Growing your own medicine is empowering—learn how with plant activists Dan Jason and Rupert Adams.Many common, easy-to-grow plants can energize or soothe, stimulate the immune system, aid in sleep or digestion, help to heal injuries, change blood pressure, reverse inflammation, soothe a sore throat—and more. But how do you find or grow them, and how do you use them?This compact book describes some of the best-known medicinal plants and provides expert infor...

A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums and genres. This edited volume provides a wide-ranging exploration of Lynch’s films, practices, and collaborations, with nineteen original chapters examining themes including narrativity, aesthetics, artistry, sound, experimentation, metafiction, and patriarchy from the disciplinary pers...

Brought to you by Penguin.For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buried long ago.Satsuki has spent thirty years hating one man: did her desire for revenge cause the earthquake? Miyake left his family in Kobe to make midnight bonfires on a beach hundreds of miles away. Fourteen-year-old Sala has nightmares that the Earthquake Man is trying to stuff her inside a little box. Katagiri returns home to find...

Band 5 der »Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis«-ReiheArthur Dent hatte schon lange keinen so schlechten Tag mehr wie den, an dem die Erde in die Luft flog. Deprimiert und einsam, wie er ist, lässt sich Arthur schließlich auf dem kleinen Planeten Lamuella nieder, wo er sich als Sandwichmacher hervortut. Die Aussicht auf ein fortan geruhsames Leben wird allerdings zunichte gemacht, weil dort unerwartet seine Tochter auftaucht. Es gibt einfach nichts Schlimmeres als einen ...

Love. What is love?The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive.Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt.Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for an...

In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which destroyed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways in March, during the morning rush hour. Following these twin disasters, Haruki Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his country’s grief. The subway attack led to his recent Underground. And out of the quake come these six stories, set in the months between natural c...

The Musketeers were the most revered group of men in the whole of France, and young d'Artagnan wanted nothing more than to travel to Paris to join their ranks. But d'Artagnan's road to becoming a Musketeer wouldn't be as simple as he anticipated. Filled with minor mishaps, duels for honor, and a run-in with three of the finest Musketeers, d'Artagnan's adventures ultimately lead him to discover what it truly takes to become a Musketeer.This adapted and condensed version of the tale by Alexa...

The story of the birth of Jesus and the first Christmas retold with delightful simplicity, and illustrated with charming soft watercolours.Both text and pictures are designed to make this the perfect introduction to the Christmas story for very young children.(P)2004 Orion Publishing Group.Ltd

In einem Paralleluniversum wird Tricia McMillan von den grebulonischen Forschern auf den Planeten Rupert entführt. Die Grebulonier haben allesamt ihr Gedächtnis verloren und wissen nicht mehr, warum sie in das Sonnensystem der Erde aufgebrochen sind. Um ein Horoskop zu erstellen, das auch für Rupert gültig ist, schicken sie die intergalaktische Reporterin Trillian los. Gemeinsam mit Arthur Dent und Ford Prefect sausen sie kreuz und quer durchs Universum, wobei Arthur ohne sein Zutun Vater ...