Author: Bernhard Stern
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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ISBN: 9781853266003
Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Author: Rosemary Verey
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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A campaign on behalf of an almost forgotten pleasure of gardening--the pursuit of fragrance. Tells which plants to cultivate for crisp winter smells and for the sublime nosegays of summer in your home.

Author: Ken Druse
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356721
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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A complete illustrated survey of fragrant flowers and plants, from a celebrated gardening expert and an award–winning botanical photographer. Popular garden writer Ken Druse offers a complete survey of fragrance in the garden, in a major work filled with new knowledge. He arranges both familiar and unusual garden plants, shrubs, and trees into twelve categories, giving gardeners a vastly expanded palate of scents to explore and enjoy, and he also provides examples of garden designs that offer harmonious scentual delights. Ellen Hoverkamp contributes her artful botanical images of flowers and plants discussed in the text. These are accompanied by Druse’s award-winning garden photographs, to create a book that is as beautiful to look at as it is informative and evocative to read.

Author: Frederick William Burbidge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aromatic plants
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Frederick William Burbidge
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Bernhard Stern
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136206329
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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First published in 2008. This encyclopaedic book details the sexual practices and perversions of peoples and cultures throughout the work. Topics include: love and love charms, rental marriages, the bridal night of a princess, the sexual lexicon, chastity and the feeling of shame, onanism and artificial instruments, public prostitution and the sex act.

Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Dag Erik Asbjørnsen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781899855124
Category : Musiciens rock - Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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1968 - 1980 in more than 20 European Countries Provides a comprehensive guide to progressive rock and related music forms in more than 20 European Countries. The entries contain personnel details, discographies and a description of the music. There is currently no similar English language encyclopaedic guide to the music of these countries. A perfect companion to the earlier publication Cosmic Dreams At Play.

Author: Zhuqing Li
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393541789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024 “Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book Review Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence. Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brought political revolution, violence, and a fractured national identity. By a quirk of timing, at the end of the Chinese Civil War, Jun ended up on an island under Nationalist control, and then settled in Taiwan, married a Nationalist general, and lived among fellow exiles at odds with everything the new Communist regime stood for on the mainland. Hong found herself an ocean away on the mainland, forced to publicly disavow both her own family background and her sister’s decision to abandon the party. A doctor by training, to overcome the suspicion created by her family circumstances, Hong endured two waves of “re-education” and internal exile, forced to work in some of the most desperately poor, remote areas of the country. Ambitious, determined, and resourceful, both women faced morally fraught decisions as they forged careers and families in the midst of political and social upheaval. Jun established one of U.S.-allied Taiwan’s most important trading companies. Hong became one of the most celebrated doctors in China, appearing on national media and honored for her dedication to medicine. Niece to both sisters, linguist and East Asian scholar Zhuqing Li tells her aunts’ story for the first time, honoring her family’s history with sympathy and grace. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden is a window into the lives of women in twentieth-century China, a time of traumatic change and unparalleled resilience. In this riveting and deeply personal account, Li confronts the bitter political rivals of mainland China and Taiwan with elegance and unique insight, while celebrating her aunts’ remarkable legacies.