century, this maintenance ethic was fogotten. Recapturing that ethic, Sustainable Wells: Maintenance, Problem Prevention, and Rehabilitation is a guide to keeping w...

He must find the ghost train, he must discover what happened to his father, and so he returns to the site night after night trying to get a glimpse of the train. One night he finally encounters the train and he finally enters the train. Once inside he finds he will never leave his father again.

This first book to reassess the myth and the realities of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favourite commando.SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison.Skorzeny's influence on special operations doctrine was far-reaching and long-lasting – in 2011, when US Navy SEALs inf...

Russian and Ukrainian women are not just a pipe dream or something you read about on the internet. Thousands of men have successfully married women from the former Soviet Union. The authors own the biggest and most-respected Russian women advice forum on the internet today. Get the inside scoop! Learn how to avoid the scammers and corrupt agencies who only want to empty your pocket. Learn how to meet and marry your Russian or Ukrainian princess and bring her to your country. Stuart J. Smit...

There is a growing problem of performance degradation of wells and associated systems on sites where groundwater quality is monitored or remediation performed. This book acts as a valuable guide in keeping monitoring and pumping well systems operating to their best capacity. It addresses the need for and methods of environmental well maintenance and restoration. This guidebook to the causes of well deterioration, methods of well maintenance, and well restoration or well rehabilitation meth...

How leaders can turn their team's individual differences into deeper trust, greater creativity, and winning results.Look around your team. You see people with different communication styles, perspectives, cultural norms, and capabilities. These differences are expressed in all kinds of ways—a casual gesture in a meeting, a colleague's opinion on a current event, an intense work style—and can often lead to friction, even conflict. You try to manage around them, but ...

SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. "Hitler's favorite commando" acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. He could be brave and resourceful, but was also a notorious egoist and an unrepentant Nazi until the end of his life.Stuart Smith draws on years of in-depth research to uncover the truth about Skorzeny's career and complex personality. From his backgroun...

In contemporary society, racism is not only an individual attitude but also embedded in systems such as education, healthcare, and criminal justice, leading to disparities in access and outcomes. The rise of social movements has highlighted these issues, advocating for equity and justice while challenging ingrained prejudices. Additionally, the intersectionality of racism with other forms of discrimination, such as sexism and classism, complicates the experiences of individuals, necessitat...

African American faculty in higher education often encounter microaggressions that reflect and reinforce broader systems of racial inequality. These instances can include questioning their credentials, misidentifying them as non-faculty, or expecting them to represent the entire Black experience. While less overt than traditional forms of racism, microaggressions carry significant psychological and professional consequences, contributing to feelings of isolation, burnout, and underapprecia...

Q What does the loft of the club dictate when chipping?You would answerA Heightand you would be WRONG.What you need to know is why you are wrong and what the loft of the club does dictate when chipping, and reading this book will teach you this and much more.This book will help you toUnderstand exactly what a chip is as most golfersmisunderstand this shot and visualise it incorrectly, thus reducing the chances of playing it well. A chi...

Sure, as a Camden NJ cop Denni had made enemies. Mostly punks and thugs that didn't have the juice, or the balls to come back on him. But when he killed the sons of a Camden drug lord in an encounter that left him nearly dead, he made an enemy with a very long memory.Not above street justice, when the drug lord put a hit out on Denni and his partner he met with a mysterious "accident" that left him crippled.Wyatt, "Denni" Dennison, now an officer with the State Intensive Su...