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The Morville Hours

The Morville Hours
Author: Katherine Swift
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0802779808

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Nobody writes about the garden like the English. And few in England have ever been as eloquent or astute as Katherine Swift. Some twenty years ago, she and her husband leased a house in the town of Morville, in Shropshire, whose garden became her passion. Driven to uncover its history, she takes readers on a journey through time, back to the forces that shaped the garden, linking the stories of those who lived in the house and tended the same red soil with her family's own. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours is also deeply personal, a journey through the seasons, but also one of self-exploration, of finding one's place in the world and putting down roots. The Morville Hours takes the form of the medieval Books of Hours, recalling the monastic past of the house. Each chapter is named after one of the Hours of the Divine Office, and summons vividly to life an hour of the day or night--from the crunch of grass underfoot at midnight on a frosty New Year's Eve to a perfumed May Day morning when the whole world seems sixteen again; from the enervating heat of a midsummer noon to the bloom of blue-black damsons picked on a golden September afternoon. Together, they describe the arc of the gardening year, and the arc of life.


The Morville Year

The Morville Year
Author: Katherine Swift
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1408811170

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One of the most admired gardening writers of her generation, Katherine Swift returns to describe a year in the life of her garden she created over twenty years in the grounds of the Dower House at Morville, Shropshire, meditating on everything from the terrain and its history, to the plants and trees, and the odd habits of the animals and humans who inhabit the garden. Following the turning wheel of the Morville seasons, from the green shoots of spring, through summer and autumn, to the stark beauty of winter, and back to spring again, The Morville Year is a journal full of surprises and enchantments that will appeal not only to gardeners, but to all who enjoy the natural world.


A ROSE FOR MORVILLE

A ROSE FOR MORVILLE
Author: SWIFT KATHERINE
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781408820124

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The Samurai

The Samurai
Author: Shūsaku Endō
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811213462

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Considered one of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, THE SAMURAI seamlessly combines historical fact with a novelist's imaginings. Set in the period preceding the Christian persecutions in Japan recorded so memorably in Endo's SILENCE, this book traces the steps of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil.


The Morville Hours

The Morville Hours
Author: Katherine Swift
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2011-01-17
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1408821311

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_______________ 'The Morville Hours is the most beautiful book I have read in years' - Nigel Slater 'A truly remarkable book that is both intimate and universal. We are left with a renewed sense of what it is to be human' - Daily Telegraph 'This is gardening writing at its best. Swift's prose brings the garden alive in all its details, scents and meaning ... Evocative, heartfelt and magical' - Guardian _______________ In 1988 Katherine Swift arrived at the Dower House at Morville to create a garden of her own. This beautifully written, utterly absorbing book is the history of the many people who have lived in the same Shropshire house, tending the same soil, passing down stories over the generations. Spanning thousands of years, The Morville Hours takes the form of a medieval Book of Hours. It is a meditative journey through the seasons, but also a journey of self-exploration. It is a book about finding one's place in the world and putting down roots.


The Golden Scales

The Golden Scales
Author: Parker Bilal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-02-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1608197956

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A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring... The ancient city of Cairo is a whirling mix of the old and the new, where fates collide and the super rich rub shoulders with the desperate and the dispossessed. It is a place where ambition and corruption go hand in hand, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye. Makana is a former police inspector who fled for his life from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and haunted by the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in no position to refuse him. Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune is glittering, is the owner of Cairo's star-studded football team. His most valuable player has just vanished and Adil Romario's disappearance threatens to bring down not only Hanafi's private empire, but the entire country. But why should the city's most powerful man hire its lowliest private detective? Thrust into a dangerous and glittering world Makana's investigation leads him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted country - where he encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter - it becomes a trail that stirs up painful memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy...


The Heir of Redclyffe

The Heir of Redclyffe
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1870
Genre: Cousins
ISBN:

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The Curious Gardener

The Curious Gardener
Author: Anna Pavord
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-09-05
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1408810069

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A wonderful book about the gardening year with practical advice by the top garden writer and best-selling author of The Tulip


Intertwingled

Intertwingled
Author: Peter Morville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-08-13
Genre: Big data
ISBN: 9780692225585

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This is a book about everything. Or, to be precise, it explores how everything is connected from code to culture. We think we're designing software, services, and experiences, but we're not. We are intervening in ecosystems. Until we open our minds, we will forever repeat our mistakes. In this spirited tour of information architecture and systems thinking, Peter Morville connects the dots between authority, Buddhism, classification, synesthesia, quantum entanglement, and volleyball. In 1974 when Ted Nelson wrote "everything is deeply intertwingled," he hoped we might realize the true potential of hypertext and cognition. This book follows naturally from that.


Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design

Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
Author: Giles Colborne
Publisher: New Riders
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2010-09-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0321714156

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In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user experiences when designing digital tools and applications. It begins by explaining why simplicity is attractive, explores the laws of simplicity, and presents proven strategies for achieving simplicity. Remove, hide, organize and displace become guidelines for designers, who learn simplicity by seeing before and after examples and case studies where the results speak for themselves.