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Author : Hal Hartzell
Publisher : Hulogosi Communications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Yew Tree written by Hal Hartzell and published by Hulogosi Communications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Westmacott
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006499481
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Rose and the Yew Tree written by Mary Westmacott and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody expected aristocratic Isabelle to fall for John Gabriel, a ruthless war hero. For Isabella, love would mean abandoning her dreams of privilege. For Gabriel, it would ruin his chance of a career and all his ambitions. This novel was written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott.
Author : Pauline Toohey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907401725
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Pull of the Yew Tree written by Pauline Toohey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pull of the Yew Tree is a literary piece of intrigue and love set in Ireland during The War Of The Roses. Based on the great Geraldines, the Earls of Kildare, the charismatic characters take the reader on a journey through a world fraught with death, dishonour and betrayal. Unlike the English rulers of the time, little about the Fitzgeralds has been produced in fiction novel format, until now. This is the first book in the Crom Abu series and ends in the aftermath of the Battle of Barnet, a battle fought during a period which came to be known as The War Of The Roses.
Author : Tony Hall
Publisher : Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
ISBN 13 : 9781842466582
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book The Immortal Yew written by Tony Hall and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As some of the oldest living organisms to be found in Europe, yew trees have become inextricably bound up in some of the oldest enduring institutions of European culture. In The Immortal Yew, Tony Hall explores the biological, cultural, and mythic significance of these imposing evergreens. Supporting a range of animals and plants, yew trees foster new life by contributing to biodiversity in their surroundings. But their common occurrence in churchyards and their evergreen leaves have given them a separate folk status as symbols of life--in the British isles, they have come to represent the resurrection and eternal life central to the Christian faith. Their enduring significance to British culture extends beyond the church, however--even the founding political document of British government, the Magna Carta, is believed to have been sealed beneath a yew tree. Despite the enduring presence and significance of the yew tree across a millennium of British history, this seemingly immortal stalwart faces new threats in the twenty-first century as elderly trees near the end of their lives and global climate change threatens the next generation. Perhaps by spending time in the generous shade of one of the yew trees Hall documents in this beautifully illustrated book, a new generation might begin to learn the importance of protecting its legacy and invest in its future.
Author : Anand Chetan
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sacred Yew written by Anand Chetan and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1994 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth blends with science in this inspiring story of one man's crusade to preserve the ancient and revered, yet recently threatened, yew tree.
Author : Guido Mina Di Sospiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899171637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (716 download)
Download or read book The Story of Yew written by Guido Mina Di Sospiro and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tree that had seen a thousand winters before the Vikings came to America tells the stories of what she and her fellow trees have seen in their lives.
Author : Fred Hageneder
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232071
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Yew written by Fred Hageneder and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and richly illustrated history, Yew will appeal to botanists and other readers interested in the history and symbolism of the natural world, now in paperback. The yew is the oldest and most common tree in the world, but it is a plant of puzzling contradictions: it is a conifer with juicy scarlet berries, but no cones; deer can feast on its poisonous foliage, but it is lethal to farm animals, and it thrives where other plants cannot because of its extraordinarily low rate of photosynthesis. Exploring this paradoxical plant in Yew, Fred Hageneder surveys its position in religious and cultural history, its role in the creation of the British Empire, and its place in modern medicine. Hageneder explains the way the yew is able to renew itself from the inside by producing interior roots and how early humans, fascinated with its regenerative powers, began to associate the tree with concepts of life and death, the afterlife, and eternity. As such, it can be found at the sacred sites of Native Americans, Buddhists, and Shinto shrines in Japan, and it has become a living symbol of the resurrection for the Christian faith. He describes how churchyards saved many yews during the Middle Ages when the trees were used for the mass production of the longbow, which laid the foundation for the British Empire. Finally, he discusses the latest scientific discoveries about the yew, including its use in cancer treatments.
Author : Gregory M. Ahlijian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692011584
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (115 download)
Download or read book The Large Rock and the Little Yew written by Gregory M. Ahlijian and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tiny seed from a yew tree falls into a cold, dark, and barren crack in a large rock. Despite its harsh surroundings and the pessimistic attitude of the large rock, the little seedling resolves to grow to be the tree nature intended it to be. Children and adults alike will learn timeless life lessons from the little yew tree's determined effort and spirit.
Author : John Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Yew-trees of Great Britain and Ireland written by John Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Bevan-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1911188127
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Yew written by Robert Bevan-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. This book tells the extraordinary story of the yew’s role in the landscape through the millennia, and makes a convincing case for the origins of many of the oldest trees, as markers of the holy places founded by Celtic saints in the early medieval ‘Dark Ages’. With wonderful photographic portraits of ancient yews and a gazetteer (with locations) of the oldest yew trees in Britain, the book brings together for the first time all the evidence about the dating, history, archaeology and cultural connections of the yew. Robert Bevan-Jones discusses its history, biology, the origins of its name, the yew berry and its toxicity, its distribution across Britain, means of dating examples, and their association with folklore, with churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells and as landscape markers. This third edition has an updated introduction with new photographs and corrections to the main text.
Author : Christina Baldwin
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 9781577313595
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Storycatcher written by Christina Baldwin and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story is the heart of language. Story moves us to love and hate and can motivate us to change the whole course of our lives. Story can lift us beyond our individual borders to imagine the realities of other people, times, and places. Storytelling — both oral tradition and written word — is the foundation of being human. In this powerful book, Christina Baldwin, one of the visionaries who started the personal writing movement, explores the vital necessity of re-creating a sacred common ground for each other's stories. Each chapter in Storycatcher is carried by a fascinating narrative — about people, family, or community — intertwined with practical instruction about the nature of story, how it works, and how we can practice it in our lives. Whether exploring the personal stories revealed in our private journals, the stories of family legacy, the underlying stories that drive our organizations, or the stories that define our personal identity, Christina's book encourages us all to become storycatchers — and shows us how new stories lay the framework for a new world.
Author : Penny Billington
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 073874414X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Wisdom of Birch, Oak, and Yew written by Penny Billington and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tune into the wisdom of three trees sacred to Druids—birch, oak, and yew—and use their powerful lessons and natural gifts to transform your life. Written by a Druid with more than twenty years of practical experience, The Wisdom of Birch, Oak, and Yew will guide you through a one-of-a-kind journey of magical self-discovery. Its unique invitation: change your perspective by “being as a tree” and consider yourself in light of the qualities of our arboreal friends. Engage with the spirit of each tree and explore its relationship to the stages of your life and the rhythm of your days. Experience within yourself each tree’s positive attributes, gain perspective by taking on each tree’s role as “witness,” and find respite from the frenetic pace of modern life. Praise: “Wise, inspiring, and entertaining, this is a profoundly practical book about nature’s magic and how it supports our personal development. I warmly recommend it.”—Dr. William Bloom, author of The Power of Modern Spirituality “A very fine book on the deep magic of the trees. Penny Billington shows us how these trees function as guides and initiators, teachers and friends and along the way gives us a first rate introduction to working with the energies of the land to promote healing and new life.”—Ian Rees, Psychotherapist, Trainer, and Program Director of the Annwn Foundation
Author : Eleanor Doorly
Publisher : Librorium Editions
ISBN 13 : 3961642656
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Insect Man written by Eleanor Doorly and published by Librorium Editions. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book intended for young and lively-minded childrenwhich implies, as I believe, that it might win a larger number of readers in proportion to the host available than if it were intended solely for intelligent adults. But there is no more precarious merchandise than books. What we most need and pine for in this we may, by ill chance, easily fail to come across.
Author : George Koppelman
Publisher : Axletree Books
ISBN 13 : 0692500324
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Beehive written by George Koppelman and published by Axletree Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of manuscript annotations in a curious copy of John Baret's ALVEARIE, an Elizabethan dictionary published in 1580. This revised and expanded second edition presents new evidence and furthers the argument that the annotations were written by William Shakespeare. This ebook contains text in color, and images. We recommend reading it on a device that displays both.
Author : Thomas W. Laqueur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400874513
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Work of the Dead written by Thomas W. Laqueur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters—for individuals, communities, and nations. A remarkably ambitious history, The Work of the Dead offers a compelling and richly detailed account of how and why the living have cared for the dead, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The book draws on a vast range of sources—from mortuary archaeology, medical tracts, letters, songs, poems, and novels to painting and landscapes in order to recover the work that the dead do for the living: making human communities that connect the past and the future. Laqueur shows how the churchyard became the dominant resting place of the dead during the Middle Ages and why the cemetery largely supplanted it during the modern period. He traces how and why since the nineteenth century we have come to gather the names of the dead on great lists and memorials and why being buried without a name has become so disturbing. And finally, he tells how modern cremation, begun as a fantasy of stripping death of its history, ultimately failed—and how even the ashes of the victims of the Holocaust have been preserved in culture. A fascinating chronicle of how we shape the dead and are in turn shaped by them, this is a landmark work of cultural history.
Author : Paul Gambaccini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849549110
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Love, Paul Gambaccini written by Paul Gambaccini and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Gambaccini chose to live in Britain, arriving here at the age of 21 from his home in the United States. He won a scholarship to Oxford, and wanted to escape the administration of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. Imagine his disappointment when his chosen country betrayed, psychologically tortured and abandoned him. Arrested on risible accusations of historic child sex abuse, he was disgraced in the press and made unemployable, having to pay tens of thousands of pounds in legal fees during a year in which he had no income. Finally, inevitably, he became the latest celebrity to be completely exonerated, the allegations completely thrown out. 'Love, Paul Gambaccini' is a first person account of the witch hunt Gambaccini endured at the hands of the Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service.
Author : John Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337322458
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (224 download)
Download or read book The Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland written by John Lowe and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yew-Trees of Great Britain and Ireland is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
