Rediscover the traditional world of herbs, botanical preparations, and old-fashioned apothecary wisdom.Step into the fascinating history of the traditional apothecary with The Lost Apothecary Bible, a practical and accessible exploration of the plants, preparations, tools, and everyday wellness traditions that shaped herbal practice for generations.Before modern pharmacies became commonplace, households and apothecaries relied on carefully identified plants, roots, flowers,...

Rediscover the traditional world of herbs, botanical preparations, and old-fashioned apothecary wisdom.Step into the fascinating history of the traditional apothecary with The Lost Apothecary Bible, a practical and accessible exploration of the plants, preparations, tools, and everyday wellness traditions that shaped herbal practice for generations.Before modern pharmacies became commonplace, households and apothecaries relied on carefully identified plants, roots, flowers,...

Rediscover the traditional world of herbs, botanical preparations, and old-fashioned apothecary wisdom.Step into the fascinating history of the traditional apothecary with The Lost Apothecary Bible, a practical and accessible exploration of the plants, preparations, tools, and everyday wellness traditions that shaped herbal practice for generations.Before modern pharmacies became commonplace, households and apothecaries relied on carefully identified plants, roots, flowers,...

This story begins in the mountains of North Carolina during the 1850s. June Lowen, an independent girl, must learn to become a submissive young woman as her father holds to old traditions of arranged marriages. Her freedom seems to come to an abrupt end when her childhood friend Dusty Hill becomes her husband. As they journey westward with the last of the wagon trains, the couple must learn to grow in love and faith amidst trials and find the true definition of freedom together amid the wi...

In this rollicking middle-grade adventure and national bestseller, Michael Fry's witty text and hysterical artwork combines superhero action with classic fish-out-of-water humor.Victor Spoil comes from a long line of famous supervillains and he's fully expected to join their ranks one day. But to his family's utter disappointment, Victor doesn't have a single bad-guy bone in his body. He won't run with scissors, he always finishes his peas, and he can't stand to be...

Land and the policies that govern it hold an incredible but largely forgotten power over our lives. When land is wasted and squandered, we get sky-high rents, oppressed workers, ruined businesses, depleted natural resources, a polluted earth, and an impoverished society. Poor land policy is the chief culprit behind sky-high urban rents, homelessness, and endless suburban sprawl. Meanwhile, real estate has become the world's number one asset class, comprising an ever-growing share of bank l...

"A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature1. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": ""There's the scarlet thread of murder running th...

Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care. These are the core systems which make human life possible in the 21st century. Few of us are truly self-sufficient – we rely on the systems built into our cities and towns of all shapes and sizes in order to survive, let alone thrive.Despite how important these systems are, and how much we rely on them, contemporary politics and mainstream economics in most of the world largely ignore these core systems. Politicians de...

Why do some events catch fire in the news, producing a media storm, while many similar events go all but unnoticed? This Element uses a fire triangle analogy to explain the necessary conditions of media storms. The “heat” is the spark: a dramatic event or discovery. The “fuel” is the political and cultural landscape, including similar items in recent news, and current debates that allow the event to be framed in a resonant way. The “oxygen” is the available news agenda space, plus attentio...

A group biography of the relationship between FDR and four of his Supreme Court justices, written by legal scholar Noah Feldman.A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, ta...

Welcome to a journey through history—cobwebs aren't the only relics hidden in the dusty corners of time. Our tale begins in the dingy underbelly of bygone eras where soot and grime paint the canvas of our story. We'll climb through the centuries with the nimble fingers and scuffed knees of child chimney sweeps, whose stories have been tucked away like a dirty secret amidst the grand tapestry of the past. It's a tale that'll pull at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone, because, let...

Acclaimed writer and illustrator Lane Smith has amassed an impressive body of work both on his own and as a collaborator on Caldecott Honor-winning books. In Grandpa Green, Smith introduces listeners to a boy who learns about life's many wonders while exploring his great-grandfather's topiary garden, where imagination blooms and memories come alive.