Step into a world where the aroma of freshly picked herbs lingers in the air and luscious, homegrown veggies greet your table. In this entertaining book, follow the journey of Ruth, a busy urbanite who transformed her modest rooftop into a flourishing kitchen garden.Inspired by her experience, this book is your ticket to joining the ranks of successful kitchen gardeners.Discover the techniques of cultivating herbs and vegetables in restricted places. From selecting the idea...

On Religion is a major text for the development of modern religious thought in the West and its author, German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, is remembered as the Father of Modern Protestant Theology, as well as for his contributions to philosophy, ethics and hermeneutics. Comprising five lively speeches, which defend religion as a universal element of human life, the text was addressed to the young intellectual elite of early nineteenth-century Berlin. It demonstrates Schleiermacher...

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is subtitled ‘Reflections on Education With Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools.’ It is a book about the power of education to shape the minds of individuals and improve society (or harm it, if badly done), and it covers everything from the scientific worldview at the time to philosophical arguments about right and wrong. ¶Writing for a general audience, Lewis condemns the contemporary trend for teaching children...

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is a set of three essays that encapsulate some of the most important elements of good critical thinking. Lewis considers a weighty topic, moral philosophy – and more precisely how we teach it, and where morality comes from. As critics and enthusiasts for Lewis’s work alike have noted, though, he was not a philosopher as such, but a professor of literature. And rather than presenting novel or original ideas, the essays’ true qualities lie in the ways i...

C.S. Lewis’s 1943 The Abolition of Man is subtitled ‘Reflections on Education With Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools.’ It is a book about the power of education to shape the minds of individuals and improve society (or harm it, if badly done), and it covers everything from the scientific worldview at the time to philosophical arguments about right and wrong. ¶Writing for a general audience, Lewis condemns the contemporary trend for teaching children...

Domestic Bodiesdelves into the physicality of mundane and life-altering moments as told by a narrator disabled from birth. This collection deals with themes of cancer, family, death, disability, and resilience. Many of these poems don't end happily but leave the reader with a sense of life continuing on...regardless.

The purpose of "Now I Know: How to Start A Services Business (In Layman's Terms)" is to demystify the process of starting a service-based business.Written under the pseudonym Millie Ruth Jackson, this book bridges the gap between complex, jargon-filled guides and the everyday individual eager to make their business dreams a reality. By translating the often-intimidating language of business into layman's terms, Jackson empowers readers with the confidence and understanding needed t...

This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender—and sometimes their ethnicity and age—impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Each contributor considers her place or position in the research process and provides a vivid portrait of that experience. Drawing on research findings from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, M...

The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to Victorian self-understanding. These specially commissioned, multi-disciplinary essays brilliantly reveal the richness of Victorian thinking about the past and how important these models of antiquity were in the expression of modern...

The compelling novel that began Shirley Jackson's legendary careerPepper Street is a really nice, safe California neighborhood. The houses are tidy and the lawns are neatly mowed. Of course, the country club is close by, and lots of pleasant folks live there. The only problem is they knocked down the wall at the end of the street to make way for a road to a new housing development. Now, that’s not good—it’s just not good at all. Satirically exploring what happens w...

Stephanie Bloom is a forty-something single mom chasing a dream she nearly gave up on-to become a global pop star.Between raising three kids, fending off nosy school mums, and trying to save the crumbling restaurant left by her late husband, Stephanie is barely holding it together. But when a once-in-a-lifetime chance to record with The Most Famous Rapper in the World drops into her lap, she must decide: keep playing it safe for her family, or risk everything to follow her dreams.

In the wake of the 4th World Conference on Women this volume brings together leading gender and development scholars who interrogate the last twenty years of work in this area.Feminist Visions of Development throws fresh light on key issues including:* gender and the environment* education* population* reproductive rights* industrialisation* macroeconomic policy* poverty.Inspired by recent feminist theoretical work, it...