A treasure trove of garden design philosophy and advice from the personal archive of the horticulturalist behind the Kennedy White House Rose Garden."It's a delight for the eye as well as brimming with garden inspiration." ― The Scout GuideGarden Secrets of Bunny Mellon is for anyone who has enjoyed time spent in a garden, from aspiring garden makers to those who manage large estates. This collection is co...

One out of every three veterans suffer from PTSD.International author Kevin Lloyd-Thomas is an infantry combat veteran of two tours of Vietnam. Forward scout, machine gunner and section commander in a mechanized ready reaction and reconnaissance platoon, a platoon whose very existence became a controversy.Very happy in his marriage and successful in business life, until nearly three years of unemployment threw his life into utter chaos - sending him crashing and burning int...

Maggie is a discouraged lawyer, Dillon, a heartbroken vagabond, and Phillip, a frustrated writer. Their stories are told by the mysterious Jillian, part purveyor of spirits and part spiritual guru. Inside the walls of Cafe Rembrandt, where whipping fresh cream is an act of poetry and pouring a drink an act of faith, we fall under Jillian's spell. With a voice that is lyrical and immediate, she artfully trails her Ariadne thread to lead her devotees back into the light. Waking Up at Rem...

First published in 1926, University Reform in London by Thomas Lloyd Humberstone, with an introduction by H.G. Wells, examines the evolution of higher education in London. The book explores key commissions, controversies, and reforms, including the Selborne and Haldane Commissions, the South Kensington debates, and the push for a unified university. Divided into thematic chapters, it provides a detailed historical and institutional analysis, making it an essential resource for tho...

Building Sites addresses the urgent need to advance the critical understanding of relations between architectural design and the labour of building. While recognising that in many parts of the world building takes place through self-organised processes and traditional skills, the book questions a central and problematic omission in architectural discourse, education and practice – the production of buildings and the erasure of construction labour entailed by that omission. Through...

At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and historical tools are needed to understand these new developments and how they are altering the practices and concepts of architecture. Building Materials offers a radical rethink of how materials, as they are constituted in architectural practice, are themselves constructed and, in turn, uncovers a vast and neglected resource of architect...

As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in particular) on the ways in which the periodical press first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. What le...

Before the Reaving, humanity knew peace.Beneath the surface of everything they have ever known lies another kingdom—one ruled by ancient magic, forgotten histories, and creatures spoken of only in whispers.Now they are hunted.Enslaved.Tormented.Sarai believed she knew the world.She was wrong.As an ancient prophecy begins to unfold, one Reaver searches for a past he refuses to leave behind.Will he find the answers he so desperately s...

Waking Up at Rembrandt's stands out in the literary marketplace because it is a tale told in part by poems. These poems. Each of which were born of the novel. In a sense, they are one part abridged version and one part magic of their own.Part of the beauty of love jaywalks lies not in its origins, as poems from the novel, but in these poems' ability to stand alone from novel and to tell their own story.Rembrandt, the master, believed there was light in all things. The novel...

Maggie is a discouraged lawyer, Dillon, a heart-broken vagabond, and Phillip, a frustrated writer. Their stories are told by the mysterious Jillian, part purveyor of spirits and part spiritual guru. Inside the walls of cafe rembrandt, where whipping fresh cream is an act of poetry and pouring a drink an act of faith, we fall under Jillian's spell.With a voice that is lyrical and immediate, she artfully trails her Ariadne thread to lead her devotees back into the light.Wakin...

At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture’s relationship to industry. Contributors turn to historical and theoretical questions, as well as to key contemporary developments, taking a humanities approach to the Industries of Architecture that will be of interest to practitioners and industry professionals, as much as to academic researchers, teachers and students. How has...

Ren’s fantasy wishlist includes:A sexy lover (preferably of the male variety)Peace inside of the palacePossibly an onsenHis best friend never deployed again, and always beside himIt does not include:Assassins inside of his palaceFar too many conspiraciesBeing proposed to while hungover. In bed. By his straight best friend.Arman Brahms falling in love with him is a fantasy Ren’s buried for over six years, so to have it ...